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Psygnosis posted:I'm having trouble finding other plays to hack too Uplay servers have been struggling for the past hours. Probably gonna pick up later/tomorrow. I got loads of hits before the servers croaked.
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May 27, 2014 23:34
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Psygnosis posted:I'm having trouble finding other plays to hack too I managed to get one, but after that it either failed to find someone or failed to connect. Hopefully it'll be better by the end of the week, as the one I did get to do was tense as gently caress, and awesome (I made a daring boat getaway too  )
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May 27, 2014 23:38
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Zaphod42 posted:For those who were wondering how the final product compares to E3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDQem9-ghc4 I hate the light coronas on vehicles, makes more sense in a 2002 game using the halt-life 1 engine, these coronas clip with the ground and is ugly and unrealistic.
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May 27, 2014 23:42
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Having a lot more fun with this on day 2. Maybe the BS install/wait made me cranky last night. Somehow it even looks better? Why does the cut scene with your sister look like crap compared to all the other ones? Getting major eye strain from night driving/bad driving camera angles though. My 46" tv never felt so small.
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May 27, 2014 23:43
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If Aiden is walking through rain with his phone out he will occasionally wipe the raindrops off his phone screen. That's a nice touch.
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May 27, 2014 23:46
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Has anyone found any "potential crimes" to go all vigilante on that end up not having an actual crime take place? I've not (though I only got a few hours in before having to get some shut-eye before work), but every single "potential criminal" or "potential victim" invariably ended up getting into trouble. It'd be (more) interesting if some of these situations defused themselves, or if you being spotted caused a change in the behavior of the persons involved. Though if not all the "potential" crimes ended up warranting intervention, I can just imaging the  ing over "wasted time" or whatever.E: ^^^ quote:If it's raining..
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May 27, 2014 23:51
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Sef! posted:So far I've been enjoying the game. There's some wonkiness to it, but for the most part I don't feel like I wasted my money. Quick question for PS4 users: anybody able to get the Season Pass Day 1 content yet? I picked up the gold edition on PSN (game + season pass), and though it says that the season pass is installed, none of the weapons or costumes are available for me save for the PSN preorder stuff (white hat hacker, three-burst pistol). I'm not seeing the Untouchables Pack, or Blume outfit, or anything. I'm having the same issues. And the white hat outfit, besides being hideous, caused Aiden's sister's hand to vanish into his arm when she touched him during a cut scene.
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May 27, 2014 23:53
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Zaphod42 posted:For those who were wondering how the final product compares to E3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDQem9-ghc4 Haha this is so funny because it honestly looks like the E3 video would be "xbox one" compared to the current release being "xbox 360". But nope! Man this game sure is next gen! 
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May 27, 2014 23:55
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DopeGhoti posted:..then the phone should just die. In the future, everyone has a Sony Xperia Z (TM).
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May 27, 2014 23:57
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Just a heads up, the new AMD beta drivers improved my performance immensely.
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May 28, 2014 00:00
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Anhone seen hacking scene where you see the Fedora Appreciation Chairman? Only thing I'm not really enjoying is the convoy missions where you have to disable and not kill the targets. It is such a pain as it's very easy to kill them and often they have so many allies the second you get out the car to takedown 8 other guys get out too.
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May 28, 2014 00:01
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Is anyone else still getting "Ubisoft service is not available" whenever they try to do any of the multiplayer stuff on PC?
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May 28, 2014 00:07
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SplitSoul posted:Just a heads up, the new AMD beta drivers improved my performance immensely. Yeah, I didn't realise they were already out when I did all my initial fiddling on my HD7950. The beta drivers themselves seemed to sort out the major stuttering, and switching down to High textures (even though I have 3GB on the card) made everything pretty much silky smooth on Ultra detail.
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May 28, 2014 00:08
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I can't get enough of the loving vehicle explosions in this game. There's a lot about this game that I don't particularly care for, but man, when vehicles explode, it looks downright spectacular. On Ultra settings, at least. I want all games in the future to have explosions that look this good. Also, going through the courtyard of a project block and hacking the thug guards' phones to distract them is loving hilarious. "Who the gently caress bought this jank poo poo?" Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 00:10 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 00:08
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7pm EST and still locked for me in Origin.Tracula posted:Have you tried talking to customer support yet? ---------------- Kleen_TheRacistDog fucked around with this message at 00:11 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 00:08
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Finally got to play this after work and my initial feelings are somewhat mixed. I think I have a pretty good rig (GTX 780, i7-4770K)but I'm getting weird frame jumps really often. Turning vsync to 1 helped, buffered frames are on 2 at the moment. Settings autodetect to ultra, but I have turned most of them down a bit. Mouse input sucks poo poo. I'd love dynamic shadows, but the might mess up the performance evn more. Hopefully some things will be fixed at some point. Driving feels surprisingly ok to me, I'd say it's better than GTA IV (haven't played V, wating for PC port). Strange mix of realistic and arcade-y, turning at high speeds takes some getting used to, but seems to be manageable. Most vehicles I tried tend to launch themselves into a turn really hard when starting from standstill which is strange. After a couple of police chases I have gotten quite used to the whole driving experience. The "radio" is terrible. Haven't heard a single decent tune yet. The story hasn't managed to grab me yet. I like the amount of detail in the gameworld though. Lots of conversations, small touches. poo poo flying around in the wind is cool. Despite the graphical downgrade, it looks pretty nice on the whole. Rain in the nighttime is amazing. One step closer to open world Blade Runner. Hopefully I'll be able to fix the performance strangeness somehow, I feel like this is a game that will grow on me over time instead of being amazing right out of the gate. At least I don't regret my purchase yet.
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May 28, 2014 00:09
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:7pm EST and still locked for me in Origin. Have you tried talking to customer support yet?
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May 28, 2014 00:10
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I can't get enough of the loving vehicle explosions in this game. There's a lot about this game that I don't particularly care for, but man, when vehicles explode, it looks downright spectacular. On Ultra settings, at least. Yea the last traffic jam I caused to get away from the cops resulted in like five cars blowing up while I skidded to a stop to bask in the glory. It was pretty great. But yea that just leads to me agreeing with people saying that moreso than most games this has a really weird split in tone where one minute I'm all 'I GOTTA AVENGE MY NIECE VIOLENCE IS HORRIBLE IN THIS CITY" and the next I'm causing a ten car pileup because the cops pretty justifiably want to chase me down after I shot up a bunch of guys. At least in GTA/Saints Row games there's an aspect of 'yea but you're a criminal' but when I'm supposed to be the morally gray hero and I'm blowing up a car that I literally can check belongs to a dude who's defining trait is 'Soup kitchen volunteer' I don't know how I'm not the douchebag in that conflict.
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May 28, 2014 00:14
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Tatum Girlparts posted:But yea that just leads to me agreeing with people saying that moreso than most games this has a really weird split in tone where one minute I'm all 'I GOTTA AVENGE MY NIECE VIOLENCE IS HORRIBLE IN THIS CITY" and the next I'm causing a ten car pileup because the cops pretty justifiably want to chase me down after I shot up a bunch of guys. At least in GTA/Saints Row games there's an aspect of 'yea but you're a criminal' but when I'm supposed to be the morally gray hero and I'm blowing up a car that I literally can check belongs to a dude who's defining trait is 'Soup kitchen volunteer' I don't know how I'm not the douchebag in that conflict. That split is present in most action movies as well, so personally I can live with it very well. I just imagine that they all survive like bystanders in movies.  (Except Fixers. Fixers get headshots.)
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May 28, 2014 00:16
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DopeGhoti posted:Has anyone found any "potential crimes" to go all vigilante on that end up not having an actual crime take place? I've not (though I only got a few hours in before having to get some shut-eye before work), but every single "potential criminal" or "potential victim" invariably ended up getting into trouble. And despite the numerous issues, there's really nothing like jumping from camera to camera and landing in a camera that a guard is carrying around, only to see the camera stop moving and slowly realize that the figure off in the distance isn't another guard, it's you. And the guard you're riding just spotted you and called for backup.
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May 28, 2014 00:19
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Definitely turn Pre rendered frames to 1, and consider turning Vsync down to 1 frame. Doing this let me max out the game at 1080p besides textures (high) on a 7870 and i5 3570k. I still get some stuttering while driving, but that seems like a loading issue, not graphical setting issue.
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May 28, 2014 00:20
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Zaphod42 posted:I guess you don't play that many PC games; almost all PC games released in the last year or two have borderless fullscreen as an option to get around how Windows badly handles fullscreen context switching. FPS games have had it for like 4 years, but they're always on the cutting edge. It shows up in even RTS games now though. It's possible I just haven't noticed it but aside from FPSes which I'm not a huge fan of, I've played most modern AAA titles/etc and I play primarily on PC. I guess I have 16 GB of RAM (I run VMs on this machine sometimes) so maybe I've just avoided it, but my first point was that this was the first time I've ever heard of it. Literally this thread, today, first time I've ever heard of borderless windowed mode being a benefit. Edit: to be clearer, I mean that I've never heard of it making the game run more efficiently, just obviously that alt-tabbing is awful depending on the game, but I always chalked that up to individual game programming or directX rather than an underlying windows problem. Falcon2001 fucked around with this message at 00:34 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 00:28
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Zaphod42 posted:snip I don't think having more than 8 gigs of ram is 'retarded amounts' considering a) how cheap ram is and b) how much people multitask these days but shine on you crazy diamond. PS: seriously listening to this guy is a pretty bad idea.
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May 28, 2014 00:33
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Maybe I've just been spoiled by GTA5 and Saints 4, but this game is hard as gently caress. I feel like I should maybe follow the campaign a bit before I do side missions, because im getting my rear end kicked during stuff like convoys and police escapes. Pretty fun though, no performance issues yet on my 780.
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May 28, 2014 00:42
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This game's story missions really took the low road when it came to writing. It's not bad, but it doesn't take any risks.
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May 28, 2014 00:43
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Speedball posted:This game's story missions really took the low road when it came to writing. It's not bad, but it doesn't take any risks. I'm sort of feeling this about the game in general. It really feels like it wants to say something about the CIA and 24/7 surveillance with big brother always watching but it really doesn't seem to be there as a whole lot more than a gameplay mechanic.
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May 28, 2014 00:45
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I have some questions about the graphics settings. I followed the suggestions on NVidia's page and it looks great, however I always want to turn on VSync (it's a weird thing like OCD or something I dunno) but I don't know what the settings mean in this game. I'm not used to having multiple options for VSync since it's usually On/Off and sometimes Triple Buffered. What setting for Vsync is good when I'm sitting at around 50fps consistently? Also, has anyone on PC messed around with the xml file in the "...\My Games\Watch_Dogs" folder? I'm changing some of the settings around (including changing console to pc  ) and I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing or changing. I did notice that changing "RenderRain" from 0 to 1 made the rain way thicker and better looking, or maybe I'm just seeing things. Either way, I'm curious as to what, if anything, is locked away in this file that you can't change from the menus in game.
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May 28, 2014 00:46
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JayJay posted:Maybe I've just been spoiled by GTA5 and Saints 4, but this game is hard as gently caress. I feel like I should maybe follow the campaign a bit before I do side missions, because im getting my rear end kicked during stuff like convoys and police escapes. Pretty fun though, no performance issues yet on my 780. Yeah same here with the convoys, police escapes are simple when you unlock some more hacking skills, but those convoys goddamn.
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May 28, 2014 00:50
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Man if you want to laugh, just hang out near a traffic light and change it when things get busy. There's like a 50% chance you'll start a hilarious chain reaction explosion, complete with flying bodies and people getting decked by fleeing box trucks.
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May 28, 2014 00:55
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I'm experiencing two oddities, one minor graphical and one kinda serious gameplay. The first is graphical, every now and then a wall texture will appear somewhere. Sometime it's down the street a bit, sometimes it's right in front of me. It blocks my vision but otherwise doesn't seem to exist in the game world at all. If I move it usually disappears. Running on High settings with water reflections set to Ultra. Anyone else? Any ideas? The second is that my ctos centers have no guards. I can hack the gates and walk right in like it's nothing. I can stroll right up to the server room. But since there are no guards, there is no code, and I can't take control of the district's ctos.
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May 28, 2014 00:57
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Alright so I'm having a bit of a weird issue. I should preface this by saying that my PC isn't great, but it does more than meet the MINIMUM requirements for the game (and therefore I'm running on all low) (and yes, I'm on AMD, and haven't tried the new drivers yet which I most likely will in a moment, but just in case I thought I'd ask.) Last night I was getting frequent crashes, I set it to Borderless, and the crashes slowed, but the issue is HOW it's crashing. It's actually killing the display to both of my monitors, as in, the PC will be on, the monitors will be on, but both monitors will display "No Signal". The first crashes would restore both monitors, but the one with the game would be all black and I'd have to force quit. The second set of crashes would kill the monitors, bring them back up, and then Watch Dogs would "program not respond", just now, however, it killed both monitors and after about 2 minutes neither of them came back. And with no conceivable way to kill the program, or restart the monitors (powering on and off did nothing), I had to soft reset the PC. Is my PC just not up to handling this? A friend suggested it might be some form of overheat, but without a BSOD. Should I definitely try the new drivers? Anything else?
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May 28, 2014 00:59
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http://www.gamespot.com/videos/watch-dogs-how-to-launch-cars/2300-6418975/
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May 28, 2014 01:00
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Sooo... how do I get the pre-order bonuses? There was one code for a mission in the box. Do I have to buy them from a shop? Edit: Nevermind, I'm an idiot. SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 01:00
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Playing this on the Xbone and i'm enjoying just doing all the random poo poo that comes up. The online modes, at least from the one attempted i tried at them don't really work i tried to do the capture the flag type thing and it sat there on a loading screen while i was able to hear everybody in voice chat. I just want to invade people already 
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May 28, 2014 01:00
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Consider this if you will: - The game is set in the near future - Aiden Pearce (or whatever it's spelled) is 39 years old Conclusion: Aiden is a goon (THE goon) Bobtista posted:It is. Most cars handle like blocks of ice at anything above average speed. Suspicious Dish posted:This owns, because it makes all of you look like babies for complaining about it. Spiky Ooze posted:Is there no cruise control for driving? Saints Row has that and it's one of the best things. cheesetriangles posted:Mouse + Keyboard is the only way to play this game. WraithMind posted:The main character isn't nerdy or anything, he's the generic gravely-voiced fit straight twenty something year old white guy that make up 90% of video game protagonists.
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May 28, 2014 01:08
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ugh, I can't stand how he's not getting mad about every little thing. STOP HAVING FUN PEOPLE.
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May 28, 2014 01:11
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Lollerich posted:Consider this if you will: Honestly I think this game has one of the few examples of using memes correctly in a video game. I'm sure that a 39 year old hacker would change a road sign to say "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" or something, since it does happen in real life to those construction signs. It's kind of charming in an incredibly dumb sort of way. Edit: To be honest I'm surprised there's not an ASCII dick on any of those.
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May 28, 2014 01:11
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I feel like Alone is a weird side proof of concept for The Division. Hey guys, how lovely and desolate-feeling can we make this city without changing any of its actual architecture. Did a pretty good job of it too.
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I kind of with they had upped the sci-fi elements a bit and made the world more Blade Runner-esq. It would have given everything a bit more personality that I think the game could use.
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