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@NikTek Big dawg, I'm not reading all that, the answer is simple: Arkham Knight ran like hot, buttered ass for everyone on release because it was built on a funky "in-between" version of like Unreal 3.5, almost 4, but not quite. Unreal Engine has not improved since 3 in any way since.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight optimization doesn't make sense. Batman: Arkham Knight, was launched in 2015 and was developed on UE3, this game looked nothing short of incredible. The initial PC port was bad, primarily due to Rocksteady's fault for outsourcing it to a team of 12 people. But with later updates, Arkham Knight has aged like fine wine as it still looks just as beautiful today and you can even play it with little to no issues on low end hardware today. Fast forward to 2026, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight launches in less than a month, albeit not developed by a different game studio, it is still being developed on Unreal Engine 5 and the system requirements which have just been released are a disaster. You would think that after all this time, the improvements in unreal engine itself and modern tech would allow developers to optimize their games much more efficiently, but it looks like the exact opposite is happening. If you have a low end GPU and want to run this game at 30FPS, the developer recommends you turn on frame-gen and set the upscaling mode to balanced. That's 16-17 base FPS which is then doubled with frame-gen and an internal resolution of 847p to achieve 30FPS, can you imagine how bad the resulting image, latency and overall experience would be? a 600$ GPU like the AMD RX 9070 XT cannot run this game at 60FPS native 4k if you don't turn on FSR set to quality and enable frame-gen. The worst part about all of this is that LEGO Batman doesn't even look visually more demanding than Arkham Knight, you would think that this game would be easy to run on low end hardware but not with a UE5 game, LEGO Batman is more demanding that Arkham Knight could ever be. There's something inherently wrong either with how Unreal Engine 5 handles open-world games or how developers are deliberately choosing to skip optimization altogether. I don't know if it is just me, but it truly feels like good optimization has been a lost art for most Unreal Engine titles.

When your hand itches and you gotta just:

Today should be a national holiday. For on this day, @ScottSteiner Math was born.

@kealanicol @hopes_revenge Well yeah, it's hot

@hopes_revenge True on account that when I attended a Rammstein concert the crowd was dead no matter what the band tried to do to get them excited. It was weird. Very much like just standing in a pasture of cows.

everyone i’ve met from Arizona seems like they dont have a human soul , but rather like a horse or a cow soul . not a bad thing — just different .

@DUSKdev It's on 4K disc next month, chop chop submarine boy, get to it

You all are going to make me watch Speed Racer now aren't you

@Modeltrainguy_ @Mach5Museum @GoodSmile_US I keep saying Override could work for a Mach 5 retool.

@Mach5Museum @GoodSmile_US Speed racer/transformers collab when

This resurgence of Speed Racer is a good time for @GoodSmile_US to make a Speed Racer figure!

@KaijiTang It got a limited IMAX rerelease that was allegedly "fucking bonkers"

i don't know why the speed racer movie is suddenly all over my timeline but my god what a film

if i was Spirtle Racer i’d be pissed as hell. what do you mean my two older brothers got to be named Rex and Speed Racer and then i’m Spirtle

The Wachowskis face-melting maximalist opus #SpeedRacer in IMAX gave me a serious high. Colors are insane! What a tremendous feat to have made a live action dazzler look, feel & move like an anime film. They should play it in IMAX theaters once a year in perpetuity.

@aegyocals Dream body, no question

would you rather get your dream body rn and never gain a single pound ever again or receive 1M dollars rn.

Amazing nickname like generational

THE CURSE IS LIFTED

What just happened to me

@KmaFr_ It was up against Iron Man at the box office. I understand why it got overshadowed, Iron Man's great, but man Speed Racer just has something special.

i have never seen anything like this in my entire life bro, how did people think this was bad when it came out ???

@CosmicAOD @lanimwar All of Nintendo's major first party titles from the Switch era can be had for $30 or less on eBay right now. If the doofus who stockpiled these ones has a ton of unsold volume, he very well could go to $15 a piece yeas down the line

@Vaderman212 @lanimwar Doubt it. It’s Nintendo games. They RARELY put their shit on sale and if it’s on sale it’s not by much. This 29.99 feels like Black Friday type of pricing lol.

The way theyre never gonna be able to sell these games 😭

@pory_leeks But the 3DS is only fiftee-

I hate to break it you uncs, 3DS is retro. The retirement home awaits…

@scoutconvoy Go, take the High Guard and leave.

If you’ve seen this movie, prove it by quoting it!

@Kama_Kamilia Look, if you don't get it, just say you don't get it and move on

It’s great how they never post any actual gameplay from RDR2. It’s either a video of some scenery, horse’s balls or a cutscene.

@GooseworxMusic Even if you completely fuck up the finale, it'll still be a really fun show, like LOST. I don't like the ending, but LOST was still a helluva ride.

With tadc wrapping up, and assuming I move on to do more projects in the future, where are some places you think I could improve when it comes to writing/directing?