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PC Gaming ERA | October 2019 - No Truce With The Outer Worlds
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Nah expect it either this week if not next week, same as prior months :P
Gamesplanet has Deadfire cheap, and yet I looked at it and decided no, I won't play it if I buy it at the moment. I should wait. I should save my money for a while. There will be other, later opportunities.
Felt weird tbh.
Also, note that you don't have to play to the end date, and that losing everything and ending up as some shitty count is a good opportunity to learn how to hire someone with a cart full of manure and snakes to end your "liege" and his entire line.
It probably will help that with just the game and the old gods, you can only play as Christians and pagans. Islam and the Indian religions, and thus their rulers, aren't available without the DLCs. This is really, really not a problem in terms of content, as you will have a million options and it's not like you can't go and loot them for all their worth without playing as them yourself. Note: if you do get into it, some DLCs are considered worth picking up earlier than others, but mostly you want to grab the Rome one and then whatever topic you feel like expanding on.
Felt weird tbh.
It's one of those games where you pick it up by trying to have fun, and through osmosis. It really helps if you like watching youtubers - play a bit, in Ireland for a slow and boring start or anywhere that looks cool, then watch some random series where quill18 or whoever attempts to conquer India from Iceland, or just plays as someone who've never heard of. You'll pick up tips and figure out how to play gradually, suddenly something you had happen in your last game will make sense, or you'll realise what that video was on about.
Also, note that you don't have to play to the end date, and that losing everything and ending up as some shitty count is a good opportunity to learn how to hire someone with a cart full of manure and snakes to end your "liege" and his entire line.
It probably will help that with just the game and the old gods, you can only play as Christians and pagans. Islam and the Indian religions, and thus their rulers, aren't available without the DLCs. This is really, really not a problem in terms of content, as you will have a million options and it's not like you can't go and loot them for all their worth without playing as them yourself. Note: if you do get into it, some DLCs are considered worth picking up earlier than others, but mostly you want to grab the Rome one and then whatever topic you feel like expanding on.
Nope, Epic Launcher allows mods. They actually have a separate tab for mods on the store page.
It's kinda surreal seeing this tweet as I've just finished watching the last episode of Mr. Robot's season one lol
how incompetent can you be to leave an OOBM system unsecured jesus christ
That tab is not the mods tab you think for. It is just for mod tools for UE4 games. You need to manually install mods.
This. But by virtue of not being UWP, it should allow mods, that is if that particular game does not have an overbearing DRM implementation.
AC Odyssey is just too damn big. After playing it on and off since the end of last year I finally finished the main quest last weekend (or apparently one of three main quests).
I honestly more or less sticked with it because I'm really interested in the Atlantis DLC. But first I still have to finish four questlines that probably add another 5-10 hours to even get to that. By the time I have access to the DLC I'm probably getting sick of the uniform mission design. It's the reason it took me this long to finish this game in the first place.
One task was seriously a Rule of Three quest as part of a Rule of Three quest as part of a Rule of Four quest.
Origins was the better game. They really went overboard in Odyssey.
I honestly more or less sticked with it because I'm really interested in the Atlantis DLC. But first I still have to finish four questlines that probably add another 5-10 hours to even get to that. By the time I have access to the DLC I'm probably getting sick of the uniform mission design. It's the reason it took me this long to finish this game in the first place.
One task was seriously a Rule of Three quest as part of a Rule of Three quest as part of a Rule of Four quest.
Origins was the better game. They really went overboard in Odyssey.
3ish hours into Pillars of Eternity and considering just restarting. Playing on easy and the combat is a slog, not a fan of having to use up (very) limited items or walk all the way to an inn to heal, and my character is taking so much damage. Should've just went with a basic soldier class.
I've always disabled UAC out of habit ever since Vista but yeah, I'm thinking it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have it enabled these days.
However, I'm not very keen on having a prompt each time I want to open trivial apps such as foobar, Discord or any other application that requires administrative privileges for overlays and such. 🤷♂️
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I'm not a windows user so just wondering, why do those require admin permissions?
They don't require admin privileges per se, but they need need it for e.g. presenting overlays on top of a fullscreen app, or responding to keyboard input while playing in fullscreen.
First session was fun. I think, I'll stay awake for the rest of the night holding my plushy. @o@
I'm very thankful for the mechanic that an enemy vanishes to some extend, when it gets you. Unlike Penumbra, they are much faster than you are. If you see one from a distance, you might be able to hide and get past it, but if you run into one, it is nearly impossible to get away from it. I had to die my way out of an area twice by now already.
Especially the part with the invisible monster in the water was still quite frustrating.
Everything else is quite intense on its own, I think, I wouldn't be less scared, if there were no real monsters chasing you at all.
I read, the DLC has permadeath - no way in hell I'm going to get through that. o.O
I thought Origins was too big. The fact that people are saying Odyssey feels bigger is nuts to me. It's just too much! Especially when the side quests just aren't compelling at all. Now, if they were Witcher quality, that would be an instant purchase for me. But it's AC, so...nope.
Still waiting for them to take a risk and make a linear Uncharted-style AC game. That would be killer.
Bizarrely the only one that gives me the prompt is foobar. No idea why.
Best selling game of 2019 NBA2k20 is already 45% off at GMG?! It'll only get lower from here. No reason to buy day 1 unless you're a hardcore fan.
Last game I played that had a pretty tense atmosphere was Thief 2014. At least onse stage took place in an (abandoned) asylum and that place had me on edge until I finished it.
Their latest game, SOMA, is actually better in "Safe Mode" that does just that.
I think Frictional Games are a super talented bunch but I couldn't even get interested enough in Amnesia to beat it due to the frustrating monsters. It isn't scary to me, just extremely annoying. With SOMA I actually think the game is much scarier when you can see the monsters and not just slowly shuffle past while looking at a wall. SOMA has a superb oppressive atmosphere, great design and a cool story. It's so much easier to experience all of that in Safe Mode.
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I also want to point out, disabling UAC has other issues, such as UAC on helps redirect certain things to run out of your user folder, instead of system folders, where they could cause harm.
How much better is DOS2 than DOS1? I still have not beat the first Divinity OS. Started up a new game and enjoying it.
I heard almost everything so i skipped first game and started from DOS2:DE. (Also due no time for two so long game.) Motherfucking game in my top 5 game list. That game is a gift from the god!
Literally better in every conceivable way. It's a legit masterpiece of a game.
so my 1070 died and i'm gaming on a r9 280x...luckily i have some not so intense games to play on game pass like bloodstained, which is great so far.
destiny 2 chugs along, not ideal, but i can hold out until a good gpu deal. there was 5700 XT for $280 earlier today which is amazing but i need to get an nvidia for my gsync monitor
destiny 2 chugs along, not ideal, but i can hold out until a good gpu deal. there was 5700 XT for $280 earlier today which is amazing but i need to get an nvidia for my gsync monitor
Kinda late here but what class are you playing? Some (wizard, priest, druid mostly) start out slow but become extremely powerful by the mid-game. Until then you kind of need to keep them protected. Unfortunately sometimes people miss some of the early party members - who do you have?
I was playing a Chanter. I was extremely early on (I spent a lot of time on the character creator 😅), in Gilded Vale, exploring the ruins by the tree and getting owned. Anyways switched over to a Paladin now and combat seems waaaaaay easier.
Ah. That place is kind of an early difficulty trap. Paladins should be solid though because your fire attack crushes the ghosts.
Don't give up on Chanters, though. They're also kind of a later game class, though they shine in the early game too thanks to the phantom summon. It's kind of hard to notice sometimes, though.
Yeah, I wanted to try out something exotic, but I'll probably just stick with a more straightforward class while I try to learn the basics.
I could never get into pillars of eternity. I do not remember why but it was kinda the same thing with the next rpg they made, the evil one.
Every time I see people complain about a game being too big, I usually just shrug as I don't mind these large games, but I agree about Odyssey. I really liked the game, but it is too fucking big. It needed way more game play elements to justify its length, and even that probably wouldn't justify it. I really hope they tone it down for the next one, because Odyssey was a bit insane.
"Wow, so now ERA posters hate giveaways?"An EGS mystery game ... from an anonymous user?
What was the game? The mystery is solved already so you can tell.
I'll say tomorrow just in case the person wants to do it that way again.
My guess would be Michonne.
But maybe that's too easy and exactly what they are expecting us to think... hmmmm.
Edit: Speaking of that game I have another code for it laying around here somewhere. If there are still people out there that want it but do not own it by now, which seems unlikely!
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