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Hard Reset |OT| Resetting the Shooter Genre, two guns at a time
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SneakyStephan
Banned
Corto said:
Yeah, thank god you don't have to deal with them ingame, there you get the same menus without animations.
You can see the cost at the right of the screen in the upgrade shop.
You see the 3 types (ar/energy/armor) of upgrades , a number to the right of them saying how many points you spent in each type, and a number above the 3 types saying how many points you have left to spend.
The red bar on the left of your ammo/health/armor bars at the bottom left UI circle shows how close you are to getting another upgrade (I THINK, I didn't pay that much attention to it).
CornBurrito
Member
I'm downloading the demo as we speak.
scorpscarx
Member
I can see why people hate menu's with animation, personally I've always liked them for some oddball reason.
It only really bothers me I guess if those animations are long and the game is running like ass, aka when they exist on consoles,
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Or if the system doesn't work and you have to keep going back to the individual ones.
It only really bothers me I guess if those animations are long and the game is running like ass, aka when they exist on consoles,
.Or if the system doesn't work and you have to keep going back to the individual ones.
XANDER CAGE
Member
I've been playing the full version all day - it's pretty good, the Doom 3ish menus are weird, and the game is hard. Really, really hard.
The main problem I've noticed so far is the gameplay is very old school, but the level design and atmosphere are clearly cribbing notes from more recent shooters. Objectives and story beats are relayed to you constantly. There are odd bits of downtime in the game that don't really fit with the shootery mayhem. It's like they couldn't really decide between making a balls-out shooter or a more methodical, cinematic first person game.
Anyway - it's good!
The main problem I've noticed so far is the gameplay is very old school, but the level design and atmosphere are clearly cribbing notes from more recent shooters. Objectives and story beats are relayed to you constantly. There are odd bits of downtime in the game that don't really fit with the shootery mayhem. It's like they couldn't really decide between making a balls-out shooter or a more methodical, cinematic first person game.
Anyway - it's good!
â Narayan
Member
Demo, eh? I'll have to check that out.
Zenith said:
It bucks PC FPS traditions where necessary.
Namely, this game doesn't have one weakass mechanic that most classic PC first person shooters have: quicksaves. fuckin' hallelujah, I'm really happy about that.
Not crazy about the movement (feels like Painkiller's dull movement), but I'll give it some time.
bluedeviltron
Member
It really does feel great, especially coming off of the PC versions of Deus Ex and Dead Island -- both featuring horrific mouse acceleration and just poor feeling movement in general.
bluedeviltron said:
Lol there's no mouse acceleartion in DX:HR at all and never was even in the unfinished leak, it's confirmed by devs. I like how people fail with those stupid assumptions. Reminds me of 3 page hysteria in Uncharted 3 beta thread until the dev chimed in and listed all list of changes they really made and all accusations were proven wrong.
TyrantGuardian
Member
subversus said:
Except you're wrong. The preview leak was completely uneven between X and Y axis mouse movement. The full release fixed this issue, though. I think you can even set X and Y axis sensitivity separately in the options now?
TyrantGuardian said:
Yes, you can, but being uneven between x and y and mouse acceleraion are two different things. Mouse acceleration = the faster you move your mouse the further cursor go. You can move it with very short and fast movement and it will go further than you expected.
And I can't be wrong because it's confirmed by Nixxes on twitter and I believe devs know their game better than you.
SneakyStephan
Banned
subversus said:
This game deserves credit for having accel and smoothing turned off by default alone.
SMH @ any dev who thinks it's a good idea to use these options, have them on by default or even worse have them LOCKED on.
I have to say, Hard Reset in stills doesn't even do it justice. When there's tons of particle effects strewn across the screen it looks incredible. One of the best looking games I've played on PC by far. The gameplay matches up, too. Taking out groups of enemies with the mortar upgrade is really satisfying.
I'm about 2 hours in (got a review copy today). So far, it's up there with Deus Ex for my favorite game of the year.
I'm about 2 hours in (got a review copy today). So far, it's up there with Deus Ex for my favorite game of the year.
SneakyStephan
Banned
And then they had the audacity to suggest pc gamers are 'raping' what their idea of the game is by changing turning off accel/smoothing.subversus said:
Murder, violence, blood!
subversus said:
He did what his lawyers and pr folk told him to do when he aplogised (lawyers :use of the rape term, even if he said violated or abused or fucked up -which he meant obviously, I don't care that people got offended by the word rape -> pr monkeys: being condescending to target audience)
He's an arrogant schmuck who apparently has no eye hand coordination and thinks people should have their mouse input tampered with.
Sorry for off topic rant.
I know,right, and alt tab not crashing the game, I hope you are taking notes bethesda (don't blame gamebryo because divinity II CAN alt tab a thousand times without crashes or performance issues and it uses gamebryo too).ghst said:
Alt f4 works to exit, which for some bizarre reason works in less and less games
SneakyStephan said:
The dev who said it aplogized on twitter later. He said that as he isn't a native speaker he meant something else more in line with "spolied". They'd encrypted files because people could mess with leaderboards through them and they had no time to fix it. He acknowledged that they failed spectacularly.
Wow that demo blew me away. This game is so bought. I normally don't even like shooters but this game's atmosphere is just so cool and I like that it's not trying to be all crazily cinematic like most FPS games these days, it just lets the environment suck you in. I kept methodically looking through every corner trying to find all the explodable walls and any easter eggs. It was fun too how enemies would pop out and I'd just quickly scan my surroundings to see if there was any environmental hazard I could spring on them.
Really? I found them so natural and intuitive. Just because of the way the buttons are really big and blanket the screen, it's not like you're pixel hunting to press a button or something.Corto said:
The Stealth Fox
Junior Member
Compass that tells the player where to go? Armor regen?
Handholding
Handholding
The Stealth Fox
Junior Member
Guys, it was a joke. I'm making fun of the people in the Deus Ex: HR thread who complained about highlighting and objective markers when you can turn them off.
I'm not anti-modern gaming. I'm not anti-old school either. I personally think it's okay to make concessions towards the modern crowd like health/armor regen.
I'm not anti-modern gaming. I'm not anti-old school either. I personally think it's okay to make concessions towards the modern crowd like health/armor regen.
The game is actually pretty streamlined and simplified. Apart from the shields regenerating (so that you can't ever be easily one-shotted), there's universal ammo for all five firing modes of each gun, and your ammo regenerates (up to 50, I think). No reloading, and no crouching.
That it still spanks every other current FPS on the market in terms of combat should be taken as a sign that maybe everyone making these games has been focusing on the shit that doesn't matter.
That it still spanks every other current FPS on the market in terms of combat should be taken as a sign that maybe everyone making these games has been focusing on the shit that doesn't matter.
The engine these guys have created is quite a piece of work. The physics, combined with the particle effects, lighting--and whatever other technical terms I don't know because I'm an ignorant tool...it's really impressive that it looks like it does, and runs as well as it does considering this is an indie, unknown developer. Granted they've had experience with mainstream games, but still...impressive.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Very impressive demo BUT I could not get further than about 8 minutes in as it hard locked on me when those huge surveying ships were shining the lights in that busy district area. Was enjoying the atmosphere too. Used MLAA as I'm not sure if FSAA is better in this game. Looked and ran flawlessly with everything maxed as it should with my HW.
RelentlessRolento
Member
Just bought this for my dad on Steam. I have a feeling that he'll like it due to his Painkiller obsession a few years ago.
Here's some gameplay from the second level. Any stuttering is from FRAPS and it being set to 4xFSAA. I'm getting 60fps most of the time with MLAA enabled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhaZMdzpQVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhaZMdzpQVk
Error Macro
Member
Pranay_ said:
Will buy.
Flunkie said:
This. Its really refreshing though to have another FPS following the likes of Bulletstorm and preceding Serious Sam 3, that goes with imaginative environments and a sorta old school FPS feel.
I really like the fact that both weapons transform into different modes instead of just picking up weapons. Gives me a Vanquish or Metroid Prime vibe. The physics are really well done in this game (something I wish Dead Island had, as far as misc. objects).
Shot with everything on high, 4X AF and MLAA (was recommended):
Hmmm...SLI performance is a fair bit worse with Reduce Mouse Lag checked. But the mouse lag with it unchecked is unbearable.
Hey, I wonder how they managed to make it relatively mouse-lag free and triple buffered! This is a rarity. I guess they must optimize the buffer switching. to ensure the latest frame is always in the pipe. This might explain why it wouldn't work well with SLI (as maybe the latest frame wouldn't always be from an alternating video card).
The game runs very nicely on a GTX 570 with MLAA. It has a fair bit of slowdown with FSAA x4. It's a shame...FSAA x4 looks so much nicer. :|
Hey, I wonder how they managed to make it relatively mouse-lag free and triple buffered! This is a rarity. I guess they must optimize the buffer switching. to ensure the latest frame is always in the pipe. This might explain why it wouldn't work well with SLI (as maybe the latest frame wouldn't always be from an alternating video card).
The game runs very nicely on a GTX 570 with MLAA. It has a fair bit of slowdown with FSAA x4. It's a shame...FSAA x4 looks so much nicer. :|
jaundicejuice
Member
Hope I enjoy the demo cos I've already pre-ordered the game.
slidewinder
Banned
Very fun demo. Great-looking game, too, and the weapon upgrade system seems like it'll be interesting.
jaundicejuice
Member
Now that was impressive.