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ufarn
May 30, 2009
Anyone here well-versed in FOV settings? League of Rockets was my first PS4 game to include FOV settings, and I can't recall what my 1024x768 is supposed to be set to. The default is 90, but something feels off about the way the game plays.

Neo Rasa posted:

Do PS4 Witcher 3 players feel cool with the story/characters? Like should Witcher 2 be played first?
I'd just read the Kotaku recap article.

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Empress Brosephine
Mar 31, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Neo Rasa posted:

Do PS4 Witcher 3 players feel cool with the story/characters? Like should Witcher 2 be played first?

I have no idea what the gently caress is going on in the game, and apparently the little girl at the tutorial is someone extremely loving important but the game makes nilch of a mention as to who she is or why.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




^^^^
She doesn't appear in the games until 3. Only the dweebs who still read books have a clue about her or Yennifer. Geralt overcame amnesia at the end of 2. other than a quick primer on politics from the kotaku article I don't think you need to know much else to have fun. you can always go back for deeper understanding later.

Neo Rasa posted:

Do PS4 Witcher 3 players feel cool with the story/characters? Like should Witcher 2 be played first?

witcher 2 choices have an effect and many references will be clearer if you play it but that's a lot of witcher to go through all at once. I only played 2 because it was given to me by microsoft. trip report: it can be quite frustrating to play .

Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 21:30 on May 19, 2015

Harlock
Jan 15, 2006

Tap "A" to drink!!!

Always set FOV to max, hth

Neo Rasa
Mar 8, 2007
Everyone should play DUKE games.

:dukedog:
How is there not a PC thread for this? If there is why is this happening?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Real hurthling! posted:

because pc gamers would cross post in both to maximize their chances of getting a hot tip to make tress fx work at 60fps

Have you ever played a PC game?

Herr Direktor
Mar 19, 2006

Steve2911 posted:

Have you ever played a PC game?

I tried, couldn't get it to work.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
There is a ridiculous sale on PS4 this week. It's all bundle crap but in there is Alien:Isolation plus all extra content for $36 USD. My wallet :smith:

Empress Brosephine
Mar 31, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Real hurthling! posted:

^^^^
She doesn't appear in the games until 3. Only the dweebs who still read books have a clue about her or Yennifer. Geralt overcame amnesia at the end of 2. other than a quick primer on politics from the kotaku article I don't think you need to know much else to have fun. you can always go back for deeper understanding later.




how does the governor of nilfguard or whatever know Jerry or whatever the main dudes name is i got super confused by that

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓𒁉𒋫 𒆷𒁀𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 𒁮𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


Are we allowed to start a witcher console thread? That would be super.

Harlock
Jan 15, 2006

Tap "A" to drink!!!

Be the change you want to see in the world

Pleads
Jun 9, 2005

pew pew pew


bloodychill posted:

There is a ridiculous sale on PS4 this week. It's all bundle crap but in there is Alien:Isolation plus all extra content for $36 USD. My wallet :smith:

Oh drat, BF4 Premium finally on sale :woop::woop:

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓𒁉𒋫 𒆷𒁀𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 𒁮𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


On the Xbox shark tank thread they were always telling one guy to start a ps4 sharktank thread and now I'm afraid I'll get banned for starting a thread or something.

Plus I'm working until 9:30 pacific.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

Reverse Centaur posted:

On the Xbox shark tank thread they were always telling one guy to start a ps4 sharktank thread and now I'm afraid I'll get banned for starting a thread or something.

Plus I'm working until 9:30 pacific.

There is nothing to stop you from posting any thread except your own fear of failure.

Donovan Trip
Jan 6, 2007

Reverse Centaur posted:

On the Xbox shark tank thread they were always telling one guy to start a ps4 sharktank thread and now I'm afraid I'll get banned for starting a thread or something.

Plus I'm working until 9:30 pacific.

As someone who has made a few OPs the hardest part is expectations of the posters in it. Just ignore people complaining, add to the OP what you think is important and the rest happens organically.

At least its not a mp game, those take the most work.

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓𒁉𒋫 𒆷𒁀𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 𒁮𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


bloodychill posted:

There is nothing to stop you from posting any thread except your own fear of failure.

And the working thing. I'm meeting with cops any minute now, I'm sure they won't mind if I tell them to wait while I finish making a forums thread for a fantasy video game.

Neo Rasa
Mar 8, 2007
Everyone should play DUKE games.

:dukedog:

Reverse Centaur posted:

And the working thing. I'm meeting with cops any minute now, I'm sure they won't mind if I tell them to wait while I finish making a forums thread for a fantasy video game.

You miss 100% of the threads you don't post.

Herr Direktor
Mar 19, 2006
Just copy paste the other OP and give credit and link to the original thread for PC players who get lost.

Squatch Ambassador
Nov 12, 2008

What? Never seen a shaved Squatch before?

ufarn posted:

Anyone here well-versed in FOV settings? League of Rockets was my first PS4 game to include FOV settings, and I can't recall what my 1024x768 is supposed to be set to. The default is 90, but something feels off about the way the game plays.

I'd just read the Kotaku recap article.

There is no direct relationship between Field Of View and your resolution. Generally you want a higher FOV the closer you are to the display, just like you can see a greater area through a window the closer you stand to it. This is why you often see PC gamers complaining about a console port being locked at 90 FOV, since they're usually sitting right in front of a monitor.

It's largely a matter of preference, but having a higher FOV gives you an advantage in games as you can see more of the area, at the cost of performance. But really,

Harlock posted:

Always set FOV to max, hth

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

I_Socom posted:

I just want a new SSX game. SSX 2012 owned, the soundtrack was great and there were lots of 10 minute runs for just cruising around.

Yeah I would love a new SSX. The last one was really well done, I'd actually play it some more now but I don't want to bother hooking up my 360.

They put out a few lovely SSX games between SSX3 and that last one, but that last one was just like 3 but better. And had great social features.

ufarn posted:

Anyone here well-versed in FOV settings? League of Rockets was my first PS4 game to include FOV settings, and I can't recall what my 1024x768 is supposed to be set to. The default is 90, but something feels off about the way the game plays.

It has more to do with how far away from your TV your sit, not anything to do with resolution.

If you're up close like a pc monitor then you want it super high, like almost 180.
If you're sitting in a football field watching a jumbotron that's 100 feet away, then you want it down to like 45.
Etc.

90 is fine for most couch warriors.

Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 22:05 on May 19, 2015

grrarg
Feb 14, 2011

Don't lose your head over it.
So uh the new free Witcher 3 theme today sure is something. Don't download the Witcher 3 - Monsters theme unless you are comfortable seeing saggy undead boobs every time you need to check your friends list or whatever.

timeandtide
Nov 29, 2007

This space is reserved for future considerations.
I'm getting a vaguely Morrowindish feel from Witcher 3, in that the world actually feels dangerous and mysterious instead of cookie cutter and guided.

The side quests seem to be a good job of conveying extra things about the world, too: instead of NPCs just telling you how the war is bad and makes people sad, you can go on a quest to find a guy's MIA brother, which has you wandering through a massive field of corpses and broken siege weapons, picking over dead bodies.

Harlock
Jan 15, 2006

Tap "A" to drink!!!

Witcher 3 really is stuffed. World map and stickers. gg Cd Project

Herr Direktor
Mar 19, 2006
Is the world in witcher actually connected or is it like dragon age inquisition with a bunch of large areas? If I ride far enough west will I reach the western area or will I just see a sign post or some poo poo.

Empress Brosephine
Mar 31, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Herr Direktor posted:

Is the world in witcher actually connected or is it like dragon age inquisition with a bunch of large areas? If I ride far enough west will I reach the western area or will I just see a sign post or some poo poo.

The prologue was like DA:I, I just got into the next area so i'm not sure but i'm going to wager a guess and say it's not actually connected.

grrarg
Feb 14, 2011

Don't lose your head over it.

Herr Direktor posted:

Is the world in witcher actually connected or is it like dragon age inquisition with a bunch of large areas? If I ride far enough west will I reach the western area or will I just see a sign post or some poo poo.
It is zones like in DA:I, but it looks like they are much bigger, better designed, and with more things to do than a DA:I zone.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Aren't they like the zones in stalker where they are meant to be next to one another but with bottlenecks, unlike in DAI where there are hundreds of miles between zones that have no relation to one another?

Abu Dave posted:

how does the governor of nilfguard or whatever know Jerry or whatever the main dudes name is i got super confused by that

at the end of two it turns out that he's the one behind assassinating the kings of the land he is invading in 3. Geralt, was the personal body guard of one of those kings. also geralt was banging lots of important sorceresses that were part of the secret society that helped plan the hit and as a witcher has traveled south a bunch of times slaying monsters and wild hunting so he's been in nilfgaard before.

Again, geralt had amnesia. you not knowing where you know the emperor from is probably more interesting and appropriate than having played 2 and way way cooler than having read a fantasy soft core porn novel.

Mister Chompers
Sep 11, 2011

bloodychill posted:

There is a ridiculous sale on PS4 this week. It's all bundle crap but in there is Alien:Isolation plus all extra content for $36 USD. My wallet :smith:

drat that's a lot of DLC for games I really enjoyed, hopefully some of it's actually good.

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


Dr Sun Try posted:

http://ds4windows.com/
The DS4 gets recognized as a generic gamepad; you need a wrapper (like ds4windows) so that games will recognize it as a XBox360 pad and to get the touchpad to work.

This is the consensus Good One. Without it you still have DirectInput, but that leaves a lot out and a ton of games will only listen to Xinput pads, so it's still somewhere between necessary and simply useful.

Dr Sun Try posted:

https://inputmapper.com/
is another popular one, but I'm used to DS4windows and had no reason to upgrade in months

This is the one that proves no one learned poo poo from MotionInJoy.

Pleads
Jun 9, 2005

pew pew pew


Nom Nom Galaxy is a fun little game, dang.

Verisimilidude
Dec 20, 2006

Strike quick and hurry at him,
not caring to hit or miss.
So that you dishonor him before the judges



So I got a PS4 recently and I've noticed that the wifi on the system is incredibly slow. I'm showing about 30 mbps with speed test, but my PS4 is running at around 6 or 7, with downloads running at maybe 0.5 or even less per second. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

plug it in

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


Verisimilidude posted:

So I got a PS4 recently and I've noticed that the wifi on the system is incredibly slow. I'm showing about 30 mbps with speed test, but my PS4 is running at around 6 or 7, with downloads running at maybe 0.5 or even less per second. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Wire it up.

Like, even if it's to an Ethernet Wi-Fi Adapter (these are a thing). They did the 'stick the Wi-Fi and the Bluetooth on the same chip' thing they did with the PS3 all over again, with similar results.

Verisimilidude
Dec 20, 2006

Strike quick and hurry at him,
not caring to hit or miss.
So that you dishonor him before the judges



Does anyone have a solution other than wiring it up? My living room looks nice without wires running along the edge of the wall.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Verisimilidude posted:

Does anyone have a solution other than wiring it up? My living room looks nice without wires running along the edge of the wall.

get a powerline adapter or whatever its called that sends wifi signals through your walls. or take the like 10 minutes to get a cord that matches your wall and staple it to the base board or tuck it under the carpet edge or whatever.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Verisimilidude posted:

So I got a PS4 recently and I've noticed that the wifi on the system is incredibly slow. I'm showing about 30 mbps with speed test, but my PS4 is running at around 6 or 7, with downloads running at maybe 0.5 or even less per second. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Move somewhere with less population density.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

seriously though just wire it

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
Because someone mentioned it, here is an example of one of those WIFI ethernet adapters. It looks like this one got decent enough reviews. I have never used one personally but it seems like it'll probably do a better job than the PS4's crappy wifi/bluetooth situation.

Artless Meat
Apr 7, 2008



bloodychill posted:

Because someone mentioned it, here is an example of one of those WIFI ethernet adapters. It looks like this one got decent enough reviews. I have never used one personally but it seems like it'll probably do a better job than the PS4's crappy wifi/bluetooth situation.

You could get power line adapters for that price which would probably work better. I got some and everything is better!

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homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Verisimilidude posted:

Does anyone have a solution other than wiring it up? My living room looks nice without wires running along the edge of the wall.
Sometimes sacrifices need to be made in the name of gaming.

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