Exactly, it’s an awful treadmill. EA as a whole was at nearly 60% profit last year. Coupled with layoffs, it seems they’re trying to keep that infinite spend as potential as possible lol

I just hope something good comes out of recent ex-rspn teams.

Afaik they’re still using awful third-party servers, lag compensation is still aggressive as fuck, they tried to “fix” visibility by slapping a bandaid in the form of healthbars, and the anticheat thing was another bandaid instead of a surgery. Overall it’s kinda stuck, all of the old issues are still there.

They have a shitload of new cosmetics though, if that’s your jam. Funnily enough, they were so greedy even esport orgs didn’t want to keep working with them. Rspn offered a one-time payment, orgs wanted a percentage of sales. Mind you, it’s a fairly big esport that advertises the game for them (btw played on better servers than available in-game).

Imagine making billions (with an S) off of one game and still calling it a miss. Chasing infinite growth is so dumb.

From what I’ve seen it has a lil sidebar that lets you limit the resources available to it. Also a load of shortcuts to giveaways and storefronts. It’s also hideous, as all gamer stuff should be.

Honestly it gives me more “lowspec” vibes, than “gaming”, and there are far better ways to browse on low spec machines.

“Better” ads most likely, aka more personalized.

edit:

Google may have used this data to conduct focused ad campaigns back to those individual members.

That’s their exact language

Go into the search bar and type “technology”. You will see many of them.

more like very sad

Mute the poster?

I’m sure they’ll be just fine if we “get” their games for free, they need to get used to not owning my money. Regardless, buying every new Ubisoft game is kinda pointless. I try one every 3-4 years, not much changes in a year.

Temporal AA doesn’t look good compared to what?

Compared to some older AA tech. TAA is awful in motion in games. edit: by default. if there’s a config file it can be made better edit2: sometimes no AA is clean as fuck, depends on the game and resolution

What do you mean “real resolution goes down”? Down from where?

I mean internal resolution. Playing at 1080p with DLSS means the game doesn’t render at your specified resolution, but a fraction of it. Native (for now) is the best looking.

What is “image quality” in your view?

Mostly general clarity and stuff like particle effects, textures, stuff like that I think. You can ask those people directly, you know. I’m just the messenger, I barely play modern games.

I don’t know … a lot of the terms you’re using are supposed to mean

Yeah, that’s a problem. More people should be aware of the graphical effects in games. Thankfully some games now implement previews for damn near every quality toggle.

DLSS is one of those things where I’m not even sure what people are complaining about when they complain about it.

Mostly performance, from what I’ve seen. That hardware requirements go up, while the real (edit: internal) resolution goes down, meanwhile the image quality is stagnant. It’s not completely the DLSS’s fault though.

I think temporal antialiasing never looks good. I don’t really care to talk about dlss though, I just shut up and avoid upscaling (unless it’s forced grrrr).

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Calamari Racing Team. It’s mostly a counter-movement to r/Motorcycles, where most of the posters are seen as anti-fun. Their whole thing is that, not just a specific way to ride, they also have a legendary commenter that pays money for pics in full leather.

You could even squeeze a quadruple A game on there

From what I understand their minimum wages aren’t bad, it’s the enforcement that sucks. Everyone buys from them because labor laws are overlooked, but if they weren’t - there’s a risk manufacturing would move away and shrink. Bit of an ouroboros. I’d say both parties are to blame, but the paying one gets more of it.

probably a holdover from the sata days, or simply because it’s nice to show the number doubling into tens of thousands

Good to know, that’s what I use on my 10. Didn’t know if 11 has it since it never really appealed to me.

Do they still make enterprise/ltsc/iot versions for 11? Because those are usually the ones that don’t treat you like a child, and I expect them to retain that

devs (reddit) can flag reviews they think are against ToS, then it’s up to google to decide what to do with them

From HL2 RTX post:

So with all that said, I’m disappointed in Valve for allowing Nvidia to butcher this game.

Huh? Firstly, it’s a mod, Valve is famously not opposed to them. And it’s not developed by Nvidia, they simply provided the tools. Opinions are opinions, but it’s completely ignoring the work of the actual dev team, and disregarding other valuable uses Remix has.

edit after reading the part about shadows again: looks like a rushed review, there are way more graphical effects worth talking about, even if you don’t like the art direction.

On the topic of Legion Go S, their triggers are a great idea. Also Z2 lineup is so weird. Z2 Go with Zen 3 cores, RDNA2 CUs, Z2 with Zen 4 cores and RDNA3 CUs, meanwhile Z2 Extreme is out here with Zen 5 and 5c cores and a brand new RDNA3.5-based 880M.

I guess it makes sense to build two lowest tiers out of existing hardware and on the same node, but my monkey brain expects the same generation number. It’s nice that they’re using at least 12 graphics cores now, means they learned from Z1.