Discussion Comfy Café #14

LOL that's like peanuts for a game????

 

It is because of how the tick rate changed from console to PC port. The tick rate being doubled means the enemy AI (also allied AI, actually) agros and reacts twice as fast, attacks for twice as long, chase you down and disengage for twice the distance as on console, and they re-agro twice as quickly even after being disengaged. That is out of the dev's hands when porting.

What we should be asking is:

(1) Why did the look angle change slightly between ports? Note that this affects auto-aim features and grenade throws.

(2) Why does the player character - when compared to the console port - move slightly slower, jump to an ever so slightly less max height, take more damage when moving and/or falling, and in general behave differently under the same damn physics engine?

(3) Why have they not released patches to fix this shit and equalize it with the console version? And why have the latest patches actually made the above issues worse?

Good afternoon, strawberry sunrise.

 

Only compared to modern standards.

2007's Crysis was considered one of the most expensive games to be developed at the time. Its net budget (including marketing) was 22 million USD, which works out to about 33 million in 2024-25 USD. Halo 3 was considered the most expensive game of that year, with a budget of USD 40 million (60 million in today's money).

Games haven't gotten more expensive to make because development has become that hard. It is actually easier than ever to make a game.

Western game development is, as Gobb-kun said, just a money laundering scheme.

It definitely is. They spend a large chunk of the budget on executive compensation alone, as well as bullshit marketing and such. All the while outsourcing work to cheap contractors in poorer nations. And, of course, there other places where they sink funding into, and it is never known what they are for and are never seen again.

Definitely a fukking racket, mate.

There was a controversy with Bungie-Activision during the development of Destiny 2, when someone leaked that a decent chunk of the game's budget went into just executive perks and such. The CEO fukker spent millions in just one year to buy four luxury cars.

Halo 2's jackal snipers on legendary (I mean on the PC port) can react in 0.5 frame. Yes, you read that correctly. They can react and 360 no-scope you in HALF a frame. Not even exaggerating. That is true. Oh, and they are more accurate with their shots than on console, for some reason.

 

>came to work
>forgot to clock in

cheers

 

- Went to office.
- Had a nap on sofa before lunch.

Cheers.

 

Ok this one should be epic, looking forward to it when I come into flat ;D

 

And especially when they are criminal monkey-fukks who actively contribute to a toxic work environment and tolerate widespread sexual harassment.

The fukker I talked about contributed to workplace toxicity (and also actively covered up sexual harassment) so terrible that one person committed suicide and another made an attempt.

And that is without the Angry Skull game modifier turned on, by the way. Enabling that makes them react and shoot 1.5 times as fast. Which means in 0.33 frame.

Typical bullshittery.

Good fukking lord

Goodnight, agent 69.