neat, but the lack of environmental destruction is really sticking out. felt that wallbanging should be an option at the very least
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PC Gaming ERA | December 2019 - A Monument To All Your Sins
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neat, but the lack of environmental destruction is really sticking out. felt that wallbanging should be an option at the very least
I'm one of those who never touched it and is waiting for the full thing. I hope it doesn't disappoint me, I will use it for my pre-Alyx HL1 playthrough.
Some really great posts by Teeth regarding FPS development and the issues from design standpoint from the HL2 physics topic. I quite like them (hope he is OK with me posting them here).
This looks brilliant.Don't sleep out on Horizon Chase Turbo, it has 4 player split screen, a free Easy Mode campaign for some relaxing driving as you also get to learn the stages and an outstanding soundtrack.
Did I mention it has beautiful scenery
Never would have thought of some of this. Thanks for posting.
I'm going to have to go back to Soldier of Fortune to remember how spongy the enemies were, because the GHOUL reaction system was amazing for Qauke2 based fps, amd I didn't really mind them taking tons of bullets to down
20,4% of all players got the achievement for completing basically the first mission in Red Dead 2, two days after it's release.
I'm really curious if that means people play more RDR Online or if a lot of people bought the game but didn't play it yet.
I'm really curious if that means people play more RDR Online or if a lot of people bought the game but didn't play it yet.
I got RDR2 for the XONE and touched RDR2 Online enough to realize it wasn't nearly as good as RDR1 online, so I dropped it. Between that and the huge controversy around currencies it turned me off for awhile. I've been thinking about looking into it again but I'm hesitant given R*'s track record with the economy in GTA5
How was Ashen as a Souls game? I see it's releasing in two days on Steam. I remember hearing good things and bad things about it when it released on EGS.
Apparently it was quite good at launch, but seemingly the online aspects broke shortly afterwards, and nobody bothered to fix it. This is second hand information though, so it might be different.
Looking at my glowing achievements on Steam is odd, sometimes I'm on the 15% that completed the tutorial in a semi popular game and other simple things like that. People like to add games to their library to play them some time in the distant future
Anyone?
Googling this is useless as the results are either people complaining about low download speeds, which is the opposite of what I'm looking for, or the Delivery optimization solution that does nothing on my end. Just to be sure I set both background and foreground limit to 5% and the Windows store still maxes out my bandwidth.
If that's not working, I don't think there's any other way to do it. You could try using software like NetLimiter to do it manually, but it's only got a free trial from what I gather.
Agreed, Horizon Chase Turbo is great. I played a lot of it on PS4 when it was free with Plus a few months ago. I love the art style which blends retro 90's with modern. It gets repetitive, so it's great for short sessions.Don't sleep out on Horizon Chase Turbo, it has 4 player split screen, a free Easy Mode campaign for some relaxing driving as you also get to learn the stages and an outstanding soundtrack.
Did I mention it has beautiful scenery?
Yeah, I was afraid of that. You'd think Microsoft had the resources to add a standard feature to their store.
That's the thing that is not working for me. It literally does nothing for windows store downloads even at the lowest setting.
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Oh sorry, that works for me, maybe there is some detail you overlook ...
It's possible Windows thinks I have a bigger bandwidth than I do since I have it pulled through USB from my phone. It's a bit of an awkward setup because I can't afford real internet.
Edit: Well that makes sense. According to the status tab for the "ethernet" connection W10 thinks my bandwidth is 453 Mbps. 5% of that, the lowest setting for delivery optimization, is more than twice my actual bandwidth.
Edit: Well that makes sense. According to the status tab for the "ethernet" connection W10 thinks my bandwidth is 453 Mbps. 5% of that, the lowest setting for delivery optimization, is more than twice my actual bandwidth.
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I hadn't either, I just redownloaded the galaxy 2 installer again and ran that and it updated my install to the new update
Happens sometimes if you have multiple tabs on the same thread open after writing a reply but before posting it.
few questions:
1) do I need a virus protection thing for my new computer (WIN10)? Or is windows 10 protected enough? Is it as protected as mac?
2) what's the best way to clean/maintain my physical tower? I want to make sure dust doesn't ruin the computer. I want to clean it every week
1) do I need a virus protection thing for my new computer (WIN10)? Or is windows 10 protected enough? Is it as protected as mac?
2) what's the best way to clean/maintain my physical tower? I want to make sure dust doesn't ruin the computer. I want to clean it every week
It's got a lot of similarities and a lot of differences. The core combat in Ashen, weapon swings, movement feel, etc, feels very souls like. Shields are less useful as enemies striking your shield will drain your stamina by like 70%, but the overall mechanics feel decent (though less refined).
World design is different in that it's more "open world/area". There's more open expanses for the most part, but there's enough structures laid out interestingly that it doesn't feel like a "go anywhere" open world game. Also, there's a dedicated jump button and some actually half-decent light platforming parts for secrets and shortcuts and whatnot that I felt added to the formula well. I guess think of it like splitting the difference between Dark Souls and something like Horizon.
As a souls game, it's very stripped back and newbie-friendly. Quests have waypoints, there's a map, and you constantly have a companion with you (either AI or Journey-style seamless drop in drop out). You can't specifically co-op with a friend, it's all passive online interaction. Due to the less refined combat, I will say that one or two of the encounters felt like they were designed for co-op and were brutally difficult in single player.
The biggest drawbacks to the game are entirely budgetary. You have to know going in that it's "indie souls" in both visuals and scope. There are probably 40 different weapons, but they are just very slight variations on the same 3 types (fast/small, medium/medium, heavy/strong). There are only 5 bosses in the game and probably only 10 enemies with a few being palette swaps. This lack of new fights/items/weapons has the knock-on effect of making exploration feel less rewarding and some people feel that really hurts the game. I was mostly okay with it.
That all said, aside from a really huge difficulty spike about 1/3 of the way in and a bit of a frustrating last boss, I thought it was 20ish hours very well spent, but I'm not a super discerning Souls player (ie- i think Dark Souls 2 is still really good). Your mileage may vary.
1) I haven't used anything other than the built in Windows Defender since Windows 7. Your biggest safeguard against bad stuff happening to your PC is not doing foolish things. Don't download stuff from sites you don't trust, don't open attachments from emails you don't already know what they are or where they came from. Don't file share with people you don't trust. Don't let people who don't know what they are doing use your computer.
2) The best way to clean a physical tower is to get a can of compressed air, shut down and unplug your tower completely, and follow a tutorial on youtube to blow the dust out of your computer (not just around inside of it). Hold fans steady as you blow compressed air on them so that they don't spin as that can send voltage back into parts and maybe cause issues.
I would also say, unless your house is absolutely filthy with dust and pet hair, you are probably more likely to end up doing more harm opening up and fiddling around in your tower once a week than you'll gain by having it that consistently clean. I would say that for most normal users, cleaning out your tower doesn't need to be done more than once a month. Most people don't even clean them out once a year (i do mine about once every 8ish months or whenever i get a new part).
If you want something that will actually increase the longevity of your Windows PC: shut it down when you're done with it for the night (or when you go to work or whatever). If you have the OS running on an SSD, it becomes a 10 second inconvenience, but it will probably prevent headaches in the long run. All the weird behaviour that Windows does over the years, for me (and for people I know who do shut their computer down regularly rather than leave it on or on standby indefinitely) completely disappeared once I started shutting it down every night.
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I think Blood has the steepest learning curve of all the Build engine shooters, especially since a number of your weapons can just as easily kill you, haha!
Super secret. Also lmao 2 of 6 secrets, but super secret.
I used to think I was good at boomer shooters, but man Blood is hard.
Absolutely. A lot of enemies have hit scan weapons as well that do insane damage on higher difficulties.
Why does my power button LED and RAM RGB (smh) stay on when I turn the PC off? They only turn off when I flick the switch off.
Checked the BIOS and put LGBs to stealth mode when off, and disabled USB power delivery in soft state but it didn't help.
Motherboard is Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard
Case is Phanteks Eclipse P400 ATX Mid Tower Case
RAM is G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4 3600MHz PC4-28800 CL18 RGB
Checked the BIOS and put LGBs to stealth mode when off, and disabled USB power delivery in soft state but it didn't help.
Motherboard is Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard
Case is Phanteks Eclipse P400 ATX Mid Tower Case
RAM is G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4 3600MHz PC4-28800 CL18 RGB
Honestly, I'm not. I turn it off via Windows, but it mightn't be fully shut off.
Although, when I boot it does boot as if its fully shut down.
Scanned the video for a bit. Jim makes comparisons to other political games. Don't think it's really comparable to other political games though, as the US won't ban Steam because of a Trump meme game. Whereas it may well be that Valve doesn't want to risk having Steam disabled entirely for everyone in China, since it's already in somewhat precarious/nebulous territory and operates outside of the usual game approval process -- from what I understand anyway.
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sooooooooooooo... you're saying that Valve IS appeasing to china then?
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