4k trailer https://youtu.be/08vbgX9lpWY

and also NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black Official Launch Trailer https://youtu.be/MFjWCZIVZDw

nah I enjoy it a lot, and so do many others lol

(their real events, Hotfix not as much)

DLSS frame generation has access to motion vectors and the Z-buffer from the game engine, so it’s way more advanced than what can be done for videos/movies

Not tracked on Steam but Deus Ex (Randomizer mod), The 7th Guest (speedruns), and a few hundred hours in Overwatch

How did no one say this yet? Duke Nukem Forever E3 2001 trailer

https://youtu.be/ealHgUG1SFE?si=IZhPtdlPTLdWgvui

Which games? Try mods and especially randomizers for them

https://randomizers.debigare.com/

I did find a mod for a new character that actually changes gameplay https://forums.untamedheart.us/?topic=2638.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEW-ZDdD04&ab_channel=Sora

https://gamebanana.com/mods/418545

here’s a list of “Gameplay Overhaul” modes https://gamebanana.com/mods/cats/4229?_sSort=Generic_MostLiked

Of course, The 7th Guest! And The 11th Hour! I’m actually a bit obsessed…

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On the Pro, Quality mode is 2176x1224 at 30fps

And Performance mode is 1536x864 at 60fps

I’m just citing Intel’s Lunar Lake as an example. If Intel can do it then so can AMD, and eventually both companies will surpass that

I think Intel’s Lunar Lake has shown otherwise, it’s quite good.

And ARM performance per watt isn’t going to be as good when you’re doing x86/x64 emulation

Deus Ex only at #44 :(

CBT

there’s already a game called C.B.T. actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOIp7S_TTsw

Yeah this one is actually a great title with the double meaning

Yeah anyone who thinks 3D games without loading screens are only possible on SSDs needs to go back and play Dungeon Siege or Asheron’s Call. GTA3 mostly didn’t have loading screens either.

The Witcher 3 wasn’t even that long ago and it didn’t need loading screens on HDDs. (traveling between the main big areas did, but I guess that’s more because they didn’t have an animation of Geralt taking a boat or something, everything else streamed fine)

EDIT: This has been hotfixed in v3.2.1, along with a new tweak for the Halloween modes!

Turns out the lighting was a bit dark for some people, and since during October the cosmetics affect the regular randomizer modes too, we will be releasing a hotfix soon. For now remember that you can use the flashlight without any energy cost, and you can also increase the Brightness Boost settings in the Rando->Visuals menu. You can also disable the memes setting entirely in Rando->Gameplay.

yea that sounds nasty

just don’t patent anything, other companies build a product around an unpatented idea, then you patent it and sue them? now their entire product is ruined??

this makes no sense, that would mean the optimal play is to not patent anything until someone else starts doing it

This means game devs will start focusing more on better performance and optimization, right? …RIGHT?

Watch Digital Foundry, very very few AAA PS5 games can do 4k AND 60fps (which is what I assume you mean by “high framerates”, although 60 isn’t really that high it’s just mid). Probably none of those are doing ray tracing at the same time. Most PS5 games have upscaling enabled at all times because they’re rendering at much lower internal resolutions. PS5 Pro is not even twice as powerful, it’s not going to be capable of pushing 4x as many pixels per second. There’s a reason why they’re still talking about their upscaling algorithms.

“Advanced ray tracing” is not a technical term that exists it’s just marketing speak. And obviously they couldn’t say path tracing because they won’t be doing much of that like a 4070 or 4080 can do.

Here Digital Foundry is comparing the PS5Pro to the RTX 3070 Ti, which is much weaker than the 4070 https://youtu.be/W2wOn8zS8dU?t=3577 (the 4070 has more VRAM than the 3070 Ti that they mention there)

The 4070 is similar to the 3080, which is a pretty decent lead over the 3070 Ti. The 4080 is leagues above them all.

https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-founders-edition/images/relative-performance-rt-3840-2160.png

It won’t come close to a 4080 so that isn’t a sensible comparison. I think it’s estimated to be slower than the regular 4070.

IDK why you mention 4k and max settings and high frame rates, PS5 Pro won’t do these things. It’s not even twice as fast as the regular PS5 which in many games drops below 1080p 60fps medium settings.

The Duke was so good!

And a more official announcement of the switch-over https://www.debigare.com/the-new-open-source-video-game-randomizer-list-is-now-live/

So is this what they call “cyber bullying”?

Higher refresh rate is definitely better yes, but 700 hz is well past the point of diminishing returns lol

There’s been lots of updates to the layout and styling, as well as a dark theme! And we’ve also got it redirecting to a cleaner domain name now. https://randomizers.debigare.com/

oh yea for sure, except T7G was first lol, T7G even came out before Myst

also check out Shivers

Deus Ex, added to my library Aug 18th 2011, I also owned it before Steam though, I think I bought it in 2001

Although I’ve owned The 7th Guest since 1993 and I do have that installed lol which is probably my actual longest owned game that I have installed currently.

How about a randomizer? Pick a game you like and see if there’s a randomizer for it:

https://video-game-randomizers.github.io/rando-list/

last day :(

Peanut Butter the dog will be doing his speedrun in about an hour!

I wonder if it will have a classic single player mode

this is in person

I agree about some gimmicks like 2 players 1 controller, or playing games with a dance pad or whatever, they seem difficult but still feel like gimmicks to me

4-way races are ok if you’re familiar with the game and speedrun already, but otherwise hard to watch

we’ve got a megathread for discussion over at [email protected] - https://programming.dev/post/16201685

but maybe there will be more discussion here instead?

anyways, it’s live now, HYPE! https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

And dogs, rats, greasels, karkians, and fish if you’re standing (the game doesn’t have a use animation while swimming), and grays too but you’ll take damage when you do it

Thanks! Yea everything shown in that trailer is in UnrealScript aside from the creation of the mirrored map files, and the installer obviously, both of those were done in Python. The death markers and other online features (which are all optional and opt-in, disabled by default) use a TCP connection in the game written in UnrealScript to make HTTP requests, the backend is a Python Flask server. We even wrote our own JSON parser inside of UnrealScript (it’s not perfect but it does enough for us). Technically it’s possible to add a DLL module to the game for stuff like JSON parsing but we haven’t needed to, and technically this keeps it more easily portable (like if SurrealEngine even gets to a more completed state).

We had to write our own PRNG function to work inside UnrealScript, because the provided one doesn’t allow seeding.

Gameplay perspective…

This game is really open, there are many approaches to every situation. Which means when things get randomized, it tips the scales of balance and you have to reconsider every option for every seed.

Even just choosing a melee weapon, you’re thinking about knife vs baton vs crowbar vs sword vs eventually the dragon’s tooth sword. On some seeds the knife does a bit extra damage and then you gotta think if it’s better than the baton and crowbar because of its speed, and it only uses a single inventory space. On some seeds you might get a weak and slow dragon’s tooth sword and it might not even be worth keeping!

And then you’ve got all the different paths through the levels, and you’ll be rethinking routes based on random start locations, random goal locations, or random enemies in different spots, or items or medical bots. Or maybe a door was randomized to need more lockpicks and your lockpicking skill is worse than vanilla, maybe you need another way around or you choose to find the key to save lockpicks for later. You won’t be doing the same thing every playthrough like vanilla where eventually you figure out which approaches you like best for each spot. The randomizer gets you to rethink it all and adapt.

The ability to do anything also means you can always progress, you don’t get stuck just because you’re missing a password or low on multitools, there’s always another way. The randomizer really forces you to adapt.

I think any game with good replayability is a good target for a randomizer, it just amplifies that replayability.

Technical perspective first…

This is Unreal Engine 1, which used UnrealScript programming language. It was extremely flexible, and you can extract the original UnrealScript code (including comments) from the game. This means it’s nearly an open source game, except for the native code. But pretty much everything is controlled by the UnrealScript anyways. Including the GUIs, HUDs, conversations, most of the AI stuff, damage calculations, keyboard key bindings, etc.

On top of this, Deus Ex released their SDK tools (I think in 2001, around the time of the multiplayer patch). Which is their version of the UnrealEd map editor, conversation file editor, and UnrealScript compiler/extractor.

are you asking from a technical perspective or a gameplay perspective?

Tomorrow Deus Ex is turning 24 years old, and DXRando is turning 4 years old!

Biggest Changes Since v2.0

• You can now pet the dog! And other animals too. With bingo goals.
• Way more goals randomization
• Mirrored maps
• Installer program
• New game modes:
  • WaltonWare mode - A quick option to get into the game without the time commitment of the full game! You start in a random mission and win by completing one bingo. As New Game+ keeps making it harder, see how fast you can complete them or how many you can complete!
  • WaltonWare Entrance Rando - both modes combined!
  • Zero Rando - great for first-time Deus Ex players to benefit from the bug fixes, QoL improvements, and balance changes we’ve made, without any randomization.
  • DXR Vanilla Fixer: This one is for the purists. Use our new installer program and it will do compatibility fixes for the vanilla game (Kentie’s Launcher, D3D10, DXVK, Engine.dll fix, and more), then just run DeusEx.exe as normal and the gameplay will be unchanged but with high frame rates and resolutions!
  • Randomizer Lite - randomizes some things without interfering with the immersion and mood of the game. Great for players who haven’t played Deus Ex in a long time, or if you’re intimidated by the full Randomizer.
  • Randomizer Medium - similar to Randomizer Lite but with more randomization features enabled by default. Remember you can tweak the settings in the Advanced menu to play with any randomization level you want.
  • Serious Sam mode - same as the normal game but with 10x as many enemies. The player has increased health and takes reduced damage to compensate.
  • Speedrun mode - speedrun with fewer resets while still being able to enjoy higher difficulties. And a built in splits viewer!
  • As well as the old Entrance Randomizer mode and Horde mode
• Enemies overhaul with more variety, augs, helmets, face shields to protect from tear gas, and randomized patrol routes.
• Now up to 337 bingo goals
• Randomized music, continuous music, and support for Unreal and Unreal Tournament music
• Auto augs to reduce fumbling with all your F-keys
• Many more possible locations for items, datacubes, nanokeys, crates, and enemies to appear.
• Loot refusal system.
• Reduced pixel hunting
  • Datacubes/nanokeys/medbots/repairbots now glow
  • Crates that become emptied now turn into cardboard boxes so you know from a distance
  • Training mission improvements including explanation of some of Randomizer’s features