What are you playing?

Sithaer · Nov 6, 2022

Outback Bronze said:
Thought I'd finally check it out.

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Cyberpunk 2077

City is full of bright colors and richly detailed. Nice graphics.

If all goes well then I'm also gonna dive in later next week, already have the GoG version installed just finishing an other game before.
Btw if you disable that gross Chromatic Aberration/film grain/motion blur the game will look much cleaner and better imo.

'I'm using the optimized tweaked settings from Digital Foundry's channel with RT reflections+lights on ultra with DLSS Quality at 0.45 sharpening and the game looks great'

robot zombie · Nov 7, 2022

I cleared everything in all of the regions before the castle in Elden Ring. I just finished the fight with Margit, The Fell Omen, and am about to take on the castle at level 51 lol.

Elden Ring Screenshot 2022.11.06 - 22.05.08.43.jpg

Elden Ring Screenshot 2022.11.06 - 22.05.24.55.jpg

As you can see, the soreseal kills my negation, flat 10% reductions. But it is worth the stat boosts. Margit was nothing with a +2 Moonveil powerstancing with a +5 Uchigatana on the left. I might farm for a Banished Night set to get some decent physical negation. I also took on a Cross-Naginata for stabbing times and distant carefulling, like when I took down the Agheel dragon. I've got almost 30 in Dex and Int, so I'm packing some serious damage for this part of the game. I need more endurance to lug around heavier armor now. Turning into some kinda battle mage, I guess.

Not bad for just starting the first real dungeon. Do not underestimate the amount of content lol. I capitalized with Gold Pickled Fowl's Feet, too. The dragon gave me almost enough to level twice when I was close to level 50 already, thanks to eating one of those towards the end.

That Magma Wyrm at the end of Gael Tunnel, the big, annoying mine where you get the Moonveil, sucks to fight. It's such a small space and he fills a lot of it with magma. It's not actually hard, just tedious. I just had to ride out all of the crazy running around and tossing magma in the tiny arena... keep back and run around. Always try to get on the side and land heavy jump attacks. Roll-between/jump-over his physical attacks. Crit and repeat. He's relatively easy to avoid, just tanky.

Ruru · Nov 7, 2022

Crysis. The original, not the remaster. Love that modern hardware is able to run it without any hiccups at max settings.

kapone32 · Nov 7, 2022

Starting playing Watchdogs. It is a little dark though. I think I will switch to 2. I heard that is more light hearted.

lexluthermiester · Nov 7, 2022

Lenne said:
Crysis. The original, not the remaster. Love that modern hardware is able to run it without any hiccups at max settings.

It amazes me how well Crysis has held up/aged. It still looks and plays great.

neatfeatguy · Nov 7, 2022

lexluthermiester said:
It amazes me how well Crysis has held up/aged. It still looks and plays great.

I finally played through Crysis: Warhead a few months ago. I found it just as entertaining as the original Crysis (which I played through just before I ventured into Warhead). The game ran great off GoG at 1440p, but it did randomly crash to desktop every now and then. I tried running it at 4k, but as soon as the game loaded up within about 5 seconds it would crash to desktop. I thought Crysis and Warhead still looked pretty good for their age.

As for what I'm playing right now, my brother showed me STALKER Anomaly the other day. Pair it up with GAMMA mod for it and it brings things to a whole new level. If you liked the STALKER games, STALKER Anomaly rolls what all 3 games has to offer into one with new storyline, different play modes, tons of mods and a functional factions war aspect that Clear Sky tried to do, but left in a half completed concept that was buggy. Anyone interested, here's youtube video showing how to download and install STALKER Anomaly and GAMMA mod pak:

Ruru · Nov 7, 2022

lexluthermiester said:
It amazes me how well Crysis has held up/aged. It still looks and plays great.

Truly agree on this one. I remember finishing it first time at 1024x768 low (effects high) with 6800 GS, in the last level I had to drop the resolution to 800x600. Still looked damn good.

Audioave10 · Nov 7, 2022

Sithaer said:
I thought about getting into Destiny 2 since I played the free base main story some years ago and it was fun and in general I love looter shooters. 'big fan of Borderlands and such'
My only concern is that I'm not sure how viable Destiny 2 is as a solo player, I'm not really interested in playing with others anymore or joining guilds/discord servers to find ppl to Raid with on a end game level so idk if it worths the effort/time on my own if I can't reach end game character builds/gear that way.

I went through this same problem a few years ago with Destiny 2 and it made me bored after awhile with the restrictions.
I could never make it to endgame Gear.

64K · Nov 7, 2022

Booting up Colonial Conquest (1985). I've got 710 hours in this game on Steam and I had the game on Commodore 64 back in the mid 80s and I surely put a couple of thousand hours into it then. The game is addictive as hell for me : )

Vayra86 · Nov 7, 2022

Frick said:
If you play it just for fun and it's free, why worry about the end game?

The end game is where these things need to go for some people, @Sithaer and myself are always keen to chase carrots

Need to have carrot to have chase.

Dunno man, the psychology of seeing a level 1 bar that can go up to 11 or even 20 is just irresistible. It must arrive at cap, and extend way beyond. Some sort of self-competitiveness or just plain OCD I don't know.

Sithaer · Nov 7, 2022

Vayra86 said:
The end game is where these things need to go for some people, @Sithaer and myself are always keen to chase carrots Need to have carrot to have chase.

Dunno man, the psychology of seeing a level 1 bar that can go up to 11 or even 20 is just irresistible. It must arrive at cap, and extend way beyond. Some sort of self-competitiveness or just plain OCD I don't know.

Yep, guilty as charged. :laugh:

Dunno I guess its something that stick with me ever since I grew up playing Diablo 2 and some MMOs, I was even borderline addicted to the chase/grind back in the days but luckily I'm better now in that regard and moderate it.

Don't get me wrong I'm not ignoring the story in ARPGs/looter shooters heck even in MMOs I read the story at least once with my first char but if the end game is not there then I'm not interested in staying/or if I can't reach it.

Vayra86 · Nov 7, 2022

Sithaer said:
Yep, guilty as charged.
Dunno I guess its something that stick with me ever since I grew up playing Diablo 2 and some MMOs, I was even borderline addicted to the chase/grind back in the days but luckily I'm better now in that regard and moderate it.

Don't get me wrong I'm not ignoring the story in ARPGs/looter shooters heck even in MMOs I read the story at least once with my first char but if the end game is not there then I'm not interested in staying/or if I can't reach it.

Yeah... and its harmful to my gaming at this point, I've run out of things to farm, or at least, interesting things to farm towards. Games barely have secrets anymore for me, so I kinda know what's coming. The rush of getting there kinda wore out

So now I'm dabbling in the slower paced games, that still have some form of progression and I want to really just enjoy the journey.

And then I find myself farming to rep level 5 (its a big task) in Mordheim again...

Didn't even complete campaign missions act 1 yet.

Sithaer · Nov 7, 2022

Vayra86 said:
Yeah... and its harmful to my gaming at this point, I've run out of things to farm, or at least, interesting things to farm towards. Games barely have secrets anymore for me, so I kinda know what's coming. The rush of getting there kinda wore out So now I'm dabbling in the slower paced games, that still have some form of progression and I want to really just enjoy the journey.

And then I find myself farming to rep level 5 (its a big task) in Mordheim again... Didn't even complete campaign missions act 1 yet.

Lately I play more story/slow paced games but I still get the itch to farm stuff and then I fire up a game like that but yea I'm also kinda done with the ones I've been playing. 'BL 3/ Outriders/Wonderlands cause those 2 botched the end game pretty much..'
I guess I will get the story part and a bit of the gearing/build part in Cyberpunk so that should be fun for me. 'I'm gonna blind play it and just build my char my way'

And yea I also find myself doing that in games where you can farm stuff, I'm not even finished with the story and I'm already farming a boss or something for loot that will turn obsolete in a few hours/levels anyway. :laugh:

Still playing FEAR 1 and damn I'm reminded that back in the days games did not hold your hands, like finding where to go or anything and even the damn flashlight has a short duration and then I can't see shit at some places until it recharges. :oops:

'fun game otherwise'

DAPUNISHER · Nov 7, 2022

Doing a fresh playthrough of Batman Arkham Knight. 4K everything maxed, all PhysX effects on. Great looking game for its age. Surprising amount of destructional objects. Good Halloween themed game. Man Bat and Joker try hard with the

Man Bat got me back in the day. I had been playing a good while late at night, tired and ready to call it a session. The BAM! he's screaming right in my face. It was one of those almost punch the screen moments.

Mark Hamill's Joker performance alone, makes for a worthwhile playthrough.

Splinterdog · Nov 7, 2022

Whilst playing Uncharted, I've just started watching the film on HBO and please someone tell me why they cast Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland as Sully and Nate. The whole idea of Sully is that he's an old hand at the game and Nate is now somewhat swarthy and battle scarred, at least in the game. Haven't seen Sam yet but I don't hold out too much hope. They all look like they just walked off a washing powder advert.

outpt · Nov 8, 2022

it's not out yet but, come december 2 2022 jumping on the callisto protocol. this looks like a damn good game.

Dr. Dro · Nov 8, 2022

I've started a new playthrough of NieR Automata. But I can't play too much. That game seriously messes with my feelings in ways I cannot describe.

Currently grinding away at Apex season 15, the new broken moon map is quite enjoyable... unlike the sweaty 3 stacks of masters on their smurf accounts.

RJARRRPCGP · Nov 8, 2022

mouacyk said:
I forgot to mention that FPS tanks also, from around 75FPS to 55FPS. Clocks and power stay the same. If the GPU was actually power-gating, because there's less work, it would make sense, but the fps drop doesn't.

It seems more likely that the video card software, thinks the card is semi-idle! I had an issue like that in GTA V!

Space Lynx · Nov 8, 2022

Dr. Dro said:
I've started a new playthrough of NieR Automata. But I can't play too much. That game seriously messes with my feelings in ways I cannot describe.

It's a great game, I just wish it was not capped at 60 fps.

Dr. Dro · Nov 8, 2022

CallandorWoT said:
It's a great game, I just wish it was not capped at 60 fps.

Special K can take care of that

Space Lynx · Nov 8, 2022

Dr. Dro said:
Special K can take care of that

I checked nexusmods and can't find anything with this name, how do I do this?

Sensates · Nov 8, 2022

Shatterline, a F2P shooter with great PvE exhibition modes.

Dr. Dro · Nov 8, 2022

CallandorWoT said:
I checked nexusmods and can't find anything with this name, how do I do this?

The Complete Guide to SK | Special K - The Official Wiki (special-k.info)

Join the Discord too, I'm always hanging around the nier channel there, and run a thread on Re[in]carnation too :toast:

Sithaer · Nov 8, 2022

Splinterdog said:
Whilst playing Uncharted, I've just started watching the film on HBO and please someone tell me why they cast Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland as Sully and Nate. The whole idea of Sully is that he's an old hand at the game and Nate is now somewhat swarthy and battle scarred, at least in the game. Haven't seen Sam yet but I don't hold out too much hope. They all look like they just walked off a washing powder advert.

From what I read in an article theres 2 options/ideas that the movie is either ~10 years before the first game or the movie is simply a non canon story.
I did not play the games just watched the movie on its own like any other adventure/action/fun movie.

Chomiq · Nov 8, 2022

Sithaer said:
From what I read in an article theres 2 options/ideas that the movie is either ~10 years before the first game or the movie is simply a non canon story.
I did not play the games just watched the movie on its own like any other adventure/action/fun movie.

Splinterdog said:
Whilst playing Uncharted, I've just started watching the film on HBO and please someone tell me why they cast Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland as Sully and Nate. The whole idea of Sully is that he's an old hand at the game and Nate is now somewhat swarthy and battle scarred, at least in the game. Haven't seen Sam yet but I don't hold out too much hope. They all look like they just walked off a washing powder advert.

Sony wanted to milk it so they probably thought it's better to start early with TH.

They reached 400 mil at box office, I don't think we'll have another movie any time soon.

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What are you playing?

Sithaer

robot zombie

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

kapone32

lexluthermiester

neatfeatguy

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

Audioave10

64K

Vayra86

Sithaer

Vayra86

Sithaer

DAPUNISHER

Splinterdog

outpt

Dr. Dro

RJARRRPCGP

Space Lynx

Astronaut

Dr. Dro

Space Lynx

Astronaut

Sensates

Dr. Dro

Sithaer

Chomiq

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