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Community MetaSteam | February 2025 - Dragon Pirates of the Bohemian Wilds
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we all do, we all do
I wish more devs used BlueSky and not Tim Sweeney's X for socials.we all do, we all do
Awesome and detailed report, thanks!
Game runs great on my 3080Ti PC from the first two hours, so it is brilliant to know I can also play during downtime in the office on the Deck next week. Steam Cloud is such a useful thing.
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Toucan at the Origin icon, but if anyone wants to sell their Trepang 2 key, hmu!
Investing "Gaming is dying" with FACTS AND LOGIC
TL;DR = It wasn't true until last 2-3 years, where it has plateau-ed after 40 years.
(If I post it on "other forum", no one will actually watch the video and will just hysterically react to it.)
TL;DR = It wasn't true until last 2-3 years, where it has plateau-ed after 40 years.
(If I post it on "other forum", no one will actually watch the video and will just hysterically react to it.)
Got to play KCD 2 for like 30 minutes before I had to go back to work, but I like what I've seen so far.
I know who's responsible for most of those sales;
KCD2 looks great graphically, too bad Medieval settings put me to sleep.
Total War Pharaoh changed to a Steam key in the meantime, btw, it mightve been an error that it shows an Origin logo on your screenshot. (Immortals of Avenum remains an Origin key as of now)
This may have been the very last game I have kickstarted? Will be starting it soon, hopefully. Though World War Z currently has its hooks in me, and I still have a lot of Silent Hill 2 to go..
Has Pharaoh actually become a game Total War people like? It was kind of shit on when it came out so IDK if it's in a good place these days or not.
Nice!No official post yet but Watch_Dogs just got Steam achievements!
Safe to assume Watch_Dogs 2 and Legion will be next.
Don't think I'll be replaying or launching Watchdogs, but I've been waiting for these on WD2 (and Fenyx!).
I would like to publicly state for the record that Arc is a champion, a good egg, a forum paragon, and a Humble Bundle hero. Sheesh, thank you very much!!
I wish I had checked here before buying the bundle. It's still worth it (sort of, maybe, not really) but why the hell did they sneak in an Origin key?? Origin has been deprecated for at least a year and it's shutting down in a couple of months and they're still giving out those keys? EA you stupid bastards
EDIT: And guess what, the webpage to redeem the key isn't working. Garbage till the day it dies. And all for a game that didn't even justify it's existence in this world.
EDIT: And guess what, the webpage to redeem the key isn't working. Garbage till the day it dies. And all for a game that didn't even justify it's existence in this world.
They improved it a lot, but it's still one of the lesser games in the series, unless you've already played all others to death, you're still better served with those
Fuckers didn't even ask me why I skipped a month
He's a chud
It's about ethics in journalism
I didn't know that site do I took a look at the first two threads. I couldn't stop laughing when reading the comments: "Steam has no exclusives but shitty indies". "PC is truly dying because FF7 sold more on Playstation". "PC gamers will pirate it anyway". I had to double check the dates of these comments, but they are actually posted in 2025 instead of 2005.
Oh and I took humble choice for Trepang 2 and Total War. It seems the Dynasty version is actually very good. For immortals of aveum, I need to find the password for my EA account somewhere.
They assume you were watching anime I think.Fuckers didn't even ask me why I skipped a month
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Just in time for the new one
I loved the first one and was super bummed out when they didn't do the sequels!
Tried KCII myself then, it seems to run ok at Low settings, even Ultra except some spots got down to 20 fps, I'll go with Medium and see if that's alright, it looks fine (even Low does except the lod). I'll try the intro siege bit again, that went down to 30fps even Low. Wow, 7 years since the first already. I should try it again, I remember performance being similar but if it's been that long, perhaps I didn't have my 1080 just yet at the time. I'm pretty sure I finished it though. Idk, lol.
Tested this with two different sets of settings. Frame Gen was used for both tests. The average frame rate doesn't differ very much, but the first test had some major hitching when the camera would change. This was completely gone in the second test.
4K, DLSS Quality, Ultra preset w/ RT On:
4K, DLSS Quality, High preset w/ RT Off:
Max settings, Ray Tracing off, native resolution. Didn't see it dip below 60 FPS.
Max settings, Ray Tracing High, native resolution. Had some dips into the mid 50s during the lighting storm section.
Max settings, Ray Tracing High, DLSS Quality.
I'll probably run with DLSS, but I hope Capcom adds DLSS 4 at some point because it was a teensy bit fuzzy looking, especially with the skybox.
Max settings, raytracing off, DLAA:
Max settings, raytracing off, DLSS quality:
Max settings raytracing high, DLSS quality:
After forcing DLSS4 preset K, the skybox still has the fuzzy effect when clearing up but the shimmering on the lightning struck stones and the purple crystals at the end is way reduced than the default DLSS3. Comes with an fps hit as expected, but it's probably lesser or not at all on 4/5 series cards.
DLSS4
DLSS3
And here I am, telling everyone who wants to listen, or not,
that you don't need to voice act every minor line
that you don't need to make a half-minute introduction to the scenery showing rolling hills, swaying grass fields, a lone hut in the wilderness, a fully motion-captured and voice-acted 5-minute scene
for the dude from the side quest to tell you he needs 17 bear ball droppings.
that casts half a million dollars.
FOR ME:
Final Fantasy lost the WOW! factor when everything was indistinguishable from gameplay.
You know what got my blood pumping with the old entries?
The CGI scenes that TOLD you that shit is going to hit the fan
that automatically and unconsciously made you sit up straighter in your chair.
Dollet Invasion
Missile attack
Battle of the Gardens
Lunar Cry
in FF8, all such powerful scenes.
Intro
Sin Attack
Wedding crashing
Suki da ne
1000 Words
in FF10
But if everything is nearly identical and even the fricking sidequests have the same quality as the main quest
then nothing is really exciting.
I still get that old excitement with some of the other JRPG developers.
it's exciting
it's sustainable
you don't need to sell 5 million to get even.
Sony is taking the scumbag Nintendo route
Even if Sony releases a remaster it is still pathetic they are doing all this slimy bs to attack modders etc.
Imagine if Sony published DS1. they would have probably gone after DSfix too wtf.
Bloodborne is one of the all time greats and the 10 year anniversary is happening soon too. Instead of celebrating the game Sony is pushing negative pr like this. smh.
Could not disagree more, it's 2025 there's no excuse for this anymore. VAs don't get paid that much and even small indie studios can have full VA. Even disco elysium, one of the wordiest games ever, has full VA.
The one thing probably holding it back is jrpgs typically have a lot of junk dialogue that could easily be trimmed and that's another aspect I like about the ff7 remakes. Most scenes and conversations in those games are pretty to the point, everyone doesn't have meandering soliloquys like in FF16 or repeating everything 7 times like in atlus games. That's a skill issue though, condense the writing and pay for VA.
Didn't Bandai actually try going after DSFix? Or at least they don't seem to want to acknowledge it in anyway shape or form. I'm not sure if I ever heard about Fromsoft and if they ever acknowledged DSFix
Really want Total War Pharoah, every Humble Sub story, it's just one game I really want
The fix is still around so they weren't successful if they did try to take it down. But I don't remember what was happening with Bamco back then.
Honestly the less acknowledgement and association pubs have with modding community the better. They need to stay away because when they don't it just leads to content getting taken down or other enshitifications/monetizations of the hobby. Just look at Bethesda and Creation club.
I'm kinda in the mood to play a 4x, but there are so many. Off the top of my head I still have to play Civ 6, Old World, Humankind, and there is also Endless Legends and Space. Watching my French streamer play EL during the EL2 announcement kinda turned me on.
There is also Total War.
But those would require me to understand the first thing about how to win. The more your game takes from the HoMM series, the more probable I'm shit at it.
Any advice on what to play ?
There is also Total War.
But those would require me to understand the first thing about how to win. The more your game takes from the HoMM series, the more probable I'm shit at it.
Any advice on what to play ?
ultra, RT high, dlss quality, framegen off
ultra, RT high, dlaa, framegen off
ultra, RT high, dlss quality, framegen on
ultra, RT high, dlaa, framegen on
I expect the framerates to drop when there are more demanding environments and with actual combat going on, so I think this last setting is what I'll settle on to play at.
It sure sounds like Electronic Arts thinks cutting Dragon Age: The Veilguard's live service components was a mistake
Imagine being this stupid... No one didn't buy DATV because it was lacking "shared world features." This makes me even more worried for Mass Effect 5.
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Donkey Kong Country clone, looks cool!
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I have to wonder with all the advancement with DLSS and Raytracing, if this means that in the future more and more developer will adopt the logic of the devs of "The Remnant 2" of: "It was developed with DLSS in mind", meaning shit optimization