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  • Malix@sopuli.xyztoGames@lemmy.worldPet Peeves with Games?
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    1 day ago

    Skipping straight to action instead of main menu and options is annoying.

    When I started playing [game name here, atm can’t remember it, it’s from warframe people] it immediately started a plot cutscene which wasn’t available later on. I sure wanted to see that plot presented in a 720p medium settings on my large 1440p display.

    Sure, in the grand scheme of things the plot in the game is irrelevant as it can be, but damn it, let me enjoy it full screen.

    They have likely fixed, but holy hell, why was it like that in the first place. Abysmal new player experience.









  • it’s kinda wild, they duplicated the data several times to supposedly help loading times on mechanical hdd’s. I guess to keep data sequential and minimize seeks?

    And yet, I guess it was technically true:

    Our testing shows that for the small percentage of players still using mechanical hard disk drives, mission loading times have only increased by a few seconds in the worst cases.

    I don’t know how long the loading times in the game are, as I don’t play this. But surely +/- few seconds is negligible vs 130 GB duplicated data.



  • you can always add eg. a swap file later if needed - apparently not as good as a swap partition, but it is more flexible. With 48 GB of ram I hardly think you’re going to have issues, but that depends entirely on what do you do with the system.

    Firewall isn’t really helping the system against you, it’s to block ousiders getting in - more or less.

    install locations: if you just use what’s in mint’s repositories, you don’t really need to think about it. Out-of-repository stuff like steam games etc generally live in ~/.steam or so. Or in some dedicated path you configure in steam/whatever.

    As for snap/flatpaks/whatever, haven’t used a single one. But in general: I’d favor the distribution’s repos, if at all possible for installs. If the app isn’t there, but is in snap… fine, I guess? As long as it’s managed by some kind of package manager for easy install/update/uninstall. But having to manually download and install from a website? Rather not, that’s when the maintenance becomes manual.

    And of course, opinions are opionated. Your system, your rules. :P










  • in general: settings which have multiple levels, display it as a slider so I can visually see which ones are actually maxed out and which arent. It’s insanity when most settings have off/low/med/high/higher and randomly some of them have additional levels like epic/ultra/psycho/gigaultrapseudobullshit. You have to go each and everyone through to figure out which have higher settings. Now, this is not a flex, my system can’t run new games on gigaultrapseudobullshitultra++, but older ones? sure.

    for fps & tps games: FOV.

    otherwise, in no particular order, option to toggle off entirely:

    • motion blur
    • chromatic aberration

    otherwise, must haves:

    • subtitles on/off
    • master volume/music/sfx/dialogue as separate sliders.
    • don’t default volume to max, this is instant ear explosion if you happen to use different audio devices