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PC Games - Afterparty & Quest for Conquest out today!

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    Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    edited October 2019
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    CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    It's the biggest PC game ever because there are a lot of large hats

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    PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    With the talk of the next generation of consoles having super fast drives I kinda hope the PC versions of games that'll be on them won't suffer if you don't have an equivalent drive.

    I do have an SSD, but my motherboard doesn't have one of those newer faster connectors.

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    SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    An SSD should be enough, even if it's not m.2 or whatever.

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    WearingglassesWearingglasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    You can pick two/three stats to be really high at in Shadowrun Returns, IIRC, and they'll be the deciding factor on what skills you'll be good at.

    But for best results, you kind of have to have one of those be Charisma to get more dialogue options (this is more true with the sequels).

    Not sure how effective non-dedicated Hacking is, late game - it felt like one of the things you're supposed to all-or-nothing on. Magic-wise, I remember there are low level buffs that are useful even late game (Haste?).

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Peewi wrote: »
    With the talk of the next generation of consoles having super fast drives I kinda hope the PC versions of games that'll be on them won't suffer if you don't have an equivalent drive.

    I do have an SSD, but my motherboard doesn't have one of those newer faster connectors.

    yeah this is just consoles catching up to PCs of like... 8 years ago.

    The PS4 and XBONE should have had SSDs, but they were a little too new at the time to be price effective.

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    IoloIolo iolo Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »

    Can you ride it through a cold river to get it down to 85GB?

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    TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Spent an hour or so with Indivisible yesterday. So far the plot isn't knocking my socks off but the dialogue is entertaining and the combat system is pretty neat.

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited October 2019
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmcUUGJ8Lo
    Swipe right for the brand new crazy physics-based dating simulator, Table Manners! Tonight's the night, you've secured a date and you're off to the most glamorous restaurant you know, there's only one problem - you're a disembodied hand with a knack for catastrophe!

    seems like surgeon simulator, but for dating
    I hope your dates become more reactive by the time it launches, they're a little static right now


    https://indiegamesplus.com/2019/10/table-manners-goes-on-ridiculous-dates-with-disembodied-hands
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1019450/Table_Manners/

    Brolo on
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    KarlKarl Registered User regular
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    AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    Reminds me of the days I had a 100MB hard drive and couldn't install Creatures because it required 128MB or something like that.

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    It makes SSDing these games hard.
    4tb platters are dirt cheap nowadays, like $60.
    But a 1TB SSD is around $100, and 5 of these games would fill one.
    So suddenly moving these games to different drives becomes part of PC maintenance.

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    ChiselphaneChiselphane Registered User regular
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    SanderJK wrote: »
    It makes SSDing these games hard.
    4tb platters are dirt cheap nowadays, like $60.
    But a 1TB SSD is around $100, and 5 of these games would fill one.
    So suddenly moving these games to different drives becomes part of PC maintenance.

    Well the obvious solution would be to sell the games on their own storage platform, one that you could just plug into the computer when you wanted to play it.


    :)

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    VeagleVeagle Registered User regular
    More on Disco Elysium. Newest blogpost gives an introduction on what's up with the world they've created.

    Things don't seem to be going so well.
    West of the river, it’s funky-baby holocaust time all day every day. In East-Jamrock, wild animals roam the valley at night – giraffes that escaped from the Royal Zoo 50 years ago. Giraffes – even-toed ungulates from the savannah. The local kiosque chain Frittte (sic) employs a private army of 2000 men to guard its properties in Jamrock and Faubourg. That’s how bad the crime rate is – you need a private army to run a kiosque chain. And deregulation? They built a citizen-funded primitive nuclear reactor on the river. And it immediately entered core meltdown. That’s pretty deregulated if you ask me. Below Precinct 41 there’s a kebab merchant called Kuklov who makes kebabs that make you immortal if you can eat three and survive. In Villalobos an entire street is walled off and turned into a poppy field by a deified gangster called The Mazda, while his mortal enemy La Puta Madre exclusively employs former narcotics officers to farm his own fields. Through underground tunnels, kids descend into Le Royaume, the resting place of three centuries’ worth of the royal dead, to bring up rat tails and the pearl-encrusted teeth of civil servants. Child labour dungeoneering is a cottage industry. Someone came up with a synthetic opiate called the hunch that has a high lasting for two seconds. You only feel it while you’re injecting it.

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
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    SanderJK wrote: »
    It makes SSDing these games hard.
    4tb platters are dirt cheap nowadays, like $60.
    But a 1TB SSD is around $100, and 5 of these games would fill one.
    So suddenly moving these games to different drives becomes part of PC maintenance.

    Well the obvious solution would be to sell the games on their own storage platform, one that you could just plug into the computer when you wanted to play it.


    :)

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    we already have external slots for that shit too

    just blow the dust off the connector and then slam it into the slot

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    ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    My favorite gamestop thing is how we'd do a "sale" where we raised the price of everything and then said it was on sale

    fun story, did you know that doing that is textbook false advertisement and completely illegal

    I wanna make it clear that I was not actually saying it was awesome that they did that, in case the sarcasm somehow did not come across

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    CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    I stand corrected. Our textures will blot out the sun

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Reminds me of the days I had a 100MB hard drive and couldn't install Creatures because it required 128MB or something like that.

    I remember my mind being blown when Half-Life required a whopping 400 megabytes of space

    I only had a 1 gigabyte hard drive! What am I supposed to do?

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    ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    I think I had to buy a bigger HD when my computer would overheat trying to run Baldur's Gate directly off the cds.

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    ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Remember how a while ago

    Google claimed that Stadia wouldn't be an issue for data caps because internet providers would "take care of it"

    And we all questioned if Google knew what the fuck it was talking about?

    Well



    Google is now claiming that Stadia will have "Negative Latency", by predicting what buttons you are going to push before you push them.

    Its example for this is fighting games.

    They're claiming its going to predict, two seconds before you push it, what button you're going to push

    Either
    1) They don't know what the fuck they're talking about and this person is just lying
    2) It will be wrong most of the time and make playing the game feel like shit
    3) it will be correct, always, and you won't actually play the game at all, it just does it for you

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I can't wait for Google to develop the technology to beam the experience of having played a game directly into my brain without me ever actually playing it

    Maybe that way I'll finally get around to Witcher 3

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    DrDinosaurDrDinosaur Registered User regular
    Remember how a while ago

    Google claimed that Stadia wouldn't be an issue for data caps because internet providers would "take care of it"

    And we all questioned if Google knew what the fuck it was talking about?

    Well



    Google is now claiming that Stadia will have "Negative Latency", by predicting what buttons you are going to push before you push them.

    Its example for this is fighting games.

    They're claiming its going to predict, two seconds before you push it, what button you're going to push

    Either
    1) They don't know what the fuck they're talking about and this person is just lying
    2) It will be wrong most of the time and make playing the game feel like shit
    3) it will be correct, always, and you won't actually play the game at all, it just does it for you

    Google could be overselling or underexplaining their solution, but that's basically what GGPO is
    The system tries to predict what you're going to do, if the guess matches up great, if not it rolls back to the most recent accurate state

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Congratulations Google, you managed to discover a new buzzterm more meaningless than "blockchain."

    "Negative latency." Might as well tell me the Stadia is going to generate more power than it uses.

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    ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Right but they're talking about a full two second guess

    GGPO is a similar idea but way different implementation

    This is saying its literally gonna just push your inputs for you

    They are claiming it will be faster and more responsive than local hardware

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    PeasPeas Registered User regular
    Remember how a while ago

    Google claimed that Stadia wouldn't be an issue for data caps because internet providers would "take care of it"

    And we all questioned if Google knew what the fuck it was talking about?

    Well



    Google is now claiming that Stadia will have "Negative Latency", by predicting what buttons you are going to push before you push them.

    Its example for this is fighting games.

    They're claiming its going to predict, two seconds before you push it, what button you're going to push

    Either
    1) They don't know what the fuck they're talking about and this person is just lying
    2) It will be wrong most of the time and make playing the game feel like shit
    3) it will be correct, always, and you won't actually play the game at all, it just does it for you

    Could be a jojo reference

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    ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited October 2019
    This seems like a juiced up form of client-side prediction (something that's been around since the Quake 1 days), except powered by THE ALMIGHTY AI.

    Zxerol on
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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    So Stadia is really just a twitch streaming device. You just watch video of the game being played.

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    IoloIolo iolo Registered User regular
    So Stadia is really just a twitch streaming device. You just watch video of the game being played.

    Like giving a toddler a TV remote with no batteries. :)

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    KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    Didn't a nvidia try doing this with graphics and all it did was make performance worse

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    Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Zxerol wrote: »
    This seems like a juiced up form of client-side prediction (something that's been around since the Quake 1 days), except powered by THE ALMIGHTY AI.

    client side prediction was for what ways other people moved on your screen not your own movements though.

    and the rollback is inevitably less jarring because it's not the character you're controlling.

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    ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited October 2019
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Zxerol wrote: »
    This seems like a juiced up form of client-side prediction (something that's been around since the Quake 1 days), except powered by THE ALMIGHTY AI.

    client side prediction was for what ways other people moved on your screen not your own movements though.

    and the rollback is inevitably less jarring because it's not the character you're controlling.

    It's for your own movements as well. One thing it tries to solve is to make your inputs responsive, so when you push forward you move immediately instead of waiting for the server to acknowledge that you in fact have moved.

    Zxerol on
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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    So is John wick game good

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    yeah it's fun and they got ian McShane and lance Reddick to do their parts

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    TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Remember how a while ago

    Google claimed that Stadia wouldn't be an issue for data caps because internet providers would "take care of it"

    And we all questioned if Google knew what the fuck it was talking about?

    Well



    Google is now claiming that Stadia will have "Negative Latency", by predicting what buttons you are going to push before you push them.

    Its example for this is fighting games.

    They're claiming its going to predict, two seconds before you push it, what button you're going to push

    Either
    1) They don't know what the fuck they're talking about and this person is just lying
    2) It will be wrong most of the time and make playing the game feel like shit
    3) it will be correct, always, and you won't actually play the game at all, it just does it for you

    So several years ago, some friends were in town and we were all just hanging out, drinking and playing Dead or Alive, random character matches. There were only two controllers so we were doing the loser rotates out thing.

    After one match my friend holds his hand out for the controller. After a bit he's like, "Dude Tofy, my turn. "

    "No, it's not. I won. "

    "Noooo you lost."

    "What? Hayate totally won that round man."

    "Yeah, but you were playing Zach."

    *sounds of confirmation from all present*

    "Guess that explains why I couldn't quite get the combos to work. "

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Finally a service that just plays my games for me. Lord knows I don't have the time to.

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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    I can't wait for Google to develop the technology to beam the experience of having played a game directly into my brain without me ever actually playing it

    Maybe that way I'll finally get around to Witcher 3

    I could be wrong, but isn't that essentially Twitch (or other streaming site of your choice)?

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    DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    Google is now claiming that Stadia will have "Negative Latency", by predicting what buttons you are going to push before you push them.

    Google has discovered auto-clicker games.

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    DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    Maybe this Stadia thing will finally make me good at fighting games

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