If you're new at it then don't start by biting off remastering an entire game in 'stunning 4k resolution'. Start at something smaller and build up skills to do the work yourself instead of throwing it into the meaningless grinder that is the AI.
Making a single new map with simple, but meaningful custom assets will take less time and build more skill than this. This is how all good mods came to be.
That AI-(de)generated skybox is truly awful.
Stuff's FIRE. Awesome content and very, very nice media. Happy anniversary Coterminus!
Hey INtense!, I'm not sure where else to ask this, but could showing (and maybe even seeing) the "<username> - <date> - XX comments" be optional?
I noticed that neither setting my post history to private, nor my entire profile to private, makes that number of comments not show.
Ideally I'd prefer to control what stats I'm divulging and how, and I don't really care about other users' number of comments, so it feels like a bit of extra clutter. I just... don't need this info.
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Disappointed that this is made. Any, ANY amateur voice acting beats AI revoices 10 times out of 10.
edit: Why are you booing me? I'm right.
Nice projecting about "fear of Steam". Personally I just always used WON because it has nicer oldschool effects and menu. (The anniversary update imitates that menu, but has other issues).
Mr. Vitoy? Technically, it was me who wrote that news. Down to the smiley face.
Finally, the the ever.
I don't have any other words.
I'm certain you can manage that.
1. The premise of "people think games are for kids! GTA V? kids huddled around their screens, they say!" is like 10 years late to the party. No one thinks that anymore in the first place.
2. Yes, what the first commenter said. Why is this kind of article allowed on Moddb? It has every sign of a scam...
Really sells you on the promise of rtx, doesn't it
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Alas.
It is disappointing to see Moddb, a platform with such rich and deep history of modding, this creative, passionate endeavour, to embrace the RTX push.
The thing that in many cases changes the original art direction (and, indeed, can often be said to damage it), and is coming from a company that pushes AI tools onto us. It's plainly a corporate conquest of our little corner, and it's finally arriving in full.
Indeed I would at least like to have filters to HIDE all rtx-related content, I don't understand why Moddb is going even further to make it convenient for all-rtx content viewing. But I don't expect anything to change now.
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You know, it takes five (5) full screens of vertical scrolling to read through this article. And the exact same per-map changelog is already in the download, collapsed under a button. Maybe the articles could become a bit shorter, to the point, and redirecting the players to read full changelongs at the download.
It often happens (especially with the 2003 engine) that a font packed in the game gets installed as a system font and then the Windows Explorer doesn't let you delete the folder.
Moddb uploads being reported as false positives is nothing new. However even just for user convenience, a plain .zip or .7z may be warranted.
I feel like Swelter wasn't really actively encouraging voting, other than going by word of mouth. Whereas EZU is enjoying a bit more presence, for example EZ2 Steam Page had an announcement to go vote for EZU.
They both deserve MOTY in my eyes, of course there can only be one, EZU got as high as it could because The Black Parade had a rather big call to vote from Mandalore, Swelter got as high as it got without any real voting 'campaign'.
Congrats to EZU and Swelter. I was rooting for you the most.
I thought the same thing with Editor's Choice this year (also has STALKER 2).
"No surprises here" indeed, the mega-known, AAA-scope game, backed by Microsoft, should... win in the indies vote?..
Uh oh, little typo among Honourable Mentions. Two titles merged together.
edit: not anymore
The issue here that I see is there's overlap between defining indie as that is what's self-published, and that is what's smaller budget. GSC may be both developing *and* publishing, but if we follow that logic alone, then all Valve titles must be "indies", clearly they're not.
Didn't think I'd see anyone call STALKER 2 an indie game.
> We are planning some great incentives for people who help get Half-Life Alyx NoVR into the results and depending on where we place in the final running:
> Top 50 - New weapon animations released including new inspect animations
But Top 50 isn't a thing on ModDB. It's either Top 100 (which NoVR entered) or Top 10 (which is covered in the other two options). No one knows the amount of votes either (it isn't disclosed), so there's no knowing in which half of Top-100 you landed.
So... is there going to be an animation update now that NoVR is in Top 100? Or nothing?
It came out in Steam on Jun 26th, it later was added to Moddb on Jul 16th. The ModDB page itself existed since 2021.
The Nihilanth fight redesign was very satisfying. I'm not sure if it's specifically different in Alpha 0.885, as I've skipped a few previous updates.
Either way, I thought the map changes there were mostly pretty good, and the mechanical changes made him a more real boss, more demanding and enforcing certain pacing. This is as close as getting to fight him for the first time again.
The changes made sense and there were some nice extra touches (not going to spoil them).
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Also, voted for MOTY now.
Played a little bit.
Xen skies are *such* a mistake.
Do you really not see which one worked better?..
They're fine textures. They can look good. They do *not* look good here. The Gonarch's Lair made me sad as well.
You may want to consider a different font for the navigation stripes... it looks too "print"-style (like a newspaper) and I think Arial, which is traditionally used in Half-Life for various things, can fit it better, being more straightforward and plain.
I'm not sure the cleanness and smoothness of the new textures wins me over. Even with the low resolution of the original, the painted detail on them made them feel more real, and having to work out some of it with imagination was not a detriment. Here, the high resolution gives away all of its plainness and flatness.
The old low-res textures looked like they had all those realistic stains, seams, shadows and highlights to imply a surface more detailed than it was. Now it's obvious there's nothing extra. And feels more office-y and built on a budget than a high-tech facility housed inside a refurbished Cold War era bunker. Of course, I can only speak for what I see right now.
P. S. Aren't high-res textures going to reduce the size of the flashlight due to how Goldsrc works? Echoes had this problem.
Swelter SURELY belongs here. It even released a Moddb specific version (something EZ2 didn't, for example). And for me it was the mod of the year.
Cvoxalury
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Next month.