🎮│game

[nimble current]

everything about the switch is ancient

if they still sold a pc system from that time it'd be like core2 gen tech

[nimble current]

I mean compared to the netburst that came before almost anything would have been amazing

[willow quiver]

hi potato

[tall anchor]

man im thinking to buy a switch only for playing pokemon

....

and i heard scarlet wasnt that good

i wanna play on my handheld in a car

[feral ferry]

Same lol

[tall anchor]

and the streetlights flick the screen

[feral ferry]

I only care about Pokemon

Other games I am like "Oh cool" and never play them

[tall anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/kiryu-yakuza-bakamitai-dame-dame-dane-gif-17523422

[feral ferry]

Pokemon I've played every single one I think since I married my waifu and she gave me her 3DS to try out

[nimble current]

meanwhile I've never played a pokemon game

[feral ferry]

X&Y was my fav

I wish they didn't ditch mega evolutions lel

[tall anchor]

pls go older when u mention peaked

kanto/johto

[fallow bronze]

Pssh fan translations of red and blue

[tall anchor]

[feral ferry]

Tbf romhacks can be incredibly good

I remember a really fun romhack lol, "offensive pokemon yellow" I think it was

The amount of cock jokes was great

It's honestly just wishful thinking, but I hope the clamshell doublescreen meta comes back

Obviously it'd just be too expensive nowadays

But double screen meta was great

Wouldn't a double screen actually be more useful nowadays than it was back with DS?

[solar lily]

DS Ruby/Sapphire?
what's that

otherwise, yeah pretty interesting that they had a form of 'streetpass' in the form of IR communication in the B&W duology

I think I'm going too far when thinking Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard → revival of Guitar Hero → double-screen console for a new Guitar Hero: On Tour series

maybe those foldable phones might achieve something

[tall anchor]

who sais i didnt have a ds, advance, gba , wiii

wait i say gba 2 times

lmao

[orchid prism]

[tall anchor]

its the alcohol

1000000%

take your backlit screen

back when companies tried to innovate for comfortable handhelds

look at the switch today

it ducking sucks

[solar lily]

Ah, Game Boy Advance SP - or at least the later model

[tall anchor]

yah my square boy

they had a button for the backlit panel

so cute

[solar lily]

Also Game Boy Micro, though how useful a non-backwards-compatible console is now...

[tall anchor]

my wish will never come true

but no handheld comming back

thanks to these stupid tablets

nawh

[tough jay]

I'll stick to my ips modded gameboy / gba-sp / original ds lite / new 3ds xl. If want something else I'll probably emulate on my vita or steam deck.

I never really got into castelvania games myself.

maybe I will try them at some point, any recommendations?

[feral ferry]

It's surprising in general how handholdy modern games are

Old titles are so much harder than new ones

[tough jay]

Old titles were content with a smaller core audience in general. And in the space of less mainstream games there are still harder titles.

Also people simply bought less games as injusted for inflation they were expensive.

[feral ferry]

Not if you run a sweatshop in beijing somewhere

[tough jay]

This is also why AAA focussed on recurring revenue as making enough on a single launch is very hard.
Still glad we are seeing a number of mid-sized studio's again that can make more than a basic indie game.

If you run a sweatshop in Beijing you are not getting a good product. it requires a team that actively tries on all front. Not someone who does what is asked of him.

[feral ferry]

Well, we'll see how Black Myth Wukong plays out to see if your sentence makes sense

[tough jay]

Just because it's made in china does not mean it's sweat shop with little creative input.

[feral ferry]

It was 600 million iirc

They posted a thing online when they got their investment back

Cyberpunk made far more than 1 billion anyways so they doubled their investment at least

[small comet]

hideo kojima game

[feral ferry]

Konami is not dead?

[small comet]

i just want a game like boktai

[feral ferry]

Konami is somehow doing incredibly well lol

Hypu for the new MGS remake and especially SH2 remake

[drifting rose]

based af

I wouldn't call sotn hard just up till the end, but maybe my muscle memory of that game is too extensive

first thing to get is the basilard 😄

[feral ferry]

No I have indeed not have

Waiting for Silent Hill Sakura demo anyday now

[fallow bronze]

We got teardown now

[feral ferry]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1142710/discussions/0/3873718133746831966/

Oh this didn't go down well

I've been seeing a lot of shit smearing on Creative Assembly, tf did they do

[feral ferry]

https://youtu.be/CT5bwwvDv00

Capcom investing into in-house solutions than Denuvo?

Interesting

Absolute braindead takes though

Cheats and mods in.. single player games are a problem?

Of course they affect the product, they affect it positively

[tough jay]

Despite all I did enjoy the warhammer games, the way it plays with magical units kind of hides the underlying flaws of their tech.
Besides devide et empire really did turn rome 2 into an enjable game.
Rome Remastered offers a nice platform for mods and such, but was made by Feral and not CA
But yea CA is not doing great.

[grizzled quarry]

??

That's not a real statement is it

[feral ferry]

Did you see what I linked just above that

Literally off of their presentation

[grizzled quarry]

Wait I'm dumb

[feral ferry]

https://www.pcgamer.com/counter-strike-2-interview/

[orchid prism]

Gave Skylines 2 a proper go. Really not a fan of how things unlock now.

It takes such a hilarious amount of points to be able to set up new areas with interchanges.

And all special buildings are MASSIVE.

[tough jay]

I own the first game, still never played it, maybe I should give it a try sometime, but I first really need to finish or shelve what I already started.

[solar lily]

Since CS2 released, we've seen some players sharing clips of encounters where hits aren't registering as expected. What do you make of clips like these from players? Are CS2's sub-tick servers working as intended?

Well, to be clear, those examples aren't issues with sub-tick servers. They show a different bug (an animation-hitbox mismatch when looking down), but the important thing is that those clips helped us isolate the specific bug and ship the fix to customers quickly. Bugs like that are unfortunate but detailed community feedback is incredibly helpful.
Is that all the article has on the topic?

[cinder chasm]

Anyone got a good game for a few day binge?

[barren pewter]

GTA IV

[cinder chasm]

Played it through...

[barren pewter]

Sleeping Dogs

[feral ferry]

Terraria ultramodded

Tons of good mods for unlimited hours of fun, or just bossrush and it'll be a few day binge

[tall anchor]

im so happy

I had a steam deck laying around

installed emu deck

and now im playing pokemon

[slim token]

lucky

i had to buy mine

[deft bloom]

Yo aw2 is fucking great

[cinder chasm]

Much more horroresque than Control?

[orchid prism]

AW is much more horror than Control.

Control is much more X-Files within the same universe.

[fading spade]

LOL

[cinder chasm]

Control was much more... if you stopped to think about things... much like most things in the SCP universe.

[deft bloom]

kek

But yeah for sure a lot more horrorey than aw1 even

[cinder chasm]

not a big fan of horror, for horror's sake. Enjoy screwed up worlds though.

[barren pewter]

RE moment

[deft bloom]

it's more about that really

and by that I mean the latter

[cinder chasm]

2 1/2 unlike 2 + 2i 😉

[deft bloom]

very meta indeed

[bleak pike]

aint she beautiful

[quiet vault]

she is

normal textures + shader is so goated

[grizzled bramble]

I really like that Mind Space thing

Actually feels like being kinda a detective lol

[barren pewter]

the thing is...the integrated graphics out of AMD's more recent CPUs really can run anything at 1080p

probably with low settings and getting 30 FPS

but hey, the little champ that could

pretty sure the 7000 series has 2 graphics cores, instead of the possible 8, so it's more display adaptor than anything else

was originally going to get that chip for the next build

xD

then decided that it would be a pretty meaningless upgrade from a 3600 since it's on a pretty much EOL platform

AM5 is now here and I will have a 7800X3D in my possession soon™️

or a minecraft server

...those are a thing?

right

yeah I already forgot about them

AYYYYYMD PRICE SLASHES MOTHERFUCKER

honestly though, 14th gen intel were effectively dead on arrival

barely any improvement over last gen
more heat output to go with it

AMD has been killing it at making chips you can actually put in builds
other than the whole boosting to TJ Max thing on the 7000X chips

sort of like how they marketed the 7900XTX as a "drop in upgrade"
because it was a reasonable size, didn't use some stupid proprietary adaptor for power and didn't require an absurd PSU

true

I have an AM5 ITX mobo shipping to me soon™️
backorder

paid 188 of the local for it

technically it has the A620 chipset
but I really don't care too much for the overclocking capability on the CPU
was just planning on enabling eco mode and ignoring it

[grizzled bramble]

The characters Remedy have from past games in AW2 is 👌

Also the voice actor for "Max Payne" is good imo.

[feral ferry]

https://gamerant.com/nintendo-patent-detachable-dual-screen-gaming-device/

Talk about the devil, just yesterday we talked about dual screens and DS/3DS

Switch 2 dual screen would be mega pog

I wonder if this is the really old patent these fucks are reporting on again, cause gamerant loves recycling content, fuckin trash of a site

Or is it something new

[tranquil salmon]

I am at Gen12 i9

And 3080Ti

[feral ferry]

Trying to look the patent up on uspto but nothing I can see

[deft bloom]

They seem really cool yeah, I know a guy who used to work there

[feral ferry]

Well found the patent https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2023203801&_cid=P12-LO9SSQ-29834-1

But I am not sure if this is just a patent renewal, cause it looks an awful lot like 3DS lol

But I am not wholly sure why the patent differs quite a bit from 3DS as we know it, or why it mentions "detachable", cause 3DS screens sure ass can't be detached

[orchid prism]

Severe neck pain scenario that 😄

[feral ferry]

https://wccftech.com/capcom-re-engine-devs-use-high-end-pcs-with-nvidia-rtx-4090-gpus-amd-threadripper-cpus/

This is kind of a problem

Basically old tech will just be dead cause they don't support mesh shaders lol

Intel is especially dead lol

[orchid prism]

T&L all over again.

[robust wing]

Mesh shaders are great (enormous free quality/performance boost) for everyone using hardware ~5yo or newer.

Give it another 5 and it will be everywhere

[feral ferry]

There are plenty of people still using 5 year old or way older hardware that aren't planning to upgrade lel

1060s, 1660s, etc

I am still happy with muh RX 5700

[robust wing]

1060 is 7.4 years old

1660 and rx5700 support mesh shaders

[fringe salmon]

Previous console gen being weak warped people’s perception for how long hardware is supported

[feral ferry]

Hm, seems that Nvidia supports mesh shaders since Turing, so 1660 should support them

[robust wing]

Yeah

[feral ferry]

Hm

I guess you can still run it without mesh shaders just not very well lel

[robust wing]

super not well

I don't really bother playing shooters below 120fps or so

[feral ferry]

What

Arc does well?

[robust wing]

alchemist supports mesh shaders

[feral ferry]

Intel has been getting quite interesting

I hope the performance on Battlemage isn't complete ass

Though I am somewhat sold on AMD's AFMF so I don't want to not buy AMD

[feral ferry]

https://www.xfire.com/nintendo-gets-tough-on-gaming-leaks-new-guidelines-and-dmca-actions/

Fuck off, cunts

None of those are illegal

[rancid hearth]

Nintendo lawers giving themselves a reason to exist

can't have nintendo question why they hired them in the first place

[feral ferry]

https://clips.twitch.tv/ClearBlazingSparrowAMPTropPunch-Adb9B-M0rrRho1l1

Gabe is here

[bleak pike]

How's the perf for Barry's Wake 2?

[drifting rose]

technically any dual screen device can be split in half

[feral ferry]

Technically

[willow quiver]

gabe lookin slimmer

[feral ferry]

His brain implants sap the power they need from his body fat

[tough jay]

If the shot was more zoomed out and he was standing he would appear fatter.

[still spire]

https://fxtwitter.com/Genki_JPN/status/1718081422635000292?t=40LHDdr8qfL4UBW1WaKqAw&s=19

[feral ferry]

In the same month, more like

Nintendo is progressively releasing less and less first party games and prepping for next gen

So, release it in November lol, preparation for holiday season, good sales

[orchid prism]

It was not a good idea to launch Sonic, period.

[deft bloom]

very good for me with 6700xt. Played with 1440p high preset and quality fsr (1276p upscaled) and got like 60-120 fps, amd thingy reports 75 avg now. Switched to 4k with the same stuff though, so now it upscales from 1440p and I get only around 10 less fps, very smooth with freesync on tv

gotta note though that I have everything oc'd, but yeah the perf is a lot better than what the spec sheet might've suggested. can't play with rt though of course

[grizzled bramble]

60fps+ here too with 3080(10gb) at mostly max everything, quality DLSS & without RT @1440p , might turn down Post-processing to Low to see if there's a big difference

But working this weekend and loads of other stuff going on so have played like 4hrs~

[bleak pike]

@grizzled bramble @deft bloom good to hear

I'd be tempted to play but I never played Barry's Wake 1

[trim rock]

How's that even possible I remember a ton of hype for the first one way back when

[bleak pike]

I never got into them sort of games

[trim rock]

Like I remember it being hyped up as the holy shit this is why you need to upgrade to Vista and get a DX10 GPU game

Bloody younguns

[bleak pike]

I played MMOs exclusively on pc

At least mostly

@trim rock how old are you

[trim rock]

21-30

[bleak pike]

Bitch

[trim rock]

Oh and it was also supposed to be open world back then

[bleak pike]

I'm 27

Or 28 I can't remember

Yes 27 and 10 months

[feral ferry]

So, -9?

Great age

[trim rock]

Yes

[fading spade]

ok, imma go put the baby on the fire
Minx - 2023

https://youtu.be/wrk1G5i7EFA

Im eating meatballs while running from her very casually
Izik - 2023

[dreamy rain]

Happens

[bleak pike]

Ah yes

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/i-see-no-problem-here-crazy-eyes-gif-12788383

[quiet vault]

is this the switch version?

[feral ferry]

They made a switch version?

Obv I think it's a joke

But I don't see a Switch even booting alan wake 2

[still spire]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/naughty-dog-moves-development-of-the-last-of-us-part-iii-remastered-ahead-of-the-last-of-us-part-iii/

[lyric kite]

decided to try my stream speed. Any ideas on how to be more consistent?

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVqezHKDPC4 Whatever your feeling on Gacha games, this song goes hard. Harder than it should've got a gacha game. Like what the hell.

[still spire]

They even referenced one of the best Final Fantasies

https://preview.redd.it/i-want-blade-from-honkai-star-rail-to-impale-me-v0-ho0g0h3drytb1.png?width=1728&format=png&auto=webp&s=03442c83c9c687285db4974a5490df85f6debf0e

[feral ferry]

@ashen lark

So, apparently we are getting Asian focus reworks

Next expansion coming already lol?

[orchid prism]

Must be nice to have central heating in your lawn.

[fallow bronze]

Just early access things

Or.. Every graden is a weed plantation

[cerulean basin]

franckfurt server gg

[willow quiver]

Yes

[feral ferry]

*Enforcer

V' is elitist, if you don't play it, you bad

[bleak atlas]

Anybody play world of tanks?

[young crow]

games with public shaming of toxic fuckers are best games

[sharp imp]

💀

[willow quiver]

what did he say tho

[small comet]

what early access

isnt it released

[fallow bronze]

Joke, woosh

[fading spade]

I really want a VR headset so I can play liminal space horror maps in it ....

There are a few amazing ones for Half Life Alyx

But yeah
VR horror sounds intense

[young hill]

Oculus quest 2 is affordable

So is mixed reality

Old used vive is too

[fading spade]

Yeh but Facebook

No thanks

[young hill]

Okay then mixed reality

Or vive

Some people are also selling their index headsets for less than the original price if one can afford it

[slim token]

never gonna sell mine

[young hill]

Well not everyone uses it enough

[fading spade]

One of my irl friends got an index just this week and I'm so jealous

[trim rock]

But deckard soon

[slim token]

ye

[fading spade]

I'm very intrigued about this new VR console the rumors mention

Is Deckard a standalone like Quest? Or one that needs a computer like Index?

[slim token]

standalone is the rumor

[fading spade]

Wait you can feel shit with the Index????

Oooo hek

Idk if this person has an index
But he mentioned the force feedback when touching things and the index seems to be the only one that can do this

[barren pewter]

Me when I make my Bluetooth connected vibrating butt plug appear as a sound device to windows

[fading spade]

Xd

[young crow]

generally you don't need a vr headset to touch anything

discord users are usually unaware

[young hill]

Lol

[young hill]

Uh it is the controllers

You can use them on a vive as well

[novel night]

hey far fetched question here, anyone in here play destiny 2 with a wooting keyboard?

i got a warning today for using "automation or skill augmentation"

and i think its because of the keyboard's gamepad mode functionality, because you can use that for XIM devices

which is forbidden in destiny 2

[slim token]

i see the problem

you're playing destiny 2

[novel night]

yep but thats more a problem for a therapist i think instead of this server lol

[slim token]

the other problem is you should only be using rapid trigger

why emulate controller

[novel night]

see thats the thing, im not even using my keyboard to play the game

its just connected to my pc while im playing on controller

[still spire]

FNAF movie has surpassed Mario at the box office opening

Lmao insane

FNAF has that kinda pull?

I had no clue

The reviews are terrible but I guess doesn't matter

[fringe salmon]

It also has the pull for people that just want horror movies

Mario didn’t have a popular genre that it also covered

[fallow bronze]

i want to see dune 2, but i still need to watch part 1 :S

and then get an ornithopter lego set

[orchid prism]

Isn't it out next year? Can't take you that long to see DUNC in the meantime.

[still spire]

I mean if it's even worth seeing

I've read the books up to five, and man does the story go to shit and that's even before the son took over

Just wait till you get to the part of the story where they have specially developed sexual witches who can cause instant desire with just the look at a character and completely mind control them

But no actual magic, it's all manipulation through mental manipulation and body language

[orchid prism]

Eh that's all past the first book.

The movies are still only covering the mail story, not all the fun times after it.

Like turning into worm hybrids.

[still spire]

Yeah...

Man it devolved fast. First book was pretty fun, second had some interesting ideas.

Then it just got weird. Really, really weird.

[fallow bronze]

spoilers :p

[orchid prism]

You've had your entire life to read them.

[fallow bronze]

true

i read the first 2 books i believe. it was a long time ago

oh thats soon

[orchid prism]

What really? I thought the writer's picketing delayed it till next year.

Neat

[fallow bronze]

yeah.. so i have a few months 😄

[fringe salmon]

3rd March of 2025?

[fallow bronze]

Don't have both 😦

[bleak pike]

Lol what annoyed me was seeing the trailer for part 2 while I haven't watched the first when I was at the cinema

I closed my eyes and tbh I forgot everything so it worked

[hardy merlin]

Gaslight yourself into not believing second part of the movie is already in production so you'll have a nice surprise once it releases

[quiet vault]

thats unfornunate

[hot spire]

I want to see part 2 because IMAX

[quiet vault]

they gotta make imax more popular in EU

[still spire]

lol

yeah fuck movies

Lol yeah

[quiet vault]

i mean seems fine

maybe seeing 1-2 movies a year

[still spire]

lol it's a complete rip off

[quiet vault]

still a "who cares' amount of money

[still spire]

lol

[quiet vault]

for a better experience when watching

[still spire]

It's not though

I have a 65'' 4K OLED with great HDR, and a 5.1 surround system, real speakers, no soundbar / HTIB, but actual full size speakers and calibrated for my room.

Watching movies is fantastic

Incredibly immersive, far better than any Theater I've been too

[quiet vault]

have only heard good things about 70mm imax

[still spire]

Bad contrast, blurry image

[quiet vault]

what kinda cinema u visiting

[still spire]

The normal kind

[quiet vault]

70mm is equivalent to 18k

[nimble current]

anyone who's had hands/ears on time with sonys flagship wireless buds?

i.e. xm5

[nimble current]

(yeah was ment for #🔌│tech but brain too tired to word obv)

[solid widget]

cs2 really need to fix its fucking competitive rank system

[feral ferry]

Or don't

[solid widget]

was lem in csgo - got silver 5 in cs2 and I’m going against globals that got put in silver because they played with friends

shit is super enjoyable and a lot of fun

[feral ferry]

Just put it down to rest

[solid widget]

Yeah it’s just barely worth playing right now - might need to pick something else up until everything is fixed

[fading spade]

ah yes, all these future high tech places and then ARKANSAS

Trepang2 btw

[plucky gull]

This should be removed from the website

As Nadeo banned analog a long time ago

[fading spade]

if they banned analog, theyd have to ban controllers LOL

[grizzled bramble]

Damn that game takes me back

Syphon Filter had some auto-aiming too

[waxen gorge]

anyone playing BF2042? we should get together and do some squads 😄

[tough jay]

Anti cheat not compatible with my system, and really does not seem like a game worthwhile to boot onto windows just to play.

Possibly to be released somewhere after beyond good and evil 2

[feral ferry]

Urobutcher?

Ah Madoka Magica

The anime didn't wrap up the story?

I feel sad I never actually finished the series

I only watch anime with waifu, and she didn't like the series

I quite liked it, was really interesting, didn't pick it up after waifu refused to watch it

[fading spade]

Alan: No kidding, didnt think youd get them done this quickly
Alice: On occasion, I can perform all sorts of miracles, my dear
Alan: Oh reallllyyyyy?
Alice: Welll, you seemed to think so last night

[fringe salmon]

I remember when that happend in the madoka movie 3

[fading spade]

huh?

[small comet]

people watch madoka?

[fringe salmon]

idk but surely that conversation is from madoka since its posted right after that chart

[fading spade]

Im binging this YT Channel and watching his alan wake playthrough
https://youtu.be/ky2kWTABcHM?list=PL3ZJ0QWE7os3H4SvBfsvjmJaSQ5ZX_ZqN

Doubt the same goes for Alan Wake II

cause Control barely runs on Deck

Control barely ran on my PC

I managed to somewhat stay about 60FPS on medium settings

it was ok for me for the most part, cause its third person, those games always feel sluggish anyway

huh?

If Control is anything to go by, Northlight is seriously impressive

That game feels like one massive lore deep tech demo

Considering the 1st is from 2014, and looks this good

I dont doubt it

o

[fringe salmon]

mhhh i still prefer 16s graphics for this years games

yeah I hope avatar does the good surprise and puts them back on the scene

[fading spade]

16s?

[fringe salmon]

FF16

[fading spade]

oohh

[fringe salmon]

yeah

[deft bloom]

BG3 and AW2 are the best games this year

[fringe salmon]

yeah bg3 aint the best looking though

its good but not winning that category

[deft bloom]

aah ooh yeah graphics wise

then it's alan hands down

ff doesn't come close

[fringe salmon]

FF16, maybe avatar has a shot imo

[deft bloom]

and as a game it's better too, while I liked ff a lot in the end it wasn't really that good

[fading spade]

also, that mission in Control thats usually limited to Playstation, I was able to follow a guide to edit the exe file and unlock it on PC

That mission with Kojima voicing it

[fringe salmon]

16 had nearly real time rendered cutscens from the quality of the looks, I still think graphics wise it's a better piece than AW

rest I agree, good game but had some misses on parts

[deft bloom]

insane take, unless you're comparing ps5 graphics only

even then it's insane

[fringe salmon]

I mean I'm looking at videos of it and it kinda looks like what RE2 remake already could've done

[deft bloom]

hah nope

watch the 2 digital foundry videos on it, or better yet, play it yourself on a 4k oled tv

[fringe salmon]

might play it at some point but so far it looks very good to me, just not the best I've seen this year

[deft bloom]

it literally is the best looking game this generation

[fringe salmon]

and not going to compare it on 4k if I dont have 4k that's just silly

[deft bloom]

well the df vids are mostly 1440p, comparing the ps5 and pc settings

wish I had a 4090 or something so I could try path tracing and such, but yeah it's a marvel to look at even without. funny enough the rt off setting still has rt in it

[fringe salmon]

RT in some degree has been around for years before RTX even in real time rendering

[deft bloom]

yeah pre-baked stuff

anyway check the df vid out

[velvet parcel]

does anyone play geometry dash

[still spire]

https://futurism.com/the-byte/doom-candy-bar

[soft basin]

Wild

[severe compass]

What the surgeon hears the whole time whilst performing surgery to clear a intestinal obstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsfjHCFosw

[mellow maple]

rt has been around since like 2000s

any form of shadow drawing is raytracing

[still spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1104834999397658807/1168400527638396938/image.png?ex=6551a0c9&is=653f2bc9&hm=3d0c8de681e014e74ee425059514a5851f4a0601974b429ed51fd7b500daf3fb&

[feral ferry]

Wrong channel

[still spire]

https://twitter.com/gogcom/status/1718694459419050465

I don't care much for GOG myself but I know a lot do

lol

Myselfg, I just think Steam or GOG, I own the games about the same legally anyways.

[quiet vault]

Gamepassss

😄

[hardy merlin]

Life's hard for Linux gamers, it's either-or

• Support company which heavily invests in Linux gaming ecosystem, but once it goes under your games are gone
• Support company which gives you DRM-free ownership over the games you buy, but doesn't give a flying F about Linux gaming

[still spire]

A lot of games on Steam are DRM free

Also, it was said years ago, but Gaben was asked about what would happen if Valve were to go out of business

He said they'd release offline patches for as many games a they could, as for the rest they'd offer downloadable servers for years afterwards for people to claim their games

Of course online DRM was a lot less...fucky over a decade ago

I mean we'd never really know if they'd followed through in case the worst happens

[orchid prism]

Thankfully Steam's own DRM is very easy to circumvent. It's when game devs and publishers add their own it becomes troublesome.

[still spire]

Not sure, if Steam went down I might be done with PC gaming at least

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, but still there will be a lot of games which will get under ;-;

[still spire]

I can't see it happening before I die, I may only be 34, but I don't know if I'll live to be super old, not a healthy kinda dude, we'll see. 😛

Well I know we can't really discuss it, but there's always the Johnny Depps famous movie franchise way of doing things in case of the worst

[feral ferry]

The thing is, I'm not sure why they bother with DRM

Cause I am pretty sure DRM doesn't add more sales, definitely not more to cover up the cost of Irdeto's massive bills

It's a bit weird that they bother

Cause a pirate wasn't going to pay to begin with

DRM just... costs them more

[hardy merlin]

Steamworks DRM is fully optional, but it's more of an option for suits in game companies to keep them calm and certain about Steam than a nuisance for gamers or a barrier for pirates
And Valve fully knows this
Same thing with Epic's EOS, as easy to circumvent as Steamworks

[feral ferry]

Well if anything a barebones DRM like Steam's is effective enough that you can't just copy and paste files across PCs and they will just work

Aka shareware

And that's enough to dissuade what, 99% of consumers from pirating?

[hardy merlin]

You can, you just need to copy both files and manifest, and you can run the game on the other PC, given you run through Steam account with that game
About circumventing it it's a matter of replacing 2 files
I won't say which, I don't want to get bonked

[feral ferry]

Indeed you shouldn't, but probably most of us know how to

[hardy merlin]

But yeah, 99% of people won't be able to circumvent it, and that enough for Valve to advertise it as "reliable" DRM

[feral ferry]

I just inherently think that DRM is a flawed concept that some executives came up with

But stats do not back up its usefulness

Like, I think Denuvo was like 100k a year at to implement or something?

Do we really think pirates will be dissuaded enough to buy a 100k worth of profits, after steam share and etc, to cover up the game devs DRM costs?

I say they do not

Emulation is an even far worse type of DRM to implement cause I think there the effect of DRM will be even less

Not only you expect for pirates to buy the game, but also the console itself

People from poor countries will not do that

DRM, imo, is just a flawed concept

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, DRMs are a moot point, but it keeps suits happy and asleep at night
But some do start to see that DRMs are unnecessary, Bandai Namco has already ditched Denuvo, Capcom won't be using it for future releases and removes it from current ones

[feral ferry]

Not like Nintendo hasn't sold like 140 million Switch consoles already and some few extra sales from people that instead just emulate with stolen hardware files will give them much more profits

Capcom is instead pursuing their own DRM which when you think about it, makes far more sense than feeding Irdeto

[hardy merlin]

IIRC Both Bandai and Square's suits said they'll be ditching Denuvo
Bandai has removed Denuvo from most of their games, and Tekken 8 is supposedly releasing without Denuvo too

And about Capcom's DRM... They already tried with RE8... And how that ended...

[feral ferry]

RE8? Didn't that get cracked in a few days

[hardy merlin]

Yup
Not only it took a few days to remove it (with Denuvo in tandem)
It was also cause of many bugs on release

Thing is Denuvo has a really bad name, so bad that even suits seem to notice this
They now try with Nintendo, but while Nintendo said they will allow it, they won't be using it

[feral ferry]

DRM in general has a bad name

Nintendo prolly realized that DRM is just kinda useless

You need to buy into their platform, at that point you prolly have money

They patched out easy software homebrews, only the hardware ones are left but they are expensive and dangerous

Like, if a person emulates on PC, they weren't going to buy a Switch anyways

[hardy merlin]

I bought a Switch
To get on Nintendo's nerves
I can say that all games I've bought I am emulating fully legally and in compliance with DMCA and DSM

[feral ferry]

Ah yeah that makes sense

I have 2 switches, one mariko "legal" one and one software jailbroken

One of them doesn't get used as much, can you guess which one

Switch OLED imo is really dumb

Bad hardware backed by a really good screen that's wasted by flawed performance of the SoC

Switch 2 I am 100% buying early

If there's the odd chance that a software jailbreak is discovered

[hardy merlin]

Imma be honest, my Switch lies down and collects dust until there's time to dump a cartridge
I much more prefer emulating games on Deck
Joy-Cons are really uncomfortable to hold after longer time, as I have bigger hands ;-;

[feral ferry]

I have a Nintendo Pro controller but yes joycons are trash tier

[hardy merlin]

Oh yeah, I prefer playing 3DS and DS games on these consoles
But Deck is more comfortable to me than Switch, and suspend function works just as well

Eh, it takes like 30 seconds, you can get used to it
Besides, as DX12 and Vulkan are getting more popular we will be seeing these in more and more games

Oh, I don't give a flying F about graphics, I'm all about those mechanics and gameplay
I may be 25yo, but I was raised on Pentium 3 PC and clone of a clone of a Famicom

[feral ferry]

Thing is yeah, I do agree with you to a large extent, but PSX level of graphics on a game like Scarlet and Violet are hard to excuse

But yeah I have been replaying Pokemon Legends Arceus and imo people gave it way too much shit

It's a really really fun pokemon game

Scarlet and Violet, bad performance, stuttering and terrible visuals aside, is actually a really fun pokemon game

And tbf Pokemon is all I care about from Nintendo so, I am fine with the last 3-4 Pokemon releases

They lived up to the fun

[hardy merlin]

On Joy-Cons - yeah
But I've put ~120h into BotW and ~200 into TotK, on an emulator, but still

[hardy merlin]

Last Pokemon game I've played was Pokemon Emerald on DS And I've paid a lot for that cartridge ;-;
Newest ones were Gen IV for me

[feral ferry]

Only docked on my big 55" LG OLED here

Emulation prolly makes a lot of Nintendo games a lot more fun cause of better performance though

[hardy merlin]

I have 1080p monitor too, I'm not really "compatible" with bigger resolutions, besides 1440p for work

5x?

Oh, ok
I'm still using YPbPr and SCART cables to TV

[feral ferry]

PSX and PS2?

[hardy merlin]

PS2, and what's more funny, the only way to connect my PC to TV is through YPbPr, HDMI chip in TV is cooked

[feral ferry]

I dunno where's my PS2 nowadays but its AV cable died on me years ago, and the few chinese knockoffs of the original never worked

Tbf the hardware might be dead, it was an old slim

But emulation of PS2 is still far better than the original

[feral drum]

given the right mods and texture packs out there

without those things emulation is just as good as an original PS2

[feral ferry]

Dualshock 2 controllers were.. really meh

I remember them being comfortable, at least in my hands

But those rubber thumbsticks do not survive long, at least 3 units I had had theirs rip

[trim rock]

Yeah

I kinda like it as gimmicky as it is and I never could figure out how slowly I had to release to not fire

Definitely worth going through the trickery to get the DS3 working with analog buttons with PCSX2

[feral ferry]

Death Stranding 3?

[feral drum]

given his intentions of how big MGS3 was supposed to be he had to scale down a lot and scrap some ideas

the fight with The End i.e. was supposed to last for days, not minutes

i was basically running around with the stun gun and whenever i knew where he was i was sneaking up on him

making him shaky all the time

never killed a single person in any MGS game except 5

[trim rock]

I wish analog buttons were still a thing and developers made more use of them

[feral drum]

can't say the same about Splinter Cell since the missions always involved liquidating someone

i was fine with them, but there was so much tomfoolery you could pull off

i.e. the rolls when in prone

or the stickers on the boxes

[deft bloom]

wait mgsv controls were amazing

[feral drum]

and god damn, did i love the anime waifu stickers on the cardboard boxes

Paz was a pain in the ass tbh

i mean the game tried its best to describe the plot without Peace Walker

but i get the point

the whole zombies shit was weird tho

and Skull Face

oh...

yeah, i remember now

totally forgot it was her

that one was kinda questionable tho

but the plushie foxes, god damn

Wooting should adapt a plushie fox as their mascot, ngl

[hardy merlin]

Which one? Peace Walker?

Oh

I kinda liked MGSV

I heavily disliked you have to wait a lot of time for item development

After some time I was so frustrated I said "fuck it" and made a mod which reduces deployment time and cost

https://www.nexusmods.com/metalgearsolidvtpp/mods/1281

[still spire]

Many studios show that DRM doesn't increase sales at all, and infact is a net loss

However, as said

Suits hate the idea of people getting their game for free, even if it costs them money

[feral drum]

I'll check it out

[hardy merlin]

lua injection is easy, but it's a pain in the ass to modify certain values to make it work, and Fox Engine is unnecessary fussy

That being said, Nyumi, if you find any bugs with the mod, let me know, I may finally come around and fix some of them, like the one with the water pistol, I spent so much time on it but I couldn't replicate it

I loved when in endgame I wanted to farm S on missions, so I just deployed with water pistol only

[still spire]

https://video.hardlimit.com/w/uZGK12oU5FeSsy8CDLP4hD

Whenever I see videos like this, it's always funny how cherry picked it is. It also makes me wonder how fresh the Windows install is.

[fringe salmon]

And if they compare dx vs Vulkan or such

Instead of Vulkan on both

[still spire]

Best comment I saw was "And in another 10 games, they would keep crashing on Linux, or run at half speed, or not boot at all"

[hardy merlin]

Overall games on Linux work quite worse than on Windows

But still it's a miracle they work at all

[fringe salmon]

Yeah and it’s getting a lot better but for performance Linux isn’t doing anything better or worse really

Any difference that improves it by using a translation layer can be done on windows too that’s not the OS making a difference

[hardy merlin]

Sure enough, and in many cases it's just as simple as swapping DX's dlls

[feral ferry]

https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/changelogs/changelog-october-27-2023-rog-ally/ba-p/967451

New feature: Added support for AMD HYPR-RX. Read more about HYPR-RX here.
Enhancement: Added support for 1600x900 screen resolution
Bugfix: Fixed a bug that prevented the Ally from recognizing 8K 60Hz external monitors

HYPR-RX being supported is interesting

https://insider-gaming.com/where-is-fallout-4-next-gen-update/

Lol, good question

NG update, Creation Store 2

Starfield I bet took all the resources to finish up so they just ignored all side projects

[hardy merlin]

Still, DXVK is way ahead of D3D9On12, which is funny

On one hand some nerds reverse-engineering DirectX onto Vulkan with some help from Valve
On the other Microsoft, natively implementing DX9 on DX12

Old Test Drives can straight up mess up newer Windowses to the point they can't even boot anymore
And old XP surprisingly does have patches for SMBv2 and SSD/NVMe support, I was shocked

Especially so, given Vista didn't got those patches

[feral ferry]

Sierra being gone is very sad

[small comet]

the funniest part is that win11 21h2 gets less updates than all of win10

[feral ferry]

They did a lot of nice games 1-2 decades ago

Sierra is just dead for good sadly

[orchid prism]

Sierra still exists?

[feral ferry]

Nyo, dead for years

[hardy merlin]

They were absorbed by Activision in 2008, so in a way, Xbox do own them

[feral ferry]

Didn't Ubisoft buy Sierra

[hardy merlin]

Vivendi, then parent of ActiBlizz

[feral ferry]

Rip vivendi

Ah yeah it was activision that owns them

[quiet vault]

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1718940578358911155?t=DcfLGY1nhhTFTOWwIOqNqw&s=19

good and bad

[hardy merlin]

Cheating on consoles
Solution: Controller DRMs
We truly are living in 2023

[quiet vault]

just gotta hope they approve more stuff now

[novel umbra]

easy way to block people from abusing autoaim

or rather

only way

[quiet vault]

ye but fighting gamers are kinda affected too

[novel umbra]

otherwise you only got stuff like mousetrap

[hardy merlin]

How long till there will be PCBs/modules you stick onto official Xbox Controllers and will emulate inputs just like cheating devices?

[novel umbra]

would be possible but quite a lot of effort

more likely we will see xims or somethign with harvested xbox chips

[quiet vault]

hope sony copies that

[hardy merlin]

You're right
Still, I'd love to see a game genie you stick onto a controller

[still spire]

Rise of GameShark

They added a Pokemon game to Honkai Star Rail

And it's half decent

[fading spade]

ah yes, my fav Mario villian....Bootser

[fallow bronze]

username though...

[hardy merlin]

Explains everything
For me it'd be also hard to talk like that

[fading spade]

XD

GET TO DA BONGERRRRR

[orchid prism]

Do I even want to ask what a bonger is.

[barren pewter]

yes

[fading spade]

Bowsir

[fallow bronze]

this lana posting is atleast somewhat understandable.

[fading spade]

Leeme is the worst koopaling xd

im suffocating in his balls
Mayro - 2023

here is the video xd its so funny xd https://youtu.be/b3ZbwF5qw6o

[fallow bronze]

ohh you're posting youtube vid screenshot again

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/hundred-percent-cole-wideman-ultimate-cowboy-showdown-season2-im-very-sure-certainly-gif-20981185

[fallow bronze]

i don't know what else i expected lol

[deft bloom]

NEW POLICE QUEST GAME WHEN

[barren pewter]

RE8 iOS version wasn't merged with the mac version

[hardy merlin]

Oh hi @barren pewter

[barren pewter]

but hey, seriously nice discount on the mac version if you somehow don't have it yet

@sharp scarab, decent time to pick it up
base game is 21 CAD

[barren pewter]

hiya

it appears that the base game of RE8

is an in app purchase

for a free app

lolwut

very cheap though

Base Game
$15.99
DLC pack (with bonus)
$9.99
All Access Voucher
$1.99

those are the in app purchases

new best mobile game?

[drowsy vigil]

I only play Minesweeper on my phone

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/B1GN4gonGAM
Asrock 4x4 7840U

[orchid prism]

Not a fan of the laptop RAM, but it's a neat little package.

[hardy merlin]

Guess it sounds like a little jet engine once some heavier game is running

[fading spade]

LOL idk yet xd

that is a big fan though, so probably xd

[orchid prism]

Larger fans have less noise.

[fading spade]

oh

[orchid prism]

But since it has to cool that much, I would assume it isn't quiet.

[drowsy vigil]

But the biggest fans are usually quite loud :)))

(Bad joke)

[fading spade]

So are the biggest haters!

[still spire]

Price?

I've seen similar ones for like 400-500$, so just curious is all

[feral ferry]

https://vxtwitter.com/PaulTassi/status/1719030280801935419

@flat frost

FSR3 supported woo

Why is FSR2 and 3 specified, but under Nvidia it's just "Xess and DLSS support"

Which versions

Well DLSS3 exists and that has frame gen

If FSR3 is supported.. is DLSS3 supported?

I wonder if the fact that AMD is hardware agnostic means that some devs will just not bother with Nvidia's proprietary solutions

"Oh Intel has their own... Nvidia has their own... just do AMD's cause that works on all stuff"

This also might be the first time I've ever seen rebar mentioned on a spec sheet

Not yet, but they have an upscaler

[nimble current]

that logo is so a e s t h e t i c man

[feral ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3abJDzC8yk

[fading spade]

this game would be horrifying in VR...
https://youtu.be/h9GkqbwlmtQ

the game is "Dont Scream" using Unreal Engine 5

it relies on jumpscares though ;-;

yeh xd

[barren pewter]

that's not horrifying
that's just a ton of headaches

[fading spade]

horrifyingly bad headaches

[barren pewter]

me after writing a paper and having to proofread it the next morning

[fading spade]

yeh .-.

[barren pewter]

I write drunk and read hungover

my spelling errors, shit sentence structure and really outlandish logical leaps only compound the headache

[fading spade]

that drunken mental gymnastics

[barren pewter]

I find I shoot my ideas down before I get them on paper

I don't do that when I'm drunk
and I can rework them so that they do work when sober

the process is stupid and convoluted, but it gets me some solid papers that I otherwise wouldn't have written

[feral ferry]

What else do you expect from a person named debil

[barren pewter]

the most brilliant individual you'll never willingly speak to

dang this bourbon is actually quite drinkable

given that a go
AI doesn't really comprehend and writes pretty much useless crap

what I write is too specialised to make that work

I also just hate AI and enjoy not violating academic integrity

because I don't want to get kicked out of uni and possibly have my undergrad stripped from me

and yes, they can actually do that

I am trying to avoid that

that would be bad

would make me very sad

:(

[fading spade]

it would also make it harder to get a job cause they will just think youll use AI anytime you can

[barren pewter]

no, it would mean I just have no undergrad...
and can't get a job in the first place

[fading spade]

true..

[barren pewter]

and because it was stripped from me
most unis would never take me on again

I would be shut out of academia for the rest of my life

💀

[fading spade]

:/

[barren pewter]

and my life would become stupidly short as a result

[fading spade]

Im shocked mine is still going tbh

[fading spade]

Legion GO releases tomorrow

Why are all the handheld settings UIs ontop of Windows so freaking ugly?

this is the better one from them all tbh...

[feral ferry]

Why is Linux ugly?

[fading spade]

🤔
Lenovo want you to buy games from GamesPlanet website rather than Steam so they get a cut of the money

[fading spade]

I never mentioned Linux

[feral ferry]

Goes both ways

You are in no position to judge how things look

[fading spade]

Linux can look ugly, especially XFCE by default but I think default Gnome and Pantheon desktops look AMAZING

and deepin looks pretty neat too by default but I dont like that aesthetic overall

also, the Legion GO's FPS mode... that requires games to support dual input right? cause the right controller uses mouse and the left uses controller input....I think

Dont some competitive games ban simultaneous input?

[nimble current]

just spend a few weeks rtfming and you'll be able to change color of window borders, its easy bro who needs windows

I've been observing the progress (or lack thereof) of linux for like 20-30 years waiting to see if it'll ever change and make something widely useful of itself

but I don't think they ever will, the gatekeeping ballache of using it is a badge of honor for its neckbeard userbase

its sad cause its the closest thing on PC windows has to a competitor, but they just don't have what it takes

[feral ferry]

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-finals-uses-ai-text-to-speech-because-it-can-produce-lines-in-just-a-matter-of-hours-rather-than-months-baffles-actual-voice-actors/

Fair enough

"Baffles voice actors" -> they don't get paid insane rates

Like, sorry VAs, but your rates are actually rather insane

[nimble current]

why is it that when people get fucked over corporate greed its the people that gets blamed and not the shitty corpobro practices

[willow quiver]

if im being honest i dont care about AI TTS

if it sounds good im happy

[feral ferry]

AI TTS is getting more realistic anyways

And you don't have to pay 300$ or whatever for each hour of VA's service

More like.. input prompt, get a recording within a minute, done

[willow quiver]

yeah, it doesnt really bother me that voice actors are out of jobs. it makes the budget for the actual game bigger

[feral ferry]

Voice Acting is an important piece of the game

I guess you play more multiplayer games

[willow quiver]

i enjoy story games too

[feral ferry]

I mainly do singleplayer so voice acting is really important

But yeah VA's do want a massive chunk of money for voiceovers

Not too sure why a VA really deserves more money than an expert level programmer?

[willow quiver]

when AI is at the level of real voice actors, they are out of jobs

[feral ferry]

So idk, 30-40$ per hour or so?

Both people invested tons of time into their craft, arguably a programmer far more so with a degree and everything

[nimble current]

that's the thing, it won't

[willow quiver]

not yet

[feral ferry]

Yet one of them gets to work 9 to 5, paid a pretty decent wage but in the tens of dollars per hour

Other works whatever times, gets paid like 300$ an hour

[nimble current]

even with work its still gonna sound robotic

by the time it sounds reasonably natural they'd may as well just pay the fucking voice actor

[willow quiver]

id give the AI 1-3 years and itll sound like a real person

i dont really care if a voice actor is saying it if AI sounds 1:1

[nimble current]

I mean it can sorta do that already, but those clips are pretty much all pre-rendered

and tweaked a lot before its released

having it generated on the spot like that is next to impossible without human input tweaking the weird uncanny stuff in there

[willow quiver]

for now

the way ai is devoloping

its gonna be 1:1 im pretty sure

but its gonna take years

[nimble current]

yeah its not like we have any power to stop it until its too late

when every piece of entertainment media is written by AI, graphically generated by AI, voiced by AI and reviewed by AI

[willow quiver]

i think ur not thinking logically if you think people are gonna stop the development of AI just because the people needs jobs, if it earns the companys money its not gonna get stopped

[feral ferry]

Not necessarily

[nimble current]

right but, studios and corpos in the entertainment business are already bleeding money over making horrible movies nobody really wants to watch

you think things will improve for them if they try watering down their already garbage media with AI crap

[willow quiver]

im talking about games not movies

[nimble current]

games aren't very profitable either apart from the biggest studios

and mobile freemium scams

[willow quiver]

i wasnt talking about movies using ai, im talking about how gaming studios are gonna use AI voices instead of real voices. i dont really care if movie studios are making trash movies

[nimble current]

you should care about your games becoming trashier though, and that's very much been a thing for years now

there's no way this will make things any better for anyone but investors

[willow quiver]

games are not gonna become trashier because AI voiceovers are coming + i dont buy games before doing research about them

[feral ferry]

Thing is with AI, you lot are forgetting that AI can be trained

[nimble current]

its one of many things that will be used to speed development time up and water down the quality

[feral ferry]

What VAs should be doing is actually training a model for the next months with various voice inputs so it can perfectly replicate their voices

[nimble current]

companies these days care about one thing and that's pushing their turd out their door as quickly as possible so they can get to work on the next turd

[feral ferry]

Then you release that model, and you can license it out for companies to use

[willow quiver]

i couldnt care less about games. i only play taq shooters and from software games

and some other games

[nimble current]

well keep living in denial that shit like this will ever affect what you like then

[feral ferry]

Suddenly, you don't have to personally partake in VA sessions, it's easier for developers to get the lines, and your voice is now available globally so, higher coverage

Can sell your voice so much more

AI is not a replacer, it's a tool

[willow quiver]

i wouldnt call it denial

[feral ferry]

Like, instead of wasting days working on a single project, outlicense a model that replicates your voice that will be bought and used by tens of projects

It's just stonks

[nimble current]

I mean, we've seen the dumbing down happening everywhere in society in the pursuit of fastest possible profit, its not like the gaming industry is any different, and no your favourite genres of games will not be spared

[feral ferry]

Indie devs will always be there to save the day

And Kojima

Cause that lad refuses to be normie

[willow quiver]

and from soft

[feral ferry]

https://www.gamerstones.com/2023/10/ubisoft-to-shut-down-online-services-for-10-older-games/

Trials Evolution?

Don't people still play that somewhat

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/steam-deck-officially-hits-over-12000-games-playable-and-verified/ Happy @fading spade noises

[fading spade]

indeed <3

[tough jay]

I noticed that they keep processing older games to categorize them, at the moment only less than 20% of my library is unknown .
They even marked Sonic CD as playable

[quasi spire]

anyone play League of Legends on 60HE? How do you handle F keys to spectate other players?

[ebon osprey]

if you are spectating, whats the issue with hitting the fn key and the number?

[sleek rune]

that's actually not a bad idea

[sleek rune]

i don't use F keys

[severe compass]

Contractors tend to get a much higher hourly pay especially on very short term contracts because they aren't getting additional benefits like job security, a consistent paycheck, insurance, etc. Once you factor these in you'll very quickly realize why a sporadically employed expert voice actor is payed more for their time then an salaried expert employee. To add on top if the studio REALLY thought the cost was soo high, they could've gone with cheaper amateurs, or even asked their expert programmer to do the voice overs, but we all know why they didn't want to.

[feral ferry]

With SAG-AFTRA, pretty sure that something like a cheaper amateur is ceasing to exist

Everyone is getting paid what they call a "standard rate"

[quasi spire]

im not spectating, I use F keys ingame to look at other lanes quickly

[ebon osprey]

icic, yea not sure

[sleek rune]

probably use Fn then

alternatively, since league has less active buttons, you can bind camera to 1,2,3,4. Leave 5 for ward

[quasi spire]

cant take my hand of the mouse

[sleek rune]

and then use mouse buttons for items

[sleek rune]

isn't fn resting at thumb position?

[quasi spire]

ah i guess its different for qwertz layout

[ebon osprey]

right hand thumb

[sleek rune]

ah nvm it's mb, I haven't got my kb i was just looking at it

maybe alt - 1 2 3 4?

[severe compass]

If they're a part of the guild and your a major studio then yeah you'd struggle to hire a voice actor for pennies with your billion dollar budgets

No but seriously, a smaller game studio can still find cheap amateur rates by looking for people outside the guild, and once again They can use internal employees to do the voice overs if the cost of a professional actor is too high

[ebon osprey]

that very very rarely turns out well...

[severe compass]

The AI used in that video game didn't turn out very well either

[ebon osprey]

yea fair enough

and if you get lucky, one of your staff is an enthusiast

[severe compass]

To add: The voice actor's work is rather sporadic. So yeah they get a big up front payment, but they might not get work for another few weeks. IF you want to get a voice actor for a "smaller" rate, you can hire them on as a salaried employee

[wary pier]

thats why unions like SAG-AFTRA are negotiating for profit sharing clauses

that way the voice actors work is an investment in the financial future as well

instead of just investing their labor into the portfolio of the bourgeoise

[severe compass]

One of the frustrating things when people say "What YOU think Y should be payed as much as X!"
Usually X is a "more important", though unrelated role. What frustrates me is the question is never asked "Why should Y starve so the CEO can buy another mega-yacht he's use once in a blue moon?"

[dreamy rain]

Any games you guys would recommend

[hot spire]

I hear fortnite might be good

[dreamy rain]

ima start playing it once that new season comes out

heard it gonna be the old fortnite type

[hot spire]

Probably not as old as I remember foetnite

Unless it's going back to tower defense

[severe compass]

Pseudoregalia if you like platformers
Ultrakill if you like fast paced shooters
Destiny of you absolutely hate having free time

[slim token]

not a furry

but pseudo main character...

[severe compass]

https://tenor.com/view/my-beloved-heart-locket-heart-locket-pseudoregalia-gif-6477064860087753455

[still spire]

Honkai Star Rail is releasing a character called Dr.Ratio...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9vWzJoasAABkyr.jpg

Weird ass shit

[hardy merlin]

Shucks
Given name and Twitter attitude I thought it'll be a small anime girl lol

[still spire]

lol

[orchid prism]

What the hell is a Honkai star rail anyway. Sounds like word salad.

[nimble current]

asian english videogame title intensifies

[still spire]

lol

Asian Mobile game by the developers of Genshin Impact

It's actually fun this time around because it's way more F2P friendly and the combat is turn based

[orchid prism]

I know what the game is. The name is what I'm caught up on.

[still spire]

Ah

[nimble current]

don't they have like a competitor making honkai impact

seems kinda confusing to me

[still spire]

They made Honkai Impact as well so yeah

[fading spade]

Ratio is a pretty common name lol

[still spire]

lol

What

[nimble current]

its a word not a name last I checked

[orchid prism]

Where?

[fading spade]

:')

[fringe salmon]

Star rail has something about a train in space so it’s not a word salad but makes some sense

[still spire]

At least in the US it ins't

😛

[fading spade]

Japan xd

[still spire]

Riiight

But this isn't a Japanese game

[fading spade]

I know xd

[hardy merlin]

[fading spade]

:')

[still spire]

?

[fading spade]

I'm just messing xd
Saw a few anime characters named that

[hardy merlin]

[fading spade]

Yeah xd

[still spire]

https://tenor.com/view/march-7th-honkai-star-rail-honkai-hoyoverse-mihoyo-gif-8585768653017951699

[hardy merlin]

That's interesting... https://overkill.wtf/sony-playstation-2-ps2-most-emulated-platform-on-steam-deck/

[bleak pike]

https://vxtwitter.com/A_dmg04/status/1719184165604823304

X bungie staff who left months ago

[still spire]

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/2023-best-reviewed-games

[feral ferry]

https://www.ign.com/articles/dead-space-3-writer-would-redo-story-almost-completely

https://www.dealabs.com/magazine/exclusif-voici-les-titres-qui-vont-rejoindre-le-game-pass-durant-le-premiere-quinzaine-de-novembre-2023-dont-2-surprises-33028

Wait what

Unannounced day one title in game pass?

Well I guess we will find out tomorrow what game is launching unannounced tomorrow

Hifirush 2

Ah, there's a list

Nov 1 -15:
Coffee Talk (Cloud, Console, et PC)
Exapunks (PC)
Ghost Song (Cloud, Console, et PC)
Gungrave G.O.R.E (Cloud, Console, et PC)
Football Manager 2024 (PC)
Football Manager 2024 Console (Cloud, Console, et PC)
Lapin (Cloud, Console, et PC)
Townscaper (Cloud, Console, et PC)

Second half:
Wartales
Wild Hearts

[hardy merlin]

Wild Hearts? Are they sure? Won't Xbox set on fire just by trying to start this game?

[feral ferry]

Indeed that's a bit of an odd one

But hey a welcome addition?

[hardy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/maybe-not-i-dont-know-maybe-we-dont-know-gif-15621900

[feral ferry]

I kinda started frequenting Football Manager 24 forums and it's really funny how they keep releasing the same game every year

The purported "improvements" apparently don't even work and make the game buggy

But tbf, it's a really good time sink, I like it

[still spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2322560

Steam

Love Is All Around

"Love Is All Around" is a simulating love story real-life full-motion interactive video . You will not only meet but also fall in love with six beauties with completely different personalities and styles, eventually embark on an immersive and sweet journey one after another.Under their charisma, how would you deal with the six beauties while you...

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

14268

▶ Play video

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/778887485400154132/1168915469185581086/Screenshot_118.png?ex=6553805d&is=65410b5d&hm=4a33c90fdc21ffba6871eaa11f9426b864bf72068fab10ffcdeef4106e86df4f&

https://tenor.com/view/what-why-huh-steve-harvey-confused-gif-3998567347368525851

Not free either

How weird

[orchid prism]

Why does a singleplayer visual novel have always online DRM? I swear the chinese are crazy 😄

[nimble current]

sexism in asia is something else isn't it

its like one step from women being tradeable commodities

[hot spire]

Dose it have paid unlock?

[orchid prism]

Who knows. I am fully expecting there to be some kind of adult content DLC you can buy to patch the game outside of Steam. Seems to be a running thing with these games to make them possible to sell on Steam.

[hot spire]

Yeah but SP games with IAP are always online so you can just cheat all the unlocks

[dreamy rain]

[hot spire]

Steamdrm is a joke at this point

I use offline copies of games to prevent mods from breaking mid saves

And it's so trivial to copy the install, drop in like 3 files and it works

[orchid prism]

Yeah same. I keep all of my Paradox games and similar type of games in a sandbox of sorts. Cracked and all mods from the workshop turned into local files just in case.

Cause I will absolutely take 3 months break and go back to an existing save - Which is nigh impossible without going to such extremes.

[hot spire]

Yep

[still spire]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/epic-announces-they-will-suck-your-dick-if-you-release-your-game-on-their-store/

[feral ferry]

https://www.gamesradar.com/starfield-modder-turns-leftover-space-station-outpost-code-into-a-fully-functioning-feature-sparking-hopes-for-dlc/

[quasi gulch]

Paradox games include rollback beta branches for exactly this purpose 😦 no need to crack

[orchid prism]

The GAME does. The mods do not.

[quasi gulch]

right, Steam is a bit behind with workshop functionality updates

[feral ferry]

Oh god no, no

Silent Hill Ascension, ladies in gentlemen

I was expecting something.. TellTale but online voting system?

This is ass lol

Why do we know the outcomes

The whole point of interactive series is to pick options based on intuition and experiencing the results no?

The whole enigma of what will happen is why horror is a thing lol, and why you could make really good interactive series with that concept

This just looks god awful, you can just choose for all characters to die lol, and voting costs money lel

https://www.polygon.com/23935116/silent-hill-ascension-how-to-watch-cost-season-pass

[flat frost]

everyone should have just given up on this style of game after Immortality

[feral ferry]

Still waiting to see wtf did the polish company do to Silent Hill 2 Remake

Having some hope that they didn't fuck it up, there's some solid talent there to make SH2R a good game

Silent Hill five's talent is incredible, but the developer is untested and questionable

Why is Konami always giving me reasons to doubt

[nimble current]

wow so cool, can't wait for the 18 loading screen checkpoints needed to explore it all

[ebon osprey]

@ebon raft lets move here since its game not tek
also cs2 has felt soo much smoother for me
there was incredible microstutter in go, even tho everyone else is stuttering like mad, my pc is smooooooth as silk

[ebon raft]

Yeee

Well it’s tech in a game

Anyway CS2 feels worse for me since I didn’t have a stutter in GO

[ebon osprey]

rip

[ebon raft]

And I have stutters in 2 if I’m playing on native resolution

[ebon osprey]

yea in just a week of playing ive been able to replicate my most insane flick i hit in go in 6 years

[rancid hearth]

cs2 is alright
although I do find myself missing more headshots than I think I should
afaik there is a bug where the models don't align with the hitboxes, idk if that's been fixed or not

[ebon raft]

So I play downscaled at 2592 x 1080 (24:10 version of 1080p)

[ebon raft]

I know they’re doing their best to fix it

[ebon osprey]

and ive been watching back my screen recordings, i absolutely do not deserve half of the headshots im getting lmao

[ebon raft]

Lolll

Yeah pistol rounds have felt like trash to me

[rancid hearth]

so the bug still is there, that'd explain why I kept missing so many headshots, damn

[ebon raft]

Nothing lands

[ebon osprey]

at this point tho i dont think its a bug

[ebon raft]

I’m just bad

[ebon osprey]

i think they are grabbing the mouse position from the frame you render but the click is subticked to the moment the game receives the input

[rancid hearth]

the normal rifles feel worse to me

[ebon raft]

Spraying feels incredibly off

[rancid hearth]

especially the ak

[ebon osprey]

so your bullet effectively travels back in time by your frametime

in csgo you had to lead by 1/tickrate

and like its such a small difference but it makes a difference in a game this tuned

my nade throwing ofc also super leveled up, i never bothered with binds so i never really could pull stuff off besides mirage's ez pz smokes and a few left clicks

[ebon raft]

Peeker’s advantage is also hilarious

[feral ferry]

CS2 is shit and dead

[ebon osprey]

i dont think its as severe as people make it out to be

[feral ferry]

Go back to Valolrant

[rancid hearth]

I also feel like deathmatch rounds became far more dense with people

[ebon osprey]

the pro matches are different, but i still wreck anyone going long at my rank

[ebon raft]

Yeah they seem a bit populated

[rancid hearth]

you spawn and there's immediatly someone right next to you

easy to get sandwiched

[ebon raft]

Behind you with knife out

[feral ferry]

welcome to CS:GO deathmatch

[rancid hearth]

I don't remember it ever being that bad

[ebon raft]

I miss pistol only DMs

My favorite warmup

Usp gushing

[ebon osprey]

you probably last dmmed in a lull in go
right around operations it got that bad normaly

[feral ferry]

Valve makes me sad, destroying a game with all the community maps made over the years, just to release a shit game

With no 128tick, mind you

But I will forgive them since they still make good games