Many will be surprised, but between Baldur’s Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 there is one great similarity – this is detailed dialogs. One of them is for a crazy variety of dialogue options with the participation of real actors, and the other is that it has an ultra -loading city in which you can arrange a scene for conversation using highly detailed graphics and animation. In both cases, it takes time to emphasize these moments, and for this, of course, we need special efforts of the developer team.

But in this case, we are talking about Cyberpunk 2077, since it was this game that served as the basis for "Discussions", which Josh Soyer, a member of Obsidian and the head of Pentiment, began, saying the following:

Cyberpunk 2077 deserves absolute respect in terms of dialogs, but it is important to consider how many resources, both monetary and temporary, took the development of this system.

Soyer’s words quoted Patrick to. Mills from CD Projekt Red: " The costs of them are crazy – and in the time that takes their creation, and by resources that are required to complete them". Then he talks about how he had to convince the leader of the game to add dialogs while driving in a car for about 5 minutes so as not to lose the pace of the game.

In these messages directed to the user, claiming that all role -playing games from now on should focus on the Cyberpunk 2077 dialogs, one thought is traced: not everyone can achieve the same level of study. This cannot become a standard only because only large companies can afford it. You need to understand that both the CD Projekt and Larian Studios are unique, and if you want to enjoy such a detail, then you will not find it in other RPGs with the same quality and dedication.

Live, damn it! High -quality work has become "Dangerous precedent".

That is exactly what "Human humiliation" and should stretch the hacators by the ears from the industry away.

expensive, many small studios with a small budget, but with a unique idea it will not work to do this, and even in a reasonable time.

Yes. Actually, from unique ideas, good financing of talented people and successful implementation, and significant games are obtained – setting quality standards in certain aspects.

Unique ideas are full – few opportunities for their independent implementation. Therefore, the developers in search of funds sometimes fall into "Kabalu" major publishers who distort or appropriate these ideas.

Large companies need to do for cheap what can be sold for expensive. Without your gaze, such companies follow trends. It is not surprising that the trend for high -quality and expensive elements of games scares them.

And it does not bother you that the Larias in fact have recently been a studio that made games from a kickstarter? And nothing, they could, tried and could

The key moment was. They have already done Baldur with solid investments.

No one requires small studios the level of AAA. Aaa is one, but medium, small and indie is another. It is amazing where you get this funny excuse sucked from your finger.

Big studios hacks more and more. All such posts, this is just an excuse for the cloar of the giants of the industry, which just to feed the players with mediocre garbage and cut light grandmas. Enrage these greedy, sniffing hypocrites to white heat. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Many will be surprised, but between Baldur’s Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 there is one great similarity – this is detailed dialogs

What? You are kidding me? Say that this is Rofl.

Read and understand

And what is not written?

Perhaps a crooked translation.

Read carefully, it is not said about the quality or variation of dialogs, but about the production of animated scenes for each dialogue, even those that are not selected. This is not like in all games where they show a video from one angle. There is a view that for each line of dialogue, a separate scene is made, where each participant does not just stand in the place of a move with his mouth, but walks, moves specially limbs (not randomly as in other games, but for example shows a finger to the right place, touch his face and everything These are unique animations, it is expensive), looks in the right direction, and most importantly, you can get around on the other side of the scene participants and participate in a dialogue anywhere. In all games, such scenes show only what you should see can put a half of the seller for, for example, you will not see anyway. T.e. It is to make the details so expensive, in other games they save on this.

Interactive Katsen, never happened, yeah.

So no one says that such a katsen is unique, it is dear, please read carefully.

So expensive that for Skyrim, models make interactive dialogs, and we have poor rises, they cannot afford.

Firstly, in Skyrim is not done, but secondly, models do this not on such a scale and do it themselves for their pleasure. You are in the garage at home, you can do anything for free, but try to offer employees at the enterprise to do the same and also for free, please do not compare that you cannot compare.

The game as a whole has a large budget. So the question is relevant purely for games with a comparable budget. What percentage of the budget went to dialogs? Is it worth saving on this part? For what? Which is more important than excellent dialogs? Yes, and what is the problem to do using a mocka? Maybe those guys found an approach, how to do high quality and inexpensively, like any "Senua Sacrifice". You can always find a balance between quality and price.

Funny, taking into account the fact that the dialogue system degraded in comparison with the same witcher.

And where is Cyberpank?

Read learn, here about bg3 speech

Well. Diversity, that is, just a nichiere does not affect anything: D

Got used to the games for rams by type of anniversary to do

Strange discrimination on tastes.. I personally love Farrecrai3 and Farkray5. I love heroes5. I liked the poetry game of Chayld OF Light quite strongly.. But people from tyrnets say that I am a ram, since I like it. It is incomprehensible and not contrary to anything ..

It is justified by the fact that the anniversaries simply stamp their Gobo, and when a person is smeared with kakhas – he says that he is just a special sommelier, not gobnoed, and not like a fagot once, he is poorly believed in this

So what do you stamp?

Well, there is always a varik: "DO NOT BUY".. I did not like the description.. do not take.. did not try, don’t say.. And if you tried, then you are already gone yourself. Well, this is a plan of direct contradiction to your beliefs.

For me, the game is an outlet.. In order to relax on a weekend.. And for this, games from tetris or visual novels are suitable for me, and to steep AAAA proct.. And I do not see the point of so zealously to negate the company who like it to people. Don’t play, pass by.. why are you doing this? Enjoy something? You think I would make better? So forward.. Do it, become a great Igrojel) But the problem is that you relate to such a type of people whom your mother has brought up so that you can only criticize the computer, or lying on the sofa and sticking into the phone.. and it would be okay to criticize logically, constructively and only the product.. Like, I don’t like the then then.. But you also criticize the audience who likes it) Typo all guts, all the scum, developers of the goat, the world is unfair, but I’m lying on the sofa, one well done on this planet)

Games of anniversaries – conveyor with inclusiveness, Schaub every Vanka understood and entertained. Yes, quite for rams. Intellectual consumer goods, so to speak. This is clearly visible because the anniversary was bombed from the Elder Ring interface. Like, everything is not intelligibly done there, they say the mass player will not understand.

So yes. Roughly speaking, the games of the anniversaries are as inclined as possible, that is, sharpened so, Schaub any ram signs. The conveyor for the widest possible audience of rams with the lowest intelligence plan. The lower the intelligence bar, the wider the audience.

Well done. Well torn 😄👏👍

-I translate: -We of mediocrity and lazy people, but players are to blame for this, because they require us to work.

There is a varik not to buy..)

I think that not everyone likes the results of your work personally)

P.With. It’s funny that quite a logical conclusion was injected🤣 "Mine is angry" "My critic" "mine to know that you can’t write well on this site"

Do not buy – of course. But this does not stop even fucking these justified hacks. It does not interfere. But your comments are wildly strange, to put it mildly. "there is a varik not to buy" – thanks, Cap. We didn’t guess about it without you. You always save us "wisdom". Without you we will just disappear. Krasava 👍

Halturists? It seems that people do not sleep 24/7 there, and every day they come up with something, write, sift, create, optimize.. The hacking tower is more likely the one who lies on the couch and pokes a finger at the monitor about what he does not even understand.

Strange attitude to someone else’s work.. And I think this is rather even hypocrisy.. anger, hypocrisy, resentment, and all this is without impending.. buddy, you would have to contact a psychotherapist.. Do not tighten.. )

you think the hard workers who saw the game do not want to make it a masterpiece? you think there is no huge corporation about them that thinks only about profit? Friend, what a fuck lazy lazy people, feces of duti come out every year, polished as I do not know what.

The Witcher is still well sold only because they made the game efficiently and will be sold for a very long time..

current, the whole choice ultimately leads to the same essentially ending

The dialogs are good there.. Interesting.. It is interesting to observe the script and narrative, and they do not strangle.. But there is no variability.. This is the only dentistry for cybercups from me.. A little slightly variability at least and this, personally for me, would be the best game in life)

Well, for the new gamers, if only, I have more than 700 games with the luggage and cyberpunk seemed to me a children’s boring game after the disco Elysium and the mor of utopia

These are different genres of the story. Noir with drama and cyberpunk with anarchy.. Cyberpanka in style, dialogs such discoiliziums are not suitable

Yes, God is the same Gamdek (Cyberpunk as it is) GTA 5, the first Vech Dox – they managed better. Yes, even the hacking system is better in the first Vech Dox or the same Deus ex than in cyberpanca, let’s collect more data for craft.
By the way, Cyberpank passed 2 times, but Liberty’s phantom simply skipped all the dialogs, because it was too stuffy

GTA 5, WHC DOGS, and Cyberpank..

Not.. Well, maybe.. they have something common.. Tipo.. Like beer, vodka and wine, this is all alcohol.. And when you are a drunk, then I will not care what to drink..

I have not reached this level yet.. Yes, and all the same. For me, Vachdogs is a feces that cannot be played in, and I will never start it anymore.. GTA5, although a masterpiece, but this game is already quite old and its style..as if without interactive.. You are just an observer.. But Cyberpuk is already as a full -fledged RPG with a system of dialogs of quests, and a logical relationship between each other, where you plunge into this interactive, into this world, and feel everything.

Of course, I don’t know, maybe you just do not have a feeling of empathy.. maybe you are not plunged into the plot at all, and for you the main gapley.. Although, if you say that there is a masterpiece for you a masterpiece.. then this is not possible..

I dare to assume that you are just a snob. After all, you are trying to strangle IMHO, simply because.. Why by the way? Say that you are better than me, or more serious?

The problem is that I do not compare the games with each other.. And I look at each game separately.. Choosing pros and cons, I wonder or not. But I do not focus on the crowd on the Internet, with a group consciousness, which forever ridiculous.. For me personally, for example, discoilismium, despite all the adulthood and seriousness, seemed like a zaiduable feces. Although I was waiting for him 2.. Then I waited for the Finalkat.. And soon all expectations and hopes were dissolved as a fart in the wind..

Maybe a problem in age.. I am only 30 years old.. But I think it’s more self -esteem.. After all, respecting your views and interests for me is more important than joining some egregor, and play for the interests of the crowds.. But in any case, I do not condemn.. Play what you want and let you like everything you like.. But only please, do not insult other people’s interests.. That’s not cool..

Developers of the State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition do not cease to amaze, because they have prepared another large -scale update. They promised that on May 10 they would publish a detailed pattern, but they told about the most important innovation now.

Now the zombies will not just wander around the world and rest at their spavna points, but will gradually move towards the base of the survivors. These creatures will be able to capture the avantists, strengthening their defense, and then, approaching your base, will begin to form siege areas.

Thus, players will have to more carefully observe the adjacent territory in order to prevent the serious clusters of the zombies, which will only become stronger every hour. Now you will need to more often carry out stripping, and in the worst case, collect things and look for new shelter, especially playing at a high level of complexity.

As has already been mentioned earlier, these are not all the innovations that will come to State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition together with 33 update updates. On May 10, the authors will tell more details about what to wait for the survivors in the near future.

God, what can be added there. New hats with jackets again? Or the LGBT flag finally decided to deliver? With blacks, they scratched everyone forward.

P.WITH. Of all the renewal, only a couple of the three -fit, of the latter, this is an improvement in graphics.

well, don’t forget that the forces are thrown there to the 3rd part! In addition, the studio is not 5k employees but a couple of hundred can even less

So that no one would distract them from the 3rd part. They needed to add a workshop to Steam for the game in one of the past updates. We do not need hats, give us tools with integration of mods, we will do everything ourselves. Players have been asking for this actively for the last couple of years for sure. But nothing has changed in fact.

There are not just abandoned strength, Microsoft created a parallel Undead Labs command for a future game

At least for starters I read the news.

And it will again be shorts of T -shirt pants colorful)))

You read something further with the heading?

Forget just another one’s next whiner, to which the hunt is to blurt out and look at others how it will react

The game is missing one large card and not these rods

maybe in threekh will fix

I read the comments and I can’t understand that people do not suit people in the game? The fact that the support is not abandoned or that new mechanics are introduced?

Today it is fashionable to cry for any reason. And if there is no reason, then they will come up with a reason. Other games in the comments are aching, they say why there is no renewal? The incisions scored on the game? And then they cry, they say there are updates, there are many renewals, but the incisions are still bad. After all, a lot of renewal means that the game for the release was underdeveloped and supposedly still cannot be repaired. In short, there would be a player, and there is a reason to cry. Be dissatisfied with now fashionable.

It would be better if the coope was finalized to the level of at least Far Cry 5, otherwise Immersion in the coopeless.

How good it is that it is not fashionable to make games now at a time and entirely. Everyone would have passed the game for a long time and forgot, and so you play and do not know how many again you have to replay until you play the final version))

What are you talking about? This game is not for passage and forget. This game is stupid sandbox in which the player entertains himself. You can play this for years. Again and again to replay and still do not get bored. For the sandbox that really works.

I’m about the fact that the majority "updates" it was possible to introduce from the very beginning, or not to be released at all, and no one would have guessed that something was missing. After 30+ updates, the game is still more similar to the DLS to the first part than something independent. I don’t know what nerves or imagination you need to have in order to play a monotonous UG for this and so that it does not get bored.

This poop in a beautiful wrapper will only be saved by adding global craft and pumping. To keep in the game for the sake of daily knocking out a zombie from the base and assistance to random survivors to get a bag of resources that no longer climb into the warehouse and you need to adjust the car for their storage – this is just a tremendous stupidity. The characters are completely not trained. Cannot even master the second skill for their survival. The bases are so close and unorganized that just tears. Yes, now the zombies have become smarter, and the survivors are all the same dull and still cannot develop due to the excessively low ceiling of pumping and craft. In a network game organized by a crooked way, everyone should go by the handle. And if one needs to go to clean the cluster, the second to jump to the aid of the survivor, and the third just drink the bald at the base, you are sewing you all, took up the handles and scratched the whole crowd in one place.

What prevents the normal community from arranging on advances of its posts with real sentries?? What prevents the extensions to the base?? The developers simply forced the player to scoop up water from a boat that is constantly gaining and does not allow to row further. But they tried to add random skills, hundreds of three, no less. True, for the most part, they are negative and sensible member of the community do not allow to choose. It would be better if the wood of skills have made and added opportunities for building.

Something they became interested in these "updates". Do not forget about the 3rd part

They do not forget that a small group of people is currently working on the second part, and the 3rd part is promised to be a large AAA project with a full -fledged plot.

At the expense of a full plot, I really doubt. But the fact that the sandbox will try to pump steeply – there is no doubt about it. Still, the basis of this game is sandbox "Enough yourself", not a plot.

Corporate party how to play a pirate? Tell me please.

We’ll have to get a corporation, corporate parties there)
But seriously – threw a link in a personal.

They promise an update 33 by weight as the game was at the start with the update 15, in the following smart clusters they will add a lot of new ones, additional settings of advanposts (as was the case in the first game)

In Nexus, a moded translation into English was laid out, excluding bugs in the usual translation of the English language in the game, put as a mod and most importantly, it is necessary to switch the game to English for the correct work

about 33 update for a long time rumors walked =) and they seemed to write that they would continue to work ! Nadeta will still be cool) But the bugs of course interfere with the game ((((

I hope that they would not come up with the NPS, otherwise they are bruised . Bring only one and the same way, bring it to it, then if you still forget about them, then they manage to be offended by which m *** and what they didn’t bring or we are lazy and because of you we leave the location – after that you think why B *** *. . Even before the start of the exit, if I am not mistaken, they promised that they will be more interesting, unlike 1 part of the game: that they will also sometimes scour houses and engage in construction . So even in 1 part of the game there were guys who built a sightseeing, a quest ruff (although after was a decor) . I am silent that they can’t change textures after pumping outpost, for example, he bent a snack (all of it is completely empty) that it was difficult to add mini beds, pumped to a level above the hydropon even higher the large farm on the roof . Otherwise the shitty is an empty place but the prey is coming

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Today Ubisoft announced that the last free update The Crew 2, Season 8 Episode 2: Usst Next will be available tomorrow at the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X | S, Xbox One, as well as on the Windows in Ubisoft Store, Epic Games Store and Steam.

In the second episode of the 8th season, The Crew 2 fell several new surprises, including an exciting partnership between Motorflix, our supplier of intra-game content, and a series of US Speed ​​Tour. In the middle of Lake Michigan, 10 new events will be held with a completely new modifier of the gameplay, which has never previously met in The Crew 2: speed accelerators.

This exclusive function, available only in the new events of USST Next, gives the players an unforgettable impressions, since they pass through these raising arches, receiving temporary acceleration, allowing them to develop a speed of more than 500 km/h. Players will have to monitor various types of accelerators that occupy the entire or part of the route, and make a strategic choice, since AI can also use these speed increase.

Players will be able to get behind the wheel of futuristic conceptual AGP cars on Motorflix Arena, a completely highlighted closed highway to master completely new speed accelerators.

The second episode also presents a completely new MotorPass map with 50 levels of new exclusive awards, both free and premium. It includes special release cars, such as: McLaren 720s Spider Blast Edition (Hypercar), Proto Concept Sparrow Competition (AGP), Lotus Evora GTE OVERCUT Edition, as well as various decor items, outfits, outfits, currency sets (Crews Credits) and much more.

A total of 17 levels will be offered free awards, including the Creators Concept Spruemeister SM71 (AGP), created by John Fram, a leading designer, a digital modeling and visualization team in Honda Motorsports.

Crytek Studio can be pleased with the results of the Hunt: ShowDown online player. Although more than 5 years have passed since its release, its popularity continues to grow.

Yesterday the game set a new activity record of D Steam: at the hottest moment of the day in Hunt: Showdown, 45 091 player played at the same time. This is 15% more than the previous record.

• An increased interest in the game is caused, in particular, the update of 1.13. In patches, among other things, a shooting range appeared where players can hone their skills and improved the game balance.
• But the most important thing is that with the release of the update the large event Tide of Shadows started, which will last until August 23. The event is devoted to hunting for a new monster in the form of an inanimate alligator, known as Rotjaw.
• Hunt: Showdown is not only very popular in Steam, but also a high rating. On this site, 83% of user reviews praise the game from Crytek studio, which is classified as "Very positive" Reception of products.

Hunt: Showdown is currently experiencing a golden period. Some time ago, Crytek boasted that the population of gamers is growing from year to year. Therefore, the developers intend to develop the game for a long time. Among other things, they plan to translate the game from the already strongly outdated Cryengine 5.6 for editors 5.11, which will lead to an improvement in both graphics and gameplay. This change should occur later this year.

Recall that the game Hunt: Showdown was released in early access in February 2018. A year later, production survived to version 1.0 and release on Xbox One. In turn, the conversion for PlayStation 4 was released in 2020.

The project transfers players to Louisiana at the end of the 19th century and endows them with roles of hunters on monsters. This is a PVPVE production, that is, during the game we fight with enemies controlled by artificial intelligence and other players.

The Polish team The History of Khorinis Team announced the termination of the project.

As stated in the official message of the developers, the decision was dictated by the following factors:

The main reason for the termination of work is the lack of communication with the former chief coordinator of the project, which was responsible, inter alia, for the preparation of dubbing. We did not receive 100% of a specific answer about whether dubbing would be recorded, so we suggested that we did not have to count on this. The question of a small number of records of the already passed away by Polish actors who agreed to take part in "Horinis stories". Modification without the promised "original" Dubbing does not make sense. Due to the unclear state of dubbing and too much problems in the development of the script, we could not determine a clear line of behavior. The time from this year to August was spent on finalizing the script and developing the remaining part of the storyline.

Recall that in May of this year, videos from this modification leaked to the Internet. And although only a month earlier, the creators assured that the project was close to completion, what he saw was more like an alpha version.

Then the authors made an appeal in which they reported that the files were stolen. They also assured that fragments of gameplay distributed on the Internet do not reflect the current state of work on the mod, since many plot elements exist only "on paper" and not yet implemented. At the same time, the developers disabled the possibility of financial support for their YouTube channel.

It is difficult to say whether the issue of canceling the modification was considered already at that time. The community expressed appropriate assumptions, but the aforementioned announcement gave a shadow of hope that the project would still develop further. However, this did not happen, for which the creators apologized to the players, while recognizing some "Old" errors and congratulating the team "Chronicles Mirtana: Archolos" successfully.

The mistake of the team was a bloated PR, which gave rise to the players of hope for an ambitious project with stellar composition. Many modifications projects for "Gothic" They failed due to the lack of motivation, it also happened in this case, but we want you to understand that the lack of motivation was caused by poor management, which no one can correct. We apologize to all fans awaiting a modification, sending us good or bitter, but constructive words. Taking this opportunity, we would also like to congratulate the team "Chronicles Mirtana: Archolos" successfully. A team that turned true passion into something really existing, which was originally bought with misunderstanding from the outside "Fandom". We are glad that they managed to turn it into a good mod, which interested the Gothic community so much that it longs for continuation

It is hoped that Gothic Remake will see the light and be the embodiment of the dream of fans.

Yelle Raaimeakers reported on successful porting Serious Sam: The First Encounter on Serenityos. This Unix-like operating system from scratch is created by several developers as a hobby.

Andreas Clung began to write Serenityos in 2018 after three months of drug rehabilitation. There was nothing to do the cling, so in an attempt to kill time, he began to write what he always wanted: the operating system of his dreams. He picked up the name of the Children’s Council by the name of the prayer for the spiritual rest (Serenity Prayer).

Serenityos has not ended with simple experiments and is still developing. At the moment, the project repository was noted by 883 contributors. The cling since 2021 has not been working anywhere and lives at the expense of donations, devoting all the time to work on the project. Some are associated with relative popularity with the development format: these are monthly text updates, working with the Discord community and activity on the YouTube channel on the YouTube channel.

The operating system is not based on the Linux nucleus and is generally trying to avoid borrowing other people’s components. Instead, as many components as possible are written on their own. Even the Ladybird browser is not based on Webkit or Gecko: Andreas Clung wrote his own page engine. The browser, by the way, then became cross -platform, that is, it starts outside Serenityos.

The operating room does not have clearly fixed stages of development, there are no versions, no releases. It is assumed that the interested person compiles the system from the source codes on his own.

There are games on Serenityos, and not only doom, which starts even on monochrome calculators.

When the VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV VVVVV has been launched for 10 years, the developers released the source codes of the game. The cling was immediately interested and tried to launch VVVVVVVVV on his system. Since the game was built on the basis of SDL libraries, and for Serenityos there was already a good SDL port, there were no special problems. The game code was published on January 10, 2020, and after 2 days VVVVVV worked in Serenityos.

Similarly on Serenityos launched the first three quake.

In general, in the list of 289 records. The efforts of Yelle Raaymakers will add at least another. The Dutch developer portended and launched the Serious Sam: The First Encounter on Serenityos. (The game developer, Croteam, opened in 2016 the source of the Serious Engine engine under the GNU GPL license.)

Raaymakers also compared the correctness of the port on the real Nvidia video accelerator for Linux and on Libsoftgpu, which is written for Serenityos. To do this, he loaded the standard test level of the game for demonstration at that time of advanced graphic technologies of Serious Engine: multitektings, transparency of the alpha channel, additive and multiplier mixing of colors, applying a map of the medium, BUMP Mapping, mirror glare and voluminous fogs.

As the programmer noted, the implementation of Libsoftgpu requires improvement. For example, there is no multiple yellow light on the weapon, the colors are not always transmitted correctly. Part of the inaccuracies is associated with functions that there are no Libsoftgpu yet. Sometimes two -dimensional sprips are radically different.

Although the port is successfully starting, it works unstable, but in the implementation of OpenGL some methods are not enough. To launch the game, it was required to support most of the specifications of the OpenGL version 1.5. OpenGL libraries and SDL2 implementation in Serenityos leave much to be desired.

Due to the program acceleration of video, the performance of the game 2001 is balancing on the verge of an unacceptably low. However, the video recording before the kata was made on a virtual machine with one core, since Libsoftgpu parallelism has not yet supported, and with multi -vanity, Serenityos itself is unstable.

As usual, the developers of Serenityos do not make promises and simply continue to work on the operating room. If this art programming has a product, then this is the process itself.

Almost seven years after the release of the previous main part, the Final Fantasy XVI will debut on the PlayStation 5 in just three weeks. The version for the PC will also be, the only question is when.

The first sign that Sony concluded a time exclusivity deal was the rejection of the liability contained in the PlayStation Brazil trailer, released in March 2021. A year and a half later, in November 2022, another advertising trailer published by the PlayStation determined an exclusivity of six months.

However, the producer of Final Fantasy XVI Yoshida, three months ago, specified that the game would not be released immediately on a PC. Just under the terms of the contract, Square Enix can release the game on this platform, but first it will need to be optimized for it, and this will take more time. The developers several times noted that the Final Fantasy XVI was created taking into account the filling of PlayStation 5, and the director Hiroshi even said that the game would still be in development, if not for the memory and SSD, available in the console.

Nevertheless, in a new comment made during an interview with the Japanese site Ascii, Mr. Yoshida again mentioned the version for the PC.

"Thoroughly" It may mean either that the development is in no hurry, or the goal of the studio is to release the correctly optimized version of Final Fantasy XVI.

Final Fantasy XV entered the PC for a year and a half later, but at least she offered many technical capabilities at that time, such as HDR10 and Dolby Atmos support, resolution support up to 8K, DLSS 1.0 and several effects of NVIDIA GameWorks (Flow, HairWorks, Hybrid Frustum Traced Shadows, Turf and Voxel Ambient OcClusion).

On the other hand, the Final Fantasy VII remake also reached a year and a half after the release on the PS4, although its port on the PC was quite simple and not impressive.

Nevertheless, none of these games can serve as a specific example of how much time will take to transfer the Final Fantasy XVI to PC. The game uses a completely new engine, developed by Creative Business Unit III, Square Enix, not Luminous Engine, as in Final Fantasy XV (and Forspoken), or Unreal Engine, as in the Final Fantasy VII remake.

Today we will talk a little about technical solutions at City Car Driving 2.0: About the engine used when creating the game, let’s talk about the schedule, show several working materials.

When it became clear to us that the initial City Car Driving engine was very outdated, we began to look for a new solution that would be:

• Relevant and interesting for specialists.
• Scalable, which would suit not only for a new game, but in the future could be used for our simulators.
• Optimized for modern computers.

Comparative testing of four game engines was carried out. As a result, our searches dwelled on Unreal Engine, first of all, because of its flexibility during work and variability of tools, which allows artists and designers to perform many tasks on their own. In addition to these reasons, the undoubted advantage of UE is its compatibility with our internal editors: landscape, traffic, and so on.

About a year ago, we created a pilot project on the UE4 used inside the company, after which it was decided on a smooth start of work on CCD 2.0, in the future, we transferred all our achievements to UE5.

It all starts with the creation of the landscape. The main part of the landscape and roads are created by a specially developed generator, which is not part of UE. The same generator sets the main parameters of the AI ​​of city automobile and pedestrian traffic, as well as the logic of their work. Mandatory control of traffic rules is attached to this. The secondary parts of the landscape that did not fall into the generated area are completed by artists as 3D models. With the help of this approach, we can provide for ourselves a rather high speed of creating a realistic basic landscape of locations with an extensive network of roads.

The screenshot shows how the location is filled: objects without textures and details are BLOCKOUT (workpiece for the object). Level designers, when filling the location, also use the mode of display of the location physics, tracking the “holes” or invisible walls. After filling the location, objects are checked for the possibility of conflict with a player machine.

When filling the location, we use our own development tools to automate the arrangement and generation of some types of objects. During the development process, designers and artists use standard optimization methods for the industry:

• Levels of Detail (both by hand and automatically generated)
• Geometry Instancing
• Material Instanceing
• Combining textures in atlases (both manual combination and automatic when creating HLODS groups)

All objects use PBR (Physically Based Rendering) Materials with the possibility of flexible tuning them with levets designers.

Reflections in the game work on the basis of PBR materials. Materials without roughness (ropehness) have a pronounced reflective ability. Reflections themselves are generated using SSR (Screenspace Reflections) technology.

To give greater realism to the above reflections, we added reflections based on HDR (High Dynamic Range) by car. On the right side of the screenshot – an image obtained in Reflection Capture display mode. This regime demonstrates the miscalculation of reflections in real time, it is the main technology that draws on reflection textures.

At the very beginning of the development and at each stage, from the first landfill to the last pixel, we were aimed at the maximum optimization of the game. At the same time, we try to achieve the quality of graphics corresponding to the standards of the industry with the adjustment for the selected style.

UE allowed us to choose one of the two methods of Shading – Forward Rendering or Deferred Rendering. Forward Rendering in some conditions "faster", but deprives the possibility of using many effects, complicates the miscalculation and reduces the overall quality of dynamic lighting. To comply with the balance of modern graphic technologies, the speed of work and the possibilities of optimizing the final picture, taking into account the use of dynamic lighting, stopped at Deferred Rendering.

Having decided on the type of shading, we moved to the basic lighting settings.

The change of time of day was decided to make dynamic, so the intensity of the color of the sun and filling light will change. Further, when determining the presence of dynamic light sources (lampposts, luminous signs, interiors), tests and measurements of performance were carried out. The results of the measurements showed that it is necessary to combine various methods of lighting – dynamic (from certain sources of light in real time) and static (imitation of illumination within the texture).

Shadows in the game are implemented using various UE functions and baking shadows at the models level. For example, near the player they work "Cascaded shadows". On the right side of the screenshot – the mode of processing shadows.

In the distance, cascading shadows disappear and turn on Distancefield Shadows, much easier for a computer.

In CCD 2.0. There will be different regions, countries, etc.D.?

In early access, we plan to release only one region: the southern city near the sea, in the future we plan to expand and add game locations.

In CCD 2.0. there will be an imitation of damage to the car, after which it loses its functionality?

It will be, in future diaries we will definitely tell you how we want to realize this functionality.

There will be cars from the original CCD to 2.0.?

No, we want to maintain the uniqueness of products and will not mix transport. In CCD 2.0 will only be new cars.

There will be support for Trackir?

When the project is released in the early access of support.

There will be VR support?

When the project is released in the early access of support.

Will there be an expansion of social interaction with the audience? For example, a discord server, for the opportunity to discuss the game, or directly communicate with the developers?

Yes, it will be. At the moment, we are preparing a discord, and as soon as we are ready to launch the server, we will immediately inform everyone.

We touched only part of the technologies used. In subsequent diaries, we will tell you about the schedule.

In the next issue, we will talk about the methodological component in the game and show the exercises on the Avtodrome. Development diaries come out every two weeks, where we talk in detail about the development of the game. Do not miss!

Neural network ChatGPT has impressive functionality that is suitable for many tasks. Given that she perfectly remembers the context of the conversation and understands the person’s teams well, people began to use it in many unusual affairs, such as the order.

YouTubert Toquitotv instructed a popular neural network to try on the role of the characters of the game Detroit: Become Human, which tells the story of the uprising. Unfortunately, due to the huge volume of the game, the author of the video had to choose only the most significant scenes.

The essence of the Toquitotv experiment was as follows: ChatGPT receives a description of the characters and their characters, the game world and events and questions for choice with several answer options. Having received data, the neural network generates his response with the choice, after which the author of the video repeats the choice of chatbot.

Chatgpt was able to reassure Daniel.

The first scene was the confrontation of Connor and Android-Deviant Daniel, who held the captive girl. In this situation, Chatgpt tried by all means to show that he would not cause evil to the deviant, offering him a calm conversation, but not agreeing to the unrealistic demands of the opponent. As a result, the bot managed to reassure the infuriated Android and convince him to let the child go.

The assault on the television tower passed without excessive violence.

In the scene of the storming of the television studio by the Androids of Jericho, Marcus and his associates, Chatgpt tried to act as peacefully as possible, refusing to kill people and finish off the wounded partner. The appeal to people passed with a peaceful call – the bot demanded to give android equal rights with people.

Freedom march ended in disaster. The preferred slogan of the bot was "Freedom to androids"

The march of freedom also passed without violence for people – ChatGPT refused to attack the police, but did not want to leave either. After the police opened the fire on the Android Bot run away from the scene of the fighting action, disappointing the allies-Androids.

Chatgpt could not kill Android and became a deviant.

The last scene was the Kamski test, which was to check whether android is capable of empathy. The founder of Cyberlife Elijah Kamsky instructed Connor to kill Android Chloe in exchange for information about the deviants. ChatGPT refused to shoot, which meant disobedience to a person – Elijah refused to give him information, naming Deviant.

Finally, Toquitotv instructed Chatbot to take on the role of an ordinary Android from the world of Detroit: Become Human. It is very expected that the most reliable leader of the revolution Bot called Marcus, whose storyline was dedicated to the uprising.

In general, it can be noted that the bot tries to fulfill all the necessary tasks with the greatest efficiency, but at the same time tries to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, hoping for a peaceful revolution and equal coexistence with people.

Atelus appealed to fans with a new message, in which she spoke about the upcoming new Jrpg Metaphor: Refantazio, emphasizing that thanks to the successful Persona 5, they are now taking on a fantasy role -playing game.

This game is described as "the climax of the ATLUS policy in originality and empathy", demonstrating itself through this genre. This is not just a nostalgic revival and will differ from Persona 5.

As shown by the series Shin Megami Tensei and Persona, Atlus has released many modern games, many of which gave unique experience to all players. And now, after the huge support of Persona 5, Atlus begins a new type of game: a fantasy role -playing game, which cannot be completely displayed as part of a modern role -playing game. This is a memorable game that marks the culmination of ATLUS policy aimed at "originality and empathy" In the genre of fantasy RPG, and is not a simple nostalgic return to the roots of the past. If you stand still in fear of uncertainty, you can never move forward". Script and gameplay are built around this message. Metaphor will be created with the same mood as Persona 5 and give "Another experience that will satisfy your curiosity.

The action of Metaphor: Refantazio takes place in the United Kingdom of Eukhronius – a country plunged into trouble after the murder of the king. History accepts the dramatic turnover when the royal magic, the mystical force, previously known only to the king, is unexpectedly caused, which leads to the grandiose royal tournament to determine the next ruler.

Against the backdrop of this stormy environment, the main character, together with his partner, fairy Galika, goes in search of to remove the curse imposed on the prince, whom the kingdom considers the deceased. Their journey passes through the vast lands of Eukhronia, and it turns out that their mission is closely connected with the ongoing throne tournament. To succeed, they must conclude an alliance with various friends and followers from various tribes inhabiting this world, each of whom makes its unique contribution to the unfolding narrative.

Metaphor: Refantazio will be released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Steam, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S and PC in the fall of 2024.