u/Castlenock

I'm excited about the storm guard feature

BUT

when it kicks off it goes to high power charging at 1600W and it's tripping my breakers. As such it's unusable. Please allow an option to keep the charging settings instead of forcing fast charging mode.

Lower on the list but what would be nice is the ability to have Storm Guard kick in on certain warnings and not others - I've had it trigger on heat wave warnings which I know my power grid can handle.

I'm excited to receive my S2000 units at some point this week, but in my research and journey since purchase, there are a lot of criticisms I have outside of the units themselves and directed more at Anker's pricing, marketing and fulfillment.

I bought x2 Anker S2000s on the morning of June 2nd. They still have not arrived. I had to complain to support before getting a 'warehouse error' response, and knowing a friend nearby got their unit and seeing many Redditors and FB peeps get theirs in my area, I don't really believe that answer.

When I bought their x2 package it took me a day to realize that I was overcharged by 60 USD from the advertised price. It took me 3 days to resolve that with support, and during that time, the price went from 60 USD off what I was supposed to be charged to 20 USD off for the pair. Luckily I had a screen snap of the price that was advertised as on one of the rounds of support, but if I hadn't taken that, it very much would have looked like I was being dishonest, which left a bad taste in my mouth. They eventually refunded me the difference (somewhat, I still had to pay for the tax on the higher figure) by saying the 'original price given was a web store error.' Having been involved in fulfillment and web site stores in a prior career, this answer was also very suss.

Their marketing of 'get on a mailing list to receive a coupon on June 2nd' was weird, confusing AF and stupid. It made it sound as if units were shipped on the day, that you were getting a super exclusive deal by signing up to the list by going through Anker Direct, etc. etc. Instead you got an e-mail with a code that worked on Anker Direct and Amazon, with the amazon orders coming WEEKS earlier than the Anker Direct orders. As soon as the 'promo' ended, a number of sites had the same exact deal on Amazon that are still running until end of June.

Finally, and I know this is common with power stations but it's dumb and dishonest AF, is the 'MSRP' price. 1,300 or whatever, a number that Anker doesn't even list on their store page. Instead they list what the 'real' MSRP is, which is 679.... But as of today that number is 699 with a 'discount' of 50 USD. So it's obvious they're just going to adjust numbers with every sale to make the value seem higher.

Again, I know other power station companies pull this stuff, but Anker really is taking the 'shitty experience' crown on fulfillment and pricing. I have not had these issues with Pecron, Bluetti or Ecoflow - and while I think Anker support is superior to those companies in trying to remedy these issues, that I had to go through all this support before having the product in hand means I will probably never buy from Anker Solix Direct again and will be less apt to buy their products in general.

What does this community think, is this a common experience or did I just draw a bad straw?

Hey all,

So I got a physical cart of XCX - was playing on Switch emulation for a bit, but now that I've got a Switch 2, hoping to start a new run with the official hardware/software setup.

I'll be blending docked play with handheld play pretty often and for docked I think I want the 60fps but for handheld I'd rather have the 30fps boost mode.

Is the process of ditching the switch 2 upgrade cumbersome? I'm assuming I have to download a whole new game set every time I ditch the upgrade which probably won't make this viable, but wanted to check.

Lastly, what is this subs current view on these upgrade issues ever being addressed at all? I know that having a re-haul for DLSS is probably not in the cards, but that there is some chatter that turning off the up-scaling vasaline with a menu toggle could be an easy win. <= that would make this 'upgrade' feel a lot less broken IMO.

I've been working on an episodic game series for years now and am about 4 or 5 months away from the first release. Hoping I could get some insight from this community.

Some questions I have on the classification of the game series:

The series is very different from most other games - internally I have always classified it as a 'Visual Novel' though it kind of leaches onto and bucks a lot of different trends - it's a collectable card game (that is very different from other card games and is very text heavy) with a continually playing cinematic which will be heavy in mocap (and eventually Epic's metahuman workflow) and voice acting.

- The closest I game that comes to mind for our cinematic content, card system aside, is 'Dispatch' (albeit on a much smaller / indie scale). Do people consider Dispatch a visual novel format?

- After a prequel game to cut our teeth we'd like to add a third person light novel to the mix; it can be ignored or adds insight to the other experiences of the game and is something I'm very excited about... but I'm not sure how much I should be banging the drum on it being 'A visual novel + light novel' rather than just saying 'visual novel'.

Questions on approaching communities:

I mega-suck at social stuff, zero twitter experience, give me a few minutes on facebook and I'll have a panic-attack, etc. etc. I have a Reddit presence but not something I like to attach to the games so am going to start a dedicated Reddit account that shows comments/posts before promoting it on things like this sub. Any advice in this area would be great - I don't want to expose my personal account and wed my personal stuff/beliefs with the games, but I don't want to have a soulless 'corpo' account when facing Reddit either so looking for tips on what sort of things to engage with that account to give it some legitimacy.

Any areas in Reddit or elsewhere that you recommend for promoting the series?

Other places that I can target to get the word out?

Questions on some things we're stumbling on:

I'm having a bear of a time charting voice acting - wasn't the plan to start with but we realized that it would add a ton to the game and we're so text heavy in other areas it's kind of a requirement. Budget is super small, but I'm trying to find local talent as while we are doing full body capture for this prequel game, we want to go into full performance capture for the main series (a.k.a. body capture and face capture, mocap actor is the same as voice actor). Getting engagement or contacts from local theatres or the only college in my vicinity has been... it's been frustrating. Any advice on creating a call sheet, engaging locals, and paying something that isn't an insult would be welcome.

Right, I have a lot more questions but this is probably already overwhelming. I should note we aren't releasing on any standard platform / this isn't a steam/itch/etc. release and expect a VERY slow start - it'll be a ton of time before we get noticed and any substantial play I think.

Thanks in advance!

First off, thanks to this sub that helped me with my research. Apologies as I'm sure this post is going to be a wall of text - the TLDR is at the bottom with some of my questions to the community.

Just bought x2 River 3 plus wireless refurbs off of ebay (150 USD each). While they are going to be primarily used as UPSs for networking equipment (know there are issues with that) but think they'll come in handy over a snow storm or hurricane to power a fridge / freezer overnight and top up during the day with a small gasoline <800W generator.

I live in an area in the US that has pretty crap power and have to put everything on a UPS; I have x6 UPS units in my house and replace about 1 to 2 a year and this purchase along with an upcoming purchase from Anker is designed to eventually offset the 250 to 500 USD I spend a year on those traditional UPSs. Having power info and some levers to pull with a wireless app is also a big upgrade for managing my network during power fluctuations.

I plan on putting one R3P between the wall and a UPS for a server to extend run time for a day or so - I can also shuttle the R3P to the generator during the day for a few hours to keep that running long term if need be.

The other one I'm thinking of driving my router and a few other pieces of gear - either a UPS in between or directly with a cheap surge protector between the battery and the wall. It's fine if this set-up goes down for a brief bit. At some point I may just move it to a TV station with a cheap surge protector simply to be able to remotely manage it during a power blip.

For my main rig which is of high value and where my work revolves around, I plan on getting two of upcoming Anker Solix S2000 as they are properly UPS rated and I can shuttle one for a day or two of refrigerator uptime or going out for a charge in a long outage if the small generator doesn't do the trick.

TLDR / Questions:

Does a cheap surge protector plus R3P suffice protection wise for equipment if you don't mind the equipment going out for a second or two?

Do these units show failure in a month or so of use or do people see failure after a good break-in period?

Any thoughts on buying refurb from Ecoflow? US customers - if the unit just dies, is a replacement within the realm of possibility with the lackluster customer support or is it tilting at windmills?

Thoughts on these units in general? (Don't care about the 'wireless' part)

How is the firmware these days?

Can/do these recover from a power outage without having to manually turn anything on?

Thanks in advance!