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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 94 points 3 months ago

If only Valve already had a wildly popular hero shooter with loveable characters.

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 58 points 3 months ago

I guess the Overwatch market is wide open ever since Overwatch self destructed

[-] BigWumbo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The PvP experience itself has actually never been in a better spot imo in terms of content delivery and balance cadence

[-] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I thought Valorant took that spot?

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 29 points 3 months ago

That's more of a Counter Strike clone. The "abilities" are more akin to CS utilities like smokes and flashes than they are to Overwatch characters. The rest of the game is pretty much a direct copy of CS.

[-] DragonConsort@pawb.social 48 points 3 months ago

Oh shit, are we getting Team Fortress 3?

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 44 points 3 months ago

No. See it has the forbidden number in the title

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 21 points 3 months ago

It's actually a technical problem - Valve is running 1 bit computers that, due to binary origins, can only represent 2 states. They'd love to release hl3, but that would require coming up with the whole new architecture - at least doubling up to 2 bit cpu. Imagine the headache of adapting all the toolchain to build the game!

[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Valve could trivially circumvent this limitation by using a multi-precision library such as MPFR

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 months ago

See, that's a common mistake - MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding. Valve is, unfortunately, still stuck to integers. Their floating point appears to be functioning correctly as they've managed to avoid kernel panic releasing hl2e{1,2} - you can look at that as floats 2.1 and 2.2.

[-] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de 20 points 3 months ago

what is a hero shooter and what makes it overwatch-style?

I'd think tf2 would be one.

[-] Bigmouse@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

You'd be correct about tf2.

I would define a hero shooter as having Moba style characters in a Counter Strike style environment.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Would Siege be considered a hero shooter?

[-] heavy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

I wonder how my man Gordon is doing...

[-] Dettweiler42@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Still bleeding in a warehouse wondering WTF just happened.

[-] Eol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago
[-] huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Seems derivative.

this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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