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doesn't mean that but ok
Speaking of Sony doomed on Steam, as expected, with the end of the sale, HZD is going again up in positions on the global top seller list, went from 15th to 8th and keeps climbing, interesting
I'm with fantomena here. This acquisition was planned possibly years in advance. I highly doubt they'd be releasing on Steam with such a thing under wraps. Also, if they like money, this is pretty much where they should go. Hell, being Sony they would go the route of having their own platform instead of EGS if exclusivity was on the table. The brand recognition is orders of magnitude stronger.
I don't believe we should be worried.
I don't believe we should be worried.
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Every decision a parent company makes doesn't feed into platform wars.
If there's anything we need to learn about companies, it's that they're incredibly two-faced when it comes to profit margins.
Sony investing in Epic is about profiting from Epic's tools, and probably Fortnite.
If there's anything we need to learn about companies, it's that they're incredibly two-faced when it comes to profit margins.
Sony investing in Epic is about profiting from Epic's tools, and probably Fortnite.
I got a few things from the sale, can't remember what they were, but yeah a few.
I am reading the tweet as Sony is investing money in Epic, not the other way around. Not sure why Epic would need 250 million dollars since they are pretty much spending that money on exclusivities...
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Sweeney needs the money to maintain his Sports cars and rocks collection.
That secret project in development since 2018 is gonna be a new Portal or Team Fortress.
Those are the 2 franchises not mentioned in any of today's info dump.
If its in development since 2018 I can see it getting announced next year and released soon after.
I would heavily lean on it being Team Fortress 3. After seeing how much success Blizzard had with Overwatch in 2016..you just know Valve was motivated to start that project in 2018. A new Portal would also be amazing ofc.
Those are the 2 franchises not mentioned in any of today's info dump.
If its in development since 2018 I can see it getting announced next year and released soon after.
I would heavily lean on it being Team Fortress 3. After seeing how much success Blizzard had with Overwatch in 2016..you just know Valve was motivated to start that project in 2018. A new Portal would also be amazing ofc.
Yuppie Psycho is a really interesting and oddly charming horror game with some neat ideas and a cool creepy style.
That said I hate the save system; I find myself more resource constrained regarding save items than playing even a Resi game, and so it's making me very risk averse in wanting to use items. End result is more frequent than i'd like repeating of some large sections if I die unexpectedly.
Also, as a side point, I saw there were multiple endings for this so looked into them as I didn't want to miss out, and there's some really obscure stuff I'd personally never have figured out.
That said I hate the save system; I find myself more resource constrained regarding save items than playing even a Resi game, and so it's making me very risk averse in wanting to use items. End result is more frequent than i'd like repeating of some large sections if I die unexpectedly.
Also, as a side point, I saw there were multiple endings for this so looked into them as I didn't want to miss out, and there's some really obscure stuff I'd personally never have figured out.
Going to have to find my itch.io receipt to see if it's acceptable, as I want to get it for free (which I can until the 16th of course)
And sine I didn't buy anything in the steam sale.... maybe I can feel justified..
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Will do. I'm busy right now out will get back to you in 6 hours or so from now when I'm off workI have all three, hit me up.
Global top seller update:
HZD from 8th went to 4th
Death Stranding from 17th to 5th
HZD from 8th went to 4th
Death Stranding from 17th to 5th
congratulations Gevin on your new FPS game
I'd wondered what was chewing at the back of my mind all day today and then when i finished work i realised it was the 7 games i had in my Steam Cart. Ha. Not a problem they were impulse purchases anyway but i've kept Titan Chaser and MechaNika in there as they're cheap and look interesting.
My brain immediately switched to Gaben
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that's ancient ... and yes, it might ... i mean - someone made that thing, so they were, at the very least, planning on doing it at some point
Still unknown, we discovered that pic around October last year and we have been theorizing since then if it's a mistake by developers or if it's getting some kind of workshop support, no official answer was given when asked Remedy.I checked SteamDB, probably late, but is Control getting Workshop support?
Half-Life: Alyx - Final Hours was an interesting read. Despite all they've accomplished with hardware and Steam features throughout this past decade, it seems a lot of their game development was hurdled by an incomplete engine -- Source 2. Hopefully we'll see a lot more of that now. Half-Life: Alyx is simply incredible.
Not sure about the international prices, but I saw the DLC season pass was almost as expensive as the game itself and skipped. I like sword art, but not enough to pay more than $100 for it.
Yeah for some reason Steam was only showing the Deluxe edition, which is crazy expensive. I guess I'd get a key from GMG
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Looks great! Is that one of the three fan Gigabyte cards? I've got the 2070 super and it runs like a dream and is surprisingly quiet for having three fans. Speaking of which it's a good thing you packed that case full of fans cause I've got the same one and it needs em
Hello world. PC is now complete
Thank you! Yes it is a three fan card, a 2070 super. And yep, I always use all fan slots for my cases
Just played through the first act of Man of Medan with two friends over Remote Play Together, game is pretty good, and a lot of fun with friends, some good times to be had.
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Nice. I bought a COSMOS 700P tower three months ago and it's been sitting there still in the box.
Hello world. PC is now complete
LMAO.
I imagine what the little description would be if I got profiled. "Anime Figure Lover", "Played Hyperdimension Neptunia" or "Only Has 300 Games on Steam".
I imagine what the little description would be if I got profiled. "Anime Figure Lover", "Played Hyperdimension Neptunia" or "Only Has 300 Games on Steam".
Sword Art's gameplay is fun and the localization is solid, but the game's a buggy technical mess.
No resolutions above 1080p
Crashed completely when I alt-tabbed. Couldn't even alt+f4 it or kill the process through task manager so I had to restart my PC.
Very unoptimized, runs way worse than Fatal Bullet does, despite that game looking about on par with this one. Constantly drops frames in combat making it feel clunky
Camera sucks a lot at following you when you lock on. Much easier to control the camera when it's not locked onto anything
Object collision is wonky, you can just randomly run through objects out in the field
Missing subtitles/character models from cutscenes
Not detecting my g-sync on my monitor, keeps screen-tearing unless I turn back on v-sync
2+ minute loading times on my SSD, which can be fixed by locking the game to 30 fps in the settings and turning off v-sync.
The list goes on. The fact that it dropped a day early makes me hopeful that there might be a day one patch for the game to fix a lot of these issues tomorrow, but it might be getting that refund until it's fixed and/or has a cheaper price. I do want to play it, because I enjoy the combat and story, but Namco really botched this one at the moment. There's a setting in the options called anime downsampling and I have no clue what it does, but I figured I should mention it here because I found it pretty hilarious.
Well, at least there's Fairy Tail dropping at the end of the month. Guess it's time for me to catch up on that anime too.
No resolutions above 1080p
Crashed completely when I alt-tabbed. Couldn't even alt+f4 it or kill the process through task manager so I had to restart my PC.
Very unoptimized, runs way worse than Fatal Bullet does, despite that game looking about on par with this one. Constantly drops frames in combat making it feel clunky
Camera sucks a lot at following you when you lock on. Much easier to control the camera when it's not locked onto anything
Object collision is wonky, you can just randomly run through objects out in the field
Missing subtitles/character models from cutscenes
Not detecting my g-sync on my monitor, keeps screen-tearing unless I turn back on v-sync
2+ minute loading times on my SSD, which can be fixed by locking the game to 30 fps in the settings and turning off v-sync.
The list goes on. The fact that it dropped a day early makes me hopeful that there might be a day one patch for the game to fix a lot of these issues tomorrow, but it might be getting that refund until it's fixed and/or has a cheaper price. I do want to play it, because I enjoy the combat and story, but Namco really botched this one at the moment. There's a setting in the options called anime downsampling and I have no clue what it does, but I figured I should mention it here because I found it pretty hilarious.
Well, at least there's Fairy Tail dropping at the end of the month. Guess it's time for me to catch up on that anime too.
I seriously doubt it's TF3. TF2 development did really drop off in 2018 but I think it's much more likely most of those developers spent most of their time on Alyx. 2 of the most senior people on the TF2 "team", Dave Riller and Eric Smith, are actually veteran Half Life developers. Dave Riller has been working at Valve since the beginning and has worked on all the Half Life games. Eric Smith has been with Valve since 2000 and he's worked Half Life 2 and the Episodes before moving over to TF2. My guess is they likely spent a lot of time helping out with Alyx.
Not to say other people couldn't have worked on a Team Fortress game but I think the TF2 devs working on Alyx is much more likely.
Yup, game is a mess from technical standpoint.
I just played for more than an hour, and as many users reported, the main issue comes from 60fps mode indeed. The game is simply not optimized for other than 30fps on PC. With 30fps mode enabled, the loading screen only takes 15-20 seconds and the game runs pretty stable at 1440p, albeit at 30fps. I'll run another test if my PC can handle it at 4k later. The game is not capped at 1080p at all, and you don't have to turn off v-sync for 30fps mode. V-sync off is needed for 60fps but it's a mess.
Other than technical issues, the game is pretty decent. I guess I'm content with it and will keep playing.
Easiest explanation is usually correct, so someone just used this template and didn't remove workshop tag. (Position is pixel perfect match)Still unknown, we discovered that pic around October last year and we have been theorizing since then if it's a mistake by developers or if it's getting some kind of workshop support, no official answer was given when asked Remedy.
If so, facepalm. All the facepalms in the world.
In other news I'm up in a bad mood, because cat was trying to eat me in my bed for some reason. And I get the stupid idea of checking Uplay.
So turns out that the overpriced Ultimate Edition from my ass of Odyssey doesn't come with the remasters of ACIII and Liberation. I don't give a fuck, but on principles, how shitte can you be UBI ?
And that's without talking about install size !
AC Origins 75go
F76 Game Pass 75go
Death Stranding (?)
And I, thanks heaven, don't really feel like playing PSO2 (100go).
It's not a fan I should buy, it's a fricking ssd.
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Would make a lot of sense hahaEasiest explanation is usually correct, so someone just used this template and didn't remove workshop tag. (Position is pixel perfect match)
AC3 Remaster should be included and part of the Season Pass. Maybe contact support.
Well, as you might have guessed, I'm just ranting and have no desire to replay AC games. I already have enough of them unplayed as it is.
But it's written right under the buy button, at least on the French side, and maybe because it's on sale, which would make that extra shitty.
Can't copy paste, because too much to ask from a launcher, but yeah
At least on Steam, it does include automatically (both Ultimate & Gold).
In Epic store they have some intern manually adding to accounts sometime later. (Same for Far Cry 5 offer of Far Cry 3)
In Epic store they have some intern manually adding to accounts sometime later. (Same for Far Cry 5 offer of Far Cry 3)
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