QuadratureSurfer
@QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it really depends on how you define scam. If you’re so loose with the definition that you would have considered No Man’s Sky a “scam” when it first released, then I can understand that.
Otherwise it’s not really a scam. There’s a free trial going on right now in Star Citizen.You’re free to check out the game for yourself. It’s in a really good state compared to what we’ve previously seen (not even close to bug free, but way more playable than before).
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 weeks ago:
Sure, larger businesses have more developers to get more work done. But there comes a time when throwing new developers at a problem convolutes the process and actually slows things down more than it helps.
Something that seems simple to you like a flashlight attachment may not be so simple under the hood.
Solo indie devs have an advantage because they’re familiar with all of the code. They’re the ones that wrote it.
They don’t need to learn a new part of the code when making fixes or changes. They don’t need to explain to another dev that “you don’t change how this information is passed in here because you’ll need it to look just like that in some other section that you’ll never touch”.
Additionally any decisions/changes/etc. are all decided by one person, no need for meetings to get everyone on board and explain exactly what you want to do. No need to try to get everyone to understand your vision for what you want to happen.
A famous comic might explain this process a little better:
- Comment on Over a hundred thousand Dune Awakening players got swallowed by the sandworm | Massively Overpowered 3 weeks ago:
Maybe some people just don’t like grinding for hours and hours to replace stuff they already acquired in a video game.
Personally, I would rather that we have a variety of different game types and options. There aren’t very many MMOs that make death feel meaningful. If it’s not your type of game, then don’t play it.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 3 weeks ago:
Here’s another win for Steam:
Subnautica has a multiplayer mod, but it only works with an older version of the game. Steam lets you downgrade the version, Epic games does not.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 3 weeks ago:
Well, apperently I’ve been misusing the term “Deckbuilder” for a while. TIL. Thanks!
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 3 weeks ago:
When did “deckbuilder” stop applying to TCGs? Isn’t that the original definition of a deckbuilder game?
I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but a quick search leads to some titles like:
Shapebreaker - Tower Defense Deckbuilder steamcommunity.com/app/1924010
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 3 weeks ago:
Actual card battle games like Magic the Gathering.
Or deckbuilding like those castle/turret defense games.
I’d have to agree with @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works, I’ve never been a fan of roguelike games where your next move/ability is left up to what you draw from your deck next.
- Comment on Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome 4 weeks ago:
Unwanted notifications? I’ll give you unwanted notifications:
- Comment on Evil Dead: The Game is now, ironically, a literal dead game as its developer removes it from sale 5 weeks ago:
Is this one of those games that has a single player mode, but you have to be online in order to play it?
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- Comment on Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, a survival horror, match-3 metroivania sequel to a game that doesn't exist, is out now 1 month ago:
Its ok, they can always pull a Star Wars and work on the first few after finishing the later ones.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws second story pack all about pirates sets a release date for next month 1 month ago:
How has this game been since release?
I saw a lot of controversy in its early days about stealth gameplay, your ability to keep weapons after climbing ladders, through different areas, etc.
Have there been any other major updates, or is this the first major game update?
- Comment on Dune Awakening shares new screenshots and confirms the ever-present threat of the Sardaukar | Massively Overpowered 1 month ago:
I’m definitely looking forward to this game.
It’s looking good from what I’ve seen so far.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
Well unless you did sunday driving… And put weapons on your car so you could go around demolishing the buildings you had built up in Sim City.
- Comment on Control Ultimate Edition: March 2025 Update Notes (PC) 2 months ago:
Issues like that are usually related to windows security settings which block applications from modifying the contents of user specific folders.
If a game likes to write save files to those locations and you have enabled ransomware protection, you’ll need to allow an exception for it:
Go to Windows Security -> Protection History -> Protected folder access blocked (look for the game’s executable in this list) -> Actions -> Allow on Device
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 2 months ago:
I doubt it would work well, but with enough training data it would be able to pick up on some areas. Especially if there are large landmarks in the frame (mountains/hills/rivers, etc.).
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 2 months ago:
One interesting alternative would be the Visual Positioning System (VPS) that Niantic has built from Pokemon go player data. Basically you can take a picture outside and your phone will know exactly where you are:
www.nianticspatial.com/locate#vps
arstechnica.com/…/niantic-uses-pokemon-go-player-…
Too bad they’re getting close to being bought out by a company that’s notorious for squeezing out every penny from their player base.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 2 months ago:
I did a quick search but couldn’t find any issue with their anticheat.
From what I could find, it’s not a kernel level anticheat.
As far as damaging hardware, reading from a drive doesn’t really degrade it much at all, the bigger concern there would be if it was writing to your drive a ton (but honestly you should worry more about Window’s Page File system since that makes it possible to use your storage drive as RAM).
I found a post from one player on the steam forums with concerns about the anticheat because their system kept crashing, but that sounded more like an isolated incident (or more likely related to the Intel CPU issue that was confirmed that same year).
There is a highly upvoted review for the game which has concerns about the anticheat reading all files on a drive and “overloading your processors (ignoring frame-rate caps and going past it).”
I agree that reading every file on a drive is concerning, I’d rather any anticheat stick to just the game’s folders itself.
However, I’m wary about their understanding of programs/computers if they think that anti-cheat software should be limited by, or has anything to do with frame-rate caps. Also, they don’t provide a source for any of their information or how they tested it.
Most other cocerns about anti-cheat quoted that same review in one way or another.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 2 months ago:
Yeah, you can see it here:
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Dark_and_Darker/ - Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online 2 months ago:
I looked into this a bit more and here’s a quick video of someone testing out the demo that they have online:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7iyWO8XaT0Direct link to the demo itself:
sesame.com/…/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice… - Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 3 months ago:
Relevant VLDL video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XvzlHuqlXY
- Comment on The German Federal Cartel Office has concerns about the current form of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Framework (Apple doesn't apply its strict app tracking rules to itself). 3 months ago:
That’s just what Apple wants you to think:
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- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 5 months ago:
Hey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. That’s better than what I expected to happen.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 5 months ago:
For the specs of what it is and what else is out there, it’s actually a really good price.
People like to compare it to the cheapest headsets out there, but it has specs that beat the highest end headsets out there and it’s cheaper than those.
When the Apple Vision pro came out, the closest device sporting similar specs would be the Varjo XR-3 which was only available to Enterprise users. It cost $7k plus a $1500 yearly subscription, plus you needed a powerful computer to run it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=REo1ugX5GSI
Basically, hardware wise, it’s good, but for it’s actual uses it’s not worth the $3500.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Head Claims Team Isn't Close To Being Done With Game's Content 6 months ago:
I’m hoping a lot of the work they’re putting into Light No Fire will be brought back into No Man’s Sky, and that this will be a part of that.
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 6 months ago:
The physical copy comes with some goodies, or else you can pre-order through GoG, Steam, Epic Games, MS Store, or Xbox.
