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It's trying to fill that void the lack of a proper Stalker game has left us. I'm all for it.

Quote from AlexM

On 5/27/2021 at 8:22 PM, AlexM said: It went from about the ages of 16 to 26 before it really began to click so it took a little while haha. I didn't really study as much back then though. Mostly just learning what I need enough to ship games/products.

Programming is funny in that one day, suddenly everything just clicked and programming was no longer an issue. It's one of the few skills that the overnight feeling has ever happened for me.

I've had the same, been programming for a couple years and then things just started to make more sense pretty much overnight. Our brains process things in the background 24/7, hence it's often smarter to just sleep on a problem instead of trying to find a solution right in the moment.

Quote from FMPONE

1 hour ago, FMPONE said: You mean you didn't like the five minute conversation on top of a burning wooden building? I thought that was clever and thoughtful writing. I was also really invested in finding "ROSSEEEEEE"

Did you notice how there was no road from or to wherever they were headed in that crashed vehicle? Just the tiny path for the player to take

Quote from FMPONE

10 hours ago, FMPONE said: Refunded. Really one of those worst games I've played in years. Lumpy, uneven, terrible gameplay, worse puzzles, dumbass, goofy characters and a true "nothing" plot. Just so little to recommend it by except for the environment art, which is only occasionally inspired and often just bland.

My expectations were super high for this after the RE2 remake, which was absolutely fantastic.

Same for me, I gave up pretty much right after that long ass 'epic subversion of expectation' intro sequence. I booted it up the second time, looked at the map and just couldn't be arsed to continue (also partially because the game is viewed through a toilet roll it seems). What's with the terrible writing and story set ups lately? How are you supposed to care about what is going on/is going to happen next. ?

'Stay Human' is something their staff will struggle with after the game goes gold.[Blocked Image: https://www.comingsoon.net/assets/styd/assets/uploads/2013/01/file_171703_1_warm-bodies-set2.jpg]

And disk space required for games will be measured in Terabytes, lol.

It's already way out of control let alone when triangle count or texture resolution stop being limiting factors.

Quote from AlexM

13 hours ago, AlexM said: Honestly, I'm pretty much only buying it so I can play demons souls. Maybe the rachet and clank game too

Well that and one of my ps4's has eaten my Tekken disc so I can't play disc games on it anymore ?

What media apps are missing?

I dunno about American market but in Poland i'm missing HBO and a couple other local apps.

I'm trying to play through God of War now that the console doesn't sound like a helicopter (hello ps4 pro) and the game runs at steady 60fps

cant c shit

Sooo I got a PS5 at MSRP the other day. I used it for an hour and wondered why are people paying 250% of msrp for this? I mean, it's nice and all but there's basically no games for it still. Half of the media apps are missing too.

Quote from ThunderKeil

25 minutes ago, ThunderKeil said: What would you recommend?

I don't think anyone has pulled off the concept properly yet so I cannot recommend anything (also check out artengine's subscription price, lol)

'Artengine' is garbage. Unity bought Artomatix which had developed the most POS software known to man It's been years and it still doesn't really work. AI buzzwords sell tho lmao

The biggest scare of RE8 is it's FOV

Quote from kleinluka

2 hours ago, kleinluka said: YES! Thank you!

While the overall texture resolution was definitely improved in DOD:Source and geometry overall was of a higher quality, I always felt like DOD:Source looked and felt like a bit of a parody of the original game. Bright saturated colours, bloomy lighting, barely any dirt or grime despite all the broken down buildings everywhere. I still prefer DOD:Classic over Source, and not just because I worked on it... it just has better atmosphere in my opinion.

The noiseless art style made it very easy to play so I suppose it was a conscious choice. I do agree with the argument that original DoD felt more raw... it's hard to carry that over to the 'current gen' and maintain the visual clarity, though.

It's sad to me that this will eventually turn to garbage full of retards just like everything that eventually reaches mass market... think internet, chats, video games...

Quote from Castle

50 minutes ago, Castle said: 18+ for anything I am involved with. My friends range from literally 18 to 60 years old. Age is just a number for the most part in this kind of social environment. The oldest person I have ever hung out with was 68 if I recall.

Also Quest users have a relatively cheap setup and I try to make sure they are able to hang out in my worlds.

edit : as far as the social thing, I am surprised mapcore does not already have a VR meetup. After you experience it you wont want to go back I am not kidding.

Are the girls hot? (my pandemic lay count is depressing)

Quote from Castle

1 hour ago, Castle said: Yep, this is a thing and its been this way for a long time.

Alcoholism is also big in VR. I know multiple people who have suffered deteriorated health from over drinking. Its extremely common to have a live show or club event where people pass out in game. Your concerns are easily justified.

What kind of age brackets are we talking about? I can't imagine you see a lot of people under 30 considering the hardware requirements?

I have an Index and it never crossed my mind to use it to be social lol

Quote from Bunglo

5 hours ago, Bunglo said: I'm curious too as I always see comments on pripyat and clear sky how they're alright compared to SoC.

@duxI kind of wanted to run through them vanilla. Maybe I'll get frustrated at certain "mechanics" part way through and say fuck it and patch.

I've looked at some of the most popular mods and it's basically a completely different game... experience the originals first.

Quote from Bunglo

5 hours ago, Bunglo said: Running through Stalker before number 2 comes out, assuming it actually comes out this time. I've had all of them since 09' but I never actually finished my way through Chernobyl as I am a pussy. The menu theme always caused me to exit.

Wow you are a pussy indeed, good self awareness

Quote from blackdog

22 hours ago, blackdog said: They could have not caught it/have any reaction, no? (Carriers etc)

She had it from living the YOLO, he got it from her during the isolation and his case was much much worse... probably from inhaling that stuff 24/7 rather than just being exposed for a short period of time.

Quote from FMPONE

4 minutes ago, FMPONE said: Supposedly viral load is a factor in COVID. In other words if you are sneezed on by someone and intake a large viral load, you could get quite sick compared to how you would react if you came into contact with much lower quantities of the virus.

That's how it was for me, I was in contact with a COVID positive person for short amount of time and then I isolated afterwards. Took a week to get over.

A friend of mine decided to isolate with his COVID positive girlfriend to help her out (even though her case was pretty mild) and for him it was a rather bad experience (serves him right for being so dumb).