What are you playing?

[Chomiq]

I signed up again - they offered three months for $1. I refunded FH5 on Steam. It was a disaster. I tried both Win10 and Win11. Frequent game server disconnects, and massive problems with displaying menus and starting the game. The 'fix' was toggling the Steam overlay on and off to move past loading screens and to make menus display correctly. I tried on two completely different PCs, the only item in common was each had an AMD GPU, both RDNA2.

Server disconnect issues were linked to the early build, Digital Foundry also reported this but (I believe) they were fixed.

 

[WhiteNoise]

Okay...

Redirect Notice

Sweet jesus.

 

[Chomiq]

Sweet jesus.

While it’s been proven to help player retention on the lower talent levels, it’s been a detriment to players of higher skill. They’re constantly placed with players of their same skill and each public match feels like a sweat-fest of epic proportions.

Higher skilled players know how to git good but they still like seal clubbing.

 

[Splinterdog]

I signed up again - they offered three months for $1. I refunded FH5 on Steam. It was a disaster. I tried both Win10 and Win11. Frequent game server disconnects, and massive problems with displaying menus and starting the game. The 'fix' was toggling the Steam overlay on and off to move past loading screens and to make menus display correctly. I tried on two completely different PCs, the only item in common was each had an AMD GPU, both RDNA2.

I just did the same for £1 and don't have to pay the £7/mo until February 2022, but this time outside the Argentine tax grasping measures.
Downloading FH5 to SSD as I write

 

[Rahnak]

My performance on FH5 really took a dive these last 2 days. I dropped from Ultra to High preset to get more fps and I did get them. But in some areas, when I get going fast, it tanks so hard. It goes as low as 22 fps in the cacti desert area (not the sand dunes). It's really bad driving there. But as soon as I stop it goes right back to over 100fps.

Anyone else having similar issues?

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Higher skilled players know how to git good but they still like seal clubbing.

I do enjoy seal clubbing.
I want to have to learn to be better.
I want to struggle to overcome my opponent.

None of that is happening.
I started a match with a fury kill and then never seen another person... It was play of the game and I was awarded highest E/D ratio.... fucking yay... sigh
It's Cold War all over again.
This isn't fun...it becomes a boring drudging pile of Fuck That ..

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Just a fyi the built in benchmark for AMD cards is not representative of their in game performance.... Tier for tier amd cards seem to outperform nvidia by about 10% in Forza Horizon 5.

Not sure why Nvidia cards do so well comparatively in the benchmark.

 

[Splinterdog]

I do enjoy seal clubbing.
I want to have to learn to be better.
I want to struggle to overcome my opponent.

None of that is happening.
I started a match with a fury kill and then never seen another person... It was play of the game and I was awarded highest E/D ratio.... fucking yay... sigh
It's Cold War all over again.
This isn't fun...it becomes a boring drudging pile of Fuck That ..

What's seal clubbing? Sounds very unpleasant.

 

[WhiteNoise]

What's seal clubbing? Sounds very unpleasant.

Basically, someone that is really good at the game, that enjoys bashing newbs.

 

[caroline!]

I gave up trying to make Shadow of the Tomb Raider work properly so I'm playing the og Tomb Raider II that I wasn't able to beat as a kid because, and I'm just realising, most of the jumps are insanely difficult to perform with the awkward control scheme this game has, I mean, ALT to jump? that's madness, performing actions is weird as well, Lara should be perfectly placed in order to grab or use whatever item, game's good tho as I've never played it.

 

[Dristun]

Tried Horizon 5 thanks to game pass and uninstalled after a couple of hours. Still not for me, unfortunately. So much of the content is just not about racing other cars, haha. I get the appeal, I guess: collecting, exploring the world and just having a fun time doing vroom vroom while getting constantly rewarded and hailed by the game is probably what hooks everyone but me, personally - just want frantic arcadey racing at crazy speeds, non-stop, NFS:U style. Ah well, maybe one day EA will get it together, they were really damn close with Heat.

Moving on to Psychonauts 2 now.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Basically, someone that is really good at the game, that enjoys bashing newbs.

Imma be conceded for a minute...
*They don't have to be newbs...lol
I enjoy bashing good players too.

With lag being equal nobody has been able to compete with me.. ( Yes I know I'm pissing people off by saying that)

 

[Susquehannock]

Been banging out some UT2k4 action on the retro build shown in *this post. Big head mod, akimbo arena, super berserk weapons.


this post.

 

[Splinterdog]

Basically, someone that is really good at the game, that enjoys bashing newbs.

That's me out then, which is why I never do multiplayer. I'd be crying in the corner most of the time

The Forza Horizon 5 intro was worth the entry fee alone
Then the character choices which unfortunately didn't have a 'none of the above' option, so I ended up with a transgender person with green hair and a prosthetic arm going by he/her or whatever.
Anyway, the graphics don't look as good as I was expecting, so there's more fiddling to do. Not as good as the two previous games anyway


Disappointed with the visuals, even on extreme settings. The foliage just looks crap.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Think about the game you're playing or your favorite, do you feel addicted?

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Higher skilled players know how to git good but they still like seal clubbing.

I love how high skilled players complain about SBMM, is it because they can't go in servers with lower skilled players and feel great owning them.

Of course, this isn’t great news for the top 10% of the player base. They’ll continue to get matched up against top-tier players and have to try extra hard in every public match.

My response is tough shit.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

I wanna try hard.
I play people I have to try hard with. (In MW ).I want more!

 

[damric]

 

[purecain]

Beware of Forza H 5 in its current state. I love the game but cant play it due to the constant crashes, the gear up gear down bug which literally takes you from 1st to 3rd or 5th or right up to 7th from 1st in one click. The most game breaking of all the bugs is the throttle, which cuts out repeatedly often letting your opponents pass you. You cant have fun trying to beat some world record on a track due to having no proper functioning manual gears or acceleration.

An exercise in frustration.

 

[Chomiq]

Played a bit of FH5 yesterday and immediately ran into server disconnect issue.

 

[Space Lynx]

Played a bit of FH5 yesterday and immediately ran into server disconnect issue.

it doesn't have an offline mode? if not... that's really a shame. this online only drm stuff is really sad.

 

[Chomiq]

it doesn't have an offline mode? if not... that's really a shame. this online only drm stuff is really sad.

Offline mode is one click in the menu, it even asked if I want to do it after 3 disconnects.

 

[Space Lynx]

Offline mode is one click in the menu, it even asked if I want to do it after 3 disconnects.

good to hear that, M$ has been doing a better job on supporting gamers, so that is good to hear.

 

[Chomiq]

good to hear that, M$ has been doing a better job on supporting gamers, so that is good to hear.

They're doing way more than that:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1457461094440587267

 

[Space Lynx]

They're doing way more than that:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1457461094440587267

this will be good for when i am in my 40's and beyond. older i get more slow i need. lol