PC Who is Kuosimodo
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Vampirenostra
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Isn't Quasimodo a character from Notredame du Paris - though the person should be shy or scary looking)))
Matt115
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pApA^LeGBa
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What this game really desperately needs is some endgame content. F the graphics tbh, they are fine. Gameplay > graphics. Right now we are on around 30-35 hours before everything get´s way too easy even on higher difficulties. Even less if you min/max as much as possible.
Some may say that a lot of AAA titles give you the same time of playing and even less sometimes, yeah they do. That´s the reason i don´t buy AAA titles unless they are like 10€ in a sale.
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Fox
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True. Even a random sort of boss fight encounter or something to change things up for endgame content would be nice, like a giant mutant like in Resident Evil movies. Or you need to build something large or complex to leave the area sort of endgame thing since the maps have radiated borders, could make it require that special vehicle to get passed it and "win".
Matt115
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Nah - a plague tale have simple gameplay but have so realistic graphic - that's why a plague tale is so good game. Long time=/= good game. Mad Max is much shorter that Valhala but much better in my opinion
it is just impossible because destroable world + AI that's why we don't get behemot ( too big)
Well i think graphic is very important if you want to keep realistic design
pApA^LeGBa
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I don´t know the big zombies do work pretty good so far in Darkness Falls. Including the behemoth. And no one can ever convince me that a good graphic can make up for bad gameplay. That´s impossible. Ofc longer gaming time doesn´t automatically mean it´s a better game. Gameplay has to be good. With good gameplay a longer game IS better than a shorter one because if you have good gameplay you can have more fun with it.
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Matt115
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It is a mod xd darkness falls enemy quality is terrible so i'm not shocked. It is possible if game have good story/ good art design. I think if a plague tale would be made in 2005 would be long forgotten but graphic made this good game - a lot of corpses on battlefield shows us scale of this battles, a lot tools furnitures give feeling that someone was living in this house, dirt of characters make them looking more tired and gore like rats eating horses make this game even more grusome. If gameplay is interesting? 5/10 but world and story is good so much that you want to see more. I love details in horizon zero dawn - how winds works, how mech are moving, how plants looks or even small but realistic details like how her arms shake, how eyes looks or detail in her clothes even things that people don't think like aloy have dirty feet when she was barefoot or how good looks ruins. AC have this same thing - gameplay is rly boring but how world looks is good so i want see more. Well space marine have good gameplay but always this same corridors make this game boring as hell, this same thing with singluarity, dread out 2 have good gameplay and story but graphic is so bad that i was dreaming because some locations looks like 2010 game ( dreadout 2 is from 2020). So graphic is important too - well 7dtd have good graphic but small number of "norma;" zombie variants hurts a lot
Fox
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Nothing is impossible, especially not giant mobs anymore. This new feature release will allow games to completely improve in texture details while also improving game performances and lowering game load times as well.
pApA^LeGBa
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The behemoth is the model from TFP in Darkness Falls.
Direct storage would allow a lot more zombies in the world, as the CPU has more time to calculate them not beeing busy with loading and processing assets.
Direct storage would allow a lot more zombies in the world, as the CPU has more time to calculate them not beeing busy with loading and processing assets.
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You're stretching my memory back 25 years ago to University "Computer Systems Architecture 101"...
I don't think Direct Storage would help that much in terms of computing more actions. CPUs used to need to handle all the interrupts between different components and memory, so slow peripherals tied up the CPU for disproportionate amounts of time. In the original Wolfenstein 3D, you were never surprised by enemies around corners or behind doors, because you could hear the hard disk spin up, and the game would jerk along until the enemy's sprites were loaded. Then the shooting would start!
Direct Memory Access solved a lot of those issues. Direct Storage intends to take it a step further and allow direct communication between SSD and VRAM, without going through System RAM first. But while this speeds up load time, it doesn't really help with freeing up the CPU to do more calculations.
What causes the delay is the sheer number of calculations that need to take place, and the difficulty in running those calculations in parallel. So if you have 64 Zombies, you need to path those 64 zombies in sequence, so you don't have all 64 zombies all trying to occupy the same space. Once you have that figured out, assets are usually already loaded into memory, and memory to video RAM transfer is already very quick, and doesn't take up CPU time.
Don't get me wrong, Direct Storage will help any time you load assets from disk. Moving fast with a wide field of view like from a Gyrocopter would be one example. But doing so doesn't really free up CPU time. Given that you only need to signal that the load has completed, and return an address of where it can be found, the other cores of the processors which aren't busy calculating Zombie jiggle can do this work without interrupting the calculations needed to move Zombies.
I am mostly speculating with probably out of date information from CSA 101, but from what I've read of Direct Storage, it does fit with what I'm seeing other people write about it. I'm looking forward to it, and I really hope it's included in 7d2d. But I wouldn't count on it letting you run any more Zombies.
Matt115
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sigh ... - it is true it is model from TFP, well zombie shark too. it was planned but it was scrapped because zombie movement ( ask faatal or someone else so they will explain this better) + POI design and AI ( it was explain about holes in wall and path finding)
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My theory is that our curious lurker is, in fact, Keyser Söze.
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pApA^LeGBa
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@Matt115 you can choose where a certain type of zombie spawns. It could easily be a outside only zombie. Even specific to a biome or blood moon only. I have yet to see a behemoth spawn inside a building. And if he wants to follow you inside that actually makes things more interesting. A normal zombie will ruin 2 blocks of your base to get to you. The behemoth is a whole new level of danger to your structure.
I can imagine it beeing more work for TFP, but that would have paid off imo. A much needed challenge for endgame. Now all we are promised for engame is bandits. Wich will do very little imo.
I can imagine it beeing more work for TFP, but that would have paid off imo. A much needed challenge for endgame. Now all we are promised for engame is bandits. Wich will do very little imo.
Isn't one of the problems the behemoth has in DF that he can hit you even behind a closed thick wall? If yes, then that is good enough for a mod but it seems TFP didn't want this kind of problem on top of all other problems they need to fix.
Bandits on the other hand are a solution to endgame content AND the kickstarter goal problem.
pApA^LeGBa
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@meganothI highly doubt that bandits will have a good enough AI to really be a huge threat. And we need a huge threat as we have absolutly no endgame at all right now. A slightly enhanced zombie AI with weapons won´t change that. Especially as we can´t have a lot of enemies at once. The bandits they add in will reduce zombie numbers. It will maybe add a few hours, but nothing that justifies having 300 levels. Or even 100 levels tbh.
Never got hit trough a wall from a behemoth so far. Not even when there was only bars between us and the horde. What certainly can hit you behind a wall is demons spitting fire. Wich is intended afaik.
Never got hit trough a wall from a behemoth so far. Not even when there was only bars between us and the horde. What certainly can hit you behind a wall is demons spitting fire. Wich is intended afaik.
Vanilla is for novice players. Bandits WILL be a thread for novice players and I don't see the slightest problem in achieving that. You and me and 100 levels are not the problem TFP is trying to fix. 300 levels is 3 times NOT a problem TFP is trying to fix.
Modders will give end-game bandits a rocket launcher into their hands and they will be a problem to some experienced player as well. Maybe even TFP will do that in vanilla already. I would hope so, but no idea.
I may have mixed that up.
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