Community MetaSteam | July 2020 - Blood on the Horizon

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Ascheroth

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1440p with some AA @ 27' is more than enough, no need to go 4K on PC.
Yep, that's also where I'm at. 1440p is a nice middleground between IQ and FPS.
(Though I was also in the "I will be fine with 1080p for ages" camp until I got a 1440p monitor, lol).
 

Madventure

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Be like Rockstar and make the Source code for your game such spaghetti that even if you had the original it wouldnt matter anyways if someone found it they wouldnt be able to do shit with it (But they lost the spaghetti anyways, RIP RDR on PC)
 

C-Dub

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I still game on 1080p. I have a 1080p TV and I sometimes stream to my 1080p ultrawide.

I've considered 4K a few times, but honestly, it's just expensive. Any good 4K TV is super pricey, as you want something that has all the bells and whistles (like VRR/G-Sync), and you also need a beefier computer to use it (though DLSS is definitely ofsetting some of the raw power required for 4K) and when you think about it, it's just costs cascading to further costs. I get decent quality on my 1080p TV, and I worked out if I wanted to upgrade to 4K I'd be looking at spending about £3500 on the TV and hardware alone. And then there's the fact I'd need to upgrade to the more expensive Netflix subscription, buy bigger hard drives for the 4K versions of the shows I watch on Plex, and so on.

I really wish TV manufacturers would make good 1080p or 1440p TV sets at 30-40 inches with HDR and high framerate options. Alas, the industry (both from a marketing and manufacturing perspective) has coalesced around 4K, so that's what we get.
 
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Shahem

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1440p with some AA @ 27' is more than enough, no need to go 4K on PC.
I can only agree. 1440p on 27" has a very good pixel density.
Not hurting for 4K that said the option is nice to have, that's why I like when games feature scaling options that go above 100%.
 

NarohDethan

There was a fish in the percolator!
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The last posts is why always encourage people to try PC gaming. Not much money? You can still buy a PC that outmatches PS4 easily (mine did in 2015 with less than 500 bucks). Sitting on a golden throne? Buy once, replace in the next 10 years.
 

Nabs

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Yeah, Carrion is a nice blend of exploration, strong mechanics, and puzzle solving. It's more of a metroidvania than most metroidvanias. Really good stuff.
 

Tizoc

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120+ Hz for me

Been doing some quick Monster Train runs, gonna aim to get victories with all clan combos for the foreseeable future :p Would LOVE to get some of the other cheevos, but attaining Covnenant 25 with each clan as primary? That's gonna be hard to pull off without some lucky gains.
 
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Futaleufu

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I can't believe that people are actually arguing they'd rather have 30 fps with higher IQ over 60 fps.

I have keratoconus, you can't fool me with that 30 fps motion blur "buttery smooth" bullshit. Some years ago I had to prioritize a 1 ms/no blur/no ghosting monitor over freesync and high refresh rates.
 

AHA-Lambda

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yup, same
yeah within individual levels it's fine, but on the overworld it's plain annoying, particularly when you're supposed to revisit levels you've done before, as it's never clear that's what you should be doing.

I've literally beat the game just now in fact, and I was glad the game was over by the time I was done, the navigation is just plain frustrating by the end.

Very glad I only paid £1 on Game Pass instead of the full £17 on Steam.

I was planning to get all
Containment Units
in the game but I couldn't backtrack for shit since it was so confusing so I can definitely relate.
When I saw the control room at the end
with the status of all the levels prior, my heart skipped a beat thinking the game expected me to 100% each level before it would let me finish

If that was going to be the case I was about ready to drop the game right then and there but thankfully not.
 
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lashman

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I was planning to get all
Containment Units
in the game but I couldn't backtrack for shit since it was so confusing so I can definitely relate.
yeah within individual levels it's fine, but on the overworld it's plain annoying, particularly when you're supposed to revisit levels you've done before, as it's never clear that's what you should be doing.

I've literally beat the game just now in fact, and I was glad the game was over by the time I was done, the navigation is just plain frustrating by the end.

Very glad I only paid £1 on Game Pass instead of the full £17 on Steam.



When I saw the control room at the end
with the status of all the levels prior, my heart skipped a beat thinking the game expected me to 100% each level before it would let me finish

If that was going to be the case I was about ready to drop the game right then and there but thankfully not.
yeah ... it gets really confusing REALLY fast
 
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NarohDethan

There was a fish in the percolator!
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probably will skip that one but i have been looking at secretlab chairs. seems like a more reasonable price and i hear good reviews as long as you get the cloth version and not leather.
I like the DVa one but they don't ship to Mexico u_u
 

warp_

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well damn, they'll deliver to me and i'm only a couple hours north of mexico 😆

wonder if its covid related cause i don't think their chairs are made in the us but they are shipped out of here
 
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Cacher

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I refuse to buy a 144Hz monitor even though my rig can utilize it, because playing at high frame rate (unreachable to console) will make it hard to go back to console gaming.

Therefore, 1080p/60fps/ultra setting is the most comfortable combo to me.
 
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warp_

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once i figured out that the frontier was basically the hub world and the bright green signs in the level actually served a purpose i didn't need a map. there's really no required backtracking in the game other than the final "level".
 

Li Kao

It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.
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Res talk :
Stop tempting me to buy the AOC 27G2U (1080p/144hz Free/G-Sync monitor, ~240 euros)
 
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fantomena

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Fall Guys is fantastic, got into the beta, it feels like that Wipeout TV show with a battle royale take.
 

Li Kao

It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.
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Has anyone ever used ENEBA.com? It seems to work like cdkeys, instantgaming
Wait instantgaming is legit ? I'm lost in the sea of reseller sometimes.
If they are working like CDKey, it's cool.
 

ISee

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More like:
  • Onboard Sound
  • Low presets
  • 1080p in the best case scenario, though 50% resolution scale or 720p in some cases.
  • 45FPS in the best case scenario, though struggling to get above 15 FPS in some cases.
  • No SSD
  • Defect USB Ports
- Having a room ventilator blow air into your open case because you were forced to oc the shit out of everything. Good time, good time.
 
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Alextended

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1080p is too low, not just for edge sharpness and/or aliasing depending on monitor size, there are not enough pixels to resolve the detail in the average games. Like dense fences looked awful from a small distance in 640x480 but looked way better further away in 1024 x 768 or something, textures and small details look as bad to me in 1080p now. Plenty lower detail art styles around too I guess, or 2D made for lower resolution and I'm fine playing those windowed or integer scaled but yeah, in general. I'm not some image quality snob but things got consistently bad in recent years, I upgraded to 1440p after my 1080p borked.
 

Gelf

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Having finally got a 4K TV a few months ago I agree that resolution is overrated. My monitor is still 1080p and I have switched between the two regularly for playing games. The difference doesn't bother me at all.
 
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