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SkyeStarfall, 12 dni 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, 12 dni 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, 12 dni 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 dni temu

What about the publisher take two tho

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

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

SkyeStarfall, 2 miesiące temu

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.

SkyeStarfall, 2 miesiące temu

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

SkyeStarfall, 2 miesiące temu

It’s in closed beta right now

SkyeStarfall, 4 miesiące temu

GregTech: New Horizons

:)

SkyeStarfall, 4 miesiące temu

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

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

SkyeStarfall, 8 miesięcy temu

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.

SkyeStarfall, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

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.

SkyeStarfall, 8 miesięcy temu

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.

SkyeStarfall, 9 miesięcy temu

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).

SkyeStarfall, 11 miesięcy temu

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

SkyeStarfall, 11 miesięcy temu

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.

SkyeStarfall, 11 miesięcy temu

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

SkyeStarfall, 11 miesięcy temu

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?

SkyeStarfall, 11 miesięcy temu

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

SkyeStarfall, rok temu

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.

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I feel like this is already the case, and has been for years. Few AAA games interest me these days, especially the ones coming out of the biggest studios like EA, Ubisoft, Activision-Blizzard, etc. The only recent one was Baldur’s Gate 3, but that by itself is an exception to the norm.

Most AAA games are just complete soulless profit generators. It often feels as if any fun and experimental things get taken out because it would involve too much “risk”, and stand in the way of earning money, instead of trying to make a good or fun or unique game. Instead they are just being made for as wide of a mass appeal as possible, allergic to anything that could make the game a little more interesting and niche.

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Seems like every tech company lately

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Sounds like those game developers are about to become unemployable without further education

Also, I don’t really know how one can be a good developer without that necessary foundation. Maybe you can use a tool, but how would you know what to do with it…?

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Sometimes it seems to me that almost everything that isn’t FOSS/non-profit goes down the shitter these days in the name of profit. It really does feel like the only way to avoid getting fucked over is to completely ditch commercial stuff.

Our world sure does work, eh?

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Yeah, I hope stuff like this shows people the value of FOSS

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In what way? There are plenty other RPGs that I prefer over Bethesda games.

…and honestly, some of those are old school ones. I feel like there’s just some things always missing from Bethesda’s newer titles.

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Damn, bethesda ubisofted starfield

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Here’s another question though

“Would I like this game more if I didnt have my cool item right now?”

Hard to say yes… But in practice the answer might very well be yes. Challenge in games is rarely something you directly ask for, you want the reward after all, but often the fun is in exactly overcoming those obstacles, and not actually the reward. In that sense encumbrance might feel bad… but being able to grab every single item always could very well ruin part of the fun.

In the end games are sets of challenges presented in certain ways, and its just whether those challenges work well from a game design perspective.

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Just because you don’t like inventory management doesn’t mean others don’t.

as boring as my actual job

Again, subjective, considering the popularity of job simulator games, like truck sim.

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I don’t see older games being rated lower as a problem. Yes standards rise over time as games and technology gets better, that’s fine! If you took a mediocre modern AAA game and showed it to a reviewer 20 years ago, I’ll bet all my money it would be game of the year.

It makes more sense to let standards rise and adjust reviews to still keep a reasonable rating scale.

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And still standing in a cursed place in a room.

Who places their bed in the center of a massive room like this??