Just adding one more thing, seems like the UK and EU base prices are £590 and 670€.
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Bethesda just added denuvo to Ghostwire https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/10828652/
, exe-size quadrupled
If you own GHOSTWIRE TOKYO, leave a negative review on Steam
Sad thing is even if the game is good console gamers are stuck with 30fps until they patch it. I get the Series S but no way the X shouldn't have a 60fps version. That is just embarrassing even if the game winds up being very good looking and graphically ambitious. They are comparing it to Far Cry and Borderlands so its probably too much to ask for 60fps in an open world game like that. Either way this is a good indication of why they need Pro versions of next gen consoles. Some type of half step with better CPU is needed. I bet Starfield won't be 60fps on consoles either.
Half-Life: Alyx fully playable without VR even on Steam Deck thanks to a mod
There's been a few efforts to get Half-Life: Alyx playable without VR and the latest is HLA-NoVR, out now and it's now possible to play it through, even on Steam Deck too.
www.gamingonlinux.com
Link to the Non-VR script mentioned:
Half-Life Alyx NoVR - Script Update #6 file
The third mod update released to ModDB! The game can now be completed from start to finish! Gravity Gloves, fabricators and more working now as well!
GitHub - gb2dev/HLA-NoVR: NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx
NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx. Contribute to gb2dev/HLA-NoVR development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Hmmm I never actually finished HL Alyx and at some point it just became tedious to get the VR headset out (and now I dont have enough space)...
Available in Early Access
When you search for this game on steam this shows up.
It seems to be at a lower price and includes two games but It just leads to the store page? Anyone know what's up?
Edit: Looks like it's this bundle specifically.
Dominate the Arena vol. 2 on Steam
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Free steam key.
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Ge0force recommends it in his steam review, so not a bad game perhaps.
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind | Steam PC Game
Dive into post-war Birmingham and experience the...
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Ge0force recommends it in his steam review, so not a bad game perhaps.
I guess the Sony spy cell inside Bethesda is working overtime since the ABK acquisition /s
Welp. Looks like I own it already:Free steam key.
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind | Steam PC Game
Dive into post-war Birmingham and experience the...
Ge0force recommends it in his steam review, so not a bad game perhaps.
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I'm getting Diablo 4 for free on Xbox with Microsoft Rewards points, but I will play through the game once and peek in when updates drop. Absolutely no way I do the battle pass grind.
The game will be a giant endless grind no matter how much people try to avoid it.
A playthrough with all the classes = grind grind grind
Battle pass grind
PVP endgame grind
All of that leads to eventual new expansions which will force more and more grinding with level cap increases etc. Blizzard gonna make it a full time job.
Hopefully the BattlePass has some nice premium exclusive loot and other perk like pvp/pve stuff etc. Otherwise it will get very boring.
Diablo and isometric, loot ARPGs in general are pretty much just about the grind.
80hrs is baby hours for the genre.
80hrs is baby hours for the genre.
What is the point of adding Denuvo to a game over a year old?
Some corpo that doesn't understand simple graphics probably said to do so
fucking people over
Does Halo need a future? I don't know. I would be completely ok with them putting the game on the shelf for the next 15-20 years. Infinite is a good stopping point for the foreseeable future. No need to keep milking same stuff over and over again. Let 343 work on a new ip and reboot Halo in the distant future once they have some impressive next gen tech. The franchise has gotten too bland. Let it rest.
All the Bungie stuff was really big in building the Xbox brand and console multiplayer. But the last 10 years or so with 343 its been very mid.
But in the beginning it was nothing quite like it in the console space until Call of Duty took over.
Splitscreen mutliplayer, matchmaking lobbies, chat and paid multiplayer. There was even esports shit back then. Halo pretty much pioneered all that stuff for consoles from 2000-2007.
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While I don't know if it's worth it to upgrade from a 10700 now or not, I guess I can offer my own experience..
Personally I'm upgrading from i7 9700K to Ryzen 7800X3D, with the goal of only upgrading the CPU again by the end of the AM5 generation, and maybe the RAM if needed (while keeping the same motherboard).
The harder problem I've had with this CPU upgrade was choosing a motherboard, between Asus having RAM compatibility issues, Gigabyte having coil whine, and MSI having reportedly slower boot times, I ended going with a MSI one. But the motherboard that best suited my needs wasn't (and still isn't) available here, I ended splurging in a more expensive version...
Also apparently the Ryzen 7th gen CPUs have issues with 4 dimms of high speed RAM? (possibly a memory controller limitation?)
I also considered Intel, but the 13th Core generation power consumption is just too high. Rumors that the next gen next year will be more efficient, but who knows what that'll mean in practice.
Meanwhile, when it comes to GPU, I'm sticking to my 3060 Ti until the next generation of cards at least, while the 8GB of VRAM will make it harder to play AAA releases until then (at least at my current resolution, 1440p), I have tons of games to play that don't need that much VRAM.
Apparently GDDR7 VRAM will support double the GDDR6 capacity, hopefully the next gen of cards will use this.
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There was nothing like it on PC either. What was the closest equivalent with large maps and seamless use of vehicles and what not? The janky as hell Operation Flashpoint or the PVP only Battlefield 1942/Tribes 2? There were experiments before but hardly any with that level of polish and playability. I wouldn't compare something half baked like Hidden & Dangerous to Halo for example even if theoretically it ticks some boxes. The actually renowned PC single player FPS like Half-Life didn't do anything of the sort (nor did Half-Life 2 years later). Even for multiplayer I'd say it took until UT2004 to have that kind of polish and playability with all those types of on foot and in vehicle mini sandboxy situations lacking the bombastic sci fi story. For single player maybe the same year's Far Cry counts, but I'd say it took until Crysis to really get good. And there's not been that many games in that vein either so as a series built on that it was worthwhile (where Crysis faltered). And I'm not even a fan of Halo since I never cared for the gunplay when I tried CE or more recently the MCC, but it's ludicrous to say it didn't do anything outside being an Xbox game, same for GoldenEye and N64. Otherwise we might as well say we had a galaxy spanning space adventure since 1984's Elite, evolved with real life physics in 1993's Frontier: Elite II, so anything that came after that on any platform didn't do much of anything but go smaller scale.
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Looks like there are bonus games in this bundle, unrevealed for the moment. That hasn't happened in a long time
Yeah, it was really at the forefront of fps (matchmaking and modes) on consoles.
Halo 2 and 3 basically held the 360 era together. Both were some of the top selling games of the decade.
These days you wouldn't think they were ever that influential or popular even. Just a complete mismanagement of the brand and money thrown at mediocre products. And I think Halo Infinite's gameplay core is the best it's been in the 343 era, but they can't make a compelling game if their lives depended on it.
Ah we're back to blaming PC for MS' woes again. It started that way when they first announced the PC initiative, then it led to acceptance and even seen as a benefit, now it's bounced back to being a negative again. I mean for all we know the game is going to be shit on PC too. It's an UE game using DX12 and the dev is one with a very bad optimization track record.
There's always an excuse with every MS game failing which by now is an almost routine occurrence. It's don mattrick's fault, it's some MS exec that stopped gaming side from getting funding, it's PC's fault. Maybe it's time to look inward and acknowledge that there is a systemic management issue at Xbox that seems to result in very frequent problems with their games. And no it's not donnie boy's fault he's been gone for like a decade now it's time to stop scapegoating him.
It's mostly for its online play. I played the campaigns for all of them and I can safely say not one of them is any better than mediocre at most.
It's not worth it, overall it's around 25% faster than the 2070 Super without raytracing, and their performance is comparable with raytracing.
Rumors that the mainstream radeon 7000 cards are coming in June/summer, so it may be worth waiting until then, though I don't have big expectations for these cards.
One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post, what made it harder for me to pick a motherboard was that I wanted a PCIe 5.0 slot for the graphics card (since I intend to keep this motherboard for a very long time, but only the extreme versions of the chipsets have PCIe 5.0 slots, that is B650E and X670E), and I also wanted at least 3 nvme slots that don't need to sacrifice PCIe slot bandwidth (with this upgrade I'm going to have 3 nvme SSDs).
The 80 hours to max level statement is mostly a generic statement by someone who most likely isn't playing all the time for diablo 4
My friends who play POE all the time it will take them like 10? 15? hours maybe to get the end game when a new League starts up so thats like high 90s character since hitting max lvl 100 is kind of pointless/ridiculous
I'm more inclined to think that getting max lvl in d4 was measured in time by a producer or someone else that wasn't QA or whatever and they just went OMG its got like 400+ hours of content
"well actually its more like 20, you just...like are horrible at games"
My friends who play POE all the time it will take them like 10? 15? hours maybe to get the end game when a new League starts up so thats like high 90s character since hitting max lvl 100 is kind of pointless/ridiculous
I'm more inclined to think that getting max lvl in d4 was measured in time by a producer or someone else that wasn't QA or whatever and they just went OMG its got like 400+ hours of content
"well actually its more like 20, you just...like are horrible at games"
Yeah, it's difficult to understand any complaints about this particular battle pass being grindy. That is the entire point of the game and this genre. You literally just head in one direction and kill monsters along the way for as long as you feel like playing. People who get into it will spend hundreds or thousands of hours over the life of the game.
There are ways they could conceivably mess up the battle pass system (like Halo Infinite did at launch) but I think it's unlikely. It would require a level of incompetence or malice that I simply can't imagine from Blizzard.
I mean I have 844 hours in grim dawn and that game has no seasons/multiplayer leagues and the "endless" endgame only came out in the third expansion
I don't really consider Crucible endless because well... it ends..
I don't really consider Crucible endless because well... it ends..
Ooo I love me some Advance Wars so this is right up my street.
I basically bought a Deck to play Advance Wars.
Success Corp drunk , they added PC build to launch at the same date as consoles , but only consoles will have English language support 
Really looking forward to this. Coming in August!
About time. Looks like it can hook into shortcuts created by all the different game stores and lets you launch them via a simple UI.
A more integrated version of Playnite on Windows is welcome.
Went to play a little before bed last night, and Last of Us was now showing a low 5% CPU usage. Didn’t seem right, so I tried Spiderman and Aliens Fireteam; both of which were in the 2%-5% range.
I read that there was a previous situation with Windows 11 update 22H2 that was causing low 5% CPU usage during gaming.
I’m going to see if I can rollback to an older Windows 11 build tonight. Fingers crossed that it helps.
I read that there was a previous situation with Windows 11 update 22H2 that was causing low 5% CPU usage during gaming.
I’m going to see if I can rollback to an older Windows 11 build tonight. Fingers crossed that it helps.
So an employee edited together some videos, to pitch the idea and now it's reported like it's something that is surely coming soon.
Clickbaity tweet, at least.
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