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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Yeah I was expecting major jank and mediocre graphics but it's beautiful and slick and fun. Only question now is if I want it digital or not. I'm skeptic because it looks like The Division in a jungle. Or is it thrid person old school Ghost Recon's "go gently caress those dudes up over there while your bro covers you from the other side?"
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seiferguy posted:I was about to ask a question on replacing the hard drive and if there's an easy way to transfer my stuff, but it looks like I won't have to Just so you know, you can back it all up to an external and then load it back on. Interested to see any load time hits with an external.
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Beastie posted:I'm skeptic because it looks like The Division in a jungle. Or is it thrid person old school Ghost Recon's "go gently caress those dudes up over there while your bro covers you from the other side?" I really, really don't like the Division but had lots of fun with this. Taking out several enemies together adds that Ghost Recon feeling that I thought would be non-existent. One shot kills help a lot. Was in a party with blackguy32 and another guy from the start though, not sure how it is by yourself. Flying is weird, like it'll just suddenly stop listening to your directions and you can't do poo poo. I almost don't want to play the beta anymore so I can just experience everything for the first time in the full game. But if that's just one zone then the full game is gonna take hundreds of hours?!
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Beastie posted:I'm skeptic because it looks like The Division in a jungle. Or is it thrid person old school Ghost Recon's "go gently caress those dudes up over there while your bro covers you from the other side?" Yeah my big question since I didn't get into the beta yet is: does it play like an actual shooter or like whatever the gently caress Division is?
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Bombadilillo posted:Just so you know, you can back it all up to an external and then load it back on. Interested to see any load time hits with an external. At least with my bone, load times are significantly faster. Does anyone know how fast the default ps4 pro hdd is?
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Feb 3, 2017 17:35
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Captain Yossarian posted:At least with my bone, load times are significantly faster. Does anyone know how fast the default ps4 pro hdd is? The stock drive is 5400 RPM. In all likelihood, speeds will be identical or too close to make a difference, for equivalent drives, so if you get an external SSD it'll be the same speed as an SSD installed internally. The Xbox One has some sort of bandwidth issue on its internal interface which the PS4 doesn't have, so externals run better on that.
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Feb 3, 2017 17:38
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univbee posted:The stock drive is 5400 RPM. In all likelihood, speeds will be identical or too close to make a difference, for equivalent drives, so if you get an external SSD it'll be the same speed as an SSD installed internally. The Xbox One has some sort of bandwidth issue on its internal interface which the PS4 doesn't have, so externals run better on that. What about a 7200rpm external? I guess digital foundry will put out an excruciatingly detailed video about it soon lol
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Feb 3, 2017 17:50
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My little brother and I used to play some much of the OG Ghost Recon on Ps2. Every Saturday morning was us getting up and playing split screen as we crouched our way through piles and piles of Russian separatists. I want that.
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Beastie posted:My little brother and I used to play some much of the OG Ghost Recon on Ps2. Every Saturday morning was us getting up and playing split screen as we crouched our way through piles and piles of Russian separatists. You could definitely play like that if you wanted. "Too deep" is still a well used inside joke between my brother and I, who was like 10 years old when those original games came out and is now a federal agent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNJar6LCRI
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Captain Yossarian posted:At least with my bone, load times are significantly faster. Does anyone know how fast the default ps4 pro hdd is? PS4 pro is SATA III iirc which I'd like 20% faster than USB 3.0 at max rate. Performance can vary though.
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exploded mummy posted:PS4 pro is SATA III iirc which I'd like 20% faster than USB 3.0 at max rate. I don't think any drive out there saturates SATA III. Downloading the Beta Firmware now to test if externals work on any console (with the beta installed, of course).
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Feb 3, 2017 18:03
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Crazy people in here talking about buying Ubi games at launch. Trick with Ubisoft multiplayer games is to play the gently caress out of the beta and then buy the game later at a discount if it catches on. General multiplayer game truism: Beta memories = best memories.
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Feb 3, 2017 18:13
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Crazy people in here talking about buying Ubi games at launch. I picked up Rainbow Six and Steep at launch and regret nothing.
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Beastie posted:My little brother and I used to play some much of the OG Ghost Recon on Ps2. Every Saturday morning was us getting up and playing split screen as we crouched our way through piles and piles of Russian separatists. I dont think it's split screen. But it is solid. There seems to be a lot of customization options for the game with regards to your guns and character. The game is a bit easy, but it is just the first area. But I like it because it's all one instance. 3 of you can be doing a mission, while the other is just loving around on the other side of the map if you want.
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Feb 3, 2017 18:41
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Beastie posted:I picked up Rainbow Six and Steep at launch and regret nothing. I can't even remember what game gave Ubisoft a "don't buy at launch" reputation to Quantum of Phallus. There's been the famous graphical downgrades (no longer done) but launch issues...? Ubi's been my fav developer lately.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I can't even remember what game gave Ubisoft a "don't buy at launch" reputation to Quantum of Phallus. There's been the famous graphical downgrades (no longer done) but launch issues...? The Division had a few problems at launch and the end game was atrocious. But they have been supporting the hell out of that game. Watch Dogs 1 sucked. But overall, I think they have been a very solid and consistent developer. I love more of their stuff than I hate, and for me, they have been one of the biggest supporters of coop out there.
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Feb 3, 2017 18:47
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blackguy32 posted:The Division had a few problems at launch and the end game was atrocious. But they have been supporting the hell out of that game. Watch Dogs 1 sucked. But overall, I think they have been a very solid and consistent developer. I love more of their stuff than I hate, and for me, they have been one of the biggest supporters of coop out there. Yeah, what give Ubi a fairly good rep with me these days is not that launch games are rock solid master pieces, but that they seem to actually listen and support the bejeesus out of games when they don't meet expectations.
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Oh I'm not expecting actual split screen. I can play with my brother over the internet. I can understand the skepticism for Ubi. I don't touch Assassin's Creed games because they bore the hell out of me.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I can't even remember what game gave Ubisoft a "don't buy at launch" reputation to Quantum of Phallus. There's been the famous graphical downgrades (no longer done) but launch issues...? Unity had a pretty hosed up launch due to bad netcode/traffic scaling but the actual game was pretty good and it's a shame that we might not get co op missions again. Graphical glitches too, but that was fixed on the day 0 patch. OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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Feb 3, 2017 19:04
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OK yeah haha. I hated Unity at launch too but even it was patched up and I ended up finishing it many months later. Ubi had a really dark time but you can see they've made real steps to improve their rep in their more recent releases.
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External drives on the beta work on multiple consoles so can be used to avoid patch/digital game downloads when going to friend's houses. 
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I can't even remember what game gave Ubisoft a "don't buy at launch" reputation to Quantum of Phallus. There's been the famous graphical downgrades (no longer done) but launch issues...? It wasn't just Ubi it was the whole game industry for a bit there. They all got pretty bad with pushing games out the door that weren't done. It started to get a bit of a backlash so it seems like they're all cleaning up their act a bit.
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Once you get used to everything... Ghost Recon Wildlands is pretty fun. Get into a group of like-minded humans as soon as possible. Find a suppressed Sniper Rifle soon, too. Feels good, man! BE warned. This is a beta-rear end beta tho. I just did a story mission, which ended in a cutscene. Everything went silent, even my human player friends, and now I can't even use the guide button to quit. (It's not frozen, just nonresponsive. Gonna have to power down with the console button. Feenix fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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univbee posted:External drives on the beta work on multiple consoles so can be used to avoid patch/digital game downloads when going to friend's houses. Sweet mother of god. Thank you Sony. Just give use proper backwards compat you fucks
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Sweet mother of god. That will never happen because of the huge architecture change between 3 and 4.
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univbee posted:External drives on the beta work on multiple consoles so can be used to avoid patch/digital game downloads when going to friend's houses. Notice anything on load times?
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Bombadilillo posted:That will never happen because of the huge architecture change between 3 and 4. They say that but... I believe in you Cerny
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seiferguy posted:Notice anything on load times? I've done zero experimenting in that regard thus far, doing a big transfer of data, and will probably be gone a decent chunk of the weekend. I can confirm, however, that it knows if a drive isn't USB 3.0 and refuses to let you use it if so.
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Beastie posted:they bore the hell out of me. This is Ubi summed up. None of their games are very interesting and all feel like designed by committee. Not my thing.
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For what it's worth I put an external on my xbox one (Passport 1 TB) and I load into BF1 before everyone on my team and can snag the plane. I imagine it would help the PS4 too.
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Ubisoft games always distinctly lack personality no matter how hard they try but more often than not they are fine at what they do. I personally can't stand Assassins Creed though. otherwise their shooter and open world games get the job done. Honestly for all the poo poo they get their track record has been decent for the past few years.
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Much more excited about the boost mode for PS4 Pro for non-pro enhanced titles than the external HD thing. People reporting much improved framerates in games like Just Cause 3, noticeable improvements to smoothness in Witcher 3 etc.
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It's hard to say that any Ubisoft game is outright bad, as they all have really high production values and the gameplay is fine for what it is. But at the same time it's hard to get particularly hyped about anything they do since it is so middle of the road, rather than more niche titles that are obviously more polarizing.
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veni veni veni posted:Honestly for all the poo poo they get their track record has been decent for the past few years. Yeah, but they've also taken very very few risks. Mostly just cranking out 20 assassin's creed games and like 6 farcry games.
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Yeah totally. Even in new IP's they rarely stray from the most basic game design cliches, which is why I think people think their games feel so soulless. They seem terrified of alienating anyone as to lose sales and their games come off as bland as a result.
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It's weird how Watch Dogs 2 makes me feel both more and less hopeful about Ubisoft. It has more personality and quality than anything they've released in a long while, but almost none of that inspiration appears in the game design. The handful of novel mechanics don't get explored in much depth. There's a really cool robot-stealth-hacking-social-engineering game in there that got crammed into a shallow GTA mold and glittered with map icons.
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univbee posted:External drives on the beta work on multiple consoles so can be used to avoid patch/digital game downloads when going to friend's houses. Does this essentially mean you just go to your friends house, add your account, plug in hdd, and your good to go?
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