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If PC Gaming Era was a football tema it would be...

  • England

    Votes: 18 10.5%
  • Belgium

    Votes: 13 7.6%
  • France

    Votes: 19 11.1%
  • Netherlands

    Votes: 19 11.1%
  • Toronto Raptors

    Votes: 102 59.6%

  • Total voters
    171
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JediTimeBoy

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I haven't played it in a while, but PvP just isn't SWTOR's draw. It's fun for the Star Wars theme and class stories, and not much else.

Ranked Swtor pvp is mostly hackers and people grinding mats in group AFK. Also wintraders and chat is full of MAGA racist trolls.
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Hmm. Tbh, only looking at playing warzones, not arena. Saying that, I do have my main toon, and like 5 alts at level 55 (from the last time I played in 2015), and like 10 alts around level 20, so may just use one of those seven day guest codes and see what happens.
 

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toukiden story is really entertaining, i really expected nothing from this genre after god eater but this game keeps surprising me with new twists and fun character development. nothing about it is revolutionary but it works really well

i do wish these kinds of games had a bit of a more nuanced skillset that you got to unlock as you progress, i really dislike how these monster hunter style games have such an unsatisfying numbers only progression, and these games often are really bad at explaining themselves which means that all these passive buffs feel really hard to appreciate. i've played like 20 hours of this game and i still don't know how breaking monster parts really work or how damage really works and i don't know what the blue spheres that sometimes show up mean, or how you trigger absolute part destructions or w/e

anyways, it's still fun and i'm really looking forward to monster hunter

something about this genre really grabs me, so i should sometime play like the top game right
 

Ruruja

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Got back into Lord of the Rings online again. My account is 11 years old, so I logged into a bunch of free gift boxes. Sweet. Just grinding skirmish instances and farming wood to sell on the AH like I used to. It's not bad these days.

My buddy also got me Dominions 5. What a brilliant game!

I loved LOTRO. Just riding from The Shire to Rivendell was so much fun. I wish I could jump into MMORPG's again like you, but once I've been away for a while I really struggle to do so.

Are there still a decent amount of players on it?
 

Sanctuary

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Ended up grabbing Dead Cells exactly a week ago, then on the third randomly decided to finally grab Prey (really cheap on the Steam sale) after waffling on the idea of getting it for a long while. Doesn't help that I also ended up watching a neighbor who's not really keen on remotely complex video games play it on his S last year, and the way he played it made it look extremely dull. Twenty hours in and I feel foolish for waiting this long. It's basically System Shock 3.
 

vastag

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I loved LOTRO. Just riding from The Shire to Rivendell was so much fun. I wish I could jump into MMORPG's again like you, but once I've been away for a while I really struggle to do so.

Are there still a decent amount of players on it?

Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online are two of the must fun MMOs I have played. The dungeons on DDO were so much fun and so easy to get into with PUGs, I loved that. I'm also interested on the population of LOTRO nowadays.

So will Capcom make us use Tencent's client for MHW?

Fuck, lets hope that it is not the case. I would hate that. Steam for the rest of the world pls Capcom.

Also, Into the Breach is incredibly fun. It looks minimalistic at first, but is quite complex.
 

Nzyme32

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It's definitely not pay to win though. If you have fallen behind in collection and want to quickly play every viable deck, then you'll probably have to pay some money. But you also just missed an event that gave out a lot of extra gold/dust. I think of it like most games that have an expansion you need to pay to play, but with hearthstone there is alternatives to paying. Definitely not required though as I can attest to and many others.



Sure is dead.



Current meta is not like that at all though. There are so many viable decks atm. One of the best if not the best meta in terms of deck variety.

So it sounds like I just need to have more time available to play frequently, otherwise I am in the situation I have now where money seems the only way to get somewhere reasonable
 

BlueOdin

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Started Gears of War 4 thanks to the free one month Gamepass code. Looks pretty but so far it is just... okay. Doing the same things that I did in the first three isn't all that exciting so far. Also really strange playing a third-person shooter with an emphasis on cover after a few years. Feels stiff.
 

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I'm not sure to be honest. For some things, maybe, but with external drives you're restricted by the USB data maximum, so I don't think it would affect things too much. I've never had a 2,5"/5200 drive, so I couldn't tell you how much they slow things down generally.


I play everything off my external drive and I don't notice any hitching or stuttering, but my SSD is full of random stuff, so have never bothered to copy a game across to it. Perhaps if I had I would be more sensitive to it, but *shrugs*. :) I don't think it's that much of a pain to move Steam games around using the Steam client settings, so I'd probably give it a go with the external drive and go from there.

Thank you. So for playing my games copied on the external hdd what I should do? I install steam on C:/ and then? I did the backup manually coping steamapps folder since the built-in backup feature on steam was buggy for me (it gave me errors upon copying)

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Most games don't really benefit too greatly from SSD vs HDD. I mean, they do, but if you are coming from console load times for example, regular HDD load times on PC will blow you away already.
USB3 is also fine. Mechanical hard drives are not even close to saturating that line at all. You are going to be strictly limited to the speed of the actual drive. I used to use some WD Green drives which are/were 5200rpm, and it was fine.

It's all fine.

So USB3.0 is faster than the HDD connected through SATA port?
I find this enclosure kit. Do you recommend me this brand?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-5...66&sr=8-1&keywords=hdd+enclosure+2.5+verbatim

It's a USB 3.0

I use SSD mainly because of noise reasons. I have a 512GB system SSD and a 1TB gaming SSD (which is already filled sadly).
Also only use up to 75% of your SSD space or it will slow down significantly - which is a negative thing about them.

My SSD is just 120GB. With some apps installed (office and few others) I have about 70GB free of space. This means that if I want to play from my SSD I have to install at most 1-2 games at a time, play the games, finish them, copy back on the external drive if I want a backup of these games and uninstall them. It's a long process
Regarding the space to keep free for optimal performance: 25%? ouch, it's a lot. I remember HDD is about 10%
 

ussjtrunks

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Yes, though it is a smaller catalogue than on console. And you have to deal with the Windows Store.
Thats interesting though, I would never buy anything on windows store as its a farce but a small fee to play the few exclusives on there doesn't sound too bad. How much is it? also do you know what games are included on PC?
 

BlueOdin

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Thats interesting though, I would never buy anything on windows store as its a farce but a small fee to play the few exclusives on there doesn't sound too bad. How much is it? also do you know what games are included on PC?

9.99€/month but you might find codes a little bit cheaper elsewhere. There is also a 14 day trial available.
 

Pixieking

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Thank you. So for playing my games copied on the external hdd what I should do? I install steam on C:/ and then? I did the backup manually coping steamapps folder since the built-in backup feature on steam was buggy for me (it gave me errors upon copying)

Install on C, then go to Settings > Downloads, and there's a drop-down box just underneath Content Libraries. Hit Add Library Folder and select where you copied the Steamapps folder to, and it should just auto-detect your game files. :)
 

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Install on C, then go to Settings > Downloads, and there's a drop-down box just underneath Content Libraries. Hit Add Library Folder and select where you copied the Steamapps folder to, and it should just auto-detect your game files. :)

I have to make the folders or the steam app will create them itself?
When I copied the games on the external drive I just did a copy-paste of the steamapps folder so in my external drive I just have steamapps folder with games in it. I didn't copy the other folders that were in C:/programs/steam
 

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I have to make the folders or the steam app will create them itself?
When I copied the games on the external drive I just did a copy-paste of the steamapps folder so in my external drive I just have steamapps folder with games in it. I didn't copy the other folders that were in C:/programs/steam

You don't need to create any folders. You just select the folder your SteamApps folder is sitting in (e.g. D:\Steam Games) and Steam will do the rest.
 

Stoze

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Anyone else play Q.U.B.E 2? I think I'm close to the end and I'm not really enjoying it, in fact think I liked the first game significantly more. In the first game I thought the crazy physics and speed run stuff kept things more interesting and fresh despite the frustrations that may come with those in puzzle solving, where as 2 is completely stripped of almost anything unique and exciting. Puzzles are extremely linear in the sense you have very limited input thanks to the few amount of white squares to place things on and only being able to have one of each of 3 blocks out at a time. This makes the puzzles either feel mindless to solve, or a slog when they're more complex. There's not much in-between and thus not much enjoyable about it.
 
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That's a kick ass track. :)
It reminds me of something you would hear as a theme song to a 70's/80's Saturday morning animation show.

There's a few other tables on the Pinball Arcade packs I bought that feature very catchy themes, such as:


Tonight I actually played real physical TNG, Champion Pub, Addam's Family, Earthshaker, Funhouse, Starship Troopers, etc. Explaining the goals to my buddy took a while, and he was like, "how do you know about all these tables if you just started playing?"
I'm a bit envious, I think I haven't seen a single physical table in 10 years or so.

And I surely understand your buddy. It's funny how things change, if I played pinball 20-25 years ago, I would be shooting balls randomly for 5 minutes, not knowing what I was doing, and then I would move to something else. At best, I would know if I shoot this, I get big points.
Playing pinball again, this time in digital form, I'm now "I have to shoot this, so it can open this, and then I can do this to achieve this". Previously, I never understood, or particularly cared about this "hidden" complexity. Some of these tables have 18+ pages of rules and instructions, and unless you play them, you would never guess the intricacy and complexity of their design. And the amount of interactivity of some of these elements.
The creators/designers behind some of these tables were insanely creative, I can't even imagine the amount of work and time it took to craft them.
 

matimeo

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Not sure about upcoming Horizon 4, but I'm sure that none of the PC Forza titles are part of GamePass on PC sadly.

This is correct. Forza Horizon 4 will be available on game pass at launch.

Previous Forza games have not been added to the service. FH4 is the first Forza post the announcement of all first party titles debuting on game pass.

However Forza Apex , I believe is free to try and is basically a scaled down Forza Motorsport 6 with exclusive challenges. Forza Horizon 3 has a demo available.

If you're a fan of arcade racers you're doing yourself a huge disservice not checking out the Horizon series.

Caveat: I worked on the Motorsport series.
 

Freezard

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This is correct. Forza Horizon 4 will be available on game pass at launch.

Previous Forza games have not been added to the service. FH4 is the first Forza post the announcement of all first party titles debuting on game pass.

However Forza Apex , I believe is free to try and is basically a scaled down Forza Motorsport 6 with exclusive challenges. Forza Horizon 3 has a demo available.

If you're a fan of arcade racers you're doing yourself a huge disservice not checking out the Horizon series.

Caveat: I worked on the Motorsport series.
I recently discovered FH-series thanks to Xbox Gold which had the first game for free. I had missed games like NFS: Most Wanted and there Horizon had been all the time without me realizing it! Now I bought FH2/3 + all DLC as well as FM6/7. And with FH4 on the horizon, I have a lot of goodies to go through :)

Also been doing a two month Xbox Game Pass run and man, it's the greatest thing to come to gaming in a long time. So many games I played that I never knew existed or would never play otherwise. Unfortunately there's just a few Play Anywhere titles on there (Halo Wars 1 + 2 and Super Lucky's Tale are good ones though) but there's bound to be more in the future (Crackdown, Forza, Halo etc).

I just wish other game companies followed suit with game pass, especially Sony and Valve. On PC, Origin just doesn't have the game library to make me interested.
 

Tizoc

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OK gonna try out Fast mode in this Idle Master Extended thing.
I have about 20 cards left to be dropped, how often should I check to see the dropped cards?
 

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Ive got a question about decks and crafting cards in card games like Gwent, Hearthstone, Eternal etc.

What is a deck? What does it mean when on the left or right side is a column of cards which says like 49/50 cards?
Can I ever be empty of cards? What do I do then?

Ive never played card games before so this "deck" stuff is confusing me.

Are cards that are killed/detroyed in a match gone forever?
 

BlueOdin

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The first act was terrible but act 2 and 3 of Gears 4 were great so far. Also still baffling that active reload isn't in more games. Always feels satisfying.
 

Gevin

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Ive got a question about decks and crafting cards in card games like Gwent, Hearthstone, Eternal etc.

What is a deck? What does it mean when on the left or right side is a column of cards which says like 49/50 cards?
Can I ever be empty of cards? What do I do then?

Ive never played card games before so this "deck" stuff is confusing me.

Are cards that are killed/detroyed in a match gone forever?

I'm gonna try to answer, it looks like you are not very familiar with digital card games so let me know if I'm not clear enough on some stuff.

A deck is basically a limited collection of cards, which usually have some kind of restriction, i.e. can't repeat a certain card more than 2 times. Games have different approaches on what happens when you run out of cards. In Hearthstone, as an example, if you run out of cards you lose health every time you were supposed to draw a card, in increasing amounts. Other games shuffle your "graveyard" (basically the cards you've used and are not active in the field) as the deck and you keep playing with those cards.

Re. your last question, it depends on the game. Most games have a "revive" mechanic, or "take a card from your graveyard" and that enables you to play them again.
 

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Ive got a question about decks and crafting cards in card games like Gwent, Hearthstone, Eternal etc.

What is a deck? What does it mean when on the left or right side is a column of cards which says like 49/50 cards?
Can I ever be empty of cards? What do I do then?

Ive never played card games before so this "deck" stuff is confusing me.

Are cards that are killed/detroyed in a match gone forever?
The answers to these are going to vary a lot depending on each different one of them.

The deck is what you go into a match with. Think of it like a load out. You've picked a bunch of cards that, hopefully, work together well in a deck builder part of the game. The numeral is probably how many cards you have left and the denominator is how many cards total there were in your deck. There can be limits on how few or how many cards you can have, varies by game.

If you run out of cards you can either lose, have a penalty, or it might just reshuffle them and get them back. Depends on the game!

Cards are almost never going to be gone forever forever, that sounds like some awful free to play stuff (I've never seen it at least). It depends on the game, but there are times you can get stuff out of the discarded cards or reshuffle them, but then there can be cards that are only one use and then vanish the rest of the match.

There are norms, but the specifics are going to be way different depending on the game.

Which one are you playing?
 

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I'm gonna try to answer, it looks like you are not very familiar with digital card games so let me know if I'm not clear enough on some stuff.

A deck is basically a limited collection of cards, which usually have some kind of restriction, i.e. can't repeat a certain card more than 2 times. Games have different approaches on what happens when you run out of cards. In Hearthstone, as an example, if you run out of cards you lose health every time you were supposed to draw a card, in increasing amounts. Other games shuffle your "graveyard" (basically the cards you've used and are not active in the field) as the deck and you keep playing with those cards.

Re. your last question, it depends on the game. Most games have a "revive" mechanic, or "take a card from your graveyard" and that enables you to play them again.

Thanks. I see in the cards game Ive played there are multiple decks, what does that mean? Are the decks the cards you use when you play a match (online or offline/practice)?

The answers to these are going to vary a lot depending on each different one of them.

The deck is what you go into a match with. Think of it like a load out. You've picked a bunch of cards that, hopefully, work together well in a deck builder part of the game. The numeral is probably how many cards you have left and the denominator is how many cards total there were in your deck. There can be limits on how few or how many cards you can have, varies by game.

If you run out of cards you can either lose, have a penalty, or it might just reshuffle them and get them back. Depends on the game!

Cards are almost never going to be gone forever forever, that sounds like some awful free to play stuff (I've never seen it at least). It depends on the game, but there are times you can get stuff out of the discarded cards or reshuffle them, but then there can be cards that are only one use and then vanish the rest of the match.

There are norms, but the specifics are going to be way different depending on the game.

Which one are you playing?

Thx for the help.

Currently playing Gwent, TES Legends, Eternal and a small bit of Hearthstone.

I know that Gwent is the most different card game.

Im just afraid that if I play practice, story or online, the cards that dies/detroyed will be gone forever. If it's not like that, then that's great.

Is the cards that you are presented to you right before a match (when you can redraw cards) the cards that you will use through the entire match (or rounds in Gwent)?
 
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Digoman

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Anyone else play Q.U.B.E 2? I think I'm close to the end and I'm not really enjoying it, in fact think I liked the first game significantly more. In the first game I thought the crazy physics and speed run stuff kept things more interesting and fresh despite the frustrations that may come with those in puzzle solving, where as 2 is completely stripped of almost anything unique and exciting. Puzzles are extremely linear in the sense you have very limited input thanks to the few amount of white squares to place things on and only being able to have one of each of 3 blocks out at a time. This makes the puzzles either feel mindless to solve, or a slog when they're more complex. There's not much in-between and thus not much enjoyable about it.

While I wouldn't call it a bad game, I agree that Q.U.B.E. 2 was a major step down from the first one in terms of puzzles. As you said there is a lot limitations on the placement of pieces and in 90% of the cases you just have to find the right "combination" between the few spaces and pieces you have available. It gets a little better towards the end but it takes a *lot* longer then it should and then the game is over.

Slight late-game mechanics spoiler
Even when you unlock unlimited pieces they still don't "let loose" and placement is still somewhat restricted.

Everything is better then the first (presentation, graphics, physics engine, sound) but for most of the game you feel like on tutorial levels of other puzzles games. I don't want to get completely stuck, but also almost never have that "eureka!" moment isn't all that fun.

It's a shame since they do introduce some interesting tools, but never fully utilize them. A missed opportunity.
 

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So USB3.0 is faster than the HDD connected through SATA port?
I find this enclosure kit. Do you recommend me this brand?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-5...66&sr=8-1&keywords=hdd+enclosure+2.5+verbatim

It's a USB 3.0
Along with the aforementioned fact that spinning media is far from saturating either connection, I should point out that the polled nature of USB also means It uses more CPU time. It matters little in the context of normal PC usage, you won't ever notice it, but it does use more resources than SATA.
 

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Choosing to stay up and play more of The Witcher 3 was a bad idea. Now it's 1:30AM, I've finished the Hearts of Stone DLC and all I want to do is dive right into Blood & Wine.
 

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You don't need to create any folders. You just select the folder your SteamApps folder is sitting in (e.g. D:\Steam Games) and Steam will do the rest.

Thank you :)

USB3 is not faster than current sata but mechanical hard drives are way way slow enough that it doesn't matter.
I can't recommend you anything specifically, but typically Verbatim is a good brand so it's probably good.

Ok, I will stick with it since it has many positive review
Thank you :)

Along with the aforementioned fact that spinning media is far from saturating either connection, I should point out that the polled nature of USB also means It uses more CPU time. It matters little in the context of normal PC usage, you won't ever notice it, but it does use more resources than SATA.

Didn't know this. Thanks for the info :)
 
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