My “Theory”

[radiant crystal]

in demo, if you were to slice a body in an unconventional way instead of at usual cut off points, you wouldn't be able to chop up the rest of the parts

that's now possible in the ea

[quasi prism]

Blood falls through ground 90% of time, blood looks really cartoonish at times, and other issues like not being enough blood even on max blood. Which if Galaxy's patch makes it blood will look a lot better

wow

perfect timing lmao

[sand lion]

When is this patch coming? Because I’m on an AMD card and the blood looks awful

[quasi prism]

right now

[radiant crystal]

champions have buggy ash gore

[sand lion]

Be for real

[radiant crystal]

cuz it seems like they have the default willie gore

but their models are bigger

[radiant crystal]

so this happens

[quasi prism]

it just updated..

Check updates

[sand lion]

I don’t see this

[radiant crystal]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-s-patrick-patrick-star-bottle-dumb-gif-1741625486363070335

[quasi prism]

this is pre patch blood, whenever my game updates Ill show post patch

my game still hasn't gotten the upd unless it did earlier without me noticing

[sand lion]

There is no new update since Jan 31

[tall quest]

rage bait worked

[sand lion]

So this new update doesn’t even fix the blood issues on AMD

That’s the only fix I want

Everything else is whatever

So fucking lame

[quasi prism]

post patch blood is looking a lot better, it has better size, texture, and is seeming more consistent so far

W Galaxy

[sand lion]

It’s not fixed for AMD GPUs

[chilly trellis]

some decal issues are probably very low priority to making sure the game works for everyone

[sand lion]

Blood post-update for AMD GPUs is still jank

[sand lion]

you're optimistic

[chilly trellis]

You may want to report that as it's own thread, devs aren't gonna be reading this one for ongoing bug reports

[chilly trellis]

I mean, that's just truth. A subset of hardware configs having some visual inconsistencies is secondary to the game not running at 30fps lol

[sand lion]

they probably currently don't know how to fix the blood glitches for AMD cards as they said they fixed it before and they made it worse. they are probably clueless

[chilly trellis]

Alright man, no point in engaging w/ that kind of talk have a good day.

[sand lion]

except they already tried to fix it so no, you're wrong

They tried to fix it and they failed to do so

[chilly trellis]

I have a hunch you have never been involved in software development before :P

Again, no point in engaging. I'm sure it will be ironed out for you in time, more interested in performance increases. If you have ongoing issues, make a bug report pls rather than shouting into the void

[sand lion]

I did

Everyone has

And it hasn't been fixed

quit hugging the devs' nuts

[chilly trellis]

I do not see your thread posted as of this hotfix

[sand lion]

There's been multiple threads

I just posted in them

[chilly trellis]

Please make a feedback thread and stop raging somewhere it don't matter

[sand lion]

No need to make a new thread for a topic that has one

[chilly trellis]

Oh good, probably a better place to discuss that o7

[sand lion]

This is the bug reporting section of the server

I am where I need to be

[chilly trellis]

This is a thread in which we're discussing the probability of the EA release being an earlier build than what was disclosed in the trailer

You're not gonna find much engaging conversation about your specific hardware's visual bugs here

[fiery pollen]

I wanted to reply to this, because I don't like the outlined blood but I really like the blood trailing that they have going on

[quasi prism]

it was supposed to be fixed

it seems only 1 part of Galaxy's fix made it to the patch

sad

[radiant crystal]

demo alr had this

to an extent

[fiery pollen]

True, I just like how it looks now

[tall quest]

indie devs bro they're not AAA Grade devs and they will make more mistakes. You fail to grasp that early access is not perfect and it wont be until it comes out of early access. Check your entitlement issues and think about it from their POV. Either support them or just refund the game. Throwing tantrums because YOUR upset isnt really productive. Just wait for full release bro.

[fiery pollen]

This is how it looks for me post patch

[sand lion]

you're

also, the game had less issues in its demo, so it being early access is a moot point

[tall quest]

play the demo then man

[sand lion]

Also, it has a 59% score on Steam

But yeah, just MY problem

[quasi prism]

wait how is the outlines gone for you

[fiery pollen]

I updated my game to the current patch

And it looks better

[tall quest]

Again Early access you can break things with every patch thats development

[quasi prism]

I think my steam is bugged hold on

[tall quest]

If it were a AAA studio id be less forgiving

[fiery pollen]

They did blood optimization so not sure if that fixed it?

[sand lion]

fact is I paid money for this game and devs said blood was fixed on Jan 31 when it wasn't. I don't expect the game to be perfect but I don't expect it to be worse than the demo that was out for over two years

[sand lion]

it didn't

[quasi prism]

im dumb and thought it was updated to the current patch and it wasn't for me

[tall quest]

refund it then

[quasi prism]

whoops

[tall quest]

Wait until release

[fiery pollen]

Blood pools look kinda plasticy

[sand lion]

can't. played it more than two hours

[tall quest]

your not constructive your just crying about it

[sand lion]

yeah it looks like shit

[sand lion]

you're

[radiant crystal]

you can still refund it past the 2 hour mark it's just not an automatic refund

you can tell the steam support thtat the game is unplayable

[tall quest]

if i was taking an exam id give a shit

[radiant crystal]

there won't be much scrutiny considering the currentt review score

[sand lion]

I don't need my $20 back, I need them to fix the blood issues like they said they already did but eveidentily failed to do

[next crag]

Just wait the official release at this point.
No need to trash review the dev version of the game, if you support the game, you don't trash review it, you submit what's wrong to help fix the issue.

[radiant crystal]

trash review is when valid criticism

https://tenor.com/view/cat-axolotl-meme-ai-ai-slop-gif-320631449476692671

[next crag]

It is fully playable for many of us, and it is for me without issues for more than 26 hours now.
The game had many crashes in the baron fight, like in the demo, but that's all.

[radiant crystal]

there's a reason the review score is mixed and it's not review bombing

just accept it dawg

it's not that deep

[next crag]

Small team, they already made some incredible work

[quasi prism]

they have added more options iun menu

you can now change shading, landscape, and lighting

cool

[radiant crystal]

the development process has issues and you have to accept that

boiling everything down to "small team" or "indie" won't help the game improve

[tall quest]

Sounds like you should refund the game if you feel that way

thats the most reasonable thing to do if you feel that way

[radiant crystal]

feel what way

[tall quest]

If you dont think the game will improve

Refund it

[radiant crystal]

0 reading comprehension

😭

[next crag]

On my side, i didn't scrolled up to read the messages

[tall quest]

Im just trying to help you bro

[restive goblet]

been trying to say that

[tall quest]

save your money

[restive goblet]

some bullshit going on internally for this to happen

[solid flame]

The update didn't even help me at all.

[tall quest]

buy it maybe when it releases

[solid flame]

*if

[restive goblet]

whether it be devs or publishers or no comms between devs and their testers

something happened for the game to release in this state

and now they're on damcon because they collectively fucked up

[bright pagoda]

Should have spent a bit more time in the oven

[radiant crystal]

should have spent some time on finding good community managers

https://tenor.com/view/cat-axolotl-meme-ai-ai-slop-gif-320631449476692671

[bright pagoda]

It’s hard to recover good will from your community when you release a game like this

[restive goblet]

shouldve delayed if something went wrong in development instead of falling to the hype bait

hype could not save the game

[solid flame]

Sovietwomble's video about DayZ standalone hits really hard in here, talking about Evangelist Alienation.

[bright pagoda]

Or at the very least communicated the state of the game

[restive goblet]

been saying this since day one even before i was put out of mod

[bright pagoda]

Give us realistic expectations

Don’t just drop a pile of unoptimized vertexes on us

[restive goblet]

if they were like "yo the game is very chopped and does not meet expectations or promises made. we will be allowing you to look at what's going on but please DO NOT expect a proper game yet"

[solid flame]

The "new" version containing features we do not like, with worse performance and questionable design.

Alienating those who loved the demo.

[restive goblet]

it would have been a lot more reasonable of a release

[bright pagoda]

Agreed

[radiant crystal]

this is the simplset thing ever

[solid flame]

The funniest part is, many of their maps already existed long before that. The pit map has existed for a long time even before the abyss.

[radiant crystal]

yet they go the opposite direction and say the game is stable and has no major issues in their EA thingy msg

[bright pagoda]

Yea whack decision

[restive goblet]

instead they now have a PR nightmare that they're letting loose on service-level workers (mods)

[solid flame]

Which is just blatantly false marketing.

[bright pagoda]

Poor mods lol

Unpaid and unappreciated

[restive goblet]

mods are literally just normal people who volunteered

[astral burrow]

LMAO YOU GOT UNMODDED LOL

[restive goblet]

yep

[bright pagoda]

I could never mod a community like this

[astral burrow]

what did you do lol, be honest.

[restive goblet]

i'm literally the chains broken meme rn

[restive goblet]

preventative PR reasons for my statements said yesterday morning (est)

which i personally find unnecessary and paranoid

[bright pagoda]

What a shitshow this release has been

[restive goblet]

tldr basically light tier joking around with the community at the time (not even banter)

[astral burrow]

100% gameseer forced them to release this.

[solid flame]

I find it odd that fans of a game with a huge indie following and a publisher can't afford to pay moderators.

[restive goblet]

only one who gets a check is the community manager

[bright pagoda]

Publishers always screwing up the bag with deadlines, same shit with cyberpunk 2077

[astral burrow]

imma be fr with you, it was either actual light banter, or you called someone 55 slurs.

[bright pagoda]

Just let the devs cook dammit

[restive goblet]

you have been here a similar amount of time as me

what do you think

perfect clean record even before i went mod

i'm not dumb enough to bury my reputation, especially for sensitive/heated moments

[next crag]

Yeah, and for 2077 the devs wasn't new to the video game world.
Proof that everyone can do mistakes and fix them later with "time".

[astral burrow]

i only have been warned 2 times (reasonable warnings ngl)

[restive goblet]

yeah warnings are bound to happen until you get used to controlling what you say and send in a big public server

[bright pagoda]

For sure, this game has a good foundation, just needs some TLC

[solid flame]

In any case, yeah this game is sharted.

Some people I know have started going back to the demo just to see how much better it plays.

[bright pagoda]

I think it will be “good” in a few months if they keep up the pace with optimization

[solid flame]

if they could ever get around Intel-gpu optimization, that'd be great.

[chilly trellis]

That's not how steam refunds work to be clear, you can still submit a refund request. 2 hrs/2 weeks ownership is just for automated, instant accepted refunds. I've refunded games with a dozen hours in em if they're truly broken, as long as the reviews reflect these issues you're good

[bright pagoda]

Been a while since I have seen Someone with an intel GPU

[astral burrow]

i lowkey love Early Access, but there are many glaring issues that should be addressed.

[astral burrow]

(especially the drunk patron my beloved from half sword, i love you the most)

[solid flame]

I do too, but this is in far too much of a broken state.

[astral burrow]

yeah

[radiant crystal]

and they barely do anything

[restive goblet]

no comment

[astral burrow]

we should start making memes saying that the Devs are putting fluoride in our water so we think Half Sword Early Access is not buggy.

[radiant crystal]

boyyy

[astral burrow]

yes comment

[solid flame]

The equivalent of a 3060-4060 for 208 euro-

[radiant crystal]

you ain't a mod anymore

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1293884958053503036/1355621578892644424/cat.gif

[astral burrow]

yeah man, they aint gonna fire you, you cool as a cucumber, criticize them as much as you can.

[solid flame]

Unless he's legitimately gotten some kind of NDA to not disclose certain information

[restive goblet]

eh no nda

i just find it taboo to speak directly and fully on stuff ljke this in public areas

[solid flame]

Fair

[next crag]

I do only recommend any Nvidia 40-series.
The game is more than playable with DLSS and Frame Gen, sometimes 200 FPS.

But still, that's not how it is supposed to run, but for a dev release, that's useful

[astral burrow]

100% just Fluoride being injected in your brain so they make you not be able to criticize the Big Brother Half Sword Games.

[solid flame]

I am not getting Nvidia, ever again

[next crag]

Why ?

[solid flame]

I stopped with the second-hand 1070ti

[next crag]

I had one too, it was really nice

[solid flame]

Overpriced, terrible towards their customers...

[restive goblet]

i went 1080 ti to 7900 xtx

pascal was good

greatest generation of gpu

[astral burrow]

i still am on 1050 Ti 💔

[solid flame]

The 1080 ti could still keep up in modern times; excellent piece of work

[astral burrow]

1050 Ti is my GOAT

[next crag]

I had the GTX 960 > 1070 TI > 3080 and now the 4090 but i won't get higher, nothing much better on the 50 series

[tall quest]

has most compatibility tho in most cases I do wish amd to rise higher (in terms of compatibility)

[next crag]

Nvidia is the only GPU brand that is mostly supported.
But for CPU, i never got an Intel again, overpriced, full of issues

[restive goblet]

my amd i bought for 400 bucks off facebook so it's cool beans

[next crag]

I actually only had 1 AMD GPU

[lilac narwhal]

This would've been the bare minimum right thing to do.

Where is the transparency?

[restive goblet]

no transparency regarding state of game, then wonder why PR nightmare happens

you could be as friendly as possible and nice but if you dont tell people your game is chopped you already fucked up step 1 of game deving

[astral burrow]

most of my trust in them is gone ngl.

[bright pagoda]

Seems a little dramatic, still a cringe thing to do but I Doubt the devs wanted this, almost certainly the publisher

[sand lion]

I got an AMD GPU because I couldn’t find an Nvidia one in stock at the time, and I got an Intel CPU because my IT buddy insisted that I put it in my build instead of an AMD CPU.

Imagine my pain

[restive goblet]

i'm more worried about their priorities than their capabilities as devs

[sacred spear]

Amd users get fucked by devs once again

[restive goblet]

if this lost build theory is true then they've dug themselves the biggest hole there is

[sacred spear]

Clueless weren't you a mod

[desert anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/bleak-it's-bleak-shaking-head-its-bleak-black-and-white-gif-9592734580409210082

[chilly trellis]

Yeah, its one thing to have a rough launch, its another thing to be totally opaque about your release state and promise well above what you know you can deliver

[restive goblet]

now they either
A. work on the true build
B. work on this fuckass build and neglect the full build with all the cards and stuff

[solid flame]

Until he made statements seen as going against the regime being out of line.

[restive goblet]

from one rock and a hard place to another for this bs

[next crag]

I did only heard good experiences from AMD GPU, but i only got 1 in my life.
As an IT, i can say that i do only sell Intel CPU to my customers, and Nvidia GPU.

But for myself and for gaming builds, i do only choose AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU.
AMD just need a well-made case, optimized for cooling.

[sacred spear]

So criticizing the game can cost your mod role?

[astral burrow]

BIG BROTHER HALF SWORD IS WATCHING

[sacred spear]

Damn

[restive goblet]

yeah

[mental shuttle]

https://tenor.com/view/big-brother1984-1984-big-brother-big-brother-is-watching-you-george-orwell-gif-24454773

[restive goblet]

past tense and all

[sacred spear]

What did you do

[restive goblet]

that's what being too chill with the community does

[solid flame]

I could see why. Since they're probably currently in the midst of desperately trying to uphold the narrative that "everyone likes the game" and "that there's only a few small issues to iron out".

[mental shuttle]

Curses be upon those who act like humans

[restive goblet]

a little usual light bantering and fake mod abuse

you can check my message history yesterday est morning and deduce exactly when i got slimed

[desert anchor]

No good deed goes unpunished or something idk

[astral burrow]

and there are mods who can get to insult people scot free lmao (cough cough, Sir Moai Of Easter, cough Cough)

[restive goblet]

no even he stopped

it's team wide

[astral burrow]

the team got slimed out!??!

[restive goblet]

no he's still here

[astral burrow]

BRUH

[restive goblet]

militus and me are the ones no longer present

[solid flame]

They essentially wanted to hold you up to "company" standards whilst paying you not a penny.

[astral burrow]

good, militus should've gotten unmodded.

[restive goblet]

because pr bro

[worthy axle]

What?

[solid flame]

Although I think it's even worse PR to be firing relieving moderators from their janny duty

[restive goblet]

they treated my case the same as his more or less but before the reddit witch hunts started

(if they ever would have)

[astral burrow]

yeah you were also a little obnoxious yesterday no offense.

[mental shuttle]

There’s a few spots I have a feeling, what time was it specifically in EST

[worthy axle]

I almost have the same specs as you but with a i5 12400f and 32 gb ram ddr5 get 40 fps with medium settings dlss off FG off id recommend switching to dx12 if you haven’t yet

[restive goblet]

do tell where i was being obnoxious

not sarcastic i would like to know

i usually keep a little air of faux power tripping and flexing on the peasants type of vibe going on for jokes

[astral burrow]

Flexing your PC lol

[restive goblet]

but have always been impartial regarding the state of the game

[mental shuttle]

I can run half sword effortlessly compared to you peasants

The trick is to be far too poor to afford anything stronger than a 1070

[astral burrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1086506182090440794/1467253474218479676/tenor_6.gif

[restive goblet]

i use it as a means to be like "game only runs on good PCs. optimization is bad"

[mental shuttle]

1070s can run the game effortlessly^

[solid flame]

Man, I enjoy that this has become the spot of active critique and discussion.

Pretty sure that if a moderator were caught chatting in here in any way, they'd get their role withdrawn asap

[astral burrow]

liar liar pants on fire lol.

[mental shuttle]

Nah I’m serious man

[restive goblet]

it's a proper critique point that doesnt parrot the same bitchass arguments and talking points regurgitated since day one

[sand lion]

liar liar plants for hire

[worthy axle]

They shut down like 2 threads here lmfao

[sacred spear]

What settings tho

[lilac narwhal]

Nah Clueless noticed the falling too

The falling and being constantly downed

[mental shuttle]

DLSS on performance, DX12, low settings which were set automatically and yet don’t look any different from medium

I didn’t touch anything beyond DLSS and DX

[desert anchor]

No they’d just get publicly hanged

[mental shuttle]

Considering I only have performance issues on forests with 4+ enemies on higher levels, doing well enough

[restive goblet]

it's cooked bro

[mental shuttle]

Slums is strangely enough easier to run than forest and alley

[astral burrow]

Ivan Nestorov is no longer my beloved

[sacred spear]

It runs on my gtx 1650 too, my complaint is that they used lumen for the lighting instead of baked lighting which causes smearing, ugly graphics and bad performance for anything other than low settings

[restive goblet]

too much reliance on ue5 tools

[mental shuttle]

I don’t see any differences from low and higher

It all looks the same to me

I can run this easier than the demo

[sacred spear]

Because the only differences are the amount of effects and 4k foliage

[mental shuttle]

Demo I had to nuke my graphics and can’t do anything other than 1v1s

[astral burrow]

my 1050 Ti runs solid if i edit the Config Engine.ini files to run my bubblegum powered shitstick

[sacred spear]

The smearing lumen causes is HORRRIBLE

Most noticeable in cellar

[restive goblet]

hall too

[mental shuttle]

It’s completely realistic

[solid flame]

Looking into Game Seer's track record on Steam; they were co-publishing during the two other projects, likely just providing the funding.

Therefore I could imagine Game Seers making a big mistake since "we now wear the big boots".

[mental shuttle]

It just confirms our willies are drunk

[sacred spear]

The hell did you do boy

[sacred spear]

And have permanent brain damage which causes our body to collapse from breathing

[astral burrow]

ts is my setup, I'M POOOOR! I LIVE IN A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY!

MY FUCKASS GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS A MILLIONAIRE BUT HE HAD 5 CHILDREN AND SPLIT ALL HIS MONEY AMONG THEM!!!

[hollow stratus]

Yesterday I played EA for the first time.

[desert anchor]

Lead poisoning

[mental shuttle]

and toddler skulls that can’t an impact from a misshapen twig

[hollow stratus]

I won my first 5 fights because the AI fell over instantly and killed itself

[desert anchor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1043854764095582260/1468155634225647839/ezgif-6ae3211339e7d24b.gif

[hollow stratus]

This, but on slums, so they slide off the map

[sacred spear]

Average steam build btw

[mental shuttle]

Nothing better than cellar fights where they hit the cauldron and stand there while it swings back to clobber them

[astral burrow]

Fuck you Stojko my great great grandfather for not giving me generational wealth.

/j

[mental shuttle]

Fucking Stojko

Should’ve left an inheritance for investment so Drunk Patron From Early Access could give us free money

[worthy axle]

They have a good ish track record from what I have seen it’s mainly the developer’s fault

[mental shuttle]

To payback the 20

[astral burrow]

he had it in the bag, he was a millionaire, and fumbled it by having 5 children and splitting his money among them

AND THEN my great grandfather having 4 children and splitting his money with them.

[sacred spear]

So you end up with 1 cent each

[mental shuttle]

What’s with everyone having so many kids 😂

[astral burrow]

my great grandfather died in 2004, before i was born so i didn't even inherit the money.

[solid flame]

Looked more into it; their website isn't even maintained properly. The many links in which they brag about being mentioned in game media have almost all gone into 404.

[sacred spear]

3rd world country people like doing that

[mental shuttle]

Yeah that’s true I just didn’t want to say it

[sacred spear]

My grandma's mom had like 14 children

[astral burrow]

it was also the 1800s to 1900s where everyone had 50k kids

[mental shuttle]

3rd worlders having 30 kids while 1st worlders have 2

[restive goblet]

😬

[sacred spear]

Nah 1st worlders dont even have children anymore

[mental shuttle]

Yeah that’s true

[mental shuttle]

Was that millionaire designation accounting for inflation?

[astral burrow]

no, he was a millionaire back then.

so he was extra ballin'

[mental shuttle]

Major sell

[astral burrow]

i now have to sell copper that i steal from wires to make a living.

[sacred spear]

Open a gofundme atp 😭

[astral burrow]

gofundme isn't supported in macedonia.

[solid flame]

Stopped updating their website's portfolio since july 2024, with the embed twitter page breaking in august 2025.

[mental shuttle]

Macedonia? Become a tobacco farmer 😂

[astral burrow]

i am prohibited from touching, using and farming tobacco.

[mental shuttle]

Ah

Wine then?

[astral burrow]

that too

[mental shuttle]

Misleading username 😂

[astral burrow]

i can only drink Rakia

and ALE

[mental shuttle]

I’m not sure what Macedonians do other than drink and smoke

[astral burrow]

daily life of a Macedonian in a village Verified by me:

Wake up, go farming, go to the local bar and argue with other drunk people about nonsense and politics, get drunk, go home, sleep, repeat.

[mental shuttle]

Lmao

[astral burrow]

ts derailed so fast ngl

[sacred spear]

Dying from cirrhosis

[astral burrow]

LMAO I JUST FOUND OUT MILITUS GOT BANNED

[sacred spear]

Thank god that guy is a narcissistic mega clown

Wasn't he also a mod

[astral burrow]

btw i almost got cirrhosis, i had like some type of hepatitis stuff because i had a terrible diet and got a virus attacking it but i thankfully fixed my diet and beat that virus's ass.

[astral burrow]

yeah

[sacred spear]

GG man

[sacred spear]

Btw what did he get banned for

[astral burrow]

idk i think because he insulted people who criticized the game and ultraglazed the game.

[dim arch]

What did he do for the hate? I never really interacted with him

[sacred spear]

Narcissistic mega clown who sucked the hs devs balls dry and shitted on everyone who slightly criticised the game's poor state

He was also a mod

[dim arch]

What exactly did he say?

[astral burrow]

ARF ARF, MY FATASS UNDEFEATED!

[sacred spear]

Let me see if I can find it

[astral burrow]

he banned, all his messages are gone.

[sacred spear]

Yes but there's a screenshot on reddit

[astral burrow]

my BMI btw

[astral burrow]

oh ok

[astral burrow]

found a screenshot https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfSword/comments/1qrbqwf/half_sword_discord_mod_making_fun_of_people/

[dim arch]

That got him banned?

[astral burrow]

i think he did more insulting after that.

[thorn oar]

nah he did way more

[astral burrow]

like i remember i saw him like calling the reddit comments idiots or something

[thorn oar]

dude attacked anyone who critiqued the game

[dim arch]

Well it is reddit

[sacred spear]

Yeah thats one

[dim arch]

Not a good look regardless

[restive goblet]

yep

rest in pieces

[astral burrow]

as a person who uses reddit, yeah redditors are either gross asf or normal people, no in between.

[restive goblet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1382005175866232854/1467417966248333346/attachment.gif

but currently even if one stays impartial all it takes is a little (supposedly) misplaced banter to set things off

[astral burrow]

ditto

[dim arch]

Considering I’m running the game on a GTX 1650… I don’t see the problem with performance outside of the slums. Just run the game on medium and turn the shadows and textures up to epic if needed. His comment was funny

[dim arch]

I found this ironic

[sacred spear]

But genuinely what did u even do, all I saw was you flexing your 4k pc jokingly lol

[thorn oar]

fps?

[astral burrow]

lmao, i saw that guy too.

[sacred spear]

Whats your cpu

[dim arch]

60 I’d say, I haven’t noticed many significant drops

[dim arch]

Let me check, it’s a laptop too so

[thorn oar]

i cant get this game to run satisfactorily on any setting on my 3060ti

[sacred spear]

1650 laptop running ts at medium 60 fps???

[thorn oar]

i just want the option to turn off lumen

[mental shuttle]

two peas in a pod 😂

[thorn oar]

def not without frame gen or dlss hell

[restive goblet]

that's it lmao

bingo

[quasi prism]

My friend with a gtx 1660 ti couldn't get past 10 fps on slums on lowest graphics, he has to be lying

[winter jolt]

does FG really matter that much in a single player game

[thorn oar]

games as unoptimized as this one

[restive goblet]

ball knowledge profile

[winter jolt]

[thorn oar]

ai can generate more frames than the pc

[restive goblet]

you're the only other hsr gremlin i've seen in this place

[dim arch]

It’s possible that it’s lower and I haven’t noticed. The difference between say 50 and 60 FPS isn’t perceptible to the human eye. I’d have to get an actual FPS counter to confirm

[worthy axle]

FG is smooth as long as you have more than 60 fps

[winter jolt]

[thorn oar]

my gpu isnt supported for framgen so im cooked if we dont get the option to turn off this awful lumen

[dim arch]

I mentioned slums being bad. Read my message again.

[winter jolt]

there's also smooth motion

[dim arch]

The slums were shit, forest is meh, every other map runs fine

[astral burrow]

BEHOLD, THE 5 MILLION POLYGON UFO

[winter jolt]

I used it for helldivers 2 since FG isn't supported

[thorn oar]

what?

there is a ufo in the game

[restive goblet]

smooth motion is just 2x driver level FG

[sacred spear]

Why would you eat the ai slop if you alr have 60 frames

[restive goblet]

it works well enough

[astral burrow]

there is a UFO out of bounds in the Slums map.

[thorn oar]

the games settings at the moment are just broken dlss only works on balanced and boost is turned on no matter what

[sacred spear]

But we need Baked lighting!!!!!

[solid flame]

there's another ufo (UNIDENTIFIED flying object)

[winter jolt]

I like dlss and dlaa it makes wuthering waves and honkai crisp

[thorn oar]

that would be cool but i doubt they would do it but they def can get rid of lumen

[restive goblet]

hsr i play on my ps5

[astral burrow]

woah, where is that?

[restive goblet]

gacha games will not stain my pc

[winter jolt]

whats with the anti-ai hate

[ashen sentinel]

It's a very important part of the map and it's okay if it takes away 30 fps, everything in it must be using ray tracing too

[solid flame]

Lord Tourney map, if you go outside of the map. The sky box is weird. Straight above it's physically just a sphere.

[restive goblet]

i treat ai as a glorified search engine and creation tool

[sacred spear]

It's not monstrous work tho, so if they dont do it theyre def just lazy...

[astral burrow]

its terrible for the environment, and its the main reason for RAM shortages.

[restive goblet]

works when it works, definitely not artificial intelligence by classical means

(PLEASE MAKE OPENAI GO BANKRUPT. PLEASE.)

[thorn oar]

the game seems more focused on graphics at the moment and i wish they would just give us actual graphics settings that make the game look like shit instead of reducing shadows by 0.001 on low

[dim arch]

Right. 1650 GTX, Ryzen 5 6600 H, DDR5, SSD gen4x4 are my specs

[sacred spear]

It already gone bankrupt

[astral burrow]

i only support AI that isn't generative and is actually used for helpful stuff and not making an AI image of Spongebob sinking the titanic while shitting in a toilet 🗣️

[worthy axle]

They did that in the demo I’m not sure why they took the mgs3 remake path

[sacred spear]

All graphic presets look the same, they just add more effects and folliage in every settings

[dim arch]

I don’t know anything about computers mind you. I can’t afford anything good enough to care

[thorn oar]

yeah it stinks

the change between the graphic settings are almost unexistant

[dim arch]

2027!

[thorn oar]

they could make it run so much better on low end systems but they didnt add the options

maybe there is some config fucking we can do for now not sure

[restive goblet]

tldr horrible optimization

[winter jolt]

I want the game to have runescape graphics

it'll be funny

maybe even ps2

[thorn oar]

we need halfsword 64

[restive goblet]

keeping the physics and gore would make it a fun game still that's the funny part

half sword's fun was never in its fidelity

[sacred spear]

The game is realistic but the artstyle is plain and boring

[restive goblet]

but its core gameplay

[thorn oar]

gameplay>graphics

[dim arch]

The art style?

[restive goblet]

could have 2 grey dummies on a flat plane people would still eat that bitch up

[winter jolt]

graphics that attempt to replicate real life will always look dull

[thorn oar]

yeah they just use the generic unreal 5 art style

[astral burrow]

this opinion reeks lol

no offense

[restive goblet]

every game needs an art style

too realistic = uncanny valley

[sacred spear]

Game artstyles

[dim arch]

Ah, yes. Okay

[winter jolt]

Callisto Protocol did a good job at making it look realistic

[restive goblet]

you take what's good about realism and combine that with an art style and that's how you get a good looking realistic game

[outer flume]

Tbh unless some major stuff happens in rendering I don't see much better visuals past half sword

[winter jolt]

https://youtu.be/qZtNU-4yqtI

[sacred spear]

Do you like the "realism" uncanny valley half sword with basically little to no soul?

[thorn oar]

we keep getting patches for performance but its not changing anything for me

[swift drift]

How is new optimization running

[astral burrow]

yes

[sacred spear]

Because it's on things like foliage and stuff that doesnt exist in low settings

[outer flume]

I don't think this game has unccany Valley issues

[restive goblet]

half sword can either move away from realism or double down and go all in on the uncanny valley aesthetic for the lolz

[thorn oar]

hopefully we get performance mods

i doubt its getting any better from this in terms of performance

[sacred spear]

Whole ass mods that changes the game's artstyle

[astral burrow]

optimization update is gonna be insane lol

[winter jolt]

not really

the faces look so silly lol

[sacred spear]

I used to do ts to my half sword because of that

[thorn oar]

i wish willie had face expressions

[sacred spear]

yeah that makes the uncanny valley even worse

supposedly screaming with your mouth shut

wtf

[thorn oar]

i think its even more uncanny just seeing a man with a single expression

[restive goblet]

goofy ass faces

[thorn oar]

willie from halfsword feels not human idk how to explain

[sacred spear]

ah yes a very human and 100% not alien looking face

[winter jolt]

looks silly to me

[sacred spear]

btw this shit is SO BADLY RIGGED the face warps when moving

[astral burrow]

half sword is like here. (the black dot)

[dim arch]

I wonder how a medieval manuscript style would work in 3d (if at all)

[outer flume]

It's not terrible honestly

[restive goblet]

good question

[dim arch]

Ugliest guy in the game

[astral burrow]

i've seen way more not human looking faces IRL ngl

[dim arch]

I miss Willie. I reckon he was better

[sacred spear]

cause you live in fucking hell brother

💔

[astral burrow]

fair point

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-burning-hell-pain-gif-17379863

[thorn oar]

i think i broke the shadows lol

[dim arch]

He looks like a tradie in all honesty

[dim arch]

Turn the shadows up to high or epic

[astral burrow]

he's supposed to be uncanny lol

[uneven marsh]

deamon

[tight matrix]

yeah that ones intentional

[thorn oar]

no i will die

[sacred spear]

I hope they move away from realism, we already have enough realismslop

[winter jolt]

looks like someone took a piss

[thorn oar]

a little floating head never hurt anybody

[astral burrow]

we calling everything slop now 😭

[outer flume]

You've never seen someone with a menacing smile?

[dim arch]

They’re literally mimicking a medieval painterly style. This isn’t comparable

[sacred spear]

No this is actual slop this time bro

😭

[winter jolt]

this a 2d artwork

[astral burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-gif-9791600234365446047

[thorn oar]

dx11 runs better for me but it makes the blood like a 2d sprite and half my fps

[rich chasm]

stranger things season 5 ass copium

[sacred spear]

Do you use an amd gpu by any chance

[restive goblet]

nah he has a point

[thorn oar]

nvidia

[rich chasm]

shit, I hope that's the case but I just think that the game is having a rocky start

[restive goblet]

weapon handling and character stability very similar to old builds

missing content etc

feels more like playtest weapon handling

[sacred spear]

Which old build?

[astral burrow]

its 100% not a cope but a terrible misreading of the features showed in the Trailer + GameSeer screwing up the deadline

[radiant crystal]

they're moving away from it somewhat imo

you can't tell me this creepy mf resembles this style

[astral burrow]

bruh

[thorn oar]

games style isnt very consistant

alot of the art looks like they where made in different times

[uneven marsh]

i like this style

[radiant crystal]

too bad EA doesn't really expand on it

[rich chasm]

I really think that by March the game will be completely different (in a good way)

[astral burrow]

they used art from the chronicles of nuremburg but are now making their own art, thats why.

[outer flume]

Yeah no human ever looks like this 🙄

[thorn oar]

if we get options that allow the game to run good and have better freeplay il be happy

[radiant crystal]

talking just to talk

sit down son

[dim arch]

Well no, the characters remind me of something akin to works by the likes of Mathis Grünwald

[sacred spear]

The uncanny valley problem is in the 3d stuff tho

[outer flume]

Why so aggressive? I'm just voicing an opinion

And showing how dumb your point is

[thorn oar]

they even allowed you to change your height and weight in the demo but now we cant do it in freeplay

[uneven marsh]

i guess minced "beef" can be uncanny to some

[rich chasm]

I'm incredibly lonely
Half Sword makes me feel whole (sword) ❤️

[outer flume]

Oh no an emoji, how terrible

[radiant crystal]

obvious bait is bad bait

[sacred spear]

What does this mean?

[radiant crystal]

ik

[dim arch]

Are you pulling my leg here?

[sacred spear]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-bart-simpson-sad-tears-emotional-gif-16422703

[astral burrow]

how mfer's will blue eyes will stare at you waiting for a complement:

[outer flume]

Who's baiting? I was making fun of him for winging over an emoji

[uneven marsh]

how the homeless man be looking at me after i cut his head off with an axe

[sacred spear]

Too bad, now he will bite your ass in the abyss

[astral burrow]

your mother, BURRRN! NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE! APPLY COOL WATER TO BUUUUURN!!! /j

[dim arch]

WILLIE WASN’T UNCANNY JUST BRING BACK WILLIE

I WANT WILLIE BACK

[thorn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/leon-kennedy-blue-eyes-gif-12331387607190349579

[sacred spear]

Iirc he's supposed to be coming back one day (as an important character too btw)

[astral burrow]

i named my guy "Majesticus" lol

[uneven marsh]

abyss in question

[dim arch]

My husband returns!

[outer flume]

Absolutely scorched rn

[astral burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/fried-chicken-chicken-fried-cooking-pan-gif-3377398

[outer flume]

Feeling worse then a fresh beggar Willie taking .91% of a feathers weight on the knee

[astral burrow]

Burned, checkmate chud

[restive goblet]

criminal criminal criminal

[outer flume]

Anakin wishes he could touch my charred flesh PR

[thin tree]

I can definitely see that this may be an older version specifically I noticed the weapons look like the old halfsword demo. And the overall graphic quality with ui and gameplay seems a bit dated

[sacred spear]

can anyone explain me the reddit witch hunt pls

[winter jolt]

??

[sacred spear]

the reddit witch (mod) hunt

[astral burrow]

Mod glaze game and very rude, reddit half sword fans angy, backlash.

[sacred spear]

thought it was some unjustified shit

fuck militus!!!

[astral burrow]

DOWN WITH MILITUS

[lusty spade]

How the f you manage to not have internal feedback on a small team like this

[sacred spear]

which one is ghm

[worthy axle]

I don’t like the fact that the jester looks uncannily familiar…

[outer flume]

I swear it's this, first thing I thought of when I saw it at least

[restive goblet]

militus made snarky comment about people expecting more from bad PCs

militus slimed

[outer flume]

Was that the "ahh why won't my game run on a potato HD 500" Post?

[restive goblet]

yes

that was it

[sacred spear]

militus deserved it ngl

[restive goblet]

too lazy to explain my situation for the gorillionth time

[sacred spear]

what situation

?

[low orchid]

Deep in the conspiracy but maybe they gave an earlier version so in a week they can ‘fix it’ (just go to a newer build) and make everyone happy

[sacred spear]

that would make no sense

[thorn oar]

nope

[sacred spear]

https://tenor.com/view/discord-meme-cook-gif-1177116184918006692

[low orchid]

Lmao

[thorn oar]

we just have to face reality that this was a bad release and hopefully will get better in the next few months

[sacred spear]

mfs think this is the sonic redesign situation

[low orchid]

Maybe it’s a classic case of works great in house and burns when given out

[restive goblet]

no shot

[modern arrow]

or a cash grab

[restive goblet]

amd blood bug wouldve been caught otherwise

[low orchid]

True

[thorn oar]

wish the devs did playtesting instead of just sending it off with a price tag

[low orchid]

My fears kinda came true with it

I was worried EA would just be devs adding on random bits for the sake of it and not working on improving the core of the game

Yet somehow they’ve not only added on half baked ideas but also broken a lot of the core of the game

[sacred spear]

well...

there was going to be a steam next fest build

[restive goblet]

5 days for community closed testing would have done fuck all

game needed 6 more months with the scale and team they have

[low orchid]

It’s missing some of the stuff from the demo- where’s the war pick

[thorn oar]

they should have just released it to the public instead of just having it for the event

[sacred spear]

literally everywhere

[low orchid]

What????

[thorn oar]

i legit wonder how they didnt know about the amd shit though

[restive goblet]

genuinely abominable

literally the only other gpu brand

[thorn oar]

thats wild if they are just testing it on nvidia cards

im they do only really support nvidia

[restive goblet]

and somehow nvidia people run this game worse

[sacred spear]

on a rtx 6000 too so they didn't notice the shit optimization

💖

[restive goblet]

win some lose some ig 😂

[low orchid]

Lmao

[thorn oar]

they litteraly advertize nvidia on the launch screen

[low orchid]

‘Mmm more polygons’

[thorn oar]

like the game is made by them

[sacred spear]

don't the gtx users run this shit better than the rtx 40 and 50 series crowd

[low orchid]

Nanite demands more polygons

[sacred spear]

fuck lumen fuck nanite

[low orchid]

Does the slum map even use LOD?

[thorn oar]

nope

[restive goblet]

my 7900 xtx run this bitch better than some -90 series

[low orchid]

Brother

[restive goblet]

why do you think it runs like dogshit

[thorn oar]

crysis level unoptimization

[restive goblet]

with an entire village section you can't even see or get to

[low orchid]

Lowkey wish I could join half sword games lmao

[sacred spear]

to be fair it's supposed to run better than the 90 series

iirc

except on ray tracing of course

[thorn oar]

to bad they have forced raytracing on for some reason

[restive goblet]

it's lumen

devs can't into pre baked lighting

[sacred spear]

yes, lumen not raytracing

[thorn oar]

well yeah but basicallty the same thing but worse

[sacred spear]

why

[thorn oar]

they love unreal engine

and all its slop

[low orchid]

Icl unreal engine is so easy

[restive goblet]

dont ask me that's just what i see

[low orchid]

Because you don’t have to do anything

[sacred spear]

for what reason on earth the devs can't change the lumenslop for pre baked lighting

[low orchid]

It’s essentially kodu labs

[restive goblet]

time

i suppose

[thorn oar]

i think this game would run better if it used rtx rather than lumen actually

[sacred spear]

god it doesn't even look good at all, lumen causes a crapton of smearing and weird visual glitches

[sacred spear]

going a bit too far with this one my friend

[thorn oar]

i mean ive played games with rtx ive played games with lumen

[low orchid]

This took me 10mins from scratch lol

[thorn oar]

rtx usally runs better than lumen for me at least

[restive goblet]

but my game dev experience tells me

[low orchid]

Ja

[restive goblet]

if you have good meshes and proper LOD nanite will run quite literally a few times worse

[sacred spear]

is that the fricking fools wheel they promised us but never gave us

[restive goblet]

lumen on the other hand

[low orchid]

Yeah I hated the smoke

So I made it in blender

And made my own smoke

[restive goblet]

it's just software path tracing that takes a bunch of shortcuts but still real time

combine these two aspects into the current state of half sword and we haveeee

[sacred spear]

shitty shit

[thorn oar]

why does everyone think this game needs to be completly utterly physics based like the devs cant cut corners

cant they just not render stuff not seen and dont do physics stuff on unimportant things

[thorn oar]

why does the smoke need to be physics based and not animations

[low orchid]

Real answer

[sacred spear]

cause it's easier

[low orchid]

It’s so easy in unreal

Like 3 buttons

[sacred spear]

I'm starting to suspect the whole EA was made in one month

[restive goblet]

optimization has been sidelined in modern gaming in favor of shortcuts that kill performance

[low orchid]

It kinda sucks

[sacred spear]

I would atleast understand if lumen looked better but it looks worse

[restive goblet]

gone are the days where they made games like the last of us off of the ps3

(256mb ram and vram)

[low orchid]

All my game dev stuff was to make things as optimised as possible

[sacred spear]

512mb ram*

[low orchid]

And then I see so many games just not gaf

[restive goblet]

shared ram was xbox 360

[thorn oar]

halfsword might generally be one of the laggiest unreal games in the future

[restive goblet]

ps3 went with the split design

[thorn oar]

there is no game that ive played just as laggy

[low orchid]

Ready or not?

[sacred spear]

I bet even unrecord runs smoother

[low orchid]

Lowkey might make a medieval game in UE5 out of spite

[thorn oar]

i mean its rendering everything and physcially simulating everything while at the same time using unreal engine 5 and lumen

[sinful helm]

lowkey super willie is super

[restive goblet]

wait until half sword killers come out

[thorn oar]

idk how it gets worse then that

[sacred spear]

exanima came out 10 years ago brody

❤️‍🩹

[restive goblet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1382005175866232854/1467417966248333346/attachment.gif

[thorn oar]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3853910/Gore_Sword/

Steam

Gore Sword

Welcome to the most chaotic, unpredictable, bloodiest, and funniest medieval gladiatorial arena ever!
Every battle is powered by a real-time physics engine. No preset animations—only real collisions based on force, speed, angle, and mass.

When weapons are tossed away and armor hits the ground, the most primal and absurd brawls begin.…

Release Date

Feb 10, 2026

🙏

[restive goblet]

ayo

[sacred spear]

this is a whole ass ripoff

that's willie right there

[thorn oar]

yep

but it prob runs better

[sinful helm]

gore sword will never beat willie when he goes into super willie willie whack with willies willie

[abstract night]

Wow you're fast

[sacred spear]

SON 😭

[thorn oar]

this is what i like to see when i get a game

[sacred spear]

https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3853910/extras/518e4b0f88f3cfe833eae9743662a4d4.webm?t=1769848402

mfer this has gladio mori combat

[thorn oar]

if halfsword and gladio mori had a baby

[sacred spear]

actually tho

[restive goblet]

lmao

[sacred spear]

exanima is the only half sword killer

🥹

but it's an unfair ass comparison so idk

[sacred spear]

you can run this on a toaster with rgb

[low orchid]

Wait I just realised

Are none of the trees on the slums LOD?

[thorn oar]

nope

[low orchid]

https://tenor.com/view/no-oh-the-horror-mortified-no-no-no-my-name-is-earl-gif-5376630

[thorn oar]

not a slim of optimization was in mind making this game

[sacred spear]

reasons why exanima is better than half turd:

[low orchid]

Bruh

[restive goblet]

based as fuck wtf

i'm tapping in

[low orchid]

Very sly exanima advertising

[restive goblet]

shit you cannot get away with here

[sacred spear]

for free btw

I'm just the ultimate exanima glazer

💖

[radiant crystal]

"minimum"

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-speed-trying-to-not-laugh-speed-holding-laugh-speed-laughing-speed-laugh-gif-242565803459391828

[sacred spear]

btw it's a reskinned gladio mori

https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3853910/extras/518e4b0f88f3cfe833eae9743662a4d4.webm?t=1769848402

[thorn oar]

gladio mori isnt bad it just has weird controls

[sacred spear]

wtf is that a modern ballistic vest

[thorn oar]

lol

[restive goblet]

lowk at least it runs

[nova thorn]

maybe they had to remove features from the game for release on account of them just being too broken or something like that

idk im just spitballing

[sacred spear]

no

it's like when the teacher gives you 2 months for a project and you do it one day before the deadline

[nova thorn]

thats funnier so i choose to believe that

[warped lotus]

how

ohhh

ohh its not a mod LMAO

[sacred spear]

that's so fucking fire

you can make your custom moves in gladio mori right

[warped lotus]

yeah

im the one with the katar

i (mostly) made the one im using

(it's almost all modified moves from other custom movesets)

[winter jolt]

community managers trying to not be assholes in every game discord impossible

[outer flume]

I don't even get it like I'm a community moderator for a indie boxing game and the idea of having such an elitist pov is crazy

[astral burrow]

100% gameseer rushing them for a short deadline like how I Rush B in cs2

[winter jolt]

real

is it that hard to not powertrip

[outer flume]

Apparentfuckingly, some people have never made any decisions on their own and it shows with the average amount of power tripping

I have an alternative theory as to why perf is bad

[winter jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/peace-gif-8229430019593501654

[outer flume]

The systems they tested on had little to no variance, I assume they used Intel CPU+ Nvidia GPU as anything AMD has issues

Further expanding, I believe having a ryzen cpu makes dx12 almost unusable

I get like double the fps on dx11 on high then I do on dx12 low

[next crag]

Aah yes, the rotten Barrel, the final boss right after the baron

What happens if i create a new character in progression mode ?
I'm pretty much invincible with the baron gearset and armor, the game was more enjoyable when i was vulnerable at first.

If i "retire" and create a new character, will this one be erased ?

[pure dove]

I think so, havent tested it

Im not sure if ensured items and money stay even when you retire

If they do that'd suck ass

[next crag]

I zipped my save file and deleted steam cloud saves.
And deleted the save folder, so i have a copy, and i can create a whole new progression game

[astral burrow]

Rush B

[next crag]

P90

Sometimes the games runs like a river, and sometimes like wet dirt

234 FPS

[astral burrow]

Mac 10, force buy.

[next crag]

Plant long

[astral burrow]

"SHIIFT, SHIIFT, STUPID NOOB!" S-Den, my cs2 teammate that i ragebaited by running in circles with a Mac 10 near the enemy.

[next crag]

This guy crying like he was cutted in half

He's doing too much

[astral burrow]

To quote the words of butcher "ESTROGEN FILLED CISSY BOY" or something idk

[next crag]

You seem like the kind of person who might like my edit of Half Sword Demo (The only edit that i set in Public)

[next crag]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YKnXCAeYnE

[next crag]

I beated some beggars while listening to this blessing tune

[astral burrow]

Host of the highest rated talk show here in macedonia btw (also, fyi he didn't say the N word, he replaced it with "they") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsGenPH_FpE

Lowk a good rapper

Born to rap

Forced to be the host of a talk show

[mild pollen]

this is also in wip lmao

[astral burrow]

Damn

[lean epoch]

1050 4gb runs fine

i just cant record the game

[frigid briar]

this is like that one guy who lived a completely normal life and the majority of his brain was replaced with fluids

how on earth does that run fine lmao

[hushed leaf]

maybe hes playing at 480p with a 9800x3d and fsr ultra performance

[astral burrow]

10 top lies of this century 😭

[zinc owl]

I use a 3060ti and I get anywhere between 15fps to like 100fps

Low settings

[wide crag]

I use a Rx 6700 with AFMF 2 and get about 80-120 on low

only real way I can get a high refresh experience fr

[thin tree]

I clock in max fps with 4080super and ryzen 7800x3d and occasionally i clock in 0 frames

[lean epoch]

it work da

[astral burrow]

Cap, my 1050 Ti is a better GPU and lags at the highest amount optimization I can do lol.

[smoky cairn]

I think you're focusing on the wrong part of your computer

I'm running the game off a 3080ti and a Ryxen 9 9500x and I get a consistent fps that I find to be playable similar so to what I got in the demo

[smoky cairn]

Medium settings dx12 I almost forgot

[next crag]

On the Forest map, how are we supposed to climb in there to get the content of the chest ?

We can jump, but we can't really climb.
Or i don't know how

[bright pagoda]

I hope we get climbing mechanics in time

[pure dove]

Yeah you cant even grab onto the cart

I thought i'd have to grab on and do a mixture a jump and pulling myself up but no

[bright pagoda]

Physics based climbing in this game would be dope

I want to climb a tree and sit up there shooting crossbow bolts at the poor sods below

Is it possible to climb effectively in full armor

I imagine you could but it would suck and be really heavy

[agile bone]

There's a video of someone climbing a fort's wall in plate armor.

[bright pagoda]

Huh, neat

I assumed it’s possible you just need to be fit as hell

[agile bone]

I found the video, lets see if it'll let me send the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kylzS0eFU1s

[bright pagoda]

Hell yea thanks

Very cool channel

After watching I now really want climbing in this game, kind of crazy how agile these suits were, I feel like movies and such always portray them as lumbering tanks

[astral burrow]

thats AI

[light monolith]

It most certainly is not

[bright pagoda]

Do you have any idea how hard it would be to make a 12 minute AI video with no weird anatomy or changing faces

Also if it was AI why would they make it more “lame” by having a spotter/belay in case they fall

Would be a cool mechanic though

Fair, I am taking in the future

I think climbing could add some interesting opportunities to levels

Especially if AI can do it too

A level based on a small siege on a camp or something

Would benefit greatly from climbing mechanics

As of now any knee hight wall is a complete blocker

[astral burrow]

"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

lowk jokes aside tho, how did you think i was serious 😭

[bright pagoda]

Where’s the funny

It’s not a joke if it’s just saying incorrect information with no indication of sarcasm

[astral burrow]

the joke is, i'm calling something thats obviously not AI, AI.

[bright pagoda]

Ok, but tons of people do that completely seriously

This being the internet sarcasm is pretty much impossible to parse unless you make it really obvious

[celest needle]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-gif-20933973

[knotty musk]

[astral burrow]

Yes

[agile bone]

what is the punchline to the joke, it's been explained and I still don't get it

[astral burrow]

Jokes don't need a punchline vro

[knotty musk]

the only reason why jokes exist is the punchline dude

[astral burrow]

Bruh

[agile bone]

I think climbing the rocks on walls would be pretty buggy, but if you had something like siege ladders? That would be cool

[vast moss]

Can u explain how to do it?

[bright pagoda]

they could make a map with more exposed rocks but yeah

[astral burrow]

Create a text/notepad file named engine.ini in the file path of %LOCALAPPDATA%/HalfSwordUE5/Saved/Config/Windows/

Paste these settings in that file, then save and set the file as read-only so it doesn't get deleted.

[SystemSettings]
foliage.LODDistanceScale=0
grass.Enable=0
r.AOQuality=0
r.BlurGBuffer=0
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=0
r.DefaultFeature.Bloom=0
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0
r.DOF.Recombine.Quality=0
r.DOF.TemporalAAQuality=0
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=0
r.FastBlurThreshold=0
r.Fog=0
r.FullScreenMode=0
r.LensFlareQuality=0
r.MaxAnisotropy=1
r.MipMapLODBias=0
r.MotionBlur.Max=0
r.MotionBlurQuality=0
r.ParticleLightQuality=0
r.SceneColorFringe.Max=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.SubsurfaceScattering=0
r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0
r.Tonemapper.Quality=0
r.VT.MaxAnisotropy=1
r.PostProcessAAQuality=0

[/script/engine.renderersettings]
r.Upscale.Quality=0

[ConsoleVariables]
r.ScreenPercentage=100

[/script/engine.inputsettings]
bEnableMouseSmoothing=False

[vast moss]

Tysm

[pure dove]

As knights were

[sharp creek]

I come back to this chat after a while and all I see is everyone talking about Willie being unfazed by everything

😭🤣

[sudden lagoon]

The fact that they haven’t reverted the physics back to the playtest like they were very quickly able to do last time around and instead blaming it on the strength system is still rubbing me the wrong way, especially now that a lot of posts on Reddit are praising it or just people convincing themselves once you get strength up it’s the same as the demo; if that was the case, the freeplay character wouldn’t have any of the handling issues, but they do soo..

[astral burrow]

Last Time?

[sudden lagoon]

When they first updated the playtest to the demo version, they changed the physics to what they are like right now, weird, floaty, no grip, falling over a lot and taking a longgg time to get back up etc etc and everyone immediately noticed and hated it and they quickly reverted them back to what the demo physics are currently

So most people, myself included expected EA to be a more refined and fluid version of the demo physics but they ended up going fully backwards

[astral burrow]

uhuh, i get it (i still lowk don't get it)

[broken lake]

Yeah you know I put so many hours into the playtest, and bought the EA literally a day after it released. One of the only "new" games I've spent money on in ages. I'm disappointed cuz it all feels janky as shit, AND it's seemingly broken my computer.

[sudden lagoon]

Oh naur

[broken lake]

Like I'm constantly (5-ish times a day) soft crashing, and it only started AFTER I installed the game

I made a post about it in the main feedback thread that goes into more detail but yeah

[sudden lagoon]

Like when playing other games?

[broken lake]

When using firefox

And Half Sword, of course

The game itself just doesn't even open anymore

[sudden lagoon]

Jesus, maybe try uninstalling everything HS related with revo uninstaller then reboot and see if anything changes

[broken lake]

Yeah I've been thinking about something like that

It's absolutely insane though like

It played fine the first two or three times I went to play it

[sudden lagoon]

Takes 20 secs too

[broken lake]

Then, it soft crashed my PC

Now the game crashes whenever I try to open it and also guess what also f*ck me because my PC also just craps itself whenever it wants now

Half Sword gave my pc incontinence

[broken lake]

I'll try that, thanks man

[sudden lagoon]

No prob man, best of luck

[broken lake]

The crashes are ESPECIALLY scary for me because I'm a musician/content creator so like if I get a crash while I'm tracking guitar or whatever, it's a "get f*cked idiot" situation without exemption

[radiant crystal]

if your hands gets injured they now become extra floppy

literal noodles

https://medal.tv/games/half-sword/clips/m3EB0jB0KJZiFFGu0?invite=cr-MSxlM1AsMzAxNTYxMDcz&v=17

[lilac narwhal]

Yeah this is the greatest issue of the early access, not necessarily the performance

Half Sword was exceptional because of the combat simulation and core gameplay

[radiant crystal]

people on reddit tare having stockholm syndrome

or were just gaslighted

into thinking everything's fine

[lilac narwhal]

That this completely regressed is baffling without an explanation currently

[broken lake]

FR dude, these guys are giving me Phasmo Dev energy HARDCORE all of a sudden. "It's the players," "we'll fix it!" etc. Don't be surprised if we get a Half Sword movie before they fix any of this

Also, on me crashing, I don't have a shit PC. It's older, but still pretty friggin sweet Lois lemme tell you.

I've got a 3060, not top of the range but nothing to sneeze at

So as far as I can tell from everything I've looked into, the game did this

[broken lake]

Dude I'm so gutted, I was prepared for this to be my GOTY easy. I was so excited from the first images they were putting out. I'm a historian myself so I was excited to get a very (not completely, no matter what they wanna say 😔 ) historically accurate game despite my wheelhouse being 1900-2000. But nope, it's "get f*cked idiot"

[broken lake]

Have you noticed how one of the face presets appears to be a literal scan of Cillian Murphey's face?

[sudden lagoon]

Which one I’m Irish so would love to play as aul Cillian hahahah

[broken lake]

Really you're irish? I couldn't tell by the Celtic ass name lol

JK in good fun my friend

[broken lake]

I'm not sure which one, it's one of the face presets for beggar at least- IDK if there are different ones for different classes.

[sudden lagoon]

Oh I never even thought of that possibility, I don’t think there is though

[broken lake]

I chose it explicitly because I wanted to be Cillian whacking dudes over the head with a comically sized mallet

[solid flame]

I have had a lot of crashing up until I have capped all quality at zeroes in the config file, and I'm using a fairly recent and capable gpu (B570)!

[sudden lagoon]

And looking perpetually bored

@solid flame you Irish too?

[broken lake]

I'll definitely try that, kinda insane you gotta go into config files to get a supposedly newer version of the game to work

[solid flame]

No? Austria.

[broken lake]

Again, dawg, this runs about as well as 2010 minecraft

[broken lake]

Shoutout y'alls chocolate

[sudden lagoon]

Oh, Dagda is an Irish god

Gaelic I mean

[broken lake]

I say this as someone who was there for it

[solid flame]

Ah, thas' what you were referrin' too!

[sudden lagoon]

Hahaha

[solid flame]

Dagda because Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

[sudden lagoon]

I’m not familiar, apologies mang

[solid flame]

all good

niche spin off in an already niche series (except for SMT: III with demi-fiend)

[solid flame]

You mean the mozart balls? Yeah they're quite good...

Unless you meant swiss-chocolate

[broken lake]

I've just had chocolate made in austria that's insanely good

[sudden lagoon]

I’m guessing Anime? I’ve only watched the cyberpunk one and akira, also boo socks if that counts hahah

[broken lake]

Swiss chocolate is good as well

[solid flame]

JRPG series

[broken lake]

Really German/Swiss/Austrian chocolate in general fucks and is GOATed

[sudden lagoon]

Boo socks?? Boondocks

[sudden lagoon]

Ohh makes sense

[broken lake]

Boondocks goated

I live near where the show takes place

[sudden lagoon]

It is indeed

[solid flame]

I've had british chocolate when I was in the UK; stuff made me a little sad

[broken lake]

It takes place in Prince George's County, Maryland, and I live in Baltimore County

[sudden lagoon]

Irish chocolate is very nice

Cadbury is like eating a candle nowadays

[broken lake]

Never try American chocolate you will die of cringe on the spot

[solid flame]

though the chocolate I had in Japan also wasn't anything great

[broken lake]

Our chocolate sucks so bad

[sudden lagoon]

I have to agree

[broken lake]

A hershey bar is like eating wax that was designed to taste bad

[sudden lagoon]

Cookie dough is great though

[broken lake]

mmmmm artificial brown flavor

[solid flame]

Something something Hershey's chocolate made with vomit components

[sudden lagoon]

It actually was designed to taste bad, has some additive that makes it taste like sour milk

[broken lake]

Yeah man I'm not a chocolate guy in general, so when I eat it it's european imports lol

German, Austrian, Swiss, hell even French

[sudden lagoon]

Soldiers got a taste for it during war rations so they had to keep the recipe and it became standard apparently

[broken lake]

Same with spam

I'm vegetarian now but SPAM is good

[sudden lagoon]

Fried spam with ramen can be ok, ish hahah

[jagged hinge]

spam is shit

[broken lake]

How I lived it was cubed, fried to a crisp, and in fried rice

Never ate it slabbed that shit was grody

[broken lake]

It's how you cook it tbh, if you cook it sliced it's like nasty wet cardboard

[sudden lagoon]

Yeah fuck a slab

[broken lake]

You gotta cut it either super thin deli style, or just cube it and fry it to being almost burnt

[sudden lagoon]

I’m a char man myself

[broken lake]

Yeah when I ate meat I liked it slightly overcooked

Except steak, I wasn't a steak guy but even I knew to eat that shit just medium lol

Americans eat a lot of undercooked beef for how shit out food safety standards are

[astral burrow]

spam is made out of meat tho-

[broken lake]

And I don't eat it anymore

I have KNOWLEDGE of what spam taste like because I used to eat meat

That's what "now" means

So, I am currently a vegetarian however I have the memory of what I used to eat tastes like.

[sudden lagoon]

Wadiyatalkinabeet?

[astral burrow]

Wadiya

[sudden lagoon]

Aw yeah nah, sick

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