Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's standard edition is "is the full, complete experience", Ubisoft insist in response to Steam DLC furore 3 days ago:
“Yes, we put out $85 in DLC on day one, but don’t worry. It’s all unnecessary crap!”
What excellent marketing.
- Comment on Vampirium: 1997 is a mysterious looking choice-filled minimalist immersive sim 3 days ago:
It looks closer to interactive fiction or a Twine game than Nethack or other roguelikes, unfortunately.
- Comment on Vampirium: 1997 is a mysterious looking choice-filled minimalist immersive sim 4 days ago:
Thanks! I’d like to pretend there’s a clever story behind it, but I came up with it by randomly adding and swapping syllables around Quetzalcoatl until I accidentally stumbled upon something decent.
- Comment on Vampirium: 1997 is a mysterious looking choice-filled minimalist immersive sim 5 days ago:
“Minimalist” isn’t a word I’d normally associate with “immersive sim” (which are all about emergent complexity from the interactions between systems), but in this case it seems to be because it’s basically a text game with a GUI bolted on top.
It looks great and it could be good, but I don’t see how you could possibly do anything not explicitly programmed in by the devs in such a system. I personally wouldn’t describe it as an IS to avoid getting players’ hopes up.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
Google is doing their best to strangle those too, by only releasing their source code when a new major Android release comes out. Custom ROM developers then have to rebase and integrate several months of commits all at once, with nowhere near enough time or resources to actually vet more than a tiny fraction of the changes.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
Probably Play Integrity, since it’s still working on my phone with the Play Integrity Fix Magisk module installed.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is getting a "Story Expansion Pass" amid a heap of DLC to help it wrap up the remake trilogy, leaked store listings suggest 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the Yuffie expansion for the first game that they made early adopters pay for (though it’s now bundled with the game).
- Comment on Dinosaurs have arrived in the latest Dwarf Fortress update 1 week ago:
I give it a week tops before a player drops an entire mountain on one.
- Comment on Lasagna dreams, spaghetti reality 1 month ago:
RimWorld couldn’t make the meeting due to an outstanding warrant from the ICC.
- Comment on Valve Engineering 1 month ago:
- Comment on US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle | VGC 3 months ago:
IIRC the more problematic legal challenges are in Japan, whose patent laws are insane.
- Comment on What game had you like this? 3 months 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 3 months 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... 3 months ago:
Court cases in a world with illusion magic must be wild.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 3 months 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... 3 months 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... 3 months 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... 3 months ago:
Okay, Rimworlder.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 4 months 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 months ago:
Perfection.
- Comment on Hard drive space for all! Helldivers 2's slimmer install size is rolling out to everyone later this month 4 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Normally I’d be interested, but the random link to a Roblox scam in the game description isn’t a great sign.
