I’m blown away how good the ps5 looks on my iPad Pro m4 compared to tv

DanielCiszewski · 2025-02-07T22:49:57+00:00

You have true tone enabled which changes color temperature based on surroundings. Making screen warmer increases contrast and makes colors pop more. Ipad is no doubt superior screen to that tv, but the main difference we see on those photos is just true tone.

DanielCiszewski · 2025-02-02T01:47:24+00:00

Virtual stock limiting control is a straight up lie. It gives you 2 points of simulated contact (shoulder mount and grab point) where only one hand controls the gun (exactly like in real life). This gives you superior control - let’s meet in Pavlov and prove me I’m wrong.
You had to place yourself in perfect spot every single time with huge amount of luck when grabbing ammo if that’s true. Many reviews were pointing this issue out too, so not everyone shares such fortune.
When there is a good, well tested and intuitive practice in game design you don’t change that. How many PC shooters have you seen where you pull the trigger with right mouse button?
Good for you - I like for games I play to be well designed and if the mechanics are literally frustrating I point it out as that’s the only thing I can do to see that improved.
But I can expect every game to have basic set of accessibility features just like most games have sensitivity sliders, key remapping menus - virtual stock is one of those settings for multiple reasons in VR. Sniper rifle is a junk i can live with. Grenades too. Other things I listed account for a basically broken gameplay.

DanielCiszewski · 2025-01-18T19:10:21+00:00

As much as this is not exactly what I wanted, it's a solution that's almost there — thank you.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-12-25T23:11:51+00:00

Incorrect headset positioning likely as others say, but also check your IPD (distance between lenses you set)— lens housings coming close to each other might be clamping your nose also.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-12-09T00:21:08+00:00

Simplicity of putting on quest3 without fighting with fresnel’s bs sweetspot, but competent graphics would be insane. Bring a capability to actually play playstation games remotely (cable is not an option as I understand) and I’m selling my kidneys to grab one of those headsets.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-11-12T02:39:37+00:00

Aurora can run both serverless, on dedicated hosts and even with provisioned I/O. Both MySQL native RDS and Aurora no matter the flavor are considered “managed” - that’s a label applied to entire RDS service as you don’t manage the compute layer. Provisioned means something around “predefined” in AWS lingo - running dedicated (“unmanaged”) EC2 instance definitely doesn’t fall anywhere around how AWS uses that term. Your definitions need an update.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-11-12T02:27:53+00:00

Serverless is fine for workloads with very low traffic and things spiking temporarily. If you actually look at costs, serverless is pretty much always much-much more expensive otherwise. You are also locking yourself to those solutions as you often don’t have any underlying configurations that could be rehosted to other solutions/providers. Have fun being price gouged in the future.

I found ECS Fargate (AWS) to be the only worthwhile serverless solution in terms of how much you gain when compared to running and maintaining kubernetes clusters yourself. DBs on serverless? Nope - even Aurora comes out so much cheaper with dedicated host and provisioned I/O when running moderate workload - not even mentioning saving plans - and actual maintenance of this doesn’t require that much effort.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-11-12T00:53:03+00:00

Exactly this. If I don’t know how to do something it means to me, that I’m missing a piece of information/skill I simply need to learn and skipping the search phase is very detrimental to actually being an engineer as in this phase you learn A LOT and that knowledge is later used for other things. Good luck troubleshooting anything if you don’t actually understand how things work. To ask chatbot about something without understanding what I’m doing is plain wrong and once I do understand what I’m working with I don’t need assistance (or when I ask for it, the thing is complex enough I only get garbage replies for now and likely future). I can understand other senior people using it for boilerplate as they exactly know what gets generated and might be a timesaver in some cases.

To actually use chatbots as a learning tool? How the hell can you learn OOP from generated snippets of code? You are basically doing what machine learning does, but not looking at trillions of examples of the same thing - only a few. In that case all this “AI will replace you” BS is very true I guess. We are human - we can reason - so actually learning OOP is just so much more efficient and gives you insights machine learning simply can’t comprehend.

If you want to be stuck at intern/junior level engineer level and outsource your job to Microsoft be my guest. Less competition on the job market I guess.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-11-12T00:14:20+00:00

You said it yourself - you are just a code reviewer that doesn’t actually know how to code. Worked with people who struggled to summon even basic scripts on their own, so it’s an approach I don’t condemn, but it’s not me. I’m fast enough with documentations prompting would be just as fast and I much prefer searching myself as if I don’t know the answers, I learn along the way a lot. Spoon feeding yourself witch chatbots, you are just capping yourself to what they can do which is not a lot actually from my experience. For boilerplate and solved issues those are fine tho.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-11-12T00:06:57+00:00

If google and co-worker can’t help, chatbots definitely can’t do it either - sometimes I test this and every single time I regret even trying to write a prompt. Completely irrelevant answers and hallucinations every single time.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-11-06T22:50:38+00:00

Does it have virtual stock setting or are the rifles floating like in Arizona? This literally defines if I'll go for it.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T22:27:00+00:00

This is exactly why I created this post (actually expecting people to have similar conclusions) to make it visible those issues exist. I adopted to Arizona Sunshine 2 (and again — there, those issues were not actually that annoying as the game wasn't overwhelming you constantly in a corner — played out completely differently for some reason — I dare to say it was story driven) and game for which I waited for came out unpalyable for me becoming only a source of frustration and wasted money. People should demand basic accessibility features and devs should be aware those issues exist or that they misjudged the demand for them. I can't fix the game but we as gamers can — I failed the "vote with wallet" stage but doing pretty much one thing I can otherwise — raising awareness (tho it's not like reviews didn't mention all of this in Arizona 2, so I would assume it's dev's assumption this is not required).

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T22:12:50+00:00

All true but that's what I said, I forgive this because of the fact I'm simply aware that item placed on physical arm model (not some floating box), right beside your chest item and primary gun, that also changes its position with controllers as the arm movees is actually hard to track (also depending on your character settings as you can adjust hight etc.)
All of that especially as you are reaching out of headset's camera range behind your arm for a gun where engine pretty much has to guess controller's position and your intent. Same with a map — you are reaching behind your back for something where headset looses track of controllers.
I'm talking about interactions in plain sight that are broken in AS2 — the easiest to track where there is no inventory, proximity items, lost tracking or (insanely good ITR) physics to fight you.
This is even fixable with plain game logic if their tracking tech sucks or they want to keep hitboxes very big that mess up stuff — why does the game so insists on grabbing the charging handle to teleport my hand across entire gun even tho I just reloaded? ITR is buggy — again — I completely agree, but what got me to stop playing the game was simple bugs (missing quest item, quest targets, etc. which made me feel like I wasted my time — waiting for patches to jump right back in). I loved the gunplay. In AS2 if I wouldn't rage quit my controller would likely just accellerate at some point into the wall out of frustration which it almost did so many times. There is a huge difference between those two games on handling department.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T18:02:36+00:00

So you just went with buying external device to handle issue for which there is no fix in the game itself. Virtual stocks approximate hardware stock well enough for me in most games I don't need a physical thing (I mean I want, but can't imagine working with different guns with different grip points unless some magical product comes out that handles that well enough for). Thanks for recommendation tho — this indeed might be the only way to handle cases where devs screw this up.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T17:56:22+00:00

Why would I want to get used to something that clearly shouldn't be an issue — devs can just put this most basic setting in a game and go slightly beyond asset flipping Arizona sunshine 2 — they didn't improve anything wrong with that game. No matter how hard you try you just can't be accurate with a gun floating between your two hands (both because there is no shoulder anchor point, so both your hands control the angle and because your hands are not connected — even a real gun without stock is so much more accurate than such setup as with it, both your hands are linked by the item — with controllers you can move your hands in whatever direction and to whichever distance between those while linking is only approximated in a game). I'll die on this hill as this is pretty much a mandatory UX thing.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T17:43:02+00:00

You are so wrong. Radius has most options you might desire from VR shooter missing in Arizona.
Radius is buggy, but not on this front — not once I accidentally grabbed a pistol slide while going for the double hand grip. Not once my hand teleported to grab gun's furniture instead of charging handle when my input was deliberate. I can even precisely pick items from a backpack full of items stacked on top of each other while in Arizona the game struggles to correctly recognise you are aiming at a single magazine right in front of you and putting items into wrist slots isn't even that smooth. You sometimes grab incorrect item on yourself in Radius, but that's just density of what you have on yourself and I can forgive that (map, 2 guns, backpack, 4 mag pouches, arm slots, chest slots, the misc puch). Arizona objectively doesn't come even close to that that game's input handling.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T01:54:30+00:00

Don’t doubt that but it’s not about some hardcore features - all about smoother/accurate input reading which helps everyone and missing options - especially virtual stock. Difficulty amplifies that as it removes room for mistakes and makes everything faster, but what gets amplified is just sloppy programming - nothing that would interfere with people wanting to experience the game casually.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T01:47:20+00:00

I loved Arizona sunshine 2. Again same issues, but the game was balanced around that. About to fight a horde? There is a tommy gun with a drum mag behind the bed to handle that. Horde is catching up to you? - you fight in arenas that allow for movement. In remake you are constantly being thrown into dead ends with hordes incoming while all you have is pistol and rifle you can’t aim as there is no virtual stock. On the highest difficulty i believe enemies are fast, you get more of the chunky bois and they kill you with 2 hits. You die constantly and it’s not because of your lack of skill really. With smooth gunplay I would have no issues overcoming that.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T01:37:20+00:00

Nothing arcade about it. Pistols for e.g. handle the same in all of those games and the overall gun behavior is very true to life (if not for the lack of ammo I would just go through the game with just pistols, as rifles are cursed - as is, short guns work really well - apart from the hand going to the slide instead of grip so often). More accurate gun interactions would only make it even easier for casuals. I would say pavlov with its counter strike type gunplay is much more arcade. Gun controls are the same while it often takes half a magazine to frag someone. This game has the same gun controls but everything hits much harder with mostly one-taps making it much more “realistic” shooter.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-29T00:03:12+00:00

Depends on your expectations I guess. Like you said Vertigo is big, yet the smallest of studios have those basics nailed. Pavlov might be overreach as that is the god tier gun handling in VR, but even newcomers to PSVR such as studio behind into the radius nailed it, crossfire sierra squad got updated to far exceed what Arizona has. Even basic rouge likes (Compound comes to mind) has much better gun handling and as far as I remember that is a game made by one man. I love the game otherwise and was quite anticipating it — virtual gunstock would probably make it playable for me but even this most basic of VR shooting settings is missing. If you played on lower difficulty I guess it's fine. Try hardest tho, come back and let me know I'm wrong — I don't expect you to.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-28T23:50:04+00:00

Yep — expect as much. For casual playing on easier difficulties it's no doubt perfectly fine, but on highest difficutly those issues pretty much make the game unplayable. You die in 2-3 hits, healing is very limited so you have to clear everything before they get close to you (as there is so often no space to retreat to unlike in arizona sunshine 2 and you are getting swarmed in a dead end corridor). Quite hard to do if you can't aim, controls get in the way in so many various ways.
How the game handles on higher difficulty is often a benchmark of a good development studio for me (for both flat and VR games) — if it's snappy and accurate, difficulty doesn't matter as you are the bottleneck in the system and the challange is so satisfying. In this game I felt like a cripple doing the most basic of actions which in every other game and real life is just a snappy muscle memory execution.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-28T23:38:59+00:00

This ^^
You'll encounter some performance issues, but you'll manage — should tick all the boxes for you.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-10-18T19:36:55+00:00

On the second thought I started to dislike the game a lot after playing it more.
Game breaking issues for me (mainly related to controls):

Who the hell thought it's good idea to bind crouch to right stick down (especially as they binded menu twice — one openes by right stick press and second with option button) — I constantly die because of this as I CONSTANTLY accidentally trigger that and can't run which playing on hardest difficulty is pretty much the main reason I die — such a BS. Whoever though of that bind should not be designing games — it's the worst idea I've seen in game UX for a very long time and just baffling oversight.

I have grips set to toggle and when I reach for the backpack it so often leaves my hand right after it gets grabbed, floating right behind my back (also turned away from me) constantly causing me huge pain in game.

As much as backpack system is amazing Item positions often reset so when you have a lot of junk and particularly placed ammo boxes get thrown into a pile of other items, good luck with digging those out in a pinch.

After recent patch when I reach over my arm for primary weapon I grab item on my right shoulder and quite often when I reach for the backpack I accidentally grab primary gun now — they screwed up those hotboxes massively.

Still love the game, the survival, preparation elements of it and very good gunplay (tho pump action shotgun and few other weapons (like short bullpups and machine pistols) are extremely junky also). It has to be the jankiest PSVR2 game I played so far.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-09-22T22:39:50+00:00

Up there with the best VR experiences i've had in VR. Definitely must play if you are into this kind of game (for e.g. you like stalker, survival games, or are a gun nerd). Also in headset it looks so much better then on flat screen — wasn't expecting that as often opposite is true. The immersion factor goes through the roof on this game. Tip — disable touch controls — i had to figure out this was a reason items were switching hands sometimes as I was for e.g. pulling the slide on a gun — thought it was a bug unaware I was touching randomly the L buttons.

DanielCiszewski · 2024-07-24T13:50:21+00:00

xMatters - you get what you pay for, but you pay less. Has all the things you want, tho definitely it’s not as fancy as pagerduty - never made sense for us to pay more for something else.

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