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STEAM | October 2015 - You had me at "game ... comes to Steam".
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The Dear Leader
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EVGA has a great warranty I hear, and step up program for upgrades.
Tizoc
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On the topic of FFXIII when's everyone's favourite goddess returning to Steam?
We had a thread about it and lashman posted about in this thread some days ago.
IIRC it's releasing by end of this year.
Finally woke up from my game torpor and put some good hours into Mad Max. So yeah for that ! The bad news is that the game seems to commit the cardinal sin of an open world : being bland with uninteresting writing.
So yes don't get me wrong, I never looked for some Shakespeare in my open worlds but some of them definitely have a nice story, nice characters, or whatever else one can call nice.
Here, I fear the only word is : boring. And it breaks my heart, I want to love the game.
But fuck if that will stop me, collecthatlon for life ! And it's not like it is bad or anything. I just would have liked a more fleshed out writing.
So yes don't get me wrong, I never looked for some Shakespeare in my open worlds but some of them definitely have a nice story, nice characters, or whatever else one can call nice.
Here, I fear the only word is : boring. And it breaks my heart, I want to love the game.
But fuck if that will stop me, collecthatlon for life ! And it's not like it is bad or anything. I just would have liked a more fleshed out writing.
Baron_Calamity
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EVGA is the maker of most Nvidia cards I've bought except for the 8800GT. You know what was the one Nvidia card that failed me? , the 8800GT. So go with EVGA.
Baron_Calamity
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Make it green and it would be like the Matrix.
Why? It's fast, it's cheap and it provides good coverage, even for some structures that SMAA will miss. Combine that with a higher resolution image and you've drastically increased your amount of sample points too. There's is no catch all AA solution (some come close mind) and the more options available the better.
I can't remember exactly where it's from, I think UE4's TAA paper maybe, but there was a great example how temporal solutions work and why a blur component, ie something like a gaussian filter instead of box, leads to a much more stable image. You can kind of get a dumb temporal AA solution by using crazy resolution combined with FXAA. I mean DSR's Smoothing factor is just a gaussian filter you apply to varying degrees to smooth out the image for non neat resolutions.
Edit: Found it!
UE4 - High Quality Temporal Supersampling
Box Filter
Gaussian Filter
That's actually quite a good presentation actually and gives quite a bit of insight what goes into UE4's TAA.
MMBosstones86
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On the topic of FFXIII when's everyone's favourite goddess returning to Steam?
End of the Year. Just in time for Winter Seal.
I'm going to be working through 13-2 pretty soon in preparation.
Thanks!
freshVeggie
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Wow, it is just like you said, none is master of all trades. But in this case the "blurry" solution is so much more easier on the eyes.Why? It's fast, it's cheap and it provides good coverage, even for some structures that SMAA will miss. Combine that with a higher resolution image and you've drastically increased your amount of sample points too. There's is no catch all AA solution (some come close mind) and the more options available the better.
I can't remember exactly where it's from, I think UE4's TAA paper maybe, but there was a great example how temporal solutions work and why a blur component, ie something like a gaussian filter instead of box, leads to a much more stable image. You can kind of get a dumb temporal AA solution by using crazy resolution combined with FXAA. I mean DSR's Smoothing factor is just a gaussian filter you apply to varying degrees to smooth out the image for non neat resolutions.
Edit: Found it!
UE4 - High Quality Temporal Supersampling
Box Filter
Gaussian Filter
That's actually quite a good presentation actually and gives quite a bit of insight what goes into UE4's TAA.
What happened to that game that looks like this one, by the same guy who did papers please? It looked like it could be something great
Edit: It's called Obra Dinn, and he is still working on it
If you want a more scientific explanation why one solution works better than another in a give situation rather than my ramblings, check out Durante's article.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=757355
Go Shiina should get the OST for Tales of Series. His work clearly outdoes Sakuraba in the game.
EVGA or MSI I'd say. I'm very happy with my MSI since launch, it's very quiet (fans don't turn on until a certain load/temp is reached) and runs cool.
so far, I don't see that bellow two hours for retail games cards working, then again I wasn't monitoring time all the time, one card dropped around 1.9 hour mark I think, but it could have been two, need to do more testing, preferably with a game that drops cards really fast, now only to find which one does that.
edited: Doggie assaulting our eyes again, I see, we should think of punishment. Badmouthing AssCreed, perhaps?
edited: Doggie assaulting our eyes again, I see, we should think of punishment. Badmouthing AssCreed, perhaps?
lashman
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edit: ^^ lol beaten by lashman, but my post is waaaaaaay more sexy
Rocket League Update details:
Rocket League - Mix, Match, and Mutate! Trailer
Rocket League Update details:
Rocket League - Mix, Match, and Mutate! Trailer
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TheAutomator
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GOTY just got GOTYer.
The Dear Leader
Banned
Rocket League =
somebody said GOTY?
only one day left
edited: just have seen derExperte's lazy post in 52 games thread, congratulations
although you could have written at least couple of words about all those games, but what I can't understand, how the hell did you finish Kairo in less than 3 hours. That's absolutely not possible.
also cheating with those episodes I see!
edit 2: congratulations to AHA-Lambda on 52 too, not including playtimes should be against rules... and it is!
just kidding
edit: ^^ lol beaten by lashman, but my post is waaaaaaay more sexy
Rocket League Update details:
Rocket League - Mix, Match, and Mutate! Trailer
Source
Come on man, put some effort in. At least Bayonetta had sexy gifs for his non-stop DOA5 advertising.
Come on man, put some effort in. At least Bayonetta had sexy gifs for his non-stop DOA5 advertising.
no gifs, cuz no jiggly physics, just awesomeness overboard
*also you should use your imagination, nothing can beat that, no gifs
Hero Prinny
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I got to get back into rocket league, tmrw night we shall be reunited as there will be no midterms separating us, I'll finally be free and we can run off and fly in the arena with our mad skillz.
Come on man, put some effort in. At least Bayonetta had sexy gifs for his non-stop DOA5 advertising.
I should make another OT. I really like working on stuff like that. >.> (Remember Abyss Odyssey Promo too)
freshVeggie
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I remember that! Read it a year or so ago. Some aspects were hard to grasp but I think I got the gist. I still find myself googling "TXAA vs MFAA", "FXAA vs MSAA" though ( ._.)
Until I own Rocket League, it's overhyped trash to meRocket League =
makes me feel better :'/
I may be misremembering, but the EVGA 970 had a really poor and inefficient cooling system. The heat pipes weren't designed correctly to the point where one was merely cosmetic. The heat map for the EVGA 970 looked terrible next to the Asus and the MSI cards.
I don't know whether this has been fixed with subsequent versions, but something to look out for.
@Dogg
FXAA blurs the image far too much unless you are running high resolutions. Fine in motion, but screenshots look muddy.
I run 1440p and I'm probably getting to the point where my resolution cancels it out but it still bothers me.
I may be misremembering, but the EVGA 970 had a really poor and inefficient cooling system. The heat pipes weren't designed correctly to the point where one was merely cosmetic. The heat map for the EVGA 970 looked terrible next to the Asus and the MSI cards.
I don't know whether this has been fixed with subsequent versions, but something to look out for.
That has indeed been fixed with the more recent versions of the 970.
This is the setup on the 970 SSC edition.
Nice.
In my experience, you should skip the 970. Either step up your budget slightly for a 980/980ti or go AMD.
I run high-resolution and running up against the VRAM bottleneck can be frustrating and will continually cause issues moving forward.
I'm jumping on Pascal, but I might just wait for the second run of upgraded cards ie 1080ti.
I'm running a 970 and while I love the card, I agree with Grief. If you're just now hopping in, step up to a 980 at the minimum if at all possible. If I had been able to, I'd have done the same but the 970 was all I could swing after selling a bunch of stuff on eBay.
Can't bitch though, I did get 3(!) games free thanks to NewEgg.
Jawmuncher
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Looks like we're in for a Juri Redesign of some sort. I'm fully expecting hair to receive a radical change. The post itself is referring to the size of the remaining characters. You can check out the full post for the other characters.
lashman
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Fantastic, Rocket League keeps getting better and better.
and it was greenlit not so long ago too
corrosivefrost
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You should know which version you have because it would be the last version you bought.
Awful.
Didn't fall for your trap. I already know what this links to. Wrong again.
After playing the demo, I can't understand why, especially with the mostly bad reviews as well. You have to be the only person I've seen that wants a rerelease of it on pc.
I think your posts would do that before a silly avatar image would.
Shadows of the Damned is a more popular, better received game at least. I personally disliked it by the time I got my platinum, but maybe I'd like it again if I replayed it these many years later.
Personally, I'd rather see lollipop chainsaw since, like KiD, it's a suda51 game I wrote off after mmm y experience with SotD.
Fixed.
So maybe the R9 390 (8 GB) as an alternative? It's comparably priced and seems to outperform the 970 at higher resolutions (1080p seems about the same).
I might upgrade my HD 7950 this Christmas.
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you need to check your sex receptors!
Kurt Russell
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We are, yes
Glad to see that it did well. You guys did an amazing job with the port, considering what you had to work with. Hopefully we'll see the rest of the series on PC some day
Nabs
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Ice hockey is going to be so good. The best game gets even better.
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