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beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

The new app has fewer account requirements than the one it is replacing. With GFE, you needed an account just to get automatic driver updates. With the new app, you can do just about anything except redeem free bundled games without an account.

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

Damn, who shit in your cornflakes this morning?

Their drivers have always been available directly from their website.

This app is just for Windows, I’m not sure why you’re blabbing on about package managers

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

Because they require extra certification from Microsoft.

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

you don’t anymore

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

I’m well aware of these. Winget is a disaster of a package manager. All of them just download and run conventional installers with none of the tidiness you get with real package managers on systems actually designed for them. It’s fun watching winget update an app that already updated itself. Do any other GPU vendors typically distribute their drivers through winget?

But the real answer here is Windows Update, which Nvidia does publish drivers through. But not game ready versions, only WHQL certified builds.

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

by….not putting their driver on winget?

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

I’d put Jedi Survivor up there, despite the technical issues. Also no list of best Star Wars games is complete without Republic Commando.

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

Ray tracing performance that’s actually good enough for games to fully ditch rasterized lighting and reflections

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

A lot less work for developers, smaller game sizes, and map and game design no longer needing to be built around the onerous limitations of raster lighting and reflections.

Ray tracing is a bigger deal than most people realize. It feels like a gimmick because the games that support it today are still ultimately designed around rasterization.

Path-traced lighting in particular is a huge game changer, and means developers will no longer have to choose between rudimentary global dynamic lighting and very static and storage-intensive baked lighting. You can get the benefits of both without the drawbacks of either, assuming the hardware is up to snuff.

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

It’s possible with high end PC hardware today. Since when have consoles been 20 years behind PC?

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

It was also an established IP with name recognition.

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

What percentage of PC players care about couch co-op?

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

It’s rated M

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

It’s a great example. Starfield (like other BGS games) does a lot of things well that few other games do at all. So it’s frustrating when they put out a game that is pretty mediocre outside those few strengths, and also your only real option for scratching those particular itches.

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

I rented PotC from blockbuster once and all i remember are insane loading times and super janky combat

beefcat, 4 miesiące temu

Was the original release in a poor state?

beefcat, 5 miesięcy temu

It can be a good experience, depending on the kinds of games you play and your tolerance for input latency. Don’t go in expecting a miracle and you might be surprised how good it is.

The best experience I’ve had so far is with an Apple TV running Steam Link. My Xbox controller is also able to connect to my PC through the floor just fine, which i find helps a bit with the lag compared to pairing it with the Apple TV.

beefcat, 6 miesięcy temu

his other works include twisted metal and drawn to death.

not bad games, but also not games known for their ahem quality storytelling.

beefcat, 6 miesięcy temu

When has Rockstar themselves put out a bad game?

beefcat, 6 miesięcy temu

there are gta v mods that add rtgi and hair simulation?

beefcat, 6 miesięcy temu

there are gta v mods that add rtgi and hair simulation?

beefcat, 6 miesięcy temu

i don’t really count remasters that were outsourced, that is 2k and grove street games’ sin

beefcat, 7 miesięcy temu

the play store, like other download stores, provides discoverability, trust, and all the infrastructure to distribute and automatically update your software products.

this is not a worthless service, otherwise publishers wouldn’t have flocked to Steam on Windows in the late ‘00s/early ‘10s. only the very biggest ones like EA and Ubisoft felt like they could make more money by rolling their own.

this doesn’t justify using anticompetitive practices to maintain your market position, but there is real value being provided there.

beefcat, 7 miesięcy temu

This is Lemmy, nobody reads the article. They just react to the headline they know is cherry picked and find a way to work it into whatever circlejerk suits their fancy.

beefcat, 7 miesięcy temu

it is ok on a 2060. the high minimum spec is not because of performance, but because older GPUs do not support mesh shaders. that is why it runs ok on a 2060 while being unplayable on the much faster 1080 Ti

beefcat, 7 miesięcy temu

NOLF is great but it’s pretty janky

beefcat, 7 miesięcy temu

it’s funny how this was a pretty long and nuanced discussion about modding, but social media is brewing a shitstorm over this one cherry-picked statement.

beefcat, 7 miesięcy temu

plenty of good games fail to meet revenue projections

beefcat, 7 miesięcy temu

I can’t really comment on the current quality of the game in 2023, since I noped out about 4 years ago, but there are any number of explanations.

• Lack of new content. I haven’t seen the game discussed much in the gaming press, which means there probably haven’t been any notable content drops for a while. It sounds like the game’s next expansion has been delayed, and the game is being maintained by a skeleton crew while the rest of the studio focuses on Marathon.
• Competition. With few exceptions, good games always slowly bleed users as shiny new alternatives attract players. This is compounded if you’re running a live service game and have a long content drought.

My point isn’t “Destiny good”, I don’t really know that. My point is that we can’t really draw conclusions about the quality of the game based solely on missed revenue targets.

beefcat, 7 miesięcy temu

I think there also just seems to be a general recoil of players at what games are costing these days. I’m personally fine with it, but I see what feels like infinite complaining about how greedy … basically every company that isn’t indie is being.

I think this is mostly just the fact that the people who spend the most time on social media are also basically kids with very little spending money. None of my millennial peers even blinked when AAA game prices went up to $70 with the new console generation. We have fairly mature careers and have paid off our student debt by now.

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

i don’t think unreal is under the same pressure for three reasons:

1. they already have a reasonable revenue sharing model. they make a lot more per licensee than unity does because they take a cut of your sales rather than charging a per-engineer license for the dev kit.
2. epic’s headcount is not nearly as horrendously bloated, even before the recent layoffs.
3. the company is still privately held with Tim Sweeney the majority owner.

points 1 and 2 mean epic is actually profitable, and has been for decades at this point. meanwhile, the publicly traded unity has struggled to break even for most of its existence

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

Yes, point 1 is the model they should have adopted in the first place. The whole problem with their original announcement was that it was a) retroactive, b) structured in a way that would significantly hurt f2p and indie games, and c) based on installs rather than sales, meaning you could get charged multiple times for the same sale. If Unity had come out and said “starting with Unity 2024, we will be switching to a revenue sharing model", a lot of people might have still been upset, but it would not have caused nearly the same shitstorm and they would have had a better path towards sustainability.

Point 3 is absolutely real, because when you own your company, you do not have legal obligations to throngs of faceless public stockholders. Companies turn to shit all the time when they go public, because the pressure for immediate quarterly returns outweighs the pressure to maintain long-term sustainability. I think it’s exactly why platforms like Steam have avoided enshittifying, because their owners know they can make more money long term by building a sustainable platform that people like rather than burning their users to make a quick buck and juice their next quarterly report.

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

the games/engines you cite as being “extremely well optimized” are both a lot older than UE5 and do a lot less than some of the “less optimized” games discussed (i.e. simpler lighting, no geometry virtualization, simplistic simulation, very static environments, etc.)

these are very apples and oranges comparisons

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

anti-cheat and drm aren’t the same thing

complain all you want about anti-cheat, i would rather play a game that has it than one that does not

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

the witcher 3 had the benefit of not needing to run on a ps3

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

i think that is a bit unfair to bethesda’s engine. all those other engines have achieved their scalability at the cost of extensibility and easy to work with game systems. this manifests most visibly in how mod support works for bethesda games versus games built on other more “optimized” engines, but it affects the core game design as well.

even if id software released their internal tooling to the public, it wouldn’t be all that useful for making the kinds of mods people make for bethesda games, because their engine isn’t built for all the systems-driven game design that bethesda’s is. that moddability is born out of how bethesda has designed their engine, the gameplay systems they built in it, and the tooling that supports all of this.

it’s truly insane just what you can do with bethesda’s engine with relatively little work. and it shows when you compare to games that try to imitate their game design on other engines. the outer worlds felt really static compared to fallout new vegas and skyrim, because it was missing so many of these systems.

bethesda games have a lot of problems, but ditching their engine for something like unreal or id tech would most likely destroy most of what makes their games unique.

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

the software being open source would do nothing to solve the underlying issue, which is expiring music rights

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

no, because they don’t provide the stems, only the finished tracks

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

what software can reliably generate stems from finished tracks? and will it still sound the same when you mix them back together?

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

there wouldn’t be much of a game left if they took out the guns

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

are you really complaining about indie developers releasing a game into early access?

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

melee action games with this kind of setting are a dime a dozen.

making this a shooter actually makes it unique.

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

there is no possible way to handle sensitive data without storing it in memory at some point

it’s where you do all the salting, hashing, and encrypting

emailing out credentials like this after sign up is certainly not best practice, but probably not a huge deal for a video game forum of all things. if you are re-using passwords then you already have a way bigger problem.

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

but then you expose your salt to the public

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

nobody said you have to buy it.

remedy’s last three games were all brand new IP

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

you’re complaining about Remedy remaking one of their older and most famous games when their last three releases have all been new IP, so i feel your criticism is misplaced. this isn’t coming at the expense of anything “new”.

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

you literally asked for them not to do this

beefcat, 8 miesięcy temu

as of right now Songtradr is still run by actual musicians so it probably won’t be so bad

but that could always change down the road