Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 days agoSounds exciting, especially the multithreading part since CPU has always been my main bottleneck. Hopefully it’ll make it in by the time I decide to give it a shot. Not gonna lie, while I was hopeful about Stalker modding in the early days I didn’t expect it to go this far. It’s a nice surprise.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 days ago
CPU has been a bottleneck for CoC/Anomaly forever since Xray was originally made in that time when people thought super fast single core processing was the future. So GSC optimised it for that idea. Instead it turned out clock speed has pretty much flatlined since then and multithreading was the future. Plus it doesn’t help that all the offline simulation of what the world is doing in the background offsceen is incredibly CPU heavy.
STALKER modding is absolutely crazy, not quite as large as Skyrim but also harder to quantify since in addition to the by-now massive Anomaly scene there is also a massive scene that’s still spread out over other older offshoots, particularly in eastern Europe. They’re very big on modding and remaking the original trilogy there (STALKER is huge there in general). Hell, I actually have Oblivion Lost Remake installed and ready to go, which is a fan-recreation of the original vision of Shadow or Chernobyl, recreated from design documents and early dev builds that have been leaked. GSC famously had to cut down their vision massively to get the game out the door and OLR 2.5 has been described by many as the closest thing we’re ever going to get to what they actually wanted to make (Oblivion Lost was the original title before it became SoC).
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, I spent WAY TOO MUCH time with Crysis (both playing and modding) so I’m familiar with the CPU issue. Can’t predict everything, unfortunately.
Good to know about the Oblivion Lost remake - I did play one of the leaked beta builds before so seeing a more finalised version of what could’ve been should make for an interesting experience. I have a lot to look forward to, thanks!
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 days ago
You’re welcome, always happy to talk STALKER! If you want to try OLR, make sure you grab the 2.5 version as they apparently started inserting more liberal/fanfictiony changes in version 3+. You can download it here (don’t worry, the installer lets you chose English as language).
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ohh, that’s some important info. Appreciate the warning.