Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[TFT-A9]

Recently been playing red faction and something i have noticed is the fact that half the fucking time i am missing shots even in instances where i shoot close to the enemy it still misses i don't know if i am shit at the game or it's rng at play here

Red Faction doesn't have any RNG that I know of so I'm guessing you're either shooting like a walleyed sonofabitch or something's fucky with hit detection. The latter I could see maybe cropping up with running an older game on a newer system depending on how the game's engine handles that

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Latter might be the case given i am playing the game on the ps4 on a 4 k tv forgot to mention there are instances where i shoot an enemy right in the head still and it still misses something aside the game is pretty comfy and also unpopular opinion but i prefer the first two red faction games over guerrilla probably because i haven't played guerrilla yet is it any good along with red faction 2

 

[TFT-A9]

Oh if it's the console version autoaim might be fucking you over, I know the autoaim on the PS2 version regularly screwed with me

 

[TFT-A9]

Also despite a lot of the flak the later Red Faction games get they're actually not too bad, just not as good as the first

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Oh if it's the console version autoaim might be fucking you over, I know the autoaim on the PS2 version regularly screwed with me

Weirdly i experimented with that and it worked thanks for the advice

Also despite a lot of the flak the later Red Faction games get they're actually not too bad, just not as good as the first

2 especially gets a lot of flak

 

[TFT-A9]

Yeah certain weapons in Red Faction default to autoaim on consoles - Assault Rifle, Shotgun, Submachine Gun and Pistol all do it for sure. Rail Driver and Sniper Rifle are exempt, though you'll see AI in botmatches flawlessly hipfire the damned things (this is pretty much fucking impossible for you).

 

[judge claude frollo]

brushed off Fo4 and have maybe ctd 2-3 times. 166 mods enabled, about 6-7 hours in. I call that a win

 

[ZMOT]

that's pretty much it, using personal or pro only gibes the main config/splash screen. there is still a requirement of the developer using his brains or at least telling the programmer to do that, had some issues with GPU being raped during my project sessions until googled a fps cap for the scene because my unity teacher didn't give a shit, you can remove the splash screen and starting config menu to throw it into a "configurations option scene" if you are using personal and even switch/remove the starting unity logo intro vydia that shows up.

it doesn't help that a lot of material out there is questionable at best. one of my recent favorites was "c# in 7 days" or something, and till day 4 - which doesn't mean anything since day 1 was basically a 20 minute chapter - it's just an extended explanation of the syntax etc (that's when I stopped. also didn't mind it was written by an ESL, but ffs get an editor that gives you shit for using "anything but" every fucking paragraph). meanwhile the yellow book is officially free.
and that was just c#. can't remember how many unity books I read that simply dump everything in update(), including getcomponent, and instantiate everything etc. either out of ignorance or on purpose to "make shit happen faster". some at least put a disclaimer before/after explaining why it's a shit practice, but that's still uncommon.

So I read something interesting a few minutes ago. For those of you not familiar with the Middle Earth: Shadow of- games, they featured something called the “Nemesis System” that allowed random enemy captains to be given names and develop personalities and skills. It’s a neat idea I can see used in other game series.

All that said, turns out Warner Bros patented the mechanic. Similar to how Namco owns the patent for loading screen mini games. So while the Nemesis System is a neat idea, we’ll likely never see any sort of expansion on it from other studios. WB hasn’t made a Middle Earth game since 2017 and, to my knowledge, hasn’t announced a new one.

good luck proving my recurring enemy mob with the same name and higher level actually levels on his own and gains skill and isn't a different version that just looks like it.
wonder when they'll start suing blizzard and everyone else who just recolors mobs for higher level with new abilities in line with the difficulty increase.

 

[TFT-A9]

Holy fuck do robot enemies bring the pain. The skillmonkey's at 2 pips of Energy Weapons and I'm going to have to pump that hard I think because these tin cans hit like freight trains. Also need to start making creative use of the skillmonkey's Computer skill to turn those fights in my favor.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Wanted to play Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast this week, but I figured I’d wait until the official new week of February to play it.

Other than that, I always knew that there were some underappreciated games for Sega’s underrated console.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Paladins, the wimpy Overwatch ripoff, ended their Esports league:https://esports.paladins.com/news/paladins-esports-2021-competitive-update

 

[Furret]

Paladins, the wimpy Overwatch ripoff, ended their Esports league:https://esports.paladins.com/news/paladins-esports-2021-competitive-update

I'm surprised that Paladins was ever big enough to have a league at all.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I'm surprised that Paladins was ever big enough to have a league at all.

It's no a matter of being big enough. It was created to have a league, because all the class-based games out there seem to need one these days.

 

[Pig Boss]

Playing a game through blind the first time is fun, usually, though I'm learning some unexpected lessons about certain things that are a bit annoying. You can only have so many animal followers with Animal Whisperer, so going through an area like the Pied Piper and charming all the critters therein is funny but not necessarily a great idea as you might find yourself losing a useful animal follower buff when you cap out on followers and charm a new animal (and you CAN'T get it back). Also critfails on some skillchecks are very much a pain in the ass, especially when you had a ~75% chance to succeed. I dislike savescumming but holy fuck a critfail on a skillcheck where you had good odds is some serious cockblocking by RNGesus.

I've just started playing it, too. Had to remake my party 3 times because the first two iterations were unusable. Blind playthroughs are fun but I feel like I've made Arizona a worse place than it was before I turned up. Second playthrough should be better.
But fuck me, I was under-prepared for a certain segment in

Spoiler: Spoiler locations

Damonta

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I got fucking railed.

jesus fuck some of the little details in this game

Occasionally a goat will do the Wilhelm scream. First time I heard it I busted up.

Have you tried fucking around with the live warhead in the Citadel?

All in all, game is a lot of fun.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Been thinking of finally biting the bullet and finally buying a gaming PC if I get that third stimulus check.

That way I can finally learn how to do things like mods and maybe get Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Been thinking of finally biting the bullet and finally buying a gaming PC if I get that third stimulus check.

That way I can finally learn how to do things like mods and maybe get Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.

You waited too long, every worthwhile Ryzen processor is going to cost you big bucks, people have been forced to buy crap intel processors because there's huge shortages.

What would have run you just a little over a grand a few months ago for a good setup that will play everything at high settings will now run you close to double. processors, ram, and many models of graphics card are all in short supply. So you wind up spending way more for less powerful aprts because that's the only things that are left. Even pre-builts are down to stuff that was only selling for 300 bucks months before, are now close to 900 bucks or over for the same shitty specs.

AMD is in the process of expanding, but that shit is going to take months before they have new factories.

 

[Syaoran Li]

You waited too long, every worthwhile Ryzen processor is going to cost you big bucks, people have been forced to buy crap intel processors because there's huge shortages.

What would have run you just a little over a grand a few months ago for a good setup that will play everything at high settings will now run you close to double. processors, ram, and many models of graphics card are all in short supply. So you wind up spending way more for less powerful aprts because that's the only things that are left. Even pre-builts are down to stuff that was only selling for 300 bucks months before, are now close to 900 bucks or over for the same shitty specs.

AMD is in the process of expanding, but that shit is going to take months before they have new factories.

I'm sorry for waiting too long.

I'm a poorfag and PC gaming is way too expensive for me, so I just stick to consoles as a general rule.

I just want something that can reliably and easily run Fallout: New Vegas and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. How much would a pre-built like that cost me?

 

[Corn Flakes]

I'm sorry for waiting too long.

I'm a poorfag and PC gaming is way too expensive for me, so I just stick to consoles as a general rule.

I just want something that can reliably and easily run Fallout: New Vegas and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. How much would a pre-built like that cost me?

For that level of gaming, I'd skip the pre-builts and ask a friend to build you something out of used parts.

 

[TFT-A9]

I'm sorry for waiting too long.

I'm a poorfag and PC gaming is way too expensive for me, so I just stick to consoles as a general rule.

I just want something that can reliably and easily run Fallout: New Vegas and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. How much would a pre-built like that cost me?

I'm quite sure I could run those well on my old Phenom II/Radeon 5770 so you could basically fucking do the equivalent of PC building dumpster dives and come out with something that would handle those

 

[TVStactic]

I'm sorry for waiting too long.

I'm a poorfag and PC gaming is way too expensive for me, so I just stick to consoles as a general rule.

I just want something that can reliably and easily run Fallout: New Vegas and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. How much would a pre-built like that cost me?

dude you can buy old server pieces from aliexpress then slap some mid-tier AMD gpu, i know it'll help our future xingxiang overlords however that's how you do poor-pc-shopping, you can get server CPU's which are on par with the medium-entry CPU's of today (some malay 2.50GHZ xeon for xample), the most expensive parts will be the mobo and gpu, define a price tag for how much you'd like to pay then go for the pcpartpicker to see compatability.

managed to snag a 512GB kingdian way cheaper than buying in me country.