Notices by beard :meru_dab: (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)

@icedquinn that was the reason behind using just a blur (fxaa) or temporal effects (taa/tsr). turning off anti-aliasing is all well and good but unless you're running at 4K (and sometimes even then) you're going to run into issues with things being way too noisy.

i would rather take a performance hit for MSAA than use any of these new ones. DLAA isn't as bad but it's also a pretty decent performance hit.

@icedquinn from what i understand, the post processing and lighting don't update at a high enough rate so when things move quickly (the camera, objects, or lights changing), they leave trails. in order to make them update faster, though, it takes significantly more horsepower. that's why all this stuff has always been done in pre-renders instead of realtime. it looks great in slow scenes and still shots, but completely falls apart in fast shots. it's why i can't use raytracing in most games, the lighting is great but don't move your camera too fast i guess.

this happens with any temporal effect like TAA too, because the applied effect doesn't apply fast enough to the updated image.

so naturally the idea would just be to turn off AA but then it turns into a pixelated mess because the level of detail is so high that you NEED anti-aliasing to smooth it out. you can use FXAA but it's not that great at doing what it needs to and you still have things like the light flickering because that's all based on weird ephemeral temporal shit too.

modern rendering engines like this just suck ass. they are aiming for something so far in the future that is currently unattainable. these games might look passable in 20 years but for now, there is just way too much distracting shit going on in the image for me to say it looks good. games from 2013 look 100% better.

@icedquinn yeah the whole game is "isn't our AI tech cool?" and then you go "yeah it's kind of cool" and then that's it.

the graphics could be nice but they have a lot of problems, like a lot of other modern games do. it is really distracting when things are leaving afterimage trails and flickering.

this is what inZOI looks like without any anti-aliasing, DLSS, or raytracing in 1080p. high settings. completely unacceptable. all of that crust rapidly flickers, too.

tl;dr inZOI is an empty prototype that focuses way more on AI technology than anything fun or meaningful, don't buy it right now. maybe when the game fully releases it'll be better but the direction seems kind of flawed from the start.

this game is extremely early access.
think of sims, except instead of a team of people very deliberately putting lots of stuff together for tons of different contexts, it's all run by a shitty AI.
the foundation is fine, and i do like some of the ideas the game is going for, but it really seems like they focused way too much on random AI features instead of making an actual game.
the graphics are also pretty on the surface, but completely fall apart in motion. no matter what settings you're playing on it's going to look bad. i really, really hate modern rendering techniques. sims 2 looks better than this shit because it's actually a stable image and it's pretty clean too.

definitely DO NOT BUY until they really get more stuff here. there's barely anything to do and there are only some extremely specific things you can interact with. going to school is a rabbithole, which is horrible when you consider that the in-game time even on the fastest setting is ridiculously slow. i've got it set to 48 minute days, the lowest one, whereas sims 4's default is 24 minutes. if it could be sped up more that would be fine, but it still goes by really slowly especially when there's like nothing to do. NPCs seemingly never talk to your character, you have to initiate every interaction and they'll often just walk away after you say one thing unless you queue things up.

it does kind of feel like this game is leaning way more into AI features than being a life sim, like why in the absolute fuck did they spend so much time developing AI that can track movements onto a character? there's no point whatsoever.

played for not even 5 hours and yeah, it just made me want to play sims instead. there's really a whole lot of nothing here and that's a pretty good way to describe it. there's a lot of shit, it's just that none of it is actually meaningful or valuable at all.

paralives can't come soon enough.

THIS IS WHAT I SEE WHEN I OPEN KIRSCHE'S STREAM

@mischievoustomato @zonk only so much you can do solo

@lina by the time this game comes out the friendslop craze will probably have died down lol
my goal is to make something familiar to the survival horror genre but still unique

All the way back in 2018, some friends and I went out to some abandoned buildings in order to get audio/video/photo reference, as well as some inspiration, for the horror game we were making.

That game is the next thing I'm working on as a personal project. Shadows of the Mind. It takes place in an abandoned building in the middle of nowhere. Fitting. It's a survival horror game, heavily inspired by Silent Hill. It's also a sequel to a horror game jam entry I made in 2013. It'll be cool.

@icedquinn I saw someone saying that they were crypto scamming as their job in it lol, don't know how true that is but still funny

@icedquinn we definitely will see

@icedquinn part of the fun for me is micromanaging sims lol, but i definitely won't be using wasd. there's the weird facial and motion capture stuff too that i can only assume means, in combination with stuff like wasd movement, the idea is to get it to an online multiplayer kind of thing eventually where you can do something like GTA V RP servers. idk if that's actually the goal or not but that's kind of the vibe i'm getting.

@icedquinn my hope is that mods really blow the lid off any restrictions, because the base game is a really solid foundation and it seems to perform pretty well too.

Bought inZOI and played it for about 3 hours. 99% of that time was spent making one character. You can really go pretty in-depth with it. It does need a LOT more clothing options but given that it is early access, I think those will come over time. They have said that all content updates during early access will be completely free, so we'll have to see what gets added.

I popped into gameplay for a tiny bit and it seems VERY much like the Sims but with a few extra things. You can control your selected character directly with WASD for instance, and you can play around with the overall "vibe" of the town with sliders that affect things like crime, relationships, health, and more.

I was watching someone's stream of it and from what I can tell, it does appear that at least currently, the only way you're able to have a child is if you're married. NPCs have established sexual preferences, and you can't enter bathrooms that are for the opposite gender.

I'm going to keep playing it later, I'll let you guys know how it goes!

this is the one i tried to make studio ghibli btw lmao

grok can't do it either

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@sun i don't get notifications from accounts i get post notifications from. also the "always show sensitive media" button itself saves, but it doesn't apply so you still have to manually show it on each post.

this is pretty cool/funny though.