🎮│game

[manic owl]

@cyan pewter they done and gave me a bro dozer

[cyan pewter]

lol

[manic owl]

working on a s15 livery rn still not 100%

[grizzled quarry]

@manic owl

lil bit of proximity

[grizzled quarry]

@little cape

[outer pollen]

@bleak pike https://fxtwitter.com/destinybulletn/status/2057884785134174348

Destiny Bulletin (@DestinyBulletn)

🚨"Almost all" of Bungie didn’t know Destiny 2 was ending active development until it was announced yesterday, per @PaulTassi
︀︀
︀︀thegamepost.com/almost-all-bungie-didnt-know-destiny-2-ending-active-development-announced/

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FxTwitter · May 22, 2026, 6:02 PM

[orchid prism]

Delightful management

[stiff fiber]

Not ok wtf

Best way to demoralize people

Either the one leaving or the one staying

I am not an expert in economy but I dont understand sony bought bungie for like 3 billions

I dont understand how they woulnt have 100 or 200 millions to create a destiny 3?

[sinful cobalt]

Blame sony

[stiff fiber]

It is like someone buying a ferrari and not using the car because gazoline is too expensive

[hardy merlin]

Ever since Nishino took over SIE after Jim Ryan, management turned into mismanagement
Sony has huge dreams about live-service, but if it's not immediately as big as Fortnite, it's a failure

[stiff fiber]

at the meantime they need to understand that coming out with a good live service game take time

marathon I am sure has not been tested at all

no way given how difficult the game is

you almost cannot do some quest in solo

they should have taken at least until the end of the year and tested it in open beta

but sony probably wanted the game out as fast as possible

it doesnt work that way irl

[compact oriole]

jim ryan is the guy who fucked sony in the first place with his 12 ls game plan

[compact oriole]

then noone wouldve bought it

[compact oriole]

<@&1098943457654997093> someone wants a ban

[quiet vault]

https://x.com/faizkyokaz/status/2057979922715725890?s=46

Kyokaz (@faizkyokaz)

forza doodle 5

X · May 23, 2026, 12:20 AM

[bleak pike]

Why am I not surprised.

[fringe salmon]

The condition for bungie to stay independent under Sony was to be highly profitable, Sony would’ve probably put more money in if they were given the option to have more input into the company

So now I assume they will absorb most of not all the people there into other projects is my guess

[compact oriole]

seems like a move to kill morale and have a bunch of people quit by themselves, so they dont have to fire them and possibly pay out severance packeges n shit

[mellow garden]

I wonder if they'll eventually remake the core campaign of Destiny 1/2 as a series of single player games? PlayStation exclusive while we're at it.

[fringe salmon]

Bungie had $1.2B set aside in the acq for employee retention and they still laid off several hundreds to keep profitability afloat to stave off control being taken over by sony long enough for the stock to vest, so this isn’t just Sony being stingy

[outer pollen]

Apparently they had pitched for Xivu Arath stuff but it got shut down…..all that cool lore built over the years just not continuing https://fxtwitter.com/destinybulletn/status/2057806940961374220

Destiny Bulletin (@DestinyBulletn)

🚨Former Destiny 2 senior narrative designer Robert Brookes says a proper Xivu Arath campaign and raid were pitched multiple times for Destiny 2:
︀︀
︀︀"You'd be surprised how many times this was pitched for D2" - thegamepost.com/former-destiny-2-dev-xivu-arath-campaign-raid-pitched-multiple-times-destiny-3/

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FxTwitter · May 22, 2026, 12:53 PM

[compact oriole]

theyve not made a cent of profit in years. idk its not surprising its going downhill

[fringe salmon]

Yeah it’s been years of bad decision and burning through cash

If they had not insisted on retaining independence there’s a chance it would’ve worked out much better, though not guaranteed of course

[compact oriole]

hindsight is 20/20

[fringe salmon]

Yeah it might also not have changed anything and people would’ve blame the takeover

[stiff fiber]

why?

[narrow junco]

This stuff makes me feel so fortunate that both of the live services i play are run well and arent completely mismanaged

[stiff fiber]

ok I have now 120 hours in marathon

I think this game is not bad but not good either

I hope they bring new things soon

[outer pollen]

For Honor and Siege

[stiff fiber]

guys did you know that alan wake 2 is not on steam

they do that to force people to go to epic

I prefer not playing the game than going to epic shit

[fringe salmon]

Ok

[narrow junco]

I do not respect ubisoft

[outer pollen]

I think the craziest part is how Bungie fragmented their own player base

The Destiny players are more than likely never ever going to touch Marathon because it caused the game to die

[bleak pike]

I'm not shocked, this has been said before.

Hell even dmg went on a rant about it when he left for that year

[outer pollen]

Idk if you saw but people wanna hop on D2 on June 9th to show Bungie that they chose the wrong game

[bleak pike]

It's annoying because Xivu Arath and Savathun are cool

[bleak pike]

I saw that too but that's not gonna do shit

This is obviously Sony

[outer pollen]

I think it’s more of a “you dug your own grave” kind of deal

We like to joke in my friend group that the game started to die because one of my friend’s got the Euphony

And then we all stopped playing the next day

[fringe salmon]

Marathon didn’t kill d2 it was a attempt to keep bungies independence while they couldn’t manage to make destiny profitable

[compact oriole]

cz most wouldve already played it enough to not buy it. the free week before release already hampered sales greatly. but it made it so that people who woulda bought, quit quickly and then leave a negative review, didnt get to

[narrow junco]

Extraction games are such a niche, it confuses me every time they chose such a game for their big bet

[compact oriole]

idk about niche seeing how big tarkov was and all other serious entries did kinda well as well even aside arc raiders insane popularity

[narrow junco]

I feel like if you want to make a live service today you either need unlimited money you can inject until it gets enough players to sustain itself/is good/done (fortnite, deadlock, poe 2, soulframe, overwatch) and/or you need to keep the initial release as cheap and small but good as possible so you dont need a massive amount of players to sustain your game

[compact oriole]

you just need to make a good game that people want to play. everything else is either fluff or what you need when youre incompetent

[narrow junco]

Arc raiders is very recent example, when they started development on marathon all they‘s have to look at would be tarkov and maybe like dark and darker

[narrow junco]

Not even really true, you just need enough runway to make it good over time

[compact oriole]

the whole idea of taking the name of a 40yo ip and then use it to make smth it wasnt.. in my mind it was gonna be a huge failure from the start even before we saw a single png about the game

[narrow junco]

Eh i could see a world where it was successful

[compact oriole]

it already starts at an obviously idiotic position of abusing a name to gain popularity for something completely different. i have 0 faith in smth like that because its an obvious disingenuous attempt of extracting money from people based on IP

[compact oriole]

it could but i find it unlikely

[narrow junco]

I dont think that idea is it at all

Most people that play marathon now probably never heard of the originals

[compact oriole]

whats that have to do with the original idea. theres literally no other reason to use an old IP other than name recognition

[buoyant osprey]

Apparently I'm playing the stupid idiot international version of Gothic

[compact oriole]

marathon clearly wasnt conceived from a place of wanting to make a great product. it was conceived and produced in what corpos think is a way to make money in the gaming industry. you take an old ip and you take whats currently the fotm

and it didnt pan out

[narrow junco]

I dont think it was that cynical

The reason it didnt pan out was cause aaa has the idea that you can spend unlimited money on something and get unlimited money times 5 out of it

[compact oriole]

thats part of it as well

[narrow junco]

They are too stuck in their ways and dont look at the fact that they have to support their game for 5 years+ even if not that many people play it

Word of mouth is the strongest kind of marketing and even if your live service game only has say 5000 players, if they are all happy and the game is good, you will attract new customers over time

You just need to have enough time to get to that point

Thats why i said, if you want to make something big from the beginning you need unlimited money like valve, riot, epic etc all have

[compact oriole]

well youre also always competing vs all other live service games. so you could have all the time in the world, your game needs to compete for peoples time vs the best ls games there are. and that includes games from other genres as well

[narrow junco]

Lots of medium to small bets is better than one big bet in live service

[compact oriole]

also you used the biggest ones as examples that mostly made good games from the getgo and didnt need to struggle in limbo to improve the game

and even they straight up trashed games that didnt do well

[narrow junco]

Yes but they all had ages to develop their game

And a guarantee that they could support those games for over 2 years even if they werent a big hit right away

[compact oriole]

epic abandoned paragon and unreal tournament after fn, valve abandoned underlords and artifact, riot abandoned their card game and what ever else im not thinking of

[narrow junco]

But yeah, as long as the core of the game is good, it doesn‘t really matter how big it is, as long as the game is so good that your players will return with every update

[narrow junco]

None of those games were as big bets as marathon

You dont wanna go all in on your live service

[compact oriole]

has bungie ever done anything that wasnt mp/live service

[narrow junco]

Dunno

[stiff fiber]

because during the free week before the launch the game was not ready at all

[narrow junco]

But yeah the writing was on the wall for d2 even years ago

[compact oriole]

right. in the 2 days they massively changed the game for the better for launch

[narrow junco]

And they should have put marathon on the backburner to fix it, and/or bring in new blood to revive the shambling corpse of destiny 2

[stiff fiber]

honestly I dont like fps game apart extraction shooter so yeah I get it might be niche but when you are bungie you know your game has to reach a wide audient dont make it a pain to play for newbies

[serene orbit]

I think the free week for marathon was what killed it, because 90% of gamers they targeted saw that it was bad

[narrow junco]

Instead they went all in on marathon and look where that landed them

[stiff fiber]

not at all the game was awful at launch it still is

I play it because I am into this genre

now I wouldnt advice people to get the game right now

[compact oriole]

its kind of hard to say. ye it was bad for sales but it was good for reviews and whats lets say 5x the sales matter if all of em quit within week 1

cz whoever didnt buy it after testing the week, wasnt gonna stay anyway

[narrow junco]

Honestly

[stiff fiber]

this game need an insane amount of work when it comes to matchmaking, readability, tutorial and such

[narrow junco]

Charging for a live service that needs a lot of players to be successful

What an insane way to shoot yourself in the foot

[serene orbit]

Idk i think most of my extraction shooter friends wouldve bought it to test it out if not for the free weekend completely turning them off from it

[stiff fiber]

even for free people wouldn't play it because dying 20 times in a row is just a miserable experience

[serene orbit]

Sure they wouldve quit 1 week in, or maybe battled through it cuz pricey game, but it wouldve been a sale nonetheless for bungee

[compact oriole]

ye.. and theyd have left just as quickly, with 40 bucks less in their bank account and more negative reviews because of that on the game

[stiff fiber]

I tell it marathon is way more difficult than tarkov. No way to play stealth loot and extract in marathon you need to PvP and the ttk is so short you die a lot

[narrow junco]

So many layers and layers of incompetence at bungie

[compact oriole]

the first sale doesnt really matter for a live service game. the cost of servers and devs will completely make it irrelevant within a short amount of time. you need players to stay and have them spend to make money on it

[serene orbit]

Whut

[stiff fiber]

for me this game needed 6 months more of internal testing

[serene orbit]

Ttk in tarkov is literally 0.1 second sometimes

[vapid lintel]

I agree with your conclusion, but not with your reasoning. I think the same is true for Highguard. In both cases, their mistake was offering the game to an audience far broader than the target audience. By doing so, they got a lot of players who would never have been interested in the game in the first place and for whom the game wasn't made, shouting their meaningless opinions into the void. This contributed significantly to its perceived perception, and that kills games that require momentum.

[stiff fiber]

I play both tarkov and marathon my exfil rate in tarkov is way higher than marathon

even if ttk is also short in tarkov

[narrow junco]

I dont think they had the option

[stiff fiber]

I dont have to fight half of the lobbie in tarkov in marathon wow it is crazy

[stiff fiber]

yeah probably because of the pressure of sony

[serene orbit]

Yeah my point requires more nuance, what you wrote is what i was too lazy for

[compact oriole]

i dont think itd have mattered if they had 6 months of 5 more years to cook on this. it was all conceived from a bad spot with clearly incompetent people making decisions at the helm

[serene orbit]

I guess if you play away from fights, but both in tarkov and marathon i go towards fights

[stiff fiber]

joe ziegler is quite good and understand exactly the issue in marathon

he wrote something for the future of the game quite transparent and reasonable

[narrow junco]

It‘s crazy for me that these companies dont consult people that successfully ran live services to get bigger over time

[stiff fiber]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3065800/view/657106446377288193?l=english

[compact oriole]

no need, the suits clearly know the formula to make money. nostalgia + fotm + a lot of money

if i want a short version ill put it into ai

[narrow junco]

GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT

[stiff fiber]

I tell you guys marathon PvE could be D3

They perfectly understand the issue of the game they say:
WHAT WE'VE LEARNED

1. Marathon is overwhelming to learn.
2. It's easy to hit a wall if you're not spending lots of time, don't have a consistent crew, or are not super skilled.
3. Still figuring out the balance mix of the endgame.
4. Sometimes you don't want to sweat.

With 1 2 and 4 you cannot attract casuals

[outer pollen]

Nah it was the hate campaign and the Destiny players that refused to play it

You legit had streamers being harassed because they liked Marathon

[stiff fiber]

honestly no the game did sell quite well when it launched

people just gave up on it because the game is done for sweat

[compact oriole]

you had people harrassed for playing hogwarts legacy by fucking weirdos and it was still a huge success. this twitch or social media shit doesnt matter for most people

[stiff fiber]

the "hate" campaign is not responsible for bungie making a game for sweat who are not a very large group

[outer pollen]

I’m one of those players that thinks teaming up once in a while is cool, but nothing like the Care Bear lobbies on Arc Raiders

That shit is straight up larping

[compact oriole]

the sweat issue you keep harping on is a deeper issue that most players didnt even get to experience

[stiff fiber]

there is a middle group between getting bored in arc and being killed 20 times in a row trying to do contract in marathon

even the developper themselves recognize the issue

read the text I posted a little bit earlier

it is by bungie themselves

[compact oriole]

more like they accept that their players think its an issue and thats why theyre changing it

cz clearly they didnt think it was an issue before

[stiff fiber]

it wouldnt be an issue for a small studio with 10k players

it is an issue for bungie and sony

[outer pollen]

I love killing players in Extraction shooters

I can be stacked with loot and I’ll still go and kill you for the love of the game

[stiff fiber]

same but up to bungie to make the experience more enjoyable for a larger group of player

[compact oriole]

idk thats the game. you cant stop pvpers from pvping..

[stiff fiber]

they need to do some design change in the game to avoid making the experience miserable for casuals

[compact oriole]

the genre by definition just isnt casual friendly. thats like saying you gotta make br less miserable for casuals when there can only be one winner

[stiff fiber]

I already told one of the issue is that map in marathon are quite small so you always encounter other player. In tarkov maps are larger there is more room for playing stealth and enjoying getting good loot and exfil

marathon needs two larger map

and also more vertical maps

[stiff fiber]

honestly I am rather casual and I enjoy it but I understand people giving up out of frustration

I almost dropped the game several time

and extract shooter are one of my favorite genre

[outer pollen]

[stiff fiber]

I am just saying bungie need to focus with only one idea: ok we got feedback that the game is way too difficult for casuals, how can we keep the player base while reaching people who bought it but gave up on it

and I think a PvE mode with raids a la destiny would be interesting

marathon has such a deep and interesting universe

if you read the codex entry it seems like a scifi novel

I just think it would be bad if they kill such an unique game

I dont want all the video game to look the same

[outer pollen]

[proper basin]

What about the yearly/seasonal gear wipes since thats a whole thing, people dont like losing their cool gear

[outer pollen]

FOMO is healthy for gaming

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/956086663447207956/1331192247856922696/most_defensible_btw.gif

[proper basin]

All i know is my fireteams gonna be on d2 for the final update

We’re doing pantheon

[outer pollen]

I’m gonna do Petra’s run

Solo

[proper basin]

You ain’t gonna get it

Just sayin

I hope crown is in the pantheon

That raids mechanics are so underrated, challenging and fun asf

[abstract venture]

aiming

[fading spade]

OMFH YESSSSSS XXDDD THIS IS AMAZING

[proper basin]

https://tenor.com/view/destiny2-kings-fall-season-of-plunder-witch-queen-oryx-gif-26626506

[outer pollen]

Omg the debate this sparked

That if the entrance was the front or the back

[proper basin]

Entrance is back

[outer pollen]

Wrong

[proper basin]

Nu uh

My fireteam didnt even do back or front callouts lmao

You dont need em

[stiff fiber]

141 go 😮

[sinful cobalt]

Casual 141gb

Im not even surprised

[buoyant osprey]

National news talking about Motorslice

[cold anvil]

Nice clips

[cold anvil]

Way ahead of you pal

[scarlet sail]

ok, guess bugthesda also doubles for bugmolesta based on this design

[bleak pike]

Crown was fun but easy

But fun

[bleak pike]

Have you ever done it in general?

[proper basin]

final encounter is intense with shooting the hands lol

very fun

[bleak pike]

Btw @proper basin my friends would be up to getting raids sorted for you so I'll dm an invite but we do go by a schedule

We arrange runs etc

[bleak pike]

Ye it's pretty fun

I doubt they'll bring back old raid encounters

[abstract venture]

thx

I need to rework my aim and movement since I don't played valorant for 1y

But i'm trolling a bit, because i'm in diamond currently bruh

I'm using

I just copy florescent settings since i'm used to it, same sens, same mouse, same mousepad ( gigantus v2 pro and artisan daidai orange ), same rt settings, and same lod

[scarlet sail]

honestly, i always gotta wonder how people won't get absurd headaches all the time with that much aim trembling

[abstract venture]

I was trolling, like I wanted to told to the mate, for rotate by moving left to the right

Because they wanted to push the site, when it was not the good idea

When u play in immo / rad lobbie, u get something like natural instinct, understanding when to force a site or not, and you calculate every second to know when a player will arrive from a certain place on every map / timing, so I know when we can enter, or if it's a bad idea, and here, since they're platine, they don't think that way so it's frustrating but idk

I want to play again in immortal lobbie, but my lvl is shit currently, i'll up it in soloq, and just practice again, like I have more game sense than aim currently

[outer pollen]

I’ve done last wish

Never tried Petra’s

[bleak pike]

Pft

Skrub

[cold anvil]

wait so you DON'T play on almost everything 0.1 like a maniac???

whatttttt thats crazyy

I dont think I have any crazy recent clips

I'm not crazy at valo I'm very mid, I do want to improve though

I got a few swift clips

thats enough lmao

[fading spade]

:P

[cold anvil]

@cyan pewter

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DYrQr6XSjnP/?igsh=cG55cXVrbTU2ZXJu

[cyan pewter]

real

the ai got that anger in them

[cold anvil]

They really do

[abstract venture]

Nah it's inconsistent

I punish him a bit

and trolling him XDDDDD

He wanted 1 meter

😭

[sinful cobalt]

isn't val just another game where you hold angles ?

[abstract venture]

It is 😭

It's the main goal of valorant since it's tactical shooter

[sinful cobalt]

[abstract venture]

So I laugh so hard when I read him 😭

" U slow and u hold angle "

It's the main goal of valorant, u will not do footstep when u will peek someone 💀

[sinful cobalt]

i can sense that he isn't left his room for days

[abstract venture]

Valorant is cs go version children

So u have to deal with these type of kids everyday

Like baby sitting

[sinful cobalt]

we love babysitting

[cold anvil]

0.1 is consistent too but like genuinely it's only because I poured hundreds of hours on 0.1 most likely over a thousand tbh 😭

[grizzled quarry]

Real asf

These mfs just be teleporting

[cold anvil]

they be pissing me off the most when I'm genuinely trying to get shit done

[abstract venture]

It's not bad, what I mean is in my case for example, i prefer to stay consistent, than have the lowest actuation point because I know than a day I can be good with it, and a other day press too high and do bad strafing

[grizzled quarry]

Ill just be drifting and one will spawn sideways inside of my car 😭

[abstract venture]

it's like the sens for aiming

Sometime u can play with high sens, sometime u shit with it

Better to find the optimal settings for consistency

[cold anvil]

Honestly I feel the most consistent when I'm on my ADHD meds
but I get where you're coming from though

[cold anvil]

I really don't feel that way at all, must be a person to person kind of thing

with aim yeah

but with movement it all feels the same

[abstract venture]

Same for this, I have to take xanax for anxiety since I take it for 4y, and when I don't take it, I can't focus on valorant

💀

[grizzled quarry]

@cold anvil

[abstract venture]

I used 0.1 for a while, but I feel, for prefire and stuff like this, you can do bad input in clutch if you're angry or anxious

Sometime it's not u the problem, but if your team mate trashtalk or scream

It's hard to be consistent

[cold anvil]

I take a med called Vyvanse, honestly w/o I'm fine in valo but veryyyy inconsistent but in games like osu where you need your attention at all times thats where my brain falls apart. everything kinda looks and feels like a blur

and I feel like 5x slower

[abstract venture]

Osu it's normal

Depending on the time u spend, the ar feel slow or fast

[fast iron]

this is why i use .3

[abstract venture]

I was top 1 fr in catchthebeat when I was kid on osu

and #49

Playing 14h a day with south korean lololol

[little cape]

fuck if only those poles werent there

but thats fucking clean drift

[grizzled quarry]

The poles were the target

Wanted to tap em all without hitting the wall

[abstract venture]

Now i'm 50 in France XDDD

[little cape]

oh i see

[cold anvil]

I think another thing that has helped me tremendously with 0.1 is the fact that to prior owning my 80he I had a membrane keyboard, no mechanical. that legit all I had lmao

[cold anvil]

thats pretty insane feat tho

[abstract venture]

It's bad when I know than I was #1 😭

But I stopped to play it in 2018

Because I was bored of osu

Peppy " the creator of osu " reward was osu supporter 1y

And our eyes was literally fcked, to fc hardest beatmap in cwc

[cold anvil]

I peaked like 1,800 world wide in beatsaber like 2 years ago man I get the feeling

[abstract venture]

osu is not a bad game but more u play it, more u have anger issue and lose fun

When u get the best rank

[sinful cobalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_8FGiiad6U peak cwc map

[abstract venture]

It's like u don't play for the music, but u play to fc the map

[cold anvil]

ehh Im kinda there still

totally...

[abstract venture]

It's hard no ?

[cold anvil]

beatsaber is one of the hardest rhythm games out there and I stand by that

[bleak pike]

Fuck those signs in particular

[abstract venture]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYn-zp6DQo

When my eyes was not fcked as now

[grizzled quarry]

Fr

Had to get rid of em

[abstract venture]

Like gdct and osu / sdvx / beatmania brhh

[sinful cobalt]

almost 2400 hours

[abstract venture]

these videos games need too much times

the only game I spend more than 7000h is black desert online

mmorpg

[cold anvil]

forgot you could do this but this is my highest pp play
https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=14089703

skip to like 2:25

the thing that made beat saber so difficult is how score is calculated

[abstract venture]

Ah yee

Need a good reading

Look like osu mania but with vr

[cold anvil]

it's not only the accuracy of hitting the notes in the middle but you would get score on swing angle too

[little cape]

till this day i never got my valorant yearly info

riot is ass

[abstract venture]

U don't get pain in your arm ?

[cold anvil]

To get the full 100 points for swing angle you only need to swing 160° total, so you can stop a little earlier and still get full score.
For the last 15 points you need to hit the center.

[abstract venture]

Since it's vr based compared to keyboard and mouse

So body movement

[cold anvil]

arm and for fore arm muscle is key to it but thats not what you should be worried about

beat saber is an absolute wrist killer

because of the weight of the vr controllers

you kinda need to balance arm and wrist and dependinding on map style or map segment you would use more or less of either

but to like put in a basic perspective

Wrist = Speed
Arm = Acc

not to mention there's countless controller grips

not like accessories but ways to hold the controller

When I would play beat saber I would hold my controllers like this

I remember someone in the community made a whole google doc on grips and controller settings for specific grips

for like a basis and you'd tune it on your own

thank you mod hidden in the shadows

[cold anvil]

@maiden tulip if you were a snake how would you drive a car

[maiden tulip]

Mouth

[cold anvil]

Thank you

[maiden tulip]

@outer pollen

[quaint ferry]

Hi guys is it okay if i advertise some games here? hehe

[maiden tulip]

no

bad

[quaint ferry]

ok hehe

im sorry

[maiden tulip]

against the rules

[quaint ferry]

i thought this server is the one im joining for the past months

[quaint ferry]

Thanks and im sorry hehe

[maiden tulip]

do you even dinosaur outfit gang

[abstract venture]

Ah yee so not for me 😭😭

I have a new disc for hernia c5 c6

Im not authorized to force in gym

And do some stuff

[cold anvil]

Oh damn thats rough

[quiet vault]

love me some ghosting

[maiden tulip]

how do your games look so bad

like you're not the only one who'S shown me awful ghosting

[quiet vault]

dlaa

[maiden tulip]

tmw im using taa and it looks better than this

[quiet vault]

i find taa too pixelated

[maiden tulip]

at my res it looks good

but yeah it is more pixelated

[mellow garden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHQ43q7LrM

[novel umbra]

Traffic cone gang

[small comet]

default avatar gang

[novel umbra]

Taa is always smoothed af btw

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/24DfuqmEYRc

[grizzled quarry]

Its also doing it for me

Not all the time and only on some cars ive noticed

[maiden tulip]

What aa are you using

[grizzled quarry]

Idk

I set it to extreme and turned on amd dlss thing

I can ss my settings when im off work

Also havent bought lossless scaling yet

Will get thst when I get paid

[maiden tulip]

its kinda shit in this game

usa taa

[maiden tulip]

that will just make the game blurrier

[bleak pike]

https://christopherklay.github.io/stadiacontroller/

bless people who did this (archived it)

just a shame it has no xinput

[young hill]

translation software is an option on windows

https://github.com/walkco/stadia-vigem/

[grizzled quarry]

Oh

Meant to reply to lossless yhing*

[grizzled quarry]

Ill do this, on my way home rn

[vagrant sapphire]

Which keyboard would be most comfortable to play geometry dash with im looking into playing extreme demons and want the best keyboard I can get

[serene orbit]

Ur asking in a wooting discord, the answer will most likely be wooting, so uwu or 80he?

[vagrant sapphire]

Obviously a wooting lol mainly asking 60he v2 or 80he

[young hill]

whatever layout you prefer more

there is no best keyboard

[vagrant sapphire]

Ill go with the 80he after some thought hope wooting enjoys my 300$

[grizzled quarry]

Avg cs2 update

Until they sneak in something like knife trade ups

[vital wren]

Added font

[green dune]

:-D

[quiet vault]

https://fixupx.com/playoverwatch/status/2058412166563164276?s=46

Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch)

Neon Junction here we come! 🇯🇵
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︀︀Introducing our newest Hybrid Map, making its official debut in Season 3 🌃

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FixupX · May 24, 2026, 4:57 AM

why we adding hybrid maps in 2026

[fathom swift]

Waifu kings row

[orchid prism]

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

Neat. Near universal support for all disc based console discs.

[small comet]

ye been running it and its quite nice. especially that i dont need a kreon drive for 360 games anymore

i wanted to get a second maybe third of the same external drive i have anyway as backups

[fading spade]

IGN: Mixtape 10/10
IGN: Pragmata 8/10

bruh wtf... i cant even rn

you only need 178 button presses to beat Mixtape :')

[narrow junco]

Ok now you measure game quality in button presses per time you beat it?

[vapid lintel]

Clearly making the point that it's a mildly interactive movie and it's a stretch to call it a game at all

[orchid prism]

Mhmm.

[small comet]

hope wii and gamecube get full support

would be dope to finally have 1 drive that does it all

[vapid lintel]

Also IGN along with practically every game reviewer out there has wildly inconsistent scoring schemes for the immense variation of games, making their ratings practically worth it

What makes games good to them has little to no bearing on what makes games good for me, with exception of the most basic levels of "does it run"

In the Maslov's Heirarchy of Good Games Need, IGN and Me overlap on the base and that's about it

[grizzled quarry]

Are hybrids the capture then push payload

Or is it those shitty 2 payload ones

[fringe salmon]

are the reviews even by the same person? and idk mixtape but personally think 8 is a bit high for pragmata tbh

[vapid lintel]

Haven't played either, neither appeal to me

I think the combat in Pragmata looks especially dumb, but I'd give them points for creativity at least

[fringe salmon]

this was my pragmata summary

start and end of the story was really nice, and as you said after the first few times the combat is really dumb, they did make some good boss fights with it, but thats too little of the game

[outer pollen]

Game of the year!

https://tenor.com/view/diemarchive-rage-baited-gif-10234080762801974584

[quiet vault]

yes

[compact oriole]

tried pragmata. its ok but after finishing the 2nd area a couple hours in i dont really feel like continuing

[compact oriole]

im not to keen on the main mechanic with the hacking stuff

[grizzled quarry]

Im fine with those then

So long as its not push

Fuck push

[quiet vault]

push peak mode

[fringe salmon]

yeah thats fair, the mid section of the game is really boring gameplay wise

[verbal nymph]

Yahoo

[buoyant osprey]

I actually really hope it wins Geoff's marketing show just because it would be hilarious to see the anger over it

[stiff fiber]

Alan wake reminds me of resident evil 4

Enemies are insufferable

Wtf too many of them they are annoying

Who told the developper than putting a fight every 30 sec with these enemies would be good

Well at least in alan wake enemies dont talk

[bleak pike]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/05/23/more-details-about-the-end-of-destiny-2-from-inside-bungie/

The decision to end support for Destiny 2 and move at least some amount of resources over to Marathon was made earlier this year. Work continued on future Destiny 2 content, including future expansions like Shattered Cycle, and did not stop immediately when this decision was made.

This was because the vast majority of Bungie did not know about Destiny 2 support being dropped right up until it was publicly announced.

There were certain teams within Bungie that did know what was coming, some who were working on “final" Destiny content for the June update, some who had already been moved to Marathon.

These people “begged" leadership to tell more people and keeping so many people in the dark divided the studio, and these in-the-know teams felt extremely isolated.

https://tenor.com/view/cute-adorable-duckling-haha-classic-gif-17283485

[stiff fiber]

I hope there are well paid to deal with this

Kind of situation where you go to work you dont even want to work

[bleak pike]

Honestly it sucks because they seem extremely passionate.

[stiff fiber]

Not telling people is really not ok

[bleak pike]

A lot of ex devs have come out saying similar stuff, even dmg when he stepped down from being a CM vented his frustration.

Devs wanting to do everything players wanted, make new content, do out of the box stuff

Always shut down.

[hardy merlin]

Welcome to game dev under huge publisher
They will take you, burn you out from both ends, squeeze as much money as they can from your work and then leave you alone

[stiff fiber]

Remind me some years ago where I had to train the person replacing me at work I was young so I considered it might be normal but years later I realized it was not normal at all

[bleak pike]

I get this but Bungie in particular is pretty gross

And on a much worse scale

If we consider the last 3 years

Especially

[iron oak]

Live service games are getting super greedy and gross in practices

[hardy merlin]

It's not old Bungie anymore
Now Bungie executives are interested only in squeezeing as much money as they can from studio and from people

[stiff fiber]

They muted me from the marathon discord for no reason given I suspect it was because I said the marathon community should show some solidarity with the d2 one (even if I never played destiny) and what bungie was doing was not ok

[trim rock]

Wait so they had people work on stuff that was destined to be thrown out? Why? That seems like a really poor use of human resources

[bleak pike]

No one thought it was

No offence Cals but like, most people from the outside don't know what they are talking about and just wanna hate rather than actually discuss facts and real Insights.

[stiff fiber]

Honestly I just wish there was another extract shooter I liked I would just drop marathon

[bleak pike]

Saying welcome to big punisher doesn't contribute at all to this topic.

And disregards a lot of the problems at its core, it's beyond normal big publisher/dev company nonsense.

[hardy merlin]

Nah, I know how it looks like in corpo side of things
I had a lot of my work thrown out too, and I get to know about huge changes from coworkers, who heard it from other coworker, etc. and not in an official way

[stiff fiber]

Often when a studio is bought by a big company it becomes awful for employee and gamers

[bleak pike]

It's not as simple as work being thrown out though.

[hardy merlin]

The more layers of management there is, the worse is working for that company, it's just as simple

[bleak pike]

That's the problem

There were never layers

[outer pollen]

Bro they should let the community host their own servers

[stiff fiber]

Bungie is a study case of how a studio can turn to shit when bought

[outer pollen]

Bungie created Halo!

[bleak pike]

They abandoned the game years ago and planned to sell to Sony and deliver bare minimum till they could bail and keep money.

[bleak pike]

It happened before bought, the being bought was the start of upper managements grand plan to bail ship.

[stiff fiber]

Well sony bought them for 3 billions that is how out of touch this company is

Seriously they buy a studio 3 billions but dont have 100 millions to develop d3?

I dont understand how these companies think

[bleak pike]

It's frustrating because when they let devs do what they want during panic when the player count nose dived before final shape and general hatred they made some of the most fun/best content in meer months to help with the delay.

Bungie fucking cooks when under pressure, especially when they needed to drag it out another 2 years so they can bail and keep their buyout money.

[outer pollen]

They were scrambling so hard

[bleak pike]

Marathon itself was never a properly developed game either.

It was always a proof of concept and remade multiple times, they delivered the bare minimum to show value in the company.

[stiff fiber]

Marathon had a lot of issue during development that is why it ended up costing so much

[outer pollen]

All they had to do was bring back Wrath of the Machine and give us a Siva subclass

[bleak pike]

Again it was always to drag it out.

[proper basin]

Not even just a publisher we know lots of stuff got rejected while bungie was still on their own post activision, bungies always been this way

[bleak pike]

It's a miracle it released in the state it did.

[outer pollen]

Personally I enjoyed Marathon but then again I love extraction shooters

[bleak pike]

To be clear I'm not blaming devs here

[outer pollen]

Sadly it didn’t do anything really unique imo

[bleak pike]

It was in an abysmal state before launch

At least before the last two closed and open betae

[outer pollen]

I never got into any of the betas

I remember you told me and that had me worried

[bleak pike]

It's a different game vs betas

[stiff fiber]

Beta is right now tbh

[bleak pike]

Honestly

Even lightning alone was vastly different

[stiff fiber]

But still doesnt change the fact that bungie treat employee badly

And fanbase badly

[bleak pike]

I remember a dev came out about this bug, they had a fix but management delayed it.

And it was like a single digit or letter in the code a random user fixed

[bleak pike]

Well, tbh the perks are pretty neat

But ye treatment to passion was horrible

[stiff fiber]

Issue is that doing this the risk is you end up with talented dev leaving

And starting their own studio

Like the dev of clair obscure

[bleak pike]

Not a chance

There's to many devs at Bungie and most of them are in minor positions, anyone in the position you're on about are part of the problem.

Hasn't the ex Bungie line been used before

[stiff fiber]

I heard the OG bungie is now rich or something

[bleak pike]

Concord

For example

[bleak pike]

Bro Pete bailed as soon as he legally could lmao

He isn't original Bungie in my eyes though

Since he inserted himself during the early Ms days

[stiff fiber]

Oh ok

[bleak pike]

That's kinda my point

It was all dragged out to death for the sake of being able to stick around till payout

Like that money Sony spent didn't go into pockets of management till after so long.

[stiff fiber]

But sony, if they want to make money with bungie, should just change completely how the studio is managed. I dont see how it can last for a long time like this

[bleak pike]

I just don't see a future for Bungie

[stiff fiber]

They are going from disaster to disaster

[bleak pike]

Maybe another studio under Sony with all the current devs.

Bungie after leaving MS have always been up and down and up and down

[stiff fiber]

I have a question is naughty dog owned by a big company?

[bleak pike]

They did terrible, we are so back, they did terrible, we are so back.

[hardy merlin]

Looking back they will just fire half of the people and sell the studio to the lowest bidder
Look what happened to Evolution

[outer pollen]

I can’t wait to see all the stuff that’s gonna come out about Bungie when the layoffs happen

[cold anvil]

Uhm hello..??? UE6??? Whats up with that????

[fringe salmon]

nothing really, ue6 has been soft announced a while ago, with a main focus on multi threading for the engine

[bleak pike]

Destiny 2

• Base game, a mess.
• Curse of osirus absolute 💩
• Warmind better....
• Forsaken praise the fucking Lord Bungie cooked but oh right Activision had to give them a second studio to save their ass
• Shadowkeep, absolute 💩 but we'll cut em a little slack since it's their first post Activision split
• Beyond light, better but fuck content vaulting, player base drops a lot.
• 30th anniversary micro expansion, absolutely cooked. Even now still fun.
• Absolute fucking masterpiece, Bungie absolutely fucking cooked, player base boomed all year.
• Lightfall, the first expansion where most devs moved to marathon and Lightfall was horrendous, if it wasn't for strand it would be the worst expansion to date, players tanked.
• Into the light emergency micro expansion absolutely cooked in just a few monthss
• The final shape, the final nail in the coffin imo, they self sabatage themselves, people loved it but left very very quickly, personally I hated the story though.

[fringe salmon]

and like anything next gen likely focuses more on neural rendering as a main option

[cold anvil]

Ah so UE5 but supposedly more optimized?

[outer pollen]

Personally I wasn’t a fan of Forsaken

[hardy merlin]

For now it's been just a short clip from Rocket League

[outer pollen]

The fact that the barons were adventures was dumb as shit

[fringe salmon]

any UE version is just an arbitrary cutoff from the previous one with more features that were decided to land there

[bleak pike]

Oh it had its flaws

[outer pollen]

Old Bungie would have turned each one into a Strike

[bleak pike]

But the content amount was insane

[cold anvil]

Ok 👍

[fringe salmon]

because at some point it makes sense calling it UE6 instead of 5.12

[cold anvil]

Yeah that makes sense

[bleak pike]

But ye I didn't like the baron stuff either

[hardy merlin]

There have been quite changes to rendering pipeline between UE4 and UE5 though

[fringe salmon]

generally they make that with an editor layour update and pull some things in that are in a preview state like lumen isntead of having it launch a version later

yeah sometimes it has some extras that combined just make sense to have it be the main focus for a mainline update

[outer pollen]

Yeah the 30th anniversary was amazing that was Dares of Eternity right?

[hardy merlin]

UE6 should automatically fry your computer if you can't apply Lumen and Nanite properly and just slap it on top of the game

I'd say that UE5 is a slop engine, if not for so many games where UE5 works wonderfully

[outer pollen]

Bro I hated nimbus such a dumb fucking character https://youtube.com/watch?v=SAB5nDQJ-eY&si=njdrqF1Pm9-aj_1z

[fringe salmon]

its the same with ue4 most features launching with an engine just need more improvements to properly use them and too many studios use the tools without enough knowledge to properly handle them

[bleak pike]

Dungeon, dares, xurs treasury place, really fun exotics/quests

Also halo x destiny

Unfortunately anyway

[bleak pike]

I hate him more than the fortnite dude on cosmadrone

[outer pollen]

Put some respect on Shaw

[bleak pike]

No

He's a blueberry in disguise that somehow defied the games very universal laws.

The twat has super end game gear, more than one exotic on and his job is I'm a new dude who lost his fire team for stupid reasons.

[hardy merlin]

When Satisfactory moved to UE5 they actually handled the move really well, and now game is working even better
And it's an indie studio

[bleak pike]

Oh and getting his ass beaten

While again somehow being the only guardian to wear multiple exotics, again from end game content.

[outer pollen]

He literally has the Ahamkara Spine though!

[fringe salmon]

yeah many cases of either devs thinking they can just lumen/nanite with vaniall settings, some management saying we need it, and any combination of the two

[outer pollen]

The best strike in D2 will always be Savathûn's Song

[fringe salmon]

but cant really say and only release features once they are toddle proof either, that would make no sense from a engine side

[bleak pike]

Exactly

And last wish fear

Gear

And an exotic chest piece

[small comet]

so why did you play it for so long

[bleak pike]

Because at its core it's an amazing game

Nothing feels as good as destiny 2 gunplay.

[outer pollen]

It was such a fun game and no other game has gunplay as satisfying as Destiny

[bleak pike]

Nothing

[outer pollen]

If you know you know

[bleak pike]

I love Warframe before someone says

[hardy merlin]

I guess... would be nice if game studios actually took a bit of time to use engine features correctly though

[bleak pike]

But it's a different game

They shouldn't be compared

[outer pollen]

Warframe gets boring though

I’ve been playing it for like 14 years

On and off

Destiny would just do something to my brain and have me mindlessly grinding for days

[bleak pike]

But also I barely played for years, id login for new story, log off and play 1-3 hours a week with my buddies because social life is poop

If it wasn't for them I would have stopped 100% years ago

Tbh destiny 2 runs with my friends got me through the 6 months in hospital, it was the one thing I had control over and let me escape.

Worst time in my life.

And it helped relieve it, even if I was using moonlight on 10mb/s down lmao

Destiny 2 got me through a lot of rough shit in my life, or well the friends I've been playing with for 6 or so years every week.

[outer pollen]

Same saw a lot of friends come and go through Destiny

[bleak pike]

Just like how games line WoW or RS are very important to people even now.

[outer pollen]

It’ll always have a special place as much as I love to bash on it

[bleak pike]

We all have a special game we can't fully let go of.

[bleak pike]

Ye

It's a game I've always loved deep down but at the same hated and can't recommend to anyone.

[outer pollen]

I remember for Witch Queen I maxed out the faction rank in one night doing a stupid chest glitch lol

[bleak pike]

Witch queen is my favorite expansion

[outer pollen]

Destiny will always be the series that could have had a lot of potential if Bungie had done something with it

[bleak pike]

Ye

[outer pollen]

Fighting Savathun with 3 people was hell for the legendary campaign

[bleak pike]

That's what makes it so frustrating

It's an amazing game that doesn't actually get any treatment until they have no choice.

And when they do it's a blast

[bleak pike]

I soled the entire thing, always have done.

The story journey for me has to be solo haha

Ever since d1

[outer pollen]

I would complete it with friends on one class and then do it with the others solo

[bleak pike]

It's MY story

[outer pollen]

lol

[bleak pike]

People found Savathun so difficult but honestly

I found it pretty easy

Even when I did it again in a group

I think I do my best work when solo and I just kinda become relaxed and casual in a group unless it was flawless/master/pantheon

Bro Im not kidding, I did pantheon on my steam deck streaming from home.

I still don't know how

[cold anvil]

Now that destiny’s gone we’re ALLL moving to warframe, amirightguyz????

[bleak pike]

This was my view

[outer pollen]

I don’t think anything will ever fill the Destiny vacuum

[cold anvil]

Dw on everyone’s soul here they stopped destiny 2 to make destiny 3

[bleak pike]

I love Warframe regardless

I always come back for a burst of a week or two and get annoyed hahah

Sometimes a month or so

[cold anvil]

I play every once in a while, never enough to make meaningful progress but I like the thought of making progress lmao

[bleak pike]

I know you're joking

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/05/22/with-destiny-2-gone-no-destiny-3-is-coming/

[outer pollen]

I remember when we were doing Grasp of Avarice flawless and my friend killed my other friend by swinging his sword at him and killing him against a wall with the momentum

[bleak pike]

I miss sword killing

So so so much

[outer pollen]

I remember on Mars we would all pull out the telesto and shoot people to make their game crash so we could get as many of our clan members to do the escalation protocols lol

Escalation Protocol was so fun imo

[proper basin]

Slammin afk raid members into the wall with swords just to see if theyd go flying or die

[bleak pike]

Nothing more fun than obliterating my fire teams spines because I sworded them against a wall

[bleak pike]

Haha

[cold anvil]

Tbh whats most likely true is that they wanted full focus on the development of marathon as it’s their latest live service title

[proper basin]

Over 9 hours in day one deep stone hearing STATUS: CALAMITOUS in your sleep after all was said and done

[outer pollen]

Bungie the company that had it all but their greed blinded them

https://tenor.com/view/mistwol-cat-his-greed-will-consume-him-eating-silly-gif-14271929065765266047

[bleak pike]

Gender Sector reassessment: Orbital platform active

[cold anvil]

Company??? Greed??? Nahhhh that would neverrr happennn

[bleak pike]

https://youtu.be/MfIPi31QKOU

[proper basin]

Then after that encounter hearing the peak that was deep stone lullaby and “Are you enjoying yourselves, intruders?”

[bleak pike]

Context for anyone, always sounds like Clovis is saying gender re assessment

[bleak pike]

Haha

[latent oracle]

unreal 6 announced fake or not chat?

[proper basin]

Nothing more satisfying than beating day 1 caretaker tho

That boss was a WALL

[bleak pike]

I gave up

Oh wait caretaker was a different raid

I didn't attempt it as I was taking a break

[proper basin]

Ye thatwas vow

Outbreak perfected shined very bright for that encounter

[bleak pike]

Deep stone I gave up after 14 hours because we always had one spot people kept leaving.

[proper basin]

Yeah for dsc we stopped at atraks

But vow we got to rhulk

[bleak pike]

We did VoW flawless the other day for a team mate.

Pretty easy now lol

[proper basin]

Such a good raid

[bleak pike]

It really is

Rhulk was better than witness imo

Witness had less personality than atrax

[proper basin]

Never got to go that raid sadly

Only raid i didnt complete

And i beat day 1 ron lol

Did that one with lfg

[mellow garden]

https://www.theverge.com/games/936891/rocket-league-is-getting-an-upgrade-to-unreal-6

[latent oracle]

okay im not crazy i saw that but from an unrealiable source

[cold anvil]

One moment

FH6 has this game breaking bug, you guys should look out just in case because this is very serious.

[mellow garden]

Could already tell it was Calsy with that reaction without mousing over the emote

[bleak pike]

I already used this against @maiden tulip

[grizzled quarry]

[outer pollen]

[quartz wing]

i love my wooting

[green dune]

Huh, is Steam having issues today?

[small comet]

why

[green dune]

That's very slow.

[small comet]

oh i see the sonic game is downloading too fast

yeah i wonder why its not slower tbh

would save a lot of souls from the gruesomeness of these games

[green dune]

Yeah Steam's CDN is just kind of slow today, how strange.

[small comet]

sonic 3d games should legally be limited to 25kbps download speeds

[scarlet sail]

make it 28.8kbit/s to get that 90s feeling

[bleak pike]

Warframe in a nutshell tbh

[narrow junco]

nekros moment

what mission is this

it says conduit so i thought disruption but i dont think there's a ||spoiler planet|| disruption mission

[bleak pike]

syndicate

[narrow junco]

ah

i never do syndicate so it makes sense i didnt know what that is

[bleak pike]

im trying to make a archwing wep

the schematics are sold by syndicates

[narrow junco]

why not just use mausolon

or kuva grattler

[bleak pike]

because i used google

im struggling on a mission so i need a new wep xd

[narrow junco]

i see

[bleak pike]

also im after a melel

[narrow junco]

i got mausolon and it was good enough for all content i want to do with archwing

ah

yeah i just shoot everything

maybe a little overkill

[bleak pike]

nvm its a gun

https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Velocitus

[bleak pike]

i have this

http://mrpl.me/grhcbE.png

[narrow junco]

ah

well

[bleak pike]

my artch setup is a joke

[narrow junco]

that is a bit of a problem

[bleak pike]

im just struggling to kill a golum

http://mrpl.me/MGilSI.png

@narrow juncoIs helios prime shit these days? i never see anyone use it

[narrow junco]

yeah i ran out of things to min max

[narrow junco]

its ok but nautilus better when it comes to mechanical companions

[bleak pike]

lol you can help me kill this boss if ya want

xd

[narrow junco]

this is best companion tho

[narrow junco]

sure i got nothing better goin on

[bleak pike]

MrPleasant_exe#988

ill

@narrow juncoit seems finishing that quest unlocked the deadlock protocol so your timing with advice was impeccable lol

[narrow junco]

very nice

yeah i try to refrain from giving too much specific advice but that one bothers me cause selling that item is such a bad mistake and it's such an easy mistake to make

[bleak pike]

Had to stop playing, it reached 29c in my office.

[narrow junco]

understandable

i should open my windows wide

but i am listening to music (loud) so i dont wanna get up from my chair

[bleak pike]

I have cats so i cant haha

only up until the safety lock

[narrow junco]

yeah understandable

[novel umbra]

no, nobody plays nekros

[novel umbra]

it's alright with the correct build

[bleak pike]

He's my second fave xD

But also i meant more sitting there and doing nothing because powers

[novel umbra]

Not even good for that

Your mirage is way lower maintenanve for much more kills in that clip for example

[green dune]

Is it possible to make Sonic Adventure 2 run at a higher framerate than 60?

[scarlet sail]

be glad it's even running at 60 instead of being hardwired to 30, going by how it's a port/remake/whatever of a 25 year old game 😄

[green dune]

:|

[pure bear]

a framegenerator could be used on it ig

[green dune]

That wouldn't make anything better.

How about anything to do about the bug in Neon White where it won't always capture the cursor?

[proper basin]

Mods are the way i believe

Dunno if sa2 gets funky with higher frame rates like unleashed does

[green dune]

That's a latter game, so probably.

[green dune]

Neon White is so good but man the bugs are so frustrating.

[tawny sable]

ngl that game confuses the shit out of me

[narrow junco]

What about it

[sudden prawn]

@pulsar prism https://youtu.be/wVAgJ-83M2w?si=M6x2oI889YcR8LRX

[pulsar prism]

Yeah saw that

Kinda crazy

[outer pollen]

https://fxtwitter.com/tekken/status/2058667862965862702

TEKKEN (@TEKKEN)

The Strongest Creature on Earth
︀︀JOINS THE BATTLE!!💥
︀︀
︀︀Yujiro Hanma joins the #TEKKEN8 roster as the 4th additional playable character in early 2027🔥

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▶ Play video

FxTwitter · May 24, 2026, 9:54 PM

[outer pollen]

She’s so cool

[vivid wharf]

yes this is a rear wheel drive car

[grizzled quarry]

perfectly executed and intended backflip

[narrow junco]

@ivory dune titania build, can swap preparation for power drift and higher level pistoleer would be good, i just dont have one atm

[ivory dune]

Thanks

[narrow junco]

pistol build, this assumes you are using archon continuity

||archon shards are: 2g for + max corro stacks, 1r for + str , 1 yellow for cast speed, 1 orange for shield gain on blast kill (idk if this one is that good, i was testing it at the time)||

[narrow junco]

here, you can also use magnetic might over expel grineer

up to you

[ivory dune]

I don't even have shards unlocked yet

[narrow junco]

yeah dont worry about that yet

[quiet vault]

https://x.com/xboxuk/status/2058841122500219058?s=46

XBOX UK (@xboxuk)

Happy Bank Holiday Monday to everyone except bowie knife99

X · May 25, 2026, 9:22 AM

[stiff fiber]

UK is a crazy country

they have a special day for banks?

🤔

[small comet]

i think they started as like days the bank was closed by law and are now just public holidays like christmas, easter etc

banks close on those days in other countries as well

[stiff fiber]

yeah but in france it is because it is a catholic holiday

in other countries too I think

having a public holiday for bank seems so odd to me

[fringe salmon]

That’s… that’s not what bank holiday means

As Tony said it’s a colloquial term for every day that banks are closed outside the regular week schedule

[hardy merlin]

Don't think about it, enjoy day off

[mellow garden]

I, for one, am enjoying the extra paid day off of work.

[pure bear]

i for one am melting

[stiff fiber]

but what are people celebrating on bank day?

nothing?

[quiet vault]

https://fixupx.com/QNDZYcom/status/2058766633804652789/video/1?s=46

QNDZY (@QNDZYcom)

Trailblazer ruined by a Barn Find in Forza Horizon 6 😭

Quoting QNDZY (@QNDZYcom)
︀
Mech My Day is easily a top 10 action sequence in the Forza Horizon series' history. 🔥

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FixupX · May 25, 2026, 4:26 AM

😭

[pure bear]

it just means that business etc arent operating

[vapid lintel]

The weather

[pure bear]

christmas is a bank holiday

[vapid lintel]

That one is celebrating Yule, this one is celebrating the weather

[pure bear]

dropping a yule log

[vapid lintel]

Just did thanks

Late start to the day = late coffee = late Yule logs

[outer pollen]

Insane
https://fxtwitter.com/culturecrave/status/2058740669590704138

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)

'Star Citizen' has crossed $1B in total donations 🎮
︀︀
︀︀• Game has been in development since 2012
︀︀
︀︀• Still in Alpha with no official release date

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FxTwitter · May 25, 2026, 2:43 AM

[buoyant osprey]

I finished Gothic 1. It's a good game though the second half is nowhere good as the first

[vapid lintel]

Scam Citizen

[scarlet sail]

best part is, that those jocks are calling it "donations" when in reality it's targeted milking of investors and gamers alike 😄

but if they can really write it off as donations it would end up tax free, which makes the entire matter even worse

[vapid lintel]

Donations are only tax free to specific types of charities, if I recall correctly 501c

[scarlet sail]

pretty much all i know about donation/gift taxation 😅

if the scam citicen devs actually get taxed over it tho, then it's all the better in my book, yea

[fringe salmon]

nobodys calling it donations anyway..

[scarlet sail]

well, that X post clearly did

[fringe salmon]

yeah, so nobody

[scarlet sail]

😅

[fringe salmon]

twitter posters arent real people

[outer pollen]

I remember when I worked with that guy who was bragging to me about having spent like 1K or 2K on a ship. I just stared at him like I didn’t know what Star Citizen was

[scarlet sail]

ok, WTF google, since when is this a thing? O_o

[pure bear]

years

[scarlet sail]

pfft ok, never saw this strange animated ball icon here in the search results until today and i've been looking up some pokemon every other month or so to check some stats or whatever

[cold anvil]

I had so much fun in the free flight, I really wanna buy this game

@cyan pewter

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DYwzeWvES2g/?igsh=cTd6cTlpczZpZmF1

The ace sound is so good

[proper basin]

Val :(

[little cape]

the devil and his temptations

lowkey i would still be playing val if the trash anti cheat didnt try to break my system every time i launched the game (Back when i was on my am4 build)

[cold anvil]

I don’t think I’ve had a single issue with the anti chat

[little cape]

for example

needing to restart the system when you launch the game

every val player has done it

[cold anvil]

Yeah that is true, I haven’t had the pop up in ages though

[little cape]

fair

i remember it being a huge thing in 2022 or 2023

[cold anvil]

Its more of a minor inconvenience if anything imo

[little cape]

yeah

not a huge issue but definitely annoying

[cold anvil]

No for sure I understand

[little cape]

same PTSD as signing into third party launcher when i bought the game on steam

[cold anvil]

Also idk how people have so many interferences with vanguard, just don’t have the anti cheat open 😭

“Erm.. guys.. Bf6 is telling me to uninstall valorant….”MAYBE DON’T TRY TO HAVE 2 GAMES OPEN AT ONCE YOU BRAINDEAD MORON

[little cape]

could be anti virus or vpn in the background

who knows tbh

[compact oriole]

sounds to me like bf6 is just based and you cant handle it

[fringe salmon]

no the issue is vanguard is active even when the game is closed

because it has to be started on sytem boot

[compact oriole]

was gonna say. that root kit is running all the time

[fringe salmon]

though that was iirc only an issue during beta, so now its only showing that error when the game truly is open

[little cape]

how dare they when my pc is trying to POST

[fringe salmon]

ah yeah I was mixing up vanguard and the cod anti cheat fighting bf6

vanguard never had it if valorant wasnt open, nvm

[cold anvil]

Is it invisible?

[cold anvil]

I genuinely wasn’t able to create the same pop up that random twitter user had unless I had valorant open before opening BF6

[little cape]

also annoyed its been like 6 years and I never got my yearly stats.....

devs too busy moaning in game chat

[fringe salmon]

sorta? it tends to not do anything if you arent starting a vanguard protected game

but yeah, seems like you do infact need to have the game active for bf6 to not work, so uh, yeah not an issue

[compact oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/sheppy-shisha-shisha-sheppy-husky-maid-gif-21097707

avg valorant player

[cold anvil]

I understand people’s issues with Kernel Level Anti Cheats, I just dislike when there’s misinformation on it cause people are so quick to believe it without a second look

[cold anvil]

This is very true I can confirm

Some people may not like it

[little cape]

thats when i prepare the slurs in game chat

"You listen here you little auto tune temu T-Pain-"

[compact oriole]

after having hung out in vr chat talking about phantom sense for 3 hours they move to val

[cold anvil]

Wait till you hear about phantom pain

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-solid-phantom-pain-metal-gear-solid-v-snake-big-boss-gif-6526414909388443363

[compact oriole]

thats the next level

[little cape]

phantom pain maxxing

[hardy merlin]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3758980/NO_STRAIGHT_ROADS_2/

Steam

NO STRAIGHT ROADS 2

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Get ready to turn it up to 11!
Join rock rebels Mayday and Zuke as they hit the road to climb the international charts and battle…

Release Date

2026

[little cape]

imagine

okay chat imagine

releasing another engine when your current slop hasnt been out for more than 4 years

[scarlet sail]

couldn't be epic, right? 😄

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/who-wouldve-thought-not-me-look-at-us-paul-rudd-hot-ones-gif-16080041

its okay though! Since its coming to rocket league you can have frame drops while flying through the air

well current counter argument could be "the devs need to learn how to utilize the tools and optimize their games ☝️ 🤓 "

[fringe salmon]

? its basically the same timeline as form ue4 to ue5

6 years after launch they tease the next one, then 2 years later the first engine build becomes available to people

in tandem with console launch cycle

[hardy merlin]

I mean there's a lot of well optimized games on UE5
No matter what, if you give a good carpenter a hammer to drive screws in, you can't expect a good final product, and that's what PMs and execs want from game devs nowadays

[fringe salmon]

how tf did it copy the link beneath the twitter link I coped

this site is becoming worse and worse as well each day

[little cape]

which ones are optimized well i would like to play them

[fringe salmon]

arc raiders

[little cape]

very true

[hardy merlin]

Satisfactory

[cyan pewter]

val but dont touch the cancer

[hardy merlin]

Split Fiction runs on UE5 too

[little cape]

ty for reminding me i gotta play that

it takes two was PEAK co-op

[cold anvil]

Did you see recon 2.0

I @‘d you

[cyan pewter]

i much prefer an actual recon 2.0

and whyd they add buttplugs to the bundle

[cold anvil]

I think the new bundle looks

It all depends on price tbh

[cyan pewter]

8900 vp

[cold anvil]

If it’s anywhere near kuronami 2.0 prices that’s just a big no 😭

It should be premium rarity

[cyan pewter]

recon hits different but this doesnt have that effect

[cold anvil]

I think the rogue bundle looks clean

And finally more bandit skins 😭

[compact oriole]

in the case of arc raiders and the finals they took out all the ue5 tech that made it run badly basically

[vapid lintel]

Really solid game, played it twice through now with different people

[compact oriole]

was ok

[vapid lintel]

Does that invalidate the point? Seems more like it strengthens it; devs are capable of making it work while displaying a beautiful game

[little cape]

after grinding dune i'll play it with my gf

rn we grinding dune and i just researched the dune buggy

[compact oriole]

optimizing implies you make shit run good. not that you leave it out

[vapid lintel]

It implies both

[compact oriole]

aight then theres no issues with ue5 agmes. just play it on 3x5 pixels and put everything to low

[cold anvil]

I think. Ue5. Should be easy to work with. And more optimized. Off the bat. When developers start a project.

[compact oriole]

im coping that ue6 means that the tech theyve been adding on over time will be better integrated and run more efficient from the get go or smth

[vapid lintel]

The hyperbole is unconducive to meaningful discussion...

[cold anvil]

Can’t wait for the oblivion remastered ue6 update

[compact oriole]

the point stands that when speaking about optimizing a game, people dont usually mean just leaving out features

no shit if i leave out lumen, the game runs better

[fringe salmon]

they dont use lumen and nanite? thats not the only features of ue5

[vapid lintel]

The dev's job is to make games look good and run good, whether or not all the bell's and whistles are utilized is immaterial

[fringe salmon]

like, you can remove lumen and nanite and ue5 is still substrantially different than ue4

[cold anvil]

I love oblivion remastered so much, if the game ran like 20% better it would’ve been good enough for me 😭

[little cape]

has this been confirmed or copium ?

[fringe salmon]

the engine isnt even out for another 2 years for non epic projects

[vapid lintel]

Assumed

[compact oriole]

ye but if the only thing you did was take out lumen and nanite, itd already run better than before

[cold anvil]

Copium, game hasn’t been updated since last July…. BUT THEYRE DOING A FUCKING SWITCH 2 PORT INSTEAD OF OPTIMIZING THE GAME

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/copium-cat-gif-27161395

[fringe salmon]

and?? whats your point

[little cape]

all i know is halo ce remake is garbage

there will be hell to pay

[vapid lintel]

Don't you want that? looks at name

[cold anvil]

I think that the point is at the end of the day Fortnite will still be massive in the next decade

[vapid lintel]

That's not assured

[cold anvil]

….
Yes.

[vapid lintel]

It's already struggling

[compact oriole]

my point is that i dont think its apples to apples to claim a game is super optimized when its missing features the other games didnt leave out

[vapid lintel]

On the metric of revenue received verse spent, which is the only metric that matters to the game

[cold anvil]

I personally think fortnite has struggled countless times and always somehow manage to get back on their feet, they fired those employees for no reason though idk why they did that

Probably ai

[little cape]

valorant just upgraded to ue5 too no? lmfao

[vapid lintel]

Because the game was burning more cash paying developers compared to microtransaction sales

[cold anvil]

Yeah, so they can add new features

[fringe salmon]

the question was optimized ue5 games, thats an optimized ue5 game

[buoyant osprey]

[little cape]

yeah probably take a while for them to upgrade to ue6 unless...unless....VALORANT 2

[cold anvil]

Creative 2.0 and the ability to make money from it was their worst update, literal slop fest

[cold anvil]

Ik this is a joke but Valorant is definitely just gonna be like LoL where they kinda just keep adding onto it

[vapid lintel]

Ergo, there's no guarantee that it will be around for the next decade

[cold anvil]

I mean yeah

[vapid lintel]

Which is a shame, because then the gaming community is going to have to find a new game to leave the kids at daycare with while the adults go play other games

[little cape]

very true i prefer upgrades to the original game than cheap shortcuts and money grabbing tactics as releasing a second game

[cold anvil]

The children yearn for the mines

[little cape]

cough Destiny 2 cough

[cold anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/i'm-ready-steve-a-minecraft-movie-i'm-good-to-go-jack-black-gif-8775803558173145718

[vapid lintel]

This one is already dead

[little cape]

[cold anvil]

But heyyy play marathon right now!! And you get nothing in return

Your favorite game is gone for good!

[sinful cobalt]

@lone cosmos

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-he-is-already-dead-stop-gif-5552043

[lone cosmos]

[cold anvil]

What cod game is this?

[lone cosmos]

blops 7

[cold anvil]

I am so sorry for your wallet

[lone cosmos]

not really, loaded.com exists so its cheaper

[cold anvil]

I don’t mind cod games I just don’t like how quick they are to move on

[lone cosmos]

black ops is every 3-4 years and modernwarfare is every 1-2 years iirc

[cold anvil]

I think allkeyshop is pretty good, gets info on all the major key sites to get you the best deals

[lone cosmos]

i always use key sites rather than direct purchases from steam etc

[cold anvil]

If it’s something minor or something I’m not truly confident in sure but if there’s a steam sale going on or if it’s a game I really care about I don’t mind using steam

[sinful cobalt]

i mean i bought the game on winter sale

[lone cosmos]

always look for the sales

[sinful cobalt]

plus BO7 is pretty much MW23

[fringe salmon]

https://isthereanydeal.com/ use this to check for sales