Somnipathy Screenshot Saturday - 8/25/23

Only a few more left! September 12th is fast approaching. What craziness is this! 'Final' polish is being applied, and 'final testing' also continues, but art is never done is it? You just stop, step away, and wonder.

Boy will I have some post mortems to write up about all this...

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TL;DW:

• FSR 3 is frame generation, similar to DLSS 3. It can greatly increase FPS to 2-3x.

• FSR 3 can run on any GPU, including consoles. They made a point about how it would be dumb to limit it to only the newest generation of cards.

• Every DX11 & DX12 game can take advantage of this tech via HYPR-RX, which is AMD's software for boosting frames and decreasing latency.

• Games will start using it by early fall, public launch will be by Q1 2024

It's left to be seen how good or noticeable FSR3 will be, but if it actually runs well I think we can expect tons of games (especially on console) to make use of it.

New clan and lots of visual changes.

Ofc it's because of a lack of electricity, cus gamer gonna gamer, but I recall a live version of this where the interviewer just... stops for a second, with no idea how to respond lol

Some friends and I stumbled across this last night and ended up spending hours playing it. Basically a MarioKart-style Battle Royale; 60 players, 2 20-player elimination rounds and one final round.

There are some minor UI bugs/improvements to be made, but the game is in free playtest until the 28th. Worth a peek!

A while ago I printed these Portal coasters.

And here we go. Expect your C-tier AAA games to have Denuvo on Switch, stopping players from emulating it.

Is it just me or is the whole Karlach romance EXTREMELY well done? I know I'm a big ol' weird softie and your mileage may vary, but it had me laughing and crying and cheering!

I just couldn't help but feel her frustration, be touched by her love for my fictional avatar and her giddiness the morning after is one of if not THE most touching example of infectious giddy happiness I've ever seen in a game, he'll in any fiction at all!

Hats off to the the team who created, drew and brought to life the visual aspects of the character and to Samantha Béart for a masterful achievement in voice acting!

Adding some context for this video.

Syberbolt is a former Paladins turned gaming variety YouTuber who has done three videos on Phantasy Star 2: New Genesis. This is the third one. (first and second vids linked here for context, but they're very long: about 3 hours overall.)

A TL;DW of the video, to both recap the situation and sum up this video (which is 80 mins long):

• Syberbolt's previous videos exposed the dismal state of PSO2:NG's launch and corruption within the game's community moderators.

• He faced a lot of backlash in the form of harassment and slander due to his last two videos, and suspects that the PSO2 community manager (GWIZ) or other moderators on the official PSO2 Discord server are going so far as to make burner accounts on Discord and Reddit to publicly shit on him.

• The official PSO2 Discord censors Syberbolt's videos, and bans anyone from the server who even mentions him.

• SEGA falsely and unfairly bans his PSO2 account for 'hacking' in retaliation towards the past videos he made criticizing their game and how they were poorly running the community. Why hacking? Because the reason instantly discredits any claims Syberbolt can make of being innocent and allows Sega customer support to fob him off and provide zero evidence of the real reason for the ban. The ban even made it to the frontpage of the /r/SEGA and /r/Asmongold subreddits.

• As a result of the ban, he makes a new account, levels it to max and goes through all the new content so he could create a third video on the subject. The updates are a mix of mediocre new content and really bad system changes to make the game more pay-to-win and grindy.

• During the video, he experiences loads of glitches with the new content including an endless loading screen loop that went unfixed for months, plus another one which forced him to (unsuccessfully) repair, (unsuccessfully) reinstall the game, uninstall/reinstall Windows entirely and even replace his hard drive just to get the game to stop spawning him on an empty map.

• June 2023's update disappoints a huge portion of the community who expected Sega to fix the game's problems, despite them clearly stating that the main focus would be player housing.

Game Information

Game Title: Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

Platforms:

• PC (Aug 24, 2023)
• PlayStation 5 (Aug 25, 2023)
• Xbox Series X/S (Aug 25, 2023)
• Xbox One (Aug 25, 2023)

Trailers:

• ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON — Gameplay Trailer
• ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON — Reveal Trailer

Developer: FromSoftware Inc.

Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 85 average - 91% recommended - 59 reviews

Critic Reviews

Atomix - Alberto Desfassiaux - Spanish - 97 / 100

Attack of the Fanboy - J.R. Waugh - 4 / 5

CGMagazine - Khari Taylor - 8 / 10

COGconnected - Mark Steighner - 95 / 100

Cerealkillerz - Gabriel Bogdan - German - 9 / 10

Checkpoint Gaming - Omi Koulas - 8.5 / 10

Destructoid - Chris Carter - 9 / 10

Digital Trends - Giovanni Colantonio - 3 / 5

Eurogamer - Caelyn Ellis - 5 / 5

Forbes - Ollie Barder - 8 / 10

GAMES.CH - Benjamin Braun - German - 80%

Game Informer - Connor Trinske - 8.3 / 10

GamePro - Dennis Michel - German - 86 / 100

GameSpot - Richard Wakeling - 8 / 10

Gameblog - KiKiToes - French - 6 / 10

Gamefa - mohammad hossein karimi - Persian - 9 / 10

Gamepressure - Krzysiek Kalwasiński - 9 / 10

Gamersky - Chinese - 8.8 / 10

GamesBeat - Mike Minotti - 4.5 / 5

GamesHub - Edmond Tran - 5 / 5

GamesRadar+ - Austin Wood - 4.5 / 5

GamingBolt - Shunal Doke - 9 / 10

GamingTrend - Ron Burke - 90 / 100

Geek Culture - Jake Su - 9.3 / 10

Generación Xbox - David Fernandez - Spanish - 97 / 100

God is a Geek - Chris White - 9 / 10

Hobby Consolas - Bruno Sol - Spanish - 90 / 100

IGN - Mitchell Saltzman - 8 / 10

IGN Italy - Alessandra Borgonovo - Italian - 8.2 / 10

IGN Spain - Guillermo Proupín - Spanish - 9 / 10

INVEN - Kwangseok Park - Korean - 8.8 / 10

Kotaku - Ethan Gach - Unscored

LevelUp - Víctor Rosas - Spanish - 9 / 10

Metro GameCentral - GameCentral - 9 / 10

PC Gamer - Wes Fenlon - 87 / 100

PCGamesN - Andrew Farrell - 8 / 10

PSX Brasil - Luis Guilherme Machado Camargo - Portuguese - 80 / 100

PlayStation Universe - Adam Byrne - 8.5 / 10

Polygon - Michael McWhertor - Unscored

PowerUp! - Adam Mathew - 7.5 / 10

Press Start - James Mitchell - 9 / 10

Push Square - Liam Croft - 7 / 10

Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Jon Bailes - Unscored

Saudi Gamer - Arabic - 7 / 10

Screen Rant - Christopher Teuton - 4.5 / 5

Shacknews - TJ Denzer - 9 / 10

Siliconera - Kazuma Hashimoto - 10 / 10

SomHráč.sk - Karel Šír - Slovak - 80%

Spaziogames - Marcello Paolillo - Italian - 8 / 10

Stevivor - Hamish Lindsay - 8.5 / 10

TechRaptor - Samuel Guglielmo - 8.5 / 10

Unboxholics - Στράτος Χατζηνικολάου - Greek - Worth your time

VG247 - Josh Broadwell - 3 / 5

Wccftech - Kai Tatsumoto - 8.5 / 10

We Got This Covered - David Morgan - 4.5 / 5

WellPlayed - James Wood - 9.5 / 10

Worth Playing - Chris "Atom" DeAngelus - 9 / 10

XboxEra - Jesse Norris - 6.5 / 10

ZTGD - Jae Lee - 9 / 10

Metacritic is sitting at 87 for PC and PS, 79 for Xbox (due to only having 8 reviews on the platform, the two mixed reviews are bringing down the score more than on other platforms).

Can't wait for 3pm tomorrow.