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Forgot how loving noisy Stalker is lol. Loudspeaker announcements, endless crows. Drunk Ukrainian soldiers mumbling. I am immersed!
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the loving crows are so loud lol
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listening to the bandit radio music and writing one of those weepy youtube comments about how it makes me nostalgic for a time i never experienced
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Mar 6, 2024 23:11
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Always meant to play stalker but dont PC game so this is cool. That being said I think i'll wait til the mods and enhancements roll out then buy the game then, when i assume itll be cheaper also.
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Mar 7, 2024 01:06
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Seltzer posted:Always meant to play stalker but dont PC game so this is cool. That being said I think i'll wait til the mods and enhancements roll out then buy the game then, when i assume itll be cheaper also. Support the motherfuvking devs you little bitch!!
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So the janky, dirty xbox one s that I bought for $36 arrived. It was reported to have a bad disc drive, but the seller never answered if it was the hard disk or the blu ray disc that didn't work. I rolled the dice. When I plugged it in, it made horrible noises. I took it apart and cleaned it, disassembled the blu ray drive and looked in it, thinking a gear was broken or something. Turns out it had cardboard stuffed in it, and 2 popsicle sticks. I just had to undo a few tiny screws and liberate the garbage in it and then wash the case, fan, etc. Fired it back up and it works like new. It reminded me of the Dennis Leary bit about his kid stuffing a peanut butter sandwich in the vcr. Anyway, the other day I was cranky about the prospect of paying for gamepass core at $10/mo x 2 kids and found a deal in the game deals thread for a year of gamepass core for $49 so it works out to $4/mo each kid. Then I realized that Core and Console are different plans separated by $1/mo and a tragic amount of games. (including Minecraft, which my kids love). Does anyone know if I redeem these years of Core, will it give me the opportunity to convert it to like 10 months of Console, or does the old $1 to upgrade your gold to GPU still work?
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American McGay posted:Support the motherfuvking devs you little bitch!!
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otter posted:Anyway, the other day I was cranky about the prospect of paying for gamepass core at $10/mo x 2 kids and found a deal in the game deals thread for a year of gamepass core for $49 so it works out to $4/mo each kid. Then I realized that Core and Console are different plans separated by $1/mo and a tragic amount of games. (including Minecraft, which my kids love). Does anyone know if I redeem these years of Core, will it give me the opportunity to convert it to like 10 months of Console, or does the old $1 to upgrade your gold to GPU still work? I think if you redeem them and then do the conversion you get 8 months but if you add it to an active GPU subscription you only get 6?
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otter posted:Anyway, the other day I was cranky about the prospect of paying for gamepass core at $10/mo x 2 kids and found a deal in the game deals thread for a year of gamepass core for $49 so it works out to $4/mo each kid. Then I realized that Core and Console are different plans separated by $1/mo and a tragic amount of games. (including Minecraft, which my kids love). Does anyone know if I redeem these years of Core, will it give me the opportunity to convert it to like 10 months of Console, or does the old $1 to upgrade your gold to GPU still work? Converting Game Pass Core to Ultimate works the exact same as Xbox Live Gold did. The conversion (assuming you don’t have an active GPU sub) is 3:2 instead of 1:1. They reduced the exchange rate before the name change.
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Mar 7, 2024 01:49
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American McGay posted:Support the motherfuvking devs you little bitch!! I've had the stalker 2 pre-install on my HD for like 2 years now!
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otter posted:So the janky, dirty xbox one s that I bought for $36 arrived. It was reported to have a bad disc drive, but the seller never answered if it was the hard disk or the blu ray disc that didn't work. I rolled the dice. When I plugged it in, it made horrible noises. I took it apart and cleaned it, disassembled the blu ray drive and looked in it, thinking a gear was broken or something. Turns out it had cardboard stuffed in it, and 2 popsicle sticks. I just had to undo a few tiny screws and liberate the garbage in it and then wash the case, fan, etc. Fired it back up and it works like new. Nice to see you got it working in the end!
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Seltzer posted:I've had the stalker 2 pre-install on my HD for like 2 years now! they need money for ammo
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Taxi Life just released and still not a single review exists. Troubling times indeed.
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John F Bennett posted:Taxi Life just released and still not a single review exists. Troubling times indeed. -Mom I want a modern Crazy Taxi -We have Crazy Taxi at home:
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Mar 7, 2024 11:48
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I don't really like Crazy Taxi, I prefer Normal Taxi.
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Mar 7, 2024 13:10
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I prefer Neurodivergent Lyft
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It’s just taxi to me I’m the joker baby
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Gin posted:I prefer Neurodivergent Lyft Neo Cab? I liked it!
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Gin posted:I prefer Neurodivergent Lyft I too played Yakuza 5.
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First reports are coming in about Taxi Life on consoles. A lot of people are saying it's a stuttering mess. drat it, out of all the games, this was the one I was looking forward to the most. Guess I'll be waiting for a patch! Back to Eurotruck Sim.
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At some point a few weeks back, Sea of Thieves got completely recompiled using a newer Xbox GDK. On all platforms except Steam (where it's a 10 gig update), the game has to fully redownload and reinstall. All versions are around 90 gigs now, the older non-X versions that were 30 gigs are gone, and weirdly it seems the "S" versions of the game are, for some reason, slightly larger at 90.15 gigs instead of 88.36 gigs on both One X and Series X. Finally, the game is actually flagged as a "Scarlett" game, meaning you can't run it from a USB external on Series consoles anymore, and it must be installed internally. There are "general client performance improvements" but I'm not sure how much of a difference it actually makes, although now on the PC versions it supports both DX11 and DX12.
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Did they move Free Play Days again? I can't find it under subscriptions.
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Saoshyant posted:I too played Yakuza 5. lol
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univbee posted:At some point a few weeks back, Sea of Thieves got completely recompiled using a newer Xbox GDK. On all platforms except Steam (where it's a 10 gig update), the game has to fully redownload and reinstall. All versions are around 90 gigs now, the older non-X versions that were 30 gigs are gone, and weirdly it seems the "S" versions of the game are, for some reason, slightly larger at 90.15 gigs instead of 88.36 gigs on both One X and Series X. Finally, the game is actually flagged as a "Scarlett" game, meaning you can't run it from a USB external on Series consoles anymore, and it must be installed internally. There are "general client performance improvements" but I'm not sure how much of a difference it actually makes, although now on the PC versions it supports both DX11 and DX12. The performance improvements are that it now crashes at least once per session for me both PC and Xbox.  And they just announced that they hosed up the SDK upgrade, so now the March update will be a 100Gb download again.It's kind of a giant shitshow but I still can't stop playing the game. And for all its faults it's still a much better game than Skull and Bones (a true AAAA game)
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Sywert of Thieves posted:And they just announced that they hosed up the SDK upgrade, so now the March update will be a 100Gb download again. This is especially hilarious given they legit promised it wouldn't happen again with the most recent "total do-over" update.
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American McGay posted:Stalker Trilogy out now gently caress yeah.
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John F Bennett posted:First reports are coming in about Taxi Life on consoles. A lot of people are saying it's a stuttering mess. Ooh hey this game looks really cool. Will play it on PC though.
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I would be willing to pay more than $40 for the Stalker trilogy
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1glitch0 posted:Did they move Free Play Days again? I can't find it under subscriptions. It's back! The Free Play Days, but they suck. I said come in! posted:Ooh hey this game looks really cool. Will play it on PC though. I may just do the same if that's the superior version. But I'll wait for some patches either way.
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Blue Raider posted:I would be willing to pay more than $40 for the Stalker trilogy Good news! Buy them individually and you will!
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ohhyeah posted:If I don’t have time to play all three which is the best stalker? Play Shadow of Chernobyl, the first one. It holds up. When it came out, I was the poorest I've ever been, and had to resort to [files] played on a PC, like some kind of animal. The trilogy is a pro buy. They make games like these very rarely.
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What's Stalker like? Cod, Mass Effect, Fallout, ?
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If I didn't like the Metro trilogy, will I like the Stalker trilogy?
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John F Bennett posted:If I didn't like the Metro trilogy, will I like the Stalker trilogy? Depends on what exactly you didn't like, but probably not.
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ColdPie posted:What's Stalker like? Cod, Mass Effect, Fallout, ? Old school survival shooter. It’s too good to compare to that slop
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Iirc metro was made by ex stalker devs
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John F Bennett posted:It's back! The Free Play Days, but they suck. Oh sweet. I wanted to play Mortal Kombat 1 since a weekend seems the perfect amount of time to get a taste and remember I am terrible at these games, but base game is 102 gigs and with the ad-ons it's near 200 gigs. That's a loving lot for a game I'm going to play for 3 days.
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John F Bennett posted:If I didn't like the Metro trilogy, will I like the Stalker trilogy? I dunno, Metro to me wasn’t really that comparable to STALKER apart from visually some stuff is similar. Metro are more like story driven linear games like HL2. Stalker is a bit more open world, think like Far Cry 2. Stalker is way harder.
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metro exodus is the most obviously stalker inspired but stalker is far more focused on survival in its oppressive-rear end environment
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John F Bennett posted:If I didn't like the Metro trilogy, will I like the Stalker trilogy? To put things simple: Metro is more focused and more linear while Metro relies on a more sandbox approach (even if it has a main story you have to follow). The jank is there and WILL be there in big amounts since they're the vanilla and not the fan made games that are highly customizable. The thing is that STALKER scratches a different itch. Metro 2033 and Last Light would be like a survival horror Half-Life in that maps are more linear, Exodus adds some open areas but still narrow compared to STALKER that has a more reactive and hostile world with friendly human NPCs, hostile humans and monsters fighting each other adding anomalies on top. STALKER has that world that feels alive, no matter if you move around and you'll see different stuff happens between playthroughs while Metro is always the same bar the "morality" stuff for endings. It's hard to tell you if you are going to like it or not since you didn't like Metro. If I were in your position, I'd wait for a sale. With mod support coming later (hopefully some mods will be some of the more vanilla bug fixing oriented), just wait.
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