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Its all composed like those facial cap outtakes from LA Noire. mysterious frankie posted:I knew there was a vibe I was picking up while watching it muted!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It's easy to forget that we still don't have a really reliable process for people of varying skill levels to build software with a predictable build quality and timeline (fast, good, cheap, pick one). Games exacerbate this problem because they usually get released at a specific time rather than when the developers are happy with the product. Net result: some nontrivial percentage of games are going to get released in a woefully un-ready state. Quality is intrinsic to every step in that the designers need to propose systems that won't be unmanageable to maintain, the programmers need to take those systems and translate them into code that not only works but is maintainable, and QA needs to figure out tests that not only prove the individual line items but proves the interactions between them are doing what the designers thought they wanted instead of just what they specified. Failures along the way add up and exacerbate situations where the testers come back with a defect and everybody laughs at the infeasibility of working in a fix at that stage.
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Cardiovorax posted:Yeah, that's the thing, really. People who build cars or houses or vacuum cleaners get to look at a design document that can actually show you every single part of it in advance and how to put it together into a predetermined shape. Any software project that reaches the point at which no single person can realistically read and have a full understanding of what every single line of code in it does anymore is pretty much made up as you go along. Software development is like a communal attempt to build a spaceship with a group of people who all work on a different part of it and none of who actually understand all of it, or have necessarily ever even seen it. A PM of a 4 million dollar erection and a PM of a 4 million dollar software project are going to have very different agendas (but maybe they shouldn't). But the team leads are going to have very similar experiences. No one person will be familiar with every aspect of the erection. Like that scaffold building is going to be a line item in the bill to the PM. But how they go about it is very important to the super who can then relay to the team lead or super how things are going. A good plan and a good super mean they can point at the doc and say well we really need some scaffold like this, don't just build it straight up next to the junk. Coding doesn't work much different. A technical architect says hey how about we do XYZ by ABC and the programmers can be like yeah cool, we can do it but also maybe do D to better hook into E. It goes back to being maintainable, whether it's a code base, a building plan, or the building.
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Cardiovorax posted:I haven't played Anthem and by God I don't plan to, but I'm guessing they decided on this on the basis that you might not start out with a full set of gear and they didn't want you to have your base weapon's stats divided by 8 or whatever until you can find enough loot to fill up the empties. I haven't played either making us a bunch of weirdos talking about balancing hearsay but if that description is accurate it's super weird. Varying the denominator makes it a weird polynomial which is the root cause of edge cases where you get naked and better. It's a loot game, you should never be encouraged to go naked.
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Mar 27, 2019 19:54
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Cardiovorax posted:It doesn't, really. If you had to treat it as a conventional function, then yes, it would be needlessly complex, but in programming, you have the option to use "self-correcting" math of a sorts. Imagine it as (A0 + A1 + ... + A8) / NumberOfFilledSlots, if NumberOfFilledSlots >= 1. It's trivial to program that kind of thing, so for practical purposes, it's really equally easy to do. Loot games love inventing weird polynomials. The genre is basically trying to invent fun math stuff for the designer. But at the end of the day it should make an interesting game, not one where the maximized choice is nakedness.
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Seems like a feature, not a bug.
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TheMaskedUgly posted:This is a weird take for me, since where I'm from, the price of a AAA game has risen by literally 100% since I started buying games in the late 90s, and that's before you account for special editions and DLC.
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haveblue posted:I wish more games would tell you the total weight of your inventory so you could remind yourself that you're running and jumping all over the place with 350 pounds of lances in your backpack. I wandered the frozen north, and now I have 500 pounds of wooden cups. A true measure of heroism.
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haveblue posted:I didn't understand it until I played Fallout 4, where stealing everything that isn't nailed down is much more important than most games. FO4 solution: make cups valuable and consumable in crafting Gonna bet you can alchemize cups into magic in the next TES game.
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A breakpoint is a debug tool that stops active threads and yells at you/starts a source/memory debugger at a predetermined point. He was asking why they couldn't set a watch breakpoint on the height variable and see what caused it when they figured out it was fall damage code. He wasn't saying cap the NPC height variable or whatever you might have thought that meant. Which I think the answer is more because they didn't realize it was fall damage until they had figured it out totally. They had localized it to the player ship because that's where the NPC = dead code could trigger with a game setting turned on that prevents death usually. And then noticed the companion climbing to the moon and had the eureka moment. E. I reread it and I guess they did have that bunch earlier than the eureka, and you know what they probably did have something like a breakpoint and they just didn't call it out explicit. But you still have to do the ground work to find out how exactly they can get to that height at all. zedprime has a new favorite as of 14:33 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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If we really want to navel gaze The Outer World's and what happens when you just forbid an undesired behavior, it sounds that's almost exactly what caused the bug. They turned off furniture functions blanket during conversations, even though there is at least the one that has a paired interaction in order to start laddering and stop laddering. Good object docs and impact review could have stopped that in a perfect world.
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They don't love climbing, they are inexorably linked to compulsively continue the act as long as someone one else is staring expectantly at someone after they just said something. They are in climbing hell and their only absolution comes when someone manages to say goodbye.
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Speaking of, Crysis physics were so good. Fondly remember maximum strength punching a turtle which rebounded at me so violently I died.
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Object oriented programming but you can bodily pick up the object to access it's private space.
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Plastik posted:"Leaked" insofar as it was posted bitterly by a player in the SS13 thread who dislikes the secrecy culture surrounding the game. That chemistry list makes Graveyard Keepers alchemy system look kind and user friendly.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Oh no, it’s suffering! Cardiovorax posted:What on Earth did they do to that poor Switch? Frozen sound processing is usually unworldly because noone is ready to hear tones isolated like that.
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Oh, it obvious, they uhh, clocks sometimes, uhh. I don't understand.
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Things you wish someone had video of but instead you have a workaround note from the dev: There is a known rendering issue where a "black blob" expands from the skybox and clouds the player's view. If the player stays in one spot and spins around rapidly on the left-to-right axis (instead of rolling), this will temporarily fix the issue.
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Do people like the platforming parts in Destiny? It seems by and for the 5 people still making and playing Sven Coop challenge maps in 2009.
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Pokemon is one of the notable/earliest example because it is routinely hacking itself in order to fit everything in a Gameboy. Yellow is then layering in more hacks on top of the hacks. The good news is that Pokemon and Gameboys do not have access to your bank account so it's just a neat bare metal interface.
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"Wow I can't believe there's a 151st pokemon!" Neither can GameFreak, kid.
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If it's working as intended and fully defined in the spec but the intention is stupid it's still usually called a bug.
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Cardiovorax posted:Hey, just because you don't care about the difference doesn't mean there isn't one, at least in how and why issues like this crop up and in what you need to do to resolve them. Bugs are largely programming flaws and the unintended behaviour is a mistake, something that can be fixed if you can figure out what was done wrong. A glitch is an emergent thing, where a bunch of often nearly uncontrollable factors come together in a way that causes the program to behave in ways it wasn't ever supposed to. They can be completely unique to the system the software is running on, possibly even caused by the hardware itself. Backing up entirely into project management speak for accuracy of language, this is a clear defect. In a video game meant to give end users fun, there's a bug that prevents you from taking good swimming screenshots in photo mode, a drag on the gameplay experience. From a quality point of view we return back to the idea in one of the first comments of how did this bug not get caught in quality in a test requiring them to test photo mode once in every movement mode and combat animation. We can argue that the designers hosed up the spec by not considering edge cases or call users stupid for wanting screenshots of swimming or say actually it's intended just like the leaves doinking into your face and it's up to the user to get a good shot around the dynamic elements and maybe all these takes are correct but at the end of the day it's time to put your coding gloves on and figure out a way to freeze water while you're swimming or make static characters bob in water while otherwise motionless.
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Captain Monkey posted:If you cannot take perfect pictures of the samurai Jin Sakai, the Ghost of Tsushima, bathing in the ocean then your samurai mongol-killing simulator is a FAILURE
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*giant bong rip* do you think God would call Hitler a problem between chair and keyboard?
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I haven't played since release/the Sony days but I remember it being the least offensive amount of pay to win while still being pay to win. If you were used to following the balance meta for absolute best TTK all the time every single second, they had your number because the balance patches came fast and poorly thought out so you'd have no chance to have banked up enough to buy the latest buffed gun. But you could grind out the simple upgrade/faction specific/best weapon for short and mid range pretty quickly and not be at a total disadvantage to whales buying licenses for the accidental flavor of the week.
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Fact checking is what the flight simmers are doing right now. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft starts selling the 3d geodata commercially 5 years after Flight Sim nerds have smoothed it all out 
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Skilled players can land in the plane hole but I don't think anyone has made it out.
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If anyone tells you they know how memory pointers work they are a liar. E. The Red Dead donkey ladies and such were definitely weird memory point things and that was 10 years ago which I guess is only so much more recent than Pokemon. marshmallow creep posted:I remember in one playthrough the character I wanted to propose to left the game long before I was done playing (which happened because I did her quest sooner rather than later, as you might when you're interested in a character) and someone else maxed out by accident as I neared endgame. Realizing this meant I was in "love" with someone I didn't actually want, I found a random NPC I could tolerate and just gave them a bunch of harpsbud juice until they loved me. So the person who showed up in the infamous cutscene was a literal nobody with only idle NPC chatter by way of speaking lines. I thought that was funny, at least.
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I have boundless optimism and I can't wait till July 2021 when the games been patched, it's out on next gen consoles, and consoles and video cards can be bought by normal people.
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Very important lesson about why even if you can render junk, the solution is often not to render junk.
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Certain angles of Jak and Daxter 2 look like a GTA contemporary to it. I don't think looking like GTA is a very specific characteristic.
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Croccers posted:I don't get this one, how is this CD's fault? Wouldn't it be the publishers duty for game cards? Microsoft probably not looking any harder at the art and proofs than the Cyberpunk Iconic Penis is not peeking out.
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Cardiovorax posted:They also self-publish, as flatluigi pointed out, so it's entirely possible that the only thing CDPR did was to send the print company a finished image file and telling them to "print this design" without any further input on their part. I would put money on the process (and mistake) being the CD Projekt sent the art to a Microsoft account partner, who sends them to offshore to be composited into a template, with Microsoft and CD Projekt singing off on the digital proof to send to the printer, then sent a physical proof. Offshore almost assuredly had a weird icon loading error so the logo that got a stock icon stuck on instead and nobody bothered to look at the proofs. Alternately CD Projekt sent a bum icon instead of their logo too. The source of the error isn't really the place to point fingers when you have proof sign offs. This has been the process for like any digital to physical bulk print job of the past 20 years because you do have SNAFUs like that in putting the template together and is this case Microsoft is again not going to be looking too hard at things like CD Projekt branding. That's the sort of thing the CD Projekt rep would see on the digital proof and ask to correct. You can also get stuff like the digital art conversion to CMYK channels doesn't get you the brand approved colors or similar printing translation problems which is the point of the physical proof.
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I don't know that I'd call it interestingly nuanced given the basic complaint is a normal player is just completely unaware of all that nuance. I get that if you're into systems porn it's really cool on paper and maybe even in practice if you lead a digital safari looking for some of the weirder things. It's just nuanced but not in an interesting way in that case though. Get back to my favorite idea that if it's working as intended and the intention isn't good then maybe it's ok to call it a bug even if it's not an apparent effect from a technical mistake. Were kind of missing different contexts here in Oblivion vs Cyberpunk too. Morrowind and Dagger fall were kind of famous for real feeling towns in a 3d sandbox RPG so radiant AI was Bethesda fishing for the next great thing in that space. They got their peak in ladder scripted NPCs and wanted to see what the next level could be. But any flaw here was gonna be seized on real hard because TES is "that good town" series and because of the growing pains we're back to mostly ladder logic framed in their radiant system again. Cyberpunk is trying to turn their horse and peasants open world into a city open world. The bugs we're laughing at here are a much more fundamental failure to coalesce a believable city and are seized on because above all else you at least you want to feel like you're in a city and lanes diverging into barriers blowing up cars is very not city like. There's a paragraph you could write here about "delighters" and "expected needs" and their change over time but if I did that I'd have to take a shower afterwards to wash the slime off so I guess all that to say ok sure radiant AI did nothing wrong.
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Cardiovorax posted:Standard 1/10000 gauge shotgun shell, I'm not seeing the problem.
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I'm glad autosaves are so prevalent now, I've finally gotten passed having the urge to quicksave my life.
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Cleretic posted:A bit of a curveball from the usual, from the Nier Replicant PC port: Wonder if this is related to the completely valid baller exception handling that is to tell the exception "cool, I don't care."
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evobatman posted:I think there was something about how the creators of Eternal Darkness took out a patent on the reality-messing effects, and that's why it isn't used much. I think Silicon Knights also reminisced about how they slammed Nintendo support with non-tech-savy, non-self-aware players calling about the game breaking their TV or thinking the spatial incongruences were bugs.
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WonkyBob posted:Cutscene glitches seem to be happening in Vice too, this one also has some hilariously wonky gun holding (the model looks slightly too big when he sits on the couch).
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