What are you playing?

[ArbitraryAffection]

Okay let me get this out of the way, I'm a Warframe fangirl. And Founder. And I LOVE Warframe, I even have the official T-shirt (no joke they sent me one with the Founder package).

Fortuna is amazing. It's also visually stunning. I think DE has really outdone themselves with the art style and fidelity of the graphics. Here are some screenies.

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I think it looks amazing and I can run it at steady 62 fps cap at 1440p.. and it's free too. Though I've probably spent more money in this game than any other game combined lol..

 

[cucker tarlson]

this is just as good as last light

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[Frick]

I still don't know what Warframe actually is. The name has always conjured up like a tactical tank game, or something like Mechwarrior och Tribes. Is Tribes close?

 

[ArbitraryAffection]

I still don't know what Warframe actually is. The name has always conjured up like a tactical tank game, or something like Mechwarrior och Tribes. Is Tribes close?

It's uh, complicated. Without spoiling any quests or storyline: it's essentially a 3rd person sci-fi action/adventure game where you control a space ninja utilising a variety of guns, melee weapons and even a set of mechanical wings to fly around with. It started off as mostly a 'corridor' TPS with procedurally generated levels called "tilesets" but now it has SO MUCH MORE. With two massive open world areas for you to explore and two cities where you can get bounties, trade, socialise and all kinds of stuff. I have heard comparisons drawn with the Destiny games, FWIW.

The universe/lore is highly original IMO, and its gripping. The quests they have added have feels like you would get from a story game like Metro 2033. It's completely free and honestly done very well; real money stuff is just cosmetics and boosts and stuff but a lot of it you can get without spending a penny. IMHO it feels well balanced between rewarding spending a bit of money and not being a drag to get in gameplay.

Give it a go

 

[Frick]

"Flying space ninja" and "gripping story" sounds like mutually exclusive concepts.

I'm tempted, but I don't have the Interwebz for it (highly metered connection).

 

[ArbitraryAffection]

"Flying space ninja" and "gripping story" sounds like mutually exclusive concepts.

I'm tempted, but I don't have the Interwebz for it (highly metered connection).

Haha yeah they do lol. But it's explained very well in-game.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Loving Shadow Warrior 2 but I think I'm close to the end.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

Finally got all the parts to craft Garuda. Time to hunt for some minerals/rocks/ores along with them hard-to-get materials & get standing points for Solaris United.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Finished Shadow Warrior 2. It's a huge improvement from the first game and I'm looking forward to a third installment.

Playing Windforge now. It's pretty fun. It's like Terraria with a zeppelin.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

More on Destiny 2. Forsaken Expansion pack was on promo deal, so... I bought it & continued playing it. Will post a snapshot later.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Finished 2033, though short, it sucked me in more than any game has been able to recently.

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I went back to rotr straight way after finishing metro, tried chapter replay elite with card modifiers and I gotta say I haven't had this much fun with the game when in story mode.

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[Plipos]

I like pubg

 

[rtwjunkie]

I like pubg

Welcome to TPU!

 

[cucker tarlson]

Finished ROTR,after the first rather long winded part of the game the story really picked up after geothermal valley, I almost binge played it till the end since yesterday. There's lots of exploration to be done for the most part of the game, those who like to play slowly will like it,I did. It's good that for the last few chapters they switch the approach and the game becomes more action oriented.I'm definitely tempted to get sotr now, though I'll probably wait for a price drop. Also,one of my favourites in terms of graphics, though you have to go into manual settings and use with vxao and 2x supersampling to really see how beautiful it looks.

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[Capitan Harlock]

Still playing Monster Hunter World and got back on Fallout 4 now that i got the 2 expansions and Hitman .
Ready to play Hitman 2 XD .

 

[AlejoZ]

Old games are the best! [BF3]

 

[Vayra86]

Loving Shadow Warrior 2 but I think I'm close to the end.

No you're not. There is a new game + and it even has its own farmable currency with a very grindy progression curve, to make your OP weaponry even MOAR OP

BOOM GOES DA BOOMSTICK!

I still don't know what Warframe actually is. The name has always conjured up like a tactical tank game, or something like Mechwarrior och Tribes. Is Tribes close?

The best, most intricate free to play grind on the planet, basically. Very smart business model where you don't really need to spend anything, but kinda do, and you don't really need to farm everything, but you kinda do. It runs on a potato, plays super smooth and its all about progression and freedom of choice. You can build an endless amount of wildly different weapons both ranged and melee, and you can modify your 'Warframes' (combat suits) to excel in specific areas. Its deep and action based at the same time and there is so much content you will literally drown in it. Its far too much to take in really.

Story wise don't expect too much, its clearly an afterthought. Lore is added as they go.

When you ask what is the purpose of this game... I think the true endgame here is looking cool. Fashion-frame is a thing It has a Captura mode these days of which I posted some pics a while back;

And then there is CLEM, of course

 

[RCoon]

Finally got all the parts to craft Garuda. Time to hunt for some minerals/rocks/ores along with them hard-to-get materials & get standing points for Solaris United.View attachment 110260

I'm still farming Revenant Neuroptics. Doing max level bounties is getting tedious. Took an extremely long break from warframe, had every frame and now I'm 2 frames behind. My OCD is killing me.

 

[cucker tarlson]

No you're not. There is a new game + and it even has its own farmable currency with a very grindy progression curve, to make your OP weaponry even MOAR OP

BOOM GOES DA BOOMSTICK!

In SW2 you can start new campaing at whatever progress your character is. Best thing ever, do a shadow fury build around 50% progression and start over.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I started looking through all my games and finally decided to get into one that I've had a copy for a while - Fallout 4.

This has been one of the more irritating games in a while I've had to muck around with the .ini to get it to run correctly - i can't play the game on windowed (borderless or not) when you have 2D Surround setup, the mouse keeps leaving the game screen on me at times. I can't actually set the 1920x1080 resolution in the setup menu as full screen.....Seriously Bethesda, WTF? I have to force fullscreen in the .ini for 1920x1080.

Anyway, unlocking the FPS, everything maxed and I'm pushing 150+ fps in the starting area and dips into the low 70s at times when you get around a lot of buildings in a city. But with the FPS unlocked when you go into menus the FPS rockets to 900+ and everything is super fast, which makes picking locks super hard. The fast pace is even felt when I'm pulling 120+ while running - feels like I pressed the fast forward button on my VCR (VCR.....man I feel old and I haven't even hit 40 yet). Even when NPCs are talking, the faster FPS makes it so the animation doesn't match the audio and sometimes the game will have the character spouting out one sentence and before they finish it, they've started their next line of speech and they overlap. So, I had to lock the FPS back at 60.

The game is okay, but it feels like a poor man's version of Fallout 3. I'll see if the story keeps me playing because right now I'm just not impressed with the first 3 hours I put into the game so far. Everything still feels clunky like the last two Fallout games Bethesda pushed out....and the dog, he's only been with me for 2 hours so far and he's pissing me off. He constantly gets in my way, he doesn't do anything except growl at enemies or stand there and gets his ass kicked.....at least he can play the decoy for me while I can shoot/hit things.

 

[RCoon]

I started looking through all my games and finally decided to get into one that I've had a copy for a while - Fallout 4.

This has been one of the more irritating games in a while I've had to muck around with the .ini to get it to run correctly - i can't play the game on windowed (borderless or not) when you have 2D Surround setup, the mouse keeps leaving the game screen on me at times. I can't actually set the 1920x1080 resolution in the setup menu as full screen.....Seriously Bethesda, WTF? I have to force fullscreen in the .ini for 1920x1080.

Anyway, unlocking the FPS, everything maxed and I'm pushing 150+ fps in the starting area and dips into the low 70s at times when you get around a lot of buildings in a city. But with the FPS unlocked when you go into menus the FPS rockets to 900+ and everything is super fast, which makes picking locks super hard. The fast pace is even felt when I'm pulling 120+ while running - feels like I pressed the fast forward button on my VCR (VCR.....man I feel old and I haven't even hit 40 yet). Even when NPCs are talking, the faster FPS makes it so the animation doesn't match the audio and sometimes the game will have the character spouting out one sentence and before they finish it, they've started their next line of speech and they overlap. So, I had to lock the FPS back at 60.

The game is okay, but it feels like a poor man's version of Fallout 3. I'll see if the story keeps me playing because right now I'm just not impressed with the first 3 hours I put into the game so far. Everything still feels clunky like the last two Fallout games Bethesda pushed out....and the dog, he's only been with me for 2 hours so far and he's pissing me off. He constantly gets in my way, he doesn't do anything except growl at enemies or stand there and gets his ass kicked.....at least he can play the decoy for me while I can shoot/hit things.

I learned how to stop unlocked FPS from being a problem in games developed in Unity in 2 weeks. Bethesda has no excuse (except that their engine is about 15 years old). They (stupidly) tie their physics engine to onscreen FPS.

EDIT: If you play Skyrim with unlocked FPS you can sometimes walk into a house and get killed by a flying basket of apples, since the physics engine can't handle forces being applied to objects that fast, and thus they become Mach 6 projectiles capable of 1-shotting the player.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Heroes 3 is my neighbours fav game, it was built at bad times for gaming industry, but at good times for gamers. One of the best ever made. I still have a gog version of it somewhare on hdd, in case my neighbour crashes his OS

And you should really get a case which supports two optical drives and get an optical drive if for nothing else, then for clean install of windows from original dvd. The second slot might be usefull too, I'm saving up to buy Scythe krocraft extra pack. You can still get cases like that, even with all the modern stuff, like psu shroud and RGB...

Portable plug in blu ray drive eliminated the need for any pc to have a drive years ago and I use it once a year ,usb for os too here.
Still grinding through forza 4, farcry 4 , and somewhat tempted(by RD2) to try and finish the story on gtaV since I balked at 28% 4 times already.

@RCoon you make me wanna try that for chuckles

 

[neatfeatguy]

Portable plug in blu ray drive eliminated the need for any pc to have a drive years ago and I use it once a year ,usb fo os too here.
Still grinding through forza 4, farcry 4 , and somewhat tempted to try and finish the story on gtaV since I balked at 28% 4 times already.

@RCoon you make me wanna try that for chuckles

I have a Blu-ray drive still, great for letting me rip my BR/DVDs for my Plex server. Are the 5.25" bays still needed....I suppose not, but you can get great use out of them, still. I also have a couple of HDD brackets for 5.25" bays, should I feel that I need a place for more HDDs. Actually, I had them for my last tower - I took out the HDD cages that blocked the front fan intake and stuck my two HDDs in the 5.25" bays.

I stopped even trying to play GTAV because the cutscenes don't support 2D Surround. The cut scenes are all squished (or maybe overly stretched....I can't remember). I tried a few suggestions I found online, but none of them worked. The game itself runs well on 5760x1080, but without a fix from Rockstar to allow the cut scenes to play correctly I think the 6-8 hours I put into the MP aspect of the game is all that I've really done with it. I wouldn't have the game if a buddy didn't buy it on a sale for me to play MP with him a few others, but it was short lived for me because PUBG came out and they all jumped to that game.

 

[cucker tarlson]

I never understood what slack and hash games are.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I have a Blu-ray drive still, great for letting me rip my BR/DVDs for my Plex server. Are the 5.25" bays still needed....I suppose not, but you can get great use out of them, still. I also have a couple of HDD brackets for 5.25" bays, should I feel that I need a place for more HDDs. Actually, I had them for my last tower - I took out the HDD cages that blocked the front fan intake and stuck my two HDDs in the 5.25" bays.

I stopped even trying to play GTAV because the cutscenes don't support 2D Surround. The cut scenes are all squished (or maybe overly stretched....I can't remember). I tried a few suggestions I found online, but none of them worked. The game itself runs well on 5760x1080, but without a fix from Rockstar to allow the cut scenes to play correctly I think the 6-8 hours I put into the MP aspect of the game is all that I've really done with it. I wouldn't have the game if a buddy didn't buy it on a sale for me to play MP with him a few others, but it was short lived for me because PUBG came out and they all jumped to that game.

Between the ps4 and pc I've put nearly 300hrs into gtaV multiplayer alone and I am a old guy 40s , i just like driving and flying and shooting.
But the heists were good i had a good band of four so the comedy banter death restarts might have helped, often so close to s perfect finish bsnk heist then id get the grenade launcher out to deal with the cops and quick as a flash ,a rebound of a lampost, or door edge and we're all dead.
I was banned from grenade launchers.