As flawed as Cyberpunk 2077 is, it still has glimpses of fun here and there. I am not quite ready to give up on the game just yet. In terms of aesthetic appeal, Cyberpunk 2077 is not pretty or pleasing on the eye, some of this is intentional and some of it is a result of the default early 00’s-esque stylstic settings they have turned on.
What I found surprising was I had my graphics set to ultra, with ray tracing enabled and DLSS set to balanced (I am using an Nvidia RTX 3070). I expected better graphics with these settings turned on than I got when I first opened up Cyberpunk 2077. Once again, maybe my monitor size, but the game looked anything but next-gen to me.
First and foremost, a special shout out to everyone who worked on Cyberpunk 2077. Those forced to endure the six-day 100+ hour work weeks for excessive periods of time to try and make it the best they could, I genuinely feel sorry for everyone involved in this game to have it turn out the way that it has.
I think Cyberpunk 2077 is beautiful, the design teams really hit it out of the park in the aesthetics department. You really do feel as though you are walking around in a dark gritty Cyberpunk-esque world where corporations and rebels are at odds with one another.
The Black Friday deals were a bit so-so this year, but one thing I did get at a way cheaper price than RRP is the Elgato Stream Deck XL. I have had my eyes on this for a while now, but the almost $500 AUD price tag was a deterrent. I managed to get it for $336, a substantial discount from the $460 price it usually is.
Despite the name “Stream Deck” the Elgato Stream Deck is not just for streamers. I do believe that was their initial focus and probably a large part of their customer base are streamers, but this thing can work with your entire system.
Recently in a developer Q&A with the head of the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 team and CEO of Asobo, some key community questions were sort of addressed by the team.
One of the questions was about DirectX 12 support. In the following timestamped embed, Sebastian Wloch says they have a big team working on Direct X 12 support.
If you’re time scarce or don’t want to watch the video, basically DirectX 12 support is summarised:
Recently while browsing Tomsguide, I came across an article claiming that using a VPN provider on Android phones, you can spoof your GPS location in Pokemon Go. Considering Pokemon Go is tightly controlled and most known techniques have not worked in years, I thought I would investigate.
I still play Pokemon Go, but the thought of being able to use a VPN to spoof my location and potentially catch some location-specific Pokemon, it was too tempting to not try.
The Hello Games team who develop the game No Man’s Sky just continue to impress me. Not only did they rescue a highly hyped game that launched to a tonne of negativity for the content it was lacking, to the point where it was nicknamed Refund Simulator, but they have continued to work on it over the years and bring it back from the brink.
Since launch, we’ve reviewed three major updates, each of which brings significant new changes to the game in the form of content, mechanic improvements, as well as fixes. Update 3.0 titled Origins is perhaps the biggest and best update so far that the team have released.
Yes, I still play Pokemon Go and as the years have gone by, the game has only gotten better. A somewhat recent discovery for me is the fact the in-game search supports search strings. You can type in specific values into the search bar to filter Pokemon by region, whether they can be mega evolved and more specifically, their appraisal rating.
You know when you get your Pokemon appraised and you coloured bars, with 3 stars and filled bars meaning a 100% I.V rated Pokemon? Appraising one-by-one is frustrating and time-consuming, which is why I am delighted to discover that you can filter your Pokemon based on their appraisal rating.
Goodbye, “Can it run Crysis” and hello, “Can it run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020” — it’s not a secret that MSFS 2020 is an intensive game that seemingly has been unable to run smoothly on high-end hardware since its late August 2020 release.
The game released and while it ran okay, it wasn’t smooth at higher settings and resolutions, the Nvidia 2080 ti owners were dismayed their powerhouse card couldn’t achieve what we now know is impossible.
Thank you, Asobo. Since the launch of MSFS 2020, the game has been plagued with some teething issues. Many of which have centred around excessive CPU usage, bottlenecking graphics cards and poor frame rates (especially in cities). I have been playing the game and it’s largely a success, but there have been some issues.
We all knew they would eventually fix them and in patch 1.8.3.0, we finally have one of the first meaningful patches that take a step towards fixing the issues. The patch download initially in the Microsoft Store is 676mb, but in the game, you’ll see it’s an additional 13.4gb.
The old Internet meme which was rooted in reality, “But, can it run Crysis?” believe it or not, Crysis was released in 2007 and since then, obviously other more hardware pushing titles have been released since then. Crysis funnily enough still held the title for years, it took years before hardware caught up and could run Crysis on max settings.
If you told someone back in 2007 that one day the new king of hardware pushing game would be a flight simulator, you would have been laughed at.