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[Deleted member 24505]

Ghost Recon Breakpoint

 

[Splinterdog]

Not long ago, GoldenEye 007 fan remake appeared in far Cry 5 Arcade, but was taken down because of a complaint by MGM apparently. Anyway, it's back up under a different name, so if you have FC5 you should find it in the Arcade under the name of Golden Cry.
I haven't tried that one yet because another modder has remade Project IGI 1 & 2 with the Far Cry engine which has really piqued my interest, but I'm having to verify the FC5 install due to black textures all over the place.
If I can get it going, I'll post some shots and there are plenty of YouTube videos of the IGI remake.

 

[robot zombie]

Goin after The Mechanist. Getting tired of so many dickhead robot brigades and wannabe robots with guns complicating things for me when I'm traveling around the wasteland.

Spoiler: screenshots

It takes a cartoonishly insidious government to build a sprawling underground research compound where the brains of violent criminals are put into robots with arms and hands... under this little building.

But then just a little further down...

 

[Chomiq]

Jumped back into Persona 5 Royal on my 2nd playthrough. Damn that gameplay loop is great. I might lower difficulty from Merciless to Hard because while technically being the hardest difficulty it is also benefiting you if you know the weaknesses etc so you can pretty much 1-hit anything (since weakness and technical multipliers are set to triple for both player and the enemies) if you know your way around the game. Hard just makes the enemies tougher.

 

[Frick]

I just fired up Max Payne 1 and it has a problem with Ryzens, but this fix, put together by some very clever people, sorted it out.
Here's Max in the seedier side of life.

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Now play the second game, which I think is better.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Not long ago, GoldenEye 007 fan remake appeared in far Cry 5 Arcade, but was taken down because of a complaint by MGM apparently. Anyway, it's back up under a different name, so if you have FC5 you should find it in the Arcade under the name of Golden Cry.
I haven't tried that one yet because another modder has remade Project IGI 1 & 2 with the Far Cry engine which has really piqued my interest, but I'm having to verify the FC5 install due to black textures all over the place.
If I can get it going, I'll post some shots and there are plenty of YouTube videos of the IGI remake.
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I love igi 1 and 2, had a look at first one, looks great.

 

[kayjay010101]

After not having played a Pokemon game in just about a decade (excluding Pokemon Go, I suppose), and being hyped up about DS emulation in news of the Steam Deck on various forums, I decided to try out a very nostalgic game to me, namely Pokemon HeartGold. Over the course of this weekend I've been playing it for about 10-12 hours per day. I'm not the type of person to do this! Even Halo, one of my all time favorite game series, I can only really stomach for a few hours at a time before needing a break. Maybe it was the nostalgia fueling me LOL.
Anyway, really fantastic game and I've had a ton of fun revisiting this classic. When I'm done with it (which will be a while, HG seems to be jam-packed with content, being basically extended versions of both Gen I and Gen II in one combined package) I'll move on to the other Gen IV titles like Platinum which I also played a ton back in the day. And maybe some Gen III games too, I never played FR/LG so I might check those out.

 

[robot zombie]

Good to be back in Sanctuary after lag hell in the Mechanist's lair. I've triggered some mean, mean scripting issues there. I fought through script lag through the bulk of it. That place is super-cool-looking but I have made it janky as hell apparently. Wasn't interested in troubleshooting. I completed it.

Running from bugs more and more, it seems. Every so often every save I drop while in Sanctuary, my home base, will just be corrupted. Outside the Mechanist's Lair, I was pulling 8 FPS so I didn't want to save there. Whatever script is pulling it down there will make it take forever, and potentially fail to load until the 10th try or whatever. So I went to the old vault, a safe place to save, just a hop and skip from Sanctuary.

It's a pretty poison creamsicle sort of day, too. Not choppy either lol. So just a sight for sore eyes. Literal sore eyes. Ouch. Made it worse on myself at the end by sprinting back, which of course had me at a steady 15-20 fps. 60FPS and colors on the screen feels like a luxury after that

Spoiler: I ramble about trees and modding for a while

Goes nice with the red and orange leaves. In the renaissance times, there was a tree/foliage mod like this but it broke just... everything it could. It was legendary though... very beloved and widely used. People just didn't know about the precombined mesh system, or the geometry based previs system it's tethered to. That information came YEARS later. So many mods went defunct. They didn't know they were stacking shotgun shells on a house of cards. It's amazing what messing with trees can do to this game. Maaaannnn... you can really screw some shit up! Sometimes you'll be in the CK and a stray mouse sway with an exterior open will be enough... other times I swear it just changes shit and doesn't tell you. You save it and wonder why your game is suddenly broken. Bet you moved a tree 1 pixel somewhere in that cell. Good luck finding that.

But still... it was the only one with that dry, autumn look that just works with this game. I mean, there are red leaf piles and leaves in the wind, but no trees with any leaves on them? How long has it been since the bombs fell again? I don't think it should be too colorful for theming, but the trees need leaves or it just looks... real stark. I have always held the theory that FO4 does not have leafy trees because they could not find a way for it to run with lots of leafy trees. Dead serious. I can see this. They also lost SSR that they previously had to other engine upgrades. There are things that are trivial in Skyrim's engine that simply are not THERE in FO4's... or on the off chance that they are, they're halfway implemented, through hidden ini parameters. I think that with the object density and cell size they were shooting for, they couldn't see a way. I mean, you can do it. Mods like that exist now, where they have actually edited the trees... and recompiled the precombines for every edited area. A tedious task. It looks good. The leaves react to the wind and everything. It really adds a lot back to storms, that Skyrim already had. But it is INSANELY performance heavy. Stable, but harsh. The other side-effect is that any mod that edits one of those recompiled precombines will reset it and potentially break things in a cascading sequence. So there is still that. You have to be checking every single mod. I grabbed a clothing pack that I hadn't realized adds a shop in the game. That shop breaks the precombine for a zone right outside of Diamond City.

So you really can't win with these damned trees. This shit is perilous.

The Nexus is finally rolling out modpacks. A bunch of the usual people complain about it, there's this persistent mentality of stalwartly clinging to mods, but those packs will be a very good thing. I might make one! It would be great to be able to just link somebody up with a working mod setup, complete package, and have it just install and be fully configured. I don't know how that's not a GREAT thing for modding. More people will use the mods. They'll get to have the experiences that people like me spend countless hours learning the inner workings of the games and just... tinkering to squeeze out. You have to be like a boa constrictor. I've always wished for a way to to just share a whole massive mod setup that's locked-in. I love that maybe it doesn't have to be this deep endeavor to find if someone doesn't want it to be. Honestly, everyone I've encountered who mods games with any level of intent beyond "casual" legitimately has something wrong with them. Lurk modder forums sometime...


Anyway... someone finally got clever. You can place objects over existing meshes in the environment, no problem so long as they don't interfere with the big precombined one that comprises of every static object. Trees have dynamic qualities but that behavior is separate, so they're included. So this clever fool decided to carefully place leaves around the branches of existing trees. Doesn't break the optimization and doesn't otherwise hit performance very hard. The visual impact is obviously unmistakable. There are, well... trees. I mean, actual "tree", trees. Grass is way harder on performance than these trees. It's ingenious. Little by little I see more widespread understanding of what can and can't work in this game. Just a couple of years ago many more were just insisting with all of their supreme expertise that their mod doesn't cause this or that and put it all on the user. Some of us did know how to break down their mod, see the flaws and fix it. Those guys fell off and people with solutions rose up. And with them came viable tree solutions for the FO4 engine.

 

[Audioave10]

Taking a break from STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl - One of the major Modders sent me a Mod and instructions on how to change Script files to create my own spawns & locations. This is what I came up with...

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

Finally finished Black Mesa. Man, is Xen gorgeous or what.

Even in death, Xen is beautiful!!!

Met the man of man, G-man himself.

Onward to Half Life 2!!!


I've been also playing Psychonauts after getting recommended by an ACG video and having it in my library for years at this point. Dob't have any screenshots so far. Let's face it, it's an old an ugly game. Having fun so far (also no less amount of frustration as well). Will post some screenshots or at least try to.

 

[Space Lynx]

Finally finished Black Mesa. Man, is Xen gorgeous or what.
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Even in death, Xen is beautiful!!!
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Met the man of man, G-man himself.
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Onward to Half Life 2!!!


I've been also playing Psychonauts after getting recommended by an ACG video and having it in my library for years at this point. Dob't have any screenshots so far. Let's face it, it's an old an ugly game. Having fun so far (also no less amount of frustration as well). Will post some screenshots or at least try to.

please tell me you played it on this monitor "AOC 24G2 24" 144hz IPS" and not your other monitors you have listed.

the 24G2 in particular does colors so freaking well.... plus 144hz > 75 hz for smooth FPS gaming.

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

please tell me you played it on this monitor "AOC 24G2 24" 144hz IPS" and not your other monitors you have listed.

the 24G2 in particular does colors so freaking well.... plus 144hz > 75 hz for smooth FPS gaming.

Heheheh. Although since the game doesn't have any frame limiter and I can't bother to fiddle with nvidia driver for everything the game's been ran uncapped around 200 fps.

 

[Space Lynx]

speaking of gaming.

I beat Medal of Honor Airborne yesterday. It was fantastic. Aged very well.

 

[Calmmo]

Been playing Disco Elysium, sloooowly, ~1-2h per day, work taking its toll on my gaming, usually too tired to play more

 

[Chomiq]

Been playing Disco Elysium, sloooowly, ~1-2h per day, work taking its toll on my gaming, usually too tired to play more

Honestly, longer sessions for DE are great way to end depressed.

 

[Splinterdog]

Trying to play an hour of each Tomb Raider in my collection, with the only let down being Angel Of Darkness whose controls are best described as twitchy.

 

[SN2716057]

Hopping in the streets of SF (BeamNG)

 

[lexluthermiester]

with the only let down being Angel Of Darkness whose controls are best described as twitchy.

You're being nice!

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

HADES!!! Man what a fun game. I love roguelikes and Hades might be one of the best I have ever played. It ranks right up there with Dead Cells, FTL, Gungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Binding of Isaac, Risk of Rain 2. Was a bit hesitant but with a steam sale I had to get it...Now I regret not getting it sooner and supporting the amazing devs on this game.

Also playing Everspace 2. Really cool game, but they dropped the roguelike for a more open-world experience and it has been a fun game also.

 

[VulkanBros]

Black Mesa (as HL3 is not comming this year ) and Chernobylite (I found STALKER fun) - just started playing again after nearly 1 year "game-free"

 

[Space Lynx]

HADES!!! Man what a fun game. I love roguelikes and Hades might be one of the best I have ever played. It ranks right up there with Dead Cells, FTL, Gungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Binding of Isaac, Risk of Rain 2. Was a bit hesitant but with a steam sale I had to get it...Now I regret not getting it sooner and supporting the amazing devs on this game.

Also playing Everspace 2. Really cool game, but they dropped the roguelike for a more open-world experience and it has been a fun game also.

I couldn't resist HADES on the steam sale either. I really wish the character was rendered in high FPS though, seems like the character itself is rendered at 60 fps cap, but the map is rendered at a higher fps... its a bit weird compared to other games I have played in that regard, other than that I like it yeah

like when you DASH with the main character in HADES, it feels like... he looks like he is doing it at 60 fps, I guess that is just an art style choice I don't know, but I would have preferred a smooth 165 fps render for all of it to match my monitor... other games I have played with similar graphics when played at 165 fps and 165hz look insanely smooth, I love it and find it highly immersive.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I couldn't resist HADES on the steam sale either. I really wish the character was rendered in high FPS though, seems like the character itself is rendered at 60 fps cap, but the map is rendered at a higher fps... its a bit weird compared to other games I have played in that regard, other than that I like it yeah

like when you DASH with the main character in HADES, it feels like... he looks like he is doing it at 60 fps, I guess that is just an art style choice I don't know, but I would have preferred a smooth 165 fps render for all of it to match my monitor... other games I have played with similar graphics when played at 165 fps and 165hz look insanely smooth, I love it and find it highly immersive.

I really like the art style but I do agree with you. His dash is more of a teleport. Game says it's running at 144hz for me. I'm up to 2 heat now and the heat system is pretty cool for replay value.

 

[Space Lynx]

I really like the art style but I do agree with you. His dash is more of a teleport. Game says it's running at 144hz for me. I'm up to 2 heat now and the heat system is pretty cool for replay value.

yep game is def running in high refresh... its just his specific character movements... for some reason seem locked at 60 fps, its weird. never seen anything like it before. I can tell the map is running at high refresh though around him.

 

[Frick]

Been playing Disco Elysium, sloooowly, ~1-2h per day, work taking its toll on my gaming, usually too tired to play more

Same here, but even slower. Started last year, still on day two.

 

[SN2716057]

Same here, but even slower. Started last year, still on day two.

Me three. That first 'mission' is my weekend. Except it's my flat and nothing is broken