What are you playing?

[Sithaer]

3rd playthrough of Dead Space 2. (The last was maybe 5 years ago. I actually had a better PC, then.)

When I compare the impression this game makes, even after previous playthroughs, to the so-called AAA+ titles from today, I'm borderline-astounded how it easily matches or surpasses them. DS2 is, I think, about ten or eleven years old, but it could still provide quite a few lessons to the developers of some of the boring, repetitive trash that is being pushed out, currently.

Yup Dead Space 1/2 is still a solid horror game, I'm not a big fan of the genre but those I really liked back in the days when they were new even tho they scared the crap out of me.
Maybe I should do a second playthrough sometime or just wait for the remake maybe.

I did play Dead Space 3 with a friend since you can co-op play that but that way it kinda defeated the whole scary vibe/atmosphere imo. 'game was also a bit meh'
Like the scaries thing was when my friend accidentally kicked a soda can with his character while I was upgrading my gear and it scared me.

 

[jormungand]

Played a wee bit too much grindy time consuming games lately so I need a break from such so back to playing some more story based games.
I wanted to play this game for years but never got to it, I have a new bank card and had to activate it so I was like lets buy some older game first.

Picked up Vampyr for 10 bucks:
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I can't even remember when was the last time I played a vampire game so its definitely some fresh air.

I had to stop due to the longggggggg loading times, i dont understand why they didnt fixed that. Really like the game but the wait kills completely the experience for me

 

[freeagent]

Usually at around 645 or so I will make my way down to the dungeon.. and sit on my couch.. open up steam and fire up some Forza

I even use an Xbox controller lol..

But getting a bit bored of it.. as usual..

Still playing Mario Kart on my phone too

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Nightmare reaper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051690/Nightmare_Reaper/

 

[Chomiq]

Squad was on sale last weekend. One of my mates gave it a try as it was also free weekend and he enjoyed it so I gifted him a copy. With one down and one more to go I decided to go for my second mate (we all used to play various games together in a small clan up until 2014 or so). With him I took the quicker route, got him to download free weekend, we immediately hopped into the first scout car we found and started blasting away. 2-3 hours later he already had his copy purchased. Have to train them up in distinguishing friend from a foe but it's going to be fun once we get together and run an APC team with a driver, gunner and commander.

 

[Sithaer]

I had to stop due to the longggggggg loading times, i dont understand why they didnt fixed that. Really like the game but the wait kills completely the experience for me

Thats weird, I'm not experiencing long loading times at all, like my savegame takes ~5 seconds to load with a 12100F/installed on a Kingston A2000 SSD.
Did some quick check on google and this seems to be a problem 'bug' mainly with Ryzen CPUs from what I read.

 

[gffermari]

Red Dead Redemtion 2: finished.
Cyberpunk 2077: finished.
Death Stranding: Trying to finish.

...and Battlefield V when I'm in the mood.

 

[jormungand]

Thats weird, I'm not experiencing long loading times at all, like my savegame takes ~5 seconds to load with a 12100F/installed on a Kingston A2000 SSD.
Did some quick check on google and this seems to be a problem 'bug' mainly with Ryzen CPUs from what I read.

well they should have done something about it, since its well known lol

 

[mechtech]

Grim dawn, had it for awhile, never played it until a few weeks ago. Just bought the dlc even though still not done the regular campaign.

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Giving CP2077 another go.

 

[Sithaer]

well they should have done something about it, since its well known lol

Thats fair enough, I guess I'm lucky I did not play it earlier on my previous first gen '1600x' Zen system huh.
So far I kinda like the game and find it interesting.

 

[purplekaycee]

TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON WILDLANDS DLC:FALLEN GHOSTS

 

[Cvrk]

@weekendgeek giving this my 3rd go....
still can't dodge

 

[lexluthermiester]

Giving CP2077 another go.

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Expansion DLC coming next year!

 

[mechtech]

Anyone here play grim Dawn?? I have a Shaman, still need to pick a 2nd mastery. Any ideas?

Mainly 2H melee tank, with the pet.

 

[Mac the Geek]

Anyone here play grim Dawn?? I have a Shaman, still need to pick a 2nd mastery. Any ideas?

Mainly 2H melee tank, with the pet.

My 2H melee char is a Warder (Shaman + Soldier). No clue if I've built it well, I haven't followed any guides. But it's fun to turn mobs into red goo!

 

[ne6togadno]

lighting shama + arcanist
get a little bit life leech too
Something like this

Druid, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.4) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator

Build Calculator that allows to customize any aspect of Grim Dawn character build including equipment, skills, masteries and devotion

www.grimtools.com

edit: this looks like old upload. iirc i've updated the build. will check it when i get home.

 

[Vayra86]

Anyone here play grim Dawn?? I have a Shaman, still need to pick a 2nd mastery. Any ideas?

Mainly 2H melee tank, with the pet.

Build Compendium X (Forgotten Gods)

Jump to Table of Contents You’re new and looking for the build to follow? Check this instead: ▧ Beginner Build Compendium ▧ Credits Thanks to Mirenheart, Missing String, ibugsy, Cryodacry, Dikkiedik, Chthon, sir spanksalot and veretragna for their work on Build Compendium I, II...

forums.crateentertainment.com

Take your pick

2nd Mastery is anything you want it to be... everything is possible.

 

[LifeOnMars]

Chernobylite just got a ray tracing and tesselation update along with other goodies. Has to be said in certain parts this game is stunning. Just been mooching around pripyat on free play
50,000 people used to live here...

 

[Keullo-e]

I don't like this.. FFX-2 HD (PC) (97% complete)

 

[Frick]

Anyone here play grim Dawn?? I have a Shaman, still need to pick a 2nd mastery. Any ideas?

Mainly 2H melee tank, with the pet.

Soldier has lots of good passive stuff.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I don't like this.. FFX-2 HD (PC) (97% complete)

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Trying for 100%?

 

[Keullo-e]

Trying for 100%?

You bet, never done that before. I beat Chac (got also the 99x chain achievement) but now a damn Mega Tonberry makes me angry. I just need to find a working strategy as the bastard one-shots a character almost the same speed that I can revive the previous KO'd one. Even with haste on.

 

[ne6togadno]

@mechtech
here is latest version of lighting druid

Druid, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.5) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator

Build Calculator that allows to customize any aspect of Grim Dawn character build including equipment, skills, masteries and devotion

www.grimtools.com

i've respeced some of the skills and devotion points and got recipe drop for ultimate relic.
still have to farm ultos set
current base dps is ~87k and i see 200k+ crits on target dummies.

 

[Vayra86]

I don't like this.. FFX-2 HD (PC) (97% complete)

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For all the girly stuff that game has a really nice combat system IMHO. I loved it back in the day, the class/dress up approach. Was it FFX calibre? No, but in some ways it was also better. Combining stuff was at least far more interesting than the generic skills in FFX that were spread across a humongous grid and most characters shared or could get the same skills in some way.

@mechtech I don't know how deep you went into Grim Dawn yet, but the key to a strong build is sticking to a single or a pair of damage types. Including their damage-over-time variants in most cases. Build around that before picking your second class. For example, in the case of Soldier, you would say 'omg I need to go physical' but Shaman/Soldier might also find its melee properly bumped with, say, Bleeding which it shares across both classes. Not the best example because bleed is arguably the weakest or one of the weaker damage types to get, but you get the gist: your second class could relate or focus heavily on the damage type you want to focus on. For Shaman, the ones the tree supports most are Physical, Lightning, Vitality. HOWEVER. The key to maximizing damage output in Grim Dawn is not just stacking that selection of damage types properly - the key is conversion. Sets in Forgotten Gods take that to the next level as they create wild combinations where say an Occultist could pick Shaman and convert literally everything to Chaos damage, and Monster Infrequent items (found everywhere) can boost specific skills to the moon in a radically different damage type. So that is why the second class pick isn't fixed at all based on your first or even your playstyle. That said, in the beginning, without a stash full of crafting mats and nice pieces for levelling, the advice for Soldier is solid, because its an easy self-found combo that can get decent clear speed. If you want really decent clear speed, focus Vitality until you're past level 50 or until you get solid melee stuff, and spam Devouring Swarm, later add Wendigo Totem, or splash Lightning to move towards melee oriented Savagery and Primal Rage or Wind Devil.

Here is an example of those items that turn your skills into godly stuff. I happened to focus specifically on all Elemental damage... well... This single item just straight up triples a skill's potential if you have the right focus in damage types. (Yes, a Word of Pain build is viable... with its Aoe you can literally wipe a whole screen in one fell swoop, single target needs a range of other stuff on top)