🎮│game

[fading spade]

What is?

[coral orbit]

minecraft version

[fading spade]

Oh xd

[coral orbit]

thanks for that cape info

[fading spade]

I think I started playing Minecraft about 1.5

[coral orbit]

going to mod later on today

i think when i started

[fading spade]

Np!

[coral orbit]

it was like

beta before the dogs

[fading spade]

I'm gonna be waiting impatiently for June 8th when the Twitch and TikTok capes arrive on Java

Cause I can't play Bedrock except on my phone or tablet

[coral orbit]

why not?

isnt bedrock better optimized than java?

[fading spade]

Yeah it is, it's insanely optimised
But it's only on Windows, which I don't use

So I can only play Java edition

[pulsar prism]

Plus it lacks mod support and has built in mtx

[coral orbit]

java is still the best

[fading spade]

Yeah it is xd

[coral orbit]

but i think you could do w10 virtually and play bedrock there

[fading spade]

There is an unofficial launcher for Bedrock available for Linux
And it does work

But it's 50% chance that being able to login to the Microsoft account will work or not

[pulsar prism]

Java with sodium and lithium runs amazingly

[fading spade]

And if it doesn't work, you can't play multiplayer servers or access your account items in marketplace

[fading spade]

Yeh.
I use the Fabulously Optimised modpack from Modrinth

[pulsar prism]

I remember for a long time AMD performance on Java was like 4x lower then Nvidias

But that was only on windows

[fading spade]

Amd runs faster in Minecraft on Linux due to the new Mesa drivers 💜

[pulsar prism]

Yeah, although AMD has updated their OpenGL drivers now so I think they're now pretty comparable

[fading spade]

I wish Steam Deck wasn't using Plasma desktop :/
It's so stuttery in games in desktop mode

The fps is fine but mouse movement feels stuttery

I know why Valve decided to use it though

Easy to implement the switching from desktop to game mode
Easy to get the virtual keyboard to open ontop of every other window reliably
Layout is similar to Windows so most users will be comfortable

[drifting rose]

why use desktop mode for gaming?

[maiden tulip]

^^^^^^^

[azure canopy]

How good is it?

[maiden tulip]

Insanely good

[still spire]

https://fxtwitter.com/RhiannonKagoe/status/1791522046301577299

[azure canopy]

I just saw the game rating, does it actually have nudity?

cuz I aint playing it if it dfoes hjave it

[maiden tulip]

Only if you romance characters and it's honestly pretty mild nudity

Not like full graphic or whatever

[azure canopy]

Alright

cuz im gonna play it with a friend and my little brother so thats all I wanted to know thanks!

[maiden tulip]

Its a super fun rpg

Great story

Fun gameplay

[azure canopy]

Alrighty thanks broski

[maiden tulip]

Understandable just don't do the romance options in the interactive dialogue i guess 😛

[azure canopy]

will avoid haha

[proper crescent]

The keyboard enters recovery mode, I can see wooting restore, but the keyboard is not recognized in wootility, what should I do?

When updating the firmware today, an error occurred, and then I could no longer connect to the keyboard.

[frosty breach]

Change the cable? Maybe cable is damaged

[proper crescent]

It’s solved, I’m too blind😂

[still spire]

https://www.nexusmods.com/ghostoftsushima/mods/28?tab=posts

Thank god for this mod

The FMVS in the game are like 720p 2000 bit rate

They're rare, thankfully , but completely kill any scene they appear in

Full of macroblocking and whatnot

This is just the first, and already a big upgrade

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/6434/images/28/28-1715991928-861286431.png

[still spire]

They're even separate video files for each horse you use in the game. Even for a PS4 game in 2019, this FMV usage is outrageous

[orchid prism]

Truly the power of the PS5

[still spire]

Directors Cut was a 20$ upgrade for PS5 users too and they still got these crappy FMVS

Couldn't be bothered to re-render or even just upscale them themselves

[orchid prism]

How is 720p acceptable on any platform this late?

[still spire]

It wasn't in 2019, let alone 2024

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1214980665527767070/1241286986468298803/image.png?ex=6649a617&is=66485497&hm=aeb64f81edcd50a9083e67d5dff81201091ba47c36b4aa9664a011502d253df8&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1920&height=538

[bronze escarp]

sold some rust skins for 80 euros that i dont use so i can get ghost of Tsushima on steam lmao

[fading spade]

Imagine being proud to be closed source

[pure bear]

what commercial game is open source

[fading spade]

Yeh xd

[rancid hearth]

osu is trying to become foss with lazer
wouldn't consider it commercial though

probably would be the largest open source game though once lazer fully gets implemented

[small comet]

all of them

[fading spade]

LOL

[rancid hearth]

tru

[pure bear]

very true

[rancid hearth]

clearly a skill issue for programmers

[small comet]

although in the case of minecraft... they are very much open source on the java side since the JVM code can be pretty accurately reversed to java code

all youd not get is comments or unoptimized code

as it would reverse the optimized JVM byte code to java code

same for any .net program really

[rancid hearth]

probably why mincraft is one of the most modded games

[small comet]

yep

[rancid hearth]

despite it never really being officially supported

[small comet]

i really dont know why they dont go full in on it as its a really good thing for the game

if MC wasnt as moddable it would prob already be dead or close to dead

[rancid hearth]

yea

eh I wouldn't really trust them to support it in any way that is beneficial to the community
you've seen what they did with the bedrock store

full monetization scheme

[small comet]

its like lego trying not to be a generic term (unless others make a lego minifigure then its ok to argue it as if it is a generic term) despite becoming a generic term for EVERYONE ON THE GLOBE to use being one o the highest achievements a brand/company can make

[rancid hearth]

or photoshop

for anything editing

[small comet]

adobe shot themselves in the foot tho since they already said photoshop as a verb themselves for editing

but yeah idk whats wrong with them to not accept such an honor to be basically immortalized in peoples vocabulary

[fading spade]

I thought Lego just sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone who tries to make a competing brand?

[small comet]

no

[fading spade]

Hence, all the competing brands are in China cause they cant be touched by Lego there

[small comet]

thats not even true

[fading spade]

aha

hmm, I havent seen other brands for it though

[rancid hearth]

it's because it's absurdly difficult to get into a market like that

[small comet]

they also produce in poland

and then theres a lot of companies that just buy bricks from brick factories aroudn the globe and they make their own sets like bluebrixx

(german company)

the main C&D letters lego sends are about people like influencers wrongly saying lego to non lego brand products

[rancid hearth]

for example, how nerf is synonymous with any foam dart gun
there's other competitors for example matel with boom co but they reallistically won't be as popular as the largest one

[small comet]

and they fight a lot of court fights about design patents on their bricks/minifigures

those court fights are also often thrown out due to lego sueing but the defendant winning on the basis that the bricks dont copy design but implement a technical requirement for an automatic binding brick to function

[fading spade]

o..

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/iEXlUG3JmFs

[hot spire]

Also they hired the people who did the reverse engineering for mods, and made it an official thing

[small comet]

modding isnt officially supported

[still spire]

Looks better in HDR, but a nice shot.

[still spire]

https://x.com/HellDiversMemes/status/1791011513257361894

HELLDIVERS 2 Memes (@HellDiversMemes) on X

WHAT ARE THEY DOING??????????

Twitter · May 16, 2024, 7:43 AM

[proper basin]

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/pMaKswplPE8

https://youtu.be/Jl2hcOpZLiI

[fading spade]

I love when games let you pet the cats <3

[buoyant osprey]

How do you go from this

To this

And then to this?

[dreamy rain]

Comical post

[deft bloom]

mmhmm deadlock seems so uninspired and unnecessary, and the artstyle is horrid

[buoyant osprey]

Yes.

Why not just make TF3 instead.

Even the name 'deadlock' is generic.

Game looks like some kind of Overwatch competitor from 2015 that would inevitably fail and shut down within 2 years of launch.

It's like Battleborn almost.

[pure bear]

did valve announce a new game or what

[drifting rose]

they're really at the tail end of these games being super popular

[orchid prism]

Kind of.

[buoyant osprey]

That's all the screenshots so far afaik.

[orchid prism]

Third person? That's a skip and a miss

[orchid prism]

Looks like they're trying to give Overwatch the Fortnite treatment.

[buoyant osprey]

Some of the character designs look... weird.

Wonder what gamemode this is.

King of the hill or something? Idk.

[drifting rose]

Hero Shooter: Another One

who asked for it? it's a mystery!

valve typically makes what they want to, so maybe there's somebody's artistic vision behind it. I find it a little dubious, is all

[bleak pike]

What is this

[orchid prism]

New valve shooter.

[bleak pike]

Dear god

[proper basin]

i sleep

Too many

[willow quiver]

guys

rate the play I made in the game i just lost

wtf

[deft bloom]

0/8

[tall anchor]

samira main

0/10

[heavy gull]

that xerath ult tho,,

[limber plank]

Touch grass/10

[young hill]

But I was born yesterday

Also why did this come 3 days later

[drifting rose]

not even born yet, posting from a matrix pod

[willow quiver]

ofc

and went 23/3 with my second game as akali ever

first game ever in akali mid tho

I'm built diff

now buff Aphelios cause they keep picking caitlyn and enemy cait does 60% of his healthbar with her backdash without item and 0/3/0

[tall anchor]

back to the grind

[misty shoal]

Could anyone lend a hand? I'm trying to set up using WASD for driving and walking in Cyberpunk., The guide I found requires binding both left stick forward/back and the triggers to W and S respectively but I'm not able to figure out how to do that in the latest version of the Wootility. I'm running a Wooting Two from back in the day. This is the imagine I'm trying to work off of but the Wootility doesn't seem to have that option anymore

[orchid prism]

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/1crymg3/cyberpunk_2077_analog_movement_with_wooting/

Here's a guide a friendly choom made.

[misty shoal]

Thank you, I

ll try that

[willow quiver]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vvj9Gyel35s?feature=share

[willow quiver]

noh

I'm uninstalling

I WILL BE FREE

[orchid prism]

But to answer your question directly, this behaviour is now done via DKS binds. 🙂

[willow quiver]

but again I bought wooting..

I gotta make my money worth

[misty shoal]

Oh thank you, that's very helpful! I was so confused!

I've had my wooting for a long, long time. I love it, right down to the sun sometimes hitting it at the right angle to trigger the optical switches. I just haven't had many chances to actually use the analog inputs so I'm excited to get this working

[still spire]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/778887485400154132/1241649376842223708/image.png?ex=664af798&is=6649a618&hm=c9a9145382d8cd26b6cd44365c9bd1e772456f3204e120db5dac0d08d781edbd&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1426&height=849

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/0txk37kji91d1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=16eb6c075dc548cebf867e714e00528cb965d158

https://preview.redd.it/rdvf4t6tga1d1.jpeg?width=1709&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=078c4c5367a2c077a80cae3a7b2bb1eff888617e

[bleak pike]

@fading spade

[rancid hearth]

cute, so that's where all their development time went

ah yes "too modern" that's some bullshit
there's literal redstone lamps

[small comet]

"too modern" in a world with enchanting

[rancid hearth]

this entire video really just shows how much hypocrisy they have when it comes to some of their reasoning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3F9ttCM8PA

now this is just rude

it just isn't going to happen

[fading spade]

Ooo hek

[still spire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cv37t4/dead_children_found_on_terminid_planets_very_nsfw/

[still spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778887485400154132/1241717537821950065/SonyPSPtvc_-__Ratchett_n_Clank.mp4?ex=664b3713&is=6649e593&hm=bb3b571d645535f2d4d4b7ca1e9c0e1483e03aaa4dd633ad51c4c5444c4319fc&

[tall anchor]

enderman sounds like a boss from a game

xD

[proper basin]

Tried out HDR on ghost of Tsushima

https://tenor.com/view/always-sunny-frank-oh-my-god-i-get-it-gif-22328165

[still spire]

It's pretty good

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1214980665527767070/1241362292705067008/Ghost_of_Tsushima_DIRECTORS_CUT_v1053.0.0515.2048_5_18_2024_8_09_39_AM.jxr?ex=664b3db9&is=6649ec39&hm=4b159a4595fdf7443d5f727efc8864e6bfadfca05ff228920d419c8b7a80ee1c&

Got a nice JXR for you to see

[proper basin]

oh yeah, thats good

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SE9BZdfRg lol

[buoyant osprey]

Bethesda's 'positive comments' bot broke

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/1ct7qzi/new_dialogue_camera_makes_the_game_look_10_times/

[still spire]

https://x.com/Mr_Rebs_/status/1791855406102278524

Rebs Gaming (@Mr_Rebs_) on X

YouTuber DeityVengy turned Starfield into the ultimate Star Wars game by installing over 100 mods. Here’s footage from their video of Mandalorian, custom NPCs, AT-ST, and R2-D2. Full video: https://t.co/dOgFW1Zegd #Starfield

Twitter · May 18, 2024, 3:36 PM

[nimble current]

there's fuckin redstone microprocessors, minigames and various other bizarre stuff people built, its essentially logic circuitry which as we all know was around long before we figured out how to put lamps on helmets

[pure bear]

minecraft devs spend 99% of their time coming up with bs excuses for not adding anything in the remaining 1% of time

didnt they say they removed/didnt add fireflies cause they make frogs sick

in a game with zombies n shit

apropos lighting, how shaders are still not a core feature is beyond me

ok bedrock got it in 2023

waow

[strange bobcat]

Hey guys, what is the best setting for the game? valorant.

[fringe salmon]

preference

[proper basin]

And then they also make frogs able to eat magma cubes to make blocks

[pure bear]

yea

or their whole, design 3 mobs add one with a vote

bruh are your designers that shitty you dont trust em?

[young hill]

They might make the frogs gay

[rotund solar]

I suspect, at least for some block additions, it has to do with variants, how they interact with other blocks, etc.

But as far as mobs, it feels like drip feeding for no real purpose.

[pure bear]

i think it is cause they are afraid to kill the golden goose

[hot spire]

Bedrock got RT lol

[bleak pike]

Didn't it have rt since 20 series

[hot spire]

Yes just saying bedrock has rt so it can handle a mining hat

[bleak pike]

Ohhhh

[honest sparrow]

i ordered my keyboard im a new val player but getting up in rank, what should i expect out of this keyboard? is it really that much of a difference?

[fringe salmon]

it will feel nice and not hold you back

[still spire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1cvs6ux/ghost_of_tsushima_becomes_the_2nd_most_played/l4rk04w/ Lmao this guys claim is absurd. Like every website in the world wouldn't be shouting about this if it were true.

[still spire]

https://fxtwitter.com/tomeganeleo/status/1792049529102963068

[still spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2384120/WRECK/

Steam

WRECK

BRUTAL SINGLEPLAYER CAMPAIGNYou play as a mercenary hell-bent on getting revenge against the criminal underworld that betrayed you. Fight in fully destructible levels where everything can be ripped down.COMPLETE GAME ENGINE CONTROLWRECK has substantial modding tools to build new maps and weapons. Share your creations with the community and see h...

Release Date

2024

▶ Play video

https://preview.redd.it/ct2tg8rzhg1d1.jpeg?width=576&auto=webp&s=3b83bec32d4b49ee7c2a72d1cc4881121cbe9b0e

[nimble current]

tbh like 90% of the weapons and strats are still fine

and largely unchanged since release

people unironically saying the entire games arsenal is trash now, the internet bandwagon of hyperbolic brainrot takes is in full swing

[dreamy rain]

looks like a krunker custom map

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/yr3kz96a2g1d1.png?auto=webp&s=023ce4e7141ce59b3db959f7914b1600ac5f60f0

[hardy merlin]

Volvo, pls fix

[hardy merlin]

https://www.thegamer.com/fallout-london-gog-release-delay-fallout-4-update-interview/

[orchid prism]

“We initiated discussions with GOG to release Fallout: London after Nexus faced challenges hosting the files,” says Fallout: London’s project lead, Dean Carter. “Without the combined help of Nexus Mods and GOG, releasing Fallout: London wouldn't be possible.”

Nexus can't host a large mod? Jesus 😄

[hardy merlin]

If it's so large, imagine how long it'd take to download it from Nexus without premium

[still spire]

It's 800MB

[hardy merlin]

Beyond Skyrim Bruma is 3.1GB
Fallout New California is 7.3GB
How couldn't they host 800MB then?

[pulsar prism]

does seem very light for such a large mod

[orchid prism]

Oh apparently it's a marketing issue. It's called "Fallout: London", which is apparently too much like a game title, not a mod. So now GOG are trying to resolve this by doing a proper landing page that makes it-very- clear it's a mod.

[still spire]

I lied

[pulsar prism]

my fallout new vegas is getting up there

[hardy merlin]

But it seems like Fallout: New California is fine https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/45138/
Maybe it's in the details

[still spire]

I thought it was on GOG because Steam keeps updating FO4 and ruining their progress

I didn't even read it lol

[hardy merlin]

tbf GOG handled it the best way - you want new "updates", enable beta branch

I'm glad they don't host it on Nexus

[orchid prism]

jfc

At what point do you just ask the fans to pester Bethesda to make it a licensed stand-alone mod 😄

[still spire]

Like Valve allowed with Black Mesa

But Valve is pretty chill

Bethesda is not

[orchid prism]

Hence "fans pester"

Cause otherwise that mod isn't going to exist outside of torrents and small version 1.0102 to 1.0103 specifical style patches.

[still spire]

I got 2Gbps upload. I'll host it.

[green saddle]

Hey guys, how do continuous rapid trigger affect on game, like valorant or Apex?

should I enable it?

[pure bear]

i makes it so you can rt above your actuation point

[green saddle]

ok thx

[sour smelt]

What's wrong with nexus other than the mod being to large for it?

[hardy merlin]

Slow download speeds without premium

[sour smelt]

Legally complicated, with dependencies on other projects, you would basically need approval of everyone involved.

[sour smelt]

That's a fair point if it's the only place to distribute.

Have had lifetime premium for quite some time now so I forgot about that.

[hardy merlin]

I have 3 months left

[sour smelt]

Back when I last played skyrim I think

Never mind seems I downloaded skyrim mods in 2015.

[hardy merlin]

Somewhere, deep down on my NAS is a folder with heavily outdated mods for Skyrim

[still spire]

Vintage Mods can value

[bleak pike]

Starting to think batman Arkham city is overrated

Decided to pick it up again after years and it just doesn't hit like asylum did which was incredible.

I also don't think gameplay aged well, however it could just be my shift in taste.

Mark hamill is perfection tho

[frosty breach]

I saw an video of 4080 super gettin 60fps average on ghost of tsushima in 4k DLAA with 7950x3d

While my pc with 4080 gets stable 80fps with 12700k 😂 both maxed/highest settings

[hardy merlin]

I should try how this one would work on my PC

Target 1440p60 mid no-AA

[fringe salmon]

i mean, yeah fps are going to fluctuate in a game like that if you dont use the same setup and look at different spots/settings

[frosty breach]

He uses even ddr5 while i use ddr4

[drifting rose]

kinda heavy for a game that was originally on ps4

[frosty breach]

Its a shame that 4080 super is so far off than an regular 4080

[fringe salmon]

are you making a question or trying to say something with that comparison I dont quite follow your point

[frosty breach]

2nd one

[fringe salmon]

well what is it you are trying to say then

[frosty breach]

That the 4080super is embarrassing

[fringe salmon]

well yeah its basically just a 4080 at the original price it should have launched with

[frosty breach]

4080s has like %1 improvement power nexus said

[orchid prism]

I forgot

[fringe salmon]

I mean i wouldnt call the super embarrassing I think the 4080 launching with its price and not the price the super launched with is embarrassing lol

[frosty breach]

How come? I bought mine for 1600 euro and its worth it, if nvidia sold the 1080 ti at current’s inflation it would be around the same price

[orchid prism]

Super implies a boost in performance.

[fringe salmon]

sure but I think its a red herring acting like the super is the issue when its just a marketing stunt to resell the same product with new press releases instead of making the existing cards 200$ cheaper

the issue is the original was fucking overpriced and now they charge the lower price halfway into its lifecycle lol

[frosty breach]

The only problem with the 4080 is that the bus is small than usual but its still an amazing powerhouse

[fringe salmon]

cant find the chart I was looking for but this is about the same

not to mention the 4080 is even further away from the flagship, not even to mention the possible full die flagship than any other card there

[hardy merlin]

I wonder what's AMD is cooking with RDNA4 or should I just go with 7900

[fringe salmon]

computex in 2 weeks should show it

[drifting rose]

lol "amd will undercut prices". not by much, but technically true I guess

[sour smelt]

Considering the rumors of skipping the high end are consistent enough, I would guess that holds true.

[frosty breach]

AMD cant make an similar card to 4090 thoo

[fringe salmon]

thats a bit to much of a definite statement

rdna3 not competing isnt really saying they cant make it

[hardy merlin]

I'm looking for something mid-high, not high-high
And since my brothers GPU is close to death I have to look for something for myself

[drifting rose]

them not making a high-end card could be one of the reasons they aren't selling too many GPUs this gen. that, and no good $300 card

[orchid prism]

Most of the money is in mid range.

[fringe salmon]

yes but having the halo skus is what sells mid range

mindshare is important for sales

[orchid prism]

Can't say I agree with that

[fringe salmon]

sales numbers for any gen where amd had a competing or winning high end agree with that

that is of course if you dont look at things like intel arc as a one gen where it is insanely subsidized and thus sold at a much lower price than the product would otherwise sell for

[drifting rose]

what's a halo SKU?

[fringe salmon]

4090, titans and such

the flagship model

[orchid prism]

Mind I haven't sold GPUs since the 2000 series, but I've never had a customer go "so I want an nVidia 2060, because of the 2080TI" - It was always a case of "so I have 1200$ to spend on a PC. How can you do that for me?"

The only reason I sold more nVidia than AMD was stock - or lack thereof.

[drifting rose]

I think it's more psychologically subtle, it confirms them as "they make the best GPUs" in your mind

[fringe salmon]

yes thats not how anyone goes to a shop but that is how lots of people who buy oem builds look at it, they know nvidia is the best so they look for that

[orchid prism]

I think our company got a total of like... 11 of that super cheap 3rd gen AMD APU that hit a little later. For 22 stores.

[fringe salmon]

and keep in mind DiY and custom build sales are a fraction of OEM

[orchid prism]

3100 something?

[hardy merlin]

Alright, that is way less than I expected

[orchid prism]

You and your monopoly money.

[sour smelt]

AMD in generall seems to not be that great at oem contracts nowadays.
It's probably more than pricing or having a halo product. Good supply agreements, supporting oem's and such.

[drifting rose]

I can definitely say that not competing in the high end confirmed my bias of AMD as the second best

[frosty breach]

How much is that in EU?

[sour smelt]

Says the dane with his own monopoly money.

[orchid prism]

I knooooooow. I am so tired of not using Euros.

[hardy merlin]

€1000 or thereabouts

[orchid prism]

But zloty just sounds like you're using hard candy to trade with, like it's Charlie's chocolate fallout 😄

[frosty breach]

Which brand? Or oem

[fringe salmon]

somewhat but its mostly oems not buying more because they have lower demand which comes from the customers not wanting it due to mostly these reasons

[drifting rose]

I feel they had an opportunity with Nvidia jacking up prices, and losing EVGA. but they failed to exploit it

[orchid prism]

I hope 5th gen is more of an even field, but who knows at this point.

RTX and AI focus has made nVidia a weird company

[fringe salmon]

I mean gpus take years to make, if nvidia loses evga and makes higher prices, doesnt matter because the gpus you created for that year were started 3-4 years ago or more

rdna3 failed in many instances but its not like they could have changed anything in the months leading up to it

[drifting rose]

I mean on the marketing part, if they sold a decent card at the $300 price point or made their cards as cheap as their previous gens, they would have run away with it

[pure bear]

i hope the ai shit blows up in nvidias face

[fringe salmon]

doesnt make sense because the margins are insanely low at the lower end, they could have sold more but would have made like no money and the wafers could have gone to cpu sales or data center

[drifting rose]

so they rather made no money, makes sense!

[fringe salmon]

no they just used the wafers for the cards with higher margins so even less sales but higher margins means more revenue and they were able to make more cpus instead

what they did makes sense for anyone but the consumer who would obviously like cheaper stuff from either vendor xD

also there might have been a chance that they could have fixed issues and thus delayed lower tier cards, or needed the time to make the ip work for apus so that rdna3.5 in this coming laptop generation is not suffering the same

[hardy merlin]

Why tf all RAM is with RGB nowadays

[frosty breach]

In the future they will release rgb condoms

[fringe salmon]

take some ln2 drop the stick in and just break the plastic away

[drifting rose]

"damn my RGB is all empty, maybe there's still some in the condom"

[frosty breach]

Its a shame that corsairs best RAM is RGB only

[hardy merlin]

7950X3D, 7900XTX, B650 LiveMixer, some random 4x32GB DDR5-6400~6800, some 900W PSU, 256GB+2TB NVMe, some random case, some random 10gbit NIC - that's the current plan

[frosty breach]

I can already say get atleast 1000+ watt psu and probably dual channel ram instead

[heavy gull]

im getting snapdragon elite x because arm is better than x86 and it has a built in gpu

(joking)

[fringe salmon]

as someone whos running a 4090 on 750w, you dont need 1000w psus lol

[frosty breach]

Are you using power management on maximum power or not?

[hardy merlin]

Wonder if LiveMixer supports dual channel for 4 modules as in BABA
So it does

[fringe salmon]

I am limiting it to 80% powerdraw but when I had it at no throttle it still had sane powerdraw (just spike I cant measure without tools ofc)

also I noticed we arent in tech talk #🔌│tech message

[frosty breach]

1000watt is the best way for future proofing like 60xx series or 70xx series, 750watt is crazy, i used that on my 1080 ti in 2017😂

[pure bear]

g*mers

[drifting rose]

that's it, I'm going back to DDR3

[young hill]

Not all, I bought some cl30 ddr5 sticks that were not

[bleak pike]

Gaymers

[sage ingot]

jeez why the ram

I dont think itll run at those speeds

[drifting rose]

thinking about it, could that have been due to him screen recording?

[frosty breach]

He used an external recording device, like elgato but doesn’t matter cause i have shadowplay enabled always hehe

[sage ingot]

also I think you'd be much better off running 2x48 unless you really need 128gb of ram

[frosty breach]

Heres mine but video not OG file cause i cant upload 800mb files here😭 so the quality is abit bad

[drifting rose]

I'm just reading that this is by an american studio. uncle sam is making korean games now. things have so changed since vietnam

[frosty breach]

Korean?

Its in Japan, Japan vs mongolia

[drifting rose]

they still had samurai times in ww1? wow!

[orchid prism]

Heh, no.

[drifting rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK5VuOInqlg

[dreamy rain]

Im seeing so many n64 projects as if late

[grizzled bramble]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1996010/Crow_Country/ Here's a PSX era looking game

Steam

Crow Country

A survival horror game, where you’ll test yourself against puzzles and riddles as you investigate the eerie tranquility of the abandoned theme park. Don’t be deceived by the whimsical surroundings, something is awfully wrong in Crow Country.As you unlock new areas, backtrack and discover more, you gradually piece together why Edward really shut ...

Price

$19.99

Recommendations

1435

▶ Play video

[digital dawn]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229490/ULTRAKILL/

Steam

ULTRAKILL

ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultraviolent old school FPS that fuses together classic shooters like Quake, modern shooters like Doom (2016) and character action games like Devil May Cry.Mankind has gone extinct and the only beings left on earth are machines fueled by blood.But now that blood is starting to run out on the surface...Machines are racin...

Price

$24.99

Recommendations

100718

▶ Play video

[fallow bronze]

Psx era graphics is not a thing I'm fond off...

[vocal adder]

https://tenor.com/view/jidion-gif-9759686772699862027

[fallow bronze]

Weird textures.. Super low res

[vocal adder]

ultrakill on top

fr

[digital dawn]

ikr

[vocal adder]

great game

[digital dawn]

ong

I have over 500 hours lmao

[grizzled bramble]

Ultrakill is nice

[vocal adder]

i love the game but unfortunately got so out of touch with it

i'm horrible at it now

https://tenor.com/view/howard-hamlin-jimmy-mcgill-saul-goodman-better-call-saul-breaking-bad-gif-22509687

[digital dawn]

SAME

[vocal adder]

ACT 3 is a hell to complete

[orchid prism]

Just admit it. You pissed someone off, and now you want a free holiday in bed 😛

[drifting rose]

wait another 10 years and then people will make games that look like the PS2 era

look into my eeeeyes

speaking of that game, I can't find this sound among the datamined sounds from the PS2 version, and I really want it lol

[buoyant osprey]

Tired gimmick.

[young hill]

https://tenor.com/view/lara-croft-tomb-raider-play-station-retrogaming-gaming-gif-12058071

[hardy merlin]

Nothing about it not supporting 128GB of RAM at those speeds

[drifting rose]

modern ps1-like games don't really capture how shitty a lot of them looked

which is not a complaint!

[fallow bronze]

Textures were warped, very very low res

[drifting rose]

I like the aesthetic, but it will die out with millenials because it looks like shit 😛

[sage ingot]

Running 4 sticks on am5 is not advised, vast majority of boards are daisy chain instead of t topology, which results in worse speeds/timings and stability for 4 stick kits. Current AM5 zen processors really aren't that good at handling memory @ high MT/s either, if you plan on getting a gaming setup, just get a two stick kit, lock the ram at 6kMT/s, tune the timings.

[hardy merlin]

That's mostly a work setup, with gaming on the side - hence why 7950 instead of 7800 and 128GB of RAM

[sage ingot]

well then, I guess it's up to you now to consider if 128gb>>96gb in your applications, 128gb 4 dimm will definitely be considerably slower in speeds compared to a 96gb 2 dimm setup

unless you really need the size, I'd go for a 2 dimm kit

or just change platform

[fringe salmon]

no point considering something in detail now since it was said its for later in the year when zen5 is out anyway or better boards

[sage ingot]

well then yeah, if you go for something that has better memory support it'll definitely be better

[sour smelt]

In other news just finished hardcore mode in Ghostrunner 2, quite like that game normally don't bother with ng+ type of things.

[grizzled bramble]

Did you like it more than Ghostrunner?

[hot spire]

I've seen 5600 256gb running on x670

Which is probably just luck

[sour smelt]

Did some things better did some things worse but overall I would say it's good.
Just could do without the motorcycle sections and fluff.
Hardcore mode definitely adds to it's levels.

[sage ingot]

nah it's probably a flagship motherboard with a won silicon lottery on cpu mem controller and the dimms themselves

long way between 5600 and 6400/6800 though

[fringe salmon]

256gb capacity support has been added to like all am5 boards by vendors earlier in the year

and most intel boards

[sage ingot]

it's not about them working, it's about them working fast

4dimms will work, but they will be considerably slower compared to 2dimm setups

which is less much than ideal for gaming on am5

[fringe salmon]

well no before the bios updates it was not supported at all

and if it matters for gaming depends, if you play at 4k it wouldnt matter

[sage ingot]

?

[fringe salmon]

if you are entirely gpu bottlebecked stock jedec ram speeds wont be any lower fps than fine tuned 6400 sticks

[sage ingot]

yeah true

[hot spire]

Also I'm pretty sure it's only MSI and gigabyte that support it at all

Most are only 48x4

[sage ingot]

actually I changed my mind, somehow running 256gb of ddr5 on a b650 board is a great idea

are there even non server grade 64gb dimms though?

[hot spire]

Don't think so

[sage ingot]

I guess one just has to wait till they come out

[grizzled bramble]

Woot! preload is live

[still spire]

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/05/shift-up-considering-stellar-blade-pc-version-and-sequel-cross-platform-project-code-named-project-witches

[still spire]

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1792598123312984575

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to Kirby Air Ride because the logo added extra waiting time for the player.

"If you take one second from each user, that means you’ll be taking 10,000 seconds from 10,000 people. The more this repeats over the years, the more time

Twitter · May 20, 2024, 4:47 PM

[young crow]

i bet that guy runs ms-dos because windows takes too long to boot

[still spire]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/778887485400154132/1242353614479954000/1716266120505514.png?ex=664d8777&is=664c35f7&hm=b94a07136764cfeae91cf9ab2e53886ce8bfdcd295b9b4df31461b69210d8680&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=800&height=898

[maiden tulip]

Wa stellar blade even good

You kept talking about it

But

Have you played it

And was it good

[still spire]

I played the demo

It was pretty good

[pure bear]

it has ass, thats enough for goty

apparently

[still spire]

Yes

[maiden tulip]

Videogames need more pp

Too much tits and ass

[pure bear]

rust

[still spire]

Pokemon has plenty of PP.

[clever elk]

https://x.com/kingdomhearts/status/1792722028354818287?s=46

KINGDOM HEARTS (@KINGDOMHEARTS) on X

Kingdom Hearts is coming to Steam!

#KingdomHearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind (DLC) launch on June 13th 👑

Twitter · May 21, 2024, 1:00 AM

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-and-take-my-money-futurama-fry-take-my-money-money-gif-15195954

I’ve heard KH3 isn’t worth it but holy fuck I do not care I’ve been waiting for these for so long

[maiden tulip]

my cat likes cheetos

[pure bear]

i can haz cheeto

[still spire]

DO not give them money

They waited years to put it on Steam and even a 50% discount would be a joke 😛

[clever elk]

I’ve legit not bought any KH since ps2

I think all would be like 100 😭

[hardy merlin]

That's another step in Square Enix' "We fucked up with NFTs and we gotta get money back, lots of money, fast" strategy?

[clever elk]

Put their games on steam

Isn’t it also a publishing thing?

Like FF games and KH were both originally PS only

And we all know how Sony is

[hardy merlin]

First they said that they "aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs", causing havoc in PS camp
Now, just a few days later, KH on PC?
And that's all just after end of fiscal year? Shareholders must've been not happy

[clever elk]

Square enix said this?

[hardy merlin]

#🎮│game message

[clever elk]

I think most companies now just gonna release shit on steam because how much money they can make from it

Apart from GTA 6

They’ll release that like 2 years after

Man I wanna get KH

Loved the series since I was a kid playing on the PS2

[trim rock]

Well yeah when the EGS exclusivity bucks stop coming in it's time for Steam

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, I don't like those delays in release
Perfectly good game, but they decide to delay it nonetheless

[clever elk]

Publishers hate us pc users

Price in epic 💀 this shit gonna be at least £100 😭

[still spire]

It's not worth it

For sure

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKmczMfqb7o

[bleak pike]

The verdict is?

[still spire]

Great movie, terrible game.

[novel umbra]

[trim rock]

Surprise

[hardy merlin]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/867210/view/4155211502147981235

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/mMKZQLRkyfU

[trim rock]

Oh

[still spire]

Guess Ninja theory is on the chopping block

[proper basin]

Crazy what a single tweet does

[trim rock]

What tweet

[proper basin]

1 promotion tweet

Just said the release date

[trim rock]

Wait that game came out?

[proper basin]

Yeah just did today

[novel umbra]

for a game that had like 6 months of marketing

gg

[still spire]

The team expanded from 20 people to 80 people with the sequel. The budget was increased from a few million to "Unlimited" by Microsoft

And this is the result of 7 years of dev time...not a good look

Also they're forcing shit on players, i.e, letterboxing the game like The Evil Within did to 21:9 AR so it looks more like a movie. You can't get rid of the black bars without mods.

I mean, I game on Ultrawide, but forcing 21:9 onto 16:9 is just as fucked up as not supporting UW 😛

[proper basin]

Yeah im expecting the ninja theory chopping block then

[still spire]

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/news/dlss-hellblade-2-serum-ships-at-sea/senuas-saga-hellblade-2-geforce-rtx-3840x2160-nvidia-dlss-3-desktop-gpu-performance.png

[vapid lintel]

That's disappointing

[small comet]

what do you mean disappointing.... this chart wont make you spend 2grand or more on a gpu?

[proper basin]

:)

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/6uT8wGtB3yQ

[grizzled bramble]

Will see how it runs soon 🤓

[hot spire]

2k for 50fps

[small comet]

sounds like a fair deal if you ask nvidia

[maiden tulip]

I wasn't very hyped for the game personally

Looks cool but not a day one purchade for me

[pure bear]

its a game you can just watch a lets play of

and with that performance I will

[maiden tulip]

Is that graph not with RT?

[small comet]

it only says max settings. unless the game auto enables RTX for that which it shouldnt imo

[pure bear]

my gpu is a bit older too

but this is atrocious regardless

[small comet]

tbf its also 4k

[hot spire]

I mean max settings at high res should always completely bog the fastest gpu

If it runs fine at normal settings

[fringe salmon]

here I fixed the graph

[small comet]

i dont agree with this at all

running barely above 60 on high end cards ok

but this is a shit show imo

[sage ingot]

mmmm framegen so good

[grizzled bramble]

Graphics menu have something like this in it 🧑‍💻 (Have not changed any settings and with TSR from the get go it's around 50fps, Nvidia DLSS pushes that to ~76fps & everything on high)

[small comet]

no rtx?

[grizzled bramble]

Not under the graphics menu

[vapid lintel]

What's disappointing about it is the fact that my GPU isn't even listed and is likely only going to be playable with DLSS... Not sure if this is the first sign that a game I want to play actually taxes my system legitimately or if it's not well optimized

[small comet]

dont put it on high?

or play at lower res?

[vapid lintel]

Oh I didn't even notice that said 4k res

My monitor is only 1440p

Noice

[grizzled bramble]

Using 1440p too

[vapid lintel]

That's the sweet spot tbh

Unless one is a sweaty CS2 gamer or something I guess

[small comet]

then youd want 800x600

[vapid lintel]

Nah 4k just turn off teeth rendering

[sage ingot]

high, stable framerate >>> higher res

[buoyant osprey]

CRT enjoyer?

[vapid lintel]

I feel like that statement would fit well in the meme of King of the Hill where Bobby is holding a sign in the classroom window and Hank tells him that those kids would be angry if they knew how to read

[sage ingot]

x)

[small comet]

not anymore

[fallow bronze]

You sweat when playing cities skylines 2?

[small comet]

yes

who wouldnt with how horrible it turned out (in my opinion)

[vapid lintel]

At least you got beach properties for free

[vapid lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/joke-jokes-comedy-louis-de-funes-satire-gif-15238043164121937076

[hot spire]

Like i said, if it runs well at normal settinfs

[blazing bobcat]

settled on my valorant wooting profile, it feels unfair sometimes how good this is

[maiden tulip]

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ign-entertainment-acquires-eurogamer-gi-vg247-rock-paper-shotgun-and-more

[trim rock]

Great

[vapid lintel]

/s

[maiden tulip]

ign be like

no need to be competitive

If we are the competition

[pure bear]

g*mers

[bleak pike]

That's nuts

I didn't even know there was so much under one company!

I always thought digital foundry was independent...

Oh shares

Not full ownership

[fringe salmon]

didnt shill nvidia hard enough for them to get bought in time

[pure bear]

now wait till you find out newspaper and tv channels are the same

[pulsar prism]

Just what we need more homogenized media outlets

[drifting rose]

DF says they belong to gamer network

I dunno how it works legally, seems more than just "owning shares"

[trim rock]

I always thought DF was part of Eurogamer

[drifting rose]

gamer network is the parent company of eurogamer, gamesindustrybiz and a bunch of others that are hardly relevant anymore

[maiden tulip]

https://youtu.be/ceVYZG7Ea8s?si=sl6d8DVCR1JuqVw-

[maiden tulip]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/playstation-london-studio-has-officially-closed-its-doors/

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/2nzxe6doit1d1.png?auto=webp&s=6ec5a4ad53b46f4459001e57511417af195f2ec4

[barren pewter]

deathloop gets nasty mem leaks
now I just get crashes after a solid couple hours of playing

[pure bear]

so this is what the packaging was on about

[still spire]

https://quanticfoundry.com/2024/05/21/strategy-decline/

I mean they killed the RTS Genre

Makes sense

[hardy merlin]

Shouldn't Paradox games with all DLCs cost a small fortune that wouldn't be the case, just saying

€300 or so for complete Stellaris, come on...

[vapid lintel]

Stellaris hasn't been playable for years

[fallow bronze]

wat

[hardy merlin]

If you're not playing strategy games, you have on average 6.75 IQ points less

[bleak pike]

Good or bad?

[deft bloom]

yes

[still spire]

Bad

[frosty breach]

Secret mw3 2011 cutscene found after 13 years

[bleak pike]

But I remember that

Oh nvm

Shadow man

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/y43sgw5x8z1d1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=39be835fbd000e76465d3c337f90406b30a7d435

[orchid prism]

No shit?

They're in capable hands then.

[bleak pike]

Who

[small comet]

shams jorjani

https://twitter.com/ShamsJorjani

Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) on X

Video game "enthusiast". Former Chief Chaos Pilot at Paradox Interactive. Not a vampire.

Twitter

this mans

[frosty breach]

This was just recently posted a few days ago xD shadowman hehe he looks like hudson

[orchid prism]

You probably don't know him, if you're not either a Paradox Interactive weeb or in Twitter gaming 😛

[still spire]

https://x.com/xDiorCS/status/1793240111435420149?t=Qp6qkmvwnXV-JpDB9qZ4jg

Dior (@xDiorCS) on X

With approx. $80b CCE, Microsoft is preparing an offer of $16b for Valve

No stock, all cash

Twitter · May 22, 2024, 11:18 AM

[hot spire]

Doubt Gabe would sell

[frosty breach]

If steam gets bought my microsoft i will kms

XD

[hot spire]

Key management server?

XD

[still spire]

Gabe wouldn't sell, not even close1

16b is massively undervalued regardless

[small comet]

also pretty sure valve was over 10billion USD years ago

[still spire]

I mean, in 2021, Valve generated 12b in profit...and that number has surely gone up

[small comet]

im not sure if maybe m$ goes after gabes ex wife?

idk if she ever got some company shares

[still spire]

She did

Gabe lost a lot to her

[small comet]

wonder if it came out of gabes shares or generally she got company shares

as long as gabe still holds the majority ownership wed be fine if m$ just buys his wifes shares

[still spire]

Gabe has 25% ownership

[small comet]

any public records to show as much?

[fringe salmon]

Nope it’s just Forbes estimating or similar

[small comet]

all i can find publicly is gabe has 50.1%

at least

[hot spire]

Gabe owns 50.1 the rest is employee shares

[small comet]

yes and the question is what shares did gabes ex wife get in the divorce if she got any

or did gabe already buy those shares back

[hot spire]

He likely just pays alimony

[narrow junco]

16b is really low considering they make 1 billion+ on csgo cases each year

And that‘s not counting steam or other games they have

[hot spire]

She was always very private, and not everyone wants a billion dollars

His kids will inherit the wealth either way.

Gabe has stated that

It's extremely hard to value private companies that don't take investments

You need to see their books

[still spire]

Maybe if it was an offer of 160 billion

[fringe salmon]

If no project of his is limited by money no amount of money would make sense for him to accept

[still spire]

Agreed

Just saying

16B is a joke offer

[fringe salmon]

I mean it’s some random account throwing out some random number

[still spire]

Well people only bit to it because Microsoft has in the past tried to buy Valve and expressed interest in doing so

[sour smelt]

Also no way in hell Microsoft could even meaningfully be allowed to buy out valve at this point even if they wanted to.

[drifting rose]

in not-stupid world, that might hold true

[quiet vault]

add every steam game to gamepass

[fallow bronze]

Valve only own a few games.. Steam is nothing like gamepass

[quiet vault]

i mean every game that is on steam

[trim rock]

Yes

Steam pass

[quiet vault]

https://x.com/mw3codinformer/status/1793348595397116269?s=46

Modern Warfare III Informer (@MW3CODInformer) on X

HUGE: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will launch on the XBOX GAME PASS on day 1!

Huge win for Xbox & PC players! 🎉

(Per WSJ)

Twitter · May 22, 2024, 6:29 PM

[nimble current]

https://www.shacknews.com/article/139961/arrowhead-game-studios-new-ceo-shams-jorjani

madlad steps down from position as ceo to go work on the development team frontlines

[maiden tulip]

https://goombastomp.com/arrowhead-games-aims-to-become-the-next-from-software-or-blizzard/

[maiden tulip]

He also says he wants his studio to be more like blizzard

LMAO

[fringe salmon]

ehh not quite

[maiden tulip]

Still made me chuckle

[fringe salmon]

When we were growing up, we really wanted to work at Blizzard, it was one of the bucket list places to work at. I think Arrowhead has the potential to be that.

[maiden tulip]

I know it's not quite

But considering blizzard's image today

I couldn't help but have a little laugh

[fringe salmon]

fair just trying to jump ahead of people willingly misreading it xD

[nimble current]

correction, like blizzard when it was actually good i.e. the 90s-early 00s days

but yeah the headlines didn't do that quote any favors whatsoever, which am guessing was intentional for clickbait whoring because the absolute state of modern journalism

[pure bear]

game journalist title

just call em the dark souls of indie studios

smh

[orchid prism]

https://twitter.com/gameralphabeta/status/1793280018220507153

Will Smith intensifies.

Alpha Beta Gamer (@gameralphabeta) on X

SAND - a desert-punk base-building FPS with walking ships in a sea of sand!

Beta Sign Up: https://t.co/vlQJ17aiuf

by #gamedev @sandthegame & published by @tinyBuild #indiedev #indiegames #gaming

Twitter · May 22, 2024, 1:57 PM

https://tenor.com/view/wild-wild-west-will-smith-gif-12810269

[nimble current]

yep way to leave out any actually relevant information from the article in the headline and make it as sensationalist as possible

[fringe salmon]

uhh but thats kinda of what they said? they want their studio to be like fromsoft or what people thought of about blizzard

I want to see how high we can fly. And bringing Shams on board, we have a good potential to realise that future of turning into the next From Software or Blizzard.

like thats almost verbatim quoting him

[nimble current]

leaving out that tiny insignificant part detailing which decade/era of blizzard they're referring to

[pure bear]

does he want to drink employees breastmilk or not

[nimble current]

to someone just seeing the headline they'll assume arrowhead wants to introduce $100 warbonds and paid armor colors

or that

[pure bear]

yeah I wouldnt touch blizzards name without a major disclaimer like "old blizzard reputation" or sth

[fringe salmon]

I mean if you leave out the word fromsoftware I guess

[nimble current]

tbh most people not into jrpg or souls games woulda had to google that regardless

like if you didn't grow up having a playstation chances are you'd only know about them now because of elden ring

[pure bear]

nah dark souls

if you hadnt heard of from before er well

idk what to say

[drifting rose]

they were not totally unknown before DS, but needless to say King's Field did not have the wide audience that DS later had

(PS if you like DS, King's Field 3 on the PS1 is a rather cool game, has the same kind of a world on its last legs)

[pure bear]

gotta play lunacid one of these days

i just struggle with stsrting a new game atm

[drifting rose]

oh that looks based, I finished Shadow Tower not too long ago and kinda wished there'd be more

re: starting new games: kinda hard for me myself lately. best I found is to eliminate distractions. tidy up the place, get work done, have nothing else on my mind when I start up the game

[pulsar prism]

Soul sacrifice is pretty good if you can play vita/psp games

[nimble current]

had heard of dark souls prior to ER but at that time I didn't know who developed it

[orchid prism]

https://youtube.com/shorts/YZTSvXOnTEA
Time to mod ALL the things.

[small comet]

oh boi the speedrunning community will love that

[deft bloom]

what is all this talk about ubisoft's new game sexdeviant?

[grizzled quarry]

Fps game that was supposed to release like almost 2 years ago iirc

Was supposed to be a cod competitor but got delayed for like 2 whole cods

It felt good for the first few play tests but felt like shit after

[deft bloom]

volvo leaking anti-lag+ comeback or what is this

[fringe salmon]

guess so lol

[deft bloom]

and it's funny since it's a single release note, meanwhile in dota https://www.dota2.com/patches/7.36

[fringe salmon]

guess that makes it more likely we see rdna4 at computex

[deft bloom]

maybe they'll have a ps5 pro there too

[fringe salmon]

doubt it, sony would announce that and they do that at their own events

[deft bloom]

[fringe salmon]

https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/amd-radeon-anti-lag-2-technical-preview-now-available-in-counter/ba-p/686012

[frosty breach]

Its needed, game is hella unoptimized, even on my system i get more than 300fps and the game still feels sluggish and not fluid

[still spire]

https://thatparkplace.com/ubisoft-appears-to-confirm-assassins-creed-shadows-protagonists-yasuke-and-naoe-are-lgbtq/

We gonna have a gay black samurai, I cannot wait to read the shitstorm.

[fringe salmon]

loving it

ngl just because its such a shitstorm its making me debate if I want to pick it up as my fist ac game since brotherhood

[pulsar prism]

Hopefully it's improved since the antilag that got players banned with its scuffed implementation

[fringe salmon]

since its not driver based this time cant see that happen again

[proper basin]

Holy i actually read the article

[severe compass]

If this wasn't a Ubisoft game I would have been excited for it, however I really don't trust Ubisoft to make a good game at this point

[maiden tulip]

CONFUSED NOISES

[maiden tulip]

WAIT YOU CAN READ?

[proper basin]

barely

[maiden tulip]

https://tenor.com/view/teletubbies-shitstorm-shit-tinky-winky-panic-gif-5271138

[proper basin]

everything else is gibberish

[still spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/557809/

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/3jkr9xigp32d1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=7d8587751162d41bcb1619dfb0c2afd6ffd84d5e

[small comet]

if i pick it up itll only be on the open seas

[small comet]

so we went from character grounded in reality to pleasing some quota

great

[novel umbra]

wrong

yea nobunaga thought he was funny

[novel umbra]

I mean all they say regarding that topic is this, which essentially just says that the two main characters are attracted to "different types of people"

which could essentially just mean that both are straight

or just that they have different preferences

[hardy merlin]

Already semi-protected

[novel umbra]

has been for ages I assume

[hardy merlin]

May 19, 2024

[small comet]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1css0ye/was_yasuke_a_samurai/
i mean given that japanese historians seem to have the proof of backing up he was a samurai id say he was

and the reason the blog post a bit up mentioned they are lgbtq is that they contracted a prof thats an lgbtw activist and also states of themselves I am interested in investigating how gender, sexuality, corporeality, and power are represented and negotiated in pre-seventeenth-century Japanese narratives and illustrations.

to a non japanese historian i read that he was considered a fully fledged samurai, he was black, not much is known about him (so great for inserting into a custom story) but i also cant find much sources on the sexuality of samurai

[novel umbra]

I mean he at least had equal standing to a samurai with a much debated position

[small comet]

i have only seen him getting the same rewards as a samurai, having his own blade and following nobunaga into a war campaign

which would be things that make him a samurai

[novel umbra]

he got to join the senate but did not attain the rank of a master

[small comet]

i mean afaik samurai are a somewhat fluid thing without official ceremonials

like knights basically

[novel umbra]

idk in the end the only thing funny about it is how ubisoft forces diversity in their games

[novel umbra]

which weren't really a fluid thing

[small comet]

becoming a night was pretty straight forward

some years of being a squire, some fighting and done

you would most likely be knighted

(not that youd live too long after anyway)

the main hurdle of knighthood and just being a knight/samurai is surviving for long

[hardy merlin]

You can thank investment companies/their shareholders for forcing ESG policies and working with consulting companies for that

[novel umbra]

was also kinda funny in xdefiant

starting roster is a black dude, a woman with a skin disease, a black woman and a guy that is fully masked up

[small comet]

isnt that an arena shooter with multi culti factions from multiple ubi franchises and historical times

[novel umbra]

would not say historical times

otherwise yea kinda

[small comet]

idk how else to say time

when refering to year

and setting

[novel umbra]

they are just from different franchises

and factions from said franchises

[small comet]

yeah but those franchises play at different years in their fictional universe

[novel umbra]

I would get it if the libertad or some drug cartel are all from said place

[novel umbra]

ah actually misremembered, not a black woman, she is a libertad member so something akin to like cubanian or something

fictious island nation

[acoustic fossil]

this must be fake:

[still spire]

It is

[acoustic fossil]

it makes zero sense

but yeah

[hardy merlin]

They can prepare all they want

[still spire]

160 billion would be a realistic offer, if Gaben even were open to selling

They hold the keys to the PC Gaming market lol

[acoustic fossil]

I hate gaben but yeah

[still spire]

Why do you hate Gaben?

[hardy merlin]

Oh, so again that all outlets are spreading fake rumours from ONE SINGULAR TWEET

[acoustic fossil]

The way he treats his community and company over the years is disgusting

[still spire]

Huh

[hardy merlin]

How Gaben treats community?

[acoustic fossil]

Just watch every single MP game they released

it's a shitshow to say at least

[still spire]

Wat

[hardy merlin]

Dota 2 is in amazing state to this day

[still spire]

So are all their other games, dating back to 1998

[novel umbra]

cs copers

[acoustic fossil]

there are amazing cheaters maybe yes.

Most of the modes are massivly unbalanced like the heros

[narrow junco]

idk why you'd blame gabe of all people for the cheaters

its not like he is the one running botfarms

also what valve game is massively unbalanced

🤨

[hardy merlin]

Dota 2

[acoustic fossil]

because they are a multimillion scammer/lootcase company and not able to release a functional anti-cheat over the last 15 years of gaming

[narrow junco]

idk i feel like they are doing an ok job

[hardy merlin]

Team Fortress is in a shite state, I can agree to that, but even then they released x64 patch which fixes a lot

[narrow junco]

while also not compromising their player's security

unlike everyone else

• kernel level anti cheat doesnt even help

[hardy merlin]

Kernel-level anti-cheat for everyone!

[narrow junco]

so like, why bother

[acoustic fossil]

security in 2024 xD okay

[novel umbra]

first of all, they are a multibillion dollar retailer

second of all a functional anticheat means it has to be borderline spyware

[narrow junco]

tbh, their approach of using less intrusive anti cheat + detection based on ai that can catch the most obvious cheaters without the need of an intrusive anti cheat is good enough

at least for cs

[hardy merlin]

You can bypass kernel-level AC with kernel-level driver, so...
But yeah, detection-based deep learning/AI AC may help

[narrow junco]

lets ignore tf2, that game's lost

[acoustic fossil]

I don't talk about kernel anti-cheat I talk about they have 3 big MP games which are unplayable on a semi-professional level because cheaters take over since forever and they ultimatly have enough money to and time to release a functional anti-cheat

[hardy merlin]

[novel umbra]

no anti cheat is actually 100% functional and to get close you have to be incredibly intrusive

[narrow junco]

you can also just use an external device emulating input devices and now there's no way of detecting it ever using that machine

[novel umbra]

you can get direct ram access

undetectable

[narrow junco]

only thing that could catch cases like this would be detection based thing

[acoustic fossil]

So what? Who cares if there is a functional FAIR system? We live in 2024 never seen any news about Valorant/cod anti-cheat spying your stuff

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, DMA works too, but kernel-level drivers do their job, be it with EAC, BattlEye, Vanguard or whatever CoD has now

[acoustic fossil]

I don't see the "good enough" point since 15 years

[fringe salmon]

„Didn’t see news about it spying so it can’t be happening“ is what public thought about the NSA before Snowden too…

[small comet]

no matter what software based AC valve would put out the cheaters circumvent it. the only real solutions is processing inputs/outputs and framegen on server side (super laggy) or what valve is building rn which is spectating matches from all player views at the same time and using AI to filter out cheaters

[narrow junco]

people cant see you if you hold your hands in front of your face

[acoustic fossil]

you can even hide it in your own anti-virus

[novel umbra]

no

[hardy merlin]

Overwatch + Trust Factor did a pretty good job tbf, dunno why they'd scrap that

[narrow junco]

i dont think they did

[novel umbra]

do they not use trust factor anymore

overwatch is gone for now

[narrow junco]

overwatch was turned off for cs2 but i think they brought it back?

[hardy merlin]

Oh, that I didn't knew about

[acoustic fossil]

true but who cares tbh? If you want someones data and stuff you will get it and I am pretty sure noone cares for data about gamers and tbh if you game on the same maschine you have nuclear code you should get rekt xD

[narrow junco]

they had an isssue with overwatch where cheaters botted a ton of accounts and then started to give bad info to overwatch so they got rid of it for a while

[novel umbra]

online banking is basically enforced nowadays, and I bet you get a whole lot of data out of your email inbox

[acoustic fossil]

Yes but to be honest here if cheaters are only 0.1% of all players none cares but for now every hillbilly can cheat and spinbot and valve just DON'T CARE and that is my main problem with the company and with Gaben, he just don't care and there is like zero communication

[novel umbra]

communication about trust factor reduced the effectiveness

[acoustic fossil]

ofc you can?

[hardy merlin]

So we should not work on better AC solutions, and just go with kernel-level ones, which are invasive and can be bypassed quite easily, got it

[narrow junco]

they do care tho and have ban waves all the time

like, there was a major ban wave last week

[small comet]

the main issue with kernel level anticheat i see is that it can be way more malware/virus like and anti viruses might never catch on. meanwhile the kernel level AC just shovels cheater/buyers to devs that make them which just improves their capabilities and youre back to the same cat and mouse game

[narrow junco]

[novel umbra]

in the end it doesn't really solve any issues

[acoustic fossil]

dude if I game on a PC I am gaming why would I use emails? I have a mobile phone for everything else I have a macbook

[novel umbra]

congrats to you

[small comet]

valve is taking the right approach imo investing into a new form of AC that doesnt run on anyones PC and cant be directly circumvented

[novel umbra]

not everyone is you

[narrow junco]

not everyone has the privilege to use a different computer for everything

[novel umbra]

I personally don't see a need for a different computer at home

and I don't wanna do all my email needs on a phone

[narrow junco]

also is your macbook connected to the same network as your pc?

cause then it it also at risk if you get a virus on your pc

[acoustic fossil]

it is clearly not that easy. Please compare cheating in Fortnite and Valorant with CS2 then you have your answer

[small comet]

it is that easy

[acoustic fossil]

you call "that" major? 😄

[small comet]

just gotta buy the right cheats

[novel umbra]

gotta consider where the player bases are, especially the ones of cheaters

[hardy merlin]

It's becoming to be that easy
EAC and BattlEye you can bypass with solutions you can find on GitHub nowadays
Vanguard is close to that, paid cheats are already very popular

[acoustic fossil]

but that is what I mean if someone WANT to get your data he will. If I spot a cheater within 1 in 10 games I am happy but not like in cs2 where every match has at least 1 cheater this is absurd

[novel umbra]

if someone WANTs access to my emails they won't just get it because they want it so bad

also if you get that many cheaters maybe your trust factor just sucks lol

[acoustic fossil]

it isn't but I don't think so It would be in risk. I think no hacker is interested in poor peoples data

[narrow junco]

hacker doesnt care

hacker will steal 100000 people's data and sell it to criminals in sets of 1000

[novel umbra]

they care about getting access to a multi million computer bot net

and fake identities

[hardy merlin]

Guess what would help with getting an access to your PC to create such a botnet
Something that already runs on your PC at all times and has unlimited access to it, kernel-level you could say

[acoustic fossil]

yeah but that is the problem. If you have to buy cheats its a hurdle more to take same for mobile number etc. there are enough mechanics to help against cheaters and valve did nothing. They now starting with AI and I think this is realy good but for now their games are unplayable on a higher level

[narrow junco]

hell, they could just use your computers to mine bitcoin or something if they had access

[hardy merlin]

Bitcoin mining is noticeable
But most of the people would not notice if they'd use your connection for DDoS

[acoustic fossil]

yes because I stopped playing 2 years cause of personal reasons. And if you don't play for this long time your trust factor is like -1000

[novel umbra]

you pretend like you know how trust factor works

[acoustic fossil]

guys we are talking about a GAMING Companys ANTI-CHEAT it is clearly not nasa or aluminium foil head stuff you know

[novel umbra]

because they could never get hacked

[small comet]

i thought trust factor uses the general steam positivity you bring not just cs

[acoustic fossil]

ofc you know how it works it's not rocket science -fkn slippery keys I missclick all the time

[acoustic fossil]

dude all of us are so connected in some way if they want to happen it will you know one more or less kernel/intrusive anti cheat will not matter. People who play cs play other games too (probably)

[hardy merlin]

One more or less... how about zero then?

[novel umbra]

they never published how it works

only that it encompasses basically all your activity on steam

[acoustic fossil]

before my timeout of cs I had zero problems at all. I had like zero cheaters in csgo it was very rare. After that timeout it's unplayable but not just for me for like every good player above 20k points in their main game mode

[acoustic fossil]

yes exactly but that doesn't make it unlogic in some way

[acoustic fossil]

then you should sell your PC and everything else connected and go on a barn or get farmer or something like that (without technology)

[hardy merlin]

Oh, I know full well I don't have any kernel-level anti-cheats on my PC, 100% sure about that
There's also plenty of games which don't use them at all

Nor is Microsoft spying on me, that I'm certain about too

[acoustic fossil]

do you use windows?

[hardy merlin]

No

[acoustic fossil]

then you are clearly no "PC gamer"

[grizzled quarry]

[hardy merlin]

What am I then?

[acoustic fossil]

I hope you know what you are 😄 if not it's okay too

Server caretaker/SysAdmin
Submissive and pingable

[hardy merlin]

Steam says I played 91 games last year, so I dunno

[grizzled quarry]

It's all lies

[acoustic fossil]

what MP games you playing if I may ask

[grizzled quarry]

There were never any games all along you filthy linux user

[hardy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/noo-toy-story-buzz-lightyear-gif-14664723

[hardy merlin]

Dota 2 and Apex, mostly

[small comet]

tmw you dont know linux also supports MP games

[acoustic fossil]

so with the information I have you never played and other game then Steam games right?

[acoustic fossil]

I know that linux has steam but not every game supports it I guess

[hardy merlin]

I dunno, I have like... 360 games on Steam, 150 on GOG, several boxes of CDs and DVDs when I was a kid too

[small comet]

shush calslock youre not a PC gamer cause you dont use windows

[grizzled quarry]

Amen, filthy pleb

[acoustic fossil]

So I am pretty sure if a hacker want's you date he will get it even if you have no intrusive anti-cheat

[grizzled quarry]

I don't think it's about a hacker more so windows/Microsoft itself

/whatever random Chinese anti cheat company

Cough vanguard

[acoustic fossil]

Yeah, that was falsely stated by me. I needed to say it differently.

[small comet]

wheres my fellow mac gamers at

[novel umbra]

windows 10/11 has steam but not every game supports it

[novel umbra]

[small comet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eZ2yvWl9nQ

mac is THE gaming platform

[still spire]

They have the most affective anti-cheat out there

[grizzled quarry]

Who's that

[still spire]

Valve

With VAC

[grizzled quarry]

Vac? Affective? Is this a fever dream

[acoustic fossil]

I should have said, if you haven't played the main MP games or at least tested them, you can't call yourself a legitimate MP gamer because you are very limited in the MP gaming world.

[grizzled quarry]

It's certainly gotten better but it's still shit

[fallow bronze]

MP = modpack right

[pulsar prism]

I did actually play Halo first on a mac, Halo 1 Demo multiplayer on blood gulch was fun

[hardy merlin]

I don't play competitive games because I couldn't give less of a fuck about them, I wanna have fun from gaming

[grizzled quarry]

Multiplayer I believe

[still spire]

And yet it's the most effective anti-cheat out there. So expecting one better is gonna be hard. 😛

[grizzled quarry]

In what way is it effective?

It's historically been the anti cheat cheat devs first learn to code around ac on

[acoustic fossil]

Yup, and that is 100% okay. But if you play at a high level in comp, fun is maybe 10% - just to throw out a random number xD.

[acoustic fossil]

you are clearly drunk dude 😄

[fallow bronze]

you play games not for fun?

[small comet]

yeah fun is 10% and the early burnout or career end is the other 90

[fallow bronze]

youre doing it wrong

[small comet]

and yeah unless esports is your career you should play games for fun... otherwise you prob play the wrong games

[grizzled quarry]

I mean I get having fun with competition, it's mostly why I main fps games, but if they aren't still fun for you that's an issue

[acoustic fossil]

I am fine 🙂

[small comet]

yeah but then you play it for the fun still

its just that the game and competition give you fun

[grizzled quarry]

Yeah idk what the fuck I was getting at with that point tbh LOL

[acoustic fossil]

Hmm, no, I see that differently. The need to play against other people is more important than having fun playing it. There is no perfect MP game out there, so maybe one day there will be one, and then I would suggest having fun! 😄

[small comet]

that sounds more like an addiction

"the need to play against other people"

[grizzled quarry]

Yeah the second that competitive-ness doesn't feel fun I just get off

[acoustic fossil]

it is yes

[fallow bronze]

get help?

[small comet]

id suggest looking into help with that addiction

[acoustic fossil]

and I am addicted to wooting stuff isn't that great 😄

[small comet]

like psychological help or such

[acoustic fossil]

nono I am completely perfect 😄

[fringe salmon]

if you play at a competitive level its either because its your job or because you have fun playing competitively, fun doesnt mean it cant be serious or low skill level

[fallow bronze]

and hes gone

[novel umbra]

no, not really

[nimble current]

pvp stopped being fun in like 2015 to me, the whole streamer boom made everyone tryhards, can't just join occasionally and play because you'll get destroyed until next week

did I also mention its toxic as all hell

[small comet]

could we not use that word nightman... i dont want anyone who has gone through things to relieve experience just cause they read it here when talking about games

[nimble current]

sorry man, lowkey feels like it sometimes but I'll keep that in mind

[small comet]

i get what you mean dw just a heads up to try and keep discussions friendly and welcoming

(also if you could edit it real quick and say destroyed or smth would be cool)

[nimble current]

then you got games like wows where hyper reactions and perfect aim isn't as important but you're instead punished for playing good by rng done by manatee ball basket

[small comet]

pls no not wows....

i still dont get how a friend still plays it daily for hours

[orchid prism]

It's so...slow.

[nimble current]

that's the fun of it, whatever you do now will either achieve greatness or bite you in the ass 5 minutes later

[small comet]

tbh i liked the more slow gameplay

[nimble current]

you have to plan your move way in advance