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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I hope Civvie does Half Life 2 before or at Christmas this year. Unless someone at Embracer surprise announces a holiday release of "ROTT 13 Remastered And Actually Done This Time" I don't think there's anything else.
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ROTT Ludicrous Edition will bring a new episode, but that's not due until next year.
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Turin Turambar posted:https://www.techspot.com/news/96342-developer-blames-potato-xbox-series-s-locking-gotham.html Their hunk of poo poo can’t reliably hit 30fps on a top spec console and runs like rear end on PC. I don’t buy that this is the fault of the Lesser Xbox because their last game had the same drat problem. I think it’s firmly a “them” issue that a lot of their competitors don’t share. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Oct 26, 2022 |
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Tiny Timbs posted:Their hunk of poo poo can’t reliably hit 30fps on a top spec console and runs like rear end on PC. I don’t buy that this is the fault of the Lesser Xbox because their last game had the same drat problem. I think it’s firmly a “them” issue that a lot of their competitors don’t share. Quantum of Phallus posted:lazy devs being lazy, as per
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i've only played the first level of cultic and liked it, but I hope later levels have a bit more verticality if they're gonna be as long as the first level was. i did appreciate the mix of indoor and outdoor spaces, you get a bit of the mazey shooter and a bit of the 2000s outdoor shooter rolled together (yes i know Blood had outdoors sections too, this isn't anything new to this style of game). on steam deck it controls.. OK. i'm playing on normal rather than hard on deck because of stick-aiming not being ideal for combat encounters. this is definitely a game for M&KB first and foremost. i could mess with the trackpad as I've done with other FPS on deck but it's gonna be finnicky to make precision thumb slides if i'm dealing with a crowd. better to just play aggressively and shotgun blast people or dynamite them
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The 7th Guest posted:
yeah that's my biggest issue, it's very finicky to get right on deck.
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It’s coming to Switch so maybe they’ll update controller controls as it gets closer to release on that.
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Every single fps I play on the deck (and any first person game, like subnautica and no man's sky), I immediately map gyro being active to my thumb being on the right stick (though not ALSO the right touchpad). The sensitivity bar I set to 160, and the vertical scaling sensitivity to 90-100. I've now done this so many times that I'm getting super fast with it. It was a configuration for Half Life 2 that made me realize this was my favourite way to control anything. It's so good. So. Good.
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Yeah being able to add gyro anywhere is great.
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I'd just want to point out that it's almost never devs lazy and it's instead, devs worked half to death to meet unrealistic deadline with insufficient resources, because that's modern game dev.
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That's fine, but then don't blame the low-spec console.
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Is Priest Porridge made from priests or made for priests?
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Is Priest Porridge made from priests or made for priests? It's made from priests but eaten by monks. Also priests only eat monk meal which is the other way around. The triad likes to mix it up a bit on the island so things don’t get stale
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https://wadcmd.com
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The Firefox experience quote:ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined
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https://twitter.com/PolyDepression/status/1585382942955950080 Edit: drat it, there's more to the tweet but it won't load all the media at once. Anyway, the funny part: 
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Huh. That's a much better cast choice than who I had in mind
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The 7th Guest posted:i've only played the first level of cultic and liked it, but I hope later levels have a bit more verticality if they're gonna be as long as the first level was. i did appreciate the mix of indoor and outdoor spaces, you get a bit of the mazey shooter and a bit of the 2000s outdoor shooter rolled together (yes i know Blood had outdoors sections too, this isn't anything new to this style of game). There's definitely more verticality in subsequent levels, but you just made me think about the fact that there aren't any significant flying enemies (at least that I can recall). The ghosts float around ponderously, but their whole "thing" has nothing to do with their ability to fly, and they're usually just a few feet off of the ground. There's nothing nimble that will ambush you from the Z-axis like a Scrag or Cacodemon, or a big bastard like a Pain Elemental that controls the air above an arena.
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Yeah the vertical element is more like an arena where guys on ledges are shooting down at you, or you're at the top and have to fight your way down, so you can use gravity to your advantage with lanterns and barrels.
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Throwing an explosive barrel in an arena and not realizing there's a Spirit in there too until the barrel doesn't go anywhere and just hovers a few inches in front of your face before some crossfire blows it up is a hell of a feeling.
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I didn't use dynamite much in my playthrough because I liked shooting the guns so much. The only time I can remember liking a game's starter pistol and using it for most of the game (of course upgrades help).
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Groovelord Neato posted:I didn't use dynamite much in my playthrough because I liked shooting the guns so much. The only time I can remember liking a game's starter pistol and using it for most of the game (of course upgrades help). Ah, the Halo:CE approach.
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This is getting out of hand. It won't be long until people will be able to play Doom at any time, anywhere, on anything. And I am there. 
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In other news... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOkw8ArGxXk
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Narcissus1916 posted:In other news... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOkw8ArGxXk 
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Tiny Timbs posted:Their hunk of poo poo can’t reliably hit 30fps on a top spec console and runs like rear end on PC. I don’t buy that this is the fault of the Lesser Xbox because their last game had the same drat problem. I think it’s firmly a “them” issue that a lot of their competitors don’t share. Yeah, an "upgraded" console version of WH40K: Inquisitor came out to day and it runs worse than the old previous gen versions. Meanwhile, God of War is getting a 120 fps setting. Something is up with these engines or dev teams or hardware.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Their hunk of poo poo can’t reliably hit 30fps on a top spec console and runs like rear end on PC. I don’t buy that this is the fault of the Lesser Xbox because their last game had the same drat problem. I think it’s firmly a “them” issue that a lot of their competitors don’t share. That said, there's no way Microsoft could relax the requirement now before a mid-gen refresh at the very least without pissing off anyone who bought a Series S with the understanding that it would run any current gen game at 1080p.
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The dev I've seen complaining about it was a Rocksteady Studios guy commenting on posts about Gotham Knights, whose been regularly misidentified as a Gotham Knights dev as a result. I believe he since deleted his Twitter account.Pennsylvanian posted:Yeah, an "upgraded" console version of WH40K: Inquisitor came out to day and it runs worse than the old previous gen versions. Meanwhile, God of War is getting a 120 fps setting. Something is up with these engines or dev teams or hardware.
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o yeah i wanted to say that ive been comparing cultic to blood a lot, but its mostly (beyond them being about cultists + having dynamite) because Blood is my favourite classic shooter and so its like my primary point of comparison for 'Really Good' games cultic and blood are spiritually similar in the sense of time period and having a cult, and being overall high lethality, but they aren't that mechanically similar, so I don't want people who bounced off Blood to see all the posts comparing them and write off Cultic on that basis. The tone and the gameplay are very different experiences, Cultic is based around very tightly designed combat encounters vs Blood's more traditional 2.5d shooter back-and-forth mapping. Cultic is a lot fairer in how it throws enemies at you, where Blood can be full of rooms that are instant death if you aren't either insanely careful or just already know what is in there. In tone Cultic is a lot more like, lovecraftian feeling in the sense that its a new englandy region and you're a lone guy investigating disappearances, its colder and less whimsical which allows it to be genuinely chilling at times. Blood is a black comedy where you're the ultimate badass who also takes great joy in killing people, so you are never really afraid. At most you're a bit grossed out by some of the scenery, or get startled when you first meet a ghost reaper. It's not a criticism, it wasn't designed to be scary. It kind of reminds me of the rare remakes in cinema where instead of a boring imitation you get a genuinely new perspective on the original concept. Probably the 2013 Evil Dead remake is the most appropriate example, or even Evil Dead vs Evil Dead 2, although counter-intuitively in that one cultic is evil dead 1 and blood would be evil dead 2.
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The Evil Dead 1/2 comparisons are exactly what I was thinking. It's less of an outright joke but there's still maybe a wry smile behind it, it's not funny but the people (or person, in this case) behind it was definitely having fun making it.
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Point taken about the protag but the more I played the more I realized I literally crawled out of a mass grave in pursuit of a bloody vengeance crusade and that too is pretty badass
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Quantum of Phallus posted:got Blood Fresh Supply on deck last night, gently caress me it's difficult yeah it's hard as gently caress even with a mouse and keyboard. out of all the FPS games i played i think blood was by far the hardest starting out, the combination of lethal enemies, ambushes, and gently caress all for weapons makes the first few levels rough. once you get into it though, it's so good. so so good. it's got the customisable made to order difficulty which would probably be good for the deck, just to get the hitscanners to not instantly evaporate you while you're sliding your sticks over to hit them.
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Cultic in terms of its premise is very similar to DUSK and I'm guessing Chapter Two is going to get weird with it.
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