gaming

[full wing]

and these ARE compatible with eachother right

[timid swan]

Yes 100%

That site has a compatibility report you can look at

[full wing]

oh perfect

[worthy jungle]

I also ended up dming him one for tiktok shop btw, in case he was interested

[native bone]

i finished phantom liberty and replayed the base game with path tracing

[timid swan]

tmw a 3060 stuggles to keep 30 fps at 1080p low

And a 3080 barely at 60 fps

[worthy jungle]

Not that it would affect a 3060, why is a 12700kf being used for that type of test

[native bone]

gn moment cant take em serious for games

pcgh did a deeper analysis iirc

[native bone]

what is a risc 51 4090 spirit

[limber fulcrum]

a 4090 from chinese aib

[daring nova]

Cool moment from Corner2Corner Aki-only tournament https://youtu.be/CoV4xvRHhBo?si=vAI18kjOltgzfcRR

[worthy jungle]

@sick minnow

[sick minnow]

thanks

[full wing]

my Ryzen 3 3350U doesnt stand a chance

[vapid jackal]

https://youtu.be/hLJb-qd9fzk?si=6vua9ax1zAY0s_29

Cities skyline when

[timid swan]

Oh yeah they did add stupid driver AI in, I almost forgot

Car accidents and such are a thing to worry about now

[knotty dawn]

Lmao

[vapid jackal]

Someone gave it a downvote because of that

[nocturne lava]

a downvote?

[tame cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/downvote-lstanberg-sob-cry-free-gif-21429592

[digital fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/zotac-3080-rtx-rtx3080-nvidia-gif-18908478

[blazing hawk]

Wait that built in level is actually kinda cool

[knotty dawn]

Bro

The level LMAO

[timid swan]

"See the sag in real time!"

[digital fractal]

Yep lmao.

[digital fractal]

I legitimately love the design on this thing.

Costs a fortune though.

[molten kraken]

I’d use it

[daring nova]

Honeymoon phase for Street Fighter 6 is over and now more and more people starting to complain about SF6 game mechanics, maybe even more than Street Fighter V https://youtu.be/20_V5xhUAnY?si=lV-l7p1XpeDrbuTD

[tame cobalt]

game is pretty

[nocturne lava]

what game @tame cobalt

[tame cobalt]

playin it rn

[tame cobalt]

fr don't need ray tracing for anything this is a gorgeous game

[plain wave]

nah what u on game look like roblox

maybe from 10 ft away it looks nice because colors

[tame cobalt]

It's called an image

You look close at it and you can see the pixels

It's a pretty underground concept so I can't blame you for not understanding

[calm reef]

it does look a little like roblox if you looks at some objects but I do agree I'd much rather have a very cohesive design language rather than just slapping path tracing onto something

[tame cobalt]

I really like visuals that are well designed with lower poly counts and lightweight shaders

[knotty dawn]

But path tracing is the future or something idk

[knotty dawn]

If a game doesn't use the latest cutting edge graphics technology it's not worth playing

• brainlet

[tame cobalt]

True

[outer lantern]

Untrue, a game is worth playing if the developer's worked the content to permit seemless game play. Not only character character creation, world details and lore, player crafting, but the freedom to playing in any fashion regardless of factions

[runic vault]

GTA 6 TRAILER IN DECEMBER

NO WAYY

[timid swan]

Inb4 delayed again

[vivid pier]

GTA 6 set in Florida

[tame cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/redacted-bitgod-btc-bitcoin-gif-17677899871523510736

[molten kraken]

inb4 the next Grand Theft Auto (5 DLC!)

[tame cobalt]

florida dlc

[nocturne lava]

i got a copy of gta 7

[narrow fable]

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

[upbeat oar]

is there a way to play more than 3 casual matches a day in PUBG?

[timid swan]

Multiple accounts?

I think the idea is the "casual" gamers don't play as much

[upbeat oar]

I have an old account and it has unlimited random casual

created a new one and it's only limited to 3 matches

[molten kraken]

Really? What the heck

Why

[heavy epoch]

Do i have to re install it again?

[timid swan]

Looks like you didn't make a subfolder when you meant to, like I:/games/gtav
Luckily the fix is fairly easy. Copy the files to another directory, uninstall, reinstall, when it goes to download the files again close the launcher completely and copy the files back into the new location

[heavy epoch]

i installed it from the DVD

[timid swan]

Ah so you don't even have to bother with the copying

Yes just uninstall and reinstall

[heavy epoch]

so i have to go from DVD 1-7 again?

[timid swan]

Wait there's 7 DVDs? That's ridiculous and unfortunate.
Maybe make another folder to put other games in, like I:/newgames or something

[heavy epoch]

oh, i didn't know that the DVD install is gonna put the files directly in there, i thought it makes a Directory named "GTAV"

well, i download 109GB now

[heavy epoch]

well, What did you think the game came on? Blu-Ray?

[timid swan]

Well I just didn't expect it to be that large

[heavy epoch]

well, it is a open world game... that is probably why it is beyond 100GB now

[timid swan]

Yeah but I didn't expect a game from that era to be, what, over 40GB just off the installation disc?

[heavy epoch]

Ye

wait, it is about 8GB except the last disc

[timid swan]

Wait they're double layer DVD too?!

[heavy epoch]

oh right, normal DVDs are 4GB

i guess so

[timid swan]

Skyrim fit on a regular 4GB DVD

Same era, also open world

[heavy epoch]

0 Bytes of 7,95GB it said for probably all discs except the last one

i'm gonna gather all my Drives i can humanly get on that PC ig

i'd say close to 8GB every disc

The last disc is 6.33GB

[timid swan]

Which puts the total size compressed on the discs at around 54GB, probably more like 65GB installed

[heavy epoch]

yeah, that is pretty small for that game

Microsoft Flight Simulator Standard edition is probably bigger

[timid swan]

That's mostly streamed assets but yeah it probably is bigger

SSE with the HD textures upgrade and other changes put Skyrim up to 22GB, still pretty small for the size of the content

[nocturne lava]

@pine trout cobblemon is underwhelming tbh

the implementation of the pokemon and their designs are mostly well done, but theres SO much missing content

its so friggin boring

guess ill stick to pixelmon tbh

[calm reef]

classic

[nocturne lava]

genius for posting a screenshot of a video thumbnail instead of the actual video or post

[pale basin]

had to save everyone from witnessing how bad they are

[nocturne lava]

https://tenor.com/view/lag-irl-gif-19297080

[nocturne lava]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mbXqQ7yQ1A&ab_channel=MoonZ_Moonlight

[timid swan]

Wow, I'm glad they're releasing this but dang if it isn't late into the game's life.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/292030/view/3811795546361373306?l=english

[nocturne lava]

ooooo thats promising

[waxen urchin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYp0oe2tMls

know it says "for ps5" at the end but it possibly means they're making a port

but OG game looks so good to the point where it doesnt need a remaster

[nocturne lava]

ez money if they republish the same thing tho

[waxen urchin]

i understand the first one but 2nd one already got a PS5 patch n stuff

legit Sony's version of Skyrim

[pale basin]

my fyp has been flooded by LoL Worlds and I have not seen such a 1 sided pick for what team will win

of the poll i saw, it was like 91% in favor of T1 and 9% in favor of weibo gaming

obligated to root for T1 since i have a faker mouse but if weibo wins, this gonna be such a big upset in esports

[runic kindle]

Anyone play maplestory? i wanna know which class is swords

[tame cobalt]

The swords class

[knotty dawn]

Get this man a true

[nocturne lava]

spitting facts]

[dark plover]

Yo yo anyone here have good knowledge on steam and could maybe help me out with an issue I’m currently having?

[worthy jungle]

Possibly?

[dark plover]

I was trying to play fallout new vegas with mods, tried to launch it but it didn’t work, I realized it didn’t work because there wasn’t a “steam.exe” file in the games main root folder, so I went over to my steam file and copied “steam.exe” and pasted it into my fallout new vegas folder, as soon as I did that, steam asked me to sign in again, and when I brought up my library, a lot of my games are now missing/ saying they are not installed. Even though they are, steam is also failing to recognize that they are even installed, I dunno what I did 🤷‍♂️

[worthy jungle]

That sounds like something I'd contact support over

[dark plover]

Fixed the issue, thanks anyways thou 🤙

[turbid token]

anyone know a good gaming earbuds?

[worthy jungle]

I dont, but I do know the asus rog ones are ass and please don't buy them

[flat abyss]

I like iems. But they get pretty expensive. Spent $80 on truthears. Solid quality

[wind vector]

There's not really much in terms of "gaming" earbuds

But IEMs offer the best bang for the buck

I got a pair of Moondrop Arias

They're a tad expensive but IEMs go for a lot cheaper

[flat abyss]

ye $80 is a good price. just saying iems can get expensive

and its a rabbit hole if you care enough

[calm reef]

My friend just bought another pair of tangzu wan’er and they are on sale for 16usd on shenzhen

[blazing hawk]

@sick minnow I know you grinded tf out of maplestory

[sick minnow]

4 years ago yeah

so there's definitely new classes since then

but there were already a lot of classes that used swords lol

off the top of my head i can remember hero, paladin, dawn warrior, kaiser, mihile, xenon, and zero

out of those, hero, paladin, dawn warrior, are able to wield standard 1 handed swords and 2 handed swords

mihile can wield standard 1 handed swords only

kaiser can wield standard 2 handed swords only

xenon and zero each have their own special swords that are unique to their class only

[nocturne lava]

neck bye bye

[vapid jackal]

i forgot how Dumb the difficulty curve is in diablo 2 act1,2,3 doesn't die, act 4 gets to diablo without dying

instant death by diablo off screen

[nocturne lava]

mfw division 2 is still one of the best looking games around

This game looks SO good in HDR too.

man i gotta play it again

[spring flicker]

I love Foxhole lmao

[idle garnet]

ikr, I was playing it yesterday... the game has aged quite well

[timid swan]

The one dude on the right just spinning lol

[tame cobalt]

He understands his fate

[nocturne lava]

I'll play it with you if you play again. What point of the game are you at? All my OG buddies who used to play don't anymore 😭

[idle garnet]

my friend group just made new characters to play through it again

I think on my main character im like lvl 19 or something and no clue on how far in the story because its been years lol

[timid swan]

@daring nova If you're going to post your own YouTube videos put them in #links-and-selfpromotion

[daring nova]

@timid swan @timid swan oh sorry

[bold estuary]

@daring novaIs that Ulquiorra the Strongest Espada? If so. BANKAI Kabazashi Tanikaze!

[daring nova]

@bold estuary it is him

[bold estuary]

Word I'm a huge fan

[bold estuary]

9/9/1856

[manic mural]

?

looks like 1856

[bold estuary]

typo

5/30/1854 and alternate timeline

[manic mural]

fun vic 3 things

it's not a vic game if you can't have super germany

[bold estuary]

yea I'm doing a persia run and a Super Germany run now. I'm new to the game. I've already finished my Italy and Ottoman Campaign

[manic mural]

I haven't played that much vic 3, will need to figure out optimal tech order when I play more, only did a full Japan run

I haven't focused on conquest in vic 3 since they took away a lot of the micro

[bold estuary]

Imo so far really there are a few early game techs that are necessary. mid to late game its really just whatever you need depending on country and what pops need

[bold estuary]

I micro the hell out of my economy

[manic mural]

There'll prob be an optimal path, but unlike vic 2 it seems medicine doesn't get rid of many events, and there's no tech for education (only more levels of investment), so it's less clear cut

[manic mural]

Yea it's all economy micro now

[bold estuary]

I understand what you mean now

Its still a new game look what they did with EUIV and HOI IV those games are old af but still get content and bug updates

so in time it will be a great game

[manic mural]

Although I have to check how army composition will work in Vic 3, dunno if a similar ratio to vic 2 will work or smth else

[bold estuary]

what was your comp in Vic II

[manic mural]

Classic was 4/1/5

4 inf 1 hussar 5 arty or 4 inf 1 hussar 4 arty 1 engineer

No engineer in Vic 3 yet

[bold estuary]

yea so right now you just want more infantry then both arty and Cav. my ratio is 10/5/2 (inf/arty/cav) and when I can afford a big battalion I cap it out at 68/40/26

[torpid fern]

hey guys

[wind vector]

Ayy super germany

I should probably give vic 3 a go again

Heard the combat update made the game a lot more playable

[wind vector]

Meanwhile 7/4/2

Tbh i use that template for every paradox game

At least early game

[manic mural]

I mean early game calvary is way more necessary, pretty sure meta russia is all cavalry

but when you get to hussars and get cannon techs you go 4/1/5

[wind vector]

True

Meanwhile in eu4 i just spam arty and inf

I usually do like 14/4/4 for early game

[manic mural]

my eu4 setup is 8/4/8 late game

[wind vector]

Maybe 8/4/4 for minors

[manic mural]

early game is just as many inf as I can plus 4 cav

[wind vector]

Fr

Pre arty is just inf spam

[manic mural]

yea

[wind vector]

I just played Dithmarschen earlier

Actually pretty good

They have pretty good army morale

[manic mural]

usually 8/4/8 x2 40k stacks don't end up doing too well in long wars but the stack wiping potential with the arty is crazy

don't all the german states have the potential to get crazy morale

[wind vector]

true

AE is annoying in the HRE tho

Can't blob that hard

[manic mural]

ae is just a number smh

[wind vector]

ahah

Lately I've been pushing it

[manic mural]

pretty sure I got some nations to 100 ae when I was doing my roman empire run

[wind vector]

I'm trying to do big blue blob

[manic mural]

I gotta do that

haven't played france in a while

well haven't played eu4 in a while

[wind vector]

yeah it's fun

I usually cheese aragon

[manic mural]

pu them?

[wind vector]

Nah

Annex

They're really weak before spain can pu them

[manic mural]

oh fun

[wind vector]

And also england

England is really weak if you can kill them in the hundred years war

[quiet nebula]

Hey guys, question! So I’m having to switch internet providers and I’m moving from cable internet to wifi cos cable in my area has a very limited speed.. this leaves me having to go with Spectrum, and my two options are: 500 mbps ($70/mo) or 1000 mbps ($90/mo).. which should i get if I want to game with it mainly

[polar needle]

Either one would work, and I’d try negotiating the price down at least for the 1st couple months - might work

But if your only gaming I’d go 500mb just cause it’s cheaper

[limber fulcrum]

500 is enough

on the fast side too

[idle garnet]

I get 50 down and 5 up for $15 a month lmao

pretty old plan by now though

[quiet nebula]

No lag or latency?!

[bold estuary]

https://youtu.be/VMANUEEQhzw

[vapid jackal]

That username

[idle garnet]

Nah it’s pretty stable, the speed doesn’t affect lag or latency unless the bandwidth is completely being used

[quiet nebula]

I see! Ok thanks

[runic kindle]

Maybe I’ll wait on ordering a new pc until I know the specs for gta 6 lmao

[timid swan]

One of the reasons GTA V has lasted this long is it runs on a potato with integrated graphics, so if they're smart they'll put the minimum really low like at a 1060 6gb.

[polar needle]

fortntie rtx finally has a practical use now

[polar needle]

my 10700k is finally showing its age, its bottlenecking in fortnite maxxed settings rtx

[worthy jungle]

What gpu again?

And what do you mean bottlenecking

[polar needle]

3090 my gpu is only using like 80-90 percent and cpu at 40- it isnt big but it is a bottleneck

[worthy jungle]

What are you using to view usage?

[polar needle]

game bar from xbox

[worthy jungle]

Did you get those two backwards

Try nvidias overlay

[polar needle]

alr

[worthy jungle]

Also what resolution?

1440p 10700k shouldn't be that much of a bottleneck

[polar needle]

1440p

[worthy jungle]

Also I think you got these backwards

[polar needle]

the percentages?

[worthy jungle]

Yeah if gpu is at 80-90 and cpu is at 40 it'd be the opposite

[polar needle]

dlss was on 💀

[timid swan]

Well that'll do it since you're rendering at a lower res lol

[runic kindle]

I’m stuck if I should return my@parts or not, gta 6 being 2 years away there’s gonna be a ton of new parts coming out that’s gonna be way better than the parts I just got

[idle garnet]

specs?

[timid swan]

Wait, 2 years until GTA 6? I missed the announcement

Sheeeesh rockstar really milking it. It's not even scheduled to come to PC at all yet.

[pale basin]

pc release was late for gta 5 as well wasnt it?

[timid swan]

Yes

19 months

[pale basin]

time for me to buy an xbox series x for gta 6

[timid swan]

So yeah now we get to laugh when people say they're building a PC for GTA 6

[tame cobalt]

Might as well just give birth twice instead

[timid swan]

You could in that delay time too lol

[pale basin]

have a kid and then teach them how to mod games so they can make a mod menu for gta 6 for you

[torn fossil]

Bro what that’s dumb

Gotta wait another year for pc is crazy

Exclusives suck

[pale basin]

how it was with gta 5

[tame cobalt]

They could instead release it properly

[idle garnet]

it would have to be early 2025 or an early release for oct 2024 in order to meet that 8 Billion dollar income reported by taketwo for fiscal 2024-2025 report. that fiscal year ends in march 2025.

ill probably end up buying a series X just for GTA 6 lmao

[tame cobalt]

I'll buy some bicycle tires instead

[calm reef]

until you realize they charge the price of a series x for the game xD

[worn parrot]

I need some help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R8qhJfAnxY

In this video this guy gets well over 200 frames and over 150 frames in the air

i have the same specs but i have a i5 12600k instead which i believe is better

and i am getting an unstable 160-180

and in the air im getting 80

[timid swan]

You'd be wrong about the 12600k being better, especially if you're using DDR4. What memory are you using?

Using DDR4 can cut between 10-15% of your performance potential on that CPU.

[worn parrot]

3200

[timid swan]

There's your problem right there then

Not only using DDR4 but slow memory at that

[worn parrot]

i thought ram wouldn't matter as much, especially on an intel system

[timid swan]

It's the opposite, RAM matters less on AMD.

Intel will use whatever memory speed you can give it

[worn parrot]

also the video only has 400mhz more than me

3600 mhz

[timid swan]

That's also a CPU designed to only use ddr4

[worn parrot]

really??? wow

but i really doubt that upgrading my ram to 3600 mhz will get me an extra 40 fps

[timid swan]

When using DDR4, on an Intel system you could use 4000+ and see a benefit on 11th gen. AMD you hit a wall at 3600. It's the same story on DDR5 but different numbers.

[timid swan]

Correct, DDR4 vs DDR5 is the difference

Going to DDR5 you're looking at a cheap kit getting 5600-6000

[worn parrot]

my mb only supports up to 4800

[timid swan]

Which is proven to have a performance impact of 10-15% on the 12600k

[timid swan]

Because it's a DDR4 board, correct

[worn parrot]

yes

[timid swan]

You would need a new motherboard

[worn parrot]

what if i upgrade to 4200

ddr4

[timid swan]

That would take a bit of manual tuning to get it working without losing performance instead of gaining

[worn parrot]

wdym

no i mean buy a whole new set

[timid swan]

I know

[worn parrot]

oh ok i see

i cant afford a new motherboard and new ram and all that

thats annoying

[timid swan]

You'd need to manually tune the memory controller to run that speed without dropping to a higher gear and CR2 which it will do by default

[worn parrot]

hopefully they send some performance update

[worn parrot]

hell nah

I wouldnt know what im doing

ill just stick to it

[timid swan]

We could help but it's a huge pain, I'm talking a good 2 days of work including stress tests

[worn parrot]

no its ok

but look at this tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIde9xFWudw\

i believe the rx 6700xt is better than 3060 in fortnite

and his ram is 3200 mhz

and hes out performing me by quite a lot

actually its fairly even

on the ground hes getting a klot more fps and its mors stable

in the air its the same

im gonan check temps tmr

[waxen breach]

Ok chat ima have to look for pre built for chirstmas list if y’all know any good ones that are under $700 Lmk 🙌

[wind vector]

big blue blob attempt #553

got a claim in catalonia from a diet in the beginning

then i vassalized a irish state

and then annexed some irish nations before england could move in

England declared war on scotland

so i waited for that war to be over then i declared war on england

and then the burgundian succession event happened

I wasn't prepared for the burgundian war but with the help of castile i was able to defeat the burgundian armies and secure a union

then i pressed the funny button that lets me annex burgundy

64/100 provinces

It's probably more since i don't have cores on half of england

that burgundian war could have easily turned bad

thank god for mercenaries

14k men makes all the difference in the 15th century

oh yeah also burgundy destroyed my navy

but i stole their navy back after i annexed them

I love abusing the "draft ships for war" button

literal free ships

[manic mural]

since when was that a thing lol

[wind vector]

It's in your estates

[manic mural]

I'm gonna start a quick france playthrough to get into eu4 again before seriously trying for big blue blob

[wind vector]

If you add "Bourgeoisie: Draft ships for war" you get a button that lets you get free ships

and they build twice as fast

[manic mural]

They made this a notification now? that's nice

[wind vector]

the most costal provinces you have the more ships you can put out

[manic mural]

huh

[wind vector]

it's actually broken

oh

sorry

[manic mural]

btw is the give away all of your land to estates for monthly mana and then get bailed out a strat still?

[wind vector]

Bourgisie force draft

[wind vector]

yes

I do a modified one tho

I only do mil

less cheesy

[manic mural]

don't see it, dlc option?

[wind vector]

maybe

i got the byzantine dlc

[manic mural]

I only have dlcs up to leviathan iirc

[wind vector]

i got the new dlc to play byzantium

gave up half way

[manic mural]

lol

prob dlc option, oh well

[wind vector]

makes sense

since byzantium has to go up against the ottoman navy

it does make naval less annoying tho

so you can spam out ships even if you're not the strongest naval power

very useful against naval countries

cough England cough

naval tradition is still an issue

so it's not too broken

my navy is mainly heavy ships

so not many screens

[manic mural]

can't you galley spam england to death

I remember using like a 200 galley fleet the last time I had to fight the british

[wind vector]

broke

[manic mural]

not any more?

[wind vector]

and also now that i can get free heavy ships

i can just spam those

or rather light ships

to support my main fleet

I like using my light ships in peace time to protect trade

[manic mural]

I'll prob try galley spam later

[wind vector]

French W

[manic mural]

big

[wind vector]

they have 9 ships left

[manic mural]

I'm enjoying not doing anything and letting spain waste all their manpower

[wind vector]

lol

every french opening

[manic mural]

minor inconvience? call in castile

[wind vector]

the classic strat of letting castile fight your wars

wtf

my vassals let the germans siege down luxemburg

unbelievable

[manic mural]

they're supposed to siege them down

smh

[wind vector]

I own luxemburg

literal ww2 mindset

"guys it's ok they can't get through the ardennes"

[manic mural]

I love the unconditional surrender mechanic

[wind vector]

nooo

I didn't get it

Didn't AE hard enough

still a good france game

[manic mural]

rip

[wind vector]

oh well

gonna try to form rome

castile broke alliance

😭

going to teach the castilians a lesson

[manic mural]

did they just add a new row of ideas?

don't remember seeing these before

[wind vector]

probably

It came from some dlc

world war time?

I can call in the polish juggernaut

good thing about being allied to poland is that muscovy is not gonna get too big to be a problem

problem is

balkan battle royale

if either muscovy or ottomans go to war with poland it's gonna be pain

oh my god what happened to hungary

i hate this so much

[manic mural]

its so nice that they made this a notification too lol

[manic mural]

plc op

[wind vector]

yeah

trade is broken op but newer players don't know about it

I think you're actually the one who told me about centres of trade

at like 600 hours in

[manic mural]

lol

thats crazy

I'm not going to be anywhere near getting the achievement but I think the goal for myself is 70 tiles by 1500

[wind vector]

yeah

I think I'll just try to do the more general achievements

There's a couple france ones i haven't done

problem is coalitions

[manic mural]

I think I have the france once because I did an ironman france run before

[wind vector]

there was a massive coalition against me with milan and venice and england

so i got stuck for 10 years

my manpower was also kinda drained from fighting burgundy

[manic mural]

that'll be fineee

[wind vector]

and also germans

german horde is scary

[manic mural]

I always train so I can always just trade army professionalism for manpower lol

[wind vector]

wait

you could do that?

[manic mural]

this button

[wind vector]

ohhhhhhhh

that's so helpful

[manic mural]

lol

ima go for revolutionary france ig

[wind vector]

yeah I'm gonna take form rome after i get revolution

[manic mural]

I already have this

which was quite fun

[wind vector]

the last france game i did into the 1700s ended up with me doing something dumb and getting my army wiped by germans

like last year

[manic mural]

rip

[wind vector]

at least there's no prussia this game

(foreshadowing)

[manic mural]

brandenburg looks like they're having a good game here

[wind vector]

probably allied to poland

[manic mural]

yea

[wind vector]

yeah as always

[manic mural]

if they just take out wolgast and then turn on poland they can form prussia

[wind vector]

brandenburg either gets killed early or blob

[manic mural]

mhm

[wind vector]

I don't really see that often

[manic mural]

anyways I love taking all of ireland while waiting for truces in europe

[wind vector]

It's usually just the massive polish hugbox on the east

[manic mural]

I mean that's just how I did my prussia game lol

[wind vector]

not with ai

[manic mural]

dunno how AI does it

[wind vector]

9/10 games prussia just don't spawn

I think they made it more likely for prussia spawn a few updates ago

I've seen poland release prussia as a vassal

[manic mural]

huh

oh hey britanny got burgandy so I just have to declare on one nation to take all the tiles I want :D

[wind vector]

if prussia spawns I'm rivaling them and going there to kill them

if prussia gets big they'll block my expansion into germany

[manic mural]

man

I really can't tell why scotland allies britanny

they wouldn't have to die if they didn't do that

[wind vector]

I usually ally them after the britain war

[manic mural]

I had to fight them to take britanny lands

[wind vector]

so britain can't just steamroll them

[wind vector]

ouch

[manic mural]

which leads to this

[wind vector]

try to vassalize them

[manic mural]

can't when they have vassals xd

[wind vector]

lol

[manic mural]

scotland just doesn't want to live

[wind vector]

my scotland still has the isles in 1511

[manic mural]

I will follow their wish

[wind vector]

💀

[manic mural]

a little annoying everyone hates me though

austria hates me, spain hates me, england hates me

[wind vector]

try poland

[manic mural]

They don't really like me but I can prob ally them if I want to fight austria

[wind vector]

Austria won't try anything with PLC at their side

[manic mural]

I'm mostly thinking denmark

[wind vector]

I probably should ally denmark or sweden tbh

don't want muscovy blobbing into scandanavia

[manic mural]

I feel like denmark can sacrifice their fleet to get britain

[wind vector]

what i do is

i take provinces in ireland in a land war

then i pour troops into ireland to fight the brits

then i call the scots in

[manic mural]

french ireland soon

the problem is the crossing

but if somehow the danish fleet distracts britain I can cross

[wind vector]

yeah

[manic mural]

I hate this siege

49% for the last 5 ticks

how is my luck this bad

[wind vector]

you just need the brits to blockade someone so you can pass

I'm trying to get portugal to break alliance with castile

so I can invade them

and take their land

and colonies

have to expand into italy tho

HRE provinces are stupid expensive before the imperialism CB

[manic mural]

yea they are

AE is just a number

I'll be fine

right

[wind vector]

39

that's not too bad

[manic mural]

Austria + England + lots of small HRE states is annoying

[wind vector]

oh god bohemia is emperor

[manic mural]

but they're barely above 50 so in like 5 years it'll dissipate

[wind vector]

I was gonna make fun of them but then i realised that bohemia is larger than austria

[manic mural]

lmao

austria got screwed over in your game I assume

no burgandy

[wind vector]

no

they didn't get hungary

got partitioned by poland, bohemia... and wallachia

they still got a decent size army

which would be annoying

I kinda wanna keep the austrians alive

just so the bohemians don't blob too hard

[manic mural]

really screwed lol

[wind vector]

yeah they can't really expand

[manic mural]

oh I just looked hungary is big in my game

[wind vector]

weak austria means free land for turks

Turks are #4 GP surprisngly

kinda weak

compared to even muscovy

oh

commonwealth formed

[manic mural]

yea uh no

[wind vector]

yeah you need a navy

or someone with a navy

[manic mural]

england just has 25 ships

I wonder how many heavy ships that is

[wind vector]

half of them are probably cogs and barques

uh oh

spain formed

[manic mural]

they just have 6 heavy ships, rest light ships and transports

if I need to I'll just match them in heavy ships and then buy a flagship

[wind vector]

that's pretty weak for england

gonna ally naples

european politics 101

[manic mural]

lol

I'm gonna try not going inno ideas

I usually always do inno but

[wind vector]

what if i turn england welsh

[manic mural]

great idea

I would go kill england but austria is still in the coalition xd

[wind vector]

average coalition

[manic mural]

like austria being in and not in is such a huge difference

[wind vector]

can't austria call allies in a coalition?

[manic mural]

when austria is in, it includes austria's 40k troops and like 30k troops of the hre, and excludes my allies
when austria isn't in, I can bring in Denmark with 20k (+10k sweden and norway), Hungary with 30k, and Poland with 50k

for some reason they all like austria

[wind vector]

usually poland hates austria

[manic mural]

yea I have no idea why poland likes them here

Tbh my army is at a point where if I really wanted to, I can fight that entire coalition and win

I have full quality ideas and France gets the extra morale

But that's too much hassle and truce would take too long

[wind vector]

coalition v2

i took geneva and that pissed off the germans

I have a stupid idea

should i fight the coalition

ok nvm they have twice the manpower of my whole alliance

[wind vector]

gonna try to engage the venetian fleet

I might be able to outgun them with the number of heavy ships i have

this is a dreadnought moment

they have a lot of ships but they're mostly light ones

the amount of firepower on these carracks makes all the difference

heavy ships are the way to go

especially for a land power

ok

naples broke alliance

I see how this is

[manic mural]

Galley gaming

[wind vector]

at this point i want to destroy some of my ships

in a war

just so i don't have to pay for them

[manic mural]

Mothball some

Or sell

[timid swan]

Ayo? 7950X3D? Seriously?

[timid swan]

@worn parrot We were just talking about this and they just published this vid this morning
https://youtu.be/OYqpr4Xpg6I?si=_SuTe0YuWtyP7K0j

[worn parrot]

That’s sick

Wish I saw it earlier lol or at least realized

I always thought ram speed was more important to amd

I swear I’ve heard that said so many times in videos

[timid swan]

RAMlatency matters a lot in AMD, maybe that's what you were hearing

[worn parrot]

Maybe

But in 1080p it showed a 10% difference

What I was experiencing on fort compared to others was more than a 10% difference even tho their ram wasn’t much faster than mine

Honestly this season has been hella laggy

Because this is the first time I’ve experienced it

[timid swan]

It is hard to compare between major versions, yeah that could be part of it

[worn parrot]

That’s true

And it’s not just me complaining so there has to be something wrong internally like I can’t be down an entire 100fps between versions

Thanks btw I won’t make that mistake again

[timid swan]

Really interesting timing on that video being published too lol

[worn parrot]

Fr hahaha

[manic mural]

it took until 1497 for austria to leave my coalition xd

got bored, starting a european war

I made a terrible mistake

my morale sucks

spain has 5

I have 4

I may have the highest professionalism and tradition but their morale is crazy

[wind vector]

Oof

My spain outnumber me so much I'm scared to touch them

Just starting minor wars until I can get a strong enough alliance to fight spain

[manic mural]

I ended up just crushing them because I got really lucky and got a 100 tradition general from an event and started stack wiping them lol

5 fire 5 shock is really crazy when its 1500

and now I'm crushing england

[wind vector]

lol

I had to get a new heir so my alliance abandoned me

[manic mural]

damn

[wind vector]

So I'm just sitting here vassalizing one province HRE minors

[wind vector]

Have you got to the point where you have to start deleting ships because of how many you have?

I stole half my navy from my enemies

Most of it really

[manic mural]

nah I only have 6 heavy ships and 10 transports

you can mothball stuff you might need in the future

England has 30k troops in total, and 20k are in ireland, when I have more than 50k in the british isles lol

[wind vector]

i have 20 heavy ships and i captured half of them

and every time my navy engages someone i have to delete ships because i keep capturing them

capturing ships is broken op

[wind vector]

morale?

England usually have pretty bad morale compared to France

ok

I've decided to do a classic france move

I'm going to ally the Ottomans

[manic mural]

They have the same morale as me, I have 10% higher discipline, way higher professionalism, and 25% higher tradition, on top of my extra combat efficiency from quality ideas

[wind vector]

nice

[manic mural]

dunno how they became a GP AFTER I took land from them

[wind vector]

colonies?

dev?

[manic mural]

oh it was because they embraced an institution they barely edged out hungary, but hungary is back to gp8 after they embraced the institution lol

[wind vector]

lol

wurttemberg sucks at emperor

[manic mural]

who would've known lol

[wind vector]

I'm gonna force religion on them

[manic mural]

kek

are you protestant?

[wind vector]

catholic

the empire is protestant

[manic mural]

oh

I love being the biggest army

[wind vector]

lol

[worn parrot]

Hey @timid swan

sorry for the blurry picture

but my usage for my cpu and even gpu is pretty low

and im sure its a glitch but the gpu is running at 737 mhz

[worn parrot]

• its only using 2gb of mem on gpu

[wind vector]

wtf

I got Brandenburg'd

yeah this run is over

brandenburg blobbed hard

[wind vector]

he's probably asleep or something

time zone differences

[worn parrot]

oh i didnt mean to type that again

oh its because i sent it from my phone and it finaslly loaded after an hour

[wind vector]

ah yes

the classic discord lag

Castilian navy W?

lol I won and stole a ship off them

I'm getting a pretty decent amount of war score by just blockading the british

ok

I feel like I keep messing up the disaster

I'm throwing castile hard

restarted

time to go kill the english navy again

spanish naval supremacy

ahahah wtf i got 48% war score

sending men to help scotland

lost half of the men i sent but it's worth it to keep england week

[calm reef]

Man blizzard is actually just trying to cash grab with overwatch it’s disgusting

[wind vector]

activision moment

[calm reef]

Just trying playing with new hero released and it’s terrible

Literally unplayable

[wind vector]

SCOTLAND FOREVER

https://tenor.com/view/scotland-scottish-flag-flying-scottish-flag-gif-20740000

ok I'm outta here don't want to cripple england too much

[manic mural]

should've allied them smh

[wind vector]

might do just that

now france is stupid big

problem is Ansbach is emperor

so france is just expanding into the HRE

[wind vector]

taking advantage of the ansbach situation

[manic mural]

oh I just realized you swapped to castile lmao

[wind vector]

yeah

I got coalitioned by brandenburg and died

lmao

england is naval invading me and every time they try they just get wiped by aragon

[manic mural]

that was salvagable if you take max loans and merc spam and go on the defensive

[wind vector]

yeah i got lazy

[manic mural]

I usually try to salvage when I can but yea

lazy is fun

[wind vector]

I swear to god if my king dies while i still have negative relations with austria I'm gonna rage quit

bro's 24

please don't die

ok I'm safe

[wind vector]

so uh

I'm at war with the turks

💀

[wind vector]

let's gooo austria bros

my manpower reserves were completely decimated

but i had to keep poland alive

[manic mural]

Slight amount of pus

[manic mural]

No loans, didn't fight hard enough smh

[wind vector]

i sold titles

[manic mural]

Lol

[manic mural]

I don't think I've ever sold titles in this game

I always just get loans

I can get rid of a loan in a month

I can't seize land until every 5 years I think?

[wind vector]

I only hired one merc stack

[wind vector]

an empire not just in name

How to colonize in EU4: wait for someone to colonize then go to war with them

[wind vector]

eu4 be like

bonaparte regent

1554

doesn't own corsica

[wind vector]

oh no the turks are back

[wind vector]

venetian navy coming in clutch

why do i have the venetian flagship

I'm gonna assume it got captured by the ottomans

then somehow i captured it

It took the combined efforts of the venetian and spanish armada to finally defeat the mighty ottoman navy

I love EU4 when I'm not getting stackwiped

now back to hating the venetians

feels bad that i have to kill the venetians

[manic mural]

ottoblobing

[modern plume]

anyone wanna play garctic phone?https://garticphone.com/en/?c=023184b2ac

[wind vector]

Yeah the only thing keeping ottomans from expanding even further into europe is Poland and Austria

And Austria is my PU

[wind vector]

death war death war

they have twice my units

I had to wait until they declared war on GB to go to war

[wind vector]

wtf gigachad portugal

the only reason i'm winning this war is because i haven't seen the actual french army

there's more venetians in europe than french

oh so that's where they went

bro was sieging down mexico while paris was falling

[manic mural]

I hate fighting in the colonies

never have enough troops

late game colonies have more troops than mainland europe xd

like 300k in the colonies 100k in actual spain

[wind vector]

I just let the ai siege down the colonies

Can't be bothered

They're not much war score anyways

And besides

Ai in the colonies means less armies to fight me

I full sieged them and stole half of brazil's coastline

And also peru

Once i get imperialism I'm coming back for more

Surprisingly this death war crippled me less than the war of the protestant league and the ottoman wars

Probably because ai france was stupid

My armies were stretched sieging down forts

They could have wiped my armies if they had any in france

They lost the moment they let me siege down their forts on my border

Then portugal just rushed in and started wiping armies

They did tried to siege down Austria tho

And they sieged down my italian provinces

Which was kinda the point tbh

I was hoping for the ai to siege down italy while i take paris

Even then it was mostly venetians

France didn't do much in that war

In reality it was more Venice vs Austria while Spain sieges down France

The closest i got to losing the war was when venice sieged down naples and "france" sieged down vienna

[nocturne lava]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSLbQ_sdPZQ&ab_channel=MiniDaBoi

[vapid jackal]

Fortnite should have grouped up with this game company https://youtu.be/ewZIDfmku5k?si=8HQIyYN6jiwiBLXS

[manic mural]

Denmark is making big plays in my game

no big russia

Big commonwealth happened, but I need to deal with the ottomans rn

random pu? I'll take it

[nocturne lava]

lol

[manic mural]

lol

[manic mural]

always good to knock ottoblob down a notch while they aren't that big

[manic mural]

GP1 :D

[manic mural]

let them come.

slightly big coalition

[manic mural]

have to bully spain before they can get into coalition

[manic mural]

slightly bullying

good timing

overextension is just a number

austria no more

I got bored

uh

dunno why they're all focused on me when there are waves of people coming from the east

just gotta stack wipe more stacks and I win

done

[wind vector]

lol

I got bored with my spain game so I'm playing ottomans now

My eu4 mid games are usually just stagnation

I'm really bad with my mid games

Mostly because that's when i get bored and turn my brain off

[manic mural]

what do you consider your mid game?

My mid game is generally rush to blob harder than the biggest blobs (russia/ottoblob/plc/spain)

I kinda just turn my brain off, listen to music, and enjoy myself killing everything and blobing

[wind vector]

Like 1650-1700s

When it's hard to blob

And big GP wars start happening

I fought like 3 gp wars then got bored

[manic mural]

I feel like that's when you blob the hardest when you get imperialism

[wind vector]

2 against turks and 1 against france

[manic mural]

I find gp wars fun, first one is always really tedious, but you sap at their strength and grind them down, making each subsequent war easier and easier until they die

juggling coalitions is kinda fun but gets tedious

[wind vector]

yeah that's my issue really

taking stuff from big gp wars is annoying

Especially in europe

And HRE

HRE and Italy is annoying

[manic mural]

go one state at a time and its fine

esp with imperialism

[wind vector]

It's pre imperialism

[manic mural]

I just did a coalition war against most of Europe for 4 provinces lol

[wind vector]

lol

Average eu4 player

[manic mural]

europe is annoying but I'll get there

[wind vector]

Starts great war over western sahara

[manic mural]

:p

I'm blobing pretty hard now though, which is nice

[wind vector]

Yeah

[manic mural]

constant wars to keep the coalition from growing too big

[wind vector]

HRE provinces are sweet

But so much AE

[manic mural]

but once you're juggling coalitions ae doesn't matter

like its up to 300 rn

but doesn't matter

its just either below 50

or above 50

when they're already above 50 they don't care

although I think this coalition is too big for me

oh well

[manic mural]

this is 85 AE for 3 provinces

haven't seen this before though, time to experience it

uh they got ottoblob involved in this somehow

annd I get up to 90ae for taking back what was mine

gonna be forced to sit back for a while now

[wind vector]

Rip spain

[wind vector]

this is what happens if you don't fund your armies

someone invade and then stackwipe you

OH NO THE RUSSIANS ARE HERE

yeah that's right buddy get out of germany

[wind vector]

ahhh

my micro is so bad

200 hours 💀

[manic mural]

just abuse defensive bonuses and sit on every border tile smh

[wind vector]

I mobilized for hungary

but then i realized they only had 10 brigades

[wind vector]

the hell

the dual monarchy dropped out of #1 GP

something happened to their prestige probably

[manic mural]

Beat them up

[wind vector]

There's a big fat Burgundy in the way

And now the danubians formed

And also PLC just got beaten up by Muscovy

[manic mural]

just snowball harder than russia with tech

[wind vector]

I'm going to liberate Prussia

[manic mural]

abuse them while their literacy is still low

[wind vector]

Then go kill the danubians

Problem is that Scandinavia and Burgundy are on my border

And Scandinavia wants Holstein back

So I might actually chill for a year so I don't get a three front war

[manic mural]

Or, preemptively attack them and wp to force a truce

[wind vector]

Truw

[timid swan]

I refuse to believe this was procedurally generated

[limber fulcrum]

bruh

[ivory sage]

How could you kill the Doctor

https://tenor.com/view/fourth-doctor-doctor-who-laugh-smile-happy-gif-15084334

[timid swan]

Oh it's simple really, you have to kill him while he's regenerating

Make sure to hit both hearts

[viral herald]

Are there any good single player medieval games that has a good combat system (something similar to warhammer: vermintide 2)

[ivory sage]

Have you tried mount and blade or kingdom come deliverance?

[viral herald]

I haven't tried mount and blade, and I heard kingdom come is difficult and incredibly realistic, which I don't want

[manic mural]

there's always skyrim with mods

[nocturne lava]

fallout 4 with mods is good

[wind vector]

Not medieval tho

crusader kings ii /s

[manic mural]

@full wing

[digital fractal]

Anyone here play Ark Evolved or Ascended?

[nocturne lava]

dont subject yourself to ark

[nocturne lava]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBW0JGCYm40&ab_channel=JSwizzle

[maiden lake]

My Gigabyte AERO XE5 just borked itself, any suggestions?

It's still under warranty, but I want to return it because apparently this is an ongoing issue with the laptops (purchased through Newegg in march)

[worthy jungle]

If you bought it in March, you're not going to get a refund

No seller would give you that unless you bought a special warranty, and even then I think best buy is the only place I can think of that would

maybe if you contact customer service they'd give you a credit but idts

[maiden lake]

I think my best bet for now is getting it RMAed through warranty and making sure the new or repaired device also has a warranty

it just pisses me off bc this is a relatively new "garage kept" laptop

[pale basin]

warframe damage go crazy

[pliant crag]

D2 exotic mission out today

:derpyBlob:

[daring nova]

DNF Duel is available for FREE for 24 hours, starting at 7AM PT/10AM ET. Don't miss the chance! https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dnf-duel-07d055

[stiff temple]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-angry-cat-mad-cat-mad-death-stare-gif-2007099240114134459

[digital fractal]

Ark is fun.

Lmao.

Especially modded but that can get hectic.

[wind vector]

i hate myself

[manic mural]

I barely played eu4 lol

more hoi4 tho

[azure sundial]

Does anyone know what’s wrong with my pc? I have been trying for an hour now and I have no idea what’s happening. It only happens on val and when switching monitors, the problem doesn’t appear

[azure sundial]

Nevermind it does the same with the other monitor

[timid swan]

Do you have adaptive sync (freesync, gsync, etc) enabled in the drivers, monitor, and game? That's classic screen tearing. If you have vsync on turn it off to use adaptive sync.

[azure sundial]

how do I check?

I have the vsync off

[wind vector]

map painting

AI legit tried to attack me while I was sitting on a mountain tile

[manic mural]

Normal ai behavior

[manic mural]

Monitor osd using any controls physically on the monitor, V sync can fix screen tearing, adaptive sync can also fix it.

[timid swan]

Adaptive sync is better for running fps at or below the monitor refresh Hz. Vsync is better when you're well above it.

[manic mural]

(considering its val, I'm guessing you're above)

Adaptive sync also works above

[timid swan]

Yes, by turning itself off lol

Which introduces another issue:
Having a frame in the buffer waiting for the screen to refresh can also lead to half frames being displayed

[manic mural]

yea but generally while setting up adaptive sync you'd use either hardware or game frame limiter and/or use v sync

[timid swan]

Yes that is best practice, but many people don't know that

[manic mural]

just gonna paste this here just in case then
https://blurbusters.com/gsync/gsync101-input-lag-tests-and-settings/

[runic kindle]

hm i wanna buy hogwarts legacy but at the same time idkk

[azure sundial]

Alright thanks!

[pale basin]

its good but dont expect a crap ton of spells

combat is fairly basic

[wind vector]

x100 for paradox games

[manic mural]

50 hours in single player campaign vs 10 hours in a multiplayer campaign

[wind vector]

10 hours of being screamed at

"bro pin pin pin"

"bro click harder"

[manic mural]

"bro you can't micro the side of a barn"

[azure sundial]

I have amd, does that make any difference?

[manic mural]

its just called freesync instead of g sync

[azure sundial]

oh alright, Its fixed thanks!

[timid swan]

Combat is basically rock paper scissors, but I've enjoyed it overall. The story is decent, and the graphics are beautiful.

[calm reef]

I enjoyed walking around the world exploring

[remote prairie]

Alan Wake 2 in one screenshot

[vivid pier]

HOW are you liking the game???

[runic kindle]

It’s amazing

[vivid pier]

ikr. as a big avatar fan , its a dream come true @runic kindle

we just need it in VR now

[runic kindle]

Bro fr! That would be sick af

[vivid pier]

that hand doesnt look right🤮

[digital fractal]

How much hair product y'all think the characters use?