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Didn't get there quite as smoothly

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7 hours ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

I started playing this on a Dual Sense and I am not entirely sold on the experience. I dunno, but the way everyone described the haptics and adaptive triggers I expected more. More resistance in the triggers and polished and even sense of feedback around the whole controller. Whenever I step into tall grass it feels like the vibration is deep in the controller. Like a mexican jumping bean in a tin can. So the translation to my hands feels clumsy. It is more granular than standard vibration, I’ll give them that, but it hardly feels transformative. At times it feels more distracting. I don’t know but it feels weirdly selective on what gets a sensation of feedback. As though decisions were made arbitrarily to be places where haptic feedback happen. 

Trigger haptics in this game aren't great. If you want to really enjoy the trigger haptics on PC, Season A Letter to the Future is where it's at. I literally bought my Dualsense for that game. The feel of the bicycle pedals and camera shutter are great. The game, itself, is mostly fine. I enjoyed my time with it, but I also enjoy these kinds of weird little exploration games.

Otherwise, I don't particularly find the haptics on the Dualsense all that wild outside of the triggers. I find Nintendo's HD Rumble to be better, but even then you only ever really notice it in like 1 2 Switch where it feels like magic.

12 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

What happened to your controller? I feel like my right stick is starting to drift a bit.

Left stick is suffering from some wild drift and jittering. Enough that even using DS4Windows and maxing out the dead zone won't stop it from drifting. This controller has less than a hundred hours on it. Forbidden West is literally only the second game I've ever played on it, and the first was that Seasons game where you're riding your bike and taking pictures of everything.

I took it apart. Used contact cleaner on the sticks. Nothing. I've got some new hall effect replacement sticks coming in later this week. Should just be a quick solder job. Really would have been nice if they'd gone with screws and a ribbon to make swapping this out nice and easy.

Well, since my Dualsense shit the bed, I'm playing Open Roads over on Gamepass. Always up for one of these narrative heavy Annapurna Interactive games.

So many guesses

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Blah. One word really threw me completely off here

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19 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

KB and Mouse solves the problem. 

Now I wish I would have started that way. However, I'm 60 hours into the game and it felt weird trying to change control schemes so far into the game. Guess I'm not playing any more Forbidden West until I find some Hall Effect joysticks I can toss into this thing. Also, I need to not be lazy about it because, unlike Nintendo, Sony decided to go all solder points on the sticks in the Dualsense. Nintendo's sticks are held in with screws as a single ribbon, no soldering required.

Well, just picked up these...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNWYWCYN

...let's see how well they work. Reviews on YouTube seem pretty good. They are only $2 on AliExpress, but I would like them this week not sometime next month.

How is the Dualsense such a shit controller? I have less than 100 hours on this thing and I'm already getting stick drift so bad, Forbidden West is unplayable. At least with the Switch Pro Controller and Joycons they're designed to be easy to repair, but this thing is here together with tabs and glue. At least with Nintendo's controllers, I didn't get any drift until 1000 hours in.

I have 80 hours on this controller between Seasons and Forbidden West and I don't even know how to get inside this thing non-destructively to give it some contact cleaner.

Also, seems the dead zone slider on the PC version of this game does nothing, so that's not very helpful.

9 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

It seems to be silent when doing anything that isn’t trying to run a game with high settings. It’s hard to fault it making some noise then as I don’t know a device that can run something like RE4make with high settings without making some fan noise. But I did think it would be a little quieter since it’s arm and I imagine the new ipads will be quiet and have a similar chip. 

The iPads should be as silent as a Macbook Air. There's just no fan to make noise. The M-series CPUs don't NEED active cooling. They can get by with just some thermal paste and a head spreader. They'll just thermal throttle a lot sooner.

3 minutes ago, stepee said:

Oh yeah it will definitely start reving the fan up after benchmarking something like Deus Ex MD or RE4. Just not used to it being the same plugged in or not. I like that though. I like my gaming laptop and it’s crazy when plugged in, but it lasts like 30 minutes of poor performance when I unplug the brick.

That sounds right. I've never tried gaming on my M2 Mac Mini, but I do have an M1 Mac Mini that I use as a dedicated emulation PC attached to an old CRT I have. Apple's cooling solutions on their laptops aren't great these days. I blame it on their desperate attempts to hide the air vents. I found my M1 Macbook Pro with active cooling thermal throttled far sooner than my M1 Mac Mini. I'm assuming that's because the Mini has a nice big vent on its rear.

28 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

Second: I don't think performance boost while plugged in is a thing on MacOS

They don't boost while plugged in. They do boost, in general, whether plugged in or not, but I've never seen it to the degree AMD and Intel boost their CPUs. The bigger issue is thermal throttling with some Macbook Airs not having active cooling compared to the same chips in the MacBook Pro that do have active cooling.

I would absolutely play The Last Guardian if it hit PC. Weren't sales for that one disappointing? Would be nice of them to throw it out there on PC and see how it does.

Here's some awful bullshit...

Police shot Nakala Murry's young son. Now, she could lose custody of her kids.

WWW.NPR.ORG

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Nakala Murry spoke exclusively to NPR about a petition that references the May 2023 shooting of Aderrien Murry. She said the move "caught her off guard."

Ex-boyfriend shows up one day looking dangerous. Mother tells her eldest to call the police. Police show up before the dude can hurt anyone, proceed to order everyone outside, and then shoots her 11yo son in the chest. Luckily the boy survives a bullet in his lung. She's now suing the city and they've decided she shouldn't have custody of her kids because...reasons? Because the father of one of her kids randomly showed up one day looking to start shit?

As for the cop that shot her kid? No charges and police refuse to release the body cam footage. And people wonder why I've got multiple cameras inside and outside my house.

This thread reminded me that I wanted to subscribe to Game Informer.

...and subscribed for a year under my son's name. He's at the right age to freak out over getting mail in his name and next time around it'll be a gaming magazine with his name on it.

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Season's started. Sand Land is pretty great. I haven't caught up to the new content quite yet, but I'm really looking forward to whatever Toriyama had in mind for Sand Land beyond what he included in his manga way back in 99.

Wind Breaker is pretty fun. Cloverworks really can animate a fight scene. I liked the first episode. I'm always down for high school kids with hearts of gold beating the shit out of each other.

HiDive really fucked up with Jellyfish Can't Swim at Night. First episode came out today and they released it with no subtitles until very late tonight. By that point, I had already watched a sea-side broadcast. This feels like a pretty run of the mill music anime, only it's so pretty. Just all around lovely directing and animation. Way better than what you'd expect for a music anime that isn't Bocchi the Rock.

Easy

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One word just completely threw me off. Not having much luck with Connections

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I'll take it

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Well, this was a fail

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2 hours ago, Brian said:

I have an Amazon Go in my lobby and use it everyday.  Never had an issue

The reporting on this story has been really bad. Those Amazon Go-sized shops are using their shopper tracking AI thing just fine and that product is live and being shopped to other convenience stores and airports around the world. Seems Amazon has been unsuccessful at scaling that up to a full size grocery store where someone might purchase dozens or even over a hundred items. They've had a team of people in India doing some QA to make sure the AI is getting things right and found that 70% of the time the AI loses track of items and needs a human review to go in and double-check the numbers. Amazon was shooting for a 90% accuracy rate and couldn't get it past 30% after a couple of years, so they're scrapping the grocery-scale project and sticking with the Amazon Go-sized project.

I've read some awful headlines about how Amazon's AI was really just a thousand people in India, but that's really not what's going on here.

1 hour ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I started with a controller, and about 30 minutes in switched over with KB/M.

I haven't used concentration at all.  (I'm using a Swiftpoint Z2, so most of my keyboard commands are mapped to buttons on the Mouse).

I haven't had too many boss fights yet.

But it feels "right", not having to go into slow motion.

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Just the boss fight at the end of the tutorial section, and the "extended fight" when you first enter the Forbidden West.

 

I find the motion controls on the Dual Sense to be good enough I don't really need to rely on concentration to hit anything. I really only use it for the extra zoom on the instances where I literally can barely see the target.

I should note, I think the haptics in this game are just ok. Sometimes they're good, but it's not the best I've felt on a PC title. Like, I thought Seasons A Letter to the Future handled the trigger haptics a lot better.

5 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I'm convinced that KB/M is the only way to play this.  So much of the combat is focused on targetting specific components on the robots, that I wonder how anyone does this effectively with a controller?

I'm only about 5-8 hours into the game, and have only done a few missions in the "Forbidden West".  I opened it up, only to go back and do most of the Side Quests in Mainscrape.

I'm looking forward to the story really getting going, because the early part of the game is, IMHO, way too focused on how Aloy didn't say goodbye to people between the two games.

I thought about playing with mouse and keyboard, but this game really feels like a controller game. I'm playing with a Dual Sense. It does, unfortunately, need to be wired to get all the benefits the Sony controller offers, but I'm fine with that. Aiming is easy enough with motion controls being there to assist on the time tweak side of things. I'm having no problem taking out entire outposts with headshots from as far away as my sharpshot bow will let me.

1 hour ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

When 70% of the transactions are manually reviewed several years in, its not far off.

Seems the issue of scale. That is, their AI having trouble with larger, complicated purchases with multiples of multiple items. Smaller purchases were fine, larger ones weren't as accurate. Amazon seems to still be using the tech in their smaller convenience stores with greater luck/accuracy.

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Purple really messed with me today

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Remember that poor girl that was kidnapped by her dad and then shot by police who claimed she was rushing them? Well, they were finally forced to release footage of the event.

It's all bullshit. One cop gave her the order to walk toward them and every other cop near him just opened fired. He tried to get his buddies to stop shooting, but it was too late.

I'm sure nobody will be held responsible and there also aren't even any living parents left to sue the city/department.