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Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com)

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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, while the graphics capabilities of Unreal are about a decade ahead with dynamic occlusion culling, hyperrealistic lighting, a very very large set of libraries of 4k and 8k textures, and volumetrics...

the downside is that Unreal Engine is difficult to optimize and harder to use with low level programming.

I expect things to get much worse as they continue to slop-ify. They already advertised an "AI-assisted" build when they published the comparison.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

IDK about anyone else, but I'm kind of over hyperrealism in games at this point. Facial animations are still uncanny after multiple decades of trying to figure it out, but less realistic styles have looked great that whole time. Hell, I've seen pixel graphics with more expressiveness and emotion than some Unreal engine games. Sure the lighting and set pieces are pretty, but stuff like that doesn't do it for me nearly as much as good animations, good gameplay, and good story.