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GreenBuckanneer posted:I just don't enjoy getting stuck That’s all part of its selling points. It’s a clunky slow and painful journey through the Russian countryside, delivering goods and collecting vehicles. Mudrunner and Snowrunner do better jobs with the metagame. Definitely doesn’t seem your cup of tea.
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Aug 7, 2020 23:42
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:That’s all part of its selling points. It’s a clunky slow and painful journey through the Russian countryside, delivering goods and collecting vehicles. Mudrunner and Snowrunner do better jobs with the metagame. Definitely doesn’t seem your cup of tea. Yeah I'll shut up about it but it's a 6 year old game at this point and the systems are definitely way clunkier there than they are now after a few iterations. They give you a drat quest log in Snowrunner so you have things to do while getting unstuck and unstuck along the way and lots of upgrades for your trucks that generally make getting around less of a hassle while giving you tangible goals to work for.
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Aug 7, 2020 23:45
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:RIP Gametap, you were too good for this world Gametap was such a cool, weird little service. Play old NeoGeo games online with a bro and watch episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the same browser. Truly ahead of its time in a number of ways and just delightful to use. The second time I subscribed with them they had apparently been sold to some Russian shell company and it was so impossible to unsubscribe that my bank decided to just close my bank account instead of trying to stop charges.
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Aug 7, 2020 23:46
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explosivo posted:Yeah I'll shut up about it but it's a 6 year old game at this point and the systems are definitely way clunkier there than they are now after a few iterations. They give you a drat quest log in Snowrunner so you have things to do while getting unstuck and unstuck along the way and lots of upgrades for your trucks that generally make getting around less of a hassle while giving you tangible goals to work for. Yeah, while Spintires/Mudrunner was always on my "I'll probably buy this someday" list but never hit the top, Snowrunner's additional features make it something I'll likely buy day 1 it hits Steam. They jive with the way I want to play that sort of game - paying just enough attention while primarily focused on something else, with some sort of manageable meta-progression to make the failure stay fun.
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Aug 7, 2020 23:51
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Does anyone else have an awful time trying to play Hitman 2? Trying to play this game takes so long. Run Hitman 2 Loading... Connecting... Authenticating... Connecting... Connecting to Hitman 2 servers... Connecting... Loading... ... Loading... ... Loading... Crash to desktop I don't get it. I just kinda do this two or three times until it doesn't crash -- it only crashes at that point, too. Once the game is running it's fine. But all those loading and connecting messages take three or four minutes to get through. I know, I'm a millennial who can't wait three or four -- or six to eight -- or nine to twelve minutes but it's a loving nuisance. Edit: Oh yeah, actually, the reason I posted this wasn't just to bitch about it. I was wondering if downloading a third-party patch that removes the need to connect to the Hitman 2 server will cause it to uh... you know, be "bricked" as it were. Flagged as stolen or something? Or is that connection to the servers actually necessary beyond high scores or whatever? credburn fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 00:20
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credburn posted:Edit: Oh yeah, actually, the reason I posted this wasn't just to bitch about it. I was wondering if downloading a third-party patch that removes the need to connect to the Hitman 2 server will cause it to uh... you know, be "bricked" as it were. Flagged as stolen or something? Or is that connection to the servers actually necessary beyond high scores or whatever? I think you can just turn Steam into offline mode? At least Hitman 1 supported playing offline and I would imagine 2 does the same.
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Aug 8, 2020 01:02
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Horizon Zero Dawn report, played 2-3 hours on a i7-4790, GTX1070 and 16 gigs of RAM on a mix of medium and high settings and getting 60fps without drops.
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Aug 8, 2020 01:03
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I am pleased to announced that H:ZD has annointed my PC as blessed. 2 hard stutters right at the start of the game but that's about it. Little hitches here and there that got less and less noticeable as time went on. No immersion breaking fps drops. I only have a gtx 980, bless it's soul, and have no noticeable problems with most of the settings on high which is what the shader tool set them to.
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Aug 8, 2020 01:06
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Is the main gameplay loop of Lobotomy Corporation actually fun, or is it more of a chore to get through just so you get the next bit of lore? Just asking cause it's 50% off right now and I've heard mostly good things about it, but nothing specific w/r/t how it plays.
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Aug 8, 2020 01:49
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Cactus posted:I'm not sure I understand. Have you replied to the wrong post? Apologies, it's my posting style. I use the - to separate completely unrelated sentences. Kinda like mixing two posts into one post. I was going "Whaaaaat?" at the HZD porting issues. - For example, I'm going to skip this month's Humble Choice. I don't have strong enough feelings towards Wargroove anyway and that's the title I'm drawn to the most out of the bunch.
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Aug 8, 2020 05:19
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Estel posted:Horizon Zero Dawn report, played 2-3 hours on a i7-4790, GTX1070 and 16 gigs of RAM on a mix of medium and high settings and getting 60fps without drops. Ryzen 3700X, GTX 1080, 32 GB of RAM here, running flawlessly on high settings. I fortunately am going in totally blind. It's fantastic so far.
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Aug 8, 2020 05:42
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HZD is taking over 20 minutes to "optimize" on my relatively new system and eating 100 percent of my cpu in the process. It's wild; I've played most of the mew heavy releases of the last year on this and never had a setup this harsh.
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Aug 8, 2020 05:49
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Memnaelar posted:HZD is taking over 20 minutes to "optimize" on my relatively new system and eating 100 percent of my cpu in the process. It's wild; I've played most of the mew heavy releases of the last year on this and never had a setup this harsh. Wowsers. Maybe it'll run super well? E: Or it's melting your computer.
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Aug 8, 2020 05:53
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Memnaelar posted:HZD is taking over 20 minutes to "optimize" on my relatively new system and eating 100 percent of my cpu in the process. It's wild; I've played most of the mew heavy releases of the last year on this and never had a setup this harsh. It took around 8-10 minutes on the first launch for me. It feels like it’s running a benchmark you can’t watch since it picks suggested video settings afterward. Definitely bizarre, but it only happens once.
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Aug 8, 2020 06:05
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Oldstench posted:Is the main gameplay loop of Lobotomy Corporation actually fun, or is it more of a chore to get through just so you get the next bit of lore? Just asking cause it's 50% off right now and I've heard mostly good things about it, but nothing specific w/r/t how it plays. Kind of both? You can play it as a very demanding management game where even a couple mistakes can lead to absolute ruin but there are also ways to make it easier on yourself. Making it easier on yourself involves possibly repeating some content that might be a little easy but at some point you begin to get a grasp on what choices to make for yourself and tailor the difficulty to you. I thought it was very fun and it has a great sense of discovery. I did not finish it but I did sink like 18 hours into it in a week and will continue sometime in the future. If you are on the fence I'd recommend checking the let's play thread and the first 3 days of gameplay or so.
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Aug 8, 2020 06:27
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There's more than a few people on the Steam forums saying that their refund requests for Horizon: ZD are being denied despite falling within the 2 hour rule, because apparently the automated refund system is taking into account the dates of pre-purchases when calculating the refund period. That sounds like a fun little bug.
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Aug 8, 2020 07:08
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Oldstench posted:Is the main gameplay loop of Lobotomy Corporation actually fun, or is it more of a chore to get through just so you get the next bit of lore? Just asking cause it's 50% off right now and I've heard mostly good things about it, but nothing specific w/r/t how it plays. It seems like, judging by Steam reviews and my understanding of the tutorial, the basic goal is "collect energy to complete the day". You collect energy by prodding the SCP's in one of four different ways. SCP's have preferences to how they are prodded so there's some trial and error, but the more you prod them the more boxes you get and you can spend boxes to unlock the various categories of an SCP's info. Even if you don't get them wet or feed them past midnight though, the more you prod them the higher the facility meltdown meter ticks up and when it fills one or more of the SCP's will get a countdown timer. If you don't prod them in a way they like before the timer runs out, Bad poo poo can start happening. Bad poo poo can also happen for a number of other reasons related to preferences, RNG, and so on. Progression and lore exist as a series of Days of which there are a finite number, and you'll often have to reset a day if poo poo goes awry but if things are going really south and you're in too deep you may need to reset from scratch. You may need to do this many times. The silver lining is that you get to keep your research notes so you can be better prepared next time for when Zalgo starts erupting out of your employees' faces. It's like Fallout Shelter: SCP Edition. The UI and terminology are a bit wack, but I think I like it so far. ErrEff posted:There's more than a few people on the Steam forums saying that their refund requests for Horizon: ZD are being denied despite falling within the 2 hour rule, because apparently the automated refund system is taking into account the dates of pre-purchases when calculating the refund period. That sounds like a fun little bug. Oh god, same poo poo happened to me with Sonic Mania. If anyone needs to know: Account Details > Purchases > find it in the list > I Have A Question About This Purchase. Explain the problem and request a refund in the text box there. For some reason that method specifically seems to actually ping a real human bean somewhere deep in the Valve complex who has a chance of actually approving the refund. You won't get anywhere by spamming the refund bot, believe me, I tried. MonkeyforaHead fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 07:12
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Ragequit posted:It took around 8-10 minutes on the first launch for me. It feels like it’s running a benchmark you can’t watch since it picks suggested video settings afterward. Definitely bizarre, but it only happens once. it only happens once as long as you dont quit immediately after the optimization + unskippable cutscene. If you quit when it boots you to the "start a new game" menu (say, to update your graphics drivers, or to mess around with video settings) then it wont recognize you've loaded already, and it will do the optimizing and cutscene again game good, port bad (my machine is cursed)
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Aug 8, 2020 07:17
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I am only dropping this here because the Morrowind superfans in my life start bleeding from the eyes discussing this with me: apparently, for my first crack at this game ever, I built a character that makes everyone go "delete this, start over, play literally anything else" Please laugh as I reveal myself to be a failure-savant.
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Aug 8, 2020 07:38
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Insert name here posted:Lol yeah I'm a huge SotS1 fan so I can't believe I managed to dodge that bullet. I booted up SotS2 recently and what can I say… I like the tactical combat system and the research tree a lot. The armour and penetration system is pretty neat. Ship sections have a grid of armour like they are a game of breakout, and wepons do different patterns of damage. Armour piercing is usually a lance piercing through to hit internal components, but doesn't do much damage to armour itself. Other weapons like enveloping torpedoes just melt large chunks of armour but not very deep. Because of this you quickly develop different weapon loadouts for different targets. Small craft typically have shallow armour so AP isn't very useful, and because large ships have a flat reduction in damage on top of their ablative armour you can't use certain weapons against them effectively. Also, you can run a fleet of torpedo boats as liir, fly away from the enemy fleet, then order a 360° turn and fire a huge volley of torpedoes at the enemy fleet just as your front faces them. It's incredibly satisfying to watch. Shame about the planet sector system though, that one is rear end. And stations used to be dangerous in SotS but are completely useless in SotS2.
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Aug 8, 2020 08:08
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END ME SCOOB posted:I am only dropping this here because the Morrowind superfans in my life start bleeding from the eyes discussing this with me: apparently, for my first crack at this game ever, I built a character that makes everyone go "delete this, start over, play literally anything else" 3 weapon categories AND block? two types of armor? And you’re having fun playing this game? That will not stand, n’wah! Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 08:14
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END ME SCOOB posted:I am only dropping this here because the Morrowind superfans in my life start bleeding from the eyes discussing this with me: apparently, for my first crack at this game ever, I built a character that makes everyone go "delete this, start over, play literally anything else" With athletics as a major skill you clearly should've just labelled your class Fetcher. So uh, in the past 400+ posts was a good porn game recommended? Asking for myself.
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Aug 8, 2020 08:27
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Just started XCOM 2. My troops have worse aim than a standard stormtrooper.
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Aug 8, 2020 09:12
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END ME SCOOB posted:I am only dropping this here because the Morrowind superfans in my life start bleeding from the eyes discussing this with me: apparently, for my first crack at this game ever, I built a character that makes everyone go "delete this, start over, play literally anything else"
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Aug 8, 2020 09:29
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END ME SCOOB posted:I am only dropping this here because the Morrowind superfans in my life start bleeding from the eyes discussing this with me: apparently, for my first crack at this game ever, I built a character that makes everyone go "delete this, start over, play literally anything else"
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Aug 8, 2020 09:31
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Leal posted:So uh, in the past 400+ posts was a good porn game recommended? Asking for myself.
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Aug 8, 2020 09:59
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Xander77 posted:Knights of Xentar. GoG should really get on that. Wikipedia posted:(the sound of a toilet flushing is played when the main character supposedly reaches his climax)
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Aug 8, 2020 10:02
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Fifteen of Many posted:Just started XCOM 2. My troops have worse aim than a standard stormtrooper. Maybe, but tbh the tactical game is very secondary to the fashion game  Ironically, I don't have any stormtroopers Bonus Total Warhammer 2 crossover: 
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Aug 8, 2020 10:12
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Yeah kinda feels like Gamepass has killed Humble Choice. At $5 a month I don't see myself unsubscribing from Gamepass any time soon. How did you get it for $5 a month?
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Aug 8, 2020 10:48
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Saoshyant posted:I understand where you were coming from, but consider this: if someone here thought the forum needed a general PC Gaming thread, that someone would have created it already. No one's afraid to just post. The days where an OP had to be a massive pile of effort to get a new thread started are behind us. They did create it. It died cos this thread is the general pc thread already and no one used the other one. People even use this thread to talk about xbox game pass releases, but I do imagine if the name was changed people would go looking for "the steam thread'. err posted:How did you get it for $5 a month? That's the default price after the initial discount. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 10:59
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END ME SCOOB posted:I am only dropping this here because the Morrowind superfans in my life start bleeding from the eyes discussing this with me: apparently, for my first crack at this game ever, I built a character that makes everyone go "delete this, start over, play literally anything else" what's your birthsign e: if you want an OP character, just take Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 11:09
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Estel posted:Horizon Zero Dawn report, played 2-3 hours on a i7-4790, GTX1070 and 16 gigs of RAM on a mix of medium and high settings and getting 60fps without drops. Same, but with 8 gigs of RAM. It actually runs better than the latest Assassin's Creed games, that I had to lock at 45fps. Sorry to the people with cursed machines! Game is good. Edit: I also have it on a SSD, as God intended. Trickyblackjack fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 11:32
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It seems clear that a lot of Horizon's port problems (though not all by any means) are due to poor memory management. It gobbles up all available RAM causing the game to bottleneck and stutter despite CPU/GPU not being under load at all. None of it seems unfixable, but if you can't wait, then I recommend setting a really aggressive threshold in Intelligent Standby List Cleaner so that your system doesn't poo poo itself whenever 12GB of memory gets dumped and reloaded at once.
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Aug 8, 2020 11:44
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Well, good to hear that it works fine at least for some folks. I guess that does nothing if not to confirm the rumors about the incredibly low quality of the port itself. When a port has seemingly random issues like this which are not really based on the specs of the system as such, it always speaks of shoddy porting work - not even just bad optimization or an engine that doesn't scale up very well, because that would hit everyone equally. I think I'll personally just wait another six months or so before I give this a try. I don't have any patience for this kind of thing anymore.
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Aug 8, 2020 11:51
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Hwurmp posted:what's your birthsign "The Atronach"?
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Aug 8, 2020 11:57
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Yeah, it's a weird one. I was dreading my preorder after reading all the negative press, but for whatever reason I've had zero issues. I can see now why some people with preview copies never noticed anything. For some people it's janked up trash, and others it's great. Go figure.
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Aug 8, 2020 11:58
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ErrEff posted:There's more than a few people on the Steam forums saying that their refund requests for Horizon: ZD are being denied despite falling within the 2 hour rule, because apparently the automated refund system is taking into account the dates of pre-purchases when calculating the refund period. That sounds like a fun little bug. Never, ever, ever preorder games, for any reason. unless that game is named Silksong -the exception that proves the rule.
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Aug 8, 2020 11:59
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Junkenstein posted:Humble Choice 'headliners' now just seem to be games that have been available on other subscription services for months already. Sure, you get to own them forever, but if I haven't played Wargroove or Vampyr by now on Game Pass, I'm probably never going to. And if I get a sudden urge to play them, well, they're on Game Pass...... I much prefer to actually own a game rather than renting it, so Humble Choice has been great.
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DatonKallandor posted:I much prefer to actually own a game rather than renting it, so Humble Choice has been great.
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