limitedduck
@limitedduck@awful.systems
- Comment on Control 2 will be an action-RPG, and the first game is getting a significant update in 2025 1 day ago:
That sour electric aroma you can smell is the collective anxiety-stench of games journalists trying to decide whether it’s worth sitting through the full investor presentation in the hopes of discovering some proper context for these pitiful morsels - perhaps even a unique angle which none of those other hacks have discovered, the feckless layabouts.
So he’s taking his frustrations out on the reader by padding his article with sympathy-bait? I’ve come to really dislike Rock Paper Shotgun articles lately
- Comment on Back 4 Blood 2 appears to be a thing, which is a shame, because I'd rather play a new Evolve 3 days ago:
I’d like to remember Evolve more fondly than I do, but I just didn’t have as much fun with it as I hoped. My strongest memories are of feeling annoyed at a constantly recharging jetpack
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
It was a good decision. It was also smart of them to review the initial 100 planet goal to add some much needed context
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
I understand, what confused me was your claim about the common understanding of the term when there are very much two valid and ubiquitous contexts.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
I can understand you have different criteria for dedicated servers, but private servers are certainly not generally characterized by still being on 1st party hardware. You need only look at private servers for Minecraft, WoW, and the like
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
I would say private server is more what you’re referring to, also CIG’s wording, but maybe agree to disagree. A quick search says that they haven’t cancelled that feature, but it’ll appropriately be the very last thing they work on
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
How are they gone? The current servers are hosted by CIG, there’s no p2p or host server. How would that even work for an MMO?
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Meshing tests have gone up to 2000 and the shards that were left on overnight were 300-500. The current evocati build of 4.0 has meshing enabled, just limited to 100 for now
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I don’t think they should be aiming for 100 anymore, even if it was promised. That number was for the original pitch and was arbitrarily high since it was for a much shallower and easier to create game
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Today was day one of Citizencon and CIG revealed a lot of stuff that shows they’re still working to give players the game they want. Most of it was actually tech to answer the scalability problem for everyone wondering how they’re going to get to 100 star systems when they still only have 1
- Comment on Cloud Imperium quietly steal Star Citizen developers' weekends from under them with mandated overtime in the lead up to Citizencon 1 month ago:
Who okayed this article? It’s just a signal boost of the Inside Gaming article with nothing new added besides anti-Cloud Imperium fluff. Also, they actually misrepresent the lieu time given, conflating the Citizencon lieu time for the Squadron 42 lieu time that has a restriction on when it can be used. As far as the original article goes, there aren’t any know restrictions on the former.
- Comment on GE-Proton 9-12 released with fixes for Star Citizen, Bully: Scholarship and more 2 months ago:
Anyone use proton-ge for Star Citizen? Would like to use it because it’s more up to date than wine-ge, but mouse sensitivity just doesn’t feel right in comparison
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
I can agree that challenging Steam is probably a good thing, but right now Steam just gives so much more value to Devs and publishers. Steam provides:
- a review system
- remote play
- the workshop
- discussion threads
- cards and the points store
and that’s just what I can think of, not including the player specific stuff like library sharing.
Devs and publishers pay more, but get a community and ecosystem in return instead of just a platform.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
Elden Ring with the Seamless Co-op mod. It’s not difficult or complicated to set up and it works extremely well
- Comment on What's the difference between a $50 HDD and a $200 HDD? 2 months ago:
Not to be confused with white-label products in general
- Comment on Close call 2 months ago:
Number go up
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Is this the same? Almost every original word is swapped out
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 months ago:
The Closed Alpha playtest isn’t an invitation to publicly review, it’s an invitation to playtest. They’re trying to gather data and feedback on an inherently feature-incomplete and unpolished game to help with development. There are going to be private channels for feedback and the playtest data itself is like feedback so public channels are redundant. Obviously Marvel is also just trying to dodge criticism, but that’s not a mutually exclusive reason.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 months ago:
How? The agreement restricts public statements, not negative feedback as a whole.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 6 months ago:
It’s probably unusual. I hope that’s what your friend meant. If something you do is unusual, it doesn’t automatically mean you need to stop doing it.
- Comment on There can only be one! 6 months ago:
This brings a smile to my face
- Comment on Half Life 3 6 months ago:
I believe Gaben said this specifically at some point
- Comment on TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 8 months ago:
He kind of looks like a discount Tobuscus, which would probably be better than regular Tobuscus
- Comment on PEMDAS is technically correct, but morally wrong 9 months ago:
My Xmas starts and ends with a good old bedmas
- Comment on PEMDAS is technically correct, but morally wrong 9 months ago:
Not all equations have a solution right away. PEMDAS, or BEDMAS as I was taught, helps you navigate these novel equations. It’s a natural way to think when exploring problems outside of a textbook.
- Comment on Ketchup alignment 9 months ago:
How else are you supposed to maximize teeth coverage
- Comment on Matrix 1.9 just came out! 11 months ago:
Notably missing from the comparison list is any mention of video or screen sharing, or anything to do specifically with games. These are Discord’s unique strengths at the moment and they have been for a long time. With that in mind, Matrix is a “good alternative” to Discord in the sense that most other desktop VoIP or chat apps are since Discord users aren’t using it for the privacy and openness aspects and want the Discord specific features and ease of use.
Don’t get me wrong, I wish I could fully replace Discord with the Matrix instance I currently self-host, but there are things Discord just does better than every other app including having a bunch of features that range from meh to pretty good all in one package.
- Comment on Earthbound Creator Says Nintendo Considered Mother 3 Translation, But It Was Complicated 11 months ago:
The fan translation was fantastic, but I do wonder what official localization would look like.
- Comment on Simple landing page listing my installed services 11 months ago:
github.com/gethomepage/homepage
Another vote for Homepage, fantastic project
- Comment on Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism 11 months ago:
Elon’s going death con 3