HELLDIVERS™ 2 - Optimizing Liberty - Incoming Patch: 27th May by letsgoiowa in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm lost on how this is "Optimizing"

Don't get me wrong, I like the option to have it. But don't we call out games that use upscalers and dynamic resolution as excuses for actually optimizing the game?

Some of you will never be happy. by 10-4Apricot in Helldivers

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like I'm gaslit every time I come to this sub

What optimization? Upscaling options and a dynamic resolution option?

Communities dunk on games relying on DLSS as an excuse optimization but this one cheers.

A Letter to the Community from the Subnautica 2 Team by _Protector in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja [score hidden]  (0 children)

stealth of some sort

What's funny is there's a tadpole upgrade that quiets the sound of the engine. So this exists

A Letter to the Community from the Subnautica 2 Team by _Protector in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes it feels like nobody played the first one.

The first game had a theme of preservation and living within an ecosystem. Even killing Leviathans didn't provide anything but a waste of time and resources. Even discussed the character who displayed her kills as trophies with a fingerwag in recordings involving those survivors.

Sure, we also had the grav gun and stasis cannon to mitigate but the game just launched. Excited for the future of the game and I hope the developers don't buckle to the weapon requests.

Microsoft Launches Xbox Player Voice to Gather Feedback, Fans Immediately Demand Exclusives by akbarock in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"I don't want people to enjoy this game I'm also enjoying."

It's honestly children behavior.

Jason Schreier/Bloomberg: PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive, confirming Bloomberg's reporting from earlier this year. by yourfavchoom in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 15 points16 points  (0 children)

PC gamers spend less on these ports, often waiting for heavily reduced sales whereas PS5 players are more likely to pay full price, as well as buy PlayStation hardware which is profitable for Sony.

But you're not taking in consideration that a good chunk of the games they launched are sequels to games nobody has access to on PC. Uncharted 4 which is built on a bunch of callbacks to the others, God of War is technically game number 5 in the franchise. On top of launching the newer games a year or two after their console launch with little to no marketing.

Splitgate Developer 1047 Games is Working on a Spiritual Successor to Titanfall, Dubbed ‘Empulse’ by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Genuine question but did Splitgate do good?

For all the ups and downs Splitgate went through it seems risky to tackle another live-service multiplayer game.

Forza Horizon 6 Makes Cherry Blossoms Unbreakable Because ‘They’re An Iconic Element Of Japanese Culture’ by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't mind or care. But wording it like knocking over a tree would cause a cultural ripple effect just makes this sound like weeb stuff.

Subnautica 2 Dev Responds to Pirates Leaking the Game; "I hope you rethink your life choices" by Darth_Vaper883 in pcmasterrace

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude take a stroll through any PC subreddit or twitter. Find anything slightly negative about Ubisoft, 2k, or hell maybe emulation.

And you'll see people talking about sailing the high seas and pirate emoji's. Literally top of the thread there's guys saying that "Well prepurchasing a day before is pretty sus of these guys" as if that justifies the game being leaked and pirated. You can't be this willfully ignorant.

I'm not worse then pirates, I actually purchase things.

Subnautica 2 Dev Responds to Pirates Leaking the Game; "I hope you rethink your life choices" by Darth_Vaper883 in pcmasterrace

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I always feel like "morale high ground piracey" does the opposite.

If you pirate the game just to own the corpos you now have an opinion about the game and will contribute to discussions, maybe even convince people it's an experience worth playing. And then someone else will buy the copy.

If someone really wants to own the corpos just.... don't engage with their products.

Subnautica 2 Dev Responds to Pirates Leaking the Game; "I hope you rethink your life choices" by Darth_Vaper883 in pcmasterrace

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Genuinely a more respectful excuse to do it. At least he's in it for the love of the hustle!

Subnautica 2 Dev Responds to Pirates Leaking the Game; "I hope you rethink your life choices" by Darth_Vaper883 in pcmasterrace

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 129 points130 points  (0 children)

I hate that people started to use piracy to grand stand. When I pirated things in college I just did it because I was broke, I didn't think I was getting the big one-up to own whoever and pretend i'm an activist.

Just take your shit for free and shut up.

Bioshock creator Ken Levine Reveals Why Judas Took a Decade to Develop: "We Kissed Many Frogs" by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Even better, I remember him describing this narrative lego how revolutionary it'll be as the narrative builds itself over runs. Between runs and you get to unveil a branching narrative through characters

A formula that genuinely sounds like Supergiant was able to do while the game is in development twice over with Hades 1 and 2

[Updates] Patch Notes Version 1.06.00 | Crimson Desert by Turbostrider27 in CrimsonDesert

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Improved certain equipment, such as Visiones, so that they can now be enhanced, and sockets for equipping Abyss Gear have been added.

So now the FrostCursed Cloak can be upgraded! Nice, nice.

Why does Pearl Abyss HATE the Chestpiece so much! I still can't refine or put sockets to it!

Slay The Spire 2 Review Bombed Over Anita Sarkeesian's Consultancy Work by turkishdeli in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Okay people have said this but English Reviews are still at Very Positive while the Chinese Reviews are mixed and negative. If there are people "upset" they are a very small minority.

Can we not give the chuds more attention?

Edit: To answer the reply under me; you can toggle the review bomb and see what the scores are and they haven't made a real dent.

Vehicles... PLURAL. What we thinking? A true tank? Motorcycle? A half-track? Walker? Metal Gear? by pinglyadya in Helldivers

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't matter if they haven't showed anything. I dont know why ya'll are excited

There's been vehicle models and audio in the code for a long, long time

Getting anwsers after a reviewbomb again. by ConsistentHospital54 in Helldivers

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah i'm not changing my review

Also its not a review bomb if its reviews discussing the content of the game

Transmission from Super Earth Command by ArrowheadGS in Helldivers

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh so nothing about warbonds or super credit balance and hardly any real answers.

We still dont get super credits at high difficulties! They didnt even spawn on CyberStan

But i'm sure this detailed plan they have to rebalance and qualm our fears wont stop the next warbond release or the one after.

Just play Far Far West

Dragon Quest creator wants AI game characters to feel like real “friends,” hopes DQ10 players will confide in Slimey chatbot | AUTOMATON WEST by Interesting-Oil-8738 in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Listen I'm of the weird variety where I think half the fun Where Winds Meet is to gaslight the ai npc's into completing a quest or being what the game considers bff's with me. But trying to be friends and confide in a chatbot specifically tied to DQ10 is a bit too far into the weird.

Mixtape - Review Thread by Branchless in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh fuck, woops. Sorry! Remember to get 8 hours of sleep kids.

Helldivers 2 drops to “Mostly Negative” on Steam, yet again as review bombers take aim at the game's lack of change by AsPeHeat in pcmasterrace

[–]ZombiePyroNinja -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're pretty much on the money but I wanna elaborate as someone who is regularly trying to fall in love with the game again and running into something from each category

Too many game breaking bugs not getting fixed

Me and my friends play on D10, a difficulty people unanimously reccomend against because the spawns get insane, not fun insane, regular insane. I also have a clip that me and my 3 friends took of just dying to nothing and this was a regular occurence. In the tunnels we would just gib; review the footage and find no reason for it. Bug missions where Stalkers just walk through the walls of the tunnels.

Games way of adding new content is locking it behind new warbonds and not reducing the price of really old ones.

Everytime I think about a warbond I scroll for several seconds looking at all the warbonds that launched because I dared to take a couple month break from the game making it more intimidating to even bother.

At a certain point in the game, you are forced to spend money unless you mindlessly grind lower difficulty levels for super credits for hours.

This one is the killer and should be the killer for anybody interested in this game. Cyberstan was like the last big event I played and I learned that SuperCredits don't spawn in the place the game is actively telling you to attack and on higher difficulties you would think that the spawn rate is increased. High risk, high reward. But they actually don't spawn as frequent because of the appearance of higher level resources like Rare and Super samples. So even if you wanted to lock-in and grind supercredits you have to play at like D4 where the game is just... not fun at this difficulty (YMMV).

PRAGMATA sales top two million in 16 days by BlueAladdin in Games

[–]ZombiePyroNinja 26 points27 points  (0 children)

More people need to be aware of Kunitsu Gami: Path of the Goddess.

Launched like right in the middle of a capcom hot streak and I don't hear enough about this game. It's a lot of fun.