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.