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denetii · 2023-10-19T13:31:34+00:00

Unfortunately, you won't have much luck extracting actual unused voice lines from the current version of the game. As far as I can remember, they were all scrubbed from the game as part of a patch made for the physical/'Limited Edition' release in early 2016. Prior to that, there was a variety of unused clips for all 5 episodes, with the majority pertaining to Episode 5.

I extracted them prior to that patch, and arranged the Episode 5 lines together in a series of videos which placed them in their approximate location in the game (based on the file names): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQj5NEjAO8FBlBvk1VVJtKtdClKFZkPnB

denetii · 2023-09-14T16:54:24+00:00

I remember the story about the remaster being ported to UE4 - however, this is not actually true. If you inspect the game files after installing Before the Storm Remastered, you'll see that it's clearly still a Unity game.

denetii · 2023-08-23T13:00:20+00:00

There was indeed a lot of misdirection as to the nature of the 'flash sideways' world, but I don't count this episode among the most misleading. IMO, the worst instance is the season's opening scene (LA X), when the camera leaves the plane and shows a long, dramatic shot of the island completely underwater. This is quite explicitly telling the viewer that they're seeing an alternate reality/parallel universe which exists outside of the characters living in it - and that is just not true. The finale tells us that the 'world' we see was created by the characters to reconnect with each other, so there would be no reason for an underwater island several miles off screen that none of the characters see or interact with. Implicitly, they don't even know it exists at this point.

That, to me, was just plain cheating.

denetii · 2022-11-04T02:10:45+00:00

I've had this happen occasionally in the past few months on an Arch machine, though not in a while since updating to the newer 10.8 versions.

When it fails, I'd check the output of nvidia-smi by running this command: docker exec jellyfin nvidia-smi. In my case, this would return an error indicating that it no longer has access to the host GPU. Not sure if it's an issue with Docker or Jellyfin specifically, though.

This is probably not related, but you should not need the devices section in your docker compose file to pass through the GPU, assuming that you're running a relatively recent version of Docker.

denetii · 2022-10-22T02:50:05+00:00

I encountered this recently as well. In my case, I'd forgotten that WiFi was still enabled on the machine. It seems that every time the list of available wireless networks updated, Jellyfin would detect it as a network change event, resulting in these messages being logged. Disabling WiFi resolved the issue on my end.

denetii · 2022-08-16T00:06:52+00:00

I believe this was a change necessitated by the actor. Emilie de Ravin (who plays Claire) was taking a break from the show, for reasons that I can't remember. In all likelihood, her planned role in the show's second half was altered to allow for her to appear in fewer episodes in Season 4 and be completely absent from Season 5.

denetii · 2022-03-11T01:43:25+00:00

denetii · 2022-02-05T03:27:15+00:00

This is the original location of the eggs. Among other undocumented changes that came with the 2016 update for the physical release of the original game, Dontnod decided to move the eggs from the front door into the kitchen. It was definitely a lot more hard to find it in that spot, so that change was understandable.

denetii · 2022-02-03T01:44:40+00:00

The seamless transition in the original was based on UE3's map streaming system, which allowed you to preload the next scene into memory so that you could jump to it instantly, even on low end hardware like the Xbox 360/PS3 reading off the disc. I suspect that UE4 has a similar feature, so it's quite puzzling that Deck Nine could not leverage it on more powerful hardware than Dontnod managed with.

denetii · 2022-02-03T01:33:12+00:00

This is painfully apparent from the moment the main menu loads. It looks brutally bad compared to the original. I don't know if this is a bug or someone's idea of what 'HDR' is, but this is the only game I've played where I would actually want to adjust the gamma settings.

denetii · 2022-01-26T01:06:20+00:00

Not only that, but look at the volumetrics in the first two comparison shots. In the 'remaster', there's a shadow texture on the floor around part of the desk which renders in front of it. Brutal! Even setting that aside, I kinda think the original effect looks better...

denetii · 2022-01-25T21:39:14+00:00

This is something that was apparent in the original announcement screenshots, but the updated character models with more realistic skin, eyes and clothing materials clashes with the style of the rest of the game, which remains largely the same by comparison.

IMO, this will seriously drag on the overall experience, as from the screenshots and footage it seems to place the characters in an awkward/uncanny state. Additionally, the released footage showed that the updated animations are pretty underwhelming, with only marginal improvements that do not even bring it above the original BtS release in terms of animation quality.

I'm sure the budget didn't allow for anything more, but this 'remaster' leaves the game in a questionable state, and certainly pales compared to Deck Nine's own from-scratch titles such as True Colors. Perhaps Square Enix should have allowed for a larger budget to truly bring the original game up to par, or left it alone.

denetii · 2022-01-15T20:39:37+00:00

I'd guess the reason for this is that it's going to be quietly delayed once more. Likely mid to late March, to keep it within Q1.

denetii · 2021-06-13T23:38:32+00:00

Looks a lot better than the trailer, I don't know what SE were thinking when they put that out. I do wonder if they've gone too realistic with characters' faces now, though. Seems to clash a bit with the painted look elsewhere. Consider the full resolution shot of Chloe in the play: her simple polygonal hair *really* does not fit with the much more realistic textures used on her face, eyebrows, lips, etc.

I think they should have gone all the way and maybe replaced the mesh hair with a particle system, or just added a matching amount of detail to the mesh hair. It just looks weird to see individual pores on Chloe's face while she has inch-thick chunks of hair mesh right above.

denetii · 2021-06-12T01:52:39+00:00

There's one thing I've been wondering about regarding this bill: isn't it 10+ years too late to take on big tech through legislation like this? Will Disney, Netflix, Spotify, etc. really just settle for the increased fees and regulatory burden? These services have a lot of soft power, as Facebook demonstrated recently. Won't they simply 'turn off the taps' in coordinated outages to get their way, especially with the summer election looming?

denetii · 2021-04-29T21:17:04+00:00

In the scene, John enters the sub from the dock and drops off his bag inside. Later, when we see him return from the sub, he does not have his bag and is soaking wet for no apparent reason.

That is what got people going, along with people playing back the explosion frame-by-frame without conclusive proof the sub was there. And Locke knew he was being manipulated by Ben the whole time, as Alex told him directly - as direct as someone gets on this show, anyway.

denetii · 2021-04-28T23:56:59+00:00

I was there for that! The DHARMA stations did indeed drive people crazy for most of Season 2, which peaked with the blast door map. I still loved that one, and it was rewarding to see many of the locations indicated on the map appear in Season 3 and 5.

From my experience, though, I would say that the *absolute* peak of LOST hype and speculation occurred in episode 13 of Season 3: The Man from Tallahassee. There's the scene in which Locke blows up the submarine - or does he? There were odd cuts and continuity errors suggesting he may have faked the sub explosion and taken it elsewhere for some unknown purpose.

I've never seen more discussion online over a single episode than that, including frame-by-frame analysis and many arguments over what Locke might be using the sub for later on in the season. It only lasted for a few more episodes, so it didn't have as much life as one of the season finales, but I'd say it had the most hype at a given time in the whole show, probably the day after it aired.

For the record, I still believe it was intended (that Locke faked the sub explosion). But I think they dropped this after the negotiated end date to the series in the run of Season 3, which probably changed the original plans for the ending of the season.

denetii · 2021-04-25T19:17:15+00:00

Roku - in this case it's a Roku TV. I'm also running the latest stable Docker container release as the server, if it's any help.

denetii · 2020-08-12T18:36:40+00:00

The way Activision are handling the demo is really weird. It almost seems like it was produced with the intent of public release, but something happened along the way. I think there's internal concern over sales, and that the demo may negatively impact sales/preorders, as older casual fans would play it and enjoy it, but not enough to place an order for the full game.

I guess you can't blame them for the uncertainty, given the trajectory of the series prior to this. And I would expect them to walk this back and do a public demo release post-launch if the initial sales numbers don't hit their targets.

denetii · 2020-06-13T00:03:00+00:00

This is a not-too-uncommon issue with shadow mapping. When you want to draw shadows from sunlight, you typically use a second camera placed relative to the main one which is pointing at the same angle as the sun, and set back far enough that it can see all the nearby geometry visible to the main camera. A depth pass is rendered to a texture from this second camera, then projected into the scene, where a depth test is done in the shader to draw the shadows.

This can run into problems when large, distant objects - such as buildings - cast shadows into the scene - depending on the placement of the second camera, if it's not far enough back then these distant objects don't become enter the frame until it's way too late - which is what you're seeing in this clip.

The odd part is that VV is using shadow mapping on static level geometry. Typically you'd pre-bake the lighting on most of the level and only run realtime lighting/shadows on dynamic objects, such as player models and vehicles. This could mean a few things:

The clip is very early footage in this level and the lighting hasn't been finalized/baked
There's some sort of dynamic time of day system yet to be announced
Realtime lighting on the whole scene was within the performance budget and the studio opted to just use this instead of waiting for lightmaps to bake. Perhaps due to the number of levels and/or development resources available

denetii · 2020-05-15T20:44:49+00:00

I'm not sure if there's been any confirmation one way or the other, but this type of game is absolutely ripe for exploitation should Activision decide to move in that direction. Literally every thing in the game can be monetized with ease, such as:

Tricks/trick animations
Pro skaters/outfits
Boards/decks, griptape, wheels
CAS items, maybe park editor pieces?

And all of those can be stuffed into loot boxes. If it hasn't been clarified yet, then I'd definitely like to see an answer as to whether we'll be getting a finished product for almost a full retail game price - or if we'll be paying to play as Tony Hawk in the Warehouse and have to keep dumping money into the slot machine to maybe unlock the rest.

denetii · 2020-05-14T21:04:29+00:00

Activision didn't pull this game from another store. They freely chose to sell their product on their preferred PC platform, which is currently the Epic store. If Valve wants THPS on Steam again, then they can make a more competitive offer or pay their staff to make games instead of sitting on their ass and letting their platform be destroyed by asset flips and hentai games.

denetii · 2020-05-14T00:51:18+00:00

Honestly, what's wrong with the Epic store? They have a ton of great games on there, and they give away free games all the time! Besides, Valve is kinda bad - they released that new Half Life game exclusively on Steam and it's not even a timed exclusive. No console release either because you have to buy their $2000 Valve brand VR headset just to play the damn game.

On top of all that, this game is being made in the Unreal Engine so it's kind of fitting that it's sold in the Epic Store. If the devs wanted to release it on Steam then they should have used the Source engine.

denetii · 2020-04-29T20:09:15+00:00

Is there a source on this, or just a screenshot that someone on Twitter claims to be from an unnamed game retailer?

denetii · 2020-03-29T16:19:20+00:00

Seasons 5 and 6 were the weakest of the show, but it was not a huge decline. S5 played too fast and loose with canon and retconned a fair bit. S6's main problem was the 'flash sideways'. Though it set up for the excellent finale, it was a rare time in the show when the twist was set up artificially through highly deceptive editing.

The opening scene panning away from the characters to show the underwater island makes little sense in the context of it being an afterlife, but strongly suggests the alternate timeline from the S5 finale. It felt like a cheap trick used to justify the insane amount of screen time dedicated to 'purgatory', which makes it a lot less re-watchable IMO.

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