pcgamer.com

Prandom_returns, do games w Doom Eternal's new official mod support includes 'the very same tools' used to create the game

Can the mod community chip in and hire Mick Gordon for a couple more tracks? Just a couple. Ya’ll got any of them Mick Gordon tracks left?

kibiz0r, do games w The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO

I like the concept of an RTS.

Deciding how to invest my resources, where to expand, when to attack, defend, or retreat, scouting and countering my opponent’s plans…

…but when it comes to the physical act of doing this stuff, it feels so horribly awkward that it’s like I’m fighting the UI more than my opponent.

Clicking and dragging selection boxes as if my troops are always in a rectangle formation? Right-clicking to attack but accidentally moving instead… And ugh, the endless series of tedious build queues.

The actual mechanics feel more like data entry — the kind with real bad RSI — than military leadership.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

FYI, there are a handful of games that put unique spins on the genre out there. Most of the ones I can think of off the top of my head put you in control of a “cursor character” that’s like a commander. It puts a speed limit on APM, which I think gets the genre back to focusing on strategy. There’s also Northgard, which is like a cross between an RTS and a 4X game, and pieces of the map are tile-like, so rather than this unit moving to these coordinates, you’re commanding a unit to move from this tile to the one next to it. Then there’s the Total War series, where the battles are slow paced, and the macro level resources are handled in turn-based strategy.

bionicjoey,

Mount and Blade (Warband, WFAS, and Bannerlord) is another that I would say puts a unique spin on RTS. You are down on the ground with your troops and need to give orders like when to have certain troop groups attack, retreat, change formation, etc. You have the opportunity for your own skill as a fighter to matter, but once the battles reach a certain size, it becomes far more important to have a tactical advantage than to just be good at fighting yourself.

AHemlocksLie,

You may enjoy Zero-K more than most other RTS, at least. It’s in the Total Annihilation style like Supreme Commander or Beyond All Reason. One of the ways it sets itself apart is with a diverse array of commands you can issue to your units so they can micro themselves. I haven’t played much of it, so I can’t give a ton of examples, but it has commands to do stuff attack while maintaining distance, compared to how StarCraft 2 forced you to learn to stutter step your Marines, manually alternating between moving and shooting.

It’s also free and open source, based on the Spring engine, and available on Steam. It felt like it played well and was filled out well in terms of mechanics and units when I gave it a try a year or so ago, but I just haven’t been playing any RTS lately.

fckreddit, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

This feels exploitative AF on multiple levels.

redcalcium, do gaming w Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is

I can’t believe they double down on this. It seems ubisoft’s management actually thrives on gamers’ rage.

rickyrigatoni,

Well they are french.

essteeyou, do games w Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces

Here’s a video of it. I couldn’t see anything on the linked website.

Sizzler,

That hot-headed old guy in the leather jacket is the reason.

simple,

The guy that tackled him into the trophy will remember that for the rest of his life. Ouch.

xepher, do games w Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers'
@xepher@piefed.social avatar

The dev comments are hilarious, and they were obviously trolling

Delphia,

Agreed, Agreed and they still shouldnt have done it. Sometimes I say shit I know I shouldnt to customers because they are being assholes. They complain, the boss tells me off, I say “Fair enough” and I dont do it again for a while. But I know when I say the thing I shouldnt that “I’m gonna get a talking to for this” fortunately I’m government employed and I’m union so I know that a little backtalk isnt going to result in outright dismissal.

Ultimately the company could have turned around and sacked them all because I’m sure the company has a social media policy that basically says “if you do anything we dont like, we can fire you” and they would have had to fight it. They took a risk and I’m glad they didnt get fired (yet) but with all the layoffs in this space at the moment I wouldnt have.

tb_,
@tb_@lemmy.world avatar

If you say one thing to a single customer, there’s that. But when you make that snarky post on a public forum it has a chance of getting amplified and misunderstood.

sprack,

They couldn’t per Swedish employment laws.

sverit,

Absolutely. People should stop being so whiney and start liberating instead.

Empricorn, (edited ) do gaming w Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200 year old gun: "I was armed but not dangerous"

it’s unclear if Musk did actually get the cameo in the end.

Uh, what? How is that unclear? Is he in the game? No?? Then he didn’t “get the cameo”, even if they went so far as to map his face, etc…

raccoona_nongrata,
@raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org avatar

deleted_by_author

  • Loading...
  • Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    I can’t recall ever seeing a Musk character; but Hideo Kojima made an appearance as himself.

    Hdcase, (edited )

    For real? Where, when?

    Makes sense, there are some big Cyberpunk Easter eggs in Death Stranding so he must get along with CDPR.

    Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    He is in the bar of the hotel when you first start the heist at the beginning.

    AlboTheGuy,
    @AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl avatar

    I always felt like cameo was a sweet or something

    Banzai51,
    @Banzai51@midwest.social avatar

    There are plenty of drugged out street filth with guns in the game. You SURE he didn’t have a cameo?

    Empricorn,

    Not even slightly sure. But out of all the people playing, modifying, and data-mining it, they still haven’t found an obviously Musk face somewhere…?

    Hdcase,

    Some people believe he showed up briefly in one scene in the background but it was never substantiated.

    mcange, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
    hefejefe, do games w 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo

    Probably the most addicting, infuriating game I’ve ever played. Got it for free too on PSN.

    WOW!

    and

    What a save!

    Trigger me to this day.

    edgemaster72,
    @edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

    Siiiick!
    Siiiick!
    Siiiick!
    Chat disabled for 3 seconds.

    owenfromcanada,

    This is Rocket League!

    Laser,

    Okay.

    edgemaster72,
    @edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

    This is what I would always think of using that quick chat

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2f6b95c6-dc28-4d7d-b4fb-5b54cb044359.png

    CabbageRelish,

    Noooooooooo!

    TwoBeeSan,

    Oh God the what a save spam. Being in a comp game, getting scored on, your 2 teammates immediately fade out of existence. Good times.

    caut_R, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

    „Trust me, bro, we won‘t enshitify, please don‘t leave and make something new elsewhere that’s out of our control.“

    Itdidnttrickledown, do gaming w Dr Disrespect fired by the game studio he co-founded: 'It is our duty to act with dignity on behalf of all individuals involved'

    These shock jock types always seem to nuke themselves in the end. That guy looks like the weekly bad guy on a episode of Starsky and Hutch from the 70’s

    moody,

    That guy looks like the weekly bad guy on a episode of Starsky and Hutch from the 70’s

    You’re not wrong, but that’s also just a persona he plays, the hair and mustache are both fake. I don’t know how close the persona is to the real person, but I’m sure he’s hamming it up to some extent, just not enough to be a good person pretending.

    driving_crooner,
    @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br avatar

    The persona is the real person. When he take out the hair, the mask is put on.

    wildcardology,

    I’m pretty sure the stash is real though.

    SkyezOpen,

    The persona is barely fake, which is why he always rubbed me the wrong way. Like yeah a hyper macho gamer can be a funny ironic persona, but when you’re legitimately Gamer Raging TM on stream, you’re just doing the thing. Not surprised he turned out to be a piece of shit a while ago. Mildly surprised he was a pedo, though I didn’t notice his right-wing tendencies so that’s on me.

    Neato, do games w FromSoftware says Elden Ring's popular Seamless Co-op mod is 'definitely not something we actively oppose,' and may even 'consider ideas like that with our future games'
    @Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

    I hope they do. It’s such a cool mod. I don’t know why from keeps doing such bad multiplayer instead of just normal connection.

    chuckleslord,

    Miyazaki is trying to recreate the spontaneous cooperation he experienced with cars pushing cars up a snow covered hill. Honestly, their system is really cool if you treat it like a side thing, adding people when you really need help. Playing with friends, though, it’s kind of shit.

    moody,

    The concept behind short-term multiplayer in a long game is pretty cool. The invasions and the jolly cooperation are fun features.

    But an actual 2-player session is a completely different experience, and something a lot of people are looking for

    Potatos_are_not_friends,

    This is going to sound weird but Japanese companies seem to have a lot of problems with multiplayer. Im thinking of fighting games and Nintendo. Which is weird because Korea is big on MMOs and strong networking so I dunno.

    vettnerk, do games w 505 Games' parent company lays off 30% of its workforce, says gamers really only want sequels so that's what it's going to make

    So for the next 20 years all AAA game publishers will do the game equivalent of only releasing MCU/DC reboots, sequels and prequels?

    Ecksell,
    @Ecksell@lemmy.one avatar

    Ah yes the anime treatment. Only release reboots, sequels, prequels, and poor spinoffs. For every One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100, Chainsaw Man, or Megalobox, there are way more re-do’s or milking such as Yet Another Gundam Series, a new Bleach something or another, InuYasha retread, Trigun reboot, Hunter x Hunter reboot, FMA Brotherhood, Fruits Basket, Fate/Stay universe, Evangelion remake, everything DragonBall…I could go on. It’s rather depressing.

    Games are just following the curves established by other artistic mediums over the decades when laziness and greed wins, as it always does. Even The Last of Us wasn’t safe.

    1847953620,

    last r we

    Duamerthrax,

    Sounds like you just need to stay away from Shonen series.

    ByGourou,

    For every reboot sequel and prequel there are 10 new series. There are around 40 different new anime this season. (Without counting Chinese, musics, poor quality and children’s show). Take a look at myanimelist seasonal anime.

    (Anime in Japan come out in season : winter, spring, summer, fall. So they start and finish roughly at the same time).
    .

    And most or your example are pretty bad,

    • bleach just got an end that everyone liked
    • hunter hunter was paused because the author is sick, it never stopped and it’s not a reboot
    • FMA brotherhood was great because it fixed the issue with FMA : the end of the anime was made before the manga. And it’s 2009 come on you can’t use that to say that nowadays there’s only reboots
    • yeah they are milking the fate franchise and evangelion, and their community is all for it
    dustyData, do games w SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' | PC Gamer

    Listen, I would pay good money for an off the shelf console first computer that runs SteamOS, has as primary input a controller and an ARM architecture or any other small form factor x86, that fits under the TV. Freaking SteamMachines were a top notch idea, and Gabe should go for it again.

    Dasnap,
    @Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

    Wouldn’t ARM cause a lot of compatibility issues? I’d imagine we’d need to stick to small form factor x64 for now.

    ggppjj,

    I run windows on ARM, no issues using x86-64 apps.

    gsfraley,

    That gets wildly different with how taxing games are and how much they specifically take advantage of x86_64 instructions sets. Even decade old games would barely squeak by, if they don’t break entirely.

    bitwolf,

    It mostly works but you do get a small performance hit. Comparable to to the proton -> dx conversion.

    That said, games tend to hit the GPU much more than the CPU

    scrubbles,
    !deleted6348 avatar

    Check out ChimeraOS

    BaroqueInMind,
    @BaroqueInMind@kbin.social avatar

    Just buy a video game console at that point.

    doppydrop,

    I mean that is what he is asking for, but with the added benefit of doing whatever the hell we want with it too. Personally I’d be down for that too

    BaroqueInMind,
    @BaroqueInMind@kbin.social avatar

    Steam Machines were the solution, but no one fucking bought any of them so the market decided OPs desire was a waste of time and money.

    TechAdmin,

    The OS was also very limited with focus on Linux ports of games which there were not very many at the time. Proton wasn’t a thing yet. I bought two of them, one for myself and one for my brother. I tested it out & it was neat but wiped both to do clean installs of Windows 7 so could play the games we wanted.

    Damage,

    No proton and no vulkan, it was too early

    snooggums,
    @snooggums@kbin.social avatar

    Sounds like you want a steam deck with a dock, or does that not fit under your TV?

    That setup lets you connect controllers via bluetooth.

    slackassassin,

    I had a random 3rd party usb dongle with hdmi and a port for power laying around. Gave it a shot, and it worked great.

    Pleasantly surprised. The only issue was that I had to use the deck specific buttons to do a few things.

    Damage,

    I did the same with the dongle that came with my Huawei laptop. There’s even an USB-C port that supports charging.

    And with the steam controller, no button issues!

    slackassassin,

    Oh shit! I didn’t think of that, thanks! I have a steam controller that I might just have to dust off.

    randomaside,
    @randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I think it’s worth checking out some diy alternatives that get the job done. I built my own “steam box” with some cheap Ali Express parts (Elsa 5700xt and Erying motherboard with core I9 equivalent engineering sample) to great success. The OS is key. I’ve found two that work very well:

    chimeraos.org (requires AMD GPU) github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/ (Works with Nvidia but it’s unstable using steam full screen at times)

    I’ve had a great level of success with ChimeraOS so far.

    I have thought about trying a minisforum with the built in 6600m but I haven’t given it a go yet.

    TechAdmin,

    Would love a new Steam Machine and could actually be good this time. Proton didn’t exist when they released the original Steam Machines which limited you to linux ports of games. I had bought two but wiped & did clean installs of Windows 7 so we could play all the games wanted to.

    Before Proton, gaming on linux relied on native ports or WINE. Native ports were rare & not always better. WINE took some learning to make work well but I dunno, never got any good at it.

    havokdj,

    Even more rare was a port that was up to date with the windows branch if ever updated at all.

    Man I tell you, the early 2000’s was actually a great time for Linux gaming, it only really went downhill around the early 2010’s

    LUHG_HANI,
    @LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

    I have a suspicion that they are making something. In an interview about the steam deck refresh one of the engineers mentioned how they couldn’t find an AMD apu that was efficient and powerful enough to warrant making a steam deck 2, he said not in this chassis anyway. Insinuating they know of one for a different chassis. Pinch of salt.

    starman2112, (edited ) do games w A heroic Starfield modder just straight-up deleted those repetitive temple 'puzzles' from the game
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Seriously fuck those temples. It already takes two minutes to walk from the ship, and now I gotta spend two minutes floating around in zero G?

    TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY TIMES?

    The1Morrigan,

    Two hundred and forty times?

    RickyRigatoni,
    @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

    Two hundred and forty times?

    starman2112,
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Without spoilers, there are 24 temples, and to max out what you get from them you need to complete each one ten times

    RickyRigatoni,
    @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

    ~ psb

    shneancy,

    bruh

    tburkhol,

    omg. I’m just 15 hours in, haven’t discovered temples yet, but that seems unconscionable. Like, MMO levels of grind. I mean, I’ve happily put hundreds of hours into each TES-offline, FO-offline, Deus Ex, CP2077, BG3. I don’t mind repetitive if the mechanic is fun.

    MMO grind is for when you expect your customers to spend hundreds of hours just hanging out with their friends and you need to find something for them to do. It doesn’t have to be fun or rewarding, just distracting. Maybe TESO and FO76 have distorted their priorities.

    darth_helmet,

    The “puzzle” is that when you enter the temple, it goes zero-g and a spinny thing in the middle pops up. You have to float to a thing that looks like a spinning top, and once you float through it, another one appears. You float through a dozen of them or so and then you get a space power. Such a colossal failure of game design that this was acceptable to have as any puzzle, but the audacity to make it literally the same puzzle at every other temple completely boggles my mind.

    240 times. Sometimes a dude appears when you leave the temple, and he’ll shoot at you. There are better puzzles on the kids menu at Denny’s.

    RizzRustbolt,

    Nine times.

    watches number go up on computer screen

    Grace!

    GoodEye8,

    The number isn’t really the issue. The issue is that every single one is exactly the same. Skyrim had like 80? words of power but they were fun because you had to beat a boss or clear a dungeon or do a quest. In Skyrim you got at least some personal touch to getting those words.

    In Starfield it’s always the same 1-2 minute walk from ship to temple and then float around in a small room until the central thing opens and then you get teleported outside the temple where you kill 1 guy that 90% of the time spawns directly in front of you. If it was as many times as in Skyrim it would still be mind numbingly boring, because there’s nothing interesting about them.

    Cethin,

    To 100% it, yes. It has to be done ever several new game cycles so you’ll also have to go through the other shit multiple times too. I don’t think anyone is expected to do that though. The new game plus stuff undermines the outpost system though. It’ll be gone your next cycle, so just don’t bother I guess? The ideal meta progression would be to rush through the main story and complete all the temples on your cycle then move on.

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