echodot

echodot, rok temu

Even if it weren’t for all of the problems the game has it’s hardly innovative. I don’t think a Bethesda game has been innovative ever. They didn’t even invent the fallout franchise.

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Wally has all the prerequisites of being their CEO, Lack of talent

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It’s a Bethesda game, so fat chance of that l.

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If your game has been in Alpha since 2015. And there are basically no updates since that time, then yeah you’re a scam artist. He knew what he was doing was wrong and he kept doing it for nearly a decade, there’s no defense for that.

Also plenty of other software developers manage not to do what he does so it’s obviously not actually that hard

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Yeah well just because you haven’t heard of it and no one’s heard of it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t hyped, It just means it wasn’t typed very effectively.

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Good that means no micro transactions

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Next gen consoles are years out. You’re looking at 2029 at the earliest for the next generation of consoles.

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I just wonder if they can actually figure out a way to make GTA online actually fun. Because It really isn’t a good game mode.

All of the online modes that are actually fun are all modded servers. The mental servers are awful you spawn in and get blown up instantly, how’s that fun?

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I’m just concerned that they’re going to go all in on GTA online 2.

They either need to make sure they put a huge amount of effort into the single player or they need to completely rework online play.

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I remember when it was a wave defence game. It was a good game I wish they’d make that as well

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I did think that was going to be the original idea. To encourage you to actually explore your environment and to actually go outside the city.

Doing that would require some fairly robust and sophisticated trading mechanics though so I actually could get a sand type even if I didn’t live near a desert, in exchange they could have a grass type that I had captured on open morland in Northern England.

It would have been cool if they’ve managed to get the market density required to pull it off

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Postal was made to rile particular kind of people up. This game on the other hand seems to be actually aimed at a, em, particular demographic

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Well not really. One of them was violent, but violence isn’t exactly a kink, it’s just fun.

GTA is violent, and people got all bent out of shape about that as well. But the goal of the game was never to actually get on the nerves of the sort of people who get upset by it It was always made to be entertaining.

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It wasn’t gamers who would have had a problem. They’ll have just shrugged and not cared about the game.

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It’s depressing to know that it’s actually apparently more profitable to never really release a game than to release one and it be moderately popular

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No it entered into alpha about 10 years ago. Not even beta, it’s alpha, there is barely any gameplay to it.

I’ve seen grey box proof of concept pieces with more functionality

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Drama how you’re supposed to play EVE Online

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There’s lots of actual stuff in interplanetary space that you can pull on for inspiration on how to make an interesting game.

You can have counters with shady trader types that are only in the vast gulf between the systems, there could be rogue planets with billion year old abandoned cities to explore filled with automated defences for you to fight and interesting loot at the end. Distant ancient asteroids that contain the seeds of the first life in the universe that when you interact with temporarily give you status change that you can only get from asteroids and temporarily gives you super strength or something, allowing you to complete missions in a way you otherwise would not necessarily have done.

The way these kind of side quests are supposed to work is the player is plodding along trying to get from point A to point B and on the way they get sidetracked by this side quest (the clue is in the name Bethesda). Maybe it changes their priorities or how they’re going to tackle and upcoming mission. Side quests are not supposed to be independent standalone things, they’re supposed to integrate with the main story. They’re not supposed to be something you find easily there’s supposed to be something you come across on your own as you’re exploring the environment, but you can only do that if the developers bothered to provided environment for you to explore. If they just teleport you to your destination then there’s no opportunity for this kind of emergent gameplay.

Loads of stuff you can put between the star systems.

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Yeah they should 100% have a flat planet somewhere. Held up by a turtle.

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What are they spending all of it on? Because it certainly not updates to the engine.

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It’s because they keep buying random companies. Then weirdly there’s those random companies don’t make them any money, and so the obvious illusion is to buy some more random companies.

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Ok so somebody should ask this CEO how he expects gamers to pay potentially $200 per game.

What an idiot, games are priced at what the market will bear and they’ve pretty much reached that limit now.

echodot, 2 lata temu

I cannot see how they can reasonably copyright the idea of having characters remember you which is basically all the nemesis system is. There are many ways to implement it that wouldn’t violate patent, of course it’s in WBs interest to not nose that one around too much

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They made GTA V then GTA V again then GTA V again then GTA V for VR, that’s loads of games.

Rockstar have just innovated by releasing exactly the same game every single generation.

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Yeah but Rockstar won’t using that they were using just standard animations so it’s fine that they’ve come up with around animation system cuz they use their own engine.

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Apparently it is because if you say it bad you lose your job which is insane. Land of the free my backside

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No we’re just criticising the fact that one side is apparently angels even though they’re murdering civilians and the other side are terrible even though they’re doing the same murdering of civilians.

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I’m getting about 30 FPS with 2090

The key though as far as I can see is to make sure it’s on the SSD, that speed up level streaming pretty quickly.

Vsync also doesn’t work, but I haven’t had time to figure out if there’s a workaround.

I don’t know who’s reporting 12 frames per second but they must be running on a potato. It’s definitely not well optimised, but it’s not that bad.

echodot, 2 lata temu

It’s not quite the same thing though is it.

It’s a bit like developing a microwave meal and it turns out that it only really cooks in 2 minutes if you have an ultra powerful microwave then putting out a press release that says I know it says it’ll cook in 2 minutes on the packaging but unless you have a really powerful microwave add a few minutes to it.

The responsibility is still on the players to have reasonable expectations of the game depending on the hardware that they have.

Also it’s 100% my fault for pre-ordering the damn thing, I don’t know why I did that. But that’s on me because if I really wanted to I could have refunded it.

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They weren’t erroneously flagging anything. The driver wasn’t so much a driver as much as a locally hosted man in the middle attack. It wasn’t necessary for the functioning of the graphics card it was literally intercepting commands and altering them, which is exactly what cheating software does.

The only way they could have patched the software to not flag it would have been if AMD had told them in advance of what they were doing. Which I have no idea why they didn’t do because it was blatantly obvious this exact issue was going to happen.

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Except that they know how, anti-cheating software works at least a day theoretical level, they know how their software works, they know the thing that their software does is something that cheating software does again at a theoretical level. Just on first principles alone it should have been possible for them to work this out without having to have any expert knowledge or have the game in their testing suite.

That’s all forgetting that apparently not a single person in the software department, the management department or the QA department (assuming they have one) apparently knows anything about games development. Really?

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Pretty sure this is just a management issue, as in they they need to be doing some.

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I don’t understand this attitude that the new game needs to include the DLC of the old one that’s never been a thing in games. New versions of an old game never previously included the DLC for the old game apart from anything else because it wouldn’t make sense because they’ve changed so many systems.

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It’s literally an option in the zoning tool so I don’t know what videos you’ve been watching

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Can they please fix Overwatch 2 so it’s actually playable now? Or better yet just bring back Overwatch 1

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They just need to update their game engine to something more modern. Like Quake or something

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Unity was been a massive need of an update anyway and just wasn’t getting it. Something like this was always going to happen. This whole debacle has only accelerated it.

All they could have spent some money and upgraded Unity, but clearly that was never going to happen.

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I’m pretty sure that if they’d actually tried to keep going in the route they were going with the rules they’d have been sued out of existence. It was almost definitely illegal so it baffles me that they tried to do it.

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EA is still around though

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Have they fixed the broken AI yet?

When the game first came out you could walk around the corner to hide from the police. And none of the NPCs knew where any of the roads were, so they were just scrape along the side of building for no reason at all.

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It has a single player campaign that’s how.

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He knows that. Which is why he’s talking about it and not actually doing it.

He’s basically just whining about it to us.

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A favourite of reactionist right-wing press.

Are immigrants sneaking into your home in the middle of the night and licking your children?

Well they should be. Lazy bums.

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The most pirated game is probably Minecraft because people are mad.

I think I slung £6 at them about 400 years ago and I still have access to the game and get all the updates, just doesn’t seem worth the effort.

echodot, 2 lata temu

In Mirror’s Edge one of the jumps near the end of the game was programmed to be actually undoable. It slowed you down, just a little bit, so it was now impossible to complete the game.

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They have over 7,000 employees they need to lay people off anyway. The reason they’re not profitable is because they’ve massively overextended themselves. Why did they buy Wetter, utterly bizarre purchase choice.

If they had a sensible number of employees and didn’t buy random companies every 5 minutes they’d be profitable.

echodot, 2 lata temu

I never understood why they even had that clause in their contract. You’re already not allowed to change the terms of a contract after the contract has been agreed (because otherwise what’s the point), you don’t need to independently include wording to say you won’t do it. Equally removing the wording doesn’t allow you to make those changes.

So effectively they had some wording that didn’t give anybody any additional protections, then removed it, thus not removing any protections. They then acted as if that weirdly allowed them to break the law, and then broke the law. Then when someone pointed out that’s not how it works, they backtracked.

Does Unity even have any corporate lawyers?

echodot, 2 lata temu

Marc’s response is true, you can stay on the terms applicable for the version of Unity you are using as long as you keep using that version.

Oh shit, our lawyers have just informed us (again, but this time I listened) that trying to change terms of service after they’ve already been agreed is actually not legal and could get us in trouble.