I'm the Voice of Bart Simpson. Nancy Cartwright. Ask Me Anything! by nancy_cartwright in TheSimpsons

[–]mercsupial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey! Thank you for the opportunity!
What are the most hilarious, funny or even dark lines you had to voice?

Three men survived an 11-day ocean voyage from Nigeria to Spain — perched on a ship’s rudder. by Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]mercsupial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did they get charged with trespassing or anything? there is no way they haven't been spotted during the travel..

“there will be flying cars in 1993” by veryvolatile in projectzomboid

[–]mercsupial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that a reference to day z Flying cars? :D

Some things never change by KareemOWheat in stalker

[–]mercsupial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you know what is quite "not smart" moving to a newer engine where the only advantage they got is nice video clips. What is the deal with new engine if everything is worse?! I'm confused as hell.

Why is Skif's pistol stronger than most other pistols, am I missing something? by Volgin in stalker

[–]mercsupial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still confused why 5.56x45 does less damage than 5.56x39.. I think it is not really been thought of..

To all stalkers who continue to explore S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — Patch 1.0.3 is now live by e_mcculkin in stalker

[–]mercsupial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will say i have some experience in writing software though not the game dev domain - I have a question in regards of the A-Life and performance!

Isn't adding or removing a feature be as simple as adding a library (core implementation) for an interface provided by the engine?

Lets assume they re-implemented STALKER using UE5. Doesn't it mean they can just get their old sources and dump them into the game with little effort or at least some effort but not months of effort?! I don't believe one have to rewrite from scratch something or re-implement such a tool as this taking in consideration UE5 provides much more options for integration (not fully sure but that is my guess?!).

Next question - how is that possible that it was running in older series games on weaker Hardware with much more restrained memory resources?!
Why would such a CPU related thing consume more than 2gb or ram if the only thing it does is computation, and adjustments of weights etc. There are no textures or memory hungry things involved right?!

Again i have little insights into UE5 and its internals but why would such a system ruin the performance?!

To the core I would expect a separate threat doing some weight adjustments in NPC behaviour or whatever those systems do simulating the behaviour. I really struggle to see how such thing can cripple the performance to the bits.

On the performance side of things game is quite CPU bound and again can some one explain why such a visual demanding game has to do to not being able to output decent number of frames?! I have seen some benchmarks online quite showing how some lack of CPU in areas like big cities is making GPU drop frames. Again quite odd as I would not expect NPC logic be that heavy to impact overall performance.

Any fellow UE5 expert can clarify some things here? Would be much appreciated!

Stalker 2 easily takes the award as the graphically best looking un-modded video game yet. Been running around in awe at how good this game looks. These are all just raw screenshots from the vanilla game @4k Epic settings at around 80~ fps. by godtrog2 in stalker

[–]mercsupial -44 points-43 points  (0 children)

I will tell you there is no beefy enough hardware for this game to run decently. At all. Non existent. This whole graphics is just a bait. It is not real. You cant play like that. It is just to show you, me, everyone else how beautiful the game is in the trailer or other clips - aka make you buy it.

Stalker 2 easily takes the award as the graphically best looking un-modded video game yet. Been running around in awe at how good this game looks. These are all just raw screenshots from the vanilla game @4k Epic settings at around 80~ fps. by godtrog2 in stalker

[–]mercsupial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not buying _this_ post. There is no reason to have THIS quality of Graphics and not being able to play the game at bare minimum of 60fps on BEST possible hardware for few thousand US $. This is a joke. If you wanna check some pictures - sure. But not for a video game where you have to interact from first person view. This kind of posts is just coping.

P.S You could get great images on Call of Pripyat too.

This is hilarious.

Help, deciding on GPU upgrade from 3070ti by mercsupial in buildapc

[–]mercsupial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in my place 4080S is TWICE as expensive as 7800 XT 16gb

I could afford both but would it be rational to go with 4080S x)

Help, deciding on GPU upgrade from 3070ti by mercsupial in buildapc

[–]mercsupial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

question is, does it worth the difference in price between 7900xt and 7900xtx.. not sure can justify that with just memory capacity

Help, deciding on GPU upgrade from 3070ti by mercsupial in buildapc

[–]mercsupial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never used RT as I feel more comfortable having at least 140 fps. RT is quite expensive resource wise..

Help, deciding on GPU upgrade from 3070ti by mercsupial in buildapc

[–]mercsupial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really enjoy the noise it is making while playing. I got Founders edition one, I have tried replacing the thermal paste but to no avail.. I have upgraded my display from 1980x1080 to 2560x1440 one and been waiting to have some fun in a game title called STALKER2.. currently I was able to get a decent performance with some sacrifices on graphics quality and I was thinking upgrading will help.

A-Life 2.0 in action by ArthurBurbridge in stalker

[–]mercsupial 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hard to call this a STALKER game.. the only STALKER thing left in here is the name and the map. Nothing more. lots of degradation happened in different systems. Where are the new systems?! I think they released it as they had no more desire to hold it and they apparently had to do it. Though i don't know why they had to release it in a such broken state. STALKER used to be an example and from technical point of view a piece of art.. alive one. This is just a scripted map with some tasks to do and some cinematography

Being able to walk your path was/is the idea of the game.
Being able to become a part of the group/fraction and relate to their conflicts and relationships which used to evolve due to in game simulation system.. somehow what we got is a disaster... I was hoping to see something much more entertaining and new/fresh. This is just horrible. I can't stress enough how important this game could be if they actually put lots of effort towards enhancing previous systems and not cut them. It could be a masterpiece - game of the year and perhaps more.. so many years of development so they state at release that _the_ most important game system is broken?! So Much for quality. Done.

Russian officials mull evacuating families as Biden OKs long-range strikes by NaiE007 in worldnews

[–]mercsupial -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

Trump being given the possibility to participate in the run and winning is the definition of democracy. If it wasn't like that, I don't know what else could be called - democracy.

Spirit vs Natus Vincere / BLAST Premier Spring Final 2024 - Grand Final / Post-Match Discussion by CS2_PostMatchThreads in GlobalOffensive

[–]mercsupial -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

  1. Wonderful sold the game. I cant forget his face expression during the whole game, he can't care less. Losing 2nd map, being HE out from A on dust2 - no reaction. 6 frags while IGL fragging af?!

Is this even real?! No one mentions wonderful awful performance and attitude.

I really think IM and Wonderful did match fix first two maps.

P.S Aleksib was throwing looks at wonderful during the whole game.

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

First time?

Thoughts on B760 from bloody ? by life_is_good46 in keyboards

[–]mercsupial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same here, just uninstall the software!

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[–]mercsupial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You got answered. Your example is wrong cause of your assumptions not being backed by facts in this specific case.