What are you playing?

[Night]

Finished Doom Eternal, was a fun ride. If you ask me if it's better than Doom 2016, I couldn't say. There are new things in this one, and there's more to the lore than before, which is interesting and I like that. I guess I didn't enjoy Eternal as much as I enjoyed Doom 2016 because the one from 2016 was something new and fresh, I feel the same about Assassins Creed series. Don't get me wrong there are big things going on in Eternal, and if you liked the 2016 one you should give it a go.

Still have some collectables and runes to find/finish so I'll just do that.

 

[Sithaer]

Got Horizon Zero Dawn for like €18 on Epic (with a coupon) and I've played the intro and honestly I'm glad I got the RTX2060, because the game is gorgeous, and if it holds up as well as it has so far it will be very, very, good.

After changing the FOV to 100 it became playable. I really dislike the OTS view where the character is off to the side.

Ah ok the camera moves around. That's not annoying at all.

Ok so about 5 hours in and yes. This game is excellent.

Thats nice but how?
From my country even with the current coupon its still ~30 euro and thats a wee bit much for me atm.

Well matters not, can't run it on my 4GB RX 570 and native 2560x1080 anyway. 'Tried before almost buying it, its full of texture bugs/glitches and I can't fix it so gotta buy a new GPU first with more Vram cause apparently its an issue with 4GB AMD cards'

@Night

Felt the same about Eternal, it was a great game and I had a lot of fun with it 'had it pre ordered too' but something was missing and I think its cause I already played 2016 DOOM twice before playing Eternal so it wasn't as new anymore.
To me they are about ~equal, can't really pick which is better.
The extra lore was a welcome addition tho, read/listened to everything I found in the game.

 

[Frick]

Thats nice but how?
From my country even with the current coupon its still ~30 euro and thats a wee bit much for me atm.

Well matters not, can't run it on my 4GB RX 570 and native 2560x1080 anyway. 'Tried before almost buying it, its full of texture bugs/glitches and I can't fix it so gotta buy a new GPU first with more Vram cause apparently its an issue with 4GB AMD cards'

~€27 and a €9 coupon.

And for what it's worth it looks great at low settings as well. This is everything maxed out vs everything bottomed out (except clouds which was set to medium in the lower end).

BTW, memory use has maxed out at 5.5GB for me. At first I regretted spending so much on a GPU (€300 for a new RTX 2060) but now I am honestly glad I did. Just running around the tall grass in this game is amazing.

Spoiler

 

[Splinterdog]

I've been returning to some old favourites over the holiday weekend, one of which is Mad Max, a very underrated game in many ways. I started it in 2016, played 20 hours so far and am nowhere near finishing which is fine. I always take my time and hate to rush through a game if I'm enjoying it.
The actual hand to hand fighting is brilliant and very satisfying. Not only that, it looks great!

 

[moproblems99]

If one reply constitutes as off-topic then your reply and mine to you now is also off-topic innit? StAy oN tOPic PleASe.

It was just sarcasm. Lounge things.

 

[andy_3_913]

This is my first post so...
Still playing ME3 MP.

( Hopefully that won't be my last post )

 

[Night]

I've been returning to some old favourites over the holiday weekend, one of which is Mad Max, a very underrated game in many ways. I started it in 2016, played 20 hours so far and am nowhere near finishing which is fine. I always take my time and hate to rush through a game if I'm enjoying it.
The actual hand to hand fighting is brilliant and very satisfying. Not only that, it looks great!

100% agreed that it's underrated, post apocalyptic world made perfect, finished the game 2 times completely. You can actually feel the emptiness and 'what used to be' here. I get a craving here and there to start again because it's so well made.

 

[rtwjunkie]

This is my first post so...
Still playing ME3 MP.

( Hopefully that won't be my last post )

Welcome to TPU!

 

[Calmmo]

I started Nier tomatotomatata. I see jaggies at 1440p with 8x msaa, sad. Gonna try FXAA on top i think.

 

[Chomiq]

I have to play Sakura Wars on pcsx2 with software renderer at native res because the game is borked in certain cutscenes when using hardware renderer which caused the FPS to drop to almost single digit values. It's listed as playable but someone hasn't really tested it properly. 95% of the time is fine, but I got pissed off each time the slowdown happened so I went for the software renderer.
18 hours in and I'm almost done. Overall it's a fun game and fanservice is really toned down.

 

[Sithaer]

~€27 and a €9 coupon.

And for what it's worth it looks great at low settings as well. This is everything maxed out vs everything bottomed out (except clouds which was set to medium in the lower end).

BTW, memory use has maxed out at 5.5GB for me. At first I regretted spending so much on a GPU (€300 for a new RTX 2060) but now I am honestly glad I did. Just running around the tall grass in this game is amazing.

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Interesting thing is that we tried it on my bro's PC, similar system with a R5 1600 and a Gigabyte GTX 970 Xtreme, same 2560x1080 monitor resolution even.
On his PC its all fine with the same exact settings, no texture issues but on my 4GB 570 its a mess and looks terrible regardless of the settings. 'I do have around +10 FPS compared to his setup tho'

I waited for some patches/updates that might fix it but nope its still the same mess so I put down the game till I buy a proper GPU. 'which is gonna take longer than planned looking at the GPU prices atm, its disgusting'

Its just a bit of a shame, I was really hyped for this game to come to PC and wanted to play it and even wanted to buy it day 1 but now I'm glad I didn't cause its unplayable on my current setup. 'FPS is ok but gross texture issues'

 

[ne6togadno]

just finished Yaga,
fun little time waster. got it for about 5 with coupon on epic.
10h for first playthrough

 

[b82rez]

I've been playing Yakuza: Like a Dragon (70 hours in and it's an excellent game). I tried to play Cyberpunk but the game was too buggy for my liking but I have been watching a bunch of Cyberpunk glitch compilation videos on Youtube as they are hilarious so at least there is something positive to come out of it.

Example of video below

 

[Space Lynx]

world of warcraft... also AMD CPU users beware, this game crashes all the time with my AMD cpu... its really annoying. I usually can play for 1 hr or so before it crashes, but it never fails. no other game gives me issues though so eh.

 

[Splinterdog]

Slipping back into Cyberpunk and finally grabbing some decent weapons and stealing from people who have been kind to me.
Death from above.

 

[oobymach]

Stranded Deep, soo good for how simple it is, it's a survival game where you're stranded among small islands after a plane crash.

Stranded Deep on Steam

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

store.steampowered.com

 

[Kursah]

Picked up Doom Eternal, Dying Light, Absolute Territory, Hades and Forts from the Steam sale.

• Haven't played Doom Eternal yet, decided I better finish 2016 first lol.
• Just started Dying Light, this is gonna be fun.
• I picked up Absolute Territory because it's an indie space combat sim in honor of X-Wing, Freespace, etc. and the dev is an awesome dude, looking forward to trying this one out.
• Started Hades, and I'm not a rouge fan...but this damn game is addictive and silly. I love the combat, especially with a controller. Though M&KB works well enough too.
• Forts is fun and I'll have to dig into it at some point.

I buy all these games, and what do I end up playing the most in the past few days? Mindustry lol! Free from the dev or $5.99 on Steam, the 6.0 update was massive and its just a damn fun game that's fairly casual but still engaging.

I've also been playing plenty of Creeper World 4 and C&C Remastered, both excellent titles that I highly recommend.

 

[Space Lynx]

Picked up Doom Eternal, Dying Light, Absolute Territory, Hades and Forts from the Steam sale.

• Haven't played Doom Eternal yet, decided I better finish 2016 first lol.
• Just started Dying Light, this is gonna be fun.
• I picked up Absolute Territory because it's an indie space combat sim in honor of X-Wing, Freespace, etc. and the dev is an awesome dude, looking forward to trying this one out.
• Started Hades, and I'm not a rouge fan...but this damn game is addictive and silly. I love the combat, especially with a controller. Though M&KB works well enough too.
• Forts is fun and I'll have to dig into it at some point.

I buy all these games, and what do I end up playing the most in the past few days? Mindustry lol! Free from the dev or $5.99 on Steam, the 6.0 update was massive and its just a damn fun game that's fairly casual but still engaging.

I've also been playing plenty of Creeper World 4 and C&C Remastered, both excellent titles that I highly recommend.

I'm addicted to WoW lately. told myself I'd never go back ten years ago, and here I am... LOL

 

[xu^]

Picked up loads on the Steam winter sale (about 15 games) But the stuff im playing currently are

Age of Empires 2 DE
Wreckfest
Serious Sam 4
F1 2020

and something ive been playing for years and never get tired of...

Quake 2 - Multiplayer

 

[Space Lynx]

Picked up loads on the Steam winter sale (about 15 games) But the stuff im playing currently are

Age of Empires 2 DE
Wreckfest
Serious Sam 4
F1 2020

and something ive been playing for years and never get tired of...

Quake 2 - Multiplayer

I told myself no more games, but I also got AoE 2 DE... lol honestly runs great on my new system, and the enhanced graphics pack allowing for zoom and such is actually really nice experience.

 

[xu^]

I also got AoE 2 DE... lol honestly runs great on my new system, and the enhanced graphics pack allowing for zoom

I dont have that as i thought it was only intended for above 1080p ? is it any use on a 1080p system, or are u blasting it in 4k

 

[GamerGuy]

Just replayed Gears of War 5, great to see consistent >100fps at max setting @ 3840x1080, and have bought Hivebusters. Playing it thru and have gotten a little forward in the expeditions. I enjoy mission based games like this....

 

[FremenDar666]

Played and finished STAR WARS - JEDI: Fallen Order. Haven't 100% though. CYBERPUNK 2077 is nice, GOG release. Various emulators and older DOS games. Have been considering getting back into Amiga emulation and, yeah. Going overboard with grabbing every Amiga game in existense on Abandonware sites.

 

[Space Lynx]

I'm using it at 1080p. It does enhance it some even for 1080p, but it also gives the zoom ability which benefits any resolution, with scroll its kind of fun zooming out real far and zooming back in as close as i want.

I dont have that as i thought it was only intended for above 1080p ? is it any use on a 1080p system, or are u blasting it in 4k

Played and finished STAR WARS - JEDI: Fallen Order. Haven't 100% though. CYBERPUNK 2077 is nice, GOG release. Various emulators and older DOS games. Have been considering getting back into Amiga emulation and, yeah. Going overboard with grabbing every Amiga game in existense on Abandonware sites.

i got stuck in jedi fallen order. the

Spoiler: ya

gladiator part, where you are in arena and have to fight a bunch of random monsters

... i just can't get past it no matter how many times i try, so i finally gave up on it.

 

[xu^]

Played and finished STAR WARS - JEDI: Fallen Order. Haven't 100% though. CYBERPUNK 2077 is nice, GOG release. Various emulators and older DOS games. Have been considering getting back into Amiga emulation and, yeah. Going overboard with grabbing every Amiga game in existense on Abandonware sites.

Just use Winuae and download an image, 1000's of Amiga games available using Whdload, all playable from an HD image, saves much messing with ADF files and disk swapping so to speak

I'm using it at 1080p. It does enhance it some even for 1080p, but it also gives the zoom ability which benefits any resolution, with scroll its kind of fun zooming out real far and zooming back in as close as i want.

Nice , will give it a go then, thought it was pretty much pointless in 1080p