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>>39115
>extremely visible

On terrain, you’re almost invisible if you camp high. It’s incredibly easy to conceal yourself too. Just move back behind the hill a bit and reposition yourself.

i oddly never noticed this in halo. whenever a higher elevation enemy killed me i usually think "damn yeah i tried taking the riskier path and was punished for it oh well"
so maybe it really is just a game design thing? + halo most weapons are pretty short ranged, so even if the enemy is above you they usually feel inclined to do a badass jump towards you to close the distance anyway>>39116

>The fundamental problem with all shooters it that they make shooting at an elevation too convenient.
Being at a higher point gives you an advantage in real life as well. One can argue that the advantage shouldn't be too strong, but advantages and disadvantages perfectly balancing out would be too counterintuitive and weird IMHO.

Consider how the first one gets to the high position and how easy it is to get up there as the second one while the first one is still there. There could be some obstacle to getting there that the first person has to deal with and then the obstacle isn't there anymore for anybody (e. g. hitting a switch that opens a door permanently).

The high points could be easily destructible. A thing from real life: Fire travels faster uphill, so if starting fires is a thing in your game, you have a good counter-strategy right there. And characters don't need to be literally on fire to take damage. There can be health damage from heat and smog and that stuff travels upwards.

>>39055
I'm not sure that this is as big of a problem in DayZ.
The maps are huge, so not only can you mitigate the height advantage by moving farther away, there's way more ground for the camper to cover if they are to utilize their high ground. Meanwhile the camper has potentially put themselves at a disadvantage by being in a predictable spot. Think of the control tower at the NWAF base. Anyone moving through the area is going to keep an eye on it. A lot of fights are decided by who sees who first, regardless of height differences. Trying to pick out a pixel in a sea of beige is a lot harder than seeing a silhouette against the sky.
In addition, a lot of the high grounds with relatively unimpeded views, like the aforementioned control tower, have chokepoints that they are accessed by. So not only is it easier for the would-be camping victim to see you first, but they could just wait you out in cover and kill you as you leave. This is compounded by the fact that you also can't just camp forever, you have hunger, thirst, sickness, ammo, weapon condition, etc., to contend with.
I admit that in a lot of shooters I find myself feeling the urge to camp in buildings and shoot out the windows but this rarely goes well for me. Being able to move around is almost always preferable to being cooped up in one spot.

>>39055
no shit, having the high ground is advantageous in irl conflict as well for obvious reasons. what are you even complaining about lol

>>31748
indie devs aren't porky, some games are best enjoyed in online multiplayer and lifestylist larp isn't communism

>>39136
>indie devs aren't porky
How? They are not large capitalists but still. AAA devs are obviously proles however.

>>39141 (me)
Also, you're absolutely right about the lifestylist larp (why's everyone using this Bookchinite slang anyway?).

>>31804
Actually the porn games on the front page are 90% shit

>>39128 (me)
I'd also add that Valve, while a bad publisher, is a great retailer. The games on Steam are by far the cheapest (especially with discounts), allowing you to build your library quickly (just how it should be). Ofc pirated games are free so you can choke your SSD with games even quicker but when it comes to the storefronts Steam allows you to do that the fastest. So no wonder it got so popular. Also, TF2, HL2 and Portal contributed ig.

>>36209
I played it once on a free weekend on steam.

>>36210
>It was not a AAA game and not even in the same genre
Yeah I was confused about helldivers 2 because the first one is top down twin stick.

I'm pretty happy about the new patch. The hmg emplacement isn't a total piece of shit now.

>>36212
I went back to Deep Rock Galactic to scratch my co-op shooter itch.

>>36209
I went and bought 1 to try it out and its really fun. We need more twin stick shooters like it

>>34332
absolutely this, the second I booted it up and saw the opening cinematic it was evident that the whole thing is an allegory for US imperialism. Though /pol/chuds probably want that unironically and feel like they're getting it now with the whole Canada/Greenland/Panama canal shitshow
>>34039
Of course there's a fanfic author for every possible combination of autistic special interests

>>38880
>suits in a meeting knew about people calling the previous console "the 360" and thought uyghas were going to call the xbone "the one"
Are marketologists that stupid?
>Nintendo will never bend the knee and would try to drop a legal nuke on all emulators before even entertaining the thought.
The definition of going down kicking and screaming.

>>38884
>going down kicking and screaming
Nintendo is not going bankrupt any time soon lol

>>38937
>Nintendo is not going bankrupt any time soon lol
I didn't say this, I just said that they're incredibly petty and cowardly when it comes to emulation.

>>38873 (me)
Also, TF2 Classic is available for PC with additional features and custom gamemodes so it's kind of a non-argument in the first place. Just go download the classic build smh.

What is it about the switch that makes it mid? I got mine 5 years ago and I put maybe 50 hours into it.

>>38949
I have a lot of gripes with Nintendo but I'll always give them this, When other console makers seemed to be obsessed with cramming every last polygon into their processing power so there games can be more and more "realistic," I certainly appreciate that at least some one is interested in creating games
Plus they tend to be more affordable and accessible than other console manufacturers, which I'm sure helps. Ask anyone who tried to spend 1000 bucks on that BARELY an upgrade PS5 with no games on it

>>38974
The next Pokemon game would go so hard with this. I don't even like the new Zelda games much but I would buy it just if it meant I could smell Link's balls.

>>38949
>It was by far more normie/kid-friendly
That would be Wii.
>the Switch's constranshumanistts allowed game designers to create games that weren't focused on hyper-rendered graphics
False, Switch gets worse ports than even PC, GBA and DS had more games that utilized their hardware well, especially since a lot of them were 2D. Meanwhile, PC already has lots of indie games that aren't taxing on hardware resources so PC is at least not worse than Switch in this and is arguably better due to the back catalog and backwards compatibility which Nintendo threw in the trash can for no apparent reason other than to cash in on Switch Online and remasters.
>I’m going to assume that the Switch 2 will likely receive a significant performance/design upgrade
Don't delude yourself, not gonna happen.
>>38981
>they tend to be more affordable and accessible than other console manufacturers
Not really. Switch Lite sure but a few buy it, the price of a regular Switch is comparable to Steam Deck and Series S, although a teeny-weeny bit cheaper. But comparing Switch with PS5 and Series X is like comparing a cheap phone with a VR helmet. Like… why?
>Ask anyone who tried to spend 1000 bucks on that BARELY an upgrade PS5
See? Here is your problem.

>>38974
HaHa

>>38992 (me)
>GBA and DS had more games that utilized their hardware well, especially since a lot of them were 2D.
Scratch that, GBA also had a lot of shitty ports, that's just a curse all Nintendo handhelds had dating back to the original Game Boy.

>>38987
we really need more games where you defend an 'authoritarian' and clearly flawed left wing state against 'opposition' freedom fighters who are just terrorists and/or foreign shills

>>39031
Alternatively games like Brigador where you are the evil foreign-backed terrorist destroying a sovereign state with ML characteristics

free hong kong

From what I can gather from the synopsis on wikipedia, the clones are navigating memories, and that's just one of the characers they navigate through, Iris.
Unless there's more to it, If anything it's got more to do opposing israel than china. I might watch a playthrough later tho.

why first m&b

Looking for an idea guy

The requirements for the idea guy:

The idea guy must be very used to always thinking about ideas but never actually making anything. I want people who would prefer going out to the bar and talking about their game idea rather than the guy who would stay at home learning how to make prototypes.

I need the idea guy to have years of experience thinking about their idea, but again, not putting in any effort into learning how to actually make it. This ensures the ideas are "pure".

Next, I need the idea guy to have a lot of notes about exactly how the game will work. Since our ideal idea guy has never tried to build a game before, we need these ideas to be "pure". The only way for the idea to be "pure" is if you come up with your design document without any knowledge about all the constraints that developers have when making a game.

If you are one of the few idea guys who has tried to prototype your idea and found out that a lot of your gameplay mechanics simply don't work, would take years to develop, or is way too complex for a small team, we don't want you. This kind of idea guy doesn't have "pure" ideas.

Lastly, it's important that our idea guy would at some point try and make a game and post on forums getting encouragement from other members and recommendations on what to learn, but never following through on anything. This is essential because then we know you are truly an idea guy with "pure" ideas.

>>38968
Who hurt you?

>>38969
Idea guys.

>>38938
>So why not closely stack triangles with holes in their textures for creating the look of a rough surface?
They've been doing this (shell textures) for a long time. Usually to make fur. But you could do the same sort of thing with a different sort of texture pattern. Instead of having one texture copied multiple times along the normal, you could have varying textures. Probably the simplest way is to have a height map that is interpreted as an alpha channel, with the pixel value indicating at what layer(s) the texture should be transparent. E.g. 0 (black) means only visible on the lowest layer, 1 (white) visible on all layers up to the top, and the grays in between vary depending on the number of layers.

Honestly though you should probably prototype to see if a normal map would suit the purposes better since you're already trying to abstract the physical shape of the surface (i.e. "texture" in the common use of the word) with textures (images painted onto the geometry), and normal maps are purpose built to do that. Displacement maps are also doing what you're talking about but they're not very performant. You might find through prototyping that the best solution is some combination of shell textures, normal maps, and maybe other techniques too.

>>38968
>>38970
I was best friends with an ideas guy when I was younger. Very charismatic. He had movie ideas. I would write screenplay drafts and bring them to him when we hung out but he would always reject them and be like "it's different in my head maaaaan but I like, can't describe it, maaaan". I hung out with him because he always was a gracious host who would share weed and beer and was a genuinely funny guy to hang out with but part of me will always regret putting any effort into his movie ideas. To be young again.