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Early Access to DF Direct Weekly #32 is Now Available (Patreon)

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2021-10-09 10:28:53

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2026-06

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You know what's coming... do we really need to say it? Of course we do: your weekend officially begins now! John, Rich and Alex discuss Halo Infinite's big team battles and their views on the preview process as a whole, there's a curious discovery in the new Switch dock (but Rich isn't having any of i) and Valve made a video about what's inside Steam Deck...

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DF Direct Weekly #32: Halo Infinite Big Team Battle, HDMI 2.0 Switch Dock, Steam Deck Internals!

John, Rich and Alex share their thoughts on Halo Infinite's Big Team Battle mode and their overall opinions on the game's flighting process, the internals of the Switch OLED Model's dock are discussed and Valve's video showing the insides of the Steam Deck proves as frustrating as it is illuminating. All of this and more in the new DF Direct! Join the DF Patreon for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to DF Retro, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe Want some DF-branded tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies or pullovers? Check out our store: https://bit.ly/2BqRTt0 00:00:00 Introductions 00:00:31 Halo Infinite Flight test 00:14:08 Switch Dock updated chips? 00:18:28 Steam Deck "teardown" 00:23:27 Facebook/Twitch troubles 00:31:52 Cotton 2 Saturn emulation on Switch has LAAAAAAG 00:36:21 DF Content Discussion: Switch OLED 00:47:51 DF Content Discussion: Far Cry 6 00:56:00 DF Supporter Q1: Why do you think so many games have frame pacing/frame rate cap issues? 01:00:52 DF Supporter Q2: What are the visual similarities and differences between frame pacing issues and an unstable frame rate? 01:03:13 DF Supporter Q3: Could you imagine Digital Foundry as a whole exist in other formats 15 years ago, prior to YouTube's existence and reliability? 01:06:18 DF Supporter Q4: I'm wondering about how all of you feel about "Digital Foundry said it" becoming an increasingly common meme in online discussions about video games? 01:13:08 DF Supporter Q5: Would it be possible, with FPS games or even TPS games to have your weapon, or your character, be rendered in a second pass, so that they do not occlude anything for the SSR? 01:15:50 DF Supporter Q6: Can you use DLSS to upscale the image from 6K (or 4K) to 8K and than use SSAA to downscale it back to 4K (or lower to match the pixel grid)? 01:19:33 DF Supporter Q7: Why are Sony so reluctant to support 1440p resolutions? 01:23:01 DF Supporter Q8: Declaration of independence