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I mean I bought some high quality Samsung B-die memory just so that it would be more compatible with AMD if I ever decided to switch over in the future.  It also cost a lot more and I only have 16gb.  Ryzen is much more thirsty for higher quality RAM.  You could get up to 20% more or fewer frames.  With Intel, not so much.  It doesn't make very much of a difference.  So first I would decide whether I wanted to go with a dirt cheap value pack or else get a high quality B-die kit in order to push a few more frames.  But it really doesn't matter too much what you buy for Intel.

Generally speaking, most kits from G.Skill, Crucial, or Team Group tend to have better long-term reliability.  If I wanted cheap plus RGB then I'd get Corsair.  Just get something that's at least 3200 speed with as minimum CAS latency as possible.   You'd have a better chance to overclock it if you get a higher quality kit.   I think that most people shoot for Micron E-die in medium price range because it has some overclocking potential.  (But it takes some internet searching and lots of comment reading to find out which sticks have which memory modules, and lesser rated products could have anything inside.)

I'm sure that whatever you pick out will be just fine. 

 
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I also mainly use samsung b-die or micron e-die because i'm much more concerned about overclocking quality over quantity.

Those gskill kits seem fine, though i would expect better prices next month. Not going to try to dissuade the toaster off 32gb.
 
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I remember what a pain it was finding RAM that played nice with Ryzen.  I ended up buying some slower G. Skill kit that was guaranteed to work with Ryzen over a faster kit for the same price because of that.  Haven't had any issues though.

 
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Very tempting. My PC is running an 2080 ti with an i7 8700 (non-K) but I mostly game in either 4k 60fps, 1440p 60fps, or sometimes anything between.
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I half thought about it to upgrade my i5-8600K (running 4.6 GHz) but honestly think I'll see almost no real return on gaming. Maybe if I was rendering video or running complex simulation models or something but, in my use case, I'd be spending a couple hundred bucks just to have a new number on my CPU. Better off saving that money for a 3080 when they're finally available.

 
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What do people use 32GB Ram for? VR?
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I dunno, but when I have multiple tabs of firefox open I'm using up 50% of my memory! On just that and background processes. I certainly want to upgrade to 32gb.

These apps like GoG Galaxy 2.0 and Xbox dashboard have created a metric fuckton of simultaneous processes running at all times, which is not good. A five-years-ago me prolly wouldn't even allow them on my PC.

 
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Also I just got my second Monster Train win.  Hurray for casual deck-builder roguelikes!

(game is a lot better than Slay the Spire btw)

 
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DD83 has been posting Groupees bundles and Alienware Arena giveaways quite a bit lately...

Did his 2014 self stumble into a wormhole, emerge in our present year of 2020, murder 2020 DD83, and take over his CAG account?

 
Some of the folks I used to play WoW with were wanting to find a game to play coop that wasn't an MMO and could be played an hour or two here and there casually, I keep making suggestions like Among Us and Phasmophobia and people are complaining that there "doesn't seem to be much progression" in those games.  Yeah, you said something we could play casual that isn't an MMO.  Then they started in on the "yeah the last expansion was trash but Shadowlands legit looks pretty good..." and I just want to slam my head on the computer desk.  But it is glass so I guess I won't.  WoW ruins people, it is like Facebook.  

Phasmophobia looks cool enough that I think I am just going to buy it and figure out how to talk other people into playing it later.  

 
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Some of the folks I used to play WoW with were wanting to find a game to play coop that wasn't an MMO and could be played an hour or two here and there casually, I keep making suggestions like Among Us and Phasmophobia and people are complaining that there "doesn't seem to be much progression" in those games. Yeah, you said something we could play casual that isn't an MMO. Then they started in on the "yeah the last expansion was trash but Shadowlands legit looks pretty good..." and I just want to slam my head on the computer desk. But it is glass so I guess I won't. WoW ruins people, it is like Facebook.

Phasmophobia looks cool enough that I think I am just going to buy it and figure out how to talk other people into playing it later.
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I know what you mean. A friend of a friend really brought down the room whenever the three of us would play FF14 together.

"WoW does this mechanic better."
"Well, if this was WoW you'd be able to do __ and __."

"The story is so boring compared to WoW."
"Why are there no good toolbar add-ons like Warcraft?"

Me:

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Some of the folks I used to play WoW with were wanting to find a game to play coop that wasn't an MMO and could be played an hour or two here and there casually, I keep making suggestions like Among Us and Phasmophobia and people are complaining that there "doesn't seem to be much progression" in those games. Yeah, you said something we could play casual that isn't an MMO. Then they started in on the "yeah the last expansion was trash but Shadowlands legit looks pretty good..." and I just want to slam my head on the computer desk. But it is glass so I guess I won't. WoW ruins people, it is like Facebook.

Phasmophobia looks cool enough that I think I am just going to buy it and figure out how to talk other people into playing it later.
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Deep Rock Galactic has progression (and vanity item collecting). Four-player co-op.

 
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Phasmophobia looks cool enough that I think I am just going to buy it and figure out how to talk other people into playing it later.
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Phasmophobia is pretty fun but in my experience its more of a jump on and play a few rounds for 30-45 minutes rather than something you would play for an hour or two several nights a week. Plus if progression matters there really isn't any so far. Fun game though, but it loses some of the charm once you figure everything out.
 
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WoW ruins people, it is like Facebook.
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Its not just WoW. I'm always drawn to loot games (Like the Division series, etc) and while I enjoyed the hell out of Wildlands once I got all the various weapons and beat the campaign I was done with it. There was no more progression at the time. They improved upon that but I haven't ever been back to try it.

I was also a tester for I think 3 version of Breakpoint (An alpha and both betas) and I enjoyed each reversion less. They made it more "casual" but realistic like a ghost recon game should be each time... No killing so many enemies with head shots to unlock this part of an ability tree or killing enemies stealthily, etc. Obviously, the game had huge issues besides how it did loot so maybe my dislike was from having to do stuff over and over again in each version. Wildlands or the Division series never bug me like that. (Div 1 I tested two versions of and Div 3 I tested three versions.)

 
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I have no idea how Slay the Spire got so much buzz, it's a legitimately bad game in my opinion (and I have played a lot of it), and it doesn't even look good.
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I don't either. I don't think StS is a bad game by any means, but I don't understand how I can get to the end almost every time with relative ease and then get slaughtered by the final boss each time. I'm sure there are strategies and stuff I could look up, but I lost interest quickly. Seemed a little pretentious that I was supposed to know how to be perfectly tuned for the final boss encounter, and randomly pull all the right artifacts to do so.

But that uneven gameplay is much improved in Monster Train and the individual cards plus the deck mechanics are more robust. The presentation is more fun, the random encounters and rare card upgrading are more interesting, the graphics are more inviting, and therefore the game feels much more engrossing overall.

 
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But that uneven gameplay is much improved in Monster Train and the individual cards plus the deck mechanics are more robust. The presentation is more fun, the random encounters and rare card upgrading are more interesting, the graphics are more inviting, and therefore the game feels much more engrossing overall.
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Totally agree. I completely understand everything Slay the Spire was trying to accomplish, I just don't think it succeeded. I'm glad that a bunch of other games took up the ideas and did them better.

 
I like to see other people that don't understand how StS got so much hype. I'm glad it did though. As much as I like Monster Train, I'd still place StS slightly above it. They both pale in comparison to the Hearthstone single player roguelikes though. Sucks that we're getting these mediocre Book of Heroes single player scenarios in HS this year and throughout next year. I think HS is going to announce a new mode next week though so here's hoping for something roguelike. 

 
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I like to see other people that don't understand how StS got so much hype. I'm glad it did though. As much as I like Monster Train, I'd still place StS slightly above it. They both pale in comparison to the Hearthstone single player roguelikes though. Sucks that we're getting these mediocre Book of Heroes single player scenarios in HS this year and throughout next year. I think HS is going to announce a new mode next week though so here's hoping for something roguelike.
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As much as I would like a permanent roguelike/dungeon run mode for Hearthstone I doubt the new mode will be that. Probably something like tournaments or another way to push pack sales. HS hasn't put out a good single player experience for the last few expansions.

 
I was eventually expecting another constructed mode, drawing on a rotating selection of past-released expansions. Kind of like what they've done with Arena.

 
It's been fun folks, enjoyed the last 17 years on these boards and especially 17 years spent in the Epic Games thread, but a few users without a sense of humor or appreciation for heated debate have decided to report every post I make and evidently some mods agree with them. MysterD, Mooby, CheaplikeaFox, Syntax ... and everyone else who hasn't posted on this most recent page (;-) ) keep up the good work posting deals. Cheers

 
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It's been fun folks, enjoyed the last 17 years on these boards and especially 17 years spent in the Epic Games thread, but a few users without a sense of humor or appreciation for heated debate have decided to report every post I make and evidently some mods agree with them. MysterD, Mooby, CheaplikeaFox, Syntax ... and everyone else who hasn't posted on this most recent page (;-) ) keep up the good work posting deals. Cheers
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Sorry to hear that. I saw the dreaded red on your name the other day on a thread you were OP on and thought it had to be a mistake or temp ban since, I mean, come on, if anyone should be banned on this forum its me. Sorry the snowflake posse got to you.

 
ETInfinite said:
It's been fun folks, enjoyed the last 17 years on these boards and especially 17 years spent in the Epic Games thread, but a few users without a sense of humor or appreciation for heated debate have decided to report every post I make and evidently some mods agree with them. MysterD, Mooby, CheaplikeaFox, Syntax ... and everyone else who hasn't posted on this most recent page (;-) ) keep up the good work posting deals. Cheers
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I wish you the best and am gonna miss you on these boards. Don't forget to lurk around here; and post here and there, if possible.

And you know, I just don't know how to stop posting game news, game impressions, and reviews, so....I'm gonna keep on going, like I always do.

 
I've been playing that Star Wars Squadrons a bit since I got to what I felt like was a stopping point in Div 2 (Basically I finished the apparel event) and I've really liked it.  Just doing story mode.  Its been a solid story so far, granted I'm not expecting a story worthy of a novel but you know what I mean.  You can talk to various crew members and/or squadronmates and they seem interesting enough.  Again they aren't as developed as they would be in other forms of entertainment but they have character, something that makes them interesting, and voices that sound unique in the cockpit.  No one from the films reprises their roles here but all the voice work is good.  (Music is good but its Star Wars so it should be.)

The last time I played one of these was with a garvis gamepad (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Gravis_pc_gamepad.jpg/1920px-Gravis_pc_gamepad.jpg) and a keyboard.  Right now I'm just playing with a controller (Xbone styled) so the controls kind of overlap each other.  I haven't messed around with trying to use both at the same time.  There are certain controls I wish weren't on the controller as I feel they get in the way and overlap each other.  That said its still really playable on a controller.

I'm playing on Pilot difficulty which is the second of 5 as I feel a bit overwhelmed... but the game doesn't lay everything out at once so I feel like I maybe I would do better if I knew stuff from the third mission on the second mission.  Also there something to be said in being challenged in a long forgotten genre of gaming.  That said it looks like you can replay any mission you want at any time. Each mission has 5 challenges some easy. Finish the mission, do it without dying, within a time limit, and two option stuff... like getting a squadmate out of trouble, keeping a capital ship from being damage to a certain damage threshold, destroying a ship, etc.  I've only once been able to do them all in one mission. 

I hear it looks amazing in VR but thats not something I got the equipment to try...  That said its one of the few genres that I feel really could succeed with VR.

People say the story is about 6 to 10 hours long.  I've played about 4 hours.  I'm hoping I'm nowhere near finishing it.  A) Because I'm enjoying it and B) because I feel like I've only scratched the surface.  The original X-Wing I feel was far longer, but I realize today's presentation makes that hard to duplicate... but the original X-Wing (and Tie Fighter) where far less forgiving. 

This brings me to my biggest concern when I start to the MP...  The game seems very forgiving on aiming.  X-Wing took time, learning to lead targets and whatnot, and awarded the skill while Squadrons I felt like I was hitting targets at max range real within a few minutes.  Also the Tie Fighters can take a pounding.  I don't feel when I'm shooting them but when flying them I escape mistakes way easier than you ever did in Tie Fighter.

Anyhow, I'm really happy I jumped on a preorder...  This is (mostly) the Star Wars game I've wanted since, well, nearly forever. 

 
I'm weird with games with preorder bonuses like SW Squadrons.  I would not have bought the game early just for the bonuses but if I pass on a preorder then later I feel like full price or anything close to it  is a ripoff and do not end up getting it until it is 50% off or something.     It is like preorder bonuses have a negative effect on me, they don't make me want to get the game early but they make me want to not buy it later.  

 
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I'm weird with games with preorder bonuses like SW Squadrons. I would not have bought the game early just for the bonuses but if I pass on a preorder then later I feel like full price or anything close to it is a ripoff and do not end up getting it until it is 50% off or something. It is like preorder bonuses have a negative effect on me, they don't make me want to get the game early but they make me want to not buy it later.
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90% of the time the pre-order stuff goes free anyways like Jedi Fallen Order

 
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NBA 2K21 for PC and consoles got a new update adding unskippable ads during load times:

IGN - https://www.ign.com/articles/nba-2k21-quietly-adds-unskippable-ads-into-loading-screens

Stevivor - https://stevivor.com/news/nba-2k21-inserts-unskippable-ads-pre-game-loading-screens/
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Lawsuits have been won over things like this, and I'm sure if consumers took 2K to court (no pun intended) over this, they would win. Doubt they will, though. Video game consumers are, for some reason, easily the worst consumer group in society in terms of standing up for themselves ever.

 
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NBA 2K21 for PC and consoles got a new update adding unskippable ads during load times:

IGN - https://www.ign.com/articles/nba-2k21-quietly-adds-unskippable-ads-into-loading-screens

Stevivor - https://stevivor.com/news/nba-2k21-inserts-unskippable-ads-pre-game-loading-screens/
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I blame the customers for supporting this stuff. It's funny when Madden finally got a 0.2 user score. But it's like really? It took you guys this long to figure out that these games suck, are bad business, and should not be supported? Well, welcome to arriving I guess.

Call of Duty + Madden bros are why we can't have nice things.

 
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I blame the customers for supporting this stuff. It's funny when Madden finally got a 0.2 user score. But it's like really? It took you guys this long to figure out that these games suck, are bad business, and should not be supported? Well, welcome to arriving I guess.

Call of Duty + Madden bros are why we can't have nice things.
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I don't think these games are terrible. I like Madden, FIFA, NBA2K, etc.

Gameplay's fine, but...they rehash same game yearly...without much changes. More so than anything, not a ton of additional game modes, TBH. MTX's are awful, though.

I think the problem is these games could likely come out with one big game for a few years. Every year, add new roster update DLC's/new player DLC's; DLC's with new modes; and whatnot - and companies like EA, 2K, etc would still rake in crazy money. They could charge DLC pricing or expansion pricing for these big new updates yearly, not even changing the gameplay much - and everybody would be happy.

About CoD: I actually got into the Cold War Beta for the MP. It's more CoD. In particular, it's more Black Ops. Feels fine on the gameplay and combat. Ran well at Medium settings at 1080p with 60-90 frames. It's....fine. Played some Domination, Control, Kill Confirmed, etc etc - yeah, it was fine.

My biggest thing w/ CoD on the MP - feels like the MP content goes to waste yearly or the life-cycle for it dies too fast still; it might last a year to 2, unless it's like ultra-popular (i.e. COD4: MW Original, which people still play). All the maps, modes, textures, etc - they go to waste, once the newest yearly game comes out. I wish they'd make the MP one big game itself, for a generation itself and put out new maps across a series for the MP - i.e. COD: Black Ops gets a MP based game (Black Ops 1) and all the maps carry over in that series when the new entry's out (i.e. Black Ops 4; Black Ops: Cold War; etc).

Also feels like a reset back to Level 1 every iteration on the MP components for each game also.

 
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