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Grid Legends is worth every penny I didn't pay for it :) Hint-I got it free on Prime Day.
Best looking Grid game to date.
Great circuits, including San Francisco which is a blast.
Interesting storyline for a racing game and it isn't even cheesy, which is saying a lot.
Easy to drive with just a keyboard, as per all Grid and most other arcade racers, which is what I am. Those other serious racers are almost impossible with a keyboard.
This is a keeper!
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Count von Schwalbe said:
Oh, he was in the Creamy Crustacean Omelette?
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indeed!

alright another game that beneficed from my GPU upgrade

and it's another beauty (and excellent console port ... i am starting to see a pattern here... )but that one i really had to play it on medium with a 40fps cap (was still beautiful but felt a bit "sluggish" )
3k, uncapped, no FSR, Ultimate Quality setting (custom because noAA which is best AA :laugh: )
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running full tilt in vegetation heavy environment feels so bloody good now and derp forgot to hide the photomode UI :oops:
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ahah one of my first screenshot was really wallpaper material
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found my initial 3k medium setting benchmark run :laugh:
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Dude, that first screenshot you took is iconic for the game. Nice one!


I've been playing more Control with my new GPU - I really had to start a new playthrough. I never, ever use the shatter... not in what must be like 15 playthroughs of the game. I started to towards the end of the last one. It's pretty quick to get through, I play it efficiently and rack up style points. I just find that the levels themselves are fun to complete and the combat, skills, and weapons systems are great. There's an arcadey DLC you can use to get stuff and take on borderline ridiculous challenges, and then in another DLC are these repeatable arcade style endurance runs with dense waves of high-level, tough enemies set in different areas of the game. The combat can get extremely challenging.

There is a point where spamming launch, even with multi-launch is never going to work. One optional post-game boss makes sure of it. You use the skills a ton more. Seize can actually be OP - take a couple of tough baddies and then claim one of those health orbs. He'll come back as his old tanky self, but now he heals your seized captives instead of your foes. Melee is killer, you combo a beefed up melee skill with the levitate + ground slam aoe attack to slap the shit out of these otherwise extremely problematic DLC guys. The shield is a lifesaver when progressed, you can recharge with it up if you max the skill. There are a couple of boss fights where it is easy to get overwhelmed with no energy because there just is so much that you have exhausted every possible option. Once charged, you can shield dash through and finish with the shield blast to disperse before levitating in that same direction - charge energy on your way, position for launch offensive. The grenade launcher also is great from the air - you can keep a lot of things under control with a huge blast radius and damage mod for it, just alternating between that and launch so they never deplete. I lean on the nade to preserve energy for dashing. The spin is sick in the air, too. Just need at least a prime rate of fire, ammo efficiency or recovery-on-hit (the levitate recovery version is the most rewarded,) and then a good grouping mod. It becomes a flying dps monster on crowds. Fly and shoot, dash to dodge.

The shatter ends up being really good with absolute projectile, ammo recovery on hit, and grouping mods. It's more like a short range, high caliber revolver. And because of the high projectile count, each rolling on a 40% chance to return a round when they hit something, it kinda just keeps going and going lol.


I gotta say, it looks fantastic at the highest quality DLSS setting, with every setting maxed, including RT. Save for a handful of wierdly heavy areas where it hits the 80s, it's upper 90s to 120. A bit under 110 on average. Big jump from where I was at with lower quality settings and I gotta say that combat feels great. This card has better frame pacing in this game for sure. I find myself making moves I wouldn't have gone for before. It just feels easier to make sense of all of the chaos. I also set the gamma down where it actually wants and geez, it really looks crazy in some places. The Archives are awesome.
 
robot zombie said:
Dude, that first screenshot you took is iconic for the game. Nice one!
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i took it in reference to
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well, i'll face it and grab it then, i thought :laugh:

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I've been playing more Control with my new GPU - I really had to start a new playthrough. I never, ever use the shatter... not in what must be like 15 playthroughs of the game. I started to towards the end of the last one. It's pretty quick to get through, I play it efficiently and rack up style points. I just find that the levels themselves are fun to complete and the combat, skills, and weapons systems are great. There's an arcadey DLC you can use to get stuff and take on borderline ridiculous challenges, and then in another DLC are these repeatable arcade style endurance runs with dense waves of high-level, tough enemies set in different areas of the game. The combat can get extremely challenging.

There is a point where spamming launch, even with multi-launch is never going to work. One optional post-game boss makes sure of it. You use the skills a ton more. Seize can actually be OP - take a couple of tough baddies and then claim one of those health orbs. He'll come back as his old tanky self, but now he heals your seized captives instead of your foes. Melee is killer, you combo a beefed up melee skill with the levitate + ground slam aoe attack to slap the shit out of these otherwise extremely problematic DLC guys. The shield is a lifesaver when progressed, you can recharge with it up if you max the skill. There are a couple of boss fights where it is easy to get overwhelmed with no energy because there just is so much that you have exhausted every possible option. Once charged, you can shield dash through and finish with the shield blast to disperse before levitating in that same direction - charge energy on your way, position for launch offensive. The grenade launcher also is great from the air - you can keep a lot of things under control with a huge blast radius and damage mod for it, just alternating between that and launch so they never deplete. I lean on the nade to preserve energy for dashing. The spin is sick in the air, too. Just need at least a prime rate of fire, ammo efficiency or recovery-on-hit (the levitate recovery version is the most rewarded,) and then a good grouping mod. It becomes a flying dps monster on crowds. Fly and shoot, dash to dodge.

The shatter ends up being really good with absolute projectile, ammo recovery on hit, and grouping mods. It's more like a short range, high caliber revolver. And because of the high projectile count, each rolling on a 40% chance to return a round when they hit something, it kinda just keeps going and going lol.


I gotta say, it looks fantastic at the highest quality DLSS setting, with every setting maxed, including RT. Save for a handful of wierdly heavy areas where it hits the 80s, it's upper 90s to 120. A bit under 110 on average. Big jump from where I was at with lower quality settings and I gotta say that combat feels great. This card has better frame pacing in this game for sure. I find myself making moves I wouldn't have gone for before. It just feels easier to make sense of all of the chaos. I also set the gamma down where it actually wants and geez, it really looks crazy in some places. The Archives are awesome.
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ah, i should play Control since i got it, although no DLC (it was the free one from EGS )


tho, you cracked me with "I've been playing more Control with my new GPU" ... before i did read further than that, my first thought was " playing control on a new GPU? MSI Afterburner? Sapphire Trixx? EVGA Precision? not Adrenalin... not on a 2060..." read the rest .... "oooooh, that control..."
 
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Dangerous Dave!
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Frick said:
A wee bit more RDR2 but it's an uphill struggle. The controls are just bad. I get what it's trying to do but every single interaction with the world feels fiddly, and slow. Just moving around is weird. And it's such a shame because I really want to like it. I bought some coffee and that in itself almost felt like a mini-game. Had the controls been less cumbersome I would have loved the crap out of it but as it is they actively hinder the game. Maybe a controller would be better...

Yeah no just tried to donate some meat to the camp and holy crap it is absolutely dumb. It's beyond stupid. Every single thing in this game is designed like a mini game.
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Max out the acceleration, set dead zone to 0. That's how I finished the game on my PS4.

Some actions will still feel sluggish because of the way they apply inverse kinetics to player character.
 
ok, freaking Venice now? (Athlon64? wait ... no ... :roll: )
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AH! i noticed a dip under 50fps on pic 4 ... REFUND!!! unacceptable!!!! :laugh: (joke, as long as in combat heavy zone it does not drop, i don't care :D )
 
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How the hell I can wait? :E

This game will unlock in approximately 6 hours
(Stray)

Playing Doom3 BFG :)
 
Lenne said:
How the hell I can wait? :E

This game will unlock in approximately 6 hours
(Stray)

Playing Doom3 BFG :)
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Stray does look pretty cool! Floyd id really looking forward to it!
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Audioave10 said:
WOW...practically the birth of ID Software right there. Nostalgia is strong even though I never played it. I studied the history of ID. :rockout:
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You can play it here.
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yes Venice indeed
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"no i am not crying ... damn that livingroom is bloody dusty, isn't it?"

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Playing Stray. What a CUTE cat!

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With friends: Dying Light & Raft
Just me: Mount & Blade Bannerlord
 
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Hot Wheels expansion is out!
 
Reinstalled Battlefront 2 now that I'm on the new 4k OLED, played through a bit of the campaign maxed out with no hud, my lord this is immersive. Some MP last night was a bit of fun too, but for a 5 year old game it's buggier than I had hoped. Going to install Battlefront 2015 just to play the speederbike mission.



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Not my screenshot, just found one to give the gist as I'm on my work PC.
 
Stray & Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2
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You may guess which ones which :laugh:
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Started Forza Horizon 5, DAMN that's a comfy game when playing with a steering wheel!
 
Lenne said:
Started Forza Horizon 5, DAMN that's a comfy game when playing with a steering wheel!
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What have you done? :(
iu

You betrayed us! :shadedshu:
 
The red spirit said:
I just like supercharged CRX
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I got too drunk so I'll hit the bed

But damn that Porsche is good to drive. I'll continue playing at tomorrow and hell yeah I drive with that 718 GTS. Never felt so good driving in any game with any car.
 
Lenne said:
I got too drunk so I'll hit the bed

But damn that Porsche is good to drive. I'll continue playing at tomorrow and hell yeah I drive with that 718 GTS. Never felt so good driving in any game with any car.
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It's just the magic of MR cars, I think. But in Horizon 5 you can mod the heck outta anything.
 
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