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Can't believe nobody mentioned yet that PREY is free on Epic right now. This game is absolutely incredible! Loved every bit of it!
You can also grab Jotun on Epic, which is short and nice, but obviously nowhere near the quality of PREY.
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EDIT: Oh, I see stgatilov already replied while I answered.
Probably worthy of a code-review, once stgatilov is back online again.
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On 4/16/2022 at 8:36 PM, HMart said:
I think I found the real problem
on the player cpp file on UpdateConditions() function
this code
// DarkMod: Catch the creep modifier ... else { int creepLimit = cv_pm_creepmod.GetFloat() * 127; AI_CREEP = (usercmd.buttons & BUTTON_CREEP) || (idMath::Abs(usercmd.forwardmove) <= creepLimit && idMath::Abs(usercmd.rightmove <= creepLimit)); }Needs to be like this
// DarkMod: Catch the creep modifier ... else { int creepLimit = cv_pm_creepmod.GetFloat() * 127; AI_CREEP = (usercmd.buttons & BUTTON_CREEP) | (idMath::Abs(usercmd.forwardmove) <= creepLimit && idMath::Abs(usercmd.rightmove) <= creepLimit); }The close ) for the idMath::Abs was on the wrong place.
The change to bitwise OR | instead of the logic OR || was a recommendation of visual studio 2022, not something I really know if necessary, changing that didn't solved the bug nor the behavior, a better programmer may explain why VS recommended that change.
VS probably recommended to change to bitwise OR because a bitwise AND was used in the term before that and VS did not understand that what we actually want is a boolean. I bet if you changed it to
AI_CREEP = (usercmd.buttons & BUTTON_CREEP) != 0 || (idMath::Abs(usercmd.forwardmove) <= creepLimit && idMath::Abs(usercmd.rightmove) <= creepLimit);
, i.e., convert the bitwise AND result directly to bool, VS would not recommend to change the OR operator.
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21 hours ago, Amadeus said:
I 100 percent agree with you on Enderal's beginning. It is far from ideal. I just found the Sun Coast to be dreadfully boring, tbh. I dread it when starting a new playthough and try to run to the Ark as fast as I can. That said, the beginning is pretty much the only major downside and the rest of the game makes up for this flaw tenfold
Haha, wow. It's incredible, how differently people can perceive such things. I found the intro to be very intriguing, actually. First the dream with father to set the scene with a beautiful soundtrack and a drastic turning point, then the ship trip that serves as a short tutorial and to configure your character much similar to the Morrowind intro, then that mysterious veiled lady appears and does the unspeakable, then a dramatic showdown on the ship deck, and finally you're left shipwrecked on the coast of Enderal. All of that so mysterious, that I kept wondering what is happening here and so, I eagerly started playing to learn more about all of this.
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19 minutes ago, datiswous said:
Is it important to get the SE version? I don't have Skyrim SE, only original.
8 minutes ago, AluminumHaste said:I tried playing this on the last version of Skyrim and it ran like absolute shit. Like 50 fps stutter fest, where Skyrim ran at 200fps+ with a ton of 4k texture mods and high poly items etc.
I was super disappointed.
Aside from x64 support and some new post-processing features, the SE version apparently also comes with quite a few bugfixes and better performance.
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I've had zero issues like that. Hm... You did use Skyrim SE and the SE Version of Enderal, didn't you? Furthermore, there is a mod called "Enderal SE- Bug Fixes" that is also mandatory. If you have further troubles running the game, you can go to the SureAI discord and ask for help.
The start is confusing and surreal, yes. That is by design, as the story is based on that. But clumsy and muddled?
Here are some further essential mods I recommend, excluding high-quality-mods (except for the NPC-faces and hair mod)
Additionally to these, I recommend to install "Alternate Conversation Camera", which gives you a nice oblivion-like camera view in conversations, and some ENB, preferably the pretty but berformance intense Steamin ENB.
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I finished the game now with an epic finale. Truly, an exceptional mod.
Here are some screenshots I took while playing Enderal with a shipload of graphics mods.
Spoiler-free
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pn3bwukgpr9pcqs/AAC3qv5iID_eOQ5NCh0utn_Sa?dl=0
Very mild spoilers
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qeezdnchqo962fr/AACm_gvYfCsY0Y_qArSMxNgva?dl=0
Spoilers
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qwh1l0q3w8w8l5q/AABVRIqctUBTDY_T9_88v8B1a?dl=0
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1 minute ago, esme said:
"how many people would have semi-iron manned Hazard Pay of their own volition?" - presumably those that wanted to ?
Sorry but I'm still not seeing anything in being "Forced", "Encouraged" or not being my "own volition" that makes me want to rush out & play this
But if that's what people want, let 'em have at it, I won't be joining them though
Consider it a special challenge for those who want it. The others can just pick an easier difficulty, so what's the problem here?
Dark Souls would not have worked as well as it did if it was easier and allowed for quicksaves. It is the tension of being able to lose "everything" within seconds when you're not careful enough that makes players come back to the game again and again. It is exhilarating!
Catering not only to casual players, but also to the hardcore-stealth players (like most Thief players think they are), who want a bit of a challenge, is a commendable thing to do in my book. So @kingsal, thank you for that! Please don't get discouraged by this minor backlash.
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Not being able to save at will creates a lot of tension, which might be desired by the mission author.
As for me personally, I love the tension created by that. Every action you perform just carries that much more weight if you cannot reload right away and try again. Because of that, I always play with a very low "save game frequency" and only reload when I die.
Not everyone thinks this way, obviously. Still, I would leave this decision up to the intend of the author.
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I finally gave Enderal a shot and this game is absolutely incredible. As a native german speaker, I use the original German version ofcourse, which features some really good voice acting. Almost all quest are actually quest-chains and very interestingly written. And the game has more in common with Morrowind than with Skyrim, which is a good thing to me. It could have been the perfect game, if they had described where you have to go in the quest text rather than relying on quest pointers, so that you could completely disable HUD and quest tracking, giving you that ultimate Morrowind feeling. It is an astonishingly good game regardless!
As far as graphics are concerned, I modded the hell out of this game, as per usual with Skyrim.
Right now, I have 60 mods installed About 10 of those mods relate to gameplay / quality of life improvements, but the rest is just graphics mods, which take my 3060 Ti down to 40 fps in some rather unoptimized scenes. Usually, I get 70-80 fps, 'though. It looks almost as good as some next-gen titles. Might post some screenies soon, if you want.
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2 hours ago, NeonsStyle said:
No, the discord is to promote the growth of the game, and the community. It's not just
for us. It's a great place for new mappers to ask questions and get them answered pretty
quick which improves their chances of making a map, or assets and feeling like they've
contributed. It's not a special club lol.I agree. Whenever I have questions about a game and cannot find a quick answer via google, my first instinct is to search for a Discord server. You usually get an answer in no time. Being able to interact with the devs and give feedback is also way more common via Discord than via some forums.
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11 hours ago, Anderson said:
[...] or do a jailbreak for the iOS. The benefits of those updates have always been questionable starting even from the earliest mobile Apple devices.
I decisively reject to do any iOS support!
Everytime I touched her phone when she had any problems with it, I got so angry about how stupidly closed-shut the whole system is, so that I decided I am not gonna do it anymore. If she wants technical support on her phone, she'll have to get an Android phone and that's just it!
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Yeah, she was really concerned about the watch 3 not working on her (hypothetical) future phone, so we ended up compromising on the Watch SE for 280€ and it made her really happy, so I guess the money was worth it.
Anyway, I now realized, the fact that I don't understand the need for a smart watch, especially not one from Apple, has no relevance in this regard. If she wishes for one, I'll have to accept that, just like she has to accept that I spend tons of money on PC-stuff and games!
I just hope it's not another gimmic that will be used for a few weaks and lands in the drawer afterwards.
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I profoundly dislike everything about Apple and their over-expensive products. That being said, my gf does not share that sentiment and she now wants to get an apple watch.
You can get the old watch series 3 for a (barely) acceptable amount of money, but she argues that update-support might end soon, like it already did for series 1 and 2. So my question is, does that even matter? Will the Apple watch magically stop working with a more modern iPhone? I couldn't find any answers to this question via googling, as I kept landing on general troubleshooting threads.
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On 1/10/2022 at 5:05 PM, stgatilov said:
And it means that if you see a fully-translucent object (like flask) in dark room, you won't notice anything when you frob-highlight it. It does not solve the problem that we wanted to solve with outline.
That is not entirely correct. When we started, we had two goals and two separate methods to achieve them: One, we wanted to move the surface-frobhighlight to GLSL in order to get rid of that damn material definition clutter, and two, we wanted to solve the brightness-issue (not seeing highlighted objects in brightly lit areas) with the frob-outline. Let's have a look at each of methods/goals separately now:
- Our new GLSL-surface-highlight allows us to remove the material definition, yay, but it does not work for all types of materials, because some materials require customization to work well!
- The dark outline-frob-highlight solves the brightness-issue, as the dark outline is perfectly visible in brightly lit areas, but a proper surface highlight is required so our frob-highlight also works in dark areas.
So, to me, there is only one logical conclusion: We need a proper surface-highlight for all materials! That means, we have to retain material-based customization in some form, as I already suggested a few months ago.
Yes, the implementation might be a little messier in our engine, but it would be the best solution for the player and that's would we should focus on, shouldn't we? The combination dark-outline and regular surface-highlight is objectively the best solution.
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5 hours ago, Frost_Salamander said:
I stumbled onto this video: https://youtu.be/-oTfH90psC4. I'm a huge fan of SWAT 4, and was greatly looking forward to its spiritual successor, Ready or Not: https://voidinteractive.net/. Anyways, the video is really good,it points out all the details, which we all know really makes the difference when mapping!
I am excited for that game as well. Let's hope the recent controversy regarding a school shooting level will be resolved.
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I have a key to give away for the "The Surge 2 - The Kraken Expansion", as I only used that DLC to press down the price of my "Focus Home Build Your Own Bundle" and I have no intention of playing that DLC.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=sWmM5V4CG3ZrHRYd
By the way, there are some nice titles to choose from, for your bundle:
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FYI: That 90% for the fist bump actually seems to be legit, according to this paper... ^^
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There are a lot of really bad Corona rapid tests out there. As the virus is on the rise once again in Europe, I wanted to share this table of good tests with you. Stay safe people!
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/table/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.44.2100441.t1
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On 10/5/2021 at 6:54 PM, thebigh said:
Hmm... I hadn't considered that the "old" and "new" sounds could end up out of phase but now that you mention it the problem is obvious.
Anyway, as to why someone might want to do this, it's not just theoretical. Imagine a shack on a stormy beach. Outside you have wind or thunder playing loudly as the ambient. When you go inside you should still hear the same storm soundtrack but quieter. I'm surprised this issue hasn't come up before.
Shouldn't the old sound slowly fade out, eventually resolving this issue?
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I just watched this interesting talk on how an indie studio implemented DevOps processes to increase their software quality and productivity. There's some really good advice in there, so I wanted to share it with whomever interested.
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No problem. Just please bear in mind that these "internal backups" won't save you from fire-/water-/lightning-hazards, so you might want to consider some remote backup solution.
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I have just played a little bit of Unreal 1 just for the giggles. It's been 23 years or so since my last visit to Na'Pali and that game was the first game I played on my first very own PC. Man, that game looked awesome back in the day. And I have to say, to some degree, it still does. The lightmaps, lensflares and detail textures all work really well to hide the age of the game. The low poly count not so much, however!
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Live the idea of the contest!! Very good!
14 hours ago, OrbWeaver said:I'm referring to the first post in the thread, not the poll itself. Is it really supposed to look like this:
Perhaps it's just a problem on my particular browser/OS combination.
Nbohr's posts always look like this these days and I always wonder how he does it. @nbohr1more do you write your posts in some other editor and perform manual linebreaks (and maybe even have different lineendings than what the forum expects)?
Edit: I just copy pasted the post to notepad++ and enabled showing of whitespace characters. What are you doing there mate?
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Haha, the 2006 Prey was nice and all, but the modern Prey is like a Deux Ex on a space station. A must-play for every immersive sim fan.