What are you playing?

[Cvrk]

Cod warzone.

Do you mean this?

Or maybe this?

When I first announced that I was playing Warzone i was kinda shy. Free to play generic battle royals is not a thing that gets attention around TP gamers.
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On a more serious note in concordance with the unique taste buds of TP's community I bring you Behind the Frame - for the romantic artist inside us all
(taking a break from camping a random petrol station is sure is relaxing)

 

[Space Lynx]

I've been playing wolfenstein the new order alot lately. I've had it for a few years, never played it until now. I have 6hrs into it.

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I love playing all the older Total War games too... lol very nice mate.

Wolfenstein is a fun/good game imo.
Finished New Order and Old Blood 2 times already and even finished YoungBlood. 'tbh its not as bad as ppl make it sound like'



Well my 570 was really aging on me especially since I upgraded to a 21:9 2560x1080 Ultrawide in 2019, new games were starting to become an issue to the point of simply running out of Vram along with performance.
I don't need crazy high fps or anything but some upgrade was needed and since I refuse to pay the crazy prices one the new gen cards or even prev gen I went for a second hand GTX 1070 thats just about right for my current needs.
So far I'm more than satisfied with it even if I paid a bit more than I was comfortable with but oh well its still better than the new card prices. 'at least this much performance I can make use of w/o wasting it'

I'm planning to finish HZD, most likely it will take me a long time but thats all fine with me. 'I'm not really critical about games as long as I have fun in my way and no game breaking issues happen'

you upgraded to a gtx 1070? or do you have an even newer card just not updated your system specs?

 

[Sithaer]

I love playing all the older Total War games too... lol very nice mate.



you upgraded to a gtx 1070? or do you have an even newer card just not updated your system specs?

Yup I upgraded to the GTX 1070 under my specs from the RX 570 4G I had since 2018.
Yeah I know its not the kind of upgrade what most ppl do around here but this is what I can afford where I live and also the performance I needed nowadays. 'I'm not paying ~650-700$ for a 6600 XT range card or even more for a 3060'

Now everything I play is a lot smoother '~ + 20-25 fps average in BL 3' and I can go around maxing out texture settings I couldn't before which is important to me.

HZD averages around almost exactly 50-52 fps at my native res with mix of Ultra/High settings and medium AO 'higher settings look worse tbh'.
Thats perfectly enough for me, it was not possible to play this game on my 570 cause the 4gb Vram caused issues at my native res. 'glitched out low textures loaded in and such'

 

[outpt]

Doom, until i uninstalled it what a absolute bore fest.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Doom, until i uninstalled it what a absolute bore fest.

Which one?

 

[outpt]

whoops doom eternal

 

[Susquehannock]

UT2k4 ... big head mode.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I got a new game off Steam, Gedonia, its a open world RPG, pretty good, have a look

 

[xu^]

Doom, until i uninstalled it what a absolute bore fest.

I like Doom 2016, but just couldnt get on with Doom Eternal, to much platforming for me.

Playing through the single player of the Quake Remaster currently, never really played it back in the day beyond a quick mess about online with it. Really enjoying it so far, just started the 1st expansion after finishing the main game, After the expansions are done ill try the Quake 64 as well that comes with it, can imagine that wont look as good lol

 

[yotano211]

I love playing all the older Total War games too... lol very nice mate.



you upgraded to a gtx 1070? or do you have an even newer card just not updated your system specs?

Me too, I have several hundred hours on most total war games, that and the Tropico games where you are the president of a banana island. For me it really hits "home".

 

[Sithaer]

I like Doom 2016, but just couldnt get on with Doom Eternal, to much platforming for me.

Playing through the single player of the Quake Remaster currently, never really played it back in the day beyond a quick mess about online with it. Really enjoying it so far, just started the 1st expansion after finishing the main game, After the expansions are done ill try the Quake 64 as well that comes with it, can imagine that wont look as good lol

I love both games, couldn't really pick if I had to since I might be biased towards 2016 DOOM cause that was the first reboot game I played and not Eternal.
Already finished 2016 2 times and still have it installed along with Eternal and fire them up whenever I feel like blasting through a map/mission or so.

Platforming/jumping around was a bit weird at first but I didn't mind much, after all I'm also a fan of the Mirror's Edge games so yeah. 'I just didn't expect to see it in DOOM'
Even bought the physical copy of Eternal on day 1. 'still don't own the DLCs but I do plan to buy those at some point'

Btw thats like the first time I see anyone ever mention DOOM and bore fest in the same sentence, definitely not if its played on the harder difficulties.

 

[Vayra86]

Finally started my Horizon Zero Dawn journey with the new card. 'Wanted to play this game since it was relased on PC but my RX 570 wasn't up to the task at my native resolution'
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This will keep my busy for a good while since I don't rush such games. 'meanwhile waiting for Lost Ark relase'

Also finished Tell Me Why.
I can see that it might no be everyone's cup of tea but I had my fun with it and found it interesting in its own way, I'm a fairly open minded person so I had no issues with the game's design/story and whatnot.



Yup also happened to me in the past and it made me feel like I wasted my money and also not using my hardware's resources since even after upgrading all I did is play the same easy to run games.
Then my upgraded GPU 'GTX 560 Ti when it was decent' even died on me at the time so it was a total waste, after that I downgraded back to what I actually needed for my games until I started playing more demanding games.

So nowadays I only upgrade when I actually have a reason for it and games to play/use with.
Otherwise I don't mind using whatever I already have. 'Thats how my RX 570 lasted me ~3 years'

Very familiar this, Im still rolling with a 1080 and the urge for more is really not there. Yes new games have some new effects. But none really tickled me such that I NEED to see it today. Another big thing with waiting on GPU upgrades is your jump forward at the same price point is bigger. Kinda increases the "oh cool" feeling you get when there is more power under the hood. Those 30-40% baby steps are really just that in most actual gameplay. Even 50% more perf isnt directly mind blowing if you already werent looking at slideshows.

 

[Sithaer]

Very familiar this, Im still rolling with a 1080 and the urge for more is really not there. Yes new games have some new effects. But none really tickled me such that I NEED to see it today. Another big thing with waiting on GPU upgrades is your jump forward at the same price point is bigger. Kinda increases the "oh cool" feeling you get when there is more power under the hood. Those 30-40% baby steps are really just that in most actual gameplay. Even 50% more perf isnt directly mind blowing if you already werent looking at slideshows.

Yeah pretty much how I feel about this.
Currently there is not a single game on the market that I'm interested in playing that wouldn't be enjoyable for me with this 1070.
I don't require ~high fps to enjoy my games cause I'm simply not sensitive to it and I have no plans to upgrade my monitor anytime soon.

Heck if I really wanted to I could be still using that 570 and mind my own business like before, even this upgrade was more of a want than need aside from a very few selected games like HZD that just noped out on my 570. 'more of an issue with the game/AMD actually'
I might do a CPU upgrade '3600' at a later point for those pesky single thread optimized titles and thats about it, don't really feel like spending more on this system and gonna use it until I build a completely new gen PC in the future. 'AM5 or whatever Intel has at the time'

Also I'm fairly sure that I will be busy playing Lost Ark for a long time and thats not exactly a heavy game to run.
On the side I will just slowly play my backlog games when I need a break.

New gen effects are cool like you said but I also don't feel that I desperately need those in my games for now, most of the new games look good enough to me anyway.

 

[KainXS]

Tormented Souls, tank controls ftw

 

[lexluthermiester]

Playing through the single player of the Quake Remaster currently, never really played it back in the day beyond a quick mess about online with it. Really enjoying it so far, just started the 1st expansion after finishing the main game, After the expansions are done ill try the Quake 64 as well that comes with it, can imagine that wont look as good lol

It seems confirmed that this will come to GOG! Can't wait to run through it again! Quake1 is my favorite of the series!

 

[plastiscɧ]

Currently climbing up the ladder to get one of the best 100 Priests worldwide. but still work to do..... gimmie 3 weeks

 

[Shadowdust]

I've been kind of sampling games the last two weeks. I finally finished Ending E on Nier: Replicant and trying to find something new or old to play. I've been bouncing between FFVII: Remake Intergrade, Tales of Berseria, Edge of Eternity and as of last night, Alan Wake. I imagine once Sept. 9 hits, I'll be on Tales of Arise.

 

[ne6togadno]

fyi

Knights of Honor II: Sovereign – Official Game Site

Knights of Honor II: Sovereign is a modern empire-building grand-strategy game that runs in real-time and is set in medieval era.

knightsofhonor.com

 

[Splinterdog]

This wasn't part of the game plan, Lara.

 

[mama]

Hanging out for Wrath of the Righteous which comes out proper in a couple of days.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I’m waiting to play the Homecoming expansion to State of Decay 2. It’s the return to Trumbull Valley from the first game and is the 5th map. Additionally there are new missions and weapons.

Unfortunately, despite releasing tomorrow, I’ve got to wait till I have power and cable back on at home. But that’s what I will be playing as soon as I get back and unpack whenever!

 

[WhitetailAni]

Cross-compiling hell.
I'm trying to port XKCD 1608's hoverboard game to the 3DS and getting stuck on CMake errors.
Yes, it's a web-based game. Someone also made a Windows version of it with C++ (compiled via CMake) and put the source code on GitHub.
It just so happens that you can compile C++ for the 3DS (and there's a CMake... extension? library? don't know what to call it for the 3DS), so I set out on a quest to do so.
So far I've run into problems compiling the SDL 2 library I'll need to run the game (which might not work as I'm not sure how far the devs got with it, they may have not done video yet).
Here's the tabs I have open just for this project:

If you want a real game, I've been playing lots of Geometry Dash, Pocket Trains, and Bloons Monkey City recently.
Geometry Dash:
I went ~1.5 years without playing and my skill level increased a decent bit in that time.
I've also given up on making good levels on my own (bar a few) and enjoy making auto levels, so I'm going to do that instead.
Pocket Trains:
I like trains.
I like making things work.
Logical conclusion.
Pro tip: Make Milan a hub city.
Bloons Monkey City:
Who wouldn't want to play a game where you pop millions of balloons via many different methods for fun? Darts are classic, but you also have ballistic missiles, laser eyes, plasma eyes, beams of sunlight, grapes, and pineapples.
I should buy myself TD 5. I love that game.

 

[Splinterdog]

I’m waiting to play the Homecoming expansion to State of Decay 2. It’s the return to Trumbull Valley from the first game and is the 5th map. Additionally there are new missions and weapons.

Unfortunately, despite releasing tomorrow, I’ve got to wait till I have power and cable back on at home. But that’s what I will be playing as soon as I get back and unpack whenever!

Because of hurricane Ida, I take it? I hope you didn't lose too much.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I’m waiting to play the Homecoming expansion to State of Decay 2. It’s the return to Trumbull Valley from the first game and is the 5th map. Additionally there are new missions and weapons.

Unfortunately, despite releasing tomorrow, I’ve got to wait till I have power and cable back on at home. But that’s what I will be playing as soon as I get back and unpack whenever!

I have both state of decay, imo both pretty good games, i'll keep my eye out for the expansion.

 

[Cvrk]

Gedonia

It's a gem! You can lvl up anything you want, and it all depends on the beginning starting 4 points. I added all 4 points in INT...kinda a mistake. After few hours I did not find a single mage weapon.
But I was able to learn the fireball and a fire buff that I can use on my melee weapon and it does so much more damage cuz I have the INT points, and....in the Village, there is a broken well. You can use 3STR to mend it or lots of intelligence to find out who did it and how to replace the parts. Using my INT came in handy I got a rope, fixed the well leaver and was able to discover who did it.

It is an amazing game. Right now I discovered a game-breaking bug, I had to reload the last save and start all over from there, it took like 5 minutes of gameplay off....so I guess it's not perfect.
100% single players and an open map where you can do whatever you want and level up any skill you want, each will have its own impact on the character.
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Vigil The Longest Night

Side scrollers, with deep story. Playing it at easy so I can almost get through the level.
I got to find your sister, there is some crazy experiments with demons and stuff happening outside the town's wall, and how come it's always night the sun never comes up?
You play as Leila a member of the Vigilant Order and uncover the truth behind the eternal darkness, Leila's mysterious sister, and the horrors that stalk her in a world that has forgotten daylight.