Yggstyle @ yggstyle @lemmy.world

Just another voice yelling in the void.

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You will never (coms or otherwise) be able to control a pug as a single unit consistently. It's simply a reality of randoms. If you are looking for consistent play - forming a team helps considerably and is far more rewarding.

I've played games competitively over a broad range of genres. I understand voice chat can be a boon, however it just as frequently is a distraction - especially with a pug.

It's generally a wash. I've seen OPs opinion expressed in many forms directed at voice chat, certain loadouts, need for mods, etc. It's misdirected blame.

Suggesting that the problem is following him game to game simply highlights that he himself is the common factor. Self improvement will always provide better results.

Here's an unpopular opinion: if you think your teammates not having voice chat are holding you back... You are the reason your team is losing.

Former crypto company... Power drain... I feel like there's an answer here...

This is the correct response 👍

While some software is capable of perfectly copying copy protection "tricks" 1:1 on a iso - it's usually just better to crack the game with a nocd patch as mentioned above. It's a quality of life improvement and can even improve load times (though modern hardware probably makes it trivial.)

Call down Satan.

*edit: Calm. but you know what? Call the man in red. He prolly should be taking notes.

It's a play to try to fix the algo. Large creators have gaming the system down to a science and it's making the experience as bad as yaho... google search.

Honestly I don't know. Based on reviews I know that at least part of the product is 'sized' for your face. I know they say scanned but realistically it's a base measurement of your eyes and maybe a few values to pick one of the premade face gaskets. I wouldn't put it past apple to hit you 20% restock less the 'custom' parts. So 6-700 bucks to write a review?

Because the verge wasn't stupid enough to buy into that insanity. The Verge.

Tech reporting is difficult in the gadget sphere - but in reporting chances are you know someone who has it. Network a bit. Borrow it and do a full review after you publish a piece that maybe discusses the product beforehand so you don't miss the initial clicks. Or better still - maybe publish a piece on why you didn't think it prudent to finance 4k for a product that the manufacturer doesn't know what to do with.

+1 for the anti-consumer statement.

This is a company that goes after groups who hold tournaments with their games and issues takedowns against people on video platforms just playing their games. Genuinely an awful company (good games don't excuse the behavior.)

Illegal to develop for? No.

Illegal to bypass security mechanisms? Gray area. Courts typically side against the hackers, historically.

Illegal to display trademarked material? Yes.

The NES has defeatable copy protection which led to a decent dev scene that could 'legally' publish games. The game boys copy protection is interesting in how they approached it:

https://piped.video/watch?v=ix5yZm4fwFQ

Basically the catch is you either have a hacked cart or display Nintendo's logo ... so they can go after you either way.

Ominous rumblings of the horde of Nintendo lawyers being summoned.

Nintendo cease and desist (or worse) in 5... 4... 3...

Step one... create consent deepfake....

I don't like that I thought it... But It pains me to say it will be used as a defense at some point.

Yep, this is what I was referencing in other responses. Purely from a solution perspective it is positively the ultimate "get bent" from the cheat community. Add in some randomness and suddenly there's zero difference between a 'good session' and scripting.

Next up: sorry you don't have xyz brand mice you can't play our games. Consumers get forced to buy shit they don't want or need and meanwhile the cheat / hack community release a patch to emulate it.

It's the same old cat and mouse game. There are solutions - but a rootkit isn't it.

Funnily enough that's how a lot of modern cheats work. it's on a separate box. Good luck catching that automatically vanguard. Hard to out-ring the hardware layer.

If it's not server based detection it's exploitable.

I'm not in that line of work but make no mistake if it hasn't been yet: a cheat vector will probably involve patching the anti cheat software or attacking how it communicates.

Can't wait till we find out that the arbitration agreement they forced on people was penned up shortly after they discovered the breach.

800 feels like a number they cherry picked considering the overall community size.

Speaking personally: their vm detection is hot garbage and they know it. Detecting a VM is easy enough for anyone- detecting cheating via it is far more difficult. They flag a VM as such and wait for a report to roll in then blindly ban it.... only to reverse it when pressured. This isn't the behavior of an org with concrete evidence. It's a smokescreen.

The rootkit isn't a solution. It's a bandaid - and a bad one at that. Moba and FPS hacks have already moved outside the hardware of the PC or into the virtual space. It's a beware of dog sign on the fence meant to scare users... while ultimately doing very little (besides providing a vector real hackers and tools can exploit to gain access to your system.)

Seriously anyone willing to install a rootkit on their system that that company is behind deserves whatever comes their way next.

I love that you mentioned that abomination they call a client. Something so bad a developer solo wrote a better one only to have them hire that person and quietly kill the project.

tldr for anyone:

They aren't fixing it. fuck y'all.

Also - it's not a rootkit - it just loads at boot and has higher privileges than the userspace that you can't contr.... oh. it's a rootkit. They don't want you to call it that though. It's not cancer... it's a growth.