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toxic hill
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Hahahahahaha that face

orchid prism
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Aaaaaah! DICE cannot into coding games. Eff Battlefield 1 so hard.

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I accidentally set my ingame resolution scale to 4K - like many, many others. Why? Because their settings menu makes about as much sense as Moonraker.

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So.... native resolution? 42%... 42? Yes 42.

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Double resolution (4K on 1080) ? 100%

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Try to turn the game back to native resolution ingame? Not possible because 42 is not 42... so you gotta delete the settings files and avoid touching it.

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  • goes off rambling at DICE for terrible interface programming *
gilded crow
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@orchid prism did you need a beta key from email?

orchid prism
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I got my key a few days, yes.

gilded crow
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dangit

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They handing them out somewhere

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Want to give it a shot this weekend

orchid prism
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Like I said - Try poking their Twitter through the Wooting account for a PR contact mail. Usually works.

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Really curious to see if the Wooting and BF1 work well together. Aka. Analog controls but keyboard binds everywhere else ๐Ÿ˜„

gilded crow
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Me too

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BF4 works great

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You remind me that we have the power!

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I mean, I never realize contacting these people for pr purpose lol

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Oh just started downloading it

orchid prism
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Mhmm. As long as you represent a brand that is meaningful to their PR strategy, you can get pretty far. That's how we usually get preview keys for our Twitch channel - Even if it's barely holding 10 viewers on a good day.

Now if only our streamers would switch to English...

gilded crow
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lol

orchid prism
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I mean something as big as a WoW expansion release stream should get at least a hundred. Which we used to get... when one of our streamers secretly used viewbots... tsk tsk tsk

eager birch
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I can't wait to see how the Wooting One's analog controls translate to BF1's horses :>

slender mauve
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BF1 is open beta isn't it?

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Just install it on Origin ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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We did that at work today with a few collegues

orchid prism
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http://www.battlefield.com/

Looking for news about the Battlefieldโ„ข 1 Beta? Well, you've come to the right place โ€“ and yes, that's confirmation that there's going to be one. And if you sign up for Battlefield Insiders, you'll get early access to it.

blazing zodiac
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Did anyone tried MK X beta?

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Seems they finally fixed netcode

robust sedge
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Downloading BF1 Beta right now, so hype

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Anyone wanna play in about 10 mins?

orchid prism
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Set sail for fail!

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Love to...but I am so beat. ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

bleak pike
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Hype died when they decided to only release the desert map.

slender mauve
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https://www.twitch.tv/unrealengine/v/86995068 Around 48:30.... Well. It starts at this moment, just because I'm happy that we won the UE4 Game Jam of August ๐Ÿ˜„

Twitch

Nvidia VR Funhouse Mod Kit Released & August UE4jam Winners! Sep 1 - Live from Epic HQ

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is sharing his happiness

short sorrel
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@slender mauve grats!

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Like legit

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I still dont even have my render pipeline fully shaped up, and here you are winning game jams

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Im jelly

slender mauve
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@short sorrel Thanks ๐Ÿ˜„
Well.. I'm not taking care of those render pipeline stuffs. So it makes it "easy". ๐Ÿ˜›

cold thicket
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Best CPU ever

toxic hill
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The Abatron KS looks cool but I feel like the art style will turn me off

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@cold thicket 90nm tech FTW!

gilded crow
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This Saturday I'm going to stream some BF1 with an old Wooting one prototype.

Going to give different things a shot in the game. See what the result is.

orchid prism
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Great.

short sorrel
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So, i did my placement matches in Overwatch

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And heres what happened

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Mae is bae

orchid prism
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Mei is bei

blazing zodiac
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Guys, who played beta Battlefield 1. Is the game worth it or it's a garbage? I can't play and only reading the forum.

orchid prism
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Do you like previous BF titles?

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For me it is basically Bad Company 2 all over - except with primitive...er technology.

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Tanks look silly and are impractical. Planes are very basic. Rifles will miss often.,

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Have I enjoyed it? Yes - Though I miss teamwork like I have in Overwatch. There it is forced. Here... mostly zerglings getting headshot.

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The one map we have in beta is a sandstorm map though - Hard visibility at random. And some giant siege tank train thing for one team.

keen urchin
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I won't even bother thinking about trying it or not until they get their DX12 working

orchid prism
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DX12 works just fine here? What are your problems?

keen urchin
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They even state that it's experimental. It's just a straight port from DX11, which generally performs worse. Still needs a lot of work

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Not doubting that they'll get that work done, though.

blazing zodiac
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Well, there is also a Vulkan

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You can wait forever or enjoy what you have

keen urchin
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BF1 will get Vulcan?

blazing zodiac
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I just don't know if it worth to pre-order or not. It's hard to tell by only watching videos

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Nope

keen urchin
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Then why mention it?

blazing zodiac
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Because it's exist and perfom better than dx12

keen urchin
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We were talking about BF1 specifically, though :p

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Whether or not it performs better than DX12 is yet to be seen, but it's out there, no doubt.

blazing zodiac
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BTW previous BF games had Mantle api. So Vulkan may eventually become available

orchid prism
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Experimental or not - It has worked flawlessly on my RX480 for 6 hours or so. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

keen urchin
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No microstutter?

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Ah yeah, it's works pretty well on the 480

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It's like they optimised for it before any other card

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Maybe to boost sales ๐Ÿ˜‰

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I'm kinda worried that ES2 will be DX11 only :/

orchid prism
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Could be - Only kind of stutter I get is from loading in assets midgame. God knows why that happens.

keen urchin
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Try running it on a 980 or 290X. It'll definitely run worse than DX11.

orchid prism
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Don't have either - But point taken.

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At least Deus Ex devs decided to push DX12 until after release to avoid any kinks.

keen urchin
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Anyway, they still have plenty of time to optimise. Maybe they're using the beta to collect data on that

orchid prism
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Probably - The "beta" sure as hell isn't about the engine or features as a whole. It hasn't changed a bit since the alpha preview events. It's what I'd call a feature finished product.

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Maybe the usualy netcode and load optimizations, but I have seen worse AAA games on release.

keen urchin
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Heh. So many.

orchid prism
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I definitely welcome better DX12 support - It's where my RX480 is supposed to gain on the 1060. Even though I tend to focus more on 60fps than quality.

keen urchin
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120 FPS will do you good even on a 60Hz display. Reduces your display lag by making sure the last image is never more than 8ms old. But that matters more in CS than BF

orchid prism
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Eh - I'm not that desperate for frames. I'd have to sacrifice a lot of fidelity for a constant 120.

keen urchin
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And yeah, was it Doom? Where the 480 is almost touching the 1070 in DX12?

slender mauve
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Also means input updates better

blazing zodiac
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LOL! What are talking about?For the lLast few years I setting all to min and pray for >24

orchid prism
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Only place where I accept dips below 60 is during 25 man raids in WoW and such. Too many spell effects to expect better - And WoW allows for a raid specific graphics setup, which is nice.

keen urchin
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That's likely CPU bound

slender mauve
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@keen urchin It is

keen urchin
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And the raid mode probably focuses on that

slender mauve
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It can't be GPU bound XD

orchid prism
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Nope. Definitely GPU bound.

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Well moreso*

keen urchin
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100% GPU load?

orchid prism
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We both know that still will never happen with a game ๐Ÿ˜›

keen urchin
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Eh, there's plenty of games that are GPU bound for me

orchid prism
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Particle effects are still primarily GPU based though.

keen urchin
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And plenty of games where I toss in SSAA because I hit the limit of what my CPU can do

cold thicket
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Haha you never get more then 50% GPU usage in Arma 3

keen urchin
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I'm running 144Hz though, so I'll hit CPU limits far quicker than GPU limits

cold thicket
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Bohemia is stupid for what they done

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What GPU do you have

keen urchin
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290X

cold thicket
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I meant cpu

keen urchin
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And a Oced 5820K

cold thicket
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Oh

keen urchin
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With quadchannel 3200 CL15 memory

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It's still far from enough ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

cold thicket
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Do you hit 100% in all cores? Or the game doesn't use more then a core

keen urchin
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I'd need to run that GPU at >6GHz for most games to get stable FPS

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Almost all DX11 is tied to one core

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They shove some work on other cores, but never much load

orchid prism
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As much as they can.

keen urchin
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Yeah

cold thicket
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Well their you go

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You will be able to do way better with DX12 because its got multi core support

orchid prism
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Scratch that earlier remark - first crash in BF1... on startup xD

cold thicket
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Or Vulkan whenever that comes out

keen urchin
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Fun fact: Async requires a powerful CPU, or DX11 will actually work better

orchid prism
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Mmmm... can't wait for that x99 upgrade.

keen urchin
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But it's properly loading all cores, so any 4C/8T+ will do

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4C/4T i5s are already suffering under DX12 loads

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Nvidia's software async is CPU scheduled as well

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And only works within their strict coding parameters

cold thicket
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Can't with for 7nm....

keen urchin
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Throw a true async load at it, and the driver will crap inself even on a i7 extreme

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So yeah, in total DX12 puts significantly more load on the CPU than DX11

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But it's properly multithreaded, so if you got cores, you got power

orchid prism
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Time to compare with DX11

orchid prism
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DX11 runs a bit faster - and smoother. But nothing I would have noticed if you hadn't mentioned it. So I'd call that a careful "win". Definitely room for improvemenet. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

bleak pike
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Amen

orchid prism
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Did Calder mention anything about BF and Wooting on Stream?

keen urchin
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He said he wanted to do one and test out what the Wooting can contribute to the experience, but that's all I know

bleak pike
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@frail orbit haha you know we think this when chopping Cedar tree's ๐Ÿ˜ƒ @gilded crow calder tree

keen urchin
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What game?

bleak pike
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Black Desert Online

robust sedge
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He's doing a stream tomorrow right?

gilded crow
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lol

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@orchid prism I'll do a stream today

cold thicket
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Are you streaming rn

orchid prism
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๐Ÿ˜„

gilded crow
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Just casually streaming today

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In about 3 hours

spare light
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was fun while it lasted :/

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skyrim modding 10/10 would break again

orchid prism
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Sublte x

gilded crow
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lol

slender mauve
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@orchid prism Nice hahaha ๐Ÿ˜‚

orchid prism
frail orbit
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@bleak pike do you play a witch?

bleak pike
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My original main was Witch, i re rolled ranger.... so i may go back, ill sit back and watch first though lol

frail orbit
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that finger snap is pretty awesome

bleak pike
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ik :3

short sorrel
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You cant stop the hookocalypse

hallow verge
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best roadhog us?

short sorrel
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Nah

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I wish

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Stats are hella better than last season doe

orchid prism
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Oh goodie - A patch for the BF1 beta on the last day it's up. What can POSSIBLY go wrong.

hallow verge
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๐Ÿ˜ƒ

bleak pike
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Please be a new map

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Oh please oh please

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Be a

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New

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Map

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Pls

orchid prism
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Of course not - It was never about the maps, Pleasant ๐Ÿ˜›

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I've had enough of BF1 solo though. No one spots enemies, so you're running around blind. People don't group up either - even in squads. So I keep being flanked from where I had a squadmate stand not two seconds earlier.

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Oh and of course all the bugs - random sandstorms for some players, vanishing vehicles etc.. ๐Ÿ˜„

toxic hill
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These guys are ripping off EVE so hard

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And somehow think they can mix in Minecraft

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For 500k EUR

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Although I guess they've already put a good deal of time and money in

gilded crow
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Star citizen all over again

gilded crow
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After looking at the video, it does look promising. I don't really see the EVE ripoff other than its setting and scale. Rather just taking ideas from many different games and put together.

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But as any other KS game it will take a while and they've got a bad start with the reputation around space games lately

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and over promise

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no mans sky

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still in dev sc

orchid prism
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Hehehe....

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Yeah

short sorrel
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Questions is will it be Origin locked and/or will it die in a few months like the first one did

bleak pike
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ofc its Origin locked.

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Just like Titanfall 1

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Looking forward to it so much.

blazing zodiac
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There was some rumors that it will appear on Steam but it seems Respawn and EA have a deal.

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And I think it shouldn't die in a month. Not like the first one

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Tho some changes are breaking my heart

short sorrel
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Origin is what kills it for me

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Im not Steam elitist, far from it

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But its a pain in teh ass to have GoG, Steam, Origin, Uplay AND Battlenet installed and running on my computer

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That 5 different friends lists i have to keep up with

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As well as 5 clients running on my machine

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I do like that Ubi finally got their ass in gear in regards to teh millions of people bicthing about Uplay not allowing you to minimize to tray

bleak pike
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I agree

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But we have to live with it.

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You also have the blizzard launcher

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i love it though... compared to like cod dlc or bf dlc

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Actually feels like great new useful content

tight quail
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that map is a lot of fun ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

bleak pike
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Ye i have seen gameplay

tight quail
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aww you dont play ow ?

short sorrel
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@bleak pike thats Battlenet

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I mentioned it in the statement

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@tight quail he owns it but never plays, says not enough time yet spends time on stuff such as rewriting an entire website.

bleak pike
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kek Watchdogs gameplay in Mr Robot

orchid prism
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They also showed a Corsair Lapdog I believe. They're pretty into modern tech and culture.

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It's refreshing.

bleak pike
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MSI

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Gaming Laptop

short sorrel
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Thats what im running

orchid prism
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Hm... they cracked Doom. Properly this time it seems.

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Guess the crackers are catching on to Denuvo slowly.

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In other news - User mods for Bethesda games aren't going to happen on PS4 after all.

bleak pike
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They semi cracked it months ago

orchid prism
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Nope. They bypassed Denuvo by using a really dumb trick involving the demo - Which only worked for about two days until it was patched.

blazing zodiac
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IMO it won't be a case if Microsoft decide to make Windows more closed system (stop using Win32)

orchid prism
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What?

blazing zodiac
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You didn't heard that Windows is trying to destroy Steam?

orchid prism
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Good luck with that - Microsoft's game store is a nightmare already. No one is wiling to give up what they're asking.

blazing zodiac
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They want to force everyone use Universal Windows Platform

orchid prism
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Besides - Were that to happen, you can bet your ass Linux is going to take off fast.

blazing zodiac
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TBH I doubt that SteamOS will change anything

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Because devs (read huge publishers) will gladly agree on it

orchid prism
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Who said anything about SteamOS?

blazing zodiac
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Less piracy and less cheaters online

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SteamOS is the *nix system by Steam for gaming

orchid prism
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You're forgetting one important aspect - Customers. I am not talking about Steam vs. Microsoft. I am talking about locked versus open systems.

blazing zodiac
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Who cares about customers?

orchid prism
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Companies who like to get paid ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
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AHAHAHAHA LOL!!!

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This is why they are making garbage games with day 1 patches

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Tonns of dlc

orchid prism
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That ... literally has nothing to do with this topic ๐Ÿ˜›

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No mods? Oh yeah - Skyrim is going to be SO awesome.

blazing zodiac
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Well, it's not 100% confirmed anyway

orchid prism
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Of course it isn't - Microsoft aren't dumb enough to commit financial suicide.

blazing zodiac
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I doubt it will be a financial suicide

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They just need to prepare all for it

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First step - windows play anywhere feature

orchid prism
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You gravely underestimate the PC gamer platform and their stubborness not to be treated like console owners.

blazing zodiac
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Don't get me wrong. PC master race

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But there are also some facts that cause concerns

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Like microsoft's plans to use UWP

orchid prism
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No one cares - Microsoft's presence on the game market is hilariously small. They keep closing down studios.

blazing zodiac
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Don't forget that most people run games on Windows OS

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Do nut underestimate their power

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And their influence to gaming in general

orchid prism
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Here's the thing - The only Microsoft specific thing we rely on today is DirectX. Which has competition. Vulcan, OpenGL (Back in the day)

If Microsoft tries to pull anything, gamedevs will simply move over and Microsoft will lose market shares faster than you can scream.

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Even if they go full on DRM, you can just play any OpenGL based application or game on it.

blazing zodiac
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How many games support Linux?

orchid prism
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In theory? Literally any game that runs OpenGL or any of its variants.

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Which is... a LOT of games.

blazing zodiac
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Yeaj... but still

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Can you run, for example Battlefield 4 on Linux?

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GTA 5?

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Battlefield 1?

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It doesn't realy matter if a lot of small games support it

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Almost all huge projects aren't and this is the worst part

orchid prism
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Games of that scale? Yes.

blazing zodiac
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And now imagine that microsoft will make a deal with huge publishers

orchid prism
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No such deal will ever happen for the simple reason of not wanting to piss off customers.

blazing zodiac
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People still pre-order games

orchid prism
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Microsoft are already feeling a hard blowback from trying to make future CPUs "Current OS or newer only" restricted.

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Microsoft still hasn't made any DRM changes - Your argument is... premature at best ๐Ÿ˜›

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Want a kabylake? Say goodbye to Windows 7 without emulation.

blazing zodiac
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If they don't have it now doesn't mean they won't have it in future

orchid prism
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It also doesn't mean that customers won't change their behaviour either - So it's naive to assume otherwise ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
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I just won't expect massive customer strike

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And without it they will win

orchid prism
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The instant that a gamedev points out that you can say goodbye to any concept of mods? Hoo boy...

blazing zodiac
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I don't this it will kill mods for the games

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Instead of it devs will have to provide solid API for it

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*I don't think

orchid prism
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Bethesda games are a great example of not being able to simply API it.

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You have a ton of script extenders and similar mods that all rely on third party tools, ddls and tools.

blazing zodiac
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ESO have not a bad API and LUA supports

orchid prism
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ESO is an mmo...

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You don't "mod" mmos.

blazing zodiac
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Yep. And mostly by Zenimax

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Anyway it won't happen in nearest future if ever happen at all. A lot of buisness software use win32 and have no support so no one will rewrite for uwp.

orchid prism
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13 hours to download DOOM. Oh goodie...

blazing zodiac
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Oh wish I'm able to play doom right now

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Or Battlefield

toxic hill
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@blazing zodiac Rocket League appears to be getting a Linux port

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But if you look at what people are playing on Steam, most of them are playing stuff that runs on Linux

blazing zodiac
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@toxic hill only if you look on top10. Open top100 and linux suported games will be ~30%.

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And even that doesn't really matter. Most AAA projects don't have linux support. And that is a big deal.

blazing zodiac
bleak pike
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They are dying sadly

blazing zodiac
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Physically or like a company?

bleak pike
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A market

orchid prism
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Eh... wouldn't say that. You just won't see THE MMO again, since there's so many offerings.

bleak pike
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The marker it said, most MMOs are cash grabs.

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Then they cash out ol

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Kek pca genre

blazing zodiac
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Yeah. But maybe this guys will make something different and unique

bleak pike
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Nah

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It will fail, the then itself is old and lame:

orchid prism
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I'm enjoying WoW just fine tbh.

bleak pike
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I'm on about the market... Wow is an old game, I'm not saying it's failing etc I'm saying the genre and market are failing.

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Every year games come out, good ones become cash grabs and guy, bad ones just fade away. All new MMOs are morning new, they just copy the previous game or try to be a wow game.

orchid prism
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Sometimes genres need to fail and die out a bit - To be followed by a ressurrection. 4X had that until last couple of years. This year we're seeing a flood of new titles that are all promising.

bleak pike
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You could argue it's the audience which a lot of it is but regardless it's slowly dyeing.

orchid prism
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And as much as I can relate to taking a quick game of OVerwatch because I can't make it to 4 hours of raiding three nights a week - I'm going to miss just that. Working together towards a common goal over time.

bleak pike
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Someone needs me make a SAO like game ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Lol

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BDO had protential but because of the sheer greed it lost a huge amount of its player base.... I'm really looking forward to revelation online however, there's a few rifles that want to bring back MMOs but in reality it won't be enoughZ

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Ye exactly

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Revelation has roots, dungeons etc, it's the closest I can get to fun but sadly it's Chinese and anime art style.... Coping with that is doable though. There's just never a title that brings new things to the table.

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And when they do its not new, it's just recycled and twisted or they fuck us over.

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Tbh im more into fantasy than anything, I really thing a game on a huge scale such as Sao would help.... But marketing needs to be worked on!!

orchid prism
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Asian MMOs. Not even once ๐Ÿ˜„

bleak pike
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Well

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I did say Sao like

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Not Asian

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I don't want an anime game

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Again

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I said Sao like as in so much to do.

orchid prism
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I was talking about the companies, not the art style ๐Ÿ˜„

bleak pike
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BDO has sooooo much but it's ruined.

blazing zodiac
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And not we are (at least I'm) waiting Lost Ark

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Looks pretty neat and and have MMO features

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New Lineage should release soon too

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ESO was good enough (till they switched to cash shop and B2P)

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I agree that a lot of games had a really briliant idea in the core but turned just another cash grab

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Well, any mmo can't be more cash grab than Star Citizen

bleak pike
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I have my eyes on lost ark

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kek i agree with you there @blazing zodiac

orchid prism
blazing zodiac
orchid prism
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Haha yeah - It was playing in my head the entire time ๐Ÿ˜„

toxic hill
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@blazing zodiac The thing is, 10 times more people play CS:GO or Dota2 than any other game

toxic hill
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I would be willing to bet that 50% of people playing steam at any time could be using Linux

blazing zodiac
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True. Tho that doesn't mean that they will prefer to keep play only these games and will refuse all new titles. Sure, all can have Linux and play cs go. But if someone want a new Battlefield 8 or Gears of War 6 - you need Win10. TBH that will the only change for customers.
The whole thing is nt the case in nearest 5-10 years for sure.

toxic hill
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Hmm let's see here

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9/10, 27/50, 45/100 top games (as of right now) run natively on Linux

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At least

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There might be two more for which the store pages no longer exist

bleak pike
gilded crow
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Definitely a WoW vibe

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omgomgomggmogmogmogm I so much want to play a fricking mmorpg

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a bit of hm what was taht game name again

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flying and stuff

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with funny korean happy noises

blazing zodiac
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@toxic hill I don't get it. Even if the half of old games support linux how it will affect future games? Publishers just can forbid it (if they will make a deal with microsoft). It doesn't really matter TBH. I'm not going to miss all interesting projects because they aren't support linux.

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@gilded crow Maybe Blade and Soul?

gilded crow
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Blade and soul?

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never heard of that one, but that's not the one

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let me google

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Aion

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that's it

blazing zodiac
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Oh, it's the old one.

bleak pike
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omg @frail orbit awakening is bs

slender mauve
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@bleak pike Is it?

bleak pike
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bdo

frail orbit
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which awakening? @bleak pike

bleak pike
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All

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They make it impossible to play awakening for people who have lives

bleak pike
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@frail orbit bruh unfinished convo

frail orbit
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We do this a lot don't we @bleak pike ๐Ÿ˜‚

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I have so many Discord servers I end up only checking them when I have notifications

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Totally agree, awakenings are for people who can grind like 4hrs a day

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Really increases the curve quite unfairly

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But that's what they're going for I think - if you have a p2a game, people are more likely to spend money on it the steeper the curve is, because they hit that wall much harder

bleak pike
frail orbit
#

๐Ÿ˜„

bleak pike
blazing zodiac
#

Chris Metzen left Blizzard. What? Why all escaping Blizzard as it is a sinking boat?

short sorrel
#

Wait what

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He just retired, he didnt quit and go somewhere else

orchid prism
#

About time.

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While I won't deny his skills as an artist or idea guy, he is a big part of the reason why Warcraft design (not gameplay) has suffered for a decade or more.

You still see it today - Him and his core group of "designers" focus on certain things and ignore the big picture. Just a glance at the new "class halls" (Esentially quest hubs unique to each class) are wildly different. Some have an amazing level of detail and love put into them...while others are just slapped together from mostly old assets.

And guess which classes have had the most work? Metzen's favourite ones...

short sorrel
#

Which were?

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Im curious

orchid prism
#

Druid one is probably the most noticeable one. They've always had special treatment, and their class hall is no different.

#

It's like a big, lush jungle oasis.

short sorrel
#

Shamn hall is some hallways and a bunch of rocks

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It made me sad

orchid prism
#

Hunter one is also pretty bleak

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It's basically a half empty hunting lodge on a mountain peak

short sorrel
#

What about rougue

orchid prism
#

Rogue, Demon hunter and Death Knight are all really bad.

#

Rogue basically gets a small hideout in the old Underbelly sewers of Dalaran. Death Knights just get a slightly updated version of their old floating fortress. Similar story with Demon Hunters.

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Paladins get a huge underground catherdral hidden beneath Stormwind.

short sorrel
#

Wow

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aint that some shit

orchid prism
#

Warriors get their own private Valhalla.

short sorrel
#

One thing i hate

#

Is that i cant use Doomhammer unless im enchancement shaman

#

I prefer to play healer

#

But

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Doom-fucking-hammer m8..

orchid prism
#

Eh... never cared about the old artifacts.

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Not even that old Staff.

short sorrel
#

Brah

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I love doomhammer

#

I would love a real life version of it

orchid prism
#

I really need to get my shaman to level 100 though. Got a big Tauren action figure on my desk of a vanilla shammie

short sorrel
#

niice

#

Anyways off to bed for another fucked up excuse for sleep

orchid prism
#

I've been a druid loyalist since Burning Crusade, but after they gave us a global cooldown on shapeshifts, it just isn't the same. ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

#

Bai

short sorrel
#

No such thing as breaks

#

Huehuehuehue

bleak pike
#

@frail orbit new update is great

frail orbit
#

beer fest!

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so much new stuff

#

i'm loving the pace of these updates now

bleak pike
#

Great update

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Only thing im pissed about is the free Tier 5 Female horse.

#

Can't wait to buy the witch and sorc armor off my whale friend @frail orbit hahahahahahaha

frail orbit
#

it's not a guaranteed t5 according to the item description

bleak pike
#

it says t5 female

bleak pike
#

@frail orbit kek i sniped the helmet... how wonderful ./sigh

frail orbit
#

which helmet?

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but it could also be read as "one tier 5 female"

bleak pike
#

1x tier 5

frail orbit
#

nice

bleak pike
#

the awake wep i will buy with rl money when i bother to get this sorc anywhere hahaha

frail orbit
#

what level is it atm?

bleak pike
#

GOT THE SET

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Lol my sorc is 38

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she's an alt

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i just wanted it for future use

orchid prism
#

๐Ÿ˜

bleak pike
bleak pike
bleak pike
#

@frail orbit mfw when 25fs doesn't work when you want to duo

frail orbit
#

Rip

signal wharf
#

It looks like a first-person EVEalike with a focus on base and ship building.

#

Neat that it allows players to implement scripts into their ships and other built objects for extra functionality

blazing zodiac
#

@signal wharf You mean like Star citizen with crafting?

signal wharf
#

Yes and also no. Star Citizen is a sharded multiplayer "first person universe" that focuses on visual and mechanical fidelity as its primary hook. Practically speaking, it isn't an MMO in the strictest sense of the phrase.

#

This is more like EVE, a true MMO with no shards or instances, and all content, control, and gameplay handed over to players.

#

But instead of interfacing with the game through menus, you also have a first person representation and direct control over your character and ship.

#

It's more a hybrid of the two which favors more heavily toward EVE.

blazing zodiac
#

If you will way now that it uses megaserver for al players then shut up and take my money

#

Looks fine but curious how it will work.

orchid prism
#

So... why not just play EVE? Heh

blazing zodiac
#

The main question is will it support Wooting keyboard?

short sorrel
#

Mainly because i dont like EVE

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Like to do more than fly ships, want to infiltrate them

orchid prism
#

You... want an FPS hybrid?

short sorrel
#

Isnt that basically what star citizen is

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Except not MMO

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FLy ships in first person, have first person weapons, wtc

orchid prism
#

Except not MMO indeed, heh. Which is the point I was implying. ๐Ÿ˜„

short sorrel
#

I want first person of EVE

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Essentually that thing that Trent linked looks that thats basically it

orchid prism
#

That'll never happen for the same reasons that Planetside 2 can't handle it ๐Ÿ˜„

short sorrel
#

Too bad i dont have the time to play thing doe lol

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I dont see why not

orchid prism
#

Pure and simple - Overload of elements to keep track off and sync up. EVE as it is has to slow down the server rate to like a tenth of normal or less if you get a decently large combat going. Now add soldiers to that? Hoo boy...

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Planetside 2 tries - tries to combat this by reducing the render range dynamically. To the point where you have 2 meters or less of render range of other players and vehicles. So fun.

short sorrel
#

you mean draw distance?

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because last i played planetside 2 i never noticed a falloff of draw distance, just typical LOD shifts

orchid prism
#

I'm talking about the literal rendering of other players.

short sorrel
#

Yeah

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See enmies at distance easy

#

Just blocky

orchid prism
#

Yeah... PS2 has lost most of its players. Back when people actually played it and had EVE style battles, you were lucky to see far enough to throw a rock most of the time.

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And what's worse is - It wasn't always synced well between factions. So you could have one side be able to snipe, while the other was sometimes lucky to shotgun.

short sorrel
#

When in doubt

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Blaim 20tick

orchid prism
#

When not in doubt - Blame the obvious reason. You simply cannot expect hundreds of player objects on screen ๐Ÿ˜„

short sorrel
#

'But bro, this is CSGO... the servers are 120 ti...'

'20 TICK CYKA BLYAT'

orchid prism
#

๐Ÿ˜ƒ

robust sedge
#

How is SC not an MMO? Didn't they show complete multiplayer at their gamescom demo?

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Or is it still an instanced multiplayer world?

orchid prism
#

Instanced. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

signal wharf
#

The design has always been for instanced multiplayer. They want large instances (up to a few hundred), but SC was always meant to be instanced.

orchid prism
#

It's the sensible choice really - Even further sharding by keeping each solar system separate as well. It's the only way EVE doesn't slow to a crawl all the time.

blazing zodiac
#

TBH what I really do not like in DU (actually in every kickstarter game) is the unique bonuses. Sure, devs want to say "Thank you for support" but I think there are a lot of other options how to do it. It's not a big deal, I know it. But I still can't accept it. See this fancy outfit? Want it? Fuck you, you will never get it because you didn't pledged on kickstarter/indieggo/etc. $5!

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I think physical bonuses is a really good way to say thank you. Or an NPC name.

orchid prism
#

Eh... if it's a cosmetic I don't see the problem.

#

Physicals are an utter nightmare - especially for the backers.

blazing zodiac
#

Yeah, I know. As I said it's not a big deal. Tho it pisses me off every time.

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Back in my days (am I really that old?) CE was only for true collectors and for hardcore fans

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With good physical goodies

orchid prism
#

Those still exist though.

blazing zodiac
#

Did you seen BF1 CE?

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It is an insult IMO

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Titanfall 1 had not bad CE. Want to buy the second one CE but I already payed for the wooting keyboard

orchid prism
#

It looks... perfectly standard CE no?

blazing zodiac
#

Quality is so awful

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And it's so overpriced

orchid prism
#

So... a CE.

blazing zodiac
#

Still quality is afwul

orchid prism
#

Quality has never been a CE thing.

blazing zodiac
#

Well. it was back in my days. I still have some goodies from different games

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And they are still working

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I have an artifact from Stalker game

orchid prism
#

I'd love some examples - Because I have owned my fair share of old CE boxes too. Never had any semblance of !quality"

blazing zodiac
#

Nice thing, still working

orchid prism
blazing zodiac
#

It falled few times, but still fine

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IMO awesome

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Titanfall 1 had an average CE. The main figure is cool and it still working

orchid prism
blazing zodiac
#

My friend still have Space Rangers 2 CE

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With metal badge

frail orbit
#

@bleak pike does Croxus have its own BDO discord for boss timers etc?

blazing zodiac
#

Blizzar didn't changed that much. D3 have almost the same goodies (except D&D stuff)

orchid prism
#

So what I'm hearing you say is... You call any kind of physical item "quality"... yet someone don't think a neat figurine and some other accessories are "quality" I don't get you man...

blazing zodiac
#

SC2 WOL have a flash drive

#

Did you seen BF1 CE at all?

orchid prism
#

Yes....

blazing zodiac
#

It just do not worth 220 eur

#

Or how much it cost now?

orchid prism
#

Do you have any idea how expensive figurines are? Hahaha

blazing zodiac
#

Yep

#

And this one is not worth even 100 eur

orchid prism
#

Right - So you don't. Glad we cleared that.

blazing zodiac
#

LOL

#

Threezero statues cost ~400-500

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And it worth every penny

#

IDK, if you agree to pay for it then ok, tho it's just stupid

orchid prism
#

That is your opinion - Based on... what exactly? Have you actually looked at the figure? It's not just a mold. There's clear texturing and handpainting involved.

You never cease to make me laugh, Ashy - And not always for good reasons ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
#

Yep. The thing is there is unboxing videos and pictures

#

It looks so cheap

orchid prism
#

That's mighty impressive considering the game isn't even out yet...heh

#

Oh there we go - Four pages into YT. A single video. The figurine looks just as you'd expect given the price range.

blazing zodiac
#

Sure, the subject is up to change. But for now it doesnt look worth 200 eur.

orchid prism
#

k

blazing zodiac
#

And expirience tells me that it won't be beeter than we already seen

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Or Sideshow. They also have pretty nice examples of how to do it right.

#

IDK google it if you want to see quality

orchid prism
#

Yeah thanks - I do actually know figurines. ๐Ÿ˜›

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/slight sarcasm

blazing zodiac
#

Ok then. Not sure why you arguing tho.

bleak pike
#

@frail orbit yes it does

orchid prism
#

Why? Because I don't agree with your evaluation of the price versus product at all ๐Ÿ˜›

bleak pike
#

You get what you pay for, simple as.

#

Excluding Ubisoft games

blazing zodiac
#

LOL!!!

#

I still think there is much better CE for ~200 eur.

orchid prism
#

Like I said earlier. "k"

blazing zodiac
#

The Crew is free on Uplay but not in Steam ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

bleak pike
#

i have it on steam anyway

blazing zodiac
#

Why reviews on it so bad? I thought it's just an OK game

bleak pike
#

What fane?

#

*game?

#

The crew? i thought it was the perfect racing game?#

#

Wasn't it like broken at release? i have never played it.

frail orbit
#

@bleak pike like, separate from the BDO-EU discord?

bleak pike
#

Oh right, no, however you can set alerts up for a specfic room on a discord yano.

frail orbit
#

i know, i asked because there doesn't seem to be very many croxus people on that server

bleak pike
#

The one i was on there was a shit ton

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i forgot what it was however....

#

hundreds

frail orbit
bleak pike
#

Nope

#

But i used to be in that one also

frail orbit
#

ahh right so Croxus moved into another server, gotcha. i thought it was weird how there were only like 20 odd in that one

bleak pike
#

nah there has always been a dedicated discord

#

No one ever annonced boss spawns sadly

#

why would you care? your not in croxus lol

frail orbit
#

like i said, just curious since there used to be 100-200 people in that one

#

and it seemed to be growing until a bunch left

#

so still no-one announces boss spawns on the croxus one?

bleak pike
#

i left ages ago

frail orbit
#

wow so no boss tracker? how do you even do worldbosses? ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

bleak pike
#

im on 15 servers as it is

#

so i left both bdo servers

#

And everyone always annonces in game

#

via server

frail orbit
#

ah that's not too bad i guess

bleak pike
#

I give up on world bosses

#

i just buy my way upo

#

*up

frail orbit
#

the jordine one is super organised, it's ridiculous

#

have you tried kutum yet?

bleak pike
#

americans

#

and no

frail orbit
#

jordine is EU ๐Ÿ˜›

#

because it's so organised i can usually catch 2-3 of each worldboss every time they spawn

#

you should give kutum a try, it's fun

#

good loot too, i get about 2mil in gold bars every time

bleak pike
#

our server is semi dead

#

populated

#

but dead

#

PKing is heavy over here.

#

Sausans is meh

#

even helms is populated by pkers

#

I know my AP is low... but i have only just bothered starting to work on it as i have high life skills etc, im working on duo today, im gonna buiy witch and pri them etc

#

im also working on bronze

#

I have liverto but i have been working on that slowly

#

i give up on bdo till i realized how fast they are relasing awakening... im kinda making sure im ready haha

frail orbit
bleak pike
#

Eh

#

No

#

but i am doing it.

#

Its onmy pans.

#

*plans

frail orbit
#

it's a dick. so much heartbreak

#

don't even get me started on TET

bleak pike
#

I know how it works haha

#

im not hardcore... im in no rush

frail orbit
#

i've tried TET 2 times now on my liverto and i honestly don't think i'm going to try again

#

and yea i'm nowhere near hardcore myself, just managed to catch a lot of worldbosses so ended up with a lot of blackstones for failstacking

#

i hit 57 and i think i'll stop grinding for a while

#

i need my skillpoints to catch up with my level a bit since i grind in groups because valks are slow as fuck to solo grind

hallow verge
#

Any cool game we should test analog with?

orchid prism
#

Racing games are always a good test - Since that's arguably the genre that most people connect with analogue need.

hallow verge
#

Any specific title?

bleak pike
toxic hill
#

@hallow verge I still want to see you guys play Insurgency

bleak pike
#

This game is so painful

#

@frail orbit

hallow verge
#

Insurgency is a good idea.

frail orbit
#

Lol @bleak pike it's all about that slow crawl of progress

#

Atm my gear doesn't progress for weeks at a time because I'm working on boss gear

#

I need to do a 10x relic party so I can get my Giath helm usable

bleak pike
#

Ye I'm doing my scrolls soon

#

You need some snacks doing them bad boys... They take forever

#

Haha

frail orbit
#

just did a 5x10 group @bleak pike - took over 2 hours

#

but

#

need to do another 5-10x group now to get it actually usable ๐Ÿ˜„

#

so glad i got it to DUO today though, it did similar to my Bheg gloves because they went from 15-TRI with no fails

#

the Giath's went 15-DUO no fail ๐Ÿ˜„

bleak pike
#

GG

frail orbit
#

2 in a row

bleak pike
#

gg

short sorrel
#

sing in required

#

gg

#

sign in'

blazing zodiac
#

Ok, my bad. New link

blazing zodiac
#
bleak pike
#

@frail orbit was this the discord server you were on about?

frail orbit
#

no, but i've recently found out about the IHA servers

#

pretty clever bot system they have

bleak pike
#

Ye.

#

I added their bot to my server.

frail orbit
#

problem is it kinda requires a lot of people

#

the jordine one is really empty

#

because jordine started out with the BDO-EU server

#

but a lot of the other guilds rejected it from other BDO servers and made their own discord servers

#

i think they didn't like that it was ran by Jordine guilds

#

and as such, Jordine is stuck with the manual system on BDOEU

frail orbit
#

@bleak pike you have a sorc right?

#

i got a ridiculously lucky roll on a Kzarka Amulet, 97mil

#

aaaaand then decided i'd rather focus on my valk

bleak pike
#

gg

blazing zodiac
bleak pike
#

@frail orbit kek failed tri

frail orbit
#

rip

#

i just had a 2.5hr node war

#

most fun i've had on BDO in ages @bleak pike

#

played it really tactically, 3 guilds so we played the other two off against each other

bleak pike
bleak pike
#

@frail orbit im back to duo now le cry

signal wharf
bleak pike
#

@signal wharf ayyy they used smarter everyday

frail orbit
#

what did you buy @bleak pike ?

signal wharf
#

@bleak pike Yeah, i'm a big fan of Smarter Everyday

bleak pike
#

@signal wharf SAME

#

@frail orbit honestly don't fucking remember lol

frail orbit
#

you not saving money for boss gear day?

bleak pike
#

cba with coss gear

#

by then ill be to busy with uni

#

im back up to 50m atm

frail orbit
#

i'm working on 2 pieces atm, kutum and muskan's

#

then just Hebe to go and i'm full boss armour

frail orbit
#

that can sit next to my kutum box until i TRI my muskans

bleak pike
#

@willow quiver we finally decided to get a node

toxic hill
#

@orchid prism Rofl

frail orbit
#

@bleak pike did you win?

bleak pike
#

Ye

#

We had a 2 hour war today also.... We got so bored and walked away... Number 2 and number 4 best best guild kept slapping each other and just not paying attention to us... We went for a castle... We didn't die or anything, we just got really bored.

#

Lmao

frail orbit
#

@bleak pike you'll be happy to know your guild's namesake on Jordine seems to be disbanding too

bleak pike
#

Too? Whatcha saying bitcho

frail orbit
#

i mean "too" as in "in other positive news"

#

๐Ÿ˜„

#

what tier did you win?

bleak pike
#

Somewhere near helms

blazing zodiac
#

Anyone already tried Battle Carnival?

#

The game looks like mix of Overwatch and CS

orchid prism
#

That sounds so unfun

blazing zodiac
#

Dunno. Open alfa started like a 12 hours ago

#

Some people say it's like PoimtBlank 2

orchid prism
#

"We hope it sucks less this time." ~EA CEO

blazing zodiac
#

TF1 was cool

#

I liked it a lot when it came out

orchid prism
#

It had so little content - And you were basically just killing bots half the time trying to get back into a mech. It was a mess.

blazing zodiac
#

It was funny mess. IMO bots made maps more alive.

#

It was a good game (with its own flaws). And I'm really glad they made second game

#

And no more shield regen on titan

orchid prism
#

I'm just glad I skipped it after the beta. It died out in a month or so from what I understand. I am SO done with these Ubi/EA "one variant every year" models.

blazing zodiac
#

Yeah. Unfortunately it died really fast

bleak pike
#

i loved ttitanfall 1

blazing zodiac
#

@bleak pike going to buy titanfall 2?

bleak pike
#

@blazing zodiac probsbly but not right away

blazing zodiac
#

@bleak pike Awesome. Maybe we will play together one day.

blazing zodiac
bleak pike
#

@blazing zodiac impresive.

blazing zodiac
#

Yeah. They are just keep increasing hype level.

blazing zodiac
#

New cinematic trailer (posted yesterday on youtube)

bleak pike
#

@blazing zodiac this may well be the next Halo type game to be honest... I mean ye its different in a lot of way but the vibe itself is simlar

blazing zodiac
#

CM there switched from Halo game (486 or something) to Respawn team.

bleak pike
#

Ohhh

toxic hill
#

Linux or bust ๐Ÿ˜›

bleak pike
#

that would be great

bleak pike
orchid prism
short sorrel
#

@bleak pike normally i never go 'omg.. drop dead amazing'

#

But that char

#

I want her

#

@orchid prism The creator of that literally posted that only 30 or so minutes ago lol

#

In the game dev league

orchid prism
#

I wouldn't be surprised. I've been hanging out in their discord for a few weeks. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

#

I was the first backer, heh.

short sorrel
#

Ah i\nice

#

Sadly, im not a sim city kind of guy

orchid prism
#

That's entirely fair. I'm a huge tycoon player. ^_^

short sorrel
#

I remember back in the day, i loyed playing theme park tycoon on the PS1 and that Jurassic Park tycoon game on PS2

#

Fucking loved tohse games

#

I would love for a revival of that Jurassic Park one though

#

Not even Jurassic Park branded, but an indie game that pulls it off would be great

orchid prism
#

Mhmm ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

short sorrel
#
Of course, you know the lawsuits would follow
bleak pike
short sorrel
#

Nah

#

Now its over that threshold of teh textures are so high res they start to make the blockyness more noticible

bleak pike
#

maybe a little work on the right.

short sorrel
#

Yee

hallow verge
#

tekken 7 is going to be brutal

blazing zodiac
bleak pike
#

@frail orbit Eperia Sailing Ship 10/10

#

gonna make 10 of em

#

Eperia Sailing Ship

orchid prism
#

Mafia 3 is locked at 30FPS. ๐Ÿ˜‚

blazing zodiac
#

@orchid prism Really? I wanted to buy it but at last second I thought "Meh" and didn't bought it

orchid prism
#

Yep really. Hackers might be able to remove the lock, but as we all know changing FPS in games that rely on 30 tend to be... unstable. So time will tell.

blazing zodiac
#

Omg. Now I glad I saved my money.

#

Can anyone reach EA chat support?

#

I tried but it's in infinite loading

short sorrel
#

No need for hackers

#

They are working on patch right out the door

#

Unlike some devs who just say 'get fucked' (DR3..)

blazing zodiac
#

I won't buy it anyway. No support for re-order exclusives from me.

orchid prism
#

Yeah I saw the patchnotes earlier today. Kudos for doing that - Boo for not being up front about it beforehand. Deus Ex managed the lack of DX12 fine by being up front about needing to postpone it for a few weeks to ensure it worked.

Mafia just quietly released like it was.

short sorrel
#

Well

#

30fps cap removal is not as big a deal as DX12

#

Hence why they have a patch up so early

orchid prism
#

It can be - depending on how much of your engine is actually tied directly to framerate.

short sorrel
#

DX12 basically requires a full rewrite of the engines rewrite

#

Well not full

#

But def most

orchid prism
#

Source anyone? Bethesda anyone?

short sorrel
#

Your source is myself

#

Because ive worked in these APIs lol

orchid prism
#

... The engine named source ya dunce ๐Ÿ˜„

short sorrel
#

Ah

#

lol

#

Yeah Bethesdas is weird

#

Most modern engines i know of update the simulation in a fixed timesetp that is decoupled from the render timestep

#

Source makes sense a bit as the engine was built way back when, and they are actively working on Srouce 2

orchid prism
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If you look at LPs of Halflife 2, you notice a lot of FPS required glitches and exploits. Can't do those below the predefined limitations.

There's also that puzzle game where you're an android. So many jumps are +200 +400 fps specific.

short sorrel
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Creation engine is not that old, yet they still rolled the coupled sim-to-frame setup

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Imagine my wtf when i disabled VSync in the nvidia control panel

orchid prism
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Chances are they were working on 60fps support for release, but couldn't finish it in time - which is fine. But they chose to keep it quiet, which is just bad business.

short sorrel
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WHY AM I RUNNING AS FAST AS FLASH

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WHY ARENT DOORS WORKING

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WTF IS THIS

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What i think is that its 30fps on release because its the usual console port

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Which isnt bad

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Which is why i often find it funny when people attack console ports, when its no dif than porting from windows to linux or Mac or vice versa

orchid prism
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Not quite...anymore anyway. Both consoles are basically PC hardware.

short sorrel
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Yes and no

orchid prism
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Back in the pre PS4/XB1 days? Definitely.

short sorrel
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Yes as in the processing is x86 and not snowflake

orchid prism
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How Sony convinced anyone to develop on Cell is beyond me. So many horror stories ๐Ÿ˜„

short sorrel
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No as in consoles have unified memory and direct thread management

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Going from unified memory setup to PC without actually putting the work in to properly optimize graphic tasks to use the actual GPU and GPU memory for graphical tasks and the obvious for the CPU means OMG WHY THE FUCK IS THIS RUNNING AT 20FPS DAMN CONSOLE PORT

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Plus theres always the case of teh developers just being lazy with making their code nicely decoupled and portable even if there are no plans to port to PC.

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If the engine winds up being a bunch of spaghetti hacked together to work well on one platform, trying to go to another will require even more spaghetti and hacks just to get the damn thing to run

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These are those bad ports lol, you would be amazed how easy it is to port something to any other platform so long as the code base and core systems are architected well.

orchid prism
bleak pike
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I don't get it

hallow verge
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anyone played mafia III?

orchid prism
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Still downloading it. It sounds pretty bad to be honest - even ignoring the 30fps drama

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from what I hear they basically turned it into an Assassin's Creed style game with lots of creeping and cover. Instead of the rootin tootin tommygun shootin' experience that 2 was.

Also the story is so conflicting.

hallow verge
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Well they fixed the 30fps issue for pc. Kinda a shame that it turned in an ac game.

orchid prism
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It's still shoddily optimized :(

I can't even get a decently consistent 60fps on an RX480. I saw dips going well below 20-30 while driving downtown during the first intro mission.

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Of course the 2000s era 512x512 textures don't quite impress either. Hard to tell where all of those frames are going tbh.

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Doesn't help that 20GB of the game is actually just translations. Pirated leaks are so tiny compared to the Steam copy.

bleak pike
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@frail orbit i got bored of waiting for my rangers awakening so i decided to get from 30-56 last night on my sorc who was just an energy bank xD

frail orbit
blazing zodiac
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Anyone going to play BF1 on 13 (ea access)?

orchid prism
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No time. ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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And...I honestly don't see myself giving EA another dime. They keep doing it over and over again. Yearly titles with a season pass.

Oh and you have to RENT servers for BF1 - straight from EA.

blazing zodiac
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You don't have to rent a server. You can play on EA's server xD

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Well, I hope that it means they will do something with cheaters

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Now they have full control of the servers

orchid prism
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... you have to rent a server if you want your own server. So.. yeah... you do.

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Remember the days when you could host your own servers with your own rules and mods? Pepperidge Farms does.

blazing zodiac
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Remember LAN parties when you had to bring your PC? Best ping ever.

orchid prism
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What about them? I still attend a handful or more of those every year.

blazing zodiac
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Lets not start another server war. BF1 forum full of it

orchid prism
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Anyway - Suffice to say I won't be touching BF1 again short of being told to review it.

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Beta was fun - But it wasn't 60โ‚ฌ plus a 40โ‚ฌ? season pass fun.

blazing zodiac
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And I missed the beta ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

bleak pike
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"Remember" implying they aren't a thing.... the only reason they were a hbigger thing back then was because lack of "online" support ๐Ÿ˜‰ it feels cheezy calling it lan when playing over a connection these days

orchid prism
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LANs are about sitting in a room playing together - not being offline ๐Ÿ˜›

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45$ is 45$ too many ^_^

blazing zodiac
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Lan is local area network. It mean have 2 or more playing devices (PC or consoles). Split screen is not lan

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And you are not playing lan in the internet

orchid prism
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Never go full retard.

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LAN parties as a concept trancend the technical term. Always has.

blazing zodiac
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Max lan distance is something about 100m

orchid prism
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The maximum signal length of a Cat 5 cable doesn't mean jack in this context. And even so, that's for a single cable. Hubs, switches and routers extended that indefinitely. Otherwise we wouldn't have this thing called the internet ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
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In that cases there are better solutions

orchid prism
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Those are literally the solutions, Ashy. Have you ever worked in Networking? ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
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It is just stupid to have a lan cable and a router every 100 meters

orchid prism
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Point remains - LANs have always relied on Internet for both downloads and player connectivity. Perfectly normal to have 64 servers where at least a portion are online connected.

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And that'd be why we developed later Cat versions. ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
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LAN aren't relying on Internet

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You can plug PC to PC

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And it will be LAN

orchid prism
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Stop confusing the technical term with the concept of a LAN party. Two entirely different things...

blazing zodiac
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How it is? LAN party (like quake lan party) is a bunch of PC connected together. And you need to bring your own pc/laptop on that event

orchid prism
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Your point being? You've always had internet at those events.

blazing zodiac
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Nope

orchid prism
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Yup.

blazing zodiac
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Well, not in childhood

orchid prism
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Your childhood must have sucked then.

blazing zodiac
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Nope. it was fun.

orchid prism
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You'd be SOL the second ten people suddenly need a driver to play. Or to download a patch for a game to ensure everyone's on the same version.

blazing zodiac
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We had a special places for that lan games like cs or quake

orchid prism
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Even back in the 56k baud days, we always ensured having at least a megabit connection to serve downloads.

blazing zodiac
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Internet on 90- early 00 wasn't a common thing in my city

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So we had pure lan parties

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Without any internet connection

orchid prism
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Sucks to have been you I guess.

blazing zodiac
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No it is not

orchid prism
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Still doesn't change the fact that having internet access at a LAN does not make it a non-LAN though. Which I do believe was the actual topic of discussion.

blazing zodiac
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Of course it is not. Most (or all) lans connected to the internet nowdays

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But you don't need an internet connection to make lan. I guess that was the topic.

orchid prism
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Well you do now - And have needed to do so since the death of the optical drive.

blazing zodiac
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Even now it is not mandatory. It just makes life easier.

orchid prism
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It is mandatory for a LOT of games.

blazing zodiac
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You know, you can use one PC as a repository and ensure all have the same version

orchid prism
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Use Steamworks based mods? That's another Lot of games on top.

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No shit? I never knew - I guess the 8TB of games I have on my NAS don't actually exist :P

Doesn't work like that in the days of always online DRM however.

blazing zodiac
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Ok, all began with if you two sitting in the same room but connected via internet - it is not a lan.

orchid prism
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Still a LAN. Heh

blazing zodiac
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Most DRM games aren't supporting lan anyway

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No it is not.

orchid prism
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Plenty of online DRM games support LAN. And yes - It is.

blazing zodiac
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If you connected by a cable (PC to PC) - it is a lan.

orchid prism
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No. If you happen to be on the same LAN, you're on the same LAN. You're confusing LAN with a crossover cable. Or going back further, serial direct cables ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
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Ok, lets say in that way. If you will turn internet off and still will be able to play together - it is lan

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If not - it is not a lan

orchid prism
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See? This is why I enjoy being pedantic. People use terms far too losely and get flak for it. You never said anything about the server/client connection.

You said that if there was internet involved it wasn't a LAN.

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Anyway - I tire of this.

blazing zodiac
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Yes, if you play via the internet - it is not a lan

orchid prism
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Just stop before you hurt yourself, Ashy. ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
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It is only you who refuse to admit it

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Not sure if you know what lan is

orchid prism
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No - I refuse to acknowledge your vague arguments. It all depends on the client/server connection. Which you seem to keep forgetting about.

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A LAN is not just a LAN.

blazing zodiac
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Well, if it was a surprise to you that you can play without internet... idk

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Lan is just a lan. Connect bunch of PC and you will be able to play some games without internet

orchid prism
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Do you know what a subnet is? A Class C network? Do you know how to calculate an address space? I do actually happen to have several CISCO courses, as well as about fifteen years as a networks admin. ๐Ÿ˜›

blazing zodiac
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It is a local network

orchid prism
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So yeah - Just stop before you hurt yourself ๐Ÿ˜„

blazing zodiac
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Yes except of cisco

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It is just too expensive

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Especially for student

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And IMO it isn't worth the money they are asking for it

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Well, and not 15 years network admin

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I'm not that old

orchid prism
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Oh no... it only happens to be mandatory by almost every major corporation that hires network engineers. Not worth the money at all...heh...hehe

blazing zodiac
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Not in my country

orchid prism
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Considering how yoru city didn't have internet either... I am somehow not surprised at that developent. ๐Ÿ˜‰

blazing zodiac
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In my country if you have skill and knowledge but don't have useless paper you still can get a job

orchid prism
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But I digress. Gotta go.

blazing zodiac
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cy

blazing zodiac
bleak pike
frail orbit
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๐Ÿ˜‚

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i was at my gf's

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expected to come home to maintenance over

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fml

bleak pike
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i came home so i couild do it -_-

bleak pike
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@frail orbit have you tried the new patch? im crying of laughter

frail orbit
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everything is so fucking broken!

bleak pike
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can't stop laughing

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i was number 1 for all life skills.

bleak pike
frail orbit
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๐Ÿ˜„

bleak pike
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Can't believe they extended the emergency patch -_-

bleak pike
frail orbit
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ranger awakening = you get a grab

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grab + shotgun = rip

bleak pike
bleak pike
frail orbit
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i'm not actually complaining @bleak pike - it completes my boss gear set and the extra +100 SP will give me more damage on SoJ

bleak pike
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ye well its useless to me

short sorrel
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Tfw your team is getting rolled and every 'acceptable' change you make isnt doing shit, so you say fuck da police and go Widow and you dead stop the enemy team and carry the entire attack phase

bleak pike
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@frail orbit Ayyyy Red Nose Day, I see you're following it also

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Nice meme

bleak pike
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confirmed rigged and damage control is kicking in

bleak pike
frail orbit
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๐Ÿ˜‚

bleak pike
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@frail orbit got my first belt.... i finally decided to go for world bosses as my awakening is perfect for it.

frail orbit
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๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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gz!

bleak pike
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Like seriously... i haven't bothered sincee launch because of shit loot... thought yolo ill do it today, happens i got liverto from red nose and belt from tree.

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feels good man ๐Ÿ•ถ

bleak pike
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:3

hallow verge
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๐Ÿ˜ฎ

bleak pike
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inb4 boss gear

bleak pike
hallow verge
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who is hyped for dishonored 2?

orchid prism
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Never managed to get through the first one. The game kept guilt tripping me into restarting due to kills. ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

hallow verge
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๐Ÿ˜‰

orchid prism
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Personal rant: Why the heck would you design an RGB product and limit it to a handful of colours.

Is a USB port that expensive? ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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(Reviewing "RGB" casefans with only 7 colours in total)

hallow verge
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I don't think its to expansive

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they need to make firmware, maybe inexperienced with it and it takes up an USB slot

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are users happy with it?

orchid prism
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They're charging 110โ‚ฌ for a kit with a 6fan controller piece and 3 fans. You tell me if that sounds like a good deal when you'er not even getting RGB.

One of their competitors did exactly that - USB connection to allow for software to control the fans. ๐Ÿ˜„

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My biggest gripe is that the colours they've chosen aren't even that covering. It's missing some fairly common shades of yellow and green. So you're likely to end up with a case that doesn't match the fans.

hallow verge
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thats a shame

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the price sounds ok

bleak pike
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I like DH but it drags dialouge

hallow verge
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I love it

blazing zodiac
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Nothing to worry about. XBOX have play anywhere feature.

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So you can buy it in Microsoft store and play it on PC

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At least I hope for it

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Red Dead Disapointed! - loled so much

orchid prism
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Are you kidding me? Well that's the last time I buy a Rockstar game then.

bleak pike
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@orchid prism @robust sedge they are taking the gta v approach to make double profits....

orchid prism
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They had better. I'm not buying another console for that series ๐Ÿ˜›

bleak pike
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lel people are hoping for Xbox Play Anywhere

robust sedge
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Wouldn't they have to support PC to support play anywhere

blazing zodiac
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I think it's up to microsoft

blazing zodiac