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@manofthem are you using the TAA mod for Alien?

https://github.com/aliasIsolation/aliasIsolation/releases

A very dedicated fan made a mod that adds temporal anti aliasing to alien isolation to get rid of all that shimmering that the default aa solutions have. I have not yet tried it myself as I don't have access to my computer at the moment, but you may find it helps out a bunch with the game.

No sir I haven't yet. But I will be checking it out for sure. Thanks for the headsup, it sounds very awesome!
 
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No problemo! I'd love to get some impressions if you don't mind posting them!

Here's the original thread from reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/alienisolation/comments/508aet/alias_isolation_an_antialiasing_mod/

I've been eagerly waiting to try it myself since I haven't even finished one play through of alien yet. I kept downsampling and injecting to get rid of the aliasing but was never happy so I put it on the back burner. Can't wait to try it out myself.
 
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Anyone make a good decision for me as to what game to purchase? want something i can explore, a good story, action i like.. FPS.. 3rd person...
 

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No problemo! I'd love to get some impressions if you don't mind posting them!

Here's the original thread from reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/alienisolation/comments/508aet/alias_isolation_an_antialiasing_mod/

I've been eagerly waiting to try it myself since I haven't even finished one play through of alien yet. I kept downsampling and injecting to get rid of the aliasing but was never happy so I put it on the back burner. Can't wait to try it out myself.

I'll definitely be trying it soon and reporting back with my impressions and feedback.

And I emplore you to get through the game completely and enjoy the environment and tension. I'm pretty sure you'll be giving it another play through or 2 or 3. ;)
 
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Have to say, enjoying Need for Speed. Definitely has that Underground vibe big time, though, I could do without the stupid live actor crap in the game.
 
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I'm sure I'll get a few run throughs of alien after I get back to my rig, grab some new GPUs and get my home theater setup back up and running.

For now I'm on my little 11.6 inch eurocom monster with a 650m GPU and have recently finished a couple runthroughs each of Resident evil 1 (non remake) and Resident evil 2 (no saves).

Right after that I went through Mechcommander gold, the expansion Desperate Measures, and Mechcommander 2. These are still fantastic games and among the most fun and tense moments I've had with a tactical RTS. Mechcommander gold is available for free in iso format these days from No Guts No Galaxy.

I was still hungry for mechs so I got all the way through Mechwarrior 3 using dgvoodoo for the first time ever! I never played through it back on my windows 98 days but dgvoodoo got me all the way through the campaign with a couple of bugs here and there but it was manageable. Sadly the expansion Pirate's Moon kept crashing on me about halfway through the campaign so I gave up on it.

I have just started a play through of Resident Evil 3 which is my least played RE. I think I only beat it once many years ago and I'm finding it quite challenging trying to get all the weapon drops from nemesis.

Edit: Forgot to add I also made it all the way through Heavy Gear 2 with dgvoodoo as well for the first time. Also a very fun, challenging game.
 
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Anyone make a good decision for me as to what game to purchase? want something i can explore, a good story, action i like.. FPS.. 3rd person...
Would need to know what you have played first that checks those boxes.
 

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Anyone make a good decision for me as to what game to purchase? want something i can explore, a good story, action i like.. FPS.. 3rd person...

I must have missed your request for suggestions.
 

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Default answer for what to buy if you don't have it: Dishonored.

That is a most excellent suggestion! Hours of fun, multiple different playthroughs, and very affordable.
 
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Anyone make a good decision for me as to what game to purchase? want something i can explore, a good story, action i like.. FPS.. 3rd person...
Seems Dishonored 2 is very popular these days. But if you never played witcher, please do! Nothing else is better. When it comes to gaming, Witcher 3...this is it! Found something on the map some random secondary - very secondary quest. The voice acting and the amount of detail the npc will give you is huge! In Witcher 3 everything is worthwhile.

P.S. : i would love to own Total War: Warhammer
 

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No problemo! I'd love to get some impressions if you don't mind posting them!

Here's the original thread from reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/alienisolation/comments/508aet/alias_isolation_an_antialiasing_mod/

I've been eagerly waiting to try it myself since I haven't even finished one play through of alien yet. I kept downsampling and injecting to get rid of the aliasing but was never happy so I put it on the back burner. Can't wait to try it out myself.

I got just a few minutes today to dabble with it, and it went fairly smoothly. Can't give an accurate impression just yet, but I did notice one of the guys in game looked very weird. I want to compare that to it without the mod because it may just have been a game issue and there either way.

Also, I think that Alien looks pretty good regardless. Haven't noticed too much in the way of harsh aa but I'm willing to put in more time with the mod. The only thing so far that I don't like is that the mod seemed to drop my fps back to 60 from the 96 OC that it had been running at. Perhaps it's a mod limitation, not sure. The mod notes said that it doesn't play well with crossfire but I disabled crossfire a while ago so that shouldn't be conflicting.

I'll report back as I get into it further
 
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Still playing Epic Mickey. Warren Spector is really cool designer. This game has everything, 3D action, rpg openworld-like gameplay with sidequests and backtracking, classic platforming with puzzle solving, first and third person camera mode, special 2.5D levels and so much more.

Boss battles are awesome, I like games where you actually need to figure out how to defeat a boss, not with button mashing or shooting. It's awesome that Mickey in this game can be either good or evil and mischievous, it's all up to player and his/her decisions. Each quest and boss battle can be completed in different ways with different outcomes.



Epic Mickey definitely has a great replay value, I'm not even talking about amazing levels, from ancient temples, to futuristic cities, secret labs, dungeons, castles, remote islands, space stations, amusement parks. Diversity is really wild and extreme in this game. I'm ~ 30% through and I'm sure more fun is ahead :D





 
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I've just bought Titanfall 2 and really like the single player campaign. Check out my thread about it, here. This normally reassuringly expensive game is also on sale with a decent discount direct from www.origin.com at the moment. Note that The Sims 4 is currently 65% off, so please buy that too so I can laugh at you. :p
 
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I never got into Borderlands much because it had a weird fov that made me dizzy.
 
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I'm currently playing Dreamfall: The longest journey. I'm at chapter 3 201 in the Victory Hotel, I let Zoe do the timer of the pizza warmer, the guy walks to me, one time I ended up talking and the guy let me go walking upstairs, in the end the guy came upstairs and ended in a fight with him and I lost (again). I have noticed I lost a bit health (it's at 90% or so) from the dog before I climbed in the basement of the hotel. How do I regenerate health? Because then I might just beat him. At the time it's really frustrating, pressing the K key on my keyboard as fast as I can but losing the fight over and over again...:(

If I can't regenerate health somehow, I might quit playing this and I just bought Dreamfall Chapters which I should be able to play with my xbox360 controller, maybe thats better.
 
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My X58 system seems to hold up ....

 
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Not scary most of the time like Amnesia was, and most of the monsters seem to just walk a certain path. Darn it, that suit one in Omicron giving me some trouble though. Stinkers still love doing jump scares in their games too when you lest expect one to happen. I think someone on their team was watching to much Aliens and Event Horizon.
 

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Still tearing through all the campaigns in AotS Escalation. So very happy with that release...its my "modern RTS done right" fix at the moment. I love setting up my armies and working choke points and plateaus for tactical advantages against what is to me a very competent.

The standard Ashes is solid as well and will have faster rounds. I play that when my son and I don't feel like SupCom 2. Ashes fills that easy to get into and fun to play area that we both can enjoy for a little MP fun. Whereas Escalations is more complex, has more units and has tactical zoom (yes!)...is more akin to SupCom: FA. More of everything and execute better overall but does have more complexity longer games. Oh and having WASD camera panning support is a nice added touch as I don't use keyboard keys to build...I've always been a mouse clicker for such tasks. Lol.

I should add that this game stresses my GPU more than any other game. Period. Around 30CPU, but high GPU loads and several GB memory load. I'm running 1080p @ ultra w/4X AA. My FPS do dive into the 40s in some.of the largest battles. But damn does this game look good and play so well...makes me happy to have a system that can run it at this level.

That said my kids i3 4160/8GB DDR3/GTX 750Ti system handles Ashes at 1080p far better than expected. More at medium/high settings with no AA...the game still looks absolutely amazing. Though the biggest hindrance is the long initial loading times off the 10-yr old WD 640GB HDD...that's getting replaced with a newer and faster 1TB HDD..which should help. But compared to my 960GB SSD...takes FOREVER to get started. But this is the kind of title that loads resources before you hit the main menu, so starting an actual game is actually quite fast. I can appreciate that.

Tough to deny all the resources this title wants just for an RTS, but then if you're an RTS fan, and love massive battles with good physics and effects, look no further. Especially if you want something new! I'll had it to StarDock and Oxide, Ashes/Escalation are turning out quite nicely. Original Ashes is on sale for $20 as well. Depending on what you want from an RTS, that might do the trick and is slated to get a lot of the changes made in the initial Escalation launch. So UI changes and supposedly the tactical zoom should migrate over.


Beyond that, all the Star Citizen talk on TPU recently has me going back through 2.5 since I really hadn't given it a thorough shakedown. Having lots of fun in my Aurora LN. I had to double take at how light of a load this game is...granted it leads my CPU on average more than anything else I play...overall system load is lighter. Kudos. Now if we can get to 2.6 and eventually 3.0 soon...I'm eager for some fresh SC experiences. :D And now I'm finally able to adjust to the new SC control scheme since I haven't played Elite or Evochron in a few weeks so I'm not pushing the wrong keys as often! It was nice when I had all 3 fairly close...but now to change SC's control scheme would be quite the undertaking...so I'm gonna see if I can put some time into it and see if I can either deal or get comfortable with completely re-configuring the control scheme. I'm hoping the latter so I don't screw myself when I go back to Elite! Either way, having fun in SC cutting my teeth on missions and combat again. Going to try some races too because why not, I never really got into them before.


Lasly...I've been playing Battlezone98 Redux. Picked it up on sale a few days ago. I loved this game back in the day but my PC always struggled to run it...I ended up giving it away to someone whom could play it. Fast forward almost 20 years and this game is in my Steam collection and has been very entertaining and challenging! It reminds you of how much simpler things were back then, yet in the same breath the challenge is real...mostly you gotta figure out what time you need to be where and with what backing you...but that's part of the fun really is figuring it out and then executing it with efficiency. Haven't tried MP yet...but so far really really enjoying my time in this classic.

I gotta admit I've enjoyed a few Cold War "what if" games...World in Conflict, Battlezone, Wargames, Freedom Fighters, etc. This one really was fun because it had such a different take and back then mixing RTS and FPS was still a new idea...the way they did it still works very well and is very playable. Its age does show with everything about it, but at the same time it is very serviceable. Back in the 90s, when I wasn't trying to play this I was playing Tanarus...RIP...
 
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It's been about a month since I last posted something related to my (game) life. After a long hiatus, I finally beat Bioshock: Remastered. Story gets very interesting about half-way through the game. Not as interesting as Bioshock Infinite, but still pretty good. I was quite surprised to find out that I got the achievement for saving every Little Sister, I thought I missed one in the earlier levels. The game starts out slow and is super difficult until around 30-40%. Nearing 70% completion, the game becomes a bit (too?) easy or maybe it's because I've gotten used to it or maybe because every upgrades and invention helped. The final boss fight was way too easy though. I did it in one try with hardly any use of med kit. I remember Bioshock Infinite had a much harder final stage fight. Well whatever, that's another game to cross off from my probably-never-going-to-end game list.


Another game I've been playing (which took about 80% of my game time currently) is NBA 2K17. If you're into sports games (or racing, I suppose), you'll understand the sort of desire to always play every yearly release. I've been playing the MyCareer mode (as always) and I've got about 44 games in, so about half of the season + playoffs. I'll be taking a short break from it though, because I just bought StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (been waiting for the Blizzard sale for quite some time). I'm really looking forward to enjoying this game soon and finishing the SC2 Saga.
 

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Playing Rocket League which is still fun.
Battlefield 1 is fun but I find it frustrating playing with randoms.
Tomorrow the Natural Disasters DLC is available for Cities: Skylines and I am REALLY looking forward to it.
 
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