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My favorite little thing about XCOM 2 is the Codex's intro cutscenes and animations. It's so jumpy and flickery that it actually looks like a game glitch, which is an aesthetic I love.
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Also a good excuse to avoid having to do lip flaps for like the third game in a row. 
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Oct 3, 2016 02:44
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Just Offscreen posted:My favorite little thing in the new xcom series is scrolling around the bases and seeing your soldiers in relevant places- guys with nothing to do are in the barracks or bar, injured are in the medbay with visitors, and folks training are actually in the appropriate room.
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Oct 3, 2016 04:41
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dead rising 2 fashion souls is really fun in this game.  YOU KNOW ME THE FIGHTING FREAK
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Oct 3, 2016 06:11
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Action Tortoise posted:
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Oct 3, 2016 06:15
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CJacobs posted:
You know what to do
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Action Tortoise posted:dead rising 2 Me and a friend are co-oping this and we almost failed a case trying to find those dumb masks to wear but we can only find the attack ones. Also thanks to this topic, or was it the other one?, I managed to freak him out by making a light saber and pretend I just thought it up on a whim.
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Oct 3, 2016 07:52
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Oh my god at all the singing you can do in Earth Defense Force 4.1  Essentially you can give squad commands through a menu, or you can use it to sing a loving anthem that friendly NPC's around you will sing verse by verse. 4 verses, along with 4 player co-op meaning you're total able to sing the entire thing if you so choose and it's glorious.
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Oct 3, 2016 09:44
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Oh my god at all the singing you can do in Earth Defense Force 4.1 Anthems in question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJdj92N_d2I Also EDF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmgeAe0-EMo Feonir has a new favorite as of 11:25 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Oct 3, 2016 11:18
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One of the sidequests in Trails of Cold Steel has you helping a lady running a gelato stand find the owner of a hat they left behind. During the initial conversation, one of your party members idly asks for a lemon gelato only to be told off by the rest because they've got work to do. When you go back to turn the quest in, the lady treats you to free gelato as a reward; four vanilla and one lemon. (Food in Trails games are consumable healing/curing items) HOOLY BOOLY posted:Oh my god at all the singing you can do in Earth Defense Force 4.1 THE E-D-F DE-PLOYS! 
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Oct 3, 2016 11:42
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Broken weapons in games: Very early in the expansion's release, Diablo 3 included a one handed sword, the Shard of Hate, that would trigger small spells based on the element of the attack you used. Not insanely broken on its own, but the process rate was supremely messed up when paired with the Barbarian's Whirlwind - when you set it to lightning, the attack would trigger the proc an outrageous number of times a second, stacking lightning bolts on top of lightning bolts around you and causing wayyyyyy more damage than you should have been able to do otherwise. I found one early and just thought I was doing a good job until they fixed it and I started getting pasted again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onatsxjzHgc - best video I could find, sorry for the dumb title - the animation doesn't look like much but it's several spellcasts taking up the same graphic space and it was just hilarious to stumble upon firsthand.
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Oct 3, 2016 11:56
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Just Offscreen posted:My favorite little thing in the new xcom series is scrolling around the bases and seeing your soldiers in relevant places- guys with nothing to do are in the barracks or bar, injured are in the medbay with visitors, and folks training are actually in the appropriate room. I was happy about this until I had a really brutal mission, and found the only survivor at the bar with his head is his hands afterwards  then I just felt terrible
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Oct 3, 2016 12:24
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:This stuff is fun and all but XCOM2 is almost unplayable thanks to it's insane loadtimes and absurdly garbage optimization. It's a shame too cause there's a lot of little things in there, Firaxis just seems to have no clue how to make the game actually playable.
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Oct 3, 2016 16:03
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He's not wrong though. The game is optimized like poo poo and still suffers terrible loading times on a huge variety of rigs.
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Oct 3, 2016 16:16
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Terrible Opinions posted:What sort of stone age computer do you have? What are you on about, for a game with no console versions XCOM 2 is optimized like poo poo. I have a 970 and get frame rates of 30 or less on many missions with graphics on medium-high.
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Yeah, even if you have a good rig XCOM 2 is entirely hosed up for what it is. Digirat posted:What are you on about, for a game with no console versions XCOM 2 is optimized like poo poo. I have a 970 and get frame rates of 30 or less on many missions with graphics on medium-high. It has console versions now actually!
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Oct 3, 2016 16:20
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Yeah, as much as I love XCOM 2, it really does run like poo poo even on solid rigs. Not lovely enough to keep me from putting 100+ hours into it though. My favorite little thing about XCOM 2 is that with one of the expansions, you can become an extraterrestrial Buffalo Bill and wear the skins of certain bosses. As a side effect, if you come across a grunt while wearing the skin of their boss-type mob, it'll cause them to panic.
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Oct 3, 2016 17:49
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Terrible Opinions posted:What sort of stone age computer do you have? I upgraded my computer and XCOM, already running pretty rough, inexplicably got slower
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Oct 3, 2016 17:54
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Wintermutant posted:Yeah, as much as I love XCOM 2, it really does run like poo poo even on solid rigs. Not lovely enough to keep me from putting 100+ hours into it though. I was waiting for the dlc to get a discount. You have convinced me to not wait anymore. Dang. I will probably restart xcom2 again even if I was not doing badly in the last attempt
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Oct 3, 2016 19:53
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When does it come out for PS4?
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Oct 3, 2016 20:04
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Digirat posted:What are you on about, for a game with no console versions XCOM 2 is optimized like poo poo. I have a 970 and get frame rates of 30 or less on many missions with graphics on medium-high.
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Oct 3, 2016 20:07
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XCOM 2, while a good game, is terribly optimised. Certain combinations of hardware, even good hardware, cause it to choke the gently caress up and be lovely. Even Scott Manley (our illectro) had very noticeable framerate drops and dips and shittyness during his playthrough, and I doubt his system is a slouch.
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Oct 3, 2016 20:23
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bunnyofdoom posted:When does it come out for PS4? It's out now and pretty great, but the loading screens are both numerous and hideously long. Four separate, minute-long loading screens before you're even in the game proper.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:21
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Ah, so it's a PS4 game.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:42
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The best part about the optimization for XCOM 2 is that for whatever reason, hitting caps lock while in the loading screen after or before a mission (I forget which) will cause it to load instantly instead of having to wait another minute or so. Not sure if I ever found a decent explanation for why this happens.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:48
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:The best part about the optimization for XCOM 2 is that for whatever reason, hitting caps lock while in the loading screen after or before a mission (I forget which) will cause it to load instantly instead of having to wait another minute or so. Not sure if I ever found a decent explanation for why this happens. It's a hard coded dev feature to just load all assets simultaneously that people just weren't supposed to run into. Some computers load instantly, some have the same load times, and some crash out so hard they corrupt your save. X2 is lots of fun when it works but it's a hot loving mess and is making me hold off on Civ 6 till it's been out a bit.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:59
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:It's a hard coded dev feature to just load all assets simultaneously that people just weren't supposed to run into. Some computers load instantly, some have the same load times, and some crash out so hard they corrupt your save. X2 is lots of fun when it works but it's a hot loving mess and is making me hold off on Civ 6 till it's been out a bit. After civ BE you should be holding off on 6 anyway
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Oct 4, 2016 00:16
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2house2fly posted:Ah, so it's a PS4 game. What are you even talking about? I have like thirty PS4 games and the only one with really noticeable loading times is Battlefield 4. A couple take thirty seconds or so to launch initially but really, it's 2016, literally every console game is being loaded from a hard drive exactly the same as a PC game, you sound like a moron.
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Oct 4, 2016 03:58
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food court bailiff posted:What are you even talking about? I have like thirty PS4 games and the only one with really noticeable loading times is Battlefield 4. A couple take thirty seconds or so to launch initially but really, it's 2016, literally every console game is being loaded from a hard drive exactly the same as a PC game, you sound like a moron. Bloodborne even from the hdd takes ages to load. And it used to be much worse regarding that
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Fair enough. All I've really played on PS4 is Fallout 4, Doom, No Man's Sky and Metal Gear Solid 5, and seen some streams of Bloodborne. I assumed that since they're big tentpole games their loading times would be representative of games on the console in general, but I guess they're outliers. Edit: Oh and Arkham City, but the PC version of that was legendarily bad so it stands to reason the console version would be kind of crappy too
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Nah, those are just shittily optimized games. Really, architecture-wise, console games are loading exactly the same as PC games - from old HDDs. Nothing except the Wii U actually reads data from discs anymore at runtime.
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i remember Killzone: Shadow Fall having pretty awesome load times on the PS4, but Guerrilla are pretty great at optimizing their games in general.
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Oct 4, 2016 05:05
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2house2fly posted:Fair enough. All I've really played on PS4 is Fallout 4, Doom, No Man's Sky and Metal Gear Solid 5, and seen some streams of Bloodborne. I assumed that since they're big tentpole games their loading times would be representative of games on the console in general, but I guess they're outliers. Did you mean Arkham Knight? I don't remember Arkham City having nearly as many problems, but I think AK was only horribad on PC while consoles were more or less a-okay.
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Oct 4, 2016 05:36
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AK is a really weird example to use in the context of these complaints given the only loading screen it actually has is the initial start-up. Once you're in-game there's no more loading screens unless you die. : It was ridiculously well optimized for the hardware which is one of the, many, reasons WB needed to be crucified for how they handled the PC version.
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Tardcore posted:After civ BE you should be holding off on 6 anyway For what it's worth they're developed by largely different teams, VI is handled by the people who made the expansions for V and it's a much more promising-looking game than BE ever was. Of course it'll no doubt take time to get the biggest balance and AI issues fixed regardless.
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food court bailiff posted:Nah, those are just shittily optimized games. Really, architecture-wise, console games are loading exactly the same as PC games - from old HDDs. Nothing except the Wii U actually reads data from discs anymore at runtime. That explains why my brother's Xbox One "glitched out" and let me play a game on disc while I was holding the disc in my hands.
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Dr. Chainsaws PhD posted:That explains why my brother's Xbox One "glitched out" and let me play a game on disc while I was holding the disc in my hands. The game disc is basically a key that says "yes, I own this video game" that you put into your console to let you play it. PC games on disc nowadays straight-up just come with a pre-packaged Steam installer a lot of the time.
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CJacobs posted:PC games on disc nowadays straight-up just come with a pre-packaged Steam installer a lot of the time. And then there's Metal Gear Solid V, which just had a Steam installer on the disc and a key, forcing you to download the whole game, even if you bought a physical copy.
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food court bailiff posted:Nah, those are just shittily optimized games. Really, architecture-wise, console games are loading exactly the same as PC games - from old HDDs. Nothing except the Wii U actually reads data from discs anymore at runtime. Blu-Ray read-rates aren't exactly fantastic compared to those of DVD's (relatively speaking), so they just sidestepped the issue by installing to the internal HDD. Same reason you see PS3 games requiring install footprints while the X360 version of the same game will run right off the disc.
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poptart_fairy posted:AK is a really weird example to use in the context of these complaints given the only loading screen it actually has is the initial start-up. Once you're in-game there's no more loading screens unless you die. : Or unless you play challenge maps.
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