Video Games Thread

Downloading right now.

FitGirl repack.

Not gonna pay for a game of devs who mid-development changed course and involved politics into their company and product.

Piracy is virtue

I dunno if there is anti Russian nonsense in it. So far I played a little bit of it and it is alright. Very poorly optimized, so for a RTX 3080 the game is barely playable. And it also crashes too once in a while.

But so far it is OK. Story is meh and the graphics are Meh. And they throw a bloodsucker at you so damn quickly.

Also to add:

The whole "We made a game even during a wartime" is nonsense as majority to all the developers have fled to Prague and worked out of Prague.

So after playing roughly close to 20hrs, game crashed yet again but this time took my save files with it. So I would have to restart all over again.

sepheronx wrote:So after playing roughly close to 20hrs, game crashed yet again but this time took my save files with it. So I would have to restart all over again.

Ouch

Yeah bud I'm gonna skip this one. I have all the originals and haven't even played them as yet. They've been gathering dust in my Steam library for 10 years.
And with various bugfix and graphical mods they're high-quality games that can still compete with today's offerings by all accounts

And then there's this, which is totally free:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly

so your steam library still works even though Gabe has sanctioned you guys?

To buy new games, how do you do it?

Also, why buy when you can just download it from gog-games(dot)to?

sepheronx wrote:so your steam library still works even though Gabe has sanctioned you guys?

To buy new games, how do you do it?

Also, why buy when you can just download it from gog-games(dot)to?

Steam has been fully functional to date. You can't buy games directly, you have to fill up your wallet with credits; which you can do on various platforms that do it through Kazakhstan-based accounts or whatever. At a markup. So if you pay to put 100 roubles on your account then you end up with 94 roubles, or something.

Mind you not all games are available, some of them are blocked in Russia and I don't think you can be gifted them or whatever either. But let's say 75% of them are available and that's plenty enough for me.

I like buying because I like the idea of having something permanently in my library, that I will automatically get updates for and with achievements and the whole Steam infrastructure in general, or the GOG infrastructure which offers a lot too. I have an app on my phone that I enter every game I own into and can put a marker for whether I want to play it soon, am playing it now, or have completed it. And when I complete a game I download a wallpaper of that game for my desktop and put it into rotation.
I think the developers deserve money too.

And I own enough unplayed games that I very seldom feel any need to pirate anything. Or to buy new games anymore for that matter.

You don`t own the games on your steam library though.

Steam can get the call at any time and they will shut down all access to their servers. Say buh-bye to all those games you bought with your hard earned Rubles!

This is why pirate chads stay winning.

I do own them, I paid for them and I have them entered in my phone app. What Steam says is irrelevant, I can always pirate my games in the interim if Steam cuts off access to them, and then demand them to restore access.

So if you have GPUs and CPUs operating at 1000 times the flops current high end CPU and GPU get, while getting 1000 Gbps wireless data from game servers hosting multiplayer games. Does that mean as a programmer you can make super large multiplayer map games with a lot more multiplayers involved in those maps? I am trying to visually memorize the Russian gaming industry with photonic computers.

After replaying Mass Effect Andromeda, I can state that it has a glaring and extremely annoying feature. The complete cut-off from access to
levels previously accessed. You can't revisit the original planet where you start, you cannot get back to the Meridian control center, etc. This
is utter BS game design (*). It simply has nothing to do with the story line. Domains do not cease to exist because the story progresses unless
they are destroyed. I found the game playing itself a lot of times. The game developers in my opinion had some sort of malicious intent with
such a design. It is over the top stage managed for a supposedly interactive title.

I watched some re-review videos on YouCrap and for some bizarre reason they do not mention the above. But they whine about side missions
being boring as if they expected whole sub-games for them. Overall Andromeda is not total total trash but a blend. It looks like Mass Effect 5
will be a woke piece of excrement showing once again that the game developers are not honest in their approach and have other agendas.

(*) The claim that there would be nothing to do on these levels is nonsense since there are secrets that can be searched for. With the
existing design you need to do all the exploration while rushing through a plot line such as on Meridian.

The absurd game size is related to anti-piracy measures. Remember the good old days of 0-Day Warez? It is kind of painful to download
100 GBytes even via distributed file sharing as the ftp servers are no longer a thing.

The other element is that over 3 Mbytes/second is the entry level ISP bandwidth these days in the west. So the developers do not care
about compression. You will eat their turds whether you like it or not.

Gotta love the naming of frame interpolation as "AI". What is called AI is nothing but glorified curve fitting.

The scam must involve a latency hit since you need two real frames to interpolate between them. These f*ckers pretend like they are extrapolating
into the future or something. You are running at a real 25 fps (on the 5070) and see 250 fps on the counter. The latency must be 1/25 s or 40 ms.