DU on GFN .. thoughts and observations

[Novean-32184]

 

At first glance it seems cool.. right? Yeah it does.

 

Looking closer though, there is some major exploits and limitations that make this whole GFN  adventure a big potential miss.

 

GFN is a great service, it works really well for games which can work pretty much in what I'd compare to "console mode". And by that I mean games which do not really require a lot of different inputs outside of direct keyboard/mouse ones.

 

• The biggest issue here is probably the lack of copy/paste from desktop. You can't update or add autoconf scripts to seats, you can't paste in Lua on programming boards as you have no access to right click > paste options. This is a massive limitation for the game.
• On the other hand there is the "problem" that GFN will allow players to log in several alts on the same physical computer and easily script actions between them without NQ ever even being able to notice. So-called "PVP" playstyles, involving beacon alts logged of on targets or "mass alts" with huge amounts of heavy materials in the crafting queue become trivial to implement and use for a single person.

 

 

Meanwhile, options many have used before which do not have any of these limitations or problems and offer a full and rich playstyle, literally as if you are playing on your physical computer, have been pretty much discarded. Yes, I am referring to Shadow here. 

One can only assume the money NVIDIA may have offered was sweet enough to possibly sabotage other streaming platforms which actually are much better suited to offer the same solution. Not saying that happened, but seeing DU on GFN literally removed the excuse NQ used as to why suddenly DU stopped working on Shadow and they never even tried to fix it even when from what I've seen, many have offered detailed and specific information as to why DU crashes on that platform.

[Triopalite]

44 minutes ago, Jake Arver said:

 

 

 

• The biggest issue here is probably the lack of copy/paste from desktop. You can't update or add autoconf scripts to seats, you can't paste in Lua on programming boards as you have no access to right click > paste options.

Can't you just 'ctrl + c' then 'ctrl + v'. ?

[Novean-32184]

You can't copy to clipboard on your local system and then paste into the game running on GFN unlike with remote desktop solutions like Shadow.

[Triopalite]

26 minutes ago, Jake Arver said:

You can't copy to clipboard on your local system and then paste into the game running on GFN unlike with remote desktop solutions like Shadow.

Oh, I see.

Not good then.

[JayleBreak]

1 hour ago, Jake Arver said:

You can't copy to clipboard on your local system and then paste into the game running on GFN unlike with remote desktop solutions like Shadow.

Apparently (haven't tried it), you can simulate pasting from your PC clipboard into the GFN window using keyboard automation. Example: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/gfn-general-chat/20/302652/clipboard-forwarding/

[joaocordeiro]

6 hours ago, Jake Arver said:

Looking closer though, there is some major exploits and limitations that make this whole GFN  adventure a big potential miss.

As expected for a 3 day's old implementation of a non AAA game.

[Novean-32184]

Except this has nothing to do with that. It is because DU relies on certain functionality not available in GFN and GFN removes some of the "safeguards" with regards to exploiting alts, both compared to alternatives like .. say Shadow..

 

@JayleBreak

AHK would be a possible workaround, yes