🎮│game

[willow quiver]

so idk how to work around that

[trim rock]

You start it back up

Orrr you use dinput and provide a custom SDL controller config, like SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG="03000000eb03000002ff000011010000,Wooting WootingTwo,platform:Linux,leftx:a0,lefty:a1" that probably won't work anymore

[willow quiver]

yeah, just had to do xboxdrv --type xbox360 --device-by-id 03eb:ff01 --silent --quiet --detach-kernel-driver --mimic-xpad

how annoying

[feral ferry]

@fading spade You might want to check out that disorder with a psychotherapist

No joy sounds very depressing

[fading spade]

It is

;-;

[willow quiver]

ah, it appears that csgo has changed the movement speed so that silent walk is capped out at the same speed as shift

oh well

[quick frigate]

I think they learned about people using Wooting boards to "cheat" the system

[willow quiver]

yeah

[frosty dew]

oh well, time to return the wooting

[bleak pike]

@proper cargo it’s down to contest mode too, you’re forced to be under-levelled

[feral ferry]

For those who want Anno 1800 full edition for real cheap

Buy the game right now, costs 12 euros

Or 13

Either way really good deal

[barren pewter]

but is it on steam?

[feral ferry]

Dunno

Anyways

You can unlock all the DLC packs for free

[barren pewter]

w0t?

[feral ferry]

There's a way to exploit Uplay to give you shit for free

I just found it

[barren pewter]

and will they ban my account if I do this exploit?

[feral ferry]

You have to own the game though, not the DLCs it seems

And nah, they won't

Been doing the same thing with Sims 4

Bought the base game and glitch DLC unlocked all the latest DLCs for free

400 euros worth of DLCs for the price of base game

[trim rock]

Alright you gonna say how?

[feral ferry]

I'll update you in a moment

Need to write the whole guide cause it's clustered

[feral ferry]

Alright

So

I did some research and I'm relatively sure of how the DLC unlocker goes

It comes from cs.rin.ru community and no one really has a full fledged tutorial

A bit of a guarded secret

So anyways

You'll need the DLC unlocker files

They are here

https://www15.zippyshare.com/v/pFGYUxn8/file.html

I already checked if they are infected with Kaspersky on "highest security" preset

They are completely clean

Drop those into your Uplay folder

Then open UbiDLC.ini in notepad

[novel umbra]

I wouldn't trust kaspersky

[feral ferry]

I wouldn't trust you, ever

And add this code:

[novel umbra]

Why should you

Why should you trust kaspersky though

[feral ferry]

Cause it's good?

[novel umbra]

Rather trust virustotal

[feral ferry]

Pfft

Nah

Kaspersky passes most virus tests

So I trust them quite a bit

Plus capitalists hate it

So whatever America hates, I like

So yeah, in a nutshell

1. Download DLC unlocker
2. Put it in Ubisoft Game Launcher folder
3. Add the code in the message contained above
4. Profit?

[fringe salmon]

ah yes, trust the russian software to check if the russian download is legit

[novel umbra]

And don't trust virustotal which includes the russian software as a security check

[feral ferry]

Virustotal in my experience has too many false positives

Kaspersky on the other hand, never let me down

What is malware it warns me about, and what VirusTotal would otherwise false positive flag it doesn't detect

[novel umbra]

ah yes

[fringe salmon]

so why not use the one that shows both so you can ignore the rest if you so chose

[novel umbra]

that windows defender has a higher probability to detect something should also be ignored obv

[proper cargo]

All anti virusses got their positives and negatives. I use windows defender cause its the easiest one to use. It comes pre installed, gets updated automatically and its scans dont seem to trouble me at all.

[fading spade]

is that the one called "Windows Security" in the menu?

[proper cargo]

Im doing quite alot of torrenting, so sometimes it says a torrent is malicious. I simply trust it is. Usually it flags keygens as malicious as well when they are not, but if you download a cracked game from say fitgirl or codex, it hasnt flagged any of theirs yet, so it might be that some crackers use an older form of programming that is flagged by default by anti virusses.

Yes @fading spade

Windows security is the package. Windows defender is part of it

[fading spade]

ahh

[feral ferry]

Defender is good enough nowadays to be the only antivirus running on the PC

For me, I need something extra, more powerful

[proper cargo]

Well, whatever you do that needs something extra, make sure there are no traces left behind.

[orchid prism]

Something something please don't talk practical piracy here 😛

Don't want to upset the Discord staff.

[feral ferry]

It's not piracy if you spend at least a dollar @orchid prism 😉

Or even a cent tbh

[orchid prism]

Donating to Fitgirl and friends is not paying for the game 😛

https://tenor.com/view/get-out-leave-gtfo-get-out-of-here-gif-6207127

[feral ferry]

But I paid to Ubisoft

I just squeezed out a whole lot more out of that transaction than usual, it's still not piracy

[fringe salmon]

you bought the game, not the rest, so you pirated the rest

[feral ferry]

Thanks for ruining the fun Quin

[bleak pike]

the new raid is insane
tbh

[placid garden]

can’t even do it yet since I don’t even have a raid team

plus I’m low light so they don’t even want me :)

[proper cargo]

light level discrimination 😛

[feral ferry]

Taken from GTA Online newest trailer

The coordinates at the bottom lead to a weird place

It actually looks like this

Which is weird, cause that looks like a "VI" to me

Rockstar loves teasing GTA VI doesn't it

[fossil solar]

This is some serious tin foil hattery

Thinking Cockstar would ever release a new game

[frosty dew]

why wouldnt they though? 🤔

[novel umbra]

GTA Vinal Edition

[young crow]

120 fps at 4k on a console is too damn nice

“up to 120 fps” yet most games i’ve played are 120 locked

[novel umbra]

at 4k

[young crow]

too bad

[fossil solar]

Because rockstar makes close to a billion a year off of GTA Online microtransactions, it’s cheaper to re-skin and re-release existing updates than it is to make a new game.

[novel umbra]

it is cheaper to rerelase GTA V for the third console generation

instead of making GTA VI

although first selling V for the new gen and then releasing VI would still be a chad move

[feral ferry]

My citizens in Anno 1800 are messed up

I had to build 7 scotch distilleries just to produce enough drinks for those fucks

Meanwhile 4 fisheries and 2 sausage factories are more than enough to satisfy food needs

[willow quiver]

i've been tempted to pirate a game and just send the money directly to the devs

[orchid prism]

That's because more types of citizens share certain goods, @feral ferry

Pretty sure the higher social classes won't eat fish for example. But the drinking is pretty universal.

[feral ferry]

I only have 2nd level for now

[orchid prism]

Is your drinking production balanced?

[feral ferry]

Dunno I think the game is sending a message that I'm abusive

It's actually unbalanced towards raw material

Too much of it

[orchid prism]

Schnapps is 1:1 unless you start fiddling with the DLC stuff.

[feral ferry]

But that doesn't matter cause I can't properly utilize it without building too many production buildings

[orchid prism]

Fish and Schnapps are pretty similar though.

Fish will keep 800 farmers happy, schnapps will only do 600.

So it's not a huge gap.

[feral ferry]

Rn this is how the wool/potato and sail/clothe/schnapps prod line looks

[orchid prism]

I just drag out my potat farms in a straight line as wide as the farms.

Much easier to lay out 😄

[feral ferry]

I really hate how much space raw production farms take up

I was planning to settle on a nearby island and dedicate it exclusively for raw material production

To avoid that crap taking up far too much of it

[orchid prism]

That is a perfectly valid strategy.

Especially since you can't grow everything on a single island due to lack of availability.

[proper cargo]

https://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-creative-director-mike-laidlaw-founds-new-studio-with-ea-and-ubisoft-veterans/

Ea and ubisoft veterans

So its games will have lots of lootbox and gambling mechanics

[orchid prism]

So uh... Dragon Age Origins... or the abominations it spawned xD

[feral ferry]

Laidlaw?

That's sick

I like the guy

I am really happy that he's back to the industry after the whole shitshow

[tough jay]

Dragon Age Origins was a pretty good game, only the stupid this dialog quest is locked behind dlc was kind of stupid.

[frosty dew]

schnapps is a massive industry to me still in anno 1800.
i've just hit investors, and damn.
if schnaps isnt a third of my island, my island is atlantis.
gone down and disappeared forever

[orchid prism]

😆

[feral ferry]

What's the easiest way of cheesing Anno 1800 money economy anyways?

I don't want to bother with income anymore

[frosty dew]

make use of propaganda

can easily boost income

though beware, eventually it spawns protests and rebellions

[feral ferry]

Yeah it's not something I want to do right now

[frosty dew]

also town halls with income boosting items

[feral ferry]

I want to abuse selling/shares or something

I own a few shares in whatshername Chinese Princess's island

Not much

[frosty dew]

hm. cant help there

i actually decided to play sans npcs for now

[orchid prism]

Abusing shares is just like you expect. Buy low, sell high.

All you can do for income is getting more, happy high level residents.

And reducing unneeded upkeep on factories.

Set maxes on all of your goods so AI buys your surplus.

[frosty dew]

best is building ressources later down. while yes, you will need them sporadically, you will produce enough to easily fill up 1,000 tons, and you wont use all that unless you want to power build to investors on another island.
and even then you'd need the logistics to move that first...

also you can always set a minimum "safety" stock, a little around the way, but you can do that

[barren pewter]

add gpus to that meme

someone I used to associate with bought 2 rtx 3080s intending to flip one

blocked and unfriended

[fringe salmon]

I mean you at least can buy multiple gpus and valid reasons

[barren pewter]

for sli

or multi gpu stuff for work

[fringe salmon]

ye

[barren pewter]

but to flip one for profit, nope

[fringe salmon]

I really hope I can grab a gpu on wednesday

3080s appear in stock more often now but overpriced and I reallllly dont want an ampere over rdna2 with the current options

[barren pewter]

I managed to get a 3070 for retail

just got a really high end one

that costed $130 more than I wanted to pay

be prepared to pay extra and not get the gpu you want

like the model you want

[fringe salmon]

oh I dont really care about the model

well, im not trying an AiB model where the msrp is alread like 200 above without extra increase from the store

[barren pewter]

oh

cards are msrp in canada

[fringe salmon]

but otherwise I dont really care

[barren pewter]

if you can get one

[fringe salmon]

well it depends on the store

saw a 3080 at msrp for a day on saturday

[barren pewter]

noice

[fringe salmon]

but I really would like more than 10gigs memory and a bit less powerdraw

hence im trying to go amd

[barren pewter]

yeah

makes sense

[fringe salmon]

dlss and rtx voice is neat and something I'd make use of

but not nearly enough to switch over lmao

[hot tartan]

AYO

I have an Xbox One controller for my PC

Nothing serious just for casual gaming PX

Pc*

I’m looking at the new Xbox controller

Should I try to get the PS5 instead

Also justify it because I want to have more than one controller in case a friend come over to play

[barren pewter]

get the razer wolverine v2

[hot tartan]

It’s $100

Xbox newest is $40

[barren pewter]

literally an elite controller with better face buttons and way less expensive

I'd rather pay 100 for one controller that'll last 3 times as long as a 40 dollar one

just me though

[hot tartan]

Well my Xbox one controller is still kicking

[barren pewter]

I wore through one xbox controller in 2 months

my razer wolverine tournament edition is still kicking 1.5 years later

[hot tartan]

Yeah I’m not gonna wear it out anytime soon based on the amount of casual gaming I do

[barren pewter]

ok

[hot tartan]

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/xdZdIy2YXj4yDTZAIzJ3s3aTXss=/0x0:3356x2237/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:3356x2237):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22050271/wolverinev2_1.jpg

Slick

[barren pewter]

looks kinda nice

compared to the previous wolverines

[hot tartan]

The d-pad looks kinda suck for Fighting game no?

[barren pewter]

I don't play those games

I really couldn't tell you

[hot tartan]

I see what do you usually play

Genre*

[barren pewter]

rpgs, fps

like fallout and battlefield games

[hot tartan]

I see

[shell willow]

I'm using a 8bitdo SN30pro+

[barren pewter]

the hair triggers and remappable paddles are awesome for shooters

but outside of those games they really serve no purpose

[shell willow]

Works on Switch, PC, Android, and has the shape of a DualShock which I vastly prefer

[barren pewter]

dualshocks are tiny

but hey

PREFERENCE

[hot tartan]

Again I don’t own any console. I game on PC exclusively. I get why you like the Wolverine. But if I play FPS on PC I’ll use MKB for sure

[barren pewter]

yeah

[shell willow]

Try playing MMX on a Xbox controller

You'll want to kill yourself

[hot tartan]

Racing is nice

I barely play racing

I like trying out all kinds of games

Racing is the reason why I want Wooting keeb

[barren pewter]

for the analog

[hot tartan]

Cause non-analog driving sucks

Ye

[barren pewter]

yup

[shell willow]

Agreed

I played Mafia 1 with Wooting + Mouse

[hot tartan]

That’s why I buy Xbox one controller for PC

[barren pewter]

same

[shell willow]

Far superior to controller or KB/M

[hot tartan]

For the sole sake of being to do what keeb can’t do

[barren pewter]

I'm waiting on a gpu to finish my build

but I'll keep my controller for playing forza games

nothing else though

tried keeb and mouse for the first time this summer and can't go back

and when I learned that some xbox games support keeb and mouse

[hot tartan]

$50 fair price?

The newest Xbox controller is $40

[barren pewter]

idk man

get the shape you like

with the features you like

[hot tartan]

O so controller is like mouse?

[barren pewter]

yes

[hot tartan]

Is there anything boobs shaped

I like that

[barren pewter]

I wish

[hot tartan]

[barren pewter]

but it'd be hard to keep the feel of them as well

which is a deal breaker for me

oh man

[hot tartan]

https://d8mkdcmng3.imgix.net/fb80/pc-and-video-games-accessories-xbox-one-xbox-one-controllers-recon-tech-special-edition-wireless-controller-xbox-one-4.jpg?auto=format&bg=0FFF&fit=fill&h=600&q=100&w=600&s=24ab5e971c07ba3c3e1256849f657a59

This is the one I have rn

[barren pewter]

missing paddles and hair triggers

[hot tartan]

Tried it out at GameStop and INSTANTLY sold

[barren pewter]

other than that, perfect

[hot tartan]

Rubber grips are nice

[barren pewter]

yeah

[hot tartan]

Anything with rubber grip like that?

[barren pewter]

yes

[hot tartan]

Or just rugged design I guess

[barren pewter]

https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/0fgPXELmHrCboAyjzT9jJpLUMZXlFRLr3DQEZkrGSXU/https/cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/xdZdIy2YXj4yDTZAIzJ3s3aTXss%3D/0x0%3A3356x2237/1200x0/filters%3Afocal(0x0%3A3356x2237)%3Ano_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22050271/wolverinev2_1.jpg?width=1015&height=677

[hot tartan]

I like rugged stuff

[barren pewter]

maybe this one?

rubber grips

rugged

[hot tartan]

OH IT DOES

Wow

Let me take a look at it’s back

[barren pewter]

and fully remapable

does your silly first party controller do that?

[hot tartan]

I don’t care about it tbh

[barren pewter]

ok

[hot tartan]

As a PC player

[barren pewter]

I really like it for console

[hot tartan]

I’ve never had problem with customization to begin with

[barren pewter]

got me there

[hot tartan]

Hehe

[barren pewter]

literally 24 hours from now

[hot tartan]

Cause I can just use a simulator

[barren pewter]

and a 3070 will be in my hands

[hot tartan]

To change the controller’s xinput to PC

[barren pewter]

so excited

[hot tartan]

If I want to

[barren pewter]

nice

[hot tartan]

Hair trigger and plates

Are really nice if you’re competitive tho

[barren pewter]

yeah

[hot tartan]

But I’m already MKB competitive

[barren pewter]

but I keep the hair triggers off for racing

because for that

[hot tartan]

If I’m gonna buy a console ever the reason would be to play exclusive games

[barren pewter]

why?

elder scrolls VI?

[hot tartan]

The other reason would be because of friends but I got no friends

Red dead redemption

Basically PS exclusives

[barren pewter]

the peer pressure doesn't work without peers

[hot tartan]

[barren pewter]

😿

lockdown hits hard

FFS I'm building a pc, cuz I'm so bored

[hot tartan]

Actually it doesn’t affects much since I don’t go out that much anyways. Don’t like the price hike on shipping tho

[barren pewter]

it put everything on hold

everything

[hot tartan]

True

🥲

Rip Lekker

Literally 1 year later

[barren pewter]

I'm the dumbass who saw it and was like that's cool, I'll preorder it tomorrow

preorders were filled by then

and it's too late to get in now

[hot tartan]

I waited until the last 900s

[barren pewter]

might as well wait for a tkl

[hot tartan]

It’s not too late

Just enter the queue

Another delay hits you’ll get in for sure

[barren pewter]

I'll wait for a tkl with lekkers

tkl boards are more my style anyway

[hot tartan]

That wouldn’t be long

[barren pewter]

a year at most

[hot tartan]

Nah

[barren pewter]

and a year to ship

so 2 years total

[hot tartan]

Lekker then 3 months then HE then 3 months then TKL

If nothing too dramatic happens

So 6 months from Lekker?

[barren pewter]

I got a nice keycap set I wanna use anyway

but only bought a tkl kit

wouldn't look right

on a full size board

[hot tartan]

It would look right if you don’t look at the numpad

[barren pewter]

a hacksaw can fix my tkl woes

[hot tartan]

[barren pewter]

fullsize-tkl mod tutorial

one hacksaw

this was the set I got

xda canvas

[slim token]

old school

i like

[barren pewter]

thinking it might look good on a black board

[hot tartan]

It spells out the arrows

[barren pewter]

but not with the coloured mods

[hot tartan]

Why does it spells out the arrows

[barren pewter]

I like it that way

[hot tartan]

[slim token]

so that you can distinguish them duh

[barren pewter]

it says the function on the keys

what more do you need?

symbols?

[hot tartan]

Yeah sure you’ll totally read that before you reach for the down arrow key

[slim token]

what would the function names be

*symbols

[hot tartan]

Symbol yes or even without anything on it

[barren pewter]

F and a number

[slim token]

i guess home and end would be tab pointing up and down, respectively

[hot tartan]

You’d know which arrow based on the layout

[barren pewter]

nah mate

[slim token]

i dont know about ins or delete

[barren pewter]

you'd be surprised

[slim token]

or pg up or dwn

[barren pewter]

insert, a hand docking

delete a big X

[shell willow]

@hot tartan I paid $30 for an open box, I'd say it's worth $50 since you get a lot of features and cross platform, but I mostly play retro games

[barren pewter]

sounds about right

[shell willow]

You do have to download the software to adjust some things because the analog range is way too large for my tastes

[slim token]

you weren't supposed to see that

now i must press that button

[hot tartan]

Where is @fringe salmon when you need him :<

[fringe salmon]

at 6:34am? asleep

[feral ferry]

4 hours behind us?

Where do you live? Middle of the Atlantic?

[fringe salmon]

wut

[fallow bronze]

cet timezone

[feral ferry]

Ah, brain malfunctioning

He was responding to what the guy said at 7:34AM

[fallow bronze]

no, at 6:34 am

hmm gotta enable 24h time in discord...

i guess my discord is in Dutch now

[feral ferry]

Timezones 😄

[fallow bronze]

😉

insert tom scott video about timezones

[trim rock]

Set Discord to "English, UK" to have it in English with sane timestamps

[tough jay]

The trick is to select uk english, it is still the same langage yea

[trim rock]

Why software nowadays has to tie locale and language together like this I'll never understand..

[tough jay]

because more settings is bad and for most non dutch people this way makes sense.

[trim rock]

But it's not another setting, it would simply use all the locale configuration I've done at the OS level already!

[tough jay]

My guess is they didn't want to bother as it has to work in browser, and across different operating systems

It would also be weird if it's based on os and you cannot change it.

at least now you can still change language.

[trim rock]

Any decent system lets you change that

This is simply braindamage that is affecting many softwares nowadays and I don't know why.. on Windows you have all the locale configuration there (date & time formats, currency, etc) easily adjustable to your liking, on Linux you have all the LC_* variables, and yet modern software just go "HA FUCK THAT!"

[feral ferry]

Not half bad

[orchid prism]

Yeah balancing at around 2-3k is usually the place to be.

And then you place down a single lategame factory and lose 1700 or more until you get product to citizens for more taxes.

[feral ferry]

Yeah the exorbitant manufactory keep up is insanely infuriating

[proper cargo]

why i stopped playing anno 1800

in anno 2070 it was quite feasible to have just big cities and production islands. in anno 1800 i had to make ships just to sell them off and do alot of trading. trying to earn an income on your workers alone wasnt feasable at all. i found it frustrating why i couldnt make any proper money

and suprisingly, anno 1800 hasnt been cracked yet

whatever ubisoft used with their special cd key protection, it clearly works

its not denuvo either. appearently ubisoft figured out a way to personalize cd keys.

meaning you cant use a keygen either

[orchid prism]

Again with the piracy talk.

[proper cargo]

no piracy talk at all?

jeez

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/kristen-bell-smh-no-nope-not-pleased-gif-10680064

[barren pewter]

it's the forbidden topic

[tough jay]

anno 1800 does use denuvo from what I can see.

[proper cargo]

hell, its not even illegal at this point. anno 1800 cant be cracked

[orchid prism]

I would have cracked the game if I could is not really the kind of discussion we need here.

[proper cargo]

but it cant be cracked. thats the point

i own a legit version

[orchid prism]

It uses online DRM. So yeah...

[barren pewter]

so

[proper cargo]

which sometimes can be circumvented

[barren pewter]

how does one crack this gem?

[orchid prism]

Only if you want to dismember it like 2070 was.

You lose a lot of content.

[barren pewter]

oh

nope

but no way I'm buying it on ubisoft's platform

or epic for that matter

[proper cargo]

too bad. even if you buy it on another platform, you are forced to install the ubi launcher anyways

[barren pewter]

actually?

[proper cargo]

yes

[barren pewter]

that is the stupidest shit I've ever heard

[orchid prism]

It's been like that since... 2070 I think.

So... Three games.

[proper cargo]

uhhh

before 2070

with the settlers

[orchid prism]

Settlers is a different franchise.

[proper cargo]

still ubisoft

[barren pewter]

so far cry 5 and new dawn will require me to install a launcher I'll never use

[orchid prism]

Still Blue Byte in fact, but kind of beside the point.

I was specifically counting anno games.

😆

[barren pewter]

just to play games I installed and ran from a separate launcher

[proper cargo]

ah

i was more talking about ubisoft games in general

[barren pewter]

ubisoft games are mediocre now

[proper cargo]

since settlers herritage of kings i think ubisoft started to force games to also have the uplay launcher

[orchid prism]

If you're feeling cheap but want to play Ubi games, just grab the subscription.

I've managed to complete both Legion and Valhalla on a single month's payment. Which is like a third of what Legion costs without DLC.

[barren pewter]

I got my copy of far cry 3 with 5 and new dawn for all dlc for less than far cry 3 is worth, figure I might as well play 5 and new dawn

but maybe not

[proper cargo]

@orchid prism how many hours?

[fringe salmon]

I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future you can get them from epic and play it without needing uplay just like origin isn’t needed on steam now for many EA games

[orchid prism]

No idea. Many 😆

[proper cargo]

ubistore shows how many hours u put into games right

[trim rock]

Yes

[barren pewter]

oh hey, @frosty dew you're alive

sup?

[frosty dew]

i was at work

[proper cargo]

that looks so neat. my settlement looks like a mess.

im used to 2070 building. you can transform an entire island into one giant city, but so far im having trouble trying to do that in 1800

[frosty dew]

i'M about to attempt doing that

[orchid prism]

Oh jeez. You're building a city on the mail map.

RIP 😆

[frosty dew]

yup.

honestly i already figured doing this on the campaign map is stupid

but i still see it as my first, "learning the game" game

(about 80h in)

[orchid prism]

I wish the DLC map was randomly generated though. It makes for a very boring replay.

[frosty dew]

trelawny?

[orchid prism]

Mhmm

[frosty dew]

yeah

[proper cargo]

yea, no maps are actually random generated like in 2070 right? you play on hte same map as the campaign

[frosty dew]

land of lions is pretty much pre generated too, right?

[orchid prism]

The main map is generated based on settings and seeds.

And the Caribbean*

[frosty dew]

no jera. i play on the only pre determined map, because i played the campaign.
anno 1800 usually random generates too

[orchid prism]

The DLC maps are all pre made iirc.

[frosty dew]

and the map seeds were a thing since 1701 afaik

yeah, all three dlc maps are pre gen from what i know

[proper cargo]

ubisoft laziness

[orchid prism]

Blue Byte.

Blame the Germans.

[proper cargo]

zeh germans!

say it right, mansen 😛

[orchid prism]

I did but my phone corrected it.

[frosty dew]

i mean, i understand it

[fringe salmon]

Blue byte isn’t really its own company anymore tbf

[proper cargo]

wait, bluebyte made anno?

i though they were only occupied with die settlers

[frosty dew]

btw mansen, are the islands bigger and / or better in a random seed? compared to the campaign one that is

ah yup. blue byte did

i still really love the anno 1701 intro.

prefer it in german too.

childhood memory

[fringe salmon]

Blue byte is mostly just German Ubisoft locations now, not really much of any Separation there anymore

[frosty dew]

also yeah. basically just wanted to show that i also struggled with income, but I'm past it again already

[proper cargo]

im still waiting for the new, new remake

but they postponed it to 2021 😦

https://www.ubisoft.com/nl-nl/game/the-settlers/the-settlers

[frosty dew]

btw, if i had started the study, the specific course would actually have landed me a guaranteed "inside look" at the german ubisoft studio. which i highly assume actually means kind of the blue byte studio

[fringe salmon]

Since like 2 years ago it’s all just Ubisoft aside from legal terms in some spots really

[frosty dew]

yeah

[fringe salmon]

Studio in Berlin is purely Ubisoft, the other two are just BB turned into Ubi

[frosty dew]

well, it wouldnt have been the berlin studio

[fringe salmon]

And the Düsseldorf Office changed location last year so basically a new place too

[frosty dew]

i'm... decently distanced, from berlin

like Kraftklub sang "I dont wanna go to berlin"

lol

[proper cargo]

so ur in southern germany?

[fringe salmon]

Been to the old office in Düsseldorf twice, was a nice place, new place apparently is quite a lot bigger so should be nice too

[frosty dew]

quintosh here with the insider info

[fringe salmon]

Well kinda hard to go to a job interview without entering the office

[frosty dew]

[proper cargo]

you wanted to be an ubisoft game dev?

[fringe salmon]

Wasn’t a game dev position but close

[proper cargo]

human manipulation then

[fringe salmon]

Wut

[frosty dew]

HR he means i think

[proper cargo]

no. marketing.

how to get people to pay the most dlc

[fringe salmon]

Oh, nah dev position just not game dev

[frosty dew]

i'd say, he applied for a work position

[fringe salmon]

Build&Release Engineer was the position iirc

[proper cargo]

now this sounds obvious oblivious coming from me, but what else other than marketing and game dev is there to producing a game

[frosty dew]

platform itself, website,
database for accounts

QA

customer service in general

[proper cargo]

ah, that stuff

[keen urchin]

Why does Starbound run like SHIT

[frosty dew]

design, which doesnt really require coding

[keen urchin]

I'm getting single digit FPS sometimes

[frosty dew]

do you play modded?
how much ram (is assigned) what cpu?

and on what OS

[fringe salmon]

build&release, backend, QA, testing, security, uplay platform, website, testing etc.

[proper cargo]

quintosh doing customer service. "have you tried the help forum yet? i told you yesterday you dimwit"

🤣

im sorry, but you being pissed off at vexxed the other day was just humorous

i dont see you in any customer related job

[keen urchin]

Windows 10 Pro, 32 GiB RAM, 3700X, and I think there's like 10 mods or so

[proper cargo]

is starbound having the same issue as fallout, perhaps?

where vsync needs to be forced to 60 fps or something

[keen urchin]

It's capped to 60 FPS, because physics

[proper cargo]

so its badly developed

[keen urchin]

Pretty much

[proper cargo]

you could give it a try

[keen urchin]

Well, I guess I could try via IP

But I don't think that was the issue

[feral ferry]

@proper cargo

New CS:GO operation

[proper cargo]

wtf

[feral ferry]

I think that's borderline nsfw

So I'll delete that

[proper cargo]

why would you

no

that was

no

[feral ferry]

I guess you love this man too?

https://tenor.com/view/flick-esfand-esfandtv-ricardo-milos-ricardo-flick-gif-13730968

GachiBASS

[proper cargo]

hey, milos is alright

[feral ferry]

I love Milos man

He's my idol

I want to be gay like him

[barren pewter]

I still remember when @bleak pike freaked out cuz his mum saw milos on his screen

funny

the message is buried somewhere in memes if you wanna look

[proper cargo]

mom!
Ynot....
mom, its not what you think!
no, its okey Ynot. if that is what the youth is looking at these days, i dont judge....
there is nothing to judge, mom!

show me the meme doge

[bleak pike]

Dont remind me

[barren pewter]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/698283387714011277/751959341187334144/ricardo.webm

[proper cargo]

oh god no

not while it was showing that

ohhhhh

no wonder his mom thinks he is queer now

[barren pewter]

ikr

[feral ferry]

I love this meme so much

[barren pewter]

same

shit's HAWT

[feral ferry]

Ricardo is worth going gay for

[barren pewter]

of course he is

[proper cargo]

@bleak pike i feel so sorry for you, man

you got my regards

[feral ferry]

@proper cargo https://youtu.be/gESSEZv7PLc

Nothing beats this

[barren pewter]

age restricted

[proper cargo]

you mean "everyone" is beating that

[feral ferry]

I am beating to that yeah

[barren pewter]

mhm

fuck

I missed the tissue

[fallow bronze]

tmi

waaaaay tmi

[bleak pike]

that was not the meme

[barren pewter]

@bleak pike https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/698283387714011277/751959341187334144/ricardo.webm

this one

was the one

[fading spade]

Does titanfall 2 have a single player campaign?

ooof, yeh it does

[fossil solar]

It’s a good campaign apparently

[fading spade]

LOL

you ok up there???

[young crow]

https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/36734/dedicated-cyberpunk-2077-feature-for-content-creators-disable-copyrighted-music

wew

[barren pewter]

that's actually awesome

[placid garden]

yeah they addressed that in their twitch streams

[barren pewter]

and kudos to CDPR for that setting

[placid garden]

sucks that things have to be that way now though

[young crow]

sucks that the feature will likely be exclusive to cyberpunk for a real while

[placid garden]

if only the music industry would stop being shitheads

[young crow]

according to cdpr the copyrighted stuff is “a small amount”

and in other games... yeah, no way

the music industry is full of shitheads

https://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/GitHub_blocks_public_access_to_youtube-dl_after_RIAA_issues_DMCA_notice

this just proves it

[placid garden]

yeah I know about that

there are other places where you can find yt-dl, so its not really a big deal

[young crow]

github restored yt-dl

they took it down in the first place just because they had to

not because they agree

[orchid prism]

Tiddyfall 2's campaign is AWESOME.

Game is worth it for that alone.

[fallow bronze]

so you know, part one does not. 🙂

[fading spade]

Ooo

[proper cargo]

Part 1 was solely mp

So you vouch for tf 2's campaign @orchid prism ?

[orchid prism]

Yup.

[proper cargo]

Hmm

Well, ur a classy guy so i trust ya.

Might get it on black friday then

[orchid prism]

I have a titanfall 2 figure in my PC so I might be biased. But at a sale it is definitely worth it. And MP is still fun, if you don't mind only having a few, super good players left there 😄

Used to play so much TF2 last year.

[proper cargo]

I dont care for mp

Im still a rage boy

How to solve my rage issues? Just dont play mp 😋

[orchid prism]

[proper cargo]

But if u say the campaign is worth it, will definately try it then

[orchid prism]

Good mix of parkour, mecha combat and a fun plot.

[trim rock]

Yeah it's a decent little campaign

[fading spade]

When does the sale end? For titanfall 2?

[fallow bronze]

isnt it on gamepass soon also?

[feral ferry]

Isn't Titanfall already on gamepass?

It's not on Game Pass PC

Only on consoles

[orchid prism]

Pesky EA 😄

[fallow bronze]

when is EA pass coming to pc? is it even?

[trim rock]

It has already been a thing for yonks

[feral ferry]

It's been here for a while

People are late to the party

[trim rock]

This year it became available on Steam, and very soon it'll be a part of XBOX GAME PASS FOOORR PEEECEEE

[feral ferry]

I ain't buying a PS5 at all

Unless PS5 Game Pass exists

Fuck paying 70 pounds for games

[fallow bronze]

i kid myself pc gaming is cheaper

[feral ferry]

PC gaming is cheap af

You just pirate shit

[fallow bronze]

but then again.. you can buy a lot of games for the difference

[feral ferry]

You either pay for gamepass, or pirate

[trim rock]

Or invest a lot in a godly build

[feral ferry]

Already incredibly cheaper than a PS5

[fallow bronze]

no, i havent pirated in years. soooo many good games on sale if you're a bit patient

[feral ferry]

Invest into a godly build, and mine overnight

Every 60 days you'll be able to afford a new game

[fallow bronze]

but.. isnt power cost more epensive than the return?

[feral ferry]

Depends on where you live

If you have your own solar power plant, it's basically free

If in a city, depends on taxes

[fallow bronze]

overnight though 😉

[feral ferry]

Solar plants have capacitor batteries..

You think you paid for shit that works only at day

[fallow bronze]

most home versions do not :p

[feral ferry]

There's a home version of solar panels?

[fringe salmon]

so just feed the excess electricity back into the network and you dont lose out on conversions by doing stupid mining

[young crow]

what is the game about even?

never cared enough to buy it, guess i can take a look now with game pass

[orchid prism]

Piloted Mekks, Parkour and lots of gunfights.

[young crow]

sounds cool

downloading it then

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duQam7IQMp8

Pew Pew

It's like if COD had parkour, mechs and no godawful killstreak rewards xD

Different "mechs". Melee types, snipers, one with a minigun et cetera.

If you've played Apex. You'll know the combat pretty well, except you don't loot stuff and you can actually wallrun.

[young crow]

nah, played apex for like 10 minutes

before ragequitting because it ran at 30 fps on a 3k usd pc

[fringe salmon]

did you lock it to 30? that sounds like something was wrong

[young crow]

nope, it was just running like dogshit

[fringe salmon]

weird, works fine on my 8600k/1080

[fading spade]

RIP

[barren pewter]

that is a big ooof

[fading spade]

Should get a 1TB HDD for games

to be my steam library

[barren pewter]

yup

might want to get more though

[fading spade]

I tried to setup my second SSD as a steam library... it didnt work ;-;

I clicked install and it gave me errors

[barren pewter]

weird

I did the same thing and it worked flawlessly

[fading spade]

Windows?

[barren pewter]

duh

[fading spade]

I tried on Linux

Maybe it doesnt like ext4?

[barren pewter]

idk

never used linux for a good amount of time

[fading spade]

aha

[barren pewter]

I used it for a week on a dare but that was it

[fading spade]

if I uninstall GTA V

Ill have enough space

[barren pewter]

also

might want to free up another 70 or so gb

[fading spade]

my friends wanna play that over christmas though and I dont wanna download 85GB again

[barren pewter]

cuz cyberpunk

then don't

uninstall something else

[fading spade]

hmmm. IDK if I will get cyberpunk immediately

[barren pewter]

yeah

[fading spade]

I have only that and phasmophobia installed

[barren pewter]

I'm gonna wait a day or two

just to ensure the game ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKS

[fading spade]

I have the rest of my games installed on my linux SSD

[barren pewter]

sorry

todd was telling me sweet little lies in 2018

[young crow]

just get an ssd only for games

easy

[fallow bronze]

everybody on a modern system runs ext4

[fading spade]

It just works , it just works, overpriced open worlds

xd

[fallow bronze]

unless you specifically choose not to

[fading spade]

Fedora: uses BTRF :P

[barren pewter]

it didn't work

still doesn't to this day

[fading spade]

what game?

[barren pewter]

fallout 76

I preordered the fucking game

[fading spade]

EWW

[barren pewter]

then they lock update content behind a fucking paywall

[fading spade]

WAHT???

[barren pewter]

on an $80 game

yup

[fading spade]

you need to pay to get updates?????

[barren pewter]

nope

they just lock the good stuff with the fuck-you first membershit

[fading spade]

o

:/

[barren pewter]

whatev's

I've given up on todd and bethesda

they need to make starfield fucking awesome or I'll never buy a game from them again

[fallow bronze]

im also using btrfs on my "home server" (which is really my previous laptop)

[fading spade]

aha

[fallow bronze]

on ubuntu! :p

[fading spade]

Ubuntu .... nah m8

[trim rock]

I'm still using btrfs on my systems too.. not sure why as it seems a bit slow, especially on spinning rust

[fading spade]

1TB SSDs are expensive ;-;

[fallow bronze]

btrfs does do more

~€100

[trim rock]

I don't know I think I like the transparent compression

[fallow bronze]

checksumming is one of them

[fading spade]

GG website

[trim rock]

Yes but I'm pretty sure when the data corruption has happened a few times it's because of btrfs being buggy 🙂

Actually yeah the checksums didn't even catch the last bit of file corrpution that happened

[fading spade]

that difference in speed :OO woah

[orchid prism]

Nothing the premium mode gives you is remotely essential or interesting.

It's not like other players are going to be causing you any grief.

[trim rock]

Dunno that scrap storage seems insanely useful

[barren pewter]

they're locking update content from steel dawn behind it mansen

the bunker base building requires fuck-you first membershit

the one thing I was looking forward to in steel dawn

[trim rock]

Oh no it's happening... so when is it gonna be F2P since that's how it seems like they're running it

[orchid prism]

I see.

Well I remain unsurprised.

[fallow bronze]

@fading spade intel 660p

[barren pewter]

I paid a full $80

[fallow bronze]

get an nvme drive, not sata

[barren pewter]

then they want me to pay $10 a month to enjoy the game in it's broken state?

what?

[fading spade]

512GB €90

not bad

[fallow bronze]

nooo

dont get ~500gb

[fallow bronze]

is Ireland just expensive?

[fading spade]

YEP

[barren pewter]

all the people who used it around when it came out had their scrap lost and never returned

[trim rock]

The Bethesda Experience ™️

[fallow bronze]

seems ireland isnt that much more expensive :p

[trim rock]

I've only tried F76 during the free weekends so I don't know too much about the bugs

[fading spade]

€60 more

[barren pewter]

it's fucking awful

it was really bad around when it released

[fallow bronze]

not for the 660p, only €4

[fading spade]

oooh

[trim rock]

Yes I saw vids about bugs tho

[barren pewter]

thing is

the bad ones were patched

the game just sucks balls to begin with

[fading spade]

I think id have to get a 2.5" SSD, the second m.2 slot on my motherboard is covered by my GPU

and idk how much room there is

[fringe salmon]

so take out the gpu, put ssd in, put gpu back

[barren pewter]

big brain

[unique bane]

gimme 905p 250gb for 100€ :F

[young crow]

can i use water based lube on switches

[fading spade]

yeah, but idk how high above the motherboard the GPU is, if the gap is large enough for the SSD

[fringe salmon]

then use your eyes, the pc is infront of you

worst case use a ruler

[fallow bronze]

is there a cover on it? then yes, it will be

[fading spade]

I can see my current m.2 SSD is about the same height off the board as the GPU

oh wait, thats where it connects

[ashen lark]

Anyone here knows of game Grepolis?

[orchid prism]

Sounds like a browser grind game 😄

[ashen lark]

It is not exactly

Has few similarities but is irl lot more interesting

[fading spade]

I need to check if TitanFall 2 can run in Proton

[barren pewter]

I need to check if titanfall 2 can run on windows

[fading spade]

:')

[feral ferry]

Grepolis is a browser game

And it ain't fun

[fading spade]

I figured

[ashen lark]

Well, it is kinda different. Not fun at start, but then you have alliances and communities, so it is fun later on

I have not played it for some time, but last time I played it and was in really active alliance, it was fun

Today new world started in my region so trying it again

[proper cargo]

And if you pay enough, you can actually achieve that fun

[ashen lark]

Actually you do not get nearly any advantage for paying

Just a small ones

But nothing like instant troops and such a p2w things

But sadly it is pay to get advantage

[hot tartan]

Pay to get advantage IS P2W

[barren pewter]

and if you bought the game, it's dlc

[hot tartan]

Companies wanna blur that line to confuse customers

[barren pewter]

there's a clear difference

DLC adds content

[ashen lark]

^

[barren pewter]

P2W allows you to skip the longer, grindy parts of the game

they are 2 distinct things

[ashen lark]

Question is where is the border between P2W and pay to get advantage. I would not say game where you get small advantage for paying has to always be P2W, if it does not help you nearly at all, just a little bit, and does not make huge difference

[hot tartan]

If it helps you any way, it is P2W

[barren pewter]

if it gives you an advantage in the game for real money, it's P2W

it does

therefore P2W game

[hot tartan]

Like saying “aimbot barely works” but do you expect it’s allowed ever

[barren pewter]

but it is allowed

you just might get kicked

[ashen lark]

Well, it is not completely correct grammatically.
Imo there should be difference between P2W and Pay to get advantage.
Both are bad for sure
But it is difference, when paying just speeds up things little bit, not even that much, and when paying literally gets you best troops instantly you could not get otherwise

[hot tartan]

There’s no such thing as “pay to have advantage” to begin with

Don’t complicate stuff

[fringe salmon]

there is only P2W, the difference is how severe it is and thus how much people dislike it

[hot tartan]

P2W is a way of making money of F2P games

And nowadays P2P games do it too

For extra substantial cash

[barren pewter]

GTA online in a nutshell

[ashen lark]

The thing is that P2W is just very wide definition.
It includes games that literally, you just win if you pay enough, and have crazy advantages, but also games, where advantages are not actually that big, just small ones

[barren pewter]

yup

wide nets to catch more fish

[hot tartan]

The more you try to complicate P2W, the more companies win

[barren pewter]

it's intentionally a catch-all definition

makes it easier to shame companies

[hot tartan]

Because it’s a bad model

It’s like communism in a sense

Straight non-P2W F2P games like PoE and LoL are really rare

[ashen lark]

Yeah it is. Just not always bad to same extend, but always bad.
Would be nice if FTC or sth like that did not allow that.
Same as P2W is not allowed on Minecraft servers, I wish that would be true for all games

[hot tartan]

So most would rather spend cash up front to have a complete experience

[proper cargo]

Word

[barren pewter]

so true

[ashen lark]

Well, nowadays, more and more F2P games are going to model pay to get skin. Sadly even lot of not free games now have payed skin/crate mechanics in them.

[proper cargo]

I see my father play 1 of dem browser games. Need to wait 2 hours for a building to produce a small amount of materials. 2 hours. Timer slowly ticking away and all. I admire he hasnt spend a dime on it yet.

[hot tartan]

That’s why I said it’s bad model

Either get income through gamblers

Or whales that’d prefer to pay for conveniences

[fringe salmon]

it's a bad model, but something like it is needed for a lot of games

[ashen lark]

They could just implement Pay to get skin or pay to play, that would be imo better

[fringe salmon]

the real issue is when it causes changes to the game and is not just used as a way to finance the game

[barren pewter]

if only it were that easy

[ashen lark]

Also there is another better model - you have adds, but you can pay to remove the adds

So basically it is not P2P

You just have adds if you do not pay

So same amount of people plays it, and some generate revenue through adds, some through paying not to see adds

[fringe salmon]

yeah no thanks, I'd rather not have security risks in my game

[hot tartan]

Even skins can change the game interaction. It’s just* way less than other things

[proper cargo]

@ashen lark ads. 1 d. Not double d. Double d is boobies.

[fringe salmon]

well it depends, PVE coop it doesnt really mayyer, PvP it can fuck shit up often

[hot tartan]

Yeah

[ashen lark]

If it is not invisible skin, or skin with different model, skins are not very P2W

[fringe salmon]

yeah you can only sell a simple recolor that doesnt blend with the environment once to a player

[hot tartan]

Some LoL skins are banned in competitive due to VFX ambiguous

[fringe salmon]

yeah thats the case in every moba

[hot tartan]

So saying that it absolutely doesn’t affect is incorrect

[proper cargo]

Skins banned from competitive?

[hot tartan]

But personally I don’t think skin is a problem

[proper cargo]

What is vfx?

[hot tartan]

The way you get it is

[fringe salmon]

aside from competitive it rarely is

[hot tartan]

If you can buy it up front like Riot Games

That’s fine

If you HAVE to roll for it

That’s just gambling

ahem Genshin impact

[ashen lark]

Yeah gambling is terrible

[fringe salmon]

having a chance, or a higher price for direct buy is fair middleground imo

[hot tartan]

Apex Heirloom

[ashen lark]

Some game studios saying that gambling mechanics in game are surprise mechanics same as kinder eggs

[proper cargo]

Ea

[fringe salmon]

well yeah, nobody is going to call it something that instantly lands them in court

[hot tartan]

BUY OUR GAMBLING BOX!!! TODAY!!!

[ashen lark]

I think they called it that way in court

[proper cargo]

When they streamed Anthem, they showed so many skins and personalization options. At release of Anthem not even a tenth was available for free. Rest was locked behind a pay wall

[ashen lark]

No,
Buy our Kinder egg today
We need it to be legal

[barren pewter]

I actually like kinder eggs

[ashen lark]

Who does not

[hot tartan]

Shhhh they listening

[fringe salmon]

the kinder who's eggs you stole to eat them

[barren pewter]

I got one confiscated traveling to america

that hurt me deeply

[ashen lark]

What if there is a knife hidden inside? 👀

[barren pewter]

I literally put my bag in the scanner, and the officer asks "do you have any kinder eggs?" and I'm like "oh shit, yes"

worst day of my life

[ashen lark]

[barren pewter]

cuz I got pulled aside and questioned

for a fucking kinder egg

[orchid prism]

[ashen lark]

[proper cargo]

For some choclate wrapped toy you got treated like a drug trafficer

[barren pewter]

yup

[proper cargo]

[orchid prism]

Imagine not allowing kinder eggs because parents are literally too dumb to read a label.

[barren pewter]

is that some joke I'm not american enough to understand?

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlwCKNA0G-s

[barren pewter]

that's what happened

exactly

[proper cargo]

Sells guns to kids. Thinks kinderegg is a bigger threat to children

[barren pewter]

yup

I still don't get it

[proper cargo]

America is a new nation compared to europe. They still need to learn like a child.

[barren pewter]

they should have just remained a british colony

and became a british commonwealth state

[barren pewter]

because the brits aren't retards

[proper cargo]

Uhh...

[barren pewter]

they know you don't swallow the kinder egg whole

like the yanks

[proper cargo]

I wouldnt give em too much credit

[barren pewter]

if they knew that, they wouldn't have pulled me over for some fucking candy

[barren pewter]

are the dutch much better?

[proper cargo]

Honestly? Yea. We arnt one of the wealthiest of europe for no reason. We are a very economic orientated country. We grap every oppertunity at wealth. Because of that, we are very economically stable and have less problems going on.

[barren pewter]

yay

everything canada was during the harper years

and isn't now

cuz of trudeau

[proper cargo]

I mean. You can call urself american. You can call urself rich. Doesnt mean you are actually rich. And im not sure how it works. The US has the biggest debt in the world yet somehow they still exist. Italy has the largest debt of europe and were threatened with a shutdown because the netherlands wasnt prepared to give them any more monies.

[slim token]

god bless murica

[proper cargo]

Thry just keep spending money that isnt there and somehow everyone accepts it

[barren pewter]

they're too big to fail

if they go under, the world will with it

that's why everyone accepts it @proper cargo

we have no choice

[proper cargo]

I genuinly believe we would actually be alright

We got china

[barren pewter]

nope

at least not right now

every institution worth their salt has us debt

lots of it