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Squeezy Farm posted:crysis is cool because mech warrior living legends is badass It is, but good luck getting into MWLL now without 7 other grognards yelling at you through chat because you did something "wrong".
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Can you expand on this? For example I built my computer in 2016 and four years later, it still plays every game I throw at it max settings, 60fps, 1080p. I’ve been wondering what the next big “leap” will be especially with the new consoles coming out (assuming no Covid19 delays) Ray Tracing, 4K, VR?
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Can you expand on this? The upcoming consoles have ludicrously fast SSDs and gaming PCs are going to need to keep up once games start being built around those rather than the dogshit laptop harddrives the current consoles use. Consoles are leapfrogging PCs here, most SSDs you can buy today are slower than what's in the PS5.
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Apr 15, 2020 02:58
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Yeah, remember all those "squeeze through a crack in a wall" scenes? They'll be gone next gen on consoles. The SSD in the PS5 is so fast that even though theoretically you can replace it wit off the shelf parts, there isn't yet a consumer product on the market that meets its specs. Even going with the slower Sexbox drive, its still roughly 25 times as fast as a 5400 rpm drive.
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repiv posted:The upcoming consoles have ludicrously fast SSDs and gaming PCs are going to need to keep up once games start being built around those rather than the dogshit laptop harddrives the current consoles use. You mean games will finally be able to take advantage of my m.2 drive?
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Jehde posted:You mean games will finally be able to take advantage of my m.2 drive? Your m.2 might be below minimum spec, since the slower xbox is using nvme and pulling 2.4/4.8 GB/second Barudak fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Apr 15, 2020 |
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Apr 15, 2020 03:23
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Kharn_The_Betrayer posted:So trying doomrpg after seeing topic brought up: Is the uac base suppose to be at the start or the end or in between each stage cause the mod sort of implies that you can only get certain upgrades from the base...
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Apr 15, 2020 03:43
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Tim Thomas posted:I’m all for making GBS threads on tactical shooters, you do you, but anyone who is saying crysis/warhead is rear end, what is a better tactical shooter? it’s the top of that genre and I’ve yet to play anything that comes close. Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (PC version, Athena Sword preferred but optional. xbox version is fine too, but also not actually the same game in any way, shape or form)
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Imma let you finish but SWAT IV is the best tactical shooter of all time
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield good game but I think warhead is better, BUT Barudak posted:Imma let you finish but SWAT IV is the best tactical shooter of all time i retract, this is correct
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Apr 15, 2020 05:05
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Barudak posted:Your m.2 might be below minimum spec, since the slower xbox is using nvme and pulling 2.4/4.8 GB/second It remains to be seen whether this will actually matter in practice at all. There are still load times on NVME even for PC-only titles.
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TOOT BOOT posted:It remains to be seen whether this will actually matter in practice at all. There are still load times on NVME even for PC-only titles. I dont think there are any NVME exclusive titles though, is the point. When new consoles launch all games for those systems minimum specs will be what I quoted with playstation exclusives able to (theoretically) double that.
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MW5 might as well be NVME exclusive because I installed it on spinning rust and it takes like 4 minutes to load each mission Also I really liked RS3 and SWAT4 but I have trouble playing them now because cop games
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TOOT BOOT posted:It remains to be seen whether this will actually matter in practice at all. There are still load times on NVME even for PC-only titles. This is because the game and engine are designed with a HDD in mind this gen, loading everything from HDD into RAM at launch to prevent possible performance problems caused by asset management during gameplay. Xboxsex and ps5 have storage fast enough that its possible to pull data from it when needed, so cheats used to hide load times and asset streaming artifacts (eleveators, cut scenes) could be eliminated and the way data is packed, optimised for HDDs with heaps of redundant data to reduce seek times, could be changed to be far more efficient. By the sounds of it, it'll be like going back to cartridges where the performance difference between the storage medium and system RAM are relatively small (relative to HDD/Optical anyway).
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Farm Frenzy posted:I feel like the progress of game graphics started to really slow down in around 2007 so nobody needed to do regular pc upgrades anymore and crysis was one of the last games that was marketed as something to test your new graphics card on
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kirbysuperstar posted:MW5 might as well be NVME exclusive because I installed it on spinning rust and it takes like 4 minutes to load each mission I don't see the issue. Also RS3 has nothing to do with cops.
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Kharn_The_Betrayer posted:So trying doomrpg after seeing topic brought up: Is the uac base suppose to be at the start or the end or in between each stage cause the mod sort of implies that you can only get certain upgrades from the base... There's an option somewhere where you can choose to go back to base after every mission, find that and turn it on. I think it's in DoomRPG options.
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Guillermus posted:I don't see the issue. Also RS3 has nothing to do with cops. R6 are just interpol SWAT really
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kirbysuperstar posted:MW5 might as well be NVME exclusive because I installed it on spinning rust and it takes like 4 minutes to load each mission Meh, if you can put yourself in the fiction of being a mythical doom slayer that kill demons maybe you also can put yourself in the fiction of being a good cop in an ideal world where cop corruption doesn't exist
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kirbysuperstar posted:R6 are just interpol SWAT really I still don't see the issue and then Turin Turambar posted:Meh, if you can put yourself in the fiction of being a mythical doom slayer that kill demons maybe you also can put yourself in the fiction of being a good cop in an ideal world where cop corruption doesn't exist
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Guillermus posted:I still don't see the issue and then 
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Volte posted:I just checked this out and played a few maps and the interface kind of sucks but there's a skill called Transport that you can cast to take you there. BurningCourage posted:There's an option somewhere where you can choose to go back to base after every mission, find that and turn it on. I think it's in DoomRPG options. Thanks !
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kirbysuperstar posted:MW5 might as well be NVME exclusive because I installed it on spinning rust and it takes like 4 minutes to load each mission you’re playing the baddies, problem solved
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Turin Turambar posted:Meh, if you can put yourself in the fiction of being a mythical doom slayer that kill demons maybe you also can put yourself in the fiction of being a good cop in an ideal world where cop corruption doesn't exist Not to derail or anything but like, mythical righteous vengeance fueled demigods who exist to slay demonkind for eons are completely removed from reality. Police brutality is not. I can absolutely see and understand that being a barrier for enjoyment. It's hard, especially in this day and age, to forget the real rear end poo poo that goes down. But on FPS chat: Limited Run games STILL hasn't shipped the fucken boxed System Shock copies and I ordered that poo poo back in October. They only had 99 of these things, what could possibly be the hold up? Well, now I understand but what was the excuse before?
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Tim Thomas posted:you’re playing the baddies, problem solved Pretty sure the religious cult that murdered their own children and buried them in the basement are the baddies but what do I know 
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Angry_Ed posted:Pretty sure the religious cult that murdered their own children and buried them in the basement are the baddies but what do I know Yeah in SWAT 4 you are absolutely playing the good guys. You get penalized for not following procedure to the letter. You lose if you shoot someone who was unarmed. You have to give people a chance to surrender themselves even if they are armed and actively pointing their guns at you. And every opposing force in every mission is always clearly criminals (and no matter how bad they are, you are expected to treat them all with the same level of strict procedure following).
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It's okay to not be comfortable playing games where you do war and murder on people. I used to like playing pretend victim in Red Orchestra as a "stay alive as long as possible before being horribly murdered" role playing game but today I'm happy to say that I've worked through those issues and have been gruesome imaginary death-free for 10 years. namaste
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DatonKallandor posted:Yeah in SWAT 4 you are absolutely playing the good guys. You get penalized for not following procedure to the letter. You lose if you shoot someone who was unarmed. You have to give people a chance to surrender themselves even if they are armed and actively pointing their guns at you. And every opposing force in every mission is always clearly criminals (and no matter how bad they are, you are expected to treat them all with the same level of strict procedure following). so completely unlike reality
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site posted:so completely unlike reality Yes.
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ETPC posted:acab What about Robocops?
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Not to derail or anything but like, mythical righteous vengeance fueled demigods who exist to slay demonkind for eons are completely removed from reality. Police brutality is not. I can absolutely see and understand that being a barrier for enjoyment. It's hard, especially in this day and age, to forget the real rear end poo poo that goes down. Limited Run is top quality but you might as well tack 6 months onto whatever shipping date they give you. My copy of Sigil got delayed multiple times.
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Wild T posted:What about Robocops? the first 'a' stands for 'all'
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Wild T posted:What about Robocops? Still had to kill 'im to get Robocop
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We finally built a new PC which means I get to catch up on the games of yesteryear that have been sitting in my Steam library unplayed because I didn't have the hardware for it. Anyway I'm working on Wolfenstein: The New Order right now. The game is great but it has this super loving obnoxious habit of failing to launch and it's driving me insane. I click play, Steam says it's running, but then it doesn't. I check the Task Manager and it isn't running but when I try to force close Steam I get a message saying the game is running. Restarting Steam doesn't even work so the only way to correct it is to restart the computer altogether. What the hell is going on here? I Googled it but people keep mentioning black screens and DisplayLink but neither of those are applicable to my situation 
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Finished Unreal with the Unreal Evolution mod. It was... OK. The biggest gameplay change is the weapon upgrades. I didn't realize at first that the weapons in their base form are all slightly nerfed from their OG versions (I think; at the very least they have a lot of annoying recoil). All throughout the game you come across upgrade canisters that let you upgrade one of two weapons (you don't get to pick what the upgrade is, just which weapon). The problem with this is two fold: if you miss any canisters you are missing out on better weapons, and some weapons end up staying pretty bad since you never upgrade them. I think I only upgraded the biorifle like once, for example. Pretty late in the game I even picked the distruptor pistol since the alternative was worse (that one worked out super well since a fully auto disruptor is surprisingly hilarious!). Like I mentioned in my first post about it there are some minor additions and behavioral changes to the bestiary to flesh out the world a bit more. I didn't mind the new enemies (acid spitting spiders and a squid), but the teleporting enemies are a bit tedious. Supposedly the boss fights are "better" whatever that means but the final boss is still a pushover. Unfortunately it doesn't really fix the biggest issue with Unreal which is that it gets a bit tedious in the final levels. The game is squarely from the age where they couldn't display many enemies on screen so they made up for it by making them spongy and/or very hard to hit. Fighting a non-stop onslaught of what are essentially multiplayer bots gets a bit old. The arsenal is in some ways almost a multiplayer loadout since it's very balanced and there's no real direct replacements which is both good and bad, but I really wish there was a super-gun with limited ammo so you could occasionally just tear through enemies. If you've played the game a million times before and want something new I would recommend checking it out, but for me a large part of Unreal is nostalgia. I think I might have been happier with the Oldskool mod where you play Unreal inside of UT99 with those weapons (because gently caress the stinger). Is Return to Na Pali worth playing? I think I've only ever played like 15 minutes of it.
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Refactored how my GZDoom UI project renders on screen  and now I'm dealing with Gimbal Lock. Yay!   Looks like  but its like throwing stuff at the wall to see whats breaking, in this case rotations.
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repiv posted:The upcoming consoles have ludicrously fast SSDs and gaming PCs are going to need to keep up once games start being built around those rather than the dogshit laptop harddrives the current consoles use. It looks like it can go around the speed of a ram disk which is pretty fast, I wonder if they will release more PCIE adapter cards to plug them into current mother boards. But the current m2/u2 ports are 4x as well so they should just plug into those? And what is the use of really fast hard disk other than loading bigger things in time? It still needs to transfer everything in the memory and such first. Lemon King posted:Refactored how my GZDoom UI project renders on screen If you are dealing with gimbal lock in doom you have probably already gone too far, so keep going. Flannelette fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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I always thought what doom was really missing was the quaternions.
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david_a posted:Unfortunately it doesn't really fix the biggest issue with Unreal which is that it gets a bit tedious in the final levels. The game is squarely from the age where they couldn't display many enemies on screen so they made up for it by making them spongy and/or very hard to hit. Fighting a non-stop onslaught of what are essentially multiplayer bots gets a bit old. The arsenal is in some ways almost a multiplayer loadout since it's very balanced and there's no real direct replacements which is both good and bad, but I really wish there was a super-gun with limited ammo so you could occasionally just tear through enemies. That's how I felt by the end of the game. I always forget how long it is, and it doesn't help that the last section of the game is entirely inside the Skaarj mothership, which is just way less interesting than the fantasy areas to me. david_a posted:Is Return to Na Pali worth playing? I think I've only ever played like 15 minutes of it. It's alright, it's basically more Unreal, but with some terrible voice acting and a few new enemies and weapons. At least some of the levels were cut from the base game and you can tell where they would have slotted in based on the style.
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