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Burton said:
Arc Raiders is a really good case study for how UE5 has really gone in the wrong direction in terms of what game developers need. The game is essentially set up like a UE4 project, even using a global illumination system by Nvidia that was developed for UE4 (RTXGI). It doesn't use any of the buzz word features of UE5 like Lumen, Nanite, Virtual Shadow maps or MegaLights, and it doesn't use Nvidia's current global illumination system for UE5 (ReSTIR GI) either, and yet it has the best performance of any recent Unreal title. I'm really hoping that Epic and Nvidia take notice (Tim Sweeney posted about Arc Raiders on X) and focus more on performance. It used to be that a new feature was worthless unless it was efficient and had excellent performance.
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Well said. It not only performs great, it honestly is more visually stunning than most other UE5 projects. Given its stripped down nature this really does show what went wrong and what should change. Of course art direction is a lot of that, but the tech wizardry can't be overlooked either. Not to mention it's out shining games that are single player and linear, these are open areas with dozens of players dropping in and out and enemy NPC's that have as good animations and adaptability as I've ever seen in a game.

This was a pretty great video on the games development btw, less about the engine and more the game, but still very interesting.

 
Yama said:
Well said. It not only performs great, it honestly is more visually stunning than most other UE5 projects. Given its stripped down nature this really does show what went wrong and what should change. Of course art direction is a lot of that, but the tech wizardry can't be overlooked either. Not to mention it's out shining games that are single player and linear, these are open areas with dozens of players dropping in and out and enemy NPC's that have as good animations and adaptability as I've ever seen in a game.

This was a pretty great video on the games development btw, less about the engine and more the game, but still very interesting.

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Damn, no wonder I’ve been hearing so much hype about this game. They have the guys that worked on Battlefield 3 behind it.

Glad to see they still have talent, but damn it something has been missing in the Battlefield games ever since they left I hope they come back 😭.
 
I recently started Signalis after it was on my playlist for quite a while. Seems decent so far but it falls into the trap of "limited inventory is full" too often, in a way classic RE games don't. Also multiple puzzles are in the category of RE3 Water Sample, which I have worked past without cheating, but it's still not ideal. It just doesn't have the immediate charms of the last retro horror I finished; Crow Country.
 
I also jumped on the Arc Raiders bandwagon and am wholly impressed.

Apparently this game has a 10 year plan where they will release new content regularly....for free! Pretty cool if they can live up to this, and wouldn't mind playing and grinding on this for 10 years between new Resident Evil content.

I'm definitely not a tech expert but the games looks and runs flawlessly with AMD FSR 4 setup and glad I switched over to AMD from overpriced Nvidia.

I just hope that RE9 contains FSR 4 because it is a good feature.
 
Duty said:
I also jumped on the Arc Raiders bandwagon and am wholly impressed.

Apparently this game has a 10 year plan where they will release new content regularly....for free! Pretty cool if they can live up to this, and wouldn't mind playing and grinding on this for 10 years between new Resident Evil content.

I'm definitely not a tech expert but the games looks and runs flawlessly with AMD FSR 4 setup and glad I switched over to AMD from overpriced Nvidia.

I just hope that RE9 contains FSR 4 because it is a good feature.
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Yeah the way they modified and stripped down the engine to still look beautiful but run well on everything is commendable. Such a fun game too, lots of inspiration from many series we like. Feel free to friend me we can get some runs in.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/2053567086056648911

If you know me you know what this one means to me. The one series to rival Biohazard and the one cancellation that almost broke my love for the hobby. So excited to see this, I've been following Spec for a while and his work is bar none amazing. To think this really may happen. Early reverse engineering still with no polish, but the point is it's actually possible now.

Between this mod, the inspired by Factions Indie game Terminal War and the recent Save Factions petition going around... ND may just have their hand forced in the future. It's a win/win.
 
Silent Hill f is as weird AF. But I commend Konami for trying different ideas after the franchise got halted for over a decade, after 2012. It was certainly difficult reading all the speculation on the series' revival thereafter, wondering if it would ever truly come back and not just amount to hearsay.

In particular, I love how indie ddvelopers with their talent can have the ball and run with it. This means we have less pressure being put on the devs within Konami. People can also offer up their own take on the gameplay and plot, keeping the universe expansive beyond just the in-house productions.

Even if the games are going to generate mixed feelings, I am not going to act all ungrateful now that we are back in business with the survival horror genre. It comes after years of mundane Action-Horror shite, that was enjoyable, but lacked the trademark tension one is meant to experience in a horror story.

We have gotten two new entries in under 3 years, plus a glorious remake of SH2, and some pretty bad extra things along the way, quite sadly so. Although I feel like I can live with that, however, if the overall quality is maintained.
 
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Whelp with AI now in the game it looks like anyone can be a developer within a few years as AI generated tools make it extremely easy to generate movies and games via text input.

The next two decades are gonna blow everything we thought we knew to smitherines.

I mean, people are already f***ing AI chatbots with words just imagine when robots start pouring into people's homes in about 10 years not to mention stealing jobs everywhere.
 
That is true, that AI will be a problem, but if you think about it, every major form of technology including the Internet has put some people out of work. People are more likely to shop online, which hurts brick-and-mortar stores; emails and paying bills online hurt the postal service; every time there's a new movie format, it's made to where you ought to upgrade (like VHS-to-DVD-To-Blu Ray-to-4K) and so on. You just have to adjust to what's going on in order to keep going. I know it sucks, but it's reality when it comes to big tech.
Heck, I'm highly considering going to a community college to learn AI, software and anything to start an online business making my own software and selling it online on my own website. The company I'm yearly renting my video editor software, CyberLink, mainly makes video/audio/image editor software and they made about $1.84B in revenue last year according to Wikipedia. This is the sort of thing I want to do, plus create a software or computer game to help with autistic people like myself and some Japanese theme games that look like something from the SNES cartridge era. Anything is better than wasting another decade applying for retail jobs that won't even invite me to a second interview and someone else gets the job every time. I lost many years applying for jobs just for the sake of having a job, when I should of been spending my time and skills going to jobs I've already got skills in; at least I'd likely be happier than some dead end retail job.
 
Townfall looks very good, those AA games usually deliver but nobody on the internet talks about them much so that leaves me to believe they are better than AAA games ;).
ResidentEvil7 said:
That is true, that AI will be a problem, but if you think about it, every major form of technology including the Internet has put some people out of work. People are more likely to shop online, which hurts brick-and-mortar stores; emails and paying bills online hurt the postal service; every time there's a new movie format, it's made to where you ought to upgrade (like VHS-to-DVD-To-Blu Ray-to-4K) and so on. You just have to adjust to what's going on in order to keep going. I know it sucks, but it's reality when it comes to big tech.
Heck, I'm highly considering going to a community college to learn AI, software and anything to start an online business making my own software and selling it online on my own website. The company I'm yearly renting my video editor software, CyberLink, mainly makes video/audio/image editor software and they made about $1.84B in revenue last year according to Wikipedia. This is the sort of thing I want to do, plus create a software or computer game to help with autistic people like myself and some Japanese theme games that look like something from the SNES cartridge era. Anything is better than wasting another decade applying for retail jobs that won't even invite me to a second interview and someone else gets the job every time. I lost many years applying for jobs just for the sake of having a job, when I should of been spending my time and skills going to jobs I've already got skills in; at least I'd likely be happier than some dead end retail job.
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I agree with you. AI will be a positive contribution to humanity, despite the early bumps (massive profits in the hands of the startups, job displacement, etc) but the problem here is people are bitching about it to no end. The internet was not nearly this controversial when it came out so this is touching on something more personal I think. They are gonna have to come up with contingency plans to accommodate the economic fallout.

It just goes to show that technology is developing faster than the collective maturity of the general population and that's a bad thing because people are taking ancient belief structures and using modern technology to apply them. People are t looking at AI as handy tools in their quest for collective knowledge and science, they are using them as outlets to fill voids in their life like loneliness, escapism, and validation, etc. especially middle aged people and older.

I'm actually rooting for the younger generations now because they will know how to apply this technology more intelligently instead of either declaring it evil or being highly dependent on it. That's my take anyway 😂
 
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