Wonder if google’s moves on playtesting req’s - requiring testing teams of 20 or more users - is going to be a way to assert the play store is safe/well curated etc…

either way shit’s gonna get worse for indie devs :|

man I wish they’d keep pintrest out of google image search. yeah I know I can manually exclude their url from search but why is it there in the first place lol useless for finding reference material

that makes more sense!

omagensercer

what is this?

the part that really makes me heave is that Sony gave them $1.2 billion earmarked for retention, and they gutted multiple longtime departments including people from the Halo days.

Whoever’s making the decisions at the top have gotten real cynical.

but it’s not. CS has an economy, but the entire simulation runs alongside it, not on it.

I think you think you know a lot more about game dev than you actually do.

I’m curious from a gamedev perspective why you think any of the mechanics are sacrosanct - all economies are fake. they depend on mutual agreement of arbitrary values and systems.

as long as you know you’re still hanging out at the nazi bar, I guess there’s no further discussion.

17% of America wants to know more.

47% of all Electric Car “news” have a 82% chance of being 99% “bullshit”.

have an ASUS TUF A15 laptop with an nVidia GTX 1650Ti graphics card and I am SO sick of 500MB driver “updates” that are basically beta tests that break one thing or another. What are the chances of upgrading to a Raedon/AMD graphics card? Or am I stuck with this shit?

in a laptop? practically none. there are some very rare ‘laptops’ out there - really chonk tops - that have full size desktop gpu’s inside them. the vast majority, on the other hand, will have ‘mobile’ versions of these gpus that are basically permanently connected to the laptop’s motherboard (if not being on the mobo itself).

one example of a laptop with a full-size gpu (legacy, these aren’t sold anymore): https://www.titancomputers.com/Titan-M151-GPU-Computing-Laptop-workstation-p/m151.htm note the THICK chassis - that’s what you need to hold a desktop gpu.

scalpers often recruit straw purchases in those situations. they have ways man, I’m all for Valve finding innovation in fucking those fuckwits up

Sheer overhead. It’s not a general purpose game engine, it’s a hotrod FPS engine with all the visuals crankABLE to 11. But if you’re not pushing for the high end pc/console FPS, adapting it to your game’s flow and perf reqs can be challenging. And it’s not the easiest engine to develop AR/VR or other new tech on, requiring hyper optimization and throttling lot’s of the engine’s gorgeous visuals. It’ll be interesting to see where it goes from here though, unity has fucked themselves 8 ways from sunday on developer confidence and their own fragmented shit show outside the board room didn’t generate lots of confidence either.

I’m playing with godot a lot these days lol.

risc-v maybe sometime in the future but nah man, nah… x86 ftw.

it’s absolutely not the same product. one is called CS:GO the other is literally called CS2. They’re two different games with a shared asset pool. Gameplay between the two is not the same. Game modes aren’t the same. Fuck, they didn’t even port over the bots code.

I’ve been playing cs since 1.6, been on numerous raids of Al Queda, I was there when Harambe OD’d you little shitstain. Get fucked lol

they’re different products. puting cs:go as a ‘beta’ of CS2 is asinine, taking it away w/o player agency is snide, and me having to explain this to you is pitiful.

You can play cs:go (apparently) by rolling back CS2 to previous betas… such a stupid ‘solution’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3jomwTCh6Y&ab_channel=TroubleChute

rats maps and gungame… .cs source ate hundreds of hours of my time.

arms race, flying scoutsman, for two…

And damn near every single Google effort into the games space has failed except for android games, which ride on the enormous platform install. Their latest effort was a joke - stadia was DOA.

I respect valve because they’ve provided indie game devs with the same distribution AAA studios get, they’ve never asked for exclusivity and did tons of uncompensated VR pioneering (remember Abrash and co were Valve before Oculus) and never once tried to ‘own’ vr. And they’re a private company, so that means the decisions - and investments - they’ve made worked out enough to free them of a board dicking shit up.

Keep going, Valve. I don’t like everything they do, but overall they’re a gem in value added.