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jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

"It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

V for Vegans posted:

Just so what every other goon will do by claiming you won’t preorder and then place an order the week before the exclusive pre-order beta

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Unhappy Meal
Jul 27, 2010

Some smiles show mirth
Others merely show teeth

Well it's not Bad Company 2143, but I guess I can accept it not being literally perfect.

Too Many Birds
Jan 8, 2020


gonna have to do some depraved things to get a GPU by october i feel

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

Abner Assington posted:

Battlefield 5 burned me really hard on ever giving EA/DICE money again, but I'm also jonesing for a multiplayer shooter.

gently caress.

I mean I could tell from the Beta that BFV was poo poo. I didn’t buy it and I’m glad I didn’t. But their track record is tremendously positive. Out of all the amazing games they’ve put out, only Hardline and BFV sucked. If the beta is good I’m definitely in.

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



Bob Wins posted:

The Krylov was the best, I swear that thing had magic bullets. I even have a soft spot for the EU starter gun despite the fact that it kicked like crazy.

80% of the player base used the Voss near the end but if you ever found a high BR player that used the starter guns or the Baur (the high damage kicks like a mule low magazine) gun they were forces to be reckoned with.

After mastering the LMG mechanics to the point where I could actually win most close-range fire-fights the Baur was easy to master and had a noticeably longer range than either the defaults or the Voss.

My roomie at the time watched me single-handedly defend a point from an entire 6-man squad using the Baur without reloading once. 2.5 kills with the Baur, then 1.5 kills with the under-barrel shotgun, one dude with the EU revolver, and finally KNIFE TO THE FACE for the last guy.

"What the gently caress did you just do!?"

Me (trying to keep the adrenaline shakes under control while I reloaded my entire loadout, fully aware of the bullshit I just pulled): "Killed them all, sir."


Too Many Birds posted:

gonna have to do some depraved things to get a GPU by october i feel

I'm uncomfortably wondering if I should rebuild a fresh machine myself.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


I hope this game lives up to how loving hype those trailers are because it looks great.

Gucci Loafers
May 20, 2006

Ask yourself, do you really want to talk to pair of really nice gaudy shoes?


Alkydere posted:

I'm uncomfortably wondering if I should rebuild a fresh machine myself.

Intel's new architecture comes out later in Q4. This fall should be really interesting and 4k PC Gaming is slowly going to start becoming a reality. :hellyeah:

jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

"It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

Crosby B. Alfred posted:

Intel's new architecture comes out later in Q4. This fall should be really interesting and 4k PC Gaming is slowly going to start becoming a reality. :hellyeah:

It's already here*


*If you can get a 3080 lol

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Crosby B. Alfred posted:

Has any Battlefield title let alone honestly any FPS game balanced rocket launchers well? How did 2142 balance snipers and rocket launchers? I'm too old to remember :smith:
Team Fortress Classic/2 had rocket launchers and it was balanced. Same for UT2k4. They are really not that hard to balance.

Bad Company's 2 rocket launchers were also balanced. Virtually no lock-on except slow and easily dispensable flare-gun. RPG had an arc and fall-off that was harder to aim from any sort of appreciable distance and iirc weakest radial damage fall-off. Carl Gustav went in a straight line and had good splash but was the weakest by far in terms of armor damage. AT4 required skill to use and owned by doing most damag. They were also locked to the Engineer class, which, largely had the worst guns by far with capacity and range-limited SMGs. Especially compared to the laser-guns like AN-94 or M416 and such that Assault had that could mow down, or Medic's MG36 or MG3 being able to spray death for hours continuously, or Retcon running around with Whizzballs+red dot vss. In general the balance was really good because every class had some really strong elements and no one was stuck with lovely weapons (unlike say BF5 Medic pre-buffs).

BF5 was the most egregious example of really bad rocket launcher balancing because they gave the class with by far the best guns, also the best explosives--and a lot of them. Just absolutely stupid.

Xaris fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jun 14, 2021

Propaganda Hour
Aug 25, 2008



after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"

jisforjosh posted:

It's already here*


*If you can get a 3080 lol

I'm anxious to see how AMD's FidelityFX performs. It's the competing tech with DLSS, and should be out some time this month. DLSS is magic and really the only way people can support a 4K display without shelling out tons of money (even in a typical year). Raytracing has grown by leaps and bounds since Battlefield V, too. Hopefully that pays off for 2042.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
I have had “Kickstart my heart” stuck in my head since the reveal trailer. Note, I am not complaining!

jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

"It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

Propaganda Hour posted:

I'm anxious to see how AMD's FidelityFX performs. It's the competing tech with DLSS, and should be out some time this month. DLSS is magic and really the only way people can support a 4K display without shelling out tons of money (even in a typical year). Raytracing has grown by leaps and bounds since Battlefield V, too. Hopefully that pays off for 2042.

Given the previews we've seen of AMD's FSR the performance gain is substantial but so too is the image quality reduction

Native on left, FSR on right



Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



In fairness, the only demo of FSR we've seen has been a horribly compressed to poo poo YouTube stream. It may look better when not being strangled by real-time video compression.

Propaganda Hour
Aug 25, 2008



after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"

jisforjosh posted:

Given the previews we've seen of AMD's FSR the performance gain is substantial but so too is the image quality reduction

Native on left, FSR on right





Worth it, to be honest. DLSS had some growing pains, too, because I don't think 4x (1080p to 4k) sampling was available until DLSS 2.0

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug

priznat posted:

I have had “Kickstart my heart” stuck in my head since the reveal trailer. Note, I am not complaining!

It's a legit good song. They have a whole library of ear worms you end up boppin around to.

Symetrique
Jan 2, 2013




Yeah I don't think thats worth it for a competitive shooter. That blurriness isn't going to help you spot targets at a distance.

Propaganda Hour
Aug 25, 2008



after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"

Symetrique posted:

Yeah I don't think thats worth it for a competitive shooter. That blurriness isn't going to help you spot targets at a distance.

If it's competitive you're running 1080p at 240hz. The CS:GO resolution that can't be output to YouTube or anywhere else yet.

Symetrique
Jan 2, 2013




Propaganda Hour posted:

If it's competitive you're running 1080p at 240hz. The CS:GO resolution that can't be output to YouTube or anywhere else yet.

Not that type of competitive.

Anything that reduces your ability to spot enemy players in BF is a huge liability.

jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

"It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"
just lol if you aren't running a 3080 to run BF2042 at 800x600 @ 360Hz with all settings on low

Propaganda Hour
Aug 25, 2008



after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"

Symetrique posted:

Not that type of competitive.

Anything that reduces your ability to spot enemy players in BF is a huge liability.

It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Philthy posted:

It's a legit good song. They have a whole library of ear worms you end up boppin around to.

Yeah it’s hilarious because I probably haven’t heard that song in decades but just the tiniest snippet of it and I’m like “OH.. YEAH..”, rules.

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

Yami Fenrir posted:

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks of that thing of a squirrel suit!

It's totally a squirrel suit.

it totally is and I'm going to spend way too much time slingshotting myself out of tornados

Au Revoir Shosanna
Feb 17, 2011

i support this government and/or service
unironically looking forward to year 3 when dice finally caves to demand and drops a specialist that combines the grapple hook and squirrel suit

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Au Revoir Shosanna posted:

unironically looking forward to year 3 when dice finally caves to demand and drops a specialist that combines the grapple hook and squirrel suit

Morphs into an open world x games thing to compete with that one from ubisoft

Fart Car '97
Jul 23, 2003

RCarr posted:

I mean I could tell from the Beta that BFV was poo poo.

Same, but I was thoroughly sold on the Live Service being able to deliver more content and fix the issues and lordy was I wrong

Symetrique posted:

Not that type of competitive.

Anything that reduces your ability to spot enemy players in BF is a huge liability.

Nobody trying to complete in warzone runs DLSS for this reason

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
BFV and Anthem was such a 1-2 poo poo sandwich punch from EA it was pretty amazing they managed to launch these turds so close to each other.. or more likely it is a bit linked - I think Anthem pulled Dice resources because they had to use frostbite engine, which probably meant less content for BFV. Just speculating though.

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
Are the goons on pc or ps5 now


OP make a poll

Gucci Loafers
May 20, 2006

Ask yourself, do you really want to talk to pair of really nice gaudy shoes?


It feels wrong to play Battlefield on anything but a PC?

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
Hnnnnnnggghhhhhhh



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1BNcSBApOU

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

You slut bag. It's so hard to resist listing my 2080 rn given the ridiculous market

Symetrique
Jan 2, 2013





Welcome, brother

ScootsMcSkirt
Oct 29, 2013


gratz, upgrading my PC for BF is a time-honored tradition

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

ScootsMcSkirt posted:

gratz, upgrading my PC for BF is a time-honored tradition


Symetrique posted:

Welcome, brother

Thanks; a buddy of mine in Puerto Rico managed to grab it for me at a Best Buy. I sent him a little bit extra for his troubles in the PayPal transfer. It just got delivered today.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

I wish I could find a 3080 :smith:

God I wish those loving bitminers would just loving stop already

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Theres no aspect of our existence that isn't, cant, or wont be poisoned by capitalism

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Philthy posted:

It's a legit good song. They have a whole library of ear worms you end up boppin around to.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6uYfOBx4E

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
I got a prebuilt rig a month ago with a 3070. If I cross my eyes I can pretend it's a 3080

Inner Light
Jan 2, 2020



https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/alienware-aurora-r12-gaming-desktop/spd/alienware-aurora-r12-desktop/wdaurr1230h

Got my eyes on this baby if I can swallow the $2.4k price, for a 3070 and all that jazz.

Shinjobi how much did you drop?

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine
Personally I'm just going to probably stick with the PS5 version for the time being(especially since a dog sitting job I'm doing right now has gotten me a couple hundred bucks to set aside for that purpose)

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Fart Car '97
Jul 23, 2003

DLSS works great in Warzone for frames but nobody uses it because you're just handicapping yourself at range.

They had to host a tournament and pay streamers to say "IM PLAYING THIS TOURNEY WITH DLSS ON" in order to get anyone to use it

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