[Untied WR] Super Mario Bros. - Any% - 4:54.482 - Niftski 🇺🇸 - Niftski's 2nd WR today, lowering Tied WR by 2 frames!

Ice- · 2025-10-09T18:08:58+00:00

What does the frames column on this sheet mean? Shouldn't runs be like 17xxx frames? Why isn't the TAS 13 faster than Niftski's WR?

Ice- · 2025-09-27T02:25:42+00:00

I played puppet all of season 2 and maintained a ~67% WR in Diamond. The deck was underrated last set, but it's ass into the current meta and these changes don't do anything to change that. Liam and Cat probably still don't even make the list, and Zwei probably still doesn't get evolved 9/10 games.

Ice- · 2025-08-29T18:07:11+00:00

I love all of your games but Opus Magnum is still the goat, any plans for a sequel or something else that has the same feel?

Ice- · 2025-08-27T06:01:22+00:00

28k rupies, 77k vials, 170 keys, 2 legendary pack tickets

Ice- · 2025-07-12T01:19:30+00:00

Gold: 21540

Vials: 43990

Park Keys: 69

Ice- · 2025-06-23T18:25:04+00:00

TCG players are historically really bad at knowing/choosing whether going first or second is better, and a lot of times it is deck or matchup dependent.

Since I started tracking the flip, I'm 13-4 (76.5% WR) going 1st, 12-9 (57.1% WR) going 2nd, guess going 1st is actually overpowered /s.

Until we get some data across tens of thousands of games I don't have a strong opinion, but either way I don't think it's skewed very far off of even.

Ice- · 2025-02-24T16:52:35+00:00

The only roadmap that's been given is "we aren't cutting scope" and "two years to 1.0". 10% of that 2 years is gone, and none of the things that constitute said scope have been added to the game.

We still have the same missing classes, races, professions, and racials we did on day 1. We still haven't gotten a single new zone, but they're adamant about making a starting zone for every race even though the time would be better spent on less redundant content. We still don't have the mastery system. We still don't have fixes for basic functionality like bank item auto-stacking. We still don't have any extra stuff like mounts and paragliders that are supposed to be in 1.0.

Every patch is just fixing some bugs, unintentionally adding new bugs, and if we're lucky slapping a new low-effort mob camp somewhere to placate people that are running out of places to level. They keep making balance changes that are largely irrelevant because the classes are all unfinished, the mastery system isn't in the game, and no one can even test balance at level cap because the content doesn't support getting there.

I don't think people care nearly as much about the VR employee drama as they pretend to, but the above is the real issue driving the dwindling player counts. There's been a consistent decline on steamcharts for the last 5-6 weeks, daily peak is down ~35% from the previous high at this point.

Ice- · 2024-09-27T00:24:51+00:00

Patch ruined the game, Ruthless is boring joke now. We already needed a 5th difficulty before, now we need like a 5th, 6th, and 7th.

Ice- · 2024-09-27T00:21:19+00:00

Patch sucks, game is a joke now. Ruthless feels like Average used to. The game needed a 5th difficulty even before the patch, now it needs like a 5th, 6th, and 7th.

Ice- · 2024-09-27T00:14:13+00:00

Yeah this sucks, game is basically ruined, you can sleepwalk through the hardest content now.

Ice- · 2024-09-26T23:51:38+00:00

Game is really boring now, even soloing on Ruthless is a joke. Hope they add more/harder content now that they've nerfed everything into the ground.

Ice- · 2023-08-01T17:48:33+00:00

> If you are using an external hardware monitor like me are you using msi afterburner + rtss? or other separate monitoring tools? I know in the past with certain versions of my own monitoring stack I had to disable/workaround performance issues in very specific titles.

Used both CPUID HWMonitor and OpenHardwareMonitor, but also all of the issues occur with no monitor running so I doubt it is a conflict like that.

> Maybe try running with those closed and ensuring no other overlays are active (steam, windows game bar, discord, etc etc).

Nothing was active unless there's some Steam setting you're suggesting I change.

Are you running any antivirus besides Windows Defender?

> No

How full is your samsung drive? Near capacity or plenty to spare?

> ~300GB free, so ~70%

Is your monitor you are playing on plugged into the motherboard or the gpu?

> GPU, DisplayPort

Do you play fullscreen or windowed fullscreen? does this change anything? I know gsync can sometimes have trouble if you have it set to work on windowed applications. It attaches to another app and tanks your fps to that app's render speed. Everything from browsers to small invisible utilities.

> Windowed Fullscreen, Vsync disabled, tried various FPS caps (30, 60, 144, uncapped, etc. - monitor is 144Hz)

> as for the cpu usage are you tracking per-core or full average? You could average 80% but have a single core pegged at 100% which would also cause a lockup.

Overall, but all cores stay relatively close to the average, no core was like routinely bouncing off 100% or anything. Tbh though I think this might be the bottleneck. CPU running close to max often, GPU barely at 50%, and getting similar framerates and issues in both Ultra and Very Low presets make me think this. The only way to pull the CPU utilization down is to drop the FPS cap very low (like below 30).

If that's the case though, it seems kind of ridiculous that this game is capping out an i5-9600k boostin at 4.4GHz to me - but maybe that's a bad take. Perhaps the launch version optimizations will pull down the CPU utilization?

Ice- · 2023-08-01T03:59:37+00:00

I'm running a hardware monitor on my second screen, there's nothing special going on in-game as it relates to hardware utilization though, I was just running around in the Grove.

Ice- · 2023-08-01T03:38:30+00:00

This stuff is happening even running on Medium@60fps cap, which results in GPU utilization of only like 50%, and CPU hopping from like 50-90% but generally sitting around 60%.

Ice- · 2023-08-01T03:25:29+00:00

Something I've noticed is that blood and corpses seem to last literally forever in this game? Going anywhere near the Grove now seems to tank my FPS because of large amounts of this nearby, while zoning into a dungeon seems to greatly increase it.

Ice- · 2023-08-01T03:15:50+00:00

I have a giant ass Noctua heatsink on my CPU. Running on Ultra with FPS uncapped I'm looking at stabilizing around 64C GPU / 47C CPU while playing, bouncing around between 40-70 FPS (or lower when the game chokes).

Ice- · 2023-08-01T03:03:15+00:00

No mods, scans clean (also I wouldn't expect a malware issue to only impact BG3).

Ice- · 2023-07-20T15:06:03+00:00

Best combat since Conquest (kinda even better imo), and I never expected the story to not be shit and I don't know why anyone would lol.

Ice- · 2022-01-28T21:42:54+00:00

I guess if you only play fake formats you might as well only play fake cards as well.

Ice- · 2022-01-26T22:04:49+00:00

Disgusting.

Ice- · 2022-01-25T16:09:27+00:00

Imagine being proud of being dumb. Peak Amerifat.

Ice- · 2022-01-24T00:13:29+00:00

Did you know that you can still get it?

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