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Info on pre-order beta and performance tuning. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1361210/view/3467237196841875532 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1361210/view/3467237196841631255
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Boltgun in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBvHQPLTPM I love the music for this mission
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Nov 16, 2022 22:32
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Tagichatn posted:Check your local time with this handy infographic I'm screaming at the first image.
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Nov 16, 2022 22:35
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ZombyDog posted:Boltgun in action
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Nov 16, 2022 22:35
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Preorder info: https://www.playdarktide.com/news/pre-order-beta-what-to-expect No commitment on keeping early access progress but it does have a road map.
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Nov 16, 2022 22:42
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All you pre-order havers need to find out if there are levels that aren't Drab Industrial Corridor #4551
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Nov 16, 2022 22:44
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That bolt gun looks amazing and ridiculously OP.
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Nov 16, 2022 22:46
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Zephro posted:All you pre-order havers need to find out if there are levels that aren't Drab Industrial Corridor #4551 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwuL58xeyv0
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Nov 16, 2022 22:48
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i'm not a game developer but having a three week piecemeal rollout going from 4 missions on 4 possible zones to a "full release" of 13 missions in 5 zones really sounds like they're going to be building the airplane while it's in flight, here
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Nov 16, 2022 22:52
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Internet Explorer posted:Info on pre-order beta and performance tuning. Tempering expectations before release I suppose
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Nov 16, 2022 22:58
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Cowcaster posted:i'm not a game developer but having a three week piecemeal rollout going from 4 missions on 4 possible zones to a "full release" of 13 missions in 5 zones really sounds like they're going to be building the airplane while it's in flight, here I'm willing to bet all that stuff is already built and (mostly) ready for roll-out. They're just spacing it out to build hype among the ultra hardcore parts of the playerbase.
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Nov 16, 2022 23:00
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Eh... it doesn't seem any different than a soft launch in other contexts. Reduce the amount of problems you might encounter right off the bat and then slowly turn the tap on depending on how things go. Certainly could be building it as they go, but it doesn't seem like a given to me.
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Nov 16, 2022 23:00
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That performance blog is worth the read, lotta detail on which settings impact what - which for a cpu-bottlenecked system like mine is handy to know Unfortunately no details on worker thread setting, I know what it says its supposed to do, but it seems like experiences vary wildly on whether you should increase or decrease it depending on how many cores you have and what the setting is at. Should it match physical cores? Less?
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Nov 16, 2022 23:01
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i guess slow rolling it to build hype is a possibility but i would've expected putting in everything that's in a fit state to ship in the "beta" from the get-go with a single update of the stuff finished over the course of the beta at launch, myself. the problem with trickling out updates is whatever gets cut in a day before the full launch is going to have however many days fewer of testing under its belt than the stuff that was there at the beginning.
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Nov 16, 2022 23:04
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Having read the blog and looked at a few videos, I'm wondering if it's even worth me buying it. I have a 3600 and a 1060 which doesn't sound like it's going to work very well (from the chart, even with FSR on and the settings down I can expect a fair bit less than 60fps). And while I'm interested in the game I'm not sure I'm £400 of interested or whatever an "entry-level" (lol) GPU is going for these days.
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Nov 16, 2022 23:04
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I'm not sure I'd want to play this game on a 1060.
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Nov 16, 2022 23:06
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Tagichatn posted:Check your local time with this handy infographic lmao
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Nov 16, 2022 23:10
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Internet Explorer posted:I'm not sure I'd want to play this game on a 1060. lol I was running the beta on a 970m. Though I'ma wait at least until I hear how Al-Saqr's beta experience goes.
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Nov 16, 2022 23:13
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Zephro posted:Having read the blog and looked at a few videos, I'm wondering if it's even worth me buying it. I have a 3600 and a 1060 which doesn't sound like it's going to work very well (from the chart, even with FSR on and the settings down I can expect a fair bit less than 60fps). And while I'm interested in the game I'm not sure I'm £400 of interested or whatever an "entry-level" (lol) GPU is going for these days. if you have a gamepass subscription it'll be on that on the 30th, you can just give it a test drive there for "free" and see how it goes
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Nov 16, 2022 23:14
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Internet Explorer posted:Eh... it doesn't seem any different than a soft launch in other contexts. Reduce the amount of problems you might encounter right off the bat and then slowly turn the tap on depending on how things go. Certainly could be building it as they go, but it doesn't seem like a given to me. It's just so much easier when you know that when your janky game comes into contact with tens of thousands of players then a whole bunch more bugs are going to come out, then you can start work on them and get to launch with a day zero patch and a narrative of 'already fixing it!'
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Nov 16, 2022 23:15
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I was playing the beta on an i7 8750 and a rtx 980 on an eGPU dock on low settings and it was playing fine. You Wilbraham be able to play with the fancy settings on but a 1060 should get you rolling on low with minimal fuss. I've since rebuilt my pc to a ryzen 5 7600 + RTX 3070, so I should be good for a relatively pleasant experience on medium-high
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Nov 16, 2022 23:16
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Corbeau posted:lol DeathSandwich posted:I was playing the beta on an i7 8750 and a rtx 980 on an eGPU dock on low settings and it was playing fine. You Wilbraham be able to play with the fancy settings on but a 1060 should get you rolling on low with minimal fuss. I stand corrected, thank you! You still have my sympathies.
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Nov 16, 2022 23:18
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i'll also point out that i've been blessed with a 3080 ti and my performance during the closed beta left a lot to be desired, i think there's less accounting for horsepower here as much as "certain system configurations" roulette
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Nov 16, 2022 23:19
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Zephro posted:Having read the blog and looked at a few videos, I'm wondering if it's even worth me buying it. I have a 3600 and a 1060 which doesn't sound like it's going to work very well (from the chart, even with FSR on and the settings down I can expect a fair bit less than 60fps). And while I'm interested in the game I'm not sure I'm £400 of interested or whatever an "entry-level" (lol) GPU is going for these days. I played the earlier beta on a 6th gen i7 and a gtx960 and it did okay. I'm not going to make any claims of silky-smooth gameplay, but it was functional and you could still tell what was going on.
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Nov 16, 2022 23:23
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Hm, OK. Maybe Gamepass is a good shout. Or I guess I can just refund it on Steam. Maybe the release version will be better optimised, too...
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Nov 16, 2022 23:27
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Zephro posted:Hm, OK. Maybe Gamepass is a good shout. Or I guess I can just refund it on Steam. Maybe the release version will be better optimised, too... Have you considered Geforce now? If you have a good internet connection and if you can deal with the input latency, its a good option if you cant get it to run locally in any decent way.
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ZombyDog posted:Boltgun in action goty
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Cowcaster posted:i'm not a game developer but having a three week piecemeal rollout going from 4 missions on 4 possible zones to a "full release" of 13 missions in 5 zones really sounds like they're going to be building the airplane while it's in flight, here They do it this way because if they put the full game in the closed beta I can assure you there will be players that have played every mission and are in the endgame by the end of the first week
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Fishstick posted:Have you considered Geforce now? If you have a good internet connection and if you can deal with the input latency, its a good option if you cant get it to run locally in any decent way. Zephro fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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Fishstick posted:Have you considered Geforce now? If you have a good internet connection and if you can deal with the input latency, its a good option if you cant get it to run locally in any decent way. I actually used GeForce now to play cyberpunk 2077 back when that was new (because I'm an idiot) and it was shockingly snappy on rural-ish cable modem. It's certainly an option if you can spring the $5 /month
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Estel posted:They do it this way because if they put the full game in the closed beta I can assure you there will be players that have played every mission and are in the endgame by the end of the first week How mad are those players going to be when their progress is reset?
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Maybe the wrong thread, but is there a way to make steam start downloading something when it goes live or am I gonna have to get up at 5am to manually start it downloading?
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Nov 16, 2022 23:59
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in THEORY if you leave your computer awake with steam running and have the steam mobile app on your phone you can tell your computer to start downloading it from there, but i haven't used that functionality in like 10 years so i'm not sure if it's still a thing or not
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field balm posted:Maybe the wrong thread, but is there a way to make steam start downloading something when it goes live or am I gonna have to get up at 5am to manually start it downloading? The easiest trick if you dont wanna gently caress with the app is to simply make a run-once windows task to start steam sometime shortly after the game is supposed to release, and shut Steam down beforehand making sure automatic downloads are enabled in settings. That is all assuming you have steam set to autologin and such
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field balm posted:Maybe the wrong thread, but is there a way to make steam start downloading something when it goes live or am I gonna have to get up at 5am to manually start it downloading? Well it's 11am here and still no download, which is a shame because I've been instructed to take the day off and rest. EDIT: What's worse is I'm waiting on a delivery I need to sign for and it's a lovely day. EDIT EDIT: Oh this is glorious; the delivery will be tomorrow along with the Beta 'cause I suck at reading dates. Rougey fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Nov 17, 2022 |
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Nov 17, 2022 01:25
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Probably not gonna be a download until it goes live in ~15.5 hours
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Nov 17, 2022 01:28
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Cool.
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Nov 17, 2022 01:32
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Flavahbeast posted:Probably not gonna be a download until it goes live in ~15.5 hours I'm an idiot who though today was the 18th... I probably do need to have a rest.
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Nov 17, 2022 01:35
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Wait, so progress in the 'beta' isn't going to be saved? Because gently caress no if that's the case. I'll wait till the end of the month.
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they're hoping nothing will be wiped but they reserve the right to wipe if something goes wrong so during the beta if something corrupts character data or everyones stats glitch to 9999 they're not going to painstakingly go through the database and correct it, they'll just wipe
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