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| News Comments > BFG Leaves Graphics Card Business |
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Re: BFG Leaves Graphics Card Business |
May 21, 2010, 02:16 |
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Sepharo wrote on May 21, 2010, 01:36:
Surf wrote on May 21, 2010, 00:19:
Who the fuck would pay $400+ for a vid card these days when the consoles are so inexpensive and PC makers are all bailing onto consoles.
I would. Probably a bunch of other posters as well. I would, and I have. Consoles? Are you kidding me?
Anyway, yeah, I agree with Blue. BFG is awesome. I think their recent BFG trade-up programs might have been somewhat taxing on their profitability though. I was able to trade up from an old BFG GeForce 7800 GS OC AGP to a 9600 GT PCI-Express for free. They've always been a great company from a customer service standpoint. They will be missed in the graphics sector. |
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| News Comments > Singularity Preorder Bonuses |
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Re: Singularity Preorder Bonuses |
May 20, 2010, 18:11 |
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Capitan wrote on May 20, 2010, 17:43:
nin wrote on May 20, 2010, 13:45:
I have to say, after watching the last video, I'm looking forward to this one. I'll prob go for the 360 version, since they throw in Prototype, and give you a $20 credit for a future purchase.
Why pay full price for it when you could buy it for the half? You get the same game in Wolfenstein, Singularity is just a carbon copy of Wolfenstein and contains all the same things....
Yeah, dude. It's, like, totally like the same thing, only with more of the same. |
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| News Comments > Singularity Preorder Bonuses |
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Re: Singularity Preorder Bonuses |
May 20, 2010, 16:19 |
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I remember the days when games just came with this shit standard. Now, you have to jump through all kinds of crazy hoops just to get the game, practically.
Nowadays, when I buy a game, I don't ever get that "hey, thanks for supporting our products" feeling from game companies. Well there is one exception, but all the others just feel like greedy pricks, and creating a quality game and a quality experience (and of course a good post-purchase feeling) aren't even on their list of things-to-do.
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| News Comments > More Mac Steam Games |
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Re: More Mac Steam Games |
May 20, 2010, 14:15 |
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Reactor wrote on May 20, 2010, 02:32:
I know designers who drink Apple's juice all the time.
Ah yes, designers. I am one, and happy to be PC based. But most of the industry (especially when it comes to web design) think the only computer you can design something on is a Mac. Don't you fucking HATE how MacOS insists on keeping the desktop visible behind applications? Open Photoshop, for example, and you get to see everything behind it, instead of a white background, like on a PC. You have the menu bar across the top, the toolbar on the left, and the layers and other tabs on the right. The rest is wide fucking open, instead of masked off by the program's background. It's extremely fucking annoying. I hate having that distraction of (and annoyance of accidentally clicking on) the shit behind my window. That is but one of the many Mac UI flaws. |
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| News Comments > Avatar Game Sells Well |
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Re: Avatar Game Sells Well |
May 20, 2010, 14:11 |
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kxmode wrote on May 20, 2010, 12:49:
I think it's amazing that most of you say you dislike the movie on the merits of the story and not the special effects. I would like to remind you that many scenes were completely CGI. By itself that was completely amazing. And they invented a special 3d camera just for this movie.  |
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| News Comments > Team Fortress 2 & Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates |
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Re: Team Fortress 2 & Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates |
May 20, 2010, 13:53 |
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starmonkey wrote on May 20, 2010, 05:23:
Sepharo wrote on May 20, 2010, 02:17:
Pretty sure that never ever never ever was sarcasm.
Argh! Where are those sarcasm tags, I ask you! ...I thought it would be obvious.
Undead Scottsman wrote on May 20, 2010, 05:48:
I just told you they unintentionally nerfed the Backburner at the same time as the Flamethrower (since it was unintentional, it never made the patch notes. There were plenty of people complaining about it though); the 20% boost was to restore it to it's original damage. (And actually didn't even do that, as it was only up to 96% of its original damage)
The split now is the Flamethrower is at 88% of its pre-nerf damage, and the Backburner is at 101% of its pre-nerf damage. (Another way to put it is that the BB's damage booster is a quality of the weapon: it does 15% more damage than the FF. If the FF does 100 damage, the BB does 115. If the FF does 50 damage, the BB does 57.5.)
How can you say this for certain? You can tell the difference between 95% and 100%? Or are you just assuming because they said a percentage, that they actually USED a percentage, AND that it was based upon its current value at the time?
You know when they code it, they can (and probably do, for ease of implementation) just plug in a number value right? Like their damage calculation could look something like:
Math.random()*(75-45)+45 And then they can plug that number into another calculation to take distance to target into account, and all they need to do to modify the damage dealt is change the 75 or 45 or both, for the numbers that represent the max and min damage. They don't have to calculate it based upon a percentage. They might just call it a percentage in the patch notes to make it easier to understand.
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| News Comments > Team Fortress 2 & Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates |
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Re: Team Fortress 2 & Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates |
May 20, 2010, 04:45 |
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Undead Scottsman wrote on May 20, 2010, 02:52:
Uh, the Backburner was never 40% more powerful than the flamethrower. When Valve nerfed the FF, the Backburner got unintentionally nerfed along with it. Valve added the quality to the BB that it would do 20% more damage than the FF.. Course this was using the new FF as the base, rather than the old one, so the BB wound up doing 96% of it's old damage.
Now the FF has been upped by 10% (from 80% to 88%) and the BB has been brought down to 15% extra of the FF's damage, it leaves it at 101% of it's original damage.
Flamethrower direct damage reduced 20%.
Added a 20% damage bonus to The Backburner
20 + 20 = ?
They were originally equal.
Fixed the Flare Gun's afterburn duration being lowered by the Flamethrower's duration reduction Maybe that's what you're referring to, or they just made an omission in the patch notes. Something that major should have been made clear, however.
This comment was edited on May 20, 2010, 04:51. |
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| News Comments > Avatar Game Sells Well |
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Re: Avatar Game Sells Well |
May 20, 2010, 01:41 |
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Jerykk wrote on May 20, 2010, 00:38:
What the movie tonight. It's really good in retrospect. I can see why it was nominated for an Oscar.
What? Avatar was basically a sci-fi remake of Pocahontas. It was a decent movie but completely generic and forgettable. Yeah. It was really awesome in true IMAX 3d on an actual 6 story tall screen. That experience was pretty unbeatable, but story-wise, yeah.... |
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| News Comments > Steam Mac Data |
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Re: Steam Mac Data |
May 20, 2010, 01:39 |
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Bob wrote on May 20, 2010, 00:15:
Without hearing more detail, it sounds like they need to check out their cross-platform tools. Something's not right if one platform is crashing 5x more than another.
5x? Did you mean 20%? |
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| News Comments > Team Fortress 2 & Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates |
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Re: Team Fortress 2 & Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates |
May 20, 2010, 01:34 |
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Sepharo wrote on May 20, 2010, 00:10:
Current players of CS will hate it.
People who don't play CS generally don't like CS.
So this is a rather pointless update.
They should have just put the new nice stats and achievements in CS:S as it is now and not bother with the netcode and graphics. Maybe, but to Mac users, CS:S is probably a beautiful, gorgeous, state-of-the-art game. |
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| News Comments > Avatar Game Sells Well |
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Re: Avatar Game Sells Well |
May 19, 2010, 23:12 |
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Diabolus in Musica wrote on May 19, 2010, 22:21:
Can you point out some more blatantly obvious shit for us? It's not blatantly obvious to Ubi, obviously, or they wouldn't be boasting about the sales in this press release. |
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| News Comments > Team Fortress 2 & Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates |
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Re: Team Fortress 2 & Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates |
May 19, 2010, 22:54 |
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Dev wrote on May 19, 2010, 22:40:
I'm surprised valve reverted some of the pyro changes. Its rare to see valve admit they are wrong. Firstly, they didn't REVERT anything. They just nudged the differences closer together. Now, instead of the USELESS RETARDED NOT-CREDIT-TO-TEAM backburner being 40% more powerful than the far-superior flamethrower, it's only 30% more powerful, and the afterburn duration was slightly increased, but not to where it originally was.
Secondly, they are ALWAYS making adjustments in the name of balance. Where have you been all this time? They aren't admitting they are wrong, it's called fine-tuning, and it's something NO OTHER game dev ever does ever in the history of ever. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
May 19, 2010, 22:06 |
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Wow. Redwood is a classic figure in gaming. I remember him from Quake, and probably DOOM before that.
Also, let's take that fucking BP chief, drown him in oil, and force his corporation to pay the entire world back for the damage it has done to the planet (including their mere existence prior to this tragic incident). I'm sure after 456trillion dollars, they'd still have plenty to survive comfortably off of. Greedy pricks. |
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| News Comments > Steam Mac Data |
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Re: Steam Mac Data |
May 19, 2010, 21:43 |
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# Portal (with the same code base across platforms) is one fifth as likely to crash on a Mac than on Windows.
Weird. I don't think Portal has EVER crashed on me, and I wouldn't go near a mac. |
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