Posts by Zarsky

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Quote The Epic Games approach to publishing fundamentally changes the developer/publisher model, and aims to have the most developer-friendly terms in the industry, so that creators can focus on making great games.

• Full creative freedom and ownership. Developers retain 100% of all intellectual property and full creative control of their work.
• Fully-funded projects. Epic Games Publishing will cover up to 100% of development costs, from developer salaries to go-to-market expenses such as QA, localization, marketing, and all publishing costs.
• 50/50 profit sharing. Developers earn a fair share for their work -- once costs are recouped, developers earn at least 50% of all profits.

I got to hand it to Epic, this is a pretty cool move on their part (again).

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40 minutes ago, [HP] said: Nice, how's the quality of that cable? Is it USB? I wonder if a simple cable can sucessefully stream all the data that VR needs (Sensors, screens, controllers, etc) as well as the regular Rift S.

I actually bought from Amazon a 3rd party 3m cable (which is a bit too short tbh) for 1/6th on the price, because I'm a cheap ass. That cable has been great quality wise. Runs PC VR without a problem.

The Oculus Link cable is a USB-C 3.0 spec custom optical fiber cable. I'm thinking about getting the official Oculus Link cable or a similar 5m cable so I can stumble around more freely when the Headcrabs jump at me. Another option would be to buy an active USB3 extender and plug the 3m cable to that one, which could give more than 5m of range.

I got the Oculus Quest headset and Link cable. The benefit of Quest is that it's a standalone headset that is able to play games without a PC, but because of the android based hardware, it won't run all games tetherless. With the addition of the Link-cable you're able to attach it to a PC and utilize all the power your PC has to offer. Then you'll have access to Oculus PC and Steam VR titles.

It costs about 500$/570€ (64GB with the Link-cable).

In my experience it has been great, but I might have a different opinion if I've tried the Index.?

Played at least 4 hours straight. Excellent. Don't remember being so excited for a game in years.

Spoiler The section when you get the flashlight.....holy shit, nearly shit myself. ?

Unpacking..... ?

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Quote Our first look at a game set to ship at launch with Xbox Series X, The Coalition is busy enhancing Gears 5 for the power of Xbox Series X. This demo represents just two weeks of work, but already shows a much higher level of fidelity, vastly improved shadows and real-time global illumination - and so much more.

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9 hours ago, 0kelvin said: There is an on going wars about teraflops, lol.

I steer away for those spec comparison pages as there's bunch of self claimed experts arguing about things they don't understand. ?‍♂️

It will all come down to how devs utilize the hardware, and it's evident that there's a huge amount of potential avenues to explore for nextgen. Can't wait to see them games.

Pre-loading begins tomorrow! Is this really happening? ?

This thread explains the impact of the fast storage very well:

They'll be able to basically use the SSD as some sort of RAM pool to stream high LODs on demand. Say goodbye to cramming through a narrow crack/corridor or having to run mazes to get to your destination. I remember Horizon Zero Dawn couldn't have a lot of different robots roaming around the same area because of this as well. Oh, and that was also the reason you can't mount a flying machine in that game.

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5 hours ago, [HP] said: I've got myself a 1080ti, maybe I'll revisit this and play it in 4k eventually. Would love to try the DLC they released too.

Definitely play the DLC! Had a blast with it. Fleshes out the world and lore nicely.

I took the cheaper route with oculus quest + link. ?

It's been awhile since I've bought a game pre release or even at launch. Today was one of those rare times. ?

Here's a few highlights:

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Quote In this release you will find UDIM and USD support, MantaFlow fluids and smoke simulation, AI denoising, Grease Pencil improvements, and much more!

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2 hours ago, blackdog said: Noclip also did a podcast last week, just came up on my YT

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Yeah, I posted it last week.

Let's hope they won't settle for September. ?

Bethesda needs to be extremely incompetent if they're going to botch this launch.

Very tempted to spoil it, as I haven't yet had the time to play it. I'm trying to save this game for later when I can afford to enjoy it with all the Ray tracing bells and whistles. ?

Really intrigued with the overall design of the game. Recently tried to play through Quantum Break and I've been very disappointed by several things. I believe this game will remedy? QB's shortcomings.

Ohoy! Steam let's you try a demo of System Shock and many other upcoming (indie) titles during the Game Awards.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/thesteamgamefestival

You'll have until the 14th.

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On 12/7/2019 at 9:46 PM, FMPONE said: Few things on Source are this simple, one reason why the engine is so time consuming to work with

Any idea if Source 2 has improved in this regard?