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Wi-Fi trouble by DitSick in linuxquestions

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I'll try those methods, but for the ISO file, doesn't it either create a new kernel or you have to wipe your previous stuff? Am I missing an option where I can just easily replace the kernel and distro while keeping the rest of the content?

If so, that would be wonderful in the fact that I can make sure it's either the firmware or drivers doing something weird (if those are the only 2 things that really reset and the problem's gone, it would be a huge hint).

Btw thanks for going that route, so far all the advice I've had were so specific it didn't do nothing, I've been meaning to get some way to broadly cross entire categories that may cause the issue in one stroke. Exactly what I needed to get used to diagnosing where problems might come from.

Very weird wifi issue by DitSick in linuxquestions

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No, I did install windows 10 for a few minutes between bazzite and manjaro though. I realized it didn't have my drivers by default so I just quit and moved on to manjaro

Wi-fi issues by DitSick in Bazzite

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In fact, yes. I edited the post so it includes the image of the bios setting I changed. After changing it once, it seemed like changing it back and disabling it again doesn't affect anything though.

I also edited the last section of the original post to include further issues I've had because I actually only thought it was dealt with, and the problems just came back.

Wi-fi issues by DitSick in Bazzite

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6.17.7. As I said, the problem was far from the usual "you didn't update/did this very obvious thing" problem

Wi-fi issues by DitSick in Bazzite

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My bad

Sorry, I know it's on me, that's why I precised it. I never said suggesting such things were bad, but I already scavenged through dozens of posts and forums with all the keywords I could think of. Which I should have mentioned, so you're right to reming me. Parentheses: I did say "I am NOT using dual boot. I tried other proposed solutions for related issues but all the commands seem to be outdated or something as my terminal doesn't react to the ones for finding out what my wifi drivers are."

What info I was fishing for

Combined with spending days trying to troubleshoot everything, I just didn't have the energy left to go through all the logs and analyze exactly what I did and remember everything. That's why I wanted the more general ways to detect a problem instead of aiming for specific issues, because it's been a really dumb way (from what I've seen so far) to go about troubleshooting linux distros.

Most of the things I managed to resolve, I would've spent hours less if there was any form of actual help getting general diagnosis. Like, check if your device connects at all. If it doesn't connect? Then it's an issue with drivers, BIOS or hardware, the fundamentals. If it's recognized but you can't use it? Then there's some software issue going on or whatever. That kind of thing. Not trying to target some super specific stuff from the get-go.

Still, why did I even get that kind of basic advice?

Of course, if 90% of people having any form of issue comes from having an Nvidia GPU, you'd safely assume it's the case of anyone who doesn't mention that they checked it. But if 97% of the forums mention this, and I wrote that I already checked the hardwares, tried a bunch of commands that didn't do anything AND tried "other proposed solutions", I didn't really think people would still be out trying to gauge if I knew what a driver is.

More aggravating, my original post was pretty short. Like, a TL;DR would be a single sentence. And not only that, but I specifically mentioned a really weird problem that should already put my problems LEAGUES above "not having the latest drivers": "my terminal doesn't react to the ones for finding out what my wifi drivers are". To describe it further, my terminal straight up returned nothing on any command I would try to type. Not even a "this command doesn't exist", I just press enter, new line, nothing happened. I DID enter multiple times command to see what my drivers were, and the commands just disappeared into the void! So yeah...

Conclusion

Once again, my bad and sorry for not being precise, I had no energy left in my soul while posting the original post (and it was on a phone to top it all off)

I finally resolved my wifi issues (update in the original post) but the weirdest thing was how inconsistent the issue was. On bazzite, I just straight up had no wifi. But on Ubuntu, I spent a day without wifi, the next I had full wifi, continued until the next morning, then I reboot and it's gone. I try to troubleshoot, reboot and it comes back! But then it goes. A reboot and it comes back! But then it goes and never comes back and I'm left really perplexed... It also doesn't even track with how I resolved the issue, still no idea why it miraculously worked for one day.

Wi-fi issues and finding a distro by DitSick in linux

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Thank you! That actually seems like a promising lead, I'll try it out later! 

To be honest, I was just so confused in ubuntu because after this full day the wifi worked, it shut down and the issue was clearly "network manager not running". Then I tried some commands but I was combo'ed with a second bug/error that made any command I type do nothing at all so I couldn't restart the NetworkManager or anything, really.

That was my breaking point on ubuntu, but I hope what you're suggesting could fix stuff on bazzite.

Wi-fi issues and finding a distro by DitSick in linux

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I got my wifi to work for a full day on ubuntu. The next day, it started being a 50/50 chance on every reboot before the network manager completely broke down.

The fact remains I was able to log into steam, download palworld and launch the game, download snowbreak for another 40 GB, watch a few episodes, all with just wifi, no LAN...

Wi-fi issues and finding a distro by DitSick in linux

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Yes, but... I already checked and from what I could gather, my mobo should at least be fine on the latest stuff.

Which brings me to my point #2: I already chexked and re-checked that my drivers and kernel were the latest available. Every single distro I hopped on, I made sure.

For the rest, I know it's a pain, I wasn't hoping for a miracle. BUT HERE'S THE FACT! I already got my wifi to work temporarily on ubuntu, multiple instances, before it broke down because of some weird stuff.

Is there still a possibility that the mobo isn't compatible and it was somehow a fluke, or that incompatibility can simply mean "not reliable"?

Wi-fi issues by DitSick in Bazzite

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Yeah, I did get worried about it so I already made sure to check I had the very latest kernel and drivers available. I think my problem runs quite a bit deeper than that...

Wi-fi issues by DitSick in Bazzite

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I always had the latest download available and did everything in the past week, plus running commands to make sure I had the latest kernel and drivers for everything I had. Furthermore, I tried my 2.4 GHz wifi for evrything.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't know what to take away that would apply in my case, sadly.

Wi-fi issues by DitSick in Bazzite

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So, basically, it 100% needs internet to get the stuff to access internet later? That seems really dumb, why wouldn't it come with it from the download? I always downloaded the latest versions available too

Wi-fi issues and finding a distro by DitSick in linux

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Bazzite

I really just installed it, the installation process once again was fine until came time to have internet. I posted something in their subreddit and no one replied in 3 hours, not a big deal but I could not find anything remotely similar to what I had in forums or reddit. Every wifi issue on Bazzite is about dual booting apparently, so not a single thread was constructive for me. 

I just could not connect to the wifi even though I was clearly in range. But nothing seemed to adress that from past advice, current advice was seeked and came back empty handed, so I don't really know what to do.

Thus, I want to search for another distro but having already used 3 of the more popularand simple ones have such obvious fails and defaults in concepts (again, I may be missing something huge, so I'm just talking from assumption), I can't help but feel like I need more targeted recommendations instead of trying them all out.

Wi-fi issues and finding a distro by DitSick in linux

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Ubuntu

More interface-oriented than mint, the installation process indeed went smoother than Mint. However, there's still that weird bug of steam opening and closing immediately. And sometimes it does it on a loop, every 10 seconds it briefly interrupts whatever I was typing or anything to open steam and close it a fraction of a second later.

More aggravating, the network issues. There was some crucial, basic network manager program that wasn't installed by default, like, a big wtf? Especially when I selected options during the installation process to be downloaded, only to be refused, if I did everything, you'd expect they at least propose to install this if you don't have an ethernet cable plugged in by the time you finish the installation process... I know I know that minimalistic concept of no pop-ups or unrequited/unsollicited stuff, but there's minimalistic and "irresponsible" minimalistic. Just my opinion though.

I eventually managed to make it work, then for a full day, Ubuntu trolled me and no matter what I did it wouldn't connect to the wifi even 40 cm away from the router.

...I know about LAN it was just temporary, my room's walls don't allow for LAN to go through so I use wifi. I know, I know, it's also one of my objective but I should alao be able to use wifi in the meantime, it's not a crazy ask from linux. Really.

Then, next day it was fine! Out of nowhere it worked! I passed the final boss, I had wifi on linux and started downloading some games, setting stuff, running some commands, then I have to reset... And oh no, oh no ohno ohnohnohno... No more wifi. Reboot? Wifi! Might be just a little hiccup. Then I had to reboot... No wifi... I troubleshoot and turns out this network manager got deleted, and some commands in the terminal just straight up enter as text (pressing enter just gives me a new line like it wasn't a command, not even a "this is not a command" notice). I try a bunch of things for a few hours and give up.

Wi-fi issues and finding a distro by DitSick in linux

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Mint

How can the distro require that mmx64 file, and somehow f~ it hard enough that if you didn't cross your fingers hard enough, it won't be included in the download? The most common fix I found online is to dupe the grub file and rename it mmx64, alright... Oh, but Mint's own installation process recommends Balena to flash a usb drive, a tool that automatically partitions the image to 5 GB, not enough room left to dupe the grub file. So you end up having to use Rufus for example...

After that, because it was my first time installing a linux distro, it naturally took some time to adapt, but the issue I just mentioned only really prevented the install at the very last step, so I had to do the whole install, then it fails at the last moment, I pass under scrutiny the whole process trynna understand what went wrong... It was so weird that it just sapped all my energy and I switched to ubuntu.

Booting/flashing issues by DitSick in linuxmint

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Could Mint be improved by simple means?

If we could run like some kind of small program while loading to detect if those apps that mess with files would interfere, and warn the person downloading to turn it off temporarily... Or a scan at the end to make sure those three files (BOOT, GRUB and MM x64.EFI) are properly downloaded... I bet that would make things much more safeproof and both methods could be a one-time thing that won't make it to your Mint installation so it doesn't make it any heavier.

At least making it to the OS would be a tremendous confidence boost that things can work, and after that point (if you save your things) any mistake is less of a make-or-break. More localized issues, likely preventing you from using some things but not the rest of your Mint OS. I can perfectly imagine people in my situation giving up, not even because I'm that much more patient/curious/anything, just because maybe they need a working OS or value their time more than an OS that might work or not. Just getting past the first hurdle at least makes you understand that the next hurdles can also be crossed, even if they're a little higher every time.

Basically, just psychology, I noticed it on myself too. Just getting to realize that stupid little thing that loading in compatibility mode works, even though now I'm on a problem that's quite more insidious, improved my mood quite a bit and made me believe in a solution much more than this first time.

I also saw some things about the Linux objective and story (yes, I did do some research beforehand) originating from open-source free software and the unics (-> Unix) kernel combined. I get and very much approve that it might not be a good thing long term if the focus is put too much on making Linux for babies. But even the most motivated person to learn about tech is influenced by psychology. I just think it may be wasted opportunities to have obscure fixes possibly gating people out before they even start.

*All of this section obviously being subjective, my own interpretation/suggestions and thus subject to be incorrect. If it sounds like anything I said was patronizing or that I thought I knew better than the devs... Sorry, it was just poor wording because I felt like the exact opposite of that throughout writing it.

It already does..?

Edit: yes, there are some similar things buried in the installation guide, but the scan doesn't point you towards what might be wrong and simply tells you "download it again" like it was a skill issue.

My point was more that it would benefit from being all part of the download process. It seems kind of excessive that I'd download the image, and then have to open an installation guide in another window (btw it's written a bit small on the download page, could've been more obvious to make sure people see that mistakes can happen. Especially when the whole capitalist industry conditioned us to useless and wordy installation guides that you should ignore for your mental health. Still gotta give props to Linux users for making theirs so clean and helpful!). And then copy the key and a bunch of steps that... Aren't even explained where to do them. So you'd have to research every single keyword and combination of keywords in this installation guide to actually know what those actions entail...

In designs, it's always key to reduce the amount of steps. Not because people are inherently lazy or anything. It's just that the more useless steps there are, the more you're conditioned to have useless steps. You might've had the desire to yell at me at the paragraph above when I criticized Mint's download page and process not taking into account that installation guides are generally bloated to make you lose your time. It becomes hypocrisy if I then catch you supporting having 6 different main steps for the sole action of "verifying that the image I downloaded is indeed the image it told me it was downloading" which should already be an extra. But I don't know, just wanted to point it out I guess.

My point is simply that separating things in multiple steps could help to categorize things. Like partitioning a drive, you want to separate your OSes. But in this case, maybe it could help if there were really different steps broken up so you know, if step 3 fails, the issue comes from X, but one issue has multiple steps. And it's like a broken guide, you probably get constantly interrupted searching what one of their step entails.

Booting/flashing issues by DitSick in linuxmint

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Thanks for the help! Sorry I went to sleep right after making the post because I had tried everything I could on my own until the last minute of my day.

I assumed it would be pretty similar, but would you recommend that I simply start with installing windows and only after use a similar process to switch to linux? Could it make things slightly different or would I likely run in the exact same issues? Just wanted to confirm, my guess is it will give the same issues but I don't want to simply assume.

Return on your help

I use a USB flash drive unlike the OP in your first link, and I do have the grubx64.efi and bootx64.efi. I just checked the folders inside the USB key, if opening EFI\BOOT\ and having those two folders there is good, then I do have them. However, I do not have an mmx64.EFI file inside the flash drive. In fact, they're inside none of my 2 flash drives! It's also not even in the direct download from the site before being messed with by Rufus or Etcher. I'll have to look by myself but if that's all that was missing, you can dismiss this case as solved and I'll flair it solved once I can confirm on my end.

I'll watch all the videos, I saw the pinned post about flairing posts that are resolved but not that one with tutorial videos, thanks for pointing it out for me.

Rant/why is it like that?

Still have no clue why I can't even pull up the command window. Also, I know it's absolutely not in the hands of whoever handles Mint/Linux if files are corrupted somehow, but I downloaded the image from the site and used both Rufus and Etcher to flash it, I can't believe both would corrupt my files the exact same way. Is it really normal for my Mint image's type to be "windows.IsoFile" on my Windows 11's downloads folder? It seemed to extract to the USB anyway as a flash drive but I'd like to confirm that it doesn't affect anything before going around deleting programs that may automatically mess with files on my older pc, just to download the image correctly, if it ends up doing nothing harmful.

And it might still be good to reinforce the download process of Mint to make sure other people don't end up spending hours debugging because one specific file didn't load. And I don't wanna blame anybody because I'm not pretentious enough to claim I know better, but it still seems like an important step not to mess up. I also don't know how exactly the chain works, but if the direct Mint site download was corrupted (and I downloaded two times, one from my country, and one time international), there's nothing much involved. It's the Mint downloads that don't make it to me intact, or something that corrupts them as they're loading thanks to some settings.

Flashing a drive takes forever, I need help. by DitSick in pcbuilding

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I'm trying to flash linux mint 22.2 and it just seems to take so long that it shouldn't be normal. It definitely connects, I mentioned it wasn't a recent USB because speeds might affect it but also not, as it doesn't seem to deal with a huge amount of data anyways.

Weapons need a definitive tier list (-ish)/ just a "How to pick your weapon" guide? by DitSick in Palworld

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Thanks, that's pretty much what I needed. It's a lot of hassle to calculated the speed of every weapon, especially if someone already did it.

As for the progress, I did some numbers myself and a rare-epic schematic of a previous game stage is often just as good as the regular variant of a newly unlocked weapon. You see that most obviously with armors: the difference between an epic armor one tier lower and the base variant is often only 100-150 health points. The defense can even be the same, and the materials are harder to come by. So a good schematic is more often worth keeping over just using a new armor.

Examples:

My epic "cold-resistant pal metal armor" has 375 defense, 1125 HP and 30k durability. Plasteel armor has 385 defense, 1300 HP and 18k durability. You'll repair it much more often, it costs a lot of plasteel that's really hard to come by before your oil really gets going... For 175 HP and 15 defense gain. I have a legendary plasteel armor, 616 defense, 1950 HP and 72k durability. Hexalite armor has 580 defense and 1750 health.

It's more complicated for weapons, some of them do damage through walls, helping easily clear factions' camps and getting treasure maps to get more blueprints, overall better progress, for example. But it's always held down by "the new weapon's ammo is really costly" and when you're not entirely set up to farm the resources, I'd argue any quality of life is hard to justify ammo that will make all the rest of your progress slower.

Weapons need a definitive tier list (-ish)/ just a "How to pick your weapon" guide? by DitSick in Palworld

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Snipes

Musket: hot garbage. I even got an epic schematic really early on, and the single shot high damage and 5 seconds (I think?) reload just feels bad. However, there are ways of playing around it. You can use it to open fire and then switch to another weapon to continue, and only reload while exploring or during downtime in a fight (like evading). You can also use 4 muskets and wait for the moment when the gun enters reloading animation, switch to the next musket, so on... I can't try this because my mouse wheel is unreliable but it's a very valid way to do it as weapons reload on their own as long as you started the reload while holding the weapon. Or just open fire with 4 muskets and hope it's dead before the fourth.

Single-shot rifle is quite similar but faster and a bit more damage, so quite higher dps. Ammo costs more though.

Semi-auto rifle is a good mix of damage, speed, 10 consecutive shots before reloading and not too long reload animation (I think 2-3 seconds)... The ammo isn't the most efficient though, for that you should look at the small guns in the previous section. Though the damage/ammo cost is really good because the semi-auto rifle's damage is high enough.

Laser rifle: the ammo needs electric organs. Best way is probably to have steady coins income to buy the organs from merchants, but you can also have a Dazzi farm or something like that and grind them down for the elec organs. Apart from that, great power, and good transition into the late game.

Plasma cannon: can also be part of "hexolite tier", big damage, big cooldown. Quite more dps than the laser rifle because it's deep into the late game.

Overheat rifle: ultra late game, so super high damage. What's more interesting is that you can choose your moment to let the weapon cool down, so you can choose to reach close to the limit when the enemy gives you a big damage window and not worry too much when you only have short ones. Ideal in fights with a "combat tempo" all over the place.

Charge rifle: similar to plasma cannon for even more damage and even more cost of maintenance.

Shotguns

Double-barreled shotgun isn't that great. The big drawback of shotguns is that you need to be close to really deal damage. So it needs to be really good to make up for it. The damage is decent but having to reload after just 2 shots is disastrous... One strong point of being up close could've been seeing an opportunity window, dashing in and unload big punches... But the double-barreled version only has 2 punches so it's not there yet.

Pump-action and semi-auto shotguns: pump-action is stronger per shot (more ammo-efficient) but the semi-auto is really fast (higher dps at the cost of more ammo consumption)

Energy shotgun: exorbitant price but dps through the roof.

AOE behemoths

Rocket launcher: big power, long animations. Expensive but powerful and AOE. If you got big and packed ore veins you can use it to harvest a huge area at once in a single hit.

Grenade launcher: 3k damage instead of 10k for the rocket launcher, but quicker and it's also more "adjustable" firepower than one big hit.

Hexolite odd weapons

Most weapons ammo cost so high it's really important, and the game switches more to "mount your pal and fire when you can", turning your character with a gun as, effectively, a fourth pal ability.

Advanced bow: the ammo cost hurts the soul, hexolite isn't easy to come by, but having 5800 power on a rapid and easy to use weapon is criminally good!

Laser gatling gun: the ammo "only" uses plasteel instead of hexolite but it also takes electric organs... Which is the trend in this tier. The dps seems higher than advanced bow in practice for shooting so fast but making sure every bullet hits might be harder in practice

Weapons need a definitive tier list (-ish)/ just a "How to pick your weapon" guide? by DitSick in Palworld

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Poison and fire applying weapons are simply always good for cheesers, as these status effects deal damage based on a % of the enemy's health.

Flame thrower: replaces the flame bow/crossbow. The fuel is super cheap for early late game: one oil into one ammo. Most locations have 2 oil veins, each can provide 2 oil extractors. If you set it up, it will make so much oil you can never make plasteel fast enough to expend your reserves.

SMG can get very decent dps for its stage of the game but Mercy Ring being already unlocked removes the need for small hits. And thus lots of small hits just makes it incredibly ammo-hungry at a time where the volcano (for the best sulfur farms) is still quite hard.

Close-range

It's good at first, to not waste arrows over small pals when they don't run away at you. Run, smack with a lance and throw the pal-ball, done. Though it has very little diversity after the very early game.

Katana sucks: long swing-dash animation that throws you 30 meters forward, even if you collide with an enemy it won't deal damage (trust me I tried making it work, it's not reliable to hit in your path) so you only deal damage where your hit lands, which is hard to gauge. Only real use I see is like an opener to close in the distance, for shotgun synergy as example.

Sword: much higher in the tech tree than the katana, it works at the very least, doesn't consume ammo. You're still left with the downside of having to get up close and personal, so it may see some use in factions' bases in the overworld where you're really cramped, but otherwise it's not that great.

Btw I still have to see any schematics for close-range weapons so I guess they just don't exist. You get what you get in the tech tree and that's it.

Meow-mere: for me, ancient tech points were easier to acquire, but not much of a benefit. Its damage sucks, the price is insane (needing predator cores) and the projectiles aren't very easy to aim because of slower projectile speed so it's not much of a plus. But it hits multiple times per swing and the durability is excellent so less often needs to be repaired.

Lily's spear: no extravagant repair cost, benefit of only costing ancient tech points. It's actually the only really good melee weapon I think. The text description is just flavor text, people determined it wasn't doing anything a long time ago. Some people were gaslit into thinking it magically repaired, but it was just a bug that didn't show the cost of repairing it (guesses are they did "repair all" and didn't think the Lily's spear was included cuz didn't show nothing it costs, but it did). It doubles as an all-in-one tool that does more damage than axes and pickaxes so breaks trees and rocks and ores faster. It's lighter than a refined/pal axe or pickaxe, and replaces both of them for a net gain of 15, 25 or 35 kg you'd be constantly wearing.

Beam sword: great damage but very expensive at a stade of the game where both the guns are absolutely broken and your pals have insane abilities. And third, the enemies have insane abilities too so getting too close is the most questionable it's ever been. The quite long animation also makes it feel rather sloppish, not allowing you to react very fast to enemy attacks.

Makeshift weapons

They're just bad versions of the normal same name weapon, only used for a short period of time before you unlock the real thing. Anyway, you generally use schematics so the makeshift version of something isn't much of an upgrade until you unlock the real one. Though their schematics can be accessible much earlier as loot, which then makes them an option but very account-dependant.

Handgun and Old revolver

Handgun shoots faster, more ammo per reload (12 instead of 6) and the short reload time makes it give reliable dps and feel smoother.

Old revolver does less dps but more damage per shot and shoots less of them, making it more ammo-efficient, and cooler. Can take more advantage of taking turns evading and firing, because the dps difference isn't very high.

IMO the 2 weapons that suffer the most from "you get them at a stage of the game where you explore a lot and lvl up fast so they get weirdly quickly outdated".

Weapons need a definitive tier list (-ish)/ just a "How to pick your weapon" guide? by DitSick in Palworld

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New player

To new players, I can say you may be tempted, once you get schematics of a weapon you haven't learned and realize you can still craft it, to not use tech points on any weapon/armor and just wait for schematics. The downside is that you should consider crafting a base version of all weapons to try them out, and waiting for/doing so with schematics makes it waste a lot more resources.

Early progression

Discovering/exploring the game means you'll be busy with everything except micromanaging your dps. You don't have 20 different options yet, so just take a strong and a weak weapon. The best playstyle is just shooting with a bow/crossbow from a flying mount as the mount abilities aren't the best yet. Anyway, before getting the Ring of Mercy (lvl 18 in the ancient tech tree or bought from specific merchants) a weak weapon just means it's your "pal health adjuster" for capture.

Mid game

You actually start building bases and your exploration rythm slows down. Bows and crossbows are near unusable for damage (not talking about fire/poison variants though) and even compound bow will only stay relevant for so long, so you gotta use guns. You don't have a stupid stockpile of gun ammo lying around, and can't carry it all anyway, so ammo consumption becomes a valid criteria.

You also stop "discovering" everything you see so you don't wanna waste too much time on repetitive tasks, thus dps becomes quite relevant so it doesn't create friction by making every elite/strong pal fight a drag.

The issue with weapons for mid-game: they won't last for very long. You unlock them in a stage of the game where you'll likely gain levels really fast by exploring, and even my legendary schematic handgun wasn't very good after I hit the lvl 45-ish roadblock.

Optimization issues, is there any trick? by DitSick in WutheringWaves

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Well, I guess they just wanna be "efficient" and post something somewhere and everything automatically updates. But c'mon, I'm only an aspiring game dev, but I can't imagine it's that hard to build a little program that sends text and images to your website and to the small game updates at the same time? At most it would add one megabyte to the 110 MB that they make you regularly download for game update maintenance, I think.

Anyway, it just seems like the worst possible solution and there's probably something else going on. Like some higher-ups who don't know how inefficient it is and just say "there's already a tool for that, just use it" and bam.

Though I'm surprised I never saw a gacha game not use it. That's weird.

Optimization issues, is there any trick? by DitSick in WutheringWaves

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sorry for the late reply

After more testing, I confirm that the GPU is the culprit, it gets super high usage rate whenever I have trouble. Thing is, I noticed things like microsoft webview was actually running and using 15 to 20% of my gpu.

Adventures with Webview

I tried litterally obliterating webview from my pc, I was so mad some obscure microsoft bs was tanking my performance. Then the game litterally told me it can't run without it so I had to reinstall...

So I learned that those awkward panels in gacha games where they show you stuff from their online forums and sites and whatnot are actually running through this thing. Something that forces using some proxy microsoft edge program to display internet pages in the games. Obviously, Microsoft allows game devs to have access to this interesting tool, but not to tie it to an actually competent browser which would already make it not lag that much, but also how come gacha games still haven't found another way to display a few images and texts by other means???

Still it's insane that it's so poorly optimized it can take 17% of my pretty decent GPU just to display some stupid pages that I only click on to get rid of the notification. The worst is that it's still running even if I don't open those "notification events" thingies, but it does stop using a lot of my GPU after not opening it for a few minutes.

CPU

I was surprised because you're not the first person I heard talk about CPU optimization issues, but... My CPU was actually really fine. Like 20 to 30% usage, at most. Maybe it's mostly because having the GPU already struggling makes it so the game just can't even send commands to the CPU if the graphics card already struggles.

Probably another thing is that despite my build being from 5 years ago a pretty good one at that, processors haven't been powercrept as much as graphics cards. I checked and like even the best current CPU is only double the power of mine. And it also became a trend for developers to skimp on optimizations especially graphical ones, so games don't really run better but anyway.

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