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angerbeet posted:I don't think I've ever actually seen someone consider buying a sound card that wasn't into music production. I come from a time when you only needed to buy a sound card if you wanted to hear sound. It wasn't built in. I still have a nice Yamaha card around here somewhere, but I've been using the onboard sound for the last 2 computer builds. My wireless headset wouldn't benefit from it anyways, it shows up as a USB sound card.
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Most onboard sound cards are good now. You used to need a separate card for everything. I tried some of the virtual surround stuff that my USB card offers with Fortnite and it made it worse
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May 13, 2018 06:19
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I asked my musician friend with a nice modern sound card about this and he said he usually just used on board sound for games since it was just as good and caused less problems.
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May 13, 2018 06:43
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MF_James posted:That is honestly true in every shooter I've played in the last few years, I dunno why it's so hard to do sound. What trash are uou playing?
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May 13, 2018 06:43
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prom candy posted:Most onboard sound cards are good now. You used to need a separate card for everything. I tried some of the virtual surround stuff that my USB card offers with Fortnite and it made it worse Yeah virtual surround is trash, I've tried it on 3 different companies headsets and it does nothing but make things have more echo, including party chat which is annoying.
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May 13, 2018 06:48
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Bacon Terrorist posted:I’m not sure what happened earlier but we were 50v50 and it got down to us leading 14v1 yet the final enemy somehow built so high that we were all in the storm but they survived a millisecond longer than us to take the win santanotreal posted:People will stack up on just med kits and place a double campfire so that they can outlive the entire other team as the circle closes Lol this just happened to a 50v50 I was in, there were like 20 of us though, and 2 of them left. They ended up nading all of us from a perch on a mountain top they were hiding in just on the edge of the last circle and we all died in the storm.
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May 13, 2018 07:00
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Nullsmack posted:I come from a time when you only needed to buy a sound card if you wanted to hear sound. It wasn't built in. I still have a nice Yamaha card around here somewhere, but I've been using the onboard sound for the last 2 computer builds. My wireless headset wouldn't benefit from it anyways, it shows up as a USB sound card. Yeah thinking back I had a... Sound Blaster 16? in some old computer like 25 years ago, when "onboard sound" was like, beep boop
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May 13, 2018 13:21
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May 13, 2018 15:02
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Sound Blaster AWE64 really upped my game.
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May 13, 2018 15:37
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Housh posted:Sound Blaster AWE64 really upped my game. Hell yeah.  I'm so glad things like ethernet and sound are built in to motherboards now. Saves a lot of time and space when putting a machine together.
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May 13, 2018 16:03
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Oh man speaking of NICs not built in to the board, wayyyy back when I first got cable internets in 2000ish, we had bought our own router (I don't think you could rent them at the time just the modem) and put NICs into a few computers. A few months after all that, lightning hit the pole outside our house and killed the modem, router and every NIC connected because Comcast's modems weren't insulated, they probably still aren't.
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May 13, 2018 16:33
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MF_James posted:Oh man speaking of NICs not built in to the board, wayyyy back when I first got cable internets in 2000ish, we had bought our own router (I don't think you could rent them at the time just the modem) and put NICs into a few computers. A few months after all that, lightning hit the pole outside our house and killed the modem, router and every NIC connected because Comcast's modems weren't insulated, they probably still aren't. Haha literally just had a lightning strike. Killed a PC, TV, and the cable box. Comcast gateway and soundbar survived.
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May 13, 2018 21:25
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I often built PCs out of spare parts. The best part was the chicken and egg problem of downloading the NIC drivers.
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May 13, 2018 22:45
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I suddenly want to actually try giving this stupid Fortnite BR thing a shot despite rather disliking pubg in the distant past. i can only hope I have not erred too horribly
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May 13, 2018 22:52
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Ciaphas posted:I suddenly want to actually try giving this stupid Fortnite BR thing a shot despite rather disliking pubg in the distant past. i can only hope I have not erred too horribly If you dislike the PUBG game style, you'll probably dislike BR, too. But it's really a whole different ballgame. And by different, I mean better.
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May 13, 2018 23:07
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Ciaphas posted:I suddenly want to actually try giving this stupid Fortnite BR thing a shot despite rather disliking pubg in the distant past. i can only hope I have not erred too horribly What part of pubg did you dislike? Cuz depending on what you disliked, you might hate BR or you might like it.
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May 13, 2018 23:13
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May 14, 2018 01:17
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Bettyspagh3tt1 posted:Haha literally just had a lightning strike. Killed a PC, TV, and the cable box. Comcast gateway and soundbar survived. You can spend $100 on a good UPS, or $20-50 on a real good surge protected power strip. I had a PC ruined by a storm back when I finished college and I've never let my PCs be without a good UPS since then. A UPS in particular is real nice, especially if you're in the middle of something and your power flickers or goes out.
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May 14, 2018 01:32
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Got my first win. It was a 50v50 so not super technically impressive but still felt great. We were down 16 to 10 but I got a good flank in with a minigun and just never stopped shooting. Ended with 6 kills and a victory royale! I know these posts are dime a dozen but felt like sharing.
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May 14, 2018 01:36
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It's painful to watch my kid play because he's actually pretty good at medium and long range but the second he gets in a shotgun fight he just panics and gets completely wrecked. Poor kid's never going to score a win outside of the big squad LTMs because it always seems to come down to a bunny hopping shotgun fight.
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May 14, 2018 02:25
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SynthesisAlpha posted:It's painful to watch my kid play because he's actually pretty good at medium and long range but the second he gets in a shotgun fight he just panics and gets completely wrecked. Poor kid's never going to score a win outside of the big squad LTMs because it always seems to come down to a bunny hopping shotgun fight. Tell him to not bunny hop in shotgun fights. I found that bunny hopping makes me panic more but if I focus on aiming and not jumping, i win a lot more shotgun battles. Against good players, bunny hopping won’t be very effective anyways and against bad players, it’s not needed if you’re aiming more consistently. Plus, it distracts from the real shotgun battle strategy of outbuilding your opponent.
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May 14, 2018 02:31
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Johnny Truant posted:If you dislike the PUBG game style, you'll probably dislike BR, too. I did not care for PUBG but I like Fortnite quite a bit. The problem I had with PUBG is that it took way too much looting to get a decent loadout, whereas you can be mostly pretty happy with your gear in Fortnite pretty soon after landing. My experience in PUBG was looting for 10-15 minutes and then dying from someone I couldn't see.
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May 14, 2018 02:52
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Evil Fluffy posted:You can spend $100 on a good UPS, or $20-50 on a real good surge protected power strip. I had a PC ruined by a storm back when I finished college and I've never let my PCs be without a good UPS since then. A UPS in particular is real nice, especially if you're in the middle of something and your power flickers or goes out. Yea I spent a decent amount on the power strip so I thought I’d be ok. Gonna go ahead and get a UPS though
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May 14, 2018 13:11
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Bettyspagh3tt1 posted:Yea I spent a decent amount on the power strip so I thought I’d be ok. Gonna go ahead and get a UPS though If you have Homeowners or Renters insurance, most basic policies will cover electronics up to $5k for this kind of thing.
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May 14, 2018 13:45
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Anyone have a good recommendation on a decent, cheap, blue tooth headset? I'm in the 50-100$ range.
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May 14, 2018 14:27
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Am I a bad person if I find STW way more fun and enjoyable than BR? Or maybe just bad at vidja games...
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May 14, 2018 14:38
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mrmcd posted:Am I a bad person if I find STW way more fun and enjoyable than BR? Eh, they're just different games. StW has way more depth, but also requires a lot more investment, especially on a per map basis. And $$
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Yeah I just like exploring and crafting, and then seeing what kind of defense solutions a team can come up with based on where the game puts the objective, hero abilities, etc. Also you get a private custom base! BR for me is mostly just 4 minutes of exploring then getting sniped by someone half a mile away.
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May 14, 2018 14:57
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If you aren't checking your surroundings like a paranoid prairie dog on crack while moving through the map, I don't know what to tell you.
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I don't know. Need more information. Have you even shot a mouse with a handgun before? BR and STW have different flow. BR is fast, stasxtick, bro-romancical. (I made some of these words). STW is kind of slow. Theres sometimes entire 17 minutes of absolutely nothing to do. You have to like gardening your rocks garden, and your gnometry designs. BR you are the type of person that have fun having a bar fight. STW is good if you are the type of person that have fun drinking alone thinking about remodeling a room in your house. Azran posted:If you aren't checking your surroundings like a paranoid prairie dog on crack while moving through the map, I don't know what to tell you. also this Tei fucked around with this message at 16:51 on May 14, 2018 |
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Azran posted:If you aren't checking your surroundings like a paranoid prairie dog on crack while moving through the map, I don't know what to tell you. Which is why I also don't enjoy BR. STW is super fun when you get a really tough mission and you're barely holding off the hordes and frantically patching holes in your defenses. The weapons also don't need to be balanced around pvp so they're always fun and powerful feeling. Love my sniper-shotgun, piercing semi-auto fire assault rifle, or bouncing laser pistol.
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May 14, 2018 16:48
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Tei posted:STW is good if you are the type of person that have fun drinking alone thinking about remodeling a room in your house. Stop doxxing me, man. 
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I won a 1v1 against a full health Thanos to get a victory last night because the poor guy muscle-memoried jump when he got shot at, locking him in place for me to shred him with a gold SCAR for three seconds. Then he only clipped me with his ground pound...and did it again. It felt like cheating.
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I won a 1v1 against a Thanos by dumb luck of him missing the last few ticks of his laser, leaving me with 10 HP, then he whiffed a slam and I drilled a hole into his skull with a silenced pistol. I have since come to the conclusion that Thanos controls like rear end and they way overnerfed him so if you aren't getting the drop on someone 1v1 and instantly killing them, you're probably going to die.
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May 14, 2018 21:47
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I only played that mode a couple times and only got to fight Thanos once, but I'm pretty sure the guy who had it was an idiot: https://streamable.com/y1f14
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Yeah the Thanos nerfs, now that I've played as him, are loving trash. His shield disappears in under two seconds in every engagement  With that being said, it's fun as gently caress to punch people to death!
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it’s in exactly the right spot now, where it’s dumb to pick up the gauntlet but way too much fun not to
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Thanos mode is all about ripping people up with a gold AR
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