🎮│game

[still spire]

https://wiki.special-k.info/en/SpecialK/Tools Very useful and has some FFXVI specific fixes

[orchid prism]

Yes - And Nintendo are begging for it on a near daily basis at this point, with how they treat everyone around them.

[still spire]

People have been begging for Nintendos downfall for like at least a decade

[orchid prism]

But removing Nintendo from the equation, patent hogging is probably one of THE most essential ways to ensure absolutely no innovation happens in gaming.

[still spire]

They deserve it

[orchid prism]

"We invented a new way to do thing - no one else can do this for a generation now, fuck you"

[still spire]

Also Nintendo trademarked the patent like 2 months ago

Palworld was like January

[hardy merlin]

Patents work retroactively? That'd make no sense

[orchid prism]

No.

Atleast not past a pretty short time limit of releasing something, and then patenting it within a year or so.

[hardy merlin]

I bet it's just patent troll lawsuit, like something like "uh... Pal Spheres are circular, too similar to Pokeballs", so they'll just change shape of it and move on
Nintendo just wants to waste their time and money

[orchid prism]

They threw a sphere at a creature to capture it - we totally didn't patent that a month ago, for a franchise that's done this for a generation at this point

Remember having minigames on loading screens? Exactly - Because Capcom patented that shit back in the PS1 era like the locusts they are.

[small comet]

are they even doing anything with that lol

[hardy merlin]

Wasn't that Namco? I remember playing those while Tekken was loading

[small comet]

it was bandai

but apparently its also expired

[orchid prism]

Yep that's my bad. Wrong Japanese studio 😄

Not sure why I remembered Capcom as being the ones who did Ridge Racer.

[hardy merlin]

Still, yeah, that's the point, lots of such patents which suck fun out of the world

[orchid prism]

It is such a perfect example of why patents like this should be prohibited. They don't protect a product in the traditional sense.

[narrow epoch]

Can they redo FF14 again from the start like they did before? Why do MMOs still have 742 buttons to press?

[orchid prism]

I... I don't know.

[narrow epoch]

I think there should be a law against MMOs to have a maximum of 5 spell/skills allocated

[orchid prism]

I used like 3 hotbars worth of keys (number row) to have the essentials for any fight.

[narrow epoch]

Exactly... shit is dumb

[hardy merlin]

GW2 has a nice balance to it
5 weapon skills, 5 utility skills, 2~4 class-specific skills, that's it

[small comet]

so play wow with the 1 button rotations

i think having to be good at knowing what which spell does and knowing your rotations makes the game better especially when you cant just spam 1 rotation but you have to dynamically switch and adapt

id be happier if ffxiv finally shortens ARR and all the post expansion quests except the last expansions post quests

[narrow epoch]

You don't like the 50 points post-ARR quests?

Same thing to me as having 2 or 3 hotbars full of spells

Needlessly extra

Less is more

Like this kinda stuff was fun.... 15-20 years ago

I remember loving EverQuest when I was young The number of spells on hotbars adds complexity to the game

But games can be complex in a different way without having 100 buttons to press

[pastel bolt]

I had 5 hotbars full of spells and macros in WoW MoP and had no issue with it

everything keybinded

[narrow epoch]

It's not a matter of it being an issue to press the buttons

[pastel bolt]

it's a learning curve

the amount of spells only became an issue because they introduced purchaseable level boosts and it was too much to handle for new players

[narrow epoch]

The combat system is like that to add some kind of interaction while you're fighting

Because it's basically top down and not very immersive otherwise

Rather than having like a dodging system or whatever in Souls-likes

Your immersiveness is moving out of a circle on the ground

And pressing the correct rotations

The reason for that is because that was the best way to optimise a MMO because hardware wasn't good enough to make it immersive in a real combat style in the first place

Don't get me wrong I used to love MMOs and love the idea of MMOs, just.... I feel like they're not going to release a real immersive one any time soon and it's sad

Things like WoW and FF14 are good, just I feel they can do better

[pastel bolt]

only thing i want from an mmo is for the classes to feel good to play but havent found such mmo after wow started falling off

everything is overly simplified now and i find it boring

[hardy merlin]

Capcoooom
Say when Wilds releases so I can plan a week off so I can spend it on bed - kitchen - bathroom - game loop with no human interaction

[pastel bolt]

ashes of creation looks alright tbf but i dont have high hopes

[narrow epoch]

It's still going in a similar direction though

But yeah does look decent

[pastel bolt]

at least the devs seem to acknowledge the issues with modern mmos and try to solve them instead of just copying whats popular

[solar ridge]

GW2 was so good oh my days

I just wish they didn't use their godawful engine

[hardy merlin]

Engine is nice
No matter if you have crap laptop or Top500 supercomputer - 10FPS on Tequatl fight for everyone

[solar ridge]

I just snapped when I got like 40 fps, leveling new toons in the halloween labyrinth

3080, 5800x, 32gb RAM 'FUCK THIS, THIS IS HORRIBLE'

Missing skillshots because of that

Don't get me started on world bosses

Next slide please

[hardy merlin]

Ah, good ol' world bosses...

Apple party

Would be nice to come back, I left in the middle of EoD
But I don't want to spend 8 hours per day farming again

[vital wyvern]

you just turn player count to minimum

problem solved enjoy 100fps

[vital wyvern]

just spend however much you want though:>

[hardy merlin]

That's not a good idea, I already promised I'll fix my sleep schedule
If only my old guild was back together
It was so much fun teaching new players raids

[still spire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1fk97ls/ah_literally_ruined_this_game/

[hardy merlin]

[still spire]

Look what a good patch can do, no new content at all, just buffs and bug fixes. Arrowhead needs to keep that trend 😛

[hardy merlin]

What making actually good balance changes and ignoring whiny babies on Discord can do

[solar ridge]

Only time that an operation health actually helped

[vital wyvern]

well you don't need to either play around the clock or not at all

you can just play a little here and there

[hardy merlin]

My brain doesn't work that way
I start playing, 5 minutes later 6 hours passed

[vital wyvern]

you can learn

you have agency and are not a victim of genetics 🧬

[hardy merlin]

[still spire]

What? Absolutely you are.

Bad sleep schedules are genetic

[hardy merlin]

Then it has absolutely no sense, because my parents have very normal sleep schedules

[still spire]

Well

Bad way to find this out, but you're adopted./

[hardy merlin]

That is also not true

[still spire]

And yet it is

[ripe tulip]

All linux users are adopted

[hardy merlin]

are you my mommy?

[ripe tulip]

Yes

[hardy merlin]

yay

[scarlet marlin]

[hardy merlin]

[fading spade]

[hardy merlin]

Hi Lana

[fading spade]

Hewwo ☺️

[sinful cobalt]

uhm it happened to me a few times

but those are the best times of my life LOL

[fading spade]

It's good
Means you are enjoying the game!

[sinful cobalt]

yes

[hardy merlin]

I do enjoy game
But my brain is telling me that I could do something else, something useful at the moment

[sinful cobalt]

idk when im playing i just turn my brain off and trying to have fun

[outer pollen]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/skyrim-lead-designer-says-it-will-be-almost-impossible-for-elder-scrolls-6-to-meet-fan-expectations-marketing-departments-just-put-their-heads-in-their-hands-and-weep/

[orchid prism]

After Starfield I expect nothing, and I shall still remain disappointed 😄

[outer pollen]

Starfield was such a let down, like I built an entire rig for that game thinking it was gonna be the No Man's Sky killer

[nimble current]

the elder scrolls series went downhill after morrowind anyways

[orchid prism]

The thing is - Starfield was touted to be the next big thing from Bethesda. A new IP to carry the studio for years to come. They spent YEARS on it, and it definitely needed another full year to be anywhere near what they promised and expected.

[orchid prism]

By Azura you are right.

[nimble current]

expecting TOS6 to be another milestone in mediocre gameplay and particularly horrible writing

and they'll blame the fans for not liking it again

[fringe salmon]

reasons to get TES6: probably a better base game to use for mods

[nimble current]

todd refuses to fire their narcissist hackjob of a writer

[dusky bolt]

Is Rapit-Trigger and Snappy-tappy still alowed in valorant? Or do i get baned using it?

[sinful cobalt]

Is still okay but #⏬│rappy_and_snappy

[hardy merlin]

Bullshit
Just make Skyrim 2.0 with bigger world, more NPCs and more side-quests
And people will happy

[fringe salmon]

that would be a good game but not what people expect

[vital wyvern]

if I was Bethesda I wouldn't even make a TES VI anymore

needed to be made 8 years ago, now it's too much hype that it will never ever live up to no matter what

[trim rock]

So it's a HL3 situation, aw man

[vital wyvern]

definitely a HL3 situation

[fringe salmon]

so TES6 needs to be a VR game, got it

[hardy merlin]

Eh, slap some simple main story to it and people will be happy
Starfield failed in the fact, that sure, playable area was huge... and empty
Quests are simple and boring fetch quests, from point A to point B - in Skyrim, while similar, you could stumble upon several different POIs along the way, no such thing in Starfield
And let people do what they want, and not like in SF - "oh sorry, you want to play as a space pirate? Well, you can't land on the planet because you stole a cup, in the jail you go"

[novel umbra]

it would be hard to make a bethesda-elder scrolls-esque map that is as bad as starfield

unless they just give you fast travel everywhere right from the start ig

[hardy merlin]

Oh yeah, another idiotic thing in Starfield
You don't have boosters for fast travel? Enjoy hopping through each planet and watching loading screens

[novel umbra]

the entire travel system just felt like they kept putting on more bandaids

[hardy merlin]

Point is - everyone and their mother knows what issues with Starfield are
All Bethesda needs to do is Skyrim 2.0 while avoiding these issues
Given their reputation and "meh, of course it's bugged, it's Bethesda", they can't go wrong with that

[nimble current]

starfield seems to have finally broken that curse

only problem is they also removed whatever soul their games used to have too

[silver garden]

The meme finally happened

[nimble current]

https://tenor.com/view/wow-gif-20411229

bullytendo never learn

[sinful cobalt]

2nd try ?

[novel umbra]

wait what

apparently over a pokemon sleep patent?

ok that was just soem reddit guy posting something, but it is a patent lawsuit

[hardy merlin]

As for now they only said they're filing a lawsuit, not that they're suing them per se
So it may as well end before it even happened

[novel umbra]

ok another speculation was this one https://patents.justia.com/patent/20240286040

which actually is applicable to palworld, but also like any other game with a mount system

In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target object is selected by a selection operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground, the player character is automatically changed to the state where the player character is aboard the ground boarding target object, and brought into the state where the player character can move on the ground.

[silver garden]

So.. ground to air transitions are patented? What?

[novel umbra]

yea, software patents are stupid

[silver garden]

Well, time to sue every game that has planes out there as well.

[nimble current]

yes nintendo thinks they singlehandedly invented video games and all the mechanics involved in them

[fringe salmon]

people don't remember Crazy Taxi HUD-arrow patent?

[nimble current]

crawl back into your dungeon and work on some new underpowered and dated hardware nintendo

its what you do best

and releasing mario and zelda games for another 400 years

[fringe salmon]

this arrow was patented from sega up till 5 years ago

[still spire]

I really hate patent law

I get there are many good sides

But still.

[fringe salmon]

it can be easily abused sadly yeah

just like copyright law, but we do need both

[still spire]

Should be a 20 year maximum duration

[nimble current]

imagine trying to patent a 3D pointing arrow in the sky

[fringe salmon]

well that is when patents expire xD

[nimble current]

#justnintendothings

[still spire]

Supposed to

Copyright as well

20 years max, no extension

5 years max for life saving drugs

[fringe salmon]

agreed some should be shorter like medication

but copyright does have valid reasons to no just be 20 years

not in every case, but in many

[orchid prism]

What gets to be patented in the first place is more of a debate.

"Arrow floating above car" is such a weak patent idea. It's as if the GPS doesn't exist or something.

If you can patent that, then there's realistically nothing stopping you from patenting a vaguely stapled together hotchpodge of game mechanics or an entire genre.

[fringe salmon]

there's a reason this patent expired 5 years ago because its so old and wouldnt get granted these days anymore

and its why it was quickly moved on to gps showing up on minimap as a line instead of weird floating arrows

[orchid prism]

The Nemesis system?

That was recent enough, so I don't agree that "wouldn't get granted these days" is particularly valid 😄

Nintendo/Pokemon Company filed a patent when developing Pokemon Legends: Arceus involving the player moving a crosshair/cursor over a battling character with the control stick to aim a thrown object that can capture them, as well as being able to aim a crosshair/cursor to throw an object in that area that releases a battling creature.

This sure sounds like something unique and innovative doesn't it? (Heavy sarcasm may be implied)

[fringe salmon]

did that get granted or did they just file it

[orchid prism]

Just filed.

The lawsuit that is. Supposedly they sought the patent earlier this year.

For now it's all speculation until the court gets involved. There's no details about the patents I can find (that is specific numbers you can look up), so this is why most experts say "they're probably reaching", cause it's all so vague.

But the intent is there - And desperation.

[fringe salmon]

you're a few weeks late

[orchid prism]

Que?

[tranquil salmon]

They also patented the item combination system and driving system from tears of the kingdom, things they didn't even do first and where granted the patents.

[fringe salmon]

oh someone posted valve banning snappy

[orchid prism]

[still spire]

As they should

[fringe salmon]

I'm just confused how its not a game setting with people using nullmovement cancel scripts in tf2 since I can remember and probably the same in csgo

[novel umbra]

getting a patent and having it hold up in court are 2 things tho

like they have a patent on the ultrahand not being able to lift stuff he stand on top of

which would not hold up in court, since nuts and bolts had that feature already

I guess people should just accept that nintendo is becoming increasingly anticompetition and more importantly anticonsumer

[orchid prism]

It shouldn't be the case.

[novel umbra]

yes, that is the sad reality tho

[orchid prism]

When you apply for a patent, that is where the ruling should lie.
It shouldn't be a "well maybe, let's see down the road" wishy washy outcome.

You either have a patent for exactly what you applied for - or it gets rejected.

[fringe salmon]

No the patent holds but if it covers something someone else with not enough differentiation is the point for courts usually

[quiet vault]

https://x.com/pirat_nation/status/1836743786149368080?s=46

Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) on X

Steam is giving out refunds for GTAV since it doesn't work on Linux.

Twitter · Sep 19, 2024, 12:26 PM

[orchid prism]

Lazy fucks, but at least they do something

[still spire]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/pocketpair-hires-identical-lawyers-with-guns/

[still spire]

Space Marine 2 lmao

[novel umbra]

what

[orchid prism]

Bro just admit you're lazy af, and that you cba to mirror all animations.

[still spire]

THEY ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH FoV

Do not shame them. 😛

[fading spade]

Oh....I may have to go that ....

[quiet vault]

https://x.com/playstationeu/status/1836782950400045125?s=46

PlayStation Europe (@PlayStationEU) on X

Timeless ‘90s style returns ✨

Unveiling the PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection, launching 21st November: https://t.co/GkuuD2XZOH

Twitter · Sep 19, 2024, 3:02 PM

[scarlet marlin]

nostalgia money bait

it will work

[quiet vault]

bruh

[nimble current]

30th anniversary, thanks sony for reminding me am ancient

also am pretty sure it launched in 1995 in most markets

[fringe salmon]

early access anniversary

[heavy gull]

how long until dbrand puts out a skin similar to this lol

[digital dawn]

before playstation releases this fs

they’re too quick over there

[quiet vault]

the cable tho

[sudden prawn]

https://youtu.be/7M2kFOzax0w?si=3N7saXaRuI7pc0HF

[buoyant osprey]

I like how it looks. Almost makes me want one myself until I remember how it has no games.

[fringe salmon]

it'll have gta6

[buoyant osprey]

Box is great.

[fringe salmon]

the color scheme does work great with the design tbf

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/look-how-they-massacred-my-boy-godfather-sad-cry-hurt-gif-16433641

[buoyant osprey]

Wonder how expensive it will be. Non-nostalgia bait PS5 Pro starts at 9 500 NOK here which is $900 USD.

And at that point I would much rather save up for a pc.

[grizzled bramble]

Oh that one is nice

Are those editions locked behind a giveaway too?

[fringe salmon]

no just limited edition and preorders starting in a week

[grizzled bramble]

Ok

[lucid lava]

Probably same price at 700

They know it’s expensive and need to move units

[grizzled bramble]

Just dislike that Logitech made that G502 Alu have to get raffled off in giveaways

[buoyant osprey]

It's limited edition. Around 10k units or something. This will sell out regardless of the price.

[lucid lava]

Good on sony if it does, making scalpers buy it for them in hopes to flip for a profit

[lucid lava]

PS5 came out now 4 years ago

1 more year will make it 5

That’s usually the console cycle

[fringe salmon]

wym

[grizzled bramble]

Only game I'd probably play is GTA 6 early because of the later PC release lol

[fringe salmon]

the usual console cycle is like 8 years

[lucid lava]

True that

[nimble current]

last 4 years is totally going to turn things around!

[fringe salmon]

I mean, nothing needed to turn it around, if it just stays on course it's going to be a good generation for sony

[drifting rose]

speaking of ancient shit, I just put some vinyl film on this set but it looked way better in my head

I'mma rip it down and try something else

[drifting rose]

great time to honor their legacy. I'll buy it when it's cheap as dirt, I hope they don't mind

[orchid prism]

If only it was low sheen.

Otherwise I dig the look.

[drifting rose]

I'll look at it tomorrow with fresh eyes and decide if I still hate it

[buoyant osprey]

https://youtu.be/oED47sPS0dQ
'Meets God of War'
Oh no...

'Can Bioware meet old Bioware instead?'
Yes please.

[orchid prism]

So even further removed from the original. Delightful 😄

That intro is hilariously bad.

137 FPS on WHAT hardware you nVidia shillfucks!

[buoyant osprey]

Well. Game might still be better than Inquisition. Idk.

[maiden tulip]

I personally don't mind something different

[orchid prism]

I wouldn't either - If Origins was still a series that was continued.

[buoyant osprey]

Each release is less of an RPG.

[orchid prism]

I don't like this third person, dark souls, rolling around like sonic. I want my pausable tactical RPG back.

[maiden tulip]

I prefer the RPG style but oh well what do you wanna do

[orchid prism]

Baldur's Gate but real time.

[maiden tulip]

I like it personally just less than the rpg style

[orchid prism]

It has a place - I just don't want it displacing the genre I loved the game for.

[maiden tulip]

If this was a spin off i think i could be better

What happenned to game devs making spinoffs

It used to be common

Nowadays not so mych

[orchid prism]

If God of War didn't have a decade long break, people would probably be equally pissed at the severe genre change to what it is now.

[maiden tulip]

I do hope we get a classic style GOw again

[buoyant osprey]

12:39 in the vid looks just like an MMO.

[maiden tulip]

Problem is i like varying genres of games I play anything from strategy to jrpg to action games to racing games to shooters

I have preferences but I don't dislike any particular genre except puzzlers

[orchid prism]

Anyway... I am just so tired of Bioware these days. I don't wish failure on Veilguard, but I'd be lying if I wasn't excessively dissapointed in the series progression and the studio as a whole.

[maiden tulip]

I just hope they don't fuck up mass effect 4

._.

[buoyant osprey]

They are absolutely a shadow of their former selves.

[orchid prism]

Too late. They already did.

[maiden tulip]

Andromeda wasn't 4

[orchid prism]

Keep telling yourself that.

https://tenor.com/view/ralph-rolling-down-a-hill-lisa-simpson-the-simpsons-its-all-down-hill-from-here-gif-11541706

[maiden tulip]

I'll say

Andromeda had good combat

At least

The only redeeming thing

[drifting rose]

"my face is tired"

[buoyant osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/you-fucked-up-my-face-mitchell-hdtf-hunt-down-the-freeman-gif-14720565

[pastel bolt]

Tbf its not even the same company as it was 10 years ago, most of the good devs have quit

[buoyant osprey]

Yes. Companies don't make games, people do.

[drifting rose]

I couldn't believe how much hype there was initially about the SH2 remake
remaking a great game that still holds up?
made by walking simulator peddlers?
BOOOO

then the trailer hit to a collective "oh" and I feel vindicated

[gusty oar]

ah yes my entire deck in my hand

still turn 1

i didn’t even go yet rofl

[buoyant osprey]

The word on the streets now seems to be that people mostly like it. I don't.

[drifting rose]

I think it'll go the Robocop and Total Recall remake route - not bad but ultimately unremarkable among the myriad of horror games, and then people forget about it

if it's great in its own right - that would be the best outcome
if it sucks so hard it becomes entertainment - I'd be fine with that too

but the most boring outcome is the likely scenario imo

[buoyant osprey]

These are the character backgrounds you can choose in DA4.

And they are all goodie two shoes sadly.

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/psyduck-shake-head-pokemon-cute-gif-17397859

[buoyant osprey]

Every one is you defeating someone evil or rescuing someone. Why not one that is a bit more neutral?

Even the assassin one has you rescuing people.

[bleak pike]

Booba has muscle

https://tenor.com/view/drifter-destiny-oof-alright-alright-alright-gif-13749019

[buoyant osprey]

And let's be real it will at most just give you 10 new dialogue options.

[old zephyr]

guys where can i check for 80 HE profiles?

for csgo specifically

[orchid prism]

You kind of... don't? Cause they've only been shipping out for a couple of days.

Look for some 60HE profiles and see what kind of settings people are using.

New Nintendont lawsuit lore dropped

[fringe salmon]

thats one of their patents but is there any hint thats the one they allege was infringed upon?

[solemn zealot]

I remember reading a post from Palword on X today that their still investigation the lawsuit that Nintendo gave them, IMHO Palworld is more fun than any of the NEW Pokemon games

[orchid prism]

No not really. Until facts come out, it's all speculation from people digging through anything Nintendo patented.

Even the Palword Devs have said they weren't told what they supposedly infringed on specifically yet

[fringe salmon]

yeah I saw this one described someone so wasnt sure if you meant we now know its related or not

I'm just surprised its based on patents and not copyrighted works

[solemn zealot]

Lets hope Palword isnt gonna get removed from the stores because their game is simply better than the new pokemon games

Nintendo in general is really greedy when it comes to lawsuits and patents etc

[orchid prism]

I can only assume their lawyers found nothing they could realistically use when Palworld launched, and someone found a "gotcha" in patent law. Or at least they think so.

[fringe salmon]

well there was something that looked like they might have ripped off some models and basically just scaled them differently

but I never cared enough about the game to look into that

[digital dawn]

yeah but they're suing for a patent so realistically none of that matter in this case

[fringe salmon]

yeah hence my surprise about that

[solemn zealot]

Nintendo being Nintendo

[orchid prism]

Mhmm. I can only assume their lawyers concluded it wasn't worthwhile suing over that.

[digital dawn]

honestly a smart move if you think about it. characters could just be changed, if the patent that nintendo felt was infringed on is important to the core gameplay of palworld then the entire game either has to be changed or just get taken down entirely.

[orchid prism]

I suppose tine will tell. My anti Nintendo bias is obvious, and I pray they lose this hard and well. Hell if it is refused by the court, that's even better.

Tine? Tine.

[digital dawn]

tine

unfortunately japanese laws, especially patent laws, can be quite funky at times

[fringe salmon]

never played the game but my only grip with palworld has always been how some aspects were clearly copied as close as they could from toher games instead of just taking inspiration, but as long as they didnt actually clone some stuff that's still fine

[digital dawn]

im pretty sure a few assets here and there are just straight up ripped from or directly modeled after pokemon assets. disappointing to say the least.

[orchid prism]

Right. But an injunction would only affect Japan.

[orchid prism]

So many games do this.

[fringe salmon]

no it's an obvious difference if you look at two games and see if the sun wukong they use is inspired by the original monkey king or from the other game lol

[orchid prism]

Nintendo have had over a decade to provide demanding fans with something similar.

[fringe salmon]

it's not just nintendo

when I first saw a screenshot with UI I thought it was from Ark

[orchid prism]

Taking game concepts from other games isn't a crime.

And most of the games it borrows from were nowhere near original to begin with.

Something something Overwatch and LoL.

Something something moba and an FPS.

[fringe salmon]

yes but my point is if you see for example ninetails in pokemon and think thats cool and make your own ninetails insipried by the japanese myth thats normal and cool

[digital dawn]

im not sure if its been done to quite this extent before though. like its very clearly directly ripping off existing pokemon with almost no changes or creativity. like they for sure could have been more creative in the design process and could've come up with something actually original.

[fringe salmon]

but if you think it's cool and copy the design from nintendos ninetails and pretend its original just has the same inspiration thats lame

[rancid hearth]

I mean tbh, you can only make so many animal "creatures" before you start getting into lookalikes

[orchid prism]

There's over a THOUSAND Pokémon designs. And the vast majority of them are not original at all - in fact a ton of them are suspect inspirations from other IPs.

Which was brought up when Palworld was accused

[digital dawn]

theres a difference between "oh hey we made a similar design off a similar concept thats so crazy wow" and "yeah im just gonna take this thank you very much"

[fringe salmon]

nobody is saying lynch them if one of them dares to look similar, but if digimon and pokemon can coexist and none of them look like they are form the other genre you can do the same in palworld

[orchid prism]

Anyhow. Not what this suit is about whatsoever.

I am hopeful that Nintendo eats humble pie, and maybe reconsider if they should sue anyone just cause they have the power and money to do so.

Arbitrary lawsuits are very telling.

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pikachu-gif-17980295

[rancid hearth]

I mean, just take a look at digimon

[fringe salmon]

well, I'm waiting to see what they claim was infringed, even if its likely it's bogus, not like there is no chance to have legit claims

[orchid prism]

Legitimate in the eyes of the mafia law perhaps. Not morally or to the benefit of the people.

[fringe salmon]

no I mean morally legitimate

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/yu-gi-oh-seto-kaiba-did-someone-say-card-games-card-games-anime-gif-16422046

[gusty oar]

nintendo wouldn’t do it without a case. idk why people think it’s unfounded. the statement between then and now is a lot of time. personally i think it was kinda a nudge to palworld to make sure they aren’t infringing
i have a friend who’s both a pokemon fan for life and a huge palworld lover and he told me himself “they’re getting shut down it’s a blatant rip”

[orchid prism]

Time will indeed tell.

[verbal nymph]

Umu, some drama to enjoy

[outer pollen]

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[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/good-burger-some-of-these-gif-12933391

[deft bloom]

GAME

[dreamy rain]

Good workaround

[nimble current]

new helldivers 2 patch is pretty fire

[outer pollen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORNt0DOcabQ&ab_channel=BandaiNamcoEntertainmentAmerica

They cooked so fucking hard OG Broly and Cooler!

[nocturne wraith]

has performance been any better? i had regular stutters and crashes last time i played about a month ago

[tranquil salmon]

The one thing they refuse to fix are the performance issues and game breaking bugs. Goddamn can they change weapon damage values though.

[fringe salmon]

Yes they had a lot of fixes for crashes in the patch

[nocturne wraith]

ah well, i might reinstall to give it a shot anyway. its a fun time but my game tanks its framerate as soon as more than like 5 enemies are on screen (basically always)

[nocturne wraith]

ok glad to hear crashes are better at least, it was super annoying to be just about to finish a mission and then crash or get booted back to the ship randomly

[fringe salmon]

Performance idk because I upgraded my pc so it runs very well but crashes have always been improving

[cyan pewter]

first game on spectre, its pretty fun 👍

[quiet vault]

https://fixupx.com/netflixanime/status/1836935308669067452?s=46

[dreamy rain]

SERIOUSLY THOUGH, they delivered with their intros

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORNt0DOcabQ

[dreamy rain]

i think ive seen that link before

[still spire]

Nah

[dreamy rain]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingnews/comments/1fkwk59/playstation_5_pro_and_ps5_digital_edition_30th/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[still spire]

https://en.gamegpu.com/action-/-fps-/-tps/god-of-war-ragnar-k-test-gpu-cpu

[nimble current]

ran great last night, didn't play in the highest diffs tho because wanted to test a bunch of stuff out

a week ago it was choppier

will be testing some 9 and 10 missions tonight

[still spire]

Helldivers 2 performance is worse if anything

[orchid prism]

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-429

Oh boy. Factorio's gone full Dune.

https://tenor.com/view/dune-dune-part-2-stilgar-fremen-disbelief-gif-10329832144102306343

[sage crypt]

Budokai Tenkaichi 4

[still spire]

Yep

[sage crypt]

@errant edge My issue with val, one round is like this

other my isp do this shit

Idk how to fix, only val and ftn have issue with my isp

Cs 2 good

[fallow bronze]

but it will actually release

unlike thje worms on star citizen -_-

[orchid prism]

Store Citizen has worms?

[fallow bronze]

one teaser video had a worm

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

[proper basin]

Wormy

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/WcGJmev2718

[drifting rose]

re-did the fake wood foil, looks way better now

[nimble current]

this playing in-game while hanging out on the ship was a vibe

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-foBOBq1I

[grizzled bramble]

It's finally time to play this game!

[silver garden]

Well looks like 2070 Super is now a 360p low GPU

[still spire]

I mean it is a next gen showpiece

The stuff it renders in real time is nuts

[silver garden]

As one wise man once said

"You call it next gen, I call it last week".

[still spire]

lol

[fringe salmon]

Sounds like a stupid man

[still spire]

So there's no reason to not use max settings from this video

The difference is between 1-3%

While looking quite abit worse.

[silver garden]

As most games these days. for some reason.

[fringe salmon]

I do hope from the feedback they give some more options on the next patch like they did on console

[still spire]

Yeah they'll keep tweaking no doubt

[fringe salmon]

like when they added motion blur slider on ps5 that I hope they do add option to toggle cutscene fps and such

[still spire]

For now, we've got FFXVI Fix

[silver garden]

The fact that they got a game with 2010 graphics to run this poorly tells me there is no hope there from the start.

[fringe salmon]

yeah I'm just waiting for the patch instead

[still spire]

2010 graphics?

Lmao

[silver garden]

Yeah somewhere in that bullpark

[fringe salmon]

god can you please just be miserable somewhere else

[silver garden]

No.

[fringe salmon]

pc version can do with some more optimization definitely but some of these parts they do in real time you dont find in any last gen console at all

[small comet]

i wanna see a game from 2010 with those graphics

[still spire]

This was a 2010 game. https://static1.thegamerimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Jak-2-Mass-Effect-1.jpg

The cutscenes that are rendered in real time are of insanely high quality.

And that is when the GPU performance suffers the most

[fringe salmon]

we're still not at the part where you can do same quality of pre rendered and ingame cutscenes but the differene in this game is such a good look for how far we have come in that area

also I wish twitch would just hurry up with AV1 encoded streams so the bitrate isnt killed for every streamer that plays it lol

[silver garden]

I'd say Bioshock 2 is not that far off. Ofc very different setting so gonna be hard to compare.
NFS Hot Pursuit definitely looks better if you can excuse it being a racing game.

[still spire]

Bioshock 2? lmao what

I just repalyed that, so I can really say

[small comet]

what settings are you playing on lol

[still spire]

It's nowhere near close

[silver garden]

PC maximum obviously

[fringe salmon]

buddy what

[small comet]

bioshock2 on ultra and ffxvi on lowest?

[silver garden]

Is that a PSP screenshot?

[fringe salmon]

thats from the store page

[deft bloom]

lmao

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/9I8Rff_2Oik?t=872 Here's a video you can watch in Edge or Chrome, it'll be HDR

[silver garden]

So that's a yes then

[deft bloom]

so delusional

[fringe salmon]

bioshock 2 lighning vs ff16

[still spire]

Here it is being played at maxed settings with ini tweaks to push it to the limit

[silver garden]

I am trying to find examples but of course Google forgot that Bioshock 2 original ever existed and so every bloody footage is from the remaster.

[still spire]

...lol

[small comet]

ah ofc the original looked better

[fringe salmon]

right, forgot in 2011 the deep state took over and remastered every game so the quality went down

[still spire]

To be fair, it has happened before, but not the case with BioShock 2 😛

[deft bloom]

only options here are to admit defeat or double down, of course he chose the latter

[small comet]

tbf minecraft is quite close to ffxvi. and it came out around 2010

[proper basin]

reminds me i need to get a nice shader

[silver garden]

Tbh they look borderline identical so i guess remaster footage will do too

[small comet]

are we talking like using an 800x600 crt or smth

[fringe salmon]

the human eye can only see 24pixels a second so its like 4x4 probably

[small comet]

ah

forgot

[ripe tulip]

The FSR FG is really good in this game

Minimal amount of artifacts

[small comet]

yo that looks like games from 2010

[silver garden]

https://youtu.be/XvpIiejrw70?si=ZoQhOC8w03T4n3GR&t=316

Yeah honestly looks pretty good. And the 300+ FPS also doesn't hurt.

[small comet]

lol no

[deft bloom]

"pretty good", alright, still not nearly as good as ff16

[small comet]

that looks exactly like what was shared before

lol

[still spire]

Well it ran on hardware from 2010. 😛

[deft bloom]

textures are shit, models are low-poly, well yeah looks like a game from 2010

[fringe salmon]

you can count the pixels in the flame effects, yeah definitely same visuals as ff16

[still spire]

https://tenor.com/view/garuda-ffxvi-final-fantasy-final-fantasy-xvi-eikon-gif-25850529

https://tenor.com/view/ffxvi-squeak-ff16-monster-gif-27280925

[silver garden]

I would argue that lighting and tonemapping is better than in FF16. FF16 has the usual problems of being too bright in areas that should be dark. And honestly that is bloody annoying how every single game these days has the exact same issues.

[fringe salmon]

if you run it in hdr on an sdr screen maybe

[still spire]

Use HDR perhaps?

[deft bloom]

oh my.

[fringe salmon]

the hdr in the game is quite nice

[small comet]

i enjoyed it so far aswell

[ashen lark]

The one thing I disliked about a lot of games graphics is when they tried to make a realistic texture for terrain or walls but then it would be too much work to give it a depth map so it was just flat, looks much worse than even low poly lower res texture if it is 3D

[small comet]

good lighting in every scene ive seen

[still spire]

The games lighting is where it shines, pun intended

None of it is raytraced either

[proper basin]

every time i hear of ff16 i think of that "i need a hero" video of the final boss lol

[ripe tulip]

Send hdr pic of it

[silver garden]

Is there a free demo of the game? I could try using HDR.

[fringe salmon]

yes

[silver garden]

Alright will give it a crack later today

[fringe salmon]

http://www.jp.square-enix.com/tech/library/pdf/2023_FFXVIShadowTechPaper.pdf literally has breakdown of some their tech that woudlnt really work on older gpus while keeping it low render time, but sure, doable in 2010 lol

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/bu7j03hl77pd1.png?auto=webp&s=d8f61707d63c8d89cc9b51ff6bf94d557fba211b

[ripe tulip]

Meanwhile, atlus games…

[fringe salmon]

maybe when I get time later, cba grabbing it from my ps5 and on pc I'm waiting on the UW patch

it does have native support for HDR screenshots though

[still spire]

And make sure to grab this, constantly being updated

https://github.com/Lyall/FFXVIFix. I am waiting for a NG+ Save file or mod or something. I already beat it once on PS5, I wanna experience NG+

[proper basin]

ill try the demo, can grab an hdr screenshot

[fringe salmon]

the second dlc on final fantasy difficulty in ng+ was quite a challenge lol

[still spire]

I mean the game is notoriously easy

So NG+ having actual difficutly is impressive 😛

[fringe salmon]

leviathan doesnt fuck around haha

[silver garden]

Listen, if all this fancy tech results in a game that looks comparable to games made a decade ago then i don't give a single damn about it and neither should anyone else.
We are paying more for what we already had. There are some corners you can cut without it being noticable. And there are things you don't have to render in real time. In order to not waste GPU and CPU resources.

I despise this DF way of thinking.

[fringe salmon]

I can’t help you if your eyes are just at 10% sight and it looks the same to you

[silver garden]

"technologies" don't mean shit if they cost so much compute power and provide so little in return.

[small comet]

so we shouldnt innovate?

[silver garden]

No, not in this direction.

[fringe salmon]

And if you would have read what I said I say it doesn’t cost much compute power, it’s kept low so there is more gpu budget for other parts

[silver garden]

You know what was a good innovation

[fringe salmon]

Prescription glasses?

[novel umbra]

you know, it is REALLY hard to make a game stand out visually at this point

which is why I appreciate it when some company manages to do it

[silver garden]

DX12 and Vulkan for example. They allowed developers to cram absurd amount of geometry with it having much less impact on performance and being able to scale across more threads than it was possible with previous APIs.

[small comet]

oh thats the one bioshock2 uses right

[silver garden]

Did I ever say that?

[fringe salmon]

Have you ever written one like of shader code

[silver garden]

No. have you?

[novel umbra]

you mean nanite?

[fringe salmon]

Yes

[small comet]

lol

[heavy gull]

lol

[buoyant osprey]

This game has some unintentionally hilarious moments.

[small comet]

quin has prob more gamedev experience than most here

unvoluntarily more

[ripe tulip]

I can bring a lot of people who do tho

[novel umbra]

like as badly implemented as the UE5 stuff is, it does look a TON better

[silver garden]

Cool, now what?
He may be the best developer out ther but he cannot deny what other people have accomplished in the past.

[novel umbra]

and they can still get around to impoving and optimizing them

[fringe salmon]

But I can tell you don’t understand what dx12/vulkan do lol

[novel umbra]

especially once it gets in the hand of studios that don't properly develop for them

[silver garden]

I am not an expert on those things but i have also yet to see a DX11 game with Doom Eternal's levels of geometric complexity that can run at 300+ FPS on a modern CPU.

[fringe salmon]

you do understand shaders compiled to directx run on the gpu not cpu?

[novel umbra]

How is that even related

[silver garden]

Yes. I was not even talking about shaders?

[fringe salmon]

what do you think dx11 is or does

[small comet]

lol

[silver garden]

Translates game code to the GPU for it to do stuff.

[small comet]

imma grab popcorn at this point

[novel umbra]

Also idk about eternal, but wasn't doom 4 like THE vulkan game?

[novel umbra]

Lol

[silver garden]

yes, same things apply there.

[fringe salmon]

so now tell me how a collection for api's to do tasks on a gpu relates to what framerates a cpu can do

[silver garden]

I thought it was common knowledge that DX12 and Vulkan can handle draw calls better than DX11 and prior unless the game is coded by monkeys. Or am I missing something?

[ripe tulip]

Embrace vulkan guys. Forget about directx

[fringe salmon]

drawcalls isn't the end of all things

[small comet]

embrace bitbanging. forget about apis

[silver garden]

Well it's the end of most things. Unless we are talking about games with 6 gazillion NPCs on screen at once, draw calls is what takes up the most CPU resources every single time.

Have yet to encounter a game that behaved differentely ofc asuming no GPU bottleneck.

[fringe salmon]

how did you profile the cpu cycles to come to that conclusion

[silver garden]

And so even with very basic DX12 implementations... if you launch a random UE4 game that was natively built on DX11 and force it to run on DX12, you will get more FPS if you are not GPU bound.

[silver garden]

What else do you expect the CPU to do then?

[small comet]

that doesnt even answer the question

[silver garden]

that wasn't my intention either.

[fringe salmon]

I mean if a question is answered with a question about something else there isn't a point to continue

[fallow bronze]

there wasnt anyway :p

[fringe salmon]

well I was taking a shit and shit takes go hand in hand

[buoyant osprey]

God of Poop Ragnarok has forced TAA.
Gonna be unplayably blurry and ugly for me.

[ripe tulip]

Just don’t use it lol

[silver garden]

Thanks for the headsup

[ripe tulip]

Pretty sure like all nixxes ports have TAA by default

[fallow bronze]

what other AA would you like to see in 2024?

[silver garden]

Not forced. Horizon games do not have forced TAA for example.

[ripe tulip]

SGSSAA smh smh

[silver garden]

SMAA. The one that actually works.

[ripe tulip]

It’s not forced on gow:r either

[buoyant osprey]

I am an AA off enjoyer. But also SMAA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckTAA/comments/1fl77l0/god_of_war_ragnarök_has_forced_taa_postprocessing/

[drifting rose]

finally some good fucking taste

[fallow bronze]

msaa isnt realistic anymore

[silver garden]

Sources say otherwise...

[drifting rose]

DLSS -> supersampling -> nvidia DSR when all else fails 4 me

[silver garden]

SMAA is different

[fringe salmon]

SMAA if it works with the performance budget, CMAA is a nice mix and if it has to be TAA the DLSS/FSR TAA components are good unlike unreal or nixes TAA in house solutions

[drifting rose]

SMAA looks same as FXAA to me

[fringe salmon]

well it does kinda work like it so that tracks

[silver garden]

SMAA varies heavily depending on implementation.

in some cases (like Overwatch) it does nothing at all.

[buoyant osprey]

Who doesn't love a blurry muddy image? I sure do!

[drifting rose]

hey that's sarcasm, that's awesome

[buoyant osprey]

It's sad going from an ancient 20 year old game where everything looks sharp then boot up Cyberpunk and everything looks like you're looking at it from under a layer of ice.

[silver garden]

Hey, on the bright side you can save a lot of money by not buying new games

[drifting rose]

to my mind AA never was better than SGSSAA

[buoyant osprey]

I don't. 👍

[buoyant osprey]

What's SGSSAA?

[fallow bronze]

msaa best

but not realistic with todays geometry

[silver garden]

What is that?

[proper basin]

HDR off on the left, HDR on the right using the ff16 demo

[silver garden]

It's not geometry. It's the lighting. Most AA comes from shiny surfaces which are not covered by MSAA. So it does very little these days.

[drifting rose]

SGSSAA was a bug in the nvidia driver that was left in as a feature after people realized it looked good, sparse grid supersampling

[fringe salmon]

I'm not sure if discord keeps hdr data and doesnt just convert it to SDR

[silver garden]

Hmm yeah I heard about it.

But it's so rare it will be hard to judge how well it does.

[fringe salmon]

it shows both as jpg files so idk if it keeps the extended range

[drifting rose]

only worked on DX9 games for over a decade or so UNTIL THIS YEAR, when a PC port of some weeb game shipped it officially, which is fucking weird to me

[silver garden]

mhm

[drifting rose]

the port of said weeb game was made by the guy who made DSfix all those years ago

[silver garden]

Wait, does it work right now or no? Do you know the latest driver that still supports it?

[proper basin]

probably not all of the range id assume so definitely not fully accurate to the final image i see on my screen

[silver garden]

I wanna try it on my secondary PC with plenty of DX9 games I have.

[ripe tulip]

Only PNGs and JXR support hdr

[proper basin]

ill see what i can do to fix that

[ripe tulip]

Well other formats too but

Those are the main formats for windows

[drifting rose]

it works, but only on dx9 games. you need Nvidia Profile Inspector and compatibility bits for the title

[fringe salmon]

jxr is supported as screenshot type in the game

[ripe tulip]

I used it for tales of berseria

[silver garden]

Ughh nvidia profile inspector is the one thing I never touched. Oh well, guess we are goin on an adventure this weekend.

[ripe tulip]

Life saver

[drifting rose]

I used it on everything, I looooved how it looked

[silver garden]

Does it work on Unreal Engine 3?

[buoyant osprey]

Why is SGSSAA never used? Performance heavy?

[drifting rose]

no reason why it shouldn't but I don't remember running a UE3 title with it

[silver garden]

Probably a relic from the past that everyone forgot. Like stencil shadows.

Better than RT but nobody uses it anymore.

[drifting rose]

less performance heavy than supersampling, more than MSAA

why it was never used I dunno

it technically was used in july this year, 10 years after it stopped being feasible lol

[silver garden]

https://youtu.be/CzB5QsnznH4?si=JfKhZWmf9YhJ3KfA&t=1020

2004 btw

(timestamp)

[fringe salmon]

SGSSAA needs extra info from any game taht uses deferred rendering which is basically all games these days for better light/transparency which is also why MSAA has become less common

thats why its still great options in stylized games like whatever anime game it was that recently had it since you dont really touch much transparency or PBR light in those

[drifting rose]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1ekUZsK2YXgd5XjjH1M7QkHIQgKO_i4bHCUdPeAd6OCo/pub

here's a guide on how to enable it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/pdafq9/how_to_enable_sgssaa_to_remove_aliasingshimmer_pc/

enjoy, I think you'll like how it looks and WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU

[ripe tulip]

In almost every new game I play, I just use DLAA if nothing else is available at this point

[silver garden]

🫡

to confirm, it works on new nvidia drivers?

[silver garden]

I'd say yes DLAA is the least of all evils.

[drifting rose]

I'd be surprised if they took it out

[silver garden]

What's up with some flags having multiple AA methods asigned to them?

[drifting rose]

I think those are instructions telling the driver what to AA and what not

so some games have multiple bits that work for them

I'll try SGSSAA on F.E.A.R to see if it still works

[silver garden]

@drifting roseIt does work but calling it heavy would be an understatement

[drifting rose]

I only had a 60hz display when I used it lawl

but I remember 4X being the best compromise

also do negative LOD bias, it helps with textures in a lot of games

[silver garden]

Unfortunately doesn't work together with DXVK

[drifting rose]

naw not unless someone puts it into DXVK... the chances are less than zero somehow lol

[ripe tulip]

Me doing 8x

👁️ 👄 👁️

Well it was on games that are just locked to 60 anyways

[calm rune]

Are games color graded/corrected for OLED?

[buoyant osprey]

I assume they are colour graded for accuracy regardless of display tech.

[fringe salmon]

yeah

if its accurate its accurate

[drifting rose]

I still love how it looks!

phew, I feared my eyes would turn to toilet bowls

[silver garden]

I agree it does look good. However I think the performance impact is just way too much. It's about the same as using 4x DSR. Which seems to still produce slightly sharper result.
I think with SGSAA some specular detail is still lost in the process. And ofc the fact that it blocks DXVK and potentially reshade when DSR doesn't.

[drifting rose]

FPS in FEAR go from 500 to 470 for me. this is not a thorough test at all, and that's on 8X

[silver garden]

🤔

What GPU and resolution are you on?

[drifting rose]

1920x1080 on a 3080 12GB

I could test it on my CRT for laughs

[silver garden]

Yeah you are probably still edging on the CPU bottleneck.

I am at 3440x1440 on 3080 10GB

[drifting rose]

I can simulate a higher display resolution with DSR

in fact I'll do that now, for lolz

[ripe tulip]

I can’t use DSR due to DSC

[drifting rose]

oh yeah, on a simulated 4k display it goes from 150 to 70, pretty much halving performance

[drifting rose]

sadge. weird tho. I can use it on my crappy 20€ DisplayPort to VGA adapter

[ripe tulip]

Yeah I have a 4k 240hz monitor

[drifting rose]

oh fug

[ripe tulip]

Lol

[dreamy rain]

https://x.com/itsnewyokio/status/1836781153325346902?s=46

Sebastian (@ItsNewYokio) on X

Me seeing that 30th anniversary PS5 pro after talking shit

Twitter · Sep 19, 2024, 2:55 PM

[drifting rose]

well played sony
I am for real getting one of those controllers

[quiet vault]

they dont really use the capabilities

[fallow bronze]

ah bf1 was fun

flawed, but fun

[orchid prism]

BUTTER HAS BEEN CAPTURED

[proper basin]

WE HAVE TAKEN OBJECTIVE FREDDY

[drifting rose]

I finally found my darling

[fallow bronze]

I'm enjoying myself quite a bit with playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat again

It Def shows it's age but very playable

[tough jay]

Should play it too sometime, only one of the stalker games I never finished.

[drifting rose]

ermahgerd I never get tired of turning my dudes into action figures and having them blast aliens

[pearl tree]

does tachyon mode actually benefit gaming>'

[fallow bronze]

On 80he? Nah

[pearl tree]

60he+

[fallow bronze]

maybe

[pearl tree]

wym maybe

is it like gaem dependant?

[fringe salmon]

it benefits but it's miniscule

[pearl tree]

how do i add a rgb effect preset

[grizzled bramble]

GOW : Ragnarök has been running very good, played for 7hrs+ and had 1 crash

[grizzled bramble]

Pick a preset, add a layer

[compact oriole]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-E1Bd95rI

this guys videos are so good

[outer pollen]

https://x.com/DawnOfWar/status/1836872214643179782

Dawn of War (@DawnOfWar) on X

We've just upgraded both DoW1 and DoW2 into two fantastic anniversary editions, which include all content from the games and their DLC and expansions. If you own it, you now own everything! https://t.co/V664InuJcF

Twitter · Sep 19, 2024, 8:57 PM

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/orc-smile-gif-24599680

[fallow bronze]

Oh wow. That's quite a lot of dlc and game hours

[drifting rose]

holy BASED

"your progress against the aliens has been significant, commander, but there is still room to improve"
man FUCK YOU

[fringe salmon]

hey no bad talking the best man in the game

[drifting rose]

lidl agent 47 don't know SHIT

[fringe salmon]

he may be harsh but he's allowed to do that with the ending

[outer pollen]

@proper basin Cool song

[cold anvil]

Yoo the God of War ragnorok pc port is so well optimized

I can run 4k 60 with dlss on quality on my 3070!!!!!!

[buoyant osprey]

What rez?

[fringe salmon]

I mean I would hope a ps4 game can do that lol

[buoyant osprey]

Oh wait 4k

[fringe salmon]

but nice to know still

[buoyant osprey]

So 1440p

[cold anvil]

Literally anything can run on ps4 if you make the game look shit enough 😭

Cyberpunk was on the ps4

Doesnt mean it ran great

[fringe salmon]

I mean cyberpunk also runs the same or better than that on a 3070 xD

[cold anvil]

My 3070 shat itself trying to run 4k max settings dlls on auto with raytracing and oath tracing off

This was a week ago

And i have good specs to compliment my gpu

Not good enough that my gpu is the bottle neck but good enough for my gpu and future upgrades

[fringe salmon]

thats from launch so I would assume it should be better now?

[cold anvil]

Damn hold on… maybe i did something wrong

Time to redownload and run more benchmarks i did something wrong

[green dune]

So Subnautica in VR has a really big problem: you can't see the entire UI.

[deft bloom]

what if you turn your head

[green dune]

The UI is static.

Using my eyes doesn't work because it's outside of the area of the screens.

[deft bloom]

no I didn't tell you to use your eyes, head!

[still spire]

https://x.com/longislandviper/status/1837157796137030141?s=46&t=Dp2e1lGnspj-ilwqF5oqxA

Colin Moriarty (@longislandviper) on X

I spoke extensively with someone who worked on Concord, and it's so much worse than you think.

It was internally referred to as "The Future of PlayStation" with Star Wars-like potential, and a dev culture of "toxic positivity" halted any negative feedback.

Making it cost $400m.

Twitter · Sep 20, 2024, 3:52 PM

[still spire]

https://fixupx.com/Mangalawyer/status/1837204549821682120?t=J54bnVQQ7k9aBQBHdgLNPA&s=19

[dreamy rain]

damn, who found this

[pure bear]

thats some hefty copium

[hushed lance]

@orchid prism Hi! My order is being prepared to ship. It showed"Queued for Fulfillment". What's"Chinese Address" mean？It is just to fill in Chinese or Chinese PinYin？I only filled in the Chinese characters instead of the Chinese pinyin, will this affect the delivery of my order?Why does my delivery estimate keep getting pushed back by a day every day?Does this have anything to do with my Chinese address?

Who can help me please 😦

[narrow epoch]

Cool game

[unkempt ocean]

your delivery doesnt get pushed back

as you can see the END of the estimate doesnt change

it just is narrowing it down every day

[hushed lance]

The delivery date is delayed by one day every day

[unkempt ocean]

#🎮│game message

also ur address thing is likely fine

[hushed lance]

So I should be patient and wait, right?

[unkempt ocean]

ye

[hushed lance]

thank you bro@unkempt ocean

[outer pollen]

@scarlet marlin

[still spire]

https://i.redd.it/t84hpwe0l3qd1.jpeg

[outer pollen]

I'm genuinely laughing

[still spire]

https://gamerant.com/nintendo-pokemon-palworld-pocketpair-lawsuit-which-patent/

[nimble current]

I mostly feel bad for the devs that put near a decade of work into it

but yes, I am laughing at sony

[nimble current]

well they've like tripled the number of hulks and rocket walkers on helldive difficulty, easier to kill now yes, but having a lot more of them to fight doesn't make it much easier

[fringe salmon]

They didn’t change anything about heat generation with less than 4 people did they? That’s the biggest issue I have when doing solo or duo missions

[fading spade]

ok, shes so cute

[nimble current]

not from what I've heard/seen in the patch notes

[bleak pike]

Ofc you like the furry character :p

[nimble current]

furry? she just has a weird skin color

[fringe salmon]

Hate how everyone is running with the 400million number when as far as I can tell nobody knows where that guy on his podcast got it from

[fading spade]

That aint furry

[fading spade]

Someone talked with a dev who worked on the game, who also claimed this number

[nimble current]

ah yes someone

we all know a someone

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/_X4mprhEGgw

this guy at the start

I said someone cause I have not heard of them before but they have a lot of subscribers

[scarlet marlin]

I’m waiting for the switch version

[fringe salmon]

Yeah as I said, nobody knows what the number entails or how the guy on his podcast verified it

[drifting rose]

400 mil can't be real, no way

as much fun as it is to crap on a game entirely conceived by a boardroom of the most unimaginative people in the business, I just don't buy it

[nimble current]

I mean it wouldn't surprise me that much

the game was allegedly in development for like what, 8 years?

and we know how these cokehead excecs loves to throw money at a problem thinking that's all it takes to solve it

[drifting rose]

4 million per month? naaaaw

[fringe salmon]

5 years ago the team was 10 people

they werent on it for 8 years with 100

[nimble current]

I was gonna say marketing, but then I membered sony barely did any of that for the game

[fringe salmon]

so like, is it possible it was 200mil in marketing and wrongly allocated budget and shit? possible but hard to imagine

[drifting rose]

judging from the pfp, he was the character designer

[nimble current]

some marketing exec must have pocketed 90% of that money if so because barely anyone seem to have even known about the game until it bombed

did they market it in japan only or

[drifting rose]

they did the opposite than what they did with no man's sky, that game was all promotion and no dev budget

[fringe salmon]

I only see two options, one is the number is just completely false
the other is that they barely had anything and had to outsurce everything on extra costs to present something to act like the game had more than it did and thus needing insane budget

[drifting rose]

I lean towards the former, 400 million is youtubers farming clicks

[nimble current]

outsourcing some aspects of the development would make some sense in explaining the cost yeah

[fringe salmon]

not some but most/all

[nimble current]

but yeah big number draws attention

[fringe salmon]

because lets say 200 mil went to marketing, you still cant hire enough people and get them to work on anything in 2 years or whatever to burn through 200mil and it clearly started as a tiny team without much money

[vapid lintel]

Let's start a rumor that sony execs embezzled it

[fringe salmon]

mark this is sony, not samsung

[drifting rose]

100 million fell behind the couch lol sorry

[proper basin]

I ate 200 million of the budget

I was hungry

[outer pollen]

Aahhhhhh I didn’t know it was coming to switch

[outer pollen]

200 Million Deer Crackers

[proper basin]

https://tenor.com/view/my-deer-friend-nokotan-noko-gif-10252727451511754416

[severe compass]

A lot of the budget was apparently spent on animations and motion capture

[trim rock]

Yeah for the weekly cutscenes

[green dune]

Imagine spending stupid amounts of money on a game and not spending any on advertising or market research.

Sounds like it was always meant to game the tax system.

Have the Switch emulators gotten to a point where you can reasonably use them on the Steam Deck? Last time I tried the performance was pretty bad.

[maiden tulip]

That aint a furry

[green dune]

Scalie.

[fading spade]

Yuzu performed great on Deck, sadly Ryujinx doesnt run very well on it

[warped plume]

tjoo

[green dune]

I wonder when there's going to be an Android one that requires toot.

[outer pollen]

I was playing red dead redemption on Ryujinx last night and it was at around 20-30fps

[green dune]

Last time I tried Xenoblade Chronicles 2 it wasn't great, but that was before the OLED came out.

[proper basin]

Xenoblade 2 suffers from having terrible tutorials

[severe compass]

Not that either
She looks like an Elf, which is about as vanilla as you can get on the human to xenophilia ratio

I think it's safe to say that Concord played it way too safe with its alien designs
I legit thought all of them were meant to be human

[fading spade]

Why TF does my keyboard think I wanna type D? Xd

D

[vapid lintel]

It wants the D

[proper basin]

D

[fading spade]

Wtf xd

[sinful cobalt]

D

[severe compass]

https://tenor.com/view/letter-d-dancing-gif-9063748

[green dune]

I got shark vibes.

[severe compass]

She doesn't even have shark teeth, I don't know if she has a tail but I havn't seen one yet. Her defining features are pointy ears and funny skin
She's an elf

[green dune]

Yuzu isn't on EmuDeck anymore.....

[fading spade]

Yeah, but if you still have the AppImage on your system, it still works just fine

I still have my modded Mariokart instance using it

and its still added to my Steam Library like a regular steam game

[green dune]

Is there a good way to copy carts over Wi-Fi? When I tried USB before it didn't work very well.

[fading spade]

ive sent many files over KDE Connect

Which is already built into Deck since its using Plasma desktop

[green dune]

Is there a Switch thing that even has that implemented?

[fading spade]

huh?

[green dune]

I want to copy the games instead of doing it illegally.

[fading spade]

The only way to get games from your Switch is to jailbreak it and make a ROM backup

But jailbreaking a Switch is illegal in the eyes of Nintendo

Even if you use a MIG Switch ROM Dumper, you still need the keys from your actual Switch, which also requires it to be jailbroen

[green dune]

It's legal in the eyes of the law and I already installed a mod chip years ago. If I need to use a normal computer it's whatever I guess.

[fading spade]

The emulators still need the Switch Firmware and title and prod keys from a Switch

[green dune]

Which you just grab from the Switch yes.

But if I need to use another computer in between that's annoying but fine.

[fading spade]

Yeah, if its modded

[green dune]

But there's no like, HTTP/FTP server that let's you just copy the cart over?

[ripe tulip]

Yuzu only performed good because of all of the hacky stuff they did

[still spire]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/dev-of-french-jrpg-that-stunned-at-the-xbox-showcase-not-hiding-influence-of-persona-and-final-fantasy-8-9-and-10-but-wants-to-find-our-own-direction/

[bleak pike]

Furry

[green dune]

Oh yeah I guess.

Gotta let more artists make fan art I guess.

[nimble current]

too late, r34 artists all fawning over valves gargoyle girl now

[fading spade]

who?

[trim rock]

Yeah Concord doesn't really have a lot of R34 desire

[candid sentinel]

It just has $400m burning desire

[pure bear]

its the future of playstation guys

[nimble current]

just buy the anniversary edition and be happy

[buoyant osprey]

Character proportions in DA4 are bad and weird looking...

[bleak pike]

It got animated prawn though

[pure bear]

https://tenor.com/view/shrimp-cherry-thebettaguy1-eating-noms-gif-12073350

[zenith cypress]

Do u have nothung phone?

[maiden tulip]

NOT FURRY

WANT ME TO SHOW YOU FURRIES?

[trim rock]

Do it, what could possibly happen

[hearty plank]

no

[fading spade]

I haz Xiaomi

[zenith cypress]

oh it looks like my keyboard

from my phone

[fading spade]

Yes
Gboard looks the same on any phone pretty much xd

[cedar cipher]

Does anybody tested wooting in rust ?

[fringe salmon]

it works?

[cedar cipher]

Yes

[fringe salmon]

idk what you mean with testing

its a keyboard, it works with any game

[zenith cypress]

i just got one for rust will test it

[fringe salmon]

its a keyboard, it always works with a game that uses keyboards

and the features are on the board not in the game

[pure bear]

you are on a server where the phrase "faster switch" over 15g gets used unironically

[orchid prism]

You will own nothing et cetera

[buoyant osprey]

Xbox doing a good job of being the least appealing console.

[maiden tulip]

I mean ads in console menus aint new

My ps4 had those

[buoyant osprey]

And it's awful.

[maiden tulip]

I mean i booted it up recently and there was a huge ass apex legends ad lol

A game i dont even have installed

[orchid prism]

First I've heard of them.

And I would immediately sell one if it did 😄

[maiden tulip]

Oh they've been arounda while

[fringe salmon]

something on the side you can ignore or not even notice is very different from a fullscreen popup you have to interact with

ideally want neither

[maiden tulip]

It's big enough that i found them a pain in the ass already

But ywah you dont have to hit a close button on ps4

That ur right about

[fringe salmon]

but if it forces you to interact and you cant just do the regular way to open your game or whatever it's extra ass

bc that takes up my time and I dont want that

[maiden tulip]

I'll say pressing down on the dpad to leave the apex legends ad on ps4 and pressing close on xbox

1 vs 2 button interaction both still suck

But yes xbox will take more time

[fringe salmon]

never had it happen on my ps5 but also didnt use it that much tbf

[buoyant osprey]

I've heard Discord has ads now?

[maiden tulip]

The quest thing

[green dune]

Hasn't it had ads for a while now?

[pure bear]

they ruined yt embedds thats for sure

[nimble current]

yep rip youtube embeds

another victim of googles relentless adwhoring

[outer pollen]

The age of the tamagotchi

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0zedgdvdlo.amp

[digital dawn]

it’s youtube’s fault tbf

[ripe tulip]

What happened to yt embeds

[digital dawn]

yeah the quest thingy. they can be turned off tho.

[digital dawn]

yt embeds on discord have ads now

[ripe tulip]

Yucky

Well I never really look at them anyways

Must be really desperate ever since covid happened

[green dune]

For now.

[ripe tulip]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/410208622778384385/1287276300293378069/image.png?ex=66f0f4fa&is=66efa37a&hm=6679906e58a3cd1291797437cf561cb2bdbea610df92d539b62b84db80528e5d&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=4000&height=2250

I'm so glad emulators and mods for them exist

😭

[still spire]

Nintendo isn't

[mortal linden]

Nintendon't have fun.

[ripe tulip]

same goes for any of the console makers

well there's only 3 total lol

[still spire]

No I mean, Nintendo really doesn't lol

Nintendo ironically is one of the reasons emulation is so strong today. They tried super hard to squash it in its infancy, so hard the courts took notice

And emulation has an almost weirdly protected status, them and Bleem with Sony

Really backfired on them

[small comet]

speaking of efficiency in another channel... @vapid lintel did you see the new straight mode for building conveyors in satisfactory 1.0?

[vapid lintel]

Yes it's delightful

I don't know what is new and what isn't because I'm new, but there's loads of little QOL things that aren't immediately obvious

[small comet]

well i can tell you that conveyors before 1.0 were a pain cause it was a lot of prebuilding conveyor poles for nice angles

[vapid lintel]

Two that I found yesterday are

• When you're dismantling things, you can highlight an item and press G to add it to the dismantle filter, allowing you to only dismantle that kind of item
• If you first place a pipeline junction (which snaps to grid) you can then align a water extractor perfectly

[small comet]

yes

[vapid lintel]

I really wish you could designate a build as blueprint though, instead of having to create it in the blueprint builder first

[small comet]

yeah like a select and then blueprintify

[vapid lintel]

Exactly

[orchid prism]

Pfffft

[fallow bronze]

Yeah.. Building repetitive things needs blueprints.. And it's quite a hassle to build in 3d

[heavy gull]

also not sure id you know but, pressing the scroll wheel down while looking at a machine basically selects it so you can build it.

i think that’s the default bind for it

[vapid lintel]

Yea that's a huge timesaver too 😄

[drifting rose]

https://steamdb.info/app/3043620/history/?changeid=25321568

volvo could be porting Proton to arm

[small comet]

well there is scim to copy larger things as megablueprints but ofc it doesnt know if you could affors it or not so its basically more like cheating

also pretty sure scim is broken for 1.0

[fallow bronze]

Copy pasting is very nice in shapez2

[fading spade]

......

[trim rock]

And yet again a reminder to just turn that dumb feature off

[proper basin]

https://tenor.com/view/maneater-maneater-lethal-company-man-eater-man-eater-lethal-company-gif-13812171391543755722

[ripe tulip]

pretty sure it's not needed anymore anyways

[trim rock]

Yeah, only really stings a bit for some games since reencoded movie files are included in the shader blobs. Luckily Proton GE is just a few clicks away

[fringe salmon]

idk even know what the pic is supposed to show lol

[proper basin]

shader precache i think

[fringe salmon]

ah

..16 hours after that screenshot was taken..

[proper basin]

[novel umbra]

can't recommend to play with controller tbh

[fringe salmon]

bold of you to assume it gets played at all

[digital dawn]

charge your device

[novel umbra]

[digital dawn]

warframe on controller is fine

like it’s not good but it’s fine

[silver garden]

Tried Deadlock today. Uninstalled after 10 minutes. Somehow the game is even worse than i expected it to be.

[deft bloom]

not even going to bother to try, I saw in a second that it's not a game for me

[silver garden]

Good choice. Funnily enough a bunch of people on another server told me to try it and I asked them what makes it a good game. None of them could answer that.

[digital dawn]

what makes it so bad?

[deft bloom]

some people like it for sure, nothing wrong with that. I just don't like the valorant-ass artstyle, 3rd person view, moba-like gameplay, special skills and boring looking maps

[digital dawn]

fair enough. I personally think it’s quite fun. I do agree the maps are a bit boring but it is still is in beta.

[deft bloom]

yeah of course the final product will have more stuff in it, but here's how I look at it as it is now

[fringe salmon]

art is very much not final yet, its because it was more cyberpuk stuff and they moving to a more occult kinda look

like this is current yamato and concept of future model rework

[deft bloom]

still looks like a cartoon which is not appealing to me

[silver garden]

Well starting with the graphics it has the "poop" color pallete as i like to call it. Everything is brown and grey with low amount of details.
And despite the graphics being about as good as TF2, the game somehow runs poorly even on my RTX 3080. Getting about 180 FPS at 3440x1440 on lowest settings.

The gameplay. Unbearably high TTK with no clear readability on whether your abilities are even doing something. For example an enemy bebop was at 10% health. I was chasing him and landing constant headshots as Warden. He for some reason stopped taking damage and then hooked me under his tower and dropped me from 100% to 0% in under 2 seconds.
Movement is very slow, the map is minecraft flatworld with a bunch of cover placed in some areas. Reloading is unbearably slow which further brings the game down to a crawl. And the game doesn't even work as a slow games because I did not find any cool tactical abilties or gear you can use there to make the game more versitile.

Oh and almost forgot. You cannot pick the hero you want to play.

And you know what else. Why are you asking what makes a game bad? A game is bad by default until you start doing things that makes it good. That goes for anything really.

TF2 is good because it's a well balanced game with every class having a very distinctged playstyle that can further be tweaked with weapons. It's a big open sandbox without strict rules on how you can play. That makes it fun for both serious and non serious players.

So what makes Deadlock good?

[fringe salmon]

TF2 is good because it's a well balanced game

[novel umbra]

[proper basin]

would be more fair to compare deadlock to other mobas, since thats what it mainly is

[deft bloom]

what I like about the game is that valve is, for the first time ever, engaging with the community and looking for feedback and just.. being there. though that rubs me the wrong way as a cs player

[novel umbra]

has to be the first instance with a game in that early state of development having that amount of players

[brisk fulcrum]

my valve? listening to their players?

[novel umbra]

but ig valve knows that the only way to make that game relevant is to make it into the game people want

otherwise another studio is just gonna make something similar enough with a few key improvements

[fringe salmon]

biggest difference to most mobas is that a early death in line doesnt fuck you over even vs a skilled opponent
you dont have dedicated roles like mid or jungle everyone is free to do what they want kinda
aiming does matter you do get headshot boni and securing/confirming the souls on minion kills matters
you can sustain in lane, have a shop in lane so it minimizes downtime of just being in base having to walk back and forth

[digital dawn]

Fun abilities, interesting mechanics (lanes, shop, community presets), I enjoy the gameplay loop personally. I’m currently in the car on my phone so I apologize as I can’t really type much right now.

[silver garden]

What I said earlier applies to Dota as well. At least before ~2018.
Dota has a more strict approach than TF2 obviously but it's still a huge sandbox with countless of ways to play the game and all the interactions that heroes can have in there.
It's miles ahead of any other game ever made.

[novel umbra]

ik a number of people that enjoy it a whole lot, i personally just can't stand mobas really

[digital dawn]

wdym tf2 is clearly a fair and balanced game

[silver garden]

"fun, interesting, i enjoy"

None of those things mean anything to anyone except you.
Hell you yourself probably don't really know what you mean by that.

[fringe salmon]

people obviously enjoy mobas and this is one with different skillset and reducing a lot of pain points like the shop/regen in lane
so basically if you like mobas its a good shot you like the game and it will be a very good competitive option

[silver garden]

"it's fun"

Great explanation.