🎮│game

[feral ferry]

MH World was the first title where I was like "Huh, this looks cool"

[hardy merlin]

Mostly, PS and Nintendo, yeah

[feral ferry]

Too bad my PC couldn't run World at all so I skipped that one

Then I just forgot about the franchise entirely

[pure bear]

worlds is the best

[feral ferry]

Dunno if I missed out on anything really important

[pure bear]

if you like soulslike bosses and skill based combat and stuff its a great franchise

[feral ferry]

I don't

[narrow junco]

World is one of the greats

[pure bear]

then no

[hardy merlin]

Both last MHs are okay, but with expansions they are great
MH team listens to community and introduces lots of fixes in updates too

[narrow junco]

You have to play it if you‘ve upgraded your pc since

[proper basin]

Not really, rise wasn’t as good as world so you didn’t miss too much. World is still fun to go back to however

[feral ferry]

Meh fair enough

I played a MH inspired game recently

Branblue Fantasy

[narrow junco]

I should really go back and replay world and iceborne

[hardy merlin]

World/Iceborne is amazing, but since they've introduced Fatalis end-game doesn't make sense - just go with Fatalis gear, it's better than everything
Rise/Sunbreak is awesome mechanically, but graphics... well... Switch...

[feral ferry]

Ngl the way that games like MH do combat just piss me off

[novel umbra]

it's square enix

ah wait no

capcom

[feral ferry]

These linear corridor levels with the same enemies over and over

[novel umbra]

then idk

square enix always expects like 2 billion sales in .3 seconds

[feral ferry]

I finished Granblue just cause the sound design and combat was pretty hype

[proper basin]

I have a love-hate relationship with iceborne. Clutch-claw takes up majority of my love and hate for that expansion

[narrow junco]

I love clutch claw

As a hammer/gs player

[proper basin]

I love it

Byt

[hardy merlin]

Clutch claw is broken af

[proper basin]

It made it so easy

[feral ferry]

Wiz4rd I love how you are confused when someone does not like what you like

[novel umbra]

idk I use the clutch with my foot

[feral ferry]

"How can they not love small open worlds and linear corridor levels"

[narrow junco]

No i am confused cause what you said makes no sense

[feral ferry]

That's literally MHW though

[narrow junco]

No??

[feral ferry]

The same corridors with same exact enemies to fight constantly

[narrow junco]

None of what you said applies actually

[hardy merlin]

I guess it'd be true if you're farming monsters

[still spire]

Lol I mean cmon, saying MonHun isn't reptitive is lying to yourself

[feral ferry]

Unless Monster Hunter World actually went semi or open world since the old titles, I remember Monster Hunter being very corridor based

[narrow junco]

The levels arent linear or corridors and the monsters arent always the same either cause its all different bossfights, no fighting trash

[still spire]

Lol

There's tons of trash mobs to fight

And the levels are almost always identical, they're not randomly generated.

[hardy merlin]

First map is very corridor-y, later it opens up a bit

[still spire]

The bosses are also always the same as the last time you fought them.

[narrow junco]

Ok you fight trash for 3 missions at the start of the game

[proper basin]

Kulve taroth moment

[hardy merlin]

Golden bitch piece of shite

[proper basin]

I did so many of those hunts

So many fucking gold weapons

[narrow junco]

I didnt really bother with kulve

[proper basin]

Only hunt i truly despise is behemoth

For obvious reasons

[narrow junco]

When i first quit she wasnt in, when i came back she was out of the meta

Yeah behemoth sucked

My friend hated the fatalis fight cause he sucks at the game

[proper basin]

Yeah i forgot the other monster who had the kulve like farming

[narrow junco]

[proper basin]

Lmao

Fatalis is fun

[hardy merlin]

Safi

[narrow junco]

We didnt let him cheat and he couldnt out gear it

[hardy merlin]

Fatalis broke end-game, shouldn't even be in game

[proper basin]

I personally have a soft spot for tobi kadachi

[narrow junco]

Yeah fatalis did kinda make the endgame a little boring

[proper basin]

Yeah for sure

[narrow junco]

If they made the armor a little less op then maybe

[proper basin]

Those weapons were too good

[narrow junco]

Or weapons

[proper basin]

I did enjoy being a hammer/switch axe main

[hardy merlin]

Arch-Tempered Velkhana, my beloved
i farmed this chicken so many times I could do it no-hit half-asleep

[bleak pike]

Hi fellow clown.

[proper basin]

Really didnt like that mh rise got rid of the tooltip bar for every attack option

[pure bear]

the game was done, it was to have fun

like unlocking cheats at the end of old games

[hardy merlin]

It was too OP still

Apart from several weapons it was only Fatalis + gems

[proper basin]

It was quite literally the armor to do everything

[narrow junco]

ok but can we talk about the real endgame of mh iceborne

The fashion

[proper basin]

Obviously

[hardy merlin]

[narrow junco]

I loved all the events to get more outfits

[proper basin]

Yeah those were always great

I loved that event that has the mini baroth

[bleak pike]

My fave behemoth is the quillshot

Wait no shrike

[proper basin]

Mhw is just such a great game

[hardy merlin]

Ah shite
Wanted to check my character

[pure bear]

tf

nvidia cloud shit?

[hardy merlin]

My work laptop would die if I were to run MHW on it

[pure bear]

ah, work, i see

[hardy merlin]

[orchid prism]

Get rigged.

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/pikachu-shocked-face-stunned-pokemon-shocked-not-shocked-omg-gif-24112152

Don't say that!

[hardy merlin]

I'll just install it on my PC once I'm back home

[pure bear]

cloud gaming is the future

[still spire]

https://tenor.com/view/truth-is-the-game-was-rigged-from-the-start-fallout-new-vegas-gif-14316695

[novel umbra]

[hardy merlin]

Hunting Horn

That pricing on GFN though... €12.5/mo and €5/day?

[pure bear]

its the future dont question it

i hate subscriptions

[feral ferry]

Is this those new plushy thingies that have been popping up all the time recently

Forgot their name

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-fumo-reimu-gif-20462283

This shit

Whatever it is

[hardy merlin]

Fumos?

[feral ferry]

That word yeah

Idk what that shite is

[bleak pike]

So that's what that is

[pure bear]

its a cat actually

[orchid prism]

Cat? More like CAP

https://tenor.com/view/kill-it-with-fire-missiles-more-missiles-all-the-missiles-megas-xlr-gif-25111969

[still spire]

Just saw a thing that Twitch now allows female nipples as long as they are breast feeding
So...you know what happened

https://tenor.com/view/film-filmproduction-scriptsupervisor-arresteddevelopment-bluth-gif-3471381

[hardy merlin]

Let me guess... They should specify whom they are breast feeding?

[pure bear]

twitch reeeaallyyy needs that softporn revenue does it

[novel umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/come-over-its-free-real-estate-commercial-gif-13719638

[bitter notch]

Ig anyone want the game, til 5 pm free

[bleak pike]

Irs pretty fun

[near crater]

1111122w3333333333333333333§§§§§§§§§§55555

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/please-dont-the-office-gif-18301822

[feral ferry]

It's their first numbers!

They grow up so fast

[still spire]

https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/the-ascent-cyber-edition-bundle

[feral ferry]

Well shit, I wasted like past 4 hours trying to figure out how Cheat Engine works

Never did it as a child, glad to have figured it out

Fuck me this took a long time to find permanent solutions and form them into a cheat table

[orchid prism]

Cheat Engine - or rather memory editing is a nightmare.

[feral ferry]

It very much is, but it's so useful

[orchid prism]

I often give up after half an hour of finding simple values, because they're not obvious and simple values.

[feral ferry]

But in a way it's incredibly rewarding

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUHidVbKu-0

Guess who's back.

[bleak pike]

Shady?

[fringe salmon]

oh she made a new one, neat

[feral ferry]

WoW is such a people in their 30s or older thing I swear

Runescape in a similar vein

[orchid prism]

Barney could be talking about some random game no one has ever heard about - It's about the storytelling.

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/DUidl7_li94

[orchid prism]

Stellar Blade x Excel?

[pure bear]

excel is probably turing complete so why not

[still spire]

Shift Up has always been good at advertising

https://youtu.be/2hZkFLmIGDA

Except this one they had to take down because fans got upset at it for being realistic in their demographic 😛

[pure bear]

that gave me brainrot

[still spire]

Yeah, apparently it was a little too real* for some

[bleak pike]

Hahaha I'm actually blown away how stupid bungie are rn

They reached a new low

[deft bloom]

https://www.twitch.tv/supagoofie come watch me shit the bed in 15 minutes

[bleak pike]

The hyped up pvp pack promised to save the PvP scene is 1 map from the first game but on a different planet, second a clone of a halo reach map and third just D2 map with a new background and theme.

Holy fuck how do they think this shit will slide.

[trim rock]

Well knowing the playerbase, they'll bitch and moan and yet keep playing and paying like the hopeless addicts they are

[feral ferry]

Sigh <@&1098943457654997093>

And there were two of em

Discord invites should be disallowed completely

[vapid lintel]

It's getting a bit ridiculous

How is discord so shit at service level moderation?

[shrewd lotus]

It's happening in all the doscords I'm in. Some new exploit or something

[feral ferry]

That bot we used to have needs to be back

Would be great for both support and keeping the spam out

[trim rock]

Why'd it die?

[feral ferry]

Tony used to maintain it

I think they said it broke or it was obsolete or something and there was no need?

I'd repair and bring it back cause god knows the spam is horrid

[orchid prism]

It was largely written by a volunteer iirc.

We need a bit more internal control to avoid issues.

[feral ferry]

Well yeah Tony was a volunteer back then

[orchid prism]

I was referring to Pleasant.

[feral ferry]

Pleasant definitely didn't write it

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/eh-meh-jim-jim-halpert-the-office-gif-25317293

Might have been hosted, not coded. Whichever the case was.

[feral ferry]

I think it was either DarrelVS, Tony or Medzernik who coded it way back then

https://github.com/BigBrainAFK/kya_bot

Just some digging

Cal might have kickstarted it but Tony defo did a lot of work on it

[orchid prism]

At any rate - Needs a rewrite, and needs to be hosted with us.

[deft bloom]

did not shit the bed after all

[drifting rose]

#noshit2k24

[orchid prism]

It's like Kony 2012 but somehow worse.

[drifting rose]

it could have been a william shatner shake weight commercial, we got off lucky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0FfkaIEXE

[feral ferry]

That's a complete no-brainer, hosting a third party bot would be insane lol

[orchid prism]

After one of the largest bots was hacked, it is definitely a genuine concern.

[feral ferry]

Yep yep

It's not like it's difficult to make a simple bot either

[vapid lintel]

Tony just rewrote the logger bot this week, one bot at a time 😛

A full month ahead of schedule too

Oh wait nevermind, an American wrote the date that the original shuts down...

*A full 3 days ahead of schedule too

[feral ferry]

Tsk, imagine not taking your sweet time playing videogames and procrastinating for a month

[bleak pike]

Katara Bot

Its private atm but also kinda useless now anyway.

[feral ferry]

Indeed, screw Katara

Ah piss off tf is happening

<@&1098943457654997093>

[trim rock]

Must be a lot of horny people around huh

[drifting rose]

horny for keyboards

[orchid prism]

Hot, lubed custom keyboards in your area.

[trim rock]

ooOOohh yeah baby

[bleak pike]

Starring

[fallow bronze]

What was bexin starting at?

[bleak pike]

eh?

[fallow bronze]

Read your own message

[bleak pike]

Yes?

[bleak pike]

I cant stop laughing

https://mrpl.me/wf8022b_rfO6.jpg

https://mrpl.me/u88020b_rff0.jpg

https://mrpl.me/t78019b_rf34.jpg

https://mrpl.me/tf8021b_rfM3.png

The whole shrek script

[feral ferry]

Is this the Pleasant equivalent of Lanaposting?

[deft bloom]

huh

[bleak pike]

Content Warning

[feral ferry]

What is a content warning

[bleak pike]

Normally you can use 3 letters etc as your name

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2881650/Content_Warning/

Steam

Content Warning

Get famous or die trying! Content Warning is a co-op horror game where you film spooky stuff with your friends to try and go viral. Squad up, customize your face with the ASCII face customiser, buy some gear and use the diving bell to go down to the Old World! Down there you’ll encounter scary physics-animated monsters, cursed relics and other a...

Price

$7.79

▶ Play video

[deft bloom]

[feral ferry]

Oh wait this is a landfall game?

Landfall are amazing

[deft bloom]

I'm more of a landfill type of guy myself

[feral ferry]

Yes, we knew

Huh

https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari-acquires-rollercoaster-tycoon-3

Why'd you acquire a 20 year old game

[vapid lintel]

For the rights 🤩

New RC game yesss

[feral ferry]

Ahh

Under the agreement, Atari will seek to develop new titles

There's the red herring

[vapid lintel]

More of a canary than a herring, but sure

[feral ferry]

A canary

[vapid lintel]

In thge coal mine

Something something the canary dies first, giving enough warning for the miners to escape

[feral ferry]

That I didn't hear of before

[vapid lintel]

"In the mine, a canary’s collapse let workers know there was poisonous gas in the air and gave them some warning time to evacuate."

[feral ferry]

Idk, rats would prolly work just fine

[vapid lintel]

No because carbon monoxide is less dense than air

So it rises to the top of the mine tunnel, where the canaries fly around

[feral ferry]

Well you prolly want both, canaries and rats, for carbon monoxides and dioxides

[vapid lintel]

I'm not sure that carbon dioxide was a particular concern in the mineshafts of old, but I don't know if that's true

Regardless, the expression of a "canary in the coal mine" means that it is an advanced warning sign for xyz, in this case a new RollerCoaster Tycoon game 😄

[feral ferry]

I forget, are you german or dutch?

[vapid lintel]

My heart is Texan

[feral ferry]

Oh god

[heavy gull]

awesome, i gotta visit the us sometime

[feral ferry]

The saying I had in mind in German would be "Da liegt der Hund begraben", which I don't think has english equivalents

Just thought it was basically a red herring

Interesting, I love a good rub

[feral ferry]

Yes yes, I know my folly

I guess, indeed therein lies the rub

[vapid lintel]

Oh man, a good rub is absolutely key to Kentucky style bbq

[feral ferry]

Mark, the other rub

[vapid lintel]

Not trying to rub you the wrong way

[feral ferry]

More like rob

[vapid lintel]

I just like a good rub on my meat, that's all

And on that bombshell, it's time to end the show. Goodnight folks!

[feral ferry]

Tbf yeah a good beer rub is great for a pork steak

[feral ferry]

Goodnight Mark

[hot spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WniNBHoPc

[deft bloom]

siinä on koira haudattuna

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE

This should be mildly entertaining.

[minor kite]

https://vxtiktok.com/@web3d/video/7353021468273413418

[maiden tulip]

discord ads

ew

[still spire]

Yarp

https://store.steampowered.com/news/?emclan=103582791469988961&emgid=4192361760291738563

[bleak pike]

even more reasons to use bd

@feral ferry

https://vxtwitter.com/discord/status/1775225927842369611

[maiden tulip]

thx ❤️

[maiden tulip]

bd?

huh

[severe compass]

The metaverse is still a complete joke yeah? Saw that it took Facebook 2 years to implement legs

[grizzled quarry]

Better discord

[dreamy rain]

Already got one, just picked up a 3dsxl though from offerup for $100

This past week

Gotta say though coming from a 2dsxl it feels better

[tepid kayak]

[still spire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1buccw8/according_to_a_developer_on_discord_slugger_was/

[dreamy rain]

Its like complementing yourself

[pure bear]

<@&490097707487330305>

[fallow bronze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ByzhEHGeoA
hah this game has a trailer now. I remember playing this game a loooong loong time ago

[feral ferry]

https://vxtwitter.com/Grummz/status/1775286902356361538

Musk: I will get rid of bots
So why did it get worse then?

[orchid prism]

(It didn't)

[feral ferry]

It did, though

[orchid prism]

It really fucking didn't.

[feral ferry]

It really did when you throw GPT bots on top of like bots https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-floods-the-internet/103498070

[orchid prism]

Let me tell you a story of why I stopped using Twitter.

Every - single - fucking - time - I made a post or a reply, I'd immediately get notifications that a handful of bots had liked my comment.

Fresh accounts, all identical ones.

[feral ferry]

Mansen you did not stop using Twitter

[orchid prism]

I did - Back in February. I only used Bsky now

[feral ferry]

Hmm

I do follow you

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/getfucked-get-fucked-gif-5238911

[feral ferry]

You don't post much, a few replies here and there, and a lot of likes

[still spire]

Instathots

[orchid prism]

Literally only whenever posts a twitter link here and I open the website. I genuinely don't use it aside from that - because of the fucking bots 😛

[feral ferry]

Here you go, the backpedaling from "I stopped" to "literally only"

It's okay duck, it's okay

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/nope-stop-dont-end-cat-gif-9678179

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/stabby-duck-very-mad-stabby-duck-honeyadoreyou-divya-gif-19892727

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/doom-eternal-goose-peace-was-never-any-option-gif-16563148593469228887

[feral ferry]

Unironically tempted to make a duck doom spinoff

Who'd be the enemies, geese?

Swans for arch-viles

[pure bear]

the french

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/holdfast-gif-22798405

[feral ferry]

Wait, what

https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11947389

Modular Nintendo docks?

Seems Nintendo wants to sell you dock extensions?

[orchid prism]

Nintendont trying to sell you accessories? Impossiburu

https://tenor.com/view/it-prints-money-switch-nintendo-money-iwata-gif-10140242

[feral ferry]

Lol I saw a good comment, that the Switch Attach YouTube leak is shaping to be more and more correct

Attach is a very Nintendo name if you think about it

[deft bloom]

truly is

[novel umbra]

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/ykpyr37aa7sc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=5a82f0b1390bf0fca68059ee1376529a1421d1e5

[feral ferry]

Huh

[still spire]

For memes

[hardy merlin]

Cadet forever

[feral ferry]

Useless forever

[small comet]

what even is that

[bleak pike]

New Helldivers ranks

[feral ferry]

Something mkilbride keeps talking about near exclusively nowadays

[orchid prism]

Milkposting?

[feral ferry]

Milkposting 😳

[bleak pike]

Hahaha mansen ffs

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/siz1xheay3sc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=da83cd1016f94dd4e92ce1739096ff6e298be66e

[feral ferry]

I doubt helldivers plays well on Deck

[still spire]

It plays at like 240p if you want "reasonable" person

So this is pretty scary

lol

[feral ferry]

Reasonable person?

[still spire]

performance*

[nimble current]

yeah my old rig barely copes with the game in 1440p medium

[deft bloom]

I want a reasonable person

to love me

[proper basin]

Use your stratagem

[hardy merlin]

Balatro Amazing game

[feral ferry]

Oh sorry, I was about to love you but you mentioned reasonable

[deft bloom]

too bad

[proper basin]

I dont event know what balatros about what is it

[deft bloom]

it's a card game with a twist or something

[proper basin]

Inscryption vibes?

[bleak pike]

Can confirm it runs so bad

[deft bloom]

like think poker with rpg mechanics

[proper basin]

Hmm

[bleak pike]

Then again so does cyberpunk

Yet people torture themselves

[hardy merlin]

Card roguelike, you have to collect cards and play poker hands, the better the hand, the more points you score, you have to score X points to defeat blind

[proper basin]

Reject modern gaming, return to stardew valley

[feral ferry]

Stardew Valley when ultramodded is pretty great

[hardy merlin]

Oh yeah, I have to configure Heroic on Deck again, I'd love to play some Stardew Valley

[still spire]

https://next.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/collections/tckf0m So what, some stuff like this?

[hardy merlin]

I'll have to finally finish that Decky addon for Heroic too

[feral ferry]

73 mods
Too little

[still spire]

Lol too little

[feral ferry]

If it's not 300, you are weak

[still spire]

So what 300 mods you got?

[feral ferry]

Idk I don't have SV installed rn

[fringe salmon]

https://x.com/sora_sakurai/status/1775487957941833767 Tekken x FF x Smash bros crossovers?

桜井 政博 / Masahiro Sakurai (@Sora_Sakurai) on X

3人でデート中ー

Twitter · Apr 3, 2024, 11:38 AM

[feral ferry]

Ain't both of those franchises in Smash Bros

[novel umbra]

yes

kazuya, cloud and sephiroth (idk if you would count sora)

[fringe salmon]

Not parts of FF that yoshida is on

[novel umbra]

yea but smash players don't know any final fantasy characters newer than 10

[proper basin]

True

[feral ferry]

What's a final fantasy

Is it a WoW Expansion?

[pure bear]

it for sure aint final if theres 16 of em

[hardy merlin]

Anyone wants Wasteland 3 Steam key? Leftover from bundle

[still spire]

Sure, though if anyones ot one of those Callisto Protocol keys from Humble, I'd take that too. :p

[feral ferry]

Great game that

[orchid prism]

MURRICA!

[hardy merlin]

Oh yeah, bundles from Humble

[tall anchor]

@orchid prism look at this bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/games/spring-into-learning-complete-humongous-collection?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_3_layout_type_threes_tile_index_1_c_springintolearningcompletehumongouscollection_bundle

classics!!!

[feral ferry]

I read that as putt butt

[proper basin]

Putt putt

[feral ferry]

Which one of these are classics

I've never heard of any of these

[tall anchor]

freddie fish

[proper basin]

Puttputt and freddie fish are both

[tall anchor]

putt putt

if u dont know this you are too young

[proper basin]

Spy fox is the lesser known one

[feral ferry]

I am defo not young but I grew up in a vastly different sphere of influence

I mean, does @hardy merlin recognise any of these?

[proper basin]

Space cadet pinball?

[feral ferry]

Where's space cadet pinball in that bundle

[hardy merlin]

Nope, grew up with different games too, mostly Alawar's

[feral ferry]

Us easterners are built different

Hold on a second

This is alawar's?

Well yeah I grew up with stuff like this too

[proper basin]

I remember that game

Played a ton of that

And that one cake making minigame lol

[hardy merlin]

Farm Frenzy Good ol times

[proper basin]

I also was addicted to feeding frenzy

[feral ferry]

I can honestly barely remember most games I grew up with

It was a lot lot lot of browser

Some very specific Windows

And a bunch of PSX and PS2 games

I played the shit out of Savage in late 2000s/early 2010s, though Savage XR is far better

[proper basin]

I still have the disc for one of those spongebob games with the weird ass CG cutscenes

Think its called employee of the month

[feral ferry]

Man it'd be my dream to remake a game like Savage but the original team did try

And that failed

Peeps just don't particularly like FPS/RPG/RTS hybrids nowadays

It's just CoDs and other nonsense

[deft bloom]

no

[still spire]

Oh, whoever gets Ultrakill is lucky, that's a solid game.

[deft bloom]

except this one somewhere

[still spire]

lol

[hardy merlin]

Aite, I have to go for now, I'll just ask later then

[orchid prism]

Got all of them original for Mac.

[feral ferry]

Ew, Mac..

[orchid prism]

In the good old days.

This was the mid nineties

[feral ferry]

I dunno if that makes mac not ew

[orchid prism]

Back in those days they had proper GPUs, and were arguably more easily maintainable than PCs.

[deft bloom]

imac best

[still spire]

https://tenor.com/view/rolling-dark-souls-mouse-cat-playful-gif-12091432

[fading spade]

is COD mobile supporting controller new??? I swear it didnt support them previously

[nocturne aurora]

anyone playin fortnite and using wooting double movement? i have issue

[feral ferry]

Can someone explain what this shit is

One in 3 has that weird ass frame

[spiral epoch]

It's part of Discord's april fools

[feral ferry]

Right

[spiral epoch]

It'll go away soonish I'd guess

[feral ferry]

So I guess making fun of consumers is a fun idea someone had

Not very professional, nor very respectful

[spiral epoch]

I think it's opt-in, not sure about the badge, but the icon for sure

[burnt spear]

April Fools summed up

It's opt-in though, don't see the issue.

[vapid lintel]

[small comet]

you only get the badge if you have the avatar decoration selected

[spiral epoch]

Oh so it's fully opt-in, not too shabby

I love how they accidentally viewbotted their YouTube video to 1.4 billion views

[small comet]

690m

thats where they fixed the viewbot

[spiral epoch]

[small comet]

so either a lot of people rarely update discord or they got a ton of natural views

[spiral epoch]

YouTube algo must've liked it maybe

[vapid lintel]

Sounds like it's a great way to identify users who are susceptible to getting compromised by scam links

[spiral epoch]

But I got a DM telling me that I won! /s

[burnt spear]

John Wooting said I am getting an early copy of the Wooting 20he

[vapid lintel]

Damnit John!

[proper basin]

John Wooting also said theres a cool discount you can get on the store, just type DISCORD DISCOUNT at checkout

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjEuP_uA2tQ

Oofda.

TLDR; Steam banning external links in the Workshop

[vapid lintel]

o.o

[hot spire]

i just asked fluffy and they had no such issues

i messaged dubwise, but hes offline

[small comet]

i dont see the issue with them banning download links

[hot spire]

blocking link to source is bad

[small comet]

this is more a short coming of steam workshop itself though

not them trying to enforce no external download links

this has already been an issue years ago that steam doesnt have a separate source link field for workshop items

and with how many mods use github i get that they dont want them smack bang in the description

[orchid prism]

That is the main issue - Closing a workaround that people are forced to use, without offering a solution

[hot spire]

steam dosent even ahve a open workshow folder option

[small comet]

they arent forced to use it

[hot spire]

what else can they use then]

[orchid prism]

Both can be true.

[small comet]

just dont link the source

[hot spire]

so ban foss mods?

[orchid prism]

I would put a link here to necessary config files and other things, but Valve won't let me

[small comet]

idk how not linking the source in steam workshop bans FOSS mods

it just means youd have to google for the source

[hot spire]

you have to provide a link to source

[small comet]

you can put those... just not a link to files directly

a text file from google docs with instructions should be fine as its not a download link as the screenshots in the linked video describe

[hot spire]

you cant link to github as you can download the srouce files

or anyother srouce repo that allows you to download the source

[orchid prism]

Google docs is not allowed, nor is github.

[small comet]

no github is mainly used to download binaries for mods

[hot spire]

loads of big rw mods have no releases on gh

[small comet]

steam support hasnt said google docs is disallowed

[hot spire]

please watch the video

[small comet]

i did

fully

and read the screenshots

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/annoyed-disappointed-mad-upset-gif-1537662056968642225

[hot spire]

you know drive and docs are the same thing right?\

[small comet]

first they misstate that only internal links will be permitted on steam workshop going forwards while the screenshot clearly says we kindly request that the creator refrain from sharing off-steam links to downloadable content.

[small comet]

yesnt

yes you can download files from google docs

BUT

its not as easy as google drive

[hot spire]

what?

[small comet]

second google docs isnt for binaries

[hot spire]

its just as easy

[orchid prism]

Oh boy...

[hot spire]

and they never say binaries

[small comet]

if we define downloadable content as anything you can download

that no link is fine

not even to google

as html of a website is downloadable

[hot spire]

exactly the issue

he had a google docs txt

and got flagged

[small comet]

from what i heard they had a github and more linked

not just a google docs

reading this from steam support reads clearly as docs are ok

download links to drives arent

[orchid prism]

I'll reiterate - Valve closed a necessary workaround to accomodate mods for certain games without offering a way to do it safely.

[small comet]

and ill reiterate that from what the person says to what is actually written in the screenshots i think this is miscommunicated

[orchid prism]

No external files is pretty hard to miscommunicate

[hot spire]

one had a github with no binaries only text files

and another was a google doc txt file

[small comet]

do we have confirmation that this is the case?

like webarchive links or something

[small comet]

read my screenshot

[hot spire]

on the dudes discord he has all the missing links from the mods

[orchid prism]

Yes.

A text file is downloadable content

[small comet]

and the guy never showed a screenshot where steam support said no external links period

[small comet]

yes but its not on a drive website

[orchid prism]

Tony ffs

[small comet]

google docs doesnt even function like drive

[hot spire]

yes it dose

you can uploiad and download files

[orchid prism]

A google doc is useless when you need to share a .cfg file. No matter what it contains.

[small comet]

how so

just paste the content in the doc

i dont see where the issue is with sharing a cfg that way

[orchid prism]

Please manually go to your steamapps folder, then to the very specific subfolder, manually create a text file using notepad, not wordpad, word or so forth, and copy paste this in raw, ascii

You sometimes forget that you are not the average Steam user.

[small comet]

we are acting as if people forgot how to make and edit text based files

this wasnt an issue 15 years ago how would it be an issue now

[orchid prism]

And there it is - You are completely out of touch with the average user.

[hot spire]

yeah

[orchid prism]

Downside of being a programmer I suspect 😛

[hot spire]

most cant rename a txt file

because windows defaults to hiudding known exts

[drifting rose]

average computer user: herp derp I eat paste

[small comet]

so what i hear is people get dumber

[orchid prism]

Hidden extensions, not telling you that notepad is the only thing the average user can use to edit text files with to avoid having hidden formatting data fucking it up. And so on and so forth.

[small comet]

because apparently making a roughly 4 or 5 step guide to creating the config file is too much for them to handle

[hot spire]

and making them change system settings

[small comet]

idk how open notepad, paste thing, click save as, paste path is hard

no need to change any settings

[hot spire]

then rename it to cfg

[orchid prism]

And you aren't the target audience who they're trying to protect by blocking external links in the first place. Paste eaters are - the people who literally need to be spoonfed to make a modpack work, that happens to use more than just "click to subscribe"

[hot spire]

you need to change hide known extentions

[small comet]

not if you use save as dialog

[hot spire]

also cant paste path as steam dose goofy naming for mods

[small comet]

i mean if they need this much spoonfeeding vortex/nexusmods is prob the better solution

so the program just does literally everything

[drifting rose]

man that would be neat tho wouldn't it

[orchid prism]

*Please don't subscribe to the mod via this system. Visit "nexusmods" (no we cannot link it, cause it's banned, lolol) for help.

[hot spire]

cant link to those though

[orchid prism]

Nexusmods isn't much better for that matter. Spent hours troubleshooting Bannerlord the other day for a (needlessly) complex series of mods that all need to be put into specific folders, some overwriting others and put into very specific load orders.

I was juggling github, nexusmods, notepad and Winrar for a while.

[small comet]

i mean given that they have a very well working system for cyberpunk and redenginemods/cet mods going into the right folders i dont see why this cant be done for other games

heck i even got a questionaire dialog for some skyrim mods

[hot spire]

but again you cant link to that

idk if tis true anyway

all the mods im subbed to still have links

[small comet]

as i already mentioned, given the screenshots in the video i wouldnt interpret it as no links to anything

[hot spire]

these are github and drive links

[small comet]

just the usual of no dropbox, mega, zippyshare, drive.google.com, github and whatever else people use ot provide binaries these days

[small comet]

would be odd if they changed the ToS as i got no notice of steam workshop ToS changes or such

[hot spire]

i think this one all one cs rep

and not an actually policy

as i cant find any missing mod pages and i have ~500 subs on rimworld

[small comet]

so i pasted both steams subscriber agreement (specifies workshop stuff) and their community content rules and guidelines into chatgpt and asked it if theres any mention regarding external links. it says no such thing is mentioned in either

[drifting rose]

can you ask it whether it is more cost-efficient to dry strips of fruit in a dehydrator, or a baking oven?

actually nevermind

[small comet]

i dont think thats as easy to answer as read through this and tell me

prob depends on a lot more factors

guess i was right

for the rest

[drifting rose]

I can definitely say that this is exactly what I was thinking right now

[small comet]

as a non food drier it makes sense to me

[drifting rose]

luck is on my side, and just about everyone sells an "only used once" food dehydrator in my vincinity. I'll probably go with a cylinrical low-watt one, must be perfect for air circulation

[small comet]

prob cause they thought its great during the pandemic

and it turned out they dont like dried foods as much as they thought

[drifting rose]

I love dried mango strips and beef jerky, the price of both being their weight in gold. doing it myself has got to be more efficient

plus: the house will smell nice

[feral ferry]

Actually uh, I can introduce you to an incredible incredible channel which will tell you that it's cheaper to just buy pre-made stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AIEW4wbZ3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNJZrHd39ag

[feral ferry]

Uhh what, Denuvo got cracked by someone not-Empress

That's the first real Denuvo crack since Empress bailed

Interesting

https://twitter.com/summergamefest/status/1775576078813380732?

Summer Game Fest (@summergamefest) on X

Just Announced: @Ubisoft Forward will take place live on Monday, June 10 in Los Angeles.

Twitter · Apr 3, 2024, 5:28 PM

This better have the new AC game and a new Far Cry

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hollow-knight-silksong-has-been-rated-in-south-korea/

[hot spire]

Huh

[feral ferry]

Some lad called DELUSIONAL

Handball 2017

[hot spire]

Lol

Likely reversing old cpy cracks

[severe compass]

https://tenor.com/view/silksong-hollow-knight-silksong-news-gif-25941373

[hot spire]

Og denuvo wasn't hard just tedious. The newer versions are much harder as they aren't using stolen techniques anymore

[bleak pike]

Theyr only just released one mate

[feral ferry]

Hmm?

There hasn't been a new AC or Far Cry for over 2 years now

The Division 3 would also be cool, Ghost Recon is bleh

[feral ferry]

Wait is that a joke on the "AAAA" game or what

[bleak pike]

No.

Mirage

[still spire]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tekken-boss-says-younger-players-prefer-team-games-so-they-can-shift-responsibility-if-they-lose/

[hot spire]

Wonder if this is same guy lol

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/drm-developer-hacks-denuvo-drm-after-six-months-of-detective-work-and-2000-hooks-allows-running-hogwarts-legacy-on-other-pcs

[still spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778887485400154132/1225297346401927188/Screenshot_20240404_094329.jpg?ex=66209e14&is=660e2914&hm=72b1d3d41a4ad346ae3178c56b0ded3360ced1a554cbca388b1fe663b5a70031&

[still spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1623730/view/4165340162543998798?l=english

[silver brook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf-EaABCf9Q

can omeone tell me if this guy is cheating?

[dreamy rain]

Nice weapon color

That blue looks good

[feral ferry]

That was a while ago and a small project in scale

Mirage was a DLC that became standalone

[vapid plume]

If the player in this video is you, I would say you're playing very well. If the player in this video is not you, I don't think it's possible to confirm whether he's a cheating player solely based on these exciting scenes.

[feral ferry]

Ah, add another thing to the Ubisoft Next event

Star Wars Outlaws

[still spire]

https://twitter.com/NextGenPlayer/status/1775633862049103980

Hunter 🎮 (@NextGenPlayer) on X

Stellar Blade is the current #1 pre-order game on the PlayStation Store

Looking like sales coming in hot 👀🔥

That #PS5 demo is pushing units!

Twitter · Apr 3, 2024, 9:17 PM

[hardy merlin]

And of course Twatter mad
Gib PC version already

[feral ferry]

Of course Twitter's mad, it's a cesspool for virgin idiots

[hardy merlin]

Let's see what gaming tabloids have to say

[feral ferry]

Ew, gaming journalism

Talk about useless

I only care for Jason Schreier's inside info, the odd VGC article about game development reports, whatever new leak the guys at InsiderGaming have

Kotaku and IGN can go fuck themselves

Especially Kotaku

[still spire]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKSmqQUbwAECKQD?format=jpg&name=large Kojima is looking forward to Stellar Blade 😛

[hardy merlin]

Those are tabloids, there's no journalism here
I just read them for entertainment
Like for example IGN France saying Hyung-Tae Kim hasn't seen a woman in life, whereas he's married for over 10 years lol

[feral ferry]

If you are married, you are an expert in snusnu so I would not in any way doubt Hyung-Tae Kim's expertise in the sector

[still spire]

Both had a long discussion on why their female characters need to be so skimpy

[still spire]

Also his wife is like, the one who drew Eve

:p

[fringe salmon]

Gameplay was quite mid according to a friend who dropped the demo halfway and that’s all I care about so probably won’t give it a try, rest of the online interaction about the game is just silly

[feral ferry]

Gameplay just a typical beat em up

Doesn't seem to be innovative in any way

[still spire]

lol

Try the Demo if you can, I think you'd like it

[hardy merlin]

And I'm here for it, I played the hell out of Bayonetta and Nier: Automata, most likely will enjoy SB too

[feral ferry]

Imagine owning a PS5

[severe compass]

Imagine being a ps5 🤖

[fringe salmon]

Oh I loved nier but the gameplay was fun and the story very nice and I haven seen either of that yet n stellar blade yet

[hardy merlin]

Now we only need Drakengard 4
I remember how I almost made a hole in the wall while playing DG3

[fading spade]

Sounds like the author self projecting :')

[onyx shuttle]

80 he and 60 he same keyboard and performance ?

It’s like mouse 4000 hz no ?

[pure bear]

the 60he is 1k polling, 80he 8k

[fringe salmon]

yes tiny differences, get what size you prefer that matters more

[still spire]

https://www.gamesradar.com/stellar-blade-director-recommends-players-make-eve-wear-actual-clothes-as-much-as-possible-in-the-action-rpg-instead-of-the-nsfw-skin-suit/

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-laughing-riendo-irónicamente-ironic-irónico-gif-20784780

[hardy merlin]

the 'Skin Suit' would punish players by reducing their damage-repelling capabilities
Go go no-hit run

[orchid prism]

Bikini%

[steady panther]

If anyone wants a Dorya Macro in tekken, I can share mine

just lmk

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dumQL9dK-c

I love how this game keeps getting update after update, half a decade after release.

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/azgdf279hgsc1.png?auto=webp&s=fcbbd13759994b9036f42a0956186c96e0abc7bf

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvhdU4q6drA Lmao wow, DF really out here with clickbait

The patch did nothing for Performance and Capcom themselves even admit this.

[fading spade]

Where's the click bait?

[feral ferry]

Cause not a single performance patch was released yet

[fading spade]

Oh xd

[feral ferry]

They are reviewing bugfix patches that have nothing to do with performance

[fading spade]

I see

[maiden tulip]

ghostrunner free soon on epic

worth a play

[true vortex]

i wonder how long it takes for Stellar Blade to launch on steam. i wanna play it but im not about to go buy a console just to play a game when i have a perfectly good pc right here.

[forest thicket]

probably awhile

[fading spade]

Maybe the way up is down!
https://youtu.be/XflVh4jIYXs

[fading spade]

THE OUTER WORLDS 💜

[feral ferry]

Ew

Outer Worlds is incredibly overrated

[fading spade]

Do you hate everything I have or like?

[feral ferry]

No, only when you are factually wrong

[fading spade]

which according to you is every time

[feral ferry]

Not really

[orchid prism]

It feels like how I imagine Rick and Morty is - And was a chapter short of being finished.

[feral ferry]

I don't quite get what went wrong with Obsidian

From developing actually great titles to just losing it and going on a streak of mediocre games

[orchid prism]

Also had so many completely unbalanced builds at launch. I seem to recall turning all weapons into something that one shit literally anything, including bosses - by accident.

Same thing with picking the stat that buffed companions. Turned that robot into a one man army.

[feral ferry]

Yeah it was very buggy I remember

(It was inspired by Fallout so, that's prolly why it was a buggy mess)

[orchid prism]

My biggest gripe was how it ended - Literally felt like they realized halfway through development, that they had to cut content for time.

[feral ferry]

The level design wasn't good, world design wasn't good, dialogues were bad, quests were actually horrible, combat was mid

Yeah the ending was just out of nowhere

"Oh yeah this is the last mission"
Like, I just started the game wdym it's over?

Outer Worlds just.. wasn't good

Nor was Grounded on release, prolly neither it is good now though I haven't touched it

Ever since Microsoft acquired them, Obsidian is on a really bad streak of mid games

[maiden tulip]

Vex does hate everything

[feral ferry]

No I just hate things I don't like

I have plenty of love for kebab and shashlik

https://vxtwitter.com/MauroNL3/status/1775591733885100129

Huh

I completely forgot Ubisoft announced a Splinter Cell Remake YEARS ago

I guess it's about time for them to unveil that too

Damn they have a lot of cool projects brewing

[pure bear]

actually ubi discovered a ufo

[proper basin]

I mean their logo is kinda shaped like one

[maiden tulip]

https://www.ign.com/articles/roblox-ceo-pay-to-earn-isnt-child-labor-its-a-gift

[barren pewter]

It really ain’t great

definitely feels half baked

Glad it’s free though

Fuck paying ten bucks for a facelift

[astral ginkgo]

Has Helldivers been buggy as hell for anyone else

[hardy merlin]

Define buggy

[astral ginkgo]

im losing connection like every game

[hardy merlin]

Sounds like HD, yeah

[fringe salmon]

works fine for some, worse for others

[barren pewter]

When in doubt, ragequit

[fringe salmon]

no issues for me today, but also been playing with the same people, randoms add the random connection on top

[astral ginkgo]

today ive completed three missions..then the drop ship comes and i lose connection

[hardy merlin]

Read somewhere files verification/reinstallation may help for that

[fading spade]

Minecraft: China edition

[bleak pike]

Free though

[fading spade]

Probably need an account though

[fierce spoke]

yep

[hot spire]

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

[fading spade]

Oo
I heard about that game but don't know much

[hushed epoch]

https://youtu.be/Ogfc31Ndegg

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/hjjEDe31lkE

[dreamy rain]

shin megami on 3ds was peak

[hardy merlin]

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/e2q4sb7soksc1.png?auto=webp&s=fd029133597cb6689a6ad9135875b4c59b294e02

[nimble current]

grenade pistol don't mind if I do

[fallow bronze]

Pay to win now

[hardy merlin]

You can still farm 1000SC in 2 hours or so

But I like Thermit Stielhandgranate

[fringe salmon]

I’ll still use my current one of the grenade pistol probably. Idea is nice and will be fun for closing lots of bugholes but I rather have something for emergencies like berserker charging in my face and that would just kill me lol

[feral ferry]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2420110/view/4196865993345323108

This game has gotten more and better patches than Dragon's Dogma 2 has

[still spire]

Well yeah, Sony typically takes care of their PC ports

HZD was pretty busted at launch, but they kept updating it for over a year until now it's okay

[grizzled bramble]

HFW have run quite well since day 1

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/cAITAD8Gpds?si=qCP7HRk0GiJH4ng8

[orchid prism]

Oh no. It's YongHellNo

[hardy merlin]

I love how despite

• now being a lot more developers on the market
• tools for development are cheap/free and easily available
• huge amounts of knowledge available for free and just several clicks away
  development costs are 10 times higher than in the 90s. Overinflated budgets shite

[spiral epoch]

I wonder if it's a triple A thing

Obviously Indie devs have a smaller budget to work with, but seems like it's much easier to manage

[still spire]

Yeah, it's wild

Game budgets today are totally bullshit

Like Spider-Man 2 re-used 80% of assets from Spider-Man 1

[orchid prism]

This is why Indies are thriving.

[still spire]

Cost 300M to make

Like what?!

I know Marvel IP license

But still

[orchid prism]

A lot of that is licensing fees and marketing 😄

Better to use examples that don't use movie IPs

[still spire]

Even so

At an asset re-use

Of such a degree

For the cost to be almost half a billion dollars

For a singleplayer game

[fringe salmon]

biggest cost is still salaries, even reused assets need people to put them together, QA etc.

dunno about that game so cant say if thats a lot or not but cost add up quickly

[still spire]

Meanwhile BG3 was made on a budget of like 90M.

Which is high, but it's also a 150 hour RPG with tons of replay value.

[orchid prism]

BG3 also used three? studios to get it done.

And yeah - quality VO work is not cheap.

[fringe salmon]

even if it made more with less compared to spider man, doesnt directly mean spider man was spending too much or anything

[grizzled bramble]

https://nordic.ign.com/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii/80785/news/hellblade-2-developer-ninja-theory-says-its-fans-enjoy-shorter-games $50, ~8hours long 🧑‍💻

[still spire]

Seems a fair price, 50$ for a 8-10 hour experience like the first.

[quiet vault]

tf

[grizzled bramble]

Will be nice to continue the story, should be done with HFW soonish

[still spire]

I'd rather a 8-10 hour tight experience than a 30 hour mediocre stretched experience. DD2 has about 3 hours of story content, but to do it, it'll take you 40-50h

[orchid prism]

Give me a good 20-30 hours with optional DLC for more. But don't charge me 60-80 bucks for the pleasure. Because then I will happily keep playing Rimworld and other sandbox indies for another 100 hours with modpacks 😄

[feral ferry]

50$ for 8-10 hours is bullshit

50$ for 8-10 main quest plus many tens of sidequests is acceptable

[still spire]

So, wait for a sale.

Lmao

Many tens of sidequests

I like that

[feral ferry]

Or just don't play the game cause I have no attachment to the franchise

[still spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/482400/view/4104540932632136261

[spiral epoch]

I feel like Indie devs are generally much more creative than AAA-studios, not only do they have free will and complete creative control over the game, I just feel like they take chances and often are much more in tune with their target audience

I recently started thinking that some games "might just not be for me" even though I'd generally be the target audience, but instead it's just that narrative is a thing large studios struggle with a lot

[feral drum]

i can't even confirm, if the new undershirt drops nor where it drops @hardy merlin

because the 30 minutes i had before my game decided to crash every time were just enough to do a single round of dungeon runs

and even then i cleared 10 of them

[hardy merlin]

Oh, so it's not only a Linux problem, good to know

It crashes horribly after update

[feral drum]

Tried it on Arch and Win 10

and the new raid boss? Well, have fun

10 minutes for 450k HP

[hardy merlin]

[feral drum]

even with the legendary rocket launcher it takes ages

[fringe salmon]

well to some degree it makes sense, if you have 2 people making a game it just needs to hit some sales and then its covered the expenses, if you have 500+ and you try something whack and it sells 5k copies you cant pay salaries

[feral drum]

just a small disclosure tho: Make sure not to spawn the raid boss in your main base

i've ruined my base with that

[spiral epoch]

Yea definitely. I don't think it's necessarily the fault of the large studio, it's just that we see Indie games really thriving because of how innovative and flexible small(er) studios can be

[fringe salmon]

I think it;s mostly because we can easily have hundreds more indies attempt something and even if 50 fail we still get a lot, whereas we just dont get 500 new AAA studios suddenly in a day

[hardy merlin]

That's what annoys me the most though

Raid Boss Pals summoned by slabs are very powerful and can not be captured
I could catch legends in Pokemon, why not here? Give me that 0.1% chance, but make it possible

[feral drum]

just build the thingy for a base somewhere on the map, far away, create the summon altar and then spawn it

[spiral epoch]

That's also true

[feral drum]

anyway, yeah, legendary rocket launcher, maxed stats, 2.6k dmg per shot

[fading spade]

🤔 Putting raytracing into a game designed to look and play like a Playstation 1 game is a stragne choice

https://youtu.be/oWWg2x3PywQ

[orchid prism]

No it isn't.

[nimble current]

member quake II rtx?

[orchid prism]

[nimble current]

minecraft rtx

[fading spade]

minecraft isnt PS1 style xd

[nimble current]

no its worse

[fading spade]

but still RTX there is strange too

[nimble current]

[fading spade]

xd

[nimble current]

I played thru half-life 1 with pathtracing

1998 game with fancier lighting

[orchid prism]

You're confusing raytracing with PRETTY.

Raytracing is about ACCURACY

[nimble current]

actually the pathtracing highlighted more often than not how good the original lighting calculations were

[fading spade]

fair

[nimble current]

often the baked in lighting in hl1 was really close to the raytraced realtime effect

[fallow bronze]

baked lighting does that indeed.. but its baked and cant change

[fringe salmon]

yesnt, it highlights how often you dont see a difference if enough work is put into the faking, and thats imo what it can fix in a few gens, taking away many many hours of faking the right light

[nimble current]

I recall something about them doing the static lighting effects with raytracing

yeah valve was really good at faking it from the start

[fallow bronze]

quake engine was :p

[nimble current]

and doing somewhat believable environments for the time

[nimble current]

yeah walls lighting up from rockets and lightning was mindblowing shit in 96

[fallow bronze]

hl1 is based on quake engine

[nimble current]

I mean doom also did it to a degree but with quake it was true 3D

I know

its hacked up quite a bit for half-life though

[still spire]

Goldsrc is an amazing engine

Source as well

[still spire]

Ahead of the news of why Dragon Quest director was moved to SE's mobile division, these stats explain it. Mobile gaming really is the future.

[orchid prism]

Is that the total cost in casino transactions required to get all items?

[still spire]

Monthly revenue...145M

Jesus

92M the previous month

[feral ferry]

How the fuck is Star Rail doing well

I get that it has a massive marketing campaign to it

[still spire]

Boomers like me enjoy turn based RPGS

[feral ferry]

But it's just.. shit

[still spire]

[feral ferry]

It's Genshin, but worse

[still spire]

It has a pretty good story.

[feral ferry]

Turn-based RPGs are actually great

But they took Genshin's engine and turn-based-ified it which just doesn't work

[still spire]

https://tenor.com/view/rudy-rudilous-acheron-hsr-acheron-ultimate-acheron-ult-finale-gif-10563911498548003836

[feral ferry]

It's not meant to be a turn based game

[still spire]

Except it really does

[feral ferry]

It's one of the worst turn based games I have ever seen

[nimble current]

homm3 and fallout are my fav turn based

[still spire]

lol

[feral ferry]

And I like Genshin

[still spire]

You like Genshin, explains a lot

😛

[feral ferry]

I also liked Honkai Impact 3rd

But they just lazily made Genshin into turn based game and expected it to work

[fringe salmon]

see im surprised that HSR is doing well because my twitter feed has so much less fanart of that game compared to when genshin was the top, I thought the coomers would be the biggest whales

[still spire]

Lazily...right.

It's far more advanced than Genshin ever was

But anyways, people like the story, excellent music and cast of characters

Also Lesbian gex sells

https://tenor.com/view/acheron-black-swan-honkai-star-rail-hsr-honkai-gif-2420881540485586164

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/gex-money-winking-gex-enter-the-gecko-ps1-gif-24648318

?

Gex mentioned, obligatory Gex reference

Look, people can enjoy whatever they want

[still spire]

lol

[fringe salmon]

see I dont even know who they are, I know a lot of genshin characters from people retweeting fanart, from HSR I just know kafka with that method

[feral ferry]

But Star Rail from my experience is boring, uninteresting, clunky, badly designed

I'll just ignore it with awe while it sells so well

[still spire]

Yeah we get it, you looked at a still image of it, okay.

[feral ferry]

No I actually finished its horrible tutorial

To get to the gacha part

If you like it, it's fine

But the combat design is absolutely horrible

https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/04/05/stellar-blade-director-rejects-microtransactions-promises-game-will-not-require-players-to-spend-any-additional-money-beyond-what-they-paid-for-the-package/

[still spire]

Better than Genhsins at the very least

[feral ferry]

It's literally not?

[still spire]

It literally is?

[feral ferry]

They literally took the Genshin's 3 combat movesets, mouseclick, E, and Q and just transplanted them into a turn based system

It has no depth, nothing

It does not work

Turn based games always require depth so you can rack your brain about weaknesses, affinities, etc

Literally not Star Rail

[still spire]

lol okay

[feral ferry]

It's a dumbed down combat system for infants

I'll just go play Octopath Traveler or Bravely Default

[still spire]

Man, you've got such bad taste in JRPGS lol

[feral ferry]

Mad cause bad

I need to give Shin Megami Tensei 5 a try cause it really put me off with insanely clunky menus, but I heard more than enough good things about it to give it a second try

[still spire]

What's even weirder about HSR numbers is, the game is far more generous. You get way more pulls and have better pull rates for characters, so the spending is pretty weird.

They give away a full pity each patch pretty much

[bleak pike]

@still spire vex is just a hater and only loves Bethesda games :p

[feral ferry]

Cal, you literally know I am not the biggest Starfield enjoyer

Nor do I like Fallout 4 that much

[still spire]

But you did call it GOTY

[feral ferry]

I never did

[still spire]

Whoever has that quote clipped from last time, post it, too lazy to search.

[feral ferry]

You know what, I forgot about this

Give it GOTY just cause they figured out ladders

[bleak pike]

Ye that is indeed satire

[still spire]

Now hold up

It's Vex

It may not be

[feral ferry]

Look, Starfield for me is like a 6/10 game

I had a lot of fun with sidequests

But the exploration is just boring, and main quest is downright trash

However at least it's a stable experience, I didn't crash once

[bleak pike]

But tbh you were defending it like mad

Like a personal attack lol

Even the exploration

[feral ferry]

I don't like when people speak about shit they haven't tried

I did finish the whole game basically

[bleak pike]

But I did XD

[feral ferry]

Exploration is fun for a bit, but then you get a LOT of repeat generations

[bleak pike]

Try

[feral ferry]

Like after the 3rd planet with the same buildings you have seen elsewhere

It's.. just really mid

No vehicles, constant walking, no actual procedural generation for buildings

Horrid main quest

Nowhere near a GOTY

I liked the combat though, it had a lot of impact

The physics engine is quite impressive tbf, can't say the same about rendering since they STILL can't figure out how not to do loadscreens every 5 minutes

[bleak pike]

Combat was indeed improved.

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/a_lu152g5aM yeah this video is legendary

[feral ferry]

On the topic of rendering

I saw a post on "Why is Starfield full of loadscreens when Fallout 76 has barely any"

And unironically, 76 has barely any loadscreens

So they figured out how to properly render the world in chunks without throwing a loadscreen at you all the time, where tf is that in Starfield

[still spire]

I mean Soul Reaver back in 1998 on the PS1 figured out how to do that

[feral ferry]

I was properly disappointed with Starfield though

The cities are still small

[orchid prism]

Tiny, and very weirdly laid out.

Also nonsensical in nature.

[feral ferry]

They couldn't even mask the launch of a starship and landing with some kind of cutscene where you are in first person and can "properly" launch/land

[orchid prism]

A mod actually addressed that within days.

[feral ferry]

The thing is, I am going to cope and say that Elder Scrolls 6 is in good hands

Cause that kind of a game will most likely not need that many constant level changes

[orchid prism]

It had better - They'd essentially kill off the Elder Scrolls franchise otherwise.

[feral ferry]

They can make a stable game with Starfield, they can make one without too many load screens like 76, and the physics/graphics engine of Starfield

It can be a good game, that works well and is nice to look at

But I'm sure Todd will fuck it up

[nimble current]

or they'll fuck it up even further from examining what went wrong with copefield and fix the wrong things

[still spire]

"Pehaps people were upset we didn't have ENOUGH load screens."

[orchid prism]

Does 2077 even have loading screens? Isn't it seamless provided you're actually in the world, and not fast travelling?

I think Bethesda needs a whole new engine to do something similar, due to their old as ass Morrowind based grid chunk system.

[nimble current]

todd doesn't understand the problem, everytime he opens a door in real life it goes black for a few seconds

[still spire]

2077 has no loading screens beyond the first one, yeah

[bleak pike]

Well

[feral ferry]

Cyberpunk?

[bleak pike]

Story missions

[feral ferry]

I remember it having loadscreens

But a lot of them were masked with stuff like elevators

[orchid prism]

Those are still far preferable to a full on disconnect to a loading bar

[still spire]

every 30s

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865440/FRONT_MISSION_2_Remake/

Steam

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[feral ferry]

Oh yeah I went to do the laundry and had the idea to double back on this statement, about the graphics engine

I am utterly disappointed how shit terrain textures looked in Starfield

It had great looking object models, amazing beautiful skyboxes

Great looking guns

But the textures, the trees, looked ass

@bleak pike knows

[bleak pike]

Yes and you kept defending them lol

Especially the cities

[feral ferry]

Yeah cause I actually went to download an AI upscaled mod for those

And they looked good afterwards

But this, this is shit

Trees just looked way out of place in many areas

Water and ground textures looked so godawful from far away though

[bleak pike]

Let's not forget the water

Lol

[feral ferry]

Reminded me of Oblivion

[bleak pike]

The only part of the game that looked nice was the intro.

Idk what they did but it felt modern in them mines

[feral ferry]

Like idk Starfield just felt that parts of it were designed by someone competent, and other parts were designed by an underqualified intern