Didn't mess around with Halo CE multiplayer very much, I didn't really get into multiplayer til Halo 3 😆
#other-games
austere lance
Jesus. I was Brigadier something and that took forever, Inheritor was insane
Reach without all the lag and shit it had on the 360 is gonna be 😍
Invasion 😩 💦 💦
echo hill
im lowkey thinking about getting a 4k monitor for it
austere lance
They tested Invasion in the last flight
Elite customization is back btw
Can customize your Spartan and your Elite in the MCC version, just like the original 💕
cinder vessel
Skimming a lot of the Death Stranding discussion/reviews, I'm honestly confused as to if these folks just totally forgot about No Man's Sky or what...Because it sounds a fair amount like No Man's Sky, but with less varied points of interest and a more cumbersome inventory system
austere lance
And only one planet. And no wildlife. And poop grenades
echo hill
and peeing
idle saffron
I'm avoiding most reviews, the couple I read already told me too much - I want to know nothing more
cinder vessel
Well there is wildlife tho
cinder vessel
I mean that's not a spoiler tho, lmao
I mean there's birbs and such, you see that in some of the basic af trailers
austere lance
Do you hunt em with piss bullets 😆
cinder vessel
Honestly I don't get the sense that there's much to spoil with the game...Everything I've viewed/read has told me the same thing basic gameplay demos already showed.
Big open world, you deliver junk, there's an encumbrance system so ya have to balance stuff as ya navigate rough terrain, and there's some odd async multiplayer of leaving/building stuff for others
The story, with what people have been talking around it, sounds like typical Kojima love it/hate it with questionable payoff for the time spent working through it
echo hill
it seems to me to be a very interpretive game
some people hate it and others claim its the best game ever made
so im excited to see what my take on it will be
austere lance
You're not the only one making NMS comparisons @cinder vessel
cinder vessel
Yeah, I read that one I think, lol
It's one of the few I saw do so
I'm thinking I may wait a little bit on Death Stranding. I know I'd be playing for the story and it sounds like a slog to go through that
austere lance
Tbh the only thing the game does for me is make me wanna replay MGS V, lol
cinder vessel
It also doesn't sound like the story may be that great anyway from the mumblings I've been hearing/reading about it
austere lance
The plot is pretty basic, ngl
||President dies and her last order is for you to restore the internet so all human settlements can be connected and help each other out. And somehow an angry ghost is out for revenge||
||And you can't kill people in the game cuz they make spirit monsters when they die, hence you having a bola crossbow to use on humans||
It's like a Fallout game, lol
Just on LSD
cinder vessel
||well the people also flat out explode/voidout apparently, and the BTs like corpses because ??? so it's kind of a mix of they make more BTs and also just wreck the place further||
austere lance
||When BT's and live people touch each other it sets off a nuclear-worthy blast, idk why||
cinder vessel
Yeah, no worries, totally understand wanting to go into this game blind
The moment I saw details on gameplay more than the story, I decided to try and dig around edges of the story a little more, because I kinda don't mind spoilers, and also appreciate them when something sounds like it's literally gonna take 40+ hours to get through
I have that tendency of wanting to know if the story's worth burning that much time for, personally
||Probably some pseudo-scientific junk about reality collision, where the living & BTs are like matter/antimatter or something||
austere lance
||The story is basically a bare-bones background reason for dozens of hours of wandering around doing......deliveries? Seriously, most of it is apparently you delivering stuff to help settlements while avoiding cult members and BT's, which sounds suspiciously like Fallout 4 with extra steps||
||The ending is ridiculous and anime af, from what I've read||
||Wandering around delivering stuff and avoiding enemies is the whole gameplay loop||
cinder vessel
||Yeah, that's what I've been hearing about the ending too, as well as that, at least to some, it just doesn't pay off. Also has that Kojima tendency of literally reiterating stuff you just heard/learned about mere moments ago for way longer than needed||
||Like I've heard some people say that while the message the story is trying to convey is...Okay...It's just not really expressed in a meaningfully different way, and it's just like, "Well yeah, coming together to help each other is good is pretty much what we've told ourselves since grade school".
Also that a lot of it come across as just Kojima saying at length: "I'm sad I lost the rights to my old work." Which, yeah, understandable...But 40+ hours for that?||
austere lance
||Get items, carefully balance them on backpack, spend hours taking items to delivery places without falling over or getting killed, rinse and repeat. Wallah, Death Stranding in a nutshell. With bizarre and blatantly political/philosophical story stuff tossed in every once and a while||
||And "funny" things like "hur dur Monster energy drinks help you out"||
cinder vessel
||Although to be fair, Kojima basically lost the rights to a major portion of, if not all of, his life's work up to now, so I guess 40+ hours of mourning is a drop in the ocean or whatever||
austere lance
Lol
cinder vessel
This entire channel is [redacted], lmao
iron inlet
Thrilling conversation here in [redacted]
austere lance
||$5 says the creepy baby represents his life's work. The game apparently breaks the fourth wall a ton, so I wouldn't be surprised if the game literally says that at some point.||
iron inlet
austere lance
cinder vessel
||I have literally heard people saying just that, basically||
austere lance
Oof
austere lance
He made horse poop piles wipe out vehicles in MGS V tho 😆
Fml, I'm gonna have to download it again and do a third playthrough
cinder vessel
I am still weirdly drawn to the idea of helping set up pathways and such in Death Stranding tho, not gonna lie
austere lance
Just join a Minecraft server and do that then, lol
cinder vessel
Have also genuinely thought about that, lol
rigid haven
So is DS a walking sim with extra steps? Or does it have actual game?
cinder vessel
But there's just not the same sort of friction that encourages building out paths in Minecraft to my mind
Death Stranding is the Gran Turismo of walking sims, to quote Tim Rogers(?) of Kotaku
cinder vessel
So it's not just walking, it's walking...with balance and encumbrance, and encumbrance affecting balance
cinder vessel
lol
Basically if you like roaming about big open spaces and delivering stuff, you might like it
rigid haven
Maybe
But walking sims always seem to have the slowest fucking walk speed
Like most try to encourage exploration using level design but that doesn't matter if it's a 30 minute long walk
cinder vessel
Then you may not like it, lol
I mean you can walk/run quickly it looks like, but that's countered by having to balance the stuff you're carrying, so then you have to take things a little more slowly & carefully
austere lance
And manually adjust your balance every few steps so you don't fall over or drop stuff
austere lance
cinder vessel
Still surprised people are playing that
austere lance
Time to check out the new stuff added to WWZ
There's new levels!
I'm 90% sure this level was in L4D 2 😆
austere lance
Damn the new level in the New York chapter was a bitch, time for the new Russian one
cinder vessel
Hmm, what would you all consider some of the more overlooked decent games from this past decade?
brisk merlin
austere lance
Holy fuck, the Moscow mission was wild
winter yew
Hmm?
austere lance
New World War Z levels @winter yew
winter yew
Ohhh
austere lance
They gonna add Horde mode soon 😩 💦 💦
winter yew
Noice
They added a hardcore mode to Remnant
I definitely ain’t good enough to pull that off lmao
I saw a roadmap for 2020 and they should have a couple more additions/updates to the game before they are done
Not sure what those beasties or that area is on the Corsus Survival tab there, in-game Corsus is a swampy map and the creatures in that environment look nothing like those two
cinder vessel
lol, that is such an edge style for that image
ripe frost
We need a mode that converts it into an exact copy of No Man's Sky
austere lance
Update four just hit, update five is gonna drop before the year is out
ripe frost
I thout World War Z was a movie.... that many people hated
austere lance
It was an average zombie movie based off a fantastic book
ripe frost
So is this an average zombie game based on a fantastic book?
austere lance
The game just takes place in the world, it's not following the stories of the book or movie. And it's a buggy but fun multiplayer game that a lot of people consider a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead
You can definitely tell it's inspired by it
I personally like it, I've been mostly playing solo with AI teammates but it's definitely better with friends
cinder vessel
I'm kinda surprised it's seeing continued development
Guess it's kept a decent enough sized audience
austere lance
More people bought it than you'd think, it has a decently sized fan base
Plus it gets free updates all the time
It really does feel like a Left 4 Dead game, it's pretty nice. And the adaptive AI controlling the equipment and zombie spawning is cool
cinder vessel
I know not many folks liked it, but seeing that makes me a little sad Left Alive didn't at least get a Photo Mode update
austere lance
If you're getting your ass kicked the game will spawn less swarms and more equipment, if you're kicking ass it'll do the opposite and make you do work 😆
cinder vessel
Could probably catch it super on the cheap by now, albeit I think it's a PS4 exclusive, but I'd still recommend Left Alive if you're wanting some sorta classic third-person stealth-ish action
austere lance
I like how leveling up your classes lets you start with better gear than the basics (Uzi and a silenced pistol). My Gunslinger class is leveled enough that I start out with a kickass modified AK
cinder vessel
That reminds me, I modded the hell out of a Spacer's Choice mk. 2 pistol last night, converting it into an organic lethal plasma pistol
austere lance
I was trying to figure out why I never found Corrosive mods in TOW and why they were so expensive in vending machines but then I checked the codex and found out they're basically strong against everything
Well, not strong per say. But nothing has resistance to it. It wrecks armor too
cinder vessel
Hmm @light cairn did you play Dangranronpa?
cinder vessel
Did you check out AI: Somnium Files at all?
light cairn
i want it really bad
cinder vessel
I think it was made by some of the same folks, if I'm not mistaken
cinder vessel
Yeah
I've been kinda curious about it, but I haven't dug through reviews for it lately
austere lance
did you play Dangranronpa?
I think I smoked that in Far Cry 4, lol
winter yew
Oh no.
cinder vessel
Gladys is hrrrm in Outer Worlds
||I guess to maybe get the key from her without paying, you have to either have high dialog skills or have gotten all the Roseway secrets?||
winter yew
I did it! Defeated the god of war Russo, and the Storm Knight Django. Gotta say, true Martial Arts Tournament.
crisp sparrow
@cinder vessel ||you can also just directly go to stellar bay from cascadia if you are prepped enough||
lavish obsidian
viral token
wouldn't the build limit be an issue? lots of decor in that shot...
silver sparrow
I keep saying “turqular” in my head
idle saffron
Well stop it
silver sparrow
No u
idle saffron
Ok. Sorry
silver sparrow
lol
In terms of a proper portmanteau though I would say “stuffingular” matches up best
idle saffron
Shhh, that's for the week before
silver sparrow
Me and my engrish skills
winter yew
any windows 10 tech gurus here?
i'm wondering why does this fucking cunt of a system forget that I have a display installed, in effect ignoring my display profile i set up so it doesn't look so fucking washed up.
i'm going bye bye to do something, pc goes into sleep mode, and when it wakes up, suddenly no fucking display, and it forgets how fucking colors work.
charred badge
My display keeps forgetting color settings too
Need to reload configs all the time
@winter yew do you have a manufacturer software package installed like MSI Dragon?
My current guess for my issue is Dragon's color profile system overwriting windows settings
winter yew
don't think so. It just doesn't see monitor anymore, even in device manager.
restarting pc works, it sees the monitor again, and I only need to load the profile again, despite it being set as a fkn default one...
It's just a flawless system. I'm happy with it, ever since I was forced to finally upgrade.
i briefly had geforce experience installed, but I fixed that mistake quickly.
charred badge
Mistake?
winter yew
yup. No fond memories of this thing. Once it fucked up all of my games in one big swoop. 😄
it can "optimise" your game settings right? Sure, why not. One problem, it failed to identify my monitor at the time, and how it was a 17'' 4:3, so bumping resolutions on every single game to 1920x1080 255 Hz refresh rate, was not a smart idea.
In effect, every single game I tried to start, the "out of range" error would pop up, and monitor would simply shut down. Some games had cfg files, easy to edit, easy to fix, some games I could stream, and my friend watching could guide my mouse. Not all though.
oh yeah, and some games i could alter resolution in cfg files, but not the refresh rate, so there's that aswell. 😄
So why didn't I just change settings back, or reverse em right? Yeah, tis a mystery for me too. How it was able to alter settings in the first place, but all other attempts would fail to do anything. Like, it would "apply settings", but you can literally check one tab, go back, and they're all reverted again.
winter yew
For fucking fucks sake, even screensaver disables the profile, at least it didn't crash the device entirely, so re-enabling the profile fixed coloring.
cinder vessel
So this game just showed up outta nowhere in my feed & looks pretty fun:
https://twitter.com/SkyboltZack/status/1192488181108805632
full pivot
Yep
cinder vessel
lol
full pivot
Gamings history begins tomorrow
cinder vessel
I work tomorrow so I couldn't get into it even if I wanted to
light cairn
already preloaded 😎
full pivot
oh you can do that!?
light cairn
been up for days 😛
echo hill
oh fuck me i forgot to download death stranding
idle saffron
💔
full pivot
GAME OF THE YEAR INCOMING
echo hill
so wait @full pivot and @light cairn yall are both playing tonight as well?
full pivot
not tonite i have to wait till Sat
light cairn
depending on when i fall asleep yes
echo hill
hell yeah
full pivot
it'll probably take until saturday to download knowing my interwebs
echo hill
😦
austere lance
I'm hyped for finally playing Subnautica, I've been waiting for it to go on Game Pass forever 😩 💦 💦
echo hill
you havent played it?
austere lance
Nope
winter yew
It's ridiculously atmospheric.
echo hill
😮
winter yew
It scares me at times.
austere lance
It's always looked like something I don't wanna pay more than $10 for but it always refuses to drop below $20, even during sales
Now it's finally on Game Pass 💕
austere lance
I'm amazing at guessing which games will end up on Game Pass, lol. I was right about WWZ, that one medieval game, and quite a few others 😆
winter yew
I refuse to explore at night time.
austere lance
How is Subnautica only 7 GB 
winter yew
I didn't realize it was that small tbh
idle saffron
😏
winter yew
austere lance
Hmm, what other games was I right about eventually coming to Game Pass.
Oh yeah, Enter the Gungeon. And Jump Force. And The Surge
I can tell you what isn't gonna end up on it cuz it's gonna be on a different subscription service, lol. Jedi Fallen Order/any EA games made after Mirrors Edge. Those go straight to EA Access 😤
cinder vessel
Not sure why, but I abruptly lost interest in Mirror's Edge. I played a portion of it and...I think one of the action sequences gave me some little trouble and so I just stopped after a few tries, lol
austere lance
I played through the first one a good 5 or 6 times but got bored after a couple hours of the sequel 😶
winter yew
Story in Catalyst is very predictable, the open world is the fun for me personally. Running everywhere, almost limitless.
echo hill
cinder vessel
So I think I lightly sequence broke some of the Outer Worlds dialog.
||After you fix up SAM, there's a moment where ADA will ask you to tell Parvati to send SAM their way if you're going by the engine room.
If you do this, Parvati will be working on SAM and mention something about Nyoka(?) barfing, even though you may not have met them yet.||
winter yew
👌 😂
cinder vessel
I am really good at catching potential edge cases, lol
Hell I even found a bug in Control
tender fiber
any Destiny players/enthusiasts here
winter yew
Oh God.
cinder vessel
oh no, careful, you'll stir them up again
austere lance
YOU RANG
echo hill
Oh no...
idle saffron
austere lance
He's ez to solo, just use Twin Tailed Fox and a phat sniper or linear fusion rifle
idle saffron
I could use a pistol, he is nothing
austere lance
Tru, lol
idle saffron
Just don't get hit when it crosses
austere lance
Still not as weak as the Lake of Shadows "boss"
idle saffron
Lol
winter yew
xD
tender fiber
so like what if there was a linear story-based spin-off game of the Destiny series akin to Halo ODST with a severe power reduction and it was called DESTINY: FALLEN and you... play as a Fallen
how stupid does that sound
echo hill
yeah id play that
cinder vessel
i don't know about that but uh, solo spinoff set in same world would be cool
austere lance
Fallen are cool af and I love them, I'd kill to have a game centered around them
cinder vessel
I don't know that I know what those are offhand
tender fiber
i just want a more focused, polished story (and having mortal, weak Fallen bei ng the vehicle seems good too)
also i keep thinking about Destiny concept art
austere lance
@cinder vessel Different types of Fallen
Playing as a Captain would be kickass, especially if we had our own ship
Fallen are basically space pirates
tender fiber
also I feel really bad whenever I kill Fallen 😅
austere lance
Same, especially after I met Variks
You could have a fantastic game made about being a Fallen Captain working for the Spider and generally just being a pirate. With your own ship and crew
willow crypt
I like that idea
austere lance
Still FPS, very much different gameplay. No powers or anything and it would be more about doing odd jobs for the Spider and getting paid
idle saffron
I'd play
willow crypt
You have to kill guardians
austere lance
And singleplayer so it wouldn't have the regular Destiny crap
echo hill
kill me tbh
idle saffron
I do that now
tender fiber
tbh i would want to make the Fallen game about being as small and weak as feasibly possible
recreate the feeling Halo ODST gave
austere lance
Spider is friendly with Guardians, it would be cool to fight Hive and stuff without god-like powers tho
Doing jobs for Petra and Spider, hunting down bounties on bad Fallen or Vex or Hive, and getting paid so your crew can get larger and better equipped
willow crypt
What if there was a multiplayer mode like in Resistance where you could fight as fallen against guardians
tender fiber
as for the concept art i was talking about: i want to see the story behind these images:
austere lance
Bungo likes to make the games lore-friendly, so they'd have to come up with a reason for us to revive and stand a chance against Guardians
austere lance
Hunting down the Shadows of Yor Guardians would be kickass tho
tender fiber
no dont make us stand a chance against guardians
stealth is the only option
i want that feeling of powerlessness
also
pretty sure Halo: Reach wasnt "lore friendly" in that it wasnt shackled by established extended lore stuff and allowed itself to be more creative
echo hill
i want a game based around the sangheli civil war
austere lance
Obviously you wouldn't be able to hunt Shadows of Yor Guardians without a big crew with badass gear
tender fiber
like it basically retconned the appearance of spartan 3s (for the better)
i dont wanna be a badass i want to barely survive
i want to see the stories behind these images
austere lance
Hence needing a highly trained crew with top-shelf gear. Fallen kill Guardians all the time in the lore, they almost took the City in the past
tender fiber
i wanna be the most pathetic fallen ever
the year after Destiny: Fallen releases, 343 announces Halo: Yipyap
austere lance
Nah. A Captain with a small crew doing odd jobs and working your way up to Spider-levels of gear and wealth
austere lance
ODST is so good 💕
tender fiber
i never got to play odst
austere lance
I played the hell out of it when it came out and just replayed it on MCC recently, it's pretty damn good. The music 😩 💦 💦
tender fiber
mccpc pls come out :(
also microsorft do 4 packs
so it doesnt have to cost $240 to play with friends
austere lance
The games are $10 each, lol
echo hill
i thought $5?
tender fiber
wut
austere lance
Did they lower it? Nice
tender fiber
mcc is $5 on steam??
echo hill
oh also the one thing im upset about for MCC is no more original game menus 😭
austere lance
Each game was gonna be $10 last time I checked
echo hill
its MCC menus
austere lance
MCC doesn't have individual menus
echo hill
reach is embedded into MCC
echo hill
which is fine for fluidity between games but ill miss the old menus 😦
austere lance
The menus are fine tbh
echo hill
tbf you can always go back and play the old games
austere lance
This is what the menus look like now. It's all gonna change when Reach releases tho
@tender fiber
echo hill
It feels a bit too flashy for me
tender fiber
want og menus option at least
halo ce isnt halo ce without spinning halo menu
halo reach isnt halo reach without its reachy reach concept art backgrounds
cinder vessel
anyone here played Daemon x Machina?
austere lance
@tender fiber They're still gonna all be under one main menu, it would take too much time and effort to remaster all the menus
austere lance
Everything looks all clean, imagine how bad the original Halo CE menu graphics would look tossed in there
tender fiber
perfectly fine tbh
austere lance
I strive to be this petty 😆
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/07/the-outer-worlds-team-pranked-their-white-chocolate-hating-boss-tim-cain-with-two-easter-eggs
Time to investigate Subnautica
All I know about this is from the trailers, so as far as I'm aware it's basically No Man's Ocean 😆
I picked Survival, I feel like I'm gonna regret this
Uh, shit's going down
I have no idea how to do anything, lol
winter yew
You'll figure it out :V
austere lance
Where does one acquire cave sulfer. I looked in little caves and found nothing
cinder vessel
In light of Death Stranding's release, what are some other games that come to mind where you help others (NPCs or players) by laying down structures or whatever?
dreamy sleet
i am happy
austere lance
Christ, I'm finally semi-able to get food and water now in Subnautica. Another life pod just activated its beacon and I'm gonna try to go there once the sun is up. I reeeeeeaaaaally wish I had something to kill the big eel fish with, they're mean 😬
This shit's hard, lol. I like using the fire extinguisher as a thruster pack tho
The big ship went boom
Yeah a spear gun would be great about now
raven frost
@austere lance need a hint?
austere lance
Oh goody, some ship just called and said it's a week away
I'm attempting to find stuff to make the radiation suit
Where tf do I find lead
raven frost
gonna take that as a no
raven frost
I think limestone deposits
austere lance
It took me longer than I'd care to admit to figure out I can catch and cook the fish, lol
brisk merlin
:V
austere lance
The complete lack of any guidance or hints on how to do basic stuff kinda threw me off 😆
silver sparrow
it's worth a good 20+ hours
i never hit the endgame in subnautica, i get vg calustrophobia
and also vg vertigo
brisk merlin
ending is a r u s h
austere lance
I haven't even built a rad suit yet, I'm a noob 😆
brisk merlin
dont be afraid to use the wiki for locations of materials
austere lance
Why tf your water bar drops 3x faster than your food bar is a mystery to me tho
silver sparrow
it's a decent gear grind, not rote like medeival games
austere lance
I'm gonna be severely unimpressed if I can't build a water filter on my pod at some point
Or a fridge to keep food from spoiling
silver sparrow
||spoilers||
austere lance
Lol
brisk merlin
just keep the fish on you lmao
austere lance
Then they spoil
brisk merlin
cook it when you want to e a t
austere lance
I already had two fish I was carrying spoil, smh
silver sparrow
there will be other water solutions later
brisk merlin
aquarium
silver sparrow
that's fairly nonspoilery
austere lance
Rn I can either make clean water out of the one fish (gross) or out of bleach 😆
brisk merlin
you start with the aquarium in your blueprints so
austere lance
Cooking fish in your building machine is funny af tho 😆
I feel like I'm not gonna bother with an aquarium til I've gotten more supplies and added rooms to my pod, lol
austere lance
Fun handcannon tho
raven frost
5 rounds of crucible and... 6/25 precision kills with handcannon 
austere lance
Service Revolver
Trust me
Service Revolver with Outlaw is your friend in Crucible
Ez precision kills
elder sparrow
Ive been playing the witcher 3 lately
Stuck on the bloody botchling
Apperantly, killing it doesnt work
Gotta calm it wiyh magic or w/e
austere lance
You can kill it if you're an asshole, it's a bitch of a fight tho. Calming it is nicer to the Baron (and easier), you just gotta deal with wraiths @elder sparrow
elder sparrow
Ye i get that far and die badly 😂
austere lance
Tf difficulty are you on, lol
elder sparrow
Wud be better to have the ally
Uhh not sure
🤔
I mean fighting the botchling
Wraiths appear at about 50% health
Then i die
austere lance
Don't fight it unless you're on an easy difficulty or prepare with a ton of potions first. Turning it into a good Lubberkin is easier
elder sparrow
👍
austere lance
I've uh, played through the game a few times 😆
austere lance
@elder sparrow All you gotta do when you take the easy route is protect the Baron from a couple wraiths and use Axii on the Botchling when it gets mad
elder sparrow
Yee
echo hill
i have an hour left on my download but the game comes out in 9 minutes 😩
full pivot
it'll be done by the time i get home
so i can look at it tomorrow morning
ive already installed seat belts on my couch
echo hill
haha
unfortunately i work tomorrow so ive got about an hour tonight then a couple hours after 5 tomorrow
full pivot
i also work tomorrow but not until 2330
so i'll have a couple hours in the morning
4 hours left on mine; just checked
austere lance
Bless Unleashed open beta is up, apparently
Closed beta was decent, hopefully this one is better 😆
crisp sparrow
my expiry date is up?
winter yew
turns out vulkan is a piece of shit, and dx12 is the way to go.
winter yew
i mean, overall fps is lower, kinda much lower tbh, but it works, and is stable, while vulkan offered more fps overall, but was freezing the game to shit.
crisp sparrow
what game
winter yew
rdr2
winter yew
ye, a choice, vulkan or dx12. so far I'm not impressed with vulkan at all. fucked nms for me completely, rdr2 also chugs like crazy. 😄
crisp sparrow
what GPU
winter yew
while dx12 as I said, i can scrape up 30fps, which makes game playable, and is stable so that. 😄
gtx950
crisp sparrow
Nvidia drivers are pretty bad with vulkan support from what I've heard
winter yew
so vulkan more of amd thing? 😄
crisp sparrow
yea for now
winter yew
god damn foliage and some textures are ugly as sin, but as long as I can play, I'm content. 😄
here. 😄
crisp sparrow
also vulkan is more of a global API while directx is windows specific
so optimizing for dx is going to give you a better time
meager panther
Forza 4 with music is really nice
Its so nice just cruising around at 200 mph and a nice tune plays
tender fiber
hola: combate español
winter yew
Oh sorry, I just sat down.
full pivot
Something major... Oh
winter yew
Does this mean Death Stranding is downloaded?
full pivot
I haven't gotten any alerts about my house so I dont think so
Gravity seems unaffected locally
winter yew
Now I'm curious.
winter yew
😦
echo hill
Fuck I can't wait to play after work today
austere lance
I will be badly playing Subnautica, lol
silver sparrow
bloop bloop
austere lance
Why can't I make a spear gun or something, there's two Stalkers that apparently patrol the crash zone and won't leave me tf alone
winter yew
gotta say, jacksepticeye's playing death stranding
his first vid was like 2 hours long, and holy hell it's just soo good to watch.
silver sparrow
cool
winter yew
this game is truly interesting.
austere lance
Ugh, I'm done for the day. Spending 20 minutes looking for Lead and not finding any is annoying, especially with Stalkers biting my ass randomly
winter yew
Lmao
austere lance
I just wanna play Jedi Fallen Order 😩 💦 💦
austere lance
I feel like I'll have more fun slaughtering Stormtroopers than I do spending forever looking for Lead, lol
silver sparrow
wew
austere lance
I've established I'm terrible at DICE games
austere lance
Like, my dude can't even figure out how to make a spear but he can build an underwater fortress?
winter yew
Read the article :p
austere lance
Yeah, he doesn't like guns. Why not spears tho.
I get a knife, might as well make a spear out of it so I can at least kill Stalkers
winter yew
I mean, you do get the Stasis Rifle and the Propulsion Cannon..
austere lance
The wot
winter yew
To which
They are things you’ll find later as you explore and scan tech
Look everywhere, crashed pods, the Aurora, etc..
oh I remember that.
brisk merlin
they dont want gun violence
winter yew
something about bitching about school shootings, and making a "statement". kinda pathetic stuff.
Kinda shame it became what it became. Subnautica could be so much more. Oh well, can't change now.
silver sparrow
i was trying to avoid spoilers
winter yew
Btw, Death Stranding huh? People really like to cry about the delivery part of a delivery man simulator.
like, it's literally what it is. And it was announced as that. You, taking parcels, delivering them, and reconnecting america in the process. And now it's a problem. 😄
austere lance
I knew that as soon as I saw the first gameplay videos a couple months ago, hence it holding zero interest for me
winter yew
i'm watching jack playing it
like, the world is so frickin interesting.
What happened for it to fuck up this badly.
silver sparrow
he is going to deliver that baby to a hutt that wanted a snack
winter yew
What is Death Stranding, what's with the BT's, BB's, DOOMS, all of it.
what causes voidouts, what's with this big boi, what the hell is wrong with the world for timefall to exist.
Norman Reedus
I'll play the game when it comes out on PC
idle saffron
Some of us want to go in blind, please no play by play
bronze wind
Is someone rly that upset by a game not having guns lol
Also "bitching about school shootings" is a super ignorant way to describe something involving literal child murder.
idle saffron
winter yew
Oh damn I skipped over that part.
austere lance
Fable 4 better be there 😤 😤 😤
winter yew
I freaking love Fable.
idle saffron
Chicken kickers
winter yew
Chicken chaser?
idle saffron
Chicken plucker
winter yew
😏
idle saffron
😩
austere lance
Dark Souls fans are insane 😂
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2019/11/7/20953708/elden-ring-fans-fake-lore-community-glaive-master-hodir
You can't make this shit up 🤣🤣🤣
austere lance
winter yew
Yes.
iron inlet
Dude elden ring makes me so excited
winter yew
I've not heard of it tbh
idle saffron
We know, I saw the stuff you are making up on that site
brisk merlin
whats elden ring
iron inlet
Dark Souls by George R.R Martin @winter yew
winter yew
Oh nice.
iron inlet
George R R Martin wrote the story and Fromsoft made the game
brisk merlin
and whom is g e o r g e
idle saffron
Great, more things he is doing besides actually finishing the game of thrones novels
winter yew
Hahahaha
iron inlet
Yup
idle saffron
Books are tremendous, never watched the series
brisk merlin
i never touched it either
iron inlet
Yeah, they killed it at Season 7
That's when they ran out of material
But they diverged from the books super hard
idle saffron
Give the first one a try Hex - if you like that one, you like them all
iron inlet
Like Euron Greyjoy in the books is a black magic Wizard who plans to capture a dragon and kill the gods to become a god
idle saffron
Spoiler😭
iron inlet
In the show he's a dog shit pirate who bangs the Queen and then dies
winter yew
I will for sure. I'll order it in to my local library.
winter yew
😂
iron inlet
Games and prequel books
idle saffron
Series won't ever finish, and if it does I'll bet there is a partner writer involved
Publisher will eventually force the issue
iron inlet
Supposedly he's nearly done
idle saffron
He has said that for 10 years
iron inlet
I think he's trying really hard to make the ending satisfying
idle saffron
Shades of Stephen King and the dark tower
iron inlet
Considering the recent flop of the series finale
idle saffron
I think he lost the flow
iron inlet
Wouldn't surprise me
idle saffron
Winds of winter was supposed to be 2015-2017 release
iron inlet
Now it's what 2020-2022 or something
idle saffron
😭
idle saffron
Slipped lighting the brazier in the middle of a storm
winter yew
This is me crossing a bridge
idle saffron
Euro Goodies?
winter yew
I think it was corn tbh
idle saffron
Hex is smuggling prostitutes
winter yew
cinder vessel
the corniest prostitutes
idle saffron
After you do the weekend event
winter yew
Yes!
winter yew
Which what game is that?
idle saffron
Gears 5
austere lance
It's tied with 2 and 3 for me
austere lance
I'm impressed, Spirit's been in every cave within 300m of her pod in Subnautica and not found a single bit of sulfur 😆
austere lance
Cal is gonna lose a limb confirmed xD
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/11/5/20948530/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-dismember-stormtroopers-respawn-entertainment-lucasfilm
Everybody in Star Wars loses hands, only Darth Maul was cool enough to lose both legs and get magic metal ones from space witches. Wait a minute, you go to the space witch planet in Jedi Fallen Order 👀
idle saffron
I don't mind the no dismemberment on troopers
They are usually stabbed or slashed afaik
As long as I can reflect their shots back with my saber I'll be good
Although a dark side game like MG Revengeance would be crazy fun
austere lance
There's plenty of deflecting, lol
austere lance
@idle saffron I just want to play as Vader in that one scene from Rogue One 😆
austere lance
Can I just say that quickbar slots in Subnautica are frustrating af
austere lance
I'm still annoyed that there's zero ways to defend yourself from the 500 Stalkers that live within 100 meters of your pod
Like, I have a knife. Lemme put it on a pole and stab angry creatures
Also, apparently the Xbox version gives you a ton less resources anywhere near your pod. I thought it was weird that I was spending that long looking for stuff like Lead and according to Reddit it's a common issue
winter yew
:\
the best way to get the stalkers to leave you alone IMO is to distract them with some scrap metal if you can
and dont go around them at night, they are more aggressive
austere lance
Spirit legit just had to go 400+ meters to find a sandstone rock thing
winter yew
you could also keep them busy by feeding them any catchable fish 😐
austere lance
I had to go that far earlier to find limestone 😆
winter yew
oh gosh
austere lance
Yeah it's ridiculously resource-dead in our version of the game
winter yew
that's no good
i could've sworn resources regenerated at some point
but i guess not
austere lance
They didn't exist in the first place 😬
How on earth did this game make it out of Early Access, lol. It freezes every once a while when you go out of water, the Xbox version has basically zero resources within 300 meters of the crash sight, Stalkers can glitch themselves into tiny spaces and kill you, and building a compartment on somewhere that has a hatch destroys the hatch and doesn't give you the resources back
And sometimes touching your pod does a tiny amount of damage to you and rockets you 350 meters away 😂
winter yew
Well it is a Unity game I believe lol
austere lance
Bruh the big tower just ||fuckin lasered the rescue ship 😱||
raven frost
@austere lance Subnautica runs likr dogshit and it's one of the reasons I despise it
austere lance
It's pretty bad on Xbox, idk how bad it is on pc
Shouldn't it run better on pc, lol?
@raven frost
austere lance
Apparently Death Stranding becomes less of a slog once you hit chapter 3, just saw a Kotaku thing saying to blaze through the story/don't bother with side stuff til then.
I figured if they're already crying about it being slow there's probably some 😴 wall stopping progression before then
You must persist, grasshoppers
brisk merlin
on my pc it was fine
(subnautica)
idk if i got lucky because some others also said about issues
willow crypt
Was fine for me on PS4 pro
cinder vessel
Hit me with your non-Nintendo digital only Switch exclusives
austere lance
Do those even exist
wet warren
Yeah I can agree with the Xbox side of Subnautica. It takes way longer then it should to load up a save file, frame rate is not the best, several annoying bugs, and the game has a hard time rendering in the terrain when I use the Seamoth so I always end up seeing the void below
echo hill
@full pivot you played yet?
cinder vessel
😐 So, fuck me, I get a Switch, after having been kinda on the fence about it to begin with, right? And damned if the thing doesn't of course have a dead pixel in the screen, and not in an easy to ignore place either
I'm gonna swing back by the shop I got it from and see if they won't let me check whatever other models they have and just swap it out if I can find one without a dead pixel in a noticeable position
full pivot
@echo hill I have!! I was just gonna watch the opening and ended up playing 3 hours haha
echo hill
Thoughts so far?
full pivot
Runs really well on the base ps4 considering I couldnt tell the images were rendered or photos at the beginning haha
And I'm sold; and not in the way I was originally playing it for
full pivot
Oh I was basically treating it like EDF
But instead of defense it would be delivery
Reviews are usually worthless for me though because what other people care about I don't and vice versa
full pivot
I'm also playing on Hard just so everyone knows 😝
cinder vessel
I'm a little more curious about the super chill mode tbh
cinder vessel
Like I don't know how that game would play without the light challenge
cinder vessel
I'm thinking I may definitely pick it up later, but given I just picked up Outer Worlds I'm kinda hrrm about another full price game so soon
full pivot
I'll get flak for it but I mildly regret getting Outer Worlds
I should have trusted my instincts
cinder vessel
So far I'm sorta in similar position with it. It's totally fine, but it's also just fine. Not much of it has really surprised me, but I'm not disappointed as that's what the more lukewarm reviews themselves basically said, and even the gameplay videos suggested as much.
full pivot
For me it has the same things that TES Morrowind thru Skyrim, and Fallout 3s had; which is just not my cup of tea
I learned that scrounging through the first bandit camp haha
cinder vessel
Right, at most I'm just happy to experience those sorts of things with fewer bugs I guess
full pivot
As alluded to earlier; bugs are something I don't care that much about
cinder vessel
In my experience with those specific games, it was often literally intermittent crashes to desktop, so not something I could just ignore or work around very much, lol
full pivot
To an extent, if you can't go 12 seconds without something ridiculous then I care
But like a glitch one in a while doesn't matter
cinder vessel
yeah, occasional horse clipping through ground, whatever, dumb af but doesn't impede gameplay much (typically)
trying to do a quest but keep crashing every other step of it? fffuuu
full pivot
I'm always reminded of Kings Quest 8; which was a game during the magical time people seem to think games were flawless lately haha
Not only was it anathema to everything KQ was before that; it had a game breaking bug in the second world
This was back in dialup days too
Apparently tied to this bug, if I remember correctly, were unnecessarily long load times
cinder vessel
oof
full pivot
I just always remember that game when people act like buggy games are a new thing
Starsiege had a lot of issues from what I remember too
cinder vessel
Understandable, I think of more recent games that people have begun thinking overly fondly of, like PS2 gen games like Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, had a progress blocking bug if you saved at some point towards the end
full pivot
Not to mention compatibility was so terrible back in the 90s that on a CD of 250 shareware titles it was very hit or miss if any of them would run
cinder vessel
Don't have this specific GPU or audio card? Welp no play!
full pivot
That's why DirectX was such a big deal originally
Also I mean they "patched" it out persay but donkey Kong 64 had a game breaking bug that was only fixed by additional hardware that made it cost more haha
Imagine a dev doing that now 😝
cinder vessel
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was sorta similar, from what I gather, where they basically sold an incomplete game only really completed when connected with Sonic & Knuckles
full pivot
Ultimately its just not something that bothers me
If it did I would stop buying games from those companies
winter yew
you can't skin dogs in rdr2 right?
one attacked me, i kicked its ass, didn't want to shoot it, but dunno if it's dead or what.
and if he's not dead, that's why i can't skin him, you know, alive, or you just can't skin dogs in general.
full pivot
Its a good thing the game doesnt prevent anything like that 
Might have to rant about it 
crisp sparrow
Nuclear Throne is so fun and satisfying
rigid haven
You got it on Epic, yeah?
winter yew
So I totally couldn't skin that one.
It was like a proper dog, not a coyote or a wolf.
If you can skin regular ol pooches in this game, that would mean, it wasn't dead, and I just kicked it into unconsciousness?
crisp sparrow
@rigid haven yep, free
rigid haven
Good
winter yew
I especially didn't want to blast it with a sawed off. His owner went berserk on me, shot him with a sawed off, but due to it being inaccurate as fuck, he just landed on his ass, dropped the gun and ran off, then his dog started attacking me. I mean, It's between me and this angry feller, dog, this shouldn't concern you.
But alas, he was a god damn dog, so he couldn't understand, so I had to kick him. 😄
full pivot
You coulda died, you had options
winter yew
Not angering some random farmer out in the fields with a faithful companion, would be the best one.
But things escalated, not because of me at that. 😄
idle saffron
Maybe I am misremembering, but I was pretty sure you can skin them
winter yew
At least I'm fairly certain that nobody died.
tame coral
Can you skin people in rdr2?
rigid haven
No why woudl you do that
raven frost
time to get my ass rammed in crucible again
wheeeee
16/25
oh scuse me, 19/25
fuck, what?
was I doing good?
fluid hare
Shaxx probably would think so.
raven frost
I DID IT
cinder vessel
congrats!
raven frost
it is done.
brisk merlin
noice
austere lance
You can't skin people in RDR 2 but there are cannibals, lol
raven frost
you know I just realized, this is the first time I've actually followed through with an exotic quest
austere lance
Cannibals in Red Dead are basically a tradition at this point, they were in the first Redemption too 😆
raven frost
I have a shit ton in my inventory waiting to be done
austere lance
Can't remember if there were any in Red Dead Revolver
Hold off on exotic quests til you're 900, you'll need the Light boost they give you
brisk merlin
as you can see, 903
cinder vessel
9001
echo hill
It's over 9000
iron inlet
A few people are over 1000 light level now
I never thought I'd see a four figure level in Destiny but here we are
Back in Taken King when they made max light 320 we were joking about Destiny 7 and being light level 1000 but here we are, it's 4 years later and we're there
austere lance
Damn, and I thought the 999 guy was pushing it
iron inlet
Well yeah, he's the guy who's over 1000 now
Bagel4k and Zudah are both over 1000
Thanks to the pinnacle gear changes
Imagine being a god
elder sparrow
I do, it's called LeVayan Satanism 😄
iron inlet
austere lance
I just went inside the massive alien weapon/facility in Subnautica
brisk merlin
the precursors are c o o l
austere lance
They freaky
winter yew
sp00ky
willow crypt
It's so filled with mystery and wonder
brisk merlin
minecraft lookin funky
raven frost
rigid haven
fuckin ROBLOX
raven frost
(I was gonna add in glare and radial blur and all that but it's late and I want to go to bed)
echo hill
Well fuck
I forgot to upload my save of Spiderman PS4 before I sold my old ps4
So now I've got the game on my PS4 pro but no progress
I feel not smart
cinder vessel
oof
austere lance
Does it not upload automatically
cinder vessel
I really like Spidey, but honestly the Spidey in the PS4 version doesn't click with me very much
cinder vessel
They definitely seem to have put a lot on Parvati's character
I've been wanting to follow up on Max's stuff but they kinda push that further back given where it takes you
crisp sparrow
max's storyline is quicker to finish up vs parvati, hers drags to the very end
also once you do finish max's storyline then the ambient dialogues in between crew also change and its hilarious
cinder vessel
does SAM even have a storyline to dig into, lol
crisp sparrow
nope 😦
crisp sparrow
Ellie's story is kinda funny to deal with
felix was meh
dunno why reddit obsesses over Felix so much, maybe because he's cute dumb?
cinder vessel
They do? Huh
crisp sparrow
yea at least from what I saw, lot of people mained Felix in their party
cinder vessel
I thought they'd be more into SAM or something
cinder vessel
I haven't really had any of those fire off yet
crisp sparrow
Parvati's ability is best, crowd control
she whips out her impact hammer and hits a crowd, damaging and stunning them
rest of them just hit 1 target
not all that useful
cinder vessel
lately I've just been rolling with Ellie & Max 'cause Parvati is too obvious
crisp sparrow
Ellie and Max's banter with each other is hilarious
cinder vessel
but yeah, at this point I'm kinda like, yeah this woulda been fine to pick up later, half off
crisp sparrow
I pirated it anyway
cinder vessel
lol
crisp sparrow
can't buy game pass because my crappy indian debit card dont work
and no way would I buy from epic store (which is impossible anyway, they dont support indian payment)
cinder vessel
Basically a sorta fair game situation all things considering
iron inlet
I never used the companion abilities
If they were automatic I'd use them
But CBA doing it manually
crisp sparrow
I'd quickly spam it whenever I'd get in a battle
cinder vessel
Oh yeah, manual. I kinda forget you have controls for them tbh
winter yew
it's blockland as fuck.
tender fiber
BLOCKLAMD?
full pivot
so i actually love Death Stranding
unfortunately i forgot to record my takedown
the animation is different now tho
winter yew
ahh
willow crypt
How rude
bronze wind
Can someone erase Senua's Sacrifice from my brain so I can play it fresh again
willow crypt
No can do
bronze wind
damn
cinder vessel
Ask Gleam to, I think they're down to absorb all the Senua's Sacrifice memories
austere lance
full pivot
death stranding is weird
austere lance
Why is this a thing 😂
full pivot
that's part of why i love it
who cares
why is any of it a thing
once there was an explosion
willow crypt
Good
reef storm
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=sxeS3K7YFEkPwePt - Shenmue I & II
whoever wants it.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=BurZxqFVSXFSTThv - Evergarden (some simple puzzle style game)
cinder vessel
Not sure Evergarden is that simple, sounded like it had some hidden depth from what I'd seen of it
Also Death Stranding is mild weird tbh, lol
raven frost
turns out there is a tool that allows you to convert old blockland saves into brickadia's format
austere lance
Yesterday was a sacred holiday 🙏
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/gaming-today-marks-15-years-since-halo-2-was-released-20191109
cinder vessel
So. Daemon x Machina is fucking brilliant
willow crypt
So this might be strange to say, but at times, the aesthetic of the ground/rock textures in The Outer Worlds is quite similar to old school NMS textures
crisp sparrow
hahaha
sly sand
this is amazing https://www.roadtovr.com/hands-on-wolves-in-the-walls/
winter yew
I love that bridge.
winter yew
i hate this motherfucking game with all of my heart, I fucking swear to god...
Didn't think that this pathetic kind of fucking despawning would still happen, but what do you know, it's a motherfucking rockstar game still.
winter yew
Get fucking dicked over 8 times in a row and then we'll see.
this fucking wagon despawning because it went around a corner is just a fucking cunting cherry on top.
full pivot
alright you don't have to swear so much though
winter yew
It fucking helps you know?
lost 4 good wolf pelts, cause they just dissapeared from the fkn ass of my horse.
cause of course they did.
full pivot
but its just a game yknow?
winter yew
I got attacked by bounty hunters 4 times in a row, cause fun times forever.
lost a wolf I was carrying aswell, and now this wagon i was going to sell fucking despawned aswell cause fuck me.
Yeah it's just a game
that I'm not investing MY FUCKING TIME IN
and this fucking time gets fucking wasted all the time because of games BULLSHIT.
I got ganked by bounty hunters over a $300 bounty earlier, I know the feeling 😦
idle saffron
Start paying off your bounties 🤷
winter yew
Lmao it was from one incident that I won’t get into because it’s a spoiler
Involved breaking someone out of a jail
hard when you can't make any money. Hence wolf pelts, hence wolfs, hence defending myself all the time. And yeah i still have those 3 hundos from that said "incident".
So yeah it was a hefty ass fine
I just did a few other missions and got money that way
ran out of money, my only fucking quest is near blackwater, went there once, and game fucking bitched to me about crimes i commited.
Bought myself some new clothes with the remaining bit then went back to hunting deer
WELL DUH, FROM WHAT I GATHERED I ROBBED A BOAT. HOW THE FUCK DO I ATTONE FOR THAT.
idle saffron
If this is how you feel now, this game is really going to piss you off later
winter yew
Outside of Valentine I trespassed on some guys yard and his bull attacked me
but seriously how do I progress with this quest. Do I need to pay these 3 hundos?
So I shot the bull and then the guy because he started shooting me.
And yes
Well, shit.
glad this game forced a 300 bounty on my ass, and then hid a fkn main quest behind it.
Soo I would suggest hunt close to a butcher
full pivot
play Death Stranding; its a more chill experience (sometimes)
winter yew
Or whoever buys skins and stuff
Oh i'd love to, but no console.
From what I gathered so far, it's much less stressful. well apart from the bt bullshit.
I’m mostly having issues with my satchel always being full
oh yeah, and you being unable to sell shit, because nobody buys half this crap. 😄
idle saffron
Fence
winter yew
not even them.
I don’t see how you can understand the capacity of your satchel
like I haven't seen anyone who'd buy tabbaco for example.
There’s some guys working on a house or whatever, just west of Valentine, they might buy it.
idle saffron
Nah, smoke it
winter yew
oh yeah, encountered them once.
idle saffron
You are a smoker
winter yew
Went by there earlier and a tree fell on a guy and it destroyed his legs
welp a wagon just ran over a cardinal
somehow.
I always find it amusing when my horse tramples wildlife
Like OOPS
but a bird. 😄
Oh dang
like, whatchu doing in the middle of a road. 😄
And there’s tons of foxes
btw how does one not terrible quality all the time.
So all in hear is YIP! AAAHHH!!
You need to use the correct gun and shoot them in the head
I even tried headshotting with bows, still terrible leather and animal in general.
When you study the animals it tells you what to use