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Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Xander77 posted:



How the hell am I supposed to get to this question mark? Too high for a buzzer, and I can't seem to get to any high spots around / near it.

If that's where I think it is, look for a series of ledges that lead around there from the place further up.

Tippis posted:

First, where does the nearby glider get you?
Second, along the edges of the map, there are quite a few of those spots where you have to start from a nearby POI — but still a decent distance away — and then grapple-swing your way along the cliff face to gradually get higher and closer. I'd start looking by the lake/waterfall/village thingamajig to the northwest.

yeah, this.

KakerMix posted:

Go in blind.

also this.

When it talks about multiple ways to do things, they are not loving kidding.

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Dec 11, 2009

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corn in the bible posted:

FATHER: I AM YOUR SON

Literally telegraphed in the first scene. Good thing I just play it to murder mutants.

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Dec 11, 2009

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Drifter posted:

Also, the Borderlands people rereleased one of the best shootmans to exist, Bulletstork, but don't buy the "remastered" one, just torrent the original one, since they've pulled it from sale.

It'll drop in price really quickly; You can pick it up on the PS4 for reduced price. I think I picked up the original for $8 at one point. Bulletstorm is actually a really entertaining shooter that got overshadowed by 'Rage', which is not a recommendation unless you pick it up for pennies. The re-release smacked of attempting to ride the coat-tails of a solid cult status.

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Dec 11, 2009

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StrixNebulosa posted:

Yeah. Starship Troopers was good, and my vague memories of the Cat who walks through walls and Have Spacesuit Will Travel say they were good, but the rest of his stuff either wasn't my jam or it was really skeevy/weird.

Welcome to the fifties. 'Grok' is very specific and means to completely understand. it tends to date those of us knocking on a bit.

havenwaters posted:

GPU mining isn't really all that profitable now and it really wasn't profitable to buy a gpu to get into mining even back in May but that won't stop people.

There's a brief moment when the increase in horsepower outstrips the dive to the cost of electricity in mining the buttcoins. With any luck it should increase the rate of carbon being pumped into the atmosphere and eventually choke all the bitcoiners to death.

And everyone else, but small victories and all that.

The White Dragon posted:

fam, same

actually i've been trawling newegg for a while and there's a $250 6gb 1060, but it's in very high demand

You're not going with a 970?

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Dec 11, 2009

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havenwaters posted:

6gb 1060's somewhere between a 970 and 980 or something so no real issue there.

Basically you can find stuff priced close enough to what they used to be if you search long enough/get lucky with nowinstock alerts.

Yeah, my point being that a 1060 is hardly a leap at the moment,

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Dec 11, 2009

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Doorknob Slobber posted:

$18 for an early access, procedural generated, ascii art game is a no brainer

I bought it on the strength of this review.

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Dec 11, 2009

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Xaris posted:

Some people will say yes, others will say no. The best way is just to buy it, play it for <2 hrs, then refund it if you dont like it. it'll be p obvious if you do or don't

i'm in the no-camp unless you're richy mcrich and $10 is chump pocket change for you then hell yea buy everything!

I was made irrationally angry and refunded DoW III at $20.

The first DoW games are all worth playing at chump change levels, although Necron are quite powerful.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Palpek posted:

It seems like a really unofrtunate design decision. From what I'm reading some of those missions feature a kidnapping squad going after you and you can keep fighting that squad without realizing that the encounter is designed for you to fail, so they'll keep respawning and attacking you until you lose. Then the main mission starts with some long-rear end cutscene monologue that you have to sit through and then you're shoved into a corridor map. All the while you wanted to have some open-world fun and were taken out of it against your will. I hope they patch this or something because it's weird for a company with a lot of experience in making open-world games.

Yes. All that's true, although the first zone involves three encounters with the squads; then you get blissed for Faith, and I haven't done Jacob yet, but as orv said there's three progress markers per 'zone'.

Because I finished the first zone with a bunch of side missions to spare, I suspect that it's a way to keep the story moving and make the DLC somewhat more valuable because enemies stop spawning in zones that have been liberated.

On the one had the cutscenes can feel onerous, but they're trying to tell an actual story (albeit a bit dumb and odd, because the writers wanted to subvert the trope at the end); Like you can see them striving for Vas without actually knowing why Vas was so much fun.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Frog Act posted:

Had anyone played Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare? As far as I can tell it's 1990s balkans mount and blade

It's literally a 1990s Balkans Mount and Blade. They're iterating through mechanics at the moment and just did an environmental graphics update; two updates ago you bought units, then paid to bring them back up to strength, now you're basically mixing and matching troops according to your need.

During the game you'll hit M to go to a map screen; this allows you to order your guys to follow waypoints, move cautiously or charge.

Single mode at the moment, which is conquer the map.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Kibayasu posted:

So I’m assuming Vault 76 but is there a noted Highway 76 in the US or something? Because naming it after the year would be dumb.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_76

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Doorknob Slobber posted:

I say of the last few far cry games 3/4/5 primal/neon whatever just play whichever has the most interesting setting to you because they are all essentially the exact same game

In the same way that they've been making the same assassin's creed over and over, sure.

Farcry 5 is generally going to involve a lot more mayhem; cultists tend to end up accreting, and while the world is pretty well fleshed out, the actual player agency isn't there, and you're inside a pretty conveyor belt. It does, however, have Peaches, which makes up for a lot of poo poo, IMO. Helicopters tend to trivilize a bunch of the collectathons, though.

Farcry 4 was pretty good, but I hated some of the set pieces. I loved Pagan Min, but the whole 'who is really the bad guy' loses a bunch of nuance after you've offed half his army. No so hectic as the more recent offering, but Rhinos and Elephants are fun to watch go a bit mental.

FarCry 3 was pretty much in it's element, but didn't really capitalise after Vas, who was great. The whole 'white saviour' thing was a bit distasteful, but it's a computer game, don't overthink.

However, the best of the lot is Blood Dragon. Great plot, storyline - bit samey on some of the things, but generally a great experience that should have had a follow-up that was just as pulpy.

Croccers posted:

^^ :argh:

In more news of Whoa what it's out?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/445020/Frozen_Synapse_2/
Frozen Synapse 2 is finally out Well in one-ish hour

They should slap a price on that bad boy.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Oxxidation posted:

FC 3-4-5 all have idiotic, obtrusive, pointlessly nihilist and vaguely offensive stories, but FC3 is the only one that's entertaining about it

And people still overlook Blood Dragon.


ponzicar posted:

3's story was worse than 4 by far. It felt like it was written by a committee of committees, half of whom wanted it to play it straight while the other half wanted to deconstruct it. So it had the worst of both approaches combined.

FarCry was created by a team of many faiths and diverse approaches.

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Dec 11, 2009

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exquisite tea posted:

It is a really bad twist ending to be fair, like so pointless it totally dissuades you from the entire act of replaying the game.

I gave up after killing Faith.

Faith rubbed me up the wrong way entirely.


exquisite tea posted:

Reading any Steam discussion board will make you feel what it's like to lose brain cells in real time. It's the absolute dregs of the internet.

Friend, have you even seen youtube comments?

well, I haven't since I installed that plugin, but it was bad a couple of years ago.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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l'chaim ships?

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Ghostlight posted:

I read a page or two of it and the main white supremacist somehow managed to take a principled stand that white supremacists won't endure this kind of behaviour and that the developers will now suffer the same boycotts currently financially crippling Disney and EA.

I shall pray for both companies.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Xaris posted:

:hmmyes:
this isn't the insanely bad hot take thread

Yes, but Daton is special.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Alien Rope Burn posted:

I've only watched a friend with Agents of Mayhem for awhile, but it really struck me as a game that went through some kind of dev hell - it just feels so unfocused where it's just not doing anything all that well. It's not aggressively bad, but it's just not good at anything. It struck me as a game dying for multiplayer - not that multiplayer would have made it a great game, but I think it would have at least given it a bit of longevity that other mediocre games like Borderlands had thanks to the shared experience.

It's too bad because I really liked the notion of a Saturday Morning Shooter, but it's just kind of pointing and hosing down generic baddies while your character throws out what I presume are supposed to be quips over and over and mehhh. :(

Everyone is right about this game, and I'm heading for completion on the PS4 version because I have weird brain spiders.

You can shift the difficulty of the levels up a bit, which introduces different kinds of enemies, but the whole thing is aggressively bland; even where they've used obvious Saint's Row references, it's shaded like an offbrand cola. Kinzie becomes 'safeword', Johnny Gat now appears to be a Korean police officer and Kingpin apparently used to hang out with Pierce. Driving is _awful_, the writing is not great, and it's not until about halfway through that it vaguely mixes up the formula.

There are two loyalty missions per character, and a smattering of collectible crap, but honestly it's a solid 'meh', and I'm like a massive Saint's Row fan. Still holding out hope for Oleg.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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END ME SCOOB posted:

Kingpin is Pierce.

Also you're not revealing the funniest part which is that Kinzie and Gat were DLC only. Pay more if you wanted these watered down clones!

That’ll be the brain spiders.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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TMMadman posted:

Have you ever accidentally looked at an anime or anime adjacent game?

This can include Borderlands.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Digirat posted:

are you one of the devs or merely trying to be as insufferable as them

I don't know, the whole 'You people are loving awful' has made me rethink my position on the sale of goods.

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Dec 11, 2009

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Look Sir Droids posted:

Rockstar peaked at Vice City. Writing has been increasingly bad since then. I'm not sure a game has had a less sympathetic piece of poo poo protagonist than GTA4. That and Rockstar's business practices are why I've never been interested in GTA5.

Why have one reason, when you can have three.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Kanfy posted:

Naw, destroying the livelihoods and incredible work of countless cool and creative people because some people are scum is probably not the way to go, chief.

Could we just burn the scum?

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Dec 11, 2009

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Oxxidation posted:

formal justice systems exist to protect the established and powerful, which is the same class that abusers come from

they're worthless for a whole variety of reasons and rapidly becoming moreso with time

And the next step is?

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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https://twitter.com/turdl33/status/1171570678706909185/photo/4

Ritz-Carlton was used as a prison during the MBS purge. If someone wrote this timeline into a game, I'd consider it far-fetched and unbelievable.

Edit: ^^^ This is why I enjoy my anime behind closed doors.

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Dec 11, 2009

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Andrast posted:

A rich do-nothing being a giant nerd doesn't seem that unbelievable to me

Yeah, but this one is suspected of being dead, along with his Father, after the round-up in 2017. Hasn't been seen since November 2018.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Leal posted:

Anime is fascist.

I'm not hearing 'bad', though.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Cardiovorax posted:

Recent word is that there was no actual underage porn on that stick, just a lot of "barely legal" 18 year old stuff. Still tasteless as all hell, but at least it's not referencing an actual honest-to-god crime.

I’m not sure i like this cavalier attitude to content theft, unless it was a legit backup.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Ah Map posted:

I already done that deal to live to see Spider-Man 3.Who knew deals with the devil could backfire like that?

History records that all diabolical deals are required to contain an ‘irony’ clause.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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sebmojo posted:

3x free arkham games is worth firing up the shameful egs account everyone in this thread has to grab

Jokes on you, I paid full price for all of them on Steam!

Where is your God now?

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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AngryBooch posted:

The Batman game is also by WB Montreal who did Arkham Origins, not Rocksteady.

Arkham Origins was a fine re-tread of Arkham City but a little less slick imo. Could have used more polish and a more open character progression path, for some reason a lot of the skill unlocks were laid out linearly and really felt like it restricted the game.

Super-rocky release as well, with one of the towers lacking a grapple point. Stopped all progression on the launch weekend.

Still enjoyed it more than Arkham Knight.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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haldolium posted:

World in Conflict indeed is one kind of a game. It's rather "RTT" since it has no base building, but still fantastic in every aspect.


It's also apparently only available on GoG or hard geolocked by Ubisoft (not on Uplay or Steam for me)

That mission where you’re protecting that farmhouse and it just keeps escalating is one of my top videogame experiences since I loaded up ‘Jetpac’ in 1982.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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El_Elegante posted:

hosed up if true

I had to put a sweater on today, so you're probably safe from the Chinese hoax.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Hwurmp posted:

I have arachnophilia and I have to say the Metro series is extremely overrated

as is Spider-Man

Two thoughts chased across my mind;

1) Is there arachnid rule 34 material; and
2) I am never going to google that, just in case.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Funky Valentine posted:

People made it seem like Chapo was a decent presence in the game, like prominent characters. If they're just random NPCs then I can put aside my problems with them a give Disco a shot.

Hurray!

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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MonkeyforaHead posted:

Anyone know if they ever fixed the random freezes every few minutes that were triggered by the game periodically spiking CPU usage to 100%, crashing display drivers, and forcing them to restart? I couldn't tell if it was at all related to the Denuvo which has since been removed, but it made the game completely loving unplayable.

Edit: v I tried something like 15 different fixes, including the various .ini tweaks, changing resolution, changing options, changing framerates, downloading two or three different versions of some weird program someone wrote years ago that throttles applications to prevent them from ever using more than a specific % of CPU which sounds like a brilliant solution but NONE of the versions of it that exist were actually able to detect and hook into the Y0 process to do anything with it :ughh:

You might want to do a low level test of your memory, but I’ve been using this for a number of years - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Lasso.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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Mindblast posted:

Guys guys


What if opus magnus... but 3d?

Zach hear my prayers

Satisfactory? https://www.satisfactorygame.com/

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

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exquisite tea posted:

I'm about six hours into Death Stranding right now and the thing I most enjoy about it so far is the relatively low-key traversal where you try to plan out the optimal route without dropping all your boxes and/or getting consumed by transdimensional horrors. It's different and the environments are nice to look at. The story is total nonsense though and not in the fun way but in the "I some random character you just met know everything there is about the world, and even though you already have all this information too, I will now share it at great length with you."

I'm beginning to think that the concept of 'Bridges' is being hinted at. Call it a faint hunch.

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Dec 11, 2009

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Bruceski posted:

That would be nice, I haven't found a headset that;s comfortable with my glasses.

I bought prescription lenses for my index. $70, and work better than glasses.

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