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Game writer. The Outer Worlds, Mass Effect, EverSpace 2, Aliens: Fireteam, Dawngate, Asheron's Call, Elder Scrolls Online, Magic: the Gathering.

Known elsewhen as Stormwaltz. A fairly terrible person trying to do the least harm. He/Him, masks, dysthymia.
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A big 80% discount on the base version of Everspace 2, and a chunk off the two expansions.

While the first game was a roguelite space shooter, this one is a spiritual successor to Freelancer. In short, Diablo in space - a big sandbox universe, planets to fly around/through and GORGEOUS explosions.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stormwaltz.net
...Ghostbusters.

So... fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I got a response from Hooded Horse's community manager on my review saying that they will be replacing all the AI art and making sure this doesn't happen again. I'm still not happy about this happening at all in the first place but this is probably the best outcome we could hope for
Several users flagged this issue and after investigating further, we found that gen-AI art did slip into the latest patch. I can't tell you how angry we are to discover this. When we began work on replacing certain art, we were explicit with everyone involved that AI was not to be used at all, not even as a reference. This was the most critical element of the art refresh. Despite clearly outlining these requirements, and writing them into the contract, an artist at the third-party company that we partnered with used gen-AI. We were racing to get the patch out, and unfortunately their work slipped past our scrutiny in the process. We can't express how frustrated we are about this. Our goal was to eliminate gen-AI art in any form, as we think gen-AI art has no place in gaming. We didn't meet our own standards in this case, and we're sorry that this slipped through. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible and push out an updated patch. After looking through all the new art, we can confirm that only a limited number of pieces have this issue, and the rest were made entirely by human artists. The community has noted that some other pieces look "incomplete", but we've verified that they were not created using gen-AI. With these pieces, the art was rendered fully within a circular crop to match the game's UI, with the cropped portions left partially incomplete because they never show in-game. We'll be completing these in full as well for the sake of due diligence. But for the time being, our priority is to remove and replace the art that used AI in the production process. We completely understand that when AI art shows up in one place, suddenly everything looks suspect. We feel the same way, so we're going to be watching this like hawks to ensure it doesn't happen again. Please know that we consider the use of real human artists to be of the utmost importance, and are strongly opposed to the inclusion of generative AI art assets in any game.
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM