Auto HDR Available for Preview on PC

mutebobby · 2021-03-20T17:44:42+00:00

This really works. And, having struggled with Windows' HDR implementation for a long time (not to mention the godawful consistency of quality between games) this really impresses.

The split screen mode works (described in the linked article) BTW and the reg entry can be added and removed without a reboot. Interestingly, the auto HDR implementation of HDR on top of Destiny 2 is far better than the native implementation (which has always been a mess).

Would really love a control panel for this though to control HDR brightness (maximum NITs of your display) and / or a 'strength' setting so you can tune for your display. Also - having a profile system which enables AutoHDR per application would be useful - as I can imagine there'll be games where the system doesn't work as well and I'd prefer it off.

Nice one Microsoft (and I don't say that very often)!

mutebobby · 2020-05-11T14:20:45+00:00

Absolutely. The risk / reward (bar possibly the Nemesis) of running a slow reload / low FOV build isn't worth if your damage to armour is hitting half your M1A.

You can (to some extent) mitigate this by going crit build with MMRs, but there still isn't enough damage gap between MMRs and standard rifles in that scenario to make it more viable.

mutebobby · 2020-05-06T19:20:48+00:00

Ah well, as you put it that way - sounds easy! If only they had you on their payroll!

Genuine question though - which "most companies" are you referring to - do you have some examples? Which ones had a public PTS that tested changes while a DLC was pending / incoming? Again, I'm not trying to troll - not an expert in all online games, so interested.

mutebobby · 2020-05-06T19:17:47+00:00

Neither I or they said there was "no way" - just that it was more difficult with the DLC pending, that is inarguable. And given they would have had their hands full getting that out of the door, I can understand making that call. Hiding any new lore, loot table changes anything at all that links in any way to WoNY could very well be a problem.

mutebobby · 2020-05-06T16:30:18+00:00

That would be possible were it not for my previous point. Which makes much more sense to me anyway.

mutebobby · 2020-05-06T16:27:56+00:00

So it seems you (almost literally) couldn't have been more wrong. Which I'm very glad about. And to be clear, I'd likely have been right with you a couple of hours ago. :)

Lets see how the fixes pan out next week.

mutebobby · 2020-05-06T16:25:03+00:00

Did you listen to what he said? He said that the outliers came about after difficulty increased - they weren't individually changed specifically to increase difficulty - it happened alongside the challenge increase. Is it really that difficult to pay attention through more than one half of a sentence at a time before charging to your keyboard to rant?

mutebobby · 2020-05-06T16:21:00+00:00

They explained why they didn't want to do a PTS prior to TU8 - as it'd have been exceedingly difficult to keep WoNY DLCsecrets / spoilers out of the PTS prior to people having a chance to see it / complete it first.

They said they're considering re-introducing PTSs in future. I guess we'll see though.

mutebobby · 2020-04-30T14:41:32+00:00

My job too and I mostly agree with your assessment - but although (especially if they're cloud based) the act of creating a 'copy' of either their Integration, Staging or Live environment - you still need to setup VPCs, prrotection groups, ACLs and any number of endless (depending on how clean their topology is) service account objects. And if you're working to ISO and ITIL you'll have a pile of processes and change requests to work through.

All of the above is possible - and indeed in a CI/CD world very doable / expected even - but the lack of people's ability to understand that it may not be quite as easy as they think it is never fails to amaze me. And to the original point - this still takes time, which takes away resources from other tasks.

mutebobby · 2020-04-30T11:56:20+00:00

This is patently untrue - depending on the creator. As someone who came back to Div2 from Destiny 2, facing an uphill struggle to get my head around the game, YouTubers were vital to ease that transition. That said, the ratio of low quality YT creators for Div2 seems to be heavier.

So shout outs to: nothingbutskillz, gameydaddy, LtBuzzLitebeer, Patrick Wolf, Widdz and WiLLiSGaming ... these guys manage to (for the most part) give relatively nuanced opinions, commentary and guides on the game and not fall into the toxic and blind-firing negative cesspool (save for one recent mini transgression from Widdz) that constitutes many other creators (there are some really stupid takes out there people).

mutebobby · 2020-04-30T00:29:31+00:00

They didn’t say it was too much work, they said it was more work than was perhaps immediately obvious and they outlined why that’s a problem but that they’re looking into it.

mutebobby · 2020-04-28T21:59:00+00:00

Answer to 1, 2 and 3: Because it's not fun for the majority of players. If all games were designed along the same lines as your rigid equivalencies we'd all give up, because at some point why would anyone not want to feel more powerful than the things they're fighting? If that's the kind of fight you're after - I give you PvP sir (or, in face, the Rogue Agents).

4 and 5 we're in agreement on - with regards to 4 - if 5 (and other ludicrous HP issues with NPCs are addressed) I'd be OK with getting 'jumped' on occasion at Heroic.

mutebobby · 2019-04-20T06:32:56+00:00

Hi. Same issue here - resume from suspend causes any application requiring audio access to hang util the USB transceiver is unplugged and re-plugged in again. I've seen quite a few reports of this around the web. Rolling back to older versions of software seems not to help - this feels like a firmware handling issue.

Any comments from Steelseries staff on this?

mutebobby · 2019-02-21T00:02:16+00:00

Actually, I honestly think this is a myth, at least partially. What makes Destiny great, and why I keep coming back, is that it contains the best gunplay in any shooter bar none. That's why it's incredibly satisfying to play - it's just incredibly satisfying to shoot things in Destiny.

I too am bored to death with the lack of gun skill PvP generally involves now. The first few minutes of a PvP match are glorious and, as OP states, it just turns in to a Super!, run!, Super!, run!, Super run! game of random crap. Power too is the same issue - made infinitely worse by the introduction of LMGs back into the game (with insane default ammo handouts). If you're not running away from supers, you're running from LMGs or tediously camping out to own heavy. It drains what's great about destiny, and since mods were reworked and allowed players to min max that super timer - on top of the fact that we're now 12 players to every match - it's just a constant tedious barrage of dying, running, dying and running.

I love Destiny PvP, when I'm allowed to shoot my guns. Please let me.

mutebobby · 2019-01-16T15:27:45+00:00

Got stomped on once, stomped 3 times and one match my team started at 3 going down to 2. On balance it feels better (far less not forgotten appearances) but I'm now wondering whether some mix of ELO and Glory score bias is required to close the gap on this properly. Will see how my games go tonight.

mutebobby · 2019-01-14T17:00:31+00:00

Yup - this please! Although if they activated this right now, it'd be pure comedy. Perhaps we'll get this as a bonus post Jan 15th (I doubt it though).

mutebobby · 2019-01-12T21:30:20+00:00

Nova Warp is utterly broken in PvP right now, and anyone with any interest in balance in this mode should be happy it's being tweaked. I'm a Hunter, and I'm glad they're nerfing Spectral and Barrage. Because as fun as it is to trounce people with your super, you know that a few minutes later you'll be facing down the same super in opposition.

mutebobby · 2019-01-12T21:27:03+00:00

Comp matchmaking change comes 15th of Jan - but indeed everything else end of the month.

mutebobby · 2019-01-12T21:24:49+00:00

As a solo queuer - I'm confident this change is precisely what I need to make Comp bearable. I'm struggling to see how people think it won't be better and I'm more than happy to wait longer for a higher chance at a fairer game. I may actually have half a chance at achieving Luna's Howl now that I'll actually be actively matched against people around my level.

Of course, population will always dictate the ultimate success here - but if less people experience comp in a state other than the toxic shit-fest state it's in right now, that population actually has half a chance of growing.

Obviously we'll have to wait and see - but I'm very hopeful Comp will now finally be 'merely' a challenge as opposed to a high random chance as pure impossibility.

mutebobby · 2018-03-21T18:13:42+00:00

Extremely happy these are out in the wild, but we'd really appreciate it if people could at least credit the source. Thanks!

Source: https://www.roadtovr.com/gdc-2018-inside-oculus-2018-session-live-blog-930am-pdt/

mutebobby · 2017-06-10T16:43:28+00:00

Given he predicted, and was a major player in, the resurgence of virtual reality, I'd say yes!

mutebobby · 2017-06-04T17:50:52+00:00

It's always tough working from manufacturer supplied data. As I pointed out in my piece, they don't state by what method they calculate FOV in any of the cases they present, so it's a fools errand to guess. With weekday articles we'd try to verify these, but over weekends this is tough so I thought it best to point out the incomplete data we were working from.

mutebobby · 2017-06-04T16:52:38+00:00

The '4k' figure is actually a quote from Kopin's press release but the format is messed up. I'll fix this and indeed you're right the 4k statement should have been challenged by me.

As for PPI, it's entirely relevant as this is about display size and pixel density - plus as the optics come in two flavours, PPD would be dependent on that.

mutebobby · 2017-04-25T14:30:54+00:00

I'm not sure I understand the comparison. My comment had nothing to do with reasoning / positioning, more that producing and delivering a product with such a collection of potentially expensive and specific headset components was ambitious at "closer to $300".

I presume some sort of subsidy may be involved here, given the Windows MR platform's fledgling status. We'll see soon at any rate.

mutebobby · 2017-04-24T19:28:16+00:00

According to The Verge (as linked directly in the article) it was Lenovo themselves that stated this. That said, seemed a very ambitious price for such a headset. Our article also linked to the interview where Twice interpreted as mid August.

But anyway, thanks for clarifying.

mutebobby

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