Some more stuff for you mate. You really must be happy with so many tycoons!
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PC Gaming ERA | July 2019 - Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of RICHAAAAAAARD!
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Some more stuff for you mate. You really must be happy with so many tycoons!
Yeah it's weird. I noticed this mentioned upthread, but I swear it feels like I saw this one featured like a year ago on YouTube. Was it previously a mobile game or something?
Anyway, really dig the clean presentation. Reminds me of Rise of Industry.
Wishlisted.
if you played the monster boy demo if you buy the full game the game will lets you play from where you finished demo off
This was me coming from the gym just now.
Now I'm sad cuz I see my man Krejlooc got baited into a ban.
Same here. I'm surprised it lists all the storefronts...
Everything except Nintendo eShop...
At this point should I uninstall Playnite? Then again all my custome listed games will disappear too...
Yes
10 hours for Origin Access
Full game unlimited time for Origin Access Premier.
I played it a bit (via PC Game Pass) and didn't like it. It's kinda Recettear without the charm, which wasn't enough for me. I wanted the shop stuff to have more of a focus, but it just feels like an excuse to gamify the progression mechanic.
If you're looking for classical Zelda dungeon-delving with a progression metagame layered on top Moonlighter might be for you. Outside of that I can't recommend it.
I never used Playnite so i can't comment on that, but GOG Galaxy basically serves all my needs now. : P
Maybe they just don't release the game if they don't know what it's about?
Finished up Plague Tale. I think it took me around 10 hours? Game Time Tracker has crapped out on me.
I enjoyed the game quite a bit. It's not a deep stealth game, more of a "puzzle stealth" game, where you have to examine the environment for the right way to distract or kill guards to make your way through the levels. There's somewhat of a balance between areas that have distinct solutions versus those that allow for some options to sneak by instead of killing. Taking a shorter way through, however, often means passing up upgrade materials or collectibles. That said, upgrading didn't seem very necessary to get through the game, and the collectibles don't add much to the experience. It's mostly for achievement hunters. The game does a good job of introducing new mechanics as the game goes on, and it doesn't outstay its welcome.
I don't want to go too deep on the rats as they are best experienced in game. The sheer amount of rats on screen with seemingly no performance hit seems like engineering magic. They do look a little odd at times as they are bounced around.
On the negative side, there are a fair amount of instant kill scenarios that will have you replaying sections of the game. Overall, the game is not too challenging, however, so the frustration doesn't tend to last too long.
I felt that the characters were all very likable, and there were some very enjoyable interactions between them. You spend all of your time interacting with children, and the writers did a very nice job balancing their more childlike aspects with the more mature scenarios they are forced to participate in. I really liked Amicia and her little brother Hugo, while initially a typical annoying little boy, really grew on me. Overall, the story was very intriguing, with some really gut punching scenes. I have many questions about the lore and I hope that they will get to expand on it.
One related nitpick is in the way the game forces you to kill a little too often. The reactions to the first kills are treated very well, but some of the killing winds up feeling excessive, and actually unnecessary. The first upgrade you get is to your sling, which causes lethal headshots. But why would a rock to the head automatically kill someone? The devs could have just as easily made a headshot cause a knockout or incapacitation. There is also a knockout gas, but it's described as permanent. Why not describe it as temporary? These minor changes would have made the cases where killing happens more impactful and make the character seem less like a mass murderer.
Graphically, the game is beautiful all around, from the environments, to the clothing textures to the faces. Some might not like the CA, but you can turn it off. Performance was good, with some occasional stuttering.
I enjoyed the game quite a bit. It's not a deep stealth game, more of a "puzzle stealth" game, where you have to examine the environment for the right way to distract or kill guards to make your way through the levels. There's somewhat of a balance between areas that have distinct solutions versus those that allow for some options to sneak by instead of killing. Taking a shorter way through, however, often means passing up upgrade materials or collectibles. That said, upgrading didn't seem very necessary to get through the game, and the collectibles don't add much to the experience. It's mostly for achievement hunters. The game does a good job of introducing new mechanics as the game goes on, and it doesn't outstay its welcome.
I don't want to go too deep on the rats as they are best experienced in game. The sheer amount of rats on screen with seemingly no performance hit seems like engineering magic. They do look a little odd at times as they are bounced around.
On the negative side, there are a fair amount of instant kill scenarios that will have you replaying sections of the game. Overall, the game is not too challenging, however, so the frustration doesn't tend to last too long.
I felt that the characters were all very likable, and there were some very enjoyable interactions between them. You spend all of your time interacting with children, and the writers did a very nice job balancing their more childlike aspects with the more mature scenarios they are forced to participate in. I really liked Amicia and her little brother Hugo, while initially a typical annoying little boy, really grew on me. Overall, the story was very intriguing, with some really gut punching scenes. I have many questions about the lore and I hope that they will get to expand on it.
One related nitpick is in the way the game forces you to kill a little too often. The reactions to the first kills are treated very well, but some of the killing winds up feeling excessive, and actually unnecessary. The first upgrade you get is to your sling, which causes lethal headshots. But why would a rock to the head automatically kill someone? The devs could have just as easily made a headshot cause a knockout or incapacitation. There is also a knockout gas, but it's described as permanent. Why not describe it as temporary? These minor changes would have made the cases where killing happens more impactful and make the character seem less like a mass murderer.
Graphically, the game is beautiful all around, from the environments, to the clothing textures to the faces. Some might not like the CA, but you can turn it off. Performance was good, with some occasional stuttering.
So many facepalm in here:
Guy should read about OpenVR
VR functionality isnt tied to Steam.
lolwut?
We made this to aid VR developers, but mostly to really rub their noses in it.
Sssh, the author really wants to point that Steam is clearly an evil mastermind who plans to force all devs to use their free-to-use APIs to force them to use Steam (despite providing also a less nicely packed version that doesnt require Steam, but that part the author didnt have enough time to research).
Like man, for all the "research" he says he did, he really should have investigated about SteamVR, instead of just going on his thought line and assuming that is how it works, as he was... really wrong. The thing of trying the uPlay game was a cool idea tbf, just hilarious when he misses so many easy "research" stuff.
Origin PC is now a subsidiary of Corsair
One hell of an unexpected acquisition, IMHO.
One hell of an unexpected acquisition, IMHO.
I think he mentions it in the part which you quoted:
Does Tetris Effect support OpenVR? Because the article seems to imply that devs prefer to rely on SteamVR than OpenVR, at least for other games. If so, any idea why? Is OpenVR on par with SteamVR?
Edit: Found this, but still unclear to me what SteamVR is: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1131-WSFG-3320
Edit²: Found this as well: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/wiki/API-Documentation
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OpenVR is basically SteamVR (as Valve is the main contributor to OpenVR), just with a worse looking package. SteamVR is a wrapper that makes it easier to connect with all the stuff on Steam basically. People prefer to rely on SteamVR because it is easier to launch the game on Steam but you dont need it.
He probably means users can tinker with other open source VR software that is done also on the basis of OpenVR, but that is still the same API basically, just a different package.
Edit: heck, the whole git for OpenVR is in VALVE!
OpenVR is in layman's terms the backend for SteamVR, and non-Steam games can access it and the drivers for it without hooking into steam.
Having SteamVR open while running a OpenVR game has usually launched it in SteamVR for me, but if I close steam and I launch a OVR title it'll just use the other backend.
This pretty much.
I don't know. In the Wiki of OpenVR, it seems that there are two layers for OpenVR.
The application layer, which I assume is the most friendly to use for a dev, seems to rely on SteamVR.
Also, are people able to play Tetris Effect with OpenVR but without SteamVR?
Thanks. I see.
This is extremely confusing, because I don't really understand what the "implementation" of an API is.
Then there are threads like that:
What I imagine is that there are implementations of that API, other than SteamVR.
Or that the name SteamVR is confusing and it is actually a generic implementation.
I don't know. I would like to know why devs of Tetris Effect did not use the other backend.
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The implementation of an API is the part that actually makes it work. The API just standardises function calls. Now you could replace SteamVR with any other OpenVR compatible driver. There are such drivers that exist. It just requires some more legwork to make it work.
At which point you say, "if it requires more work, then why not just use steamVR?". That is kind of the point, Valve have developed a system anybody can use and re-implement for their own purposes, but they're not just going to bother to do work on something they won't use, Valve uses SteamVR.
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This is extremely confusing, because I don't really understand what the "implementation" of an API is.
Then there are threads like that:
What I imagine is that there are implementations of that API, other than SteamVR.
Or that the name SteamVR is confusing and it is actually a generic implementation.
I don't know. I would like to know why devs of Tetris Effect did not use the other backend.
I would say the example would be that the API is the different components that you can use, and that the SteamVr is taking those components and making it easier to use through it. Think about how the original Windows was basically just a different implementation of Console. Same "API", different implementation.
The devs of Tetris Effect didnt use the other backend because they probably thought they would launch on Steam until fairly recently and didnt think about going through the pain of using an inferior wrapper.
Essentially you can either setup OVR to piggyback off of steam, or use the standalone version that doesn't require steam. Usually it's dependent on what your usecase is for a VR title (Is it using room-scale, do you need controller binding, do you need reprojection)This is extremely confusing, because I don't really understand what the "implementation" of an API is.
Then there are threads like that:
for example on the API Documentation for OVR:
If you just need the position and/or basic info about the HMD you can just use that, and that's what most of the smaller early-gen stuff used (Oculus Dev kit's SDK also just read out this information for any program)
EDIT: as for Tetris effect launching steamVR when you launch the VR version, I don't own the game but I'd imagine that the launch SteamVR option is ticked in the dev settings for everyone (IIRC it's a default option)
Such a pretty game.
Picked this up the other day from gmg. Definitely looking forward to booting it up on my pc
Hmm, pcgamingwiki does recommend some fan patches for the game. I think I'm gonna run it vanilla and install the patches if some issues occur.
Thanks all!
Wolfy2 is kinda facinating in how much of a misfire it is as a shooter. I won't say it's a good time, but if you're anything like me you'll walk away from it having a higher appreciation for other first-person games that get the little stuff right.
Why is it whenever I see this game screenshot, Lara always looks off from the front? It's like she has lower poly model than the rest of the game.
Such a pretty game.
Regarding Wolfenstein: Youngblood
As soon as i read that enemies are levelling with you, i canceled my pre-order. :(
Now, what should i buy instead?
As soon as i read that enemies are levelling with you, i canceled my pre-order. :(
Now, what should i buy instead?
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