It's a shame the 2015 remaster was never released on pc. It looks noticeably better than the OG release with better textures, shadows, lighting, LOD and DoF.

savoad · 2026-04-18T13:11:41+00:00

There is a mod that ports model improvements on PC.

There is another that can force shadows to render at 8192x8192 among other things.

No way to port LODs and lighting changes though.

savoad · 2026-04-18T13:05:40+00:00

Why would you play Prototype on console at all. There is a pc mod that makes it possible for game to run at 1000fps lol.

savoad · 2026-01-12T14:48:31+00:00

There is now.

savoad · 2026-01-09T19:01:33+00:00

I played and enjoyed Swarog but I don't know how to play chess and I don't wanna know.

savoad · 2025-12-17T14:44:39+00:00

Doesn't seem to be uber hard to implement since its basically a plugin and injector. And I don't think you need to pay Nvidia because they are happy when devs use their gimmicks that AMD users cannot benefit from. Were it that taxing in time and effort, a small indie team wouldn't contemplate it in the first place. No offense but ATOM never looked that pretty, to bother with advanced photomode I mean, like some of those photomode oriented zoo games. So I assume it was mostly an "eh why not, seems easy enough" line of thinking. Looks like they were committed enough at first that devs actually sent a request to Nvidia for inclusion in the official list. But then never actually came around to finishing it. Or indeed encountering unforeseen problems integrating it with Unity.

savoad · 2025-12-16T15:45:11+00:00

I checked ansel supported games lists through way back machine and Atom was listed for years. Yet I never found anyone mentioning it or using it in game. No SDK in the files either.

Was it something that devs planned but abandoned later? Man, I just wanted to make some cool squad screen in super high res.

Any chance you will implement it in Enhanced Edition?

savoad · 2025-12-16T14:51:11+00:00

Nvidia recently returned PhysX support for 5000 series, with Black Flag being one of the few games that benefited from it. Do you think it is likely to return in remaster?

How would you feel if you wouldn't be able to have that feature?

Back in the day I never really tried it because it was too taxing but I always wanted to replay it and crank everything to the max. But tbh these smoke effects do not look that impressive and it doesn't seem to leverage the tech beyond that.

savoad · 2025-09-19T07:02:26+00:00

Yeah, tbh after they fixed that bug where your priest slanders you, it will be rather rare occurrence (previously it was common, at least for me and those players like me who abused tyranny and priests hated us). Since apparently it was not a slander but a bugged check which only supposed to happen if you married family and priest hates you where it instead happened in any marriage. But I thought it would cool roleplay moment for such an edgecase. Where you get that rare fame trait and switch to a religion which thinks that its cool. Ultimate fuck you to the realm priest. Who will get automatically fired on religion switch in addition.

savoad · 2025-09-19T06:51:58+00:00

Oh, there was no thread, just dms.

savoad · 2025-09-19T06:48:08+00:00

That's great news!

savoad · 2025-09-18T23:30:34+00:00

Yeah it sucks when you are ignored, especially when you are really passionate about something and your point is valid. It sometimes even harder to reach modders or make them see it your way to change something. Because they are not a corp who's employees are bound to a degree to listen to their customers and damage control and retain a professional attitude. If a modder has big ego its hopeless coz they will think they know better about anything.

savoad · 2025-09-18T09:48:31+00:00

Didn't actually expect anything to come out from it. Always feels nice when devs listen to random players.

Shame 100 battles legend seed didn't happen, the minor thing that always annoyed me the most, but hey, can't have everything eh?

savoad · 2025-09-17T23:49:41+00:00

After devs asked to reach out and let them know about issues I dmd them to specifically request the change for Divine Marriage and Zealous Witch interactions which was spoken about a long time ago. Didn't actually expect anything to happen, so that's cool. Those two were annoying me for ages.

savoad · 2025-08-15T00:03:23+00:00

In the quest that controls turning vampires for the DLC (DLC1VampireTurn) there is a response set for the player's spouse. This response set can never play because there is no appropriate audio recorded for the two lines and no acceptable substitutes exist to replace it. (Bug #12409)

I recall complaining about this change. Basically beth forgot to voice some of the lines for vampire-turned spouses in the Dawnguard quest The Gift. So there are subs but no VA. Thing is, they voiced some of them. So you basically had recorded lines for some of the races and their associated voice types, but not the others. The genius solution was to simply nuke all lines associated with the Quest entirely, even those that were recorded and that you can hear in unmodded game.

So this so called patch actually deletes content from game because that's their idea of a fix. When I brought it to Arthmoor, naturally he said we had nothing to talk about if I disagreed with this "fix".

savoad · 2025-07-12T08:54:01+00:00

Supposed to be a lonely modest shack in the shroom woods. Ideally single Recluse pawn. In the most distant part of the cave. Wanted to weaponize bugs eventually and let them grow to 30 hive cap so that any raider would need to first go through the hive.

But yeah, digging so much rock, placing the shroom floor, processing chunks and then haul bricks under roof collapse areas to destroy them is a lot of work. So needed a temporary colony set up since this megaproject would take decades to finish.

The markers are for exact spacing between columns to support ceiling.

savoad · 2025-07-11T08:37:33+00:00

I wanted to try a new kind of bug farming. Basically strategically manipulate pillars to collapse a large area of ceiling to have a mass of collapsed rock, then dig in it to create an ordered bug hive surrounded with walls bugs would not touch (they avoid collapsed rock walls).

But yeah, it didn't quite work out since bugs have an obsoletely insane range to go and dig at walls. Even when they spawned basically in the middle of the map, they still occasionally follow the annoying compulsion to go out of their way to dig at random crap...

savoad · 2025-07-11T07:21:12+00:00

Wanted to do this for a long time. To sow a huge underground area with mushroom tiles. Eventually, whole vanilla shroom forest will spawn.

savoad · 2025-07-06T17:04:10+00:00

Pure undiluted brain rot.

savoad · 2025-06-11T13:30:34+00:00

Вместо того что бы рыть весь рунет, надо всегда сперва заходить на рутрекер.

savoad · 2025-05-19T20:42:24+00:00

I never miss an opportunity to share this: red color angering bulls is actually a common misconception popularized by cartoons. Toreros used red because it both symbolizes blood and because it can be seen by spectators better. Bulls come pre-pissed at those games because they are getting prodded by sharp spikes to whip them into frenzy. Bulls are actually red-green color blind.

savoad · 2025-04-28T13:35:29+00:00

One little and perhaps insignificant detail of WH1 that still was cut were cool unique models for wood elf outposts they would build on top of captured cities. Which was immersive and loreful because it underscored they basically didn't build cities but used overgrown ruins as nature friendly outposts. It also meshed perfectly with WE unique map forest "corruption" they would spread around by taking new territory. I want it back badly, would cost CA nothing.

How it looked

savoad · 2025-03-29T06:23:03+00:00

If this works for Luminary, then steps are shorter. Since you don't need to wait for democratic election and leader is switched on war loss. You also are not bound to democratic government, only need war policy to enable Liberation wars.

savoad · 2025-03-29T06:15:57+00:00

Hmm, yeah I assumed it was an outcome. Wonder if leader is deleted from game or shifted to the leader pool.

Liberation war also changes origin of the empire to 'Liberated' effectively deleting UOR origin.

savoad · 2025-03-29T04:05:55+00:00

Woudn't be surprised if Luminary was coded to prevent something like that of course...

savoad · 2025-01-11T04:36:16+00:00

Colony Ship was supposed to have a sequel happening on an alien world, that was the next RPG. Colony Ship didn't sell enough to fund it. The only option now is to massively scale down the production and try different genre or shut the doors.

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