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well, i've gotten my new laptop right here, writing on it, and oh my god, this is great
here's my love for it in the length of an essay, even with capital letters and proper punctuation
Before I got this new laptop, more of which I'll discuss later within the text, I had few perspectives of "PC usage". It was either using a slow laptop which couldn't even handle Minecraft, or a beefy strong desktop which had the whole complexity of bent monitors, RGB keyboards, and external mice, and for most of this time, I naturally prefer using the latter for performance demanding tasks, not just games, but also heavier tasks like photogrammetry.
That is, until I discovered the magic of "partial payment". Here in Norway at least, students within the country who study here get approximately 840 dollars every month, which goes to rent, living, and other accommodations. I'm in a lucky enough position that I end up having half of it free to use (after 465 goes to rent, and aprox. 30 goes to insurances), and I discovered that I could have a partial payment plan for this laptop for 2 years, which is the same amount of time I get these study loans. Meaning, my study loans will pay for this laptop, and I had a budget of approximately 103 dollars for a payment plan.
Choosing a laptop was hard. I wanted a powerful enough computer to handle all of the tasks that my big PC could (so heavy gaming with great quality, as well as tasks like programming and photogrammetry), but also something that looked solid without any obnoxious design details. One problem I have with modern "high-end" laptops is the fact that either they're workstations not designed for work, or they're filled with RGB lights that are extremely obnoxious to look at. For me, design was even more important than performance. No way would I own a laptop with coloured WASD buttons, weird logos or anything like that.
Therefore, I settled with the most optimal solution.
This is an Acer Swift X SFX14-41G laptop, with a RTX 3050 Ti, Ryzen 7 5800U and 16 gigabytes of RAM. The design is slick and professional, and it features strong enough specs to keep me happy. But, as we all know, said is easier than done; I still had to test it for myself. So, I bought it, and started using it.
From the get-go, I was very impressed with the keyboard. I had warmed up to my HP ProBook 440 G5 keyboard (and even favoured it over any other keyboard), but the quality of this keyboard isn't bad at all. It's really comparable in several senses, and even when I first started a round of TypeRacer, I got great results. I also liked how the keys, when they're active, lit up under, not with some weird cyan colour, but a very professional white. In addition, I really like the fingerprint sensor, as it's the first time I actually have one on my PC.
The screen was very vibrant, as it made games (upcoming below) feel very nice to look at. The storage of 512 gigabytes on a SSD was more than enough for me to start. The only bad critique I have towards this PC is the Windows 11, which features this annoying system with dedicated GPUs and integrated graphics (where the PC defaults to integrated graphics for all programs, and you have to manually change it usually to use the dedicated GPU whenever you use a software for the first time).
I first tried downloading Death Stranding Director's Cut, but when I discovered it was going to take me 24 hours to download, I wanted to take other measures. I went to my big PC, found a big external drive, and transferred Just Cause 3 and SMTV's files from my big PC to this laptop. I was shocked that this worked at all, as I was used to just downloading. When I booted up Just Cause 3, I was very shocked to see that the game ran amazingly well, with all settings high and far over 60 fps, this was completely unheard of me for a laptop. After this, I wanted it to try the ultimate stress test of emulating SMTV, and to my amazing surprise, it didn't screw it up at all. With a slight delay, the game ran at approximately 30 fps (at least in the beginning section after you input your name), and looked very decent. After this, Death Stranding got finished, and I played that too a bit. The game ran amazingly well there too, with frames far over 60, and high settings all around. I was simply shocked my ass out.
I am overall very amazed by the quality of this laptop. I am considering downloading Half Life Alyx on it, and seeing how it preforms. However, as I saw on Youtube benchmarks of a previous model for the same laptop (consisting of a RTX 3050 and an older Ryzen CPU), it should at least offer a smooth 60 fps low settings experience for Alyx. The design is exactly what I wanted, a slick professional design that didn't scream the cliche awkward gamer design, as well as great performance.
here's my love for it in the length of an essay, even with capital letters and proper punctuation
Before I got this new laptop, more of which I'll discuss later within the text, I had few perspectives of "PC usage". It was either using a slow laptop which couldn't even handle Minecraft, or a beefy strong desktop which had the whole complexity of bent monitors, RGB keyboards, and external mice, and for most of this time, I naturally prefer using the latter for performance demanding tasks, not just games, but also heavier tasks like photogrammetry.
That is, until I discovered the magic of "partial payment". Here in Norway at least, students within the country who study here get approximately 840 dollars every month, which goes to rent, living, and other accommodations. I'm in a lucky enough position that I end up having half of it free to use (after 465 goes to rent, and aprox. 30 goes to insurances), and I discovered that I could have a partial payment plan for this laptop for 2 years, which is the same amount of time I get these study loans. Meaning, my study loans will pay for this laptop, and I had a budget of approximately 103 dollars for a payment plan.
Choosing a laptop was hard. I wanted a powerful enough computer to handle all of the tasks that my big PC could (so heavy gaming with great quality, as well as tasks like programming and photogrammetry), but also something that looked solid without any obnoxious design details. One problem I have with modern "high-end" laptops is the fact that either they're workstations not designed for work, or they're filled with RGB lights that are extremely obnoxious to look at. For me, design was even more important than performance. No way would I own a laptop with coloured WASD buttons, weird logos or anything like that.
Therefore, I settled with the most optimal solution.
This is an Acer Swift X SFX14-41G laptop, with a RTX 3050 Ti, Ryzen 7 5800U and 16 gigabytes of RAM. The design is slick and professional, and it features strong enough specs to keep me happy. But, as we all know, said is easier than done; I still had to test it for myself. So, I bought it, and started using it.
From the get-go, I was very impressed with the keyboard. I had warmed up to my HP ProBook 440 G5 keyboard (and even favoured it over any other keyboard), but the quality of this keyboard isn't bad at all. It's really comparable in several senses, and even when I first started a round of TypeRacer, I got great results. I also liked how the keys, when they're active, lit up under, not with some weird cyan colour, but a very professional white. In addition, I really like the fingerprint sensor, as it's the first time I actually have one on my PC.
The screen was very vibrant, as it made games (upcoming below) feel very nice to look at. The storage of 512 gigabytes on a SSD was more than enough for me to start. The only bad critique I have towards this PC is the Windows 11, which features this annoying system with dedicated GPUs and integrated graphics (where the PC defaults to integrated graphics for all programs, and you have to manually change it usually to use the dedicated GPU whenever you use a software for the first time).
I first tried downloading Death Stranding Director's Cut, but when I discovered it was going to take me 24 hours to download, I wanted to take other measures. I went to my big PC, found a big external drive, and transferred Just Cause 3 and SMTV's files from my big PC to this laptop. I was shocked that this worked at all, as I was used to just downloading. When I booted up Just Cause 3, I was very shocked to see that the game ran amazingly well, with all settings high and far over 60 fps, this was completely unheard of me for a laptop. After this, I wanted it to try the ultimate stress test of emulating SMTV, and to my amazing surprise, it didn't screw it up at all. With a slight delay, the game ran at approximately 30 fps (at least in the beginning section after you input your name), and looked very decent. After this, Death Stranding got finished, and I played that too a bit. The game ran amazingly well there too, with frames far over 60, and high settings all around. I was simply shocked my ass out.
I am overall very amazed by the quality of this laptop. I am considering downloading Half Life Alyx on it, and seeing how it preforms. However, as I saw on Youtube benchmarks of a previous model for the same laptop (consisting of a RTX 3050 and an older Ryzen CPU), it should at least offer a smooth 60 fps low settings experience for Alyx. The design is exactly what I wanted, a slick professional design that didn't scream the cliche awkward gamer design, as well as great performance.
Hoping we get some KH Steam news at the PC gaming show.
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My money is on EGS being phased out in the future. It just has not caught up at all.
That would be the sensible thing to do, yes.
Tim Sweeney is anything but sensible.
EGS will be around until Sweeney exhausted all the appeals against Apple and Google, than that thing gonna go bye bye.
He is way too stubborn to give up I feel like. It's gonna be a long and painful death (of the store, if that wasn't clear).
I guess that Valve really does have a reputation. This would be a normal tweet, heck the official Japanese SEGA account (it's semi corporate semi regular user stuff) tweets things more casually.
It's just something that stands out, like compare MS, and Sony and how they interact with others. I guess this is why (it's not really required) some companies will hire a grew or a few people to be in charge of these sorts of things.
By the way one of those images shows a Steam Deck, boom advert time.
Some notable deals going on:
FIFA and EA have parted ways. FIFA 23 will be the final entry in the series.
Historical low on Steam. If you own the first game, it's even cheaper.
store.steampowered.com
FIFA and EA have parted ways. FIFA 23 will be the final entry in the series.
Historical low on Steam. If you own the first game, it's even cheaper.
Steam Store
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.
been away for a bit...just came back...so, i read every message and agree wholeheartedly with all of you.
Lol at people around the internet being disappointed with Epic Store sale and coupon change. Did they really think that Epic Store would operate with 10$ coupons indefinitely? Wait until Epic stops free games (and they have to because that is damaging their store even more than coupons), they will lose their mind XD.
It is interesting how in early days of the store Sergiy Galyonkin was really loud, but as time progressed he was more and more silent.
It is interesting how in early days of the store Sergiy Galyonkin was really loud, but as time progressed he was more and more silent.
Fuck my Deck got screwed after latest update. Don't update it guys.
Edit:
1. It seems the screen was just black after update reboot and fan was loudy as hell. I left it running like 5 minutes but nothing happened.
2. Tried to force shutdown and turn it on again but still same.
3. Booted it with volume buttons pressed to boot loader and there I was able to see the screen again whew. Selected SteamOS and then it started to extract the update and now I am in again.
Edit:
1. It seems the screen was just black after update reboot and fan was loudy as hell. I left it running like 5 minutes but nothing happened.
2. Tried to force shutdown and turn it on again but still same.
3. Booted it with volume buttons pressed to boot loader and there I was able to see the screen again whew. Selected SteamOS and then it started to extract the update and now I am in again.
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At that point, EGS hopefully becomes another Origin that some people only use for exclusives and can be completely ignored for everyone else.
Anyone played Outward? Is it any good?
I own the vanilla game (probably from Humble Choice) and the upgrade to the definitive edition is free if you own the "three brothers" DLC. I was waiting for the definitive edition to play it but I'm not sure it's worth buying the DLC...
I own the vanilla game (probably from Humble Choice) and the upgrade to the definitive edition is free if you own the "three brothers" DLC. I was waiting for the definitive edition to play it but I'm not sure it's worth buying the DLC...
Is it a lot of regular customers upset or folks that effectively want free or almost free games that are upset? Because I'd think its mainly the folks that just want reaaaaaaally cheap stuff that are making the noise and they arn't the kind of customers EGS actually need.
If Epic had treated their own store as "just another storefront" then I'd be buying stuff there the same as I do on Origin and Ubisoft and GOG etc. etc. Exclusivity however means they can in general just fuck off forever.
and another early access graduation next week
It's an ass move from the devs. I own the base game + first dlc (The Soroboreans) and i do net get the DE for free.
The Three Brothers DLC is not good.How did you like the base game? I'm not even sure the DE is worth it...It's an ass move from the devs. I own the base game + first dlc (The Soroboreans) and i do net get the DE for free.
Hmm, is Steam UI shitting the bed on my end ? Because I sure as fuck don’t have the dlc but the Definitive Edition shows as purchased.It's an ass move from the devs. I own the base game + first dlc (The Soroboreans) and i do net get the DE for free.
Pretty certain I got the game in a choice bundle like a ton of people.
FIFA 22 is cheap, but worth remembering it's the PS4 version since EA hates PC players
I love Outward, it's the slightly rough around the edges eurojank you'd expect from Gothic, but I'd say it's very tolerable in general. Combat certainly takes some time to get used to, but then it's not as jankerrific as Elex. It's slow and not always very reliable, but it works, at least.
The exploration was incredible though, with real surprises, a lot of interesting dungeons (often linked to parts of others or the open world itself), and what lacks in pretty much all open worlds: unique content abound and very, very important loot (something that is even more developed in this edition it seems, with even more enemy variety and more minibosses). Even merchants are relevant because they carry good and interesting things, powerful consumables and just being able to SELL things is important, this is not a remotely fast game, when you need to go somewhere, you plan for it (the survival elements are minor, but try to go on an expedition on your first winter without the adequate gear and you'll die long before you reach another city)
On the other hand it has very limited questing... that did make them quite important, with some huge, huge decisions (don't play it for the story though, it's really an afterthought), but that was by far the less developed part of the game. Elex did that well, Outward really didn't, though you do get some lore to read- fitting in dungeons and for hidden bosses, much less so in the cities that are veeery undercooked.
Old French political commentary joke from the 70-80's :
Deadcraft is cratering so deep it will soon find petroleum
Deadcraft is cratering so deep it will soon find petroleum
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Expect western content on PC Gaming show from S-EWhy?
And any idea when it will happen?
and no, sadly I don't have any information about when, that's up to S-E :/
Why?
And any idea when it will happen?
Until someone at Square is bored and checks their companies wikipedia page and remembers they forgot to release this game on Steam.
Hooded Horse got some quite nice projects in the works
Video Timestamps:
0:01:22 - Old World (steam launch)
0:06:05 - Sons of Valhalla (New Game)
0:07:35 - Falling Frontier
0:16:11 - Espiocracy (New Game)
0:18:20 - Fragile Existence
0:24:14 - Capital Command (New Game)
0:26:13 - The Way of Wrath
0:28:53 - Fata Deum
0:32:29 - Alliance of the Sacred Suns
0:36:25 - Terra Invicta
+ newhly announced Mars Tactics
Video Timestamps:
0:01:22 - Old World (steam launch)
0:06:05 - Sons of Valhalla (New Game)
0:07:35 - Falling Frontier
0:16:11 - Espiocracy (New Game)
0:18:20 - Fragile Existence
0:24:14 - Capital Command (New Game)
0:26:13 - The Way of Wrath
0:28:53 - Fata Deum
0:32:29 - Alliance of the Sacred Suns
0:36:25 - Terra Invicta
+ newhly announced Mars Tactics
Jesus, post my issue about Voxelgram, play 1-2 hours of Vampire Survivors, dev already answered.
I've fallen back into Satisfactory in massive way. Completely rebuilding my factories to hide the conveyors and power. Nice little buildings everywhere with glass topped trenches covering the guts!
yeah, they're really awesome about supporting their gameJesus, post my issue about Voxelgram, play 1-2 hours of Vampire Survivors, dev already answered.
and it's SUCH a great game too, i wish more people would give it a chance
Reading some of the reviews, mentions Terraria and Don't Starve. So bought.
I really need to stop visiting here. That's the fourth game bought in the span of a week.
Norman Reedus claims Death Stranding 2 is in early development | VGC
“We just started the second one,” says the actor who plays Sam Porter Bridges…
www.videogameschronicle.com
in other news Strabeee Valley just released
Very early initial impressions. Everything kills you... Quickly at times.awaiting your impressions in coming weeks
Dear Indie Devs, please stop releasing so many interesting games. I only have so many hours in a day.
Ahh who needs sleeps anyway...
you won't regret it, i promise!
and be sure to check out the workshop too! sleep is for the weak!
oh, we lost RiyuExelica, shame
It's so tempting to buy all the DLC for Stellaris(minus the species packs). Would be like... $92. But I won't. I have too many games I don't play as is.
That frog it too cute!
In the trailer it looked a bit rough like if I was watching it without my glasses (I have astigmatism)
Evil Dead sells 500k copies in 5 days on EGS, Playstation and Xbox.
V Rising sells 500k copies in 3 days only on Steam.
Just in case: it is copies sold, I received a press mail stating it is copies sold, it's just that they wrote "players" in the tweet.
V Rising sells 500k copies in 3 days only on Steam.
Just in case: it is copies sold, I received a press mail stating it is copies sold, it's just that they wrote "players" in the tweet.
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But I am playing it now
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