This week we get back to business and talk about tipping culture extending to game developers, Escape from Tarkov's decision to paywall a PVE experience, A coach who tried to get their principal fired with AI, the removal of noncompete agreements, Roll 20's new discord app, and Palworld CEO's excitement about Palworld Clones. 7 Days to Die is finally coming 1.0 and Star Citizen's Whale shop becomes a topic.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:25 7 Days to Die Release after 12 years

00:09:06 Palworld Clone CEO Response

00:16:14 non-compete non-applicable

00:18:54 Game Developer Tipping

00:26:44 Star Citizen Secrets

00:43:10 Bans involving China Invested Companies

00:52:54 Roll 20 on Discord

00:54:32 Subversive Voice AI

00:57:56 Round Table

Apex Legends appears it has some sort of security issue as 2 pro gamers had some interesting behavior client side by a bad actor who could manipulate game servers to grant packs or drop 40 bots on you. IMEI condenses the major talking points from Pirate Software's Thor, a security specialist with 3 black badges from DEFCON and has had a role in solving other major security incidents across the government for power plant vulnerabilities and Blizzard's Red Team for bot and detour detection.

Full discussion on Pirate Software's Youtube Channel regarding the vulnerabilites, the pro gamers that were affected, and process to figure out what exactly is the source of the attack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1zxjGxpnqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHf6dkgXfVg

Dragons Dogma 2 was released and many players are not happy that, after paying for a 70 USD title, quality of life and cosmetic DLC is offered for purchase. These range from camping kits to in game currency for Beyond the Rift. Genna Bain also had some thoughts on this as well via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/GennaBain/status/1771116998073733439

We wrap up with a quick touch on a 7 year old Call of Duty mod that was struck down by Nintendo that added Pokemon to the game.

https://kotaku.com/pokemon-company-cod-pikachu-mod-youtube-dmca-strike-1851356562

00:00 Introduction

02:43 Apex Legends as condensed by IMEI

27:36 Dragons Dogma 2 DLC WTF

44:56 Call of Duty Pikachu Edition

48:32 Round Table

This week we hit on a great list of women in the gaming industry to celebrate Womens Month - From Roberta Williams to Dorris Self.

https://www.lifewire.com/women-in-history-of-video-games-729746

Further list can be found at the Strong National Museum of Play using Bloomberg Connects.

https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/

The candidates for the induction of 2023 hall of fame at the Strong National Museum of play was discussed with some good talk about our experiences with the inductees.

https://kotaku.com/video-game-hall-of-fame-2024-finalists-resident-evil-1851335716

https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/world-video-game-hall-of-fame/2023-finalists/

Since Wolfire opened suit with Valve for unfair practices, several communications have come to light - one with Tim Sweeny on the platform's cut of profits of sold games and another citing that in 2018 they made more money per employee than any of the largest tech companies.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/in-2018-a-group-of-valve-staff-tried-to-figure-out-just-how-efficient-they-were-beingand-found-they-were-making-more-money-per-head-than-apple-facebook-and-nearly-every-tech-giant-out-there/

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/tim-sweeney-emailed-gabe-newell-calling-valve-you-assholes-over-steam-policies-to-which-valves-coo-simply-replied-you-mad-bro/

We Wrap up on the hinted D&D open world survival game being developed by the developers who made Dreamlight Valley.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/the-next-big-dandd-videogame-is-a-survival-life-sim-from-the-makers-of-disney-dreamlight-valley/

This week, we talk about a Woman indie developer by the name Renee and thier game that was just released on steam called Potions: A Curious Tale. You can find her devlog at https://www.tiktok.com/@rikukat Go check out their new indie game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/378690/Potions_A_Curious_Tale/

We also talk about the largest QA workers union formed for video games in the US at 600 Activision QA workers.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/600-activision-qa-workers-just-formed-the-biggest-videogame-union-in-the-us/

Users have hit 1 million science per minutes in Factorio using a mod called Clusterio to pool work across several instances of the program (over 160 copies of the game)

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/factorio-world-record-server-god-factory/

And there is a reason companies have people to stand in front of the audience to deliver messages - Helldivers devs found out the hardway that though it may be funny, it can be seen as gaslighting your playerbase giving flippant remarks.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-boss-apologizes-for-horrible-dev-comments-says-arrowhead-has-taken-action-internally-to-educate-our-developers/

The UDP Broadcast podcast is hosted LIVE! WEEKLY on Twitch at 10:30pm Central US on Saturday where we - IMEI, Reina the Critchicken, The Nordic Cajun and LuminariWeekly - get together and offer both informed and uninformed opinions on gaming related topics. We are widely available across most podcasting platforms with a home on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4PuQBgiPnqm4Ag1qp7iu6T?si=10fe6cd1ee244fe7

Outside of the podcast, I am a variety streamer and collaborator with other streamers both in and out of the podcast.

Places you can follow me:

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On Youtube:

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-- Podcast Playlist

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on TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@luminariweekly

on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/LuminariWeekly

Co-Host's Twitter accounts:

https://twitter.com/IMEI21

https://twitter.com/NeedsEspresso

https://twitter.com/TheNordicCajun

--Cajun's Twitch where he Shiny Hunts

--- https://twitch.tv/thenordiccajun

Website (under construction):

https://udpbroadcast.com

On Spotify podcaster distribution platform:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/udpbroadcast

We have the best news bot that pulls from Gaming News syndicates every 15 minutes on our discord server. Please feel free to go and consume the sheer amount of news our custom bot pulls 24/7 in the News_Feed channel.

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00:00 Introduction

02:31 Womens Month - Rikukat

18:27 One Million Science Per Minute - Factorio

28:20 Largest Video Game Union - Activision

33:04 Helldivers 2 Devs Backfire

50:02 Round Table

This week, we talk about Botting in runescape and how their new big money owners are ok because the accounts are paid for but Players are no and the devs had banned 7million accounts in the last year.

Runescape was banned because Twitter thought the account was made by an 8 year old.

Temtem ceo walks back that it is not an MMO and you cannot continue to create content forever.

Nintendo is going after Yuzu for lost revenue from Tears of the Kingdom due to circumvention of Nintendo's antipiracy measures.

A study in Norway shows that kids are bullied for not having paid items in free to play games.

What does Link and Gannondorf smell like? WIth GameScent you can find out!

Runescape Players Revolt

https://www.pcgamer.com/old-school-runescape-players-revolt-after-new-big-money-owners-say-bots-are-fine-actually-devs-furiously-walk-it-back-and-say-they-banned-7-million-bots-last-year/

Runescape Twitter Ban

https://www.pcgamer.com/runescapes-official-twitter-account-unbanned-after-proving-that-no-the-game-wasnt-secretly-an-8-year-old-child/

Anthem was a warning

https://kotaku.com/anthem-bioware-5-years-later-1851294156

Nintendo/Yuzu

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-suing-creators-of-switch-emulator-says-tears-of-the-kingdom-was-pirated-1-million-times-pre-launch/1100-6521417/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

update

https://www.eurogamer.net/switch-emulator-yuzu-responds-to-nintendos-lawsuit?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

Bullied Kids norway study

https://kotaku.com/study-fortnite-free-to-play-games-kids-bullied-f2p-1851291618

Smell your videos with GameScent

https://kotaku.com/gamescent-ai-smellovision-console-pc-gunfire-rain-smoke-1851290120

TemTem is not a MMO

https://www.pcgamer.com/fans-of-pokemon-inspired-mmo-temtem-are-arguing-with-the-developer-about-what-mmo-means-after-crema-ceo-says-its-not-feasible-to-keep-adding-content-forever/

This is how you get ants! The 57th episode of UDPBroadcast. We took a break for 2 weeks and came back to more shenanigans. Aside from the interlude where IMEI lists off words that will put you on a watch list - Dead Cells publisher is stopping development of further updates to the title and is looking to focus on its other IPs.

What is worse than AI? AI that remembers things about you and the conversation. We discuss the more interesting points of this enhancement.

Palworld developers remind us that it is OK to take breaks as news outlets notice a drop in players actively playing the game.

Lastly we describe how to get ants. Fire ants. A reddit user discovered fire ants swarming all over their GPU. Delicious Thermal Paste, YUM!

- Dead Cells Development Ends

https://www.eurogamer.net/dead-cells-abrupt-termination-was-a-bid-to-promote-publishers-new-game-ex-dev-says?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

- ChatGPT Memory

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/13/24071106/chatgpt-memory-openai-ai-chatbot-history

- Palworld - Its ok to take breaks

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/palworlds-community-manager-reminds-people-impatient-for-updates-that-playing-other-games-is-fine?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

- Fireants and GPUs

https://www.pcgamer.com/gamers-report-aptly-named-fire-ants-are-causing-their-pcs-to-overheat/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1apkriw/ants_are_eating_my_gpu/

Welcome to the UDP Broadcast podcast

This Week we focus on Palworld and Pokemon. We take a detour to talk about PUBG devloper SA allegations then turn to more AI with George Carlin and Taylor Swift and a short stint with Dungeons and Dragons one shot campaign for the Vagina Museum in the UK called "Clitical Hit"

https://www.pcgamer.com/its-a-miracle-that-palworld-exists-according-to-the-studio-founder-it-was-the-antithesis-of-proper-game-development/

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/amid-plagiarism-accusations-palworld-ceo-asks-people-to-stop-harassing-devs/1100-6520522/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/palworld-youtuber-behind-pokemon-mod-claims-nintendo-has-come-for-me/1100-6520536/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

https://www.pcgamer.com/palworld-accused-of-copying-pokemon-models-developer-pushes-back-says-artists-are-being-slandered/

https://www.pcgamer.com/a-livestreamed-dandd-one-shot-will-take-place-inside-the-vagina-of-the-games-biggest-monster-and-its-for-a-good-causescience-and-education/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052261/taylor-swift-ai-fakes-white-house-responds-legislation

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24051476/dudesy-ai-generated-george-carlin-special-sued-by-late-comedians-estate

This week was AI heavy and I dont expect this to change. There were quite a few interesting stories we talked about. Aside from catching up, we also talked about UBISOFT's comment to a more subscribable gaming experience. Here is the list:

SAG-AFTRA AI DEAL

https://www.pcgamer.com/actors-union-sag-aftra-announces-ethical-ai-agreement-with-replica-but-industry-veterans-feel-misrepresented-nobody-in-our-community-approved-this/

Gameshark AI

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/gameshark-to-return-as-ai-powered-hint-tool

8 weeks of "grinding"

https://www.pcgamer.com/this-gamified-ai-sex-toy-mimics-mmo-mechanics-by-requiring-an-8-week-grind/

Soul-less AI NPCs

https://kotaku.com/nvidia-convai-ai-video-game-npc-characters-tech-demo-1851181329

GDC AI Concerns and Return to Office

https://www.theverge.com/24042070/gdc-state-of-the-video-game-industry-survey-2023-ai

we could do Ubisoft+

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-new-ubisoft-and-getting-gamers-comfortable-with-not-owning-their-games

And the ashes of our favorite SciFi actors falling back to earth is a neat one.

We also talked about #Palworld and the recent spark of AI shenanigans with their new title.

The UDP Broadcast podcast is hosted LIVE! WEEKLY on Twitch at 10:30pm Central US on Saturday where we - IMEI, Reina the Critchicken, The Nordic Cajun and LuminariWeekly - get together and offer both informed and uninformed opinions on gaming related topics. We are widely available across most podcasting platforms with a home on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4PuQBgiPnqm4Ag1qp7iu6T?si=10fe6cd1ee244fe7

Outside of the podcast, I am a variety streamer and collaborator with other streamers both in and out of the podcast.

Places you can follow me:

On Twitch:

https://twitch.tv/luminariweekly

On Youtube:

https://youtube.com/@udpbroadcast

-- Podcast Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLULalLGYphEKIcyxvNBpreqOhLHf90MvF

on TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@luminariweekly

on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/LuminariWeekly

Co-Host's Twitter accounts:

https://twitter.com/IMEI21

https://twitter.com/NeedsEspresso

https://twitter.com/TheNordicCajun

--Cajun's Twitch where he Shiny Hunts

--- https://twitch.tv/thenordiccajun

Website (under construction):

https://udpbroadcast.com

On Spotify podcaster distribution platform:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/udpbroadcast

We have the best news bot that pulls from Gaming News syndicates every 15 minutes on our discord server. Please feel free to go and consume the sheer amount of news our custom bot pulls 24/7 in the News_Feed channel.

https://discord.gg/theudpbroadcast -- Invite Link