🎮│game

[vapid lintel]

Which is pretty relevant in this world, it is the lack of trust that makes privacy so difficult... We go through great lengths to create a narrative about a customer's purchase to try and find a reason that it isn't fraudulent to accept the payment

If only we could accept Bitcoin... 😭

[compact oriole]

when are we gonna get a 2nd internet to escape all this surveillance and censorship thats on its way

[fathom swift]

I dont use the #🎮│game channel a lot, but are these the usual conversations that go on here?

[vital wyvern]

what does that mean

[vapid lintel]

In every other payment method, the payment can be clawed back

Technically Bitcoin has replace by fee transactions that if there aren't enough confirmations you can slip a new transaction in that sends the coins somewhere else, but that's easily mitigated by just waiting a few more blocks

[clear osprey]

@grave granite

[vapid lintel]

Yes that's right. Quick guide to channels:
#💬│general is to find what are the best what are the best fortnite settings
#🔌│tech is to bemoan either intel or AMD's stock price
#🐸│memes is for long winded political discussions
#🐱│pets is a holy place

[hardy merlin]

Big Palworld W https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1623730/view/518595390150279686?l=english

[clear osprey]

@grave granite

[clear osprey]

@grave granite last one foh tonight

still tryna hone the sensitivity in

[compact oriole]

nintendo tryna find an angle on how to sue them with a patent over this

[clear osprey]

it do be kinda beaming

[gilded sleet]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/battlefield-6s-anti-cheat-has-already-stopped-330-000-attempts-to-cheat-in-the-open-beta-but-players-are-still-calling-out-wallhackers-who-slip-through-the-net/

[compact oriole]

calling it a net is very optimistic

the only good anti cheat im aware of is the rootkit you install with riot games

[trim rock]

Yeah, and the older version of what Genshin Impact had. Oh wait it was a good tool for pushing your own naughty stuff to the kernel and whatnot

[outer pollen]

@pure bear

[pure bear]

what am i to be seeing here

[outer pollen]

Takky0n

[pure bear]

ooh

[small comet]

wew nier franchise sale with 65% off on the 2 games and the dlc for automata

[hot spire]

Do you mean @grave granite ?

[grizzled bramble]

Well that's Mafia TOC finished just time to start finding all the hidden stuff then

Kinda wish there were some options on some choices because some of the story was just stupid but it's Mafia so eh

[small comet]

ye it follows the same kinda story path as 1 and 2

[hardy merlin]

Racing?

[small comet]

there is actually 2 races in old country

[grizzled bramble]

Overall good game but some of the story could've been better, the explore option would be nicer to have like Mafia 2

[orchid prism]

Italian and Sicilian?

[outer pollen]

I'm preordering battlefield

[compact oriole]

games definitely solid but ill wait until release to see what kinda catch theyre gonna patch in

or if i even have the time/wanna play it on release

[hardy merlin]

No preorders

[fathom swift]

"Noooo, dont preorder guys please its not worth" -LD

Also preorders are more expensive than buying on launch aren't they?

[hardy merlin]

Usually

Also it's not like it'll run out

[proper basin]

Dashi preordered, miss “dont preorder” has fallen

[hardy merlin]

Dashi is miss consumer

[proper basin]

Consoooooom

[fathom swift]

Last game I preordered was GoWR. That was back when physical copies of games actually meant something

[hardy merlin]

Last think I preordered was Nyakuza Metro DLC for A Hat in Time, because I was sure they'd deliver

[fathom swift]

Did they?

[hardy merlin]

Eyup, it was great

[verbal nymph]

ahh, all is done, had my fun

[hasty shore]

Same

[fathom swift]

Damn lol

I guess I'm waiting until next weekend to complete them

[verbal nymph]

doesn't take too long, but the engi one is annoying since you have to piggy back somebody's tank

[proper basin]

i got that done in 2 games lucky for me, got tanks that would actually let me heal them

[outer pollen]

Took me 3 games

2nd game the dude kept driving off into the sunset and blowing himself up

[proper basin]

gotta hope no one else is in the vehicle so you hop in to follow and bail if its crazy

[nimble current]

gamers really are the worst at sticking to principles

[outer pollen]

Like when people were gonna hold on the Nintendo Switch 2

[mellow garden]

Reddit doesn't reflect the wider market, especially when it comes to Nintendo.

[quiet vault]

ye most switch owners arent old enough for reddit

[mellow garden]

Why do certain "gamers" have the stick up their ass about boycotts anyway?

[nimble current]

yeah nintendo fans has never really had any principles but then again not really claimed to do so either

[nimble current]

because companies keep shoving anti-consoomer sticks up our asses I guess

turns out gamers on average is really into this humiliation kink

[quiet vault]

people just dont careee

[nimble current]

they care until it becomes even the slightest bit inconvenient for them personally

[little cape]

god i hate that anti cheat

[nimble current]

people do love to complain about the tech dystopia we've ended up in and companies seemingly endless overreach into our lives and personal details

[little cape]

skynet already winning

[nimble current]

and it all stems from this lack of principles and solidarity among the populace

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-terminator-2-arnold-schwarzenegger-judgment-day-skynet-gif-7405932669297095694

[compact oriole]

skynet? people literally gifting their privacy away for convenience

[nimble current]

I guess its fine if I sell my soul to EA once more if the new battlefield is decent

[little cape]

"Let me ask gpt" xD

fr though youre right

[nimble current]

these companies fuck us over and then play us like a fiddle to win us back and it works every goddamn time

its so demoralizing

[compact oriole]

well if the product is good

im done with trying to moral stand stuff or not do something because of someone or what they did before. lifes too short and i just do what i enjoy

[nimble current]

the product itself is the trojan horse for their bs to seep into your life

[compact oriole]

its really not that deep.. you buy an FPS and you have some fun with it (or not)

doesnt mean im buying into some weird grand plan or eco system of EA

voting with your wallet works, which is why we are getting this game and thousands of people have been losing their jobs

[nimble current]

I guess most people here are too young to remember a time when things used to be different

[compact oriole]

also means to support shit that you do enjoy

[compact oriole]

how old are you? also the past is like a book. read it, dont live in it

[nimble current]

its kinda hard when our species is so hell bent on reliving the worst aspects of our past

[compact oriole]

we used to have dedicated servers and actually get to know and connect to people by joining the same ones. linking up with a clan on teamspeak, have friendly scrims. that is all gone for mathcmaking where you never meet the same people twice unless the game is dead

we are as connected as ever but yet as lonely as ever

do i miss the old times of when they used to release full games for a full price and not tryna milk us? ofc. but thats not the reality we live in anymore. gotta make the best of it and just vote with your wallet. ask ubisoft, ea, microsoft and all those studios that were closed down this and last year how well that works :3

[nimble current]

and we're agreeing to so much invasive crap noone in their right mind would agree to 30 years ago

[compact oriole]

ye. its the boiling frog thing

you put a frog into boiling water itll jump out. you put him in normal water and make it boil slowly, itll die in it

[nimble current]

am just wondering at what point it'll be too much for the average pleb

[compact oriole]

and thats what theyve been doing for us over the past 30+ years

[maiden tulip]

I think most people just want to have fun

[nimble current]

well duh

[mellow garden]

I find many modern games fun

[compact oriole]

and its what theyll keep doing. now theyre doing this ID crap for porn sites. social media is already following suit and so are some games and its just a matter of time until any movement on the internet is tracked with your ID and every move is used against you

[nimble current]

and we deserve every bit of it until we collectively grow some balls and tell these people no, go fuck yourselves

[compact oriole]

fun games never stopped coming out. just a lot of trash bloat from AAA studios that try to make money instead of trying to make good games. its just what happens when big money gets involved

[maiden tulip]

The id shit most people were just like ohhh vpns are a thing and they'll never manage to actually implement it

[compact oriole]

the fucking kelloggs cfo suddenly works for ubisoft and is like: ye if we put 500mil into a game with ships that has no gameplay, that measns we make 3 billion in revenue

[maiden tulip]

I swear the amount of times i talked about it and just got told "BUT I HAVE A VPN SO ITS WHATEVER"

[compact oriole]

vpn aint gonna save us if all these sites choose to just implement these rules basically globally as a standard

[mellow garden]

Honestly, the dedicated server era wasn't better. I grew up playing enough WoW to know what petty drama "community leaders" will pull. That shit still exists with private leagues in games like iRacing as well. I'll take the larger matchmaking systems over anything a private individual has any real control over.

[nimble current]

yeah that is very much missing the point of it all

[compact oriole]

and since they have to implement the checks anyway may as well get all user data..

[nimble current]

lots of things weren't better back in the day too, am not gonna pretend like it was all perfect back then

but I feel like at least people had more resilience to corporate bullshit

[compact oriole]

ye but wow players are fucking weird and ive heard stuff like this before. its different when youre playing a pve game that includes value of any kind (loot) or just mp pvp games

[nimble current]

nowadays we just bend over and take whatever draconian garbage they think of for their next patch update

[compact oriole]

if that were true we wouldnt be where we are right now

[nimble current]

that's what decades of chipping away at your morale and sense of community does to you

[compact oriole]

from the very first second people were crying about mtx and yet they were paying out their asses for them. if this wasnt true there wouldnt be a literal trillion dollar economy on selling you skins or gambling anime waifus

[nimble current]

people on average have gotten extremely divisive

[compact oriole]

i think the internet makes it seem more this way

and people being terminally online and fighting for stupid issues that dont even matter for their own lives

[nimble current]

or fighting for issues that aren't even real because some asshole with an agenda made it up

[compact oriole]

also people getting lonelier and lonelier because they spend their time on their phone or pc chatting up on reddit, x and what ever other platforms, radicalizing each other cz theyre lonely but they find places to belong to

i firmly believe social media did more bad than good for us

and kids shouldnt be on it..

[mellow garden]

Australia are banning social media for under 16 year olds

But then how do you actually enforce it?

Hence the loop around to ID verification in apps and services

[compact oriole]

well obv theyre gonna implement id checks

[nimble current]

as someone who actually used internet in the 90s and had great hopes for what it could do for humanity seeing where we've ended up is one of the most doompilling things I can think of

[compact oriole]

weird how the whole west suddenly decided we need IDs on the web. isnt that curious

[nimble current]

instead of enlighting people its become a festering ground for dipshits with alterior motives

[compact oriole]

thats the human condition

thinking itd be different is coping

[nimble current]

and nobody knows or seems to care what's real anymore

[compact oriole]

you know whats helped me feel better in recent years? not being on social media for any social or political crap at all. ignorance is bliss. why should i get angry about crap i cannot change or control. and you cannot convince people online anyway. everyone goes in with their opinion and like 95% of people cannot be swayed even with literal proof of facts

[nimble current]

well the 90s was an interesting era for tech, there were a lot of excitement and optimism for what this new tech would do for us

[compact oriole]

people always imagine the best cases and never think about how humans actually are

theres always people trying to get ahead

thats just normal. not even evil per say

[nimble current]

oh I've tried, problem is these problems we want to ignore keeps getting bigger and creeping into our lives no matter how hard we look the other way

[compact oriole]

do they tho. what do the wars across the planet have to do with me and my life apart from my country wasting my hard earned money on them

[nimble current]

I may be completely powerless to stop it, but I can be the angry old git yelling at clouds telling you all I told you so when shit's gone far enough for even the avg preorder goon to notice

[nimble current]

am paying roughly twice for my groceries now

[compact oriole]

is feeling bad for months or even years to tell a random on the web on discord "i told you so" worth it tho

[nimble current]

it doesn't matter if its worth it or not, I can't just shut brain off and go into happy obedient 2025 consoomer mode

[compact oriole]

we are paying a lot more as well but what does getting angry about it or argue with people do? even protesting. it all does nothing. unless theres an actual way to contribute i think its wasted time

[nimble current]

even if I actually wanted to

[compact oriole]

well dont consume then. you should do what you enjoy and not try to see a bigger picture to it

i didnt buy a single bf since bf3. this one looks good i maybe buy bf6

theres nothing more to it. i do what i enjoy.

doesnt mean the evil corpos have won and now im caught in some weird net of conspiracies

[nimble current]

what if you're getting priced out of doing what you used to enjoy

[compact oriole]

like gpus?

[nimble current]

that's one thing, yes

[compact oriole]

theres things we can do and things we cant. in this example specifically. nvidia has 90%+ gaming market share while gaming isnt even 10% of their revenue and that includes switch 2 sales btw. so what CAN you do when their last 2 series have both sold very badly and they dont seem to care

[nimble current]

that's the thing, we can put our fingers in our ears and sing all we like but fact is the things we love and care about are subject for getting ruined like everything else

[compact oriole]

ye but i dont have to obsess about it every day on some social media

[nimble current]

how much longer are we going to pretend there's no iceberg

[compact oriole]

what has seeing the iceberg and constantly looking at it done for you or us?

[nimble current]

neither do I man I got off facebook like a decade ago now

[mellow garden]

You can buy an AMD or Intel GPU

[nimble current]

only social media I really use is this, discord

[compact oriole]

you can but then you also buy worse products assuming you want high end

[nimble current]

I don't need a juicy clickbait headline to convince me of how fucked things are getting, I can just look at the cold hard numbers and statistics

[compact oriole]

thing is even if in normal rendering the amd 9070xt is really good their ai crap is still barely comparable to nvidia. and as we can see those features get more and more important with ue5 literally not even giving you the option to render native without any upscaling

[nimble current]

and our collective response is oh well throw some more gasoline on the fire and not worry about it

[compact oriole]

most people just dont actually care. limits of people are different and they make concession at different points. issue is that over time more and more will just accept things how they are

you know how often i heard: "so? we got nothing to hide"

[nimble current]

yeah its hard to accept the 2020s reality when you've lived most of your life in a decent timeline

[compact oriole]

and im like.. ye ok but what if what we have to hide is different when politics shifts?

[nimble current]

for the young people now they haven't known much else than economic turmoil and general instability

[compact oriole]

used to have to hide that youre gay, last 10 years you had to hide when you made jokes about gay people lol, cz people would cancel you for that

[nimble current]

well homophobes can rejoice because their second wind is now

[compact oriole]

man i just found out that bf6 destruction actually isnt live rendered like the finals but completely prescripted.. man that sucks

[nimble current]

whatever cheapest solution that works to sell the illusion

we are still talking about a triple A product here after all

[compact oriole]

ye. i mean servers to actually calculate that shit serverside like the finals does but for 64+ people are prolly impossible to pay for lol

if it can even be done on such a massive scale

[nimble current]

probably could, but it'd be more costly and complex than the shareholders would want to get behind

[compact oriole]

id assume the cost is so crazy, you couldnt even make money on it. but i dont actually know

[nimble current]

given the bf playerbase size, they probably could

[bleak pike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/McQIGH3x8h

Lol

[compact oriole]

ye thats exactly why i brought this up. just seen it

[nimble current]

but it'd be less money than what they're making now which is a no-no

[bleak pike]

Ah XD

[coarse latch]

It's hard copium but destruction really isn't as pivotal

as it is in Finals

[compact oriole]

for sure

[coarse latch]

Would live destruction be cool since it's kinda the whole BF gimmick, sure but I wouldn't mind either way

[compact oriole]

the game and the maps are too big for it to matter like it does in the finals

[bleak pike]

Hahahahahahahha

https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/s/h60kbCX1zN

[bleak pike]

i swear to god

why are people with ars able to shoot me across the map

[orchid prism]

First battlefield game?

Bad Company 2 had a meme where the medic class with a machinegun was perfectly viable as a long range sniper.

[bleak pike]

Can only squad mates res?

[hollow zephyr]

just wait until they have the 128 palyer lobbies in weekend 2

I am very excited for the Empire State map!

[proper basin]

squad mates and medics

[maiden tulip]

he want borgor

he's too short

little arms no reach

[hot spire]

BF6 protop, you can paddle peeps being normal revived

so if you see someone dragging someone you can just insta revive them

[compact oriole]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qr6rhbAzh0

[fading spade]

What game?

[compact oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/the-finals-anime-girl-dance-funny-gif-1982386065834582396

[fading spade]

oh yeah, I cant play it yet cause my desktop sucks too bad

but ive been wanting to badly

also
washing machine...

[compact oriole]

[mellow garden]

Washing machines live longer with Calgon

[fading spade]

:')

comfy bedroom!

there was a comment on this game about how the backrooms in this game seem like they could be the afterlife for demolished / ruined buildings and thats why we see so many suburban homes and accomodation centers

[orchid prism]

And we're back to our regularly scheduled Lanapost.

[fading spade]

.....wait wait blankroomsoup.avi?? is that you????

[nimble current]

you want to play a horror fps with some backrooms vibes, go play og f.e.a.r.

[mellow garden]

The great kernel war

[trim rock]

Ah good, forcing people to pick just one malware-anticheat infested game to play

[proper basin]

i mean its right, peopple should uninstall valorant

fortnite festival is just better

[maiden tulip]

Tmw i posted it in #🔌│tech then come here and see it

[orchid prism]

[maiden tulip]

HOW WOULd I KNOW I'm SUPPOSED TO CHECK EVERY CHANNEL

[mellow garden]

There's like two active channels

[maiden tulip]

#🐱│pets

[bleak pike]

Ok that's actually really funny "West Kirby"

@maiden tulip

For fuck sake

In London of all places

London needs to be bombed

[maiden tulip]

KIRBY

https://tenor.com/view/kirby-shiny-eyes-eyes-uwu-in-love-gif-13388685465125931895

[cold anvil]

I am noticing a lot of deltarune and furrys on wplace

[iron oak]

HARU URARA!

[grizzled quarry]

it doesnt make you uninstall it

you just cant open both at the same time

thats how i got that error

[proper basin]

And pokemon, to be expected

[outer pollen]

My area

[buoyant osprey]

What is that map called

[buoyant osprey]

Why is Star_ there

[outer pollen]

Wplace

[buoyant osprey]

It is not loading for me

[outer pollen]

Did you zoom in?

https://wplace.live/

[buoyant osprey]

I live in the Burzum zone

Updated pic

[outer pollen]

I wonder what that's going to be on the right side

[proper basin]

Holy project moon characters

Yet

Deltarune takes precedence over teto

[hot spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1837480/Vietnam_War/

Steam

Vietnam War

Lead your troops to victory in a huge open world set in the Vietnam War.

Play as U.S. or Vietcong / N.V.A. on an ever changing battlefield where other units move and fight independently of player.

Command your squad to follow, stay, attack and change formations etc.…

Price

$14.99

Recommendations

680

▶ Play video

[verbal nymph]

is this the battlefield 6 that they're talking about

[hollow zephyr]

speaking of, I got the max rank in the nick of time LOL

rank 20 babyyyyy!!!!

[hot spire]

there is a second week

[hollow zephyr]

yeah ik

but I wanted to challenge myself

also because BF6 is way too much fun

[hot spire]

i got 105 revives on breakthough

[hollow zephyr]

what map?

[hot spire]

the mountian one

105 revives 7 kills 18000 points

XD

[hollow zephyr]

oh liberation peak

[hollow zephyr]

thats what I call a good support class player

most of them just walk by me when I need a res

[hot spire]

yep

[hollow zephyr]

LMAO

the most I got in one game was like 50 in Seige of Cairo in Conquest

[fathom swift]

But medics can res anyone. Only your own squad can res you if they are a different class

[hollow zephyr]

yeah ik

[hot spire]

also tons of medics dont use defib

i got a quad defib kill as well

[hollow zephyr]

yeah they forget to charge it up before they approach you LMAO

[hot spire]

you dont have any charge

just swap and it instant revives

[hollow zephyr]

it like takes a second before you can use it

[hot spire]

nope

[hollow zephyr]

oh wack

nice

[hot spire]

yeah

but loads of medics do the normal revive

[hollow zephyr]

I am excited for their NY themed maps though

[hot spire]

its just one map next week

[hollow zephyr]

I only do that when I need to drag a player away from the line of fire

[fathom swift]

I've mostly played assault. Blowing people up with a grenade launcher is always funny

[hot spire]

sadly after 4 revives you just get multi revivie

i think i got 10 or atleast 9 combo and no special thing

[hollow zephyr]

I mostly did the engineer and support class, blowing up other vehicles is hella fun and repairing what the team has.

[hot spire]

i just got the second lmg

nice to have fast reload

[hollow zephyr]

the shotguns are quite broken though LMAO

[hot spire]

are there more shotungs?

[hollow zephyr]

especially in these smaller maps where cqc is very common

[hot spire]

thats how they should work in bf

[hollow zephyr]

no it's like wayy too overpowered. they need to balance it.

also the server timings have been a little wacko

[hot spire]

did you not play bf3?

[hollow zephyr]

I have not, are shotguns supposed to be this good?

[hot spire]

yes

[hollow zephyr]

hmm, aight then

[hot spire]

90% of small maps arent large enough for shotguns to drop off

[hollow zephyr]

yeah

I am excited for the larger maps in weekend 2 though

[hot spire]

its one map

[hollow zephyr]

it's the NY one right?

[hot spire]

yeah

but in bf2 shotguns were good

but bc and bc2 made them a staple of bf

[hollow zephyr]

ah

[hot spire]

in bc2 you could counter snipe 50s with the 870

[hollow zephyr]

oh really? no slugs?

or with slugs?

[hot spire]

slugs and magnum

[hollow zephyr]

ah, yeah that does make sense

similar thing in BF6

when you kit out the shotgun with a scope and slugs

[hot spire]

no its tame in 6

in bc2 you could get 400m hits

like spawn to spawn on the biggest map

[hollow zephyr]

oh wow

[hot spire]

and it had a 8x

[hollow zephyr]

dayum

that is kind of insane

[hot spire]

yeah

my bad it was 12

[hollow zephyr]

DAYUMMMM

I am curious to see how the Rush gamemode will go.

[hot spire]

yeah

i like rush/breakthough modes

[hollow zephyr]

yeah same

[hot spire]

i love insurgency

but it carried over into bf3

[hollow zephyr]

ah

[hollow zephyr]

love using the smoke grenades for breakthrough

smoke and rush

[hot spire]

yeah you get 2 which is dope

[hollow zephyr]

yee

[hot spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AFPGc15bn8

[hollow zephyr]

yeah I can see why that was really good now

[hot spire]

the nerfed it a bit in 3 as you didnt have magnum rounds

they removed tons of drop

[hollow zephyr]

I see yeah

[hot spire]

its still good

in the 2 breakthough maps i found the lmgs single shot are amazing at snipers

[hollow zephyr]

nice

[hot spire]

hip fire is busted bad

takes like 100 shots to get someone at 20m

[hollow zephyr]

yeah, thats unfortunate

there is also a really funny bug with the sliding mechanic where you can slide infinitely

found it kind of by accident but it was funny when it happened.

just didnt stop sliding.

[hot spire]

lol

they see me slidin, they hatin

[hollow zephyr]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MqHs6mQbrbE

hopefully DICE will fix it

[hot spire]

dose it work in game or just the range

[hollow zephyr]

also works in game

[hot spire]

how do you trigger it?

[hollow zephyr]

I honestly dont know, I triggered it by accident one time and then I couldnt figure out why, not many people talking about it when I tried looking it up.

here is someone doing it in game https://www.tiktok.com/@jawnwicktv/video/7536418880315460878

[grizzled quarry]

Bad aim on third guy but we dont talk about it

Super sneaky sniper 🔥 🔥 🔥

[hollow zephyr]

Nice

I need to grind out the recon and assault classes more in weekend 2

[grizzled quarry]

Im loving recon with sniper

[hollow zephyr]

The top of that hill is my favorite sniper spot

[grizzled quarry]

That and support with smg is all I've ran

[hollow zephyr]

The one in the middle of the map

[grizzled quarry]

more mid sniper clips

[hollow zephyr]

Honestly give the engineer class a try on maps like liberation peak

You can use the surface to air guided missiles on helicopters and fighter jets and it's super satisfying to get them destroyed with one

[grizzled quarry]

i honestly just love avoiding them and sneaking around w my sniper

[hollow zephyr]

Nice

[grizzled quarry]

especially with it silenced

its a monster for flanking/sneaky sniping

[hollow zephyr]

Yee

[grizzled quarry]

snipers are in a really good spot too, not op at all. But very strong when played right

they did a good job at doing what most games cant, balancing snipers

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah

The recon class is also nice because of the respawn beacons

Very useful

[grizzled quarry]

i would be even happier with a slightly shorter sweet spot range, but even with it at 80m its still super good

[grizzled quarry]

i abused the fuck out of these with the 1 map you can get out of bounds

a teammate put one up and i spawned on it and was just ontop of buildings the entire game

went 45 and 2

[hollow zephyr]

Cairo right?

[grizzled quarry]

i think thats what its called, the one with the big freeway overhead on E

[hollow zephyr]

Cauz I know you can get on top of the bridge on that map and then hop from building to building

[grizzled quarry]

every single building there doesnt have an out of bounds

and honestly they are built as if you are meant to be able to get up there

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah that was surprising

[grizzled quarry]

because they had ramps to jump across to other buildings easily and shit

[hollow zephyr]

Verticality on maps like that is pretty cool though

[grizzled quarry]

like proper routes to buildings with good lines of sight

[grizzled quarry]

yeah i would honestly love that to be how that map is

[hollow zephyr]

Even though it doesn't seem like it was intentional

[grizzled quarry]

it seems like the buildings were built with it in mind

but the way to actually get there is deff a bug

[fallow bronze]

Ahh Snipers not contributing to the conquest.. it's an age old tradition

[grizzled quarry]

my w/r is pretty good actually

i tend to pickoff people on the spots its needed

[hollow zephyr]

Tbh, for conquest you just smoke and rush

[grizzled quarry]

more than just useless sniping for kd

dont get me wrong i prefer a good kd over a win but i havent been throwing games for kd

[hollow zephyr]

Same strat for rush

Extremely effective

[grizzled quarry]

sniping is my bread and butter for games like this, i have a quite good playstyle to where it still benefits the team for winning while im off doing my own thing

[hollow zephyr]

Also works well in breakthrough

[grizzled quarry]

even with the no 1 shot body closer range i still get very aggro w a sniper too

which works surprisingly well for not having a good side arm

pistols (or at least the one available to us) are very weak

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah, although when the game actually comes out I'm pretty sure there will be more sidearms available to pick out.

[grizzled quarry]

for sure which will hopefully provide good options for a useful side arm

if the p320 we have did just like 5 more damage it would be good to actually stand a chance close range

[hollow zephyr]

Yee

[grizzled quarry]

unless your enemies are absolutely clueless you basically lose 8/10 gunfights with the pistol we have

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah

Unless you stick with assault class and treat your shotgun as a sidearm LMAO

Or vice-versa

[grizzled quarry]

:p

its quite easy to get up here lol

[rotund adder]

Well it require glitches

[abstract venture]

Started valorant from 0 to lvl 20 and ranked g2 to asc 2 in 5 days + some five last I sell my broken main brh

I’ll do radiant in soloq this time after immo

[grizzled quarry]

Yes

[outer pollen]

The tactile insertion and uav are amazing though

[hardy merlin]

Legendary rare Trump W? https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/guaranteeing-fair-banking-for-all-americans/
Games be coming back on Steam and itch.io?

[compact oriole]

im surprised by how much fun im having with the bf6 beta ngl

i might actually buy it on release

[grizzled quarry]

i cant lie i think im gonna pre order it

most fun ive had in a game for a LONG time

[clear osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/faze-faze-clan-faze-kalei-kalei-renay-faze-up-gif-22107885

[scarlet marlin]

if only I had a license haha

[outer pollen]

Buy it and keep it at home as your plushie vehicle room

[scarlet marlin]

[rotund adder]

Dosent dutch need bike license?

[scarlet marlin]

we got those by birth its fine

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OTLVhpCp0
My brain can't comprehend this level of tomfoolery.

[hardy merlin]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-z-is-cutting-back-on-video-game-purchases-like-really-cutting-back/

[mellow garden]

👀

While purchases for accessories, small appliances, technology, and “total general merchandise” had all dropped with young adults, video gaming took the lead in Circana’s data.
Yeah, kinda sucks when people have no money.

[hardy merlin]

I won't be paying 70/80€ for a slop game which doesn't even work properly

[mellow garden]

I'm happy to buy a £70-80 game, I just buy and play less games in general.

[hardy merlin]

Sure
If it's worth it
Most games just aren't

[mellow garden]

There is a near 100% likelihood that I buy whatever £120 GTA VI ultimate edition they end up selling

I paid £90 for the RDR2 Ultimate Edition on PS4 back in 2018

Worth every penny

Red Dead Online didn't exactly work out for them but otherwise the single player was incredible.

[hardy merlin]

See - games that are actually worth it

But, say, Star Wars Outlaws I wouldn't take even for free

[mellow garden]

Stellar Blade: Deluxe Edition for £80 was worth it. Good story, great ass, cool soundtrack.

Enjoyed the Nier crossover as well.

[orchid prism]

Whaaaat - A gamemode with predatory "must log in and play every day" mechanics necessary to unlock more gameplay, griefing being a meta to avoid doing work and nothing new or special about it compared to the SP campaign?

How could it not be a success.

[mellow garden]

It came out during the bad era of GTA Online where every weapon and vehicle was more stupid than the previous.

No, we didn't need flying bikes with rockets.

[vapid lintel]

Last game I bought was Split Fiction, no regrets there

[hardy merlin]

Yup, amazing game

[nimble current]

https://vxtwitter.com/ItsHapa/status/1953515565084967379

ItsHapa (@ItsHapa)

🚨CONFIRMED: Cheats are already working in Battlefield 6.

This footage proves CHEATS are FULLY FUNCTIONAL on Day 1 of Early Access Beta. https://t.co/j9WSyWPEI1

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Aug 7, 2025, 5:56 PM

€69,99 and can't even enjoy the beta without getting wallhacked

[hardy merlin]

Honestly, they should go for 30€ price tag and more microtransactions, given the popularity of open beta
Would make EA more money

[mellow garden]

Seems a lot of people have been playing the open beta though

It'll probably sell well enough at the current price tag

[hardy merlin]

Sure - because it was free

[narrow junco]

Why do that when you can do 69.99 and more microtransactions

[hardy merlin]

Potentially less people who will buy the game
Ideally you want F2P and microtransactions, but that wouldn't work for BF

[outer pollen]

If people give Nintendo money for a system they can brick whenever they feel like it, you know people will give EA money for game

[verbal nymph]

brick for playing used game

[hardy merlin]

They can brick whenever they feel like it and no games on release

[nimble current]

member when we owned the products we bought

[hardy merlin]

Steam Deck

Even with no Steam account it's a perfectly capable gaming device

[verbal nymph]

I do you better, Epic Account, still usable

[nimble current]

devs be like not enough people still play the game you like we're killing the servers sorry lmao

[hardy merlin]

Meanwhile ArenaNet

Guild Wars 1 has 400 concurrent players? Time for an update

[scarlet marlin]

Being sick over the weekend was a good way to escape to this cozy game I've been eyeballing for years, as it finally released last week~ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2133760/Tiny_Bookshop/

Steam

Tiny Bookshop

Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game.…

Price

$17.99

Recommendations

752

▶ Play video

[hardy merlin]

feeling better now?

[nimble current]

meanwhile epic delists all their games that walked so fortnite could run

and gave their engine its goddamn name

[outer pollen]

Paragon

[scarlet marlin]

still have some sniffles, but atleast I can breathe again and my voice isnt fucked up anymore :D

getting all the bad vibes out before gamescom next week

[outer pollen]

The plushie army protected Raquel

[scarlet marlin]

[hardy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-kitty-cats-cuddling-cuddly-kitty-a-warm-place-to-lay-gif-5423143045557150555

[nimble current]

apparently they did allow the original isos to be freely available

[scarlet marlin]

footage of how my baby tried to heal me over the weekend~

[hardy merlin]

Wait, Fortnite Engine?

[hardy merlin]

cuddlies are the best for that

[nimble current]

its more fortnite engine than unreal engine these days that's for sure

[outer pollen]

Zamn!!!!! @little cape

[scarlet marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/marvel-rivals-blade-season-3-gif-9721884216675006941

https://tenor.com/view/the-weeknd-weekend-gif-5804385657210583522

[lucid brook]

Gotta love the Cyberpunk 2077 photo mode https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3545590797

[outer pollen]

@clear osprey

[compact oriole]

ye spending on gaming went back becasue zoomers are all hobos apparently. has nothing to do with the games that arent worth spending money on or anything

[hardy merlin]

Free market media loves so much depends on constant innovation to win the market and consumers
But when company fails to do that, then according to media it's consumer's fault
Go figure

[compact oriole]

ye its our fault all these games are failing ofc

[hardy merlin]

Poor executives can't afford 8th yacht, it's so sad, Alexa play Despacito

Also also - you see - free market assumes that businessmen want to keep their company afloat
In reality it's all about squeezing money for shareholders and leaving company to die

[compact oriole]

its mainly the difference between when devs/publishers tried to make good games to make money and now they just try to make money with economy degrees

[nimble current]

profits from gaming skyrocketed during covid and as usual when a ceo sees the line go up by a lot he naturally assumes it'll stay that way forever and starts buying up every other studio

[compact oriole]

"dont you guys have phones" is the western gaming industry in a nutshell. they lost their pulse on gamers because they arent gamers

[hardy merlin]

I think that devs still want to do make good games, but can't do much with small budgets, tight deadlines and abysmal job rotation

[clear osprey]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1292258539229679658/1404343398600806461/bhop.mp4?ex=689ad835&is=689986b5&hm=7e44a12d1509de23a7780e16696345e4ade0e3e44ee971200c6fbc945251a552&

[compact oriole]

idk about small budgets when ubisoft puts like 400m per game

and wukong, e33 and other AA games made masterpieces with less than 50m

[hardy merlin]

Now how much of these 400M goes to devs and how much to executives

[compact oriole]

its not a budget issue. its a skill issue

[nimble current]

game studios making it big ultimately starts to suffer from their own success

because they'll ultimately end up at the mercy of shareholders

[compact oriole]

they think they put in x amount of money and it scales inifinitely so they get back y amount of money

[hardy merlin]

But... like... don't try to make games big
Try to make them good
It's fine when you plan to do a big game, like BG3
But if you just put side-missions that no one wants to do so you can say "70 hours of gameplay"... why?

[compact oriole]

good gameplay would help.. shitty filler content or somehow completely ignoring their target audience are just secondary problems

[nimble current]

most triple A slopfarms of today once started out as small and/or indie devs making a really good game

[compact oriole]

ye but most of the good talent left

[hardy merlin]

Blizzard

[compact oriole]

blizzard has barely ANY OGs left working there after they got taken over by activision

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, I know

[compact oriole]

tbh i think bf6 is a sign of better things to come

i would guess EA arent the only ones waking up. but maybe im coping

[hardy merlin]

EA moved to milking Apex to death, so DICE has more room to do an actual game

[fallow bronze]

Vehicle, smoke, RUN

[mellow garden]

Blizzard are still in decent shape though

WoW has been popping off these last few years

[compact oriole]

ye cz wow players love eating shit

[outer pollen]

@grave granite bro uninstall Linux and install Windows so we can play the B6 beta

[mellow garden]

Nah, WoW is in a good state right now.

[compact oriole]

it really isnt

[mellow garden]

Probably the perfect forever game

Between modern, classic and several seasonal game modes.

Player housing this year as well.

[compact oriole]

the last good thing blizz did was overwatch and when did that release? 9 years ago?

[outer pollen]

it open beta friend

[compact oriole]

open beta is over until thursday

[outer pollen]

[hardy merlin]

Yeah...

[pastel bolt]

wows in good shape if you only care about dressup and collecting pointless shit and having to put 0 effort into anything

[mellow garden]

Have you seen the modern MMO player? Dress up is the real end game.

[compact oriole]

yo did you just describe MMOs nowadays?

[mellow garden]

Just look at FFXIV

[scarlet marlin]

as it should be

[hardy merlin]

GW2 Fashion Wars

[mellow garden]

👍

[compact oriole]

ok but ff14 is also kinda really dead and barely qualifies as a gameplay mmo

most people in there just weeb life sim all day

game feels like vrchat

[hardy merlin]

FF14 is good if you care about story and social features
Action/fighting part quite sucks

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMFCfixvRw
Monta simulator, @vapid lintel

[mellow garden]

High-end combat is good in XIV as well

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, stand in place and cast incantations, no thank you

[outer pollen]

Literally just clogging the servers

[vapid lintel]

Igor has the speedrun world record in this game

[mellow garden]

You... you have not played real high-end content

[pastel bolt]

It gets good after 200 hours trust me bro

[mellow garden]

That is unironically the case for the combat experience

[nimble current]

blizzard in the 90s were just untouchable, even in the best of possible outcomes they woulda struggled to live up to that legacy today

[mellow garden]

Kinda rough until levels 50-60 depending on the class you're playing

[hardy merlin]

I saw the YT videos, because I dropped the game after an hour, because I had to stay 1.5s in one place, not moving, to cast throwing a stone
And yeah, it's mostly standing in place and casting stuff

[nimble current]

sadly they can't even figure out what people liked about their games in the first place anymore

[compact oriole]

they can, but theyre trying to cast the net as wide as possible to capture all the people that arent even interested for browny points on social media

[outer pollen]

Hunt Showdown

[compact oriole]

good thing they put a guy in a wheelchair in fucking wow.......

not like its a fantasy world full of magic and mythical creatures

couldnt have done anything better fitting

[hardy merlin]

But it doesn't
Especially not after 1896 update

[pastel bolt]

not to mention said wheelchair guy is like the strongest living mage in the world with the ability to fix the situation in a million other ways

but nah spectral wheelchair

[outer pollen]

It's a power move

[pastel bolt]

negative aura farming

[outer pollen]

I miss playing Hunt so much

[compact oriole]

ye. the power to take a shit on a characters legacy for a misguided effort of inclusion

[hardy merlin]

I wish it'd stay a rooty tooty point and shooty game like it used to be, with shotguns, pistols and rifles
And without automatic weapons and snipers camping in bushes everywhere

[hollow zephyr]

And that's why smoke grenades are your friend!

[compact oriole]

i put 11 hours into the bf6 beta which is a ton for me. cant wait for thursday to play more

[outer pollen]

I camped in bushes with melee weapons

[compact oriole]

but ive also kinda been longing for a good battlefield type experience

[pastel bolt]

cant wait for portal creators to bring in classic mode on full release so im not stuck playing cod with vehicles

[compact oriole]

havent played bf in a looong time but felt like the usual before bf2042 to me

[hardy merlin]

At least you know you die from a guy with Redneck skin running with axe at you and not some Felis, camping for half of the match in a bush just to shoot two shots, steal bounty and run to extract

[compact oriole]

sounds like every extraction shooter to me

people watching youtube videos camping the exits until someone shows up

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

i assumed it was gonna be bad, but holy fuck

[hardy merlin]

No, just a small library that maps 32-bit game values onto 64-bit ones for PhysX library

[sinful cobalt]

just buy a 3050 as ur 2nd gpu

[small comet]

• 7554
• Alice: Madness Returns
• Armageddon Riders
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Batman: Arkham City
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Blur
• Borderlands 2
• Continent of the Ninth (C9)
• Crazy Machines 2
• Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
• Dark Void
• Darkest of Days
• Deep Black
• Depth Hunter
• Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage
• Hot Dance Party
• Hot Dance Party II
• Hydrophobia: Prophecy
• Jianxia 3
• Mafia II
• Mars: War Logs
• Metro 2033
• Metro: Last Light
• Mirror’s Edge
• Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
• MStar
• Passion Leads Army
• QQ Dance
• QQ Dance 2
• Rise of the Triad
• Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
• Sacred 2: Ice & Blood
• Shattered Horizon
• Star Trek
• Star Trek DAC
• The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
• The Secret World
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
• Unreal Tournament 3
• Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction

Thats apparently all 32bit physx games (sorted the list now)

depends on the game

if the game exe is 32bit you cant load a 64bit dll willy nilly

[orchid prism]

I wonder if anyone's working on a translation layer of some sort. Seems like there's enough games for someone to be crazy enough to try 😄

[hardy merlin]

Just do a translation layer for PhysX driver to take 32-bit value from game, do math and transformations on 64-bit values, truncate to 32-bit and return to game

[small comet]

hm yes with all those details we have

all those specific details nvidia likes to keep for themselves

[trim rock]

Yes, ZLUDA has plans to support it, but it's not priority and requires people to contribute... so far no one seems to be contributing https://vosen.github.io/ZLUDA/blog/zluda-update-q1-2025/#physx

[small comet]

since when

[trim rock]

Thing is, does that code include the old v2 and v3 versions that these games use?

Yeah that might help a little, but would still need v2 since that is what most of those old games used

It works quite differently

[small comet]

man so nice of nvidia to have 2 repos for physx

except they clearly know how to use branches given the mass of them in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/PhysX

eh the gameworks owned physx repo includes a 3.4 branch

so i dont really care if they have another repo for it or not

anyway im still a bit confused how youd nicely call 64bit code from 32bit space unless we are talking IPC here and having some translation being handled by a service/program running

[orchid prism]

Not a programmer, but it's not uncommon to have a DLL that just passes on data to an external thing and back again.

[small comet]

ive never heard of being able to import and use 64bit code from 32bit space

but then you cant import any 64bit lib

[hardy merlin]

As far as the game is concerned it still works on 32-bit values
Just that when GPU gets request to calculate 32-bit PhysX matrix, GPU takes this value, converts it to 64-bit matrices, does its calculations, and returns truncated 32-bit value

[small comet]

link to literally any source on how to do that on windows

i feel like youre mixing up terms

a 64bit lib is a 64bit compiled library

[hardy merlin]

But you are working with 32-bit library on the game side
Only with translation layer in GPU driver

[small comet]

this clearly says to import a 64bit lib

and i just want a source on how you import a 64bit lib in a 32bit space

windows doesnt even let you import 32bit libs in 64bit space

[hardy merlin]

The game has no idea that calculation is even done on 64-bits

[small comet]

this isnt about the god damn calculations

READ

thank you so you misspoke saying 64bit lib

thats all i wanted to know

[hardy merlin]

Translation layer sits between game and GPU, then GPU doesn't even have to know that it's working with 32-bit values

[small comet]

i get the whole padding it out and truncating. all i was stuck on was the whole "we just load a 64bit lib"

[hardy merlin]

Honestly
I wonder if you could actually do that given WoW64

[small comet]

afaik no

ill gladly be pointed to ways to do it

until windows removes kernel drivers soon

idk if linux has some way to run cross arch code in userspace

[mellow garden]

I do wonder when we'll get a version of Windows with zero compatibility for 32-bit apps. Surely it's Windows 12 (assumed name)?

[small comet]

prob only after CPUs remove 32bit functionality

[hardy merlin]

It used to be the case that you had to run a bootstrap in chroot to be able to do so, but nowadays you only need 32-bit libraries and it'll happily tackle both 32-bit and 64-bit ELFs

[small comet]

sad windows dev noises

[trim rock]

Kinda, Wine has that experimental wow64 mode that might be default soon, in that mode the "Windows" binaries and DLLs remain 32-bit, but everything interacting with the host is 64-bit so you can do neat tricks like run 32-bit windows software on a host that does not have any 32-bit libraries and binaries

[hardy merlin]

They won't
They try to do that and corporate clients will tear them apart
There's a reason why for example there's still Internet Explorer compatibility mode in newest Edge
Microsoft stands on backwards compatibility and earns billions on it

[small comet]

didnt intel try to push for a 64bit only architecture at some point

[hardy merlin]

Itanium?

[trim rock]

Yeah there were plans to get rid of the legacy support, which sounds like a good idea at least on paper

[small comet]

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html

sadly quite a bit newer

[hardy merlin]

Oh, x86S

[small comet]

dont get me started on the totally not confusing name

[trim rock]

The fact that even the most modern x86 CPUs still basically start up in real mode capable of running old DOS is kinda nuts though

[hardy merlin]

If it works

[small comet]

the real question is if there might not be some benefits to cleaning out the realmode stuff same for 32bit stuff

[hardy merlin]

Runs DOOM on DOS on new PC
Still complains about lack of RAM

[small comet]

also why did windows remove being able to run 16bit apps

my legacy plant watering management software dont run no more

[hardy merlin]

afaik you either get 16-bit/32-bit support on real mode or 32-bit/64-bit on protected, which most CPUs run nowadays
And Microsoft didn't bother to do WoW32, so...

But you can run DosBox

[hollow zephyr]

so 16/32 bit apps would need to be emulated when intel completely drops 16-bit and 32-bit support?

[small comet]

i mean at least windows cant run 16bit natively anyway and needs dosbox or such

[hollow zephyr]

kinda like apple silicon?

cauz apple silicon is 64 bit only

at least apple made the transition to 64-bit only smoothly since they can control both the OS and the hardware

[hardy merlin]

If Intel drops it
It's not so hot right now at Intel, so I doubt they'll be risking introducing new architecture now

[small comet]

they already backstepped back then

smth about upholding commitment

[hollow zephyr]

Intel is still pretty big in the Enterprise space, I think this is more to appeal to Enterprise rather than consumer grade stuff for now.

[compact oriole]

intel is loosing footing everywhere tho

[hollow zephyr]

yeah, AMD only just recently started to market Threadripper and Epyc pretty hard

to compete with Xeon and Xeon Max

[hot spire]

there are still 16bit calls in windows 11 os side XD

[hot spire]

my guy for as much as ryzen has done well in comsumer, eypc has done 10x in enterprise

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah it's very impressive, AMD marketing is going super hard to gain market share.

And it's working

[small comet]

yeah more about custom EXE files

[hot spire]

amd went from effectively 0% in 2016 to 30% currently

there was still a 25% amd desktop share in 2016

eypc is hurting intel way more than ryzen

same with nvidia with arm

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah, but once AMD locked in on zen 3 is when they started getting really good.

[proper basin]

Mango CPUs will destroy the market, they will take full share of the entire industry

[hollow zephyr]

And then they just got better and better with Zen 4 and Zen 5

[hot spire]

dude zen1 wasnt great vs intel in desktop. but eypc 7001 took xeon and buried it

then rome pissed on the grave

do you know what 32c xeon cost in 2017?

[hollow zephyr]

Oh they're still hella expensive I know

Over 10 grand easily

[small comet]

thousands

[hollow zephyr]

LOL, more like tens of thousands

[hot spire]

high end skylake-sp was over 10k

[small comet]

that is thousands

[hot spire]

for 28c

naples 32c was 3k

you could literally buy loaded dp 32c naples for a fucking tray price of skylake-sp

and have almost 3x the performance

then next year rome comes in and guess what, 15% ipc, and double the core count for only 10% more per core

64c rome was only 6500

so you could still get dual rome for less than a single 28c skylake

ice lake droped the price a ton to 10k for 40c

still not even close to competeative

intel is down to 64c for 12k on emerald, meanwhile zen5c is 14k for 192c

[hollow zephyr]

I feel like the high price is due to the fact that Intel still insists on fabricating and diffusing their own chips in their own fabs which are hella expensive to run and maintain.

[hot spire]

even if the ipc was 2x unless your task is uber threaded intel still wouldnt make sense

zen5 normal is 128 for 12k

but spolier, zen5 is as fast or faster for ipc

[hollow zephyr]

Even though they can easily contract TSMC to make Xeon

[hot spire]

and amd has the fabled 16 ccd zen5c in thier pocket

but there isnt enough memory bandwidth even with 12 channel ddr5-6000

even if intel doubled the core per socket and kept it cool, amd can just be like oh yeah here is 256c per socket

[hardy merlin]

Who would've thought that AMD's long strategy of "MAEK MORE CORES" will pay off

[hot spire]

nah it was chiplets

[proper basin]

MAEK MORE CHIPLETS then

[hot spire]

as soon as naples came out, amd was like nah fam miss me with that monolithic shit for desktop too

and we only get monolthic mobile and apu for memory latancey reasons

which someone is still good

[hollow zephyr]

I'd be concerned with how big those chips are gonna get

[hot spire]

zen5c is smaller than zen5

[hollow zephyr]

The bigger they are the more likely chance there will be defects

[hot spire]

so there is less die area on a 16 ccd zen5c than the 16 ccd zen5 that exists

[hollow zephyr]

Defect rate increases with die size

[hot spire]

they just only make 12 ccd zen5c for memory thoughput reasons

9755 exists with 16x zen5 ccds

but 9755 and 9965 are both 500w parts

so a 16x 5c would have to be down clocked

5c is aready 2.2 base and 3.7 boost

for pretty much all skus

remember zen5c is tsmc 3, zen 5 is 4

[hollow zephyr]

physically smaller dies yay!

[hot spire]

this is 4c but 5c has the same srink

[bleak pike]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4HelHBi6-hI

[bleak pike]

Apparently helps with the 5600x a lot

So I'll try it next weekend

[hollow zephyr]

very nice!

[hollow zephyr]

yeah I was having weird issues with that as well

[hot spire]

16 core 4c is the same size as 8 core 4

its wild

with 5c being die srunk vs 5 it will be smaller die size

4 and 4c are same size

[outer pollen]

So the beta is over or it's closed beta right now

[verbal nymph]

on 14th it'll be open again

[compact oriole]

i just looked at the store page.. the expensive edition of bf6 doesnt even have dlc in it? they gave up on that? cz that pack only gives you skins and battlepass + a level skip

[verbal nymph]

maybe they make us pay for battlepass in exchange for free map

I see that as a win

[compact oriole]

buying a bp for maps? i feel like that will create such a negative sentiment that after a while youll have issues finding players who have it

also means you cant get the map anymore if you missed the bp

[trim rock]

Pretty sure they stopped doing that, actual game content (maps and such) is free for everyone and you pay for skins

[compact oriole]

i guess thats better anyway

tho that also always means that non paid visuals look ass on purpose to sell you skins

[verbal nymph]

I mean like, BP is paid, but everybody got a free map update

[compact oriole]

ah ye

well seems theyll be making money on skins and xp boosts rather than maps

probably sells better as well

funnily enough atm all bfs but 2042 are on sale but not as deep as usually

usually its hard to find a time where theyre not all on sale for 2 bucks on steam

[hollow zephyr]

I wonder what they will fix prior to the 2nd weekend beta

[compact oriole]

i only had 2 bugs that i actually noticed. once i died from "falling" when i jumped on like a crack and the other was the mp7 reload animation not playing but still reloading

[hollow zephyr]

might be a dumb question but are there any signs of EA publishing an update for the BF6 client to fix some of the issues people were having with the infinite queues

[verbal nymph]

The only bug I see is the visual glitches that can cause epilepsy.

That and some of the jank like reviving with defil unable to work

[hollow zephyr]

there are also a hole in one of the maps (I think it was Cairo) where you can fall under the map LOL.

[compact oriole]

they addressed that within this beta and restarted the servers for it as well

[verbal nymph]

lmao

[hollow zephyr]

it was like near one of the stairs

[hollow zephyr]

oh perfect!

DICE is working real hard it seems

[compact oriole]

well idk if its fixed but they claimed they did and i didnt have any more infinite q after

dice working like their jobs depend on it. literally

[hollow zephyr]

I mean yeah, it's their biggest title this year

[verbal nymph]

Gotta be a success this time after seeing Capcom stock falls due to incompetence

[compact oriole]

they work for microsoft now and theyve seen 16k jobs just disappear a couple weeks ago

ontop of the thousands thatve been lost since 2024

[verbal nymph]

sad

[compact oriole]

eh.. maybe make games for the players and not for yourself

also AI.. so ye

gonna hit most of us at some point

[hollow zephyr]

they had 4 whole years to cook this up and they probably really dont want to mess it up.

esp after the disaster that was 2042

[compact oriole]

im stunned to find out that bf2042 is 4 yo now..

[hollow zephyr]

yeah

[compact oriole]

had to check it just now after your claim

i remember trying that beta and hating it from the first second

[hollow zephyr]

lel yeah

[compact oriole]

their own game felt like a cheap chinese clone.. and that hero crap they did..

[outer pollen]

Delta force is gonna take such a huge hit

[hollow zephyr]

yeah that was dumb

[compact oriole]

was thinking the same thing lol. tho chances are those numbers are mostly chinese players already so maybe not a really visible hit

i tried it too but between the rootkit anti cheat and it just not feeling great either i uninstalled it after one session

[fallow bronze]

Bf heros was kinda fun.. But yeah.. Not worth it

[compact oriole]

wasnt that the 3rd person comic style one?

[outer pollen]

I played it for a bit, was enjoyable and then I just installed as well

[small comet]

so keep playing https://risinghub.net/

[hollow zephyr]

I do find the slight bit of lore in BF6 kinda interesting, taking place in 2029 where a private military company turns against it's supporter.

[small comet]

sounds almost like mw3

[compact oriole]

sounds like a couple war themed games. personally i dont care at all but it would be cool if their sp campaign wasnt ass

[small comet]

same

id only buy it if the campaign was decent

[compact oriole]

youd actually pay full price for the campaign?

[small comet]

if its decent yes

cause id prob play it more than 2 or 3 times

same with cod games

i usually play them a few times so its worth it for me

[keen scaffold]

I was so happy when i discovered it a few years back, single handedly the game i spent the most student money on when i was young and it was still live, Rising Hub plays well and feels just like live.

[compact oriole]

the only war shooter campaign i played more than once was mw in 2007

[hollow zephyr]

may or may not be scared if this take on the very near future is accurate

[small comet]

heck i still play cod1, 2 and MoH

[compact oriole]

i played all cod campaigns from cod 1 to bo. i used to enjoy them a lot as a wee kid

i think i didnt finish bo tho

[small comet]

you should

one of the best cod stories imo

[compact oriole]

cant really imagine playing them anymore these days. but maybe some day ill give it a shot

this kinda reminds me. anyone remember that fps campaign game that had a "beta" for it that was making fun of cod?

i cant remember the name.. something starting with a B? and you were able to dropkick people and had a whip that could pull on people and make them slomo

bulletstorm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg2M9YIP-Ks

that shit was hilarious

BLOODY SCREEN! so real

[quiet vault]

https://youtu.be/9alJwQG-Wbk?si=OYu5iu5_JIap85dt

[compact oriole]

the sad part is that, if everything else fails theres gonna be bozos doing something like this lol

[quiet vault]

It seems to work pretty well too 😭

[hollow zephyr]

Not surprised. I do find it kind of sad that people have the audacity to unironically cheat on the BF6 beta, but it really only works in EA's favor to improve Javelin.

There are even a few streamers who cheated on BF6 😭

[compact oriole]

thats just the fps life. theres never been an fps that didnt have day 1 (beta) cheats ever. apart from MAYBE val but there im not sure

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah, although I rarely run into any cheaters, maybe every one or two games there is a cheater that has like 50 kills and 0 deaths

[compact oriole]

ive run into cheaters in fps super rarely as well. at least the ones where youd notice. im sure theres are plenty people soft cheating

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah

"Aim assist" on kb and mouse

Although there was one streamer that took it a little too far and was obviously locking onto players behind rocks and buildings LMAO.

[hollow zephyr]

Tbh I'm not sure how much the aim assist helps for console players on the cross-platform lobbies.

[compact oriole]

the guy with the catgirl pngtuber thing?

[hollow zephyr]

I think so? Idk which one, there are too many of them

[compact oriole]

idk him either. ive just seen the clip where he flicks and tracks 180 and insta shoots at a wall within 1 frame

[hollow zephyr]

Yeah that's way too obvious

EA and DICE are gonna have a field day looking at those VODs

[compact oriole]

and his excuse is.. minimap

he got banned from twitch but apparently he might get unbanned. idk if thats true

[hollow zephyr]

And bro occludes up the minimap with the png

[hollow zephyr]

Oh and I'm pretty sure they also have access to player data and logs too

[compact oriole]

every game with useless eac is going well enough. hard to imagine theirs will be worse, but who knows

with these stupid rules around tpm and secure boot you can bet that linux will not work under any circumstances and that its by design

[trim rock]

And that's fine, they don't want me to play? Whatever, there are a shitton of games around for me to play anyway

[outer pollen]

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[grizzled bramble]

Destinylike FPS

[sudden prawn]

The problem is that this is the same devs as tribes ascend. So it might get abandon pretty quick.

[quiet vault]

crazy falloff

this game gotta suck

[compact oriole]

i tried the demo with a friend. the levels and opponents were bland and boring af

well we tried like 1-2 months ago so idk if theres more/different content now. but the demo was

[fallow bronze]

Bf6 shirts on YouTube are funny, peeps are discovering it's a battlefield game

[grizzled quarry]

Depending on the game a lot

Most notably apex and cod

[compact oriole]

sadly they need it to be able to kinda keep up. but then its on the game how much of an aimbot it actually is lol.. you know its bad when PC pros start using controllers instead of their usual kbm

[grizzled quarry]

Yeah

Aim assist is needed for roller, but 90% of crossplay games have literal aimbot for aim assist

So its basically just roller dominated because of it

[hollow zephyr]

the kd between pc and console players in most of the lobbies I have been in on the beta have been pretty even actually

so it's deffo helping

[grizzled quarry]

Yeah i haven't had any moments on bf6 where I was likr holy aim assist

Then again there isnt killcams

[hollow zephyr]

unless there is a cheater

[grizzled quarry]

So its hard to tell how much the person killing me actually aimed, or how much the aim assist did

[compact oriole]

there being no killcams hides its also does the game even show the platform? i didnt notice it at all

[grizzled quarry]

But I didnt find I was getting absolutely decimated by roller players 24/7

[grizzled quarry]

It does

By the name tag when you die it shows a controller logo if they are on console (idk about pc controller)

[compact oriole]

also the ttk is so quick, i was never able to tell if i got rollered or not. but i also didnt care and never checked

[grizzled quarry]

I was having so much fun I wouldn't even have noticed it anyway

Alongside the fact I was sniping 90% of the beta

[compact oriole]

i did have one idiot crying in one of the lobbies about it tho

[hollow zephyr]

lol same, too busy giving teammates res

[compact oriole]

ye i was having tons of fun as well.. so much so that im not feeling like playing my usual goto fps atm..

[hollow zephyr]

support role is pretty fun

[grizzled quarry]

My playstyle on battlefield would even further make aim assist hurt me less

As im usually just picking people off with snipers before relocating

I think next beta I'll try controller with ar/smg and see how strong it is

Just so I can know how broken it is or not

[compact oriole]

why find out that you need to be mad about it lol

let it be and enjoy the game. not like you can change anything about it lol

[grizzled quarry]

As a quite decent roller player im still curious to see how strong it is

[gilded sleet]

I personally can't stand aim assist, I hate fighting my aim, BF6 even has mouse aim assist by default, I turned all that shit off

[compact oriole]

itll always be in the back of your mind and you can be sure youll find out through whiners on reddit

[hollow zephyr]

it's not really that broken, plus you can customize it to your liking

[grizzled quarry]

It doesnt have mouse aim assist

[compact oriole]

theres no way they give you aim assist for kbm

[grizzled quarry]

The option in the menu is for controller on pc

[gilded sleet]

There is mouse aim assist

its in the settings

[grizzled quarry]

Its for controller on pc not kbm

[hollow zephyr]

defualt though is pretty strong from what I can see. all values are 100 by default

[gilded sleet]

Its literally in the M&K settings

Controller has a seperate tab

[grizzled quarry]

Iirc it was in gameplay not mouse settings tho?

Also never felt any aim assist throughout playing

[hollow zephyr]

same

[compact oriole]

bf settings UX are so giga shit. that must be the worst menu ive seen in my life

[gilded sleet]

It was bothering me and when I turned it off it felt way better so

[grizzled quarry]

Which aim assist on kbm feels VERY obvious when its implemented

[hollow zephyr]

yeah it's really bad

DICE is aware that people dont like it though

[compact oriole]

https://i.imgur.com/SGlSZdE.jpeg you mean this?

[grizzled quarry]

Perhaps placebo? I believe its only for controller on pc

[compact oriole]

theres no aim assist options in the mkb section

[hollow zephyr]

this only affects controller players iirc

[gilded sleet]

Ah yeah that

[hollow zephyr]

not kbm

[gilded sleet]

Not sure, saw others turn it off too and said it felt better so

[compact oriole]

that shit working on kbm would be a DOA game release

[grizzled quarry]

Placebo can be a hell of a drug

Cough 8k polling rate enjoyers

[compact oriole]

its either placebo or a bug. theres no way they planned on aim assists on mouse lol. thatd be insane

[grizzled quarry]

Yeah if it were aa on kbm it would've been widespread by now

[gilded sleet]

I mean Marathon had it on MNK

so wouldn't be surprised

[grizzled quarry]

I can say with certainty I did not have AA on mnk

[grizzled quarry]

Game is also doa tho

Same with halo infinite when they added it

[compact oriole]

ye that game has more issues than putting aa on mkb. i dont remember. did it also have pvp or only pve?

[grizzled quarry]

Nobody likes kbm AA, especially so thr kbmers

[compact oriole]

ngl theyd be wise to just cancel the game and cut their losses. there is NO way after all that shit that happened that they can turn a profit..

even if it turned out ot be a decent game they have a ton of ill will against them. and perception matters more than facts

[gilded sleet]

Yeah idk forsure but there's a whole reddit thread about it https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/1mk7y3w/what_is_wrong_with_aiming_in_bf6

[compact oriole]

https://i.imgur.com/AvNwFAN.png

ok

[gilded sleet]

Either way placebo or not, turning off the settings felt better to me

Watched a streamer turn them off on stream cause he was complaining about it too and said it felt better as well

[compact oriole]

its definitely not impossible but itd be weird for sure

doesnt matter. if its actually happening we will be finding out in time

[gilded sleet]

Yeah

[hollow zephyr]

I did notice like a little scope sway when aiming downsights but it's not unbearable.

[gilded sleet]

Yeah if it is a thing, it didn't feel super strong, just felt off/weird

[hot spire]

fullscreen and raw aim fixed it for me

[gilded sleet]

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FxTwitter · Aug 11, 2025, 2:50 AM

For all the peeps who say BF6 feels like COD

I think people just have amnesia

[proper basin]

Good game

[hot spire]

also that was what bc2 was

[gilded sleet]

Yeah

BC2 and bf3 are my faves

[hot spire]

everyone give bf3 all the credit

[proper basin]

Bf4 was my introduction so thats my fav

[gilded sleet]

Yeah it was really bc2

[hot spire]

bc2 had everything that made bf3 great

bf3 just made it all bigger

[gilded sleet]

[hot spire]

more guns, bigger maps etc

[gilded sleet]

Yeah

[hot spire]

bf2 was way more "sim" and less arcade

and bc was litteraly a way to make it faster and more fun

and it worked

and it added the best game mode of the entire series, hardcore

[verbal nymph]

so tldr, they remade battlefield 3 but with better graphic and tune down how much you can kill with a single mag.

[grizzled quarry]

Could be a bug only affecting some people if thst is the case

[hot spire]

wait for hardcore XD

[grizzled quarry]

I can say with certainty I had no sort of aa or slow down but that doesnt mean others couldn't have

[hot spire]

one tap is the best part of hardcore

[gilded sleet]

Yeah could be

[verbal nymph]

lmao, but it makes covering fire actually worth

[hot spire]

yeah and FF is on

[gilded sleet]

Basically

and added a slide

lol

[verbal nymph]

that's nice, maybe this time they can do much bigger map

[hot spire]

and even more destruction

[verbal nymph]

since it's now PS5 gen exclusive

[gilded sleet]

Yeah I def wanna play the other maps they have in store

we get a new one next weekend

[hot spire]

did 4/5 even have bigger maps than 3?

[gilded sleet]

4 had some big maps, idk about 5

[verbal nymph]

Idk, I only played 4 and 1

[gilded sleet]

and I felt like these 3 maps in the beta were lacking verticality a bit

very CQC focused

[hollow zephyr]

it's a big map too!

[grizzled quarry]

I hope bf6 doesnt nerf the slide bhopping

[hot spire]

pretty sure the tank dlc has the biggest maps in bf

[grizzled quarry]

Shit is so fun

[gilded sleet]

yeah Empire State

[grizzled quarry]

But i already see battlefield players crying about movement in a battlefield game

[hot spire]

oh i guess halvoy is bigger

[grizzled quarry]

MuH rEaLiSm

[gilded sleet]

I mean you can't shoot while sliding in BF6 like you can in COD so

[hot spire]

but its BR only

[grizzled quarry]

Hold on lemme show thr clip of what im talking ab

[hot spire]

but Bandar Desert is the largest normal map

[gilded sleet]

I know there's the glitch for infinite slide tho lol and you can shoot while doing that

[hollow zephyr]

it is Infantry only but It makes sense for a setting like a big city

[gilded sleet]

Yeah true

[grizzled quarry]

https://streamable.com/eg3nio
https://streamable.com/5xvizf
https://streamable.com/eqacc4

This shit is so fun

But its probably getting removed

[hollow zephyr]

the sliding mechanic is pretty broken yeah

you can slide and aim downsights lol

[gilded sleet]

Yeah this is some COD shit lol