Community MetaSteam | September 2024 - The emperor protects, BOY!

[ezodagrom]

Metaphor demo, apparently the game is only using one CPU core, but there's a workaround to fix it at least on desktop:

Metaphor: ReFantazio :: Steam Community

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Tried the demo for a bit, this made no difference for me, both CPU and GPU being underutilized. :x

EDIT: Using DXVK gave me a pretty substantial boost in performance, from below 60fps to nearly 80fps at the start of this area (125% resolution scale at 1440p with a 3060 Ti):

Release Version 2.4 · doitsujin/dxvk

D3D8 support D8VK is now part of DXVK, and implements D3D8 largely on top of the existing D3D9 implementation. Please refer to pull request #3411 for further details. Native WSI changes dxvk-native...

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Pretty much just had to download dxvk-2.4.tar.gz, extracted the contents, and copied d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll from the x64 folder to the game's folder.

 

[lashman]

senior vice president of clownfuckery at ubisoft

 

[STHX]

 

[Blu]

Out now

 

[dex3108]

To be honest even with delay and Steam release I think that AC Shadows will underperform. If sale numbers were low for November that is not that crowded month, I don't see them improving for February that is filled to the brim.

 

[lashman]

 

[Lashley]

Bloober Team spodziewa się kolejnych rozliczeń z Konami za kamienie milowe

Bloober Team spodziewa się kolejnych rozliczeń z Konami za kamienie milowe. Liczy, że gra Silent Hill 2 nie będzie końcem współpracy z japońskim producentem i wydawcą gier komputerowych - poinformowali przedstawiciele Bloober Team na konferencji.

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It looks like Konami wasn't really focused on bringing Silent Hill 2 to Steam, but Bloober Team talked them into it.

BLOOBER TEAM REDEMPTION ARC!!!!!!

 

[lashman]

 

[Le Pertti]

My stocks... thanks Ubisoft!

 

[sprinkles]

Metaphor demo is up.

Wow this runs bad on my Steam Deck. Frequent dips below 30, while not really looking as good as I hoped.
This was a Day 1 purchase for me, now not so sure. I can't play 50+ hours JRPGs on PC/TV any more. The genre is just too perfect for handhelds.

 

[yuraya]

So disappointing to hear about the bad Deck performance with Metaphor

Are they not using the Persona 5 engine?

iirc I had P5R rendering resolution at 75 or 80% and played it for 150hrs on Deck at basically locked 60fps + 3-4hr battery life.

Really hope they are cooking up a patch for the launch as it is still 2 weeks away.

 

[lashman]

 

[curi0usBystander]

Are they not using the Persona 5 engine?

Yes, and that's part of the problem, it has the same problems everywhere.

Really hope they are cooking up a patch for the launch as it is still 2 weeks away.

There are some mods in the work if it's any consolation (special K, Lyall).

I'll tell you this. no matter where you play: do NOT use the ingame framelimiter (that thing makes it all worse).

 

[Durante]

It would be nice if people ever applied some minimum level of technical competence to JRPG porting. It's not that hard.

 

[STHX]

 

[Alextended]

Looks really nice

 

[Arc]

Metaphor is really good, at the same time there are situations that feel eerily close to Persona that it kind of takes me out of the immersion (i.e. Traveling Boy's awakening is just a weaker version of Joker's awakening and More is just Igor.

Also Hashino finally learned good pacing. In the ~3 hours I've played I have already done two dungeons while in Persona 5 at that point you would have finally got your training wheels took off and been able to do Kamoshia's palace in proper.

 

[MomoVideo]

Looks really nice

Heavy Chrono Trigger vibes.

 

[rickyson33]

Looks really nice

weird how at the end of the trailer it says to wishlist it on Steam but it still isn't actually on Steam 3 hours after the trailer came out

i'd have wishlisted it but i'm probably gonna forget it exists now

 

[lashman]

 

[Mivey]

i'd have wishlisted it but i'm probably gonna forget it exists now

Just look the post below yours, lashman provided a link just for you

 

[dex3108]

 

[toxicitizen]

Steam release when???

 

[lashman]

 

[「Echo」]

12 Hours into FFXVI. It does alright on my 8700k and 4080. I honestly thought the CPU would hold it back more but i haven't dipped below 60FPS yet. I average about 80-90. 100+ in the smaller areas and cutscenes. (4K Res, DLSS Quality, Frame Gen, and all settings maxed.) So can't complain performance wise. It does get microstutters despite being on an M2 SSD when traversing larger maps.

My only complaint is the piss filter. Seems like the first thing to do for just about any AAA game these days is install Reshade, turn on some sharpening to help with TAA blur and then setup tone-mapping to make the yellow filter fuck off.

No complaints about story or game design. I like that FF is re-inventing itself each time since the HD Gens kicked off. I'm a big fan of spectacle and wow moments, FF tends to have lots of those.

 

[toxicitizen]

Apparently it's Last of Us day or something? Wonder if they'll announce the Part II port today...

 

[lashman]

 

[Hektor]

Apparently it's Last of Us day or something? Wonder if they'll announce the Part II port today...

The Last of us Part 2: Remake: Remasted Re-ported: Upscaled Edition (With the enhanced Graphics DLC II)

 

[CommodoreKong]

Apparently it's Last of Us day or something? Wonder if they'll announce the Part II port today...

There’s a Last of Us day?

 

[toxicitizen]

There’s a Last of Us day?

I guess? Naughty Dog's been tweeting a bunch of stuff with #TLOUDay.


Doesn't seem to coincide with any of the games' anniversaries, so I'm guessing it's just a day they picked arbitrarily for a marketing push or something.

edit: looking into it more, it seems Sept 26th is the day the cordyceps outbreak started lol.

 

[Bhodi Li]

Some more stuff that looks cool.

 

[Blu]

Out now

 

[lashman]

 

[Dragon1893]

Looks really nice

This looks fantastic.

 

[toxicitizen]

No mention of achievements on the store page lmao. People really will need to pester them with every single release. How can they be so bad at this?

 

[lashman]

How can they be so bad at this?

 

[Mivey]

Metaphor should get a prize for being a bizzarely terrible port. Using SpecialK mostly fixes things, but you need to disable the in-game frame limiter. However, once you do that, it just breaks performance. GPU usage goes up, and framerate tanks (for no reason). The fix is to reduce the upscaling, apply settings, go back in game, then into the menu again and set the upscaling to what you had before, and performance recovers.

I honestly hope Atlus never does in-house PC ports anymore. I can't even imagine what the code on their end must be trying to do.

 

[didamangi]

90% off waiting room.

 

[dex3108]

No mention of achievements on the store page lmao. People really will need to pester them with every single release. How can they be so bad at this?

It says Online Coop but if i am not wrong there is no online component.

 

[fantomena]

No mention of achievements on the store page lmao. People really will need to pester them with every single release. How can they be so bad at this?

SteamDB has cheevos listed under supported languages, while Valhalla which does not have cheevos, does not have that on SteamDB, so there is hope.

 

[toxicitizen]

SteamDB has cheevos listed under supported languages, while Valhalla which does not have cheevos, does not have that on SteamDB, so there is hope.

If you go on the community hub, at the top it says Project_xyz. So yeah, they're probably not done setting things up yet.

 

[Dragon1893]

Ended up refunding Ace Combat 7. Game didn't click with me. This is actually the first time I've used the refund feature.

 

[curi0usBystander]

Metaphor should get a prize for being a bizzarely terrible port. Using SpecialK mostly fixes things, but you need to disable the in-game frame limiter. However, once you do that, it just breaks performance. GPU usage goes up, and framerate tanks (for no reason). The fix is to reduce the upscaling, apply settings, go back in game, then into the menu again and set the upscaling to what you had before, and performance recovers.

On the deck 30 in game lock vs 30 deck lock is night and day.

I honestly hope Atlus never does in-house PC ports anymore. I can't even imagine what the code on their end must be trying to do.

I don't think we'll get more games with that engine so there's that.

Having tested the game on my pc with SpecialK, still feels off but at least it seems more stable.

 

[STHX]

I knew nothing about Outlaws since it wasn't coming to Steam, but a quick look at the page and doesn't have an italian dub? A Star Wars game without an italian dub?
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[moemoneyb1]

I knew nothing about Outlaws since it wasn't coming to Steam, but a quick look at the page and doesn't have an italian dub? A Star Wars game without an italian dub?
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Ubisoft:

 

[Hektor]

Scusi

 

[STHX]

PC Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2024 Day 1 report: PC gaming on the rise and a strong indie game showing

 

[yuraya]

PC Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2024 Day 1 report: PC gaming on the rise and a strong indie game showing

Doesn't make sense.

We all know PC gaming is dead so this must be some translation error.

 

[lashman]

 

[Mivey]

Doesn't make sense.

We all know PC gaming is dead so this must be some translation error.

No, it makes sense. Of course PC Gaming is dead, these ports are just meant as funeral offerings, to be laid to rest in PC Gamings burial mound.