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Carecat posted:I haven't played it but it really seems like the polar opposite of that kind of experience. That's why I thought it would be appropriate, but sometimes a game is Eversion and outright lies in the advertisements. Plus it's openly a game about the unhappy dead, so a scary-by-toddler-standards zombie/ghost/skeleton could still be in. An hour or so in it still seems perfect, though.
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I know this is a petty microcosm of a thing compared to the actual issues, but I literally have Arkham City installed in preparation for another playthrough (having just done Asylum, naturally) and it would be nice if just once I could sink into an open world game that wasn't made by incredibly awful studios.  Now it's in the same lovely limbo as all of my Ubisoft games.
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Aug 20, 2020 01:56
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Aug 20, 2020 02:05
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So far, Insomniac hasn't shown any sign of being terrible. Haven't heard anything about Guerrilla, but I haven't paid as much attention to them. Hope you got a PS4!
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Unreal_One posted:So far, Insomniac hasn't shown any sign of being terrible. Haven't heard anything about Guerrilla, but I haven't paid as much attention to them. Hope you got a PS4! Nnnnnnope! Tbh, that wasn't a call for open world game recommendations, I've got more than enough in my backlog. Just I've been jonesing for something more comfy and familiar to sink my teeth into, and the Arkham games were a good fit for that.
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Aug 20, 2020 02:49
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Deformed Church posted:Has anyone been playing the new Hexcells update? The user levels are kind of a neat thing, and the hard mode toggle in the infinite puzzle mode is making some more interesting ones as well. 
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Aug 20, 2020 03:29
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Deakul posted:Spiritfarer hits kinda different tho How is it? Thinking of getting it on the Switch but it seems like a short game for $30.
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Aug 20, 2020 03:34
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Fun Times! posted:How is it? Thinking of getting it on the Switch but it seems like a short game for $30. It is absolutely adorable. Also it is on game pass, if that changes anything.
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Aug 20, 2020 04:05
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Fun Times! posted:How is it? Thinking of getting it on the Switch but it seems like a short game for $30. It’s pretty chill and fun. Sail your boat around, collect goods, build your boat buildings, and get spirits or whatever. I’m playing on gamepass, don’t know that I’d pay 30$ for it.
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Aug 20, 2020 04:10
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Watch Dogs 2 seems ok? I'm not 100% sold on it yet, should I just keep playing the story?
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John Murdoch posted:I know this is a petty microcosm of a thing compared to the actual issues, but I literally have Arkham City installed in preparation for another playthrough (having just done Asylum, naturally) and it would be nice if just once I could sink into an open world game that wasn't made by incredibly awful studios. if it helps the dev who made that video pointed out that the actual team making the games are fantastic people, and it's their work you're enjoying. The problem is with management and a handful of people making things terrible for everyone else, and tainting their effort and creative work in the process. It's a personal thing but they already have your money (hopefully it paid the devs who had to go through all that) so maybe you can just enjoy it for the thing nice people created and not all the garbage surrounding it?
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Aug 20, 2020 04:54
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It's an unfortunate probability that studios like Ubisoft and Rocksteady (and Riot and Netherrealm and et al and et al and et al) are merely the ones that have been outed, at that level of production at least, rather than exceptions. I'm not saying you shouldn't do as your conscience dictates thereby, mind you.
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Tezzeract posted:Watch Dogs 2 seems ok? I'm not 100% sold on it yet, should I just keep playing the story? Watch Dogs 2 is a fun game about wacky teens fighting Martin Shkreli and Jared Leto so its good. Focus on cyberpunk hacking tricks to do missions, using guns is for lame-os.
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I just hope the terrible people and working conditions get outed some more. That or we start getting some unions, babeee.
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Jamfrost posted:I just hope the terrible people and working conditions get outed some more. Hopefully both.
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John Murdoch posted:I know this is a petty microcosm of a thing compared to the actual issues, but I literally have Arkham City installed in preparation for another playthrough (having just done Asylum, naturally) and it would be nice if just once I could sink into an open world game that wasn't made by incredibly awful studios. Death of the author is a thing. You shouldn't give money to terrible people, but there's nothing intrinsically wrong with experiencing media made by a bad person. Like, Orson Scott Card is an rear end in a top hat homophobe but Ender's Game is still a great book and worth reading. Just don't pay him money for a copy of it. If you already have Arkham City then just playing it isn't gonna put any more money in Ubisoft management's pockets or enable them any further.
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Orv posted:It's an unfortunate probability that studios like Ubisoft and Rocksteady (and Riot and Netherrealm and et al and et al and et al) are merely the ones that have been outed, at that level of production at least, rather than exceptions. I'm not saying you shouldn't do as your conscience dictates thereby, mind you. yeah there is zero way that EA, rockstar, Bethesda, and actinlizzard aren’t just as awful if not a hell of a lot worse for workers as a whole with even higher levels of exploitation than ubi.
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Aug 20, 2020 05:35
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Remnant talk was a few pages ago but does anyone know how the level scaling in multiplayer works? If I've played through the first couple of areas and have a +10 gun, can I feasibly co-op with a buddy who's just started the campaign, or should I reroll a new character for that?
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Aug 20, 2020 05:52
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So, maybe a dumb question about RAM: How bad is it to mix RAM frequency? I brought a new PC earlier this year with the money that was supposed to go towards a vacation before the world went to poo poo, I saved the RAM from my old PC, they both DDR4 and even looks to be the same type from Corsair, except the RAM in the new PC is higher frequency. So, would it be a problem if I threw the RAM from my old PC in to give me 32GB if the old RAM is lower frequency than the new RAM?
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It depends how much slower the old RAM is. All of the RAM will run at the frequency/timings of the slowest stick, and maybe even slower since running four sticks can be more fiddly than two. It should work, though - you could always give a go and see what sort of performance you get.
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Generally speaking, faster RAM is almost universally better than slower RAM. It does have a pretty impact on FPS.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Remnant talk was a few pages ago but does anyone know how the level scaling in multiplayer works? it scales things to the more powerful player so you want to start a new character at the same time as whoever you're playing with.
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Cardiovorax posted:Generally speaking, faster RAM is almost universally better than slower RAM. It does have a pretty impact on FPS. It depends heavily on the game and how much faster we're talking about. To see an appreciable performance boost, RAM needs to be a limiting factor and usage needs scale in a way that reduce the bottleneck. For most games there will be a minor performance boost going from 2600 to 3000/3200, but only a few games benefit after that (and then only when you're bumping up against the CPU/RAM limit with a powerful GPU or lower resolution/settings). Even then, the biggest gains are boosting tRFC, a secondary timing - in the techspot benchmarks RAM running at 3000 with boosted tRFC performed better than any other speed except the very top-end 4000 kit! tRFC is finicky though - it's the number of cycles between mandatory RAM refreshes so setting it too high can cause data corruption. If you're playing at a high resolution or are otherwise regularly bottlenecked by your GPU, faster RAM is generally not going to be noticeable at all. E: That said, 32GB vs 16GB is also not going to have a noticeable impact on performance unless you’re actively running a lot of stuff in the background. Stickman fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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baka kaba posted:if it helps the dev who made that video pointed out that the actual team making the games are fantastic people, and it's their work you're enjoying. The problem is with management and a handful of people making things terrible for everyone else, and tainting their effort and creative work in the process. It's a personal thing but they already have your money (hopefully it paid the devs who had to go through all that) so maybe you can just enjoy it for the thing nice people created and not all the garbage surrounding it? It does help some. In this case it's a little awkward since the Arkham series has always had issues with women, so those elements become even more overt and distracting with the full context in mind, but I get your point.
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RAM talk: I'm a PC gamer wannabee so I just realized after a year that my RAM was running at a third of its max speed, had to go into BIOS to make it run properly and I'm still not sure it had any effect.
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Fun Times! posted:RAM talk: I'm a PC gamer wannabee so I just realized after a year that my RAM was running at a third of its max speed, had to go into BIOS to make it run properly and I'm still not sure it had any effect. I don't even think there's any RAM kit that you could triple the speed of. My guess is that you saw the non-doubled data rate and got a 50% speedup.
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The impact of RAM speed varies a lot between applications and processors. AMD's zen processors really benefit a lot from it, as do Dwarf Fortress and Arma3. Unrelated:  The game is indeed very  .But I dislike how Unity still can't do smooth 2D.
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Fun Times! posted:RAM talk: I'm a PC gamer wannabee so I just realized after a year that my RAM was running at a third of its max speed, had to go into BIOS to make it run properly and I'm still not sure it had any effect. I don't exactly know why but yeah, look it up.
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But yeah, make sure you have XMP profile enabled in bios too or it’ll be running at something around 2133 max (depending on CPU). Between that and the Double Data Rate it could definitely look like a third of the advertised speed.
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Stickman posted:
That may be changing soon with the new generation of consoles, who knows. The HZD port benefitted from 32 GB pre-patch, but that’s more because that port was a hack job and could somehow push my system RAM usage to 20GB.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That may be changing soon with the new generation of consoles, who knows. The HZD port benefitted from 32 GB pre-patch, but that’s more because that port was a hack job and could somehow push my system RAM usage to 20GB. What in the world? I want 32GB eventually considering my multi-tab multi-browser many application lifestyle, but still. I haven't heard that one for HZD yet.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That may be changing soon with the new generation of consoles, who knows. The HZD port benefitted from 32 GB pre-patch, but that’s more because that port was a hack job and could somehow push my system RAM usage to 20GB. That's true - that might be why it keeps crashing on me!
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Stickman posted:That's true - that might be why it keeps crashing on me! Ever since the patch my system memory usage hasn’t gone above 15.8GB while I’ve been playing (as long as I close everything besides GPU-Z before I play), but yeah; at release I was at 20GB minimum. Most of what’s jacked up about that port is memory-related.
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The Joe Man posted:Just a heads up that your dual-channel RAM is going to say it's running at half-speed even when it's not. 1600MHz is likely going to show 800MHz. It's because DDR RAM runs at the same clock rate as single channel RAM, it just clocks data in and out on positive AND negative edges of the clock thus doubling the speed (here is a little overview). An easy way to think of it is that they run at the same speed but the DDR gets twice as much work done.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:It's because DDR RAM runs at the same clock rate as single channel RAM, it just clocks data in and out on positive AND negative edges of the clock thus doubling the speed (here is a little overview). An easy way to think of it is that they run at the same speed but the DDR gets twice as much work done.
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Hub Cat posted:Anybody played Dreamscaper? Also interested in hearing thoughts on this. I don't really do Early Access stuff, but I did jump in Hades previously and generally had a good time, though I have burnt out after the 1st win due to the relatively low amount of content at that time. So how is Dreamscaper? Steam reviews seem to be generally good especially highlighting the great combat and stuff.
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Xaris posted:yeah there is zero way that EA, rockstar, Bethesda, and actinlizzard aren’t just as awful if not a hell of a lot worse for workers as a whole with even higher levels of exploitation than ubi. The issue at hand isn't "just" exploitation though, it's Ubisoft's recently exposed and institutionalised sexual abuse. Which is a form of exploitation, I suppose, but I feel like describing it solely in those terms is letting Ubisoft off the hook.
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Cardiovorax posted:Considering they replaced him with a former Ubisoft employee, I wouldn't be surprised if the gross poo poo was imported rather than kicked out in this case. A guy who hasn't worked for Ubisoft for over a decade and has been a creative director on a few very good games since (Space Marine and Company of Heroes 2 at Relic) and likely a third party consultant on a ton of stuff he wasn't credited for.
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I thought I had a reasonably thick skin with Spiritfarer because the subject matter hints at themes of death, but the coating is so pleasant and Stella is such a constant joy in everything she does but dear god did Alice's last few quests and ending wreck me. The sudden mood shift after remembering the adventure stories, and then having to escort her everywhere, shifting her room to the bottom floor so she wouldn't have to do stairs anymore, the forgetfulness/dementia. It absolutely wrecked me. And when the part at the end with the Everstone where you have to dress up as her daughter, because she think's you're her... But I think this really depends on how you have come into contact irl with this type of stuff I really like this game Dackel fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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Mokinokaro posted:A guy who hasn't worked for Ubisoft for over a decade and has been a creative director on a few very good games since (Space Marine and Company of Heroes 2 at Relic) and likely a third party consultant on a ton of stuff he wasn't credited for. I have no idea who he is (might be really talented), but just want to say that those are not games where I thought that the creative team was doing a good job.
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