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John F Bennett posted:Antstream just released, anyone subscribed? I bought the lifetime pass and will test this out tonight. Just played some random games for half an hour, performance is flawless. Works very well and switching games is superfast. Great addition to my box.
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Gambit from the X-Men posted:lol turning off allow 50hz and 24hz fixed it. I'll be damned Maybe this is the same issue I was having, I’ll have to give that a go. Might be something different though as I rented a couple of things from the Xbox store - ended up getting a refund. The stutter was so bad it would pause the film, and the sound would continue. I was outraged.
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Jul 21, 2023 11:16
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John F Bennett posted:Antstream just released, anyone subscribed? I bought the lifetime pass and will test this out tonight. No, I've got too many things to play already, but I'm interested. Tell us if you find some gems.
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Jul 21, 2023 12:05
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Guillermus posted:HDR looked cool in Half-Life 2 Lost Coast and that's it Different kind of HDR. HL2s HDR was a feature where a the brightness of the image adjusted to the brightest light visible, so a powerful light source would darken the rest of the image to simulate the exposure. Modern HDR is a 10bit colour space (that is 10 bits per colour as opposed to the traditional 8, or 30bits from 24bits all up), allowing for less colour banding and improved luminance (brights can be brighter, darks can be more detailed). The catch is that not all TVs are equal at displaying it due to different peak brightnesses, which has been rather frustrating. A display can be HDR capable in name only but ultimately have no means of showing any difference, if not just outright make it worse.
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the xsx menus look much better with hdr enabled than without. eat that, QOP!!!
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Crafty posted:Maybe this is the same issue I was having, I’ll have to give that a go. Might be something different though as I rented a couple of things from the Xbox store - ended up getting a refund. The stutter was so bad it would pause the film, and the sound would continue. I was outraged. mine only ever happened with discs, but it's worth a shot.
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ColdPie posted:No, I've got too many things to play already, but I'm interested. Tell us if you find some gems. For me, the main gem is the entire Amiga section. We were a C64 family and I always wanted to have an Amiga, those games looked so good in the magazines! Outside of that, the Arcade and Sega sections also have a great selection. What is really nice, are the added features. Such as global leaderboards, weekly tournaments and challenges. I've been testing out the service this entire morning, I'm a big fan now. I highly recommend it if you're into retro stuff.
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Rocket Pan posted:Different kind of HDR. HL2s HDR was a feature where a the brightness of the image adjusted to the brightest light visible, so a powerful light source would darken the rest of the image to simulate the exposure. The issue with HDR is implementation like bloom and blur. They used and abused these two that I disable them by default since... almost 20 years ago? Doesn't happen often nowadays but years ago bloom was just "gently caress your eyes" and blur was "everything is blurry if you dare to move an inch". So my old brain hates that now and maybe only Forza Horizon is the only game where blur was implemented well enough to make me keep it.
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Lego Batman in 4K HDR looked nice.
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HDR looks great on my TV but makes every screenshot and video I take look like poo. They should convert captures correct.
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Gambit from the X-Men posted:lol turning off allow 50hz and 24hz fixed it. I'll be damned Turning off 24hz is a big no thanks, I'm never going back to repeating every 4th frame of a movie.
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TheScott2K posted:Turning off 24hz is a big no thanks, I'm never going back to repeating every 4th frame of a movie. haven't tried watching a full movie yet but i just got the criterion lost highway uhd/BR pack and I've got a few weeks before i have to actually go back to work. let's see what happens. American McGay posted:HDR looks great on my TV but makes every screenshot and video I take look like poo. They should convert captures correct. good hell it does.
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Apparently Michael Kirkbride worked on immortals of avenum. He’s why the morrowind story was so good
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^^what the gently caress Anyway, I've had HDR on this tv since a few years. At first, it was great and all the colours were very vivid, and sunsets in Sea of Thieves were amazing. Now I kinda dislike it, since even at the lowest setting, the horizon is completely blown out and I can't see things in the distance. Not sure how to disable it for just one game. 
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I finally did it. I bought Alien Dark Descent. It's just a ton of fun and I'm hoping they get around to fixing the bugs.
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Sywert of Thieves posted:Now I kinda dislike it, since even at the lowest setting, the horizon is completely blown out and I can't see things in the distance. Not sure how to disable it for just one game. Which game? Sounds like you might need to go into the game's HDR settings and reduce max brightness. If a game overestimates how bright your display can get then that can lead to loss of detail in bright areas, since everything gets flattened down to your display's max. I love how HDR looks on my LG OLED, but it does require you to take each game's HDR calibration settings seriously.
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It's Sea of Thieves, and it's already at the lowest setting possible. I've seen some people say you can configure the screenshot button as a shortcut to turn on Night mode, and then configure Night mode to be the same as normal, except with HDR disabled. That sounds good.
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Well that's a bummer. Sometimes HDR implementations just suck. I had to spend like an hour fiddling with RDR2's HDR calibration on PC to get it to look right, and I hear at launch its HDR was unfixable garbage.
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RDR2 HDR wasn’t working properly at launch.
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Blue Raider posted:Apparently Michael Kirkbride worked on immortals of avenum. He’s why the morrowind story was so good thank god they concealed that adult male nipple
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Are the perks from ultimate account locked or can I give the codes out? Not interested in crunchy roll but my friends might want it.
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Guillermus posted:The issue with HDR is implementation like bloom and blur. They used and abused these two that I disable them by default since... almost 20 years ago? Doesn't happen often nowadays but years ago bloom was just "gently caress your eyes" and blur was "everything is blurry if you dare to move an inch". So my old brain hates that now and maybe only Forza Horizon is the only game where blur was implemented well enough to make me keep it. Bloom and blur doesn't have anything to do with HDR. Those are just post effects. I do agree that they got overused to hell and back.
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For some reason my achievement art isn't loading. Could this have something to do with my new TV?
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Lammasu posted:Could this have something to do with my new TV? absolutely not
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Quantum of Phallus posted:absolutely not Well it's fixed now so whatever. BTW I has having trouble getting full auto kills in Halo for the quest then all of a sudden I get like 17 of them in one game.
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Do you think I could get a goon group for Exoprimal? I want to do they "Kill 20 dinos without a suit" but it feels kind of wrong to do that with randos.
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There's an Exoprimal thread here, I bet you could find someone there
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Lammasu posted:Do you think I could get a goon group for Exoprimal? I want to do they "Kill 20 dinos without a suit" but it feels kind of wrong to do that with randos. Is that actually good? It looks bad and I hear it makes a negative first impression, but apparently there's actually something there?
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Twerk from Home posted:Is that actually good? It looks bad and I hear it makes a negative first impression, but apparently there's actually something there? I'm working on a theory that the reason they didn't make a new Dino Crisis is because someone at Capcom really hates dinosaurs and demanded a game where you kill as many as possible.
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Twerk from Home posted:Is that actually good? It looks bad and I hear it makes a negative first impression, but apparently there's actually something there? It's a pretty chill action game, but also really shallow. Looking forward to the Capcom crossovers and more content that is planned.
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Lammasu posted:I'm working on a theory that the reason they didn't make a new Dino Crisis is because someone at Capcom really hates dinosaurs and demanded a game where you kill as many as possible. I played a ton Dino Crisis 2 and you aren't exactly preserving dinosaurs in that game either
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:I played a ton Dino Crisis 2 and you aren't exactly preserving dinosaurs in that game either Exoprimal has an achievement for killing a hundred thousand dinosaurs.
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Lammasu posted:Exoprimal has an achievement for killing a hundred thousand dinosaurs. Does the achievement reference Dead Rising by any chance?
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Twerk from Home posted:Is that actually good? It looks bad and I hear it makes a negative first impression, but apparently there's actually something there? It’s great, the game really opens up after a few matches and you get a bunch of new game modes, dinosaur types, and story missions. It’s extremely dumb in all the best ways. Definitely oddly priced considering the monetization, but it’s perfect if you get it for free on Game Pass.
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BonoMan posted:Bloom and blur doesn't have anything to do with HDR. I know, my point was that, because of the awful implementation of these back in the days (and HDR as of recent years) make me look for the toggle to disable it by default. Back to bloom/blur, the only games that I've ever tolerated both at the same time are the RE Engine Resident Evil games I've played (RE2make, RE3make, RE7 so far). They run so good on my ancient PC that after testing one by one, I only keep disabling chromatic aberration because that's another one that never looks good.
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The Illusive Man posted:either way the CMA said they’d be done by Aug. 29th at the latest so I guess that’s the new unofficial close date I read that now the UK is demanding companies hand over keys for E2E encryption and Apple etc. are just considering leaving the market, I think? Reasoning being that any company that does so would essentially be crippling their worldwide security if they complied. Wild how anti-consumer the UK is. Kinda surprised Microsoft hasn't just decided to close the deal with no concessions since the UK market is so small and shrinking further. Also had no idea Elden Ring had DLC coming?! Hope we get a trailer soon. Speaking of, a new one for Mortal Kombat dropped and it's wild how good the game looks. The roster has looked a bit boring imo aside from this new trailer but drat do the graphics look nice  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMkPL8ji6K4 DLC characters revealed too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBv-ANFeYM
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I'll definately wait for the complete edition. I don't play much MK lately besides the single player and a bunch of matches with friends but I do enjoy the silly cameos and I hope Omniman, Homelander and Peacemaker have some cool interactions.
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Probably wise but could be pretty painful when hopping online and getting stomped by everyone who's been playing since launch. I think the fighting genre is one where if you're interested in a game it's generally best to buy at launch for that reason. With singleplayer games you can wait years and years but I think it's a tougher call with multiplayer games. I'm bummed some of the new characters from Mortal Kombat X were dropped so quickly. I liked the insect woman and that giant character with the little guy working as one. They really stood out. Not sure how much support MK1 will get but there seems to be a heavy focus on having a lot of the different colored ninjas forming a bulk of the roster which seems a bit boring. Still looks phenomenal and definitely appears to be as fun as ever but I think they could have gone with a much more diverse and exciting roster. Why have Goro as a kameo when he could be part of the roster itself?! Maybe he is and it's not announced yet?
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SUNKOS posted:Why have Goro as a kameo when he could be part of the roster itself?! Maybe he is and it's not announced yet?
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