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Dabir posted:And when are you gonna press both buttons on the same side at the same time? Holding shield plus pressing parry, maybe. Someone never had the joy of using R1+R2+R3+L1+L2+L3 in Armored Core!
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Post poste posted:Someone never had the joy of using R1+R2+R3+L1+L2+L3 in Armored Core! So you'd agree that having to do that regularly would be awful?
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Post poste posted:Someone never had the joy of using R1+R2+R3+L1+L2+L3 in Armored Core! If I had to do that I'd expect the game to do some seriously impressive poo poo in response.
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Dabir posted:So you'd agree that having to do that regularly would be awful? Very yes. Because all the other combinations were also in use, so you'd regularly throw your gun, spin awkwardly, etc. It was amazingly poorly designed.
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Necrothatcher posted:If I had to do that I'd expect the game to do some seriously impressive poo poo in response. Seems like what you'd press to do one of those anime, hundred-missile launches.
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Necrothatcher posted:If I had to do that I'd expect the game to do some seriously impressive poo poo in response. It unlocks your mech's reactors limiter giving you nigh unlimited energy for flying around and shooting energy weapons for a short period of time, then you are completely helpless for the equivalent of an eternity because if you didnt win, youre dead. Wait actually no thats not it. It drops off all extension parts, so you can do a cool anime armor purge Rigged Death Trap has a new favorite as of 15:57 on Jun 3, 2020 |
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I think it's time we all admit that the only reason we're so worked up is because we don't have access to the best buttons anymore 
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RandomFerret posted:I think it's time we all admit that the only reason we're so worked up is because we don't have access to the best buttons anymore We don't talk about Ouya.
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Jun 3, 2020 19:00
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i always think of a sassy german
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RandomFerret posted:I think it's time we all admit that the only reason we're so worked up is because we don't have access to the best buttons anymore I love how the tolerances on that controller were so bad that buttons getting stuck under the faceplate wasn’t uncommon.
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the stradivarius of controllers
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Zereth posted:the stradivarius of controllers Stadiavarius
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Stadiavarius 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVty14Mi8Y
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Is it a Ubisoft game? I'm not able to watch the video but the thumbnail alone makes me think it is. It's gotta be an Ubi
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It's either Mudrunner or Snowrunner
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The Truck That Wouldn't Calm Down
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Clang is a harsh mistress.
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Snowrunner has a lot of odd glitches. Like rapidly cloning objects until your server/computer crashes.
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tried playing those spintires games and goddamn, it's like pure distilled frustration: the driving game.
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LifeSunDeath posted:tried playing those spintires games and goddamn, it's like pure distilled frustration: the driving game. Spintires is best with friends, and when you're all role-playing drunken Soviet-era truck drivers. Also when you are all as drunk as you imagine Soviet-era truck drivers in rural Russia could be. I played it once while sober and alone and it was one of the most unpleasant and boring gaming experiences I've had.
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it sounds much more fun than many other simulator games, but i am definitely damning with faint praise
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I can only assume that wild physics like that is a result of the limited calculations the computer can make with regards to kinetic energy and energy transfer. At some point it isn’t coded to transfer any/enough/all energy from on thing to the other (like the ground or tree) on top of the fact that there isn’t an energy loss equation built in so then the physics calculations become an echo chamber and maybe become exponentially worse until a 20 ton truck flops around like a feather and bounces off of trees. No?
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okay now explain the burbling noises and this: RatHat posted:Snowrunner has a lot of odd glitches. Like rapidly cloning objects until your server/computer crashes.
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Jun 4, 2020 14:55
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Are the noises the game simulating something in the engine sloshing around?
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dialhforhero posted:I can only assume that wild physics like that is a result of the limited calculations the computer can make with regards to kinetic energy and energy transfer. At some point it isn’t coded to transfer any/enough/all energy from on thing to the other (like the ground or tree) on top of the fact that there isn’t an energy loss equation built in so then the physics calculations become an echo chamber and maybe become exponentially worse until a 20 ton truck flops around like a feather and bounces off of trees. Nah, generally physics system freak outs like that are due to models clipping into one another. The collision system attempts to separate them by imparting force in a direction to one of the objects. This force is then applied but the objects don't separate because they're still connected or the collision system models another collision, which reduces the force on one, imparting it to the other object so now they're moving together. Next time physics calculations are done the same thing happens and you end up getting huge phantom forces that make the physics object go batshit crazy like that.
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DelphiAegis posted:Nah, generally physics system freak outs like that are due to models clipping into one another. The collision system attempts to separate them by imparting force in a direction to one of the objects. This force is then applied but the objects don't separate because they're still connected or the collision system models another collision, which reduces the force on one, imparting it to the other object so now they're moving together.
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first we need to talk about parallel universes
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Doc Hawkins posted:first we need to talk about parallel universes Yep. I forgot about how unity engine games accurately calculate the standard model, but don't take into account the 8th dimension, so some weird collision can happen as it works it's way up the fields and super symmetry isn't maintained.
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How many half presses of the A button does that take?
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DelphiAegis posted:Nah, generally physics system freak outs like that are due to models clipping into one another. The collision system attempts to separate them by imparting force in a direction to one of the objects. This force is then applied but the objects don't separate because they're still connected or the collision system models another collision, which reduces the force on one, imparting it to the other object so now they're moving together. Another thing that can cause problems is when two things are connected by a joint but they also intersect each other. The physics system will attempt to push one of the objects out so they aren't colliding, but the movement of that object imparts force on the object it's connected to, oftentimes retaining the collision. This clip is an example of intentional abuse of similar physics glitches. The player (PJ DiCesare, a fairly well-known speedrunner and breaker of games) made a "vehicle" that's a loop of four components connected by flexible joints. It has no motive force -- no engines, sails, etc., but after being allowed to exist for a bit, it builds up a feedback loop between its components and starts to spin like mad. He uses this to complete a "long jump" challenge where you have to move the protagonist as far as possible -- not end-to-end, but total movement even if it backtracks. He just jumps off the end of the skijump and vibrates for awhile.
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I’m late for controller chat, but the real mystery is why the PS controller has a pink color for the square button rather than yellow, which would make more sense next to the other colors and also make the buttons match the original PS1 logo’s color scheme, which was RGBY.
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My favourite Beatles song, Controller RGBY.
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https://kotaku.com/sims-4-update-introduces-burning-piss-1843912547
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Does Kotaku have some kind of obsession with finding the most inappropriate header images for their articles or something because jeez e: To add more content to my post, as funny as that particular bug is, the patch also breaks the game in various ways for people, a bunch of popular mods need updating and the patch has apparently ruined people's saves and caused other serious issues. EA rushed this one out after already delaying it by a day and it's such a loving joke for a company that's been making Sims games for over 20 years now. They should've delayed the expansion pack this patch was for to avoid this exact scenario, but of course profits are more important so gently caress it, we'll take the bad rep and hopefully game news sites will just meme about burning piss instead of actually calling us out. Ruflux has a new favorite as of 15:12 on Jun 5, 2020 |
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Ruflux posted:Does Kotaku have some kind of obsession with finding the most inappropriate header images for their articles or something because jeez There was about a month where fruit above the base quality would just disappear from your inventory because the game wouldn’t correctly fill out fruit quality when you loaded. It looked fine, but as soon as you loaded a second time, it would be gone. The workaround was to move every stack of fruit from one type of inventory to another and back every time you loaded or switched maps. It made farming miserable for a while, and farming is one of the best ways to make money. It also affected death flowers, which are essential in keeping sims alive and bringing dead sims back, and also can control a sim’s age. If you have Seasons, you only get 1-2 death flowers per plant per day, so it could take ages to build up a supply of them.
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dialhforhero posted:I can only assume that wild physics like that is a result of the limited calculations the computer can make with regards to kinetic energy and energy transfer. At some point it isn’t coded to transfer any/enough/all energy from on thing to the other (like the ground or tree) on top of the fact that there isn’t an energy loss equation built in so then the physics calculations become an echo chamber and maybe become exponentially worse until a 20 ton truck flops around like a feather and bounces off of trees.
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Cardiovorax posted:I always kind of assumed that they just calculate everything through momentum, but thinking about it, I really have no idea how much fidelity goes into modern physics engines. Anyone here familiar enough with the subject who could tell me how much of that kind of thing they usually even bother keeping track of? Amateur game developer here. Most 3D games these days use "rigid bodies" for their physics simulations. Each one has mass and velocity, a shape (which may or may not accurately reflect the visuals; the shape typically is composed of one or more convex shapes like boxes, capsules, and spheres), and perhaps attributes like bounce elasticity (how much energy is lost in a collision) and friction and so on. When two rigid bodies intersect, the game will calculate the energy of the collision based on their velocities, masses, and the degree of intersection, and then attempt to force the two apart again. However, there isn't necessarily any effort made to ensure that the energy in a system is conserved -- that expulsion force can cause there to be more energy in the system than there was before the collision. If it also then doesn't actually succeed in removing the intersection between the two rigid bodies (perhaps because it removed the intersection in one area but added a different intersection in another area), then on the following frame even more energy is added to attempt to remove the collision... You have to also couple this with the fact that the physics engine is expensive to run, so it doesn't usually update every frame. A 60FPS game might only have a 30FPS or 20FPS physics engine; the frames without physics updates draw things at their predicted locations based on their velocities and how much time has passed since the last update. But the less frequently the physics engine runs, and the faster things can move, the more they can get embedded in each other before the physics engine has a chance to notice and try to expel them. Videogame physics works best with slow-moving objects, and the faster things go, the more likely they are to need to cheat somehow. Bullets are not physics objects, for example. Even in games that simulate projectile travel time, ballistic drop, etc. they're much too fast for the physics engine to reliably detect when they hit something.
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