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I mighta missed if this was posted or not, but https://twitter.com/Batandy_/status/1449510676003753991
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Signal Lost is a standalone reimagining of the Half Life Uplink demo into it's own extended chapter, the aesthetics inspired by that of the 1997, pre-revamped Half Life. https://twitter.com/MyFairLadyJane/status/1450492073531125760
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Signal Lost is a standalone reimagining of the Half Life Uplink demo into it's own extended chapter, the aesthetics inspired by that of the 1997, pre-revamped Half Life. Oh poo poo that sounds awesome. Uplink was actually my first exposure to Half-Life.
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Oct 19, 2021 18:59
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Signal Lost is a standalone reimagining of the Half Life Uplink demo into it's own extended chapter, the aesthetics inspired by that of the 1997, pre-revamped Half Life. yessss. I played Uplink about a million times back when it came on a PCGamer demo CD
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treat posted:I used to sneak away into a storage room at the YMCA to play the Doom RPG on my Motorola V195 when I was supposed to be exercising pre-wildfire deployment. Then I got my rear end absolutely wrecked when I showed up to the field station and was forced to run 6 miles every morning. Worth it, Doom RPG was sick. I can still taste the joy I felt watching credits roll while sitting on a pile of yoga pads in that dark closet. I have the sequel and the Wolfenstein RPG on my phone but it just isn't the same without real buttons to push. this is back a tick but did you follow the compilation instructions in docs/COMPILE? The easiest way to do it (which sucks!) is to spin up a Linux vm or install windows Linux subsystem and cross compile for x86-64. Shoot me a message on discord or drop a pm if you need a hand.
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A large update for Half-Life 2 and the Episodes is currently in public beta, adding Vulkan support and DXVK Native for Linux, proper ultra-wide support, properly-scaling HUD, and support for 110 FOV. This is presumably to get it all up to modern building codes for Steam Deck. InjectD3 has updated with further improvements for this attempt to get Descent 3 up to snuff.
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Did they ever update the PC version of Half Life 2 with the upgraded lightmaps/HDR stuff that the console versions got?
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SCheeseman posted:Did they ever update the PC version of Half Life 2 with the upgraded lightmaps/HDR stuff that the console versions got? I don't think so, but a fan-mod did a better version of it. There are rumors of a new version coming soon that similarly polishes up the Episodes.
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Tim Thomas posted:this is back a tick but did you follow the compilation instructions in docs/COMPILE? The easiest way to do it (which sucks!) is to spin up a Linux vm or install windows Linux subsystem and cross compile for x86-64. Shoot me a message on discord or drop a pm if you need a hand. I appreciate it. I got as far as trying visual studio but hit a bump and gave up pretty quickly. I'll try a linux vm when I have some time and hit you up when i'm inevitably punching my keyboard because "psuedo apt-get" isn't working.
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On the subject of HDR, it sure is weird coming back to Valve's use of the term when the term is the new(ish) hotness in HDTVs, yet is used in a very different way that Source does not (AFAIK) support. I get they're attempting to tackle a similar (if not the very same) problem of contrasts between dark areas and bright areas, but Valve's implementation always came off as "we're simulating your eyes adjusting to dark/bright areas and the corresponding change to pitch white/black that an area of the opposite brightness would appear as from your vantage point", while HDTV HDR is more like "we can render ultra-bright scenes and ultra-dark scenes in the same frame at the same time with full clarity on both". Wonder if it's even possible to rework the former into the latter, supposing the user has an HDR monitor of some sort...
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The port looks excellent! Worth the wait
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Shadow Hog posted:Wonder if it's even possible to rework the former into the latter, supposing the user has an HDR monitor of some sort... Most game engines that do Source-style brightness adjustment effects are using a "real" HDR framebuffer internally and downconverting it to SDR for output to non-HDR displays. If this is how Source works, it would be (relatively) easy to just not do that and send the HDR image. I don't know if this is actually the case, though.
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Johnny Joestar posted:yeah destiny 2 kind of has this extremely hostile new player onboarding experience right now given that the content available is absurdly disjointed and you're basically dropped in right in the middle of literally everything i guess I keep trying to get into Destiny 2, but it is built poorly for new players at this point.
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Shadow Hog posted:On the subject of HDR, it sure is weird coming back to Valve's use of the term when the term is the new(ish) hotness in HDTVs, yet is used in a very different way that Source does not (AFAIK) support. I get they're attempting to tackle a similar (if not the very same) problem of contrasts between dark areas and bright areas, but Valve's implementation always came off as "we're simulating your eyes adjusting to dark/bright areas and the corresponding change to pitch white/black that an area of the opposite brightness would appear as from your vantage point", while HDTV HDR is more like "we can render ultra-bright scenes and ultra-dark scenes in the same frame at the same time with full clarity on both". Wonder if it's even possible to rework the former into the latter, supposing the user has an HDR monitor of some sort... I think the two aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive, but Valve’s talking about HDR rendering usually and TV makers are talking about HDR output. The whole deal with the Source engine’s HDR support is it can do a whole bunch of calculations with a broader range of colors than your monitor can support, then from there it can adjust during the transition to normal color space while making the final image that you see. The only thing that would be needed to make HDR rendering work on HDR displays is to tweak the color output of the final step, so I’m pretty sure it’d be a five minute fix.
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The Kins posted:A large update for Half-Life 2 and the Episodes is currently in public beta, adding Vulkan support and DXVK Native for Linux, proper ultra-wide support, properly-scaling HUD, and support for 110 FOV. This is presumably to get it all up to modern building codes for Steam Deck. Would be nice if they updated the Mac version to work on its newer OSes but I won’t hold my breath. Very very excited for this.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Would be nice if they updated the Mac version to work on its newer OSes but I won’t hold my breath. Same and also their new processor architecture. I wonder how trivial it would be to recompile for Apple silicon if they’ve already done native Linux builds.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Signal Lost is a standalone reimagining of the Half Life Uplink demo into it's own extended chapter, the aesthetics inspired by that of the 1997, pre-revamped Half Life.
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Casimir Radon posted:This sounds great but I can’t get it working. Even after trying the troubleshooting options. Strangely enough it just decided to stop working for me. Ran fine for two sessions (I died. It's harder than og HL  ) and then it just crashes to desktop now. v v
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Shadow Hog posted:On the subject of HDR, it sure is weird coming back to Valve's use of the term when the term is the new(ish) hotness in HDTVs, yet is used in a very different way that Source does not (AFAIK) support. I get they're attempting to tackle a similar (if not the very same) problem of contrasts between dark areas and bright areas, but Valve's implementation always came off as "we're simulating your eyes adjusting to dark/bright areas and the corresponding change to pitch white/black that an area of the opposite brightness would appear as from your vantage point", while HDTV HDR is more like "we can render ultra-bright scenes and ultra-dark scenes in the same frame at the same time with full clarity on both". Wonder if it's even possible to rework the former into the latter, supposing the user has an HDR monitor of some sort... i was actually thinking about this the other day because I've been playing horizon zero dawn and it has really harsh adaptive brightness which reminded me of the hl2 lost coast demo before valve learned not to tune it so extreme on how bright and dark the change should be site fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Oct 20, 2021 |
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site posted:i was actually thinking about this the other day because I've been playing horizon zero dawn and it really harsh adaptive brightness which reminded me of the hl2 lost coast demo before valve learned not to tune it so extreme on how bright and dark the change should be I really hated how developers almost always got HDR lighting wrong, making it look like the sun went nova outside when you were in a building, and making interiors way too dark while outside looking in. I suspect it's because they based it off of how a digital camera would adjust to that sort of lighting shift (before the advent of better and faster image processors) and not how the human eye does it. Either that or just the usual problem of not understanding how to use an effect subtly.
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Angry_Ed posted:Either that or just the usual problem of not understanding how to use an effect subtly. It's this, but intentional. Every time a new trick gets invented, there's a period where devs do it as hard as possible just to make sure you notice and get suitably impressed. Colored lighting, ragdoll physics, bump/normal mapping, HDR, ray tracing, everything's had its day in the (instantly blinding) sun
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Shadow Hog posted:On the subject of HDR, it sure is weird coming back to Valve's use of the term when the term is the new(ish) hotness in HDTVs, yet is used in a very different way that Source does not (AFAIK) support. I get they're attempting to tackle a similar (if not the very same) problem of contrasts between dark areas and bright areas, but Valve's implementation always came off as "we're simulating your eyes adjusting to dark/bright areas and the corresponding change to pitch white/black that an area of the opposite brightness would appear as from your vantage point", while HDTV HDR is more like "we can render ultra-bright scenes and ultra-dark scenes in the same frame at the same time with full clarity on both". Wonder if it's even possible to rework the former into the latter, supposing the user has an HDR monitor of some sort... I wonder how hard it would be for them to turn their internal HDR format (such as it is, I don't know if they actually represent the entire screen in an HDR format internally, or if they tonemap as they go - I guess probably the latter) into something that would be compatible with HDR displays. Volte fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Oct 20, 2021 |
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haveblue posted:It's this, but intentional. Every time a new trick gets invented, there's a period where devs do it as hard as possible just to make sure you notice and get suitably impressed. Colored lighting, ragdoll physics, bump/normal mapping, HDR, ray tracing, everything's had its day in the (instantly blinding) sun The worst was probably that mid-2000s bump map era because everything looked like plastic. Colored lighting and rag dolls were fun. I miss those being overdone. I am excited for overdone ray tracing because that poo poo looks nice.
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Motion Blur and Bloom, my most hated ones until something like... 2-3 years? When games started to implement them in a way that I don't feel annoyed and oooh boy if I see the option to turn these off. I turn them off by instinct after so many years of smearing my screen with blurry poo poo or blinding me with bloom.
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Colored lighting and rag dolls were fun. I miss those being overdone. UT2k4 was peak for these. I miss seeing your stupid body go flying through the air, it was amazing.
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Angry_Ed posted:I really hated how developers almost always got HDR lighting wrong, making it look like the sun went nova outside when you were in a building, and making interiors way too dark while outside looking in. In addition to what's already been said, sometimes making the interiors dark was part of a framerate trick, where the interiors aren't rendered at all from far away. The fully black non-rendering had to transition to actual rendering, and it's masked a bit better if you're pairing it with exaggerated HDR.
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shoeberto posted:UT2k4 was peak for these. I miss seeing your stupid body go flying through the air, it was amazing. I remember Rainbow 6 3 having some crazy ragdolls, I don't know if it was the first in the series to use it.
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haveblue posted:It's this, but intentional. Every time a new trick gets invented, there's a period where devs do it as hard as possible just to make sure you notice and get suitably impressed. Colored lighting, ragdoll physics, bump/normal mapping, HDR, ray tracing, everything's had its day in the (instantly blinding) sun "There's a period" by which you mean like a decade because devs were still doing it with HDR in 2017 and beyond  There's no excuse for it by that point
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Team Fortress 2 ragdolls and gibs shall forever be among the funniest ones
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I did appreciate how you could enable the German-or-such censored giblets in non-censored versions of the game. Like, that would normally really only be useful for squeamish players (so, me for a good while), but TF2 makes it worthwhile regardless just because you gib into a bunch of completely ludicrous objects, like clocks, hamburgers or balloon dogs. It's worth enabling just for the absurdity.
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It pains me so much that my laptop is such an ancient toaster that I have to have ragdolls and gibs disabled as part of the config I use to get a halfway decent FPS in TF2
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I have such great news everyone. I am getting Jurassic: The Hunted tomorrow from Gamefly!
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drrockso20 posted:It pains me so much that my laptop is such an ancient toaster that I have to have ragdolls and gibs disabled as part of the config I use to get a halfway decent FPS in TF2 I used to run tf2 on my dell from 2003.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I used to run tf2 on my dell from 2003. this is making me crave a microwave pizza
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Made some more attempts to get Signal Lost working and got nowhere. I hope the dev releases a fixed version soon because this is the coolest thing I see on the horizon.
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Valve silently fixed HL2's buggy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuiYZJAcEY
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