🎮│game

[outer pollen]

I played 1 match of Team Fortress 2 long ago, the enemy team was just trapped inside the spawn point that wouldn’t open for them

[small comet]

i wish apex had titans... it would be a nice titanfall FFA

[pastel bolt]

They're both good for different reasons but I wouldn't directly compare them

[small comet]

hm not really

imo it might add a nice spin

imagine theres some way to get a titan down and basically create a challenge in late/mid of a round

but yes its true they forgot TF was its own franchise outside of Apex

[vapid lintel]

That's right - Hat Simulator

[fading spade]

I agree

[feral ferry]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/indiana-jones-game-sparks-outrage-for-depiction-of-violence-against-nazis/

Poor nazis 🥹

[orchid prism]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24314464/ifixit-now-sells-official-xbox-parts
Interesting

[hasty belfry]

Nice, problem is every Xbox is a ticking bomb anyway. Neither the Xbox One or Series can ever be used without first connecting to the internet so in the future they will all be bricks.

[orchid prism]

Eh - I'm confident we'll find a solution by then. Not like they're going to shut down service within the next decade.

Bigger concern is weird, proprietary SSDs (or soldered ones like the PS5)

[feral ferry]

Is anyone trying to figure out an emulator for Xbox Series consoles?

They have virtually no exclusives, there's no real need to do that

[verbal nymph]

I feel like that'll be a waste

[bleak pike]

I have a 3080

[feral ferry]

Prolly why I haven't heard of one

[bleak pike]

And AMD frame gen is poo

[feral ferry]

FSR3 is quite a bit worse than DLSS3, yes

AFMF2 though was kinda insanely good from my limited testing of it

[fringe salmon]

That’s just not the case fsr3 is about the same since months after the last patches and takes less render time so has a lower impact on fps which is much more important to not notice it

[feral ferry]

I am merely speaking from my experience

Granted, my experience of FSR3 is of Stalker 2 which runs at like 40FPS at best

And I AFMF2'd.. Jurrasic Part Evolution 2 I think? Which was 90 FPS aroundish

I could not see ghosting in Evo2 with AFMF2 even if I tried

In Stalker 2 FSR3 was very apparent with ghosting, DLSS3 I had to make up en edge case scenario where I noticed it

[fringe salmon]

Both fsr3 and dlss3 dev guides say to not use it below 60fps baseline

[feral ferry]

+60% effective frames is 60% extra frames, if it gives me perf, that's all that matters

[fringe salmon]

Also keep in mind the upscaler matters if it’s still tied in that game

So dlss upscaling and fsr3 would be the best non native result from what we have atm

[feral ferry]

Looking forwards to CES where hopefully they'll greatly improve their technology stack

And then there's always Nvidia who always pull out something out of their ass that people start to fawn over

More frames is more frames, that's all that matters

[pure bear]

the more you render the more you see

[feral ferry]

I wish he actually said that

https://tenor.com/view/nvidia-jensen-huang-the-more-you-buy-the-more-you-save-keynote-2018-gif-12315008507302833354

[vapid lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/thanks-steve-intel-gamers-nexus-thanks-steve-gif-2570818544130153718

This single meme propelled her to CEO - Don't let your dreams be memes, but if they are, then use them to your political advantage.

[pure bear]

why didnt "oh hi mark" propel you yet

[vapid lintel]

Whose to say it didn't?

*Who's?

That one always trips me up

[feral ferry]

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-boss-of-stalker-2-dev-gsc-game-world-didnt-expect-such-a-positive-response-from-players-given-the-bugs-insists-it-was-impossible-to-have-delayed-the-game-again

Meh I agree, I think it launched in a.. passable state

Not good, not great, just somewhat acceptable

I just really hope for longevity

[grizzled bramble]

I really would want to play it but would probably have to mod it to get the experience i'd want

[hasty belfry]

Most games ship in a dogshit state, if the public perception and sales are overall good they can invest some more dev time into fixing it, if the public perception and sales are bad they can abandon ship without having invested money into polishing a turd.

[small comet]

if they pull a no mans sky then itll turn out alright

also not like the old stalker games arent timeless classics

[grizzled bramble]

Yeah but Stalker 2 modders really is helping it and also the patches from the developer also helps

[hasty belfry]

Is there any other game than No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 that got actually became a good game years after release? Maybe Diablo 3?

[small comet]

need to wait for mods to update to 1.0.3

[feral ferry]

I agreed with Quin's opinion that the reason they shipped in this state is virtually cause of lack of money

GSC reopened well, nearly 10 years ago now, they launched 1 moderately successful game, Cossacks 3, and suddenly went to develop what can only be described as AAA

[grizzled bramble]

Didn't have a problem with Cyberpunk from day one even with the DLC

[feral ferry]

2016 iirc was Cossacks 3?

[pure bear]

they also had to flee a fucking war

i cut them some slack

[grizzled bramble]

Yup

[small comet]

ngl stalker2 is what i really wanted out of games lately

[feral ferry]

Yeah, war, money troubles, lack of funding I'd say, depending on how much Microsoft bankrolled them

But yeah I'm honestly happy with what they delivered

Just waiting for mods for content

[small comet]

im mainly waiting for a patch that lets me have more than 25 saves

idk why a console focused limit is on PC

[grizzled bramble]

I've seen some videos of Stalker 2 and i do really want to start exploring the world but it's just not there yet with the patches

[small comet]

speaking of cant sync my cyberpunk saves to gog cause they are over 4gb in total

[feral ferry]

Technically the game does have more than 25 saves I think, it's the autosaves and quicksaves, they just overwrite the previous ones

[grizzled bramble]

Usually buy games from day 1 but life happens and one gets busy

[small comet]

yeah i meant manual save slots

[feral ferry]

Eh yeah I see why, especially if you are a game tester or something

[hasty belfry]

My original Xbox 8GB harddrive is full with only Morrowind saves 😄

[small comet]

yeah well id love to just have diskspace used by saves be my issue as a pc gamer

if i want 400gb of save games that should be my choice imo

[hasty belfry]

Idd

[feral ferry]

I remember Paradox games consuming well over a gigabyte in savegame data lol

I actually need to check how big Stalker's are

[small comet]

rn the only way to go over 25 saves is manually moving them out of the save folder

and moving them back in when needed

[hasty belfry]

Very consumer friendly

[small comet]

i do get it though that they focused on making it work on all platforms first

and im almost certain a future patch or mod removes the limit

[hasty belfry]

Most likely just an oversight

[feral ferry]

These are quite small

[small comet]

ye exactly

[feral ferry]

Paradox savegames are at least 10x the size of these lol

[small comet]

cyberpunk saves get massive if you stash a lot

[feral ferry]

I honestly feel a lot for the programmers who have to design savegame systems

They are kinda nuts

[small comet]

depends tbh

if you literally just dump the gamestate into a file

thats also a save system

[novel estuary]

whatever you do, you do something wrong probably 😄

[small comet]

one of the few truths when working in IT

[hasty belfry]

Do nothing and everyone is happy?

[bleak pike]

rude

[scarlet marlin]

guess they gotta reach out to discord to up the member numbers

which I think they will happily do

[maiden tulip]

Wot dis

[proper basin]

Marvel rivals

[sinful cobalt]

[vapid lintel]

Why would anyone want to be in a discord server of more than 100k people?

Oh wait..

[proper basin]

we'l get there

[scarlet marlin]

200k incoming

[bleak pike]

we must protect at all costs

[scarlet marlin]

JEFF

[proper basin]

jeff is very strong

[quiet vault]

u get free ingame stuff

[maiden tulip]

I'll say this doesn't feel like a 100k seevee

Most people are just here to look at batch updates

And don't talk

[proper basin]

most who are in servers are usually lurkers

[vapid lintel]

Actually our server's engagement is well above average

[maiden tulip]

And then there's people like me who just stick to side channels because general is scary

[vapid lintel]

Oh wait I lied

It's retention that's above average

Y'all do be lurkers

Well most, anyway

[proper basin]

tech is usually my favorite channel to browse

[vapid lintel]

Some of you are seriously chatty Cathy's

Well over 2,000 messages a day in #💬│general

[maiden tulip]

General is uh...

scary

[pure bear]

most of the time its chill

[maiden tulip]

too much fortnite

[pure bear]

just when the fortnite kids had their gamer supps it can get annoying

but they usually tire of the server after a few days - tiktok brain does have advantadges

[vapid lintel]

True that

[maiden tulip]

fortnite double movement no workies!!!!

[vapid lintel]

Clear as day when a big Youtuber makes a flashy post, then they all fuck off a few days later

[proper basin]

tiktok going crazy

[vapid lintel]

50% of the server has been here 6 months or less

[pure bear]

crazy

[maiden tulip]

I'll have been here a year soon

woah

In 21 days

[fringe salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/-gif-10093620

[vapid lintel]

I remember back when you first joined Dashi, you got wrapped up in two particular troublemakers causing trouble

[grizzled bramble]

I do miss V though

[maiden tulip]

hehe

[vapid lintel]

That's the issue with troublemakers, they set the tone for what is appropriate and cause others to show their worst selves

[maiden tulip]

I mean I just saw people shitpost and was like Oh well shitposting is clearly allowed

[vapid lintel]

Reasonable

[pure bear]

i mean it kinda is

some just take it too far

[vapid lintel]

Then I came down on them like a ton of bricks and you were an unfortunate casualty of war

[pure bear]

[proper basin]

[vapid lintel]

That's it, your poop color is going stale

[pure bear]

again?

[maiden tulip]

collateral damage

[maiden tulip]

When do I get a moumou color

[vapid lintel]

The color of angry

[maiden tulip]

Awesome

[digital dawn]

only us taks get a special role

we’re special :)

[maiden tulip]

Nuh huh Mark just said I get the color of angy

[digital dawn]

I just noticed

why is the tak role morphing?

is keeps getting darker

[maiden tulip]

#🎮│game message

[digital dawn]

oh lmao

[vapid lintel]

There will come a day of rekoning for the Taks

[orchid prism]

No Taktober

[pure bear]

why? what have we innocent taks ever done

[digital dawn]

post frog

[pure bear]

👀

that never happened

[maiden tulip]

posting frogs is mean

[sinful cobalt]

[dapper scarab]

is anyone getting lower fps than expected in marvel rivals

[digital dawn]

its not just you

a lot of people have complaints about the optimization

[dapper scarab]

it’s a fun game i hope they fix it soon

[maiden tulip]

If you're on amd this was in the latest driver notes

Intermittent stutter may be observed while playing Marvel Rivals when AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 frame generation is enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to disable AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 frame generation in the per-game settings as a temporary workaround.

[dapper scarab]

im on nvidia

[maiden tulip]

then idk

[quiet vault]

there isnt a way to make it like lowres

[proper basin]

Good pin

[sinful cobalt]

[vapid lintel]

@bleak pike Why, I oughta.... shakes fist

[solid robin]

yo guys, for fps, should I use socd or rappy?

[pure bear]

#TakTakeover

[vapid lintel]

I like to use Rappy Snappy for L4D2

[solid robin]

what really is the difference?

if I like to spam strafing like in overwatch, just adadad, which one is better?

[vapid lintel]

There's a pinned message in #⏬│rappy_and_snappy that explains the difference

[tiny hound]

has anyone tried playing rivals with analog yett?

[vapid lintel]

I don't want to fat finger changing direction so I use the depth based comparison

[bleak pike]

never thought i would be doing this

Im desperate for a new addiction

[pure bear]

tried heroin?

[proud turret]

haha

[bleak pike]

Also Marvel thingies runs like poop

[tiny hound]

the analog is working fine but i cant find the setting so it stops spam swapping icons and saying "swapping devices " at the top

If the setting even exist

[bleak pike]

Bruh its $25 for a skin bundle

$45 for another

There are 3 different currencies

[quiet vault]

its not that hard

[bleak pike]

"I AM GROOOOOT!!!"

Not anymore you aren't xd

[feral ferry]

https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/gaming/indiana-jones-und-der-grosse-kreis-benchmark-test.90500/

Well this is funny

[bleak pike]

If anyone plays marvel rivals use my assemble code xo 501639105

[feral ferry]

I wonder what the cards below A770 all have in common

[bleak pike]

is that fps?....

[feral ferry]

Cards below 12GB got shafted massively

[bleak pike]

23 fps on a 3080?

[feral ferry]

3080 only has 10GB

Unless it's like that rare 20GB model

[bleak pike]

right i get that

im confirming if im reading right here

[feral ferry]

Actually incredible lol

[bleak pike]

23 fps

for real?

[feral ferry]

AMD is beating NV in raytracing lol

Just cause Nvidia ran out of VRAM

[pure bear]

hehe

finally that vram greed biting em

[bleak pike]

Thats gotta be a borked build

[fringe salmon]

nope

[feral ferry]

That's how lack of VRAM looks in 2024

Never thought I'll live to see the day

[bleak pike]

what about the 3090

[feral ferry]

Well that one's 24 so it'll do fine

[bleak pike]

i hate modern gaming

[fringe salmon]

this isnt a modern gaming thing

it used to be much faster that cards needed newer harder

[pure bear]

newer harder fpser

[feral ferry]

I am actually happy, Nvidia now has to give peeps more than 8GBs of VRAM

[fringe salmon]

lol no they dont

they just make you buy a newer card

[feral ferry]

Oh lord imagine RTX 5060 8GB is announced and they don't mention this game at all

Cause it'll perform worse than Intel's 250$ card

[bleak pike]

but but

dlss will fix it

/s

[feral ferry]

No it'll make it worse I imagine, cause DLSS actually occupies even more VRAM

Damn, VRAM exhaustion in the flesh, I've never thought I'll ever see this

[pure bear]

just solder more vram onto it duh

[feral ferry]

Unironically a thing with 3080 iirc

[lone raptor]

Yeah, 12gb isn't enough

[bleak pike]

holy hell i smoked them

32 kill streak

[buoyant osprey]

Oh no no no

[buoyant osprey]

So 12 gb is not enough at 1080p rt?

[fringe salmon]

it depends on the rest of the card, 6700xt has 12gb too

[bleak pike]

Oh they are rt benchies

what about none rt

[fringe salmon]

the game has base rt features

[maiden tulip]

I bought the game

Curious to try it out but i bought the basic bitch edition so i cant play it yet

[maiden tulip]

That doesn't exist

[maiden tulip]

Curious to see the vram usage at 4k

[maiden tulip]

Whats an assemble code

Nico made me install the marvel overwatch clone thing

I havent tried it yet

[bleak pike]

Before you enter your name click the bottom right or F1

It's a referral thing :p

Treyarch uses AI to make loading screens XD

[maiden tulip]

I think it's 6 like

For black ops 6

Just like l4d1 had 1 finger and l4d2 had 2

[upbeat oracle]

i wish l4d3 comes out some day

[sinful cobalt]

Half life 3

[upbeat oracle]

i know l4d2 is such an old game to play in 2024 but ot's really fun to me

[upbeat oracle]

half life 3 🛐

[sinful cobalt]

Its fun with friends and with mods on solo

[upbeat oracle]

ye ye

those addon maps are really fun

one of my fav is toyz 4

[sinful cobalt]

Even payday 2 is fun with friends and with mods

[outer pollen]

https://youtu.be/ckFLOcCsO_I?si=OLrA7EMXDNxZnGlI

@proper basin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQsYplV7Ik&ab_channel=DarckLegacy[Tkn]

[grizzled quarry]

hawkeye is uhh

busted asf

his ult is absurd

[outer pollen]

What's so hard about capturing a point

[maiden tulip]

what is this game

[outer pollen]

Delta Force

[sinful cobalt]

And the sauce has been dropped

Uhm

Okay i might gonna stay way from the game

[outer pollen]

Why :c

[sinful cobalt]

https://intl.anticheatexpert.com/#/solutions/pc-security this anticheat looks sus

[outer pollen]

[sinful cobalt]

[maiden tulip]

Marvel rivals best game

I get to play as JEFF

ima main this little goober

[outer pollen]

Mango is really really good at Jeff

Was duoing with them for a bit yesterday

[maiden tulip]

Im getting mvp as jeff

jeff pog

[outer pollen]

I’ve just been using Mantis and Loki

When I can since no one ever wants to tank

[sinful cobalt]

Gura

[outer pollen]

Are you buying the skin?

[maiden tulip]

yes

i need it

[outer pollen]

So cute

[maiden tulip]

i'm gonna be a loser and buy a microtransaction for the first time in years

All because of a virtual shark

[sinful cobalt]

Okay thats cute

[maiden tulip]

Named jeff

[outer pollen]

As long as you’re having fun I don’t see a problem

[sinful cobalt]

Me who spent another 24$ on osu!supporter

[sinful cobalt]

Its just one click

[outer pollen]

That’s cute

@grave granite it’s over dude The Reptilian and this in a bush overlooking a compound

[still spire]

lol

Made me think of my new Marlin

[sinful cobalt]

[outer pollen]

I’ll never forget how they lied though

[slim token]

they made a decent game get over it

[sinful cobalt]

I mean who isnt

[buoyant osprey]

I remember the guy saying you could see other players or something which wasn't true at all.

[upbeat oracle]

mesmerized miku

[still spire]

Eh

Decent is very debatable,m it's stil a very mediocre game I'd say

And yeah, Sean Murray lied on national TV several times...and never had actually apologized for doing so.

That's my thing. Make a public apology. Admit you lied. The most he's done is said he "overestimated" , won't use the big L word.

[outer pollen]

I hate running into a sniper team worst shit ever

Yeah idk what his goal is; I think they’re just trying to speed up hunt even more

Don’t forget they’re also adding that new perk that lets you reload single shot rifles faster

And that Maynard is a single shot

Gekko should have been a girl

[feral ferry]

If anyone has ever played games like World of Tanks or Armored Warfare, hell, even War Thunder, there's a new game coming out soon in that genre https://steelaces.com/

It's basically an indie game that's been cooking for a few years now, I've been following the development of it closely

Devs are players that got really fed up with horrid gameplay and monetization decisions that Wargaming and Gaijin have done, and vowed to create an actually fun game

Beta starts in 7 days so, if you care, wishlist or something

[outer pollen]

Wowowow I’ll show it to my co worker

[wooden burrow]

what are ur guys favorite games to play on pc? im new to pc so im finally trying every game i can out lol

[feral ferry]

https://www.smashjt.com/post/exclusive-obsidian-whistleblower-leaks-damaging-internal-matt-hansen-slack-messages

I am confused with this "drama"

Musk and Grummz the idiot complain about pronouns, internally the devs laugh about it

And that's.. toxic?

I fail to notice toxic culture

Is this the left/right American dichotomy and they are just fighting over anything nowadays

[orchid prism]

Dumb problems require dumber solutions. I accidentally ran my main bus through a massive coal deposit. And I need to be able to keep mining it out 😄

[fringe salmon]

Smashjt is another of the grifters that sucks grummz boots, you can ignore all of this

[feral ferry]

This only became known to me cause of Chris Avellone sharing it lol, he seems to have a bone to pick with Obsidian

Grummz seems like a generational dumbass on the shit he posts, so ignoring it

I still remember this

Ignoring that Beth's start screens were like that since.. Morrowind at least

[fringe salmon]

He’s a pathetic looser who tries to retain relevancy in his online grifter circle because his projects always fail and his family left him

[bleak pike]

A little

[still spire]

https://fxtwitter.com/gmanlives/status/1865118018403278925

[feral ferry]

People were complaining about that btw

Useless feature
Achievement padding
Indy would never use a camera

[still spire]

Fudds

[fringe salmon]

Simple solution is make a mod that makes him draw the cat instead. Just locks the player in a unstoppable cutscene of 15 minutes

[orchid prism]

Kind of, kind of not. Starfield's menu feels very clinical and minimalist - but not in a way that fits the theme as much as say Morrowind or Skyrim.

They were clearly going for a spaceship clean look. But it's just TOO minimalist.

[feral ferry]

Wdym minimalist, it's basically Skyrim's

And that's "one of best games of all time"

They added the updates menu to it and creation button over time, but.. how's this a problem to bitch about

Grummz should stop scamming people with failed Kickstarters

[orchid prism]

God - Does Skyrim look like that on a high res monitor? I had forgotten. I remember the elements being MUCH larger.

[feral ferry]

I.. uh. maybe?

In FHD and QHD it's okay?

[orchid prism]

This is how my brain remembers it 😄

[bleak pike]

Ye my brain remembers it that way too

[solemn grove]

Try it with my 2000+ mod modlist

[willow quiver]

yes

[solemn grove]

You play skyrim

Nah theres no way

[merry vigil]

any1 has a profil for fortnite?

[feral ferry]

lol what, it's never been that way

Not since I played it for the first time on a 1024x768 display that menu looked like that

[vital wyvern]

nah fren it was always like how it is in the og screenie haha

[orchid prism]

[bleak pike]

They are literally asking people to bot spam server invites lol

[proper basin]

@outer pollen opinion on this song? kinda chill af

[outer pollen]

The 2nd half gets really cool

I like the little yellow one

[proper basin]

Yellow one got them deep vocals

[trim rock]

https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-goes-first-person-with-ballistic-a-tactical-5v5-shooter-launching-in-early-access-dec-11 waow can't believe they're adding Counter-Strike to Fortnite!

[orchid prism]

Silly Pleasant. You better than to Lanapost.

[hasty belfry]

Fortnite Offensive

[quiet vault]

interesting

[hot spire]

Lol that's like oblivion res

[slim token]

he turned the game around over many years, people like it, that's the best apology you can give, not some hollow shell public statement

get over it

[feral ferry]

That was indeed the display we had until it died

Replaced with an FHD typical shitty 21" office panel, terrible ghosting

Which actually we still have, it's been replaced with a better 75Hz recently, but it's still somewhere

Nor Skyrim's UI, or Oblivion's actually (though that one really struggles) has scaling issues for me, on any display I've ever had up to QHD

Ah yeah it didn't scale badly on my 4K either but that was rendered in FHD on Series S

[orchid prism]

What on earth is an OSK file.

[bleak pike]

OSU

[bleak pike]

dayum son

[solemn grove]

I installed it but never got to actually trying it

I wonder if its just your usual couple month hype or not

[small comet]

ngl im a bit disappointed in the stalker 2 ending

[solemn grove]

My backlog says ill get to play it in 1.5 years

[dense gorge]

anyone playing marvel rivals and wanna squad?

[small comet]

i dont mean the narrative ending but the fact you cant keep playing after the ending you achieved

[wary juniper]

needed to upload a bigger file xd

no nitro

[small comet]

you can upload large files on our server without nitro

[solemn grove]

I hate when games force you into NG+ or just end it right there and then

[small comet]

there is no ng+ sadly

[solemn grove]

What if i still got stuff to do?

[small comet]

yeah well the last stalker2 missions cancels all side quests

[solemn grove]

Even worse but ig ng+ doesn’t make much sense for a game like this

[solemn grove]

Thats kinda messed up good thing i know now

[proper basin]

Jrpgs when the classic “theres no turning back after this!”

[solemn grove]

At least they let you know 😂

[small comet]

well its because you can only return to a save before the last quest started if you wanna free roam

[solemn grove]

Aka persona and yakuza

[proper basin]

Mario and luigi rpgs do also

Even okami warns you, since the last areas a boss rush

[grizzled bramble]

Does it warn you when your starting that in Stalker 2?

[small comet]

or if all your autosaves and the 25! save slots you have are filled with saves during the last quest youre fudged. start a new game

[proper basin]

Lotsa games

[solemn grove]

Wait so you can still save yourself? Or was the save already overwritten

[proper basin]

I think it warns you will a loading screen

[solemn grove]

So its a useless warning lol

Unless like you said you got saves ready and stuff

[small comet]

it says point of no return but i took that as my decisions are final after this point not you cant return to the zone after this quest unless you have a save before starting the quest

[solemn grove]

It should be a prompt “are you ready?”

[grizzled bramble]

I see, would be nice to have a prompt

[solemn grove]

Or at least dont force end the game

[proper basin]

They shouldve added “all sidequests and content you could possibly miss will cease to be available beyond this point, think carefully..”

[small comet]

yeah well you dont get that sadly

[proper basin]

If only

[small comet]

luckily i had an autosave before starting the last mission

oh also you get 3 game slots

[proper basin]

Autosave clutch

[small comet]

if you played through it 3 times you have to erase one

idk why the game limits all save related things so hard

[solemn grove]

Save scumming always comes in to clutch

Cant even call it save scumming in this case tho

[small comet]

3 game slots with 25 manual saves max

and auto saves get overwritten after some amount

[solemn grove]

25 isnt enough?

[small comet]

given how buggy it was i started to save quite often

which meant i ran out after the first few main quests

at like 3h game time or such

i now have almost 2d play time on the save

[solemn grove]

The heck

Do you use a new slot every time you save?

[small comet]

as i said you have 25 manual slots

[solemn grove]

Yeah im talking about those

[small comet]

yes

unless you overwrite one

[solemn grove]

Why not just do that? 😳 i do that with all my games unless i know a specific manual save can help me out later on

Otherwise i just overwrite tbh

[small comet]

well i dont know that

cause stalker has lots of hidden choices etc

npc can die

like one the guides in a settlement died early on

[solemn grove]

I see

[small comet]

so i couldnt fast travel from there

[solemn grove]

I didn’t play the game so i shouldn’t be commenting much

Oh well at least you had a save before the last missions

[small comet]

i have like a folder with 4gb of save files for cp2077

multiple playthroughs tons of save points etc

[solemn grove]

Me with skyrim

I save every 3 minutes on there

[small comet]

anyway quite sad about the game not letting you freeroam after the story finished

[solemn grove]

Skyrim fr made me obsessed with saving

Yeah thats messed up

Surely theres a mod for it? Or will be soon

[digital dawn]

marvel rivals is so peak

[little cape]

its that gud

[little cape]

@weary peak has a server for MR

[bleak pike]

pretty decemt

[orchid prism]

Space Age is just so EXTRA 😄

This steam power plant provides as much power as my massive Solar Plant array back on Nauvis.

This is half of it. It's so big I can't fit it on screen 😄

[still spire]

Destroying the environment!

[feral ferry]

Call peta on this person, he's killing the local wildlife

Greenpeace in coma

[outer pollen]

Marvel Rival leaks @maiden tulip

[still spire]

I love how their UI is directly copied from Overwatch.

[outer pollen]

https://x.com/zvis_ceral/status/1865054043225076068

VISCERAL (@zvis_ceral) on X

The Moon Knight Skin you get for playing Ranked and get at least into the Gold Rank!

#MarvelRivals #MarvelRivals募集

Twitter · Dec 6, 2024, 3:21 PM

[outer pollen]

Dude the Delta Force game my friend didn’t know if I was playing Battlefield 2049 or what lol

[still spire]

lol

[maiden tulip]

Havent tried it

How is it

[still spire]

https://youtu.be/Cgk-bvj5CkM

[outer pollen]

I’m enjoying it as a mindless shooter

[little cape]

solo queue comp is hell

i be dropping 30 kills and the randoms cant even walk straight

[outer pollen]

What role do you main so far

[little cape]

right now dps

i use to main venom before the nerf (i miss beta venom 😭 )

i peaked gold in comp during the beta wbu

[grizzled gale]

Guys which switches re best for valorant and fortnite ?

[feral ferry]

Watching some peeps play the Indiana Jones game, something that really pleasantly surprised me lol

There's like 5 tiers of "Performance metrics" and each one adds more lines to the top right screen

This is kinda awesome

[warped badge]

Remind me of doom 2016 and doom eternal 😅

[feral ferry]

Oh wait Indy is using Vulkan?

Could that be why it's actually performing well and not sucking? Cause it's not using DX12?

I remember about.. 8 to 6 years ago the consensus used to be - if Vulkan is available, pick Vulkan

[trim rock]

It's using modern idtech so yeah of course it's gonna be pretty smooth

Nothing Unreal here!

[feral ferry]

So HEAP0 is VRAM, HEAP1.. RAM I'm guessing?

Is HEAP2 CPU cache?

[warped badge]

Oh that's why it have the same system as doom 👀

[grizzled gale]

so just look at the best sound for me r?

[vital wyvern]

yes they are all exactly the same

[outer pollen]

https://youtu.be/nhsA7hmqSuQ?si=rp0pSBoDP7bOv9oW @clear osprey

[little cape]

anyone down to run marvel rivals comp?

[still spire]

https://x.com/DanielVavra/status/1864988486266159418

Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) on X

Wow. 7 years old game vs recent release 😇😮

Twitter · Dec 6, 2024, 11:01 AM

[fringe salmon]

yeee fuck that guy

[still spire]

Hm?

[verbal nymph]

Both surprisingly have less peak player too, unless steam db is not that old

[fringe salmon]

well joining the twitter rage culture to hype your own game thats currently on 95% discount at the expense of another studio is questionable at best and his replies made it clear that he didnt do that by accident lol

[trim rock]

Some people just always want to be outraged

[still spire]

How did he join the twitter rage culture?

[fringe salmon]

just a bit odd when your industry is having a year of insane layoffs and problems to join that cycle

could've compared it to literally anything else and not a game where all the grifters screamed woke dei trash at in a way that makes it look bad

[feral ferry]

Wtf did Daniel Vavra do lol

KCD had its own problems, so does Dragon Age Veilguard lol, that game is not a saint

No I don't give a shit about woke, but Veilguard has ,from what I heard, notoriously bad storywriting

KCD1 had perf issues but they did fix it, I think he's fair to be proud of that game?

[orchid prism]

https://x.com/DanielVavra/status/974529921555996672
I second the "fuck that guy" attitude. He's very anti-woke and very "umm acstjually thing and thing were not in medieval times, because I said so"

Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) on X

Czech university is gonna use our game in a course teaching medieval history. They are "very excited" about the game and our approach. Seems that nobody told them what all those self appointed tumblr experts who spent MINUTES researching Czech history on Google think about it 😉

Twitter · Mar 16, 2018, 6:16 AM

[fringe salmon]

you can be absolutely proud of an old game doing well, he very much posted that in english and compared it to veilguard when anything would have been fine to show the game is doing well vs subtweeting veilguard not being 10x higher

[orchid prism]

And you can also read between the lines, given what Veilguard and his game represent in relation to each other.

[feral ferry]

Or how about we stop politicizing games and culture warring and take it at face value for what the writer says they intended, which is being happy their.. 8 year old game I think? Is doing better than a fresh launch?

These culture wars are just annoying at this point

Live life, be happy

[orchid prism]

Sure. Don those blinkers and pretend he didn't throw rocks.

[fringe salmon]

I didnt assume that based on his tweet, I assumed it based on then looking at his replies and how his other posts are

this wasnt an accident

stop politicizing games
and no

[feral ferry]

You are the problem then

I don't care if I play KCD which is anti-woke or Starfield which plenty bitched about being woke, or appreciate the new "woke" Indy game when I've never even seen the franchise

But when everyone are shitstorming over what the other side said cause a piece of media is doing something is extremely annoying

Can't we just get along

Blatant idiots like Grummz are obviously just idiots, but I fail to see why people would just shitstorm over that tweet other than "they don't adhere to my personal beliefs"

[fringe salmon]

games are inherently political and sending messages so you cant stop politicizing them

[still spire]

Okay. What are the politics of Half Life?

[feral ferry]

I fail to see how they are inherently political until it comes down to virtue signalling

They only are when author intends it to be

[slim token]

https://tenor.com/view/aintnoway-gif-26881270

[feral ferry]

The first one or the second one?

Second one is.. quite obvious what the message is I think

First one's less so but there're still messages

[deft bloom]

yeah, was about to say

[feral ferry]

I was thinking of Silent Hill 2, the new one (the original works too)

It's such a strong game with a strong message, but.. not any of them are political

I might be wrong but I've studied that game well and it has strong themes which are up to you to interpret, but they are simply focused on human nature, not "politics"

[green dune]

If you want the word "Goomba" to lose all meaning: https://youtu.be/mcI1kUvVMYM

[tranquil salmon]

Littering is punishable by murder, the only political stance we need.

[maiden tulip]

Currently replaying silent hill 2 remake and uh that shit hits hard

[feral ferry]

Especially Angela's story is.. yeah..

[maiden tulip]

yep

[feral ferry]

I feel she was justified to do what she did

I don't think she deserves torture of Silent Hill, not like James does

Though there are theories why Angela is in Silent Hill

[maiden tulip]

Agreed

[feral ferry]

@maiden tulip Just for you, if you want, the reason Angela is supposedly in Silent Hill is ||cause she has victim's mental trauma from the whole thing with her family and she is in search of her mother to finish her off too||

Some dialogues from her do lead towards that conclusion

I.. dunno, Angela's story makes me sad

[maiden tulip]

||The mom most likely deserves to die too just for having been an enabler and not protecting her child||

[feral ferry]

Though that theory might be wrong or also right since SH doesn't care about what you did and it simply obsesses over people with guilt and trauma

But yeah that's Angela, ||she suicides at the end of the game, and I weirdly feel that's the correct choice, her life was demolished from the beginning and it just feels that Silent Hill saved her from a life of mental illness||

[maiden tulip]

||Mental illness gets manageable over time. I don't think her choice was the correct one||

[feral ferry]

With Angela's experience? I seriously doubt

||A life of rape and abuse from her brother and father, neglect from mother, the murder of both the abusers and she also probably is looking for the mother to kill too||

You don't just recover from that

[maiden tulip]

I never said recover

[feral ferry]

SH2 also heavily references "pagan" religions and well, SH1 is directly religious in its themes

I think Angela ||simply went on to live a better life in the next one||

[maiden tulip]

but yeah silent hill 2 is a great game that really manages to play with emotions

Been playing the remake and it's great (besides microstuttering)

[feral ferry]

The only character they did dirty was Eddie

Eddie was a lot more conflicting in the original

The Remake kind of portrays him one dimensionally but obviously he still has the backstory he does, just the game never tries to make him seem like he's not an antagonist

I dunno, Eddie has a sad story of his own yet it was a bit buried to make him an antagonist

[maiden tulip]

Yeah eddie was a lot more nuanced in the og

[feral ferry]

I feel though that James's voice actor needs an award for that performance though, he was incredible

And yeah I love the story with Mary, all of the guilt there and human dynamics

[maiden tulip]

Was surprised he wasn't nominated for the game awards

[feral ferry]

... He is

It's Luke Roberts

Though I think Briana White will take it based on popularity

If they recognise Luke's incredible rendition though, he has to take it imo

[maiden tulip]

I'm stoopid i guess

[feral ferry]

No you are not

Everybody makes mistakes

Value yourself

[pure bear]

12.50$

[feral ferry]

Sold

[scenic wave]

Might be a bit of an oddball question, but does anyone know if there is a way to convert a mouses x/y movement to an xbox controllers analog?

Ah this would probably be better in a different channel

[warped badge]

That's a good question

[feral ferry]

In what use case

Emulator? M&K on xbox?

[scenic wave]

Well, the game Im playing switches between kb and mouse whenever it detects mouse movement, Im just wondering if there is a software that makes the mouse movement function as an analog stick, specifically an xbox one analog stick to match wooting to prevent compatibility problems

[feral ferry]

Ahh, it doesn't support simultaneous input

That's a very old problem, Wooting is only really usable in games that have usually are or have console ports and support simultaneous input.

I have never heard of any software that does so, but there are dongles for specifically console use which enable playing with mouse and keyboard on consoles, so mouse input are transformed into the triggers and keyboard into buttons

[scenic wave]

Ah, thought it was worth asking because i found a few that converted mouse movement to analog, but the only problem is they dont convert it to xbox one controller analog specifically

[feral ferry]

Stuff like this do, I think, what you want them to do https://www.amazon.com/Matrix-Multi-Input-Adapter-Converter-PC-MX-010269/dp/B0CCRX5NT7/=1

But they are very expensive, idk why, but they are

[scenic wave]

Hmmmm, ill figure something out, usually do lol

[trim rock]

You'd have to find something that would consume the Wooting controller input and combine it with mouse to make xinput as the same device, good luck

[feral ferry]

Well the XIM stuff do, but again, you need wads of cash for them

If you have a Raspberry or maybe Arduino, I don't quite know what they do, you can prolly find some code on github that does that for you, and you can DIY a Xinput converter

[small comet]

This isnt stalker2 how i remember it A group of hot girls finds a shelter in your bunker - you’ll have to go out into the agressive wasteland to gather vital resources, collect artifacts, and uncover the mysteries within the Zone.

[outer pollen]

@hardy merlin @scarlet marlin

[sinful cobalt]

i guess i have to start playing FN just bc a skin

[outer pollen]

2025 has been saved

[sinful cobalt]

btw chat from the stalker gamers i need some mods for fixes :D

[small comet]

which store front

[sinful cobalt]

QOL

[small comet]

i dont know that one sorry

thought it might be steam due to the looks

[sinful cobalt]

i mean i want mods that fixes the game bugs

[small comet]

yes but i asked for the reason of CoP and SoC being in the gog program where they make them compatible with the latest windows etc by default

[sinful cobalt]

i have them on steam

[small comet]

so a better base than steam

gog improvements on CoP

similar for SoC

[outer pollen]

https://anomalymod.com/repacks/stalker-gamma/

[small comet]

and yeah after that gamma

i rebought on gog (also cause all three are -75% rn) due to the baseline fixes they added

also recommend joining the gamma discord if you need more help

official stalker discord is a last ditch effort imo as its usually more vanilla focused and not really modding

welcome santak

hahahha

delete of shame

[pure bear]

chat didnt scroll :(

[sinful cobalt]

[small comet]

but yeah imo the GOG versions + gamma is the best way for stalker

stalker2 hopefully soon also gets a gamma rework

[sinful cobalt]

[small comet]

o7

good hunting stalker

[deft bloom]

[outer pollen]

Good Night Stalker

[little cape]

i was yelling slurs in solo queue

[outer pollen]

Who do you main

[orchid prism]

Sounds like you're fishing for a ban.

[little cape]

moon knight, iron man but i used hela that round

i would play tank but solo queue hell they dont support you

[outer pollen]

Nice I’ve been filling so just Tank or Healer

[little cape]

im in bronze one now

[little cape]

if you play comp we should play some time

[outer pollen]

You want the Moon Knight skin from Gold?

https://x.com/zvis_ceral/status/1865054043225076068

VISCERAL (@zvis_ceral) on X

The Moon Knight Skin you get for playing Ranked and get at least into the Gold Rank!

#MarvelRivals #MarvelRivals募集

Twitter · Dec 6, 2024, 3:21 PM

[outer pollen]

I’m probably gonna start playing comp for the skin there

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/smirk-grin-evil-smile-gif-26938884

[little cape]

its a very nice skin

[outer pollen]

Dude so far I hate the Black Widow players

If we’re getting Hatsune Miku in Fortnite I hope they add Touhou characters too

[little cape]

for me

its wanda mains

and their auto aim and dismiss

and for some reason everyone ignores her when she ults compared to beta everyone would shoot her down right away

[outer pollen]

Dude iron fist is annoying

I have to run Mantis to put his ass to sleep when they start back lining a lot

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/draco-malfoy-harry-potter-mewing-mew-slytherin-gif-8263298459687914233

sigma game tactic right there

[outer pollen]

I gotta before I lose my mind lol

[outer pollen]

https://youtu.be/B-Ep-SyztuI?si=eb-spYfJNGd3D4Ae

@clear osprey You buying it

[clear osprey]

no its shit

[outer pollen]

I’m waiting for the Thresh 400$ skin

@proper basin

[formal moth]

@delicate sedge

[outer pollen]

Hell yeah

[scarlet marlin]

[feral ferry]

https://x.com/itchio/status/1866017758040993829

itch.io (@itchio) on X

I kid you not, @itchio has been taken down by @OriginalFunko because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called @BrandShieldltd that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, @iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

Twitter · Dec 9, 2024, 7:11 AM

Damn, itch.io is down

Yeah, can't access https://mrdrnose.itch.io/votv, sad

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42363727

spiralganglion

Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

Hacker News · Dec 9, 2024, 7:19 AM

[outer pollen]

https://www.siliconera.com/freeings-nier-automata-anime-2b-figure-is-1-4-scale/

[small comet]

i want the a2 figurine

[hardy merlin]

9S where?

[outer pollen]

Looks really clean

[feral ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/live/LfnUQ-qKsdQ

2 AM really? Damn

[trim rock]

Fuck the Oscars

[feral ferry]

I guess I'm not watching

[small comet]

sadly not sold i believe

[outer pollen]

Yeah I think they just confirmed she’ll get one

[small comet]

yeah but when....

[scarlet marlin]

Not sure if I should put this in music or in game but this song is such a vibe
https://youtu.be/lBlUh8w59II?si=1z3dCKApas7fiUo1

[sinful cobalt]

I want it

[hardy merlin]

1:4 scale would need quite a big jar

Holy hell
Props to NetEase for maintaining their own Wine/Proton libraries, wow!

[outer pollen]

My friend has been playing it on his steam deck

[scarlet marlin]

how is it that there arent any new games I wanna play for months and then december comes and boooooooom

[narrow junco]

I am GAMING

I went to uni and all i want to do is go home and play poe 2

[hardy merlin]

I just play Balatro and GW2 nowadays
Wanted to try Infinity Nikki, but saw "gacha" and... yeah...

[sinful cobalt]

Same poe 2 is great

Its fun

Tho i struggle sometime with bosses but atleast its a challenge

Not like in diablo

[heavy apex]

I didn't know I needed this
I think it's just rumors thought, not actually confirmed

I will buy vbucks

[outer pollen]

Same

[narrow junco]

What class are you playing

[novel umbra]

93 > Together confirmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXJc2NYwHjw

[sinful cobalt]

Sorceress

[proper basin]

How different is poe to poe2

[novel umbra]

quite a bit i'd say

[narrow junco]

Quite a bit

[proper basin]

[narrow junco]

Poe 1 is faster overall and a bit more power crept

Combat is a bit more boring tho, less things going on

[pulsar prism]

It's poe but with dodge roll

[proper basin]

Sold

[narrow junco]

I would recommend it overall

[sinful cobalt]

I somehow enjoy the game while i never played poe 1

[narrow junco]

There‘s a few issues that need fixing but i still enjoy it

[proper basin]

Cuz i enjoyed poe when i played it years ago on the one x

[pulsar prism]

They're still releasing content for poe1 they're just going to be separate games

[sinful cobalt]

Yeah its a new story as well

Or idk what was the story for poe 1

[scarlet marlin]

I havent spend any money. it gives you alot of resources to just gacha for free

give it a try, its very comfy

[pulsar prism]

No idea I just kill all the things in the campaign as fast as possible and never read any lore

[proper basin]

a classic

[pulsar prism]

I do recognize some of the content as NZ inspired lots of maori art and nz animals, voice actors etc

[hardy merlin]

Is it only on Epic?

[scarlet marlin]

for pc yes. its also on PS5 and phone/tablet but I dont think you wanna pla yon that

there's a windows download on their website

dont know if that helps

[hardy merlin]

I don't have PS5
And my phone will die

[scarlet marlin]

https://infinitynikki.infoldgames.com/en/home

[hardy merlin]

Ooooh, they have separate launcher?

That helps a lot, thanks

[scarlet marlin]

the picture taking feature is a lot of fun too, spend a lot of hours doing that hehe

[proper basin]

Doggy

[hardy merlin]

Awawa

[scarlet marlin]

you can pet animals in the game yes

[hardy merlin]

Ok, I'm sold

[sinful cobalt]

[scarlet marlin]

[feral ferry]

I have already seen a lot of gatekeeping and just general toxicity from the community lol

[hardy merlin]

I mean... PoE community
They're still way better than when it comes to other online games

[sinful cobalt]

I mean what game community doesnt have a toxic part

[rancid hearth]

literally any game community you'll find toxicity

[vital wyvern]

yeah but there's toxic games and then there's games you should play

[feral ferry]

I saw someone saying they were a casual PoE1 player, but they died like 25 times on the first boss and they thought the game was too hard

The comments were, with quite high upvotes, "skill issue, you are the problem"

[rancid hearth]

I mean, that happens everywhere

[outer pollen]

Warframe

Can count the bad players I’ve encountered in the 13 years I’ve been playing the game on 1 hand

[feral ferry]

Also why I despise the souls-like community, especially Fromsoft community

They are toxic bastards that will never admit that the game has faults

Gatekeeping "hard" games cause "you ain't good enough" is ridiculous, if the game is too hard, the game is too hard, that's why difficulty options exist

[hardy merlin]

It was so much fun reading Reddit after ER DLC release

[feral ferry]

Oh the copy paste DLC?

They still didn't fix the atrocious camera

[rancid hearth]

the difficulty is part of the experience, that's the thing
it's a game that is tailored for those who wish to have a challenge

at a point you can't tailor to everyone

[hardy merlin]

But some fights are impossible if you go with X build, that wasn't the case with base game
Why the fuck would you go with X build, go with Y like everyone else

[proper basin]

Me when bleed status effect

[feral ferry]

Are you ridiculing the X build, or pointing out hipocricy?

[outer pollen]

Sekiro was perfect

[feral ferry]

If the game has an insane skill tree that PoE has, yet you just NEED to go for that optimal, meta Y build, then why is the rest of the skill tree even a thing lol

[small comet]

i mean its the same with gatekeeping people from cheating in a singleplayer game. let people enjoy it however they want. if someone wants infinite koupons in stalker2 thats their choice. if they wanna lower the mutant health to nearly 0 on easy difficulty thats their choice.

[feral ferry]

Illusion of choice, bad balance?

I have a lot of issues with "hard" games being "hard" for the sake of being hard and not including difficulty options

[proper basin]

Sekiro was too hard for me, the only bigger skill issue ive had

[outer pollen]

I think this is just people wanting the best possibility optimized thing, which is a bit weird imo. Like when someone looks up a tier list before playing a game

[small comet]

for me osu! is too hard so i just listen to the songs on yt music instead of playing osu!

[outer pollen]

It takes a while for the game to click imo, it didn’t click for me until halfway through the game. I kept playing it like a souls game

[proper basin]

I dropped it when i got to owl

[hardy merlin]

Elden Ring was great because you could go with whatever build and as long as you were skilled enough you could finish it
With DLC they made some fights straight out impossible with niche builds, and catered to people who used cookie-cutter most popular builds
So yeah, it is bad balance

[feral ferry]

Yeah but this isn't even a best optimized thing it seems, people are literally unable to beat bosses unless they go for that "meta" build

That goes beyond skill issue into potential bad balance

[small comet]

id say definitely an issue of the game if a more specific build is needed thats quite meta and not "obvious"

[fringe salmon]

Do give it a try on mouse if you usually play controller or vice versa. One method might make it easier to get used to party timing and that makes it instantly easier

[proper basin]

I only had it on console, dont know if the console version accepts kbm input

[small comet]

like equip arrow resisting armor for the boss using arrows is obvious but you have to use this equipment, this skill tree and then you can beat the boss maybe is not how it should be

[hardy merlin]

Sekiro is funny, because it conditions you to play it like Souls game
But most of the game you can just go through with constant attacks

[pure bear]

my biggest complaint about ER is the spammy bosses

some of them just eeeendlessly chain attacks till you can get 1 hit in

[feral ferry]

Is PoE a game focusing on story or just dungeon dwelling?

[fringe salmon]

Both sekiro and lies of P I played on mouse and keyboard because it suddenly got 10x easier to react to party timing lmao

[pure bear]

in DS it felt like a taking turns kind of thing

but in ER i got legit bored watching combo extenders after combo extenders

[feral ferry]

Elden Ring I have a major issues with, one of them is the marketing of "The story is written by THE G.R.R. Martin, THE Game of Thrones guy, PLAY IT!"

[hardy merlin]

Story? There's a story in PoE?
No time for story, time to farm maps

[feral ferry]

Oh so the story is a big deal? Sure, let's play the game

Fighting the camera, bad game balance, obscene bosses

Oh, so can I play the "story" mode to experience the story?

[pure bear]

DS had that reputation of "being hard" (it wasnt that hard, just not piss easy nintendogs difficulty) but for ER they made it artificially difficult to conform and in an annoying way

[feral ferry]

No, fuck yourself

[proper basin]

Only boss i will always pick a bone with is consort radahn in dlc

Even after patch

[pure bear]

also they reused bosses too much

took me out of it a bit

[hardy merlin]

[small comet]

https://tenor.com/view/archer-you-what-huh-gif-19676334

[scarlet marlin]

Lies of P took some time to get used to for me cause Im normally not a parry/block player

[fringe salmon]

Consort was a bit too much yeah but the rest was fine. You have soooo many tools to make fights easier like summons and spirits etc.

[proper basin]

Bale is also very clunky to fight, but i enjoy that fight

[pure bear]

this is peak dont slander my man

[proper basin]

Greatshield stunlock

[pure bear]

the importance of dysentry on medieval warfare cannot be understated

[feral ferry]

At which point are you just drinking brown water

That's the real question here

[hardy merlin]

Buffing my medieval army by dispensing loperamide

[fringe salmon]

Yeah I didn’t I look at any cheese until I finished the dlc just tried out different builds that somewhat worked and were fun

[pure bear]

legitimately, a few containers of meds and MREs would make any medieval army win

[proper basin]

I was struggling so i did jolly cooporation, got two greatshield buddies and i was their personal healer for that radahn fight

[pure bear]

dont even need guns when the ops just die of infection and shart

[proper basin]

The most fun i had in that fight

[fringe salmon]

I think the bigger issue in games like Elden ring is that people are stubborn and if they like big club they want to use big club and then complain boss is hard when the game gives you insane respec options if you can’t do it with your current build

[pure bear]

big club is better than small sword tho

you can only hit once every minute anyway might aswell make it big

[fringe salmon]

Doesn’t have to be a cheese build you switch you but just anything that works for you

[pure bear]

i like straight swords but i rarely could get 2 hits in

so why not play big sword

[proper basin]

When im in a “worst weapon category” competition and my opponent is daggers

[feral ferry]

I think the biggest issue with soulslikes I have is the dropping of souls on death

[pure bear]

that i dont mind at all

[feral ferry]

Again, I don't have a problem with redoing the boss fight all over again until I do it, if I can just go at it

[fringe salmon]

Just spend them before a boss then

[pure bear]

walkups are annoying yeah

[fringe salmon]

Not like you need to save up for an inheritance

[feral ferry]

Later on the level prices are quite high

And losing souls gets punishing

[pure bear]

not really tbh

i never struggled with that in ER

[fringe salmon]

Nah not until levels so obscene you don’t even get real benefits form stats anymore

[feral ferry]

You are making it miserable twice over by not only making me die, sure, but then having to dodge any enemy encounters to actually get the money back, and then you die trying to retrieve it, and you lost my interest

[pure bear]

and those later levels barely do anything

[fringe salmon]

Buy gear then or something else

And you can just kill some small things if you need a bit more for a level

That really isn’t an issue

[feral ferry]

I never had the patience for Elden Ring, I quite enjoyed Armored Warfare 6, the end-game fights were really fun bullet hells

[pure bear]

AC6 was great

wish it had more content/got a dlc

[feral ferry]

But that's cause the game doesn't really punish you for dying and you can just go back and try again

Dark Souls just pisses me off, I don't have patience for this shit

AC6 was very pog

[fringe salmon]

Nah the tiny amount of souls you lose isn’t really punishment when after a boss you get so many

[pure bear]

twin autocannons my beloved

[proper basin]

I should get around to playing ac6

[pure bear]

yes

[feral ferry]

Tiny amount
Wow, so tiny, and you need at least what, 100 to reliably do DLC?

[pure bear]

you can use my snail decal

[proper basin]

SNAIL

https://tenor.com/view/larrydasnail-ashsnails-snail-meme-pet-gif-23567477

[feral ferry]

Gaijin?

[pure bear]

but yes play ac6 its great

[feral ferry]

I've never played AC before, I had my reservations after Elden Ring and how frankly bullshit it is, but yeah that was a great game

It almost felt not hard enough until the end?

[pure bear]

its not nearly as hard

and neither had I played it before

[feral ferry]

The only real fight I had a blast with was the.. uh.. "ancient guardian"

[pure bear]

only game journalists complain about AC6 difficulty

[feral ferry]

That one was very very pog

[fringe salmon]

Those are just numbers that don’t mean anything. If you ha e like half a level of souls before the boss that you lose and get 1.5 levels or more after the boss that’s more than enough and many give you even more

[pure bear]

maaybe the alternate final bosses those can be hard

but just the regular stuff is fun and doable

[feral ferry]

AC to me was just perfection, amazing handling of difficulty

I'll defo keep an eye on sequels

[fringe salmon]

Like you need 50k souls for a level? Cool later in you just get that as a dropped item here and there

[feral ferry]

I guess the problem I have with souls is just the application of difficulty

AC felt had at times, but fair

[sinful cobalt]

Idk i never had issues with lvl in ER at all even if i lost 100k souls xd

[feral ferry]

Souls is nor easy nor fair, and it's the unfair part I hate

My patience for that game very quickly ran out after just sheer frustration with the game, not the difficulty

[fringe salmon]

The differnce is you can set your own difficulty but it’s not a menu setting

You can dumb it down and have your mimic fight the boss and you shoot arrows from the back and barely ever move

[feral ferry]

Didn't they nerf the shit out of that

That was a big thing at launch

[fringe salmon]

No amount of nerf will make it less good if you can just do whatever amount of damage ranged or close with the boss not focusing you

It’s like a second player without the penalty of more health

[feral ferry]

Meh, I just have an issue with the game design of soulslikes. It's a me issue, and I simply don't play them.

Does annoy me that a copy paste of a DLC is suddenly a GOTY contender though

[fringe salmon]

Really not a copy paste though

Idk if dlcs should qualify but it’s got massive content

[feral ferry]

DLCs should have their own category

People prolly forgot completely that there were supposed to be more "big" DLCs releasing that year that could have prolly been recognized

[hardy merlin]

They shouldn't qualify
It's a spit in the face of Phantom Liberty, or both W3 expansions
DLCs should have their own category

[feral ferry]

cough Shattered Space cough

I think everyone can see through that DLCs suddenly qualifying for GOTY is specifically a tweak they did for Elden Ring, and it's kinda disgusting

Just make a new category, you are discrediting actual game releases by including a DLC for the GOTY

SH2 imo, should prolly be recognized as a GOTY contenter instead of a DLC

Don't like SH2, Dragon's Dogma 2 then

Enshrouded was big for the first part of the year

[hardy merlin]

If DLCs count, then Factorio Space Age should be there instead of Elden Ring

[feral ferry]

That's a based take and I like it

[pure bear]

i agree the DLC is not copypaste but i also agree it is not GOTY contender. it doesnt fundamentally change anything aobut the game or anyhting, it's just more . That doesnt qualify as GOTY imo, DLC of the year ok

[proper basin]

Goty is webfishing

[feral ferry]

Also I didn't see any mentions of Granblue Fantasy or Satisfactory which had a 1.0 release

[pure bear]

but that said games were shit this year

next years goty is also already known

[feral ferry]

If 6 releases lel

And it's a 50/50

[quiet vault]

liars bar goty

[pure bear]

what 6? I'm talking about MHWilds

[proper basin]

Ye this year goty is either elden ring again or wukong

[pure bear]

https://tenor.com/view/monster-hunter-insect-glaive-kinsect-mh-wilds-whatever-go-my-scarab-gif-13714675391602271338

[proper basin]

But i pray for balatro upset

[hardy merlin]

Either Nov 2025 or Feb 2026

[feral ferry]

Hmm yes, that's right, that will defo win that GOTY award

2025 I'm rooting for KCD2

[quiet vault]

balatro industry plant

[hardy merlin]

Balatro is one of the best games this year honestly

[feral ferry]

Oh right, Death Stranding 2 is in 2025

I didn't mind the amazon simulator all that much tbf

[proper basin]

Havent played it, i just know it has gambling as a mechanic and so i promote it for that

[feral ferry]

Jesus christ there's some insane games coming out in 2025

[hardy merlin]

It doesn't have gambling
You don't bet on anything

It's just a rougelike

[proper basin]

WHEEEL OF FORTUNEEE

[feral ferry]

Civ 7, Avowed I'm reserved on, KCD2, new Doom, Death Stranding, Fable, Like a Dragon, GTA6 (prolly), Pokemon, Atomfall

2026 is kinda nuts

And that's not including whatever gets announced in TGA's lol

[hardy merlin]

But that's not gambling
Just 25% chance you can upgrade a joker, kinda miniscule

[proper basin]

Thats all the gamble i need

[feral ferry]

Oh right Clair Obscur was really cool in the reveal

[scarlet marlin]

PROFESSOR LAYTON 2025 IM READYYYYYY

[feral ferry]

TGA's I hope though brings new footage on Clockwork Revolution, that looks insane

I really want some Dishonored-likes, them not making a new one makes me sad

Clockwork seems like a really good Dishonored-like (Idk if that's a genre honestly)

[pure bear]

there is a doom coming?

[feral ferry]

Yis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tk8lkmYGWQ

[hardy merlin]

Please Kojimbo Death Stranding 2 on Pc Thank You

[feral ferry]

They are going ham on Doom and people are all for it, it seems

[fringe salmon]

It will be so funny when they show doom only running on hardware like Indiana Jones and all Pascal owners will cry lmao

[sinful cobalt]

Never cared about goty

[feral ferry]

Exclusive to PS5, so 2026-27 prolly

[scarlet marlin]

If there are no TLOU2 haters, that means I'll be dead

[hardy merlin]

Nah, late 2025 I'd say

[feral ferry]

The game seemed fine, I'm still bummed how they treated Joel

Just baiting everyone with the hero of the first one and getting rid of em is.. kinda nuts writing?

The game itself was solid

[scarlet marlin]

gameplay wise sure, but the story was awful, and not just about the Joel thing

[hardy merlin]

Stellar Blade also, investor releases all point towards independent release on PC by Shift Up, no Sony bullshit

[feral ferry]

I watched a walkthrough and I had 2 major gripes, the ending and Joel

[scarlet marlin]

Eve

[sinful cobalt]

Yes please

I wanna empty my account on the dlc’s

[feral ferry]

Tbf, on the TLOU2 thing

I think the right game won the GOTY

[scarlet marlin]

yep but the whole story with Abby didn't make sense to me. Anyways, cant wait for the live action adaption

[feral ferry]

I don't mind the award, it was a good game

[fringe salmon]

Hell nah 2020 we got half life alyx that was the goat

[feral ferry]

Hold on that was in 2020?

[scarlet marlin]

still kinda amazed Stellar Blade is not nominated for GOTY

[feral ferry]

That is defo a GOTY

[pure bear]

guys hl3 any day now!

[scarlet marlin]

only for music if I remember correctly

[feral ferry]

Oh right it was a big thing that it got snubbed for GOTY award