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Poopfeast420, do games w Doom the dark ages...
@Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I’m currently playing the game, got like a handful of levels left. It’s a good game, but with the way the Doom games have evolved and changed over the time, I don’t think you can really say “if you like that Doom, you’ll like this Doom.”

I definitely enjoy the gameplay of Eternal more, but Dark Ages is really good.

The feel of running around is great. You sound massive, your jumps create shockwaves and kill enemies. If you’ve played Boltgun, it’s like that.

The shield is feels great. The charge is awesome, just like the Meathook was in Eternal to get right next to your enemy, and fodder demons just explode on impact.

Parries feel good, but are extremely easy. The timing is super forgiving and the range is massive.

I think a big thing, that not many people are talking about, are the difficulty sliders. You can change so many things, but ID just ignores 90% of them with their presets. You can change so much stuff, and make it feel like a completely different game. Crank up the game speed and just zoom around. Increase your and the enemies damage, so it’s all about dodging, or you get one-shot. Make the projectiles slow, but a lot more deadly.

There’s still some ammo management, but it’s not like Eternal, not even like 2016. Your melee attack, that you can use for the execute drops ammo, just like the Chainsaw, but you’re using it regularly anyway. Some guns also have upgrades that shooting demons with it also drops ammo for the weapon.

The game is a lot more story heavy, but just like in Eternal you can just skip it and not read the Codex entries.

The mech stuff is alright, but pretty basic, but also really short segments. The dragon is cool in theory, but I really hate these parts, and they just drag on for far too long. Flying around just isn’t fun.

Weapons are pretty good, and I have some favorites. The normal Combat Shotgun with upgrades is great this time and not just outshined by the Super Shotgun immediately. That Ball-on-a-Chain gun is also really nice, with some cool upgrades. Because you don’t really have any ammo issues if you use the melee regularly, I’ve just used one gun for long stretches of time, because there’s just no reason real reason to switch, and you can just use what you want.

The devs always said in Dark Ages you’re like a tank, but with default settings on Nightmare difficulty, you’re made out of paper. Projectiles are extremely dangerous, and enemies like to spawn behind you and shoot you in the back. The game is actually not great on telling you where you’re getting attacked from, and there’s just always tons of enemies around and some deaths can be kinda frustrating.

Then there are also some minor UI/UX issues. You get small icons in the middle for your melee charges, but they don’t show the progress like in Eternal with the Blood Punch. There’s no dedicated Map button, just open your Dossier, which remembers your last screen, which is annoying, because you want that map 99% of the time. Sprinting has this terrible vignette effect around your screen, and you want to sprint all the time, but you can only disable all screen effects, which includes some stuff I’d like to see.

For some dumb reason, the Fast Travel option, at the end of a level has been removed, so if you miss a secret, you’ll have to play the level again. There’s also tons of points-of-no-return, so you’ll have to stare at the map constantly, to make sure you haven’t missed anything, which makes the lack of a map button so terrible.

After I’m done with my Nightmare run, I want to do another one, where I play around with the sliders a bit. I want to turn up the game speed, but will probably lower the damage and projectile speed to compensate.

Paradox,
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Fwiw it shows the charge % to the next pip down next to the ammo counter

Poopfeast420, (edited )
@Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Yes, but it would still be nice to have in the middle.

I went back to check in Eternal, and I was wrong about that game showing the progress on the icons in the middle of the screen. Just like Dark Ages it just shows charges that are ready to use, and the progress in the full HUD on the edges of the screen. Seems like I just need to get good and look at the full HUD, like I did in Eternal.

Zikeji, do games w Doom the dark ages...
@Zikeji@programming.dev avatar

The gameplay looks fine. It looks like a Doom game. But I won’t buy a game with DRM, so I won’t be buying it until that gets removed (at earliest).

shittydwarf,

Yeah I would have bought it at launch if it weren’t bundled with denuovo, which is now locking out users on linux

oxideseven, (edited ) do games w Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer he have simulate the performance on a similar PC

Obligatory fuck Nintendo, and shame anyone buying their stuff anymore.

fishos,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

If you’re gonna post spam, at least spell it right.

death, do gaming w What are the best gaming moments of the last decade?

Some memorable moments in no particular order:

  • Outer Wilds when you reach the Sun Station
  • Descending into the Lost River biome in Subnautica
  • Alan Wake 2: The Musical
knokelmaat,

Outer wilds ending is GOAT gaming moment for me.

Iheartcheese, do games w What is your favorite indie game?
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

Stardew

MellowYellow13, do games w Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games

It is literally not a remake, and how is it half assed? I have a low to mid range PC and the game runs smooth as hell, and it’s gorgeous.

prole,

What gfx setting are you using?

HotCoffee,

Tried to run it on Wine Lutris and the open world ran like shit.

Gamers is it time to retire the 2060?

Rob1992,

Try running it on an operating system that the game is native to and not one that doesn’t properly support nvidia

HotCoffee,

Asking someone to switch to Windows or mac on Lemmy. Feeling bold today sir? Maybe devs should just optimize their games

DeathsEmbrace,

You get neither and company’s get money to keep neglecting both of your wants.

MellowYellow13,

Mine runs smooth as fuck.

mememuseum,

The 2060 is a 7 year old entry level card.

Have you tried the config tweak to disable Lumen?

www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/183

This one helps with lower VRAM apparently:

www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/399

HotCoffee,

I tried the Ultimate Engine Tweaks but that didnt’t improve much. Will try these too.

Yeah that’s what I thought. Will probaly have to upgrade to a better AMD card soon.

simple, do games w Anbernic no longer shipping to the US

Expected but sad. Almost the entirety of retro handhelds come from China.

mesamunefire,

Just about. People are expecting miyoo and some of the other companies to follow in a bit. Theres some American stock still in Amazon warehouses, but thats basically it.

It takes 3 weeks to get over here via boat so im thinking we will see more and more cancellations with various shipments in the next coming weeks.

ampersandrew, do games w Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, the two hour limit affects game design. Based on what I’ve read about Blue Prince, it probably didn’t affect that one much at all. The business model always affects the game design. When games were expecting to be rentals, the first few levels would be front loaded with the best that the game had to offer, and then later levels would be more phoned in. In the arcades, games would be louder to catch more attention, they’d be harder to make you put in another quarter, they’d reduce downtime to get the next person on the machine, etc.

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

When games were expecting to be rentals, the first few levels would be front loaded with the best that the game had to offer, and then later levels would be more phoned in

Still happens today. First impressions matter, budgets are finite, and sometimes reviewers only play the first few parts.

imecth,

sometimes reviewers only play the first few parts.

Not just the reviewers unfortunately, games shed players at every step, it's why most games are front-loaded and fall off the further you get into them.

Maestro,

I always find it interesting to see the percentages drop on Steam achievements when you progress through a game. The drop-off curve is very different from game to game. I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.

imecth,

I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.

They probably don't want the game to end, there's a certain finality that comes with an ending. I've had this happen to me for a few games and books but i usually power through.

EnsignWashout,

I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.

That’s me. It used to be common for games to have a sharp ramp up in challenge at the end boss, and I often don’t have the time to get through that.

So I habitatually abandon games when I feel close to the end, and I watch the ending on a stream, instead of playing it.

I realize that minimal research could tell me which games are which, but even less research finds me a decent stream of the game ending.

PapstJL4U,
@PapstJL4U@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, the theory if front-loaded design is just reality of game development reality. No, D2 Ac4 wasn’t limited because of rentals - it was bad,because one year of crunch and still nit enough time does this to a product.

Halo1 last third is bad, because they did not have enough time, nit because they cared about rentals.

Game content dev generally starts at the beginning.

BrowseMan, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #10

Thank you for these news/updates :D

As a lover of physical packaging and manual a bit saddened by the current full digital tendencies it was great to learn about all these info!

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

I think it’s a ‘cozy’ feeling - seeing a tangible bit of fun modern games you can hold? IDK, but whenever I find these it makes me happy too!

TurnOnTheSunflower, do games w History in the making.

Is noone going to mention the bulge?

Rai,

I was looking more at the ‘stache than the bulge tbh

meyotch,

The 70’s were a sexy, sexy decade. Lotsa polyester and great facial hair.

Vari, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Sticking with 10 for a bit, moving to Linux

Adalast,

Ditto. They are stopping support, but I highly doubt they will just brick all Windows 10 machines. If they do, I will just throw Linux on a flash drive and boot from that to recover my data ahead of switching fully to Linux.

I remember seeing a leaked paper about them putting an omnipresent advertising ticket at the top of the screen that will be displayed regardless of full screen status. The only reason I can think that they are forcing this so hard is that a lot of their forced ad servicing plans are not possible to implement in earlier versions of Windows due to root level functionality that cannot be changed. I’m guessing things like direct injection of ads in running processes or that ticker.

Ads have no place in an OS, especially not as kernel level processes. If ads on the internet have taught us anything, it is that bad actors can inject malicious code directly into them without content servers or hosts knowing and compromise untold numbers of machines who just, let me check, rendered the ad.

Between the aggressive plans for in OS advertising and the privacy abolishing actions and policies with AI datascraping, I am done with MS. Windows 10 will be the last one of theit OS’s I run. If work needs me to do something on Windows, it will be on a virtual machine that I remote into.

Dran_Arcana,

They won’t brick it, but you can bet that a lot of people are sitting on unreleased 0-days for win10. It will likely be dangerous to connect to the internet on day 1.

Adalast,

Luckily I already don’t trust the internet already and don’t go anywhere online without script blockers and I don’t open emails as a rule of thumb. I am sure it will be dangerous, but I am not relying on passive security already.

Dran_Arcana,

Every packet you send/receive relies on passive security. Your nic drivers, the driver kernel model, all of the userland applications that sit on top of it. I get that in practical terms, your firewall will do a lot of the heavy lifting but there are passive rce vulnerabilities in previous unsupported versions of Windows that are trivially exploitable today.

Nosavingthrow,

Man, I wish these people would fucking be cool. I just want to play games. There is nothing valuable on my desktop for you

Dran_Arcana,

Me too brother, but I disagree with your assessment on value

An non-blacklisted residential IP address with reasonable throughput is valuable in and of itself. DDOS botnets, proxies to bypass geo blocks or to obfuscate illicit traffic, etc. Also your gaming PC could be used for distributed compute workloads of compromised, usually crypto mining.

Any hardware/connection has value if it’s “free”. It’s just a numbers game beyond that.

Nosavingthrow,

You’ve convinced me. They want access to my connection and maybe some processing power; they DON’T want my dungeons and dragons notes.

Dran_Arcana,

When ML training farms run out of new text to train on, “they” may very well want your original writing too…

Nosavingthrow,

Mother of god. They might steal my ‘Brown’ Elemental, that eats excrement and excretes clean, potable water. It will cimb up your ass and kill you if you sleep in the sewers. They definitely are going to steal this, specially.

MehBlah,

I’m blocking addresses at the router daily. I could live with 11 if I could uninstall their garbage. I’ve tried any number of things to keep crapilot 365 off of my domain machines but I’m told I have to have the enterprise edition to do that.

Adalast,

Yeah, legislation needs passed that any software on any device purchased or leased must be removable without voiding warranties or service contracts. That would go a long way towards making phones, computers, and other devices less invasive and actually privacy protected.

Dran_Arcana,

For now, ctt winutil does a pretty good job at removing the cruft. I’ve long since switched to debian for my daily driver, but as a remote-access sunshine host for games that require kernel level anticheat, it’s surprisingly usable.

For anyone looking to keep windows around in some capacity, I strongly recommend it. github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

MehBlah,

I need something automated that I can run on each machine in the domain. I haven’t read any of the docs on this utility. Perhaps it has a way to do that.

Vari,

Plus, I just want to own my fucking computer. I shouldn’t have to go into the registry to get rid of edge.

Nefara, (edited ) do games w Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

For a while, I played the MMO Guild Wars 2 as a music simulator. It has playable in game musical instruments that you can equip, and play with the number keys. A-G are represented with the numbers 1-8 with 9 and 0 swapping an octave lower or higher. Killing monsters? Doing dungeons? Raids and world bosses? Nah I’m just chilling on a beautiful forested cliffside near a waterfall figuring out an arrangement for the Lord of the Rings theme.

kingofras, do astronomy w Hubble Space Telescope YouTube channel has been deleted

Don’t look up

Asafum, do games w Aged like milk, John!

There are three guarantees in life:

Death

Taxes

The ultra wealthy will completely fuck up a society for personal gain.

umbraroze, do games w Skill issue

I remember the last time I got messaged by some misogynist dipshit, way back in Halo 5, blaming me for losing the game. …When he was the worst performing player in the team. I just stared at the post game report and wondered how the heck the dude even managed to get a ranking as low as he did.

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