Posts by AlexM

  • Diploma Game Art & 3D Animation

    My suggestion. You probably have a million ideas you want to do. Now is the time to do it. When you aren't working full time and/or supporting others.


    Interesting they have a marketing section. If it's an art school I can see a marketing class with a focus on marketing yourself (portfolio, interview practice etc) but this sounds like it's more product level marketing?

  • Steam Deck

    Quote from Izuno

    7 hours ago, Izuno said: Update: welp, it has been received (a few hours ago I got from my mailbox as I was away on holiday when it arrived)

    Not going to lie, I am enjoying it thus far. For some lolz I loaded a 20 year old game (original Day of Defeat) and while it runs fine some games are indeed not Steam deck interface optimized so it is a bit annoying that way. However that is a known issue. Otherwise, very very very excited to bust my wallet open for some Steam stuff.

    Do you happen to have a nintendo switch original? I'm wondering how heavy the steam deck feels in comparison (I know the weight difference but there's a feel factor too).

  • What are you playing now?

    I own them all, they are in my steam pile of shame. I might give the first 2 a try this summer. I remember playing the demo for FEAR1 what feels like 15 years ago and really liking it.

    I really gotta stop buying video games 😅

  • What are you playing now?

    Quote from 0kelvin

    1 hour ago, 0kelvin said: I quitted Quake 4 in the first mission and watched about 1 hour in youtube at 2x speed. I guess, the stroggs universe is a dead end. It adds some new tech on top of the old quake, but that's it. It's too dark and repetitive. There is a lot of blood stains everywhere but this is an action game, not an horror game. F.E.A.R. does a better job at bringing horror than doom 3 and quake 4 is boring. The medic dying on me made me quit haha. Id tech 4 suffers from a severe lack of contrast. It must had been some trade off between performance and color precision that they made at the time.

    This brought me one more example to my level design site. Revisiting areas can be done and the first mission did it and opened up some new passages, but to travel back just to escort a medic is so boring. It doesn't add bring anything fresh to the plot. It just forces the player to revisit a previous area twice.

    Trying Rage now.

    I remember thinking the combat in Rage was quite good and all the stuff in between was a waste of time. btw, which is the best FEAR?

  • What are you playing now?

    Quote from 0kelvin

    On 6/4/2022 at 4:03 AM, 0kelvin said: Duke Nukem Forever.

    I knew it was bad and I'm playing it to get more examples for my level design site. The first enemies and levels are already awful.

    EDIT: I couldn't bare this game. I had to download a save and use the cheats to rush it straight to the ending with god mode and infinite ammo. lol. It has the same mistake of Prey 2006. They give no clues and leave the player lost with no proper directions.

    What's your level design site?

  • What have you watched recently?

    I got rid of all my streaming services but I have like 5 months left of amazon prime so I checked out "Keven can fuck himself" and it's pretty good. Probably not for everyone though. It changes from corny comedy to dark drama frequently throughout the show.

  • Elden Ring

    It's still a soft cap though so if you have a weapon that only scales with one attribute then it's fine to go over 60. I have strength build that has str at 75 because no other attribute will scale the weapon. I do wonder if that means quality could potentiality do more damage though.

    Also btw there's another soft cap at 40.

  • Sourcemods/Total-conversion Memorial Thread

    I worked on a mod called firearms source. First as a mapper, then tech artist/make it work guy then became lead and finally got the game shipped. It went on for quite a few years after I left. I keep in touch with a bunch of developers. Some of them are in california working at naughty dog and at some silicon valley companies.


    https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Firearms:_Source


    found this neat thread when googling a while back :

  • Elden Ring

    Quote from FMPONE

    5 minutes ago, FMPONE said: I took a break at Maliketh since it was basically just impossible for my build despite being at 99 str and level 150 or something. Farum Azula was just a chore to get through and I reached Malenia and saw the end-game levels so mostly just got sick of losing so much productivity to the game.

    I'll probably go back and finish it later this year, but it's hard to say. Definitely got my moneys worth :D

    whoo boy you aren't lying. I'm WAY behind on a bunch of projects because of this game :X

    It's currently taken the crown from UMVC3 as a video game I only plan to play for an hour at a time then find the entire day is gone when said hour is complete ?

  • Elden Ring

    Ok the patch that fixed arcane scaling is fairly nuts. Rivers of blood special is pretty crazy since bleed procs go through shields! I'm now like 130 hours in and still haven't beaten the game although I now have the option.

  • Elden Ring

    Quote from FMPONE

    On 3/6/2022 at 10:13 PM, FMPONE said: http://# Hide contents Are you talking about Radahn? I fought him for the first time tonight and just LOL'd. This fucking game man. So ruthless.

    Spoiler heh yeah, that's him


    So I just found out that the scaling in Elden Ring is different than the previous games, the biggest gains are from 30-40 now. So It sounds like having vigor at 40 is more than double the life bonus of having vigor at 20. I have a respec item which i'm holding off on using but when I do I plan to put more into vigor. It's getting to the point where my character is getting one-shotted by regular enemies in the far north.