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Doubleposting cause Age of Empires 4 is going to hold a free weekend to stress test their servers. Sign up through the Request Acess button on the Steam store page. https://www.ageofempires.com/news/ageiv-tech-stress-test/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466860/Age_of_Empires_IV/ No NDA on this test so even if you don't play, you'll probably find a lot of new info from people that have.
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Haven't seen a stress test giveaway in a long time, last one I cared about was Diablo2. It's also very good marketing given the current market! No complaints here.
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ZearothK posted:Yeah, I'd also suggest focusing on a single particular weapon type. Each class seems to have four different subweapons, so you can easily have a pair of different tools for different situations. I started by playing both melee and heavy, but kind of regret spreading out. What does feel overpowered is stealth, as you can often just pile on isolated enemies before they can call for help and then clean up areas without aggroing everyone. And it sounded like you didn't get a whole ton of skill points, unlike say Fallout 1 where you get enough if you haven't dumpstered int that you can switch to Energy Weapons and use a turbo plasma rifle and power armor for lategame no matter how you started out. OgNar posted:Attribute points distribution to get every ability in the game, though some abilties also need specific skill point levels. 
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Zereth posted:... isn't deftness the AP ability? my understanding of fallout-type games is that dumpstering that is absolutely crippling Well don't poo poo your pants
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This is the legit real reason right there. It’s also really awesome.
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Zereth posted:I have choice paralysis looking at the character creation screen, combined with knowledge that a lot of crpgs not e very weapon type/character approach are created equal. is melee/stealth going to fall down hard in endgame? I don't know, but I gotta make these choices right now! I basically just went blue wing and then made some adjustments to its default, its mostly guts and perception. Not ideal, but I knew I would just use this playthrough as a learning play. I don't think it REALLY matters what you spec into concerning endgame. While I havent seen endgame yet, i'm still finding a wide variety of enemies with resistances to certain types. Like cockroaches and fire/heat. There are some good psi gloves that I keep around for just that reason, one has heat, one does psyhic and the other does energy damage. And I have a wrench just in case because I came across a quest to knock people out, no killing, so used the wrench but didnt use damage attacks, only fatigue. There is plenty of variety in this I would sit there and run through the skills you are interested in and check the abilities sub to it and decide what stats/skills you need from there. I'm not even sure if dumping more points into light weapons or hi-tech makes them do more damage, it may just come down to what abilities you want. Cha I think is a pretty important one that I shouldnt have skimped in, and am glad i took high Per because I find mines everywhere. But i'll go a little different next time.
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Zereth posted:And it sounded like you didn't get a whole ton of skill points, unlike say Fallout 1 where you get enough if you haven't dumpstered int that you can switch to Energy Weapons and use a turbo plasma rifle and power armor for lategame no matter how you started out. You get a poo poo-ton of skill points in Encased, although I did go max Brains, and I took the +3 skill points/level perk as soon as possible. I also may have abused the Hog piloting xp exploit a bit, before it got patched out. On that note, there is a very similar exploit still in the game right now, you can examine the performance-enhanced rat in the maintenance area of the reactor level over and over. kirbysuperstar posted:Well You have to make what is basically a flatulence saving throw for half the food you eat, your character in this game has serious bowel problems
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Phlegmish posted:You have to make what is basically a flatulence saving throw for half the food you eat, your character in this game has serious bowel problems Who knew that the worst threat of the post-apoc world was IBS.
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they called it Fallout but they never said what was falling out HIYOOOO
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Fallout, the harrowing story of two post-apocalyptic roommates who couldn't see eye-to-eye on whether pizza boxes should go in recycling.
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Hwurmp posted:they called it Fallout but they never said what was falling out HIYOOOO The ratings 
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exquisite tea posted:Fallout, the harrowing story of two post-apocalyptic roommates who couldn't see eye-to-eye on whether pizza boxes should go in recycling. Can't even open a window because there's radiation outside ENCASED
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I went in 100% blind and after the initial choice paralysis wore off on picking a character/wing, the abilities and stat choices just fell into place on how I wanted to play my dude. The real paralysis comes from packing around so much poo poo wondering how it fits into tradeskills. Do I need 40 bars of soap? The answer turned out to be yes. First time this has ever happened to me in a game like this. Encased is great and I hope there will be many more sequels.
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Givin posted:I went in 100% blind and after the initial choice paralysis wore off on picking a character/wing, the abilities and stat choices just fell into place on how I wanted to play my dude. The real paralysis comes from packing around so much poo poo wondering how it fits into tradeskills. Do I need 40 bars of soap? The answer turned out to be yes. Hell yeah. I was pretty happy to find that it is pretty trivial to access the personal stash from the camp (which you can setup anywhere), so I just put all crafting materials there and take them out inside the rich house in Junktown (which I break into at convenience), since it has a bunch of crafting benches and a kitchen.
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Ok, now that I'm in the meat of the game Deathloop is just fantastic. It's such a well thought out concept.
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Saoshyant posted:You'd have to ask either the account thieves or those who got compromised. I assume if you have store credit or valuable tradable items it will all be gone. AFAIK, all people who recovered their account quickly don't seem to be missing anything, however, so it may be that whatever bots are in charge of the process probably have a waiting period before they attempt to steal anything. It's also possible that accounts not recovered are eventually sold in their entirety (a steam account's library sold wholesale is actually a big market in poorer areas in the world like Eastern Europe or certain Asian countries, which is also where stolen Playstation accounts tend to resurface too). Thanks, that's interesting. I figured it was probably something like that. Actually I've got another, unrelated question for y'all. I play most of my video games from HDDs, I just haven't really had a problem with them, as long as they are fast ones the loading screens are fine in my book. But assuming I don't change the resolution in any way, will putting in a better GPU affect performance negatively for those HDDs? I kind of assume not but just wanted to make sure.
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Palpek posted:Ok, now that I'm in the meat of the game Deathloop is just fantastic. It's such a well thought out concept. I finished my first day and I'm stoked to play more later tonight I normally give the least possible number of fucks about plot in games but even this one I look forward to reading notes and learning more. I love Colt's voice actor, Liliana is great too, and the character dynamic between the two is excellent.
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Givin posted:I went in 100% blind and after the initial choice paralysis wore off on picking a character/wing, the abilities and stat choices just fell into place on how I wanted to play my dude. The real paralysis comes from packing around so much poo poo wondering how it fits into tradeskills. Do I need 40 bars of soap? The answer turned out to be yes. There are at least 3 personal chest locations I have found in regularly accessed places + the one in the personal camp that can be accessed from the map at any time. I was doing the same and nearly maxing out at like 290 until i finally just dumped most crafting items in the chest and knew i wouldnt be using them elsewhere. personal chest locations Camp Roadside picnic Buyable (or even pickable) place in Junktown Apartment you get from quest in Magellen residential
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Man, I just started Nioh 2 last night and it's a great game, so far it feels like the devs just went "Hey, what if we make a second game's worth of new mechanics, slam it into the first game, then cut all of the bad parts." But the design of the opening level was weird... to be fair this was just me being a dummy, but I can't believe they make the very opening path a miniboss and a shitload of revenants twinked out in DLC gear. Sure, the game explicitly tells you to bypass that poo poo, but I'm an idiot and the devs know it. So I had fun slamming my head against the miniboss and farming revenant crap for like half an hour, and by the time I got past the horsie I was comfortable enough with the mechanics and timing that the entire rest of the level felt like a cakewalk.
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I guarantee this got lost in the news the past few weeks, though I did post it here at the time, so I'll just have an update on this... Shadow Tactics is getting an expansion in December, and I took a look at the Steam page and saw that it's actually a standalone expansion as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkS3C4VSYQQ There does not look to be a DLC option for existing owners so it's just a flat out standalone expac, akin to something like Dishonored's Death of the Outsider. quote:Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice focuses on one of the main game's protagonists: the kunoichi adept Aiko. She is a master of camouflage and distracts enemies disguised as a Geisha. Although Aiko was certain that she left her old life behind her, Aiko's former sensei, the cunning spymaster Lady Chiyo, reappears from the shadows to challenge her. Together with her deadly companions she sets out to hunt down the ghosts of her past... The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Shadow tactics is one of the only games I keep installed from EGS giveaways. drat fine fun.
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OgNar posted:Shadow tactics is one of the only games I keep installed from EGS giveaways. Desperados III is also really good
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I generally didn't have a good time with Death of the Outsider and dropped it on the second mission but as much as I enjoyed D1 and D2, the art style is really not looking good anymore imo; Deathloop looks way better aesthetically. Something about the dlc just isn't clicking too like the rest of the series The giant meathands lol e: Prey too I keep forgetting they did that as well RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Play posted:Thanks, that's interesting. I figured it was probably something like that. It could increase load times if the game decides to fill up the extra video ram on load with things it would normally be swapping in later. Depends on how the individual game handles its resources.
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one other thing: Steam Next Fest returns October 1st through the 7th. Project Warlock 2 is going to have an updated demo there which will add upgradeable weapons, combo score counter and customizable visual settings (the original demo must've been pretty rushed to coincide with the kickstarter)
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in 2021, what is the best pirate game? I want Sid Meier's Pirates, but moreso.
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Palpek posted:Ok, now that I'm in the meat of the game Deathloop is just fantastic. It's such a well thought out concept. Did you play Mooncrash? Any comparisons?
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:in 2021, what is the best pirate game? I want Sid Meier's Pirates, but moreso. Frankly there is nothing like or better than Sid Meier's Pirates in 2021. Some sci-fi games are kind of like it. Rebel Galaxy, maybe. But otherwise, I'm sorry.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:in 2021, what is the best pirate game? I want Sid Meier's Pirates, but moreso. There is Skull & Bones coming SoonTM Also, Sea of Thieves is supposed to be pretty good now that it's had a few updates.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:in 2021, what is the best pirate game? I want Sid Meier's Pirates, but moreso. Assassin's Creed: Black Flag has some pretty good pirating but you'll be forced to play some of the rest of the game before the pirate part really gets good.
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chglcu posted:It could increase load times if the game decides to fill up the extra video ram on load with things it would normally be swapping in later. Depends on how the individual game handles its resources. Thanks a lot man! That is good to know. And I apologize for using this thread as my personal IT resource but does anyone know how to install something like this?  It doesn't look like the other SSD I have, which connects via normal SATA cable thingys, and I guess it, like, plugs directly into the motherboard? Perhaps it'll be obvious when I open up the tower but it looks weird. Is it actually for a laptop maybe? They made me buy this thing along with the new GPU. Bastards. I could probably try and sell it but I would surely lose money on that and I figured I could also keep it and install my more demanding games to it.
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it's called a m.2 ssd, it'll plug in flat on the motherboard like this, hopefully you have a motherboard with the right slots: 
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They're far as gently caress too, make sure your system install is on it.
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Cowcaster posted:it's called a m.2 ssd, it'll plug in flat on the motherboard like this, hopefully you have a motherboard with the right slots: also since i've never installed one myself before i just googled it to familiarize myself with it and apparently they go in at a 30 degree angle like that and stay "up" until you put in the screw at the other end to hold it down so don't panic
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They were in laptops for a while which is probably where you recognize it from, they added it to desktop mobos recently-ish. Most of the new ones I was looking at recently have at least one, and usually two.
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Cowcaster posted:also since i've never installed one myself before i just googled it to familiarize myself with it and apparently they go in at a 30 degree angle like that and stay "up" until you put in the screw at the other end to hold it down so don't panic Also you need a standoff and screw to install it. Maybe your motherboard might have come with them, but mine didn't so I had to buy them separately to install mine. But yeah, as other have said these things can be fast as gently caress. If you've got a good one, it's worth installing Windows on and any games you can fit that you want to load fast.
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Rinkles posted:Did you play Mooncrash? Any comparisons?
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Thanks everyone, that's exactly what I needed to know. I'm putting in the GPU later today so I'll take a look at the motherboard, I think it's an i7-8700, to see if there the right slot is there and if it has a screw and a 'standoff'. I've already got Windows on another SSD so I probably won't bother messing with that, my policy is to only do the bare minimum and not mess with things I don't have to since I'm an idiot
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huh, in the 3 minute tutorial youtube video i watched half an hour ago which instantaneously made me a qualified expert, it didn't even sound like a standoff would be necessary since the drive is tensioned against the back screw and would be floating off the motherboard anyway
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