Posts by WD

  • Plasticity

    I found a great simple software called Plasticity which kinda neatly simplifies NURB editing with a very CAD like UI. Really powerful stuff when you start messing around with it. You can create really awesome hard surface models with ease when you don't need to mess around with polygons what so ever.

    https://www.plasticity.xyz/

    Anyone else tried this one?

  • Somehow, Tribes returned

    While I do love Tribes until death. I don't know if it's the type of game people like to play.

    The vast distances and great speeds make the game often feel like you're just chasing blips on a minimap or UI icons with hundreds of meters. When nowadays people want to purchase cosmetics to look better than others and show off.

    I remember playing some beta of sorts of a Tribes-like game some years ago which I don't remember the name of anymore. I wonder where that went.

  • What are you playing now?

    PS plus has been amazing for me since I've never owned a Playstation until I got PS5. Since the last year I've played most of the exclusive series from back to back, Uncharted, God of War, Last of Us... but just recently they unexpectedly pulled all the Metal Gear games when I was just about to start to play them. Talk about a big massive fuck you to a lot of people, including me, thinking 'classics catalogue' would be something that would be constantly expanding once the time goes on. I hope that means PS4 and PS5 are getting Metal Gear remasters, which will probably be dog shit knowing who's behind the publishing.

    OK enough about the rant.

    Been enjoying God of War Ragnarök, though the core gameplay is so much of the same as the last one. I feel it's wearing down on me although It's constantly making it's best to mix things up.

  • What have you purchased recently?

    Quote from AlexM

    On 8/3/2022 at 8:25 PM, AlexM said: I'm most interested to see HDR

    It’s really frigging sweet. In movies it’s not so much of a difference. I’ve seen few blurays but I couldn’t tell the difference. But in games it really makes the image pop when used with proper tone mapping. It took me few months before I realized to turn off the horrible TV default HDR setting and use HGiG mode. I recommend looking that up. I just wish HDR were implemented in games more often. Playstation should have the XBox equivalent auto HDR feature so that we could play older titles with deeper colors.

    Ghost Of Tshusima especially has some of the best HDR I’ve seen so far.

  • What have you purchased recently?

    Scratched some things off the "I'll buy it when I absolutely have to" list

    a good bed

    a car

    Holy hell I did not expect how comfortable it is to sleep on a good mattress. My chronic sore back just completely relaxes for the night.

    Though I don't think my sleep has gotten that much better after the later purchase, my previous car was really at it's last leg. Being this poor all of a sudden gives me anxiety.

  • Ghost of Tsushima

    I played the ps5 version of this. It's crazy how well it's put together, it's one of the best open world games in my opinion.

    The minimalistic approach for the HUD worked so well. Using a wind mechanic as a guidance system was brilliant. Though they still needed a blinking HUD element to highlight the interaction point when you got close enough. There were only a handful of instances where I didn't get that indicator and took me a few minutes to find the exact place for a button press.

    One of the few open world games where the combat didn't feel like tedious busywork at the end of the game.

  • Mental health / rant thread

    Quote from Mark Karhan

    23 hours ago, Mark Karhan said: Has anyone had a really good experience with a particular EU country?

    I like my country. Recommended, Finland’s fucking weird, you’ll love it. I don’t travel much anyways. Makes me just miss home.

    Good luck with getting better. Mental health is no joke. I was denying my depression long enough without seeking help when I should have. I hit rock bottom. Times were different back then, never saw a doctor or took a pill. Took me long time to recover back to my normal self.

  • Unreal Engine 5

    Super interesting stuff. Before watching that deep dive video, I knew there was some virtualization black magic stuff happening with Nanite just from watching how it's set up from the Early Access and what features it currently supports.

    But the fact that it's just triangles that are changing in sub-pixel level makes it just as that, and that I truly understood less than half of the words in that video. Virtualized black magic stuff.

    Can you even say black magic anymore? I haven't hung around in them Twitters for years.

  • Deathloop - New Arkane Lyon's game

    6 hours in and I've just shaken the training wheels. It does like to take it's time to explain how to "break the loop" which I honestly don't mind. theres a lot of mechanics and systems that needs a thorough explanation since it feels like the game opens up a lot after that.

    Some signs of a bumpy launch. I would have loved to try out online on my first level when making my first assassination but I couldn't connect to the online service yesterday. The game itself works amazingly good on PS5 with the 60fps mode.

    A funny incident with my first AI Julianna encounter. I had just setted up a turret for no apparent reason in the rooftop next to Colts aparment and when she showd up, I just ran past my turret off the rooftop and she just ran into my turret and got shred to pieces instantly. So my first Julianna encounter lasted less than 30 seconds.

    I quite like it so far!

  • The Matrix Resurrections

    I dunno. Seems alright for a next entry of The Matrix.

    *Adjusts glasses*

    We really don't know if it's a sequel or not. It does represent an older version of Neo though it might tell us that it is indeed a hard reset of Matrix after Smith had been dealt with but it could also be a version of Matrix before any of that, making it a prequel, or something in between. We know there has been multiple versions of Matrix and Neo, as seen in The Matrix Revolutions. Notice the plural in all of the names. The movie could just be one represention of the many.

  • What have you purchased recently?

    Got me a PS5. I haven't have a proper console since xbox360. ( Switch doesn't count since I never use it in docked mode. )

    I've been coutch gaming most of this pandemic with my PC so why not go all in. I've been wanting on playing those PS exclusives too.


    Pretty fucking sweet that most exclusives I was planning on trying out from PS4 are included in their subscription packages. Though not all, I'll try get some missing ones 2nd hand.

    It'll be a while until I've cleared some of the backlog to even try out the new stuff. Can't wait. The adaptive triggers are amazing.

  • Subnautica

    Just finished it the other day. Its definitely a upgrade on all aspects from the previous game. Here's what I think about it.

    pros:

    • World & biomes definitely the highlight of the game, I liked the variety and the challenges each biome gives.
      • Felt like a gigantic world to explore, the "hotspots" or POIs were much dense with less void between them. In retrospect they are like, really packed together. But for a person exploring the world for the first time, feels a lot more bigger than it really is :D
      • More surface exploration was both refreshing from being underwater and I liked the challenge of keeping warm until you unlock the snow suit, zooming around with Hover bike was so much fun.
      • I especially enjoyed earlygame, making some oxygen tubes to the northern kelp caves where I got some useful upgrade. I forget what it was but it felt important to make such effort since I didn't have much at that point.
    • Story was all round better I liked the voice work and all the banter between the protagonist and Al-AN, not to forget all the voice logs which I found interesting to hear.
      • Instead of finding just derelict stations and ships, finding another survivor was refreshing.
    • Both the design and movement of all the life forms. Fish properly look like fish with all the wonderful fins and tentacles and whatever things each fish has attached to their bodies, merrily flopping around.
      • I felt the medium sized hostile creatures frightening! Especially the spiky one thrashing around with its 4 webbed feet when it's coming at you, gets your blood pumping.
    • There were less items and upgrades than in the last game but I used almost every item & upgrade in the game and they felt they had some use one way or the other. I ignored quite a bit of some upgrades & items in the last game since they felt unuseful.
      • Flares for instance did not have any use in the last game, they now they repel those furry polar reptiles which are really hard to deal with otherwise.
        • I felt really bad after knifing one to death before I figured that out. I made one nest of orphans out of my ignorance.
      • Seaglide radar! It's a lifesaver.

    cons:

    • Leviathan creatures, all of them. They felt too agressive, predictable and just plain nuisance. I did not figure out any tactic how to repel them or avoid them in the last section of the game.
      • Leviathan attack just felt like a 5 sec pause of the gameplay resulting of me repairing my seatruck in the end of it.
      • Also the leviathan on top of the ice seemed to lack something and usually felt unfair for me to not be able to avoid getting hit by it.
    • Delta station. I did not figure out how to get there. That one cave entrance, seriously. I did three trips to the center island and I did not found a way to get to the radio tower until I searched from wiki where I can find a modification station.
    • Cave with red crystals. Again I failed to connect the dots and missed completely how to get there. felt 2 hours just aimlessly looking every place I thought I haven't seached yet until I looked it up.

    Summing up:

    Aside from me being bad at videogames.

    Overall better game, in some aspects steps better, in other aspects strides better than the last one which I thought was one of the best games released in 2018.

  • What’s your mouse of choice

    This thread inspired me to get an ergonomic mouse. Thanks @Buddy, how's that logitech partnership going along? :D

    I'll just add my 2 cents here. While I haven't suffered from strain from using a regular mouse. I do feel it now after I got used to the ergonomic one, which only tells me my wrist just got used being strained 24/7. I'm pretty certain this will save me from wrist related pain/injury in the long run.