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[–] tacotroubles@lemmy.world 190 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I was unaware randy coded unreal engine all by himeself. I take back every negative thing i ever said about the fucking Twat

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, fucking what?

What the fuck does that even mean?

Randy is... what... when was the last time this asshat even wrote any code, much an less engine?

20 years?

No, seriously, when actually was the last time he wrote any code?

He founded Gearbox in 99... and by 2005, they liscensed UE 3.... prior to that, they'd been working with UE2... and Source...

I think you have to back prior to Gearbox, to Duke Nukem 3D and Lo Wang, to find somewhere Randy may actually have contributed to game engine code.

In conclusion: Fuck you Randy.

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You'd think since 2005 they'd be experienced enough to know how to work with UE but noooo...

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[–] HatchetHaro@pawb.social 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

unreal engine game developer here: it's your fuckin' responsibility to debug and optimize your game, not unreal engine's.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

You gave them a hammer and their nail has not gone in straight?
Clearly your fault. And the hammer's.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 100 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Randy Bitchford cries about a problem he created, More at 11.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can't believe I've somehow never seen 'Randy Bitchford', but that's his new name now, christ what a fucking diva.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've been calling him that since he got all whiney about the Duke Nukem forever flop, Glad that there are now 2 of us.

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Yeah I'm pretty sure for $70 a functional engine should be the bare minimum.

What a fucking chode.

[–] Bentdreadnot@lemmy.world 71 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

God this guy is so impossible, hes a fucking cartoon character.

[–] Postimo@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Anything ever come of this creep and his "favorite magic tricks" usb drive?

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If your engine is crap then you don't get brownie points because it's custom.

After all, Starfield is on a custom engine, and it had exactly the same problems as Borderlands 4.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 70 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I've read reports that people can't get more than 30fps on low settings on 4000 series cards. I'm definitely not one to expect sweet 120fps on ultra on launch day, but a 4000 card not even getting low settings? They failed. Hard.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Hey guys, you know what we really need for a IP property that is famous for a rather simplistic cel shaded art style?

The most complicated realtime lighting and rendering engine in the world.

... I could smack him with a fucking book, holy shit this is so stupid.

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[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 52 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Gonna keep repeating it until it sticks:

Don't touch Gearbox shit. They showed their true colours when they embezzled Colonial Marines.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

Pitchford's brain dead takes killed any chance that I was going to play Borderlands 4.

[–] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think it should be taken a bit further and just don't buy anything from 2K if you can.

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[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 62 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wasn't going to buy this game at all, but now I really won't buy it.

What an ass.

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[–] xep@discuss.online 45 points 6 days ago

I have. Oddly enough, I don't remember any Gearbox game with a Gearbox engine?

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 4 days ago

He's just mad that he's not as good at making game engines like Id, Valve and even Epic did.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I don't need to personally be an engineer to call out a train wreck when I see one...

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago

I'm not a pilot, but if I see a helicopter upside down in a tree I'm pretty sure someone fucked up.

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[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cheaping out on optimization is one thing, telling customers to basically eat shit if they have a problem with it is… something that‘s not gonna have any major consequences nowadays, I guess lol

What a time we live in

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 6 days ago

I don't need to be a three star Michelin chef to realize that the plate of shit I have just been served is in fact a plate of shit. Similarly, I also don't need to be a game developer to see that the buggy mess of a game gearbox just released is not worth my time.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago

Randy pitchfork is a piece of shit that needs to stfu

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Now watch as some determined lunatic codes a new engine and somehow ports all of BL4 to it.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Take your own advice? What games do they have not on some other developer's engine? Other than their initial expansions for Half-Life, which are basically mods for Half-Life, all the games I know they have done were built on various iterations of Unreal Engine.

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[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Shade aside, I do think more developers should make their own engine. Yes it takes time and resources, but those are spent on exactly what you need instead of on getting what you want out of an engine that was made to do everything but focused on nothing.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

This kind of thinking is what caused all the issues for cyberpunk 2077 release. You need people who can actually use the engine. If you have to train every dev that on boards on your custom engine and all its quirks and customizations youll mever be able to release on time. Its why theyve switched to working with unreal. You can actually get people who are familiar wirh all the systems without spending weeks or months training them.

It also sucks for the devs trying to leave since youve now spent months or years working on systems and code that dont work anywhere else. So whoever hires you will again have to retrain you with their systems.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 5 days ago

I mean I sort of agree, but I've both used custom engines and seen people trying use custom engines and you have this problem where the engine was designed for a game, rather than for any game. So if the original game didn't have a particular feature the engine has no capacity to do that thing, so every time you want to make a new game in that engine, you basically have to rewrite the engine.

It works if you build an engine to be an engine, but as you say that's extremely expensive and time consuming and you probably am not going to get any benefit out of it. You could try selling the engine, but you're unlikely to make much progress unless there is a significant improvement over the other options already available.

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

My friend with a RX 7900 XT can barely run it.

At 1080p.

On Medium.

Shove it up your ass, Gearbox.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Coffee Stain managed to get UE5 to keep window settings between sessions, but what do they know? Certainly not how to not fix an inventory screen bug that's been in 4 games at this point.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, i could. Or you could optimize your assets and figure out how to add performance profiles instead.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 28 points 6 days ago

Randy, you molest your employees with that mouth?!

[–] IpsumLauren@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

this is unreal

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I did

^It^ ^sucked,^ ^but^ ^I^ ^won't^ ^buy^ ^your^ ^game^ ^regardless^

[–] Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Takes me back to 2008 and Rockstar claiming that GTA 4... was designed for hardware that didn't exist yet after that shit show of a shitty port to PC... It would be a further 6yrs before I could play that game at a reliable 19080p, 60fps... then GTA5 came out a year later.

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No wonder you couldn't play it. 19080p, mother of God!

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

19080p in 16:9 is 33,920X19,080 =647,193,600 pixels, 647 megapixels. 8K is 33.2 megapixels. So this dude is playing GTA 4 on a screen that has almost 20 times more pixels than an 8K screen

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Don't you guys have ~~phones~~ 90-series graphics cards?

[–] mohab@piefed.social 17 points 6 days ago

Yo, Randy, eat your own shit! Don't forget to swallow!

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago

Maybe I'm just wildly crazy here, but I think a $70 game from a big studio should run well.

We're not talking some $15 early access title here that lacks optimization because it's like 2 guys making it in their free time.

[–] MoreZombies@piefed.au 9 points 6 days ago

I'm ready for the article announcing Randy takes back his statements. As is the cycle.

Greasy bastard.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I feel like they'd make more money if they targeted lower end machines. My friend has a potato laptop and would enjoy borderlands, so they're out of luck. They're not going to spend any money on a new gaming toy because it's not that big a hobby for them. I imagine there are many such people.

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