Slick wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 12:09:

Jim wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 12:01:
The steam situation would not be as egregious except for the brigading and trashing steam users do when a developer chooses not to publish on steam. It is like you have to pay the mafia part of your income because their goons will trash you up if you don't. To be clear, gaben is not to blame, but it is a problem.

You're right, GabeN is not to blame. People are lining up around the block to "only buy on Steam". He would be foolish to not continue to bilk developers out of 30% to process a payment and provide some download bandwidth. There's a reason Valve is a multi-billion dollar video game company that doesn't make video games. The "blame" rests squarely with the cult-like mindset of consumers who will only shop at one store. It's brand loyalty to an absurd extent that people are willing to financially hurt the people who actually make the game they're buying, in order to enrich the entity that had nothing to do with game development. It's their tribe, and by extension their identity that they only buy games on Steam. And GabeN is just laughing all the way to the bank.

Preaching about it isn't gonna change any Steam cultist's mind. And all the others get it, and get annoyed by your preaching.

Anyway, we should just celebrate companies like EGS. Steam can only get away with that 30% cut because if companies don't put their games on Steam, they miss out on too much revenue; Steam still has the monopoly, and I'm honestly wondering if that's ever gonna change. Steam is like the beautiful glass cabinet that has all the games you own presented inside of it. All the other stores are shelves in your garage...

Slick wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 11:31:

Prez wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 07:15:

wrlwnd wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 01:08:

Slick wrote on Sep 24, 2022, 16:49:

Still, I'd buy a Ubisoft game on Uplay, an EA game on Origin, or an Epic game on EGS. In fact, if it's only on Steam or EGS I'll buy it on EGS because I don't have utter contempt for the developers making the games that have enhanced my life throughout the years. Even a 12% cut is highway robbery for a payment processor, but it's better than Steam's 30% which would make Bernie Madoff blush.

I'll stick with Steam as my go-to platform.

Developers are free to choose whatever platform they want their apps distributed on. There are plenty of choices today. I guess they don't get the same "utter contempt" vibe that you do.

Strange that has to be pointed out.

He says this every thread, over and over again. Every. Single. Thread. We fucking get it already.

And I'll continue to do it every thread because there are many people who don't seem to "get it already". Sorry if you're being annoyed, feel free to block. Not that I post much lately, I think about 15 times in the past year.

It's like anti-racism overload. I know it's annoying to hear over and over and over, "we fucking get it already" you're not a racist, so you're annoyed that we're "still talking about this". But there's still racism in this world, so I'll keep talking about it.

Follow Morgan Freeman's advice ffs: just stop talking about it.

At beer festival. Cba to correct my typos.

I simply don't know if the performance is has improved: it's possible I tried playing the game with RTX on at my first run. Anyway, without it the games runs smooth on my 3070 and mayyyyyyyyyybe the gunplay has improved? I do know I enjoy it more now that before. Again! I believe this is more due to my state of mind than anything else.

Yes. Give this game another shot.

I'm one of those 1 million. I'm enjoying it more than before, but mark my words: this is 100% because of my own state of mind now compared to back when it was released, and has nothing to do with any of the patches. For the life of me I cannot spot any improvements, performance or AI wise. So, if you're planning on revisiting and expect it to be a better experience, make sure something in YOUR LIFE / STATE OF MIND changed and don't expect any real changes in the game. Not necessarily bad. Just an observation.

Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 21, 2022, 08:12:
Razumen, if you enjoy the game more power to you. Gaming is without a doubt a personal thing, and if you like it by all means, go ahead and play it.

I have watched multiple videos of game play of Star Citizen including ones which thought they were showing how good the content is despite the fact it is still in development. At best I was left with an impression of a skeleton of game which works most of the time. I think it is pretty clear the game is no where close to being ready for prime time and personally I'm not sure it ever will be. That said, if Roberts could deliver on his promises the game would be fantastic. I don't think he can deliver on all of those promises. I hope I'm wrong. I'd like to see the game he has promised.

Imo, the time for such nuanced replies have ended. If not years ago then certainly now. I frankly don't give a shit if he makes good on his promise at some point in the distant future, and neither does 95% of his backers because most of them will be in a nursery home sucking from straws.

Don't motivate heroin users to keep on using. Don't appreciate the people still defending this project. The time for ridicule has begun.

Who am I to tell you what to do though 😝

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Who else scanned this video for any gameplay footage and lost all interest when there was none? ✋

Armengar wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 11:40:
It doesnt look much different from D3. I expected, improvements I guess.

Jesus, such a stereotypical gamer thing to say.

Hey, this game is part of the #fuckinnovation movement! 😃

RT is a fucking cancer in every game; the performance impact of RT is absolutely ridiculous given the minor visual improvements. Unless you have a monster rig, RT and 80+ fps is a no-go.

I tried CP77 again last two days. Had about 3 ctd's in the 4 hours I played. Didn't directly notice any performance improvements but I didn't notice any crazy AI glitches either. I enjoy the replay more than the first try, but that's because I had a new rig back then and CP77 ran kinda like shit and I was pretty much benchmarking and troubleshooting the entire playthrough back then. Today, my rig has proven very stable and high-end so I can now enjoy CP77 knowing the shitty performance and crashes aren't on my end.

Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 16, 2022, 22:33:
That guy has a knife with him in his car, I am in danger! I better shoot him dead!

Seems like standard police procedure to me. Yes, I am being sarcastic

What an idiots. They didn't realize this guy was either on hallucinogens or some other drug, or was simply having a mental episode?! Sure, eventually he lunged for an officer in which case shooting him would make sense in many other situations. In this case, however, it were the incompetent officers that escalated it to this point.

Always bet on the cats. Cats don't give a shit who rules.

I want to love this, but I think I won't. The TR gameplay loop has become too "gamey" for me for a long time now; the contextually inexplicable wooden beams on cliff walls for you to climb, and all the other similar examples of things that scream "I'm here for you to interact with" elicits a yawn immediately. The worst thing these games can do? A "cutscene" where the camera shows point B and slowly reveals the puzzly path you have to take from point A to get there. 🤦

I'll end up playing these games for the story cutscenes and on-rails scenes instead. Everything else is a chore.

I kinda liked the demo, even though it turns out I'm rhythmically retarded. I'm consecutively getting the "Good" result on every shot instead of "Perfect". And sometimes I'm doing the off-beat or whatever you call it in English, which matter of factly isn't wrong but the game immediately punishes you for it. I hardly ever hear the songs in their full glory 😅

Tried the demo as it's not out yet. Jesus Christ I never knew I sucked this hard at keeping a beat until now! Turns out I'm simply consecutively off by a milisecond or two, hitting that mouse button just a tad too early. I really need to reset the beat I'm hearing in my own brain to recalibrate with the game, costing me literal seconds to do so. I'm rythmically challanged indeed.

Kxmode wrote on Sep 11, 2022, 14:47:
I spent about a week in the ER. I'm okay now and back home. 👍

Stuck at that fucking Malenia too, or was it another boss? Hope you're doing fine now. Malenia almost had me transferred to a mental asylum as well.

Good to hear, Blue! Don't hate being wrong, though. Instead, celebrate when you know you are so you can change your mind and learn something new so you'll be right more often! 😎🙌🙌

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 10, 2022, 09:08:

PHJF wrote on Sep 10, 2022, 09:07:
Fast startup and fast boot are not the same thing...

Please elaborate.

Edit
Oh unless you mean the BIOS options.
For this conversation I may have used both interchangeably but never referring to the BIOS switches.

Yeah I was talking about Redeye's one. My PC went nuts every time, long before that cache or save file got corrupted -- unless it corrupted itself instantly. Really shitty "feature".

1badmf wrote on Sep 10, 2022, 07:01:

Quinn wrote on Sep 10, 2022, 02:27:
Turn off Fast Boot if it's on. I had inexplicable BSODs on my then new rig. That fixed it.

if you're booting from an ssd fast boot is kinda pointless isn't it?

It was on by default when I had installed Windows on that rig. I think my CPU didn't like that feature. Many BSODs, often after playing games and returning to desktop.