Unreal Engine Delta Zone [v23.2] [DEVOLUTION]

[lnomsim]

Okay? This game isn't confined to this forum. It's not like the game is tailor-made for horny fucks who only want to see Ivy get bukkake-fucked by fifteen tentacles, five guys, and the Polish economy.

If you remove the NSFW, you're left with a subpar survival FPS with unbalanced AI and gunplay.
The fact the dev also make money on pay walling the NSFW is pretty good clue of where his consumers are.

I mean, Stalker anomaly is free, already has quests, a good bestiary, and a working economy.

And one day, Stalker 2 will be released.

On the other hand, Dzone is hard only because ennemies can shoot and incapacitate you in the dark from 200m away after running an Olympian sprint while you were hiding in a building or a bush in a moonless night, and then, they will make another dash to get to cover. That's not what I call hard. If you give limiatations to the player, give the same limitations to the AI. The player can't run more than 10meters without having their feet hurt? Don't make the AI sprint across the map in less than 30seconds and still shoot like a sniper.

The player can't aim with their weapon for more than 15 seconds? Don't make the AI aim at you for 10minutes and still shoot you like a sniper.

Getting shot makes you dizzy and enemies can jump on you?

Don't make the AI run like speedy gonzales after loosing half their life.

etc, etc...

Without the NSFW, it's an interesting, but very subpar game.

 

[VanillaLover]

If you remove the NSFW, you're left with a subpar survival FPS with unbalanced AI and gunplay.
The fact the dev also make money on pay walling the NSFW is pretty good clue of where his consumers are.

I mean, Stalker anomaly is free, already has quests, a good bestiary, and a working economy.

And one day, Stalker 2 will be released.

On the other hand, Dzone is hard only because ennemies can shoot and incapacitate you in the dark from 200m away after running an Olympian sprint while you were hiding in a building or a bush in a moonless night, and then, they will make another dash to get to cover. That's not what I call hard. If you give limiatations to the player, give the same limitations to the AI. The player can't run more than 10meters without having their feet hurt? Don't make the AI sprint across the map in less than 30seconds and still shoot like a sniper.

The player can't aim with their weapon for more than 15 seconds? Don't make the AI aim at you for 10minutes and still shoot you like a sniper.

Getting shot makes you dizzy and enemies can jump on you?

Don't make the AI run like speedy gonzales after loosing half their life.

etc, etc...

Without the NSFW, it's an interesting, but very subpar game.

That is the point. This game is still in alpha (believe it or not after two years), so don't go expecting the level of polish a game with a sizeable community and more mature development. You'll just be disappointed.

The reason I like this game is that it combines the essence of looter-shooter survival games with porn. That is the market it is targeting. But that doesn't mean that it'll stay that way forever. So if you, or anyone expected this game to be "Tarkov with sex", prepare to be disappointed, at least for the next four years.

 

[lnomsim]

Yeah, totally agree on that, it's still an early access game, and it is bound to change and evolve, but I can only judge the game on what it is, not what it might be.

 

[Hornyy69]

If you remove the NSFW, you're left with a subpar survival FPS with unbalanced AI and gunplay.
The fact the dev also make money on pay walling the NSFW is pretty good clue of where his consumers are.

I mean, Stalker anomaly is free, already has quests, a good bestiary, and a working economy.

And one day, Stalker 2 will be released.

On the other hand, Dzone is hard only because ennemies can shoot and incapacitate you in the dark from 200m away after running an Olympian sprint while you were hiding in a building or a bush in a moonless night, and then, they will make another dash to get to cover. That's not what I call hard. If you give limiatations to the player, give the same limitations to the AI. The player can't run more than 10meters without having their feet hurt? Don't make the AI sprint across the map in less than 30seconds and still shoot like a sniper.

The player can't aim with their weapon for more than 15 seconds? Don't make the AI aim at you for 10minutes and still shoot you like a sniper.

Getting shot makes you dizzy and enemies can jump on you?

Don't make the AI run like speedy gonzales after loosing half their life.

etc, etc...

Without the NSFW, it's an interesting, but very subpar game.

I can agree with that.
It's really unbalanced.

 

[VanillaLover]

Yeah, totally agree on that, it's still an early access game, and it is bound to change and evolve, but I can only judge the game on what it is, not what it might be.

That is the truth. No doubt about it. But the people I have a problem with is the ones who expect it to follow up on so many promises that weren't made, especially not to them.

PS: I wished this site was more civilized. It's crazy how pretty much all the threads fight over nonsensical shit; I'd love to have a separate thread for fighting over shit and the actual game's main thread.

 

[OscarNightmare]

Has anyone seen the promised four-legged beast? Or is he not included in version 20?

 

[malicardy]

Has anyone seen the promised four-legged beast? Or is he not included in version 20?

as far as I'm aware nothing of the sort was added into V20

I'd love to have a separate thread for fighting over shit and the actual game's main thread.

Completely up to the moderators, but I agree. having the thread fill up with bickering is awful

 

[lololtigers]

Has anyone seen the promised four-legged beast? Or is he not included in version 20?

Last I heard about it in the paid NSFW channels on the Dev's discord months ago, he was thinking a v21 release at the earliest. After playing and enjoying the buggy mess of v20.2, I personally am no longer expecting the quadraped monster till v22 at the earliest. Dev has a lot of tweaks and fixes to do with all the stuff he added in v20.

If we get the forest map in v21, that would be cool. I kinda wish there was a compass. I get turned around as fuck in the city map. I wish the "aroused" state was limited to the edges of the screen instead of everything turning pink. He posted some images of a "stealth suit" which looks pretty neat. Otherwise it's gonna be a long boring 3 months. The new medstation isn't what I hoped it'd be, plus the "you need to wait for the eggs or tentacles to grow" is annoying and wasn't there before.

All in all, the game is slowly coming together. I've never made a game before so I don't know what to expect from 3 months of work, but this game is still leagues ahead of other 3D nsfw games. What else is out there? Project Extermination? Yuna: Reborn? Too Much Light? At least this Dev is responsive and honest in his discord replies.

 

[DKOC]

That is the truth. No doubt about it. But the people I have a problem with is the ones who expect it to follow up on so many promises that weren't made, especially not to them.

PS: I wished this site was more civilized. It's crazy how pretty much all the threads fight over nonsensical shit; I'd love to have a separate thread for fighting over shit and the actual game's main thread.

This thread is so uncivilized because die-hard fans keep flagging topics that are on topic, as off-topic, and a mod comes in and deletes it. I had 3 civil feedback posts here for 3 different versions, posted last year, and all got flagged and deleted, so I stopped bothering to post feedback here. Same is likely true for a lot of people. You can't expect things to be civil, when the civil posts get deleted, but the uncivil posts remain. It is what it is.

 

[DKOC]

Yeah, totally agree on that, it's still an early access game, and it is bound to change and evolve, but I can only judge the game on what it is, not what it might be.

You mean technical prototype. Early Access, regardless of what its called on various distributors (itch/gog/steam/epic), is a one-time fee. This is pay per month. So its more like what 3DXChat did in its early years. A monthly paid subscription service.

 

[Astcit]

does msi afterburner also count in fps counter?

No, it hooks the api, and is it's own thread/process.
The problem with the fps counter in-game is the way it was done, it's either really stupid and is literally adding 1 to a integer after every single frame drawn, or it's calling a UI refresh every single frame it counts.
Both ways fuck your performance the higher your fps is, because it has to do it more and faster. And that's why it's probably such a big fps impact as the 5fps said by VanillaLover.

The tesselation problem is a known issue of years with games that don't optimize it for both AMD and Nvidia. Nvidia's drivers apparently receive calls to do it at 64x and handle it on it's own to lower levels based on LoDs or something, I don't remember exactly. While AMD drivers reveice calls to do 64x and literally do the fucking thing at 64x, which is both stupid and extremelly excessive amount of polygons subdivided for shit that barelly needs like 8x, thus why AMD tanks HARD when the game doesn't care to which driver it is spitting shit.

Nowadays AMD drivers handle it a little more smartly, but still, again as VanillaLover noted, it's a big performance hit when the game doesn't fucking care what it is doing with what (which is a problem to be solved on beta phase or later on optimization passes).

 

[Agent_Smith]

You mean technical prototype. Early Access, regardless of what its called on various distributors (itch/gog/steam/epic), is a one-time fee. This is pay per month. So its more like what 3DXChat did in its early years. A monthly paid subscription service.

Wait... This game is a live service subscription -scam- game?! Well, see y'all later. I'm unfollowing this game.

 

[DKOC]

Wait... This game is a live service subscription -scam- game?! Well, see y'all later. I'm unfollowing this game.

Scam, unsure, but its worse than a live service subscription, because at least with those you get monthly updates, even if they are small. Here its 3ish months between updates. You also don't own the game at all. Once your subscription is up, you cannot log in or play at all.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Scam, unsure, but its worse than a live service subscription, because at least with those you get monthly updates, even if they are small. Here its 3ish months between updates. You also don't own the game at all. Once your subscription is up, you cannot log in or play at all.

This dev makes Blizzard, EA, and Ubisoft look nice by comparison.

 

[ThatWeirdGuyWithaWeirdHat]

Wait... This game is a live service subscription -scam- game?! Well, see y'all later. I'm unfollowing this game.

Scam, unsure, but its worse than a live service subscription, because at least with those you get monthly updates, even if they are small. Here its 3ish months between updates. You also don't own the game at all. Once your subscription is up, you cannot log in or play at all.

This dev makes Blizzard, EA, and Ubisoft look nice by comparison.

No the paid Patreon demo is live service. There is no shot the final release has a login feature. There's no full game to own right now, it's just a beta demo.

 

[Agent_Smith]

No the paid Patreon demo is live service. There is no shot the final release has a login feature. There's no full game to own right now, it's just a beta demo.

This may just be a beta demo. Still, charging a monthly subscription? For a demo? Doesn't make sense to me.

 

[ThatWeirdGuyWithaWeirdHat]

This may just be a beta demo. Still, charging a monthly subscription? For a demo? Doesn't make sense to me.

I mean yeah that's already how Patreon works, it's not too absurd to extend that to demo access. If you don't like it, wait for the full release or use the crack like the rest of us.

It's just DRM, nothing new.

 

[Agent_Smith]

I mean yeah that's already how Patreon works, it's not too absurd to extend that to demo access. If you don't like it, wait for the full release or use the crack like the rest of us.

It's just DRM, nothing new.

I was just confused is all with the game requiring a login screen and stuff. DRM can jump right into the sun.

 

[ThatWeirdGuyWithaWeirdHat]

I was just confused is all with the game requiring a login screen and stuff. DRM can jump right into the sun.

Keep in mind we're fundamentally not supposed to be able to play it. While I too wish DRM would go fuck right off, I also do not blame him for implementing it. That being said, I will play it anyway because I'm a dirty pirate .

 

[DustyX]

as far as I'm aware nothing of the sort was added into V20

Completely up to the moderators, but I agree. having the thread fill up with bickering is awful

Post nut clarity would alleviate this issue..... most of the time. XD