Quetzalcutlass

@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
  1. 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.
  2. 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  Perfection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drive space for all! Helldivers 2's slimmer install size is rolling out to everyone later this month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you wish Satisfactory were an FPS, try new open world game StarRupture, out now in early access⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried the demo and I don’t know, it felt kind of soulless to me. It lacked that magic that Satisfactory’s progression had and it feels like you’re upgrading things just for the sake of upgrading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Red Dead Redemption 2 mod turns the western into Cowboytamari Damacy, but you'll likely never be able to try it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR: some streamer created the mod to give himself more interesting streaming content, put just enough effort into it to get it barely working, and doesn’t want to release it because it’ll probably break horribly on other machines and he doesn’t want to play tech support. And - not stated but the cynic in me believes - probably because he’s getting tons of views out of it being exclusive to his channel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have Steam running, I believe you can disconnect with a quick PS+Triangle. Otherwise just hold down the PS button for a few seconds, which is annoying but better than switching tasks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Augmented Steam browser plugin added AI features from VaporLens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That could actually make sense for a game like Beat Hazard!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zombie horde shooter World War Z is getting a big The Walking Dead DLC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So in other words the game’s finally getting Romero-style zombies that match the book canon rather than the awful WWZ movie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director has one key, and likely familiar, word to keep in mind for part 3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Highwind”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How, though? I’m not terribly knowledgeable about the law, but I know interoperability is one of the major sources of exceptions to copyright protection, and the whole Google vs Oracle saga would imply there’s nothing illegal about making your own implementation of a standard without permission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The infuriating part is they did eventually do some deduplication to reduce the install size - but only for the terrible UE5 remake that runs like crap and forces existing players to rebuy all the DLC (it’s like $150 for everything).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the DLCs it’s half a terabyte.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fans Are Accusing Ubisoft Of Using "Incredibly Disappointing" AI Art In Anno 117⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A probable timeline:

  • “We’re investing in artificial intelligence to boost our teams’ productivity.”

  • “Our shift to AI has streamlined our development processes (according to middle management), so we’ve laid off a number of workers as redundant.”

  • “The people who remain don’t know which AI assets were meant to be placeholders.”

  • “We’re delaying our financials and suspending trading of our stock, but there’s no cause for alarm.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUBG publisher attempts to purge anti-AI employees after $680 million Q3 profits and generative AI pivot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *after watching Embracer implode*

  Krafton: “I can do worse, faster.”