You do know that was just a pr stunt, right? Apple is selling everyones information left and right lol.

We may be talking about two different things then. I was addressing privacy because you talked about the government seeing the pics on our phones. Now you are talking about information that the consumer has on file with Apple?

What company wouldn't.

I had a whole big response half written but it just seemed pointless. Your post just seems like an ad for why to buy Windows 10. (Except for your testicular selfie)

If you think google is storing more info than Microsoft you are sadly mistaken. The only reason they would have less info is that Edge and to lesser degree IE or maybe more to the point Bing sucks, so anyone with any sense is using an alternative browser/search engine. Bing is a search engine and Microsoft wields it (or at least attempts to) much the way Google does.

Your privacy is being whittled away every day. You can choose one of 3 paths; be ignorant of it, accept it and persevere, or put on your aluminum hat and rant to anyone who will listen. I refuse to live in ignorance but I'm not about to run around in a shiny hat about it.

For the record I haven't once said not to buy windows 10. All I stated was that it has privacy concerns. Much the same way, but to a lesser degree, that we have on our mobile phones.

So the NSA is going to steal my forges?

That depends, can you save a map in Forge without it being visible on waypoint?

I think the NSA is already playing on that map you just started. You know, the one under your alt profile

Cynical much?

Idk....



Are they?

Another quote, from Josh Holmes:
"We are giving players the ability to play full custom games to test their Forge creations on PC. Because Forge supports and builds upon existing Arena content, that includes the same maps and modes that are available in Arena on XB1. The intent of the experience is to allow Win10 users to Forge more effectively w/ keyboard and mouse and test their creations on PC before publishing to Xbox One. As such, there is no support for matchmaking or server browser. You will need to invite friends into a session through LIVE."

Source - http://teambeyond.net/forum/topic/5443-halo-5-guardians-discussion/page-4803#entry767081

Holy ****ing ****.

The last time I was this hyped, MCC happened.
THIS PORT BETTER NOT BE BROKEN AT LAUNCH, 343.

It doesn't matter to me at all. It is all literally free if you have an existing PC.

this gets interesting. I don't have an XB1 and I wonder if I can forge for match making from my PC alone - AT NO COST TO ME??

very interesting...

Sort of. I mean I do have Super Mario Bros set up to play on the 100" 2k projector.

Hey everyone, watch @a Chunk desperately try to keep this thread on topic

Also, hasn't Destiny already proven that nobody has friends anymore.

They're going to use them as super secret blueprints for an NSA/CIA extreme training facility.

do you have citations for other engines? there have definitely been games i've played that lock the physics to FPS, trials fusion being an example.

Tom French needs your input.

https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/733816275965599745

I didn't have a little Tweety account so I couldn't comment but brushed metal is a must. The effect should be able to be done as an overlay as well though. I would love to see a side-by-side comparing brushed metal as a texture and brushed metal as an overlay to see what the difference might be. If it's only very slight, then definitely use it as an overlay and then pick a second overlay.

I'm also wondering if the metal texture can't be tweaked slightly to float between a metal / plastic look when adjusting the shine. Right now it still has a bit of the roughness from when it had more of a concrete metal look.

I just can't imagine needing anything that looks overly plasticky over metal or the value in the subtle differences between them.

Two overlays is my vote if we do a little extra tweaking to current textures.

Cracks, stains, scarring ect can be set up using decals in very intentional ways to create a specific look anyway.

Shame we have to choose between one texture or two overlays, and that's the only addition that they can make as well.

Being a left brained person, I'm not too good with aesthetics, so I leave this up to everyone else.

any other place to submit input other than twitter? waypoint maybe

... give me a sec to rewrite this post...

i'm absolutely certain, i asked on their forum when i was having performance issues at launch and why the game won't go other 60fps, the response whas that physics was the reason they wouldn't make it so the game can go above 60fps. also the fact that when the fps slows down the game starts running in slowmotion.

other developers do the same, reddit post i found on the subject.

edit, more links:
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/1589/when-should-i-use-a-fixed-or-variable-time-step
http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
Fixed-time-step implementation

OK, so let me back up and point out what I was addressing in my comment. JesusInMalibu said...

I have a feeling it might be something relatively high to make sure the game runs at a consistent 60fps because the game psychics are most likely tied to the frame rate (which is stupid but common in video games) after seeing the lack of splitscreen.​

When I read that I thought he meant that he believed that the physics calculations could only be performed once per frame, which Unity clearly showed is not the case. You can calculate physics once per frame if you want and it won't be a real problem. But like Unity, you can also refine the calculations with higher resolution of reactions by calculating more often than say 60 times per second. The more times you calculate physical interactions, forces, and so forth, the more realistic form of physical behaviors you can render to the user.

What I was trying to say was that frame rate is dependent only upon how fast the rendering of a frame takes. If the frame rendering is too long, then by virtue of us talking about displaying a new frame, the frame rate must slow as it waits for the frame to finish rendering. This is a no brainer, so I won't say any more about it.

Now to your reference to the physics calculations being tied to the frame rate and thus everything begins to take on a slow motion effect if the frame rate drops - I would junk that physics engine, because it isn't even close to state of the art today.

The typical physics engine today would note the last time it ran and would compensate how much distance an object travels based upon the longer delta time. EDIT: For example it will run more intervals to bring the physics up to date with the frame (at least that is how I understand Unity does it and I cannot imagine why it would not be done at all).

EDIT: Well I guess I may have been wrong about some of this post here. I cannot imagine why a physics calculation in a game engine would not properly adjust to any delay imposed upon it (if there was a delay imposed).


Good links, Army.

What I was trying to say and did a poor job of is that if there is a delay, the physics engine is called more often to compensate - or at least it should be in order to prevent slow-mo.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/10993/whats-the-difference-between-update-and-fixedupdat.html
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/the-truth-about-fixedupdate.231637/