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Wait wait wait, portal update?? What's that about?
by Rayhem 4y ago
Wait wait wait, portal update?? What's that about?
- sph 4y agoHoly shit, I guess we were both living under a rock! Looks like there's been a graphical update with raytracing support
- Tepix 4y agoNot yet, it's coming this week however.
- ct0 4y agohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2012840/Portal_with_RTX/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012840/Portal_with_RTX/
- vanderZwan 4y agoIs it weird that I'm more impressed by the graphical update to Dwarf Fortress? It feels like a much bigger deal somehow
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoIt is a significantly harder task making DF accessible than tweaking the shaders on Portal.
- fullstop 4y agoIt's ray tracing, which is a bit more cool than shaders.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoOne might argue that ray tracing is a kind of shader. After all you're tracing a ray for each pixel on screen, in parallel.
- yamtaddle 4y agoIs it weird that I prefer the "before" shots in the video? The updated textures remind me of some much-worse first-person puzzle games I've attempted since Portal. Big turn-off. Wish they could have kept the original look with the updated visuals (whatever those are—I couldn't really tell, mostly just noticed the uglier textures).
- vanderZwan 4y agoHah, for a second I thought you were talking about Dwarf Fortress! I would have understood that too actually, I prefer to play Cogmind[0] in ASCII mode instead of sprite mode too for example. And I get what you mean, it's one thing to add new lighting effects, but they also swapped out textures which changes the feeling a lot more, and not necessarily for the better. [0] https://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/ https://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/
- astrange 4y agoThose textures don't look too bad, but I'm reminded of a game that just came out (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730590/The_Entropy_Centre/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730590/The_Entropy_Centr...) which is basically Portal, with fancy graphics, minus any of the good writing. Instead of the silent protagonist they have a Marvel movie-esque protagonist who keeps doing "well THAT just happened" lines after every joke so none of them actually land.
- AdamH12113 4y agoIt would be nice if they did an update that allowed you to turn off the ARG and modified ending that were used to promote Portal 2. The music from all the extra radios lying around clashes with the atmosphere and ambient soundtrack.