Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztoGaming@beehaw.org•How to get good at FPS with a controller, coming from a PC gamer?
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    10 hours ago

    They key for gyro aiming on a console where the screen is attached, is to get the movement to be as one to one as possible, to make it work as if the screen is a portal into the game world that turns in a matching direction as you move the device.

    I had this revelation back with the PS Vita, where Killzone Mercenaries worked this way by default. It was magical for an FPS game to play that well on the tiny vita with its miniature analogue sticks.

    The joystick camera input and gyro also worked in concert, I’m fairly certain the game hybridized the input signals such that if you moved the device to correct your aim, that would override any current input signal from the stick, making it possible to correct overshoot and undershoot in a way that almost felt like the console was reading your mind.

    I’ve not been able to get that with steam input, but you can get close.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•How can I transfer non-steam games between Linux devices.
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    23 hours ago

    No, actually.

    Your game files do not need to be inside a prefix, and I generally do not set things up that way.

    Same as on windows you can have your c drive, but then install games to a different drive. You can mount any file location as an additional drive in wine. There is usually already a “z” drive mounted, which gives the prefix access to the filesystem outside the prefix.

    This means there’s not actually any need to place things inside the prefix, except for save files which need to be in specific locations like appdata or documents.

    So to move things over and run them, you’d just copy the game files anywhere you like. To run a game, instead of a location on the c drive, you’d use the corresponding z drive path to the exe.

    With bottles, this is super easy. Set up a bottle, and copy any save files into the prefix. Easily done with “browse files” from the config page of a bottle, which will open the fake c drive in a file browser.

    With a configured bottle, simply navigate to the game .exe. Right click it, and select run with bottles. Bottles will ask which bottle to run it with, and that’s that. Alternatively, use the “Run executable” button found on the config page of the bottle. For ease of use, add the exe to the bottle as a shortcut.

    Shortcuts can then also be added as start menu items, or even added to steam.

    No need to fiddle with putting all the game files inside the fake c drive.

    Setting things up this way means you have your prefix, with save files and such, separate from the game files. You can easily delete or add games, without touching the save-file-containing prefix, and move games around to wherever you need and still have them work.

    You can re-use the same bottle for many games, and keep the save files for those games in one prefix.

    If a given game needs a bit more massaging to work, bottles makes it very easy set up and manage additional bottles for any such games.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztoGaming@beehaw.org•Thoughts on Space Games, Part 1: Top-5 AAA Games
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    17 days ago

    There has always been ways to make stupid money in the game.

    My favorite has been to cozy up to a local faction so I can get assassination assignments that pay the big bucks, and void opal mining was still super lucrative last I checked.

    Bounty hunting is a bit slow, but taking on a a mercenary contract with a faction to fight for them in conflict zones pays well IIRC.

    The real grind is engineering your ships and weapons, though that was also improved significantly by making it so re-rolling your mods can only make them better, never worse.