Replaying
Lies of P. Maybe halfway through. This is new game + +. Seems about the same or perhaps a little easier than New game +. Though I'm cheating, hehehe. I'm using a mod that increases the parry window from 9 to 12 frames, which matches Sekiro supposedly. There's no way to tell if the mod's working, but I remember parrying being very hard in this game and I'm better at it this run through. The idea was to make the game more reactable, and reduce the memorization requirement somewhat.
When I first played this game, it was when I just got in to the Souls-like genre after having bounced off of it for over a decade. So, maybe I've just gotten better or those 3 frames make a massive difference. BRB gave me no trouble this time. But CV gave me more trouble than ever before.
Some P-ing (requires H.265 playback support):
https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/58091631556841782/204AA95419B86E4C423AAE2EE0A58561BE6FBA48/
Replaying
Half-Life: Alyx with developer commentary on. I was disappointed by the Half-Life 2 commentary they added recently. It turns out they were right, when early on in the commentary they bring up that it's been decades, so it was difficult to know what to talk about. The Alyx commentary is higher quality and more pertinent to where you are in the game. There's even a handful of museum exhibition style ones that pop extra assets into the world to demonstrate something. I'm enjoying Alyx again quite a bit. This is my third playthrough.
My first two playthroughs, I remember the performance being shockingly good. Though the ending sequence is insanely heavy and destroys your performance. Outside of that I remember it being performant. But I have stalled out several times trying to start a third playthrough, because it seems the performance has degraded over time--and I had worse hardware for plays 1 and 2! I had to read a bunch of threads and implement a bunch of launch options. But these changes really helped, it performs way better. Moving the game to my fastest SSD also helped a little bit.
"-console -vconsole -novid +vr_msaa 0 +vr_fxaa 1 +vr_fidelity_level_auto 0 +vr_fidelity_level 3 +volume_fog_disable 1 -nowindow"
I wouldn't touch the MSAA setting if jaggies bother you, it's very obvious in outdoor scenes. This command list turns off dynamic resolution, so the ending sequence of the game is going to explode my PC, I expect. We shall see.
I need to get back to the Workshop custom campaigns. The one that apes Bioshock was pretty entertaining. Alyx translates well to that scenario.
I'm just a quiet guy who at times transforms into an annoyingly loquacious one, aren't I? Dr. Taciturn and Mr. Garrulous.
