Delta Gal is an upcoming action platformer heavily inspired by Mega Man Legends. In fact, you could say this is practically a fan game. I played a new demo available now on Itch.io and had a blast.

Krafton, the publisher behind PUBG: Battlegrounds and the Subnautica franchise, has officially started its aforementioned transition to its future as an AI-first company. The first major move towards this future is a company-wide voluntary resignation program. Krafton recently announced that it would be shifting strategies with the goal of becoming an AI-first company. The publisher behind PUBG and Subnautica revealed that it would be "prioritising AI as a central and primary means of problem-solving," and "fostering change in change in individuals and organisations, increasing company-wide productivity," all in the name of growth and corporate value. This prior announcement was followed by a report out of Business Korea that claims Krafton has opened a new voluntary resignation program in order to encourage people to "support members in proactively designing their growth direction and embarking on new challenges both inside and outside the company amid the era of AI transformation." Effectively, Krafton is both giving employees a way out of the company if they don't want to be part of Krafton's new AI-first future, and reducing its head count and internal frictions.

> Following on from the success of the Steam Deck, Valve is creating its very own ecosystem of products. The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all set to launch in the new year. We've tried each of them and here's what you need to know about each one. > > "From the Frame to the Controller to the Machine, we're a fairly small industrial design team here, and we really made sure it felt like a family of devices, even to the slightest detail," Clement Gallois, a designer at Valve, tells me during a recent visit to Valve HQ. "How it feels, the buttons, how they react… everything belongs and works together kind of seamlessly." > > For more detail, make sure to check out our in-depth stories linked below: --- > [Steam Frame:](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/steam-frame-specs-availability/) Valve's new wireless VR headset > [Steam Machine:](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-pcs/steam-machine-specs-availability/) Compact living room gaming box > [Steam Controller:](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/controllers/steam-controller-specs-availability-hands-on/) A controller to replace your mouse --- [Valve's official video announcement](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE). --- So uh, _ahem_. Yes. Valve can indeed count to three.

Time to find out

Killing this thing is arguably the most fun any game has ever been

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20867322 > **This is a long post about the various aspects of Fallout, don't read it all unless you care to. Instead, find a section and comment on that so we can have a focused discussion if you prefer.** > > ## Summary > I modded the ever loving crap out of Fallout 4 with minimal effort using the [A Story Wealth mod pack ](https://next.nexusmods.com/fallout4/collections/5atq9t). My reasoning was that on my first play through I found the world empty but I mainly enjoy stories and quests, which this modpack seemed to do. Also I didn't have time to spend modding and didn't want to get lost in that hellhole of doing it myself. This play through was long, about 150 hours (yikes) which is probably all the fallout I'll need for many years to come. I also used an addon to the modpack to make the game extremely difficult with healing items. More on that later. > > ## Mods > The mods here are really quite varied and I was surprised at how coherent they are. With Skyrim modding, I always felt that the mods are somewhat disjointed and it takes skilled modders to stitch together. Here in FO4 its impressive how stable the pack was and how well the quests worked together. The most standout mod by far is [The Fens Sheriff Department](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/68276) which adds hours of story, actually interesting quests, and in my opinion content miles better than Bethesda's own content. It was worth coming back just for that alone. > > ## Story > ::: spoiler spoiler > After seeing what mods have done, I have no good words to say about FO4 in terms of story. The entire plot revolves around you getting your son back and its all in service of setting up the surprise that he isn't a child anymore. Its predictable, boring, etc. All of the factions are uninteresting. Minutemen are nobodies and their story is minimalist. So is the Railroad. The Brotherhood of Steel are cool in concept but can't back up their grit at all and end up being too friendly with zero depth to them as well. The Institute makes an attempt at depth but geez, its barely deeper than a puddle. I chose to end the game with the Fens Sheriff Department and it ended up being way more interesting despite the muted ending to their plot. If you're playing this game for story, don't. > ::: > > ## Graphics > I'll spend little time here, I didn't spend any time beautifying the game at all but it looks surprisingly good at times. But at other times, the engine is terrible. The way it handles LOD stuff is awful and graphical glitches and clipping are extremely common. And yet, I do enjoy the aesthetic. The art is charming as ever and my main and only complaint is that the wasteland itself is very one-note and could've used some changes. > > ## Engine > Take it out back and kill it. I won't blame the vanilla game entirely but mods didn't contribute to the instability of the game much. It has always been rough. In the city, due to a lack of proper culling you will get half your FPS or worse. My rig is very well equipped and still struggled to maintain 30-40fps in the cities. Then add in the few quest bugs that I had (mostly vanilla quests too) and the large amount of physics and items bugs and this really feels barely glued together in ways mods can't fix. This engine needs to be worked on. A lot. > > ## Characters/Followers > I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Fallout 4's followers. Dogmeat is great but the interaction is minimal and Nick Valentine is easily the best in my opinion. He's one of the few with a great set of dialog that actually makes use of the setting and feels grounded. Everyone else could almost belong in a different game. As with the story, a lot of the characters are poorly written and have lackluster dialog. The DLCs fix this but the main game struggles big time to ground everyone properly. I played the entire game with [Heather Casdin](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23273/) and that was a real treat. She is what every follower could have been and provides really unique story commentary and relationship moments. It actually feels like you get to know her well instead of her just spouting backstory at you constantly. Bethesda take notes. > > ## Locations > One of the better noted parts of Fallout 4 and Skyrim are the random locations and storytelling within them. Only problem is, FO4 doesn't reward you often enough with location exploration beyond loot and thats not what people play fallout for in the first place. Its a mixed back here, some of the locations are very well done and are 10/10 settings where others are bland as mayo and waste your time. > > ## Settlements > As intrigued as I initially was a long time ago at launch with them, the settlement system really brings the game down. Its impressive, don't get me wrong but it eats up way too much of your time to configure and there isn't any real point in setting them up. Sim Settlements helps with this but it still misses the mark in my opinion. I hope this system returns but very diminished in terms of tedium. > > ## Gameplay > Guns feel good, fights are great. The mods all enhance that by giving the high stakes gunfights I really enjoy. Yet the game still became too easy despite me playing on survival. Needs just became annoying distractions. And being overencombered is just... awful. Especially with scrap being a thing and I hate scrap honestly. The scrap is a cool idea but has you doing the even more annoying part of Bethesda games, looking in every nook and cranny for a desk fan or box car. Its stupid and it takes you out of the game completely. I think this could have been fine if they toned it down, not every item needs to be able to be used like this. > > ## DLC > This was the highlight of my time because I had never played the DLC, I couldn't afford it back when this launched. Far Harbor blew me away with how cool it was and just really showed what parts of the base game were missing. The moral grays presented here were fun to work through and the quests unique. I wish Far Harbor was its own game almost. Nuka world feels more like a lightweight DLC but still shows that Bethesda can write decent stuff and have decent art when they try. I have no idea why the quality of these DLCs is so high when the rest of the game is kind of bland compared to FO3 or New Vegas. > > ## The Takeaways > I hope Bethesda gets their act together because FO4 was a pretty decent game. Not perfect but also very dated. Quests are mostly bland and are often fetch quests or don't reward you with much dialog or story. And the mods just show how easy it would be to get this stuff right the first time. The lack of grit to the story is something that really sucks in my opinion. Its not a game for kids clearly, there is blood and guts and mutants abound. So why don't any of the major characters die? Why don't they meet horrible ends? Why not have your son meet a horrible demise if you make the wrong choices? The only time any of that happens is the end of the game. Far too little far too late. The game just has absolutely no stakes to it, no impact. At least in Skyrim the Civil War shakes things up. Thats what I really wanted from this game is to feel like my actions were doing something and the mods really helped with that. > > If you made it through this wall of text, I appreciate it. I spent way too long on this but I felt like telling someone about my experiences. Don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun with this game but by the end I was exhausted of Fallout 4's short comings. Let me know what you think!

I was looking to buy a new laptop for some time (have even asked your help), and finally I went with an **Acer Nitro 5** . I got it 2 days ago and so far, I'm fully satisfied. *Specs:* Intel core i7 12650H (only goes to 4.0GHz due to thermals), an 150W RTX 3070ti (which does go to full 150W, no thermal issues there), a 1Tb SSD, 1440p 165Hz display that looks super good, 57Wh battery(yeah). In setting up the laptop I did face some visual glitches when I installed Intel graphics drivers from Intel's official website... Had to reinstall Acer drivers to fix it (weird). Otherwise no bugs. Even installed Linux. Got 4hrs battery life that way. I tried running 3dMark Time spy and have added the results in the post. modern games are yet to test. What do you guys think? Should I check anything else? Would you like to see something else running on it? Time spy: 

I have a merely 3 year old PC I bought for 1500€ a 5600x and 3060ti, yet it for some reason can't run cronos, a single player linear game, on low settings without constant lags The whole game consists of grayscale. There is simply nothing that would require the computing power And its not really a realistic progress of computing requirements, while they state that my entry level ryzen 5 5600x can run it on optimal settings, for some reason they require an extremely up to date GPU, which just tells me that they just crammed in every kind of graphics tech so their Grayscale smog looks better

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19801235

My vote is monk from age of empires 2. These dudes can walk up and stare at your friend chanting for a bit, then suddenly they turn around and attack you. That's horrifying.

After some research I've narrowed down my options into these two controllers. Use-case: - Mostly PC gaming (It Takes Two, PS2 Emulation, etc.), Android Gaming (probably Emulation as well). - Also my little brother has a Switch and it would be awesome to have another controller for that as well. Why these two? - They are available locally (Philippines) and within the budget. - Both have Hall Effect Joysticks - Both have good reviews and hopefully have good build quality Why am I leaning towards 8bitdo Ultimate? - Mostly because I think they are the same but 8bitdo has the back buttons. Give me Reasons Why I Should Get the Gulikit KingKong 2 over the 8bitdo Ultimate

Sharing this video because this game is seriously an underrated gem, I can't recommend it enough. Love supporting an indie dev with such a unique concept.

also [on Youtube](https://youtu.be/mTqcOVov6OY)

Original article: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ubisoft-vp-says-players-dont-get-nfts-but-cant-explain-what-there-is-to-get/

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/QXTMf

Hideo always has his 10 minutes on Game Awards, why? Why other game devs don't get that much recognition or screen time?

I have been in quality the a gaming slump for a while, for various reasons. What are some games you'd throw at me yo drag me out of this slump? Entertaining all genres and offers. Edit: I'm sorry cant answer all of you right now, I'm at work. But seriously thank y'all for so many quick responses already, I'll be writing them down when home

This goes beyond gaming, but still a legend

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