elvith
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- Comment on Evil 2 hours ago:
I do not recognize the comments in this thread
- Comment on How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century 2 days ago:
Guess where all the “mist” comes from…
- Comment on Anvil falling from sky 2 weeks ago:
…NANI?^(machines)^
- Comment on 1 month ago:
For most encounters in the open world that even makes sense. You don’t want enemies chasing players across half of the map. Especially if you can have enemies that are faster than the player. Fence them so that they will eventually give up if a player runs away. This also helps if a player doesn’t want to constantly combat and would have to constantly sneak through the map (or exclusively fast travel).
But two points to make this less cheeseable:
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for bosses - make sure that there are spots that are relatively safe to e.g. craft ammunition, catch a breath, develop a plan, scan its weak spots,… but don’t make it 100% safe. The boss may be able to snipe you from some areas, so you might be moving around some rock to constantly to stay out of line of sight or such. Find an „excuse“ on how to make the whole map accessible to the attacks of the boss and (at least for real bosses) how to lock the player in. Make the auto save before the lock down, not after.
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for other enemies: don’t fence them in a specific spot and create an invisible border. Better: define a point on the map as their home. They may chase the player, but randomly decide at which range X±Y% from that point they rather return home. Also randomize the time it takes for them to loose interest in you after loosing LOS. That way it’s not an obvious invisible border you can abuse- more like a zone in which they will probably stop hunting you. Maybe even combine that with other data like- is the player generally sticking around and trying to kite the enemies to some location (and trying to cheese combat/an objective) or is the player just running straight away indicating they stumbled upon the enemy but have no interest in fighting.
In the end - a game is not realistic but a kind of simulation. Do what looks cool and feels right and is fun. Not what is realistic - if you were to sneak into a camp of the army, they probably won’t stop searching you after a few seconds when you slip around a corner after they saw you…
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- Comment on 1 month ago:
In Horizon: Zero Dawn you come upon a quarry and a quest asks you to go in and… I can’t remember. Save someone? Check what’s going on? When I stumbled upon this quest, I was severely underpowered and could get that boss down in that quarry.
But I soon found out that said enemy wasn’t able to pathfind its way to the way leading down to the quarry although it was still considered part of the arena. Also there was much cover there.
In the end, I stuck to said path, sat behind a rock and just put a fuck ton of arrows onto the boss until all my resources and its healthbar were depleted. Took me way too long, lol.
- Comment on 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look 1 month ago:
Won’t somebody think of the spoilers?!?
/s
- Comment on Bonjour mes amis! 1 month ago:
Where do you fill it with wine?
- Comment on CMV 1 month ago:
- Comment on Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, kiddo 1 month ago:
- Comment on AusAlert emergency warning test: What you need to know and how to prepare 2 months ago:
Not from AUS, but assuming it’s standard cell broadcast that’s used in many countries world wide:
Does your iPad have a 4G/5G modem and an active SIM card? Otherwise it probably won’t be able to receive these alerts as they’re propagated via 4G/5G and not WiFi.
- Comment on Odd weather we're having 2 months ago:
I do not recognize the bodies in the
waterair - Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 2 months ago:
I don’t know about Mass Effect 3, haven’t watched runs of it. If cutscenes are forced and maybe lengthy, I get why you’d allow mods to specifically skip them. They’re uninteresting (for the sake of the run) and everyone loses the same amount of time. If there were tech that allows you to skip cutscenes, say by routing around a trigger OOB, then I think the mod probably shouldn’t’ be allowed as it’s now skill based. But in the end, the community for a game decides. And they’re also free to allow a category with auto skipping cutscenes and another one with the full cutscenes. So then it’s the runners choice.
- Comment on How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company? 2 months ago:
Combine that with deduplicating file systems that will break fuels into chunks and if some of those are the same as another file, it will only get referenced, not stored twice. This then even works if two users upload the same file without sharing it. (Assuming files aren’t encrypted by the user)
- Comment on values 2 months ago:
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
A short little puzzle platformer: Leap Year. To complete the game, collect all of the calendar pages scattered throughout the level. But beware, there’s fall damage. While your jump is two blocks high, you can only survive a one block fall. There’s more to it, but spoilers…
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 2 months ago:
And god help those publishers if you had to disclose the use of a third party DRM like Denuvo on the store page!
- Comment on if you blow into it, it'll work again 2 months ago:
- Comment on roll for perception 3 months ago:
You could define Powershell as the default shell in Windows 10, so that you wouldn’t need to explicitly invoke it every time - although, which (non-technical) user does this?
Windows 11 changed the default to Powershell so that you’ll always land in Powershell and need to invoke the old CMD explicitly. Also the new Terminal (optional in Win10, Default in Win11) defaults to Powershell.
- Comment on literally 451° 3 months ago:
It’s probably a reference to Fahrenheit 451
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 3 months ago:
Sorry for your loss of words in the meme, OP.
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 3 months ago:
Obtrusive space advertising is defined in U.S. federal law as “advertising in outer space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the surface of the Earth without the aid of a telescope or other technological device.”
Too bad they have the requirement for a technological device. Else I’d be able to argue that I shouldn’t get any ads from satellite TV or when using Starlink or…
- Comment on Help needed: Selfhosted website only reachable through http, not https 3 months ago:
Tip:
For my cloud vps with Caddy and several containers I just pointed Caddy at a simple Caddyfile
/opt/caddy/Caddyfilethat globally sets up some basic things (like tls config for Let’s encrypt with email address and such) followed byimport sites-enabled/*So every container gets a Caddyfile in
/opt/caddy/sites-available/app.caddyfile(or wherever) and that one gets just linked to/opt/caddy/sites-enabled/.Now it’s easy to change the config of an app and only that one app.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT 3 months ago:
On the plus side, Witcher III on PC is usually dirt cheap in a sale.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I find it quite ironic that NVidia gave a free copy with the RTX 50 series in the last few weeks and the first thing I see when I checked yesterday is that Valve had to open a bug with NVidia because their drivers seem to crash the game in Proton…
- Comment on The First 13 Minutes of 007 First Light 4 months ago:
I mean, I fully expected them to use Denuvo or another aggressive DRM - considering the hype around the game. I initially expected something worse after I read that comment. Since DRM was broken by abusing the hypervisor, I wonder if a new generation of DRM might block running in a VM or on Linux/Proton completely. Like Kernel level DRM module or such.
If it’s “just” Denuvo, I personally don’t care that much as it usually gets removed after a while and I usually wait for a sale anyways. My backlog is big enough to keep me entertained.
As for the betrayed: Why the fuck do people preorder games? I get it, if you want a physical edition of a console game and want to be able to play day one (or want to have it delivered day one). I also get it somewhat with physical goodies of a limited edition (as the digital goodies are usually just a simple skin or such and not worth it). And I get it, if you consider backing a crowd funding campaign of an indie game as preorder. But besides that? It can and will only be a let down usually.
- Comment on The First 13 Minutes of 007 First Light 4 months ago:
Huh? What do you mean? I guess they announced Denuvo or some other DRM?
- Comment on App doesn't let me use my 32 char password 4 months ago:
Been there. It’s somewhat ok if they do it consistently. E.g. registration and login form both allow more than 16 chars and then just truncate the password silently.
Worse is if the registration form does it, but the login form uses the full password you entered (or vice versa) and then the login fails because the password doesn’t match…
- Comment on What is a Lemmy user called? A lemming? 4 months ago:
Probably fed with pie. Or trampled over by Mastodons.
- Comment on Interesting looking chocolate bar 4 months ago:
Filled with cream
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
“Im working in a call center. What do you think how many girls I talked to before lunch?”
