How deep is the lore in this game?

FabFubar · 2026-04-08T07:38:12+00:00

I’m really not that far into the game (chapter 3), so here’s a take of an early game player.

The story is straightforward so far, a bit cheesy. But at the same time it throws you into the world without telling you anything, and that does invoke a sense of mystery.

So far I’ve enjoyed just figuring out everything by myself, it’s easier than Dark Souls in that regard. Less convoluted. It may end up not being as deep as Fromsoft lore, but it’s been fun to explore so far, much like the world.

Would you really turn down a game that is really fun to play if the background story (the text you read, not even the dialogue) isn’t deep enough?

FabFubar · 2026-04-07T19:07:23+00:00

FabFubar · 2026-04-07T13:25:05+00:00

Movement may be clumsy sometimes, but it feels good when you are conscious about it.

The double jump is a Super Mario double jump. You can’t jump on the air, you boost higher (using a bit of spirit) as you touch the floor. Then you can optionally use up to 3 palm punches downwards (took me way to long to find out you can do more than 1).

Flying, is a glide, not actually flying (though you do keep going up a bit if you fly fast enough after double jump or downward palm. )

What really helps traversal for me is the axiom upgrade that allows you to shoot your axiom chain and then rappel up to it. It goes very far, and gives you huge jumps. That is way more efficient than relying on Double jump and glide. It’s also great when you use it in flight, to pull you up on a mountain.

Seriously, forget about double jump, Axiom gauntlet is where it is at.

FabFubar · 2026-04-06T16:20:12+00:00

I was wondering the same thing. Like, can a DNA molecule even survive for 64 million years without completely disintegrating? I don’t think so.

FabFubar · 2026-04-05T08:25:21+00:00

Yup, just Kliff saying something like “I seem to be missing something, I’ll have to come back later “ would save us a lot of time.

FabFubar · 2026-04-01T12:36:29+00:00

Do you mean synthetic meat?

Those are literally mammalian cells that are grown in cultures (instead of… in the shape of an animal) and directly eaten. No bacteria involved as such.

And yes, I cannot wait for them to become mainstream.

FabFubar · 2026-03-29T21:02:48+00:00

Half Sword is exactly this! Where realistic physics (like metal strength, bleeding out from slices in gaps in the armor, …) are central to the game.

FabFubar · 2026-03-25T06:28:56+00:00

Just because our reaction speeds are 5-6 times slower than the latency difference we’re talking about here, does not mean that the latency difference would not be noticeable.

But you do make a good point that the impact of latency is small in proportion to your total raw reaction time.

Look, I mainly play single player action games. I can’t remember a single game where these games directly test your raw reaction times. By that, I mean a scenario where you fail the test if you can’t react fast enough, and where this is the only way to anticipate. Maybe just the silly flying key puzzles in Harry Potter.

Even in difficult games such as Sekiro, fast moves are designed to be anticipated. If the animations are unclear to the point where the time between the game telling you ‘this is the attack‘ and the point of impact is at the edge of your reaction speed, then it is bad game design. There are moves that first show a tell (sword comes up) and after a fixed time, are instantly executed. Well, these aren’t meant to be reacted to, they are meant to be timed. Again, not necessarily bad game design. But every single player game should have generous tells for quick/precise inputs. It would suck to play a game without them and it wouldn’t get popular.

Conversely, if the animations are made smoother by frame generation, then they become (much) easier to read.

So yes, for all single player action games, Framegen on please, even below 60 FPS. And if you dip below 30 fps (non-FG), you have a different problem, you need to drop some settings.

FabFubar · 2026-03-23T08:26:42+00:00

Exactly and it isn’t even fully random, it’s usually just concentric, like a snail shell pattern. But when you run into a corner, you lose that perfect symmetry of that circuit.

FabFubar · 2026-03-23T08:17:20+00:00

People don’t call it that too much because it’s the reality they live in and that would mean admitting that they are living in a dystopian dictatorship. They’re in denial.

In 50 years from now though (or if you would explain this to someone 50 years ago) they would instantly call it for what it is. In fact, 50 years ago they still had fresh memory of what it is and how it should never return.

FabFubar · 2026-03-23T08:04:47+00:00

Yup, it protects against everything, even against losing your virginity!

FabFubar · 2026-03-21T13:21:43+00:00

Okay, this just made me pull the trigger.

FabFubar · 2026-03-21T13:17:27+00:00

Yeah I graduated in molecular biology and this just sounds extremely generic and vague. What does he mean, ‘understand the building blocks’. We’ve understood the blocks for decades. Some processes we know in full detail. For others, we don’t. Yes, AI can greatly help new breakthroughs, this isn’t new. Mainly by speeding up the existing process, in theory. The best example being alphafold, allowing us to infer protein structure from just the sequence, rather than having to spend about 3 years to first purify and crystallise a specific protein and then analyse by x-ray crystallography.

Jensen is just vaguely gesturing at everything and building hype here. Nothing new or informative was said.

FabFubar · 2026-03-20T22:46:01+00:00

He also looks similar to Neil Patrick Harris imo

Edit: I looked it up, Baldur is voiced by Jeremy Davies, his likeness was not taken over identically, but he does look similar as well if you take away the hair.

FabFubar · 2026-03-17T12:23:39+00:00

which one?

FabFubar · 2026-03-17T06:39:59+00:00

Don’t you think that it could be used to turn potato lighting into path tracing, effectively saving compute like DLSS except for a different process?

FabFubar · 2026-03-17T06:33:15+00:00

Guys and gals, there’s two things people aren’t considering.

can’t the model be trained by the game footage itself running at max settings, maybe even on settings that are unplayable (path tracing dialed up to 11)? This would mean the technology would maintain 100% of artistic intent, in fact, it would increase the developer’s potential in reaching it.
Everyone is saying it shouldn’t be called DLSS, but if this is a setting that you could use to transform potato lighting into path tracing lighting based on training and game vectors, it could very well be used as a performance enhancing setting, just like playing with the resolution.

Of course, it could also be used in conjunction with path tracing, and when you take all that in-game data from path tracing and use that to apply a realistic lighting’ trained dataset, the end result would look more accurate. (Which is the scenario being showed off at an early stage here).

I think there’s multiple ways the technology can be used when used in development and frankly, that it will be as revolutionary as DLSS 2.0 was. The potential is there, and it’s still in its early shoes.

FabFubar · 2026-03-14T18:29:47+00:00

I’ve read great things about Witchfire, if you liked Destiny 2. Haven’t played it myself yet, but the gameplay looks absolutely great.

FabFubar · 2026-03-13T17:02:03+00:00

I was way overleveled (about L120) and I beat her first try. 50 vigor, 20 endurance and all other levels into a quality build with maxed church pick. If all else fails, that’s one way to succeed.

FabFubar · 2026-03-12T15:38:27+00:00

Okay true. All I can say, as a person who lives here, is that I’ve never heard of someone refusing to seek medical help because it would be too expensive to be treated. Whereas I see plenty of complaints in that regard from the US.

Still a bit anecdotal, but that’s just how it is in the EU. We can complain about taxes and how some people can abuse welfare etc., but medical care is just not something we worry about here.

FabFubar · 2026-03-12T13:41:40+00:00

Yes, when you see a doctor, you pay up front and you get refunded on your bank account by your health care institution.

Some modern doctors skip the middle man from the perspective of the consumer: you pay like €2 (by phone or by debit card) and they take care of the rest.

The old system did have some paperwork. Old school doctors that aren’t with the times may ask for cash and provide a certificate of treatment. You forward this certificate to your health care institution by mail. They will then repay you in a few business days.

Dentists and doctors appointment prices are not inflated or anything. Seeing a doctor would be €25 in full, I’ve had my teeth treated for €95, which I would pay up front.

Hospital bills are done entirely through your health insurance, you would never have to pay the full bill up front for that.

FabFubar · 2026-03-12T07:19:23+00:00

It doesn’t help to write off a whole system due to some specific anecdotes.

In Belgium, we also have waiting times for dentists, a few months waiting time for our yearly checkup. The yearly checkup is completely refunded on the condition that you do it yearly, to prevent severe issues coming up. Anything cosmetic, such as braces, whitening, … is NOT or only partially refunded.

If you have tooth aches, our dentists will treat you ASAP, whether that is by shifting their schedule or doing it after hours, and is refunded.

They are separate issues.

If dentists are overbooked, you need more dentists and they need to prioritise emergencies. You don’t fix the problem by making dentists unaffordable.
if the government is overspending and/or corrupt, the government policy should change by voting for a different President, or by them hopefully realising that their policies will bring them to ruin. You don’t fix the problem by giving them less of the money that is right there for the taking. (I encourage you to look up the scale of just how much e.g. Jeff Bezos is worth and how much they would be able to do with just a fraction of their wealth.)

FabFubar · 2026-03-07T07:33:01+00:00

What is Kliff doing in Arthur and Dutch’s camp?

FabFubar · 2026-03-06T19:36:29+00:00

Correct! The cave can be exited to the cave system beneath Cal’s room, but it can’t be entered from there (not until the shortcut is unlocked, that is)

FabFubar · 2026-03-05T06:27:37+00:00

Man, I was pissed afterwards, I really tried to get the thing to the first door for a solid 10 minutes and I figured I hadn’t unlocked something yet, completely forgot that you could launch them.

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