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z3rOR0ne, do gaming w Nvidia’s AI-powered NPCs are getting better, but still sound uncanny
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I’m just waiting for my consciousness to be copied, uploaded, and enslaved for a hellish eternity. Like that one video game/tv show/movie/novel/short story that totally isn’t a warning of things to come /s.

Grass, (edited ) do gaming w Nvidia’s AI-powered NPCs are getting better, but still sound uncanny

I haven’t read the article but this headline gave me an idea. In future tech/cyberpunk settings, humans and cyborgs should be animated convincingly like real life humans, perhaps with slight differences to accentuate the cybernetics. Robots should be as they are in real life too. Androids should be varying degrees of Bethesda npc. The variations would be based on the in game lore or the manufacturer. So high end stuff would be more like real humans, but the Bethesda like companies can only put out Bethesda like products with spooky uncanny valley bug eyed stare through your skull faces and body doing whatever in a different direction.

After watching it, basically this. Save this specific version for later and when it improves use the new and the old together and there are your androids. Combine with traditional voice and animation for the humans. Realism out of fake looking shit.

KyoStarr, do gaming w Twitch cuts 35% of its staff, and now more than 500 people are out of work
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Unfortunately, we still have work to do to rightsize our company and I regret having to share that we are taking the painful step to reduce our headcount by just over 500 people across Twitch.

Absolutely hate that "rightsizing" is a term. It's called downsizing and it will have negative impacts on Twitch users, Twitch as a platform, and the 500 Twitch employees that will be out of a job now.

Maybe Twitch should be "rightsizing" CEO and Executive Suite salaries?

ZeroHora, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods
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DRM in old games so you are only affecting people that bought the game? Genius

drislands,

They’re not worried about pirates, they’re worried about nude mods. It’s still idiotic, but it is consistent.

ZeroHora,
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Bu than people could download a pirate version and install mods, in the end the pirate version is way more attractive than the original.

drislands,

I don’t disagree. But the inciting incident was when an official Street Fighter tournament went awry when the person hosting left on a nude Chun Li mod. I imagine they’re specifically trying to prevent that from happening ever again.

ampersandrew,
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They probably care far less about that than they do the ability to mod in costumes instead of buying them.

belated_frog_pants, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

Welp, this will only make people yar harder

DmMacniel, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

What the frick is their reasoning for this? Retroactively introducing DRM/anti-tampering does NOTHING but cause bad press and weary fans.

Even_Adder, (edited )

They are VERY mad about mods.

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

ugh 🙄

LoamImprovement,

The link’s broken for me but I assume it’s the RE8 Dimitrescu flyswatter thing?

Even_Adder,

The link should work now, but I also found out they were doing this.

BoiLudens, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

I’d already left a couple of reviews on re5 and re revelations expressing my discontent. But otherwise there are more older collections that actually have that drm applied.

HopeOfTheGunblade, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods
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What's that you say Capcom? Never purchase another title from you again? Well, if that's how you want it, I suppose.

vulgarcynic, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods
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It’s a bummer we can’t decline Steam Game updates anymore. That would help avoid these types of situations. Being forced to update a game before launching it was always going to lead to this type of bullshit. Same with all the GTA fuckery.

domi,
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In case anyone needs it, you can actually downgrade Steam games. It just doesn’t have an UI unfortunately.

There’s a tool for it here: github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

SteamDB can be used to find the game ID and depot ID: steamdb.info

Steam itself will not care if the game files are not up to date, individual games might.

CallumWells,

You don’t even need the external tool, you can use the Steam terminal itself to download the depots, which I personally find more palatable than having another application that is getting access to my username and password (it needs those to get the access from Steam). Even though I don’t think that tool is malicious I would still prefer to not have to rely on it.

  • Go to SteamDB, and search up your game.
  • Click on the app ID of the game you’re looking for to go to its details page.
  • Take a look at the depots, and click on the depot ID of the one that looks like the one you want to download.
  • Click on the Manifests tab. Look at the list and find the version that you want to download. Record its manifest ID.
  • Open the Steam console. You can do this by opening a command window “Run” by pressing «Win + R» and then enter the command: steam://open/console, and then press Enter, or by opening any browser and enter the URL-address field write the same command: steam://open/console. You can even have it always available when you start Steam by appending -console to the launch options of the shortcut to the Steam exe.
  • The syntax to the “download_depot” command is as follows:
    download_depot <appid> <depotid> [<target manifestid>] [<delta manifestid>] [<depot flags filter>] : download a single depot
    You only need to worry about the first three arguments to it. Type the command, then the app ID, depot ID, and the manifest ID of the depot version you want.
  • Wait for Steam to download the depot. You won’t see any indication of progress, but you can tell it’s downloading by looking at the network usage on your downloads page. The download can pause/resume if your connection goes out, but won’t if you restart the client.
  • After the download is done, Steam will show you where the files were downloaded to.
  • Go to the game’s installation directory, and move the files somewhere else. Then go to where the depot files were downloaded to, and move everything over to the game folder.
  • You may have to rename the game’s EXE file if the dev changed the launch options recently. You can find the current EXE name by going to the game’s SteamDB page and clicking on the Configuration tab. 11. You should now be able to launch the old version through Steam.

Personally I found that you can just start the game from the download location and it will still have the Steam overlay if the game basically uses Steam as DRM.

domi,
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Yep, that works as well.

I use depotdownloader because I automated my downgrade script for Beat Saber, makes things faster.

CallumWells,

Are you downgrading to several different versions? Because I’ve used the console variant and just run the game from the download folder and Steam doesn’t update it

domi,
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Yes, I keep several Beat Saber versions for different mods and replace the files in the main directory when Beat Saber updates.

CallumWells,

I’ve just not replaced the files in any directory at all, just start the game from the download location for the depot (one should be able to rename the folder for it to the version) and then you keep any number of versions to play available by just going into that download location and starting the game.

At least that’s how it has worked for me. I just thought that was easier than having to replace files every time.

domi,
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At least that’s how it has worked for me. I just thought that was easier than having to replace files every time.

It is, I just can’t do it because I have all the custom songs and plugins in my main folder and copying/linking all of that is a lot more work than just overwriting the game files each time.

CallumWells,

Yeah, that makes sense.

wcSyndrome, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

This article might be a bit late? Other news media saying the decision has been reversed already

taanegl,

MSN Article to that effect.

toxicbubble420, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

banning mods on single player games 🤔

sic_semper_tyrannis, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

This is why I only buy DRM free games from GoG and download them forever so my copy stays the way it should be. With me and DRM free.

BobGnarley, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

Ill just make sure to never, ever buy those titles and juat pirate them instead. Thanks Capcom!

butiloveu, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

Oh no. How dares somebody to enhance his single player experience with mods. Let’s forbid them to modify a SP game they bought, this can’t backfire, right?

CaptObvious, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

I honestly didn’t even know that Capcom was still around. Time for a boycott?

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