eurogamer.net

reksas, do gaming w Former Battlefield director doesn't "have anything positive to say about EA"

Does anyone anywhere have anything positive to say about ea?

TheAnonymouseJoker,

Old NFS games and other titles? That is a great positive.

Jubei_K_08, do games w Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales

The game really looks fantastic. I watched 2 minutes of it and got motion sick 🥲

Evotech,

Compression and motion blur is not a good combo. I’m sure it would be way better if you played it yourself

echodot,

I think it’s one of those games it’s absolutely designed for an HDR display and I just don’t have one so it kind of looks murky. It’s a good game but I wouldn’t say the graphics are particularly phenomenal, although the explosions look good.

Senshi,

You can disable camera shaking and some post process features such as motion blur, then it’s no different from any other shooter game in terms of motion patterns.

w00, do gaming w Former Battlefield director doesn't "have anything positive to say about EA"

The last truly awesome battlefield was back when desert combat was a mod for battlefield 1942.

faceula,

2142 for me… I loved that game so so much.

MintyAnt,

Plus it had a sick title track

avater, do games w Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

But did it really earned that much money, considering that Arrowhead was working on this game for nine years ?

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

8,000,000 x 40 is 320,000,000. So they’ve made a few bucks.

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

A lot of the cost in purchasing a game goes to the publishers not the developers though

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

I’m still sure the devs got a couple bucks. At least a pizza party.

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Pizza party attendance is mandatory and fun will be dealt out democratically

AProfessional,

Let’s hope Sony treats them well, it’s a huge success in their growing PC push.

warm, do gaming w Former Battlefield director doesn't "have anything positive to say about EA"

"Former Battlefield director" meaning, worked on the upcoming Battlefield narrative. Had nothing to do with Battlefield before the franchise's death.

His real accolade was being the fucking Halo Creative Director at Bungie. Who writes these titles?

vikingtons,
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

I suppose they wrote battlefield in the headline since it’s an EA franchise, but I totally see where you’re coming from. At least they mention halo directly after.

warm,

They make it sound like he was a big deal with the BF franchise at EA, but he really wasn't.

vikingtons,
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, you’re not wrong

SuperSynthia, do games w Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales

I may honestly check it out. Watched some gameplay vids last night and it looked like a blast. I’m especially intrigued by friendly fire always being on, as that was such fun gameplay addition but this is entirely baked into the experience

bigboig,

I’m definitely glad one of the call outs is, “I’m sorry”

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

I was about to throw orbital strike buoy and my teammate accidentally melee striked me causing me to drop it. Was confused since I didn’t even know that was a thing and as we were figuring out the orbital strike blew us to hell. And that’s how I got the AAAAaaah! achievement.

Fun times.

SuperSynthia,

Fucking sick

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

You won’t regret it. I’ve gotten so much fun out of this game so far.

SuperSynthia,

You sold it to me!

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar
Katana314,

Y’know, I distinctly remember the friendly fire being the thing I didn’t like about the first one. It was initially very “Oh haha you killed me!” but then something kept you from getting to play again for a long time, and so it was hard to just shrug it off. I’m assuming it’s something somewhat different now.

SuperSynthia,

From the vids I saw, a lot of it is early hijinks at first. Then when shit starts hitting the fan constant communication necessary so you don’t accidentally merc your homies

formergijoe,

It’s not as bad as the first one. Some weapons and stratagems are more prone to it (looking at you airburst radius that always seems too big) but since there’s more of a height component you aren’t constantly getting shot by teammates. and because you aren’t confined to the same small area there’s less of a chance of stratagem strikes and hellbombs killing everyone.

There is a bit of a learning curve in terms of knowing the radius of certain stratagems and backblasts and arc range of some of the weapons, but once you get past that friendly fire incidents are much lower. That being said, if you run into someone else’s line of fire you are partially to blame as well.

agent_flounder,
@agent_flounder@lemmy.world avatar

With all the talk I may have to break down and give it a try. Haven’t done an online shooter since medal of honor allied assault lol.

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

You won’t be disappointed, it’s a great game.

I never recommend games but this bg3 and outerwilds are my favourites

gramathy, do games w Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales

The only real complaint I have with helldivers is the controls are a little muggy. They put out a polished product with good options that isn’t so paywalled as to be difficult to make progress with but still gives them a revenue stream to keep the live service, which actually adds value beyond “play the game”, running.

krashmo,

What do you mean about the controls? I have no complaints in that realm but maybe I’m overlooking something.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

It's possible people could interpret the way that the reticle follows the actual barrel position of the gun as "muggy" because it can be quite unwieldy if you're not being careful about it, but it's a very deliberate choice and makes the chaos more chaotic and really accentuates how controlled you need to be even when shit gets wild

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

I didn’t realize it was happening until I used machine gun where it’s slow. I actually like it but if you didn’t realize I could see it being confusing.

Also the key binds aren’t super. There’s a lot of overlap and weird finger positioning for some stuff. The stratagems especially. I’m running, holding L1 and using my right hand to dial in the d pad like I’m hacking the matrix. It’s kinda fun and stressful but I could see complaints about it.

all-knight-party, (edited )
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

I play on PC so it's hard to say how that stuff feels comparatively. Can you move and use stratagems at the same time?! For me, WASD is both my movement and the stratagems, so if I press CTRL to pull up the menu I can't walk anymore.

And yeah, different guns have different aim speeds to balance them. That's where you may find the machine gun too unwieldy and want to try the stalwart LMG instead

Edit: by default on PC stratagems are done with WASD like the first game, and I just stuck with that. If I rebind to arrow keys then I can move and input stratagems at the same time, but I'll have to relearn all my Helldivers 1 muscle memory haha

zqwzzle,
@zqwzzle@lemmy.ca avatar

Yes, pro tip is to bind the strategem controls to arrow keys or something on your mouse so you can keep moving.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

I've done it, I'll get to practicing, moving and inputting is extremely clutch, I wish they informed you in-game that that's a thing

russjr08,

I wonder, did they change the defaults at some point? Mine was already bound to the arrow keys, I never had to explicitly set that.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

I had it maybe a week after it came out, so I'm not sure, that was default for me.

Glide,

The rebinding options are amazing, though. Being able to choose between tap, double tap, press, long press and hold for every input is fantastic. Two seconds after discovering this, press ctrl was crouch while double tap was prone and hold shift was dash while double tap was dive, and it feels so good.

Idk about controller, but keyboard support is amazing.

honey_im_meat_grinding,

Personally there are a few UX issues with the controls. Like getting stuck after diving into prone (I believe it’s because you have to press run after you land to get back up, there’s no action queueing), climbing over stuff you didn’t want to climb over because of auto-climb, and a few other similar things. Both of the above have resulted in me and friends dying during intense moments, and because it’s caused by the game not listening to what you want to do, it doesn’t feel good to die that way.

echodot,

Also not being able to jump over things you think you should be able to jump over because it’s a few pixels too tall. So you just run up against it and stop.

Also the trees are rigid so if you run into a tree it’s like a brick wall it doesn’t brush out of the way or snap like it obviously should when you’re charging at it.

bisby,

The cross platform friend requests bugs mean I still havent been able to play with the friends who convinced me to buy the game in the first place. But yeah, otherwise quite fun.

Its 100x better of a starship troopers game than the actual starship troopers game that came out last year

Evotech,

Eh, they grew on me

Badeendje, do games w Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Its fun! Running, explosions, bugs to squash…

Oddbin,

Ragdoll hilarity every game too. Great fun.

chemical_cutthroat, do gaming w Former Battlefield director doesn't "have anything positive to say about EA"
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

The guy has been with EA less than ten years. We’ve all known EA is a garbage company for 20 or more years. If you lay down with dogs…

amzd, do gaming w Epic CEO Tim Sweeney calls Valve "assholes" over Steam fees in dug up email thread

Article is paywalled

BruceTwarzen, do gaming w Epic CEO Tim Sweeney calls Valve "assholes" over Steam fees in dug up email thread

Shut the fuck up Tim.

p03locke, do gaming w Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Good, they’ve been on a tear of classic remakes here lately, and I hope the new engine System Shock was built from can be used to remake System Shock 2.

TurboHarbinger, do gaming w Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May

I hope they fix it first. Be adviced, this game has broken achievements, you can’t get them all.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

They already fixed most of the bugs in the first major patch. Are you talking about the lost audio log near the entrance to the elevator on Level 8? They fixed that problem.

TurboHarbinger,

Audiologs are a pain in the ass. Everytime they patch it something else breaks.

I played the game in January, there is more logs that the first patches, but it seems the minimum you can get is still the same (had to load an early version of the game to fix that, with steam shenanigans). The “defeat shodan” achievement doesn’t work either, as in is bugged, no one has it.

So no, they didn’t fix shit. That log in L8 is still inside the fucking wall.

Please don’t bullshit me.

perishthethought, do gaming w Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May
@perishthethought@lemm.ee avatar

… making its way to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One on 21st May.

And it’s already on Steam, eh store.steampowered.com/app/482400/

Midnitte,

Making its way implies it was somewhere already ;)

Developer Nightdive Studios’ acclaimed remake of cult-classic sci-fi horror System Shock is - following a successful release on PC last year

JohnEdwa,

You should buy “System Shock: Enhanced Edition”, as the name implies, it’s the newer better one!

Seriously, why do we keep using the same names with reboots and remasters and remakes and argh. Languages have words, use the goddamn words!

perishthethought,
@perishthethought@lemm.ee avatar

Languages have words, use the goddamn words!

I ffeel this in my bones every day. Seems like some people are trying to make words not mean what they’re supposed to mean.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Because System Shock 2023 just sounds goofy. I’m not sure how else they could have renamed it. They’ve been doing this with movies for decades, too.

The “Enhanced Edition” was the old version of the game with some mods and tweaks to make it playable for modern audiences. The new one is an actual graphical and gameplay remake.

entropicdrift,
!deleted5697 avatar

I’m not sure how else they could have renamed it

Ooh, I love this game!

System Shock: SHODAN Edition

System Shock: Remake

System Shock: Unreal Edition

System Shock: Reconstructed

System Shock: Mainframe Edition

IDK, one of those probably. The trend of naming remakes or reboots the same exact name of the originals is tiresome to me.

Like Lords of The Fallen and Lords of The Fallen. Or King Kong and King Kong and King Kong. Or Godzilla and Godzilla and Godzilla.

The need to say the year when talking about something is annoying in conversation.

I love Doom, but found Doom just OK, y’know?

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The only game I found that was actually successful in doing something like that was “Dark Souls: Remastered”, and only because it’s fucking Dark Souls.

entropicdrift,
!deleted5697 avatar

Here’s a few more. I’m only including full remakes and not any remasters, since we’re talking about the System Shock remake:

Ocarina of Time 3D

Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp

Counter Strike: Source

Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy

Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed

DuckTales: Remastered

Dune 2000

The House of The Dead: Remake

Kirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe

The Last of Us Part I

Mafia: Definitive Edition

Mega Man: The Wily Wars

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Metal Slug X

Metroid: Zero Mission

Metroid: Samus Returns

realMyst

Pac-Man World: Re-Pac

Panzer Dragoon: Remake

Pokemon: HeartGold and SoulSilver

Pokemon: FireRed and LeafGreen

Pokemon: Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Vordus,

realMyst

Of course, that’s not the most recent remake of Myst. The current one is called, er, ‘Myst’.

Sigh. Looking forward to Riven. Again.

Krrygon, (edited ) do gaming w Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May

Very cool! I had a blast playing it. Nice that it will be available to a broader audience soon

  • Wszystkie
  • Subskrybowane
  • Moderowane
  • Ulubione
  • test1
  • krakow
  • FromSilesiaToPolesia
  • fediversum
  • esport
  • rowery
  • tech
  • muzyka
  • turystyka
  • NomadOffgrid
  • Technologia
  • Psychologia
  • ERP
  • healthcare
  • Gaming
  • Cyfryzacja
  • Blogi
  • shophiajons
  • informasi
  • retro
  • Travel
  • Spoleczenstwo
  • gurgaonproperty
  • slask
  • nauka
  • sport
  • Radiant
  • warnersteve
  • Wszystkie magazyny