The split view sounds interesting. The free VPN "somewhere" sounds like a bag of *thing I can't write in a family friendly comment*. While the browser is one thing, trusting Mozilla with anything external to it hasn't been in my plans for a long while. Them saying "we're not peeking, and we're not logging anything, honest!" have as much value as the next "FreeEdgeLordzVPN" saying the same thing.

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Quoting: JohnologueIt certainly looks like they've drawn over the in-game frame with AI art.
...why?

You know, with video games, there is already a neural network interpreting from the simplified rendering of reality and converting it into the image the player perceives - it's called a brain. They're removing abstraction that works in the favor of immersion. That's why games from the 90s and such could look "good" even though they couldn't be photorealistic.

To answer the "why", it's because that's what it is. They can wrap things in as many names as they want, and keep calling that "super sampling", it's completely removed from it. The opposite, even; super sampling, upscaling functions, etc. had the initial goal of providing the *same* picture at higher resolution. This is the opposite of that; it's just their AI model redoing the frame; it's probably easier to do that way too; just sample a handful of iterations over the basic upscale.

DLSS moved from blurring and removing details to reinventing the frame. It was never good. Only people obsessed with saying "I can get 4K120fps on my potato" would be happy with it. And now, not only it's bullshit, but you'll also need super powerful hardware nobody can't afford anymore.

Bring me back baked lighting, detailed models, and raster optimizations please.

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Quoting: JarmerI really want to try and like this game, but I had SUCH a horrible technical experience with Dragons Dogma 2 I feel like I can't trust capcom anymore :(

For what it's worth, on my PC that's starting to show it's age, the demo ran flawlessly, whether it's about performances or (lack of) technical issues. I was pleasantly surprised.

But it's always prudent to wait a bit after releases with these.

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I really liked the demo, and really hope the release isn't borked/full of nasty surprises.

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As someone who lived for a bit, I'm always worried when I see Microsoft doing something to appeal to people. Their history of embrace, extend, extinguish is quite the marvelous thing.

My personal stance on this is no more closed systems, no lock-ins, no local restrictions. We don't know yet, but I very much doubt this new device will check all this, or if it does, for how long.

But I'm afraid a lot of people will flock to this (assuming MS don't utterly sabotage itself in the meantime).

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It's funny how all of these "happy little accidents" are all… accidents. "Woops, we logged your auth token and private discussions, my bad." as in, why the hell was the game reading these in the first place, and at what point does an auth token is logged accidentally? Someone have to write a piece of code that says `log(thisSuperDuperSecretStuffThatShouldNeverGetCloseToALoggingFunction);` for this to happen.

Even in early development phase, we wrap logging of potential informations in a way that only expose minimal information, usually the presence and length of the content.

Either their dev are worst than an entry level junior intern, or there's some high level incompetence all around.

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Really waiting for this one. The first one was fun, and a very early version of shapez2 was cool too.

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Shame. I'm very open in buying games, but there's no chance I ever dip myself into a locked console again. Well, it was nice while it lasted.

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Great. Opus Magnum felt like the perfect balance of hard and good from Zachtronics, being both very accessible and leaving ample room for fine optimizations. More content is great.

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If there's one thing we were missing on, it was cheap unpolished garbage games made with free, broken, and mismatched assets, tied up with under-developed gameplay, and lackluster everything all around. Really, that's a genre of game that have little to no representation at all. /SARCASM.

And now they want to automatize their production. Great. Never have I seen a specie so hell-bent in self-destruction, and willing to shift in higher gear as needed in doing so.

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