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Stevey

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As someone with 6200 hours on GW2....

What the fuck!?

I guess they are bleeding players and need fresh blood.

The holy trinity is back for the raid, with a mage class as tank, tank class as DPS, and ranger class as healer.
lol the recommended specs.


  • Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel i3 2.8 GHz / AMD Phenom II x4 2.8 GHz or better
    • Memory: 24 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 / AMD Radeon HD 5770 / Intel Iris 600 series
    • DirectX: Version 9.0
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 65 GB available space
    [*]
Shit tier PC but a shit load of RAM
 

dfghstrbght

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Got bored of shitty video games.
Went on Twitter on a whim.
Got spoiled the latest DC comics big release by three motherfuckers one after the other.
Putting 'SPOILER' above a huge spoiling picture doesn't work so great, who would have thought.

So the bad news is, it's one of those days. The good news is that the day is almost over anyway, ah ! :tightly-closed-eyes:
Cosplayers and artists would never do this to me, and neither would anime
 

LEANIJA

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Regarding Frogwares & The Sinking City not being on Steam - it might be as simple as this: in their statement, Frogwares says that Bigben/Nacon had the rights to sell/commercialize the game on PS4, Xbox, Steam and EGS. But then Nacon increasingly portrayed The Sinking City as their own game, and maybe they simply refused to give Frogwares control over the Steam page. Frogwares now still had options, to sell it themselves, and on Origin, which wasnt part of the original deal. On Steam, they would've had to make a competing store page, probably not possible/easy, so they had to get the old Nacon-owned store page removed first (probably also not so easy).
This sale thats happening now seems a good sign that theyre working with Valve and that we can probably expect the game on Steam at some point.
Anyway, thats just my reading of the situation.
 

inky

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Man, I loved my first 80-100 hours of GW2 back on release. Then I got to the high level areas and my god, were they unfinished. Rewards sucked, progression past level cap sucked, and the legendary weapons were such a ridiculous grind that I gave up halfway through. Oh, and one of the GAF guild leaders (Ashodin) stole all the mats I sent him for crafting, they mysteriously kicked me from the guild (claimed they were kicking inactive members lol) after I brought it up, and I just quit.

Loved the jumping puzzles and WvW tho. PvP was OK, but pretty boring. Guardian was the best class.
 

Nabs

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- I tried Battletoads on Game Pass.
Didn't detect my DS4.

- I used Glosc.
It still didn't detect it at first but after that t'was cool.

- Then the controls in the pause menu were for keyboard, and I had to push the LMB to validate the tutorials that said to hit Enter (while I'm using a pad, may I remind you).

- Then I died at the second boss form and respawned in an empty room with no way to advance.

There is definitely a lot to unpack here :thinking-blob:
That sounds like Battletoads isn't seeing the X360 controller GloSC/Steam should be faking.
 
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Mor

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Regarding Frogwares & The Sinking City not being on Steam - it might be as simple as this: in their statement, Frogwares says that Bigben/Nacon had the rights to sell/commercialize the game on PS4, Xbox, Steam and EGS. But then Nacon increasingly portrayed The Sinking City as their own game, and maybe they simply refused to give Frogwares control over the Steam page. Frogwares now still had options, to sell it themselves, and on Origin, which wasnt part of the original deal. On Steam, they would've had to make a competing store page, probably not possible/easy, so they had to get the old Nacon-owned store page removed first (probably also not so easy).
This sale thats happening now seems a good sign that theyre working with Valve and that we can probably expect the game on Steam at some point.
Anyway, thats just my reading of the situation.
Make no mistake, Sinking City WILL BE RELEASED on Steam but I'm sure it's taking longer than expected and now we all understand why, it's a very difficult situation.

However, their intention is to make the game available everywhere they can. :cat-heart-blob:
 

ISee

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Has HZD been significantly fixed yet ?


Isn't DLSS supposed to give better performances ? Why are fps lower on high than on low ?
I swear, mentions do not appear half of the time in my notifications.
Question was also already answered, but I'd like to add a couple things.

1440p output resolution with DLSS high means that the game is being internally rendered at 1706x960, DLSS medium = 1484x835, DLSS low = 1280x720
Internal render resolution changes with output resolution by the way.
Running the game at 4k output would mean that DLSS high runs at 2560x1440 and DLSS low at 1920x1080 for example.

You are certainly wondering about DLSS low rendering at 720p for 1440p output. Sounds very low, after all.

Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3

One is native 1440p, one DLSS high, one DLSS low

1=DLSS High
2=DLSS low
3= native without DLSS

While certainly not perfect (and I think DLSS in Death Stranding is doing a better job!) even DLSS low is giving an acceptable IQ. Certainly way above normal 720p to 1440p upscaling
 
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EdwardTivrusky

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Boundary Break is covering Fall Guys and MediaTronic are joining in. Just about to settle down and watch and thought some here would like to watch too. Spoilers? Dunno.

 
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Shahem

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As a personal guess....
[UWSL]:doubtblob:[/UWSL] [UWSL]:doubtblob:[/UWSL] [UWSL]:doubtblob:[/UWSL]
I take that as a no. I wonder what's blocking Sony from announcing it. Unless they have a September PS5 event where a remaster could be announced for PS5 then later confirmed for PC.
 

Amzin

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Chronicon is a great aRPG, but the balancing is completely broken at the moment. I'm playing with a brand new character on Epic difficulty, and I'm breezing through the game without dying or even having to use a health potion. The developer says the story is meant to be easy and that the real challenge can be found in the end game content. I really don't understand this. Why do I have to complete a 40 hour story first before getting any challenge in a game? Diablo 3 had the same problem, which is the reason why I quit playing after Act 2.
Bit late to reply, but Diablo 3 has pretty significantly overhauled how they handle that now. You can pretty freely adjust the difficulty (up to a point) and once you complete the campaign once (which can be done easily in under an hour if you don't care about lore, which actually if you DO care you should still skip all the Diablo 3 lore) you have access to adventure mode on your account forever for any character, which is the best mode in any ARPG and the main reason I can't get into Grim Dawn.
 

Wok

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I have not tried DDU yet. In the meantime, my belief is that my GPU will have to be replaced. Since my PC specs are old, I think I will simply settle with a cheap one, which will be bottle-necked by the rest of the PC anyway.

GTX 1050 Ti 4G is the 2nd most popular GPU on Steam:



Frame-rate should be much better than what I had.


And it is the 8th most sold GPU on Amazon, with the Amazon's Choice seal. Price is ~ 140 €, due to some 30 € discount there, which must boost the sales.



As usual when it comes to hardware, I expect everyone to tell me that I make a huge mistake. Maybe I should wait for Ampere in a week so that prices crash.

:kappa:
 
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Mor

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I take that as a no. I wonder what's blocking Sony from announcing it. Unless they have a September PS5 event where a remaster could be announced for PS5 then later confirmed for PC.
Take it as I'm feeling very grumpy later and I'm pretty much here to crush any dream and expectation :evilblob:

CHAOS IS HERE!

now seriously, I don't know but it is true that I feel very pessimistic this month, summer sucks.
 

manchego obfuscator

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Got bored of shitty video games.
Went on Twitter on a whim.
Got spoiled the latest DC comics big release by three motherfuckers one after the other.
Putting 'SPOILER' above a huge spoiling picture doesn't work so great, who would have thought.

So the bad news is, it's one of those days. The good news is that the day is almost over anyway, ah ! :tightly-closed-eyes:
Three Jokers isn't even worth spoiling anyway though :smirking-face:
 

EdwardTivrusky

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Ahhh, memories of that christmas when i got a ZX Spectrum programming book, heh, my face was a treat apparently until my parents gave me the 48k Speccy to go with it. Days and days of dicking about programming and playing the bundles "games". Brings a tear to the eye it does.

Later getting the Usbourne book on Machine Code for the Spectrum. Happy days.
 
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As usual when it comes to hardware, I expect everyone to tell me that I make a huge mistake. Maybe I should wait for Ampere in a week so that prices crash.
If it's like any old presentation they're unlikely to present mid and low range cards so I'm not sure if it would afect other prices.

From that pic though the RX 580 or the 570 SHOULD be considerably better (and in a similar price range if you're willing to go with AMD).
 
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EdwardTivrusky

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Do want. That'd look gorgeous in my Lian-Li Dynamic. It's Intel tho and I'm an AMD boi at the moment. :negative-blob:
 

yuraya

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Been playing Undermine on Gamepass for the past week or so. Got to the ending in about 20hrs but I still didn't beat it from what I gathered. Missing a few stones and some other new path thing opened. Kind of confusing but still what an incredible gem of a game. Might just be my favorite Gamepass game I played so far. It does slow down a bit with gold grinding but still I loved it. I strongly recommend it to roguelike fans and I see it did pretty well on Steam too with 93% positive.

Such a great appetizer leading into Spelunky 2 next month :) Or hopefully its next month and the wait isn't too long after the PS4 version. Can't wait for that.
 
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texhnolyze

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New World NDA dropped today and there are tons of previews out.

It looks pretty and runs well, combat is good, Coohh seems to like it.


You have an unspecified network speed too, eh?
Well, more or less so, since my speed would randomly jump too at times lol.
 
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Durante

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Online classes are hard to do well. We learned a few weeks ago that we have to do all of our teaching online for the upcoming semester and it really requires a lot of extra effort.

It's hard enough at the university level, I have no idea how teachers are supposed to meaningfully teach younger kids in such a setting for a prolonged period of time.
 

Swenhir

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I have this weirdest issue with GW2 where I absolutely hate how low the cloud layer is. It feels like the world is a miniature and it pulls me right out of the game.
 

Li Kao

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We don't have a 'Retro PC games' thread, do we ?
Why ? :so-good-blob:

A thread presenting the content providers like GOG, talking about how to run these games, maybe how to put a new coat of paint on them. And posters talking about random forgotten shit that should not be forgotten and lots of screenshot porn, that Imgur would even display sometimes.
That would be cool.

And no, I can't do it, I never run old games, just collect GOG freebies, barely know my basic Resolution 101 and embellishing old games is hieroglyph to me.

But I insist, we should have that :coffee-blob:
 

LEANIJA

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We don't have a 'Retro PC games' thread, do we ?
Why ? :so-good-blob:

A thread presenting the content providers like GOG, talking about how to run these games, maybe how to put a new coat of paint on them. And posters talking about random forgotten shit that should not be forgotten and lots of screenshot porn, that Imgur would even display sometimes.
That would be cool.

And no, I can't do it, I never run old games, just collect GOG freebies, barely know my basic Resolution 101 and embellishing old games is hieroglyph to me.

But I insist, we should have that :coffee-blob:
I mean, we have this thread: |OT| - GOG - Old Games, New Games, Good Games!
 

Li Kao

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I'm in the end of summer typical conundrum. Summer is hot and boring, I start a MMO, generally FF14. Then summer ends, we are back in business and I can't mix MMO and traditional games. But after dropping FF14 3-4 times and having an ungodly amounts of hours in it, dropping it again would break me.
And with Control releasing tomorrow, I kinda want to play Max Payne 2 for the first time and replay Alan Wake.
And everything is moot anyway because I don't even really want to game.

First world problem ! :tightly-closed-eyes:

Me in every shooter:
Me, I'm the compulsively reloading every few seconds type.
 

fantomena

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Tried The Touryst on game pass and Im not really liking it so far (about 20 min in).

Game is rather boring, not a big fan of the graphic style and the objectives feels like some sort of MMO fetch quests.
 
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Mor

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Well, this is weird, remember Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World remake announcement? if you do, then you remember it being announced just for Switch and PS4, however, today Famitsu wrote about it and, while the tweet doesn't mention it, the article mentions Steam.

Looks like the game will be present at Gamescom so, might be a mistake or an early announcement, we will have to wait and see.


 

Mor

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