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SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nCGPiFIhV4

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SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

I pre-ordered the boxed version on uPlay, will I get a code in the mail when it unlocks or do I have to wait till it arrives?

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Fayez Butts posted:

why would you buy disc based media in our year of our lord 2014

Because it had more DLC and I specifically wanted the cheesy gangster outfit and Thompson, which wasn't in the digital edition. It said it included a digital download also, so I was just wondering if I'd get a code in the mail.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

uPlay is a great, big pile of steaming triceratops poo poo, goddamn. In the event that it loads on the third or fourth try, after like 2 or 3 minutes, it crashes whenever I exit the game. Don't think I'll ever be buying anything that utilises it again.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Finally logged into uPlay, which crashed a trillion times. I have just left the stadium and am in the garage. First impressions:

- Aiden is pretty obnoxious.
- Mouse movement is sluggish even with smoothing turned off.
- Mouse sensitivity in menus is crazy high.
- Volume is literally halved compared to everything else. (Yes, I've checked the mixer and have turned off auto-reduction in Communications.)
- Whoever designed the smartphone interface needs to be strapped into a chair and beaten with hammers.
- The engine is pretty poorly optimised for AMD.
- I got my first honest to God BSOD of the decade, probably since XP SP2 or some poo poo, when I tried to lower the graphics settings. :lol:

Game might be good when I get further into it, but I'd already strongly advise against paying full price.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Just a heads up, the new AMD beta drivers improved my performance immensely.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Sooo... how do I get the pre-order bonuses? There was one code for a mission in the box. Do I have to buy them from a shop?

Edit: Nevermind, I'm an idiot.

SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 28, 2014

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Calihan posted:

Did the latest round of AMD drivers help the game be playable on their hardware yet? I was going to pick this up but I'm holding off due to all the stories about it blowing chunks on AMD cards.

I have an 7850 and the latest beta drivers fixed all my performance issues.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Can't load up the game right now, but is there a way to disable all those drat online notifications for racing, decryption, mobile, etc.?

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Mr. WTF posted:

Um Coyo7e, have you ever touched a real girl's neck?

nitpicky I know...but I thought it was funny...maybe she was a tranny. Most of the girls in the game look like they have huge units anyway.

:lol: Talk about owning yourself.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Crappy Jack posted:

I do love that you can occasionally find people playing the Invasion game, which means they're just standing around pointing their arms in the air and looking like assholes.

No joke, a few minutes into the game I went for a ctOS tower and there was one of these guys standing around in an alley. I think it took me a full minute to realise I hadn't alerted some guard.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

So, apparently, setting invasions to off doesn't save when you exit the game.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

TemporalParadox posted:

Yeah something definitely screwed up with my game.
I have all of my skills unlocked but I don't seem to have them, or at least some of them. I'm smashing parked car windows again to get into them.
Time to start over I guess..

If you're using cloud saving, don't.

Spiky Ooze posted:

Man I don't enjoy how they bundled team and FFA encryption.

Team is fun and gets a lot of mileage out of all the game's systems. FFA is trading spawn kills.

I think the worst thing is putting adversarial free roam and passive mode people in the same game. Don't think they even look different on the map, given that I shot one guy repeatedly to no effect, then another one grenaded me in the face over and over until I died (although I might have been crushed by geometry or something).

SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Jun 6, 2014

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Looks like people figured out how to further tweak the graphics a bit.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4833194&postcount=5

Edit: Jesus, those headlights really stand out in a bad way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx6WedMwj7Q

SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jun 6, 2014

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

ShineDog posted:

The graphic mods really make a difference. I've found a tweaked one where the bokeh/DOF reacts faster and is toned down a bit and it's just a big improvement, at least during sunsets/sunrise, and when theres a light fog.

Care to share?

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

primelaw posted:

So as someone who doesn't have Watch Dogs on Steam, how the heck am I supposed to update it? Does the Uplay client do it automatically?

Try launching the game.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

What's the best current graphics mod? I tried TheWorse and it's nice at night, but the sun is way too bright during the day.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

New version of TheWorse mod out. Haven't tried it myself yet.

http://www.theworsemod.blogspot.com/

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

http://honyape3939.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-853.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpbg5ACkQns

SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jul 16, 2014

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

There's a LUA injector out that allows you to disable police, change weather, time of day and all sorts of other neat stuff.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=391695

And a bunch of others here.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=391473

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SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

As a sandbox, Watch_Dogs gets old quick and is extremely limited, and multiplayer is pretty much dead anyway I think. Goat Simulator also got old after about ten minutes for me, but YMMV.

GTA V is a good bet, even though Rockstar made some truly incomprehensible decisions in its design. Hopefully they'll be mitigated somewhat by mods on PC if they don't gently caress that up, too.

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