Ani HVX

Mod Crafter | Audiophile | Digital Artist | Cyberpunk Genre & S.T.A.L.K.E.R Enthusiast | Body Art Collector | PC Gamer |

[Ani HVX @animosityhavoc]

@NightdiveStudio How will this handle Fan Missions created over the last 2 decades including large scale ones like The Black Parade?

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@Wario64 YES!!!

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@tyminski_marek Killin' it

[THE GHOST IN THE SHELL Anime Series | July 7, 2026 @thegits_animeEN]

#theghostintheshell
Premieres July 7, 2026[JST]

A new era of cyberpunk action begins.

#thegits

[Ani HVX @animosityhavoc]

@CohhCarnage And this is exactly why I’m holding out for abit longer. Let ‘em cook. Patience is king.

[thomasmahler @thomasmahler]

There’s a pattern we should talk about that has quietly killed a lot of great games over the years.

It usually pans out like so:
1) Developers listen to players and think they do them a favor by giving them exactly what they asked for.
2) Players love it - at first.
3) After that, for some 'mysterious' reason, players lose interest and the game slowly dies and nobody is quite sure why that happened.

The truth is that players will always push for fewer restrictions. They'll always argue for endless farming, easy power creep, never getting locked out of any content, making things more convenient, removing any sort of gates, etc. etc.

And usually, even if you give in to things that will hurt a game in the long run, you get applause, at first.

But you also just removed some of the very things that made the game special.

Magic in games often comes from limitations.
Scarcity, anticipation, effort, friction... all of these things have meaning. And if you remove those out of the equation, you logically remove meaning.

Christmas is magical exactly because it happens once a year. If you had Christmas every day, you wouldn’t make it better - you’d destroy what made it special.

As a parent, I know how excited my boys are when December hits and they start dreaming about how amazing Christmas will be.

They start talking about which awesome presents they'll receive and every day they come up with new things.

The parents challenge is then to intently listen and to understand what your kid really wishes for - and after thoughtful deliberation, you turn THAT into their present.

You don't give them everything they wanted, you give them what they deep down truly wished for. And that's what makes it magical for them, because you actually spent the time and were thoughtful enough to truly understand who they are.

And the same is true for games.

When everything is always available, then:
- Nothing feels special
- Nothing is worth planning for
- Nothing creates stories anymore

You’ve optimized the fun out of the system.

We’ve seen this over and over:

You remove keys, costs, or gates and players gleefully cheer you on.

But suddenly:
- The gameplay loop breaks
- The economy collapses
- The sense of progression disappears

Another example: social friction.

The magic of early World of Warcraft was that it was basically the first social network.

You had to actively talk to people, organize raids, build relationships and in the process a lot of people created life-long friends.

Then players kept asking for features like LFG and developers caved in with the argument that removing friction is good.

But suddenly, your friends didn't need you anymore. You weren't seen as an important part of their group anymore, you became an annoying obstacle that could be side-tracked. And losing your friends is a horrible feeling, as it should be.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Players are very good at optimizing for short-term satisfaction. But they are incredibly bad at protecting long-term fun.

THAT is the developer’s job.

Sometimes you have to stand your ground and say no. Not to frustrate players, but to protect their experience.

Because if you give players everything they want…

You might be taking away the reason they loved your game in the first place.

[Ani HVX @animosityhavoc]

@HDRgameAnalysis Tonemapping looks rough. ACES/2 is a bane on the gaming industry. It almost looks like inverse tonemapping in Crimson Desert. Crushed Shadows and Desaturated Highlights with somewhat clipped.

Atleast Reno already has a great work in progress alternative that alleviates all this.

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@playdefect @NCSOFT uh oh

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@JoshStrifeHayes recently put out his long form review of Cyberpunk 2077 and hits almost every nail on the head. The best review yet. While 2077 delivers in many ways, It has its shortcomings which is most evident in it's RPG aspects. Great job Josh.
https://t.co/wqBtpoMzqf

[Ani HVX @animosityhavoc]

@BarbogDaFinka This is such a @LIRIK game.

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@DawnwalkerGame @PoznanGameArena Dawnwalker is looking so polished now. Hoping the audio quality isn't compressed too much for release because it sounds great in this presentation.

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@OnDeck @Steam Monochrome cameras and LCD Screens on the Steam Frame in the year 2025? Yeah... No thanks. That's a massive disappointment.

LCD Backlight glow in VR is super distracting and what turned me off from it originally.

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@Tectone Agreed.

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@OuterWorlds Player footstep audio is pretty atrocious. 'cmon now. You can do better.

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@ZunaSW Yeah, I eventually just locked the thread until I come back. It blows my mind the entitlement some users think they have. I can't even fathom console, that sounds like pure horror lol.

[X @Xexorian]

Shout out to @animosityhavoc for the banger Weather Expansion mod showcase for Stalker Anomaly & Gamma and a job WELL done on this too!! This looks absolutely amazing! 💯🔥🔥🔥

Even death is beautiful here, Stalker https://t.co/KVozQXKX1j via @YouTube

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@painkillergame_ Stake, failing to stake anything to a wall unlike the original games.

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@IGN @LIRIK