🎮│game

[small comet]

(accidentally dropped it while charging)

you can see the sensor and magnet here

this is also why you can adjust the triggers in the xbox companion app on pc

sadly the sticks use rotary encoders still not HE/TMR

one day

[sinful cobalt]

I might open up my own controller and change out the sticks and triggers to HE/TMR

[quiet vault]

i switch them out with tikken switches

[sinful cobalt]

Is there anything on the controller space that can be improved

[quiet vault]

maybe combining features from different models

[small comet]

iirc noone makes replacements unless this changed recently

https://www.gulikit.com/productinfo/1534865.html

i have been proven wrong by myself

gulikit makes tmr sticks

sad it doesnt reuse the mechanism of the elite series 2 stick caps/sticks

[compact oriole]

Upgrading this would be kinda cool. But I'm afraid of fucking it up

[small comet]

i just cant let go of the sticks i have and the tension i set on my sticks atm. plus the gulikit doesnt have the steps the microsoft ones do

sadly

[ivory dune]

Has anyone here ever like... Installed a usb-C charging port onto a 3DS?

[small comet]

once and never again

send it to someone who does it paid lol

[orchid prism]

Intelligence is knowing how to do it. Wisdom is shipping it to someone who does it often.

[small comet]

the worst part really is not fudging up the shell

cause you have to modify it

doesnt matter if you replace the existing charging port or add it extra

[orchid prism]

I assume it's popular to buy replacement shells with the change premade like on other consoles?

[hasty belfry]

I refurbished a controller I bought a while back, it had stick drift and the caps themselves were worn down to the plastic so I bought ANOTHER 360 controller brand new just to take the caps from that to get original ones, it ended up looking almost brand new:

[ivory dune]

Thing is I have a very limited edition console

But I do want the usb-C port installed

[hasty belfry]

Which one you got?

[ivory dune]

Okay will do

Fire Emblem 3ds XL

[hasty belfry]

Nice, got the box as well?

[ivory dune]

No

This is my forever one, so it matters little

[hasty belfry]

My main one, not an XL though.

But this is the one I have for my Pokemon bank and all that.

I want the Fire Emblem one but hard to find one with a good condition box

That doesn't cost a fortune

[ivory dune]

Yrah, fairs

[ivory dune]

This one looks clean and isn't a copy pasted regurgitated photo

[hasty belfry]

New buddy

[ivory dune]

Loque'nahak!!!

[hasty belfry]

Yeah, last two spawns I found were both King Krush.

[ivory dune]

King Krush best dino tho

[orchid prism]

Not a fan of magical looking pets. But I respect the hustle and grind 😄

[ivory dune]

I think my fav Spirit Beast is definitely the Ghostcrawler

[orchid prism]

iirc my Tauren hunter, Terrabyte (hurhur) has a boar tanking pet named Bertha? It's been...a while.

[ivory dune]

My dog was called Bertha lmao

[orchid prism]

Currently leveling a Worgen hunter. I forgot how cinematic their intro sequence is...and now half broken.

I've had to do some funni creative things to finish a couple of quests.

[hasty belfry]

I have these as well that I like

[ivory dune]

It sucks how broken the old experience is wtf

[hasty belfry]

But I am forced to use this one waaaaah

[ivory dune]

I think they just....forgot

[orchid prism]

They're hoping people pick the new island start. Which IS fun - But definitely shouldn't be be the pick for something like Worgen. You miss out on the whole story.

[ivory dune]

Yeah!

It's such a disney turned spooky storytelling

I like it

[orchid prism]

Same with the Goblin start. That one should be mandatory at least once (and thankfully still works with minimal issues)

[ivory dune]

Luckily there's the Undermine goblin zone now

Which is more of that wacky goblin fun

So good

[orchid prism]

Speaking of Worgen - Did Blizzard ever add a permanent human form toggle (in combat)
I remember it was heavily hinted/debated back in Legion/BFA, but I stopped playing.

[ivory dune]

No

They are only now adding the uh, perma human form for dragonkin

Tomorrow actually

Might be for Worgen too?

[orchid prism]

Ugh... Why would I ever want to look like a human dragonkin. There's something just...weird about the male faces.

[ivory dune]

They're adding a bunch of cosmetic things that were missing tomorrow

Like blue eyes for demon hunters

[orchid prism]

OwO

[ivory dune]

The devourer is full blue except your eyes atm

So they are finally adding blue flame eyes

So it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb

Mansen, would you mind if I dmd you my battle.net username? I'd love to help you get those glaives/whatever looks you'd like at any point

Gives me a reason to revisit content too

But don't feel pressured

[orchid prism]

It'll be a long time before I go looking for those. Still playing every class/race to 50 and a bit. 😄

[ivory dune]

I do like the newest spelleffects

When you hit lvl 70+

[orchid prism]

Ah that's right. They crunched levels... again. 😄

[ivory dune]

Yups

Max is 90 atm

Proba go to 100 for the end of rhe trilogy

Then crunchy crunch again

Tbh I don't mind that at all

Because lvl 200 would be stupid af

Their content scaling tech is pretty good if not perfect for leveling atm

[orchid prism]

Spose it's fine. Just messes with old content a bunch 😄

Say... did they ever add any more shapeshift mounts like the alchemy dragon thing years back? Seems a bit odd to ride an animal as a Worgen.

[ivory dune]

Yes!

A lot actually, mostly for druids

So each race has custom forms now BUT

[orchid prism]

Aw... Needs to be a mount. Already sorted on the druid side of things 😄

[ivory dune]

There's rare mounts too

That are mounta for everyone BUT also a skin for flight form

But genuine shapeshifts for other classes, hmm

Let me think on it

I know druids can be a fire owl flightform, and a moth etc

[orchid prism]

Yeah I browsed the options yesterday. Sad I missed out on some of the Legion? forms.

[ivory dune]

Dragonkin has the soar flying which is technically what you want

Oh yeah, me too though

It was the hardest solo content at the time

They have new versions of those that come back during timewalking legion

So it's not fully lost

[orchid prism]

Even Gorilla one?

The big one from... was it a Legion event or something?

[ivory dune]

Muscle bear is now an attainable muacle bear with fel tattoos

For example

But only for bear form druids

It was a solo mission of sorts

[orchid prism]

Ah I see some versions are not available (for now), but they did recolours at least.

[ivory dune]

Like a solo boss fight that required you to use your kit very well

Can't miss an interrupt, do the right taunts etc

With one shot mechanics so you have to start over

[orchid prism]

Lovely

[ivory dune]

Like a show of skill basically

They brought it back but more as a general thing now

In Midnight you can fight this big void dude, Nulleus and you get a limited mount and title as reward

But now you can do it as a group too

But obv solo is the real achievements

Achievement is called "Let Me Solo Him: Nulleus"

[orchid prism]

[ivory dune]

It's a fun challenge

Oh and if you're a druid

There's a rock/stone version of muscle bear that drops of a worldboss

[hasty belfry]

Removal of content is the reason I quit retail years back, I need EVERYTHING and when content gets removed I lose interest in the game very quickly.

[compact oriole]

Why I never got into destiny 2 after the fact

[ivory dune]

They're rolling back fomo it seems, thank god

I hate fomo.

For keystone hero (high level dungeons) you can now pick any of the previous keystone season mounts as am additional reward

They used to be unobtainable

Feels like they're testing the removal of hard fomo

[hasty belfry]

For me it was mostly the challenge mode WOD weapons, I quit in WOD and never did those so when I started playing again in BFA and found out they are removed forever I was like nah I'm good.

OG Naxx still gone as well.

[ivory dune]

Yeah, I have those weapons but missed the pandaria armor sets alas

[hasty belfry]

Oh and also, I had the 10-man bow from TOGC Frenzystrike (BEST LOOKING BOW IN GAME) and I sold that before transmog was even a thing.

And that bow was removed from dropping again when transmog was out, and I couldn't get it anymore.

Annoyed at that as well.

[ivory dune]

Did you ever try a ticket? It's a long shot as it was before item restoration too

(get it. Long shot. Bow.)

[small comet]

frenzystrike is the horde version no? the alliance had the togc bow called idk what. eater of world chsjajfjskbj or smth

[hasty belfry]

I did, multiple times, no luck. I couldn't even get them to give me back a quest reward for a quest I could check in game with a script that I had completed.

[hasty belfry]

Yeah alliance bow is different but alliance one is sick, it looks so good with the arena fish set from BFA.

[ivory dune]

I have a bunch of the removed wrath mounts

Togc heroic mount is one

The two naxx protodrakes

[hasty belfry]

Banner horse, the normal horse and wolf.

The Naxx proto drakes yeah

Immortal, Undying titles

[ivory dune]

Plagued and uh...something

[hasty belfry]

Black

[ivory dune]

I failed Immortal for my group the last reset lmao

I do have Undying

[hasty belfry]

There is also the War Bear from timed ZA that is also removed

[ivory dune]

I don't have that one either, no

[hasty belfry]

The OG ZG Tiger and Raptor also removed

[ivory dune]

I gave that tiger to my ex with lovestruck puppy eyes

Biggest mistake of my LIFE

[hasty belfry]

I gave tiger to my ex and the reset after it dropped again

[ivory dune]

I only care about one mount anyway

The real void dragon

[hasty belfry]

No idea where that is from, that's too new for me 😄

[small comet]

could always get the bow in classic realm i assume

[ivory dune]

It's from a mythic raid last expac

It is now down to the usual low low dropchance

[ivory dune]

If classic unlocked mog for my retail account I'd play classic

I'd have a reason to

But rn it's like "start over? Lol"

And then they progress your classic char to each subsequent expac and you're like... Just... Have two accounts now

To each their own of course

[hasty belfry]

Got it on classic, didn't play hunter in WOTLK but I yoinked it on the rogue.

Still missed out on a few Naxx pieces that never dropped though so kinda wanted to quit already because of that.

Still happy I got my spectral tiger before it cost as much as it does today, I paid like 250k for it in WOTLK.

[ivory dune]

Oof

[small comet]

i just play chromiecraft anyway. wont deal with retail bs of the expansion moving. i wanna play wotlk nothing else

[hasty belfry]

TBC is my favorite expansion but current TBC Anniversary is running all the raids post-nerf you can clear it without a monitor so it's no fun.

[small comet]

sad that tbc is like one of those pserver scenes that just dont exist

they all die super quick and often before any raids come out

[rotund sphinx]

Bread

[small comet]

i think the only tbc server id know still running is moonwell but they have accelerated rates

[ivory dune]

Turtlewow got taken down recently

Like, dead dead

[small comet]

did it?

servers are still online according to their webpage

[hasty belfry]

Afaik it is getting shut down at least

I read something about it

[small comet]

ye in may

[hasty belfry]

It was doomed to happen anyway with the way they were acting

[ivory dune]

Yeah, you can't exactly take an IP and then claim it's now yours

No matter which custom code you write

[hardy merlin]

You can use /etc/hosts or your own DNS server to redirect IP to your in your network

[ivory dune]

I mean, Intellectual Property

100 years jail for Calsy

[hardy merlin]

[orchid prism]

60 minutes in the bnuy pit!

[hasty belfry]

BUNNIES

[compact oriole]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3875690/Totally_Legit_Wheeler_Seller/

Steam

Totally Legit Wheeler Seller

Welcome to the world of the ultimate wheeler-dealer, master of quick fixes and king of car lot hustle!

You run your own used car lot on the edge of nowhere. Buy for pennies, sell for dollars, and let smooth talk and carefully retouched photos seal the deal.…

Release Date

To be announced

[hardy merlin]

One look and I knew it's Polish

[compact oriole]

Idea sounds funny. Curious about it

[fallow bronze]

too busy with restoring the eco system in planet crafter

[bleak pike]

Damn, sad to see capcom use AI art https://fxtwitter.com/itotweets_/status/2046527078636433696

Jorge Constantini (@itotweets_)

can't believe it @maximilian_

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[orchid prism]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tom-hiddleston-3ePb1CHEjfSRhn6r3c

[small comet]

im pretty sure they were quite open about including ai art

they were also quite open about including clankers in general

[mellow garden]

https://youtu.be/POvUXdleFFI

[quiet vault]

[iron oak]

clanker children???

Pragmata actually looked really cool shame if its ai slopped

[sinful cobalt]

the kid us an AI

[small comet]

smh you didnt even watch the twitter video

the child is an ai and there is drawings from said in game ai child looking like childrens drawings

thats the joke

[iron oak]

oh my hod

[iron oak]

I cannot read

[small comet]

and i just said they advertised it having ai art technically cause they mention it in all the game descriptions that its about ai

[iron oak]

oHHH lol

[stiff fiber]

regardless capcom is coming with bangers this year

[hasty belfry]

Today's haul

[lone cosmos]

wrong chat lol

[bleak pike]

Is it?

[lone cosmos]

what i sent yah

[bleak pike]

Oh

[vapid lintel]

Casually watching the most recent Kurzgesagt video, at the end he drops the line, "for those who come after" and my mind immediately jumps to Expedition 33
https://youtu.be/dl0-TveDDGA?t=639

[manic owl]

really a fan of dead island 2 was a surprise hit , played through it with a friend , great coop fun

[mellow garden]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1203620/view/534380184755770071

[manic owl]

@cyan pewter fh6 keys going out rn preload is a whopping 10mb though

[sinful cobalt]

ms store

[cyan pewter]

i saw a few keys being given away on ig

[manic owl]

its not ideal yeah but eh its cheaper than the others which makes it worth it to me

[sinful cobalt]

oh yea for sure

[manic owl]

paid 80€ for the premium edition on instant gaming which is worth it to me

[sinful cobalt]

i would pay almost the same

sure 18.41 euro less is nice

[manic owl]

yeah in this economy? for sure

[sinful cobalt]

but i already own the game soo

[manic owl]

i dont tend to preorder games but fh6 is one of the few exceptions

i just hope they fixed some models, looking at the R and s chassis cars specifically

[sinful cobalt]

and i payed like 95-100 euro on steam bc i sold lot of stuff on the market

[cold anvil]

@outer pollen @maiden tulip are the directs just dead??

https://youtu.be/Jaag4cVKOo8?si=_o88586RsVXuWX18

[midnight cloak]

felt like i had to show these to someone

just so cleannnn

[maiden tulip]

dunno but it's 50usd digital 60usd physical

[cold anvil]

Ngl that fuck ass recycled emoji pisses me off idk why, just kindly tell me it was posted before

😭😭😭

[cold anvil]

Sweeeeetttt

[midnight cloak]

its so chronically online i hate it too 😭

[cold anvil]

Anyways it wasn’t really much about the contents of the trailer, more or less the fact Nintendo has just been dropping these trailers for these long awaited games seemingly out of nowhere

They either have bigger anouncements planned or just threw those trailers out for rhythm heaven and splatoon raiders because they’re releasing soon

They could possibly do this for the duskbloods

I noticed the pattern of unannounced release date of games that just had the release year shown

Those games were revealed in the same couple of directs a year ago

[quiet vault]

fh6 premium is a bit under 70€ rn

imma keep waiting

[hasty belfry]

I got them all for 70 euro, I only really wanted Suikoden but if Dead Island is good coop I might play with my friend.

[maiden tulip]

Ir's a new game what did you expect

Also why not buy base then get the dlc later

[quiet vault]

nah im fine with it

but 70 instead of 120 is good

maybe drops a bit more till early access starts

it was 63 at some point

[manic owl]

the dlcs get freaky but in a funny way, after a game in development hell it really delivered

[cold anvil]

The driving in forza irks me, Idk if it was just a bad first impression with fh5 or if the driving in that game feels like that in general

[quiet vault]

supposedly better in fh6 from what the youtubers that tried it said

[manic owl]

they reworked tire physics and grip polling rates so i agree fh5 was very floaty

[cold anvil]

Also I despise how in fh5 they give you cool looking cars out the get go but they’re all shit

Like whats the point, might aswell give me a shit looking shitty car

[compact oriole]

you can tune them

[manic owl]

elaborate on the cool but shit cars?

[cold anvil]

Like they look cool. But they’re not good cars.

[compact oriole]

also cars are not better because theyre faster in that sense. its different cars for different occasions, races, speed classes etc

[cold anvil]

They look like they’re good cars, but they aren’t

[manic owl]

i mean i would need to get an example to really tell you whats going on?

[compact oriole]

fh isnt nfs. you dont go from shitty cars to better and better ones

[manic owl]

i mean a 70s ferrari is gonna look cool but you cant expect it to perform as well as a car thats 20 years newer.

[cold anvil]

My only experience with campaign driving games is Gran Turismo 4, and it was also like this. Kinda.

[quiet vault]

i really hope you will have to grind this time for cars

[manic owl]

yeah thats confirmed that you have class restrictions

[compact oriole]

itll prolly be the same as always. you find random cars and you unlock em either randomly or with specific challenges

[quiet vault]

not early wheel spin meta again

[cold anvil]

Never really played nfs, never really was interested in nfs

[manic owl]

they reintroduced the armbands from fh1

[quiet vault]

for free roam too i mean

like just access taking some time

[manic owl]

uhh i mean yeah i think you cant buy all cars from the beginning

[quiet vault]

we will see

[manic owl]

nfs had some progression depends on the game , the old ones are heavily building upon it

[cold anvil]

Also it feels like in forza it could mess with the impact of the satisfying progression of making your car better or just finally getting that dream car you’ve been chasing. Like giving a used shitbox another chance and making it all cool and shit

[quiet vault]

https://x.com/asha_shar/status/2046619416427950442?s=46

Asha (@asha_shar)

Game Pass Ultimate has become too expensive for too many players. Starting today, we’re dropping the price from $29.99 to $22.99/month.
Future Call of Duty titles will no longer join Game Pass Ultimate on day one. They will join this tier the following holiday after launch (about

X · Apr 21, 2026, 3:57 PM

[manic owl]

i mean you can do that in forza but some choices were odd

prostreet for example, this is pretty much the highest tier of car you can buy , well that and a pagani

[quiet vault]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/04/21/xbox-game-pass-update/?ocid=XGP_soc_omc_xbo_tw_Text_lrn_4.21.A

[cold anvil]

Man I just wish Gran Turismo 7 was on pc. Thats never gonna happen though.

I have a ps5 I’m just too stingy to really use tbh

I’m mostly just waiting for gta6

[manic owl]

its a good game ngl , i play it on my ps4 pro but grindy if you want certain cars

[iron oak]

So services can drop prices HMMM

[quiet vault]

by dropping cod

[cold anvil]

Is the online requirement really necessary? Thats what’s throwing me off that game

[manic owl]

eh yeah its my only gripe with the game its really not necessary tbh

[cold anvil]

So I can play through the game normally w/o online?

[manic owl]

well you need an internet connection so the servers validate your copy, i think they do it so modded ps4s cant access the game

[cold anvil]

But I don’t need ps plus membership for that? That would be stupid ofcourse not……

I hope.

[manic owl]

no you dont need ps plus just if you want to race other people online

[cold anvil]

Thank you for giving me a straight foward answer holy moly

Yt videos make it seem so much more complicated than it actually is

[manic owl]

yeah i play mostly against the ai , doing the weekly races and collecting the race cars though they get pricey fast

[cold anvil]

I wouldn’t mind the grind, I really enjoyed the driving from the demo

[manic owl]

the races can get a bit long and you need to pit etc if you want the strategic component

[cold anvil]

Yeah ik

The longer races makes it more interesting

Do they still have 24 hour races

[manic owl]

yeah they do

mazda 787b my beloved , its my go to for those races tbh

[cold anvil]

I see

I personally love the rx7 ‘02

[hasty belfry]

I remember making a super sick S15 in this game and that car is bugged so the layers on the mirrors are all messed up.

[manic owl]

oh yeah that can happen i played the wii version first so making liverys on that is something

[mellow garden]

@ivory dune I forgot it was 12.0.5 release tomorrow

[ivory dune]

Yup

[mellow garden]

TFW no AOTC before the catch up system is introduced

[hasty belfry]

@manic owl RIP my ProStreet designs, all the links are dead.

[bleak pike]

I'm going to trust these aren't shady links

[cold anvil]

@mellow garden have you picked up tomodachi life?

[mellow garden]

Not yet

[cold anvil]

I personally love it

I got 35 hours in 5 days

[manic owl]

the true 20 year old forum post experience

[cold anvil]

Holy.

@outer pollen all the awesome miis I made last night

[charred rain]

yipie

[cold anvil]

Congrats, hope you make more progress!

[fading spade]

Seems Vulkan is locked to the monitors refresh rate in Minecraft for some reason
Cant get the game to run faster than 180FPS unless I swap back to openGL

WAIT only when the game is fullscreen when not fullscreen its not locked to 180

[fallow bronze]

Do you need more frames than the screen can display?

[charred rain]

thanks!

i got level in 3 runs so i hope i beat it soon

[fading spade]

No
I'm just wondering why it's locked in the first place in full screen mode

[bleak pike]

Really

[bleak pike]

I see what you did there

[fringe salmon]

wondering why a snapshat aka beta build has bugs

idk forced vsync on a pre release seems far from the worst bug to happen

[bleak pike]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/04/21/xbox-game-pass-update/

$29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region.

Beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won’t join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later), while existing Call of Duty titles already in the library will continue to be available

[fading spade]

https://media.essential.gg/5736ec71-0807-4b4b-fa9c-fd3bacf87100
https://media.essential.gg/78c12696-91e2-461e-3dde-bc17f8f94800

omfh the End looks amazing with these shaders

[stuck mural]

Anyone play mobile legends?

[cold anvil]

Vidya games

Added foxy today, was too lazy to do it last night because I knew he was gonna be complicated and difficult to make

[fading spade]

https://media.essential.gg/d9e3d8aa-3da0-4f51-7613-3a128bd86000

[manic owl]

quite the roster of characters so when is foxy buying 499 marlboro reds ?

[cold anvil]

Maybe next week

[frosty dew]

oof, why is the first red dead redemption 50 bucks on pc???

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT4McPl5kQU
I love these videos. This time he fixes a bug developers have given up on.

[orchid prism]

Because it's a "remaster". It was never released for PC originally.

[frosty dew]

i'm aware

[orchid prism]

Then you knew the answer before asking, heh.
It's Oblivion all over again.

[frosty dew]

more rhetorical. as i'd prefer it to be cheaper

[orchid prism]

No arguments there. I'd grab it at twenty bucks on a sale, if I was feeling nostalgic, and didn't want to turn on my 360.

[frosty dew]

i intended to get it (adhd for the win) because i cant find the cables for my ps3. but i didnt wanna spend 50 bucks. i could buy a whole can of oil for my nissan

yeah. somewhere between 20 and 30 i'd have done no questions probably

[manic owl]

remakes are not full price worthy imo

[frosty dew]

ye

[buoyant osprey]

At least the original (superior) Oblivion is still purchasable

[orchid prism]

[manic owl]

i bought the definitive edition of the gta trilogy for 15€ which imo is fair , they kinda suck but hey its easely playable on a ps4 its worth that to me

[frosty dew]

like 10€ more and i can get rdr2, which, in my eyes is more justified in price than rdr1, a game i played around the same time i played gta 4. lol

i mean. i'd also not been opposed had they put the rdr1 story as a dlc to rdr2 in its engine and all...

they literally had most done at that point...

THAT would have been fun

would have loved seeing the train run all the way from nuevo paraiso to blackwater and st denise and annesburg

[manic owl]

it is story mode is good online is pretty much dead

[frosty dew]

so sad they let the online of rdr2 die

i really enjoyed online of rdr1

and i know. i played rdr2 at release because i was so hype and... it definitly is one of my top games in my heart now

[manic owl]

i played 50 hours ish was decent , but eh not much content , lassoing npcs is only fun for so long

[frosty dew]

not much content

oh you meant multiplayer?

[maiden tulip]

its free on your phone if you have a netflix account

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/red-dead-redemption-netflix/id6743944297

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.Kamo

After its signed in once it doesnt ask agaib

Can just borrow someone's account

[buoyant osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrqc18Dd5zg

I love the feel of this game so much. Great soundtrack

I'm excited for Fotor

[bleak pike]

I recently logged in for the first time in years

[buoyant osprey]

You logged in to Kotor 2? Or do you mean Swtor

[bleak pike]

Sorry, meant played XD

I try so hard to play kotr games but every time I try it feels so badly aged

It isn't the games fault obviously

[buoyant osprey]

I love Kotor 2 a lot. Such a shame that the game kind of sux simultaneously because it's so unfinished. Instead of being an «uncut gem» it's more like a gem that is cut in half

[buoyant osprey]

I feel like they play mostly okay. My biggest issue is probably just the 60 fps cap

If you go higher there are issues

If Kotor 1 remake does well I assume 2 will be remade as well. Let's pray it's actually done justice and finished. But I have such little hope when it's not being done by Obsidian themselves

[bleak pike]

I hope

[buoyant osprey]

The same abrupt shitty final area + end but this time with ray tracing and blurry TAA visuals!

[manic owl]

yeah the multiplayer is a fancy world etc but not much to do.

[outer pollen]

You got it digital?

[brisk mango]

Anyone down to play rocket league heat seek

[fringe salmon]

no

[abstract venture]

Black Desert graphic in the max settings 🤔

[young hill]

(33% to get an item*then 25% more for item category) 8.25% to get a key and opened the hatch last minute phew

[cold anvil]

Yeah

[young hill]

https://youtu.be/bUcWR1_4AvM

I hope at some point they seriously start tacking down balancing the game better

10 years of runtime is impressive, but some well thought of continuous modes and bug crushing will bring back some people in

[cold anvil]

@outer pollen island so far

Definitely still a WIP

Pretty proud for what I have made

The center is a paw :3

Definitely need more foliage and objects in general

There’s a tiny bit of extra space incase I wanna add a couple more people to my island!

[verbal nymph]

looks like a pokemon city

with the gym in the center

[cold anvil]

I see it haha

I wanted to experiment with more variety with the locations of the houses so it’d look more natural but tbh I couldn’t be bothered

So its more like I tried for like 4 hours

Fucked up and spent 3 hours trying to fix it

Holy shit

Ok so.. what happened was like

I spent 2-3 hours making miis

Then I wanted to mess around with my island and accidentally deleted like have the objects

So I was like fuck it I’m deleting the entire island and making it from scratch

Spent a few hours making it

Experimented for a bit

Realized I was over ambitious and made the entire island way too big for the amount of people I have

Messed around with the islanders for like an hour

Then I took a big sigh and just ended up spending my last few hours trying to fix it.

Ended up downsizing

[cold anvil]

This was the before if you were wondering what it looked like before I nuked my entire island

[orchid prism]

Got back into Evoker. Kind of enjoying them (aside from the weird flight attacks), now that I've gone through most of the other classes to lv50 again.

Still think the male human forms look like the boy band from K Pop Hunters though - And not in a good way unfortunately.

https://giphy.com/gifs/youtooz-kpopdemonhunters-kpopdemonhuntersrumi-kpopdemonhuntersmira-geFalqnXcZ0M3eOb1i

[mellow garden]

Good vault this week

273 item level

We're getting that L'ura HC kill this reset

Although we're doing Glory achievement run tonight instead of prog

[ivory dune]

Allegedly lura is bugged atm haha

[mellow garden]

Typical Blizzard QA

[scarlet marlin]

Hmm I played HK when I was completely new to the series and I kinda just fucked around. Playing silksong I was deff more experienced (and so completed more of the game). Some small things I didnt like about SK but I should play HK again to form a better opinion

@wheat nacelle

[wheat nacelle]

oh lol yeah

personally i don't like silksong's movement that much, i like how hollow knight's movement just feels snappier lol

[scarlet marlin]

I like the fact that you could choose your playstyle with the crests

[wheat nacelle]

oh yea definitely

though i can't play without wanderers cos not being able to swing whenever pains my soul lol

[scarlet marlin]

I think I used the beast one

[wheat nacelle]

oh yeah ive tried beast, it's pretty cool

but i cant with the slow swing cooldown lmao

have you 100%'d the game?

[scarlet marlin]

nah im not really a 100%'er, but I did the true ending

[wheat nacelle]

ah yeah fair enough

i 100%'d so i could say i 100%'d then went back to hollow knight and never touched silksong again lol

[scarlet marlin]

yeah I wouldnt go back either

only for the dlc ofc

if I would do a randomizer or something

[compact oriole]

i like the movement of silksong more but overall i think hk is a better game

i think it has overall better and more memorable bosses, i think them adding the quest board thing in silksong made it less a world to explore with no handholding and more of a gamified experience with shit to cross off the list for you to be able to progress

[wheat nacelle]

yea

[wheat nacelle]

oh yeah true

[sinful cobalt]

The first game hold our hand

[compact oriole]

how so

you spawn on the map, you get a lil exposition here and there but for the most part youre just walking around getting lost, trying to find your way

the biggest indications being where to NOT go because you cant because youre missing a certain ability

[scarlet marlin]

I do admit that the tutorial for silksong feels liek you mustve played HK

[sinful cobalt]

I could not even find the first boss

[scarlet marlin]

early game is way harder

[compact oriole]

ok so the first agme didnt hold your hand

[scarlet marlin]

I do kinda like that you can get lost in the game. I went the completely 'wrong' route into the citadel for SS

[sinful cobalt]

Idk i went in a circle for an hour and just uninstalled the game

[compact oriole]

i loved ss but i found the gamification with the quest board and some other stuff broke the immersion of trying to find your way in a vast world. adding fetch quests and other bs

[compact oriole]

[wheat nacelle]

yeah definitely

[compact oriole]

theres a miniboss and the main area boss that are super easy to find

[scarlet marlin]

also the amount of 'mini' bosses that were just combined with a spam of regular enemies really pissed me off in SS

[wheat nacelle]

i just didn't like the amount of running

and how sluggish the movement feels

[sinful cobalt]

Its not a game for me xd

[scarlet marlin]

thats ok

[compact oriole]

ye i didnt like that a ton of ss bosses were just bigger versions of mobs and the spam of gauntlets

[scarlet marlin]

you tried at least

[compact oriole]

tbh imo you gotta enjoy souls like, platformers and also be ok with just getting lost and explore a ton to be able to enjoy hk

[sinful cobalt]

Yeah but i think the game is too overhyped for no reason

[compact oriole]

youre overhyped

[scarlet marlin]

nah you cant say that if you didnt fully play a game cause you didnt like it

its like people shitting on elden ring cause its was their first souls game and they didnt like it/find it too hard

and then hating on the game everyone loving it

not every game is for every person, and thats ok

[sinful cobalt]

When every person says its a good game i can say its overhyped

[vital wren]

I need to find motivation for HK and silksong

[wheat nacelle]

or maybe the games just that good

[compact oriole]

not if you cant argue why

[wheat nacelle]

uh bragging rights

[compact oriole]

just saying: lol 95% of people are wrong. isnt an argument for why smth is overhyped

[vivid wharf]

I did it so you can do it

[wheat nacelle]

yooo do you have all achievements

[compact oriole]

i hate turnbased which is why i cant get into e33 and bg3 and i really tried. but i can acknowledge theyre generationally good games and i wish i could enjoy them

[wheat nacelle]

same, i love the aesthetic of e33 and the story seems so interesting but i just cant get myself to keep playing it

[compact oriole]

im coping that in a couple years ill be able to as taste changes

[vivid wharf]

nah I just 100%ed silksong

like in-game, not all achievements

[wheat nacelle]

oh bruh get hollow knight :>

[wheat nacelle]

yeah, i cant be bothered doing all silksong achievements either lol

[vital wren]

I am not in the mood for games that much lately

[vivid wharf]

I played it before silksong, it's also a masterpiece

[compact oriole]

[wheat nacelle]

o W

surely you're gonna get all hollow knight achievements right

except for hunters mark that ones miserable lol

[vital wren]

I still need to 100% all DS games

[vivid wharf]

maybe some day😭

[nimble current]

played a lot of turn-based games in the 90s and 00s but I struggle to get into it these days

[vivid wharf]

my controller barely survived 100% silksong

[wheat nacelle]

lol if you do gl :>

[wheat nacelle]

lmaooo

[vivid wharf]

I never raged so hard in any video game ever lmao

[nimble current]

same with some other genres I used to play a lot in the past

[vivid wharf]

like in silksong

[wheat nacelle]

lol

[compact oriole]

the only turnbased i was ever able to get into used to be pkmn back in the day

[sinful cobalt]

The only turn based game that i loved was heroes 3

[nimble current]

the ones I played the most was heroes of might and magic 2 and especially 3, and then the og fallouts

[compact oriole]

well and some roguelike card game here and there. but not for long either

[nimble current]

also xcom terror from the deep

[hardy merlin]

But BG3

And Civ

[sinful cobalt]

Never played either

[hardy merlin]

Fun game, but very long

[sinful cobalt]

It doesn’t looked interesting idk why

[ivory dune]

Heroes III is the shit

Played that so much in hotseat mode

[hardy merlin]

Cool demo https://store.steampowered.com/app/4364730/IGTAP_an_Incremental_Game_Thats_Also_a_Platformer/

Steam

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[bleak pike]

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[trim rock]

HLX, a Hideo Kojima game?

[mellow garden]

Half-Life 3 is about feet

[hardy merlin]

Oh, right, this released https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/Vampire_Crawlers_The_Turbo_Wildcard_from_Vampire_Survivors/

Steam

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

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Price

$9.99

Recommendations

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[compact oriole]

they made vampire survivors turnbased

[sudden prawn]

Ooo might take a look, I love slay the spire 2

[iron oak]

HIDEO GAME?

[small comet]

yes hl3 confirmed

[iron oak]

oh my goodness hideo kojima director crtazy

[outer pollen]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrayZoneWarfare/comments/1sso5wd/whats_next_after_spearhead_devlog/

[small comet]

ye i saw in the discord

[outer pollen]

You still playing it?

[trim rock]

Skyrim stealth indicator huh

Will there also be a notification about successful sneak attacks

[small comet]

yes

[mellow garden]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/updated-subscription-prices-in-the-united-kingdom-kazakhstan-georgia-and-turkey-381339

[bleak pike]

Poor terks getting screwed

[stiff fiber]

Today I made one friend in marathon

And got two other friendly encouter

First time it happens after more than 80 hours

I was doing a contract on a map I see a guy I say hello he was very friendly we went to beat a boss, then we meet another guy he start shooting at us and we convinced him to join us

Ended up killing a boss with some good loot and we extracted

Then I play another map I see a guy exfiltrating I ask if I can join he said yes

The game will be better if people are more friendly and stop shooting on sight

[proper basin]

@outer pollen disagrees

[mellow garden]

@ivory dune I got Gaze from NM Chimaerus. Finally have two good trinkets.

[ivory dune]

Woah! I got lucky and bonusrolled the hc gaze today!

[mellow garden]

We're doing glory achievement

Slowly, very slowly

It’s taken us almost two hours to do four achievements. I’m crashing out at the awful communication skills some of these people have.

Apparently these people are all employed? Bullshit if you ask me.

[ivory dune]

https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/36BmHLq5xgqeXLcQ9PWfMN

I'm nearing the 100k ST sims

[orchid prism]

Blood Elves need some good gold and blue sets. It looks odd wearing red or green and gold with blue eyes 😄

Un transmogged set aside, I'm quite proud of yet another punny name.

Also not 100% sold on this Evoker feeling spellcaster spec.

[small comet]

i just noticed i can select which expansion i want my account to play.... i can actually just play tbc

lol

[orchid prism]

Yeah they added that a few expansions ago.

[novel estuary]

Those are the Classic servers though, no?

[small comet]

oh i didnt mean retail lol i meant chromiecraft sorry for leaving that out

[orchid prism]

Hahaha

[small comet]

aint gonna pay for a worse wow experience

[orchid prism]

Classic lets you play older expansions the way they were.
Retail lets you play the stories but condensed - Very fast leveling while revisiting an old expansion with modern niceties.

[small comet]

but yeah i didnt notice this before so now i wanna try playing TBC with this

[mellow garden]

I sim at 93k

[small comet]

the painful choice of what new character to make

[orchid prism]

What on earth is this - Some kind of Private server? 😄

[small comet]

yes

[orchid prism]

ic ic

[small comet]

based on azerothcore an open source wow server emulator

what im curious about is how they do the expansion switching cause you still just connect with the 3.3.5a wotlk client as usual

[trim rock]

Well they were sold separately weren't they

[small comet]

actually how do they handle vanilla... since the client would still show bloodelves and draenei

[ivory dune]

A big draw for me personally is the permanence of your wow stuff, dunno

[small comet]

ah it doesnt. i guess its not possible yet but already in the selector for some reason

[orchid prism]

And the social element.

[small comet]

back to trying to figure out what race/class imma play i guess

[orchid prism]

Hah. I've been doing that for the past two weeks. Playing every class and many races till 50 to get a feel.

[small comet]

worst of all... the split is quite even so i cant even just join the underdogs

[orchid prism]

imo Horde has a stronger TBC questline. But I am biased of course.

[small comet]

you know... actually a good point with the bias. i never actually played TBC (when it was the latest expansion out) as alliance. only horde

maybe this is the time to experience the blue side

i shall be a jedi for once

[coarse copper]

Puting my wooting into great use

[orchid prism]

Embrace blue and purple, Russian space goats.

[small comet]

mansen shoot me a tbc alliance combo for race/class

[orchid prism]

Oof... TBC... Shamans were cool back then. Actually were able to wield two handed weapons. And it was the first time Alliance got to play as them.

I barely remember TBC anymore. I was a Priest healer/DPS for most of it, then Druid after that for every expansion basically.

[small comet]

hmmm

[mellow garden]

@ivory dune glory obtained

[small comet]

maybe ill go rogue just to have a chance to play glaives of azzinoth if i get them

[orchid prism]

Rogues and... warriors got to use them iirc?

[small comet]

yes

rogue is one of the less played classes for me out of the 2

[orchid prism]

Though this was pre transmog, so you'd need to get super lucky twice for the full Demon Hunter look 😄

Rogue/Cat Druid was always a ton of fun.

[small comet]

yes

i shall be victorious one day

ok now draenei are out as a race cause no rogues

[mellow garden]

[orchid prism]

I don't believe Feral got the love they deserved till Wrath though. I recall feeling very unloved by the stat/sped gods.

[orchid prism]

You had better be singing this in the Discord voicecall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4

[small comet]

good ol low poly models at their finest

[orchid prism]

Back when there was only one kind of Dwarf. now you have three flavours.

[mellow garden]

I've been ready to crash out for about an hour. The lack of good communication is a major thing holding this group back.

[orchid prism]

Ah right. You did mention that the other night.

[small comet]

it is done

i chose nightelves

mainly cause of the death animation really

[mellow garden]

It's actually rather frustrating.

We should've cleared all 9 raid bosses on heroic by now.

[orchid prism]

Ah yeah the wisp look? That's cute. I could never get used to how Nelfs look.

But I guess that comes from playing a Blood Elf all TBC 😄

[small comet]

i played blood elves too much as well

[orchid prism]

Hard to blame anyone for doing so on the Horde side. Forsaken are... not pretty. To this day you basically play an elf or human to look like any important undead character 😄

[small comet]

also the 3.3.5a client really hates 32:9 i think... chonky numbers and text

[buoyant osprey]

Am I the only one that loves racial cliches in fantasy media? I think if I made a medieval RPG I couldn't help myself to include elves (that are good) and dark elves (that are bad) and all these cliches. I just find them so important

[orchid prism]

Clichés? No. But interesting worldbuilding from different cultures and people? Definitely.

[buoyant osprey]

Do you find dwarves in Dragon Age to be cliche?

[mellow garden]

A lot of fantasy suffers from the world building effectively just being negative racial stereotypes.

Warcraft in particular is a big offender for this, especially in the books.

[small comet]

also love that its optional and not forced

[orchid prism]

I find them refreshing. The only mortal race that can't do magic.

[serene orbit]

Reminds me of a jewish guy instantly associating goblins with jews in crimson desert cuz they were merchants

[iron oak]

is this rune scape

waht

[mellow garden]

Goblins in many franchises are effectively just a Jewish stereotype

[iron oak]

yeah okay that does seem really anti-semetic wtf

that seems really stereotypical

[serene orbit]

The goblin has existed since 2013 idk if it was even a buzzword since then or associated with

[iron oak]

anyways

[buoyant osprey]

That's true but I definitely feel they have many cliche traits such as being artisanal underground craftsmen that use runes

[iron oak]

has anyone played the new STS2?

[small comet]

s-euro truck simulator 2?

[iron oak]

chainsaw man?

[serene orbit]

Starwars the stars 2

[buoyant osprey]

Apparently D&D Drows were lameified because they are «racist» or something which I think is stupid and very Americanbrained

[iron oak]

nah slay the spire 2

[mellow garden]

Trolls in WoW are also based on many negative stereotypes

[buoyant osprey]

Are they Swedes?

[serene orbit]

Are tall races based on the dutch then or what

[buoyant osprey]

Of course

[compact oriole]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1WJsFXY-8 its gonna fucking suck but the cinematic was sick

[buoyant osprey]

Isn't Blizzard famous for having cinematics that are much better and cooler than the games themselves

Swtor moment

[orchid prism]

SWTOR was Bioware/EA's attempt at doing WoW but with Star Wars. And it worked for a while.

[serene orbit]

Tbf its not dead yet

They sre even remastering some stuff

[orchid prism]

I'd argue it died after vanilla.

[buoyant osprey]

I actually love much of the singleplayer content in the game

[orchid prism]

They gave up on the original plot, didn't rehire voice actors (who were actors - I get it), and abandoned a ton of storylines. Like the entire companion system, stories, buildup and so on.

[buoyant osprey]

It's the MMO parts that drag it down to me

But yeah the expansions end up really dragging it down

And the different class storylines have all just merged into the same thing with some different animations and references in dialogue

[edgy eagle]

Anyone play rocket league on wooting? I just ordered my first one

[outer pollen]

So close

[young hill]

new feng min skin in dbd anyone

[jagged sable]

because Feng didn’t have enough skins already

[bleak pike]

https://fxtwitter.com/Fortnite/status/2046937372097724852

Fortnite (@Fortnite)

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Outstanding

[compact oriole]

just watched igns mouse pi review.. crazy that guy is being paid to play games and write about them

[hardy merlin]

Oh yeah, I read it

[compact oriole]

bro is so pretentious. he wants to be a film or book critic so bad

[hardy merlin]

Dude is hating on cinema references and that there's not enough noir
Where game said nothing about noir, but said a lot about 30s cartoons and cinema

[compact oriole]

hes crying about how a silly cartoon mouse game is silly and makes too many "cheese" references and jokes

then he also speaks about "Ludonarrative dissonance" calling mc a mass murderer

[hardy merlin]

Also this:

Enemies mostly come out of doors marked with a skull that you can’t enter, robbing those areas of anything remotely resembling a sense of place. Levels also really like to pull the “we’re going to lock you in a room and throw baddies at you until they’re dead or you are” schtick a little too much for my taste.
Bruh - it's a boomer shooter, there will be arenas in the game

[compact oriole]

ye its wild

[hasty belfry]

I miss when I could display my favorite games neatly, now every shelf is just a Tetris mess and so need to find space somewhere for more stuff!

[hardy merlin]

[compact oriole]

holy..

idk how well the s sold but for devs it was such a bad step

[orchid prism]

I have to wonder how much of this is on the Console in terms of hard limitations, and how much is just Capcom deciding it isn't worth more optimization manhours to squeeze out more.

[compact oriole]

tho actually maybe it helped with these shitty AAA corps optimizing it enough for it to run on the S

[compact oriole]

idk about this game specifically but their engine already runs really well

well. any time when its not open world

[hasty belfry]

The S has "ruined" Xbox this generation and is a reason so many games got delayed.

Black Myth Wukong is a popular example.

[compact oriole]

didnt come out on xbox?

was just about to say im not aware of games that didnt release on it cz of the S but ye wukong might not have

[hasty belfry]

It did, but it took a very long time to release.

[compact oriole]

well ok so it didnt ruin anything since ms lost nothing

it just sucks for devs

[hasty belfry]

Because they had to get it working on the Series S, you're not allowed to release a game that only works on the Series X.

[compact oriole]

ye

but it also forces devs to work on optimization. so while it is very annoying on the other hand maybe its not so bad

its interesting that while "xbox is dead" its apparently big enough to not wanna miss releasing on it

[hasty belfry]

I guess, Xbox is already so far behind and the Series S is not helping.

[compact oriole]

idk. as long as games keep releasing on it, theyre not losing any more than they have

once big games say its not worth it is when its actually over because then its irreperable

[hasty belfry]

This is why the next Xbox "console" is just a computer running Steam etc, if games still release on PC it will still have games to play.

[compact oriole]

so apparently after this new AI chick took over xbox they might be changing these plans

idk if thats just a possibility they were talking about or if theyre actually doing it

well. actually the "everything is an xbox" thing

idk about the xbox basically being a pc part

[hasty belfry]

I'm just salty because for me, Xbox is already dead, they have nothing, Xbox One was the last playable generation, every game they have released this generation is just a fake physical release. Without real physical games you're no longer a console imo and PC is just better.

[compact oriole]

apart from it just being a "plug and play" console i dont get why youd buy it either

[hasty belfry]

This was the biggest marketing blunder they have made. "Everything is an Xbox" doesn't work when none of those can play Xbox games...

[compact oriole]

the second they gave away all their exlcusives to pc as well it was over. but it was also obviously necessary. beggars cant be choosers type thing

[compact oriole]

wdym? the point was the pass cloud streaming shit so anything could be an xbox technically

[hasty belfry]

Yes but even then you can only really play "Xbox Play Anywhere" titles.

If it can't do what an Xbox can do then it's not an Xbox.

[compact oriole]

is that a specific list of games? i assumed anything that is in the pass could be played via cloud on any tool that can install what ever app you need

so then you could play it on your phone, tablet, maybe even some tvs

[hasty belfry]

You can play stuff that is on the xcloud thing, games outside of that you can't play.

[compact oriole]

ye, but is that all "game pass" games or like a smaller list

if its not all game pass games thatd definitely suck

[hasty belfry]

I don't know, been a long time since I tried it, I got free 14 days and tried streaming to see the latency and stuff.

[compact oriole]

mightve improved but how was it at the time

[hasty belfry]

Playing Balatro and similar stuff is fine, but I also tried Witcher 3 and I didn't like the input lag on that when moving the camera etc.

I had similar experience with GeForce NOW because I tried that on my Shield TV.

For casual people it's probably fine but it's not a future I will take part in.

[compact oriole]

for most singleplayer games and most people its probably good enough

we buy pcs for (multiple) thousand dollars. we are not the target audience

[fringe salmon]

The next gen console plans aren’t changing they have been set in stone since like 4 years ago

It’s a custom cpu with a gpu that’s the same as one you can buy from AMD next gen

So what they’ll likely do is have an option for any game to run on it but also have the case of every game can be made for it and thus have a much better running version

Series s didn’t help with optimization at all because all the cuts most studios had to do to make it work didn’t make it to pc mostly because it didnt a actually do a thing on pc

[compact oriole]

afaik xbox uses what is basically just windows. i dont remember the achronym. uwp?

ok so apparently xbox supports uwp butr its not the preferred path for game releases

[fringe salmon]

That’s not really relevant since that’s not affecting performance

Biggest issue with series S was the ram limitation and on pc nobody uses that little ram anyway

[compact oriole]

sure and probably some of them just shittily cut stuff away to save ram but it also stands to reason that on some games it helped perf generally

[fringe salmon]

Nope you can’t just cut stuff since it needs to be the same on both consoles

[compact oriole]

as in cutting effects and other stuff that uses (v)ram

[vivid wharf]

does anyone know if I login to a microsoft account in a game like state of decay 2 for instance, will it mess up my local windows account in any way?

cause I want to avoid accidentally enabling some telemetry lol

[fringe salmon]

But for example stalker2 was quite public about it and it turns out the optimizations they did for S didn’t do shit on pc really

The fact that you can precompile shaders for consoles and just have a set of guaranteed hardware with set clocks means it’s very different from a pcs variable hardware and clocks

So most console specific improvements just literally cannot be used on pc

[compact oriole]

"most"

most people dont die from a cold

[fringe salmon]

Yes most can’t be used the rest usually doesn’t change anything noticeable

For the vast majority of games a week of pc optimization will get better results than the entire console port process

[mellow garden]

The audacity of these slackers to live rent free on my island

[ivory dune]

Are you still raiding now Johners?

[mellow garden]

Right this moment? No, I’m at work. In general? Yeah, we’re doing HC MoQ tomorrow night to maximise L’ura progression.

We should get a kill, I’ve sent some crests and actually gotten the good enchants. Other people have gotten good Myth track items from sending bonus rolls in M+.

Plus if we don’t kill this week, the momentum probably dies as a portion of the core raiders are all on holiday for two weeks.

[ivory dune]

Ah, fair

Good luck!!

[mellow garden]

Why do you ask anyway?

That sounded so passive aggressive

[ivory dune]

Oh I'm sorry!

I was genuinely hoping for your success!

[compact oriole]

think he meant the way he asked why

[ivory dune]

I was just wondering if you had crashed out yet haha

Because you were getting close

[mellow garden]

No, I’m crash out free.

Thanks for the luck, I really hope we kill it.

We’re so close.

[compact oriole]

how many ppl in a raid?

[ivory dune]

Depends, minimum 10, max 30

[mellow garden]

We're usually around 20 people

Give or take

[compact oriole]

its not a set number for raids?

[mellow garden]

Only Mythic is fixed to 20 people

Normal and Heroic dynamically adjusts between 10 and 30 people

You always need 2 tanks and keeping an even ratio of healers to DPS is also required

For example, 2/3/9 is a popular composition.

[proper basin]

This for ff14?

Or this wow

[mellow garden]

WoW

Raiding in FFXIV is fixed 8 man with a 2/2/4 group composition

[fringe salmon]

well, technically

you can do challenge runs with other compositions and/or less people and theres some 4 man content

(and some less difficult content with 24 or more but thats more of an edge case)

[sleek fulcrum]

gd players who have wooting uwu, what sensitivity is it set to?

[compact oriole]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634080/Nocturnal/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3277530/Aeonic/

both free to add

[buoyant osprey]

Aeonic just seems to be a game where you look at AI generated images

[compact oriole]

didnt even look at it, idk

[serene orbit]

Yep better name would be AI-onic from what im seeing

[sinful cobalt]

not even bad PC Specs

[compact oriole]

crazy

good thing theyre remaking this 10yo game

[buoyant osprey]

What justification does that game have to exist?

[hasty belfry]

Even the Xbox and PS5 versions of the game require download. 🏴‍☠️

[trim rock]

Making new games is a lot of effort so just polish up the old stuff instead and remove features, what's not to like

[sinful cobalt]

they wanna get some money from nostalgia

[buoyant osprey]

I can't believe people many places are now acting as if Ubisoft is a goated fire company cooking 🔥
As if this isn't just a cashgrab remake

[trim rock]

This is gonna bring Ubisoft back to the top baby!

[sinful cobalt]

i mean its a remaster that most AC fans wanted

[hasty belfry]

They looked at their backlog to find a game people actually liked so they could release it again because they haven't made a good game since South Park.

[outer pollen]

It’s an amazing game

And pirates are cool

[compact oriole]

the justification is that ubisoft really needed a win and rehashing old shit is easy

remaking a fucking 10yo game that still looks and plays well..

[quiet vault]

https://fixupx.com/ForzaHorizon/status/2047360467568312590/video/1?s=46

Forza Horizon (@ForzaHorizon)

Travel in style on the Horizon Japan roads with the 2005 Toyota Crown Super Deluxe Taxi! #NewtoForza

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▶ Play video

FixupX · Apr 23, 2026, 5:02 PM

[buoyant osprey]

When will indie developers abandon PS1 graphics for PS2 ones? PS2 games can still look really nice

[trim rock]

Never

[bleak pike]

https://youtu.be/PhQ3yQjUgAc

Looking forward to it

I met Matt Ryan last year, he's so nice.

[orchid prism]

Remakes the game no one wanted for the AC aspect, only the pirate aspect

[compact oriole]

this is ps2? what game

[bleak pike]

The game was amazing regardless

[hasty belfry]

I never finished it 💀

[orchid prism]

If you tuned out the plot, yes. It was great.

[hasty belfry]

So I should play it like I do WoW? Just spam past all dialogue?

[bleak pike]

I enjoyed the plot

[buoyant osprey]

Haunting Ground

[compact oriole]

game looks better than current pkmn games

[hasty belfry]

Plz if the new Winds and Waves end up as turds I'm gonna cry.

Playing Scarlet and Violet looks like a PS3 game with PS2 animations.

[compact oriole]

scarlet/violet look like gamecube games

[hasty belfry]

Gamefreak is just too lazy or just not good enough, every game since they transitioned from the 3DS has just looked bad.

[compact oriole]

youre just expecting too much off of the biggest IP on the planet

[buoyant osprey]

The protagonist is fairly higher fidelity than other assets but overall I think the game looks very good. I wouldn't mind at all if a modern game had this kind of fidelity. Also I think the hair looks really nice
(Hopefully this picture isn't against server rules )

[compact oriole]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001760/Beast_of_Reincarnation/ btw this is a gamefreak game. im guessing another team within the same corp tho

Steam

Beast of Reincarnation

Game Freak's brand-new title: Set in a post-apocalyptic Japan, humanity's only hope lies with Emma, an outcast shunned from society for her affliction, and Koo, the blighted dog. Together, they embark on this expansive adventure in this one-person, one-dog action RPG.

Experience a journey where you feel moments of loneliness, and also the…

Price

$59.99

Release Date

Aug 3, 2026

[hasty belfry]

Xenoblade on the Wii looks better I can't...

[buoyant osprey]

Hey RE1 remake was on the Gamecube and it looks good. Pic related is one I took while emulating it

[compact oriole]

well ok but this looks like 10x the res than gamecube would usually have

[buoyant osprey]

Of course but the underlying visuals are the same

[compact oriole]

i guess but if you upscaled the current pkmn games theyd look better too^^ so posting this in relation to what i said doesnt really compare

[cold anvil]

Oh yeah!! Pretty happy how he turned out

[buoyant osprey]

I thought you were talking about the fidelity of the game itself with render resolution disqualified as a metric

[orchid prism]

I'm... sorry. But I just can't take this Toys R Us shelf t tex "dragon" seriously.

Those teeny arms, wiggling around.

[quiet vault]

overwatch diablo collab

idk why brig got a sword

[orchid prism]

[buoyant osprey]

Wow I don't know who a single onoe of those heroes are

[quiet vault]

lifeweaver, brig, ramattra, mauga, freja

they gave brig a sword

kinda scary

[buoyant osprey]

Oh okay I didn't recognise Brigitte

[sinful cobalt]

Freja looks good as Demon Hunter

[quiet vault]

ye can be hard in a victory pose

[buoyant osprey]

[buoyant osprey]

I forgot they added a Danish hero with a name from Icelandic and posed against a Norwegian backdrop

[quiet vault]

she was the devil too

[quiet vault]

https://x.com/owsweden/status/2047344156486307891?s=46 they better have @buoyant osprey

Team Sverige 🇸🇪 (@OwSweden)

Our roster reveal is two weeks away! 📅
Who do you think made it onto the team? 🇸🇪

X · Apr 23, 2026, 3:57 PM

[buoyant osprey]

Overwatch? That's so 2016!

[hasty belfry]

I love announcements of an announcement.

[buoyant osprey]

Hopefully they do another in a week

[hasty belfry]

Re-announce the already announced announcement?

[buoyant osprey]

Just need a reminder that the announcement is 1 week away

And then do a daily countdown starting when it's one week away

[trim rock]

All about that engagement

[buoyant osprey]

Looking at a 16 year old video of Swtor and see this comment:

[mellow garden]

lol, lmao even

[ivory dune]

This makes me sad, it did have potential

[trim rock]

Just you wait... any day now...

[hasty belfry]

I remember WildStar, that was a WoW killer too, I played some bunny looking character for like 4 hours then never played the game again.

[mellow garden]

The real WoW killer were the friends we made along the way

[orchid prism]

It had great movement.

[hasty belfry]

I think there was a lot of jumping on big leaves quests at the start, those few were ok I guess. I did like the idea of skill based abilities but the game never took off.

Also, haveibeenpwned:

Still haven't changed password, it's fine.

[trim rock]

Aah kinda miss that game

[quiet vault]

new xbox boss be doing moves

hope that continues

[hasty belfry]

They could start making real physical games again and I'm all in, day 1 purchase.

But I have no hope for Xbox anymore.

[mellow garden]

Console gaming has been moving away from physical

Nintendo and Sony will ditch it eventually as well

[hasty belfry]

LALALALALALALAALALALALA

The issue I have is they bother making a release in the first game, they press the disc, they make the packaging, they make all of it but then put fucking 50MB of data on the disc.

[hasty belfry]

They will, and at that point I will have so much free money I dunno what to spend it on, I'll get a new hobby for sure.

[quiet vault]

i prefer digital

[hasty belfry]

I have 0 digital games and I've had Xbox 360-Series X since release and PS3-PS5 since release, I've also never played online or paid for online, I only play single player games on console.

[proper basin]

I’m fine with either

Im more a fan of collectors editions

Those should always have a physical copy

[hasty belfry]

These days some CEs come with a steelbook but the game is just a code -.-

[outer pollen]

@cold anvil https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/Laika_Aged_Through_Blood/
Good sale

Steam

Laika: Aged Through Blood

Laika: Aged Through Blood is a thrilling action-adventure Metroidvania set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic western world.

Take on the role of Laika, a coyote mother and relentless warrior on a quest to avenge her fallen people from the tyrannical Birds, who have claimed superiority and conquered the land.…

Price

$5.99

Recommendations

5581

Metacritic

83

[proper basin]

Which is a shame since steel books are actually perfect for discs

[hasty belfry]

I was going to get Ghost of Yotei CE but no game so no thanks, got regular release.

[proper basin]

YESS

PEAK

I WOULD KILL FOR A LAIKA AGED THROUGH BLOOD COLLECTORS EDITION

[outer pollen]

I regret not having gotten the limted run one

oh wait super rare games

[proper basin]

The music is so good

[proper basin]

A bit rushed at the end story wise but its such a good game

[proper basin]

they do still have the unpatched ps5 versions

just the game itself though

[hasty belfry]

Yeah the Switch CE version is like 180 euro scalped.

[ivory dune]

I genuinely miss WildStar

I loved the combat and the world and the house building

[bleak pike]

uh my new monitor will not accept even 120hz

its supposed to be 280hz

[outer pollen]

did you check the monitor settings?

[compact oriole]

cable? gpu old displayport spec?

[outer pollen]

There's nothing to play

[bleak pike]

Same cable as my last 1440p144hz monitor

Trying with the provided cable

[bleak pike]

As mentioned i was using 144hz before

[stiff fiber]

At what point gaming is an addiction?

[bleak pike]

It was the cable

[outer pollen]

When you defend shitty games and can’t accept someone critiquing a game you like

[compact oriole]

:3

[stiff fiber]

Ok then I am not addicted

[compact oriole]

werent you a huge marathon fan

[stiff fiber]

Well I thought I was not really into it but I have now 96 hours on the game wtf

[bleak pike]

idk why my old cables wont work

[stiff fiber]

I work from home and take break for playing video games

[bleak pike]

i used 1440p/144hz for years

[compact oriole]

ye but now its 280hz

[stiff fiber]

You received a new monitor?

[bleak pike]

I tried at 144hz

And 75hz lol

And 120

[bleak pike]

Yes

Qdoled

[stiff fiber]

Wow nice

Is it your first oled?

[bleak pike]

monitor yes

i have a laptop with oled

I think I'm losing it, I'm comparing it to my other monitor and it's not that far off

Guessing the bezel is for pixel shift

[compact oriole]

which one did you get

[bleak pike]

I know a picture won't show it but genuinely the colours are close to my left ips

[bleak pike]

MAG 272QPW QD-OLED X28

[compact oriole]

the size difference makes it kinda hard to compare but even from the picture the right one seems obviously more vibrant

also have you set up an actually good color profile instead of some shit like eco?

[bleak pike]

Just using user ATM

[quiet vault]

thats how my ranked teammates be playing 😭

[compact oriole]

skill based matchmaking

[bleak pike]

EVERYTHING IS SO SMOOTH

[quiet vault]

😅😅😅😅

[compact oriole]

this some troll?

[quiet vault]

no

guy knows what he wants

[bleak pike]

still dont really get the big deal with hdr

[quiet vault]

imagine image

but ugly

[bleak pike]

ngl the freesync premium pro alone is so nice

lol

or well gsync enabled

[quiet vault]

i never use those

[serene orbit]

Its nice if implemented well

[bleak pike]

Quite impressed with my old second monitor

[serene orbit]

Crimson desert for example with the insanely dark nights

[bleak pike]

I've always said the colours were better than anything I've seen

[bleak pike]

Ye that's gonna look awesome

[serene orbit]

It’s just annoying that hdr is kinda its own island

To swap into it and out

[bleak pike]

Oml media looks painfully bad frame rate wise

Hdr400 meant to ver saturate?

[cold anvil]

I literally already have this game, I really liked the demo and got it. I havent found the time to play it tho idk why because I wanna play this title

[compact oriole]

what hdr cert do you have? is it trueblack 400?

[fringe salmon]

if its just hdr400 its just bad saturation

[compact oriole]

can tell you that if a game has it and its done well its actually the best feature oled has

[fringe salmon]

trueblack 400 is miles better

[compact oriole]

even just patching it in with special k will transform the visuals by miles. and its not even real hdr

[young hill]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/668580/view/494974956983026279?l=english

[orchid prism]

Really enjoying Dragonflight as an expansion so far. But ehh... they really forced in ALL of the disablities to make it feel inclusive huh.

[compact oriole]

[orchid prism]

It's like that one meme from Jurassic Park.

Hey everyone - Look! This NPC is deaf. I said LOOK. Pay attention. This NPC - Special
It feels so artificial and fake, when you feel the need to emphasize it so heavily 😄

[compact oriole]

youre kinda describing how its been for a while in games and media in terms of inclusion

[orchid prism]

Couldn't say - I don't play a lot of big games these days.

[compact oriole]

its why people have been going off on it so much. its exactly how you described the meme

look at me: im insert smth here

[orchid prism]

At least it isn't dominating - yet. Finished the first zone, and it was a fun ride.

Grateful I stopped playing on my Evoker though. Soar really is a terrible ability mechanically 😄