Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle | VGC 2 days ago:
IIRC the more problematic legal challenges are in Japan, whose patent laws are insane.
- Comment on What game had you like this? 4 days ago:
It’s a cliché, but Dark Souls. Rented it through Redbox with my brother-in-law, made it past the tutorial boss, then pissed off the Crestfallen Warrior on accident and got ganked at spawn a dozen times before putting the game down.
A few months (and many articles praising the game) later I picked it up on sale and played the whole way through, and it’s now one of my top games of all time.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Is this the real reason self-driving cars are expected to need 300gb of RAM, so that they can remember a failed route from thirty seconds ago?
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 2 weeks ago:
Court cases in a world with illusion magic must be wild.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 2 weeks ago:
You speak the truth. I gave a Deatchclaw 6 .38 rounds and it just seemed angrier.
I guess I needed a gift of higher caliber.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 2 weeks ago:
But it you didn’t go into that random building, you wouldn’t have found that chest with a single lockpick inside (that took three to open).
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 2 weeks ago:
The evil twin was running a complicated scheme of identity theft and character assassination. You killing them before they could destroy the good twin’s reputation makes you even more of a hero!
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 2 weeks ago:
Okay, Rimworlder.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 weeks ago:
It’s in Options - Downloads - Shader Pre-Caching.
Shader Pre-Caching allows Steam to download pre-compiled GPU shaders matching your system configuration. […] If enabled, Steam will collect shaders from your system when needed.
It’ll download shaders matching your card+driver and (if you’re the first with that specific config) upload your own compiled shaders for others to use.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 weeks ago:
Enshrouded, Grounded, and Abiotic Factor have been my favorite games of the past few years, and all are even better in co-op.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 weeks ago:
The developers know it’s bad, and the game’s next mega-patch is focused on fixing all the tech debt they’ve accrued during Early Access. You can already choose to play while the shaders are still compiling, but that slows down compilation multiple-fold and you’ll be missing features such as lighting until it’s finished so it’s barely playable (especially considering how ridiculously atmospheric the game is - there’s a reason the shader load is so heavy and it’s totally worth it).
It’s also probably nowhere near as bad a wait for most players. Shaders are compiled on the CPU and which shader paths are compiled is based on what your GPU supports. I have a relatively new GPU (4060) and a fifteen year old CPU, so it’s compiling the fanciest of shaders on an ancient four-threaded relic.
The game itself runs fine - 60 FPS at 1080p on my ancient machine. It’s just getting to play that’s annoying.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 3 weeks ago:
- Steam already does this and it rarely helps due to how every card + driver revision requires its own unique compilation. I think Steam’s is opt-in though and I doubt Microsoft will give you a choice, so maybe they’ll have more luck due to the sheer amount of data they’ll be able to harvest. Ugh.
- I still genuinely hope it works out. I’ve been playing Enshrouded lately, which takes forty minutes to compile shaders on my machine after every driver update.
- Comment on Come experience the original LucasArts vision for Star Wars Battlefront 3 in the leaked First Assault beta, finally playable on PC 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t the actual Battlefront 3 get leaked a few years ago? This seems more like a reboot before the reboot.
Still sucks that it got killed by the Disney buyout despite being complete and ready to ship. So many amazing projects have been canceled during changes in leadership, it’s infuriating.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 3 weeks ago:
True. Though they do have the natural ability to summon meteors and lightning strikes even without being handed a weapon.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 3 weeks ago:
One of the signature Pals is a giant grizzly bear with a minigun. Even the common rodents are often packing submachine guns and rocket launchers. If they actually hated the work, you’d know.
- Comment on After listening to your complaints, Bungie is making it just a tad less annoying to buy cosmetics in Marathon 3 weeks ago:
As it currently stands, a runner skin will set you back 1120 LUX. Except you couldn’t get exactly 1120 LUX in the game’s store, you could only get 1100, which cost $10, and the next cheapest lot of LUX is $5 for 500 of the stuff.
You can take the Bungie from Microsoft, but you can’t take the Microsoft from Bungie.
- Comment on Slay The Spire 2's placeholder art should be a lesson to all the developers caught up in AI-generated nonsense 4 weeks ago:
Perfection.
- Comment on Hard drive space for all! Helldivers 2's slimmer install size is rolling out to everyone later this month 4 weeks ago:
It was already rolled out a while ago. All they’re doing is removing the option to use the old build.
- Comment on Ahead of Myrient's RAM crisis-linked demise, volunteers are working to archive its entire collection 4 weeks ago:
I hope Myrient is getting a massive spike in donations for this last month to match it suddenly going from relative obscurity to being repeatedly covered by major gaming news sites. If it cost $6000 per month to run when almost nobody knew about it, I can only imagine how bad it must be now that everyone and their dog is grabbing what they can before the deadline.
- Comment on Dominion of Darkness - free Dark Lord Simulator 4 weeks ago:
Normally I’d be interested, but the random link to a Roblox scam in the game description isn’t a great sign.
- Comment on ConcernedApe wins my funny bit of the year award for making Clint a marriage candidate in Stardew Valley's 1.7 update 5 weeks ago:
Pierre would still claim the child is his, just like he does with the crops you sell him.
- Comment on ConcernedApe wins my funny bit of the year award for making Clint a marriage candidate in Stardew Valley's 1.7 update 5 weeks ago:
I think people have been asking for that for Robin since day one. It doesn’t help that her husband is kind of a dillweed.
- Comment on "What's 100% of zero? Like, who gives a shit?" New Blood boss unimpressed by Epic sharing more revenue with devs than Steam 5 weeks ago:
It’s the RPS curse. It was started back when games journalism was dominated by insipid corporate writeups and its humor was an effective contrast.
The sterile, personality-less writing the RPS founders fought against is mostly dead now and the original RPS staff have long since left, but their successors still try to ape their writing style with a fraction of the wit and talent.
- Comment on I can't say I enjoy this 19th century turd-collecting game but it did make me laugh when I patted my horse to death 1 month ago:
A game about classical poo, huh? I hope there’s a demo - you know, a copro-light.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 6 runs on a new version of the Creation Engine, his Howardliness confirms 1 month ago:
The most worrying part is he didn’t include Fallout 4 (which took the simplification of RPG systems to dizzying new heights) in the list of games that felt like a departure from their style, but instead called it one of their classics.
- Comment on Unity CEO says an upcoming Beta will allow people to "prompt full casual games into existence" 1 month ago:
Or “I asked the AI to change a feature and it deleted everything instead, how do I fix this?”.
I doubt users asking AI to do everything for them will know about git and proper backup habits.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Michael Pachter being wrong and comically out of touch was a running joke in the comments sections of Ars Technica and gamesindustry.biz back in the day. He is to industry analysts what Jim Kramer is to investing advisors.
- Comment on Surprise, Poker Night at the Inventory is returning to Steam next month in remastered form 1 month ago:
I’m guessing we won’t see a remastered Poker Night at the Inventory 2 due to the licenses for the featured characters being way harder to negotiate.
- Comment on You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming 2 months ago:
It’s probably too late and part of the culture now. Things like this have to be slapped down immediately before they take root.
- Comment on Ooh, that rumoured Witcher 3 DLC could be something really funky, if it's set where the latest report suggests 2 months ago:
Zerrikania.
If my memory serves correctly, the province has thus far been mentioned as an exotic locale of rainforests
*Sudden flashbacks to Oblivion*
