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I picked up the Ezio Collection a while back, and just started Brotherhood. You know, I never thought I would say this, but I kinda miss Desmond. Yeah, he's a huge dork with the most generic design ever, but the stuff with him and Lucy in Brotherhood is pretty fun especially compared to what passes for the modern day storyline in the later games. I know a lot of people would rather have no modern day stuff at all, but I liked seeing Desmond develop from some scrub bartender to a full-fledged assassin. edit: Also, full synch in Brotherhood (and later games, but especially Brotherhood since you have to start the mission over if you gently caress up) is the worst loving mechanic. I know they had to do something to make the game a bit more challenging, but the full synch conditions take away the freedom that Patrice Desilets considered so important when designing the first game. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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exquisite tea posted:To the west, Ancient Egypt is a highly compressed timeline made up of vaguely middle eastern looking people with smoky eye for a civilization that stood unbroken for thousands of years. The Great Pyramids were built in 2,360 BCE, which was a full 500 years before the Middle Kingdom period, which was another 1,700 freaking years before the birth of Cleopatra. You could fit the entire rise and fall of every other human civilization in between the interstitial periods in Egyptian history, that's how incomprehensibly vast it was. So most games about Egypt just tend to hit the usual benchmarks. You know, pyramids, mummies, pharoahs, sun-gods, heiroglyphics (which is still one of the longest-lived writing systems on Earth btw) and lots of sexy eyeshadow.
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muscles like this! posted:missions had extra objectives to make them more "historically" accurate 
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Calaveron posted:Ashley's not a badly done escort target That said, I grew up playing Goldeneye on the N64, and I'm pretty sure nothing is worse than Natalya in that game. At least Ashley tries to get out of the way when you're shooting the bad guys.
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Nov 20, 2017 14:51
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The PS4, Bone and PC releases of Black Flag already ran at higher resolutions and had all the next-gen bells and whistles missing from the PS3/360 versions, so they don't really need to be remastered unless it's like a 4K patch for PS4 Pro and BoneX.
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Jun 12, 2018 13:12
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It's at full 1080p and runs at a consistent 30 fps on PS4. The graphical upgrade isn't exactly massive, but it's still noticeable and especially the environments (foliage in particular) and water effects are improved.
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Finally got around to watching some videos of Odyssey and drat, I didn't realize they're basically just making Assassin's Creed into a straight-up RPG now. I mean, Origins was kinda like that already, but here you have dialog trees and everything! I like this direction a lot.
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Jun 12, 2018 18:50
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Twat McTwatterson posted:So speaking of that, the Ezio Collection is definitely worth it if you can get it for 20 bucks? Solid 30fps on a Pro with something over 1080p?
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:My point was they sing too purty for a bunch of pirates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9bXjttMxKY
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I'm enjoying the game quite a lot but I really wish you could disable the level scaling. I've disliked it as a mechanic since the days of Oblivion's daedra armor bandits, and I don't care for it here either. I get that they don't want you to be overpowered if you do all the side stuff, but in that case they should balance the EXP rewards better instead of just making all the enemies level up with you. As it is, I don't feel like leveling up is making my character any stronger when every trash wolf or bandit is still a threat, and the only difference is bigger numbers flying out of those enemies when I hit them. Oh well, maybe they'll add in the option to disable the scaling at some point, until then I'll just deal with it.
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Oct 6, 2018 19:12
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That was a very large and rather sturdy pig. Popular with his friends as well, considering that I ended up killing about ten boars in that fight.
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Hentai Jihadist posted:ah ok i thought alexander had already been about by now
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Calaveron posted:Did the remaster fix Desmond's weird tumorous lump on his back? They fixed that on the original PC version, so I'd assume it's no longer there in the remaster either.
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Well, this is just utterly bizarre. I picked up the PC version on the Green Man Gaming sale, and every time I boot it up the frame rate barely manages to hit 50 regardless of my resolution or settings. My new PC has an i7-9700k at stock clocks (I'm afraid of CPU overclocking because I have no idea what I'm doing) and an RTX 2060 which should at the very least hit a 1080p60 lock easily, so I found this really weird and figured it had to be a bug. After a bunch of tweaking various options and swearing at my screen, I discovered that when I switch resolutions (e.g. from 1440p to 1080p and back to 1440p) and return to gameplay, I get a completely locked 1440p60 at mostly high settings. This happens every single time I start the game. Even when I switched it to 4K out of curiosity (the 2060 isn't ideal for 4K60 so I tend to stick with 1440p), it almost managed to hit 60 fps without any adjustments to the settings! At least I CAN get the game to run properly and it looks and plays great, but I can't even begin to figure out what is going on here.  Ah, I've missed PC gaming. edit: I turned HDR off and now the game actually runs at 60 fps without me having to gently caress around with the resolution settings. I'm still very confused. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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I'm not sure if it was the best idea for this leader to sic his guards on me for the heinous crime of walking past his house, because I was just going to go about my business and completely ignore him until his guards assaulted me. He eventually joined the melee himself and ended up in a pile of corpses in the middle of the street alongside all dozen or so of his men and two bounty hunters, which I'm sure will lead to some fascinating conversations down in the underworld.
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My Kassandra is level 21 at the moment so she's not quite an invincible super murder goddess yet, just a mostly invincible regular murder goddess.  Still, you'd think that the leader would run for the nearest hills as soon as he sees his most buff bodyguard die in seconds, instead of joining the fray and going "Right, she might have killed all of my men without breaking a sweat, but I'LL GET HER WITH MY TINY USELESS KNIFE"That's actually one thing I quite liked in the old Assassin's Creeds, enemies would try to escape when they realized they were completely hosed against Ezio or Altaïr.
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Finished the family storyline with the best ending (I love how goofy Alexios and Stentor are in the epilogue), and now I'm stabbing my way through the Cult of Kosmos with just a few more dudes to go. I'm still having a great time for the most part, although I'm starting to feel a bit of sidequest fatigue and basically go "oh goddamn it" whenever I hit a new region and see more exclamation marks pop up. I haven't even touched the Lost Tales of Greece missions yet, let alone the DLC content, so I'm pretty sure this playthrough is going to take close to 100 hours. Despite her title, Iocasta the Seer was somehow not able to see that standing on the edge of a large cliff with your back turned might not be the greatest of ideas. 
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Going back to Origins feels kind of weird after spending so much time on Odyssey over the last couple of weeks. I miss Kassandra and her crazy abilities and immunity to fall damage.  Also, Bayek's beard isn't nearly mighty enough for a guy who's supposedly been growing it out for a year. I could grow that in a couple of weeks!
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Ugh, I wish Origins would allow you to tell AI "helpers" to gently caress off. There seems to be a lot of missions where the premise is "Hey my horse or whatever has been stolen by some bandits to the north, go gently caress them up! Here's a bunch of my men, their inability to move around without alerting everyone in the region, hold a sword the right way up, and not fire arrows into their own feet will definitely serve you well!" I don't know, I still don't like Origins as much as Odyssey, although at least this time I've made it further than a few hours in. Bayek and Aya are cool and ancient Egypt is gorgeous, but the game simply doesn't grab me the same way as Odyssey. Maybe it's the rough edges that pop up pretty often, with AI glitches and other weird stuff being a lot more prevalent. Maybe it's the quests, which to be fair aren't always that great in Odyssey either but at least that gives you dialog options and such. Maybe it's the slightly odd controls (why does the alternate scheme insist on clicking the left stick to interact with things?). Maybe it's the lack of Kassandra's strong arms (and abilities and dialog choices, I guess). Maybe I just don't like sand. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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The CPU overclocking wizard in my BIOS suggested a pretty hefty boost from 3.6 GHz to 5.0 GHz, so I gave it a shot (I know manual OC is more efficient, but I have no idea what I'm doing so I'd rather stick with the preset stuff for now). That has made an enormous difference in performance in Origins, and now I can hit a nearly locked 60 fps at 4K/80% resolution scale, with graphics settings roughly equivalent to Xbone X. Of course now the fans are screaming for mercy at all times, but at least everything is stable and there have been no crashes or anything like that. Haven't tried Odyssey with the overclock yet, but since that already ran better than Origins I'm pretty optimistic. gently caress yeah PC gaming  edit: I went back to stock clocks for now because I don't want anything to break. The temps got way too high for comfort despite everything running perfectly stable (except when I auto-reverted to the optimized default setting in the BIOS, which caused a BSOD somehow and I had to adjust my clocks back manually. gently caress yeah, PC gaming), so I'm going to have to get a more efficient cooling solution if I really want to stretch the i7-9700K's legs. I could probably go for something along the lines of 4-0 GHz-4.2 GHz and be totally fine, but the automated recommendations from the OC wizard were far too optimistic. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Jun 29, 2019 |
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jisforjosh posted:What temperatures were you hitting? The 9th Gen Intels are fine to run hot.  So yeah, not great. I'll invest in better cooling at some point, but before that 4.2 GHz is the furthest I'll go in terms of OC. The temps hovered around the 80s when I tested Origins at 4.2, so that should at least be fine.I could probably get some decent results if I adjusted the voltage and such manually, but since I really don't know what I'm doing I'd rather not. I assumed the automatic preset the BIOS offered me would be fine if perhaps not the most efficient, but I guess not.
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jisforjosh posted:Do you have PM's? I've got a 9700K and have it safely OC'd to 5.1GHz all cores if you need some tips
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Jesus christ game, I just wanted to kill this... what is the singular form of phylakes? Phylake? Phylax? Anyway, I saw Ptolemy's Fist on the minimap and decided to go after him, and when I got to his location the game spawned one of those "Assist the rebels" encounters where a couple of useless rebels try to fight a million soldiers (some guys from a nearby outpost, whoever spawned for the encounter, and a couple of random patrols because at least two of those always seem to spawn right next to my location no matter what I might be doing, which doesn't get old in the slightest), so there went my idea to lure Ptolemy's Fist to a quiet spot and gank him. I didn't even bother attempting to save the rebels' asses, since I didn't want to fight 20 soldiers and a phylax. I figured I could probably take them since I massively overleveled them, but I just didn't want this gigantic clusterfuck in my hands so I waited it out in a nearby field. The soldiers did their thing and returned to their posts and patrols, and Mr. Fist was on his own again so I lured him to the field and stabbed him. Of course that didn't kill him despite the 12-level advantage I had, but I figured it'd be fine because he wouldn't last long and we were far enough from the outpost that the soldiers wouldn't notice anything. Well, that didn't work out as I'd hoped because as soon as open combat started, every single one of the soldiers from earlier plus probably a few more, including at least eight guys on horseback, made a beeline for my location like in that GTAV gif where Michael kills someone in the desert and is immediately mobbed by 30 police cars and helicopters. Thankfully most of them were half my level so I didn't get wrecked instantly and was able to hide after taking down a few of the soldiers (on a related note, fighting multiple guys on horseback is really annoying), and eventually managed to assassinate Ptolemy's Fist as well. Just another day in the life of Bayek of Siwa, I guess. Seriously though, those constant patrols are a bane of my existence. Even if they're not actively attacking me, hearing their "  GET OFF THE ROAD" barks every ten seconds if I'm anywhere in the general vicinity of a road gets pretty old. gently caress you cop, this is a public road and I'm not even in your way! 
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Trying to decide whether or not to grab Syndicate from the Steam sale. In theory it'd be nice to experience that lovely old Victorian London on PC with shinier graphics, near-instant load times and 60 fps, but I also seem to remember the reason I didn't finish Syndicate on PS4 had nothing to do with technical matters and everything to do with the game feeling like bit of a tedious slog. Maybe that was just series fatigue and I should give it another shot, or maybe I'll bounce off of it completely because I can't play old style AC anymore after Odyssey and Origins. I don't know. Eh, I suppose it's pretty cheap.
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I'm liking Syndicate for the most part, but holy poo poo those Karl Marx missions were just unfun and often broken garbage. The one where you got to throw nitroglycerin crates at Templars for full sync was the only one I enjoyed. The final mission in that chain was so broken it was amazing. On my first try, I somehow screwed up and got noticed trying to remove one of the Blighter troublemakers in the crowd, so Marx got shot and I failed the mission. I'm not sure what I did wrong there (maybe I should've knocked out some of the nearby cops beforehand, or maybe the other nearby Blighter saw me) but fair enough, poo poo happens. So I reloaded my checkpoint and went back to the crowd, only for three Blighters to immediately beeline for Marx and kill him without anyone ever noticing I was there. The next time out, that same thing happened except that the cops in the area actually bothered to do their job properly and killed the three ruffians. That even counted towards my mission completion, so at this point I was at "Kidnap 3/4 troublemakers" and all I had to do now was remove the last Blighter from the premises. I ended up running around for a couple of minutes to locate a hiding spot because the full sync objective required me to hide a body in a hiding spot (a carriage doesn't count, I tried that with the first guy on my first attempt), and when I finally shoved the last Blighter in a hay cart... nothing happened. No new mission objectives popping up, just nothing. Going back to Marx triggered a cutscene and the next part of the mission, with Blighters attacking Marx and you having to defend him. I killed the Blighters in the area with some help from the cops, only for four Blighters to spawn on the stage behind me and attack Marx. I killed three of them and was still fighting the last one when another cutscene hit. First, the same scene that played when the Blighters attacked played again, except all the Blighters were dead (if this was intentional, it certainly didn't look that way), and this was then followed by the mission ending cutscene. I have absolutely no idea what went on in all of that. The mission scripting definitely broke on that first reload, and then when the three Blighters got killed by cops everything went to hell and by that point the game was basically flipping its desk over while shouting "I DON'T KNOW, JUST loving DO SOMETHING!" Assassin's Creed mission gameplay at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.
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The more I play of Syndicate, the more frustrated I get with the constant glitches and quest design that goes out of its way to be as annoying as possible especially in terms of the full sync objectives. I haven't even bothered to really care about full sync since chapter 4, but I'm working my way through the Last Maharaja DLC missions at the moment and the optional objectives in those aren't even vaguely pretending to be anything but total bullshit. - Mission 1: Beat the Maharaja in a target-shooting contest by hitting ten bottles. Even if I manage to hit nine in 20 seconds, the tenth is literally out of my gun's range and I can barely see it. You're not allowed to get closer either, so I'm not sure what I was expected to do in all of that. - Mission 2: Hire 3 Rooks to help you at each of the two ambush sites. Not too bad on paper, except for some reason there are only four Rooks in the general area of each ambush site. At the carriage ambush location, the first Rook I hired did not count so I was walking around with three Rooks and the game refused to acknowledge it, and the last one was being attacked by two brutes so he died before I could even pull out my gun (I also failed the actual ambush once because Henry died to a brute almost instantly). The train area had two Rooks under attack and they both died almost instantly as well, and when I got to the quest item I froze in place and had to reload the checkpoint. - Mission 3: Stay undetected as you carry an NPC through a horde of Templars before he bleeds out! You can ask the Maharaja to attack the enemies in your stead, but we've established that AI allies can't fight for poo poo so you have to constantly put the wounded NPC down and take out the nearest Templar. Then you fail the objective anyway because some rear end in a top hat your eagle vision didn't show sneaks up behind you right near the end, alerting everyone. Can't wait to see what fun they've got lined up for me next! Thankfully I am not a completionist so none of this matters, but even if you're insane enough to go for 100% it'd be nice if the game wasn't actively trying to gently caress you over. edit: Mission 4: Kill four Templars on a moving train, while on the roof of a moving carriage. I hosed it up because I was trying to get fancy and shoot the explosives, but that didn't seem too bad. The second objective is to "Loot the gold from the Templar thief" and I don't even know what that means. I guess I was supposed to let the Templar hiding in the carriage at the end steal the gold, but why would I have done that when the game was telling me to shoot him? I assumed he'd kill me if I didn't shoot him! DMorbid fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Jul 13, 2019 |
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Funky See Funky Do posted:So apparently 80gb isn't enough space to install this and the DLC. Can someone please check their install size on PC so I can be sure my ssd ain't busted?
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exquisite tea posted:Wait until you have to eavesdrop with your boat. ) while dodging eight million rooftop snipers and getting stuck on every piece of geometry you come across, you basically just need to kinda keep up with the other ship and not spend too much time inside the red circles on the minimap.The most ridiculous part of the ship tailing mission in the swamp is the full sync objective during the on-foot part, which asks you to kill and skin a crocodile while you're tailing the dude. Apparently, Edward was really good at multitasking.
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I don't think The Witcher 3 was the first big game to use chromatic aberration, but it's the first one I remember. Even the optimization guide on Nvidia's website was like "Well, this kinda looks like poo poo and I'm not sure why you'd even want to simulate the effect, but you can enable it if you're into that sort of thing, I guess." fake edit: "Nvidia posted:Chromatic Aberration is an age-old visual artifact associated with cheaper camera lenses and improperly taken photos. In recent years however, Chromatic Aberration has grown popular with game developers, much to the dismay of gamers who prefer cleaner images free of unsightly distortion. In the context of a photographer, or a security guard viewing the game world through a cheap camera, its use might make sense, but when playing in first or third person it merely suggests a trip to the optician is in order.
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