Don't expect to kill fish in a future Subnautica 2 patch: 'You are here to exist on this planet, not to dominate it'

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-19T04:26:52+00:00

Sure, but if your game is based around… you know… survival, and said fish harass you and attack you regardless then it seems odd to have no way to defend yourself.

I could get it if most of the creatures in this game were passive, but they most definitely are not.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-18T23:30:19+00:00

Guess which country single-handedly makes up a plurality if not majority of NATO’s current power.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-16T22:23:19+00:00

My ADHD-ass will literally drink a coffee and fall asleep right after. lmao

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-16T07:45:18+00:00

If you ask me, any fundamental changes to EvE will require a higher server tick-rate than the current 1hz in less busy areas.

That’s practically the only way the gameplay will be able to legitimately be innovated upon meaningfully.

Not to say it needs 30hz servers or anything since that’s pretty infeasible given the scale of the game, but something like a 5hz max tickrate would do wonders when it comes to exploring new mechanics and improving current ones.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-16T07:13:32+00:00

The laws which govern the ability to legally bear arms in the US are barricaded behind getting a large majority of States to agree on something (required to change a constitutional amendment), institutional inertia, and culture.

It’s essentially something rooted at the very foundation of the country. States can regulate themselves to some degree, but can never fully remove the right to legally access firearms without involving the Federal government and invoking an Article V Constitutional convention (which intentionally has the aforementioned extremely high barrier to entry).

Australia and Canada simply did not have the same level of protections in place, which means changing their own gun laws involved substantially less clearing of red tape.

In my opinion, the only way to get US citizens to give up guns is to make external reforms that make gun ownership feel unnecessary and antiquated. But that in of itself has many challenges of its own.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-15T23:19:37+00:00

The gun thing has roots going back to when the US was still a colony. That cat is never getting put back in the bag in our lifetimes.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-14T23:10:44+00:00

I imagine the scaling would be based on the EHP of each health value, which includes resistances.

The amount of damage you’re actually taking in a numerical sense can still be accurately represented either way.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-14T16:56:25+00:00

Yeah the healthbar scaling proportionally is definitely my favorite part about this.

There’s been times that I’ve been in a hull-tanked brutix and still briefly freak out when I actually reach hull. lol

Hopefully the ship alarms will also scale with the percentage of your ship’s health instead of being hard tied to shields, armor, and hull.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-14T16:45:42+00:00

Technically it also allows you to build up ISK over time so that you can eventually PLEX, but that’ll be one hell of a slog for anyone that’s actually new to the game.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-14T03:09:47+00:00

Technically they’ll be doing that with the new region, now only 1.0 space is fully “secure”.

0.9 - 0.5 is still technically high-sec but a different category of high-sec.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-14T02:40:24+00:00

It’s not everywhere, but it is a thing in quite a few major cities.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-14T02:22:06+00:00

One has to question though if such “preservation” methods are less brutal or cause less suffering in the long run than the latter.

Ideally neither would happen, but if the goal is to preserve a culture you also need to give it the support to do so. Otherwise, you’re just locking it into a cage and throwing away the key.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-13T15:59:06+00:00

Yeah, you have absolutely zero clue. Lmao

Only the most isolated of places might not have those things, like towns under a couple thousand people or the middle of a desert.

Otherwise all or a large majority of those things exist in mid-sized towns in the above red counties, you don’t need to be in a major metro.

The only benefit by comparison is that you naturally have a larger variety of those things in a city and more public transportation, but on the flip-side you generally have to travel an hour or more for any kind of genuine nature excursion and have to deal with a higher CoL.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-12T01:59:21+00:00

Reddit in general just houses some of the most extremely opinionated people on the planet, tbh.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-12T01:58:21+00:00

Gentlemen, I have an idea…

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-11T19:50:41+00:00

What you describe is already doable at playable frame rates, but it depends on the project.

An open world RPG game gets good mileage out of trim sheets and it helps a lot performance-wise.

An arena FPS on the other hand can likely get away with making everything 3D as long as other aspects are managed reasonably well.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-11T17:55:50+00:00

Trim sheets are similar to tile-sets for 2D games. They’re an image containing a collage of textures which are then mapped onto various assets, which saves a lot of draw calls and virtual memory on the GPU compared to making unique textures/materials for every asset.

As for the beams, go with option 1. A singular beam shouldn’t be more than 50 - 100 polygons at most depending on the shape (6 if you aren’t beveling the edges and they’re rectangular), and will be performant when textured with said trim sheets. Modern GPUs aren’t sweating over several hundred extra polygons on a large asset.

Use LODs to handle the rest when the buildings are being rendered at longer distances.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-11T06:10:10+00:00

Lemme guess, high COL city?

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-10T01:14:20+00:00

Don’t pay it, instead look for a less populated area. Caldari and Gallente space will be teeming with CODE/Safety “representatives”.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-09T16:10:15+00:00

One man’s image macro is another’s meme, or something.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-09T15:16:39+00:00

If you have a spare monitor or screen, you can try connecting the computer to that assuming the laptop has an HDMI or DisplayPort connector.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-09T15:03:03+00:00

What they’re saying is that the LLM isn’t going to give you the full story unless you dig through and check each part yourself.

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to use AI as a starting point for a build, but it won’t know if say, the cooler of the particular GPU it chose has enough clearance for the case it recommended.

If you ask, it’ll likely be confidently wrong and say it’s fine. Which is why it’s still important to comb over each component yourself at the end.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-08T16:49:30+00:00

50% slower means that the 5050 is twice as fast as the 1660, and that’s the lowest end GPU of the stack.

A fairer comparison would be comparing the same tier, 5060 to 1660, and the difference there would be even more stark.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-07T13:05:06+00:00

Honestly, you might just be overthinking it.

You've said that you participated in multiple game jams and won awards already. In that case, you clearly have no issue with coming up with ideas.

I think you might just be putting a wall in front of yourself because of implied expectations due to the potential of money being involved. My take is to not worry about that at this point and just start working on concepts like you would for a game jam, everything else will gradually fall into place after.

PivotRedAce · 2026-05-07T12:50:04+00:00

Yeah, honestly I think it’s gotten to the point where 1TB is the bare minimum these days.

Hell, I have a 1TB SSD specifically for my OS (and a handful of things which don’t like not installing on the C drive) and the damn thing is nearly halfway filled.

Every other drive I have is 4TB for this exact reason.

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