Vidya Games Thread

[Saturnus]

Meet your match is a shit update yes but it's not the problem that needed fixing... but the game still functions fine even with the worse system.

The MYM queue system caused the bot problem. TF2 has been in a coma until Valve actually got up and did something about the bots. Now people are actually able to play the game and are realizing that the game is fundamentality flawed in it's current state.
Playing on community servers isn't a permanent fix either. Hell, it wasn't one back when the bots were around because MYM killed a majority of community servers that weren't named Skial.

Saying the game "functions fine" is massive cope, honestly. I want the best for the game especially if Valve isn't going to bother with content updates anymore.

 

[MrProcessor]

She's doing so much better these days...

 

[Smelliest007]

She's doing so much better these days...

Yeah but this promotion should really go to Elira...

 

[CalciumAnimal]

The MYM queue system caused the bot problem. TF2 has been in a coma until Valve actually got up and did something about the bots. Now people are actually able to play the game and are realizing that the game is fundamentality flawed in it's current state.
Playing on community servers isn't a permanent fix either. Hell, it wasn't one back when the bots were around because MYM killed a majority of community servers that weren't named Skial.

Saying the game "functions fine" is massive cope, honestly. I want the best for the game especially if Valve isn't going to bother with content updates anymore.

not everyone is as hyper autistic as we are about a shitty que system

 

[TKN_Lurker]

Ah yes. Boba tea. The drink of choice of the hip-hop loving samurai.

One more thing to note. Boba Tea is a Taiwan thing. Not a Japanese thing. Brilliant research by the French in Ubislop.

not everyone is as hyper autistic as we are about a shitty que system

I think this video does a good job explaining how devastatingly bad the new queue system affected TF2. It's not just bad wait times. It's a whole shit show that fucked up fundamental parts of the game.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Apparently the Marvel Rivals servers were down for less than a day and they have decided to compensate everyone by giving everyone 200 units (blue currency). So be sure to log in and claim it before March 12th.

 

[Security]

Apparently the Marvel Rivals servers were down for less than a day and they have decided to compensate everyone by giving everyone 200 units (blue currency). So be sure to log in and claim it before March 12th.

More like they were just having issues for a couple hours.

In the realm of server issues, it was insanely minor. Them throwing Blue at us because of it is amusing.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

I think this video does a good job explaining how devastatingly bad the new queue system affected TF2. It's not just bad wait times. It's a whole shit show that fucked up fundamental parts of the game.

yeah i like Zesty's work but i don't agree with it (if your even mildly curious his videos on the bot crisis beautiful) but yes i did over emphasize the shitty que system because there were a ton of knock off effects.

that being said it is "fine" games in worse states have survived longer and unlike them TF2 is still fun but overall valve fixing the problems are low. so it's "fine".

Apparently the Marvel Rivals servers were down for less than a day and they have decided to compensate everyone by giving everyone 200 units (blue currency). So be sure to log in and claim it before March 12th.

this is a semi common thing in mobile and gatcha games throw free (but functionally worthless) Currency at people. The people who didn't care get a gift (and thus are happy) and the retards who get mad are soothed and come back at zero cost.

it's honestly scum tier behavior but i got 200 shines so i can't be mad.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

The other side of the DEI Cult stuff is all of the Gaming Era foundation staff all hit the end of their careers at big studios. Vast majority of them were Gen X types that learned to code in BASIC and the like. Even if they weren't going to be forced out, they'd all end up moving on just as a general practice. But I think its that coding foundation not being there that's far more catastrophic for the industry than people realize at the moment. The true separation of Design & Code has been a disaster, especially as, well, they won't pay the money for the quality of coders they used to have.

 

[Security]

The other side of the DEI Cult stuff is all of the Gaming Era foundation staff all hit the end of their careers at big studios. Vast majority of them were Gen X types that learned to code in BASIC and the like. Even if they weren't going to be forced out, they'd all end up moving on just as a general practice. But I think its that coding foundation not being there that's far more catastrophic for the industry than people realize at the moment. The true separation of Design & Code has been a disaster, especially as, well, they won't pay the money for the quality of coders they used to have.

IDEAL: a combination of lack of good coders plus oversaturation and a potential detachment of the youth toward gaming results in a major crash making gaming niche again.

EXPECTATION: AI generated games make most of this moot, with the possibility that the crash still happens for the mentioned reasons, but the scene may completely disintegrate into games really just being some side amusement for parents to give to their kids, like Tiger Electronics handhelds were. What's left of the actual fascination and appreciation for gaming itself is akin to people who are interested in silent-era movies, or those with phantom nostalgia for something like Vaudeville - and so all that remains is what was in the past, with any "new" creations are like film clubs trying to imitate what is now long lost.

Ahhh, death take me...

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

But I think its that coding foundation not being there that's far more catastrophic for the industry than people realize at the moment.

A big problem with this is the actual wages and working conditions in the gaming industry.
Do you, as a programmer worth a damn, get a job in some random company that pays better, has you work less, and has the possibility of promotion, or do you go to the games industry, get absolutely raped (sometimes physically too it seems) for lower wages, more hours, and a constant series of "Well, you want to work on the vidyagames, that's your dream, right?" and then get laid off after making a game that earned literal hundreds of millions of dollars?


Anyways, in less gay news:

Elite Dangerous: Trailblazers – Available Now - Elite Dangerous

Expand the Bubble in the Elite Dangerous: Trailblazers update. With the brand-new System Colonisation mechanic launching into Beta, the power to claim...

www.elitedangerous.com

Elite Dangerous' player-driven colonization update is out-ish.
Somehow colonizing a system isn't awfully expensive, gay or retarded, and unlike owning a carrier, it generates passive income. I don't know who they got to replace Elite's old no-fun-allowed management team, but I fucking love them.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Anyways, in less gay news:

Elite Dangerous: Trailblazers – Available Now - Elite Dangerous

Expand the Bubble in the Elite Dangerous: Trailblazers update. With the brand-new System Colonisation mechanic launching into Beta, the power to claim...

www.elitedangerous.com

Elite Dangerous' player-driven colonization update is out-ish.
Somehow colonizing a system isn't awfully expensive, gay or retarded, and unlike owning a carrier, it generates passive income. I don't know who they got to replace Elite's old no-fun-allowed management team, but I fucking love them.

Just chiming in on this sometimes the same team can have a revelation that they are pushing players too far and ease up for a bit.

Examples: Warframe (Liches) Eve Online (support ship meta) Runescape (dungeoneering) League of Legends (tank meta) and those are just ones i know of. just be aware it usually involved something monumentally stupid after.

 

[ValkyrieAce]

A big problem with this is the actual wages and working conditions in the gaming industry.
Do you, as a programmer worth a damn, get a job in some random company that pays better, has you work less, and has the possibility of promotion, or do you go to the games industry, get absolutely raped (sometimes physically too it seems) for lower wages, more hours, and a constant series of "Well, you want to work on the vidyagames, that's your dream, right?" and then get laid off after making a game that earned literal hundreds of millions of dollars?


Anyways, in less gay news:

Elite Dangerous: Trailblazers – Available Now - Elite Dangerous

Expand the Bubble in the Elite Dangerous: Trailblazers update. With the brand-new System Colonisation mechanic launching into Beta, the power to claim...

www.elitedangerous.com

Elite Dangerous' player-driven colonization update is out-ish.
Somehow colonizing a system isn't awfully expensive, gay or retarded, and unlike owning a carrier, it generates passive income. I don't know who they got to replace Elite's old no-fun-allowed management team, but I fucking love them.

I have friends that helped make one of the biggest games in the world. Eventually they got fed up and left and now they make multiple times the money and work a fraction of the hours making accounting software.

 

[Kalion]

Quite a flip to see Capcom go from... whatever the fuck their marketing for Exoprimal and Dragon's Dogma 2 was to going hard on Vtubers for Wilds.
Though, Laimu was also sponsored for Dragon's Dogma 2.

 

[I Wanna Die]

Quite a flip to see Capcom go from... whatever the fuck their marketing for Exoprimal and Dragon's Dogma 2 was to going hard on Vtubers for Wilds.
Though, Laimu was also sponsored for Dragon's Dogma 2.

Even more crazy when just a few years ago they went after Hololive so aggressively, and now they're doing official collabs.

 

[httn]

TF2 Classic - TF2 Classic is coming to Steam!

tf2classic.com

How classic are we talking here? because i want to return to 6 pipe-random crit demoman just for the seething it caused.

 

[I Wanna Die]

So many game journos tried to convince us it was a success yet it's being given away only a few months after release?

 

[Zizara]

Quite a flip to see Capcom go from... whatever the fuck their marketing for Exoprimal and Dragon's Dogma 2 was to going hard on Vtubers for Wilds.
Though, Laimu was also sponsored for Dragon's Dogma 2.

Friday can't come soon enough honestly. I've been painfully bored and basically in the Wilds waiting room for weeks now.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

How classic are we talking here? because i want to return to 6 pipe-random crit demoman just for the seething it caused.

Classic weapons + their own custom made weapons. has pre meet your match lobbies.

Also rebalancing the game which ive been enjoying added a new game mode and also 4way battles.

Just had a big update launched too. Theres also one big server with a shit ton of their own custom weapons if you dont like base TF2C you might find your fix there.

they are also reworking code in an attempt to improve the game like pyros flamethrower is no longer just a line of fire it has physics so turning fast means the flame can be outrun getting close is much less of a death sentince but the pyro has other tools now to compensate like a shotgun which they will use to launch themselves at you like a solly with the market gardener out.

 

[thhrang]