A clusterf*ck of a game redo with a clusterf*ck launch. Rockstar can't be bothered to do PC games right, when consoles are their reason for existence.

ForgedReality wrote on Nov 13, 2021, 05:01:

Dacron wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 16:50:
A bit of a disaster? The game is a disaster let alone the launch. Parts of the game looks worse than modded originals. The fan-based remastered were ages better than this shit Rockstar dropped. I own every GTA, these are all skips for me.

Case in point

Yikes! That reminds me of this...

https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/klypczqa.jpg

I know how they achieved that too... as a modeller.. it's so stupid that it hurts.

Load 3dsmax scripts - Open *.MODEL - Apply Mech-Smooth - Merge - Export to *.model and tada, you just fucked your entire asset pipeline so hard that it's non-repairable because all bones, IK are now tied to that mech-smooth result. Except not really, it breaks nearly all boundary things (where seams are for 2 bones) and thus you get "janky spider arms"

How unfixable? The state of broken where you have to redo the model completely to fix it. Never go full smooth on your assets.

Dacron wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 16:50:
A bit of a disaster? The game is a disaster let alone the launch. Parts of the game looks worse than modded originals. The fan-based remastered were ages better than this shit Rockstar dropped. I own every GTA, these are all skips for me.

Case in point

Yikes! That reminds me of this...

https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/klypczqa.jpg

And the service is back and the bought game gone. Great. I think they are saying "Screw the paying customers! They will buy GTA VI nevertheless!" And unfortunately, they will be right about that.

Hey they're Rockstar, the bass player probably just took a bunch of coke and drove the band bus into a ditch!

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy

• The Defunct Edition
• The Deficient Edition
• The Only Edition available now

+[The Only Edition available now... Now no longer available

Shifter2000 wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 14:42:
This is nothing new, and publishers/developers have not learnt any lessons.

Some people will remember back when Half-Life 2/TF2 was released, it required a Steam account to be activated (which incidentally, coincided with the release of Steam platform). This caused a lot of displeasure from gamers who were used to just punching in the CD Key, installing the game, and away they went.

This was a hotly anticipated game at the time.

"What if servers are down? How do I play?", they asked.

"You can still play offline - it only requires a single log-in to activate", said Valve.

Of course, the day of release, the Steam servers were overloaded, and people who purchased the game were unable to activate it, and therefor play it.

I didn't get to play my new copy of HL2 for TWO DAYS because the servers were down.

#neverforget

HL2 didn't and doesn't use DRM. Retail copies and Steam copies could be pre-loaded, but were encrypted until release. After release, the files had to be decrypted, but afterwords are DRM Free.

I pre-ordered HL2, and had no problem playing on release day. I didn't try to play the minute it released, it was later in the day, but it fired right up after waiting several minutes for the decryption process.

my God.. The arrogance of this company..

I'm voting hacked, and aren't this idiots using crapware denuvo?

Dacron wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 16:50:
A bit of a disaster? The game is a disaster let alone the launch. Parts of the game looks worse than modded originals. The fan-based remastered were ages better than this shit Rockstar dropped. I own every GTA, these are all skips for me.

Case in point

Well that’s embarrassing.

A bit of a disaster? The game is a disaster let alone the launch. Parts of the game looks worse than modded originals. The fan-based remastered were ages better than this shit Rockstar dropped. I own every GTA, these are all skips for me.

Case in point

Didn't this happen when GTA5 was free on the EGS or was it the EGS which died?

steam was released way before HL2. I remember we ran a set of TFC servers and website, plus a big natural selection server farm too. We all got steam at release and added day of defeat to our roster (which continued right through our TF2 days). I have a five digit steam ID (plus username that is a long lost email address as you had no choice back then). HL2 came a while afterwards.

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 15:18:
Was that the retail version? I woke up early that day and played my pre-loaded digital copy for a few hours before school.

Yes. I still got the original disc here with the cd key. It had to be authenticated online with Steam.

Shifter2000 wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 14:42:
This is nothing new, and publishers/developers have not learnt any lessons.

Some people will remember back when Half-Life 2/TF2 was released, it required a Steam account to be activated (which incidentally, coincided with the release of Steam platform). This caused a lot of displeasure from gamers who were used to just punching in the CD Key, installing the game, and away they went.

This was a hotly anticipated game at the time.

"What if servers are down? How do I play?", they asked.

"You can still play offline - it only requires a single log-in to activate", said Valve.

Of course, the day of release, the Steam servers were overloaded, and people who purchased the game were unable to activate it, and therefor play it.

I didn't get to play my new copy of HL2 for TWO DAYS because the servers were down.

#neverforget

Was that the retail version? I woke up early that day and played my pre-loaded digital copy for a few hours before school.

This is nothing new, and publishers/developers have not learnt any lessons.

Some people will remember back when Half-Life 2/TF2 was released, it required a Steam account to be activated (which incidentally, coincided with the release of Steam platform). This caused a lot of displeasure from gamers who were used to just punching in the CD Key, installing the game, and away they went.

This was a hotly anticipated game at the time.

"What if servers are down? How do I play?", they asked.

"You can still play offline - it only requires a single log-in to activate", said Valve.

Of course, the day of release, the Steam servers were overloaded, and people who purchased the game were unable to activate it, and therefor play it.

I didn't get to play my new copy of HL2 for TWO DAYS because the servers were down.

#neverforget

RedEye9 wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 13:51:

The Half Elf wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 13:05:
Rather would have Red Dead Redemption with the RDR2 engine on PC.

^^^This. A thousand times this!

From what I've read previously, this is actually being done right now. I can't for the life of me find the link to the article but apparently it's been leaked that they're working on RDR(1) to bring out before GTA6. When, I have no clue, but they were saying it was going to be quite a while. So maybe around the same time The Elder Scrolls 6 comes out?

Simon Says wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 11:29:
It has been cracked since yesterday and word is it's working perfectly.

For now. According to a source (that I won't mention because I know Blue doesn't like us talking about this here):

"None of the "cracks" posted does actually include properly decrypted .exes, the original encryption is fully intact in all cases....that being said, chances are high that any of the games will crash or malfunction at some point, namely when the code enters one of these encrypted regions..."

So, if they're right, you'll run into problems at some point. I haven't had time to play much so I can't confirm. It doesn't seem like any of the 'normal' high-profile crack teams have released it, so I would be extremely cautious. Though, given the fact that legit owners can't even play the frakkin' thing at all (and those of us trying to finish up our RDR2 playthrough can't because of the same problem! Thanks, *R!), maybe it is the better way to go.

=-Rigs-=

The Half Elf wrote on Nov 12, 2021, 13:05:
Rather would have Red Dead Redemption with the RDR2 engine on PC.

^^^This. A thousand times this!

Pretty funny that their mobile ports have to be online DRMed