I haven’t tried the update yet, but based on the patch notes I skimmed through, there isn’t any new world modifiers like that and no spawn balancing for the early areas.

I am planning to test out a new game tonight, I’ll update if anything seems different.

Personally I would also love to see a boss HP slider for the world settings, some of the later bosses feel like massive sponges when playing solo.

Yeah piracy was everywhere during the cassette tape and floppy disk era, I don’t think it just was called piracy yet back then

The CGI is of course dated at this point, especially the space battle stuff. Characters are largely practical though, so they look fine still.

Otherwise IMO the first season starts a little slow and there’s a ton exposition heavy stuff early to introduce the world. It does pick up soon though and it avoids the returning to status quo after episode quite well. Pretty much every episode moves some of the bigger background plots forward

Warframe for me. I don’t think I would have very good chances of making through a whole year.