RedEye9 wrote on Mar 28, 2020, 00:01:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 27, 2020, 23:48:
Google Bans Infowars Android App Over Coronavirus Claims.

Same as the flu, amirite?

People who believe Covid19 is the same as the flu also believe their head is the same as their ass.
NY ICU doctor clandestine footage of the crowded hospital.

WaltC wrote on Mar 17, 2020, 12:13:
I didn't like the corny demon-pentagram-Hell-skull theme 30 years ago--like something out of a grade C horror flick...;) I always thought even then, "That's all they could think of? That's it?" I'll pass this up, too. I bought some of the older games when they were new--but invariably lost interest after 10-20 minutes of the repetitive button-mashing gore fests...;)

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 11, 2020, 14:18:

Fion wrote on Mar 11, 2020, 13:25:
For scifi fans looking for something to watch, season 2 of Altered Carbon came out a few weeks ago on netflix and it's awesome. Ends with a big twist that has massive repercussions on season 3.

Are you familiar with the books it is based on? Did they follow the second novel closely?

Cutter wrote on Mar 9, 2020, 19:43:
How about player run servers - not rented ones - or at least ones that aren't laggy AF. I have 300Mbps and was always 200-250ms on their shitty servers when I wasn't lagging out completely. It's like gaming online 20+ years ago.

El Pit wrote on Mar 8, 2020, 13:28:

VaranDragon wrote on Mar 8, 2020, 13:17:

El Pit wrote on Mar 7, 2020, 14:44:

VaranDragon wrote on Mar 7, 2020, 13:50:

El Pit wrote on Mar 7, 2020, 10:42:
The Ryzen 7 1700x ain't good enough but an i7-6700K is? What the hell? Optimised for max. 4 cores/8 threads maybe? And the 1700x's other 4 cores can take a break and go shopping during Doom 2020?

Apart from the glory Athlon days, Intel has always and I mean always been better at single threaded performance, which includes 85-90% of all gaming.

Before you start calling developers lazy, an engine needs to be written from the ground up to support multi-threading on the level you want it to be and, news at 11, most game engines in common use today are not.

So they are not lazy but won't optimise their engines to use more than 4 cores/8 threads because those 8 core cpus are soooo new (the 4th Ryzen generation will be released this year)... Right? Truth is: with the next console generation also going for more than 4 cores, the developers will suddenly magically learn how to optimise their engines for more cores...
Whatever. Maybe we will see a patch in a year but by then I might have a Ryzen 4700x in my rig and then I can wait for this to hit the bargain bin including everything coming with the year passes.

Did you even read what I wrote? Optimising an older engine for more cores is usually simply NOT possible. No patch can solve this. This is NOT a new engine and while id have been engine pioneers while John Carmack worked there, those times are long past for id software.

E.g. World of Warcraft and Path of Exile did the impossible: they patched multithreading into their game engines...

El Pit wrote on Mar 7, 2020, 14:44:

VaranDragon wrote on Mar 7, 2020, 13:50:

El Pit wrote on Mar 7, 2020, 10:42:
The Ryzen 7 1700x ain't good enough but an i7-6700K is? What the hell? Optimised for max. 4 cores/8 threads maybe? And the 1700x's other 4 cores can take a break and go shopping during Doom 2020?

Apart from the glory Athlon days, Intel has always and I mean always been better at single threaded performance, which includes 85-90% of all gaming.

Before you start calling developers lazy, an engine needs to be written from the ground up to support multi-threading on the level you want it to be and, news at 11, most game engines in common use today are not.

So they are not lazy but won't optimise their engines to use more than 4 cores/8 threads because those 8 core cpus are soooo new (the 4th Ryzen generation will be released this year)... Right? Truth is: with the next console generation also going for more than 4 cores, the developers will suddenly magically learn how to optimise their engines for more cores...
Whatever. Maybe we will see a patch in a year but by then I might have a Ryzen 4700x in my rig and then I can wait for this to hit the bargain bin including everything coming with the year passes.

El Pit wrote on Mar 7, 2020, 10:42:
The Ryzen 7 1700x ain't good enough but an i7-6700K is? What the hell? Optimised for max. 4 cores/8 threads maybe? And the 1700x's other 4 cores can take a break and go shopping during Doom 2020?

Drayth wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 19:03:

Xero wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 18:48:
Just caught the trailer. For anyone that has never played Half Life through should sure be in for a treat! What's mind blowing is that if you never did, imagine, we had this in 1998? WHERE tf where you?

I remember playing the Half-Life: Day One leak (thanks Creative Labs!) the night it hit the net. I was completely glued to my monitor.

When the biggest 3d games you had played up to that point were Quake, System Shock and Sin.. HL was on another level entirely.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 1, 2020, 13:32:

Eirikrautha wrote on Mar 1, 2020, 13:20:
How about implementing the game first? I wanted a space-fighter simulation. Wing Commander for the 21st century. I don't want first person shooters, survival mechanics, real-time strategy, mining and economic simulations, etc. I want to blow up not-Kilrathi in spaceships! How hard is that?!?! Apparently, for this bozo, it's damn near impossible...

I'm with you, but I'm pretty sure that SQ42 will be mostly WC for the 21st C. The online Persistent Universe (PU) is where they're adding all these additional mechanics. Still, a bit annoyed that this is being implemented as part of 1.0, instead of being added as an update.