Molecular0079 @ Molecular0079 @lemmy.world

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But because they have no impact on the gameplay, the onus is entirely on the player whether they want it or not. At this point you're basically saying that they made the battlepasses and lootboxes interesting and therefore they're bad

That's how I think of cosmetics in most MP games as well haha. They're immersion breaking.

But I never argued it was

You're the one who brought up the idea that the game is a casino. A casino is pay-to-win, because you literally have to pay money to participate and having more money gives you advantages.

This is not what CS is. You don't have to pay money to participate and there are no upgrades weapons or characters as a result of paying more money.

Yeah, they keep trying to bring their walled-garden approach to gaming and it just won't work. It's like trying to build another console in the current gaming market and unrealistically expecting it to take off.

It's also why I think the Vision Pro, despite how cool and innovative the tech might be, is also DOA.

assess whether CS is designed that way

It isn't. There's no grind to get better weapons so that you can remain competitive with other players and no paid lootboxes that give you an early advantage. You start out with the standard set of weapons just like any other player and that never changes. The only addicting thing about the boxes in CS2 is that they look cool but I'd say that that's more on the player to decide whether they want it or not.

It's like saying providing the ability to paint your car is an addicting business practice, which I don't really buy. This is not the same as pay-to-win and the distinction should be made here.

That’s how it works on most games

Not really. A bunch of F2P games have lootboxes that give you a chance at better weapons / characters early on instead of going through a long grind. The set of CS weapons is the same and does not change.

The community gets upset when it becomes pay-to-win. I wouldn't consider CS to be pay-to-win though so I find the casino comparison a bit inaccurate.

...so is gaming in general. What's your point?

My point is that they're just cosmetic, unlike gacha games or other free to play games where you're FORCED to buy loot boxes to unlock good weapons and items.

A casino REQUIRES you to spend money in order to participate. CS2 does not. Big difference.

It's meant more to help developers with their porting efforts though, not really meant for normal users like Valve's doing with Proton.

So...how long before Apple realizes that game devs are notoriously time-crunched and forcing them to target yet another proprietary graphics API is a stupid move for their gaming ambitions?

I get the feeling it was pushed out before everything was ready. I am willing to bet that all these missing features are coming later. Not sure why they didn't just wait before pushing out the game. The smokes are just different, players just need to adapt to new mechanics instead of using the same grenade tactics that they've memorized for years.

Let's be real. You don't HAVE to buy the loot boxes lmao. It's not like they make you any better as a player.

Were you running X11 apps? I think there's issues with low res on X11, but Wayland apps should be running at integer scaling and then scaling down to whatever fractional scale you've set it to.

It also looks like crap, they render at a lower res and scale up a bit poorly.

I thought Gnome fractional scaling was rendering at a higher res and then downsampling? Did they change this recently?

My friend just did his SSD upgrade. He said that it was a bit harder than what the guides online made it seem, but he eventually completed it, so just be patient and don't rush. In particular, he said that the tab to pull off the battery connector is pretty brittle.

By default, alsamixer just shows Pipewire's volume controls. Did you press F6 to switch to your actual audio hardware?

Also, check the volume levels on the individual audio streams. Maybe they got lowered. If all else fails, shutdown pipewire with sudo systemctl stop pipewire.socket and delete ~/.local/state/wireplumber to reset everything.

No issues on my end, but you might want to use something like alsamixer to check whether your hardware volume is normal or not.

Is there a way to do this for shutdown? It'd be great to debug shutdown hangs.

What kind of crap article is this? It's paragraphs and paragraphs of words saying that we should just accept the previous status-quo of a bajillion different apps. The headline might as well be "RCS sucks, just give up." which is such a defeatist way to say absolutely nothing.

No, it's definitely working. Here's proof (open the images in a new tab and zoom in on the reflections to see the difference in clarity):

With reconstruction:

Without reconstruction:

With reconstruction:

Without reconstruction:

With DXVK_NVAPI_DRIVER_VERSION=53799 and ray reconstruction enabled, reflections are much clearer and also resolve way faster during motion.

DLSS ray reconstruction works in Linux. You just need to launch with DXVK_NVAPI_DRIVER_VERSION=53799 VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11 %command%.