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Give it a try if you might be into Viscera cCleanup with gardening mechanics, the demo is free! Reviews very appreciated: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5105020/Goreticulture_Demo/

Edit: and it has a native Linux build!!

The vibes are rotten this time around as Next Fest features thousands of AI slop demos

Or in other words, old man yells at cloud. Don't take this too seriously, I don't want to offend anyone.

I was recently watching some FF7 Remake / Rebirth technical analysis videos on Youtube, and while I can respect the persons who are doing and sharing these kind of analyses (it is valuable work!), the crowd (i.e. comment section) seems so... Spoiled, to me.

Of course with newer tech we should expect improvements in quality and performance, but the way I see it as a 40+ year old gamer, is that games have always had performance issues. Maybe developers are always too ambitious on whatever is currently possible? idk.

Of course I'm biased. I've always played (AAA) games several years after release, as I've never had the resources to invest to current gen tech. And I've always been satisfied, and I've had fun. People have complained forever about Bloodborne being 30 fps, but I'm still happily playing it in 2026 because it's a freaking great game.

I don't really know what I'm saying, this is just me rambling... Like for example in the FF7R, if you find 5 textures in a game that are a bit wonky on the resolution side in a 30-60 hour game, that doesn't warrant complaining or being bitter about it. It seems like anything that isn't flawless or perfect gets a ton of hate almost like, and it's so weird to me. A millisecond of stutter here or there doesn't either.

This ended up being kinda poorly written, I had more in mind when I started writing but I already forgot a lot what I wanted to say. But you get the gist? Anyone else feel like this?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/77260315

With the current prices of PCs it seems that PS5 is a better investment. But I looked at the prices of PS5 now and it is not available anywhere. The places that do sell them, they sell it at around $1300. Is the Pro really worth it at this point?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/77059516

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/77059238

But within hours of its release players noted that long-standing bugs were still present alongside new ones and, worse still, upscaled in-game assets showed clear evidence of AI retouching.

The backlash has led the publisher and the original developer to delist the game from sale and even promise to “reinstate the original game while we investigate the issues”.

Was out of town for a while but I am back! What have you been playing! I beat control resonant and started silent hill townfall. It's decent so far. Also going to be jumping into Castlevania soon. Been playing a lot of playdate! Season 3 is off to a strong start!

First yes the Image above is someone merging assets in to mario. If you want to listen to someone explain the basics here is a video but I will talk about it more technically.

https://youtu.be/yGkjS0gFxnY This is the bear bones panic. It won't create new mods.

Firstly these are old games meaning things were leaked modded and have years of moder notes. The main reason why you see them all over the place is because it has so much information on how to mod about them. In reality AI was just the final step of cracking the code literally. New games like Wolverine run on 1 FPS compared to others because of that on PC.

A guy just siting on a afternoon and saying "I'm am going to make this dumb mod and flood Nexus or ModDB with low effort mods" is not gonna happen. First it costs way too much with the models they use and second it takes a long time.

So to remove all the fear and speculation I am just gonna say blatantly nothing that is talked on the internet is true it's just fear and fearmongering.

Now I will tell you how a mod is made for Skyrim and then how mods were made for Stalker.

Skyrim has tools and a lot of available ready to download for free tools that can be used to convert Blender files and other assets in to Skyrim. It has tools to modify the base code and it has de compilers and map editors now.

The catch is AI can't make a good asset that you can just port. best case it has a good mesh, but you still need to remodel it, because the vertices are messed up. Rigging and animation are bear bones as well. So Everything regarding armor and models needs to still be done by hand.

The code is the only thing that gets more available but even with that you need to know how code actually works. What the hell is code and what does it actually do. Their is books on C++ and even the creator of it said you don't actually need to know the code fully to work with it. Ironically Code bases have become so bloated that you need to use AI to actually explain what the hell are you looking at.

Que valve coder notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k238XpMMn38

Que Microsoft coder notes https://youtu.be/9dRSF1htY-4

So yes just fear mongering. Ai won't make your mods but it makes it more available to do so. It can explain a problem and why something is happening because it understands the debugger.

Now Stalker. The X-ray engine and the Stalker code has been mith and legend for a very long time. Well not any longer because someone leaked the Xray engine partially.

The code is bad and people for a decade have been trying to figure out how to fix the game. If you add AI to the occasion it will break the game because writing "Fix code pls" isn't really a instruction as the problems are many and a lot are even unknown because we don't have the full code.

A-Life is so complex apparently that modern GSC can't actually recreate it in Stalker 2.

So yeah it's way more complex then writing "Make game pls" as a instruction. Like Name 10 AI games for example I dare you.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/72661596

Out of these three, I think it's easiest for a modern player to get into Dead Rising. the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster was very well-done and is currently $25 on steam.

Dino Crisis I really think has a good chance of getting remade one day. Nothing's been confirmed, but I just feel it.

The video broadly explains how it technically works, the current landscape of implementations with the help of AI, their explorations, and their limitations.

Running Minecraft alongside other games, and through shared memory, gameplay elements merge and work together. Minecraft blocks and player combat control in Skyrim, in a Skyrim world, with enemies behaving like in Skyrim.

Here is his post https://www.reddit.com/r/SS13/comments/1w1i5sg/gruntz_prototype_demonstration_of_cm13_in_the/

I played it it is PVE and it can have over 2000 enteties without the server even slowing down to be honnest. Idk if it was a stress test or something but the server didn't move.

It is a US server but connection is great even from other countries somehow.

For windows I recomend the Ahwoo loader as it's easiest to update and play https://neutrino.ahwoo.com/

For Linux he has a google doc you can open from the link on reddit.

If you like CM in SS14 or SS13 I recomend this altough it will be neither of them. It will be open to the public to mod when everything gets finished now it's a test. The feature is open to be honnest but it's here and it's playable.

Comparisons:

SS13: it has WAY better connection FPS and stability it has missing features but the core is there.

SS14: It has everything SS14 has, altough some features are not added like the janitor spray. Altough it has way more, in terms of reason to do thing like clean cook and other things as you get payed to do your job. You go to the ATM and just buy you don't have to go to anyone like cargo.

Features it has that SS14 does no: Z levels it has multiple levels. Going prone makes it so bullets don't hit you.

A glitch in the EA Sports FC 27 video game, which saw some women’s players appear in their underwear, will be resolved by a title update, the game’s manufacturer Electronic Arts has announced.

EAFC27, part of the world’s largest football video game franchise, was released in the United States and worldwide on September 25. Users with early access to the game, which went live on September 18, reported that some women’s character models would, in certain cut-scenes, appear without their kits, wearing only black underwear.

Hey everyone! I'm back! Sorry for the lack of gaming threads. And I appreciate the people who took up the mantle while I was away. I hope to be back doing these more regularly but will figure something out for if I do decide to take an extended leave again.

Soooooo. What have you been playing!!! Since we last spoke I've been playing a metric fuck ton. I cleared a lot of backlog but right now I am devouring Control Reasonant. Game is unreasonably good. Highly recommend of you liked the first game! I personally think it is better in almost every way. It rocks

If you own the original the remastered is free.

Poor Sony, I know they want to get rid of physical games, but they don't deserve this /s

PS: Jailbreaking is legal. https://youtube.com/watch?v=P0l5ZooURGY

I just realized we haven't had one since May, and I miss the weekly sharing and discussion. Was there a reason we stopped them? I'd be happy to post them myself if that would be helpful, I just can't pin them myself.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/49719896

I love this game and since its not updating very offten i decided to learn programming and start making things that i want myself.

So i made some first mods. One is lode stone, i changed recepy to use metal ingot instead of netherite ingot. Small change but wery important one, because player can use it much earlier in the game, and can make as much of them as it needs. Its wery usefull item in the game and it never should have been expencive.

Second mode is furnice, blast furnice should simply be better version of regular furnice. And thats exactly what i made. It can smelt all the items same as regular one but it smelts items twice as fast.

I want to learn everything, so if you have some place where i can find all informacions about how game works and how to make mods, please share it with me.

Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios is bowing to the pacifists and trialing a PvE mode in their extraction shooter. If you play between October 13th and 20th, you'll be able to flick a toggle that means you load either into the traditional world of Arc Raiders, where human players vie for the valuable scraps left behind in a ruined world watched over by killer robots, or a slightly safer version where the machines are still deadly but the humans can't hurt you.

"We’re seeing a large and growing group of Raiders who come to the Rust Belt for the co-op and the ARC, not fighting with other Raiders," Embark say in the post announcing the trial. "That group has become a core part of our community, so it’s important we learn how to support them properly rather than leave them working around the game."

To back this up, the studio share some data they've collected, showing that there are now more players that play only friendly co-op and never attack other humans than the merciless pure PvP bunch. Apparently the PvP group has remained at a stable 34% since the game's launch, but the number of mixed players, who spend most their time being affable members of the post-apocalypse society but occasionally dabble in wanton homicide, has shrunk, with most opting to become full-time peaceniks.