Agreed though, when they work they’re comfortable, responsive, intuitive. At their best they’re the best controller I’ve used.

But for $80+ these days they should have hall effect sticks and mechanical switches. I’ve started buying https://www.gulikit.com/ controllers, which have both and are much cheaper, but not as comfy or responsive.

I have serious stick drift on Dualsense controllers after using them on and off for just a year. 3 controllers, all with the same issue.

Better than I expected.

But I also worry this is the first twist of the dial to boil the frog.

Steam Link 2 is just a Google TV or similar device with the Steam Link app installed. They never stopped the project, just shifted focus.

It’s a different architecture, ARM vs x86-64. I wouldn’t expect everything to work.

If they actually partnered with framework that’s an instabuy for me.

Second chart from the original source for more context. Pretty impressive 69.9 FPS in Cyberpunk. Way better than what I anticipated for translating x86-64 to Arm64.

Bethesda was notorious back in the day for using uncompressed textures. Not lossless textures, just fully uncompressed bitmaps. One of the first mods after every game release just compressed and dynamically decompressed these to get massive improvements in load times and memory management.

Voyager uses a different format.

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Exactly! It’s not a competitive game. It doesn’t involve an online component.

Frankly I think it’s exactly what it needs to be, bugfixes not withstanding. It’s complex, fun, challenging, but not overwhelming.

The only thing I can think i might want are more challenges, but that’s such a minor thing if I never got another I’d be perfectly content.

It’s pretty fun. But I find myself drawn more to TCG Shop Simulator to scratch the itch these days. Pokemon had it’s chance to innovate for decades and largely refused to.

Yeah, and to exploit it you need ring0 access in the kernel.

In other words, this isn’t an attack vector, it’s an escalation path. It escalates past the kernel, which is terrible to be sure, but if a hacker manages to get that deep in the first place, your system is already fucked.

The Epic exclusive bullshit always stinks. Glad they are at least offering an option to get it from their website, even though the best solution is to release it everywhere.

This should go without saying, but benchmarking to test the raw performance of an engineering sample is a fools errand. Generally engineering samples are carefully selected for stability and testing features, not for their performance or efficiency.

Absolutely incredible game. I loved every moment.

Calling this dude a douche-canoe is too generous.

This man is an absolute douche-barge.