I’m so excited for this to release, and yet terrified that I’m going to lose another few hundred hours (per week?) to this game when I get back into it.
My pure guess would be that the 90hz of the display is in play here. Could be the memory too, but the display is the most obvious potential lag factor.
True. And the limited translucent case is one of the most attractive things making it seem time sensitive, but they also made it easier to replace those bits this time around too, so I will have more personalized options later on.
It’s not so much this article as it is all the articles I’ve seen and expect to see in the future about the ways it’s actually better despite Valve saying it’s not actually that much better.
As a dev, though not a game dev, I’ll wager good money this is not the outcome you’d find on a survey of the game devs involved. It’s the kind of thing that devs will suggest when asked “okay let’s say we need to make this next iteration as cheaply as possible now, what could we do?” But most of the devs likely take pride in their craft and if given the time would definitely want to optimize their game.
But look, guys, you asked for this by saying you want us to pay staff better. We will, but first we need to increase some prices heavily because I only took this CEO job because of the juicy bonus and I’m definitely not giving that up. Would you? And don’t forget the board we’re so lucky to have who need their stipends and stock grants etc, lest they find other companies willing to bow to their demands. We wouldn’t be who we are if we didn’t keep paying the top dogs top dollar.
I asked Valve about how they might approach solving this problem if it was their game and they literally ran away from me while yelling something that sounded vaguely like “Modern Warfare Alyx.”
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