In future, I suggest posting just once, and using Lemmy’s cross-post feature to reach your other target communities. This would allow clients to avoid flooding users with duplicate posts, and allow users to discover related discussions in different communities.

“The current Early Access version also falls short in terms of content volume.We are deeply disappointed by the former leadership’s conduct, and above all, we feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.”

This statement seems manipulative to me. As a Subnautica fan, I have always been interested in quality of content, not how fast it gets created. I can wait for a good game. Krafton is trying to disguise their own profit-driven expectations as if they came from me and others like me, deceptively using us as pawns in guilt-laden psychological warfare against the people who have been developing the game.

Dear publishers,

Please don’t be like Krafton.

I’m surprised you didn’t include this one:

Edit: Link to creator:

https://xcancel.com/notshysmith/status/1407072918945812481

Inability to learn from your mistakes is nothing to be proud of. Delete this

Someone misinterpreting what I wrote because they only paid attention to part of it does not make it a mistake.

When they follow up by trying to re-frame the topic that I started into a different one, and then criticize me for not having addressed their pet topic, and furthermore tell me I should have used different words so that they can avoid admitting their misunderstanding… well, that’s just willful aggression.

Much like your comment to me is aggressive, and rude. You are now blocked.

You also said “feel” not “look”.

I did, in order to express that I was thinking of overall sense conveyed by the visuals, rather than whether differences in frame rate could be noticed under scrutiny. Words often have multiple meanings depending on context.

[Edit: I also said “choppy”, referring to the slide-show-like visual effect that most of us have seen at very low frame rates. I also described animation mechanics that are obviously about the appearance of motion. So there was no reason to assume that I was talking about the inter-frame input lag on which you are so fixated.]

you should clarify it in your own comment.

I could, but I won’t. I already clarified for you twice. I’m not interested in further indulging your combative insistence on misinterpretating what I wrote, and nobody else seems to have had trouble understanding me. Bye bye.

Yes but frame rate is primarily about responsiveness, not aesthetics,

In games that tie physics and inputs to frame rate, 25-30 fps is about a 30-40 millisecond response in the worst case; usually less. That’s plenty fast enough in most games I’ve played. And not all games do that anyway. So I can’t say I agree with your statement as a general rule.

What game do you play where that’s not fast enough?

In any case, it’s irrelevant to my point. The comment you responded to is explicitly about the frame rates feeling choppy. Meaning visual effect.

Because the distance (and the angle subtended within your field of vision) traveled by a moving object from one frame to the next is shorter.

The shorter the distance, the more it looks like smooth movement vs. sudden jumping.

Does anyone notice much difference between 25 fps and 30 fps at these screen sizes?

I don’t have one these handhelds, but in general, I’ve found that smaller screens make lower frame rates feel a lot less choppy.

Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?

I have run many Windows games outside of Steam.

I prefer to set up each one manually: Create a Wine prefix, install the game (or copy it from an existing installation), install a few key libraries like DXVK and a Visual C++ runtime, make a launch script with game-specific environment settings or launch options. Tools like Lutris and Bottles can automate much of this, in case you need a little help or just find a GUI more convenient.

This is my usual approach to non-Steam games (especially GOG), but even Steam games can be convinced to work offline with the help of a Steam emulator. It wouldn’t work with a game encumbered by DRM (e.g. Denuvo) unless a cracked version could be located, but in my experience, that’s a minority of Steam games that I categorically avoid in the first place.

So, I’m not worried about my game library vanishing if I ever lose access to Steam for whatever reason. Most (if not all) of it could be recovered with a bit of effort.

SimonSays make me a sandwich

I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.

It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.

I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.

It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.

This is basically alien to me. I think it has to be game specific.

Sufficient in this context means an amount that depends on the game.

sufficient performance > sufficient beauty > power usage > max beauty > max performance

I set a frame rate limit in most 3D games, to avoid inflating my electricity bill for barely noticeable effects or FPS improvements. Plugging my system into a Kill A Watt was enlightening.

Free demo. I think I’ll give it a try. :)

Almost, but not quite. A portion of those signatures will turn out to be invalid, so we have to keep going past 1 million if this thing is going to fly. Aiming for 1.4 million might be wise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmkCQJrc9n4

It’s relieving to see that they calmed down in the end, but I don’t think that makes up for being a dick when feeling frustrated.

I wish the gaming community would teach people to take pride in good sportsmanship. It’s arguably harder than mechanical or strategic skill, and it’s usually more valuable.

Man collecting handsome salary and amazing healthcare in exchange for betraying his entire country tries to shift the public focus onto people trying to make their lives less miserable with video games.

That’s curious, because on the PlayStation 4 & 5 controllers, the D-pad buttons are all part of a single piece of plastic.

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/hTuPDBGqIUVBDYeI.huge

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/C1PxdgSaISCc4bw4.huge

You can see this when pressing one direction button, as the other three tilt along with it. The switches behind this plastic piece are separate, but as far as I know, that’s true in all D-pads.

The Switch Joy-Con is indeed an example of four distinct buttons.

In what way is the D-pad on a PlayStation controller “split”?