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They’re hoping people will get sucked into the game, and stop caring the graphics suck.
If you jump straight from an optimized game to B4, it’s going to suck. They want you to keep playing till your brain adjusts.
But if you’re coming out of 120fps twitch shooter…
It’s gonna take a lot longer than 15 minutes to get used to AI upscaled fake frame 60fps instead
Gearbox has also issued a piece of advice to PC gamers that to me reads like an effort to prevent players from making knee-jerk reactions to the game’s performance as soon as they’ve changed their settings: “Please note that any time you change any of your graphics settings, your shaders will need to recompile. Please keep playing for at least 15 minutes to see how your PC’s performance has changed.”
Pretty sure if that’s really happening, it’s a unique problem
Maybe if you’re changing just resolution, but for 99% of setting changes it has nothing to do with shaders.
Apparently the graphics are basically the same as 3, but performance is dog shit on even the best hardware and crashes are unavoidable.
When people complained, he said they need to use AI fake frame and upscale from 720. Which still wasn’t good performance.
It might get fixed later in updates. But this guy is handling so badly he might legitimately be mentally unwell. It’s at the point it’s weird he still has a job
That’s not how any of this works…
The price point is static, $X for a console game.
It’s weirdly like socialism. A game like GTA knows they’ll sell a shit ton of copies for years after release. Likely on multiple console generations. All those customers subsidize each others portion of the development cost.
It’s economics of scale, the greater expected sales, the less profit margin the corporation will accept.
Niche games come with a niche tax. It’s not unique to gaming.
BG3 was insanely cheap tho when accounting for scale. It was easily 2-3 games worth of content for the price of 1 game.
And the reason it was able to achieve the scale it did, was people bought the shit out of it on presale.
I looked and checked, I bought it almost 3 years before it released. Because act 1 was already playable, and already the length of a regular 2020 full release.
Despite “never pre-order a digital good” being sound advice 99.99999% of the time, the studio and IP and it being 20 some years since the last entry made it able to fund its own development.
Expecting anyone else to replicate that absolute perfect storm that allowed for BG3 is just going to lead to constant dissapointment.
Saints was just a way to appeal to polytheists back when everyone hadnt moved on from multiple gods.
That fertility goddess? She was a person, and now she’s a saint and a road to jeebus. Some chief whose corpse you’ve been carrying around for 100 years? Perfectly cool, lots of Christian churches did the same thing.
Especially for Catholics, praying to a saint is like calling God’s secretary, that’s why they all have their own fields like “gaming”.
Locals got a way to continue existing rites and festivals, the local leader got to tell the church they were converted, and no invasion “had” to happen.
It was the franchizification of millennia old religions that are practically extinct today.
The author picked a clan that’s all about brute force…
Then complains the game was about brute force except for the parts where you play a vampire from another clan.
I don’t even know much about WoD, but I know he picked the most boring clan and then complained it was boring action.
The reactions to what clan you pick is where the RPG parts seem to come in from other reviews I’ve read.
It’s not like it’ll be a perfect game, but I feel like whoever wrote the review didn’t really get the game.
Pretty sure:
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Yes, this is a legit thing the EU cares about. However that’s also why I’ve always wondered why they’re soliciting signatures outside the EU…
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Didn’t it come out that the people who pushed payroll processors to force studios to censor, have been found out to be a bunch of far right religious extremists who definitely aren’t going to stop here.
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That’s the question put to Newell by Saliev: should younger folk looking at this field be learning the technical side, or focusing purely on the best way to use the tools?
“I think it’s both,” says Newell. “I think the more you understand what underlies these current tools the more effective you are at taking advantage of them, but I think we’ll be in this funny situation where people who don’t know how to program who use AI to scaffold their programming abilities will become more effective developers of value than people who’ve been programming, y’know, for a decade.”
Newell goes on to emphasise that this isn’t either/or, and any user should be able to get something helpful from AI. It’s just that, if you really want to get the best out of this technology, you’ll need some understanding of what underlies them.
In an actual free market all the corporations would act like this, because shit like this is what people want out of a business they patronize.
You will recall that there was a bit of a fuss a month or so ago when an undoubtedly-harried GameStop employee stapled some customer receipts directly to Nintendo Switch 2 boxes—and through the boxes, and into the Switch 2 units themselves. It was all quickly resolved, without lawsuits or fistfights, and with the ugliness now behind it GameStop is looking to make some proverbial lemonade by auctioning off the Switch 2 killer for charity.
No lawsuits, no fight required by affected consumers
The company made it right and turned a bad situation into a PR move that helps a charity.
I really thought we’d see some kind of ethical capitalism out of the whole GameStop thing but it never really spread.
Cyberpunk had bugs, for loads of people ground reaking bugs.
But I got it on PC launch and didn’t really notice anything bad after tweaking settings.
Mindsete (from what I’ve seen) doesn’t even have good bones, everything is shit except cutscenes visuals and the content of what they’re saying sucks.
I don’t know how they could save this without turning it into a brand new game
Why deal with Ubisoft BS on PCs and their Client. Where older games force you to sign in to play them. When I could just have them on one box.
Yeah, but the advantage of PC is games “last longer” graphically.
Old games like those on PC you can max out all the settings and even use mods to further enhance it.
On an old console, you’ll always be playing at the same graphics it was released with
OP faked the screenshot
https://www.youtube.com/@tutorialsbyluke/videos
The last video was from 7 years ago, but the 87 subscribers is legit for some reason
Like every other post OP makes, yes, it’s obviously to get people to play their game.
I searched the channel expecting it to be the only video and also OP:
https://www.youtube.com/@tutorialsbyluke/videos
But instead they just faked the acreenshot, it’s not even a real video
More importantly it was limited by physical media back then.
Like, DVD level physical media, there was a hard limit for everyone, so there was a huge focus on optimization to save space
Now that almost all games are downloaded, they can be as huge as they want. So optimizing for file size is often the first place that gets cut. You might not keep a huge game installed, but it’s rare to avoid buying a game due to file size.
churn out a “quick” remaster, try and beat Skyblivion to completion, and milk the cash cow dry. It’ll almost certainly be a muddy sepia, soulless, bugged to all fuck travesty.
I literally can’t tell if you’re trying to be sarcastic because you’ve read any of a huge number of articles about the leaks, or completely ignorant of them and just happened to get everything completely opposite on accident…
HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?
Before AIPAC there was another Israeli organization that donated to politicians.
After years of fighting a committee ruled that it had to register as a foreign agent.
So Israel created AIPAC and then gave Max donations to the people on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.
Which is why AIPAC has never had to register.
As both parties continually got rid of campaign finance law, AIPAC kept increasing what they gave, and started throwing insane money at anyone critical of Israel in the primary when it’s cheap.
Over decades they’ve bought the only two options and ensured the only two options were peo-Israel over anything else
The worst part …
They’re not the only organization, even foreign country. Doing this to ensure they always win.
Luckily while Ken Martin does have a pro-Israel bias, while running Minnesota he was one of the few state chairs who refused to work against anti-genocide Dems in primaries or generals. Which resulted in Minnesota being one of the progressive strongholds despite no one guessing it would shake out that way a decade ago.
So I want to be clear:
The people fucking up the DNC for decades is gone, we need to support the new DNC to keep it out of their hands. The people running the DNC six months ago wants the current DNC to take the fall so they can move back in.
Part of why it’s so ridiculous some Americans are legally prohibited from participating in BDS, is people only know if you tell them.
You can just not buy it and never mention why.
And unfortunately, lots of people aren’t even aware it’s illegal:
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292
Nope, never said it sucked, never even said which way that mattered…
But if you read the article:
Concurrent player numbers on Steam have been okay but not great, peaking out at a little over 6,000 concurrents during Atomfall’s first weekend of release. The 1.5 million player count is no doubt driven largely by Atomfall’s presence on Game Pass, where everyone can give it a spin for no more cost than what they’re paying for their subscription anyway.
6k on steam…
The single largest platform for PC games.
Meaning most are on Game pass.
We can’t say everyone who tried it for free would have bought it. Which makes these numbers less valuable.
Does it make sense now?
but at the cost of competitive fairness??? No thanks.
You do realize current CoD is matchmaking based on engagement, right?
If it takes 3 matches of getting stomped to exit the game, it’ll give you an easy win every 3 games.
If the first number changes, so does the second.
That’s not even getting into how buying skins artificially reduces the second number.
Like, after accounting for just those two things, it’s kind of absurd to complain about fairness unless it’s competitive mode, and I’m pretty sure those already have pc/console splits.
Player input uniformity is one of my biggest gaming gear grinding situations. It’s especially problematic with my favorite genre of games: competitive FPS games.
That’s how it was split…
A PC controller would be matched up like a console controller. Now pc controllers will be grouped with PC mouse players…
You typed a lot but don’t seem to know what you’re talking about about bud
Yet with the sudden closure of Monolith Productions and cancellation of its Wonder Woman project, that particular success seems doomed to life in the vault. Though the Nemesis system was due to be implemented in the Wonder Woman game, Warner Bros. still owns the patent for the system, which stands with an expiration date in 2036.
The fact that a game mechanic can be patented for over 20 years is fucking insane…
Most other games will just say something like:
“Some changes require a restart to take effect”
Maybe B4 tried something new where instead of a 2 minute restart, it fucks up your game for up to 15 minutes?
Like, shit is unusual, but I don’t have the game, I’m just going off what I see in articles.