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General Chat / Re: OverWatch
« Last post by eKo on November 04, 2016, 12:56:25 pm »Hey Las, found an appropriate Reinhardt video for you to watch: https://goo.gl/0aWKt4. 
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General Chat / Re: No Man's Sky
« Last post by Brigh on August 19, 2016, 04:29:01 pm »great review eko - probably going to have to get this for the PS4 to do it justice as my PC can just run it but I suspect it will struggle.
love to get my kids into video games but the wife is anti-tech when it comes to children so they just have to settle for wooden blocks lol
Brigh
love to get my kids into video games but the wife is anti-tech when it comes to children so they just have to settle for wooden blocks lol
Brigh
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General Chat / Re: No Man's Sky
« Last post by Lasiien on August 19, 2016, 04:28:09 pm »I can't get over the game continually drawing the environment in front of me, really offputting 
Don't care so much that the combat is weak as I am happy enough just doing the exploring thing. Agree that it's nice and chilled out, the music is excellent actually and really helps.
I don't hate it (there are games that I paid ?40 for and really wished I hadn't, this isn't one of them) but it's probably just a fun aside for me for an hour here and there I'm afraid. Maybe they'll patch it and make it better ?
p.s. great reviews for deus-ex already, green man gaming has 25% off pre-orders. I'm in for sure :-)
Don't care so much that the combat is weak as I am happy enough just doing the exploring thing. Agree that it's nice and chilled out, the music is excellent actually and really helps.I don't hate it (there are games that I paid ?40 for and really wished I hadn't, this isn't one of them) but it's probably just a fun aside for me for an hour here and there I'm afraid. Maybe they'll patch it and make it better ?
p.s. great reviews for deus-ex already, green man gaming has 25% off pre-orders. I'm in for sure :-)
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General Chat / Re: No Man's Sky
« Last post by eKo on August 19, 2016, 01:58:05 pm »Despite the flaws I really love the game, though it's more of a journey than a game really. It's best when taking it slow: take your time exploring the planets, find the creatures, take screenshots, ... Don't rush to the center of the galaxy or on the Atlas path as it will be less fun then. I'm considering restarting and to keep a journal & take way more screenshots, but you know how much of reroller I am anyway .
I understand it won't appeal to everyone, but time flies when I'm playing!
Accoring to some on reddit it's great to play with your kids, so might be something to try, Brigh.
.I understand it won't appeal to everyone, but time flies when I'm playing!
Accoring to some on reddit it's great to play with your kids, so might be something to try, Brigh
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General Chat / Re: No Man's Sky
« Last post by Lasiien on August 14, 2016, 02:39:00 pm »Sounds good eko, thanks for posting. Will prolly try it then :-)
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General Chat / Re: No Man's Sky
« Last post by eKo on August 13, 2016, 09:56:22 pm »I preordered the game from GoG and played it for a few hours. It started off stuttering badly, but once I changed the res & uncapped FPS it ran great. I now only have a bit of stuttering when entering a planet's atmosphere, but nothing too bad and it otherwise runs fine. (For reference I have an AMD FX-8320, nVidia GTX 970, 8 GB RAM & game is on an SSD).
I find the gameplay soothing: just exploring, scanning flora & fauna, mining & crafting stuff. So far I've spent more time on foot than in my spaceship. All planets (all 8 I've visited) have been sort of similar so far, though one had weird bouncy tentacle blobs as creatures, kinda funny. Not sure how long it'll keep interesting, but so far I've been having fun (learing alien languages).
I also played Elite: Dangerous, but got bored fast (was before the Horizons expansion thingy though). The spaceflight in NMS is very arcady though, nothing like E:D where even taking off is hard (landing is done autmatically for you at a button's press, same with takeoff).
Couple more random thoughts:
The UI isn't great due to the hold mouse click instead of just clicking.
Inventory management is a bit of a pain, especially since upgrades share inventory slots (you can upgrade your personal inventory from dropships on planets though and bigger ships come with more inventory slots).
Finding crashed ships is cool, but you need to spend quite some resources to repair them so only do it on ships that are a serious upgrade (and not like I did for just 1 extra inventory slot
. Ok, so according to the NMS reddit you can only find crashed ships with 1 or 2 slots more or less than your current ship and apparently you can use a beacon more than once so in theory you could get better ship > back to beacon > get better ship > ... (though that'd be utterly boring). You can also buy the ship from aliens landing at space stations, trade posts, ... though they are expensive.
While the textures aren't the sharpest, it's still a beautiful game thanks to the excellent use of colour.
So far the survival part is the worst part, collecting stuff to keep your life support going is boring. It's not hard since you come across the neccesary stuff on each planet, it's just really boring since you also need to dedicate some inventory space to it.
Seems like a lot of negatives, but I'm still having fun in the game which is most important (And somehow all stuttering has dissapeared now, even when entering planets. The more/longer I play the better the performance, so might be a caching thing or maybe a patch, dunno, buit game runs super smooth now).
Feeding creatures is possible and the 2 I've fed have shat rare minerals.
I find the gameplay soothing: just exploring, scanning flora & fauna, mining & crafting stuff. So far I've spent more time on foot than in my spaceship
. All planets (all 8 I've visited) have been sort of similar so far, though one had weird bouncy tentacle blobs as creatures, kinda funny. Not sure how long it'll keep interesting, but so far I've been having fun (learing alien languages).I also played Elite: Dangerous, but got bored fast (was before the Horizons expansion thingy though). The spaceflight in NMS is very arcady though, nothing like E:D where even taking off is hard (landing is done autmatically for you at a button's press, same with takeoff).
Couple more random thoughts:
The UI isn't great due to the hold mouse click instead of just clicking.
Inventory management is a bit of a pain, especially since upgrades share inventory slots (you can upgrade your personal inventory from dropships on planets though and bigger ships come with more inventory slots).
Finding crashed ships is cool, but you need to spend quite some resources to repair them so only do it on ships that are a serious upgrade (and not like I did for just 1 extra inventory slot
. Ok, so according to the NMS reddit you can only find crashed ships with 1 or 2 slots more or less than your current ship and apparently you can use a beacon more than once so in theory you could get better ship > back to beacon > get better ship > ... (though that'd be utterly boring). You can also buy the ship from aliens landing at space stations, trade posts, ... though they are expensive.While the textures aren't the sharpest, it's still a beautiful game thanks to the excellent use of colour.
So far the survival part is the worst part, collecting stuff to keep your life support going is boring. It's not hard since you come across the neccesary stuff on each planet, it's just really boring since you also need to dedicate some inventory space to it.
Seems like a lot of negatives, but I'm still having fun in the game which is most important (And somehow all stuttering has dissapeared now, even when entering planets. The more/longer I play the better the performance, so might be a caching thing or maybe a patch, dunno, buit game runs super smooth now).
Feeding creatures is possible and the 2 I've fed have shat rare minerals
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General Chat / Re: No Man's Sky
« Last post by Lasiien on August 10, 2016, 09:56:05 am »Hey Brigh
I'm interested, but will probably hold off for reviews etc. It does look good but I'm not sure how deep it's really gonna be :-)
If you do get it lemmie know what you think?
Currently I am also waiting for the new Deus Ex game, hoping that will live up to hype as well.
Las
I'm interested, but will probably hold off for reviews etc. It does look good but I'm not sure how deep it's really gonna be :-)
If you do get it lemmie know what you think?
Currently I am also waiting for the new Deus Ex game, hoping that will live up to hype as well.
Las
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General Chat / No Man's Sky
« Last post by Brigh on August 09, 2016, 09:43:02 pm »Just wondering if anyone was going to get this?
I was thinking of getting the PS4 version but now might wait a few more days for the PC version - seems it will run on a low spec rig which is good for once!
Brigh
I was thinking of getting the PS4 version but now might wait a few more days for the PC version - seems it will run on a low spec rig which is good for once!
Brigh
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General Chat / Re: OverWatch
« Last post by Lasiien on June 21, 2016, 09:20:13 am »Cheers Cern, useful !
Agree eko it's hard to play support solo as no one protects you, often just better off to go pewpew :-) Although i have sometimes had satisfaction by getting out Mercy's gun and shooting down a surprised looking dps opponent !
Objective is always the same in games like this, people want to farm kills still i guess even though the game does it's best to encourage you to stick around the objective. Only good old people to blame there really
Maybe ranked play might be better but still struggling to see how it will work - not sure I'll be playing it much as I imagine it will get very toxic with ppl blaming each other. I'm still seeing it as a fun game to dip into, hopefully over the next few months. Not really taking it very seriously !
Can't play so much this week but maybe see you at the weekend if not before
Agree eko it's hard to play support solo as no one protects you, often just better off to go pewpew :-) Although i have sometimes had satisfaction by getting out Mercy's gun and shooting down a surprised looking dps opponent !
Objective is always the same in games like this, people want to farm kills still i guess even though the game does it's best to encourage you to stick around the objective. Only good old people to blame there really
Maybe ranked play might be better but still struggling to see how it will work - not sure I'll be playing it much as I imagine it will get very toxic with ppl blaming each other. I'm still seeing it as a fun game to dip into, hopefully over the next few months. Not really taking it very seriously !Can't play so much this week but maybe see you at the weekend if not before
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General Chat / Re: OverWatch
« Last post by Cernos on June 20, 2016, 01:07:00 am »Here's a couple of short videos with some useful tips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-l-Dr0ViRU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCygSHeoe7Q
Quite a lot of stuff I didn't know, such as Junkrat's ultimate ability can climb walls!
I had to take a bit of a break from Overwatch this past week as it was giving me eye strain. Partly because it's so frenetic, partly because I need new glasses. Hoping to play some sessions this week though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-l-Dr0ViRU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCygSHeoe7Q
Quite a lot of stuff I didn't know, such as Junkrat's ultimate ability can climb walls!
I had to take a bit of a break from Overwatch this past week as it was giving me eye strain. Partly because it's so frenetic, partly because I need new glasses. Hoping to play some sessions this week though.