For Web game development, I swear Flash Next on Q2 is better than Gemini Flash 3.8

One thing I love about both Qwen 3.8 27B and Flash Next is the effort it puts in to make a good product. It is the opposite of a lazy model and "good enough" is never what aims to accomplish. It goes the extra mile every time, when if it takes forever. Most of my use is making Web Games adapted to a handheld console I'm making with an MCP to standardize inputs, authoring rules, and requirements. I also use the Blender MCP to assist with model creation. I had Gemini Flash 3.8 and UD_Q2_KD_XL quant of Flash Next in a side by side prompt identical one shot for making backrooms style game that emphasizes exploration and detailed props. Gemini finished it in about 5 minutes, blazing fast and it works. But the output was very low effort and felt underwhelming. No extra effort was put in and it was unfun to play and didn't have any intrigue to it. Also it wiped my weekly limit for AGY-CLI on my cheap $20 plan. Next I tried Flash Next on my Strix Halo, averaged around 250 prefill and 28tps with a 131k context limit. It took 2 full days (1 day was all QA and play testing end to end), and the result is a stark difference. It feels several generations ahead as far as the detailed props and how immersed you can get in the game. It's not perfect, input is inversed, but overall it's a much better product than Gemini put out. This is just one example, but I have ran into this same thing over and over again. Qwen always punches above its weight class just on it's attention to detail alone. If we get a Qwen 35B MoE with engrams, I think we are in for a real treat. If I can get something at 40tps decode at a full 262k context, I think my main use case will be ready to finally go all local. It honestly does feel like opus 4.8 at home. submitted by /u/Forward_Jackfruit813 [link] [comments]

Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-09-15

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