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A lot of things suddenly made sense when I learned their prior work was Magicka.
I never played Magicka, but the reviews seem fine (76% GameRankings, 74/100 Metacritic, 8/10 EuroGamer, etc.) Was it a bad game? Or jankey? What parts of Helldivers are "making sense" now?
But the sense of humor/tone between the two games is very visibly the same thing.
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A lot of things suddenly made sense when I learned their prior work was Magicka.
Is that a negative? All of the "negative" things listed make me think that they are really cool and trying to learn stuff and challenge things.
I just shared it because it's sort of like learning Slack started life as the internal communication tooling for the online game glitch, or that a lot of the "weird Twitter" folks started life as FYAD posters - once you know that, you can draw the lines between the two points.
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Their technique makes it so that the normal person with a ~base SSD of 512 GB can't reasonably install the game. Heck of a job Brownie.
Nonsense. I play it on a 512GB SSD and it’s fine.
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> but if you want to keep your mp3 compressed, you get a delay If that really bothers you then write your own on-disk compression format. > why we use uncompressed audio > ADPCM ... which is a compressed and lossy format.
Within the scope of a game’s production, the programmer time spent dogfooding the new audio format can be used towards something else that improves the value of the end product. The uncompressed audio for latency-sensitive one-shots usually isn’t taking up the bulk of memory either.
Like exploring the 'widely accepted industry practices' and writing code to duplicate the assets, then writing the code to actually measure what it did what the 'industry practices' advertised and then ripping this out, right?
And please note what you missed the 'if it really bothers you'.
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So you'd have to defrag after re-bloating, to make all the files contiguous again. That tool already exists, and the re-bloater could just call it.
Sure, but defrag is a very slow process, especially if you're re-bloating (since it requires shifting things to make space), and definitely not something that could happen in the background, as the player is playing. Re-bloating definitely wouldn't be good for a quick "Ok, I'm ready to play!".
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Not op, but magicka is a pretty fun game. You cast spells in a similar way as calling in strategems in hd2. The spell system was super neat. There’s several different elements (fire, air, water, earth, electricity, ice, ands maybe something else. It’s been a while since I played). Each element can be used on its own or is combinable. Different combinations would cast different spells. Fire+water makes steam for insta…
> maybe something else Water, Life, Arcane, Shield, Lightning, Cold, Fire, and Earth. [0] It's worth noting that, though you can combine most of the elements to form new spells (and with compounding effects, for example wetting or steaming an enemy enhances lightning damage), you cannot typically combine opposites like lightning/ground, which will instead cancel out. Killed myself many times trying to cast lightning…
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the industry hearsay is about concern of HDD load times tho
HDD load times compared to......?
the "industry hearsay" from two replies above mine is about deliberate data duplication to account for the spinning platters in HDD (which isn't entirely correct, as the team on Helldivers 2 have realized)