What are you playing?

[The red spirit]

Now I'm kinda glad that I upgraded my GPU before the game was relased, I bet my 1070 wouldn't like this at all.

I think 1070 would run it at 1080p medium just fine. I run Cyberpunk with RX 580 at 1440p low-medium and adaptive FSR + RIS. It runs at 40-50 fps, without FSR and RIS it runs at like 30-35 fps. At 1080p fps was in medium 50s. Cyberpunk so far is the most GPU demanding game and GTX 1070 is a bit faster than RX 580.

 

[robot zombie]

I don't want to spam too many Requiem pics/spoil it but damn it still catches me off guard sometimes, how good this game looks. The attention to detail is just crazy.
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So far I also really like the game itself, depening on how good Callisto Protocol will be at the end of the year Requiem might be my game of the year just like Innocence was at the time.

Now I'm kinda glad that I upgraded my GPU before the game was relased, I bet my 1070 wouldn't like this at all.

That part of the game that made me yell at it for looking so good. When I hit that big open field, I had to stop and go outside for a minute. I could not stop smiling. I had to process the disbelief.

Seriously though. Even RDR2 has nothing on their best rocky forest areas. It's amazing stuff.

 

[Sithaer]

That part of the game that made me yell at it for looking so good. When I hit that big open field, I had to stop and go outside for a minute. I could not stop smiling. I had to process the disbelief.

Seriously though. Even RDR2 has nothing on their best rocky forest areas. It's amazing stuff.

Yep that open field with the flowers and the draw distance, I also spent a few minutes there just looking at it and thinking what the hell I'm looking at. 'and it wasn't even using up 6 gigs of Vram, yet we have potato games using up a lot more..'

I think 1070 would run it at 1080p medium just fine. I run Cyberpunk with RX 580 at 1440p low-medium and adaptive FSR + RIS. It runs at 40-50 fps, without FSR and RIS it runs at like 30-35 fps. At 1080p fps was in medium 50s. Cyberpunk so far is the most GPU demanding game and GTX 1070 is a bit faster than RX 580.

The thing is with Requiem, you don't gain much from low to ultra settings. ~10 fps at most so if you can't run it at low you are in trouble + game only supports DLSS currently.

~40 fps at 1080p medium and thats not even a too demanding part, with my resolution I get around 10 fps less vs 1920x1080 so I would be looking at a 30 fps experience with the 1070 and drops under 30 at more demanding parts so ye that wouldn't be fun.

Heck even now with the 3060 Ti I'm only pulling at least solid frames cause of DLSS Quality.
I did try Cyberpunk just for performance benching and that game runs better with a mix of high-ulltra settings +Ultra RT+DLSS Quality than this game does with no RT, it really is demanding.

 

[SmoKies]

@Sithaer
Looking good I dont pay attention to fps as long as i can play the game without any problems im good to go

but in ur case u will need to upgrade ur video card soon if u want to play new releases with more demanding

 

[ne6togadno]

That looks pretty baller! My base world was made in 2016 so yeah, it's probably missing some things, so I made a new one. Transferring all my stuff is a pain in the butt though. As far as progress goes, I think I stopped by the time I was getting ready to tackle the post golem bosses, so I'm only a step down from endgame stuff, I think?

if you got golem, you have only cultist, pillars and moon lord left.
but your boss progression is per world so in the new world you'll have to kill em again. you can skip most of pre hard mode (you need skeletron and wall of flesh).
you can kill cultist and your class pillar in the old world. then make weapons out of pillar fragments. with those weapons you will be mean machine till you get to lunar events in the new world.

 

[Sithaer]

@Sithaer
Looking good I dont pay attention to fps as long as i can play the game without any problems im good to go

but in ur case u will need to upgrade ur video card soon if u want to play new releases with more demanding

Nah, I've bought my 3060 Ti 1+ months ago there will be no GPU upgrades for 2-3 years at least, thats my usual upgrade cycle.
1070 was my previous card I've upgraded from.

I'm only using a 2560x1080 Ultrawide 75Hz monitor and for that the 3060 Ti is enough, I also enable DLSS Quality in every game that supports it and that way it should last me a good while.
Always been a budget-mid range user and this card was the single most expensive piece of hardware I ever bought and there is no way I'm spending more on such. 'I'm not from a wealthy country, even this took me months of saving up money..'

 

[The red spirit]

Nah, I've bought my 3060 Ti 1+ months ago there will be no GPU upgrades for 2-3 years at least, thats my usual upgrade cycle.
1070 was my previous card I've upgraded from.

I'm only using a 2560x1080 Ultrawide 75Hz monitor and for that the 3060 Ti is enough, I also enable DLSS Quality in every game that supports it and that way it should last me a good while.
Always been a budget-mid range user and this card was the single most expensive piece of hardware I ever bought and there is no way I'm spending more on such. 'I'm not from a wealthy country, even this took me months of saving up money..'

Talking about hardware longevity, I intend to keep my RX 580 for at least 1-2 years. There's just not too much exciting in GPU space in terms of rasterization performance. DLSS and RT are nice, but I won't pay a lot for that. I have a feeling that my next daily GPU will be used workstation card, but more than anything I'm now curious just how long my RX 580 will last. Polaris cards are just a gift that keeps on giving and besides gaming, I truly enjoy FP64 performance, which makes GCN cards basically irreplaceable.

 

[Lei]

Yakuza : like a dragon [2020] by SEGA

it has too may cut scenes, but I'm starting to like it after chapter 3.
There are gangs on street that you have to fight them, but you can avoid them if you take another route or use a taxi (You can't steal nor drive a car like GTA)
the gangs were getting me bored, but I learned to skip them.
In chapter 2 he gets a haircut, and in chapter 3 he's homeless looking for a job. Apparently they end up working in a whore house to protect the girls That's why now I'm liking the cutscene stories a bit more.


There's no shooting, all fights are fist, bat, throwing items such as bike, sofa ...
Instead of driving, you're mostly running in streets of Tokyo
One guy has an interesting fight skill, he throws seeds at the opponent and then pigeons fly from out of nowhere to peck him (the guy is part of your gang and u choose this fighting skill)
you can't beat the pedestrians, you can only bump into them while running; they frown or mildly escape.

 

[Chomiq]

Yakuza : like a dragon [2020] by SEGA

it has too may cut scenes, but I'm starting to like it after chapter 3.
There are gangs on street that you have to fight them, but you can avoid them if you take another route or use a taxi (You can't steal nor drive a car like GTA)
the gangs were getting me bored, but I learned to skip them.
In chapter 2 he gets a haircut, and in chapter 3 he's homeless looking for a job. Apparently they end up working in a whore house to protect the girls That's why now I'm liking the cutscene stories a bit more.


There's no shooting, all fights are fist, bat, throwing items such as bike, sofa ...
Instead of driving, you're mostly running in streets of Tokyo
One guy has an interesting fight skill, he throws seeds at the opponent and then pigeons fly from out of nowhere to peck him (the guy is part of your gang and u choose this fighting skill)
you can't beat the pedestrians, you can only bump into them while running; they frown or mildly escape.

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Just wait, there's more. You can have dominatrix in your team.

 

[Lei]

Just wait, there's more. You can have dominatrix in your team.

Do you mean this girl?
She came in Chapter 5

 

[Frick]

Wait what Vicky 3 is out? Noooo when am I going to play it?

 

[The red spirit]

Wait what Vicky 3 is out? Noooo when am I going to play it?

I really hate that new UI. It's reason number 1, why I never really played any other Paradox game, it's basically unusable.

 

[SN2716057]

Picked up Sable for a bit of quiet exploration, and not quiet at all with Nathan Drake.

 

[Frick]

I really hate that new UI. It's reason number 1, why I never really played any other Paradox game, it's basically unusable.

Do you mean you hate the new UI's in CK3 and Vicky 3 and like the UI's from earlier games or do you mean you just dislike all PDX UI's?

Anyway, I'm apparently playing right now, and already I've encountered a bit of historical inacurracies: Swedens literacy rate is at about 54%, while actually at the time it was over 90%, thanks to education mandates but more importantly the so called husförhör, which basically meant the priests did yearly rounds in the households making sure everyone knew their catechism and knew how to read and write. No matter how rural the surroundings or poor the upbringing, you had to be able to read, so schools was a serious thing. By contrast, at the same time France had a literacy rate of about 35%.

I assume this is for balance purposes, but I'm still outraged at this blasphemy. Man I'm exited.

I have no idea what I'm doing as I never really played previous Vickys but still.

I for one find the UI to be great.

 

[LifeOnMars]

Picked up Sable for a bit of quiet exploration, and not quiet at all with Nathan Drake.
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Beautiful art style and was already in my wishlist. I'll definitely pick it up at some point.

 

[The red spirit]

Do you mean you hate the new UI's in CK3 and Vicky 3 and like the UI's from earlier games or do you mean you just dislike all PDX UI's?

hard to answer, because I hate Victoria 1's UI, but I have Vicky 3's UI too. Both are overloaded with crap and unwieldy, also distract from game. But then I tried to get into Europa Universalis and every single release had bad UI with same reasons too. I only figured out Victoria 2's UI, because it felt approachable, open, but not overloaded with nonsense. Basically the only usable Paradox game to me so far. But I never tried Stellaris or Cities Skylines, maybe I would like their UI's, but I don't really want to play those games. I never tried HOI or CK series either. Vicky 2 as game wasn't as complicated as I expected and was rather straightforward. Basically Civilization with a bit more complications. It's not downright brutal like Rise of Nations or Age of Mythology, where you have to think really hard if you don't want to be wiped out by opponents at higher difficulties

Anyway, I'm apparently playing right now, and already I've encountered a bit of historical inacurracies: Swedens literacy rate is at about 54%, while actually at the time it was over 90%, thanks to education mandates but more importantly the so called husförhör, which basically meant the priests did yearly rounds in the households making sure everyone knew their catechism and knew how to read and write. No matter how rural the surroundings or poor the upbringing, you had to be able to read, so schools was a serious thing. By contrast, at the same time France had a literacy rate of about 35%.

I assume this is for balance purposes, but I'm still outraged at this blasphemy. Man I'm exited.

I have no idea what I'm doing as I never really played previous Vickys but still.

i frankly never cared about historical accuracy at ll. All I saw in Vicky games is just bunch of countries and you conquer others or beat them in other ways. That or just fucking up world order with commands and watch the chaos ensue. It's even more fun in mods like HPM, where you get more countries. I remember, I managed to raise infamy of UK to over 1K and it was beaten to pulp until the end date or basically started massive war in Europe across all countries just for lolz or made each nation have their own country or... possibilities are endless. And then you can modify game files to set start date earlier or end date later to see what will happen to map over years, now add various set up of countries like random wars that you can start or mismanaged territories or forced regimes. Yeah, that is peak Vicky 2 for me and I don't care about historic accuracy, because I don't play it for that. For me it's ultimate worldwide mess simulator.

I for one find the UI to be great.

That's fine, it reminds me a lot of EU 4. But yeah, it's no secret that PDX UI's have been very divisive over years and generally are complicated and even fans of PDX always argue which one is better or worse all the time, so you can ignore me and enjoy that game.

 

[QuietBob]

I've completed Deus Ex: Revision, the fan made remake/mod of the 2000 classic. And what an epic journey it was! This is one of the very few titles I consider an experience rather than a video game

It took me 67.5 hours of pure gameplay to clock off a completionist playthrough with all secondary goals accomplished, all augmentations fully upgraded, all skill points earned, all locations explored and all collectibles found. I finished it on the highest realistic difficulty level using a stealth/pacifist approach, in which only a single enemy had to be killed for story progression:



As an added challenge, I carried through with a rather limited skill set, with just one ability upgraded twice, and a single upgrade to six out of ten other skills:



And to satisfy my curiosity, I reloaded multiple times to try out all possible approaches, alternate routes and dialog options. It also took me a good while to find, examine, substitute and fix the missing hi-res textures with those found in a separate add-on. According to Adrenalin, I spent 375 hours in-game

 

[Frick]

i frankly never cared about historical accuracy at ll. All I saw in Vicky games is just bunch of countries and you conquer others or beat them in other ways. That or just fucking up world order with commands and watch the chaos ensue. It's even more fun in mods like HPM, where you get more countries. I remember, I managed to raise infamy of UK to over 1K and it was beaten to pulp until the end date or basically started massive war in Europe across all countries just for lolz or made each nation have their own country or... possibilities are endless. And then you can modify game files to set start date earlier or end date later to see what will happen to map over years, now add various set up of countries like random wars that you can start or mismanaged territories or forced regimes. Yeah, that is peak Vicky 2 for me and I don't care about historic accuracy, because I don't play it for that. For me it's ultimate worldwide mess simulator.

That bit was a joke.

 

[Cvrk]

 

[Shihab]

Re-replaying Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. Making this "migrating to linux" thing an excuse to stick to old experiences rather than trying new things.
I hated this game, or rather, I hated its AI. I have issues with many of its mechanics and much of its design, but I could live with all of it, except the idiocy, imbecility, and ineffectuality of its artificial [nonexistent] intelligence of companion system.

Still, a decent game for wasting a few hundred hours, so long as you take breaks and avoid caffiene or anything that raises blood pressure while strolling Bitterblack...

It's a pity AI-companion, party-based RPGs haven't adopted systems like those used in Final Fantasy XII and Dragon Age, instead they kept doing blackbox/bottled crap like this one and the atrocity that was Final Fantasy XIII. Games had a real shot at doing away with player-controlled parties without ruining the whole experience, but instead all they've done is, at worst, turn the mechanic into a source of frustrating difficulty (the bad kind); at best, complexify inventory systems because now you have over-glorified packmules to manage as well. Dragon Dogma wins the award for covering the entire spectrum!

 

[Lei]

Yakuza Kiwami 2

I like the fight scenes a lot more here than "Yakuza: Like a Dragon" it's more immersive and less interrupted by menus and options.

I also found a brilliant way to skip the annoying cutscenes. @Chomiq
This is how I skip every cutscene under 80 milliseconds.

Install AutoHotkey
Open notepad, write this content and save it as .ahk file

Spoiler: script text

b::
yakuza2:
Sleep, 10
Send, {Escape Down}
Sleep, 10
Send, {Escape Up}
Sleep, 10
Send, {e Down}
Sleep, 10
Send, {e Up}
Sleep, 10
Send, {Left Down}
Sleep, 10
Send, {Left Up}
Sleep, 10
Send, {Enter Down}
Sleep, 10
Send, {Enter Up}
Return

run the file (autohotkey script file: yakuza2.ahk)

something like this appears in your notification area:

As long as this H icon is there, whenever you press "b" on your keyboard, cutscenes in Yakuza will be skipped under 10th of a second.

While you're not playing, suspend this hotkey:

you can assign any button of your xbox controller to press "b" on your keyboard.


Install Antimicro

Assign a button that you don't use during gameplay, for example pressing down the left stick. then assign "b" on your keyboard to it.

Now while you're playing, pressing down the left stick will skip the cut scenes. you no longer have to press Esc+E+yes or Menu+A+Yes

I could change the each delay from 10 milliseconds to 2. So now my scenes get skipped under 8 milliseconds.

This trick works for "Yakuza : like a dragon" as well. but you should change these lines:

Because "Yes" is on top of "No" in Yakuza like a dragon.
Left Stick is also for first-person camera. so you should pick another shortcut button in this game. (alternatively you can just press b on your keyboard and not use antimicro at all)

 

[outpt]

cyberpunk 2077. it's going to be a while before i play anything else,its,for me, great. Jackie is the star of this show for me.

 

[jormungand]

cyberpunk 2077. it's going to be a while before i play anything else,its,for me, great. Jackie is the star of this show for me.

nahh, Judy spiders web is

 

[Dristun]

Happy to report that I'm enjoying MWII's multiplayer quite a bit more than Vanguard's - what a relief, I was prepared for the worst

 

[Sithaer]

cyberpunk 2077. it's going to be a while before i play anything else,its,for me, great. Jackie is the star of this show for me.

Its on a 50% sale on GoG atm, damn I'm tempted to pull the trigger cause I doubt that its getting cheaper anytime soon and I kinda want to play the game properly now that I have the hardware for it. 'well better at least..'

Did not have much time to play recently so I'm still about to finish Plague Tale Requiem and also FEAR 1, then I can jump into Cyberpunk full time.