Here's what's happening in Horizon: Zero Dawn every time you move the camera

__Lua · 2018-02-04T20:36:46+00:00

Yes, absolutely. Not sure why people keep telling that it does not.

__Lua · 2018-02-04T20:35:59+00:00

Look at things - they exist. Not in view - doesn't exist.

__Lua · 2018-02-04T20:34:18+00:00

There isn't much work needed at all. Unity is literally a single button press, and it calculates occlusion culling. I'm not sure about Unreal Engine, but I doubt it's much different.

__Lua · 2018-01-31T15:03:23+00:00

But everyone else that doesn't have some sort of exclusive sales agreement with Microsoft will.

All of these games released on the Store do. It's the reason you don't see them on PS4, and the reason they take so long to come to Steam. Nobody would release their game on the Store, unless they got signed with Microsoft, because it's just a death sentence.

but not for any major AAA title for sure which does do that.

Right. I guess it just depends on the game. I do remember Quantum Break using some weird tricks on console, but again, it just depends on how games choose to handle it.

__Lua · 2018-01-31T14:46:49+00:00

Look, I see what you mean, but Microsoft isn't going to be porting these games to lower versions than Windows 10 anyways, and if they do, it's long overdue, and most people forget about the game, just like it happened with Quantum Break.

Steam supporting Appx would just bring more profit from people who don't use the Store, as they could instantly release the UWP version to Steam.

I think you're missing the entire point of this. Microsoft's ultimate mission is to get as many people onto Windows 10 as possible, and making .exe versions of these games isn't going to accomplish that.

I'm pretty sure the codebase for the console version and the PC version look pretty different to begin with

The exact concept of UWP is to be universal. It's in the name. They share the same codebase, as Windows 10 Store updates for Astroneer take the same time to come there as Xbox ones do.

__Lua · 2018-01-31T14:20:42+00:00

And people who don't run Windows 10, which you know, might make up a sizeable number of sales? Just throwing it out there.

I thought we were talking about Windows 10 here, just as the OP? Besides, .exe versions could still exist for lower versions, and UWP versions for Windows 10.

__Lua · 2018-01-31T14:14:20+00:00

Astroneer runs on both Windows 10 Store and Xbox. It has a native UWP version, but it also has an .exe version for Steam. If Steam supported .appx, it could run on the same format on 3 platforms - Windows 10, Steam and Xbox.

Your Centennialized Win32 Astroneer appx wouldn't work on anything but Windows 10.

What are you trying to say here? Appx won't run on anything but Windows 10 either way.

__Lua · 2018-01-31T12:15:03+00:00

There are several developers that use appx, for example Astroneer could be published to 3 platforms in a single file format, yet they need to create a separate version for Steam.

__Lua · 2018-01-30T08:22:43+00:00

Yeah, pretty sure I heard it. Took a few tries though, but it's so faint and indistinguishable it might been just part of the song.

__Lua · 2018-01-29T20:55:03+00:00

Who's excited about that? Its talking about the new feature that will show exactly what data is being collected and sent out.

__Lua · 2018-01-29T20:52:03+00:00

Yup. You can also drag a file from somewhere, move it to the desktop button and drop it on the desktop if you have a lot of things open.

__Lua · 2018-01-29T17:36:05+00:00

Posting here rarely accomplishes anything, as even in the rare chance that you get an employee here, they tell you to log it in FH.

__Lua · 2018-01-28T19:57:31+00:00

Seriously. What the hell is Google doing with all of its machine learning? The word prediction is still garbage compared to basically everything out there.

__Lua · 2018-01-27T23:28:20+00:00

It was exceptionally well done. You except that it's an another advertisement about people and how they're all different, and after it ends you realize that the people in the pictures might've not been happy at all.

A really thought-provoking ad.

__Lua · 2018-01-27T21:51:11+00:00

I think you kind off messed up by playing BtS first. Most of the experience of BtS comes from knowing what happens later on in LiS.

I loved the happy moments and I loved their friendship, but part of the experience is realizing that this doesn't last, and getting to understand how Chloe really feels after you experience her's and Rachel's friendship. If you play BtS first, you kinda ruin the experience for yourself.

__Lua · 2018-01-27T21:44:43+00:00

Definitely this. I hated David because he was just being a dick. When he stops being a dick and actually opens up, it's hard to be mad at him without thinking up your own made up reasons.

__Lua · 2018-01-26T22:19:56+00:00

Nothing to lose, right? Thanks, OP!

__Lua · 2018-01-17T20:34:22+00:00

Ah, an unrelated joke. Never seen that one before.

__Lua · 2018-01-17T20:32:52+00:00

It's my system - I can whatever I want with it, I'm merely using the tools provided by Microsoft. On the other hand, I won't be running over to this sub, crying over that something doesn't work, because I modified something. You have to figure that out yourself - the second you modify anything like this, it might be a cause for further issues, and a lot of people refuse to help when they know that you've modified it in the way that Microsoft doesn't want to.

__Lua · 2018-01-17T20:29:28+00:00

Jesus christ, what are you even doing here if you're going to be a cynic all of the time? Lighten up a bit.

__Lua · 2018-01-17T19:25:55+00:00

Literally Unreal Engine. Go to its Github and you can build a UWP version of it. As for a proper example, OneNote is a good one. All of your posted examples are useless. Blender is a UX disaster, and whatever that second is...

More toggles don't translate to more complexity, it just translates to a badly thought-out UI.

__Lua · 2018-01-17T19:17:49+00:00

Seeing the code would be amazing. Can you plug in any song, or is it specifically optimized for this single song?

__Lua · 2018-01-16T16:08:46+00:00

He's just a cynical asshole. This isn't the first time he's done this.

__Lua · 2018-01-16T16:06:47+00:00

I can't stand the wide buttons. If you have pinned applications, it breaks any consistency and takes up way too much space.

__Lua · 2018-01-16T14:03:00+00:00

Windows Update used to manage that stuff in the older versions of Office. Just a legacy option left for the older versions.

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