🎮│game

[feral ferry]

https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/10/24/lords-of-the-fallen-budget-66-million-most-expensive-ci-games

Surprisingly high budget

Hmm

Epic exclusive isn't going to sell much

[drifting rose]

that's a remarkable budget for a sequel to a game that was on the radar for a few weeks 10 years ago and then vanished

oh, it had a bit of a Duke Nukem Forever going on, development was restarted a few times

Hexworks had high ambitions for the game, with Virtosu adding that the studio set out to be "the second reference [after FromSoftware]" for the Soulsborne genre by making "Dark Souls 4.5". based, I should check it out one of these days

[orchid prism]

Aaaaand BG3 is finally finished. It definitely is one of the games of all time.

[deft bloom]

good job

I'd actually even say one of the greatest, didn't you like it in the end?

oh and did you do house of hope? peak gaming moment for me

he missed a boatload of stuff I'm sure, the latest restart was so recent lul

[orchid prism]

I did almost everything.

But I definitely rushed through a lot of act 3.

The game just drags on and on, and there's way too much content there compared to the first two chapters.

Did house of hope as well, but Raph didn't get a s chance to sing.

[deft bloom]

sad

how do you know about it then

[orchid prism]

YouTube

I also snuck the hammer out of its cage without the code.

Cause I'm sneaky like that. Gotta break the game.

[deft bloom]

I made the deal and broke it

[orchid prism]

I bought the portal recipe, killed the seller and ignored the insane ghost.

Hope or whatever

[deft bloom]

that storyline was great too

[orchid prism]

Also blew up Gortash with the massive barrel you can nick from the suicidal gnome in act 1

Fun times.

[deft bloom]

sounds fun

I watched zero spoilers, gameplay stuff or anything, just handled everything organically

[orchid prism]

Too many things to miss organically in act 3.

Mage tower, the haunted painting, the whole mecha factory/underwater prison thing.

[deft bloom]

that's why it took me 153 hours to finish

I did all those

of

[orchid prism]

Did it on 50, though skipping combat.

Turn based just doesn't work with more than ten combatants. The game's killing me with waiting

[deft bloom]

seems like we had vastly different experiences

I like just watching the guys move, what bugs me though was sometimes the characters freeze and wait a while after an action has happened already

[orchid prism]

I spent more time alt tabbed, waiting for enemies to go through turns than playing those 50 hours.

So I gave up in act 3 and just turned Minsc into a machine that could kill anything not a boss in a single hit and gave him unlimited actions and movement

[deft bloom]

[orchid prism]

Skipping combat the only way I know how to

[deft bloom]

different strokes and so on

[orchid prism]

The old BG games handles combat much faster.

Everyone acts at the same time in real-time turns.

With actual pausing. Who'd have thought.

[deft bloom]

higher difficulties were always spam space fests, I like the larian way more since it's closer to dnd

[orchid prism]

I did enjoy the brief Bhaal sidestory that Dark Urge got though.

Anyhow. It's 1AM. Time for bed.

[deft bloom]

nighto

[young hill]

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/this-spooky-fps-series-is-dirt-cheap-on-xbox-right-now-and-its-perfect-for-halloween

More like an action filled immersive story shooter

[barren pewter]

spooky?

pffffff

[young hill]

Yeah lol

There is not that many junpscares

[barren pewter]

there are none

[young hill]

Uh there is one from the doggies in the beginning

There is the blind apes

There is a few

Not that many too call it spooooooky

[deft bloom]

well not spooky, more like tense and atmospheric

[young hill]

Yeah it does get tense

Especially in the ape one

[barren pewter]

blind ones aren't...

no

pfff
not if my Tikhar and Shambler have anything to say

[young hill]

You watch the game unfold when they chase you

You cannot move the controller

[young hill]

Also bean can works too

We can thank the Brits for it

[celest perch]

Hey has anyone gotten any valorant bans for "third party software" recently? looking into any reason I got banned since I just did a test where it was only discord & task manager and im still getting flagged

[cinder chasm]

Are you using the wooting macro package?

That's the only thing I can think of from wooting that would trigger Anti Cheat.

[celest perch]

Ok thanks

[celest perch]

No

[young mortar]

When we use Wooting we dont need counter strafe ? ( valorant ? )

[south hollow]

Don’t mean to genuinely contribute but this is why single player RPG ftw

[quiet vault]

what

[south hollow]

buy the game and 🐝 happy, no reason to ban u from it

[hardy merlin]

[south hollow]

I mean worst case scenario u attempt adding an unsupported mod pack it’ll be rejected/not detected or introduce funny stuff

Actual advantage of a steam account is if you bought the game, switched PCs/tore down old one just log in and re-download

.

Is it possible to be banned from only a single game mode? Like being able to play COD MWII campaign but not DMZ for instance

[tough jay]

Rate my setup:
Playing Pokemon Prism, on a EZ-fash jr, on a gameboy player, using swiss-gc for 480p output and GBI, using a stadia controller as the controller, using a capture card just to stream the audio to my headphones.

[quiet vault]

yes

[feral ferry]

yes

[orchid prism]

Tryhard / 10

[tough jay]

Mostly cursed but it allows me to continue playing on my gameboy without messing with transfering saves back and forth.
As for the controller, the dpad of the gamecube controller is not great and the stadia controller has the best one.
That being said it's far from perfect, what would make it better is if my capture card would capture at native 480p instead of upscaling it or if I could scale the output to 1440p but still it works nicely

[hardy merlin]

Stadia controller is so good And cheap as no one cares about it

[tough jay]

I got it in the discounted stadia bundle and got refunded for it, so that nets me a free chromecast + controller or almost free if you consider inflation.

[fading spade]

what series?

[hardy merlin]

I bought 2 for $15 each, like new, I just had to clean them, they had some scuffs, and I'm looking for at least 2 more

[tough jay]

And the people who sold them basically got free money

[hardy merlin]

People got free money, I got really good controllers for dirt cheap, win-win

[tough jay]

btw another cheap controller tip (potentially) you can now recalibrate dual shock 4 controllers, so fixing ones with stick drift is a lot more viable.
It took quite some time before someone reverse engineerd it and created at tool to do so

[hardy merlin]

Here DS4 are unfortunately rare for some reason, and once someone decides to sell one costs more used than new DualSense

[tough jay]

I replaced thumbssticks of 2 defective ones left at work by the pervious tennent / sister company. So it was just replacing the thumb stick here.

[young hill]

Metro games

[tough jay]

that was before the fix, they were still somewhat off-center due to calibration but now they work perfectly.

As someone with a lot of controllers and no sony home consoles newer than a ps3 I don't have one (yet). As for xbox never really liked them much in the past but never really tried newer ones than the 360 because nobody owns an xbox anymore.

[quiet vault]

whaa

[hardy merlin]

Hah, same here, I have 6 controllers, my newest console is PS2 (3DS if we're including handhelds)

[tough jay]

If you include handhelds I have newer things, steam deck if you count it, switch, ps-vita

For home consoles I do own a wii and a ps3 the later I bought during the pc gaming drought in the zeroes

[hardy merlin]

Oh yeah
I subconsciously do not consider Deck a console
And my Switch is not a console per se, so much so a dumping station

[tough jay]

Do note that all my consoles are hacked in some form

[hardy merlin]

Same
But PS2 only with FMCB and DS with ACE* cart

[tough jay]

For me it's gameboy with ezflash jr gba sp with ezflash omega (both recently) ds lite with a decent amount of flashcards. the rest of the consoles all soft mods, with the gamecube using a save hacked transferred onto it using a switch and some sd-memory card adapter for data.

oh I forgot I also have a gateway 3ds for when that was the way to hack it.

[hardy merlin]

I wanted to get GBA with EZFlash, but I couldn't find one locally, so I opted in for DS Lite with ACE3DS and gbarunner2, works great for me
3DS is running Luma with b9s, Switch runs Hekate + Atmosphere on emuNAND, PS2 has FMCB and is connected to NAS for games

[tough jay]

fair enough my gba / gameboy were just from when I was little and I have since ips-modded both of them so I already had them.
I don't own a ps2, never did but honestly in terms of home-consoles I am mostly fine with emulation, I probably wouldn't bother with such large objects other than the ones I already have.

Wii I emulate if I play wii games despite owning the physical console.

[hardy merlin]

I bought PS2 solely because I found some pink one I always liked in thrift shop for like $20, otherwise I probably wouldn't bother

[tough jay]

the nice thing with hdmi-out on a gamecube is that it comes with a digital port (or at least mine does) so it is a relatively inexpensive adapter for hdmi.

I never owned a ps2 so I mostly skipped it having no nostalgia for its exclusives. Mostly been PC + nintendo historically.

[hardy merlin]

I have a lot of nostalgia for ps2 era games, not so much for ps2 itself, I'm PC gamer first and foremost, 19 years already

Oh yeah, ps2 era was defo a golden one

[feral ferry]

19 year old is almost a PS3 era gamer lol

Surprising you had a 2

[hardy merlin]

My first console was knockoff of a knockoff of a Famicom

[feral ferry]

Ew, Nintendo

[tough jay]

I feel what made the era especially great is that the budgets were mostly modest. Even a AAA game was made by a small enough team. Studio's took some real risks back then. The ps360 era was still great but studios started to become more risk-averse especially at the end.

[novel umbra]

dendy user detected

[hardy merlin]

Ya, that was Pegasus in PL And I had a knockoff of Pegasus

[novel umbra]

lol

[tropic vapor]

my first console was a ps3 but largely i grew up on pc / keyboard and mouse till my computer went kaput and i was forced to use consoles up until i got a gaming laptop (which is out of commission now and upgraded for a better gaming laptop)

[hardy merlin]

This boi

[tough jay]

I first had a gameboy color before having any home console, my first one was my gamecube around launch.
I did game on pc before then though, mostly rts mostly older titles as my mom's pc was not the fastest.

[novel umbra]

wtf

I didn't know they put dendies into keyboards

[tropic vapor]

i could never get the hang of aiming with an analog stick tbh, my siblings would always absolutely body me in fps games when i played on console for a decent chunk of my youth

[hardy merlin]

I was 4 when I had this piece of plastic, I got my first PC at the age of 6, and was PC gamer since then

[novel umbra]

do you even use the keyboard part for anything

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, there was "99999999999 in 1" cartridge included and there were some really shitty games which used keyboard
Also arrows were mapped as a d-pad and A/S as B/A in games

[novel umbra]

wtf

[feral ferry]

There's also questions why did they can years of work in cutscenes and animations cause they thought users would be too dumb to get to

[hardy merlin]

And for my PC it was a beast for 2004:

• AMD Sempron 3000+
• ATI Radeon 9550
• 1 GB SDRAM
• Asus K8N motherboard
• 80GB HDD
  and even it had a DVD burner Running Windows XP and destroying that GTA:SA on medium with 25FPS

[tropic vapor]

i remember my first pc it was a clunker of an optiplex

[feral ferry]

Lucky you, having a discrete GPU in that era

[tropic vapor]

at least it had a graphics card in it

[hardy merlin]

I mean it still has, it still works, and I still have it

[tropic vapor]

wanna know how my first pc went the way of the dodo

[tropic vapor]

i upgraded the linux kernel in linux mint to a version unsupported by the other packages and it messed my pc up so bad that it would get stuck in plymouth and ignore all input

probably forgot to upgrade the driver half of the kernel

and i told grub to not show windows on boot

[hardy merlin]

After my first there were laptops, also all AMD-based, there were 3 until I came back to tower PCs and now having 3600X with 6700XT

[tropic vapor]

and i didnt know about bios boot menu or recovery drives back then so i was boned

someone else installed linux for me instead of letting me learn how to myself

[hardy merlin]

I was 9 when I learned to install and configure Windows all by myself Maybe that's why I'm like this

[tropic vapor]

not a good first experience with linux, honestly surprised i kept coming back to it when i could

the thing is i knew how to set up and configure new devices as a kid

[tough jay]

My first pc was a hand-off I don't remember, after that I got a pentium 4 based one with some ati gpu I can't remember exactly ( it had 128mb vram) that one was shared with my brother.
I also got a laptop at some point. my first dedicated system was still oem with a hd 4800 (later switched for a hd5770 because oem's can't do cooling even then) and a phenom II 910.

After that it was self-build upgrades.

[tropic vapor]

but my mom for some reason didnt trust me to install linux despite me being the person to set up every tech device around the house

i wanted ubuntu as my first distro but the guy my mom had install linux on my pc saddled me with linux mint
honestly dont regret that knowing what ubuntus like now lmao

[tough jay]

Linux started on laptops which were rather slow and performed much better on linux. only until proton became viable did I make the plunge full-time.

Even my 2016 laptop which was not that slow I used linux because I liked it more than windows at that point, just took a bit longer for my desktop to switch.

[tropic vapor]

my pc was basically a minecraft machine back then so linux mint served it just fine

also played a couple valve games on it

[hardy merlin]

My first experience with Linux was somewhere around 2015, with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and I absolutely hated it, because I couldn't make APU (AMD Kaveri) drivers to work
Later I found out it's just Ubuntu which does have issues with it and needs some repository and configuration witchcraft
So, here I am, using Linux for 5 years now and 2 years with no Windows PC at all
And I still hate Ubuntu

[tough jay]

My first real linux use was also ubuntu but got fed up with it in 2012ish because system upgrades broke the system more than once.

[tropic vapor]

i actually have both a macbook (which runs macos) and a gaming laptop (which dual boots windows and linux)

[tough jay]

dabbled with a bunch of different distro's and since I was installing different desktop environments on it anyway settling for arch was the sane option. It is better documented than the alternatives and the install process is not that bad if you read the manual.

[tropic vapor]

so in reality i use all 3 major OSes semi-regularly

windows is probably my least used though

[tough jay]

Never actually use a mac, only at work do I have to support people using a mac sometimes, which works surprisingly well if you know to find the terminal.

[tropic vapor]

honestly i find macOS has a ludicrously high skill ceiling despite the skill floor being like 6 feet under

[tough jay]

That being said I would probably not be able to stand daily driving macos

[tropic vapor]

probably because all the macs you've seen dont have any apps that extend the functionality of the desktop environment itself

macOS's desktop environment kinda sucks without some apps to extend it

[hardy merlin]

I used macOS for 4 months or so before leaving it for good, I just didn't liked it at all, and I'm trying to keep away from Windows as far as possible, so all my stuff is running Linux
And I don't really know how to describe it, but ever since I jumped into Linux... computers are fun again. I love tinkering with stuff and sticking fingers where I probably shouldn't, and switching from Win to Linux was like a breath of fresh air

[tropic vapor]

like my macOS has full tiling window management

which is nice

still havent set up any keybinds for it though

[tropic vapor]

thats why i like linux so much actually

i wasn't around for when computers really were like that natively (e.g. commodore 64) but its nice being able to tinker with a computer

[tough jay]

I just like feeling like I am in charge of my system + it works more efficient how I set up vs windows.

I still use it whenever I dust off my vr set which is rarely.

[hardy merlin]

Same, I'd really wish though, but I was released the same year GBC was

[tropic vapor]

same, feels like any time i touch it windows update screams "HAHA! YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!" and makes me wait to install updates before im let free back into linux

same thats pretty much all i do with windows

the way microsoft designs windows makes me want to scream internally

i keep windows update cause it still provides critical security patches and bios updates

yes apparently windows update supplies automatic bios updates on my pc

stupid but thats how it is

[hardy merlin]

I still don't understand why MS won't just talk with Intel, AMD and Nvidia to solve this all drivers kerfuffle

I know, I was there when Windows 10 released

But I see no use for Windows for me

https://tenor.com/view/freedom-carson-lueders-young-and-free-happy-glad-gif-17701811

[feral ferry]

Ew, openGL

Just use Vulkan

[still spire]

lol

[tropic vapor]

also anyhow with OpenGL/Vulkan you also get far better linux compatibility

because no stupid DXVK layer

[tough jay]

Id software also mostly ignored DX for openGL / vulkan, wonder if they are forced to bite the bullet now that they are microsoft-owned

[feral ferry]

Ew, linux

[tropic vapor]

i mean DXVK works just fine most of the time though

so its not a huge biggie

but if studios are concerned about making a linux native version OpenGL/Vulkan support is pretty important

luckily most of the time they just have to make sure proton works well to get deck verified

[tough jay]

Native vulkan is still better than VK3D

[tropic vapor]

it is indeed

[still spire]

They're gonna go D3D for sure

[tropic vapor]

usually the less translation layers the better

[still spire]

Vulkan just isn't keeping up, especially with HDR becoming more common

[feral ferry]

Is this game actually 5 years old now?

Holy moly time flies

[tropic vapor]

fair enough

[tough jay]

Linux bubble without any real hdr screens, didn't know it had limitations on that front.

Just know it was a bit behind with RT implementation.

[feral ferry]

Is that really noteworthy

HDR seems like RTX in a way, not really taking off much in gaming

[still spire]

SpecialK has an expirmental new beta for HDR10

[feral ferry]

RTX is only relevant imo in computations

HDR in cinema

Gaming seems to be stuck in 2010s in terms of tech, gamers just don't give a fuck

[still spire]

Eh HDR can be massively impressive in a lot ofd games

Days Gone and RE4 Remake HDR is mind blowing

[tough jay]

Well, Linux HDR is not teven a real thing right now.

So I would generalized it software in general.

[feral ferry]

Also HDR400/600 being a thing

Giving HDR a bad name

[tough jay]

We are talking about PC though

[feral ferry]

Also, is HDR on IPS panels really useful?

OLEDs and prolly minileds with dimming zones can really love HDR

Not so much IPS?

[tough jay]

Unless you have a good fald backlight not so much, though the color space could very well be useful.

I'll get an oled sometime when the hdr ecosystem matures on linux.

this is both maturing of the tech and I don't feel like upgrading my monitor right now.

[feral ferry]

I'm less interested in OLED as much as I'm interested in mini/microLED

OLED's burnout is too much of a concern

miniLED is so damn vibrant and saturated I kinda want one

[tough jay]

It does not seem to be catastrophic, just make sure to moderate brightness.

There is definitely work being done by valve on gamescope and wayland support for it.

I would not say never here.

[hardy merlin]

Wayland will be obsolete before it'll support HDR
People there have issues with such fundamental things like allowing applications to control window placement ffs

[novel umbra]

[tough jay]

Wayland has it's issues but there are not a lot of big issues fundamentally I suffer from.
Window placement is annoying whenever I start firefox everything gets dumped onto a single screen but other than that it's mostly fine / software bugs.

[novel umbra]

linux will get proper HDR support when a next gen steamdeck has an OLED screen

[tough jay]

Having multi monitor variable refresh rate and mixed refresh rate working is already good enough.

[hardy merlin]

I found that it just throws a window on whenever display I have currently cursor on, so it's kinda convenient

[trim rock]

Tbh I prefer having the compositor be fully responsible for all window placements. Yes it's kinda sucky since session restore isn't properly implemented but rather that than broken clients that position their windows stupidly

LOOKING AT YOU STEAM

[tough jay]

Not issues I regularly encounter, screen sharing seems to work fine as long as you are not using the desktop client of discord which is just not great on linux.
Wayland was not that great but the end result is still some progress, Xorg was a mess broken and could not really support modern features, such as my setup mixed refresh rates, hdr in the future, multi monitor adaptive sync.
Portals ones implemented work well, just takes a really long time.

As for compositor having the two separate is fine in practice. it was not like kwin and such didn't do their own stuff on top of xorg anyway.
It could very well be that most switch to wlroots and that becomes the defacto standard (kde has flirted with the idea as well)

[trim rock]

(although xwayland still lets clients self position so ugh steam is forever broken I guess)

[hardy merlin]

Just reimplement X11 behaviours on a new codebase, it could be that simple
But no, some neckbeards will veto features, because they don't use this feature, despite the fact that 98% other users would greatly benefit from it -.-
Sometimes I hate Linux elitists so much...

[tropic vapor]

ah yes the ole thumbnails in the gnome file picker situation

luckily i think thats a feature now

but it wasnt for the longest time

[tough jay]

Still it is to late to change things and wayland may very well have been a kne jerk counter to x11 but as it stands it is what is going to be used and in practice it is almost all the way there as a protocol for general use.

The work mostly rests on software implementing things correctly. And that Includes discord (screen sharing both works in chromium and firefox so little reason why it should remain broken in discord)
Wayland should as a protocol also be more robust in the future.

[hardy merlin]

Here's to Valve, with hope that what they did to gaming ecosystem on Linux with their support for Proton and DXVK/VKD3D would also happen to gamescope and make it a rival for Wayland as a "modern" compositor

https://tenor.com/view/cheers-wine-glass-tchin-gif-21591092

[feral ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kJljpC5sHE

[still spire]

Yeah some guy made that in like 4 hours he said

Pretty neat

[still spire]

https://insider-gaming.com/ps5-slim-disc-drive/

[orchid prism]

Constantly? I doubt it.

But it probably needs it for new decryption keys for discs and so on and so forth.

[tough jay]

Disc drives have always been serialized, so it makes sense for a detatchable one to be paired that way.

Always maybe a strong word but certainly in the last 2 generations.

[hardy merlin]

Yup, needs internet only during pairing

[novel umbra]

I wonder if they will make add on piracy devices lol

that either hijacks the disc drive or can read out the serial

[tough jay]

that would be interesting, but I feel like sony has it's security model working well enough. End of the day the only extra attack surface is the pairing step.

[still spire]

Ok but say that server is gonezo

It's wild the whole point of a disc drive is you don't need the internet

[naive haven]

What does raw input buffer do with the wooting in the valorant? Wasn't it meant for high-polling-rate mice?

[novel umbra]

it's to pair

not to use

presumably

[tough jay]

I don't think it is a big deal here, good luck playing most games without the day one patch.
As I understand not all games come with the full data on disk anyway.

[novel umbra]

raw input is for all mice

not just high polling

and you always wanna deactivate it anyways

[tough jay]

working fully online was never really an option on ps5

[naive haven]

Yes, but why is the guy saying to turn it on?

[novel umbra]

you want it on anyways

reduces HID overhead

[still spire]

But what if in the future the server is gone?

Then you can't use it

[tough jay]

At that point the blueray drive will already have been paired with the console

it would only be a problem for future combinations of blueray drives and consoles after the servers are down.

[novel umbra]

you couldn't pair it

premusably

also

you pretend like the lm in a ps5 would not have dried up by then

[still spire]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9OjiupaYAAnRFY?format=jpg&name=large

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1716522286709137408/vid/avc1/940x720/Zpk8wnqlPqmfWtDW.mp4?tag=14

Lmao

This is why we have so many obvious icons in games these days

and characters hinting how to solve puzzles

[hot spire]

I mean if you have an offline console that's old, new games won't work either unless you update

[willow quiver]

Bro took Flight seriously 💀💀

[feral ferry]

Who tf is flight

Some dumbass like Kai Cenat and Speed?

[hardy merlin]

Who tf is kai cenat

[feral ferry]

Guy that injured a fuck ton of people recently lol

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/us/kai-cenat-union-square-nyc-crowds/index.html

His driver took off with people on his car

What pisses me off is that these fuckers are literally about my age

Man do I hate this generation

[willow quiver]

Just a streamer that is an excellent troll

[hardy merlin]

Oh that guy
I just remembered it happened because of some random Twitch streamer lol

[feral ferry]

What's this

[small comet]

a young grasshopper

[feral ferry]

Right, and why

[hardy merlin]

Huh
Thanks Bing

[feral ferry]

Nymphs.. are also sex addicted females

Last I remember I'm not female

[still spire]

Yet.

[feral ferry]

Well with how things are nowadays, it's kinda scary

At this point M/F designators are probably taboo and borderline a slur

[barren pewter]

...what

[feral ferry]

Assuming genderoos be looked down upon on the interwebs

[austere cedar]

Where you from?

[barren pewter]

Earth

🖕 peace among worlds

[hardy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/dentist-gif-21633900

[austere cedar]

Just wanted to say, if you say your nick in my language, it means moron.

[barren pewter]

...so you're from anywhere in europe?

no shocker

[feral ferry]

Oh it's a fellow zapierdole

[austere cedar]

So is it intentional?

[feral ferry]

Debil's nickname is intentional

[austere cedar]

Xd

[feral ferry]

Not joking though

[feral ferry]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/949230/view/3744239011016556921?l=english

Thank god they aren't just going to implement some upscalers or frame generators and are PROPERLY fixing performance

Lol people are hating hard

If you defend 30FPS target, you a clown

30FPS is fuckin fine in a city builder

[hardy merlin]

I mean, sure
But not on empty map 💀

[feral ferry]

I do wonder where did they fuck up with performance

[nimble current]

seems a bit weird having such an arbitrary limitation tho

[feral ferry]

There are YouTube channels that specialize in reverse-engineering Unity games

Tools are made to get the source code and everything

I wonder if they'll make an episode with source code and project files reverse-engineered from the binaries to see wtf happened to this shit

[small comet]

what tools lol

[nimble current]

did they set up the core game for consoles first hand or something

[small comet]

most unity games ship first a very much reverseable dll

thanks to still being largely c# bytecode for .net

Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll

[feral ferry]

I've watched a vid not long ago analyzing specific Unity games performance in reverse engineered code

Supposedly the practice is somewhat kept hush

[small comet]

lol no

[deft bloom]

1fps is fine in a city builder

[hardy merlin]

Heck no, even JetBrains, one of the biggest software companies has a tool for .NET decompilation called dotPeek

[small comet]

the whole bytecode to csharp is not getting the original source code (nothing ever will)

but the bytecode is easily reversed into readable and usable c# code

as mentioned dotPeek reconstructs it quite well and another alternative is dnSpy

[hardy merlin]

Why performance is shite? I'm pretty sure because of non-optimized graphical pipelines
Just like in most games lately

But graphics sells, so let's go, it doesn't matter if the game runs in 30FPS, that's what DLSS if for, duh

[hardy merlin]

Ok
I'm sorry Epic
I thought your launcher is the worst
But it's nothing compared to GOG Galaxy
The only launcher which could hang and kill my desktop session
Thank heavens Heroic Launcher exists

[deft bloom]

https://fxtwitter.com/heroicgg/status/1717150704664449417 speaking of heroic

[feral ferry]

For the grand total of 0 people that care about esports here

[deft bloom]

that's kind of sad considering the market segment

[feral ferry]

Excuse my sir, this is Valorante and Apex Legends server

Go back to your peasant konter stryk

[deft bloom]

valarante child game.... look to cartoon grapfix to make kid player happy like children show.. valarante cartoon world with rainbow unlike counter strike with dark corridorr and raelistic gun.. valarante like playhouse. valarant playor run from csgo fear of dark world and realism

[orchid prism]

I care just as much about virtual sports as I do the real life ones. Which is to say.... Go team?

You go play that soccergolfbal you!

[hardy merlin]

So... nothing at all?

[feral ferry]

Unpopular opinion, but Football Manager and FIFA are more fun to play and watch than actual football

[deft bloom]

true

[barren pewter]

actual football is a blast to play

watching...yeah

watching any sport is just awful

[feral ferry]

Ok, you touch grass

What more is new

[hardy merlin]

I second this
The only sports I enjoy watching are darts and maybe snooker

Football is so boring

[feral ferry]

Only sports that are actually fun to watch are esports

[deft bloom]

huh how are those any better

[feral ferry]

Privileged kids pastime

[deft bloom]

I used to watch a lot of mma but not in recent years, sometimes I have a chess tournament on the background but it's usually not that intensive so you can do a lot of other stuff

but yeah watching cs is fun

[hardy merlin]

Than football? I'm not keen on watching adult guys crying and screaming while they're rolling on the grass to force a penalty shot -.-

[barren pewter]

I used to sail in local regattas when I was a kiddo
that was the only time I ever seriously competed

[barren pewter]

good times

then there's American football
and Australian football

both are great as well
for completely different reasons

[hardy merlin]

So handegg and footy

[barren pewter]

aussie football ain't exactly footy

[feral ferry]

Stop calling that shit football

It's rugby

Soccerball and rugby

[barren pewter]

rugby is a very different sport

[hardy merlin]

Rugby is a bit different that handegg

[feral ferry]

Same trash

[hardy merlin]

Rugby rules actually make sense

[barren pewter]

it isn't

[feral ferry]

So.. it is

[barren pewter]

oft, the moron is the one who speaks the truth
failing to detect when such truth is inconvenient

[hardy merlin]

Just like Socrates
the wise fool of ancient Greece

[feral ferry]

Equating Socrates to Debil is an insult to Socrates and the word wise

Like, let's not

[tall anchor]

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/jack-nicholson-creepy-smile-yes-excited-nodding-gif-8303310

[barren pewter]

Socrates was a different kind of wise

dipshit knew nothing

but unlike everyone else
he knew it

[feral ferry]

"Takes one to know one"

[barren pewter]

so I have been equated with Socrates

damn

😵‍💫

[feral ferry]

Wait are you saying you are similar to Socrates?

Spare the poor children

[barren pewter]

you did

[feral ferry]

Didn't seem to disagree

[barren pewter]

you know Socrates ended up being executed for "corrupting the youth of the city", among other things

right?

[feral ferry]

Such a great educator, he also specialized in pre-pubescent sex-ed

I heard practice makes perfect was his motto

Ancient Greece is honestly a really interesting time period cause historians tend to fight eachother over the facts there

[barren pewter]

sources are scarce and it was a long time ago, which makes sense

[tall anchor]

are you guys really discussing a 2000 year dead old greek?

[feral ferry]

200???

[barren pewter]

try 2500 ish

[tall anchor]

I missed a zero omg dont attack me for making a typo

[feral ferry]

Just don't go muting people for meowing in rage again

[barren pewter]

...tbh 2500 years ago...record is oddly weird time to lose

since the world has only existed for...5784 years

[tall anchor]

[barren pewter]

what?

[tall anchor]

nothing google helped me

[barren pewter]

[feral ferry]

https://insider-gaming.com/connie-booth-was-fired-from-playstation-its-claimed/

No advance morning, pack your things and go lol

What did she do

[orchid prism]

Apparently created God of War? and Twisted Metal.

Name's new to me.

[feral ferry]

No no, not her

David Jaffe's the creator of God of War and Twisted Metal

The exec seems to have not done much other than be a scapegoat

[orchid prism]

Ohhh... oddly phrased indeed.

"PlayStation head of production"

Well that explains literally nothing 😄

[feral ferry]

So one of those execs I guess, where they are there to take the blame for higher ups

[feral ferry]

https://youtu.be/m6xMqaVNpzY

I was hella interested in this game

Some proper medieval building sim with actual large sized combat

[orchid prism]

Ah rip. EA delayed till next year. Should be worth it though.

Developer has been super open about development and provided a ton of updates almost weekly I think for over a year

[wicked axle]

[fading spade]

I hope that's a typo

[fallow bronze]

#nocontextlana

Also, are you posting a f2p advert to us?

[fringe salmon]

also what even should be the typo?

[fallow bronze]

I have no idea..

[nimble current]

am guessing raper

[feral ferry]

Nah man I bet that's the typo

Infringing on Konami copyright

Can't say Contra

[orchid prism]

I somehow doubt they can trademark a word as vague as that.

The whole Scrolls situation all over.

[fringe salmon]

yup, I assume you saw the stream? the crowd was very loud but I dont think they showed that on stream haha

[feral ferry]

Tell that to Sky

[fringe salmon]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xYNhCG0XTe7_dbX4vjo7l2zgiBb3VyCC/view

[orchid prism]

Yes?

[fallow bronze]

Earplugs?

[fringe salmon]

?

[feral ferry]

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/microsoft-ditching-skydrive-name-after-sky-trademark-row/ https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/insights-and-events/insights/2020/06/sky-emerges-victorious-in-trade-mark-infringement-battle-against-skykick https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a6807972-62c5-4792-bb23-b52ccf14a3f4 https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/18/no-mans-sky-developer-settles-lawsuit-with-sky-tv#:~:text=After a legal dispute with Sky TV%2C No,settled with Sky (they own the word 'Sky').

Amongst many others

[fringe salmon]

it's an announcement trailer not a concert xD

[feral ferry]

Sky is fuckin so litigious that they WILL take you to court if you use the word Sky

Contra is even worse cause Sky is a word, Contra is not, so if Konami wants to, they will sue your ass and prolly win lol

[orchid prism]

I never said they couldn't TRY to sue.

They wouldn't win against anyone who can bear the costs of a day in court.

[feral ferry]

Well they sure took down Microsoft easily lel

[orchid prism]

Not really

[feral ferry]

Well yes they did

[orchid prism]

Yeah they won an initial ruling.

First time in court? It could and would have been appealed if Microsoft cared about the branding.

[feral ferry]

Well yes cause it's an english word, Sky

Contra is not a word in a dictionary last I checked

Far easier to attack other companies that use the word with

[fallow bronze]

Contra is opposite right?

[feral ferry]

Contrary

[fallow bronze]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+contra+&t=fpas&ia=definition

[orchid prism]

Uhhhh

[hardy merlin]

[feral ferry]

We inventing words now eh

[orchid prism]

Well no.

[feral ferry]

Whatever, I guess it exists

[fallow bronze]

You wrong yo

[feral ferry]

Indeed

[orchid prism]

You're just being contra(ry) now, Vex

[hardy merlin]

It seems it's a prefix in English
It's defo a word in Polish though

[feral ferry]

It is

Basically "counter"

So idk why counter and contra exists

[hardy merlin]

[orchid prism]

[feral ferry]

Not those counters

[orchid prism]

Context was dictionary and words that don't exist though?

[feral ferry]

Yes yes somehow contra is an actual word in the dictionary

Makes no sense but it exists

[solar lily]

'contraflow' very good term to describe certain traffic arrangements

[orchid prism]

You VEX me.

[feral ferry]

I will have a duck hunt at this point

https://tenor.com/view/duck-hunt-nes-laughing-gif-9700788

[hardy merlin]

Looks like you've missed

[feral ferry]

It's end of October and there's no Silent Hill transmission announcement.. hm

I hope they make it a yearly thing but I guess that's not granted to be one

SH2 has no release date though, a bit off

[fading spade]

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxfw9J9QDQAsXZQU6GkY62xfHqa8ipASAf

this is the best moment LOL

[feral ferry]

The best moment of what

[fading spade]

this video xd

[feral ferry]

Why this video

What's so interesting about it

[fading spade]

cause im watching it

cave dweller mod

[feral ferry]

Last I remember this wasn't Lana discord but Wooting discord

Oh hell yes

The dev was really cool with his dev commentaries

[hardy merlin]

That's Our Discord

https://tenor.com/view/comunism-gif-22603522

[feral ferry]

Da, komrad

[fading spade]

hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[fringe salmon]

@flat frost you might also enjoy the 16 crossover crowd cheers xD

[feral ferry]

https://www.metacritic.com/game/grand-theft-auto-vi/

Could be fake

Could be real

Who knows

[hardy merlin]

Prolly true
Leaks are enough to confirm that GTA VI exists, and is targeted towards PS5/XSX

[feral ferry]

Well GTA VI has been officially announced so

It definitely exists lol

I don't remember any platform leaks though

PC not being a platform makes no sense

[trim rock]

It makes sense, this is the Rockstar standard hoping for the PC gamers double dipping

[feral ferry]

Oooooo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUOsNavOluw

Looks surprisingly old yet really new

[hardy merlin]

It's really weird they went with UE5, given there were documents about Fox Engine being still in active development

[feral ferry]

Well it makes sense to abandon your own engine

Don't need those extra devs, more support, etc

You take a relatively major cash hit, but I guess it's worth it

[hardy merlin]

I dunno
Fox Engine is still state-of-the-art piece of software
And its performance is unbelievable

[feral ferry]

That looks good though

What really threw me off was the perspective

It feels very.. fish eyed?

Uneasy on the eyes

Lol what kind of shit are you playing

That looks good

[orchid prism]

Snek? Solid Snek?

[hardy merlin]

This one is Nakd Snek

[feral ferry]

Wait so we have also liquid snek

Where's gaseous snek?

Plasma snek?

[hardy merlin]

Naked Snake and 3 of his "sons" - Solid, Liquid and Solidus

[feral ferry]

Supercritical snek?

Solidus doesn't sound like a gas

Fake snake

That looks actually really good

[hardy merlin]

Also Venom Snek, but he's not his son

[feral ferry]

Really nice character model

[hardy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-jackson-billie-jean-vevo-spinning-toe-touch-gif-7732138

[feral ferry]

https://fortune.com/2023/10/23/video-gamers-youtube-twich-streaming/

The fuck is that headline

"poorer reality"

Gamers are poorer cause Ninja or xQc aren't getting 100 million dollar deals?

[hardy merlin]

I have no idea what does video game industry has to do with livestreamers deals

[drifting rose]

oh look, it's sewer snake

[hardy merlin]

I love how MK1 community has unilaterally agreed that Pitbull's International Love is now theme for Johnny Cage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flfxvjB6L0o

[quiet vault]

graphics yes

[feral ferry]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2399830/ARK_Survival_Ascended/

Steam

ARK: Survival Ascended

Respawn into a new dinosaur survival experience beyond your wildest dreams… as ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of videogame technology with Unreal Engine 5! You awake on a mysterious island, your senses overwhelmed by the blinding sunlight and brilliant colors bouncing off every surface around you, the azure waters ...

Release Date

Coming soon

▶ Play video

This looks incredible

Wildcard please don't fuck this up

[severe compass]

Since Unity lit itself on fire no one trusts the company anymore. I predict a continued shift to UE5 unless Epic messes that up like Unity did which they still might

[fading spade]

O.o

[quiet vault]

https://twitter.com/RocktarSupport/status/1717269053406941635?t=uNkPK8VOYl2_bcqvb_yzUQ&s=19

[cinder chasm]

I got Cyperpunk 2077 to work with analog controls... that was fun 🙂

[still spire]

https://tenor.com/view/mine-he-he-he-funny-memes-gif-25060533

[barren pewter]

that was already the case a while back, no?

there haven't been content updates since

is that now security updates as well?

[quiet vault]

(look at the @ )

[barren pewter]

I wouldn't put cockstar past a simple typo

unless that's an intentionally fake account

[quiet vault]

satire account

[nimble current]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtjzLzs7V8

so is this game actually happening now or

"we're in polishing phase now" oh god

[hardy merlin]

Still the only way to get access to it is only by $1300 pack

You can get this pack on Star Citizen's Store, it's the most expensive game package
Otherwise... yeah, it's not available to get by itself
Its pledge pack returns 404

Some theorize they pulled it because EU regulations, which prohibit selling games without definite release date

[fallow bronze]

They probably start selling it again when it's ready

[novel umbra]

polish as in the country

they are gonna make is slavjank

[hardy merlin]

23% VAT

https://tenor.com/view/lmao-laughing-hysterically-gif-26398146

Polish roads are famous for being in constant piece of shit state

I wonder though if Star Citizen is region locked, so I could potentially* buy it with no VAT added

I member how with Escape from Tarkov you could buy "Europe" region version while VPNed to other country, so Xsolla didn't add VAT on top of ridiculous price they already are charging
And "Europe" region is basically no region lock It's a bit more expensive though

Oh, they are sophisticated it seems
They're so elitist they're basically telling "region locks are for console peasants"
Their pricing strategy seems to be the same price everywhere and potential necessary fees added to the price

[covert temple]

I'm remembering when I ran an ARK server, I wanted to have a lot of breathing room for dropping and finding items again, so I set global world item despawn to something ridiculously high.

Little did I know that this included poop.

And there are no server parameters for making the distinction between other items and poop.

After about a day of playing, the beach we were building on was covered in poop. There were massive columns of it where our passive tames spent the day standing.

I eventually had to balance item despawn time entirely around the longest time I can have it while preventing the world from getting carpeted in poop.

[fading spade]

https://www.youtube.com/live/Q9iCH1sf6eE

Homebrew is mega fast

[orchid prism]

Or they just didn't change that much functional code.

[fading spade]

Physics are the same as Mario Maker 2 it seems

But the rest... Lots of new shit

[orchid prism]

New items does not necessarily mean a lot of new/different code for the game engine as a whole.

There's a reason why modders could mod Starfield on day 1, because it is functionally near identical to Skyrim and Fallout 4 in the engine and file structure.

[hot spire]

Also loads of things are just configured in plaintext

[icy wasp]

Does anyone have a good profile for fortnite that he can share please , a game profile would be enjoyed as well

[hot spire]

Did you look on the profile site

[deft bloom]

looks like animations were directly ported from the original

looks a lot worse than what I hoped, but it's not bad

like the mud effects etc are cool, snek model is cool, environments look gamey though. apparently they're not revamping that much at all

[nimble current]

its ment to be the next wing commander, not starlancer/freelancer

star citizen is successor to the latter

[feral ferry]

I disagree, I think it looks like a great remaster

[deft bloom]

it's marketed as remake

[still spire]

Yeah been reading about this. It's awful.

Talking to a friend in Argentia, they pay a 100% sales tax on digital goods there

[deft bloom]

anyway the levels were designed originally for top-down camera, even if Subsistence later had the 3rd person camera as an option. also no crouch-walking. if they don't change anything in the layouts or revamp some of the systems, it's gonna be a weird experience

meaning if it's just mgsv gameplay in mgs3 environments it's gonna be weird, there's so much potential to play around with the areas and make them feel familiar but different, but looks like they're not willing to expand on it

so in a way I'm overwhelmed and in another underwhelmed, so I guess I'm just whelmed

[still spire]

https://www.pcgamer.com/6-years-after-ark-survival-evolved-left-early-access-ark-survival-evolveds-remaster-enters-early-access/

[orchid prism]

The lore of the game is so weird - Honestly turned me away from it entirely 😄

[still spire]

lol

For me not the lore but the performance

And oh, they released a fucking expansion pack in Early Access

That one for sure

[small comet]

the massive size is what turns anyone off

wasnt ark 300gb or so

[still spire]

Also their "default" setting for any graphics preset is 50% render res

Says a lot

Closer to like 500GB+ now

[orchid prism]

With all of the expansions? Probably.

[small comet]

yeah makes sense to set everything to 50% render res when you ship 32k textures for every pineapple

[orchid prism]

But that kind of makes sense, given how each one was basically a completely different reskin of the map and creatures.

[small comet]

from what i heard its just cause its uncompressed textures

i think in the beginning it was all compressed but they left it uncomprossed so weaker pcs can easily load textures without decompressing

not to mention they package their files into archives so everytime an archive needs updating it extracts it and repacks it

very healthy for SSDs

[still spire]

Game runs like ass no matter the PC, so yeah I never got into it

[orchid prism]

I remember trying to run it on an RX480 and getting... like 20FPS with extreme tweaking. And a friend with a 1080 still wasn't able to run it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=468074101

2015 apparantly according to Steam 😄

[still spire]

Yes, when I went to play it I had a 1080 and couldn't keep 60FPS

Even at all low

And it looked like ass at low

[bleak pike]

I remember when even titans had issues

[novel umbra]

that was considered horrible back then

but is like every second AAA title nowadays

[fallow bronze]

What turned me off it was how resocialisatie tedious it was

[willow quiver]

ark is rust but worse

[feral ferry]

Rust is ark but worse

[willow quiver]

never heard no one say "lets play some ark"

all ways rust chads going OIL

[feral ferry]

You must have not been alive in 2015 when Ark was major leagues

[willow quiver]

i was 10

[feral ferry]

Rust had to abandon zombies for people to start taking that game seriously

[willow quiver]

i was playing lego hogwarts

[feral ferry]

Forget that originally rust was a zombie survival game lol

[willow quiver]

we dont talk bout thawt

[feral ferry]

Ark predates Rust, especially in its current form, by at least 5 years

At which point most of Arks hype died down

[willow quiver]

age doesnt mean better

rust better

[deft bloom]

alan wake seems to be running well on pc after all

[feral ferry]

Alan wake 1? Yes

[hardy merlin]

but only the first one?

[deft bloom]

no, 2

[feral ferry]

@hardy merlin I swear we think alike

Wtf are you, some lost cousin of mine?

[willow quiver]

whats alan wake

[deft bloom]

https://fxtwitter.com/Dachsjaeger/status/1717528516739117498

[feral ferry]

A game about Alan who has just awoken from sleep

[deft bloom]

wait what's that first one lel

[willow quiver]

alen wake up

[hardy merlin]

[deft bloom]

https://fxtwitter.com/dark1x/status/1717532308402565274 this

[feral ferry]

I didn't play the first one, but wasn't the whole thing about the first game was that Alan was genuinely sleeping lol

[deft bloom]

not like A. Wake is a pun or anything already

[deft bloom]

ehh no

[willow quiver]

alens a. wake

[deft bloom]

wait for the digital foundry vid, but really seems like the spec sheet was blown out of proportion

[feral ferry]

Wake 2 seems very paranormal though

First one was more hallucinations and shit and less paranormal from what I remember

[deft bloom]

the first one was like twin peaks the game, with some stephen king influence

[still spire]

lol no

[hardy merlin]

Coke?

[deft bloom]

apparently here we go a bit more into the survival horror direction

[still spire]

First one was straight paranormal

Evil entities

[deft bloom]

idk might've been used while making the game

[still spire]

Dark alternate realities

ect

[deft bloom]

ya

really liked it when it came out

[hardy merlin]

I know what King used while writing some of his novels

[deft bloom]

remedy is pretty solid honestly, I've only skipped quantum break since death rally

[still spire]

Replayed Alan Wake recently, still holds up

[grizzled bramble]

Soon 👀

[deft bloom]

oh yeahh

[hardy merlin]

[grizzled bramble]

EGS Exclusive

[hardy merlin]

Oh ffs

[feral ferry]

Download shit launcher pls

[grizzled bramble]

The Remaster is only there too

[hardy merlin]

[still spire]

Remaster is actually a worse version

So I replayed the OG a few months back

[grizzled bramble]

Played the OG too recently and the ''DLC''

[deft bloom]

huh I haven't played the remaster, what's worse about it?

but yeah epic is the publisher, what can you do

[still spire]

Weird new faces, poor performance, replacement of some old product jokes that were kinda fun

[hardy merlin]

[fading spade]

Was looking through the top rated custom skins for Mariokart 8 Deluxe....
Found nude mods for Daisy, Peach and Rosalina...
Game modding is a mistake

[hardy merlin]

I wish I could say I'm surprised

[fallow bronze]

Why, that's what game nodding is since the days of nuderaider

[hardy merlin]

Holy hell
Epic Launcher has significantly improved performance on Linux since I was using it last time

[barren pewter]

Dear god

No one can afford that

[hardy merlin]

I'm to spend close to 2k PLN on keebs and another 2k on Steam Deck for my brother
I don't have money for games

[feral ferry]

Only 215 rubles?

Not much

[hardy merlin]

215 rubles will get me a third of a pizza

[feral ferry]

Those are sum expensive pizzas

[hardy merlin]

Some 30PLN, ~€7

[barren pewter]

[feral ferry]

That's shit's expensive lol

[barren pewter]

Bruh I couldn’t even afford to be homeless in Poland xD

[feral ferry]

I can get a pizza rn for 10 zlotys

[hardy merlin]

I'm Junior Sysadmin, I can live "high life" as they say

https://tenor.com/view/ref-with-yellow-cards-fifa18-leonardo-di-caprio-throw-money-take-my-money-gif-12023801

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/junior-monkey-unc-old-gif-14196474278562290439

[grizzled bramble]

Cheapest Pizza here is a Pepperoni and that's priced at €10

[feral ferry]

That finnish tax though

[deft bloom]

we have an office in lublin, maybe I should move to the city

[feral ferry]

You poor peasants are overtaxed

[deft bloom]

it was cool there

[hardy merlin]

My village!

[feral ferry]

Ah a lublinese?

Not a shoddy place

[hardy merlin]

I guess
Is that a word?

[feral ferry]

It now is

[deft bloom]

oh really?

I was there in january or something

[ornate goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/gaming-phil-spencer-gif-27354077

[trim rock]

That doesn't work without sound

[feral ferry]

You know what does though?

[trim rock]

No, tell me more please!

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/keanu-reeves-youre-breathtaking-gif-14325694

[trim rock]

Yeah

[feral ferry]

Pictures you can hear

Or.. gifs

[slim token]

https://store.steampowered.com/category/scream

free stickers

[feral ferry]

https://youtu.be/JawxvOF__4Q

https://insider-gaming.com/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-gameplay-impressions/

Gameplay impressions... so I guess reviews or such coming October 30th

[fallow bronze]

Wow, pretty.

[fallow bronze]

Unreal engine 5 curse it seems

[orchid prism]

Just Ark things.

[deft bloom]

hmm maybe I'll just buy aw2 on ps5, I'm very likely to only bother lugging my pc to the tv room only once

[feral ferry]

@orchid prism https://youtu.be/Di7pxNivACE?si=5L9bSgDgIP2K0w1a

[severe compass]

https://vxtwitter.com/tombomp/status/1717641500891238536

[fringe salmon]

could be missing LOD or something that isnt actually the cause still

[hot spire]

It could just be a lod bug

[orchid prism]

There is no reason why teeth should have an LOD of that at all in a sim game.

[hardy merlin]

This is CS2?
Should whole heads be like one object with LOD?

[orchid prism]

You can zoom in real close. So in a sense, yes.

"street view" as it were.

But that's still a far cry from "up close and having conversations, so you need to model individual teeth"

There is a rumor going around that they used AI generated models, so that may explain the cause.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itQLBGQyTX8

Not even LTT is free from the Paradox marketing engine it seems 😄

TLDR; Skylines 2 "all cores" simulation on a sketchy chiller from Ali

[cinder chasm]

Shame I haven't heard great reviews....

[nimble current]

another victim for its own hype in 2023

[cinder chasm]

Too early of a release.

[orchid prism]

In spite of the very rough release, I will concede that the performance patch that they deployed yesterday DID provide a real noticeable performance difference on my rig.

It still runs less than what one should expect with a 3080 and the 5600X.

No LTT. That's just how the game runs 😄

[fallow bronze]

They do games now as well?

[orchid prism]

Not specifically, no.

[deft bloom]

ALAN WAKE

[orchid prism]

Alan (not) awake

[deft bloom]

alan kay?

true

delete this

[nimble current]

its too late, we already have our own saunas

russia has entered the chat

basically what we needed to get past our feudship and unite towards the common ambition of keeping the north free from imperialists

[deft bloom]

honestly the swe-fin rivalry has always been just jesty big brother little brother fights, while the russia hate is something that has carried over generations because they're actually assholes

[nimble current]

don't be that nation that's such a pain in everyones behinds that countries literally fighting each other stops what they're doing just to stare condescendingly at you

[nimble current]

was a bit more on the serious side way back but yeah at this point all the nordics have kinda gotten their territorial aspirations out of their systems

[deft bloom]

well sure if we go back far enough in time

[nimble current]

imagine pulling the "we used to own this piece of land 400+ years ago and we want it back again kthx" in this day and age

[fading spade]

CopFlop
CopperFlopper

:')
https://youtu.be/BnUuZdX5mJI

[novel umbra]

so it is not useless now?

[small comet]

never was

[nimble current]

how is minecraft still rocking its playercount after all this time

[small comet]

copper lamp was an immediately redstone game changer

so was the crafter

[nimble current]

does it still shift tons of new copies on the daily or

[small comet]

prob

Minecraft sales have officially topped 200 million, with 126 million people playing the game monthly.

well

seems they do well enough

[nimble current]

those of us who got into it early on should realistically be more than sick to death of it by now

[small comet]

nope

[novel umbra]

both of which are not in the release version?

[small comet]

1.21 is why i still play

and mods

[nimble current]

I spent so many damn hours in mc around 2011-2014

[small comet]

the announcement video showed everything we needed to know

[novel umbra]

yes

but before that copper is used for like spyglasses and lightning rods?

[nimble current]

now I can install and play for like 10 minutes and am bored

[novel umbra]

and decorative blocks

[small comet]

yes

it was borderline useless

especially since we didnt get copper golem

[small comet]

try mods

[novel umbra]

[small comet]

like vaulthunters

or sf4

[fallow bronze]

every year i have a severe MC binge

[nimble current]

also microsoft stole my copy of mc

[small comet]

what

[fallow bronze]

you have ignored lots of messages about migrating your acount

[hardy merlin]

Microsoft accounts

[novel umbra]

didn't switch account

[fallow bronze]

and had lots of time

[novel umbra]

in how long?

[fallow bronze]

that one is on you buddy

[nimble current]

well their site said it was still possible as soon as last year

[small comet]

the end was September 19, 2023, at 11:00 am EST/17:00 pm CEST

[nimble current]

and I followed their guide how to

and got jack shit

and ms support was fucking useless

[small comet]

you had a good 1.5yrs

[hardy merlin]

2 years even

[small comet]

oh right it was 21

so 2.5yrs

lol

[nimble current]

well I spent a good few days trying to wrestle their moronic "customer support"

after which I said fuck it keep the damn game then you cretins

[small comet]

i mean

they had the game to begin with

it was just a transition of systems not company ownership

[nimble current]

and their system was simply broken

[small comet]

idk worked fine for my accounts and the accounts of my gf

[nimble current]

like I must have gone through every step exactly as described about 30 times, their service just flat out refused to follow through the last step

[hardy merlin]

even for me, who breaks everything that MS made and I touch, worked just fine

[small comet]

the biggest hurdle i faced was my gf forgetting her ms password

[nimble current]

it said it did its thing but it didn't

[deft bloom]

ALAN WAKE

[hardy merlin]

ANA[mods advised me not to finish this joke]

[trim rock]

Alan wakes too

[quiet vault]

interesting game

[grizzled bramble]

Finally home! 🥳

[hardy merlin]

Epic servers are overloaded?

[grizzled bramble]

Don't know? if you're referring to the speed it's max i can get atm. which sucks , would buy higher speed if it was supported here

[deft bloom]

well it works a lot better than what was advertised, high preset 1440p fsr quality

[grizzled bramble]

What card do you have? 🕵️

[feral ferry]

Not sure about that one mate

Ah, removed

[orchid prism]

Keep the piracy to... literally anywhere else but here.

[feral ferry]

Why you ruining edgelords their fun

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/ijustworkhere-sassy-gif-13287642

[hardy merlin]

Ya don't shoot yer cannons in da port mate

[feral ferry]

This damn PC started doing this shit yesterday

Is this fan bearings or something going off?

Tends to go away after like 10 mins

[deft bloom]

6700xt

[orchid prism]

Definitely sounds like a fan. Got fingers? Poke a fan at a time and see which one is at fault.

[feral ferry]

And it stopped lol

[deft bloom]

oh yeah and actually the average is probably a lot higher, I played around with native during testing

[feral ferry]

Seems to only do it at startup

Continues for like 5 - 10 mins and normalizes, quiet as an anechoic chamber

[orchid prism]

I have a similar things with a couple of my RGB fans. Just enough out of sync to cause a slight noise every so often when I turn it on.

So I just pop the case off and poke one fan at a time, so it stops - until I find the offender 😄

[hardy merlin]

3-4 seconds during POST would be fine, not so much 5-10 minutes after

[nimble current]

had one fan in front get noisy so I just shut it off

[feral ferry]

I'm not too sure which one it is but I think it's a case fan

[fading spade]

🤢 Epic Launcher

[deft bloom]

I only installed that because of this game, no previous experiences with it

seems to do its job tho, didn't see anything weird

[fading spade]

IDEK my login details anymore

[hardy merlin]

I installed it yesterday #🎮│game message
Lasted 15 minutes or so

[fading spade]

😅

[grizzled bramble]

How did you install it yesterday? 🤔

[deft bloom]

epic game launcher :E

[hardy merlin]

https://lutris.net/games/epic-games-store/

[deft bloom]

idk seems it has a worse reputation than what it actually is, no need to even see the ui since I can start the game from a quick launch icon

[fading spade]

WAIT WAIT WAIT IS THIS STEAMOS 3.5??????
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3723973446147960643?l=english

[grizzled bramble]

Couldn't install the game yesterday at least? Maybe I missed something then 😅

[feral ferry]

Where did you get that information from

It literally says "Steam client" not "Steam OS"

[deft bloom]

yeah you're correct, they were just talking about the launcher

[hardy merlin]

First impressions are important, especially when you enter with such... attitude like Epic did

[hardy merlin]

Beta got 3.5.1 not that long ago, probably they're now adjusting Steam client stable to it

[fading spade]

....but what

I no haz updates

Do I have too little storage space??

[hardy merlin]

That was 2 days ago

[fading spade]

Yeah I know but I checked and nothing

[feral ferry]

Oo, PlayStation 2 is 23 years old today

[hardy merlin]

Threaten it with a hammer

[feral ferry]

Inarguably probably the best PlayStation console

[fading spade]

vita

[feral ferry]

Vita's ass

[deft bloom]

it's stu mackenzie

[deft bloom]

well yeah their business practices were/are questionable, but I don't have a problem with the software, I just want to play a game

[feral ferry]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1214650/SOUTH_PARK_SNOW_DAY/

Steam

SOUTH PARK: SNOW DAY!

From South Park Digital Studios, the studio that brought you South Park: The Stick of Truth, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, and South Park: Phone Destroyer comes the next chapter in the journey of the New Kid.Join Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, in three-dimensional glory, to celebrate the most magical day in any young child’s life - a sno...

Release Date

Coming soon

▶ Play video

So, apparently we are getting Dragon Quest XII

Trailer incoming... soon according to the series producer, Yosuke Saito

https://vxtwitter.com/SaitoYosuke_Z/status/1717811055664238739

[nimble current]

I should get around to playing the south park games

[feral ferry]

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-return-to-moria-review/

Sad, was somewhat interested

But I guess if Golem was any foreshadowing of things to come, this is proof

58/100

[novel umbra]

what

entirely different studio

[feral ferry]

LoTR is in a limbo of bad adaptations

We haven't had anything good since, idk, Shadow of Mordor?

Some would say shadow of mordor wasn't good either, and we have to look all the way back into Lotro

[hardy merlin]

Shadow of Mordor was good, not great, but good game nevertheless, same with Shadow of War

[novel umbra]

shadow of war had lootbox bs tho

[deft bloom]

hmm I liked playing SoM but SoW was ass and couldn't get into it at all

[feral ferry]

Sad that adaptations usually just suck and are cashgrabs

Licensing needs to be respected more

Would love to have some proper, good, established LoTR games in strategy, RPG, FPS, adventure formats

[hardy merlin]

I played after they removed all this bs

[feral ferry]

Mods for other games are probably some of the best LoTR experiences right now lol

Other than LoTRO, that game is.. good

[deft bloom]

wait there was one game on ps2 that I liked

[pine bone]

The amount of content is mind staggering in LOTRO.

[pine bone]

That was the Samurai warrior adaptation.

Based on the events of the movies.

[deft bloom]

lul possible

[pine bone]

Where you could do sick ass combos and try to get the highest kill score.

And upgrade gear.

[deft bloom]

it was probably the return of the king one I played

[pine bone]

Lord of the rings GBA was my jam for a long time. Especially with Legolas. You could snipe enemies off the edge of the visible screen.

[deft bloom]

and I guess I played it on xbox actually, but anyway

[pine bone]

Same game

[deft bloom]

yeah

[pine bone]

It was a golden age of gaming potential.

Same period when Halo got released and Fable.

[orchid prism]

third person minecraft in LOTR

Yeah that was never a good idea.

[pine bone]

I miss HCC

[feral ferry]

It's not a bad idea, Lord of the Rings mod for Minecraft bangs, you know

100% that's what the inspiration was

[orchid prism]

Minecraft is first person.

[feral ferry]

Ehh

[orchid prism]

The camera is super ackward and cramped in the mines.

[feral ferry]

Hybrid, let's say

[pine bone]

It’s why you follow proper mine construction guidelines and laws when constructing mines in Minecraft.

[hardy merlin]

1st person, how often do you use F5 camera to be honest

[pine bone]

To prevent cave ins, gas explosions and unsafe working conditions.

[feral ferry]

Nobody cares about MSHA mate

Same shit as OSHA, nobody cares about it

[orchid prism]

I care tremendously

[pine bone]

I like the looks of it too.

[feral ferry]

Ngl, I kinda want minecraft to actually feature some gravity mechanics

Shafts collapsing, etc

[orchid prism]

Oh there's a game for that.

[hardy merlin]

There's sand and gravel

[feral ferry]

7 days to die?

[pine bone]

@feral ferry when they introduce that and you ignore procedures. Then you complain you need to follow procedures and guidelines for safe mining conditions.

[orchid prism]

Vintage story

[feral ferry]

Right...

Doesn't look very alive

Devs are still around, community not so much

Still better than most forums I've used to frequent that are now dead, sadly

Rip newerth and necromanthus

[hardy merlin]

I mean it's still in a really healthy spot

[feral ferry]

7 days to die? That game is fine lol

I wish it had more updates

Back when it was during its peak popularity years ago, the game was damn hard to run, laggy servers, etc

[still spire]

Over 10 years of Alpha

[feral ferry]

And only 21 of them

2 feature updates a year basically, not the best I have seen

[fading spade]

https://gamebanana.com/mods/249132

[feral ferry]

Last Switch bundle to clear stock?

Mario Kart 8 is fuckin ancient

This is a new bundle lol