SkyeStarfall

SkyeStarfall, 20 godzin temu

I partly agree with you in that everyone using the same UE5 engine is bad

But I really don’t agree that deferred rendering techniques are inherently bad. Maybe they cause negative incentives for developers that lead to worse games in the long run, but you might as well blame capitalism at that point

I like techniques such as TAA because they do work better as anti-aliasing in my experience. I’ve multiple times had the choice between TAA and traditional AA and I think TAA simply does what it sets out to do better. Upscaling and frame generation are also nice to haves as optional features people can enable. Sometimes I use them, sometimes not. But it is bad that companies use these techniques as a crutch, indeed, but I don’t want to see them gone

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Wdym supported for 2 months? It was, and still is, in closed alpha, getting regular updates

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I keep people repeating this, but where are you getting this information from? I’ve never seen this claim before, and I’ve not noticed this happening when I’ve used itch in the past either?

I’ve noticed a ton of accusations of itch doing seemingly a bad thing after another, and so far all of those claims have turned out wrong. Please give a source at least!

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There are better cryptocurrencies for the actual use case of currencies than bitcoin like monero

SkyeStarfall, 4 miesiące temu

What do you mean ruined?

SkyeStarfall, 5 miesięcy temu

But also don’t forget that the amount of gamers is larger today than in 2013. Gaming is much more mainstream, and so even 97% of the install base is still disappointing considering steam grew by, what, 3x or something in terms of average monthly users?

Another source I found is that the amount of total gamers grew by roughly 50% from 2013 to 2025. But yeah, I just did a quick skin numbers are not precise

But still, 97% is disappointing considering the general demographic was supposed to grow. And then, in reality, it’s just 67% too

SkyeStarfall, 8 miesięcy temu

Your thirst is mine, my water is yours

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🥺

SkyeStarfall, 8 miesięcy temu

Hell yea

SkyeStarfall, 9 miesięcy temu

I presume it’s due to African American Vernacular English (AAVE), there is a cultural aspect there that is detectable through voice

SkyeStarfall, 9 miesięcy temu

Deadlock isn’t as bad but god, the amount of racist, bigoted, and straight up fucked up things people have said are tiring and enough for me to never want to be on a mic

There’s only so many times you bother listening to someone yelling at their teammates, throwing out slurs, or even telling people

CWto get raped

Before you just start considering perma muting everyone

SkyeStarfall, 10 miesięcy temu

I see this myth everywhere, but what is it based on? They’re still actively updating Stationeers and ICARUS

Just look at their update history of you don’t believe me

SkyeStarfall, 10 miesięcy temu

They are also incredibly transparent on their discord. Feel free to join it and look at what the devs are saying for more info!

SkyeStarfall, 10 miesięcy temu

The big difference is that the DayZ standalone title was controlled by Bohemia Interactive, Rocketwerkz meanwhile is Dean’s studio.

I mean, I get that I don’t have an insider view or anything, but Rocketwerkz has proven itself reliable

In addition, DayZ is like a decade or more old, even in the worst case things might just change

SkyeStarfall, 10 miesięcy temu

What about the publisher take two tho

SkyeStarfall, 11 miesięcy temu

I don’t see why it matters though? You’re not gonna be playing the game on your phone with limited data

SkyeStarfall, 11 miesięcy temu

That’s more than I pay for unlimited gigabit here wtf 😭

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I mean, they’re not gonna stop developing deadlock once it comes out. It’s likely gonna be a decade long project at least. More hands won’t hurt.

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Sure, but deadlock isn’t exactly late. And if there’s a time when you want to add more developers, then an alpha when the game is still in the early stages is the best time to do so

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It’s in closed beta right now

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GregTech: New Horizons

:)

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The “extremes” here being “social justice” and “anti-social justice”

…I’m gonna side with the social justice side here.

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We can detect its gravitational influence, as it interacts via gravity. The issue being that gravity is a weak force, and so there’s a lot of room for speculation.

But there is a lot of evidence backing up dark matter existing. But it’s not definitive yet.

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The energy is actually not conserved across the universe in general relativity, as it is currently understood. Conversation of energy is due to the time symmetry, which the expansion of space breaks.

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I compare them to good indie games, and in that sense most AAA games are bland rehashed kitchen sinks that all look and play the same. It’s boring.

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Because chances are the 7800X3D will be faster due to the cache.

Real-world applications often can only be parallelized so and so much, before you start hitting diminishing returns for many reasons. A lot of it is about the actual technical design as much as it is the technical execution (you can’t parallelize two operations if one depends on the result of the other).

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Innuendo Studios did a good synopsis on the whole thing youtu.be/lLYWHpgIoIw?si=UxwjWAIi425KjG14

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Which is interesting because I literally have not heard of it before today.

And looking at the current list, I know about the 6 current top wishlisted games.

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This is standard practice in anti-cheat methodology, and is generally agreed upon to result in much more positive long-term outcomes.

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I feel like console exclusivity is starting to become a thing of the past. PC is getting less ignored, and a lot of GTA V later success was due to PC multiplayer, I believe?

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Graphics are overrated, and people who “won’t play a game because it has bad graphics” are missing out on so so much

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I don’t know, slight spoilers for the general mood, but, outer wilds is that, but it’s more like… wistful, or melancholic, or bittersweet. It’s sad, but it’s a good sad. It’s emotional, and emotions feel good.

I feel like, if I were in a bad place when playing that, I don’t think it would have made it worse. It might have made it more meaningful, and be kinda… nice, in a sense. But I also feel like art like that help me a lot when I am in bad places. It’s kinda like seeing beauty in sadness, right?

But I am not you so, y’know, YMMV

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That feeling when you have played (and loved!) Like 90% of this list lmao

…do I play too many games?

…nah

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For strategy paradox games are always fun

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Yeah

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It kinda sucks honestly, because I think if they literally got one or two more weeks, and disabled the offending settings such as depth of field, they would have received far less flak. I feel like a good 70% of the complaints are due to bad defaults.

Like, sure, they probably still would have gotten some justified criticism for it, but I don’t really think the game deserved as harsh criticism as it got, or at least, the problems are all very surface level, and underneath what is there actually works well.

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I’ll accept it once the boss gets the same amount of health that I do. Or I will accept not healing when I get the same amount of health as the boss.

Until then though…

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Traditional roguelikes tend to do NPCs/enemies which often have comparable stats to the player. With the benefit the player has is a “better AI” aka, an intelligent human behind them.

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Path of exile is great because it doesn’t shy away from complexity at all, instead it does the exact opposite, it just goes balls deep. It really make for a very refreshing change to typical AAA games where your intelligence as a player doesn’t feel insulted.

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Making the boss easier after I die to it would frustrate the hell out of me unless it was optional. I want it to be a challenge, not just something I can beat if I die enough times.

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In the end, it’s personal preference, and so both play styles should ideally be supported.

I love a challenge, it’s how I relax. If something isn’t challenging for me I quickly get bored and stop playing. I basically need my brain to be stimulated and thinking and trying to properly relax. Which is why I often trend towards “hardcore” or difficult/brutal games.

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Again, personal preference. What I consider a fun challenge you would 100% consider a slog.

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It’s a laptop, I don’t think there is much you can do. They tend to push the hardware to the thermal limits, after which it starts to throttle.

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That version had bugs especially in relation to vsync. You should at least try the newer one with some of the issues fixed

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Yeah, honestly, the state of the game is fine. Yes, they should have taken a couple of more weeks to fix up the performance, and they definitively should have chosen more sane default settings…

But, other than that, the launch state is fine. There are no major bugs, and there is nothing too major missing. A lot of things are done and designed quite well actually, I’d say.

Just give it a month or two and then look again. There’s no rush, it’s not a story game. But I’ve been enjoying my time so far.

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They do invest a lot in cpu optimization. The problem here seems to be unoptimized GPU performance.

In addition, you will always struggle with CPU performance in complex simulation games with many interlocking systems. There’s only so much you can do without limiting the gameplay.

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I’ve been playing delta V: Rings of Saturn recently

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Delta V: Rings of Saturn

Such an atmospheric and cosy game. I’m a sucker for hard sci-fi and games that try to simulate real physics to the greatest extent possible.