QuadratureSurfer
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- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 day ago:
I mean, it really depends on how you define scam. If you’re so loose with the definition that you would have considered No Man’s Sky a “scam” when it first released, then I can understand that.
Otherwise it’s not really a scam. There’s a free trial going on right now in Star Citizen.You’re free to check out the game for yourself. It’s in a really good state compared to what we’ve previously seen (not even close to bug free, but way more playable than before).
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 day ago:
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 day ago:
Sure, larger businesses have more developers to get more work done. But there comes a time when throwing new developers at a problem convolutes the process and actually slows things down more than it helps.
Something that seems simple to you like a flashlight attachment may not be so simple under the hood.
Solo indie devs have an advantage because they’re familiar with all of the code. They’re the ones that wrote it.
They don’t need to learn a new part of the code when making fixes or changes. They don’t need to explain to another dev that “you don’t change how this information is passed in here because you’ll need it to look just like that in some other section that you’ll never touch”.
Additionally any decisions/changes/etc. are all decided by one person, no need for meetings to get everyone on board and explain exactly what you want to do. No need to try to get everyone to understand your vision for what you want to happen.
A famous comic might explain this process a little better:
- Comment on Over a hundred thousand Dune Awakening players got swallowed by the sandworm | Massively Overpowered 1 week ago:
Maybe some people just don’t like grinding for hours and hours to replace stuff they already acquired in a video game.
Personally, I would rather that we have a variety of different game types and options. There aren’t very many MMOs that make death feel meaningful. If it’s not your type of game, then don’t play it.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 week ago:
Here’s another win for Steam:
Subnautica has a multiplayer mod, but it only works with an older version of the game. Steam lets you downgrade the version, Epic games does not.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
Well, apperently I’ve been misusing the term “Deckbuilder” for a while. TIL. Thanks!
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
When did “deckbuilder” stop applying to TCGs? Isn’t that the original definition of a deckbuilder game?
I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but a quick search leads to some titles like:
Shapebreaker - Tower Defense Deckbuilder steamcommunity.com/app/1924010
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
Actual card battle games like Magic the Gathering.
Or deckbuilding like those castle/turret defense games.
I’d have to agree with @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works, I’ve never been a fan of roguelike games where your next move/ability is left up to what you draw from your deck next.
- Comment on Evil Dead: The Game is now, ironically, a literal dead game as its developer removes it from sale 3 weeks ago:
Is this one of those games that has a single player mode, but you have to be online in order to play it?
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- Comment on Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, a survival horror, match-3 metroivania sequel to a game that doesn't exist, is out now 4 weeks ago:
Its ok, they can always pull a Star Wars and work on the first few after finishing the later ones.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws second story pack all about pirates sets a release date for next month 5 weeks ago:
How has this game been since release?
I saw a lot of controversy in its early days about stealth gameplay, your ability to keep weapons after climbing ladders, through different areas, etc.
Have there been any other major updates, or is this the first major game update?
- Comment on Dune Awakening shares new screenshots and confirms the ever-present threat of the Sardaukar | Massively Overpowered 1 month ago:
I’m definitely looking forward to this game.
It’s looking good from what I’ve seen so far.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 month ago:
Well unless you did sunday driving… And put weapons on your car so you could go around demolishing the buildings you had built up in Sim City.
- Comment on Dune: Awakening's new trailer details how its map changes every week, which sounds awful for cartographers 2 months ago:
Awful? Maybe it’s more of a challenge!
- Comment on WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again 2 months ago:
Banning cheaters in games is TIGHT!!!
- Comment on Control Ultimate Edition: March 2025 Update Notes (PC) 2 months ago:
No problem. Unfortunately the prompt for an application being denied access usually only shows up when the game first creates a save point. So you might have to get just far enough until the game saves to trigger it.
- Comment on Control Ultimate Edition: March 2025 Update Notes (PC) 2 months ago:
Issues like that are usually related to windows security settings which block applications from modifying the contents of user specific folders.
If a game likes to write save files to those locations and you have enabled ransomware protection, you’ll need to allow an exception for it:
Go to Windows Security -> Protection History -> Protected folder access blocked (look for the game’s executable in this list) -> Actions -> Allow on Device
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 2 months ago:
I did a quick search but couldn’t find any issue with their anticheat.
From what I could find, it’s not a kernel level anticheat.
As far as damaging hardware, reading from a drive doesn’t really degrade it much at all, the bigger concern there would be if it was writing to your drive a ton (but honestly you should worry more about Window’s Page File system since that makes it possible to use your storage drive as RAM).
I found a post from one player on the steam forums with concerns about the anticheat because their system kept crashing, but that sounded more like an isolated incident (or more likely related to the Intel CPU issue that was confirmed that same year).
There is a highly upvoted review for the game which has concerns about the anticheat reading all files on a drive and “overloading your processors (ignoring frame-rate caps and going past it).”
I agree that reading every file on a drive is concerning, I’d rather any anticheat stick to just the game’s folders itself.
However, I’m wary about their understanding of programs/computers if they think that anti-cheat software should be limited by, or has anything to do with frame-rate caps. Also, they don’t provide a source for any of their information or how they tested it.
Most other cocerns about anti-cheat quoted that same review in one way or another.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 2 months ago:
Yeah, you can see it here:
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Dark_and_Darker/ - Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 2 months ago:
Relevant VLDL video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XvzlHuqlXY
- Comment on Request to mod c/StarCitizen 2 months ago:
Thank you!
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- Comment on Inside the high tech quest to decode the lost scrolls of Herculaneum | Freethink | [6:54] 4 months ago:
Pretty cool use of MRIs and AI (machine learning to unroll them and read the letters).
Similar (or the same?) tech has been used to read the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Submitted 4 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Wizard of Legend - Free 4 months ago:
Or just use something like Heroic Games Launcher instead:
- Submitted 5 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 2 comments
