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I thought this was kind of cool -- I don't know if anybody's been following, but some random guy solved an issue with the insanely bad loading times in GTA Online and released a fan patch that brings them down from upwards of 6 minutes to less than 2. Within a few days Rockstar officially implemented the fix, shouted out and thanked him publicly, and most importantly, according to his update on that page, sent him $10,000. I know they have more money than God but that's a pretty sweet little payday for somebody who was just trying to figure out a way to load into GTA Online faster, and I'm so used to people being like permanently banned and receiving legal threats for this kind of poo poo, so that outcome made me smile
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Kazzah posted:Nah, voxel-based game. It looks decent in motion. It's 180x75 screenshot, I seriously can't see anything but what I think is the sun and maybe a tree or two?
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kirbysuperstar posted:It's 180x75 screenshot, I seriously can't see anything but what I think is the sun and maybe a tree or two? It's 3440x1440, you hosed up your internet
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It’s teeny for me but I’m using the mobile app, dunno if that did anything to it. It usually doesn’t.
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Serephina posted:But rivers don't actually scale like that? eg 3 river sides do NOT cause an 8x multiplier. I've been very careful as I check that for thickets, repeatedly. River also plays weird with Mountain Top, might just be hardcoded flat values idk. And from what I can tell River next to Mountain Peak doesn't affect the entire 'piece', but just the one square it's next to as if it's merely a Mountain tile, so you don't get the same multiplicative growth you would with any other tile, and also because the Mountain tiles by themselves have no effect they don't scale as well as other tiles with the River.
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Unreal_One posted:It's 3440x1440, you hosed up your internet 
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it's just three pixels for me.
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Unreal_One posted:It's 3440x1440, you hosed up your internet Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s teeny for me but I’m using the mobile app, dunno if that did anything to it. It usually doesn’t. I dunno, ublock and privacy badger aren't doing anything weird, in both the post and if I go to the URL directly, it's tiny as hell.
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I clicked on the link and it said how many pixels it is and it's like the other person said: 170*80 or whatever. Maybe you linked to a thumbnail.
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In other weird inconsistencies, I'm now getting the "ALL reviews on a game are marked as off-topic activity and auto-filtered" issue on almost every game I check on the storefront. Somethin' screwy going on.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s teeny for me but I’m using the mobile app, dunno if that did anything to it. It usually doesn’t.  I saw it earlier on my laptop and it was full size though, so maybe it is something to do with mobile?
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I'm on mobile in a browser and it's a timg 3440x1440.
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Is this screenshot part of the new store sale ARG?!
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Ciaphas posted:I picked up Teardown again recently, and I'm starting to get the way it wants me to think Browsing the forums with chrome and it doesn't seem to like timgs of postimg. That shows up as an unclickable tiny image for me. Right-clicking and opening in a new tab does show the full image, though. timgs of imgur images show up normally.
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It was normal for me on desktop chrome, but is tiny in the awful app. Very mysterious!
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Ambaire posted:I was going to suggest Ricochet Lost Worlds / Infinity, but then realized they'd been removed from Steam .. 7 years ago. Shame. They're fun games and really need a modern reboot. Infinity... appears to be on itch.io for free now?? Edit: AND Lost Worlds. They might just be the demo versions, I haven't checked, but it's interesting to see them here. MonkeyforaHead fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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MonkeyforaHead posted:Infinity... appears to be on itch.io for free now?? HOLY gently caress!!! Downloaded Infinity, and it seems to be the full version. Perfectly playable on Windows 8.1, too.
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Ambaire posted:HOLY gently caress!!! Maybe be careful with those, I just opened them up and noticed IGG-GAMES text files inside, I can't say for certain whether the itch account is legit but if it is they grabbed the full versions of their games from a notoriously kinda-shady pirate games site lmao
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what a weird forums/hosting/browser glitch that is.  Really is a 3440x1440 image, though!code:
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Ciaphas posted:what a weird forums/hosting/browser glitch that is. I opened this and it was still tiny. I force-refreshed it (and tried an incognito window to be sure) and..while it was actually visible now, it's 1280x536, certainly not the 3440x1440 that you say it is (and I don't doubt you!). Edge shows a much bigger image, probably the actual resolution, but it's a hot blurry mess and not the proper quality. I'm just gonna say that both Chrome and that website suck big ol butts.
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kirbysuperstar posted:I opened this and it was still tiny. I force-refreshed it (and tried an incognito window to be sure) and..while it was actually visible now, it's 1280x536, certainly not the 3440x1440 that you say it is (and I don't doubt you!). Edge shows a much bigger image, probably the actual resolution, but it's a hot blurry mess and not the proper quality. that is staggeringly weird. Well, back to imgur I guess I wish I could make the voting and other social media aspects go the gently caress away though, that's why I stopped using it in the first place
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The United States posted:Does this work? Sure does! Ciaphas posted:that is staggeringly weird. Well, back to imgur I guess Yeah I dunno what the gently caress. I feel your pain with that too. Half the time I end up using discord as a shitpost host because I probably sent whatever I'm uploading to a friend as well 
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goferchan posted:I thought this was kind of cool -- I don't know if anybody's been following, but some random guy solved an issue with the insanely bad loading times in GTA Online and released a fan patch that brings them down from upwards of 6 minutes to less than 2. Within a few days Rockstar officially implemented the fix, shouted out and thanked him publicly, and most importantly, according to his update on that page, sent him $10,000. I know they have more money than God but that's a pretty sweet little payday for somebody who was just trying to figure out a way to load into GTA Online faster, and I'm so used to people being like permanently banned and receiving legal threats for this kind of poo poo, so that outcome made me smile For a port of game that is nearly approaching its seventh birthday it does not make the dev look good. Especially one that is so heavily monetized.
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Internet Explorer posted:I've been playing Urtuk a bit, and it's a fun little tactics game. Not as deep as Battle Brothers, but it's clearly inspired by it. Check it out if that's your jam. Yeah, Urtuk is really good. It's a game that looks simple but I've found the mutation system surprisingly deep. You can make a lot of cool builds.
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kirbysuperstar posted:I opened this and it was still tiny. I force-refreshed it (and tried an incognito window to be sure) and..while it was actually visible now, it's 1280x536, certainly not the 3440x1440 that you say it is (and I don't doubt you!). Edge shows a much bigger image, probably the actual resolution, but it's a hot blurry mess and not the proper quality. It happening to me on Opera as well
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Walh Hara posted:Yeah, Urtuk is really good. It's a game that looks simple but I've found the mutation system surprisingly deep. You can make a lot of cool builds. Going to third the recommendation for Urtuk. It is a really cool tactics game and I love the art style. beats for junkies posted:Cool bird. Yeah, I also picked it up and I've enjoyed it so far, similar impressions to yours, but I've only scratched the surface. Do intend to play more of it in the coming weeks.
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goferchan posted:I thought this was kind of cool -- I don't know if anybody's been following, but some random guy solved an issue with the insanely bad loading times in GTA Online and released a fan patch that brings them down from upwards of 6 minutes to less than 2. Within a few days Rockstar officially implemented the fix, shouted out and thanked him publicly, and most importantly, according to his update on that page, sent him $10,000. I know they have more money than God but that's a pretty sweet little payday for somebody who was just trying to figure out a way to load into GTA Online faster, and I'm so used to people being like permanently banned and receiving legal threats for this kind of poo poo, so that outcome made me smile Thanks for posting this. I was curious what was going to happen to the dude and the patch when I heard about it.
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goferchan posted:I thought this was kind of cool -- I don't know if anybody's been following, but some random guy solved an issue with the insanely bad loading times in GTA Online and released a fan patch that brings them down from upwards of 6 minutes to less than 2. Within a few days Rockstar officially implemented the fix, shouted out and thanked him publicly, and most importantly, according to his update on that page, sent him $10,000. I know they have more money than God but that's a pretty sweet little payday for somebody who was just trying to figure out a way to load into GTA Online faster, and I'm so used to people being like permanently banned and receiving legal threats for this kind of poo poo, so that outcome made me smile Better than the C&D they usually send to the GTA modders at least.
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Serephina posted:But rivers don't actually scale like that? eg 3 river sides do NOT cause an 8x multiplier. I've been very careful as I check that for thickets, repeatedly. River also plays weird with Mountain Top, might just be hardcoded flat values idk. It definitely does. Look at the attack speed of the screen shot. You're not getting to 345% from 2x2% thickets.
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Mierenneuker posted:For a port of game that is nearly approaching its seventh birthday it does not make the dev look good. Especially one that is so heavily monetized. The funny thing about it is that the long loading times were actually caused by that heavy monetization. The game was so slow to load because it had to parse the list of all available items, and the devs implemented in a way that got exponentially slower the more items there are. Technical details: https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/
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Pathfinder Kingmaker Solid, overall outstanding game with some major caveats that 'playing it wrong' will work you into a unavoidable failure state 30-40 hours in. When the game is good, it's the best of anything in the genre, but when it gets bad it defies belief that something like that could've been designed and rolled out by a team of cognizant human beings. Thankfully, those pits of failure are few and far between, and the Bag of Tricks mod is the easy solution to fix any "unsolvable" problems. It's still very much a game that expects you to dig into the mechanics and constantly build synergies and min-max skills and stats. On normal mode, following some typical min-max builds will result in you steam rolling the game about 1/3 of the way in, only have to really put your mind to work on strategy and tactics when facing the story based high level bosses. I got pretty deep into the game system and by now have a good idea of what does and doesn't work, but starting from scratch trying to be creative and make interesting ideas work is more likely to build a character that is functionally worthless past the early levels unless you plan out all levels 1-20. The whole kingdom management mode is basically time crunch simulator the game where you're supposed to balance roaming the lands exploring new maps and solving quests with having to return to the capital to solve problems, meet with advisors, decide sweeping policy decisions etc. Playing it any higher then easy is not really fun or good in anyway, because the point of everything is "number go up" and trying to keep pace with the rising difficulty as the story progresses. It's the biggest possible source of ending up with an unwinnable game state if you reach a point your advisors are to low level to complete tasks, but they need to complete tasks to level up, so without cheating you'd be hosed. Even with all the complaints it's still a great DnD style game experience where the focus is on your adventure and your kingdom without drawing you in to endless world shattering conspiracies. Pathfinder is its own lore system but rather then explaining everything to you it presents it like you would be familiar with it, and has the mouse-over feature where bolded words will bring up an info box explaining what it is. I really liked Pillars of Eternity, but the biggest problem with that game was that every 5 minutes it felt like I had to read another chapter of a fantasy novel that was part story and part encyclopedia. If you played Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and loved them, this is the closet anything has ever come to recreating that feeling for me. Same sense of good and bad; frustrating low level die to a bad roll combat, then slowly growing into an epic party that will crush anything in your way from dragons, liches, and those goddamn wererats you can accidentally find in the early areas that wreck your poo poo. pentyne fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/1372219768166608896?s=21
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