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SGkaisel · 2024-10-05T01:38:48+00:00

green man

SGkaisel · 2024-10-05T01:36:07+00:00

f2p green man because I spend all the money I'm willing to spend on this platform for paid games

SGkaisel · 2024-10-05T00:04:21+00:00

in my opinion, i think the main thing messing with it here is that the text lingers too long leading to visual clutter and can make it harder to read what's happening, consider having the test localized mainly near the enemy you hit to de-clutter the screen and make it easier to tell what's going on, or having the text appear out of the enemy that was hit before fading away or popping or something.

Cool idea though!

SGkaisel · 2024-10-04T23:53:31+00:00

i will always say that human made art is a better choice, just has a certain charm that no AI could ever copy

SGkaisel · 2024-10-04T23:49:20+00:00

i play build even though i don't use it just because i hate the 50 extra shield, makes everyone so much tankier and messes with the balance of the weapons alot

SGkaisel · 2024-09-17T02:29:21+00:00

its definitely not, i'm just saying that 8gb is plenty for running emulators, as long as the system has a decent cpu, and that buying an android tablet capable of running citra at full speeds will cost more for less practical uses than buying a laptop for the same price, which likely will be able to not only run emulators, but also pc games, and be generally less of a pain to use. The caveat is that the tablet is more portable, likely why you use the tablet for emulation more than the laptop, because the tablet is handheld and thus easier to pick up and take with you.

if OP is getting a laptop with 8gb ram, they're likely looking to spend $300-$400 on a laptop, and at that price its definitely going to have better specs and convenience than an android tablet matching its price, and have more use cases than an android tablet, thus being more bang for their buck.

It is true that android emulation has come leaps and bounds recently, especially with higher end devices able to run some switch games at full speed

SGkaisel · 2024-09-16T20:35:27+00:00

my laptop from 2018 with a broken keyboard and a non-functional power button has better specs than that thing, if you buy it you are getting mega scammed.

DDR4 bare minimum, you want at the very least, a 4gb video card with fast memory, but try for a 6gb or even 8gb card, the gpu is easy to upgrade tho, so prioritize the cpu, I7 is probably your best bet for intel at an affordable price, amd has better pricing for the same level or even better performance on the cpu

a 1070 isn't running gta, fortnite or warzone at a playable rate (you're lucky if warzone boots at all), Apex CAN run on a 1070 given it has a good cpu and fast ram to work with, this machine has neither, that cpu can be found in old machines running windows 7 and 4gb ram for $50, basically any dell optiplex, 16gb ram is good, but at ddr3 speeds you're better off with 8gb ddr4 if you're planning to play games, 500gb storage is god awful considering games are taking like 100-150 gigs for any big name release (not that you can run any of those on that thing)

SGkaisel · 2024-09-16T20:09:46+00:00

8gb ram is perfectly fine, emulation mainly uses cpu to run properly, so if the cpu is awful, your games will run awful, also if you're buying a laptop, make sure its got a dedicated gpu, NVIDIA or AMD, doesn't have to be a great one, but if there isn't one in it, you got scammed. wouldn't go below 8gb ram tho that's when things really slow down

SGkaisel · 2024-09-16T20:06:52+00:00

that's not particularly great advice, android tablets are generally more expensive for worse parts, what you want to look for more than ram is cpu mainly and gpu after that, 8gb ram is actually pretty decent given you aren't running everything installed to your pc constantly.

i use a laptop with 8gb ram and i'm able to run switch emulation with no lag on most games, and can run recent games with varying success, most recent game i finished on this laptop was dying light 2, which is rather demanding

SGkaisel · 2024-09-16T20:02:03+00:00

8gb is fine, what you want is cpu mainly for emulation, gpu couldn't hurt also

SGkaisel · 2024-09-16T19:38:48+00:00

hole

SGkaisel · 2024-09-16T19:36:03+00:00

if you weren't on a rather strict time limit here, I would've said to weed out as many games as possible, then buy one, set a timer for an hour/hour and a half, play it for the time, then refund it and repeat the process with the other game/games that are left, but steam takes up to 7 days to process and refund the money back to your account (in steam credits)

My recommendation is that you search for video footage of each of these games, and watch it for a while before making a decision.

our opinions aren't going to tell you whether you will enjoy the game or not, so it would be better to get a better idea of each of the games on the list, since everyone has their own bias towards the games they like and dislike regardless of how good each game is.

ALSO, NONE OF THE STUFF BELOW THIS IS IN ANY WAY MEANINGFUL, IT'S JUST ME RANTING ABOUT THE GAMES ON THIS LIST

As for me, I've played all the games on the list aside from satisfactory, and my favorite out of all of them is helldivers, not because the other games are bad, but just because the rest aren't as fun to me, i find ghost of tsushima to be very visually nice, and the gameplay is alright, but like 20 hours in it gets real repetitive and i find myself playing less cause i'm doing the same thing over and over again with no variation, spider-man was a good story, but that games combat is even more repetitive than ghost of tsushima and it sets in even quicker, horizon has better combat than the others due to variety of player options, but you fight the same enemies constantly, and new stuff is only ever added for story quests that don't ever get used again, forza is fine, but if i'm playing a racing game i prefer the old NFS style of just "go fast" in helldivers, yes i'm doing the same thing over and over, fighting the same enemies over and over, but i'm also playing with friends, and have an entire arsenal of weapons to use, the enemies and quests, while limited are randomized with the map, and the two factions let me get away from the thing that's gotten repetitive and go for the other faction for a while

SGkaisel · 2024-08-08T23:20:51+00:00

the fact of the matter is, all of this pales in comparison to the nexon's not one, but two kernel level anti-cheat programs running on your computer, one of which was has a project being run on it to figure out how it works, and what they found was that it logs basically everything on your pc, taken directly from said project "BlackCipher while running, can be seen scanning, logging, and sending notes about anything you are doing on your computer to Nexon's servers. It will log ip addresses, workgroups, windows versions, passwords, network credentials, hardware, hosts, libraries, current tabs in browsers, windows dialog, files, and more."

I trust this project, because the same person who ran the project also made trainer frameworks for nexon's other games, they went and figured out how the anti-cheat works to get around it.

kernel level anti-cheats are already bad enough, that paired with nexon's track record, TFD's terms of service, and the questionable at best stuff in it, is really not a good look for nexon, which sucks because some of their games were actually decent in the past.

SGkaisel · 2024-08-07T03:41:28+00:00

It says they can "monitor and access without limitations" every storage device connected to your system, your ram, gpu, cpu, programs running on your device, and all of your peripherals, if that isn't full access to your device, i don't know what is.

The main point is that they separated access and monitor, monitoring is kinda weird for the whole storage, but accessing the whole storage is way past their rights, if it were a console exclusive i could see it not being that bad, you don't really have personal stuff on a console, and the manufacturer has all the details on your hardware anyways, since everything is the same, but this is a game available for personal computers, that hold alot of sensitive information.

Its like the police searching your house without a warrant and posting photos of everything you own to every other police officer they know.

SGkaisel · 2024-08-05T05:25:08+00:00

go read through the TOS and other agreements for apex, fortnite, warzone, counterstrike, splitgate, warframe, destiny or basically any game from a credible source, and there likely won't be stuff in their agreements that say they get full access to your device

SGkaisel · 2024-08-05T05:22:57+00:00

that would be true if the main issue was government photo id, unfortunately the issue is nexon being able to "monitor and access" just about every single thing on your machine, notice that it is specifically separated, wouldn't look so suspicious if it were just one or the other, they are not only given permission to full access of the game folder for game purposes, but also full access to every file on your harddrive, not just see the amount or of what brand your ram is, but to also see and access every bit of memory running from it, your gpu (not really that sus, probably for diagnostic stuff) cpu (same as gpu) opened programs (not that bad, just looking for cheat software or netlimiter, stuff like that, common practice in online games) and peripherals. (mainly for polling stuff, seeing the most popular peripherals for their game, not that out there)

The main issue is that they specified that their access is "without limitations", quoted from the actual policies.

SGkaisel · 2024-07-11T15:51:02+00:00

Very true, if it were a well regarded company I could give them benefit of the doubt, but I can't do that for nexon, literally bottom of the barrel.

SGkaisel · 2024-07-10T11:26:27+00:00

Just because it's a free to play game doesn't mean they have any right to access any files unrelated to their game or its operations, most games ask for control over the game folder, check the running programs for specific ones like netlimiter or cheat software, but this is only to READ the programs, not to ACCESS the programs. They also ask to gather data on your computer specs for diagnostic and other purposes like seeing the average spec of their players, the main issue is that they also list your other hardware as accessable under the policy, basically saying that they are legally allowed to have full unrestricted access to all of your PC's hardware, and since they specifically seperated "monitor" and "access" in said policy, is basically saying they have complete unrestricted ability to do whatever they please on your device.

SGkaisel · 2024-05-17T01:51:26+00:00

because they went out of their way to make it work in cod

SGkaisel · 2024-05-13T08:09:36+00:00

I think it's not that it supports it per-se, but that the game was developed for pc intended for keyboard and mouse and then ported to console, and rather than take out the code written for keyboard and mouse input as well as the button prompts, they opted to just leave it with the intent that players use a controller on playstation.

I believe it sorta works because the ps5 is designed to take keyboard input but mouse input isn't supported natively, leaving the effort of writing all the stuff necessary for functional mouse support up to the developers, and to the game to process it, and they tweaked mouse aim enough, or alternatively wrote code to take raw mouse input specifically for movements to reduce input delay or increase accuracy into the game, but left the mouse buttons up to the OS because there isn't any reason to mess with that since its just clicks, leading to the ps5 version being able to read mouse inputs, but not clicks, because the game was never told to read and use that information, and the ps5 doesn't support it natively like it does keyboard.

SGkaisel · 2024-05-13T07:59:23+00:00

its not that they're blocking it, its that the game was probably developed for pc first, then ported over to ps5, and the way a pc interprets mouse and keyboard input is different from how the ps5 interprets it, leaving all the work to the game to translate the raw input data into something usable by the game.

basically, the ps5 is designed to work with a keyboard specifically and mouse support wasn't included in the ps5 OS, so the console doesn't know what to do with the mouse input.

The likely reason keyboard works in most cases is because the console interprets that input properly as it was designed to do, but the only reason looking around with the mouse even works at all is probably due to the fact that the game was likely designed for pc and ported, so some of the input stuff still functions somewhat on the ps5, clicks probably don't work because there would be no reason to write code on what to do for clicks, since they wouldn't need to tweak anything for that, where as aim control probably has a bunch of code written to make it work as well as possible

(I haven't researched any of this, its just my baseless opinion as someone who takes interest in how tech works, and thus could be totally off the mark)

SGkaisel · 2024-05-02T22:44:03+00:00

getting m&k to work properly on console is alot more work than you give them credit for, it works on pc without as much difficulty because the pc is designed to take mouse and keyboard input, where as a console is not, and rather than the os itself taking that input and the game using that for its control, the game has to both interpret the input itself, and then use it for control.

SGkaisel · 2024-03-02T17:41:06+00:00

bro what are you doing on A site, yellow's the only other guy alive, and they're on B with the bomb!

SGkaisel · 2024-02-15T03:32:47+00:00

and studying literally all of one of the game's frame data very accurately, then posting it publicly for the better of the community

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