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mguiddy said:
Slow day...

What's everyone's opinion on Early Access games having DLC?
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EA games with DLC are like half-baked pizza with too many toppings.

The more toppings the merrier, but you damn well better make sure that the cheese is melted and dough is crispy.

 
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ShadowEX said:
No one should run Supersampling enabled. It will render the internal resolution 2x or 4x depending what you set it at.
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well depends on the game and what trade offs your making. I.E. when playing bf4 I run at 1.5-2x SS, but that enables me to really crank down the AA which is more taxing at higher levels so you actually gain performance because you no longer need the AA because of the 2xSS and get a better picture out of it

Also as of now alot of people use SS in VR since devs dont provide many (or any) graphics options so the only method you have if you have the hardware to do it is force SS to improve graphics

 
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evful said:
Rock Paper Shotgun is running a contest for 5000 Blade Ballet Steam keys. So far only 3200 entries have been cast. I saw in passing someone say gleam is dead or something along those lines so idk if we're anti gleam or whatnot. Anyway here is the link: https://gleam.io/Ns83b/rps-sweepstake-5000-blade-ballet-steam-keys
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Thanks for the post, dude. Gleam no longer allows Steam Group giveaways, which accounted for a majority of the millions of Steam keys distributed. I guess it's dead in comparison to what it was.

Edit: So...if they get less than 5000 entries total, does everyone get a key for each entry? Anyone who enters all 5 times will get 5 keys?

 
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Well, I'm back in the states. Italy was awesome, great food and some cool sites. Night tour of the colosseum was my highlight.

For my CAG tax, the only thing I played was FTL: Faster Than Light on the iPad. Touch controls work great.
 
mguiddy said:
Slow day...

What's everyone's opinion on Early Access games having DLC?
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Well I hate EA games period....I really have no time to be buying not fully released games anyway. I promptly refuse to play these games unless they are bundled....and then I will wait till I see it on Steam's new releases complete and then I will play it. If it never makes it out of EA....well I will never play the games! DLC is supposed to expand already "complete" games. EA games are in definition not complete. So DLC with EA = no go. Just bad developers wanting more money for an already un-optimized somewhat mess of an EA game. Finish your games before ruining it with DLC.

 
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So I've been playing Homefront today and I actually enjoy the game, in both single and multiplayer modes. I think it helps that I went into not expecting much. Can't really imagine forking over 20$+ for it though. I'd probably wait until it hit sub-$10. 

 
HF:R is all right.  It's certainly better than the campaign from Homefront which was just terrible.  I'm still in the first zone, having liberated maybe half of it before deciding to take a break.  Trial ends tomorrow afternoon so doubt I'll get much chance to play much more of it.  Anyway, I might consider it for sub-$10 but it doesn't really set itself apart enough to drop $20+ on it.  Sort of feels like urban Far Cry 3/4 but with more bullet spongey bad guys and fewer leopard attacks.

From what I played, it seemed to run around 60fps for me at 1080 on my R9 290X at whatever default High settings it started me at.  Well enough that I never noticed any issues.  Looked nice enough although the scenery is depressingly grey, more grey and light blue paint/sheets to mark resistance routes.  I know developers think that shooters need to be all grey all the time but I think, if you going to set it in America, perhaps making the landscape look more "real" would give it greater impact than making it look like generic Call of Battlefield stuff.

Game play is okay; not great but not dire.  Guns aren't real impressive though all I've unlocked was the initial machine pistol and the assault rifle (with a holo scope I bought).  As mentioned, enemies are tediously durable even to head shots.  Every in my Resistance outfit is kind of a dick.  I was about to get into intense nipple play with some pierced up indie chick when two dudes came in and cockblocked me.  Jerks.

Edit: Looking at some of the screen shots posted on Steam makes me think maybe I was in an overly grey part of town -- at least some of the images had a bit more color.  Also:

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:speaktothehand: Ain't nobody got time for dat!

 
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That is like 20 screenshots per hour or roughly one screenshot every 3 minutes if still at 6 hours played.

Unless his cat did a little dance on the screenshot key it must be some of the most impressive bland grey scenery ever.
 
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Master Miguel said:
That is like 20 screenshots per hour or roughly one screenshot every 3 minutes if still at 6 hours played.

Unless his cat did a little dance on the screenshot key it must be some of the most impressive bland grey scenery ever.
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He's up to 150 now!

Played a bit more. Liked it more. Took over a zone, felt satisfying. It is sort of repetitive. The missions change in goal, but it's basically sneak around, get to post, break in, kill everything moving, takeover.

The MP should be better now that I have a better hang of the game and also now I know I can't just run in guns a blazing like I was trying to do with Sifu.

Not sure I'll have time to play it tomorrow before the free weekend plays (and seriously it always irks me these "weekends" end in the middle of the day Sunday).

 
I've racked up 17 hours or so with Homefront: The Revolution so far. Most of that, was yesterday only - since I only spent approx. 3 hours or so with it Friday night. I'm still going strong. Not sure if I'm going to be able to finish the Campaign, since I've been also doing most of the takeover side-missions & whatnot.

Hoping to get the SP Campaign done, so I won't have to buy it until it gets really dirt-cheap or winds up in a bundle - you know, to throw in my Steam +1 catalog and all. But, I have a feeling I'm gonna end up buying it to finish it at some point, before any of that ever happens.

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INMATEofARKHAM said:
He must be backing the game up for after the free weekend.
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This is almost 44GB we're talking here; I'm lazy. I'll likely just let it sit there on the HDD its on, until I likely wind-up buying it or it actually has a Free Weekend again.

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Master Miguel said:
That is like 20 screenshots per hour or roughly one screenshot every 3 minutes if still at 6 hours played.

Unless his cat did a little dance on the screenshot key it must be some of the most impressive bland grey scenery ever.
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I don't have a cat.

 
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Is it just me or did they realize that the plot from Homefront was laughably dumb and they tried to punch it up this time as some alternate history going back to the 40s?  I mean, it's still stupid as hell -- America was still a global hegemony fighting in the Middle East, only now we bought all our military hardware from N. Korea? -- but I guess at least they tried.

Also, has there ever been a successful revolution in which the participants were required to buy their weapons from the Revolution's leaders?  Not one where you brought your own guns but one where you had to pay into the revolution itself?  Looking at you, HF: R, Far Cry 3 and FC 4...

"Hey, you're the only one who can take this outpost and save -- what?  No I'm not going to give you this gun.  You want to be the only one who can save our revolution, you're going to need to cough up four hundred bucks for a pistol.  This ain't no charity, bitch."

 
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I'm trying to pick up a couple of EVGA GTX 1080s but I'm struggling with understanding the different versions. Does anyone have a rundown of the difference of them? I wish they would just number them differently rather than this FTW, AC3, Founders crap they've done.

 
synnarc said:
I'm trying to pick up a couple of EVGA GTX 1080s but I'm struggling with understanding the different versions. Does anyone have a rundown of the difference of them? I wish they would just number them differently rather than this FTW, AC3, Founders crap they've done.
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Wait for the illusive and unannounced Ti

 
synnarc said:
I'm trying to pick up a couple of EVGA GTX 1080s but I'm struggling with understanding the different versions. Does anyone have a rundown of the difference of them? I wish they would just number them differently rather than this FTW, AC3, Founders crap they've done.
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ACX3.0 is a type of cooling-technology.

More info GTX 1080 ACX3.0 version here:

http://www.evga.com/articles/01007/evga-geforce-gtx-1080/

EDIT:

I doubt NVidia would let their partners (MSI, EVGA, etc) change the base-name of the card that they provided; hence why they don't have different numbers on a card b/c a partner went and tweaked it.

MSI, EVGA, and all of the partners get the ("reference") card and then they will do their own thing w/ them to tweak them to their liking, which is why they (EVGA, MSI, etc) create different editions w/ extra naming + branding stuff on top - whether they switch coolers (i.e. ACX 3.0); overclock the card a little bit (SC = SuperClock); overclock it a fair bit (Super-Super Clock); overclock it a lot (FTW = "For The Win"); tweak some other things; or whatever the case may be.

More info on EVGA's naming process:

http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmmain.aspx?faqid=59163

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Founder's Edition are the actual original "reference cards" NVidia built for the actual launch of the card:

http://www.pcgamer.com/what-exactly-is-nvidias-gtx-1080-founders-edition/

"Reference cards" are the original cards that original maker has made, tested, developed, and whatnot w/ those specific settings + guidelines. Once MSI, EVGA, or any other partners tinker w/ the card and do their own thing with them, those tweaked-cards are "non-reference cards."

 
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synnarc said:
I'm trying to pick up a couple of EVGA GTX 1080s but I'm struggling with understanding the different versions. Does anyone have a rundown of the difference of them? I wish they would just number them differently rather than this FTW, AC3, Founders crap they've done.
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Don't take last two models of bottom.
 
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Speaking of, wasn't the 1070 supposed to be around $350?  I'm not looking to buy one, but I saw some come up on some websites and they were $450 which sort of defeats the "Wow, you get this great tech for so cheap" angle.

 
Syntax Error said:
Speaking of, wasn't the 1070 supposed to be around $350? I'm not looking to buy one, but I saw some come up on some websites and they were $450 which sort of defeats the "Wow, you get this great tech for so cheap" angle.
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MSRP is 379, FE's are 449. nobody said you'll be able to get one a that price around launch. but people were willing to pay those prices, so companies will keep charging them. maybe wait a few more months, and they'll come down to around MSRP.

 
warreni said:
This explains many of MysterD's issues. I always suspected it was something like this.
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So true. Everyone not allergenic to cats should be claimed by one. (I mean without one you don't get half the jokes on the internet.)

Game stuff: Really surprised by the fairly glowing remarks for Homefront... Its a series I've never really could get past its premise... Sounds like this one is worth trying at some point.

 
INMATEofARKHAM said:
Game stuff: Really surprised by the fairly glowing remarks for Homefront... Its a series I've never really could get past its premise... Sounds like this one is worth trying at some point.
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Homefront: TR as a game is much better the original Homefront. The original HF feels more like CoD + BF SP Campaign with NK-invading-USA; while Homefront: TR keeps that NK-invading-USA theme but has much more interesting gameplay with its open-world structure + upgrading system; which is similar to that of Far Cry 3+4.

It unfortunately takes a bit for HF:TR's story to really go anywhere, whereas it took a while for the original Homefront to actually become gameplay-wise a decent CoD/BF SP Campaign. Though, I think the original Homefront did better w/ dealing w/ story + character development, especially early on - not that it was really anything special, mind you.

Yeah, I'll definitely be buying Homefront: TR, when it gets cheap. It ain't great and still needs some kind of polish - but, it's still good. It honestly gets better as it goes further along, gameplay-wise - especially when you buy more base-weapons, weapon-variations, equipment, gear, and things of that sort.

I really like this pistol variation where it's part silencer + shoots darts. The way they (enemies) ragdoll when you drill them is sweet. Kind of reminds me of that harpoon/spear-gun in FEAR.

 
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Tomasety said:
Don't take last two models of bottom.
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+1

Also I would only take one of their cards that was 8+8 pin. The AIB cards really come into their own when you let them pull enough power to do what the chip was meant to do which is why most come in in either 8+6 or 8+8 in order to pull enough (either one provides enough just EVGA went with 8+8 because MOAR!!!!). If you go with just the standard 8pin then your immediately going to be stuck at basically factory clocks(with a little bit of headroom to OC/boost a bit) while the extra power will let the chip boost much higher. I.e. some quick tweaks and I took my strix 1080 from 1600something to 1950mhz and an extra 350mhz on the memory with no heat hit at all

Its not a complete necessity but it does cap the power draw, so just having the extra headroom can have a much more stable card when its OC'd. So you should also make sure you have enough of those connectors on your PSU if your coming from a card that didnt need that many

 
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madjoki said:
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Homefront: The Revolution complete.

Achievements are weird, some unlock as you play, some only after quitting.
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Congrats on finishing it. How long did it take you?

I'm 20 hours in - and I'm not gonna finish this before the Free Weekend dies out. I been doing a lot of the side-stuff, so that's probably why it's taking me so long.

 
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shrinerr said:
MSRP is 379, FE's are 449. nobody said you'll be able to get one a that price around launch. but people were willing to pay those prices, so companies will keep charging them. maybe wait a few more months, and they'll come down to around MSRP.
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As I said, I wasn't looking to buy one anyway but the whole reason to get all excited about them was the price vs performance. Paying an extra hundred bucks diminishes the excitement considerably.

 
MysterD said:
I'm 20 hours in - and I'm not gonna finish this before the Free Weekend dies out. I been doing a lot of the side-stuff, so that's probably why it's taking me so long.
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Launch game and leave it running? Think that works -- BernardoOne was playing the Dead by Daylight beta for like a week after it ended :lol:

 
shrinerr said:
MSRP is 379, FE's are 449. nobody said you'll be able to get one a that price around launch. but people were willing to pay those prices, so companies will keep charging them. maybe wait a few more months, and they'll come down to around MSRP.
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Man. I have $350 in dell gcs and a fairly old video card. Not sure if I should wait a couple months to see if dell gets some cheaper cards or just go ahead and get a $450 card right now. I have more free time this month than I usually have so it'd be nice to have a fancy new card to play games with this month.

At the same time I'm not sure if I own a single game that would really take advantage of the new card. I'd like to buy Doom sometime this year and I'd need a new card to play that. The most technically advanced game I currently own is rise of the tomb raider and it runs surprisingly well on my current card although I'd love to run it all maxed out I guess.
 
It's great to see people using the Free Weekend to the maximum by trying to finish the game during it. It's like the next level version of finishing games during the rental period, in a time long gone now.

Had a busy trading day, as I traded some games for Soma, which I then traded for Call of Duty: Black Ops. I may be down for a game of zombie survival one of these days.

 
MysterD said:
Congrats on finishing it. How long did it take you?

I'm 20 hours in - and I'm not gonna finish this before the Free Weekend dies out. I been doing a lot of the side-stuff, so that's probably why it's taking me so long.
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madjoki said:
Around 9-10 hours. Didn't bother with most side stuff. Just enough to continue to next parts.
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MysterD took 309 screenshots so that probably accounts for the extra 10 hours in without finishing the game. It's like being a tourist inside of a video game.

Syntax Error said:
As I said, I wasn't looking to buy one anyway but the whole reason to get all excited about them was the price vs performance. Paying an extra hundred bucks diminishes the excitement considerably.
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Yeah, this is really what i don't get about new release cards. It happened with the Radeon ones too. Everyone touts how much cheaper these cards are and how they will give you the performance of the top of the line next gen cards for so much cheaper. And then everyone wants to be a first adopter so they overpay for it nullifying one of the main benefits of the next gen.

HBX said:
It's great to see people using the Free Weekend to the maximum by trying to finish the game during it. It's like the next level version of finishing games during the rental period, in a time long gone now.

Had a busy trading day, as I traded some games for Soma, which I then traded for Call of Duty: Black Ops. I may be down for a game of zombie survival one of these days.
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I got caught up with Homefront this weekend, but Reds and I are always up for some COD zombies so if you ever see us on it doesn't hurt to ask if we're up for a round or two.

 
You just have to find the cheap ones when they're in stock (and a store that doesnt price gouge). I.e. for the 1080's microcenter has the 600$ zotac, of course local stock and be hit or miss, and they have a ton of different models at 650$ which is still cheaper than the FE editions with better cooling/perf/power. I got my asus ~1month after the AIB launch and it was the normal price, not some inflated one.

The commonly found models are almost always the step up from the super cheap base model just because once you hit that price, may as well pay another 50 for a better all-around card, but it still beats an FE edition

 
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MysterD said:
Nope.
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I just meant that the trial doesn't have to end until you want to play something different or shut your computer down. I still have it running in the background. I doubt I'll keep playing it past today but the trial ending on Sunday afternoon is nonsense. I want to play it into the evening.

 
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Syntax Error said:
I just meant that the trial doesn't have to end until you want to play something different or shut your computer down. I still have it running in the background. I doubt I'll keep playing it past today but the trial ending on Sunday afternoon is nonsense. I want to play it into the evening.
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I've never understood Steam killing free to play weekends when the weekend isn't even half over.

(Hell, allot of times the game is on sale till Monday.)
 
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