🎮│game

[maiden tulip]

Hell i know someone who never played bf4 because of the web interface

@rapid bramble

[fading spade]

That's also why it doesn't work on Linux
The game can open the browser
But the browser can't launch the game to log into a server you pick

[bleak pike]

It's not a web interface now

Hasn't been for years

[compact oriole]

was bf4 the one where you had to go into the serverbrowser on a webpage and then launch into the game? so stupid

[maiden tulip]

Wait what? No more battlelog?

[fading spade]

3 did it too

[bleak pike]

Battlelog died aggesss ago

[maiden tulip]

BATTLELOG IS GONE?

[bleak pike]

Not all games are mashed into one menu.

[maiden tulip]

reinstalling asap

[bleak pike]

So if you have multiple battlefield games you can browse etc without leaving the menu.

[maiden tulip]

@rapid bramble we llaying sone battlefield

[rapid bramble]

You mean the shitty Roblox page to pick a server?

Yea no fuck that

[maiden tulip]

ITS GONE

[bleak pike]

2021

Honestly I kinda liked it?

[fading spade]

Still being used on bf3 ;_;

[bleak pike]

The commando mode was pretty fun too on tablet

[bleak pike]

Nope

Pretty sure you can use in game now

Oh I'm wrong about bf4

They got rid of Battlelog 7 years ago not 2021 (2016)

It's just the site went down permanently in 2021

@maiden tulip

[maiden tulip]

so... how do people join matches @bleak pike

[bleak pike]

In game

It wasn't

Exactly

[maiden tulip]

I literally

Built my first proper gaming pc for battlefield 4...

3770k + 650 ti boost

In 2013

I was playing at 1680x1050

only the finest of resolution for 2013

[bleak pike]

Same but it wasn't for bf4, I just got it for free with my GPU.

Before that my desktops were hand downs that I modified

[maiden tulip]

Before that I just had an xbox 360 and a basic pc with like a gt240 and an athlon in it

Played games on that at like 10 fps on lowest settings xD

[heavy garden]

best fortnite settings?

[maiden tulip]

omfg same i played planetside 2 on that thing

It was like pure potato quality

Also why i was so happy to get a 650 ti boost cuz it came with a 100$ of planetside 2 in game currency

As a launch day promo for that card

[bleak pike]

Potco was my first MMO addiction I think

Before that I mostly played sp and flash mmos because no Internet at home

[maiden tulip]

I just kept driving vehicles because my fps was too bad to aim

[heavy garden]

fvck you

[maiden tulip]

did you censor saying fuck

By putting a v instead of an u

did that really just happen

[heavy garden]

its because idk if theyt are gonna kick me out

lol, stupid

[little cape]

i know you dont care but i got my refund

https://tenor.com/view/poggers-cat-depressed-gif-18759101

[maiden tulip]

https://tenor.com/view/864mcs-cat-cat-cool-yes-pink-scarf-gif-4818444550849941834

[outer pollen]

Playing girls frontline 2 pretty good game

[still spire]

lol

[outer pollen]

I’m gonna have to reroll didn’t get any legendary characters

[outer pollen]

I got one

[still spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1361210/view/4456970437737317498?l=english

Lol the YouTube thumbnails for that game and I think Azur lane are INSANE

Nikke looks like Ages 3 and up compared

[quiet vault]

rip Xdefiant

[hardy merlin]

Congrats Ubisoft
One game from your company that was actually quite fun
Petty mfers, shut down the game instead of releasing on Steam, so more people would hear about it

[quiet vault]

that wouldn't change anything

game just mid

[hardy merlin]

Just like CoD and R6, but it doesn't stop them from having tens of thousands of CCU

[orchid prism]

Bad name, cookie cutter game made for microtransactions.
Nothing lost.

[hardy merlin]

So... just like CoD

[quiet vault]

but cod has a fanbase

[still spire]

R6 Siege in 2016 was quite the game

R6 Siege these days is so trashy

[scarlet marlin]

anyone downloaded the new AC Pocket Camp?

[pure bear]

what does it do

[scarlet marlin]

allows you to play the game

[compact oriole]

anyone here excited for poe2?

[trim rock]

Yes although not excited enough to pay for access so guess I'll play it in the Summer, maybe

[hardy merlin]

$30? You can't buy access for points?

[trim rock]

I was already suckered into paying for access to the original, not feeling like doing it again

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, and I have quite a lot of points from supporter packs, I wish I could get access with those

[small comet]

diablo 5 will be so good man

[hardy merlin]

trust

Another PoE-like will help

[small comet]

but diablo 5 is poe

just poe2

[bleak pike]

https://youtu.be/mWkajLU7fxQ

That's uh interesting

[still spire]

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-big-playstation-30th-anniversary-interview-with-shawn-layden-it-was-a-fight-to-get-the-sony-name-on-the-machine-they-didnt-want-to-be-associated-with-it

[compact oriole]

man blizz couldnt even reach poe2 if they tried for once

[still spire]

PoE is a terrible game, always has been

As bad a Diablo 4 is, it's still better.

[hardy merlin]

[feral ferry]

What exactly is Path of Exile again and why is there hype for it?

I saw a lot of people being hyped for PoE2, I know virtually very little to nothing about it

I think once a youtuber I used to watch played it to build castles or some shit, it looked like medieval Rust

Isn't it just medieval Rust? What's the appeal?

[hardy merlin]

Nope, it's ARPG, kinda like Diablo

PoE has took a lot of inspiration from D2

[feral ferry]

Okay.. now I know it'll sound mad

What's Diablo?

I have never played Diablo, sorry, not my thing

Is it basically a top down (isometric I think is the word?) RPG where you just do quests?

[hardy merlin]

Have you played any hack'n'slash?

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, kinda

[orchid prism]

Diablo killer 😄

[feral ferry]

When I got a PS2 in like 2010 or so, it came with DMC3

That's the only hack n slash I've ever played I think

[outer pollen]

did you get it?

[feral ferry]

I remember liking DMC3 but really not being good at it, I was like 10 years old lol

[hardy merlin]

Well, I guess gaming world has two definitions for HnS, because of course it has

[feral ferry]

As for Diablo-like, so fixed camera bird's eye view perspective, I honestly don't think I've ever played a game like that

[hardy merlin]

Anyway, Diablo is action RPG, isometric perspective, you kill enemies to get better loot, to level up and make your character stronger

[scarlet marlin]

I probs will yeah. I thought about it last night and thought 'maybe not the smartest to start playing at 1am'

[feral ferry]

Yeah I get it, no experience with that

[hardy merlin]

PoE is basically Diablo on steroids, because the amount of stuff you can do with loot, modifiers, skills, etc. is insane

[feral ferry]

I remember people building castles in a fully 3D environment though???

Was that not Path of Exile?

Wait was that the Conan game?

[hardy merlin]

Nope, it wasn't PoE

[feral ferry]

Suddenly my brain remembered a game that started with "Conan"

[hardy merlin]

This is beautiful skill tree of PoE

[feral ferry]

Heh, then I have no clue what PoE is, I mostly just play sandboxes, map games and city builders

[outer pollen]

Apparently it’s on discount until January 31st then I guess the price doubles?

[small comet]

where is that info from lol

[outer pollen]

Every site I’ve checked so far has said the same thing even some reviews on the game

[small comet]

i know nintendo said introductory price themselves but i havent seen them state it will double

[outer pollen]

https://www.polygon.com/news/470977/animal-crossing-pocket-camp-complete-paid-version

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-40k-40k-spacemarine2-heresy-heretic-gif-15781539930698202487

[outer pollen]

[scarlet marlin]

then I will probs get it soontm

[outer pollen]

Save the bells!

[small comet]

is this also from x?

[outer pollen]

That one yeh

[small comet]

im prob just blind but cant find it on their x

[orchid prism]

This is genuinely giving my PTSD flashbacks to FFX

Never again.

[outer pollen]

And here’s the official site

[small comet]

ah

i see

[orchid prism]

[outer pollen]

Idk why it’s so hard to find though

Like it’s not even at the top search results

[small comet]

either way my gf is happy as i bought it yesterday ang gplay has some offer of 2eur off of any app purchase

7.99

[hardy merlin]

Nah, don't worry, you just pick a build for a given league and pick whatever it says you should pick
There are crazy people who make those builds, but I just want to play the game

[scarlet marlin]

[outer pollen]

I wonder if the event items will be in the game or no

[small comet]

they already said so

just not sanrio. the event items remain if your save had them on normal pocket camp but the events wont return

[outer pollen]

Neat

This is nice of them to do the refunds
https://x.com/playxdefiant/status/1864092633561481249

XDefiant (@PlayXDefiant) on X

Dear Players,

Important message: XDEFIANT IS SUNSETTING!

Thank you for your incredible support and dedication to XDEFIANT. We regret to inform you that we are initiating the sunset process starting today, December 3, 2024.
As a result, new downloads, player registrations and

Twitter · Dec 3, 2024, 11:41 PM

[small comet]

the whole event items being reobtainable is why my gf got really hyped

[vapid lintel]

The factory must expand.

[small comet]

another game thatll be lost to time

[scarlet marlin]

what if I have the amiibo cards

[small comet]

good question

[orchid prism]

Peaceful? Hahahaha... haaaah... biters.

https://tenor.com/view/factorio-gif-21849673

[hardy merlin]

I'd play Factorio, but I actually enjoy having healthy sleep schedule for once

[scarlet marlin]

I wish to be like you some day

[feral ferry]

Didn't this game last for like.. a few months?

May 21st lol, nobody played it

Didn't they learn from that other Ubisoft game that was basically parroting that whole battle royale genre like.. 2 years back? And majorly failed?

They already tried getting in once, failed, and said "I'll do it again"

[trim rock]

Actually millions of people did play it they claim

[feral ferry]

Battle royale is a saturated genre lol, nobody wants more games there

[trim rock]

Problem is very few stayed and spent money

[hardy merlin]

XDefiant wasn't Battle Royale

[feral ferry]

They also claim millions of people play their AAAA pirate game but we all know that's not true

Ah yeah Xdefiant is a comp shooter, so basically Valorant, but worse

Nobody wants more comp shooters anyways

[trim rock]

And yeah RIP HYPER SCAPE, and that other one they killed before it was even available to the public

[hardy merlin]

I played for like 2 days, had quite fun
Then I wanted to play with a friend and it didn't want to make a lobby with both of us, "lost connection to Ubisoft Connect"
And, upon checking on forums, apparently that's quite common problem, and they promised to fix it, but never did

[feral ferry]

Hyperscape was available for a few months no?

[trim rock]

Yes

[feral ferry]

They ran gigantic marketing campaigns for it

[trim rock]

But they also had that other battle royale cooking

[feral ferry]

And it failed fast lol

Ubisoft can't make a good multiplayer game lol

[trim rock]

I forgot its name but it was a Clancy

[feral ferry]

Ehh..

I only remember the one with the whole mutant shit that they ran for Rainbow 6 Siege halloween once and it became a standalone spinoff nobody wanted

Breakout I think it was

Also what Ubisoft does and I think it should be illegal, is they release a game, it gets barely any sales, they then pull a free weekend, borderline 10x the player numbers and then pull a marketing campaign saying "Over a million people played this game"

Well, yes, but no, it was a free weekend

With how many flops Ubisoft is getting, I'd be surprised if they soon won't have to make major changes to their company

I am pulling for the new Assassin's Creed to flop

Maybe then they'll stop sitting on a massive pile of IPs they keep butchering and get them out there to either make proper games themselves, or lease them out like Konami is doing

[hardy merlin]

You mean new Assassin's Creed to which they added kernel-level anti-cheat, because as with previous games they slowed down player progression and locked it behind microtransactions, and people used Cheat Engine to override it?

[bleak pike]

Forgot that existed tbh

I played the alpha and it drove me nuts with spawns

[feral ferry]

All I know is that it has some wacky level design to it that shouldn't be there lol

[outer pollen]

What killed the game I think was the net code issues since people were abusing jumping and it created a big gap between people playing for fun and the sweats

Like a big gap

[hardy merlin]

All that RPG thingy in AC was completely unnecessary
Just make Black Flag 2, take a while longer to fix the bugs, so it won't launch bugged like Unity or Syndicate
Don't add microtransactions, publish on all platforms, Steam too, and watch money come

But noooo, let's rush games, yearly installments, only on UPlay, add microtransactions, money!!!!

[outer pollen]

Did you ever play Rogue that one was really good imo

[feral ferry]

I wanted to replay Black Flag recently and couldn't get it to launch lol

I think that BF is unsupported on Radeon cards from what I read

[trim rock]

Wonder if they've cancelled Project U yet

[orchid prism]

Oh? Pretty sure I've launched Black Flag on 11 before without issues.

[feral ferry]

I've played it on my old laptop I remember, it had a GTX 970M

[hardy merlin]

All ACs before Origins one were good
Even Syndicate had nice gameplay and good story, but no one cared because it was bugged as hell on launch

[feral ferry]

But I could not get it to launch on my PC rig which is Radeon

[hardy merlin]

Iunno, it works on both my Deck and PC

[orchid prism]

Origins shift to MMO levels just ruined it for me. I have told the tale of getting one shot by a boss after painstakingly taking out an entire outpost with stealth and having to start over before.

[feral ferry]

That's weird and sad cause it just refuses to even start up, it just kills the process as soon as the exe is clicked

It's a more modern thing I think cause I found a steam forums thread and it had 0 responses

[orchid prism]

Tried removing the DRM? Might be a weird conflict there.

[hardy merlin]

Ooooh, right, I play on "Black Flag edition", maybe that's why

[feral ferry]

I don't know how that's done lol

Maybe I'll get around it eventually

[orchid prism]

I legally cannot help you, but I'm sure you can find assistance elsewhere.

[feral ferry]

That is very sussy

[orchid prism]

No that's Danish law in a nutshell.

It's very outdated. 😄

You're allowed to break DRM, if it is necessary to play something (This obviously predominantly refers to music, movies and such - DVD encryption and all that)

But you aren't allowed to do it, if you want to make a safety backup (derp?), and you also cannot legally help anyone to do so.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EA_zDpVY2iY

[feral ferry]

https://insider-gaming.com/exclusive-yves-guillemots-internal-memo-about-xdefiant-closure-and-the-future-of-ubisoft/

Sweatshop is closing down.. oh no..

What?? "We wanted to take a firm and clear decision to enable us to concentrate our investments and forces on more profitable projects. "

https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-just-quietly-launched-a-full-blown-nft-game

So this is their definition of a "more profitable project"??

[pure bear]

ubi is a satire dev

[feral ferry]

"Alain Corre will provide updates on the launch of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, progress made in strengthening our relationship with gamers, particularly regarding The Crew Motorfest and Star Wars Outlaws. "

I love how these are written towards their own company developers but in the perspective of an outsider reading this

These are not meant for the devs lol, this is another marketing gag, it was meant to be released outside of the company

[nimble current]

as long as they keep sticking with these priorities they'll never see profit again because it comes through in the end product

if a game only exists to be profitable most gamers will kinda notice

[feral ferry]

Whoever this Yves Guillemot guy is, and it seems he's an OG co-founder, he's fucking this shit up real bad

Whoever was the person in charge of Ubi in the 2000s and early 2010s, that's the person we need

Though I've read that even back then Ubi had some questionable stuff

[hardy merlin]

He was... Since 1988...

[nimble current]

that's the thing, its still largely the same people since the start

they've just lost their touch

numbers went to their heads

[feral ferry]

https://x.com/_Tom_Henderson_/status/1864095029519647111

Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) on X

Ubisoft San Fran and Osaka will be shut down, and around 170-180 people will be laid off. Those not affected will move on to other Ubisoft projects. Today is the last day for some employees.

Twitter · Dec 3, 2024, 11:51 PM

[nimble current]

that's also true, played their games since the mid 90s and a lot of them had plenty of jank to go around

[feral ferry]

Ubi can go fuck themselves lol, they've not had a good game in years

[hardy merlin]

Also fun fact - Guillemots were also ones who founded Gameloft, mobile games company

[feral ferry]

Gameloft

Does that still... exist?

[outer pollen]

Their last good game by Ubisoft Montreal

[hardy merlin]

Sure does, but was bought by Vivendi

[feral ferry]

Ahh.. Vivendi.. the one that keeps suing everyone?

Like Valve that one time

Another plague eh

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, and they wanted to do a hostile takeover of Ubisoft in 2016 too
Ubi has put a lot of resources to prevent that, and basically it was since then when they started playing around with microtransactions everywhere, to recoup costs and please shareholders

That's a good representation of current state of gaming

[outer pollen]

Did anyone play Delta Force here what were the thoughts

[karmic orbit]

valve my beloved

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5RvoPQZQeM
This is amusing.

[outer pollen]

I couldn't do it on Lethal gonna tune it down

[orchid prism]

Oh my lord. It just gets better and better.

[feral ferry]

Ehh isn't that literally you using someone else's technology to do something you want, which they don't allow, and you getting pissed off about it?

Mojang isn't telling you to stop making McWars, mojang is telling you to stop using the Mc part in McWars

Well, something like that anyways

Their service, their rules

[orchid prism]

It's a Minecraft server, not a standalone game.

Their service, their rules (within EU law - and therein lies the biscuit)

[feral ferry]

Which uses Minecraft server code, which then people play using minecraft clients

Their service, their rules

No guns means no guns so.. as much as I'd want to bitch about that, it's their service

[orchid prism]

First they say no weapons, then they backtrack to no guns, then they backtrack that in a hidden EULA change that wasn't advertised (as is required by law), which also states no dates, which they have to do.

Like I said - The hole just gets deeper. Watch it for context. It's a 15min video and very well paced.

[feral ferry]

I'm watching it but at the same time.. who cares?

It's a Minecraft server parroting a popular gameplay trope

Just.. whatever

[orchid prism]

I care that a game company under the Microsoft umbrella follows the law - Which they haven't for so long. There's a huge problem with gambling and kids in MC.

[scarlet marlin]

no need to play on suffer mode

just enjoy the game and story

[orchid prism]

Also - Trying to hoodwink MC influencers into trying to fight the backlash and tying them into NDAs over breaking the law is... not great. That's another bad lawsuit waiting to happen 😄

[fading spade]

Oh no wtf is this?

[orchid prism]

I'm kind of surprised I shared it first. This is right up your usual alley, Lana 😄

[fading spade]

I haven't been watching much Minecraft stuff since the last few months

And even then it was a hermitcraft, CaptainSparklez and Antvenom triple set

[sinful cobalt]

i just watch the long Hardcore building/surviving videos time to time

[fading spade]

Aha
I used to watch B-Dubs play Attack of the B Team years and years ago

[feral ferry]

Good lord this gets worse the longer I watch

The fuck is Mojang doing

I am happy for Notch for becoming a billionaire and fucking off to his mansion, but man you fucked the game for all of us

Why must you be rich Go back to gamedev

[orchid prism]

He got out in time. A rare winner in gamedev if you will (ignoring any drama he's caused past that point of course)

[feral ferry]

I bet he doesn't give a shit about the drama, he's a billionaire

[small comet]

youd be correct

[feral ferry]

But I do sometimes check what he's doing, and he seems to just do gamejams, some prototype coding and enjoying life

[small comet]

far from it

[feral ferry]

He mainly just comments on random stuff and shares progress on random coding challenges he comes up with

[small comet]

i mean sure but the questionable stuff he does post be it replies or his own tweets are often really really weird

[feral ferry]

Heh

[pure bear]

im14andthisisdeep

[feral ferry]

Is this new?

[small comet]

he has quite a few very questionable or just shit takes

[small comet]

thats 2019

[feral ferry]

That's from around the time he started going crazy no?

I thought he improved in recent years

[small comet]

its still unknown if it improved or moved to an unknown second account of his

[orchid prism]

Man's on the spectrum somewhere. That's just how it is. I don't interact with him, and I don't really care what he does or says these days.

[small comet]

same

[feral ferry]

I'm just hoping he actually makes a game worth playing again, I suppose

A rare type of visionary in game development, even if flawed in most other ways

[outer pollen]

SquareBlock

[small comet]

im almost certain the way MC evolved was a one time wonder. and mc is enjoyable because of how it evolved

[feral ferry]

A crypto platform?

What did you mean with this

[small comet]

crpyto minecraft

you buy single blocks as nfts

[feral ferry]

Eh, no thanks

[small comet]

best idea i ever had

time to talk to ubisoft

[fading spade]

LOL WTF xd

Followup videos from another person

[tranquil salmon]

Wild take, but don't be. He's said he was one of his worst decisions and he's struggled with crippling depression after getting enough money to notbhave to give a shit for the rest of his life.

One of the few unhappy rich people lol

[orchid prism]

As requested and expected - If you watch the video, he mentions several times how he spread the word to try and force Mojang's hands in the face of public response.

[feral ferry]

Ah yeah didn't he overdose on alcohol or someshit after going rich

Speaking of Mojang, is it still a Swedish company?

[small comet]

he regularly threw massive parties in his mansion

a lot of YTbers even knew about it and went to them

[orchid prism]

Yes. But under Microsoft.

[feral ferry]

Ah so they are still compliant of EU law, good

[orchid prism]

Swedish law, under EU law yeah.

[feral ferry]

I'm always in support of a good legal asskicking when it comes to big companies

[orchid prism]

Now you're getting it. This is like when Nintendo does something shitty, but there's an actual chance of a proper court fisticuffs 😄

[feral ferry]

I know that Notch has massively funded Karl Jobst's legal funds to fight Silly Bitchell (still waiting for the verdict)

[tranquil salmon]

Holy shit this is unhinged mansen lol

[feral ferry]

Maybe Notch can fund this guy's legal council to fight Mojang

That'd be very fun

[tranquil salmon]

Sliding "slavery" into the list of weapons was so smooth.

[fading spade]

My friend who hates Steam is giving out about Steam is trash because you dont actually own the games you buy from it

Im trying to explain that this is the case with her beloved Origin client too but she wont listen

Steam is just the only platform RN that discloses that information .-.

[feral ferry]

Seems like a typical human being nowadays

They always need something to vent about

[hardy merlin]

No platform currently sells licenses where you actually own stuff

[fading spade]

GoG though?

[feral ferry]

GOG?

[hardy merlin]

GOG allows you to download offline installers, but you don't own the games anyway, you have a perpetual license

[feral ferry]

Warcraft 1 and 2 recently got removed from GOG (cause Blizzard wants to sell you the AI upscaled versions), but you still own them if you bought them

Well isn't perpetual license basically owning something anyways

[hardy merlin]

And many games have been removed from Steam, GRID 1 or OG GTA:SA, and people still have them in their libraries

[fading spade]

yeah I have 3 games not on Steam anymore but can still download and play

[hardy merlin]

It's up to publisher of they want to revoke licenses or not, and in almost all cases they do not, because they get no legal repercussions to do so

Only Ubisoft did, because they're absolute dicks

[orchid prism]

And they would have to refund people.

It's probably a lot cheaper to just let old owners lie, and not kick up dust by removing and refunding - that is how things get picked up by media.

[hardy merlin]

If they'd state 30 days prior that they'll be revoking licenses - no refunds
That was on almost every box of any game back then, and it's in every EULA now too

[orchid prism]

Biggest issue with longterm game licenses as I see it is music. Licenses lapse and old games lose what you bought back in the day.

[orchid prism]

What a shame EULAs aren't legally binding. Country laws are 😄

[hardy merlin]

Well, it is compliant with EU law too

Otherwise they'd just do that without 30 days period and on a whim

[tranquil salmon]

You should ask your friend how many games they actually own and don't just have a license to play, chances are they don't realize the answer is 0.

[fading spade]

They think you own your games unless you buy from Steam

[tranquil salmon]

That poor sweet summer child

[hardy merlin]

GOG is the best when it comes to buying games, because you can get offline installer, and even if they revoke your license, you still have an installer

[small comet]

because theres no drm

no license

you buy a game

[hardy merlin]

Lots of Steam games is DRM-free too

[orchid prism]

TLDR; Get your download in time, make backups to a NAS and crack that shit to retain your "ownership" down the road 😄

[feral ferry]

Ownership isn't really a thing in gaming I don't think, you get a perpetual license because the owner wants to retain some freedom with its product, like you being unable to resell it after you modify it as your own

[hardy merlin]

About the same amount
It's up to publisher of they want to use Steamworks DRM/Epic Online Services one

[small comet]

i mean

steam drm is basically no drm

[feral ferry]

Steam DRM is, by some people, the best DRM

[orchid prism]

Sure - But Steam games can be without Steam DRM.

[feral ferry]

(I wonder why)

[orchid prism]

Like a recently released Bioware title.

[hardy merlin]

Like BG3

[tranquil salmon]

No, actual ownership for videogames does not exist. The best is GOG where you can get unlimited access to the installer, but even GOG saying "you buy it, you own it" is pushing it using the term "own". You own a copy of the installer, but can still have the license to the game revoked.

[orchid prism]

Correction: You don't own software, you obtain a license to use it.

[tranquil salmon]

Yeah, that really can be basically expanded to software as a whole, your not wrong.

[feral ferry]

I mean, either you get.. idk like 50k people maybe just stealing your game

Or you pay 100k+ to Denuvo and a minor portion of those actually pay for it

Dunno what's the correct thing with Denuvo and cost optimizations in game development

To my knowledge there's no data on how many people actually buy a software if they otherwise would have.. knicked it

[hardy merlin]

Denuvo doesn't work, and they know about it
But they earn a lot of money on ignorance/greed/lack of knowledge of gaming companies executives

[tranquil salmon]

Denuvo is just padding for the investors so they can say they're doing "something" to prevent piracy while only needing to throw some money at the problem.

[hardy merlin]

There was a research done by EU back in 2017 confirming that piracy is affecting sales in a degree close to statistical error

[tranquil salmon]

I still remember RE:Village. the game fully ran 20fps better and without hitches if you pirated it because denuvo functionally ruined the game.

And some good it did them, even with denuvo it was cracked in like 2 days lol

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, implementation of it is hit or miss too, sometimes it's invisible, sometimes it makes the game lag horribly

Kojima Productions implemented checks during cutsenes in MGSV, so you couldn't even tell Denuvo was there

[feral ferry]

Anyhow.. anybody know what Empress is doing nowadays?

[tranquil salmon]

That's smart. I remember RE:Village people found out it was opening doors, during certain enemy attacks, and during certain player actions, so the stutters during the checks were insane

[hardy merlin]

I think she lost it completely
She's been banned from 1***x lately too

[fringe salmon]

Nope had nothing to do with denuvo, that was Capcoms fault because they added their own drm on top and that interfered with denuvo

[hardy merlin]

Enigma DRM
Best piece of malware

[tranquil salmon]

Ah, the capcom classic, double up the DRM

[fringe salmon]

Denuvo despite’s it’s rep doesn’t really interfere with performance really

[tranquil salmon]

I bought it, tried playing, had to get the crack so the game would even run, and havn't touched it since. I just remember at the time everyone was saying it was denuvo lol

[proper basin]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-oh-ouch-monster-hunter-gif-15002992

[feral ferry]

President, the second DRM has hit the tower

[tranquil salmon]

I know recently they went hard with adding denuvo to games that have already been out for ages, and are online only, which is a pretty baller move.

Gotta make sure nobody starts a MH private server i guess lol

[fringe salmon]

How you view drm, if it’s needed or makes sense etc. is a separate talk but on its own denuvo works quite well and really gets a bad rep for supposedly doing things it doesn’t like the village example

[feral ferry]

An enigma (hah, pun) to me is Nintendo's disinterest in DRM

[outer pollen]

@maiden tulip Nice fellow

[feral ferry]

They literally have rebuked all of Irdeto's begs to buy their DRM lol

[tranquil salmon]

I mean if you want an example that was denuvo, back 4 blood release had people getting kicked out of the game because the verification system would just say you don't own it lol

I've had that game since launch day and it needed a denuvo specific fix really early so people could even access it

[feral ferry]

I think I remember there was a whole twitter thread with instances of them tweeting about and even their CEO begging for Nintendo to buy their DRM

And Nintendo literally doesn't give a shit

Which is funny cause they go apeshit to "protect" their IPs from virtually anyone but them using them for anything

[tranquil salmon]

Nintendo doesn't need DRM, they spend millions on lawyers every year so they can keep sending Bowser to jail

[orchid prism]

It blocks some kind of modding - And that is unacceptable in my book 😄

[feral ferry]

Either Nintendo figured out DRM is useless, or.. yeah it's prolly that

[orchid prism]

Meanwhile actual Denuvo on Switch

[fringe salmon]

Yes and that’s where it goes into a separate talking point

[feral ferry]

Apparently Denuvo will actually be a thing on Switch 2

Not on Nintendo titles, but on 3rd party ones

Since Nintendo just doesn't care about DRM lol

[orchid prism]

Oh great. So the only titles people will pirate are first part ones.

[feral ferry]

They already scammed you with buying a shitty console, I guess Nintendo has a decency not to scam you with a not running title

Oh wait that was the Pokemon games they released, they ran like shit

Double scam!

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/team-rocket-gif-25102442

[pure bear]

and online costs

[feral ferry]

Tbf we'll see if 2 will be homebrewable/emulatable

[tranquil salmon]

Yeah, the switch is a half scam, their online service is the real money sink

[feral ferry]

Supposedly it's backwards compatible with 1 which will be an interesting avenue to probe for penetration

[orchid prism]

That'll always happen eventually. Only question is whether or not Nintendo makes it silly easy 😄

[feral ferry]

Didn't that happen really fast with Switch?

[tranquil salmon]

30$ a year so i can half talk to my friends on my phone while playing splatoon. what sick features.

[feral ferry]

Well, it got homebrewed really fast cause of the exploits lol

And the emulators popped up quickly too

Shit like PS3 and PS4 I think are still hardly emulatable

[tranquil salmon]

PS4 can be emulated but there's like 3 games that half run on it

Unsurprisingly, bloodborne

[feral ferry]

PS4 homebrew I think is still evolving as well, slowly encompassing PS5

[proper basin]

Bloodborne drives people to make ps4 emulation work

[tranquil salmon]

I'm fully convinced one of the biggest drivers for keeping the ps4 emulation projects alive is sony's adamant stance on never releasing it again.

We will have fully emulated bloodborne before they ever tease a PC trailer lol

[outer pollen]

Can't believe my friend almost made me miss out on Ghost of Tsushima

[feral ferry]

I mean, they had to implement impassable region walls somehow

Games sure are gigantic nowadays, requirements seem reasonable though, even if the game doesn't look particularly visual outstanding

[maiden tulip]

It runs on idtech strangely enough

Same engine as doom eternal yet the specs are so different

[fringe salmon]

Minimum feature level is higher

So older cards literally don’t have that and I imagine future doom games will be similar

[hardy merlin]

Also looks like forced RT from additional notes

[maiden tulip]

So many new games have forced RT

Its interesting to see that welp

RT won't be a choice anymore

[fringe salmon]

It was already used before so that’s just an illusion of choice tbf

[maiden tulip]

I mean just in the last like year or 2 we got uh

Quite a few games + all of the lumen ones too

[feral ferry]

https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-no-longer-publicly-launching-99-alarmo-clock-in-japan-this-january

Guessing it was a failure lol?

I don't see why would people need this, it's just.. mid?

[orchid prism]

It's a silly gimmick. Classic Nintendo. Also hilariously easy to hack.

They pulled a Sony on the DRM side.

[feral ferry]

I saw a lot of people running DOOM lol

[orchid prism]

Uses encryption key
Everyone got the same key

Or as the memesters at Defcon put it
int getRandomNumber() { return 4; //Guaranteed to be random }

[fallow bronze]

Xkcd

[scarlet marlin]

isnt that the goal, make DOOM run on the most weirdest things

also the fact that they launched the alarm clock without any animal crossing themes is crazy

[orchid prism]

It's missing a lot of "that should be obvious" stuff.

[scarlet marlin]

the nintendo music app is nice little bonus if you already have a online subscription

more music to come soon weeeeee

[vapid lintel]

My most played artist on Spotify this year was the maker of the Rimworld OST

[orchid prism]

Music is criminally underrepresented in the game.

[outer pollen]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911860/Grit_and_Valor__1949/ Got access to the closed beta

Steam

Grit and Valor - 1949

IT'S 1949; WORLD WAR II RAGES ONEurope is on its knees. Deadly Axis Mechs patrol the landscape, intimidating the populace and flushing out rebels. Survivors are few, but have regrouped under the new flag of The Resistance.You are the free world’s last hope. Your deadly mission; deliver a devastating EMP weapon into heart of enemy territory to tu...

Release Date

2025

▶ Play video

[tranquil salmon]

running doom on rat neurons was really a big step forward for science and gaming.

[outer pollen]

[proper basin]

@outer pollen christmas surge

[maiden tulip]

its not a plushie

I dont want it

[orchid prism]

It's not a plushie. That means I might want it

[proper basin]

What is your favorite pokemon mansen?

[vapid lintel]

The Christmas factory must expand

[proper basin]

So many present wootings

[feral ferry]

https://x.com/HardDriveMag/status/1863997105699754174

Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) on X

South Korea declared martial law because Stellar Blade was snubbed at the Game Awards.

Twitter · Dec 3, 2024, 5:21 PM

I can see this happening

[feral ferry]

Ah, no Denuvo

Using Denuvo for Beth would be atypical

[vapid lintel]

lol I bet Denuvo is pissed

They get paid per license defended

All that work just to not get included in the final product

[fringe salmon]

nah thats normal there have been multiple deals like that

this just means it went to a reviewers who doesnt know things and made a big deal about it without asking their pr contact first

[maiden tulip]

@pure bear your turn

[feral ferry]

Can you not spam channels?

[pure bear]

yeah we stop here this will get us timeouted

[maiden tulip]

i shall remove the moumous it was fun for a few minutes

[hardy merlin]

@fading spade
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1h6gyni/looks_like_valve_is_preparing_to_release_steamos/
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/steamworks_docs/english/steam_brandGuidelines.pdf

[fading spade]

Is this a real guide????

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, second link

[fading spade]

ooo

[hardy merlin]

Volvo is cooking a lot lately

I love how they made gyro and touch sensing thumbsticks a requirement for peripherals to use the badge

[fading spade]

Oh wow

NGL
Most of the time I enable the gyro
I bind it to activate on left trigger pull so that it's only active when aiming down sights

[hardy merlin]

Honestly, gyro should be a standard by now in controllers

[feral ferry]

No thanks

Keep that shit disabled at least

I've tried it and didn't want for it to exist, nauseating control scheme

At least I wouldn't want to pay more for it

[hardy merlin]

It costs like few cents to put on PCB, price wouldn't change

[feral ferry]

Then it's a whatever

But I really don't like it, I don't get the appeal

[hardy merlin]

I love gyro
Perfect with pita and garlic sauce aiming with right thumbstick and gyro micro-adjusting

Still, making gyro standard makes a perfect opportunity to finally remove aim assist from games

[proper basin]

I like gyro

Nintendo usually got gyro pretty good especially

[hardy merlin]

If not for stick drift on JoyCons and the fact that ZL/ZR are not analog...

[proper basin]

Still love the wii us gyro the most

[fading spade]

Why don't Xbox add it yet???

Nintendo and Sony have it forever now

They need to

Cause then it would force third party controller brands to add it too

All those third party Xbox controllers would have gyro!
Afaik only a couple do rn

[grizzled quarry]

I have never used gyro on my controller

Id much rather just aim with the sticks

[grizzled quarry]

Gyro would need a lot more fine tuning to get near mouse precision for this to happen

Maybe eventually but not for a little while still

[lone raptor]

Oh, I just bought new bluetooth adapter for my switch pro controller, gyro works but I need to check the polling rate

If valve comes out with a new steam controller based on Steam Deck, it would be amazing to have this.

[fading spade]

Yeh 😍
I need that

[bleak pike]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2507950/view/4476110736154691091?l=english

this is so stupid

[fringe salmon]

what part of it

seems nice they give a clear list of what isnt going to work

[bleak pike]

Remote Control and Desktop Sharing Software
Remote access software like ToDesk, Sunlogin, TeamViewer, AnyDesk; Streaming tools like NVStreamer, Sunshine, Parsec, Moonlight.

Frame Capture Tools
Tools like RenderDoc, WinPix, NVIDIA Nsight, Intel GPA, etc.

[young hill]

you do not have to get the game

[fringe salmon]

you did get the part where thats not recommended, not prohibited

[fading spade]

USB Drives
.... Bruh wtf

[bleak pike]

*Using the software or hardware listed above while running the game may trigger error pop-ups or, depending on the severity, result in account suspensions or bans of varying durations.

[fringe salmon]

yeah so stuff that hoooks into the game similar to cheats could trigger popups

depending on the severity
means its not going to auto ban you if stream the game

[bleak pike]

pop ups

[maiden tulip]

USB DRIVES LOL

[fringe salmon]

yes a pop up saying software detected or something like that

propaly even says ignore this if you just use an overlay or smth

[bleak pike]

and i be they wont go away

[bleak pike]

prob stuff like cronus

[fringe salmon]

man you people always just expect the worst possible option whenever someone posts more detail but doesnt explain every single word

[feral ferry]

That prohibited list is kinda nuts, hardware/software engineers and maybe some hobbyists will get fooked

[fringe salmon]

don run your arduine dev board while you game then

[feral ferry]

How's Arduino prohibited?

[fringe salmon]

its really not that hard to not run a debugger while playing a game lol

[feral ferry]

It's a programmable computer (device, or board, idk), the fuck is it going to do, cheat for you?

[fringe salmon]

what do you think hardware cheats are put on, a vinyl player?

[feral ferry]

What on earth is a hardware cheat

[maiden tulip]

A wooting

[feral ferry]

That stuff is purely software nowadays

[fringe salmon]

lmao nope

[maiden tulip]

xdddddd

[fringe salmon]

its how you get around CS/valorant anti cheat the most

[feral ferry]

Hardware cheat is homebrewing the switch by soldering on an add on board to the CPU connectors lol

[maiden tulip]

DMA cheating

[feral ferry]

CS is software I'm almost certain

[fringe salmon]

obviously its both

[feral ferry]

Valorant with its kernel AC.. couldn't tell you, prolly some image recognition there and then hardware does the automation

[feral ferry]

So I see it but.. really, a whole dedicated device to cheat?

[trim rock]

Yes some people are really just that dedicated to ruining the experience for others

[maiden tulip]

Yep

[fringe salmon]

its quite cheape and WIDELY used

[feral ferry]

Emulation Scripts
Automated scripts capable of simulating keystrokes, such as AutoHotkey, Python, etc.
So, DKS?

Wooting users already in shambles

[fringe salmon]

wouldnt be the first game

[maiden tulip]

Script kiddy stuff is more popular i think

[feral ferry]

Why are virtual machines prohibited

[fringe salmon]

take a guess

[maiden tulip]

That one's an easy guess

[feral ferry]

No, I have no clue cause that should not be a prohibition

Who even is this developer, why do people care

Some random game nobody will play

[maiden tulip]

Because you can run cheats that way, i know it sucks but it's very common

And welp it also kills a workaround for linux users sadly

But vms is perfectly understandable

[fringe salmon]

lmao thats like basic ways to get around anti cheat tools, spoof as much as possible so it thinks its a different system and you circumvent whatever it tries to stop

vms are used sorta like the hardware cheats just purely software and thus usually easier to detect

[maiden tulip]

I'll say tho I really hate how the

Stop cheaters thing ends up stepping on legitimate players as well

By proxy

[fringe salmon]

this post is basically them saying they will use anti cheat and put up more details that could cause false flags (and I guess cheats that would cause it xD) so I just dont get how this is anything but good

yeah but to some degree that has to happen or the game is unplayable

[feral ferry]

So it's a chinese game published by Tencent

So, who cares basically

How on earth did you even find this, Pleasant

These sorts of cashgrabs come and go all the time

[maiden tulip]

I've seen sponsorspots on youtube

About this game

All i know

[fringe salmon]

its a very big marketed UE5 shooter with open beta tomorrow

[trim rock]

They pay a lot of content creators, also name recognition from boomers for using an old boomer game name

[feral ferry]

Not any of the content creators I've seen have talked about this

Meh, couldn't care less, carry on

[maiden tulip]

I don't care about the game but

[bleak pike]

https://twitter.com/mmmmmmmmiller/status/1864367260183199967?t=ws37Y1sG0lV_MrJx0doHdQ&s=19

Miller Ross (@mmmmmmmmiller) on X

If you purchase a Battle Pass in Marvel Rivals, it will not expire, meaning you'll be able to take your time completing it at your own pace.

source: https://t.co/ocNyBT3vge

Twitter · Dec 4, 2024, 5:52 PM

[maiden tulip]

It's interesting seeing how anticheats are becoming more and more extreme

[fringe salmon]

this isnt even anything new though

[maiden tulip]

Someone finally copied halo infinite

[trim rock]

Well that's because the cheaters are becoming more and more extreme, fuck them for ruining games

[maiden tulip]

PVE>PVP

[bleak pike]

We need hollow back to destroy their anti cheat

[maiden tulip]

Bring back punkbuster

The worst piece of shit ever

[fringe salmon]

you do understand everytime an anti cheat gets broken the next one will be more invasive

[bleak pike]

Let the world burn

[still spire]

You mean deep rock galactic

[grizzled quarry]

Yeah that's kinda just how it works now

Eventually we'll all have anti cheats built into our neuralinks that self destruct upon cheat detection

[bleak pike]

https://mrpl.me/c68099b_rfo1.jpg

https://tenor.com/view/why-just-why-but-why-monkey-gif-12016032281853623374

[deft bloom]

GAME

[proper basin]

Sharkie

[outer pollen]

This is cool

[outer pollen]

Ok this is a fun game

[young hill]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/a-valve-engineer-fixed-3d-lighting-so-hard-he-had-to-tell-all-the-graphics-card-manufacturers-their-math-was-wrong-and-the-reaction-was-i-hate-you/

[fading spade]

They're waiting for you, Gordon
In the shopping mallllllll

[still spire]

Weird

[outer pollen]

@grave granite bro

[outer pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/frog-scared-hide-shy-frog-viralhog-gif-15237637

Idk if you saw the ammo changes they wanna make?

Special ammo is gonna be seasonal/rotation to manage the meta better

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/2KeN9CeJQi0 Anime GTA name changed

[still spire]

https://insider-gaming.com/stardew-valley-best-game-reducing-stress/

[outer pollen]

[tranquil widget]

first trailer - barely any gameplay - the wait will be long my dudes

[outer pollen]

Whaaaa widescreen Bloodborne

[hardy merlin]

IS THAT AN EMULATORRRRR?
Watch out for Nintendo assassins

[orchid prism]

Would be Sony if anyone though surely.

[pure bear]

yea

[hardy merlin]

Wawa?! Linux support confirmed?

[verbal nymph]

YESS, I want this

[still spire]

it's gonna be a gacha tho, no doubt

[orchid prism]

Marvel

How anyone can still stand that after two decades of constant force feeding is beyond me.

[scarlet marlin]

i dont care about marvel, just like the OG Overwatch gameplay-ish

[hardy merlin]

Gacha it will be not, maybe only when it comes to cosmetics
It's one of the NetEase "western" projects, and they have different management teams for EU/US and China/SEA
Example being Once Human, where Chinese version is filled with gacha, and western one has only gacha in seasonal cosmetic loot boxes

[still spire]

https://tenor.com/view/how-you-doin-black-cat-posting-art-work-gif-14587264

[orchid prism]

Bad kitty. Put the priceless artwork back. BACK!

https://tenor.com/view/spraying-disinfect-lilo-and-stitch-lilo-stitch-gif-16694753

[still spire]

lol

[scarlet marlin]

[hardy merlin]

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk in Humble Bundle! https://www.humblebundle.com/membership

[still spire]

Yeah but the rest is crap

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G2uaZROAWx0
Doom - On Github

[compact oriole]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viM6_Z2Nwx0 me tryna play games like stardew valley

[small comet]

me trying to play stalker 2 on veteran

[orchid prism]

Stardew Valley is RELAXING
Stamina system

https://tenor.com/view/gatomirandomeme-gif-14777214025595338942

[hardy merlin]

It literally is there to make you take things easy and relax, and not speedrun everything

[small comet]

tbf my gf takes stardew too serious with planning out seasons, harvests and such

[hardy merlin]

How do you even play SV without wiki on a second monitor

[vital wyvern]

you're under constant time pressure in stardew valley

[orchid prism]

Me trying to plan out and maximize each day, producing stamina recovering items, basically doing time planning on top.

Please remind me how this game is supposed to be RELAXING

[vital wyvern]

i don't exactly find it relaxing, it's more of an exercise in optimization all the time because days go by, seasons go by and different stuff is available at different times

[hardy merlin]

But why would you want to maximize each day
Chop down a tree, clear out a bit of garden, plant some veggies, go talk to town folks, fish for a while, go to sleep

[orchid prism]

[small comet]

be my gf

shes a walking stardew wiki

[vital wyvern]

because otherwise you miss out on summer-specific things you can do and have to wait 3 more seasons to get them done again

[orchid prism]

And don't forget about grandpa. He'll be disappointed if you don't do well enough in the first two? years.

😭

[hardy merlin]

Sure, but it's not like the next summer won't come

[vital wyvern]

yeah but it feels bad to fall short just one thing and then seasons change

to me on a scale of stressful-relaxing it's more a stressful game honestly

[compact oriole]

ye thats how i played it too.. id get mad not being able to do everything i wanted in a day

[vital wyvern]

it's fun but you constantly have to think what to do next, tomorrow, in a week, and so on

[hardy merlin]

But... I don't want to optimize fun out of the game

[pure bear]

yep

[vital wyvern]

i can't not with stardew valley because the days are so short

[pure bear]

i can't not do that

[pure bear]

some days my stamina was gone after watering my field

[vital wyvern]

if you spend an hour faffing about instead of doing a productive thing that's an hour you won't get back

[pure bear]

want to go mining? fuck you

[compact oriole]

wow its like real life

[hardy merlin]

But... it's a video game
I just want to have fun in the game

[vital wyvern]

if there wasn't time pressure to do things I wouldn't feel this way

[compact oriole]

i feel like the time pressure isnt that high and its more us gamefying the progress

casuals just go about the game and not doing shit for days in that game

[vital wyvern]

i mean I guess

watching your 11-day crops die because you didn't plan your harvests properly is awful

like completely wasted the time, not to mention the energy you spend watering them

[pure bear]

agree.

i need to give it another whirl it's good

but there is pressure on me

[hardy merlin]

Just count the days for crops, it doesn't need special planning to do so

[compact oriole]

anyone trying delta force? free early access started today

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, fuck no
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2507950/view/4476110736154691091

I don't want to give my PC cancer, thank you very much

[fringe salmon]

List just sounds like normal anti cheat to me just this time they give users more info

[outer pollen]

It started yesterday and it’s pretty fun

I don’t like how the weapons are locked behind the classes though

[hardy merlin]

Which I also do not want on my PC

[sage ingot]

and I for one want every anti cheat on my pc

[fringe salmon]

[sage ingot]

I'll build up immunity/resistance to the kernel level ones by just downloading bushels of the less intrusive ones

[compact oriole]

thats always been the case in (almost?) every battlefield game too tho

[compact oriole]

you dont play any eac, be or riot games?

[outer pollen]

Did battlefield have literal healers?

I genuinely don’t remember

[sage ingot]

like, medics?

[compact oriole]

ye

[outer pollen]

Yeh

I hate being locked into shitty ARs when there’s marksman rifles

[sage ingot]

2/3rds of everyone was running assault with medbags lol

[outer pollen]

There’s 1 healer so far in this one, he gets a little autolock on healing pistol

[sage ingot]

oh so something like that

[outer pollen]

Shoots 6 projectiles

[sage ingot]

I don't remember anything like that

[outer pollen]

It’s a fun game though

[sage ingot]

but it reminds me of killing floor 2 lol

[outer pollen]

You got your regular pvp, the extraction game mode and there’s a 3rd game mode I haven’t tried yet

[woven current]

Can anyone help me pleas

[outer pollen]

[woven current]

I wanted to ask if my address was given to the shipment company where the keyboard needs to be shipped or should I enter it on the tracking page?

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/zargoth-gif-15673802963682771818

[compact oriole]

whats this got to do with games

[woven current]

Oh shit my bad

[outer pollen]

The game of life

[woven current]

Wrong channel

[orchid prism]

Are you asking if you have to give the courier your address yourself? Uh no?

They're given the information you provide on checkout - like... literally any other shop 😄

[woven current]

Oh

Alr my bad cause I have no idea for this specific thing

But thanks a lot

[outer pollen]

Marvel Rivals comes out today right?

[quiet vault]

no

or ig depends where u live

[hardy merlin]

Not really nowadays, no

[fading spade]

TIL the upcoming Indian Jone's game REQUIRES hardware RTX support

[small comet]

press X to doubt

[orchid prism]

Lanaposting way too late in the day. Tsk tsk.

Also isn't that the game that literally made up nonexistent CPUs on the requirements? So I doubt that claim 😛

[small comet]

last i checked they only said ray tracing in hardware not RTX

[orchid prism]

I mean... to the layman that's potato potato 😄

[scarlet marlin]

you can preload it

[outer pollen]

Thank you

[small comet]

but even then rx 5XXXX, rtx2XXX (and up) and intel A580 are like the min spec

[small comet]

not any new gpus by a long shot

[fading spade]

SSD and Raytracing are required

[orchid prism]

In fact the literal minimum, since 2000 series is when RTX was put into the world 😄

[small comet]

yes

but also not hard to fulfill any of the gpu specs

[outer pollen]

Damn 32gbs of ram

[fringe salmon]

Yes welcome to normal dev cycles where 4 gen old cards are the min spec

[scarlet marlin]

good thing you can just download more

[orchid prism]

[scarlet marlin]

[verbal nymph]

can't beliebe 20 series card are now old

[fading spade]

IKR

my 1660 feels fucking ancient now

[sage ingot]

I can believe that

[trim rock]

Can't believe Windows 11 is unsupported

[feral ferry]

20 series ain't really old

[small comet]

tbf i7, i9, ultra core7 whatever core 9

[fringe salmon]

It used to be an even faster cycle, 6 year old cards being the minimum is nothing special

[orchid prism]

Google that CPU model and tell me if you can find it, Tony.

[fading spade]

I assume they mean 10 and higher?

[small comet]

no im saying with how dumb intels naming is i can see how this happened

[scarlet marlin]

imagine if that isnt the case

[small comet]

i dont even know why they ever introduced i9

[fading spade]

:')

people need to upgrade from 11 to 10 to play the game

[small comet]

win11 is just win10 with a new DE

[fading spade]

Yeah, it is

[orchid prism]

Copywriters everywhere are disappointed in your attempt at a burn 😄

[fading spade]

10 has DX12

[orchid prism]

[small comet]

its not an attempt its how intel craps itself

same will happen with their gpus

[orchid prism]

It is though - Because you can literally google your work when creating a chart. That's not on Intel for fucking that part up.

[sage ingot]

the battlemage gpus are already confusing

[orchid prism]

Certain aspects of 12.1 are Win11 only from what I recall.

[small comet]

so researching it and then just retyping i7 cause all others are i7s is an error that can never happen just because research

i wouldnt have been surprised if it also happened with the weird amd naming

[orchid prism]

Of course it can...

[hardy merlin]

As far as I know you can make them work on Win10 by throwing VKD3D at it

[orchid prism]

Vulcanus completely changes the Factorio game. Smelting basically anything from an endless ocean of molten metals, in super efficient foundries - using toxic chemicals to produce power on an unheard of scale.

If I ever restart Factorio, I want a mod that starts you here, cause it just feels like I have...

https://tenor.com/view/u-unlimited-power-star-wars-lightning-gif-14542323

[small comet]

cough directstorage or something

[orchid prism]

🤔

[small comet]

wasnt that dx12 but win11 only

[hardy merlin]

See - vkd3d

[small comet]

oh nvm its a normal win api

[craggy light]

Does wooting 60he+ rapid trigger and 0.1 actuation point work on ps5 for fortnite

[orchid prism]

BUDDY

[deft bloom]

GAME

[outer pollen]

@grave granite she looks cool

[buoyant osprey]

Baz

[quiet vault]

ow avatar collab lol

(the anime)

[little cape]

im scared

[quiet vault]

it leaked lol

[little cape]

cant be as bad as the My hero collab right?.......right?

[quiet vault]

i can dm you

[little cape]

do it

i wanna cringe at this collab

[bleak pike]

reminder: awesome free game

[orchid prism]

Oh my god. BUS SIMULATOR 21!?

I've been needing that for my collection.

[bleak pike]

glad to be of service

😉

[orchid prism]

[grizzled quarry]

Lego Star wars for free? Don't mind if I do

[vapid lintel]

My unbridled tribalism to an uncaring and unloving corporate overlord prevents me from having any interest in that

Maybe it's not them, maybe it's me. I need to believe harder, I need to be more faithful. Gaben please forgive me for I haven't been enough for you. I'll do better.

[split cradle]

Buy him another yacht for his collection and you will be forgiven.

[vapid lintel]

Yes I shall mortgage the Wooting and buy the good Gaben another yacht

[tranquil salmon]

How else will he hand deliver steamdecks coast to coast?

[feral ferry]

https://youtu.be/t4OHLYmpUeI

Just.. how

All of those units require CPU resources, at least some vertices to render

How is the GPU and CPU not exploding

[fringe salmon]

same npc so its just batching everything

you can see the line/sphere for LOD and likely cutoff of logic being calculated

in a sense it's just Nanite from UE5 but on NPC not meshes

[bleak pike]

Well ok then

[hardy merlin]

Why the hell the skin on the very left looks like it was rejected from Concord?

[orchid prism]

Oh boy... Fighting the worms on Vulcanus is quite the challenge 😄

https://tenor.com/view/shai-hulud-sandworm-dune-worm-dune-dune-2-sardaukar-gif-9484219748191207712

[hardy merlin]

4 nuclear reactors will do the job with any worm

[orchid prism]

There's no uranium on this lava planet.

All I have right now is masses of gun turrets and armour piercing rounds.

GOTCHA YOU BASTARD

[hardy merlin]

Duck bested the worm

[orchid prism]

Very important milestone. It was guarding the closest deposit of Tungsten, the main resource of the planet and critical to get anywhere 😄

[feral ferry]

What the fuck is this

Is this the new Factorio DLC?

I've never seen biomes in Factorio

Every Item, Entity, and Equipment has 5 possible qualities, from Normal to Legendary!

What is this, Runescape?

I sure love my legendary coal furnace

[orchid prism]

Yep.

[bleak pike]

I'm guessing that's dune?

[orchid prism]

Dune - But it's a lava planet, and you don't mind for regular metals, you pump it from a sea of molten metal for infinite iron and copper.

[bleak pike]

I need to watch it

[feral ferry]

So, Mansen, are those new biomes "world types" on game start, or discoverable types of biomes in either the base world or.. a travelable to planets with those biomes you rocketship to?

[orchid prism]

So you basically get to the rocket part, then you build an orbital base and put giant rockets on it to fly to other planets.

[feral ferry]

Ah so, how I'd do it

[orchid prism]

Each planet has a theme, a twist.

[feral ferry]

Is this kerbal space program, chat?

[orchid prism]

Kerbal space program, if you needed to shoot down, grab and smelt asteroids for ammo and fuel for your spaceship. And if they hit, your ship will break apart - break apart enough and you just straight up lose it.

[outer pollen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/moonlighter-2-the-endless-vault-has-been-announced.1052937/

Time to get mad

[proper basin]

Duo?

Ill need to download but would be fun methinks

[outer pollen]

[feral ferry]

Ayo, a properly optimized game??

Well, it's running CryEng which is weirdly runnable compared to UE5

(It's totally not Lumen)

This is confusing me, how's 6600XT on medium, yet 5700, which is performance wise worse, on high?

CPU requirements are also weird, newer 6 cores below older 8 cores.

Are newer CryEngines actually properly utilizing core numbers instead of core speeds?

Weird but acceptable FHD requirements

https://x.com/SirTobi28/status/1864805678650659217

Sir Tobi ⚔🛡 (@SirTobi28) on X

And here we have the hardware specs. Maybe an important note, the PC specs are listed WITHOUT any upscaling in mind. Upscaling will of course boost fps if necessary, even on weaker hardware. Also check out the new trailer on the @WarhorseStudios YouTube Channel!

Twitter · Dec 5, 2024, 10:54 PM

No upscaling, good, hope DLSS3 and FSR3 are available

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-review/

[lone raptor]

Hold on, that's some old chart because I don't see 7600xt ?

[feral ferry]

It was literally posted today

How's it old

[lone raptor]

I could understand this posting date being today but I cannot figure out why there isn't amd 7000 series or nvidia 4000 series on chart ?

[sinful cobalt]

[lone raptor]

I mean this

[feral ferry]

Ah

Idk I just took the first TPU image I could find

[sinful cobalt]

I guess older picture

[lone raptor]

Ah, lol. That's some hella old picture

[feral ferry]

So, yeah

I can't understand why they are placing the weaker card on the higher quality tier

[lone raptor]

Oh yeah, inconsistencies in Kingsdom Come Deliverence II specs requirements

[maiden tulip]

hiya

[maiden tulip]

:o

they didn't fuck it up? Pog

[lone raptor]

Jeez, these devs. the recommanded gpu for medium at 1440p is 7800xt because nobody ain't getting 6800xt without getting scalped online. High and Ultra at 1440p makes sense starting at 7800xt to 7900xt

Specs sheet is so-so

[outer pollen]

@proper basin nwarh4k3xqy — Iron Man Armor Model 42 skin (valid until 5th March 2025)

[feral ferry]

6800XT is last gen?

Why'd you buy a last gen product lol

[proper basin]

[lone raptor]

Not me, I already bought 7900 gre

Gimme few secs while I think how to reply this.

[sinful cobalt]

Imo that pc spec list on the gpu side is more for the more popular ones not just for the high-end stuff

[feral ferry]

People bought the RX 5700 non-XT?

[lone raptor]

Ah, you noticed ? I did not

[lone raptor]

Yes to flash XT firmware on it

[feral ferry]

Sadly your theory falls apart there

[lone raptor]

I also did do that too

[feral ferry]

Barely anyone bought the non-XT

There is a good reason if you search for it, nearly all results are for the XT

The price difference was tiny between the non-XT and XT and it was just uninteresting

[lone raptor]

Good question.....I don't know what caused my past me to buy this non-xt

[feral ferry]

Also there were so many non-XTs they got stuffed into a shit ton of prebuilts, which is how I got ot too

[lone raptor]

As I know 5700 non-xt and xt are same hardware

[feral ferry]

They are and they are not

Disabled cores, same silicon

[lone raptor]

Ah, I just noticed these numbers in Shader column

[feral ferry]

Tbf flashing XT bios always gave you like 10% free perf which was very weird

I wonder if that bypassed the core lock somehow

[lone raptor]

Could be it, what I did is not an usual thing.

Ah, I remember why I crashed the gpu when I raised the max wattage to 225 for a 5700

Checking more specs to check out why someone online has flashed xt onto a non-xt card

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/flashing-amd-radeon-rx-5700-with-xt-bios-performance-guide/

[quiet vault]

marvel rivals is uhmm interesting

but nothing to do with ow

[lone raptor]

I am wondering if that's the techpowerup guide did cause my past me to flash the xt firmware on my 5700 card

[outer pollen]

@proper basin Mango best Jeff NA

[proper basin]

[outer pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/jeff-the-land-shark-marvel-major-general-ffxiv-gif-2225911870593737747

[rancid hearth]

https://tenor.com/view/gawr-gura-gura-kanye-transform-stare-gif-26529192

lol 7 likes

[lone raptor]

I remember this era of minecart boosters back in old minecraft versions without booster tracks.

[lone raptor]

Rimworld right ?

That's impressive because malaria is only transmitted by infected mosquitoes

Sounds like randy would cause it ( I don't own Rimworld game )

[hardy merlin]

Oooh boi, we cookin

[outer pollen]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3215660/Late_Homework/ @proper basin Did you see cute spooky game?

Steam

Late Homework | 遅れた宿題

Secondary school student Haneko has forgotten her assigned homework, and they're due tomorrow. Feeling she has no choice, she decides her only way to avoid failing the semester is to make a trip back to school at night and retrieve the assignments. But something's not right in the building...An anomaly lurks the halls, seeking the souls of disob...

Price

$5.99

Recommendations

134

▶ Play video

[hardy merlin]

What is this seed?

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/vqwv4psb415e1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=128d6e7d2bc6f2817bb50ee298beaae9cacfd832

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2958970/The_Thing_Remastered/ It's out btw

Steam

The Thing: Remastered

No One Survives Alone.The 2002 third-person survival horror shooter that serves as a sequel to the genre-defining 1982 film is back, remastered by Nightdive Studios to bring this innovative blend of fast paced squad action meets survival horror to the modern era. Including Antialiasing, Per Pixel Lighting, 4K Resolution and up to 144 FPS.Where t...

Price

$29.99

▶ Play video

[feral ferry]

7lb2wvpk, erratic deck

[hardy merlin]

Nop, XD8W28WK on yellow
Got up to ante 12, not bad

[feral ferry]

Try that one now

Unless you are already aware of it

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, I know which one that is

[near crow]

who wants to play marvel rivals

[feral ferry]

https://x.com/Andy_VGC/status/1864973090263900372?t=Zt-kgY8NcGGEPHTLj8g_4Q

Andy Robinson (@Andy_VGC) on X

Expecting a VERY big Game Awards next week. Fire up the hype train.

Twitter · Dec 6, 2024, 10:00 AM

I am cautiously optimistic

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/palla-deserto-desert-hot-gif-6014273

[bleak pike]

I swear they say the same shit every year

Except for maybe next year

[bleak pike]

Me not not right now

Apparently it runs like shit

[unique bane]

lets go

[orchid prism]

That launcher is so scuffed. Half expecting chiptunes to be blasting meanwhilst an ascii animation plays

[unique bane]

Hehe it just looks like that when its not fully dl'd, atleast PoE1 did

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMb7vCPW6QI
There you go for some immersion.

[vapid lintel]

You got dysentery! Game over.

[orchid prism]

😭

[near crow]

The frame generation helps it a TON! It’s pretty cool

[near crow]

If you need any help setting it up I wouldn’t mind

[fringe salmon]

Imagine willingly increasing your lag in a competitive game ew

[tranquil salmon]

If your on amd, make dure your gpu drivers are up to date

[narrow junco]

It is poe 2 day

Got my poe shirt on i am ready

[vapid lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/australian-raven-caw-corvid-gif-27230854

[narrow junco]

I am very worried about the server situation

They got way more people signing up than expected

[orchid prism]

Can't be worse than Diablo's launches 😄

[narrow junco]

Over 1 million people redeemed a key and they said they preparwd server capacity for 1 million

[vapid lintel]

Oh Path of Exile

I thought Edgar Allen Poe

[narrow junco]

Wrong

Power over ethernet

Funniest one to me is that there‘s 2 games called tf2 and they‘re both first person shooters with interesting movement mechanics and running on source engine

[vapid lintel]

Wait what's the other one?

[narrow junco]

Titanfall 2

[small comet]

titanfall

[vapid lintel]

Ooh

[small comet]

tbh titanfall2 is better than teamfortress 2

[orchid prism]

Tiddyfall!

[narrow junco]

Your opinion is objectively incorrect

[vapid lintel]

I saw a video about the development of their movement mechanics

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/titanfall-execution-legion-titanfall2-gif-25927596

[vapid lintel]

Well you know what they say, opinions are like assholes, everyone's got oen

[small comet]

ok mr "i enjoy a game with ancient bugs that gets 0 dev time spent on it and people still somehow love the crap out of it despite its bad gunplay and dated game design"

[vapid lintel]

And they all stink

[scarlet marlin]