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@Pirat_Nation Valve has never removed bought games from someones library. Valve helped create proton making gaming in Linux possible for thousands of games that are Windows only. Valve created not just a launcher but a whole platform for gaming that rivals a console. They are not the same

@xxxxpistolpete @thomasmahler @dark1x It’s very easy to put the good bits into promotional material.

@thomasmahler @dark1x I'm guessing you've watched no videos whatsoever. All of their videos including the digital foundry one your speaking on, has shown tons and tons of different locals and tons of interesting areas. I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say. None of the footage has looked empty

Since my whole timeline is full of people swooning about @dark1x claim that getting from one point of Crimson Desert’s map to another took a whopping 4 hours, let me share what’s going through my mind: I’ve been doing Level Design for 17 years now - I designed most of the levels / world for the Ori games and I’m still supervising LD on Wicked, so I think I can share some valuable insight. I always find it a bit worrying when everyone gets excited about ‘oh my god, they crafted an insanely huge world!’. In fact, I have basically the exact opposite reaction, which is more like: ‘Oh no, they started with a huge terrain, I hope they had an army of level designers to actually create a meaningful world instead of just a procedurally crafted, empty husk.’ I know how difficult it is to design good levels and how much time it takes us to build ours - so just hearing that, I already know that there’s likely not going to be a lot of actual good level design in Crimson Desert. And I actually don’t want to sound too disparaging or ruin anyone’s fun because Crimson Desert certainly looks insane and I can’t wait to play it myself either, but I also know how important and how underrated good level and world design is for a title and what the effect is if you have to OK huge, but empty worlds. I’d say at this point even some of the best studios in the world weren’t able to crack that nut. Even Nintendo struggled for a long time with the world size of Breath of the Wild and ultimately they had to put hundreds of devs on it to fill it up with content, but even their content then mostly consisted of ‘oh, here’s another Korok Seed!’ and other such lukewarm experiences. Since procedural level generation produces pretty crappy results and since we don’t have AI yet that can actually create well designed levels, the only way out of feeling like being in an empty world is to make every inch interactive. Minecraft did that and it was quite genius - but I doubt that’s what CD is going for. I understand the allure of ‘they created an entire universe!’, but be careful what you wish for: In Gaming Worlds, huge usually also means extremely shallow.

Did you know everyone on Steam has a personal calendar now based on games you've wishlisted and devs you follow?

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My @Twitch recap! @mightyteapot @ProjektDyad @lara_irl @GamesDoneQuick @Primordialmuk #TwitchRecap

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Imagine getting body shamed in your own YouTube comment section lmao. ...I do need to lose some weight. Ran 5km yesterday and will do another 5km tomorrow.

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@NewBlood Come on Ultrakill leaving EA!

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@elonmusk please do more live streams! youtu.be/jDJaymU2hfw

When you upgrade from a 3060 to a 4070.

Twitch Streamer @CarnyJared full combo'd Through the Fire and Flames at 200% speed on Guitar Hero, something never done before He spent 9 months and 50,000 attempts to achieve this... actually insane

@LoliLondon @sama Go ask Grok how much it’s worth. Elons own AI says $11-13 billion. Elon over paid.

@sama He paid $44 billion and its much more successful now you are offering less than 25% for a product that gone up in value 🤔🤔

no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want

@SynthPotato Looks more like the normal maps are shit. Probably to same memory on console and they never improved them on PC.

I know it's a nitpick but wow does Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth have some of the worst textures I've seen in the past decade, and this is on maxed out settings on PC 😵‍💫

@LookAtMyMeat1 Context is key. Gabe was talking about systems added for realism only for the sake of realism. Like needing to eat or drink to stay alive. If it’s just tedious nonsense it shouldn’t be there because that’s not fun.

Realism isn't fun

Well that’s a detail I didn’t know!

@BQQuinn Absolutely love 2077. Enjoy every second, even at over 100hrs to complete every side quest and ending it’s over too soon.

I just started playing CyberPunk 2077 on PS5. Man, what a fun game. Keanu is so good in it.

@ishidddd1 @NikTekOfficial The demo at CES was FSR4 performance mode and it looked really good. Very little smearing and shimmering. We need proper tests of course, but it’s very promising. If every game looks like that, then yeah it’s better than DLSS3.

@Tree_Dude @NikTekOfficial that implies FSR4 catching DLSS3

Don't worry about missing out on multiple-frame gen DLSS 4 Performance mode looks BETTER than DLSS 3 Quality mode (possibly even better than Native Res) This model just made every other upscaling solution obsolete and it means that you can get a better looking game for the fraction of the resolution. The difference between DLSS Quality and Performance is the internal rendering resolution. DLSS Quality renders 66.6% lower than output resolution and DLSS Performance renders 50% of the pixels. In theory if you were to run a Game at 4k with DLSS the internal resolution for DLSS Performance Mode would be rendered in 1080p It is incredible considering that this looks better than DLSS Quality mode. So everyone who owns an RTX 20 Series, 30 Series and 40 Series can enjoy the benefits of their upgraded DLSS without having to buy a new GPU. Props to Nvidia

@NikTekOfficial They jumped on AI faster than the rest and it paid off. I don’t think AMD or Intel will ever truly catch them unless they make some huge mistake. I say that as someone who has been team red for 20yrs…

@Tree_Dude It’s sad to see every GPU company play catch up with Nvidia

@Lol_Lolsson03 @NikTekOfficial From what I have seen I am not so sure. The FSR4 demo from CES had very little smearing in performance mode. DLSS3 in performance does smear quite a bit in the distance. I really can’t wait for the comparison vids, but it looks like we have a couple months to go…

@Tree_Dude @NikTekOfficial And DLSS3 is probably still better than FSR4