general gaming

[light gate]

Well that’s the thing, there is no real lesson if developers keep sticking with DirectX.

Devs keep bitching about metal while they use DirectX because market share.

And some don’t like Vulkan.

[slim thorn]

I think most devs are letting an engine deal with the rendering backend these days

[light gate]

You just can’t win.

[light gate]

Yeah at this point its either Unity, Unreal, or Godot.

Very rarely a game needs a custom engine.

And its so funny because even with the tools those engines provide for multiple platform development, ITS STILL an afterthought.

[slim thorn]

mm-hmm, since you still need to own the platform to test it

[light gate]

So its still the ‘either they do or they dont’

Like a console, like a PC.

Its not like a person gets a free pc as like Macs.

“But I gotta buy a Mac!” Dear dev, you bought a gaming pc rig with 4090 and are complaining about getting a Mac Mini for bare minimum deployment.

(Of course this is a oversimplification)

I’m sure each case is different.

[wind stump]

@gaunt marten (and any other old school RPG fans IG) have you heard of this FFI fangames called Final Fantasy Renaissance?
It's like the OG FFI but like, with new jobs and such https://rengames.us/ffr.html

(i've seen Flitter lavish praise on Crystal Project before so that's why i specifically pinged them )

[slim thorn]

if we're talking one guy on their own, buying another machine is significant, if we're talking a small indie team with still a little bit of actual budgets and management, we're talking paying for all the dev time to support mac-specific issues as mentioned above

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, seems neat but I haven't played it

[slim thorn]

though at this point I'm not sure what's even being advocated for

if it's just "more devs should support mac", then the answer is "empirically speaking, not really, they're not doing it because it's never trivial, and there's more valuable stuff they can do with their limited resources" and that's not going to change unless Apple decides they want to do the work to change it

[wind stump]

with the pixel remasters even being kind of out of my league it's not for me, but i thought it looked like something worth reccing

[light gate]

At this point I don’t even expect anything for any platform.

Even Windows.

[gaunt marten]

Why is it kind of out of your league?

[wind stump]

Like I've tried FFIII and FFIV and I just can't really bring myself to play them, it's all a bit too old-school and vague for my brain, I can't really focus

[wind stump]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2206270/Vampire_Hunters/

Steam

Vampire Hunters

Shoot, stack – and slay!Vampire Hunters is a unique FPS that combines the adrenaline-pumping action of classic shooters with the innovative mechanics of the beloved Survivors-likes.Unleash your firepower as you stack up to 14 different weapons and craft absurd, impossibly awesome builds to mow down legions of vampires, demons, and other supernat...

Price

$11.24

Recommendations

420

▶ Play video

this looks interesting, Vampire Survivors meets Doom

[dire gate]

What's next, Vampire Killer?

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/878670/Shenmue_III/ 95% off

Steam

Shenmue III

"作为日本泰斗级游戏制作人铃木裕的代表作，《莎木》系列曾是游戏史上最具野心的项目之一，也被认为是现代开放世界游戏的奠基之作。该系列的灵感来自于铃木裕对中华武术与中国文化的喜爱，二十年前的一二两作发售后，也启迪了全球众多玩家对中华武术产生兴趣。

Price

$11.22

Recommendations

866

Metacritic

69

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Thanks, Discord

Is Shenmue 3 any good?

I used to watch my aunt play 1 and it seemed neat for the time. The dreamcast was pretty impressive

[visual hill]

Vulkan doesn't work that well on Windows, especially on Intel IGPs. It's better if presented via DXGI but still not ideal (all AAAs do this)

it works better than OpenGL, but still worse than D3D

[slim thorn]

is this a fundamental thing or "just" because Vulkan is newer?

[visual hill]

it's a fundamental issue, Vulkan does not have a way to do low-latency presentation without using the same presentation system used by D3D (DXGI)

NVIDIA even does DXGI layering automatically because of this, but it has to be enabled in the NVIDIA control panel

[young creek]

The dunkey video on it is one of his funniest so just watch that

[visual hill]

(AMD does it for select games but it's not configurable, Intel never does it)

[gaunt marten]

I find Dunkey difficult to watch

He's too funny for me.

[slim thorn]

weird, I thought this was exactly the sort of issue Vulkan was supposed to be solving

[visual hill]

in general, one recurring theme is that Intel's Vulkan support is subpar, like OpenGL

[slim thorn]

no surprise there

[visual hill]

so yeah, this ended up being a big reason to add D3D12 support in Godot (on top of making it easier to port to Xbox)

it will be interesting to see if AAAs keep using Vulkan, now that Stadia is no more

I would be very surprised for GTA VI, but what about Doom: The Dark Ages?

[light gate]

Isn't the PS5 using Vulkan?

[visual hill]

(remember that id Software is now Microsoft's property too)

[visual hill]

no, custom API

[light gate]

Oh wow.

[slim thorn]

is the "low-latency presentation" a concern for less graphically intense games, i.e. for indies would Vulkan make sense as a more cross-platform option? (or does the use of engines make this an irrelvant question / should I be asking how the engine decides what to use)

[light gate]

That's somehow even more harder to develop considering how Sony tends to be very picky.

[visual hill]

Switch is also custom, but it can run Vulkan and OpenGL ES 3.0 too. Licensed games can use Vulkan

[visual hill]

input lag always matters for user experience, no matter how demanding the game is. Even non-game applications benefit from lower lag

in terms of FPS, performance is usually the same on NVIDIA/AMD, but Intel can lag behind when using Vulkan

[slim thorn]

oh you meant input lag

aaaaand Moon Channel made a video on the Palworld suit, cool, that'll be the next hour of my life

[river veldt]

i can't wait for Dark Ages ☃️

[wind stump]

I'mma play SoTN

[gaunt marten]

Which version?

[wind stump]

PS1

I NEED that cheesy VAing

[fresh bane]

Dracula, die now and leave this world, you'll never belong here!

wait wrong version

[wind stump]

I think this looks good?

hehe whip goes brrrrt

[fresh bane]

Oh no, you're not playing it on a CRT! Your experience is ruined now! /s

[wind stump]

okay so there's an item in Streets of Rogue called the Cube of Lampey
i just picked up the Cube of Zoe

completely unrelated, i'm sure

well, shit, i broke the emulator, lmao

before i broke it tho
CUSTOMIZABLE UI IN A PS1 GAME

[slim thorn]

yeah that was wild when I found that option

[wind stump]

THIS GAME IS TWENTY SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS OLD WHAT

[slim thorn]

it's also super weird to me that these menus look basically the same as FF7's

[wind stump]

Konami fucking COOKED

[gaunt marten]

They are a similar color but FF7's menus are textured differently

[slim thorn]

of course these days if you were given that power, you'd probably just make some of the menus illegible

[fresh bane]

Is it really that impressive that there's custom UI? Didn't a lot of games especially RPGs have that option at the time?

[slim thorn]

it kinda goes both ways

in a sense these features were easier to offer because the UI is so much simpler that customization options are simpler to implement and less risky / likely to conflict with the design

it's also unclear how useful some of these features were; RGB is easy to implement, but when the menu backgrounds are all the same color, is there much value in it? it's not like it's helping colorblind people, and the text is white regardless

imo, this game is from an era when just getting a UI to function was hard enough they generally would stop there and focus on gameplay, and after this comes the era where UI itself gets fancy enough to be impressive by default, and then comes the level of UI customization combined with default fanciness that the customization itself qualifies as impressive

[gaunt marten]

I like it when menus are in my favorite color

[wind stump]

Oooh, Retroarch has Retro Achievements support

[slim thorn]

oh, I wasn't aware of that when I played some of this

(my favorite color is blue so...)

[fresh bane]

Wish more games had those custom options now though, although obviously a lot of UIs are designed with a specific style and aesthetic in mind (well, when they're not generic minimalism anyways)

I remember really wanting to change the UI color of Cyberpunk but it ended up actually being important to the game lol

[wind stump]

I'm probably not getting 100% because I've seen a few RA videos and some of the achievements are like, masochist mode (Collect 7 Emeralds in Emerald Hill, for instance)

for instance

[slim thorn]

isn't that most games?

[gaunt marten]

It's fortunate that you do because it's the most common favorite which guarantees a lot more people design with it in mind

[wind stump]

But like, more
like, playing through a stage without hitting left, stuff a player would NEVER DO

[slim thorn]

nice

[gaunt marten]

I maintain that good achievements exist to push players to do entertaining or enriching things that they would not otherwise do

(achievements that exist just as statistics for the developers are fine too)

[slim thorn]

like clicking on Door 430

[gaunt marten]

I don't remember what that was besides Stanley Parable

[slim thorn]

it's an elaborate joke around how overly easy some achievements are, where you do what the achievement says and then the narrator goes "okay that doesn't really seem like enough, maybe try clicking this other door instead" and escalates maybe 5-10 times until you've clicked half the random junk in the office

[gaunt marten]

Oh yeah

[wind stump]

two achievments so far
one for beating Dracula and one for... Accidentally activating the fire whip. again.

only problem i'm having so far is wolves turning into blocks

[slim thorn]

huh, I never had that problem

[wind stump]

i did fuck with a lot of settings

[slim thorn]

my RetroArch says I was playing it on the... "PCSX ReARMed" core? which I probably chose more or less at random

[wind stump]

hmmm, i'm not sure if i should play the game in 4:3 or 16:9

Ah, found a better solution, I just like, fucked around a bit and managed to make it fill the screen better. i would get like, a custom background for complete black bar removal but i have no idea how to do that, lmao

[slim thorn]

yeah it's not worth the effort unless you're likely to play this more than once

[wind stump]

well i figured out borders and there's a pretty cool one that reflects my inputs but ehhh it kinda takes away from the purity of it
I'll just deal

boss 1 down
with 4hp left

you telling me my fist is stronger than a damn sword

[slim thorn]

depends on your equipment

unfortunately fists have pitiful reach, which is what really matters for staying alive

[gaunt marten]

Dealing enough damage before the enemy can act is sufficient

[slim thorn]

well, yes, but it's rare you can do that until late game backtracks

[gaunt marten]

I love glass cannon builds so I usually maximize my attack and see how soon I can reach that

Like in Paper Mario today where Bowser took 14, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7...

[slim thorn]

in this particular game I think there's little you can do to make a "build" like that, most items you just equip if they're better and that's kinda it

[gaunt marten]

If I recall correctly, fists are the glass cannon weapon in symphony of the night, but you can't kill enemies before they act, so you'll have to learn how to dodge

Fist style weapons have pretty good DPS to compensate for their reach being low

[slim thorn]

unfortunately dodge doesn't work until the attack animation is completely finished (and has no i-frames I think?, and is shorter than many enemy attacks...), so most of the time it's not even an option for avoiding damage, and only getting a longer weapon allows you to do any damage without taking some

it's one of those stat tradeoffs that looks good on paper but doesn't work at all once you're playing

(for a casual first playthrough anyway, I'm sure people have found ways to get a weird selection of equipment early that makes it somehow viable)

[wind stump]

shiet.

[visual hill]

reminds me how Gran Turismo 1 has a FOV slider option (well, 3 options called Narrow/Normal/Wide)... for a PS1 game released in late 1997

wide FOV helps a lot with the sense of speed, since GT is a series that struggles with the sense of speed in general

GT4 has hidden FOV options too in its Secret menu

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/4547038620960934856?l=english

Valve now requires kernel-level anticheat to be marked, and allows for other anticheat to be described in the game page

With this feedback in mind, we've added a new field in the 'Edit Store Page' section where developers can indicate any anti-cheat software that is installed with the game. Once filled out, this data will be displayed to users on the game's Steam Store page.```

[bitter stream]

that's good to hear

I remember seeing something about Kernel access for anti-cheats being closed off at some point, has there been any movement on that front?

[gaunt marten]

That's something Microsoft needs to enforce

[visual hill]

yaaay

[gaunt marten]

They don't mind kernel level anticheat but they do mind when it breaks other things

[visual hill]

I think people misunderstood recent news following the CrowdStrike debacle

but Microsoft doesn't intend to block off kernel AC

(I wish they did, though - the upsides of kernel AC are not worth the downsides)

[bitter stream]

oh. that's a shame

[gaunt marten]

They're planning to make kernel access less necessary

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242947/microsoft-windows-security-kernel-access-features-crowdstrike

[bitter stream]

right, but I imagine it's not easy to develop and rollout something like that as described in the article

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/nintendoamerica/status/1851747457853440212?s=46

[gaunt marten]

Very exciting

Maybe one day they'll let us buy DRM-free music

[visual hill]

this is eligible for a "lol" response

remember the YouTubers that received takedowns, only for this to happen...

reminds me of GTA Definitive Trilogy in a way 🙂

[rotund forge]

using gusty garden galaxy at the end is both genius and criminal

[dire gate]

I mean they do own the musics

[river veldt]

i really hope they keep using NSO for the next console especially if it's on the horizon because otherwise this music app might be obsolete

[fickle garnet]

I hope they don't because you shouldnt need to pay to play online

[plain harbor]

So after a few more hours of playing Star Ocean: The Divine Force, I have determined that the game was definitely rushed out, even though there were 3-4 years between it and the last mainline game and a couple remakes. It's easy to see that animations were reused (which is fine, but more animations could have been created for characters and NPCs), they obviously went with first takes for some line reads. Some character designs and details needed more work, and there's a fair amount of clipping that could have easily been avoided. There are a few other problems, and I like the game well enough, sure, but I expect more from Square Enix and Tri-Ace. They usually do much more quality work.

[fresh bane]

Saw quite a bit of Supermassive Games' last game
Wow that was terrible three whole entire hours of absolutely nothing at all, kind of insane that Until Dawn was their only good game

[plain harbor]

Okay, The Divine Force just went up a point for not only directly referencing the star ship of Star Ocean: The Last Hope, the Calnus, but showing that main pairing of The Last Hope is totally canon and they totally had a kid because one of the people I'm looking at right now (not playable) is a descendant of the family (same last name as the male protag of The Last Hope), captaining a ship with the same name of The Last Hope's ship. This admiral is continuing his grandparents' (or great grandparents', the game doesn't specify how long it's been since the end of The Last Hope, but by my estimate, it's been at least two generations) legacy! I'm so proud.

[green fulcrum]

Hogwarts Legacy is on sale if anyone wants it:

[random steppe]

Listen, I made the mistake to get Space Age
I will be busy for a while

No time for whimsy, the factory must grow

[uneven epoch]

yeah the spice trade takes a while

... oh wait, you probably dont mean spore huh

[gaunt marten]

Factorio

[robust latch]

its kinda amusing thanks to dune how many games made use 'spice' as a currency/needed item/trade material

[gaunt marten]

The British empire too

[arctic fern]

oof

we used opium too

[robust latch]

the spiciest spice

[gaunt marten]

I'm talking specifically about imperialism with the primary purpose of securing spice routes

[arctic fern]

oh sure

im not disagreeing with you, just having a joke at my own country's expense

[random steppe]

Knowing the author no doubt that was on purpose in Dune

Around Spice on one single planet literal galaxy wide wars are fought in the books

(mostly off screen)

And a lot of assassination plots

(mostly on screen)

A major plot point is the attempt of like, a bunch of different factions, to trasplant the worms and the spice cycle on different planets, so they have to stop relying on one goddamn planet and whoever controls it becomes like, the fucking emperor of everything.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[wind stump]

vampire survivors is the only game where amongus can kill big fuzz from contra

[astral steeple]

https://x.com/FallGuysGame/status/1852032909315572100

Fall(oween) Guys (@FallGuysGame) on X

📰

Twitter · Oct 31, 2024, 5:00 PM

[quartz pawn]

Speaking of which, I get paid tomorrow and I'm totally getting the Castlevania update.

[wind stump]

there is something viscerally satisfying about fisting lamps

[wind stump]

"oi bruv gimmie ur fukkin quazers"

[wind stump]

she's signing "love", lmao

[worldly summit]

I prefer the free minecraft map :P https://youtu.be/tVVnw6LNtaI

[wind stump]

potemkin moment

[light gate]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/31/24284644/apex-legends-loses-linux-steam-deck-support-anti-cheat

Essentially they can’t trust any Linux device because it can be clearly modified without the Anti Cheat knowing. Runs blind when you don’t have a secure way to verify that the player is cheating.

So yeah, either the Linux community decides to create an open solution which I doubt… or Valve implements a SteamOS anticheat system that can’t be bypassed.

[visual hill]

ah shit, here we go again

[fresh bane]

Just saying if you wanna fight sometime I'm down, if I'm free at the time obviously

https://tenor.com/view/sol-badguy-guilty-gear-guilty-gear-strive-thumbs-up-thumb-gif-25897601

[quiet swift]

some good games for this round of free with prime

[astral steeple]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4K4uVFkr0&pp=ygUGR2xvdmVy

BRO

[wind stump]

what do you here

lmao
so this dude was railing me until i realised i could exploit his ai by baiting him to jump then throwing an axe

potemkin brain moment

dunno how i did it but idid the dracula fireball thing

oh it's literally in the menu

so here i am, shanking a giant skull ghost with a tiny ass knife, backed into a corner with one hit from death

ah, this is Castlevania at it's finest.

[visual hill]

this is very likely to be emulation and not an actual port, it'll probably run and handle like ass given the trailer

it does have widescreen support with non-stretched HUD, so they likely modded the ROM to achieve this (like OnlineCTR did for Crash Team Racing). Texture replacements for button prompts look very high resolution so it's probably not ROM modding, but some kind of custom texture replacement implemented in the emulator

[wind stump]

"Hey, old man, help me."
"I can't go against the Master."
"I'll pay you."
"FUCK DRACULA ALRIGHT YOU GOTTA DEAL!"

[slim thorn]

yeah, half the bosses basically require AI manip to be playable, it's super weird

[wind stump]

yknow
after the 5th time losing half an hour plus of progress because healing is scarcer than toilet paper in 2020, it is kinda noticable why this game doesn't really get talked about so much

[slim thorn]

well, yeah, there's a reason I dropped it lol

at least the health/saves/etc can be worked around with save states (is it just me, or do 70% of old-enough-to-emulate games basically require save states to stay playable by modern standards?)

[wind stump]

it's kinda like Mario 64 or OoT where I'm trying to be gentle but god some choices are just painful

[slim thorn]

but there isn't a fix for the combat being just not fun, and the exploration becoming a drag once the castle's big enough and your movement never speeds up

[visual hill]

help us, Obi SoTN decompilation

[slim thorn]

I thought Mario 64 aged super well actually, what caused problems there?

[visual hill]

it's not just you, people had more time to waste on retrying things or waiting for animations back then

I think people are just far more busy nowadays, regardless of age

[visual hill]

it aged quite well in vanilla form, but the decompilation helps a lot with QoL features (especially for the camera)

the vanilla camera is just OK by today's standards, although it was amazing back then

[wind stump]

plus for every piece of jank, there is something genuinely charming

like the bible subweapon just YEETING itself off screen

that's just fucking funny

[slim thorn]

only being able to carry one subweapon really hamstrings the whole system though

it's interesting because I played Rondo of Blood first, so SotN feels like they basically copy-pasted the RoB combat into a metroidvania format, and half of these issues are a direct result of that; e.g. only one subweapon at a time makes way more sense in linear arcade levels you're supposed to replay several times to get good at (heck RoB often put a choice of subweapons in front of each boss room)

I should probably still try Aria of Sorrow at some point to see if it got better

though in general it just seems like the metroid side of metroidvanias has always had way better combat

[wind stump]

i killed an enemy that was taking 2 damage at most for a fucking post roast?

[slim thorn]

I guess that makes sense, maybe starting in the PS2 era just got me used to doing "semi-manual" camera control; I feel like every time Mario 64's camera got weird I just started using the camera reset button and then it was fine

[wind stump]

AH RIGHT OF COURSE. WATER KILLS YOU.

you know, Aria at least had the deceny to not do that.

and you know, not surround the area with enemies
and tiny platforms
and death water in a game with very limited healing options.

god and I gave Bloodstained shit

[slim thorn]

oh I will be very annoyed if the Bloodstaineds are also this clunky

[wind stump]

don't get me wrong, not a flawless game (I still think Aria and Rabi-Ribi are peak for Metroidvania don't fucking @ me) but like

This game needs a remake from the ground up.

[slim thorn]

that's interesting because Rabi-Ribi is another one that bored me until I kinda dropped it

[wind stump]

sighs and boots up Rabi-Ribi for the infinityth time

[slim thorn]

boots up Nine Sols

[wind stump]

it's a game that wears it's heart (and the horny) on it's sleeve, i've grown to appreciate that kind of honesty

plus you know
cute bunni

[slim thorn]

I'm not sure any of my favorites are less "honest"... do you mean you like it more for the overall vibes than any of the mechanical design?

[wind stump]

Yeah, the Touhou-type boss fights don't hurt and you know, "honesty" is just a vibes sorta thing at the end of it

Self-aware of how silly it is

[slim thorn]

maybe "simple and cozy"?

[wind stump]

also works

[slim thorn]

I guess Ori is the closest I get to that

[wind stump]

ahhh listening to the title theme gives me the fuzzies

wait my protagonist looks different

okay game, i'll stop trying to be cheeky (for now)

[bold sonnet]

Yesterday I had problems with Xbox but I "fixed" it for time being. But I didn't know that in the process emulators will be deleted so today I'm going to try to put them back. I really don't want to because it's a drag and a lot of watching YouTube, using PC and logging to things but I have to because they should be there. Especially now that game preservation and emulation are in danger

[fickle garnet]

I almost have my first gold camo in BO6

I never got a single gold camo in MW3(2). I much prefer BO6

[fickle garnet]

I got the gold camo in BO6

[bold sonnet]

What is gold camo?

[fickle garnet]

Its a cosmetic you can put on your weapons in cod. You have to do a bunch of challenges with each weapon to get it

Also i got Dragon Age: The Veilguard

I only paid $7.99 for it cuz i had a bunch of trade in credit at gamestop

[wind stump]

NOW THIS IS A CROSSOVER

[cerulean herald]

touhou rabbit girl

[sour hill]

Good luck

[bronze abyss]

what when where huh

[wind stump]

mods

[bold sonnet]

⌨️🖥️

[sour hill]

That bad, huh?

[bold sonnet]

We're making progress but it's so much thinking and doing

[sour hill]

You can do it, soldier

[sour hill]

Oh let's fucking go

[bold sonnet]

Good news PS2 is working. Bad news.. saves are gone

[sour hill]

Well, you could probably get back to where you were pretty quick

relatively

I thought the saves were on the flash drive? Can you not copy them over?

[bold sonnet]

I gave the same direction of save files as before and memory card too, but I think the issue may be it's newer version of XBSX2

[sour hill]

weird

[bold sonnet]

My plan is to watch YouTube video of play through and just run until I get to hospital

Oh yeah wait no, technically memory card was on internal drive and got wiped

[quiet swift]

Oh hey, even more stuff free with prime:

[bold sonnet]

But it's no problem! I'll follow up in no time 💖 Most important is it works

[tawny jacinth]

https://vxtwitter.com/ossyflawol/status/1852505960268652840

Portal fans have managed to narrow down the specific cancellation date of F-Stop to somewhere between Oct 22-27, 2008

[bold sonnet]

Guys are you playing this new mobile Pokémon card packs opening game? It was released like yesterday or today

I found this one in one of my packs I never seen it before 🤍

[little badger]

@bold sonnet @fickle garnet one of my best plays from earlier

[bitter stream]

adorable pokemon!

[little badger]

Evening Reina

[bitter stream]

hey blade! nice multi-kill

[fickle garnet]

I haven't gotten the best play at all yet

Ive had really good plays, but not good enough ig

[little badger]

Another about 10 minutes ago

[bitter stream]

yeah no stress sillysnepp, good luck on your matches

[little badger]

You’ll get one

What you been playing Reina

[fickle garnet]

How💀

I am not nearly that good

[little badger]

Even if you get a double or triple they still count

[fickle garnet]

I know

[cerulean herald]

pro mlg

[fickle garnet]

I have over 50 double kills

I wanna try to get the diamond camo for assault rifles at least

Its gonna take a bit cuz im bad at getting headshots

[little badger]

I almost have the XM4 gold

[fickle garnet]

I have the XM4 gold

I got it yesterday

[little badger]

Nice.

I’m working on the MP5 as well

[fickle garnet]

Also i was trying to do the Liberty Falls easter egg, but i have not been able to. Im not great at zombies

[little badger]

What round do you usually get to?

[fickle garnet]

Ive been able to get to around 20 alone. My highest was 31 when i played with randoms

[toxic seal]

I got to round 10 or 11 on Liberty Falls solo

[little badger]

20 is good.

Back in the day of world at war the devs wouldn’t get past like 15

[fickle garnet]

I got to round 100 in Cold War with a friend

[little badger]

They recently changed the cap from 256 to 999 since people are already getting high rounds on BO6

[fickle garnet]

Holy shit

[little badger]

Yup

[fickle garnet]

Im almost prestige one

[little badger]

I’m almost 3

[fickle garnet]

💀

[little badger]

The seasonal challenges should be the same as Cold War

[fickle garnet]

I dont remember what they were

[little badger]

There were 20 challenges each for multiplayer and zombies per season. and if you did either you’d get a season mastery calling card.

[fickle garnet]

Oh i forgor

i wish i could play BO6 on my pc but i cant

[little badger]

How come?

[fickle garnet]

gamepass is on my dads account so i cant play cod on my pc

[little badger]

Ah.

[toxic seal]

I play on my PC with GamePass. Rare take but I honestly think the 20/mo I pay for it is worth it. I've played games I otherwise wouldn't want to buy and games I have wanted to buy I've played the shit out of

It's actually making me want an Xbox so I have access to the full library

[little badger]

I normally play on PlayStation but if I like a game on gamepass and it’s a good offer I buy the game so it doesn’t go away if it leaves gamepass.

[dire gate]

Peak Vampire Survivors

You can't even see

[fickle garnet]

Vampeak survivors

[quiet swift]

Angelic choir intensifies

[toxic seal]

That reminds me the next HoloCure update comes out this month

Do you like Vampire Survivors but you're also a fucking weeb!? HoloCure

[river veldt]

i need to get the Among Us expansion

[cerulean herald]

as someone with 172 hours on HoloCure, I too give it a recommendation

[toxic seal]

Steam reports I have 31 hours but it is not counting all that I put in before it came to Steam

[fickle garnet]

I have it on ipad

Cuz it was free

[bitter stream]

holo cure is awesome aye

[bold sonnet]

Wait it just occurred to me how much cooler Hogwarts game would be if you could say to microphone or kinect names of the spells you want to cast instead of scrolling through slots and pressing buttons

Could be done same way like with shouts in Skyrim

[gaunt marten]

It would be cooler but

It would be harder to make, and you cannot play the game without annoying nearby people

[bold sonnet]

Just like an additional option

[wind stump]

wait wha-

i suppose this is a solution to the "issue" of streaming Nintendo music but...

spotify exists?

[gaunt marten]

Spotify doesn't support artists much compared to buying the music. Then again, neither does Nintendo

[wind stump]

also

calling Jump Up Superstar a "classic"
I'M AGING

[gaunt marten]

It is six years old

[young creek]

7

[wind stump]

i said this as a joke but i am genuinely considering it now, i thik there's something wrong with me

poor life choices, hoooo

[bitter stream]

well, there are many reasons to enjoy a harder difficulty, have fun and remember you can always start at a lower difficulty if it turns out to be not fun

[wind stump]

and there's one big reason this is a bad idea

oh and i never beat the game above Novice (The difficulty BELOW) Normal)

[bitter stream]

huh, interesting

why the jump to hard then?

[wind stump]

Well my first playthrough was on Normal and since then I've grown a lot more accustomed to the game and picked up a few tricks, so I feel like I can make the jump without the training wheels

plus the idea of the bosses having new patterns rather than just straight "take more damage" will test me in new and exciting ways- oh god i really have become a masochist

still a better time than Symphony of the Night

[bitter stream]

is Symphony of the Night that bad?

I know it has "early castlevania jank" but people seem to like it

I suppose the newer DS/3ds titles were better made versions of the same thing

[wind stump]

Yeah, there's a lot of weirdness to it that ultimately turned me off, especially losing progress multiple times because of a lack of healing

and i could save state scum but honestly at that point it just feels not worth it

at least if I die in Rabi-Ribi, i can just jump back in for another attempt

There's no loss of momentum and you can go "Okay so I can try this" without much issue

[bitter stream]

hmm

I can see why that design would be spiky.

[wind stump]

or i guess you could say
hop

because rabbits- okay bad pun

[slim thorn]

In my case, SotN just bored me, even after I was using save states to avoid constantly redoing stuff. The castle/map design's pretty neat, but the movement and combat is just bad by any modern standard, essentially forcing you to cheese every fight since nothing else would work, so playing through it doesn't stay fun for long.

[bitter stream]

ahh ok, that's good to kn ow

Like Dark Souls 1 for me then i guess

[slim thorn]

it is really hard to tell when a game is getting praise for being influential and innovative rather than for being fun even compared to later entries in the genre

somehow the Metroids are way better at this; I always say Super Metroid is not as good as the later entries, but the margin is so small that I'd still recommend anyone who's played some of Fusion, ZM, Dread, and the Primes still try Super at least once if only for variety

also Link to the Past, that's still a top-tier 2D Zelda (especially if you use save states), the gap between it and Link Between Worlds is so small

[bitter stream]

fair fair

[wind stump]

the big question is how far am i going to get before i hit a wall and give up, lmao
i'm betting somewhere between the end of the main game and the start of the post-game DLC

[bitter stream]

that seems to be a point where you'll have had plenty of fun already

so not so bad

[wind stump]

well, post-post game?
because while you do "finish" the game after 10 bosses, to get the true ending you need to fight every boss

[slim thorn]

I have no idea how to categorize Dark Souls because I know a lot of people genuinely believe it's more fun for them than everything else in the genre, but for me personally it was one of the worst experiences I've ever had with a video game (not even hyperbole), and yet also several of my all-time favorites draw heavily on mechanics it popularized, so... wtf lol

[wind stump]

(Which thankfully does NOT include any of the superbosses)

[bitter stream]

yeah understandable regarding DS1. I'm really glad I gave Elden Ring a shot though

DS1 had sort of primed me to think i'd hate it

but Elden Ring is so so much better

I'm like 60 hours in and I've still not beat it

[gaunt marten]

DS3 is my favorite because of how floaty and fast yet precise the combat is

(I've not played Elden Rings)

[slim thorn]

Elden Ring I've been watching someone else play. I think if I did it myself I'd have mixed feelings since it does appear to fix most of what DS1 did wrong for me, but it's also the kind of open world that for me just dilutes everything and/or effectively requiers a walkthrough so I'd never get that into it compared to my favorite games.

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough Flitter.

Why would it require a walkthrough? I feel like that would ruin the experience somewhat.

[gaunt marten]

DS3 is super linear and it does require a walkthrough unless you're willing to explore and experiment a lot more than a normal game

[slim thorn]

I mean, it does, I'm saying that as a bad thing lol

part of my problem with DS1 was that despite putting in all the effort the game demanded it was thoroughly impossible to make any progress without walkthroughs after the first area or two

ER I'd probably get much farther in and maybe even find an ending without getting hard stuck, but there's still a ton of content I'd miss without a walkthrough

[bitter stream]

You don't need to see all the content though? there's so much in it it seems that you could happily miss much (like I'm sure I have) and have a great time.

[slim thorn]

hm

[wind stump]

One down... 25 to go

[slim thorn]

I guess the short answer is that "require" might've been too strong a word, this is more a matter of degrees

but, again hypothetically since I'm just watching someone else play it, I'm pretty sure I would enjoy ER a lot less if we were playing it strictly blind and missing most of the missable content

[bitter stream]

[slim thorn]

it's not a hard blocker the way it was in DS1 despite people pretending it's not

but a lot of the most interesting stuff in ER is easily missable, especially if you have any interest in trying to make heads or tails of the lore

[bitter stream]

yeah, I suppose this is a difference in approaches here

[wind stump]

My goal is 24, actually.
If I'm mathing correctly, that should be enough to beat the true final non-DLC boss because as much as i like the dlc thematically, it is not a fun dlc

[slim thorn]

to the point that I'm pretty sure if I was playing it myself, I would enjoy it more with a walkthrough and seeing everything, than I would trying to do it all blind

there are other games where trying to find everything for myself is the better way to play, mostly because it is feasible to find most if not all of the interesting content on your own, sometimes it takes effort but there's at least a fun middle ground between pixel hunting and googling, like if the in-game map clearly shows every area you haven't been to or which areas have a missed collectible and so on

like most metroidvanias and some zeldas

[wind stump]

(I'll probably try the super optional Halloween DLC because Mischevious Masqurade is a banger track.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WHsypJfmm0

[bitter stream]

Hmm, I guess you come at games from a different angle than I do. I'm sort of ambivalent on trying to grab everything in a game, or wringing it dry for content. I just play for whatever experience I get , and if that's fun, I might go for a second playthrough.

[slim thorn]

and yes I'm very aware that the ER style of open world is optimal for other kinds of players, especially if you're more about getting immersed in a world, or more spontaneous in your exploration than me trying to tick every checkbox on some list

which is why my original comment was phrased as "the kind of open world that for me ..."

hm, ok that makes me think I gave the wrong impression

[bitter stream]

Sure, but i'm trying to understand, not just bounce off your comment

[slim thorn]

there are plenty of games I don't 100% because some of those %s aren't the kind of thing I feel like doing and that's fine, especially when it's obvious upfront so I can simply choose to stop there

(e.g. I never got max% in Hollow Knight because I hit a hard skill ceiling in the post-post-game bosses; that's not a flaw with the game, DLC-only optional bosses should get to a point where not everyone can beat them, when you're adding literally dozens of them lol)

like with ER, even with a walkthrough, I would not be picking every single glovewort on the map, just like I didn't try for every single korok seed in BotW/TotK

with ER, I'm talking about things like:

• nearly half of the game world being dangerously easy to never discover if you never look at a guide or a full map
• most of the story/lore/world-building being easily missable or in sidequests, especially sidequests you can easily lock yourself out of by simply going to places in the wrong order, so without a guide the overall story for me would've been "that was pretty but I still have no idea what anyone's talking about"

it's very, very different from skipping an optional challenge level because I feel done with a game

now, again, I get that for some players these exact aspects are appealing for exactly the same reasons I find them unappealing, that's fine, no one's gonna like everything, this is just what doesn't work for me

[bitter stream]

right, I guess I don't empathise, but i do understand.

[river veldt]

idk if it counts as 100 percenting but i always get all the secrets/weapon upgrades/suit upgrades in Doom Eternal when doing a new playthrough

[slim thorn]

I think that's close to what I went for when I played the two modern Dooms

[bitter stream]

ooh I need to get back on Doom 2016

I got half way through

and then, put it down lol

[river veldt]

i haven't gotten all the achievements but that's mostly because i don't ever play Battlemode

[river veldt]

yes

[bitter stream]

is that the PvP mode?

[river veldt]

i should probablt replay 2016 too

[river veldt]

ye

it's cool i just don't really like multiplayer usually

[bitter stream]

understandable

I better get some food, but nice chatting with y'all

[slim thorn]

yeah, even the fact that I can get this specific and nitpicky is because we have such a wide range of games to choose from, and nowhere near enough time to play them all; this is less "I wouldn't like ER" and more "I'd rather try X, Y, Z instead of ER since I'm pretty sure I already know what my thoughts on ER would be"

(of course what I'd really like is quick saves for Sekiro, then I'd try that again in a heartbeat)

[bitter stream]

From soft: "no no no, just suffer if you want to play Sekiro lmao"

[slim thorn]

"but video games are supposed to be fun" except when they're art I guess

[bitter stream]

hmm, given how popular horror games are, I guess "fun" is an umbrella stretched wide.

[slim thorn]

funny you should mention that

I see "horror games" as a spectrum from:

• games that are fun in the usual way, but also have a strong element of psychological tension, where part of the challenge is trying to remain calm when the game is doing everything in its power to make you panic
• games that are trying to tell a story or evoke a feeling or do one of those other abstract goals that makes us call it "art" (about some uncomfortable horror-y topic), and gameplay is either a secondary consideration, or designed very specifically to facilitate that story/feeling/etc rather than to be intrinsically fun

[bitter stream]

ah, like what i've heard of 1000XResist

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/

Steam

1000xRESIST

The three time IGF award nominated 1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. 1000 years in the future, humanity is all but extinguished and a disease spread by an alien occupation keeps the survivors underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in service of the ALLMOTHER, until the day you learn a shocking secret that chan...

Price

$15.99

Recommendations

1344

Metacritic

85

▶ Play video

link for reference

[wind stump]

there's a specific Atlus quote I want to cite but I think it might be too risque
Needless to say it is related to Dark Souls

[slim thorn]

never heard of it

[bitter stream]

definitely on the art side of things

I've n ot played it myself

but I'm considering picking it up while it's on sale

oh? that's inteeresting hc

DM me it?

[slim thorn]

ok this looks like my kind of thing

but to finish that thought

"survival horror" games in my mind are ones that have the good gameplay with tension aspect, but it's not strictly just that bullet point since some of them also have exceptional stories, it ends up being more a matter of emphasis

Dead Space is my go-to example of the tense gameplay being the main draw. IMO the story in the original is pretty solid, but like most games that are "about the gameplay", there are long stretches where simply nothing story-related happens. It's also the kind of game I'd probably enjoy replaying on a higher difficulty (if I didn't have fifty thousand other things to play).

Silent Hill 2 is my go-to example of the other extreme. The mechanics of a survival horror game are technically all there too, but the appeal is entirely about the story, the symbolism, the haunting atmosphere. It's never about challenge or gameplay for me; when I revisit SH2 it's to try and unearth yet another layer of subtextual meaning in the many unspeakable things that happened.

[bitter stream]

ahh yeah, i can see what you mean

[slim thorn]

imo most Resident Evils are also on the gameplay side of the spectrum, but it can vary (7 especially had some pretty high highs for the story)

and Signalis I'd place close to SH2, but not quite on the extreme end of the spectrum since it has significantly more and imo better gameplay / encounters than SH2 did (not that this makes either game better, imo they're both god-tier, this is just a slight difference in emphasis)

[bitter stream]

yeah fair

Signalis is on my "consideration list" atm too

It looks so stylish and good

but I'm terrible at enjoying horror games haha

[slim thorn]

yeah, at least for me artsy/feels/vibes games are best slept on until you're in the optimal mood to appreciate them

great horror stories can be an especially... I'm gonna say specific mood

[bitter stream]

yeahhh

If you do pick up 1000XResist I hope you enjoy it!
I"m gonna get some breakfast h aha, take care.

[visual hill]

if you need Doom 2016 multiplayer achievements, we could try getting them

same for Eternal

it's not like I ever touched MP in those games

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/rnsaUOvp6to?si=GuOxkUr2-UY9qZ9s

I'm very curious to know if they have plans for a Blood Omen remaster and/or a Defiance remaster after these

but hey, it actually happened, coming out in just a few weeks now awesome

[robust latch]

https://pony.social/@inex/113421622229316068

[bitter stream]

what do these words mean?

is this like, computer craft or something?

[rugged flax]

Probably
There's some Minecraft factory mods that get VERY technical and complicated very quickly

[hidden gyro]

Anyone wasnnnaa friend me on mlp game

Code 20ad9

Sillays

[rugged flax]

wake up bitches new Russian Badger
https://youtu.be/6OKNUuwGPlA

[green fulcrum]

Gonna watch this when I get back from work tomorrow

[slim thorn]

I think it’s way beyond mods: Grafana is a framework I use at my day job for interactive charts and dashboards of time series metrics. Dunno the other one.

[gaunt marten]

https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/20659-minecraft-modded-1-20-1-forge/

There is also one for Factorio, plus a mod that allows Factorio to import resources from arbitrary sources including Minecraft

[visual hill]

Prometheus is a program you can host on a server to collect metrics, and Grafana displays those metrics. It's typically used for monitoring a server, e.g. your app can have Prometheus integration to report the number of actions made on a specific date. For example, a Minecraft server can use this to display a graph of how many players it has at a given point.

It's called a time-series database and can technically host any data that can be tracked over time

[wind stump]

is that fucking Sanae to the left-

[wind stump]

i think i'm getting distracted too much

[fickle garnet]

@little badger i got the best play in BO6 finally

[little badger]

https://x.com/wario64/status/1853498147139707045?

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

Celebrating 20 Years of Halo 2: Developers Discuss Rebuilding Classic Maps and the Iconic Halo 2 E3 Demo https://t.co/qbb1kVhDDX

"a fully playable version of the iconic Halo 2 demo shown at E3 2003, featuring gameplay that didn’t make it into the final version of the game, will

Twitter · Nov 4, 2024, 6:02 PM

[fickle garnet]

Also i just realized that this is my second best play, because the achievement for getting 3 best plays was at 66% after i got it

[hasty patio]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1158310/announcements/detail/4517765223386178180?snr=2___

[bitter stream]

Ah ok! thank you! So that's some fairly advanced stuff.

[teal sonnet]

League of legends always cooks so hard on their opening ceremony for worlds

https://youtu.be/R8OqqaBwcl8

this was fucking amazing

[little badger]

I got that last night

[fickle garnet]

I just got it today. I got another best play in my last game

Didn't get a clip cuz i accidentally took a screenshot instead of a clip

I almost have gold camo for the AK-74 in BO6

[little badger]

Nice.

[dire gate]

Bad, ass MV
Badass live

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/dragon-age-boss-says-a-legendary-edition-style-remaster-of-the-old-games-in-the-series-is-unlikely-because-theres-maybe-20-people-left-at-bioware-who-know-how-their-engine-works/

[random steppe]

lol

[quiet swift]

So, remake instead of remaster you fools

[random steppe]

A remaster would have been good because having played Origins not too long ago, I can confidently say it's a piece of shit of a software

[quiet swift]

[uneven epoch]

4gb patch mod makin it barely playable instead of unplayable

shakes fist denerim crasheeeees

[craggy vine]

Peak tripple A gaming from rockstar: Release a 14 year old game that can't launch because their launcher is broken and can't open, and get constant errors telling you to reinstall the game, despite just downloading it and not being able to open the game yet.

How do they not even release a 14 year old game right

And from what I have seen online, they for some reason saw a reason to add frame generation and DLSS when there is basically no visual improvement other then some sliders being turned up.

Can it just please be released like it is a game from 2010

Why does it need frame generation, are they expecting people to want to run it at 1000 fps

I'm probably going to refund RDR on steam until this is fixed, if it is ever fixed. I can't open the game. I just reinstalled the launcher and it still can't open, it just crashes.

The fucking fix for it is not to reinstall the launcher, but to try and delete every file of the launcher you can and then edit stuff in the registry

I don't even know if I should try it. I'm tempted to just refund RDR1, and probably RDR2 as well if I can because now I can't open either game

[visual hill]

having DLSS is good because it finally adds a form of TAA to the game (which the PS5 version also has)

old games not having TAA is the bane of my existence, I need to run them at 8K to get rid of aliasing, which is wasteful

[craggy vine]

I don't like TAA. Give me MSAA 8x in the game.

I fucking love MSAA

[visual hill]

some games only have TAA in their Switch ports of all things (Metro 2033/Last Light, Alien Isolation), the PC versions never got those in updates

[craggy vine]

Doesn't TAA generally make things look blurry though?

[visual hill]

it makes the image a bit blurrier, but so much more stable

[craggy vine]

MSAA also makes it much more stable

[visual hill]

it's the thing that makes a game look less like a game, and more like an offline render

but MSAA doesn't help on specular aliasing 🙂 or anything that's caused by a shader, not geometry

[craggy vine]

MSAA also does that

[visual hill]

which is where most of the aliasing comes from nowadays, especially in modern games

[craggy vine]

What is specular aliasing?

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG8w9Yg5B3g

[craggy vine]

hmm okayy

I don't feel like watching a whole video on it at the moment

[visual hill]

keep it for later 🙂

[craggy vine]

I just wanted to be playing red dead redemption undead nightmare but modern tripple A gaming is fucked

I actually full on miss the days of putting a disc into the PC, having it install, and just playing it.

Hell even the earlier days of downloading

Now I apparently have to fucking do registry editing just to get a game from 2010 to open because of a broken launcher

[visual hill]

frame generation is also good to have in this kind of game, because physics get weird at high FPS (it's why the game is capped at 144 FPS)

so for users with monitors faster than 144 Hz, this gives them a good option that doesn't impact gameplay negatively

[craggy vine]

Aah that makes sense then yeah

Frame generation at a high fps like that is nice at least

Omg now the rockstar launcher is suddenly doing an update

Probably wasn't working because there was an update it wasn't downloading

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEtX_Z7zZSY I will show this video though. I haven't seen that video there from digital foundry, but this is one I have seen about TAA.

[visual hill]

I had an issue with RGL a few months ago, I lost access to my email address

I contacted Rockstar support about it and it took a few days, but we sorted it out

[visual hill]

oh no, the /r/FuckTAA crowd...

there is a reason that subreddit gets memed

[craggy vine]

It gets memed for people hating blurryness in their games?

[visual hill]

no, because people often use mods to turn off TAA (perhaps inject SMAA later on) then complain that everything is noisy

(since modern games are not designed around not having any antialiasing... except Nintendo games)

[craggy vine]

Well yeah. I mean any game without any anti aliasing at all will be shitty.

I'm still all for MSAA. It worked so amazing in old games.

But I do also play old games a lot more then modern games.

[visual hill]

MSAA became less and less effective, while remaining as costly (or becoming even costlier) in modern games, since so many things are shader-based now

[craggy vine]

I see

Maybe if modern games had MSAA I would realize this, but no modern games have it.

[visual hill]

the few modern games that feature MSAA generally have simpler visuals, which is why it works well for them

CS2 is the main example, but also Trackmania (only on low/medium shader quality... high/very high use TAA instead. See the pattern? :P)

[craggy vine]

I just see old games like l4d2, where you could go to 720p and then 8x msaa and it looks great despite being a bit blurry. I think Life is Strange goes to 16x msaa if I remember right as well.

[gaunt marten]

MSAA is not in modern games because of how expensive it is. You can see similar results by simply running the game at a higher resolution then downscaling

[craggy vine]

For RDR2, I played it with TAA at 720p, but because it looks so damn blurry at that resolution with TAA I had to use the maximum sharpening setting, but then that can make some bushery look kinda fucky

[craggy vine]

I'm fine with expensive settings. Older games were fine with it, with all the old hardware we had.

[visual hill]

there is one modern game that features an enhanced MSAA option known as SGSSAA, it's one of Durante's ports

well, two games since recently with the release of Ys Nordics on PC

but SGSSAA is still quite expensive, it's a hardware-guided form of supersampling

[gaunt marten]

If you're fine with expensive settings then don't play at 720p

[craggy vine]

I probably could have gone up from 720p a little. But I am playing with integrated graphics.

[gaunt marten]

Well if you can't afford the expensive settings are you really fine with expensive settings?

[craggy vine]

I'm pretty sure 2x msaa would have been fine

[visual hill]

low settings + high textures is often the way to go on modern games when using an IGP. You can't really afford MSAA, it is very expensive on IGPs due to their limited memory bandwidth

[gaunt marten]

Resolution is the the most straightforward form of preventing aliasing, and ideally you should be running at the monitor's exact resolution

[craggy vine]

I generally play games at 720p and then use RSR or FSR to upscale to 1080p. It just gives a little more performance and more battery life sometimes too.

[visual hill]

I keep getting surprised at how good Talos Principle looks on lowest settings + max textures, despite being a 10 year old game

with these settings, it runs at 60 FPS on a 7 year old ultrabook that isn't meant for gaming at all

[craggy vine]

But I am also playing games on a 7 inch screen

[craggy vine]

That is what I have done with RDR2. Though with Cyberpunk 2077 I just generally use high settings because I was targetting only 30 fps.

But Cyberpunk is a game that sorta deserves to be played with high settings

I guess doom eternal is the other modern game I have that I played on low, cause it was at a good 120 fps. But otherwise I have no other modern games.

I generally can use MSAA though on this iGPU, at least on the older games that I do play more often. I mean before I was playing L4D with max settings at 1080p and 2x msaa and I was peaking over 200 fps with the frame limiter off.

[craggy vine]

Gonna try messing with this now. Cause I just want to play Red Dead

[craggy vine]

I started watching it. And though I should say even at the start of the video, TAA compared to no anti aliasing does look great. The blurryness of it just reminds me of FXAA is all.

Also SSAA.. I mean it is just running at a higher resolution as far as I know

Which I have done, when I played games on a 2070 super I mostly played a lot of my games at 4k despite having a 1080p monitor

Cause I had fuck loads of gpu power and only a 60hz screen, and played older games.

Why play Dead Island at 350 fps when I can force a higher resolution and have it look better, and still be at more fps then I need

Seriously I was at about 300-350fps on a 2070 super on max graphics at 1080p.. That card was so fucking insane for what I played.

[craggy vine]

I kinda get it now actually, because of deferred rendering

And I guess with newer games, you are generally trying to get more performance, not like older games where you can just throw your processing resources around like it is nothing

They show a lot of places there in Crysis where 8x MSAA is not even doing much

[gaunt marten]

DigitalFoundry is a good resource, and this video is accurate

[visual hill]

trust Alex™️

[craggy vine]

Yeah Digitalfoundry is great. I actually quite often watch random videos from them here and there. A lot of the technology stuff goes over my head but it is so interesting.

This video here is great, this shows why and how TSAA is actually really great in modern games

I'm just biased that I literally have only played 3 modern big games. Otherwise it is just smaller indie games.

Funny enough one of the indie games I play is harder to run then Cyberpunk for me, but it is just a stupidly unoptimized Unity game

Cyberpunk: Oh yeah you can play at low settings at 70 fps if you want
Urge: Fucking 30 fps take it or don't play

but the game looks like something from 2010

omg I got red dead running

Now I'm gonna get drowned in nostalgia, I haven't played this since my ps3 last worked like 8 years ago

I don't remember accepting a privacy policy back in 2011 though

Gonna see if an rog ally can play rdr at max settings cause fuck it

oh ok it's at 60 fps at 1080 max settings, I didn't except it to be that good

I literally can't turn anything up so max settings it is

I suppose this is an xbox 360 game

[craggy vine]

The amount of nostalgia I am feeling tonight is insane

[gaunt marten]

Is that amount no stalgia

[craggy vine]

pfff

Just been so long since I have played this game

[craggy vine]

The way RDR does TAA is interesting in that it uses either FSR or DLSS but sets it to the native resolution of your screen, or whatever you run the game at. I don't know if this has been done before, normally FSR and DLSS are used for their upscaling mostly, but here it is being used exclusively for the anti aliasing.

[astral steeple]

https://fxtwitter.com/nintendocoltd/status/1853972163033968794

[river veldt]

fuck yes

[quiet swift]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/strategy/by-far-the-funniest-bug-sci-fi-strategy-hit-stellaris-has-seen-in-a-minute-wont-be-fixed-immediately-because-the-devs-want-to-see-what-players-do-with-it/

apparently you can capture ships thanks to a treasure. So the devs want to see folks 'catch them all'

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4530150757095178610?l=english

[static bluff]

Oh neat

[gaunt marten]

Steam game recording is now a non-beta feature

Game-specific settings
Quick capture hotkey options
Advanced export options
And Session View - A new way to view your footage in the new Recordings & Screenshots manager with game-specific tags and data```

It's similar to Nvidia Shadowplay, but a bit more configurable

Games can set events that happen in the game to be marked in the recording

And you can do a rolling recording of the last two hours to make sure you catch everything (configurable per game)

[hasty patio]

Neat

[gaunt marten]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/737097862864699402/1303725516863307807/GbqmIBVXYA0Zkg1.jpg?ex=672ccc81&is=672b7b01&hm=a0661af611365b26764a10ee624422b6fe75e0103b51b001d093a0fc6d932429&

I found a horribly made chart

Who put Austin from software engineering in charge of making presentation material?

The scale is not consistent but the colors are. The axes are not labeled and the bar lengths are meaningless

[bleak lintel]

It's pretty clear to me that Kirby consumed some of his bar.

And Metroid left enough space for Samus to roll through.

[gaunt marten]

The actual content of the chart is pretty good. This degree of growth in less popular franchises is always welcome

[bleak lintel]

That slide is also very Nintendo, they wouldn't standardize charts.

[slim thorn]

TIL about that time Fish Plays Pokémon discovered a glitch https://x.com/Mutekimaru_ch/status/1312384220791070721

むてきまるちゃんねる -Mutekimaru Channel- (@Mutekimaru_ch) on X

魚、わりとガチで新しいバグを見つける【ポケモン】_ A bug is found in Pokémon https://t.co/m7oo8hnLxB

Twitter · Oct 3, 2020, 1:29 PM

[gaunt marten]

Chaos monkey debugging works

[visual hill]

I want to see what this graph looks like for Star Fox. 😛

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/728880/Overcooked_2/

Steam

Overcooked! 2

Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons … it’s time to save the world (again!)Out of the frying pan, into the fire…You’ve saved the world from the Ever Peckish. Now a...

Price

$5.74

Recommendations

47940

Metacritic

81

▶ Play video

75% off

When did I fucking buy this? I don't remember

[hasty patio]

Steam key activation time should tell you.

[river veldt]

lol i got high honor points for killing a former slaver

[gaunt marten]

Rimworld

[river veldt]

no, RDR2

[gaunt marten]

But if he's a former slaver doesn't that mean he repented?

[hasty patio]

Not necessarily. If they didn't free people prior to the US forcing them too, they were forced to do so. Could have been a former catcher as well.

And at least in the context here, them being there is more likely to avoid bad things because of their past closer to home.

[river veldt]

no he's only former because Lincoln abolished slavery

you also get high honor points for killing KKK members

[gaunt marten]

Oh you're killing Jim Crow's nephew

[hasty patio]

https://support.sega.com/hc/en-us/articles/29776767664145-SEGA-Classics-FAQ These are going away next month.

[little badger]

https://x.com/thegameawards/status/1854251551201890343?

The Game Awards (@thegameawards) on X

Today it was revealed that the voice of Eva in Metal Gear Solid 3 was Jodi Benson, also known as the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid.

In the game she was credited under the pseudonym Suzetta Miñet.

Twitter · Nov 6, 2024, 7:56 PM

[hasty patio]

Huh

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/Konami/status/1854161825551598068

it's true

[chilly mural]

https://vxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1854169299025338388

@fresh bane

[fresh bane]

I saw, unfortunately I don't know a thing about Virtua Fighter so I can't be too excited about the news personally

[chilly mural]

it's an old man fight game

[river veldt]

oh yeah Game Awards is coming up isn't it

[river veldt]

killed my first legendary animal 😎

[worldly summit]

hoping to see my reformed orthodox rabbi bill clinton at the game awards this year

[little badger]

New poster! https://x.com/sonicmovie/status/1854569654921867277? @green fulcrum

Sonic the Hedgehog (@SonicMovie) on X

When speed and power collide 👊 #SonicMovie3

Twitter · Nov 7, 2024, 5:00 PM

[fickle garnet]

Got gold camo on the AK74 in BO6

[little badger]

https://x.com/callofduty/status/1854584366854201822? @bold sonnet

Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) on X

It's time to go renegade. Season 01 of Call of Duty launches on November 14 💥

🗺️ 3 #BlackOps6 MP Maps at launch with more in-season
☢️ New Resurgence Map ‘Area 99’
🪂 Full Call of Duty #Warzone integration
🧟 New Zombies experience in-season
➕ So much more

Twitter · Nov 7, 2024, 5:59 PM

[fickle garnet]

I am now prestige one

[little badger]

Almost 5 for me

[fickle garnet]

How

[rugged flax]

aw man
there's a new Metro game
but it's VR only
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2669410/Metro_Awakening

Steam

Metro Awakening

Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built exclusively for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet.The year is 2028The survivors of nuclear Armageddon cling to existence in the buried subways of the Moscow Metro – civilization’s last refuge and tomb, where ghosts a...

Price

$39.99

Recommendations

350

▶ Play video

[fickle garnet]

Also would you be able to help me do the zombies story easter eggs, if you don't mind me asking. I havent been able to do them

[little badger]

There is a guided mode coming in season 1 it doesn’t go above 15 and it tells you what to do

Side Easter eggs are disabled in that mode also

[fickle garnet]

I know

[little badger]

What’s your highest round on both maps

[fickle garnet]

I only played Terminus once and died before round 10. My highest solo on liberty falls was around 18, and with a squad was 31

[little badger]

Once you get the hang of terminus you’ll get there

[arctic fern]

my VR headset is borked... sadge

[quartz pawn]

oh

ohno

what happen?

[arctic fern]

one of the lighthouses stopped working

[quartz pawn]

Oh, you were using one with base stations?

[arctic fern]

its one of the original vives that was second hand from a friend who sold it to me for £30, so i cant complain about something breaking

like original vives

[quartz pawn]

Ooooh. And vive base stations are still pricey.

[arctic fern]

are they? i havent checked tbh

apparently i can get one brand new for £109

which... is still expensive but in the afforable range

[quartz pawn]

true

I have both Q2 and Q3 and I was able to get a PSVR for $50

[arctic fern]

oooh, CEX selling them for £50

...do i have £50 right now...

no i dont think i do

[fickle garnet]

I almost completed Terminus with randoms, but once we got past the first boss fight we died

[river veldt]

i just found 3 kkk members setting up a cross for a rally and the cross fell on two of them it was hilarious

[white phoenix]

huh

[arctic fern]

...what

i mean, lol im glad it fell on them, but what.

[fickle garnet]

I dont even know how to do the Terminus quest. I was just hoping some randoms did

[rugged flax]

oh right it's November 7th
Merry N7 Day y'all

[fickle garnet]

All the randoms i keep having in my games just aren't doing the easter egg

[wind stump]

i am commander hclegend and this is my favourite gaming channel on the citadel

[rugged flax]

BioWare dropped an easter egg in Dragon Age: The Veilguard today for N7 Day
NMS and Destiny 2 too

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

daybirth

[bold sonnet]

Is that something to buy?

[river veldt]

rdr2 has random kkk encounters

[arctic fern]

OH RDR2

that context was vital

[fickle garnet]

Some of it you have to buy and some of it is free

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/click_burgundy/status/1854425213502640556
I'm guessing she's from VF

[chilly mural]

Samus Aran

I’m joking btw, it’s Sarah Bryant

[little badger]

The battle pass and the season 1 content

[little badger]

Have you seen the final boss

[visual hill]

I thought this was R63 Cloud

[quiet swift]

Oh dang, Dishonored via prime?

[gaunt marten]

Snakebird is also good

[fickle garnet]

No

[little badger]

Did you do the Easter eggs in other games?

[fickle garnet]

No

[little badger]

You doing zombies challenges or MP?

[fickle garnet]

What do you mean?

[little badger]

Camos.

[fickle garnet]

Oh. Ive been doing the MP camos

[little badger]

I’ve been doing them but mostly zombies I have a few done on MP as well.

[fickle garnet]

Hehe

[green fulcrum]

Wow.

If anyone's ever wanted the entire Metro saga for dirt cheap, now's your chance!

ABOUT THIS BUNDLE
The Metro Saga Bundle includes all three games in the critically acclaimed Metro series - Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux and Metro Exodus Gold Edition (featuring all bonus DLC)

[rugged flax]

Metro is so good

[river veldt]

what is Metro

[rugged flax]

Metro 2033
Metro Last Light
Metro Exodus

[green fulcrum]

Think Fallout, but set in Russia.

[river veldt]

yeah what is it

oh ok

[rugged flax]

the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro post nuclear apocalypse

[river veldt]

do you think capri sun will survive total nuclear annihilation

[rugged flax]

no

[bold sonnet]

Exactly what I wanted to explain as well 💖

[river veldt]

it might

[rugged flax]

In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.

[river veldt]

aliens will find capri sun cardboard cutouts after we die out and think it was a sacred ichor

[rugged flax]

Metro is based on an actual novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Good book
Worth a read if you've played the games

[bronze abyss]

i really wanna play more of 2033 but i got softlocked

[rugged flax]

how did you manage to softlock 2033?

[bold sonnet]

What is softlocked?

[bronze abyss]

being stuck without a clear way to get out

[bold sonnet]

Have you tried youtube walk through videos?

[bronze abyss]

i went to the surface without realising i didnt have gasmask filters,and that specific part of the game has some dialogue and multi-wave combat so it was just long enough to wear out my last filter and atleast im not able to find any in that area

[rugged flax]

i have a fix for that
Install WeMod
enable unlimited filter time
unless you have the console version, in which case, rip

[river veldt]

have you guys heard of Rygar

[bronze abyss]

do i really ahve to isntall another mod manager? i already have like a million of them

[green fulcrum]

See, now I just have to post this gem of a song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGfa24afEBM

[random steppe]

That's correct for the setting, but the gameplay and genre is totally different
2033 and Last Light are linear atmospheric shooters, not open world RPGs

[rugged flax]

Wemod isn't really a mod manager
it's basically cheat engine game trainers with a fancy UI

[green fulcrum]

I was more referring to the setting, yeah. Gameplay is night and day.

[river veldt]

game play is afternoon and morning

[random steppe]

The main conceit is that after the world was blown up by nukes, in Moscor at least society has survived by retreating in the metro.
There are various factions, monsters that arose from the radiations, and every journey to the surface is dangerous and brief, necessitating gas masks with a limited number of filters, and being extremely dangerous because of all the goddamn monsters.

[bronze abyss]

the flying bastards

[green fulcrum]

Also yes, there are Nazis. And yes, you can absolutely beat the shit out of them.

[bronze abyss]

i wasnt even sure if you can kill them until i dumped all of my mags into one

[rugged flax]

all hail the Tsar Fish

[random steppe]

My favourite element, is that you have normal bullets right, that you use in your guns, and then you have fancy pre war bullets, that you can totally use as ammo and do a ton more damage, but are also your currency

So you kinda don't want to shoot them out of your guns

[green fulcrum]

Why are pre-war bullets different? Stronger material?

[random steppe]

I assume they are just made better instead of inside a metro with whatever they could find

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, fair

[random steppe]

It's really good tension because you can meet a really though enemy and then you have to consider if you want to shoot your money at him

And maybe come short to buy the next upgrade

[rugged flax]

Because they were produced using professional machinery and with high-quality materials, rounds of this quality cannot be reproduced in the post-apocalyptic Metro system. Due to this, and the fact that real money lost all its value after the War, Metro inhabitants chose to use military grade 5.45mm rounds as their most widespread form of currency.

[random steppe]

It's such a cool choice

[rugged flax]

as opposed to

Unlike pre-war military grade rounds, dirty 5.45mm rounds were produced post-war in the Metro or other surviving settlements, most likely by refilling empty 5.45mm casings using custom-made, lower-quality propellant. Because dirty rounds can be easily reproduced and are very common, they have almost no value and cannot be used as currency.

[random steppe]

Adds depth to the gameplay, it's evocative, deepens the setting.

[bronze abyss]

do yall play metro the sneaky way or kill everything on sight way?

[rugged flax]

i forget what the exchange rate is in the other games but in 2033...
1 MGR will buy 5 dirty rounds
or 10 dirty rounds will buy 1 MGR

[rugged flax]

if i have the ammo, or i'm not going for stealth achievements? murder everything in sight.

[green fulcrum]

...Wow, you get ripped-off both ways, lol.

[bronze abyss]

have the ammo or not i just kill everything that moves until theres nothing left

[river veldt]

what is a metro

[rugged flax]

the subway

[bronze abyss]

underground railway

[river veldt]

oooh

[green fulcrum]

Kind of like a subway system

But like, really big.

[random steppe]

The game has definitely an horror element in certain sections

[green fulcrum]

That's...understating a few things, lol

[random steppe]

navigating a run dow metro with monsters of various persuasion scattering about can be really tense

[bronze abyss]

i was shitting bricks in the areas where theres the fucking spiderwebs you have to burn off

[rugged flax]

oh there are most definitely a few points where i did not sleep that night after playing Metro for the first time

[random steppe]

It's not an horror game but it has horror elements

[bronze abyss]

might have screamed a couple times from the dumbass spider jumpscares

[random steppe]

Also all of the UI is pretty much diagetic

To check your map you get out a clipboard

You have incations on your watch for various stuff

[green fulcrum]

The first game, 2033, is marked as a first-person shooter survival horror game on Wikipedia, but the other two are just first-person shooters.

[random steppe]

It's very immersive

I think even the 1st one I wouldn't call an horror game.

[bronze abyss]

at most,atmospheric horror wouldnt give it more than that

[random steppe]

That said, fuck librarians

[rugged flax]

2033's Steam tags

[green fulcrum]

[bronze abyss]

wish the subtitles worked properly for background conversations cuz the english voice acting sucks ass for 2033 atleast

[green fulcrum]

Tbf, they are Russian, not English. :P

[random steppe]

I like the shitty VA, IDK why

[green fulcrum]

How are the other two games for voice acting?

[random steppe]

It may be because it's the same fake accent you get in older movies when anyone that was supposed to be russian was on screen.

It's shitty but in a way that I saw before so it kinda works for me

[bronze abyss]

especialyl children voice acting really bothered me

[rugged flax]

remember kids, punching Nazis is okay

[bronze abyss]

what if i rip their head off with a shotgun that has a silencer on it for literally 0 reason

[rugged flax]

this is acceptable

[cerulean herald]

didnt expect to get jumpscared by discount nazi flag when I clicked this thread

[cerulean herald]

hell yea

[river veldt]

like what Chigurh uses in No Country For Old Men ?

[minor plover]

today's sedecordle, my starting words gave me a combo (word #4) that can be either FLAIR or FRAIL which I hate because if nothing else tells me where the L/R are I have to blow a guess eventually. So I kept scrolling to see if I could find something else that would help. Word #6 was the exact same combo. Sooooo didn't blow a guess after all. It had both.

[arctic fern]

Of all the things to see in this thread, asking what a metro is is the most American one
Goddamn America needs public transport

Also the metro games are amazing, I still need to finish exodus tho

I strongly disliked how exodus was mildly disappointed with you when you killed people, even after those people kidnap and try to kill you first

[smoky sonnet]

need some up here in canada too, i swear ottawa's buses don't exist when you need them to

[minor gorge]

The use of the term 'metro' to refer to that is not exactly consistent across the world.

[smoky sonnet]

also yeah^

[arctic fern]

I suppose

[minor gorge]

"Rapid transit" or "heavy rail" is arguably the most generic option for naming these systems.

For what it is worth, I do default to "metro" when I think of those systems (likely because of the Washington Metro).

[arctic fern]

we dont call them metros here in the UK, we have the underground, but i think most folks here would know what "metro" means

[steep flax]

I've only heard of underground, haven't heard of the term metro before

[white phoenix]

There's also the term "subway" in NA

[dire gate]

Palworld has released details about Nintendo v. Palworld lawsuit

Apparently Nintendo sued with 3 patents and demanded:

1. Palworld stops servicing
2. Palworld pays Nintendo 5m JPY(~32k USD)
3. Palworld pays the Pokemon Company 5m JPY

Two of the patents are about capturing, and one about riding

[gaunt marten]

10m JPY is not that bad but the first demand is pretty bad

[dire gate]

There is a chance they started with a harsh condition for future deal

Like "you can service but don't start a media franchise"

[slim thorn]

I guess my go-to words would be "subway" or "metro", though I've never personally lived somewhere where I would regularly use those except for London where we all call it the "tube", and that's understood to mean only London's subway

"Tube 2033" doesn't have quite the same ring to it

[arctic fern]

i do love the idea of a metro parody game called that tho

[dire gate]

U-Bahn2033

[random steppe]

I mean, there is no way they can ask that right? Given it's about patents and not copyright

At most they can ask damages and to change the mechanics in question

Whatever they do with their designs has nothing to do with the patents

If it was a copyright suite it would be a whole another matter

[visual hill]

you can exploit gasmasks, toggle them on and off constantly

they will last like 5x longer and you don't lose any health by doing so. I was surprised to see this was even possible, but it is

[visual hill]

kill everything on sight, I find ghosting boring in the vast majority of games. Metro also has good gunplay, so better make use of it

(even Deus Ex to be fair, despite its poor gunplay, but that's partly due to the antiquated stealth mechanics)

[dire gate]

What I'm saying is that they can say "ok choose, are you going to court and stop service, or make an agreement"

[random steppe]

Oh yeah, makes sense

Definitely big Nintendo L on this, it's such a horrible precedent for the industry

[chilly mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eux6Go4xygA new favourite thing, the ost from a level but with ambience from that same level sprinkled in

[fickle garnet]

Another best play i got yesterday

[fickle garnet]

getting the gold camo on the HE-1 is frustrating. you need to destroy three scorestreaks in a match 10 times, but it doesnt lock on to scorestreaks so the UAVs and CUAVs are almost impossible to hit

[little badger]

[wind stump]

HOLY SHIT https://fixupx.com/greimaginedsmp/status/1772411717542199429

i'm not into Minecraft... But...

[cerulean herald]

now you have to get into it
this is a threat

[gaunt marten]

I recommend waiting for the christmas sale

Also, before buying any game on steam check the price history on SteamDB

This game has been 60% off in June 2023

[graceful bridge]

This one, or the first one?

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, didn't this game come out this year?

[fresh bane]

There was another g5 game?

[graceful bridge]

Yes, there was Maretime Bay Adventure first, and this is the second one.

[slim thorn]

there was

[graceful bridge]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1600780/MY_LITTLE_PONY_A_Maretime_Bay_Adventure/

Steam

MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure

Bring magic back to Equestria and play with the new generation of MY LITTLE PONY characters, in an adventure full of fun, fashion and good friends!Earth Pony Sunny wants to make the world a better place by hosting Maretime Bay Day, a forgotten celebration of friendship and magic. But some pony is out to spoil the celebration - and they're steal...

Price

$39.99

Recommendations

491

▶ Play video

[green fulcrum]

Sir, a second G5 game has hit Steam.

[graceful bridge]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235440/My_Little_Pony_A_Zephyr_Heights_Mystery/

Steam

My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery

Strange Magic is turning the world upside down in Equestria and it is up to you to take the power of friendship to new heights and embark on a mystery adventure for one or two ponies.With everypony working together, you can uncover the unstable magic that’s turning phones into pizza, breaking gravity, and splashing colors everywhere.Play as Sunn...

Price

$25.99

▶ Play video

[hasty patio]

This is currently the lowest low it has had, but I would follow Flitter's recommendation and wait a bit longer.

[gaunt marten]

Oh yeah the first one

Yeah, usually christmas gets bigger sales, especially for children marketed games

[wind stump]

i'm sold on this game based on this image alone https://store.steampowered.com/app/2571410/500_CALIBER_CONTRACTZ/

[visual hill]

Cruelty Squad-like is becoming a genre

[wind stump]

I saw a tad of gameplay and it seems like you can use knockback as momentum and I love doing that sorta thing

Your Force-A-Natures and your Ashes and the like.

oh my god the trailer is fucking Windows Movie Maker

the layers of irony are so thick i can't even-

[wind stump]

i can see it now

"REAL CONTRACT KILLERS USE A CONTROLLER"

i'm fucking dying

mood

[green fulcrum]

How dare you have an unsanctioned picture of me at work?

[fresh bane]

this is kind of cartoonish at this point

Patents for throwing a ball on a virtual enviroment, pathfinding, and riding mounts

[gaunt marten]

Pathfinding algorithms are a real field for patents

Did Palworld use Nintendo's patented pathfinding algorithm though, or did it use a different one?

[minor plover]

yeah, I'd want to know what specifically they're alleging was violated

like, there are a lot of different pathfinding algorithms, some of which involve shortcuts, optimizations, or value judgments based on the specific game (like, wanting character motion to look or feel "natural" or "robotic" and therefore having more or less meandering, straighter lines, etc.) If someone just straight up stole another company's algorithm, that's actually a reasonable lawsuit.

[gaunt marten]

This one seems to be a group pathfinding algorithm

[fresh bane]

From most of what I can find at the moment it's not very clear how much of the patents are being infringed, but somehow something tells me I doubt that they somehow stole their pathfinding algorithm

Only thing I can find is that those are the patents being discussed

[slim thorn]

to be fair, it would be odd for Pocketpair to voluntarily reveal that they used this stuff

[gaunt marten]

It's easy to observe and copy a pathfinding algorithm, and would be standard practice if you didn't know it was patented

[quiet swift]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/real-time-strategy/battle-aces-is-a-simplified-rts-that-boasts-something-starcraft-was-too-cowardly-to-add-giant-robot-crabs/

Sounds like someone hasn't played Supreme Commander

[bitter stream]

haha fair enough,

[quiet swift]

https://gear.bioware.com/products/mass-effect-n7-trench-coat

It's a bit ridiculous looking, though at the same time i get the 'i want one' feeling

And then I look at the price

[arctic fern]

$500???

[icy crescent]

Holy

[static bluff]

That swag tho

[graceful bridge]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/2k-presents-sid-meier-collection

[wind stump]

rip

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/289130/view/4490745531935490130?l=english

[graceful bridge]

https://aftermath.site/kotaku-layoffs-go-media

[rancid herald]

I didn't know they were sega'd

[hasty patio]

They got bought in 2016 to help Sega expand into the PC market.

[bold sonnet]

I vibe with this but I think first would have to finish massefects

[little badger]

E3 demo now available https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3360515088

[dapper cedar]

(Symphony of the Night late game)
i think this is a frame perfect bug I’ve just cursed Alucard with by mistake

[gaunt marten]

"Game is too easy"
"Game is too hard"

[wind stump]

peak direction skills

[bold sonnet]

1 person found this review funny I never knew on steam reviews are like that

[gaunt marten]

Yeah Steam reviews have this feature to make it so people don't rate a review helpful when it's just a joke

[visual hill]

it was added with good intentions, but joke reviews are still promoted too often as a lot of people still rate it as helpful

Steam guides have similar problems

[quartz pawn]

Woohoo 🎉

[river veldt]

https://x.com/nintendoamerica/status/1855732265096978871?s=46

Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) on X

Tune in on 11/11 at 2 p.m. PT for a SUPER NINTENDO WORLD Direct livestream! The stream will be roughly 10 minutes and showcase Donkey Kong Country of #SuperNintendoWorld at Universal Studios Japan. No game information will be featured. #NintendoDirect

📺: https://t.co/0QwNF7DIkG

Twitter · Nov 10, 2024, 10:00 PM

[craggy vine]

I'm thinking of giving amd afmf a try in games again

[bitter stream]

what is "Amd afmf" ?

[white phoenix]

AMD's frame generation technology

[wind stump]

this game's writing is great

[dire gate]

Tewi

[little badger]

https://fixupx.com/xboxgamepass/status/1855973786547601437? @green fulcrum

[bold sonnet]

What's in it?

[little badger]

Portal to equestria.

[little badger]

Current level @fickle garnet @bold sonnet

[little badger]

https://fixupx.com/bethesda/status/1855989119568019687? @river veldt some gameplay

[worthy rose]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/zephon/new-4x-game-out-now ...well that description is certainly an attention grabber

"New 4X game Zephon is like eldritch Civilization in a cyberpunk future"

[river veldt]

im so excited !!!!

[fickle garnet]

Damn. Im only prestige 1 lvl 30 something

[twin charm]

Im not a gamer but uh does the cover art of a videogame ost matter

Does it have to be good or can it be like whatever and gamers do not care as along as the actual sound track is good

What are your opinions

[little badger]

https://x.com/xbox/status/1856003986601496823?

Xbox (@Xbox) on X

Some crystal-shattering news!

The Spyro Reignited Trilogy is coming to @XboxGamePass and @XboxGamePassPC tomorrow!

Twitter · Nov 11, 2024, 4:00 PM

[slim thorn]

the cover art of an ost probably "matters" mostly for making potential buyers of <game> ost realise at a glance that this is <game>-related

(what one might call "branding" if that word didn't sound so evil)

[visual hill]

I've seen multiple OST album covers that have zero association with the game, even Minecraft: Volume Beta is rather cryptic if you just look at the cover and don't know its name

sometimes, it's just the game's cover in a different aspect ratio and the album name has the name of the game... like Messiah

[slim thorn]

yeah, depending on where/how it's being sold even the branding/association may be irrelevant, and the image can be just whatever they felt like using

[twin charm]

I see

[rancid herald]

one day we'll get spyro 4

[wind stump]

[bold sonnet]

Ponkis I want to share small thing. I like FC24 but I'm very bad at shooting so I pass to others to not mess up so teammates all over the world in many countries don't facepalm. I score 0.06 goals per match and my average rating is 6.1 out of 10 and today I

[river veldt]

the Donkey Kong part of Super Nintendo World looks really cool

this will be Donkey Kong graphics in 2013

[hasty patio]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/holy-cow-stalker-2-needs-150gb-of-ssd-space-and-youve-got-9-days-to-figure-out-where-youre-going-to-put-it/

[graceful bridge]

https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-announces-limited-edition-white-steam-deck-oled

[river veldt]

ooooh

i like my black one but this is cool

[gaunt marten]

They should make the white one with rubberized coating that catches dirt and is impossible to clean

Plus matte finish and porous material

[river veldt]

the cracks in the casing already do this

[fresh bane]

oh woof, that might have just killed my hype to get the game

I don't care how good a game is or how much I'd want to get it, I'm not freeing up 150 gb just for the one game, I also don't want to wait two days while it downloads

[rancid herald]

for a physical copy, they should just give you an SSD as the physical copy

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/333640/view/4542535021350562775?l=english

Caves of Qud is about to come out!

It's been in development for fifteen years, and it's incredibly well polished

Best traditional roguelike ever made in terms of polish

Trailer https://youtu.be/87TKcq4tcJ4

[cerulean herald]

[gaunt marten]

It's a post apocalyptic themed roguelike with focus on changing the character

It is immaculately made and has fantastic flavor text

https://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Caves_of_Qud/

Steam

Caves of Qud

Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit a living, breathing world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth?Do anything and everything. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulat...

Price

$28.99

Recommendations

7464

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Like Dwarf Fortress it also tends to have funny patch notes:

You can no longer attempt to sit on yourself, if you are a chair, or sleep on yourself, if you are a bed.
Goatfolk no longer always hate baboon faction leaders for disproving famous theorems.```

[umbral zinc]

i finally got all endings on TBoI (repentance)

and the last one got me crying, with my jaw dropped and overwhelmed

SPOILERS if you haven't played / got this ending but i was SCREAMING on my brain ||when it got revealed that the narrator on the story was Isaac's dad.|| This gives a lot of interpretations on ||whether Isaac is dead (fuck Ed, i won't take his confirmations as canon) and enjoying his time on Heaven with his father or this whole story was because of Isaac's pain hearing his parents fight, blaming himself for destroying the family (and his mom for obsessing over religion)||

[static bluff]

Oh I've seen lots of Dwarf Fortress streamers playing this lately.

[gaunt marten]

Dwarf Fortress's adventure mode might be related

[river veldt]

||my personal hc is that Isaac went to live with his father and didn't die in the chest, but this is because i like happy endings ||

[tawny jacinth]

Overwatch releasing a mode that literally undoes all of the balance patches made since 2016 is the funniest shit ever

[bitter stream]

damn that's a lot of space the game needs, maybe I'll wait for a sale lol, though I could probably uninstall a few older titles if I really thought about it

[grim stirrup]

i need to play more caves of qud, i picked it up then got chain ko'd by various viruses and was super eepy so i couldnt play it

[little badger]

Also available on consoles https://x.com/gtaseries/status/1856301711578542495?

GTA Series Videos (@GTASeries) on X

A new update for #TheDefinitiveEdition of GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas is now live on PC, bringing all of Netflix's Trilogy improvements to the three games - better models, classic lighting, bug fixes, and much more.

Watch our comparison here: https://t.co/TxC5RFS1eV

Twitter · Nov 12, 2024, 11:43 AM

[wind stump]

Netflix's Trilogy improvements

[little badger]

[wind stump]

no but fr fr like
who actually fixed the trilogy
it's not fucking Netflix

[bold sonnet]

Wasn't it for a long time?

[blissful sand]

Tf they mean Netflix fixes

[little badger]

Another company stepped in to help

[bold sonnet]

What do you mean I'm so confused

[little badger]

Rockstar hired a company called grove street games they did the original remasters. Which were a mess then a few years later Rockstar got a different company to fix everything.