Video game thread

@FeatherTrap  
Personally, I believe a lot of the simping has to do with people not wanting to accept Infinite isn’t that great, given how long the community has spent preaching “This is 343’s last chance, if Infinite isn’t amazing Halo is dead”.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Oh undoubtedly, but that doesn’t change the fact that I expect better from the likes of Act Man. When he’s at his best, he can be much more objective and honest about a game’s failings then this.
 
Also, HaloFollower and HiddenXperia are content based on simping. Halo devs could post an eighteen page “Kill Whitey with rusty crowbar” rant on Twatter and they would unironically make a video claiming it’s a “bold new direction” for the Halo franchise, because the only value in their content is the “exclusive” interviews that come with being a ball-licker.

I tried Mortal Shell today, because I got it free a while back. It was awful. It’s slow and clunky to the point that I’m certain everyone is equipped with crap they built out of junk metal instead of real weapons and armor. The lazy susan-ing is worse than Dark Souls II’s and a lot of the attacks don’t even look like attacks. The enemies just sort of jump at you while flailing awkwardly. The pc is no better. Part of what made me quit was that I was so sick of my idiot missing stationary enemies despite being locked on.

@ANoobis  
Never heard of it before but it looks like someone said “man, I could totally make Dark Souls too”.

Johnny Klebitz wears panties.

Distant Worlds 2 looks like it’ll be pretty cool.

I’m bored. I dunno what to play anymore. I’ve just been sitting on my ass watching Jerma streams for the past 3 days.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
I only watched a bit of one stream but yeah. It looks like it should be entertaining. Still not a fan of the move to putting component caps on ship designs, though. The was THE thing that drew me to the first game.
 
@Humble Oriathan  
Break out an old console?

@Officer Hotpants  
Speaking of the first game, I decided to get it since it’s on sale for $3 until the 14th. I’d heard it was complex, but I wasn’t expecting exactly how much. Or how small the text and UI would be.

No Gallardo on Horizon 2 and the Audi was a plastic pile of crap.
 
@Humble Oriathan  
Pre-DLC games are the best if they’ll play.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Yeah, the UI is ass. I enjoy the complexity, though. I don’t fully understand the game but I have fun fucking around in it for an evening here and there.

Finally managed to split Fallout 4’s grenade and melee keys in the least fiddly way I could find.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Oh god, please tell me how.

@Officer Hotpants  
F4SE comes with a read only file called “CustomControlMap.txt”. Copy that to Fallout 4/Data/F4SE (create the folder if it isn’t there, obviously). Uncheck read only in the properties and open it in a text editor. The first column describes the action, the second column is the virtual key code. Third and fourth are mouse and controller codes, but there’s no documentation on how to use this file so I don’t know what the codes in those columns mean. I also don’t know if you need to recheck read only when you’re done, but I did anyway.
 
The “melee” key is on line 9. Change whatever value is in the second column to 0xff. This unbinds the key completely. Although this might not be necessary if you don’t plan on rebinding left alt to anything. If you had any non-default keybinds I believe you’ll need to rebind them through this file too. Make sure to delete “ControlMap_Custom.txt” from Documents/My Games/Fallout4 if it exists, otherwise customcontrolmap won’t work.
 
Next, get Fallout 4 Hotkeys. I used the full version since I’m not sure if the console would work with the lite version. Launch the game, load a save, open the console and use these two commands:
 
hotkey [input] player.pa ActionThrow  
hotkey [input] player.pa ActionMelee
 
You can use pretty much any input you want.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Thank you. I have a nasty habit of wanting to hold the key down that was trained into me by the last 20 years of Bethesda games. Fuck them just… just so god damn much for fucking with the basic controls.
 
In fact triple-fuck them for assigning three different commands to that key, actually. Because it also ejects your fucking fusion core if you take the last rank of nuclear physicist (which you’ll want to for the additional 50% core life). Which is real god damn fun when you think you have grenades equipped. On the off chance it doesn’t kill you while you’re wondering what happened, whatever car it sets off will. Or it’ll blow up whoever you’re trying to protect. Fuck Todd to death. Then revive him and fuck him to death again.

@Officer Hotpants  
Welcome to cOnSoLeFoCuSeDdEsIgN and key deficiency on gamepads.  

I’ve just installed a mod to make it only drain when actually used (i.e. jetpacking) as opposed to >lol lmao we used fallout bible as toilet paper.

Game gets censored on PS5 and this is somehow a stunning and brave new take on the genre.
 
There’s no point in playing a HORROR GAME with toned anything toned down, you might as well drop the M-rating. Anyone where remember when Sony made Nekopara E for Everyone?

@Cyborg_pony  
Another reason for me to be delighted the day Sony leaves the console market.

@Cyborg_pony  
Boy. Glad I never bought another of their consoles past the PS3.

@Absol95 @Officer Hotpants  
There was barely anything worth getting on PS5 that wasn’t on other consoles and now they’re just arbitrarily altering games, shows the same Bay Area moralism that people are tired of.

@Cyborg_pony  
Forever chasing the smattering of people who want nothing to do with them as the expense of their once loyal audiences. It was a combination of factors that put me off of buying any more of their shit past the PS3 but the combination of multiplat games running like low tier ass on their hardware combined with this exact kind of behavior were big factors.

Why are Skyrim horses so shit? I bought one specifically so I could overencumber myself in a dungeon and not spend a quarter of an hour walking back to a merchant, and when I exit the dungeon my horse is dead on the ground for seemingly no reason.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Because Bethesda put more work into shoehorning in the creation club than they put into the game. It took them two years to patch the game up to a playable 1.0 release. In two years time they didn’t manage to fix even a 1/5 of the issues the community patch had before the first year was over. And then, when they released the “special edition”, they not only couldn’t be bothered to take the opportunity to get ahead of it and fix the plethora of longstanding issues but actually managed to lose fixes from the original version’s patches.
 
If they can’t even be bothered to make the game work right, how could they possibly be bothered to make it work well?

@EverfreeEmergencies  
just speedrun the dawnguard dlc until you reach that one purple place and get arvak to make every other horse irrelevant for the rest of the game

@Officer Hotpants  

Remember, what Bethesda wants is to invest absolute least effort and money into something with the greatest profit they gain. Hence the creation club, where mod maker gets a single-time payment and bethesda gets everything else, for example: zero work, all gain.