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CharlesReed, do games w Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance
OnfireNFS,

All I want is someone to make an open world Sims 3 like game with 64-bit support and better multicore support. Can’t wait to see if Paralives and Life by You will deliver

CharlesReed,

Sims 3, with all its faults, is the golden age. Long live the mods.

Glamborghini,

Sims 3 was best, no? I feel like it was the full package and mostly complete right out of the box. Didn’t have the same feeling in 4 at all. Been some years since I tried 4, but when it launched I remember going back to 3 almost immediately after a couple weeks.

1rre,

2 was by far the most polished, but 3 had more features so I guess ideal lies somewhere in the middle

CharlesReed,

I did the same thing. It may have been because there weren't as many dlcs and expansions, but it just felt really dull. Plus it didn't have the completely open world like 3 did. Sitting through all those loading screens every time you wanted to go somewhere was a pain.

FluffyPotato,

I tried playing Sims 3 again recently and holy hell is the performance bad. Like the FPS is running at whatever I cap it at but there are constant freezes and stuttering with no FPS drops even with all the recommended performance mods. I then remembered I stopped playing for that very reason ages ago and now my desktop is like 100x more powerful.

bionicjoey, (edited ) do games w Sims contender Life By You gets delayed once again, this time indefinitely

God damn it. Now all hope rests with Paralives

Edit: it sounds like they are actually delaying to ensure a more polished release. Given the massive scope of the game, this seems totally reasonable. I wish Paradox would push deadlines more often honestly, given the sorry state of their most recent titles on release day (CS2 and Vic3 in particular) Though I am still disappointed we won’t get LBY sooner.

SatansMaggotyCumFart, do gaming w Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece

I have to finish off this game, I remember the first half being really fun.

Gaming with ADD is challenging sometimes.

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

Just do it in one 20 hour sitting with hyper focus. Ignore eating, bathroom breaks, and all.

Am ADHD and have done this…

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

I exclusively reserve my hyper-focus for existential dread and crippling anxiety.

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

Good choice, a favorite of mine as well. In the middle of the night when I’m supposed to be sleeping with a theme that often makes no sense in reality but I’m bought in 100% anyway until my alarm goes off.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

Yeah, I love that feedback loop of not sleeping because you’re anxious and anxious because you’re not sleeping.

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly! I spent an entire night playing a football game over and over in my head that didn’t happen and wasn’t important to the team. But John Elway just could not throw for a first down to save his life…

wahming, do games w No Rest For The Wicked's first hotfix addresses durability and repair cost complaints

What’s happening to RPS? I’ve been seeing more and more articles from them about games the writer has never played, with no useful information. Like this one, basically copy and paste of the patch notes and a summary of steam reviews. Used to like them for in depth game reviews, guess that’s going the way of the dodo.

ICastFist, do games w No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Gave it a whirl. Basically, you can now scrap ships to get their components to create a new ship inside any station. Couldn’t find any merchant within the station selling pieces, so you have to go out and explore, or scrap some of your own ships.

Stations now look slightly different from one another and no longer have those semi-hidden rooms that nobody cared about. Alien vendors now give a discount if you’re at a good standing with their race. Guild “vendors” offer a list of stuff for free, but I don’t get why the prompt is red instead of white. Performance is still mostly CPU bound.

Overall decent update, but the new features don’t warrant playing more than 1 hour.

DarthYoshiBoy, do games w Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League review: a looter shooter in need of rescuing
@DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.social avatar

They had to have seen the writing on the wall at least a year or two before they brought this to market.

I seem to remember that at about a year before launch there was some reporter (Jason Schreier?) who had an inside tip that they were changing some stuff in the face of the realization that GaaS were not the money maker they were thought to be once upon a time, but the tipper also said that they were too locked into the GaaS paradigm to make the sort of meaningful changes that would salvage the experience. I don't think there's any rescuing this one if they knew they were in trouble a full year before delivery and still couldn't shape it up into a product worthy of attention.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

There was a similar comment about that. How they are in a sunk cost fallacy for all the GaaS promises they made a few years ago. And to not release it means they make zero.

Versus releasing and maybe they make some money back.

Hoping they could salvage something.

noxy, do games w Capcom is worried that mods “offensive to public order and morals” will ‘tarnish’ the rep of their PC games
@noxy@yiffit.net avatar

then why did they make so many of the monster hunter monsters so outrageousky attractive?

paraphrand,

Yeah, it really is their fault for dressing like that.

noxy,
@noxy@yiffit.net avatar

but they’re all naked!

Wahots, do games w Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announce layoffs and "organisational review"
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Fuuuuck, Elite Dangerous is so fucking good. Anyone can make a zoo sim or other games. Very very few can make a massive space Sim with good controls, multiplayer, and the sheer scale and intensity of E:D’s FPS ship combat.

dan1101,

Exactly. My ideal game would be a mix of Elite Dangerous, X4 Foundations, and Starfield. ED has the galaxy map, flight model, and combat down. It just needs to be more of a game.

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

I would love an Elite, but with the combat and fluid vehicle entry/egress of Battlefield 1.

dan1101,

I never thought of that, but it would be so much fun.

Kaldo, do games w Lamplighter devs Harebrained "part ways" with Paradox as publisher decides against new project in the same genre
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

Some people here are blaming paradox but honestly, I don't envy any game releasing in this period. We've had so many great (and expensive games) in the past few months but even if that weren't the case, personally I'm not willing to pay 50€ for something that looks like a blander XCOM game (or 65€ if you want the special additional character, bleugh).

Then again maybe I'm just not the diehard fan and their target audience, the only game of theirs I played was shadorun many years ago and I wasn't interested in battletech either. If I were in a mood for a turn based game I know I'd sooner pick up BG3 since their price is relatively close...

kkaosninja, do gaming w KOTOR Remake feared cancelled after Sony quietly pulls tweets and videos
@kkaosninja@beehaw.org avatar

Sony clarified that this is because of them losing the license rights to the music in the trailer.

insider-gaming.com/kotor-remake-trailer-sony/

corrupts_absolutely, do games w CD Projekt apologise for Cyberpunk 2077 Ukrainian script's potentially "offensive" references to Russians

makes sense they would be upset with a third party intentionally altering the game’s message, but im not sure why it’s framed as an apology to “russian gamers”

Hildegarde,

Because its the PR team making the statement.

nanoUFO, (edited ) do games w DOOM creator keen on "ethical" uses for AI, but worried about AAA-style "homogenisation"
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

Is there any ethical AI, all they do is take data people posted online and then profit off it. With the original creators not getting a say if their data gets used or any profits derived from it.

geosoco,

arguably no?

Though Getty did introduce their new AI today that was only trained on images they own the copyright to. Arguably, still not ethical, but at least it's things they own the data for.

nanoUFO,
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

Can you verify their training sets or do you have to take their word on it.

geosoco,

I didn't dig too much into it, but my guess would be no.

Even if you could verify, it's still an ethical grey area as it's taking works they paid photographers to generate new works potentially without crediting the original photographers? Their own website tells people they have to credit the original photographer, and I'd be surprised if the AI lists all the works it used to create it.

DaCookeyMonsta,

If your training is from in house sources possibly, although then you’re limited on sample size.

sugar_in_your_tea,

We did this in a previous org. Basically, we had a bunch of user-generated data, users would then classify a sample of that data, and then we’d train our model on those classifications.

I don’t see how it would work in game dev though, unless they’re using AI to customize an NPC’s behavior based on the player’s actions (i.e. teaching an enemy to block player attacks). Generating models and whatnot would just have too small of a data set to work with.

wahming, do games w Dune: Spice Wars review: a compulsive 4X that both nails and wastes its source material

Was interested, but looking at the steam reviews there’s no campaign, just a bunch of strung together skirmish maps. And it sounds like another case of EA abandoned as full release.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I loved Dune on Sega Genesis, and it had a great campaign IIRC. It’s too bad, because if this had a decent campaign, I’d probably get it out of nostalgia.

raptir,

There’s a campaign, just not a story mode. It’s a conquest-style, like what Dune 2 pretended to have (but was obviously scripted). Like Dawn of War: Dark Crusade or Soul Storm.

wahming,

So… Just a bunch of strung together skirmish maps?

PeterPoopshit, (edited ) do games w Starfield Steam Deck performance report: a frontier too far

As a die hard Windows hater that games (I haven’t had Windows installed on any pc I own since 2015) all of the AAA games always get absolutely dogshit performance when they first come out. It was like that with Cyberpunk and it was like that with Hogwarts Legacy. Today, those games play just as well on Windows as on Linux. I’m sure they’ll eventually work it out

nanoUFO, (edited )
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

I remember seeing a video where they compared linux to windows starfield performance and it was basically the same on average fps but the 1% lows were less prevalent on linux so it might actually work better on linux.

Ah here I found it www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6fb889qo4

PeterPoopshit, (edited )

I bet it works fine on amd gpus right now. If you’re on a 10 series Nvidia card you’re fucked. If you’re on a newer Nvidia card it’s still kind of bad though but not every protondb report involving Nvidia 3xxx or 4xxx cards is complaining about performance. I suspect there exists some kind of performance fix for later Nvidia cards that is not yet well known.

The latest driver is 537.13 I think. Most of the time they only bother to put every multiple of 5 driver version in Linux distro repositories. Someone that was familiar with how exactly the low level parts of this worked could manually get driver 537 working on Linux probably. No idea if that would work or not but I haven’t seen someone claim to have tried it yet.

updawg,

I get a lot of crashes on my rx 6700s, mainly when loading into Neon or The Well

circuitfarmer,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’m on a 6600 XT and have had not a single crash. I wonder what the difference is. I’m using Pop! with the Liquorix kernel.

updawg,

I’m on Windows 11

circuitfarmer, (edited )
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

As someone playing on Linux desktop, yes. It’s fine*.

*as fine as it can be, because it needs some general optimization

Edit: and yes, I’m on AMD (it’s the obvious choice for Linux gaming; drivers are in the kernel)

FrankTheHealer,

To be fair, Cyberpunk’s performance was awful for everyone at launch, Windows, Linux and consoles.

At one point I remember seeing someone on Reddit show that the game was less likely to crash on Linux than on Windows. In that regard, one could argue the performance was better for Linux users when Cyberpunk launched. Mind you, the games was still a buggy mess at launch too.

circuitfarmer, (edited )
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Cyberpunk’s performance was awful for everyone at launch, Windows, Linux and consoles.

But it wasn’t? There were a lot of bugs, to be sure, but PC performance was not among them. Hell, I was on a 970 at the time, and it was still fine.

The console versions specifically were a shit show.

But in regards to running better on Linux, a lot of it tends to come down to shader precaching. Lots of stutters on Windows are the first time a shader loads. That was definitely the case with Elden Ring.

billwashere, do games w Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs

I am so ready to just cancel my game pass. This shit just pisses me off.

Stovetop,

I’m honestly surprised people still have it.

aksdb,

If it fits your gaming profile, it’s a pretty good deal.

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