Dudewitbow

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activision unveil new studio working on ‘narrative AAA franchise’, days after Microsoft shut Prey and Evil Within devs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  for microsoft, 2 of the dev atudios shut down were mobile, one of them merging into besthesda. the other two, Arkane Austin, released a really terrible game last year, the other which caused the uproar, Tango Gameworks, created a popular game. Though personally I think that closed down because the original director who created the company left, and it would be hard for microsoft to merge the team elsewhere due to being japanese based, so they shut down the studio, despite recent sucess. Microsoft probably has little experience hiring a new game director for japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  part of the reason this happens is because Tekken (and Smash) are popular to casual audiences, many of which often are one trick ponies and disconnect when they lose looking for another player to attempt to beat with their one trick, without attenpting to learn arguably the most important skill in fighting games, adaptation. its a large factor in why the online experience in both games are kinda trashy, because a decent chunk of them dont take losing gracefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game] Ghost of Tsushima's PC Requirements Revealed - It Should Run on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if Strix Halo is a real product (mega APU with 40 CU igpu, basically 6700 XT CU count, but modern rnda) when accounting for the nerf of switching to system ram over graphics ram performance, youd get ~PS5 performance at a 100W cpu.

  you’d need to probably sit down at least 3 AMD gpu generations to bring that power consumption down to 30W where it would more practically be seen on handhelds. AMD gpu generations are roughly 25% generation over generation given same CU count. Id reckon 2028 at the earliest where it would be physically viable. (wont be cheap, would be like 1000$+ device)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game] Ghost of Tsushima's PC Requirements Revealed - It Should Run on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  generally speaking, anything that ran okay on the base ps4 will probably run on the steam deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 4 is getting a fresh update and will be Steam Deck Verified⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  everytine i play a gun based bethesda game, i always pick some theme to go on which limits my option intentionally.

  for example, i played FO4 with pistols/revolvers only with thr luck special stat maxed.

  aometimes you can end up having some challenging runs (e.g melee only)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be a frame rate snob but owning a Steam Deck has made me realise the error of my ways⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  theres a lot of factors that impact tolerance. for example motion blur. I personally hate a lot of post processing effects, so having motion blur off makes low fps gameplay pretty jarring.

  Currently im going through pokemon violet, not on my switch, but on emulation, and the 30fps is really rough, and the 60fps mod has tradeoffs. If im complaining about ot on emulation on a reletively high end pc, I couldnt even imagine how bad the performance was on native hardware, given it was one of its biggest complaints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft revealed an AI NPC prototype at GDC and everyone online made fun of it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its bad if its freeform ai driven. there just needs to be integration into the games save flags (aware of what happened so far in the game) as well as some restrictions on what they can say which will make it fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley 1.6 is out now - player count on Steam explodes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its not often that people devloping a game is releasing essentially a passion project. theyre the anomally, not the norm, and would basically be unrealistic for it to ever be the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Migrate your Oculus accounts to Meta this month or lose your games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc there is a way to delink accounts on the headset afterwords, but of course you have to eventually sideload everything you want to do (e.g Sideloader).

  its still fundamentally android, so anything you wanted to disable cam be done if you have the expertise for it (e. g can freeze updates via sideloading a file explorer)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its how i see it as well. its a “too many cooks in the kitchen” situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Suprising Discovery Inside The Steam Deck's APU - the LCD APU has multiple unused cores that were later removed for the OLED version⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the 290 to 290x situation was basically the same. You had to get a cpu/gpu that was fully working, but artificially limited to to provide for the numbers of the lower tier product due to demand. with all of the unlockable chips, its was very specific time windows where it was possible to get a functional one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Suprising Discovery Inside The Steam Deck's APU - the LCD APU has multiple unused cores that were later removed for the OLED version⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  usually AMD nowadays severs the unused parts for core unlocking. AMD occasionally had parts between 2009-2013 which could be unlocked (e.g athlon tri cores to quad cores, 6950 to 6970, r9 290 to r9 290x) but hasnt really happened since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Cancels Japanese Esports Events Following Threats to Staff and Spectators⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Specially melee? When the fallout happened, it was significantly more ultimate personalities who were confirmed problematic, mainly due to the fact that someone younger is more likely to have been playing ultimate(over a 20 year old game), which would lead to a higher chance of a negative interaction.

  Splatoon also has some animosity towards nintendo as they were also behind the smash scene because they know that nintendo does not ultimately care about them, as caring about them leads to how Arms fizzled out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Cancels Japanese Esports Events Following Threats to Staff and Spectators⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To being it a tier higher, id argue South Korea is a tier higher for corporate owned countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Announced for Next Week⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its the same idea for stables in skyrim. Using them isnt ideal for speed, but there are users who prefer getting around via natural means rather than fast travel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not teaching kids thr value of money imo is the main one. They dont understand the cost of subs because its not their money they are spending.

  I have a half brother whose on the sensible side of buying games. He doesnt get a lot of money, hell he got a 20$ steam card from a friend, and hes saving it for an indie game that doesnt even release till 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handheld gaming is the future - The Verge Podcast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being against the 3ds wasnt a fault, it was initially an opportunity (the launch 3ds sold terribly, that nintendo had to apologize and give early adopters the early ambassador titles for free). Sony chose to willingly not capitalize on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[News] SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows doesnt blankent statement run every game faster than linux as native sometimes isnt the fastest method.

  Take for example, dx11 and older games. They lack a asynchronous shader cache which heavily helps minimum framerates and 1% lows. Because of older api games going through the dxvk translation process, games them would have a working cache and bypass some inherent problems with a game. MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and guild wars 2 gain benefits, even single player games like FF7R translating from DX11 > Vulkan performed better than the DX12 native.

  Elden Ring was one of the first games to show this problem and was documented. When Elden Ring launched, it effectively had shader cache broken, causing microstutters. Users on Linux, especially the steam deck, did not receive that problem because Vulkan already fixed the probelm without the devs needing to fix it.