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2 hours ago, BlazerBuddy said:

English??

Bit rude, dude. I'm sure you can catch their meaning. Remember that not everyone on the forum is a native English speaker, or great at writing / typing. 

Just now, whm1974 said:

Sorry. I didn't mean to violate Community Standards. But I don't see such Topics as Birth Control as remotely Incendiary nor Political in 2020. I will however follow the Rules here.

Whether they should or shouldn't be is a discussion in and of itself, but unfortunately the reality is that they are definitely incendiary, in so much as discussions relating to them often quickly descend into outright flamewars and insult-flinging. It's one of those topics that can bring about some of the strongest emotions in people.

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There does look to be some minor improvements. The original had a filter of some sort that could be pretty overbearing; it would completely crush all detail in darker areas of the game (though wasn't a problem during night-time iirc), and I'm not seeing it in the footage for the remaster. Also looks like there's some minor texture improvements here and there (some visible even in motion which is nice), slightly improved lighting, and possibly an implementation of TAA? The original was always a little frustrating because it didn't work with driver-forced MSAA because the engine used a deferred renderer, so if they've got a good implementation of TAA in now that'd be sweet.

That said, it's 99% a rerelease rather than a remaster. And them choosing to lock it to 60fps on PC to "level the playing field" is the dumbest rationale possible; it's an arcade racer you play with your mates, not a competitive driving sim that needs absolute parity for everyone who's playing. The experience on PC shouldn't be held back just because they can't push it as far on consoles.

Just now, TheSLSAMG said:

console pleb /s

As much as I'm full into PC at this point, the Xbox Series S does look pretty compelling given the price/performance. Maybe if Forza and other Xbox titles I'm interested in were still exclusive, I'd bother. I tried just for shits to preorder the PS5, but Best Buy was a complete mess of a site and I never saw the preorder button.

Yeah. I'm going PlayStation just because of the exclusives (and also because the controller looks and sounds great imo). As a predominantly PC gamer there's just not much point going Xbox for me when just about all their exclusives going forward will be coming to the PC, too. That said what MS are doing with GamePass is terrific, especially the bundling together of a console, GamePass, and Live Gold for a really reasonable monthly fee. It's gonna make next-gen much more accessible for a lot of people than has traditionally been the case - even for the full-fat Series X.

We should maybe get back to the topic, though.

3 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I think you can preorder them now.

 

You can try, anyway. I've been trying to preorder the PS5 since day one; Amazon here in the UK sold out of its first batch in ~40 mins, and any other time a store or site's got more stock availability, it's gone in minutes. I don't expect I'll be able to get one at launch now.

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9 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Would you say Bungie has improved since?
 

For me personally, since my computer is already out of its league trying to run Destiny 2, motion blur just makes my already horrible low textures (rendered at 80%) vomit inducing. 

I’d say Destiny 2 is objectively speaking a huge improvement in its implementation of motion blur over Halo: Reach. But its use is so heavy-handed that I can totally see why people don’t like it. Heck I didn’t; I disabled it, even though in a lot of games these days I like motion blur.

Just now, JZStudios said:

Not entirely. In motion there's stuff that still looks awful.

That's not the result of motion blur. So far as I'm aware, the motion blur implementation was completely removed / disabled in MCC.

Reach has various other issues which can cause issues in motion, though. The game's broken at any framerate above 60 as various aspects of the game (critically, camera movement) are locked to 60. This was fixed in the other titles in the game though thankfully, and 343 have said they're hoping to fix the issues in Reach at some point later too.

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13 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

I have yet to see a single game where motion blur made the game feel or seem smoother. Not one single game.

Halo: Reach tried to do it. But its implementation wasn't very good, and they were using a super early form of TAA which when combined with the motion blur just led to a really unpleasantly blurry image in motion. Thankfully it's gone in the Master Chief Collection, both for the Xbox and PC.

Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal have what I'd say is a perfect example of how to use it right. They have a fantastic implementation of per-object motion blur, and use it for example to give weapon animations a better appearance of motion. 

I feel that motion blur gets a bad rep just because a lot of people (incorrectly) assume that it's the same as it used to be, where it would just blur the entire screen and make everything in motion look terrible. But it's much more advanced than that these days, and most good devs and games use it in beneficial and even subtle ways.

On 9/29/2020 at 6:18 PM, Gegger said:

imma just leave this here 

 

https://www.pawsofpride.com/

Those are freaking adorable. 

19 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

you are a silly man, blake

18 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

gonna go out on a limb and say I didn't really get in the way of anything, but OP can be the judge of that

 

@GamerBlake did I ruin your thread or are we good

I can be the judge of that. You were needlessly being a bit of a dick. Don't.

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On 12/3/2018 at 9:24 PM, LukeSavenije said:

I see mods pretty frequently around this tread, but what about admins? I only see mortis and whiskers around the bug tread, and slick looks like he died. Nowhere to be seen in videos exept for the wan show, and never says something on the forum. Why?

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Just now, AluminiumTech said:

What about the possible clear definition from the mod team on what Misleading and Clickbait are in the tech news posting guidelines?

 

Currently a concern is that mods approach reports of misleading and clickbait titles quite differently depending on the mod and some offending posts aren't updated.

I suppose we can add an example of clickbait to the rules. Something like "Samsung and Verizon are working on a 5G Smartphone even though it could give you cancer" would seem appropriate.

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