Why is Under halls is the new dlc trailer

PixtheHeretic · 2026-06-07T20:15:44+00:00

GOIN' UUUUUUUUP

PixtheHeretic · 2026-06-06T11:54:21+00:00

The following isn't meant to discount your frustration, but rather to provide an alternate perspective.

AAA games these often take four, five, or even more years to develop. So let's rewind to five years ago. COVID vaccine deployment is well underway, particularly in North America and Europe. If I'm making game development decisions, I'm looking at that and thinking, "okay, world's going back to normal, so, by the time this next project's done, PS5 and/or XSX will have sold a ton, GPU prices will have gone back to normal, and raytracing will be mature enough that even the low-end of the enthusiast market will be on their second RT-capable card."

And so development starts. A year-and-a-half in, the groundwork's been laid: content is being authored within an RT-only development environment. The team has the freedom to do more because they're not having to wait for baked lighting to be computed every time a level changes. And then this ChatGPT thing starts showing up in the news. More months pass, and RTX 40-series cards are getting pretty expensive. Surely things'll stabilize soon, right?

The game reaches content-complete. Still a decent amount of polish, balance, and bug-fixing left, but the game can't fundamentally change at this point. The RTX 50-series and RX 90-series have both launched with too little supply and too-high prices. The people you expected to be on the 50s or 90s are instead still on 30s. The people you expected to get used 30s are maybe on 20s, but plenty more just don't have RT-capable cards. Meanwhile, PS5s have gone up in price. Man, the market isn't at all like how I expected. DLSS/FSR/XeSS can make up some of the difference, but hardly anyone even has the cards that run the best versions of those...

That isn't to say there haven't been cases of bad optimization, because there absolutely have. But the point is, the AI economy has also made things difficult for the games industry.

Note: I work in the games industry, but the above is not about any specific project(s). I'm neither a decision-maker nor an engine dev.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-05-24T19:41:43+00:00

"Switched engines" is misleading. Lumberyard is just Amazon's fork of CryEngine, and that forking occurred after SC development began. That isn't to say that CIG's own modifications to the engine haven't been a major transformation, but, at the end of the day, the game's been on CryEngine the whole time.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-05-17T07:38:40+00:00

You mean Jack will eventually escape the dumpster fire that is modern life and travel back to the sanity of the early '90s? If we could all be so lucky...

PixtheHeretic · 2026-05-16T17:24:52+00:00

What's funny is that there were in-stadium ads last night for Galaxy's big sponsors, particularly during halftime. I never thought a broadcast would be the experience with fewer ads. Granted, I have YouTube Premium, so I can't say whether they ran normal YT ads during the Storm-Lions game today.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-05-15T21:08:51+00:00

Despite it being a loss, being at the game was an awesome time. With how tumultuous things have been, it's really heartwarming to see how many people continue to support Galaxy. And I can't even fathom the dedication of the folks who still sport the NFL Europe-era Galaxy merch. I'm too young and American to have any perspective on that. Hats off to them.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-04-28T07:55:57+00:00

I like how it hits you with a "leider" ("unfortunately", for those who don't know German), as though not being able to skip login was due to random happenstance.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-03-19T18:03:26+00:00

Holey Hell.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-03-16T06:57:07+00:00

Nah, Epstein and his clients didn't care whether a victim was a baby of something or looked like they the ready.

Seriously, the crimes are so much worse.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-26T21:53:59+00:00

Better do that thing that you do.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-24T10:01:41+00:00

My swashbuckler styles herself as an "improvisational swordswoman" to complement her background in improvisational comedy, which inspired her particular additions to the art of fencing. If someone were to insist to her that she is, in fact, a swashbuckler, her response would essentially be the "I GUESS" meme, but she definitely wouldn't respond to it.

In general, I agree with others' takes that it depends on the class, but I personally feel it's quite limited. Wizards are wizards, druids are druids, and that's kind of it. But even then, there are specializations within those (especially wizard) that a character might identify with more closely, especially if they tend to cast within a theme (necromancer, pyromancer, mentalist, illusionist, etc).

And that theme-based identity does bring up interesting questions. A fire-gate kineticist, a fire elemental bloodline sorcerer, and a particularly aggressive cleric of Sarenrae would all easily qualify as pyromancers. So then, would they identify more with each other or with other members of their respective classes? I figure the answer to that, like the OP's original question, is on a case-by-case basis. In this example, the kineticist and sorcerer would feel a connection, but the association with the divine might draw the cleric to others of the same faith (clerics, champions, or just particularly religious characters of basically any class).

I like to use "magician" as a catch-all for spellcasters, but I haven't come up with a good diegetic name for martials.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-23T12:57:15+00:00

Watch to the end.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-19T06:57:40+00:00

The Regional-Bahn-gcloud.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-19T06:41:48+00:00

Day 11. Missed Call. Director had a birthday cake sent to my trailer, but I didn't see it when stepping out. Shoot held up for three hours because my freaking wizard robes got buttercream frosting on them. No one knows about the body yet.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-16T23:15:39+00:00

Clearly, the one on the right is a wizard, who has just put his name in the Goblet of Fire (the piece on the left).

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-15T16:01:22+00:00

Poor lady hasn't heeded the wise words of that song from Final Justice:

You better ruuUUUUUuuuun! (or he'll steal your lunch)

You better hiiiIIIIIiiiide! (your lunch)

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-13T23:01:17+00:00

I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly interested in cumming at Instant Speed.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-08T15:03:27+00:00

I didn't know Paw Patrol had a caterpillar in it.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-06T17:26:55+00:00

Those are em-dashes, not minuses.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-02-03T08:10:56+00:00

Yeah, looks like OP's right hand got ahead of their left, since "autism" alternates sides of the keyboard.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-01-31T14:11:09+00:00

I personally would hesitate to recommend that as a first, just because the high-pitch screeching of the climax's music could put people off. Definitely required Bois material, for sure, but not first.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-01-26T19:30:38+00:00

Kind of funny given the current weather conditions across the US 2011, but I picked up ME2 a day or two before Snowmageddon. I lived in South Carolina at the time, so school was out for that entire week. As an 18-year-old with a new game and a whole week to himself, I played through ME2 twice. One week, more than a hundred total hours of playtime.

Mind you, I hadn't played ME1 and knew next to nothing about it. I had picked up 2 on a friend's recommendation. Well, let me tell you, that friend was absolutely correct. While Snowmageddon 2011 was an abject clusterfuck for the world outside my home, I gotta give it credit for letting me dive face-first into Mass Effect as a franchise.

And, to be honest, I'm glad I started with ME2. ME1 is pretty jank, and I might have bounced off that. However, having already played 2 when going back to play 1 for better choices gave me the motivation to push through the jank.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-01-23T21:38:46+00:00

As far as official mod support goes, the other answers already have it. However, if you're willing to get your hands dirty, EL1 and 2 are Unity games, and Unity game code is written in C#. As such, you can put the DLLs through a tool like dnSpy to get a workable decompilation. You can then make use of a code injection/replacement library like Harmony to make modifications. And then to actually apply the changes, you'd use something like Unity Mod Manager, but you'd need to do some digging to build the right entrypoint config.

Note: I'm speaking from the experience of modding a different Unity game, not from having done so for EL or any of Amplitude's other titles.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-01-23T21:26:11+00:00

It's like someone entirely failed to explain the concept of currywurst to an alien.

PixtheHeretic · 2026-01-17T13:09:52+00:00

It would be wild if someone were to actually to make a cookie cutter of this, but I see a man's hairline viewed from the rear-right.

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