UndercoverUlrikHD
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 2 days ago:
Better visuals and much faster/cheaper for the developer to make.
We are still in the infancy of the technology and the vast majority of games with ray tracing doesn’t fully utilise it as they must compromise to support normal raster, leading to half baked implementations on engines not designed with ray tracing in mind.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 5 weeks ago:
She refused until I guessed… She even had the gall to act insulted when I was wrong
Guessing people’s height also isn’t something I do regularly. Might be why I suck at it.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 5 weeks ago:
My height is 192 so 190 vs 185 would be easy to tell, but once you reach ~182 and below it’s all a wash. 180 vs 175 I wouldn’t have a clue. I was off by more than 10cm in my estimation when they were sitting in front of me, and it was a person I knew well.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 5 weeks ago:
Unless you’re the same height as me, I’ll never remember how tall you are. I was mentoring some girl for half year and when she asked me to guess her height while she was sitting, I guessed ~170, turns out she was 180+.
Height just isn’t something I register about a person, and I don’t see why anyone would bother trying to remember stuff like that.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 1 month ago:
Pathfinder also has fairly detailed difficulty settings panel, you can tailor the difficulty to your liking. Story mode difficulty and auto level up presets makes the game beatable for even your grandma, so you can ease into the system.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 1 month ago:
Graphics and voice acting, but only because they randomly stop speaking and go to pure text during dialogue. BG3 also doesn’t have Blackwater…
100% agree with the rest. I really hope Owlcat gets inspired by the more dynamic elements/environments from Larian’s games though.
- Comment on Horse archers ruin every game they are in. 1 month ago:
Which in turn reposted it from a Roman source
- Comment on You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 1 month ago:
And then the other half of the Internet cries about how all they do are lazy remasters.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Preview - IGN 1 month ago:
No. Different genre at this point
- Comment on Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores 2 months ago:
I can’t remember ever having used meta critic to guide a purchase. There is so much content both from forums and YouTube/Twitch that gives you much more accurate impressions of games. Meta critic seems rather pointless nowadays.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
It’s a genuine concern though. If you want one centralised server hosting all the content, just use reddit.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
Children probably
- Comment on AI Artefacting 2 months ago:
That’s a narrow view of art
- Comment on Too many looks. 2 months ago:
Peaked in 2005
- Comment on Does AAAA just mean awful triple A games now? 2 months ago:
Ubisoft are
- Comment on OK. 2 months ago:
It’s their heart that burns, they only compare the temperature with the sun.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
Just a heads up that I think you replied to the wrong comment in the chain
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
But now you’re cherry picking food. Fish and chicken is good and healthy food, why didn’t mention those instead. Pure sugar is both vegan and gluten free, but you wouldn’t call that healthy would you?
There is nothing unhealthy about gluten if your body can tolerate it. So vegan, gluten free and the opposite are all perfectly valid options for a healthy diet. You could also have an unhealthy diet within those 3 categories as well.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
Neither vegan nor gluten free food is “healthier” than other food. It’s a question of scale and target demographic.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
It started long before that, I think ubisoft in general was hugely influential in that trend.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
I think Spyro was the first mainstream game to standardise achievements, you could do random stuff in-game and it gave you a little pop up
Which one did that?
- Comment on Close call 2 months ago:
Damn, never a lemmy thread this weird before. People need to grow up and shed those game insecurities, let people enjoy their hobbies.
- Comment on Disaster strikes 2 months ago:
Just buy the correct size…
- Comment on I don't think it's true 2 months ago:
Transparent LED screens + head tracking
- Comment on The Witcher 4 "won't focus on Geralt," but his voice actor says he'll at least be "a part" of the RPG sequel 2 months ago:
Just don’t buy/play on launch day, that goes for almost every AAA open world game.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarök PC system requirements revealed 3 months ago:
PS5 is way better at decompression, so the textures are likely less compressed for better performance. Most likely the PC version will ship with higher resolution textures which would play a bigger role though.
- Comment on AI works better if you ask it to be a Star Trek character 3 months ago:
This exaggeration gets tiresome, there are some great uses for LLM. The copilot autocomplete got to be one of the greatest QoL functions in a modern IDE.
It also generally work great for tech support, and lowers the skill requirement for installing and maintaining a Linux distro. Nowadays I will usually just redirect tech support questions from family members to an LLM.
Just because it won’t solve cancer in 10 years like the tech bros preach doesn’t mean the tech is without uses.
- Comment on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles next month 3 months ago:
I’m somewhat insensitive to it myself but shader compilation stutter is something that is measurable and reproducible so there aren’t any room for arguments around it.
Other problems, yeah they may be system dependent although something like animation rubber banding I suspect would be the same across systems, though hard to identify if you aren’t experienced.
- Comment on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles next month 3 months ago:
Some stranger’s 5600x doesn’t randomly have the hardware to compile shaders at 10x the speed of top of the line CPUs. A game that suffers from shader compilation stutters will do so on all systems. To say it didn’t stutter for you means either that:
- The game never compiled the shaders
- You already had the shaders pre-compiled, which isn’t a thing on normals PCs
- You never noticed
- You’re lying
It’s impossible to avoid for games that suffer from it.
