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[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago

They wrote those fucking specs with ChatGPT didn't they.

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 31 points 2 days ago

I realised that this is what i hate the most about A.I. I keep thinking: wait, this was written by A.I?! I have a friend, and we don't talk too much anymore, but i keep thinking that he kinda changed. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes not so much. He showed me something he wrote to proof read and look if it's correct. Just looking at it, i knew that he didn't write that. It was weird, over the top and it was a "professional" letter, but it used weird emojis to get the point across. Then i suddenly realised, that he told me that chatgpt helped him with something, and i thought it was a joke. And that made me realise that people casually just use A.I for all kinds of shit, and it's not just something people on the internet do.

[-] Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately yes

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I'm probably not missing much if I ignore this game like every other AAA title for the last few years.

[-] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 145 points 3 days ago

Link complains about adblock.

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago

This is a new kind of Adblock detection that is being deployed on many blogs, some forums, and other websites and it’s the next generation. AdGuard or uBlock won’t save you because the way it works is outside the scope of those plugins.

There’s essentially JS that happens before the page render that checks for resolution with fingerprinting servers. If this does not occur you get the error message about html-load.com or content-loader.com or whatever that looks like malware intercepting the page.

If the page implements the JS poorly (eg the page renders before the checks come back) it’s easily defeated with ublock by just blocking element and selecting the overlay. Though the page usually isn’t fully rendered it’s enough to read the content. Reader mode can often work in this scenario too. But on more competent blogs with actual tech support (like seriouseats.com, fuck you kenji, like you don’t have enough money), it’s implemented more competently and the page won’t render at all prior to the checks coming back.

As a result a solution is to lie. It’s cumbersome but if you run adguard dns (or maybe pihole, if that can also do dns rewrites, not sure), you can rewrite the offending servers checked for fingerprinting you like:

api64.ipify.org
cdn.cookielaw.org
id5-sync.com
cdn.id5-sync.com
dotdash-meredith.solutions.cdn.optable.co
static.cloudflareinsights.com
html-load.com
content-loader.com

To a null route on your network for all subdomains. Somewhere run a docker and rewrite them to resolve to that docker, run nginx on that docker and basically just have it return 204 to all requests you funnel to it.

Now those sites run the JS, there is dns resolution, tls handshake, fetch and response, but no fingerprint or analytics. It’s not perfect, the error still occurs 1:5 tries, but closing tab and retrying almost always has the page render fine without issue.

Just keep in mind that some of these will break other sites (specifically cookielaw.org and lots of shitty shopping sites) especially if you do this lazily and just route to nothing instead of something that can return 204.

Fuck all advertisers, never turn Adblock off, steal all content, defeat any antiadblock measure, destroy the ad industry because they ruined the world

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 days ago

AdGuard or uBlock won’t save you

I'll just do what I always did on websites that think they have a say in the matter: leave and never come back.

[-] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

This is the way.

Almost nothing is worth my time to dance around their adblock blockers and almost anything on the internet can just be found on a different site.

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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Huh, ublock is working great for me on seriouseats. I wonder what the difference is

[-] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

browser? I'm on firefox and no issue so far

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[-] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

maybe it is an issue with the new manifest v3

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That would make sense, yeah

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago

Embedded Tweet: https://xcancel.com/007GameIOI/status/2008599546708787297

Also:

Probably not much of a stretch to expect a Amazon Luna (streaming) version of that game. "Too hardware hungry for you? No problem, just sign up to our game streaming service."

[-] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 73 points 3 days ago

Huh. So if games are just horribly optimized and hardware costs a fortune, it will push more people to cloud/streaming their games. The corporations just keep winning. What a wonderful timeline we live in.

[-] glitches_brew@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

And no doubt an optimized version of the game will exist but only at the enterprise level for streaming providers.

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago
[-] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

If that means more stuff like Stardew Valley then I'm in.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Yep its pretty gross.

Also why they love the ai bubble. They can buy up all the hardware and price us all out.

I foresee in 10 years the majority of homes not having a computer at all or a dumb terminal connected to Amazon. Hell it probably already is that way

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[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

FWIW, Amazon bought the James Bond IP last year (and also owns MGM Studios as of 2022). The relationship between this game and Amazon may be nothing more than that.

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[-] picnic@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago

Thanks.

Out of those specs, what doesnt exist?

As expected, the i5-9500K doesn’t even exist, and despite recommending 12 GB of VRAM (video RAM), the publishers also recommended an RTX 3060 Ti, which strictly came with only 8 GB of VRAM. Not to mention the game also required 8 GB of VRAM at a minimum, but then also required a GTX 1660, which only has 6 GB of VRAM.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago

Something tells me some marketing putz had Gen AI do this for them.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

All that shit for a game that will look and perform worse than The Order 1886 or Ryse son of Rome

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm going to be honest, IOI's focus on massive seamless open areas with tons of detailed, (relatively) intelligent NPCs all running like clockwork is one of the few use cases for massive amounts of RAM that I find acceptable. Improving their systems from Hitman is vastly preferable to making the game look slightly shinier.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

The NPCs are a big part of what makes Hitman so great. A dlc where they create brand new routes for every NPC would be like playing a brand new game

[-] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't take it seriously. 1660 has 6gb while they list 8 as the min and the 3060ti has 8gb and they say recommended needs 12. Probably AI generated crap.

Also, if it's going to be based on the hitman 3 engine, it'll run really well on most hardware.

Hitman 3 Recommended Requirements

  • CPU: Intel CPU Core i7 4790 4 GHz
  • RAM: 16 GB
  • VIDEO CARD: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD GPU Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB
  • DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 8192 MB

An upgraded engine with RT will probably mean at least 3600/3060 for 1080/60.

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[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 16 points 3 days ago

These specs were probably AI generated.

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[-] Laser@feddit.org 90 points 3 days ago

Nobody loses it, people are just mocking companies out of touch with reality.

A game that I can't play releases? Who gives a fuck? I have hundreds of other games to play

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 34 points 3 days ago

Expect more titles to do this in order to push game streaming as a service. They have to do something with so that useless AI infrastructure.

[-] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

Jokes on them, my backlog spans decades!

[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah this. We've had like 50 years of home video games st this point. Even if big budget blockbuster games come out that I can't play without a subscription, I can just keep playing great old games that don't have any bullshit micro transactions or anything.

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[-] realitista@lemmus.org 32 points 3 days ago

Or you can do what I do:

"meh, it will probably work."

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 23 points 3 days ago

Or like I do. Pirate it first.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Or just ignore AAA and play indie. Which reminds me, I should see how Agent 64 is coming along.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A new and novel thing to search tambien! Thanks homie.

Edit: n64 shooter with m&k controls‽ I'm so fucking down!

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

The system requirements are most likely AI slop

[-] boogiebored@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago

Are the specs just AI hallucination?

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 12 points 3 days ago

That seems the most likely.

[-] boogiebored@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I am sure a company that does that will produce a really high quality game!!

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

As a Dane it sucks to see. IO Interactive was one of the first bigger Danish game studios to publish a breakthrough hit with the original Hitman games. Sad to see what they've become.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 days ago

In an effort to future-proof the game, they present-faulted it.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

It’s ok. DLSS will pick up the slack.

/s

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

watch it require being online for singleplayer just like Hitman 3

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 16 points 3 days ago

Put programmers back in control

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

So it's a game which is out of reach for many to play much less enjoy. Good luck on sales! Makes more sense to make games for the most common system type, like old school video game publishers used to do with consoles. This is just sloppy development and bad management rolled together.

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