What are you playing?

[Vayra86]

Just finished Outer Worlds on Supernova difficulty on my first playthrough(~25-30-ish hours?). Dunno what all the fuss is about...
The game is good, yet so far it's not a masterpiece, but simply "better than fallout".
Also, I'm not sure whether it's my luck with RNG, or the game is designed like that, but throughout Terra 2 and pretty much the first third of the game, the biggest difficulty was finding drinkable stuff. Constantly going low on thirst meter between traveling and traders/vending machines. The rest was way too easy up until Tartarus, which I entered already at level cap, and enemies were evenly matched w/ me (had lvl.30 weapons/armor, higher damage etc). At the end I wasn't even motivated enough to explore previously visited locations and find more secrets and easter eggs, cause enemy levels are static and by the end you can kill anything (except lvl.30 corporate commanders and a big-ass robot boss) with a single punch.

This is my experience with The Outer Worlds too. Clearly a difference between those who are very casual and narrative focused and those more focused on gameplay like us. Its not a game for us

I had real trouble making it to the end, out of sheer boredom

today's playing is BDO then ///

the Berserk collab even launched yesterday and is on till 4th of december ....
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gathering some info about the event ... i think i regret not having leveled a Warrior (oh well ... RL money spared )
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and neither the Berserker armor for the other 6 male classes (without the Dragon Slayer, it's an heresy to wear that armor ) nor Griffith "white hawk" armor made for females (well Griffith did look quite androgynous in the manga and anime ) interest me (most of my char have full sets already )

but for sure i will get the reward alchemy stone
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the quest is ... starting with a legend of Berserk universe .... (nope ... not Guts) and end with another legend (not really end... you meet him middle questline )


putting a playlist consisting of mostly the band Beast in Black ... on the Mi Box S
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deciding on which char close to awakening quest i will take (need lvl56 and it would be my fourth awakening) i realise i did finish the Shai leveling event when it was launched (and that class didn't had awakening quest done at the time ) and is actually 58, "let's put some cotton candy filled joy delivered with a boomerang, in the grim dark universe of berserk then..." (i confess i wanted to use my lvl 54 Dark Knight or lvl 52 Lahn instead ... but i am lazy ... i take the one with the best AP/DP and health bar (and the only one with more than 1000LT carrying capacity )
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and off to the starting point
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cemetery way, good start, yep that's him ... the Skull Knight

Spoiler: aka:

King Gaiseric

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time to go for it : Nosferatu Zodd
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the second encounter with Zodd is a field boss ... it will take some time till he pop ... (goodness ... timer pop says : between 3 and 6 hrs ... what the heck is that xD 1-2 hrs would be long enough already )
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but I WILL HAVE MY BEHELIT

Oh. Wow, this oozes quality

 

[Cvrk]

It was an wonderful journey.
Best single player of the year. It will get nominated and most likely it will win. Disney put so much pressure on EA and they delivered.

Fallen Order was something many of us were waiting for many years.

 

[silentbogo]

Clearly a difference between those who are very casual and narrative focused and those more focused on gameplay like us.

The idea of gameplay is good, simply bad long-term planning. I love the character development system, weapon mods and gunplay, I love story and level design, but some gamedev decisions make game easily exploitable, or just easy in general. By the time you're done with half of your fist visit to terra2, it turns into a casual playthrough with some annoyances rather than challenges. Never thought that such a short "kinda-open-world" RPG would suffer from these fundamental flaws (sadly, also a spiritual throwback to Fallout and Skyrim).

 

[AlienIsGOD]

Playing apex and bf V lately to give my 5700 a workout, wow isn't very gpu intensive

 

[Splinterdog]

Revisiting Vaas in Far Cry 3, the meanest baddy in the series. Still looks great today and is one of my favourite FPSs of recent times.

And I find the mounted gun is one of the best ways to take out an outpost.

 

[jormungand]

Bought CoD MW on thursday afternoon $49.99 on sale from battlenet, started to crash making my pc restart everytime . 5 times was enough
Really wanted to play the campaign and chill with friends that own consoles.
High expectations, trash result i asked for a refund already.

Its xbox gamepass that good?? i see they have a $1 sub promo now with a bunch of games i wanna play.
can i stop the sub anytime ???

Playing apex and bf V lately to give my 5700 a workout, wow isn't very gpu intensive

is all the way around, but for you no problem since you have a ryzen lol.
BFV makes my cpu cry and crawl from pain after that workout

 

[INSTG8R]

Its xbox gamepass that good?? i see they have a $1 sub promo now with a bunch of games i wanna play.
can i stop the sub anytime ???

It’s definitely a great value compared to others and there’s some great games like Outer Worlds and Metro Exodus to name a few. Of course you can cancel whenever but it’s only $5 a month regular price.

 

[jormungand]

It’s definitely a great value compared to others and there’s some great games like Outer Worlds and Metro Exodus to name a few. Of course you can cancel whenever but it’s only $5 a month regular price.

they have like 4 games i want
Gears of war 5
Hellblade Senuas sacrifice
Metro Exodus
SoTTR

thanks for the help

 

[AlienIsGOD]

Bought CoD MW on thursday afternoon $49.99 on sale from battlenet, started to crash making my pc restart everytime . 5 times was enough
Really wanted to play the campaign and chill with friends that own consoles.
High expectations, trash result i asked for a refund already.

Its xbox gamepass that good?? i see they have a $1 sub promo now with a bunch of games i wanna play.
can i stop the sub anytime ???


is all the way around, but for you no problem since you have a ryzen lol.
BFV makes my cpu cry and crawl from pain after that workout

Yea, big change in fps from 3750k/4x 480 to r7 2700 / Rx 5700

 

[rtwjunkie]

This is my experience with The Outer Worlds too. Clearly a difference between those who are very casual and narrative focused and those more focused on gameplay like us.

For many, the whole point of games is firing up the imagination. For me, a game is about playing the role in a movie, or a good book. I’m one of those that read a book and it plays like a movie in my head. Gameplay is not enough for those of us who have strong imaginations. Good narrative and storytelling that place us there in the game just like the book is what we hope, just like with the book or movie.

As for the Outer Worlds, could it have been better? Sure, any game can be better. I think Obsidian set out to do what they do best: good storytelling with wonderful level design. The rest was average, but generally competent. It all evens out for their titles.

 

[silentbogo]

As for the Outer Worlds, could it have been better? Sure, any game can be better.

Story also falls into that category. Lots of elements are missing, but the world and lore suggests otherwise. Kinda a reverse of other games: instead of having too much filler it has too little of it. Most lore is laid out along quest paths, side quests are in a vicinity of main quests, and all worlds are more or less single-use, like condoms (not including repeat visits to Groundbreaker and 1-minute missions on Pineas lab). Coming back to FO76 fiasco, it just feels like at some point Obsidian decided to stop development and focus on QA and polish before missing that critical release timeline.
It's still a good game, but I sure hope they fix the "filler" with some good DLC.

 

[Calmmo]

I see the Outer Worlds as being the difference between a AA release and AAA. It's just lacking that extra stuffing.
Even smaller things like companion interactions at least per each main story beat, id go in expecting something often to find that no one or just one of them had anything to say about it.
Also what the non visit-able planets, what's up with that. I got baited thinking those were at the very least explorable zones.

 

[Chomiq]

I'm enjoying AC:Od so far, bagged horny granny yesterday. Kinda weird that so far playing as a female I only encountered romance options for other females. It's ancient Greece, I should be able to swing both ways. So much for diversity Ubi!

 

[GreiverBlade]

Oh. Wow, this oozes quality

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not a grammatic issue ... actually you see the "it's" ("it is" if you prefer) pop then the "time" and then "you greet" and then "the" and then "Dragonslayer" just like the lyrics of the song ...

but i get it you never saw the video and judge without knowing let's correct that mistake. (start at 1:27~ )

it's the official lyric video ... and yep it is of good quality that's called a "Kinetic Lyric"


ok for today, before i have to go to work at 1:30pm .... let see ...


oh, i know! a bit of Kotor

well ... max res is hum ... underwhelming but still look gorgeous to my eyes, it never get old (aside the republic... )

 

[Keullo-e]

Played the VR part in Rise of the Tomb Raider and it felt nice, although there's not much to do, still felt like a nice experience.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Played the VR part in Rise of the Tomb Raider and it felt nice, although there's not much to do, still felt like a nice experience.

ohhhh, interes... wait ... VR? the point of a VR game is to identify yourself as the protagonist ... and i sure don't identify myself as Lara (as an attack helicopter maybe ... ) or would want to ...

well, still interesting...

 

[Keullo-e]

ohhhh, interes... wait ... VR? the point of a VR game is to identify yourself as the protagonist ... and i sure don't identify myself as Lara (as an attack helicopter maybe ... ) or would want to ...

well, still interesting...

You just go around the Croft Manor and there's a few puzzles. I have to admit that (at least for me) there was even one jumpscare when lightning striked and it felt hella lot like a real one.

 

[Splinterdog]

they have like 4 games i want
Gears of war 5
Hellblade Senuas sacrifice
Metro Exodus
SoTTR

thanks for the help

Lead me not into temptation.

Has anyone come across the 'Only You' missions in Fary Cry 5, where you have to complete three timed shooting runs, followed by an impossibly difficult mission destroying six beacons?
I can honestly say that I've never been closer to breaking something and 'Only You' is a song I never want to ever hear again. It wouldn't be so bad if you get out of the missions or if parts were saved.
I don't play games to be tortured, so I'll give it a rest for a while.

 

[robot zombie]

Huh, not sure I believe it but I think I fixed all of my texture pop problems with FO4.

Most people say it's just a thing. Sometimes a few textures in the cell just load wayyyyy far back mips, so it looks like you have a 4x4px texture stretched across a wall that's right in front of your face. I really mean it, man. The textures randomly load at worse than half-res, even when the object is so close it's filling the screen. Actually, I'd say this is usually the case with at least one or two. They sort of bounce around. It's hideous... can't unsee the mis-loaded PS2 textures. Especially when it's just one or two big ones next to a bunch of nice, super-fine ones.

It gets worse when you start tacking on loose textures, or even just high-res ones in an archive. Once it decides that an object should render like it's super far away from you, it stays that way. Like... they never pop into full resolution, no matter how close you get. Sometimes if you reload a save 3-4 times it'll pop back in... though a lot of times other textures will get downgraded instead. Other times you can restart the game and all of the same textures aren't being called right. Leaving a cell and coming back to it is the only way to make them re-roll.

Well, apparently it's a memory management problem. It struggles under the weight of all of the textures. ENB has a handy memory management feature that changes how RAM is involved in some way. There's a formula based on your RAM and VRAM that's supposed to tell you how much RAM to allocate. But the number it gives is too high for my machine... turn on the memory hack with it set at that value and nothing much really happens.

Set it down to 8GB, which is supposedly way low for my system, and every single texture loads in correctly! I've been looking and I can't find one blurry texture. That shit has been driving me crazy from day one, man! I will sometimes see a low-res texture when going into a new area, but they always load in now! First time I've ever seen a texture recover from that.

 

[hzy4]

Terminator Resistance

 

[Prima.Vera]

It was an wonderful journey.
Best single player of the year. It will get nominated and most likely it will win. Disney put so much pressure on EA and they delivered.
Fallen Order was something many of us were waiting for many years.

Felt like a Tomb Rider with lightsaber...
Nah, if you want quality rpg/adventure SW games try KOTOR and KOTOR 2. The story and atmosphere is that good, even compared to the current trash. I wish somebody would re-do them with the latest engine...

 

[denixius]

Its still a cesspool, make no mistake...

I totally agree! There are still gameplay and competitive issues; I said issues because of people still trying to get you down in you levelling zone when they reached cap level. Group of people wandering around on both factions in low-level zones and harassing low-level players. Even Nui's Priestess' zones are not saving you. Because when they arrive there, summoning their vehicles or mounts and pushing you out of the zone.

This is just one reason that I will try stop playing the game, but my friends are playing this game for years, still, they are, so I want that too.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Huh, not sure I believe it but I think I fixed all of my texture pop problems with FO4.

Most people say it's just a thing. Sometimes a few textures in the cell just load wayyyyy far back mips, so it looks like you have a 4x4px texture stretched across a wall that's right in front of your face. I really mean it, man. The textures randomly load at worse than half-res, even when the object is so close it's filling the screen. Actually, I'd say this is usually the case with at least one or two. They sort of bounce around. It's hideous... can't unsee the mis-loaded PS2 textures. Especially when it's just one or two big ones next to a bunch of nice, super-fine ones.

It gets worse when you start tacking on loose textures, or even just high-res ones in an archive. Once it decides that an object should render like it's super far away from you, it stays that way. Like... they never pop into full resolution, no matter how close you get. Sometimes if you reload a save 3-4 times it'll pop back in... though a lot of times other textures will get downgraded instead. Other times you can restart the game and all of the same textures aren't being called right. Leaving a cell and coming back to it is the only way to make them re-roll.

Well, apparently it's a memory management problem. It struggles under the weight of all of the textures. ENB has a handy memory management feature that changes how RAM is involved in some way. There's a formula based on your RAM and VRAM that's supposed to tell you how much RAM to allocate. But the number it gives is too high for my machine... turn on the memory hack with it set at that value and nothing much really happens.

Set it down to 8GB, which is supposedly way low for my system, and every single texture loads in correctly! I've been looking and I can't find one blurry texture. That shit has been driving me crazy from day one, man! I will sometimes see a low-res texture when going into a new area, but they always load in now! First time I've ever seen a texture recover from that.

This same method is how I made Skyrim completely stable with max number of mods. All textures got loaded into system RAM before VRAM. The problem was that between texture mods, all other mods and game files, system RAM would become overloaded quickly.

by using an ENB, not as a texture enhancer but simply as a VRAM memory manager, it bypasses system RAM for all textures that you want to use and they go straight to VRAM, leaving the system RAM much less stressed.

 

[jaggerwild]

I just finished Dyinglight, think I heard it posted here. I must say while it was clanky(I assume not made for the Computer at all) and it took me 2 months to find a copy with a legit code. The wait was worth it, I spent way too much time gathering stuff. But I fell in love with it, gonna play it again(after I finish the side missions). Even played some multiplayer on line.

 

[PLAfiller]

Got Titanfall 2 on Black Friday...sooo much fun. Can't wait to complete the campaign. Holds well on my RX580 4GB.