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Forza Horizon 5 looks amazing. It's having issues streaming from an HDD. I guess SSD is going to be mandatory for AAA games now.

SJW character creator. Default is a black women, you can select pronouns (he/she/they) and male voice for a woman and vice versa.

I wish for a gaming crash. I hate modern video games.

Car plates are censored so you can't even put something funny on it. I fucking hate sanitized corporate culture.

@matrix are the assets compressed?
ARK is complete ass on a HDD unless you do FS-level compression (at which point it goes from 300GB to 30GB, coincidentally) because they don't bother to compress the assets to "make it load faster"
@matrix I imagine Microsoft's developers would be slightly less incompetent than Wildcard anyway.

Might be worth poking at though.

@izaya
The game runs great while looking great so I don't think they are incompetent.

@matrix Weren't you saying it doesn't work properly when run from a HDD?

(Mostly I'm casting shade on Wildcard though, so many stupid decisions in one place.)

@izaya
Assets don't always load on time and when you go to a new scene or to a new highly populated area, it hitches, but once loaded it runs amazing.

@matrix Eh, could be worse then. I imagine it'll be optimised away over time.
@izaya compressing assets kinda weird in gamedev. As a normie you use jpeg or webp which gets 10:1 ratios but the video card doesn't speak those. VRAM compressed images are only 4:1. It may be possible to compress them with another algorithm on top but you'd have to unpack it at load time and hmmh
@matrix
@icedquinn @matrix If unpacking them at runtime reduces load time from 30 minutes to 30 seconds on HDD, it's probably worth the mild extra complexity.
@izaya assumes the devs don't all run SSD lol
Lot of people writing their own engines have beefcake computers so they don't end up having to dogfood optimizations like this
but yeah sometimes it's worth putting fastlz or something in the engine. death stranding does
@matrix
@icedquinn @matrix my understanding is that novideo and intel supply the wildcard devs with new hardware so they never bother to test on anything with less than an i9-9999999K and an RTX 9 billion because >lmao just upgrade your computer
@matrix
Wait a minute...
This means they know what cunny is :illya_smug: naughty devs
@matrix @RehnSturm256 > I'd like to get a hold of Susie's little cunny!
That anonymous user in 2004 was UOOOOOHHHing very hard.
@matrix In Forza Motorsport 4 you could put lettering decals and other shit on your cars I once recreated the rebel flag and put it on top of my orange '69 Charger
@matrix

Meanwhile, on TF2, custom porn sprays

It's fun to put them on maps, camp as a spy or sniper and kill anyone looking
@coolboymew @matrix Sucks Valve got rid of custom sprays. I hate the modern no-fun-allowed gaming culture.
@coolboymew @matrix CSGO doesn't have them and I imagine whatever else Valve decides to develop won't either, too many people putting up Goatse or fake vents or whatever.
@Nelagara @matrix @mrsaturday CSGO isn't actually fully Valve tho', no?

But yeah, they probably gone from now on...
@coolboymew @matrix @mrsaturday CS:GO's been the only endeavor valve's made on making or updating games for how long? besides alyx, anyways.
@Nelagara @coolboymew @matrix Valve didn't even develop CS:GO, they're basically an e-commerce company at this point
@mrsaturday @matrix @coolboymew

I miss being able to put sudden goatse over anime sprays in l4d2
@gear @mrsaturday @matrix my fav was the guy with the goatse spray with a FF7 disc put on top
@mrsaturday @coolboymew @matrix They only hid the sprays by default you have to go to your settings to mainly enable them

@coolboymew@shitposter.club @matrix@gameliberty.club on one hand I miss custom TF2 sprays but on the other hand no more surprise furry porn offending my eyes

@emma @matrix I remember the glorious 4chan partyvan server

One game we made a massive wall of porn and just looked at it
@coolboymew @emma @matrix That server was legit until the jannies started banning anyone that mic spammed or used sound commands too much.
@matrix >Forza
>Character creator
>Not about the cars
>Pronouns in a car porn game
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
@matrix AAA games are trash im still finding good stuff on the indie side :kekw:
@rlier23 @matrix indie games > AAA games nowadays, I hope for the crash that will bring down those big studios too.

Play Gordian Quest. The game is good, it has plenty of mechanics and content packed into it and it has cool characters who do cool things.
It even has the so called "diversity" in the roster, but they aren't obnoxious about it and the characters are conventionaly attractive (apart from the old man and the furry)
@Suzu @rlier23 @matrix indie games get a bad rap cause many indie devs are woketards but there are still some that are pretty based imo
@hexagonalsheep93 @Suzu @matrix fair enough, there are some bad apples in the indie scene but the thing with indie is that a new team can come out of nowhere and give you some good stuff
@rlier23 @hexagonalsheep93 @Suzu @matrix The AAA industry could just keep pumping up shit and make the inevitable second videogame crash come faster, and i would't give two shits about it so as long as i have games like terraria and a strong modding scene.
@Suzu @rlier23 @matrix Old Man and furry even look cool. Woke games wouldn't even let them look cool.
@DrRyanSkelton @matrix @rlier23 oh yeah, even the decrepit old man and the furry look cool as fuck, there's that.
@matrix help that along by pirating everything. It's easier and safer than it's ever been.
@matrix Gaming crash occurs when enough gamers stop paying for wokie bullshit and just pirate it instead.
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