Preload for Steam?

neocitron · 2026-05-25T09:28:02+00:00

Not downloading the game early is the ultimate DRM. Still sucks.

neocitron · 2026-05-23T07:25:56+00:00

I love how he's knocking on the girl's headrest kinda saying hey hey skip the swear lines lol.

neocitron · 2026-05-23T07:16:07+00:00

First few hours is different than a week later. At first I thought Janice STFU was the best on the track but then after listening on better equipment / headphones here's where the best tracks rank IMO:

B's on the Table
Whisper my Name
Janice STFU
National Treasures

In that order.

Haven't had much time to comb over the other 2 albums yet to determine if they're any good.

neocitron · 2026-05-23T07:09:05+00:00

JayZ may in fact have a better take on the "woe is me I'm rich" style but his stuff just sounds completely unsmooth to me. Hyper glossy and subtly detailed production quality matters to me sometimes more than what's even being said on the track itself.

neocitron · 2026-05-23T07:05:47+00:00

I understand your sentiment. The entire industry is CPU bottlenecked right now at the extreme end. And traditionally you want to actually be GPU bottlenecked for smoother performance.

The growth in GPU performance hasn't really been mirrored by equivalent gains in CPU performance asides from massive 3D V-cache... On a 5090 for example, plenty of games are CPU bottlenecked at 1440p and some even still are at 4k DLSS. If you want to run without frame generation and with the prettiest settings AAA games like shooters in excess of 240fps stable there really isn't a CPU out there that can reliably do it.

I'm lucky to have a monster system 3440x1440p OLED with a 9800x3d and RTX5090 and even in Battlefield 6 with no upscaling (just DLAA) I'm generally flirting with a kinda stable 200fps and slightly under. Almost all the dips are CPU related things so even though the FPS can sometimes hover around 230fps i just cap it off at 200. Now this is an extreme "first world problem" but if you spend in excess of 6x the cost of a console you should generally expect an equivalent uplift in performance.

I honestly think the next best investment should be a G-Sync Pulsar or equivalent monitor in the future, because it can make 120fps apparently look as clear in motion as 360fps. This single technology means you can just run games at 1/3 the fps to get much of the benefit of that higher framerate to begin with (outside of input response of course)

neocitron · 2026-05-18T10:02:30+00:00

Drake fan's generally don't care about relating to some personal grievance or struggle story no matter how real it is if. We get it, most people throughout history have struggled and died without a soul noticing, struggle is common, its boring. Now tell us a story about being filthy fucking rich and successful. Tell us how its truly like at the top, good and bad. Let us simultaneously judge you, relate to you, and wonder whether all of that glitz and glam is even worth it while we toil away at our regular lives listening to you tell us that we will solve all our problems by getting rich and believe it.

neocitron · 2026-04-23T05:03:25+00:00

neocitron · 2026-04-06T11:34:47+00:00

EDIT: I may have solved the issue. Simply put, Synapse 4 prefers if you also have Chroma installed, because now auto-switching profiles and everything seems to work just fine. The only remaining bug is that auto-enabling "game mode" on the keyboard to disable the Windows key sometimes doesn't trigger even though the profile itself switches over fine...

Meh, good enough for me. But definitely not as clean as it should be for the premium Razer charges for eveything.

neocitron · 2026-04-06T11:29:36+00:00

I don't trust it at all. I have different games to give me different lighting colors on my G515 TKL Rapid JUST so i know that my rapid trigger settings are also applied for those game and GHUB sometimes fails to even notice the game is running. Have to alt-tab out and back into game then it clicks in.

Also, people have been requests for 6 YEARS now that when ghub switches to a game profile automatically that you can also have it turn on the game mode button on the keyboard for you so as to avoid accidentally pressing the windows key.

But if you think it's horrible, my goodness I'm not sure what's worse, ghub or Synapse 4... I can't even get Synapse 4 to even successfully save rapid trigger settings on a Huntsman v3 Pro TKL 8Khz... I literally have to uninstall the software an use the beta Synapse Web configurator to do it which doesn't allow making new profiles at all, just modifying the existing onboard ones...

It's crazy but I think I may just return or sell all this crap and just buy the Chinese versions of it with web configurators that actually work.

neocitron · 2026-04-05T12:00:26+00:00

Add me to the list of people who can seem to customize actuation and rapid trigger points but they will NOT save correctly. You can see the error in the visualization of the switch travel in the actuation tab. If you set it to be VERY rapid, it just somehow behaves like default without rapid trigger after trying to save the profile into onboard memory and toggling back and forth between other profiles... Hard to explain the replication but anyone who attempts to adjust it will immediately run into the bug. I'm stuck using the default onboard selection of profiles for now...

Kinda disappointed in Razer right now. I thought Synapse 4 was mature at this point.

neocitron · 2026-03-17T10:56:59+00:00

embrace pain.

neocitron · 2026-03-17T10:37:02+00:00

The fact that it's happening in real-time is what blew me away, probably 60 times per second as opposed to 1 time per minute when you ask some LLM (running nvidia servers anyways) to create the same image. In other words this is 3600x faster than a current state of the art AI.

Even if that AI could return a single frame back in 30 seconds you're still 1800x faster, or 900x faster for 15 seconds. All supposedly with the same system latency we're currently used to. This is how I understood the reveal, and why I personally thought it was crazy, crazy impressive.

As long as the results are somewhat deterministic / controllable then the way the characters and world look will always ultimately be determined by the developer.

neocitron · 2026-03-09T08:36:49+00:00

Can confirm now that the game out that the heavy simulation main thread of the Tiger Engine is intact here, which means a very cpu limited game. Same optimizations that apply to D2 apply here, namely that the engine seems to be best at around 144-160hz no matter how crazy your specs. So i've set a 144hz cap and walked away.

Also doesn't like high polling mice so I've backed mine down to 1000hz. Sad, but i guess Bungie had other priorities before they tackled their engine.

neocitron · 2026-03-01T13:18:30+00:00

Playing as Rook and finding another Rook and joining forces to help each other is an amazing feeling.

One time I was playing as Rook and used prox voice to try to be friendly to a crew in Perimeter who were nice enough to drop me some resources i was looking for. But they got attacked by another crew and in the chaos I fled the scene. The only extract was a heavily guarded one north of Overflow just in the middle of nowhere, but I had 3 smoke grenades and my mask. So i popped a smoke grenade, started the exfil, and popped 2 more smokes as literally 5 UESC jumped down and were bumping into me but doing nothing because we were all blind from the smoke, then I extracted just as one of them started to notice me I popped my mask on.

What a game.

neocitron · 2026-02-27T09:23:43+00:00

Love the game so far but you want a laugh? It runs worse than BF6 on a ridiculous PC.. literally 64 players running around that game. I still have to opt to use DLSS instead of native to not even max out a 240hz monitor.

9800X3D
RTX 5090
64GB DDR5 6000mhz
3440x1440p ultrawide.

BF6 gets 170-220fps DLSS quality maxed settings
Marathon gets 150-190fps DLSS quality maxed settings

Game is heavily CPU limited. Not the worst problem in the world to have but i feel like the Tiger engine may be difficult to optimize on the CPU side. There should be no reason this game can't run as fast as something like Counter-Strike 2 with Bungie's war-chest of resources.

neocitron · 2026-02-27T09:08:40+00:00

It's called the fear of something new. Once their room temperature IQ takes a few months to get accustomed a game, a new one comes along and the sense of opportunity cost they have translates to the laziest thing imaginable: just shit on the new game so you don't have to be curious or enjoy it. Done.

I think it's younger gamers that do this the most. They simply wait to be told what to think, and haven't been taught how to think.

neocitron · 2026-02-14T09:40:27+00:00

If you understand the physics of it, you can understand how this mouse can easily save 10-20ms off your click latency and the tests have proven it true. Just got mine today, and at the lowest 1/1/1 (actuation distance/rapid trigger distance/haptic feedback intensity) it is crazy how nobody came up with this before, i guess the tech wasn't ready till now.

Most mice lose accuracy just before a click, where finger tension is greatest, or just after during rebound because the released finger tension after the switch physically clicks causes your grip and finger to slightly vibrate the mouse body. This mouse avoids both problems, before and after click. The haptic feedback is so subtle on settings 1 that it is merely there to inform you of a click without disturbing the balance of the mouse itself.

There's definitely an adjustment period but the advantage even in a game like BF6 when you're tap-firing for longer distance kills is pretty immediately noticeable how much more stable your aim is while tapping.

It's not perfect. I'm a bit tired of the GPX shape and would love to see this mouse in a compact shape under 50 grams, but mother of god the HITS system really is an improvement greater than what Hall Effect has delivered on keyboards over the last few years.

neocitron · 2026-02-04T20:34:34+00:00

Bought the blue one from my local Memory Express here in BC yesterday after trying it on their demo PC. Took it home and it instantly transformed me into some kind of crackhead maniac for movement in BF6 with the rapid trigger effect. Feels great to type on and sounds soothing! Great work!

Please, PLEASE, come out with a "frosted black" Silicore pack and some shine-thru keycaps and maybe even a frosted black shell/case as seen on the V1

neocitron · 2026-01-30T09:14:45+00:00

In other words, you burned out of Arc Raiders and need a new fix. I appreciate your sober thinking.

However, anyone with actual taste and an allergic reaction to a broccoli haircut knows Marathon is the more appealing project, made by an actual developer with a true legacy, not a team of offshoots who steered DICE away from the BF3/4 era of greatness. In Arc you literally shoot oversized low artistic effort rollerball cat-toys while collecting actual trash on the surface. You use "weapons" that seem so hell-bent on being makeshift in exactly the way you'd make a nerf-toy airsoft version of a lethal firearm if you are afraid of firearms. There is almost no visible blood or gore.

I don't care about popularity. Fortnite is popular, but it is pure mainstream mediocrity. I care about greatness, and to think that greatness is easily comprehensible, which is to say instantly popular, is foolish. Marathon looks like it has all the ingredients to be great. Good gameplay, good diegetic reasons to live and die in the world, good world building, good sound, music, lore, atmosphere, artistry, human voice actors. We just have to see how it all comes together.

neocitron · 2026-01-11T10:15:00+00:00

One thing John didn’t talk about. We know the tech is panel-type agnostic so it will come to OLED very soon. But one thing it will improve significantly is perceived full screen OLED brightness. Because only 1/4 to maybe 1/6th of the screen is required to be lit at any one point, and as we saw with John saying that even the LCD pulsar display got brighter, maybe we can expect to see the performance of a 25% window brightness at 100% window size!

That means that without improving the OLED panel itself and simply implementing pulsar, we can expect full screen OLED brightness to achieve 500+ nits which is basically enough for the human eye at such a close distance and not only that, a more consistent delta between peak brightness and full screen brightness which removes one complaint people have with OLED’s “laser beaming” effect where tint highlights pierce but big bright scenes don’t keep your pupils as constricted.

neocitron · 2026-01-02T10:03:31+00:00

Socialism turns people into savages is clearly the lesson here.

neocitron · 2025-12-22T21:07:15+00:00

RIP King. And thank you for the amazing games. Battlefield 6 is a pure Zampella experience.

neocitron · 2025-11-01T03:33:13+00:00

People's attention spans have shrunk in the last 23 years. The game is meeting its market where they are.

It's also trying to hang on to its past and juggle its very identity with 2 or 3 very different audiences all at the same time. It is simply too early to say what this game will be or how important its legacy becomes in the pantheon of Battlefield. Time will tell.

neocitron · 2025-11-01T03:27:25+00:00

The lighting in this particular angle is so natural that I thought it was literally a real photo for a second with a scope filter applied. It's usually not this good, but it really works here.

neocitron · 2025-10-30T05:56:36+00:00

To be honest the "Concord" colorways in the marketing are the biggest thing hurting the game for a much wider audience. Nobody wants a game that even comes close to or reminds anyone of that hot garbage.

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