givesomefucks@lemmy.world

If someone can compress an entire triple A game into a 50 MB download…

Then surely they know more about this than we do and we should trust them.

/s

Instead of cat proofing, you were supposed to get a server room dog…

fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Creation_Club

Creation club is a decade old…

And the main criticism has always been that it takes free mods, and charges players for them thru creation club.

I have no idea what you’re rambling about

Yeah bro, there’s no way checks notes Microsoft would do something like that…

And explains why this update that breaks mods is to push the same mods except paid and labeled “creations”…

The Fallout 4 update’s due first, arriving on August 18th and “focusing on general Creations improvements”.

They weren’t happy with people fixing their games for free, they want to get paid for it.

Coincidentally, if America used original licensing laws, Fallout would have enter public domain a year or so ago, and anyone could make a full Fallout game by now and sell it.

I’ve always worried about “updates” to prior entries when a new one is coming

There’s a financial incentive to cripple the last game’s years of mod support so the next official entry isn’t compared to that, it’s compared to the base game

Kind of doubting if this is a serious community from the other comments…

But these are the “little red dots” from 2024:

en.wikipedia.org/…/Little_red_dot_(astronomical_o…

And it’s pretty much what we thought they were.

On Windows they own the OS, so wacky folders that you can’t touch even with the highest admin rights isn’t a stretch, but good luck with that on Linux.

They third party authenticate thru the Xbox app and “gaming services”. (The issue here, is even for games bought in Steam or other launchers, if it’s a Microsoft game, it needs this. So the concern is this isn’t optional for Linux, it’ll be a requirement to run any Microsoft game)

If/when there’s an issue, you can’t really do anything, and Microsoft support is just chatbots.

Even something as simple as a “repair” or reinstall. Depending on where the process broke, it could be a huge headache manipulating the two into a state they can be repaired.

It’s bad enough I’m not buying any Microsoft games, even tho I resolved my own issues, it could just happen again at any time. And I just don’t want to deal with the potential hassle.

If they ever release a new fallout/ES, I’ll take the time to see if it’s still an issue.

Rockstar especially is going to shove it down our throats…

They don’t want to ever sell another game, $60 even $100 a copy ain’t enough.

They want people to pay $20 a month for each game they play, that way it’s not just the whales from microtransations keeping live service games alive.

What they’re missing is most people don’t care about live service, a weekly rotating playlists having you do things you could have done anyways without being told to, just doesn’t interest a lot of gamers.

When it does, those people tend to just play 1-2 games at a time, and eventually drop a title for a new one.

Absolutely no one is going to carry a bunch of $20 monthly subscriptions for multiple games.

If we don’t overcharge consumers how can we dump truckloads of money on AI data centers no one wants?!?

It’s weird we never hear about how “the founding fathers” knew best in respect to copyright law…

They set it at 14 years, after that they could apply for a single 14 year extension and that’s it.

With Fallout 1 coming out in 1997, we should be at the point where anyone who wants to make a fallout game, could just make a fallout game.

Imagine how much better gaming would be if billion dollar corporations couldn’t get a monopoly on IP forever.

The first is aimed at mods with “AI-Generated code, user interface elements, voices, dialogue, translations, music, in-game AI-generated assets”. The second’s for mods with AI-generated promo art, thumbnails, videos, mod page descriptions or other media that isn’t part of their in-game makeup. Finally, AI Assisted provides a specific tag for mods which have “developer-led code, content, or mod assets, with limited AI involvement” and/or have used AI for texture upscaling, audio upscaling/cleaning, and concept art that’s not in the final build.

I’d like to see AI voice actors split out.

For an actual game that would be a dealbreaker.

For an unpaid mod? Thats about the only time I’d be ok with it. But I wouldn’t want to install a mod AI coded.

This is actually kind of crazy…

the big under-the-hood change comes by way of swapping Unreal Engine 5.1 for Unreal Engine 5.5. In theory, this could drastically improve performance, spruce up certain lighting effects, reduce visual noise effects, and help with some of game’s lingering stability issues.

Or, it could break everything again, shattering into a thousand radioactive pieces the technical solidity that a year and a half of patches had successfully built up.

This isn’t just updating the game’s code, it’s updating the entire engine the code runs on…

It’ll 100% introduce new bugs, that require more patches.

I guess the presumed DLC sales justify the cost of continued support, but this introduces a dangerous precedent where if the DLC doesn’t sell, a company may not continue trying to fix it.

DLC “breaking” a game isn’t new, but before the option to just uninstall it was there.

If the engine update breaks the game, no one buys dlc because of it…

We could see future games get put in a broken state due to cashgrab dlcs.

10 years from now it could be a very real problem.

Yeah, but you don’t get them in a single stack box, do you?

Sliding back and forth means they could bump sides and chip.

Even single stacked large tiles, sliding makes boxes break.

Like, you asked a question I answered it. If you want to argue after admitting you couldn’t figure it out, I’m just going to block you and never help you again.

But for one batch of tiles the stack was a bit rocky - less stable. Whereas the original stack of all facing the same direction does not rock. Apparently they are less flat or less symetric than they appear.

One side is slippy, one side is grippy.

Stack grippy to slippy, and a stack is structurally sound.

Stack only grippy to grippy and slippy to slippy, and it’s gonna tumble.

Why would they make games that could only be played on Steam machines?

That would be absolutely insane because number of Steam users who have has to be like 0.00001% or something crazy.

Every social animal that operates primarily on vision has this…

It’s just mostly primates who fit that definition.

We’d be likely to see the same with certain parrot species and meercats maybe?

But use a parrot population from a zoo or aviary that lived it’s whole life around a large number of the same species, and it’ll get spider tingles from this shit too.

It’s a member who doesn’t fit into what you consider “us” but also no known subgroup of “them”, it freaks out a social brain. And the closer it gets to a real person/animal, the more alarm bells it rings because it’s more believable. But there will always be tells we pick up on subconsciously that it’s a trick.

Darth Vader had “the same DNA” as Anakin Skywalker too…

He was just missing a bunch limbs, internal organs, half his face, his entire personality and motives, just all in became the polar opposite for who he was for most of his life.

None of this is actually my fault…

Every CEO, ever

The AI push is going to end being like a writers strike for TV…

We’ll look back and see a blank spot where there was no quality games being made, and what did come out will be seen as low quality abnormalities.

All the CEOs are gambling on it magically working if they sink enough time and money into it, but it’s not. We’re approaching a point where the companies that try to stick with AI will run themselves into the ground because AI coded games just can’t compete with human coded games.

I mean…

They’re more likely to be hybrids instead of a real species. They have dental traces of both near sapian cousins and only found in waaaaaay more ancestral cousins.

With hybrids it’s actually kind of common for males to abort before birth. Something about the mothers immune reaction to the y chromosome or something, I’m going off memory.

But it could also explain why that group of hybrids lived alone.

A hypothetical reason for why human/neanderthal hybrids tended to be born to human mothers, was neanderthals developed faster. So to a neanderthal mother, a hybrid appeared to have developmental delays mentally while also being a weakling and never lived to reach its intellectual peak.

Meanwhile a hybrid raised among humans would develop physically faster and always be stronger, but also develop mentally faster, even if not peaking as high.

It’s possible that Naledi may have only been capable of reproducing females from one or both origin species. Or even been a neutral (possibly sterile) group between the two origin species where hybrids (always female) were abandoned to be raised but what may have been outcasts.

Like, we honestly can’t even say they’re a unique species and we’ve been off by a lot more before.

Scientifically its important to analyse it, but I understand that at a certain point it becomes grave robbery.

I feel like 10,000 years is a pretty safe line…

I did go to the range this morning, so just a healthy dose of lead and micro-concussions…

Normal American shit.

Someone is 100% going to try and use videogames to train AI to fight in real life.

There’s now way they won’t.

We’ll know it’s really here when a new game advertises that it’s bots use “intelligent movement and reactions” instead of copying scripted movement like a player’s button presses.

They’ll stress the realism that the bots even use cover and aim weapons realistically.

Because they won’t be running the same thing as players. The bots will be some matrix type inputs like QWOP so it can learn to control a real life bot body with the same inputs as the game.

That’s 100% some shit microslop will put in COD

the cheapest Lidl honey

Yeah, that was probably high fructose corn syrup…

People don’t understand that the nozzle needs to be calibrated…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSX0sZcp0w

I had to do something big. Because I could take all the credit if it worked, and none of the blame if not!

-American CEO culture

No, I just acknowledge reality

Obviously.

But the point isn’t the exclusives and their sales.

The point of exclusives is to get people who can only afford one platform to buy yours and be forced to buy every game from your online store.

If it didn’t make sense the first time, ask what you’re missing.

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Does someone in 2026 really not know what the fuck “capitalism” is?

We can’t even get healthcare and you think video game consoles should be a nonprofit endeavor?

It’s wild how the people running these giant corporations have no idea how their business works…

The point of modern consoles is locking someone to your store. They saw PC sales they were missing and wanted, so they ended exclusives.

Then were shocked that if people didn’t have to buy a PlayStation, they didn’t overspend in the PS store. They’d just buy the PlayStation games on PC and Sony loses their cut on all the other games.

Incredibly obvious, but only if you think more than one financial quarter at a time.

Just like this article is an example of, people will be slow to re-enter that ecosystem because exclusivity is no longer guaranteed. Why buy a console for exclusives if a year from now they won’t be exclusive again?

It would be hard to quantify, but Sony just set fire to millions and millions of dollars in profit with all this snip-snap shit.