Community MetaSteam | April 2021 - So NieR Yet So FAR

[Shantom]

Why do Humble always do their good sales just after I pause my Monthly? No cheap Atelier for me

Nier has those custom steam status'

Lol, these are pretty good.

These update constantly! I'm gonna be obsessed checking them to see what they say

There were on the 360 version of the original game and are indeed very good. Great to see they remembered to include them on Steam.

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I was going to buy the manga bundle last week but wanted to give more to charity and couldn't so waited a couple of days for this to be fixed. Then I remembered the main thing I wanted was already in a previous bundle so thanks Humble for saving me £18 I guess.

 

[Mor]

Nier seems to run perfectly once limited to 60 FPS for me.

It also has a draw distance setting which goes beyond "High", I appreciate that a lot.

Same boat, I stopped playing after Yonah's adventure and after one and a half hour of gameplay I can safely say that aside of the fps messing with game's logic and velocity, the rest is completely running well here.

Sad that it's one of those "you do well, you don't"

 

[Li Kao]

Durante Mor
Which controller are you using, if at all ?

 

[Wok]

Someone on Reddit claims that they made custom tool that can dig through Epic Store developer backend

tl;dr: the next (bug fix?) patch is planned for June 10, and the upcoming DLC (likely for much later) should be:

 

[yuraya]

tl;dr: the next patch is planned for June 10, and the upcoming DLC should be:

Is there any way to confirm that the backend looks like that? Its most likely very fake.

If its real I'm guessing the expansion pass means not all of those things are releasing on June 10th. Probably half at first and the other half later in the year.

 

[Wok]

If its real I'm guessing the expansion pass means not all of those things are releasing on June 10th. Probably half at first and the other half later in the year.

The leak suggests that the next patch is planned for June 10, not that any of the DLC would be ready for that date.

Caveat: I cannot verify this Reddit leak.

 

[Joe Spangle]

lashman

What the hell is happening.

 

[LEANIJA]

What the hell is happening.

that's it ... i'm switching to egs

its like steam is showing us the middle finger.

 

[yuraya]

What the hell is happening.

Looks like a ransomware attack and Gabe is refusing to pay.

 

[Wereverine]

Speaking of Koei ports, how did the port of Nioh 2 turn out?

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

Respawn is developing a new IP.

 

[Wok]

:thinking:

Steam does not sell the base game and the season pass anymore. Only the Ultimate edition is listed! :lul:

:cruel:

:devil:

 

[Valdien]

Eh, looks like someone's already figured out how to potentially fix Nier's physics breaking above 60 fps. Limited to NPCs and the player so far.

 

[toxicitizen]

Man, that KT sale is kinda shit. Tempted to grab some stuff that doesn't go on sale very often but 30$ a piece is kinda pricy for stuff I won't be playing anytime soon...

 

[NarohDethan]

Just embrace anime bros, just like Volvo did. No need to resist.

It is futile.

 

[lashman]

Speaking of Koei ports, how did the port of Nioh 2 turn out?

pretty good (for kecmo )

Just embrace anime bros, just like Volvo did. No need to resist.

It is futile.

 

[Deku]

:thinking:

Steam does not sell the base game and the season pass anymore. Only the Ultimate edition is listed! :lul:

:cruel:

:devil:

505 sure love to screw around

 

[Kal1m3r0]

Eh, looks like someone's already figured out how to potentially fix Nier's physics breaking above 60 fps. Limited to NPCs and the player so FAR.

There, I fix'd

 

[Stone Ocean]

:thinking:

Steam does not sell the base game and the season pass anymore. Only the Ultimate edition is listed! :lul:

:cruel:

:devil:

Did these fucks really create a base Steam edition of Control to sell a bundle? Lmao

Man, that KT sale is kinda shit. Tempted to grab some stuff that doesn't go on sale very often but 30$ a piece is kinda pricy for stuff I won't be playing anytime soon...

99% of KT sales are shit, very hard to get better prices than the current ones lol

 

[texhnolyze]

Kaldaien's at it again. If it's a Japanese port, he'll be excited to fix it.

 

[toxicitizen]

99% of KT sales are shit, very hard to get better prices than the current ones lol

Yeah, I ended up grabbing that Berserk game and Blue Reflection. They're a bit cheaper on Humble with the subscriber discount. Still slightly higher than their historical low but who the fuck knows when/if they'll ever hit that again. I don't expect them to ever go lower, either.

On the bright side, they're one of the few companies where if a game of theirs interests me at all I feel pretty safe getting it day one because their sales are so shit lol.

 

[Tizoc]

505 sure love to screw around

I will settle for a $10 upgrade to Ultimate edition, thank you very much.

I got 4 other games from the bundle that featured it IIRC, so I'm not too ticked off by getting this ver. of the game.
However, seeing as this ver. does not get the ugprades that Ultimate Edition got is utter BS.

 

[Mor]

Durante Mor
Which controller are you using, if at all ?

Xbox one controller (wireless)

 

[madjoki]

Is there any way to confirm that the backend looks like that? Its most likely very fake.

I assume that's some steamdb like tool.

Anyways it's not EGS backend.

 

[Mor]

lashman

Anime took over Steam

 

[LEANIJA]

Just embrace anime bros, just like Volvo did. No need to resist.

It is futile.

never gonna happen. way too repulsive to me

 

[Swenhir]

Help me Meta, you are my only hope.

I finally bit the bullet and bought an overpriced gaming laptop. Leds are illuminating the nights and my wallet has a smoldering hole punched through it. I'm trying to reconcile with the existential dread of what such a purchase means while I don't even have a car and certainly could have gotten one for the price this was charged me, but I do have an even more important question!

How the fuck do I get rid of all the windows 10 bullshit? I believe the longest part of the installation was having to decline all the spying and advertising crap. I really struggle to cope with that OS and fortunately I've gone for the Pro version but I still feel like I have a lot of work ahead of me.

So, uh, those of you really experienced in wrangling that OS and bending it to your will, do you have some advice or go-to tools?

Thanks!

 

[Tizoc]

Help me Meta, you are my only hope.

I finally bit the bullet and bought an overpriced gaming laptop. Leds are illuminating the nights and my wallet has a smoldering hole punched through it. I'm trying to reconcile with the existential dread of what such a purchase means while I don't even have a car and certainly could have gotten one for the price this was charged me, but I do have an even more important question!

How the fuck do I get rid of all the windows 10 bullshit? I believe the longest part of the installation was having to decline all the spying and advertising crap. I really struggle to cope with that OS and fortunately I've gone for the Pro version but I still feel like I have a lot of work ahead of me.

So, uh, those of you really experienced in wrangling that OS and bending it to your will, do you have some advice or go-to tools?

Thanks!

Go to
Control panel>uninstall and one by one get rid of software you dont need
If the lappy has windows defender by default it can ftect which of these software could be malicious which could help

 

[prudis]

I stumbled across this while reading the GOG news section of all places. The spritework looks gorgeous. I won't get it at launch, but I added it to my wishlist.

was kickstarted early last year iirc ... looks really fun for sure

 

[Swenhir]

Go to
Control panel>uninstall and one by one get rid of software you dont need
If the lappy has windows defender by default it can ftect which of these software could be malicious which could help

Thanks, I will certainly do that but I recall that in order to be truly rid of all the crap you need to selectively remove updates, not to mention powershell scripts to nuke Cortana and things of that nature. I just wonder if there are tools that help numbnuts like me who don't want to spend their week-end on that.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Swenhir Have a look for "Shut Up Windows 10", i think it's called. It allows you to choose what Privacy Options & Telemetry is activated.
I don't use it but it's the one that comes to mind. There's probably others too but "Shut Up Windows 10" should give you a good start point.

There's a couple of sites i use to see what Microsoft are putting into their updates but most of them are for enterprise users and not useful for home users like you and I.
"Ask Woody" is a good site for keeping track of updates too but discussion it can get a bit bogged down at times but the articles by Woody or "The Patch Lady" are very good.
Ghacks.net is pretty good at keeping it's eye on various sites which notice issues with Windows updates or if Microsoft are trying something sneaky too.

It's late and i've not had to think about this stuff for years or i'd have better advice, sorry.

 

[Kvik]

Swenhir This PowerShell script may be of use.

Powershell script

I'd recommend blackholing DNS queries to the following hostnames as well.

watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
vsgallery.com
watson.live.com
watson.microsoft.com
telemetry.remoteapp.windowsazure.com
telemetry.microsoft.com
wns.notify.windows.com.akadns.net
v10-win.vortex.data.microsoft.com.akadns.net
us.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
telemetry.urs.microsoft.com
us-v10.events.data.microsoft.com
urs.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com

It's been a while since I've researched MS' telemetry endpoints, so they may have added a few more since then.

 

[Durante]

Durante Mor
Which controller are you using, if at all ?

I was using a Steam controller.
(Like always )

 

[Alextended]

For how cheery and standard fantasy rpg like the game pretends to be early on these blood stains are really creepy stuff, they stand out and stick to your feet :d

I've not noticed issues, though maxed (make sure you go and set the lod to max manually, it doesn't do that with the general high setting just as it doesn't max AF and stuff) it runs between 60 and 90 fps so maybe it doesn't go too far beyond 60 to cause issues? I'm up to the lost shrine's save, so far so good for me.

 

[Cordelia]

 

[Alextended]

Subtle...

 

[Durante]

Did I mention how much I appreciate the LoD setting in Nier? It could go even higher but it's nice to play the game with decent LoD.
(And solid 60 FPS also helps when your only memories are the original version dropping below 30 whenever a lot of stuff is happening)

 

[Routa]

Indeed.

 

[lashman]

Indeed.

[SPOILER]

 

[PC-tan]

For how cheery and standard fantasy rpg like the game pretends to be early on these blood stains are really creepy stuff, they stand out and stick to your feet :d

I've not noticed issues, though maxed (make sure you go and set the lod to max manually, it doesn't do that with the general high setting just as it doesn't max AF and stuff) it runs between 60 and 90 fps so maybe it doesn't go too far beyond 60 to cause issues? I'm up to the lost shrine's save, so far so good for me.

This is actually pretty cool, in the original blood is rather emphasized at times but do to limitations it did look weird, especially when killing shades. I am guess that with this version it will look more like blood.


Also bad news my CE will not arrive until Tuesday so I will not get to play Nier Replicant until then and about my PS4 physical copy that I ordered from Best Buy, it looks like it doesn't include the code. I will wait 1 week to see if Best Buy emails me a code for the stuff and if they don't then I will just end up returning the game.

 

[didamangi]

Speaking of Koei ports, how did the port of Nioh 2 turn out?

Not bad. 5 patches in total as of now so they are supporting it. DLSS support is a nice addition as well.

But no LOD settings is painful though. Because the LOD in this one is pretty bad and actually worse than the PS5 version according to Dictator

 

[Mimosa]

I'm enjoying Nier so far. I thought I was going to be in for a shit show with the way people were howling about the port. But after sprinkling some Kaldaien on it and turning of Steam Input it has been a decent experience. It's better than how Automata was performing on release.

So far some issues I've seen after applying SpecialK:

• No 21:9 support
• Breaks above 60
• Huge performance hit above 1440p (but I'm still stuck with a Titan Xp card) Even so... The game does not look that graphically demanding. The issue was the same on Automata. I wonder if this is using the Platinum Engine and if Global Illumination is taxing the game more than it should.
  • I'm just speculating here and have not idea what's going on

 

[texhnolyze]

Here's the context again.

 

[Cordelia]

Here's the context again.

Wrong flyer

 

[Valdien]

I'm enjoying Nier so far. I thought I was going to be in for a shit show with the way people were howling about the port. But after sprinkling some Kaldaien on it and turning of Steam Input it has been a decent experience. It's better than how Automata was performing on release.

So far some issues I've seen after applying SpecialK:

• No 21:9 support
• Breaks above 60
• Huge performance hit above 1440p (but I'm still stuck with a Titan Xp card) Even so... The game does not look that graphically demanding. The issue was the same on Automata. I wonder if this is using the Platinum Engine and if Global Illumination is taxing the game more than it should.
  • I'm just speculating here and have not idea what's going on

The game is running on Toylogic's own engine. However, it's using the same middleware GI technology as Automata, which is Enlighten:
Silicon Studio's “Enlighten” global illumination adopted by “NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...” from Square Enix

 

[Vantr]

Anime took over Steam

Anime has taken over the points store as well.

 

[Tomasety]

Another historical low on Steam store.


Also, a solid candidate to be featured on a future Humble Choice

 

[Valdien]

Anime has taken over the points store as well.

lashman's reaction to this:

 

[Wok]

Control (Humble edition) has always-online DRM:

Internet Connection Required -- Humble Choice Edition :: Control Ultimate Edition General Discussions

The game did not list that it required a constant Internet Connection. I had gotten the game from Humble Bundle, which at the time I was told was the Ultimate Edition, (Apparently not true which they later changed) but at least I have it to enjoy when the internet craps out. Just 50 mins ago my...

steamcommunity.com

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:lul:

 

[BlueOdin]

Me: I like the first Nier very much but I think I will wait until Replicant √1,5 is a bit cheaper

clicks on random video that shows the speed up and hears the soundtrack again

Me: What if I get Nier Replicant?