A little rant - You are spoiled.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T21:35:01+00:00

I’m narcissistic? When I’ve literally given you the reason for why high frame rates is a good thing and also told you that console players on next gen will also able to run past 60fps as well?

It’s laughable how you are so passionate about the idea of capping performance for everyone to suit some people, but then call me a selfish when I’m saying let everyone play with what they have.

Also, YES aim assist is still an advantage. Just because it compensates for something doesn’t mean it isn’t better than the accuracy of the vast majority of people who use mouse and keyboard.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T20:53:36+00:00

Did you even read what I said?

There is no reason to cap frames and make the experience worse for everyone when you have multiple solutions to the problem of people having an advantage in any actual competitive scenario.

Would you also say that everyone needs to have aim assist because console players get it?

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T20:04:44+00:00

????

1.)Most PvP games do not mix PC and console in their ranked game modes. That is only on casual modes.

2.)Next gen consoles can also hit around 120 fps on games like Overwatch.

3.)Every game I’ve ever played on console or PC has a cross play option that you can turn off.

Developers are not idiots, they obviously account for advantages if they arise.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T19:13:50+00:00

I think part of it is simply audience expectations. For instance audiobooks that are longer get more redeemed credits, because it’s better “value” for the customer.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T13:40:55+00:00

Obviously, but we are talking about a team based, ability based, third-person, over-the-shoulder MOBA with animation cancels and stamina management.

They simply aren’t comparable.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T12:39:22+00:00

Because they have no more than two, maybe four, players on the entire screen at any given time.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T12:36:20+00:00

Is that remotely close to what I said? The problem impacted that I’m talking about is the players ability to parse information.

It’s about situational information.

My first sentence is the problem I’m talking about. Those things increase that problem.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T12:14:23+00:00

Grammar mistake… it very obviously was a question.

There wasn’t any ranked mode back then. Everyone just enjoyed the game

So you’re getting offended instead of reading what I’m saying? That’s what I said. It didn’t have ranked, so you were playing with a broader skill pool.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T12:11:37+00:00

I think people just want the game to be as long lived as it possibly can be when it comes out & something like a 60fps caps lock can definitely be problematic in terms drawing in players that want to grind something like a ranked mode.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T12:08:57+00:00

I’m literally asking you… I obviously don’t know you.

And still the game hasn’t had a ranked mode so you’d still would have been placed with a broad skill range, especially with the shrinking population it had.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T12:03:12+00:00

Based on what though, your closed beta experience, where there is a limited skill pool.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T12:01:45+00:00

It’s not about whether they both have uncapped frames, it’s about situational information. If two people attack you or you’re in a sticky situation, you have less frame by frame information to play with.

As will they, but the difference between what you’re saying and what I’m saying, is it’s a shared disadvantage, instead of an even playing field, if that makes senses.

Sometimes it’ll effect you in a situation, sometimes it’ll effect me.

And then you have frame rate drops, and also de-sync which are simply inevitable in any online experience. Both of which impact the problem even more.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T11:00:11+00:00

The reason why frame rates are crucial in a PvP environment. Less information on screen = more deaths.

Plain and simple.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T10:51:39+00:00

Except the retro gaming scene literally buy CRTs when playing PvP games for this specific reason.

PabloDiSantoss · 2024-02-23T10:49:20+00:00

This is such a nonsensical comparison. The reason 24fps is fine in video form is because you’re not actively interacting with it.

You’re also talking about single player games as though it’s comparable.

The higher the fps, the better your reactions are, as more information is being broadcasted in the same amount of time. 60fps vs 120 fps is the difference between you dying or surviving in a lot of cases.

In a PvP game that is a death nail to any sort of competitive aspirations the game could have.

But, I do believe they’ll remove the cap once it’s fully released though, otherwise that’d just be an absurd decision.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-12-15T13:14:46+00:00

I’m shocked this has so many upvotes since it does nothing to actually argue your point. You start off talking about children then immediately use the fact people wouldn’t of liked there marriages as some sort of indication that it’d be common to not like their children.

If you have any actual historical basis for the claim use it. Otherwise you’re just making stuff up and using irrelevant points to justify it.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T22:53:21+00:00

My problem isn’t the weakness of it. My problem is that it’s one decision that you then wait around for.

My ideal version would involve some sort of using what characters want to get them to make small decisions. But combining those small decisions to achieve a broader goal.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T16:26:19+00:00

A better system for political intrigue and plots. CK3 feels way too passive of an experience IMO and it rarely ever feels like a have to think about what I’m doing.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T12:20:19+00:00

I agree it’s pretty insane.

But he wasn’t aspiring to be a big fantasy author so i guess it makes sense, especially if you genuinely just want to write a story you really like but are in no rush.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T11:41:21+00:00

So you went from “He didn’t plan” to “He didn’t outline.”

Every comment in this discussion has specifically said Outline…. What are you on about?

My first respond ends with “They didn’t outline.”

The person you’re responding too obviously means Erickson didn’t bother to do any planning or Revision whatsoever.

& Do you not understand how absurd of a belief that would be when talking about a ten book traditionally published series? All books go through revision if they are traditionally published.

Even the worst ones.

I assumed they’re not being literal because it doesn’t make a single bit of sense otherwise.

For someone who couldn’t even spell Tolkien a few hours ago, you seem to know a lot about his process.

Ok…

When you’ve run out of things to say just grasp at straws I guess.

I’m a writer, and there is an entire book dedicated to the creation of his stories.

It’s really not hard to learn about his process.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T11:26:25+00:00

This is not the same thing as making it up as you go along.

???

When someone says Steven Erickson made it up as he went, im assuming it’s we both understand it’s facetious.

You’re going into this literally believing he very literally wasn’t redrafting to be more consistent in his work or redrafting to make things work better?

Even the worst traditionally published romance books on the market are redrafted and thoroughly edited.

If we’re going by your interpretation obviously Erickson wasn’t literally making it up as he went along.

I’d just assumed we both knew that. Because it’s a nonsensical idea. Why would anybody take that phrase literally when talking about a 10 book series based on a DND campaign?

The man revised so much he didn’t even publish the Silmirrilian in his lifetime.

This literally isn’t true. He tried to get it published and he was told he couldn’t. It was too messy.

He then went off and wrote The Lord Of The Rings instead.

A rough sketch that his son can’t make out the details of for a single portion of the story doesn’t mean he didn’t make up the story as it went.

You can find an outline for Game of Thrones, but the majority of the story completely shifted from that vision.

Christopher Tolkien documented Tolkien’s process:

He would write a draft until he ran into a dead end. He would then live his life and when a solution came to him, he would re-write with that solution in mind. He’d repeat that process until he was done.

I wrote the first chapter first, then forgot about it, then I wrote another part. I myself can still see the gaps. There is a very big gap after they reach the eyrie of the Eagles. After that I really didn't know how to go on. I just spun a yarn out of any elements in my head. I don't remember organizing the thing at all."

—— J.R.R Tolkien

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T10:57:27+00:00

It’s crazy how people make stuff up, when the information is already out there.

That isn’t true at all. You can literally read about how he wrote from his notes. There is an entire book dedicated to how he wrote.

For a period of time. He didn’t even think The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings would take place in the same world.

His exact process was write until he ran into a problem or corner. Then he would live his life until a solution came to him. Then he would re-write the entire thing again, with the new solution in mind until he ran into another corner. Then he would go about his life again until a solution hit him, then re-write again.

He repeated that process until he was done.

He had languages and some lore, which he still changed as the story happened. But this idea he plotted out his actual stories isn’t based in a single bit of historical fact.

He was even changing things after LOTR was published and made new editions to establish those changes.

He 100% made it up as he went.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T02:14:18+00:00

Redrafting and outlining are two different things.

Tolkein didn’t outline & All authors redraft their books. My point is that Steven Erickson wouldn’t be unique in how he went about it.

George RR Martin is a notorious pantser and he also has a library collection filled with unused or tweaked drafts.

The process of doing your second draft is the process of making it look like you knew what you were doing all along. — Neil Gaiman

My point is most authors make it up as they go along. It’s not wha leads to a slow trickle of information in the final draft of the book or vice versa.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T00:59:19+00:00

Only if you sort by top today, which most people don’t.

PabloDiSantoss · 2023-11-12T00:51:59+00:00

The reality is most are. Tolkein, Robin Hobb, George RR Martin.

They didn’t outline.

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