
I’ve never heard about directstorage before, and by the description it’s an xbox api, does windows even support it?
The goal is to enable handling of up to 50,000 requests per second while using at most 10% of a single CPU core
That’s not really impressive, you get 100k iops without any tweaking at all and cpu shouldn’t even blink at it.

There were a few games that explained slow updates with “just download them on steam” when asked, ofc it’s not on steam that publishers are lazy. Publishers are lazy because steam has such an overwhelming majority that they can ignore customers on other platforms. I do prefer gog because they are drm free and offline, so in the inevitable crash of global internet i will have my oldie games, lol.

It didn’t, it’s extremely boring, everything is disney-ified to unbelievable level, and there is no conflict, at all. At worst someone can say something mildly hurtful (acceptable to children <10 years old) but at the end of the dialog everyone return to happiness, the villains are bad and evul, the heroes are good and heroic, there is no option to even be impolite, lol. Add to it “puzzles” that won’t puzzle a kindergardener, and that’s what veilguard is. I honestly don’t get why they hate their players so much as to assume that they are regarded.
f3 was fine-ish and f4 complete shit, in my opinion, storywise. Bethesda fallout and Obsidian fallout live in different universes. Bethesda universe is static with all known elements that return and rerurn and return again sloghtly remixed, Obsidian one returns to f2 theme of post-post-apocalypse where nations fight for resources. Bethesda fallouts are better games, while Obsidian one is a better story.