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eh, I'm sure Squadrons will be fun with a HOTAS, and it's a good investment anyway.
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Getting into Elite:Dangerous and the release of Flight Sim 2020 this year sure makes buying a HOTAS and TrackIR 8 years ago seem like a genius level move even if they've been in the closet for most of that time.
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Sep 14, 2020 22:14
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I really need headtracking, but buying a Warthog, which is built like the hands on throttle and steering setup of an A-10 Warthog and thus lasts forever, years ago for E:D might've been the best investment I ever made.
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Sep 14, 2020 22:18
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Black Griffon posted:I really need headtracking, but buying a Warthog, which is built like the hands on throttle and steering setup of an A-10 Warthog and thus lasts forever, years ago for E:D might've been the best investment I ever made. The Warthog is great. I prefer the X-52, just because it's much lighter, but goddamn is a Warthog fun. TrackIR's good head tracking, though I've also heard good things about the Tobii Eyetracker for general head tracking without the dumbass TrackClip or having to wear a hat. Of course, getting a FaceTrackNoIR setup is possible but that's  Squadrons will definitely be tons of fun with a HOTAS, so long as the game itself is fun.
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Sep 14, 2020 22:27
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Black Griffon posted:I really need headtracking, but buying a Warthog, which is built like the hands on throttle and steering setup of an A-10 Warthog and thus lasts forever, years ago for E:D might've been the best investment I ever made.  The Warthog while expensive a poo poo is fuckin amazing.
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Sep 14, 2020 22:30
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Flimf posted:They also released this video for the people who don't like the red visuals: lol
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Sep 14, 2020 22:31
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I've got a lightly used Saitek x52 I wish someone local would take off my hands. It's been sitting in a closet for 6 years. I'm in Massachusetts btw
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Sep 14, 2020 22:42
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In the past few weeks I have played through ~40 hours of Shadow of War campaign and now the Avengers campaign with my  STEAM CONTROLLER and it worked beautifully, and I like that I can map one of the extra buttons on the back for their Detective Vision, the other for discord voice chat, and can have it do fine aiming with the gyroscope with a full left trigger pull. The controller is hot garbage for anything 2D but for some games it works really well.It's a mess but an intriguing mess. I would've been interested to see where they would've gone with a revision.
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Sep 14, 2020 23:02
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I picked up Blasphemous at the suggestion of the chat thread a couple days ago The rhythm and flow of combat in this game suits me perfectly. I just fought the... tree-satyr? and once I understood the animations to look for, it felt just like Sekiro again. Felt just as good to squeak out a victory, going hitless for half his lifebar out of necessity  If there's a story here it doesn't make any sense whatsoever though Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Sep 15, 2020 00:12
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There is a story there! Well...there is text, and dialogue, also cutscenes...
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Sep 15, 2020 00:26
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Ciaphas posted:I picked up Blasphemous at the suggestion of the chat thread a couple days ago the game's setting has been overtaken by the Grievous Miracle, a divine phenomenon that causes people's prayers to manifest in reality. because the setting is also a theocratic dystopia based on an extreme form of catholic self-flagellation, this means the Miracle tends to manifest in horrific ways the player character is on a pilgrimage related to understanding/stopping/worshiping the Miracle, the game's not particularly keen on explaining which and the way it approaches the subject means there's not much of a difference anyway
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Sep 15, 2020 00:27
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Oxxidation posted:the game's setting has been overtaken by the Grievous Miracle, a divine phenomenon that causes people's prayers to manifest in reality. because the setting is also a theocratic dystopia based on an extreme form of catholic self-flagellation, this means the Miracle tends to manifest in horrific ways I was thinking the Miracle was a singular apocalyptic event or something, but this is way cooler tbh
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Sep 15, 2020 00:32
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Space Pilgrim Academy, of all things, is getting some kind of major graphics overhaul over the next month.
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Sep 15, 2020 00:32
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Xen was cool. I even liked much of Interloper, though the combat to platforming/puzzle ratio was way out of wack, and the conveyer belt sequence became interminable. I enjoyed the new enemy variations, and the Nihilanth was suitably impressive and way more involved than the original's final boss. That said, it was kind of weird playing the whole game through in a few sittings because you can clearly see that Crowbar Collective have a very different design sense than Valve did in 1998 . And I'm not just talking about all the jumping either, more the tightly scripted (and exhilarating!) chase sequences, and the way some maps loop in and around themselves at times and require far more advanced movement than anything in the original Half Life. None of which is a bad thing, it just makes the two "halves" feel just a little discordant. Anyways, while it's probably not the most accurate of comparisons, because the last time I played Half Life was through Black Mesa, and the last time I played Half Life 2 was with the superlative MMod, I maintain my belief that the sequel is the better game. Half Life 1 has a lot in its favour, namely the greater diversity of weapons, enemies, and locales, but HL2's gameplay variety is unmatched, and while its maps are mostly communist-era misery mixed with gunmetal Combine superstructures, their actual gameplay design is far more conducive towards firefights. On that note, I was actually surprised at how much more combat was in HL2 compared to its predecessor considering its modern reputation for its various gimmicks. There are plenty of those, but there are also a lot of pure combat sequences where you're just gunning your way through one-eyed bastards. And also HL2 has the gravity gun, which is still one of the funnest weapons in any shooter.
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Sep 15, 2020 00:42
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Flimf posted:They also released this video for the people who don't like the red visuals: I like the art style but this owns. I'm sure there were plenty of people Kramer-ing in to the reveal video with "MY EYES!"
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Sep 15, 2020 00:50
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why is my steamapps folder 160gigs when i have less than 50gigs of games downloaded?
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Sep 15, 2020 01:06
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Make sure to play Blasphemous with the new Spanish dub. It was their original vision for the game, but back in development they had go choose between English or Spanish because of resources, and they chose the profitable option, which makes sense, but now that's rectified.
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Sep 15, 2020 01:07
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Black Griffon posted:Make sure to play Blasphemous with the new Spanish dub. It was their original vision for the game, but back in development they had go choose between English or Spanish because of resources, and they chose the profitable option, which makes sense, but now that's rectified. I've been playing English up to now but I will rectify that posthaste 
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Sep 15, 2020 01:17
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I haven't tried it since I've been playing NG+ in spanish but they did re-record some of the english VA including the infamous character, so it should be better now. tbh I liked the english VA outside of that one exception
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Sep 15, 2020 01:20
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I only played it after the big patch and I don't even know what character you mean. The english vo was pretty good I thought
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Sep 15, 2020 01:22
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HADES added 49 achievements. Here's hoping 1.0 is around the corner!
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Sep 15, 2020 01:25
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Yeah there's nothing wrong with the English VO, but the game is so utterly Spanish that the Spanish one just completes and solidifies the atmosphere.
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Sep 15, 2020 01:25
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MMF Freeway posted:I only played it after the big patch and I don't even know what character you mean. The english vo was pretty good I thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laBOw_dyIiY
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Sep 15, 2020 01:31
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MMF Freeway posted:I only played it after the big patch and I don't even know what character you mean. The english vo was pretty good I thought Crisanta, whose original voice actress made it sound like her boss title should have been Vanessa, Who Complains to the Manager she was redubbed with an appropriately older and imperious VA but yeah, the spanish still trumps everything
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Sep 15, 2020 01:32
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Kly posted:why is my steamapps folder 160gigs when i have less than 50gigs of games downloaded? Somebody recommended it a while ago in this thread, but I use Wiztree to figure this kind of thing out.
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Sep 15, 2020 01:42
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Kly posted:why is my steamapps folder 160gigs when i have less than 50gigs of games downloaded? Could be bloated with Workshop content, or old patchers. Try the free Wiztree program, like drat Dirty Ape said. Run it in Admin mode.
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Sep 15, 2020 01:58
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Lol that's pretty rough
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I'm liking The Turing Test so far. It's basically Portal but ~serious~ and you've got a frequent dialogue between the player character and the station running AI. 3/7 chapters in the puzzles aren't very hard but starting to ramp up, I completely missed all the special secret puzzles rooms because when I first walked in the computer told me "It doesn't seem like you're able to solve these yet" so I assumed it was something you come back to in late game.
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Sep 15, 2020 03:01
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MMF Freeway posted:Lol that's pretty rough The first voice sounded like it was done by some lady from corporate accounting whose full preparation for the role was putting on a Witch hat she got at Wal-Mart.
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zedprime posted:People would have had to watch Farscape to forget it so it's a very good point that it couldn't possibly be forgettable. this post by LEXX GANG
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Somebody recommended it a while ago in this thread, but I use Wiztree to figure this kind of thing out. Spacesniffer uses a decades old filesystem feature to monitor for changes so it can also show where program are writing and will notice deletions you do as well.
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Sep 15, 2020 08:23
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I just want to give props to the name "Tony Hawk Pro Crusader" specifically.
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Sep 15, 2020 10:18
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Kly posted:why is my steamapps folder 160gigs when i have less than 50gigs of games downloaded? Hard drives are weird brah, I recently transferred files from one external HDD to another, and when I was done my total file size was much lower, to the tune of hundreds of GB. I checked and everything got transferred correctly. This mystery will never be solved.
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Sep 15, 2020 11:56
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Phlegmish posted:Hard drives are weird brah, I recently transferred files from one external HDD to another, and when I was done my total file size was much lower, to the tune of hundreds of GB. I checked and everything got transferred correctly. This mystery will never be solved. fragmentation will do that, losing hundreds of gigs to it is pretty extreme though
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Sep 15, 2020 11:59
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repiv posted:fragmentation will do that, losing hundreds of gigs to it is pretty extreme though It must have been about 300-400 GB. The HDD that I transferred from was ancient, almost ten years old, and I don't think I ever defragmented it. The other one is a brand-new Seagate Backup Plus.
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Sep 15, 2020 12:04
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is defragging still a thing? i used to do that all the time in the windows 95 days. i kind of miss it
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:is defragging still a thing? i used to do that all the time in the windows 95 days. i kind of miss it Yes sort of but Windows does it automatically these days.
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:is defragging still a thing? i used to do that all the time in the windows 95 days. i kind of miss it windows passively defrags in the background now, so there's usually no need to do it manually it won't even let you manually defrag an SSD because it's bad for their longevity
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Sep 15, 2020 12:12
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Then why hadn't it defragged my old drive. Or is it only internal drives
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i would assume it doesn't do external drives because it would increase the risk of data loss if the user unplugged them without unmounting properly
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