What are you playing?

[Sithaer]

I loved HoS.

Yup, it was great as expected.
Honestly when I play Witcher 3 I just enjoy everything, such a great game to escape to. 'only a few games I've played so far that makes me feel like this'

 

[metalfiber]

Dang, i finished Control a little to soon before the DLC came out. Now i ain't got nut'n to play...Wait i just had an epiphany...i need to finish The Testament of Sherlock Holmes. The series so far has been really good puzzle games.

 

[Vayra86]

Yeah. Every time you fly over a new city or town it downloads the data which takes a toll on frame time and fps.
The game tells you how much you have downloaded in total and also specifics.
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Above is average, below is stutter and therefor a drop in fps (using Dev tool function in-game).
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Damn they haven't figured out some way to stream that a bit more refined then? Pfew... MS...

 

[moproblems99]

Yup, it was great as expected.
Honestly when I play Witcher 3 I just enjoy everything, such a great game to escape to. 'only a few games I've played so far that makes me feel like this'

Also true. I have found that I like the books almost more. I just started playing it again actually. Really need a new GPU. High presets with no hair works = 50-60fps.

 

[s3thra]

I've been getting into Assassin's Creed Origins lately. I picked it up on the last big Steam sale. I've always been interested in Egypt from the era it is set in, and man, it's so good going into that world when I play it. So engrossing!

Anyone here play the DLC? The Curse of the Pharaohs looks interesting to me.

 

[jormungand]

I've been getting into Assassin's Creed Origins lately. I picked it up on the last big Steam sale. I've always been interested in Egypt from the era it is set in, and man, it's so good going into that world when I play it. So engrossing!

Anyone here play the DLC? The Curse of the Pharaohs looks interesting to me.

i loved the dlc, i loved the entire game to be precise.

What are you playing?

Just got F1 2019 and bought myself the G29. Installed and will give it a bash from tomorrow

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Brandenburg]

"Curse of the Pharaohs "

thats a diamond head song from like 81 too.. lol.. must of been a metal head on the development team..lol

 

[rtwjunkie]

I've been getting into Assassin's Creed Origins lately. I picked it up on the last big Steam sale. I've always been interested in Egypt from the era it is set in, and man, it's so good going into that world when I play it. So engrossing!

Anyone here play the DLC? The Curse of the Pharaohs looks interesting to me.

I enjoyed the other DLC and the main game very much. However Curse of the Pharaohs just went way off into the fantasy world so far that I never finished it. Same thing happens in Atlantis in AC: Odyssey as well, so I never finished that DLC either.

 

[TheRedBug]

"Fall Guy" on @1080p 50-60fps, my system too weak today.

 

[Frick]

So about the store fragmentation. I have Surviving Mars on Epic Games, and bought an expansion on sale from Paradox, which only do Steam keys...

 

[Vayra86]

So about the store fragmentation. I have Surviving Mars on Epic Games, and bought an expansion on sale from Paradox, which only do Steam keys...

Yep thats not very smart. Pro tip. Pirate it with all DLCs and be done with it. I own it on Epic as well and even with all the expansions included I still pirated it. Just more convenient, as the game runs fully offline anyway. Its feature and patch complete as well.

Or... you can jump through customer service hoops to get the same thing tied to a launcher

 

[GreiverBlade]

Glad I waited on that HZD gig. Sounds like Mass Effect Andromeda all over again lol, and watching the screenshot. Confirmed. What's he eating, lemons?

They can definitely use another quality pass on this one.

mhhhh not much issues with lip sync and his face is fine ... i just locked in photo mode when he was doing that expression because i did find it hilarious given the likeness to a RL friend ... watching a screenshot confirm nothing

Despite the lip synching becoming off after a long period, I haven’t found anything wrong with the faces. To be fair, there is actually a huge diversity in both ethnicities, mixed ethnicities and in the different faces themselves. Some are beautiful people, some only have inner beauty, but overall pretty representative of society. I’ve seen people IRL that look like that guy.

I haven’t run into any of the internet-meme Andromeda facial movements either (something I never actually saw in that game, either)

never noticed anything wrong in Andromeda neither do i in HZD ... AND YES! i have a friend who look like him.
hence the screenshot

(well ... memory leak aside)

also

just wait till you activate the quest for the best armor in the game! You’ll set every side quest aside just to follow the main quest far enough to get it!

i remember ...

the moment i got the powercell in All-Mother Temple, i thought... "ohhhh i need to go back to the first ruin, right?"

Spoiler: iirc

the 3 other should be "Maker's End" "Grave-Hoard" and "GAIA Prime"

yet i am not keen on getting that armor or if i decide to get it i will probably not use it ... at last not in the first playthrough ... not much for the look of it. (and i mean how it actually look on Aloy, not how it look in containment )

 

[rtwjunkie]

yet i am not keen on getting that armor or if i decide to get it i will probably not use it ... at last not in the first playthrough ... not much for the look of it.

Spoiler: Spoiler

It really is a fantastic armor against almost all attacks (in limited amounts). But ok, I understand preference.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Spoiler: Spoiler

It really is a fantastic armor against almost all attacks (in limited amounts). But ok, I understand preference.

oh, i know how it works .... which is exactly why i am not keen on using it aside looks ... luckily it's playing "hard to get" (not really ... but still ) and it feel like cheating using that, my friend never used it, he also do not like that kind of armor

Spoiler: well ... we were forced to use one in a game

... about ringy things in space, which explain why we always played in "Legendary"

 

[Splinterdog]

With No Man's Sky, I used Xbox 360 Controller Emulator so that the game would let me use the joystick. I legit don't know why I can't natively use a joystick for that game, at least for the parts where you fly your personal spacecraft. Using a normal gamepad is just really frustrating for me... Though I'm wondering if the joystick itself runs on the DirectInput API, with may be the reason why I can't actually use it if the game can't use that API.

PS: Playing FS with keyboard? You're a legend

A legend in my own lunchtime, as the saying goes...
Anyway, now that I have a joystick how did you get on with this emulator? I only ask because I was a little disappointed that so many games which feature aircraft/helis don't have joystick support - GTAV, Just Cause 3 and 4, to name but a few. I also have No Man's Sky but felt that I would die of old age before I actually made any sense of it first.

 

[rtwjunkie]

and it feel like cheating using that,

Spoiler: Spoiler

It’s very limited. 3 or four hits or attacks and it has to recharge. You have to keep moving. I died with it, because it hides your health if you aren’t paying attention. Stoopid shields. LOL.

 

[Frick]

Yep thats not very smart. Pro tip. Pirate it with all DLCs and be done with it. I own it on Epic as well and even with all the expansions included I still pirated it. Just more convenient, as the game runs fully offline anyway. Its feature and patch complete as well.

Or... you can jump through customer service hoops to get the same thing tied to a launcher

I thought I had it on Steam. Will get a refund.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Spoiler: Spoiler

It’s very limited. 3 or four hits or attacks and it has to recharge. You have to keep moving. I died with it, because it hides your health if you aren’t paying attention. Stoopid shields. LOL.

fair point ..... maybe i will give it a go ...

 

[windwhirl]

Anyway, now that I have a joystick how did you get on with this emulator? I only ask because I was a little disappointed that so many games which feature aircraft/helis don't have joystick support - GTAV, Just Cause 3 and 4, to name but a few. I also have No Man's Sky but felt that I would die of old age before I actually made any sense of it first.

Well, I just dropped X360CE in the same folder as the game main binary, then ran X360CE first and configured it, but with version 4 now you could just install it in a generic folder, say "C:\Program Files\X360CE" for example...

You'd be better served reading the site's help, though, because I only used it for No Man's Sky and once it worked I left it as it was, so I don't remember much

You could also check if they're listed in X360CE compatibility list, although it's nowhere near complete nor updated often tbh, or if someone else reported anything.
Game Compatibility List | Next Generation Emulation (ngemu.com)

Report game compatibility here. | Next Generation Emulation (ngemu.com)

 

[Splinterdog]

Well, I just dropped X360CE in the same folder as the game main binary, then ran X360CE first and configured it, but with version 4 now you could just install it in a generic folder, say "C:\Program Files\X360CE" for example...

You'd be better served reading the site's help, though, because I only used it for No Man's Sky and once it worked I left it as it was, so I don't remember much

You could also check if they're listed in X360CE compatibility list, although it's nowhere near complete nor updated often tbh, or if someone else reported anything.
Game Compatibility List | Next Generation Emulation (ngemu.com)

Report game compatibility here. | Next Generation Emulation (ngemu.com)

I used version 4 and had partial success with the heli on Just Cause 3. I say partial because of my ignorance about buttons on controllers when I thought LB meant left button when in fact it means left bumper.
I'm busy on the bike today, but hope to do some more fiddling about later.
Perhaps we need a new thread on controller emulation?

 

[Sithaer]

Also true. I have found that I like the books almost more. I just started playing it again actually. Really need a new GPU. High presets with no hair works = 50-60fps.

Probably heresy but I'm yet to read the books and will play the games backwards.
Witcher 3 was my first Witcher game cause a friend kept suggesting it to me, already bought Witcher 1+2 on GoG earlier this summer so I will play them at some point.

I'm also playing the game with ~50 fps average with some drops here and there during combat but for a game like this its perfectly fine with me, I don't play with a fps counter all the time and I'm not really noticing it. '2560x1080 res mix of high-ultra with no hairworks and using the HD reworked project textures from Nexus tho that doesn't really affect performance'

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Just shot pagan min in farcry 4

 

[Kursah]

When I do game, which has been far less lately, I'm splitting it between Mindustry and my new 2020 start in Void Destroyer 2 (the new DLC, Ashes is coming out in a couple weeks). Been really enjoying both.

Mindustry works great when I want some problem solving, optimizing, strategy but also keep things chill. It's free unless you get it on Steam, which supports workshop. I'm still running through the vanilla unmodded game, and I gotta hand it to the dev(s), this is a fun little title. I definitely recommend it.

Void Destroyer 2 works great for space combat, RTS combat, strategy layer/4X stuffs, and is more engaging. I still love the fact I can pop in for 10 minutes, get something done, enjoy it and then come back later for an hour and have an equally good time.

I did pick up Satisfactory on a sale, looking to try that here too. I was going to try Empyrion since I've owned it for 4+ years and it just released to 1.0, but I've never really been a survival fan...I'd hoped years ago, a sci-fi themed, more combat-oriented one would do the trick. I think I dislike the resource gathering grind the most maybe? I dunno...I need to install and actually try it again.

 

[moproblems99]

HD reworked project textures from Nexus

Oooo need to check this out.

I did pick up Satisfactory on a sale,

Pretty fun game for a bit.

 

[metalfiber]

Why if ain't Mister Wake...and he's on that damn typewriter again.