And then there are games that try to immediately start the first mission to make things more “immersive”
When you launch a game for the first time…
Exit Game
“Cool, it works. But I don’t have time to play right now.”
For me, it’s about all the ini files that need to be set up before I can mod the game.
Last Played: 2019
In my situation it’s usually a “you know what? I actually don’t want to play a game after all.”
Happens more often when I have a weed tolerance, and the high wears off before I can even go back inside to boot the computer. (Which is why sometimes I’ll load up the game before I go outside to hit the dab rig. That way I’ll at least get 10 minutes of enjoyment out of the game.)
As someone who’s been there, you really need to start talking to a therapist about substance use disorder. There is much more to life waiting for you after you put in the hard work to unlock it. There is help, you are not alone.
Already doing so. On ketamine therapy too
That’s great to hear.
Disable the Vaseline Squad.
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Motion Blur
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Depth of Field
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Chromatic Aberration
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Film Grain
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Vignettes
If it makes the visuals less clear, it can go to hell. So also toss in floating numbers and, if they are truly ugly, enemy health bars.
Unpopular opinion: I consider antialiasing to be part of the vaseline squad these days.
not unpopular just highly depends on the method. super sampling wouldn’t create that effect but approximate methods do.
How does film grain make visuals less clear? Its main purpose is breaking up color banding
a lot of games use it more as a way to give it a vibe, or just have it poorly implemented and doesn’t scale correctly with your monitor resolution
It adds pixelated snow to the image. I do love some film grain in movies but video games don’t really need it unless they are going for a film look.
It literally makes the scene grainy by adding random noise to it… 🤨
I haven’t even seen color banding in games since the days of DOS.
I agree. Film grain is great if your monitor doesn’t have 100% perfect color reproduction (and unless you have a high-end display, most will exhibit at least some form of color banding. see here for yourself)
Color banding is predictable. Grain is random noise.
Also, I grew up on 90s games. If there’s no banding, is it even real?
Yup, Tarkov is unplayable without disabling all that garbage
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Where is the fov slider?!
Always adjust graphics settings first. Make sure the correct resolution is set, turn off bloom, turn off depth of field, etc etc.
Turn off shaky cam/head bobbing and motion blur.
Chromatic aberration is the worst
Don’t forget to make sure Vsync, double or triple buffering is off.
For me the first stop is graphics is always seeing if they offer the ability to turn TAA off.
Gotta invert that mouse
Subtitles? Yes they’re important, but the first thing I do when I launch a new game is go straight to the graphics settings. Controls come next. Accessibility options are the last thing I change before I launch a game.
Volume down
This. When my friends and I launch a new game, the first few seconds (depending on how many goddamn unskippable intros there are) are always
WHAT? SORRY I CAN’T HEAR YOU! THE MUSIC IS SO LOUD!
Big true. You can’t just start the game, you have to go into options to set the volume slider down to 3% so you can un-mute your speakers without shattering your ear drums.
Music 50%.
Master Volume: 30%
Music Volume: 40%
FX: 30%
Ambience: 35%
Dialog: 100%I can’t wrap my head around the fact that all games start with the volume sliders at 100. Immediately shatters everyone’s eardrums. Just start them at 50 ffs.
You can set OS volume though. Games aren’t louder than most other media set to 100%
y axis: inverted
Incorrect! Y-Axis: Normal
I hate games that default to inverted. Obviously, the superior option is the Halo trick: tell the player to “Look up using the right stick or mouse” and then set default inverse or not based on what the player does.
Both axes inverted 😎
“Both”?
All 5, babyeee
Yes! Why is this not default?
Also: vibration off
It used to be … 🤷
Gotta change shitty default WASD to based superior ESDF
I love that there are still keyboard warrior out there fighting their own battles. I used to center around my left index finger on the J key (YGHJ), which basically puts the entire keyboard into easy reach of the left hand. I gave it up in the early 00’s though once WASD had been pretty thoroughly standardized. (There were also a lot of games in that era with dogshit customization options due to consolification. At least customization is considered standard procedure these days.)
Can’t even tell you the last time that happened. Practically everything defaults to having them on.
Subtitles on, vsync off, and then mess around with controls for half an hour in my usual experience :3
Ugh, tearing.
VSync on, always.
That’s what variable refresh rate monitors are for.
As if I’m going to sit at a desk with a tiny-ass monitor when I could relax on the sofa with my cats and play some video games in surround sound.
Most decent TVs have it built in now. Consider getting one with it in the future.
But that’s also a smart TV ridden with ads, a sluggish UI and a boot time slower than the average ad break, then ugh
Don’t connect it to the internet. It ain’t that hard bud. I got a 5 year old LG CX and it’s still fast and snappy.
Somewhat, but some will constantly complain that they’re not connected and/or you did not register them and link them to an account. You can set them up and then remove them from the network, but that won’t stop them from complaining. Combine that with sluggish UI (or a UI that’s only usable when you wait for the network timeout)
Any brands or models you recommend?
Also, not sure how my walls plan on getting bigger, but who knows
Most OLED TVs have it and higher end Samsungs, LGs, and Sonys have it.
Matter of preference. I can’t stand the input lag
Sixteen milliseconds ain’t what’s holding you back, fam.
60 fps has insane input lag when you’re used to 120+
Human response time is on the scale of 200 ms. 8 ms is not messing with your game, champ.
When did I mention reaction times? Maybe it says more about you than me if you can’t feel a difference between 60 and 120 fps
The fact that you buy into the marketing says all that needs to be said.
Render distance to whatever the max is, at the cost of literally anything. I played Skyrim all min except max render distance, 20fps was worth.
I’m the opposite. I immediately turn the subtitle nonsense off because most games tend to have it on by default.
