What game are you playing now?

This is true. It's like DICE and EA went out of their way to make BF5 as bad as possible. Everything was bad - the initial gameplay trailer which most people hated, the unintuitive in-game menus, the ****ty "war stories" with made-up fights and made-up people "based on real stories", the crappy map design, crappy vehicles and so on.

Not sure what has happened to people who did BF3 and BF4 but EA should bring them back. Including real innovators who designed "Commander mode" for tablets (I actually liked it).

 

Not to mention attrition, visibility, camping, braindead gunplay, imbalanced and overly compartmentalized classes, Fortnite, animation creep/locking, etc. It’s a dumpster fire of a game that I doubt can ever be salvaged, and I wasted $60 and almost 100h of my life to give it a “fair shake”.

 

Nothing like a good lynching to keep the juices flowing. In my case I'm not picking on gaming companies, I'm picking on all corporations, the gaming companies are just the target of interest on this forum. Meanwhile I've decided to revisit BL 1 after steam told me I can download the GOTY enhanced edition for free. What I'm getting out of it right now is it's pretty fun but I have to ask who thought it would be a good idea to make it so Lilith could completely heal in phasewalk and then kill one guy and phasewalk again where she's invulnerable and will again completely heal herself from whatever damage she took from her couple seconds outside of phasewalk? Wouldn't you think in testing someone mentioned that one of the characters cant be killed unless the player falls asleep during an attack by multiple assailants? I mean you might not even die then because Phoenix does so much damage that you can stop in a pack of skags and stand there and they'll kill themselves when they pounce on you. It's hard not to feel like she is maybe just a wee pit overpowered. It's like playing a hammerdin in D2.

 

I only do CS GO and DOTA 2 at the moment and sometime PUBG.

 

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Seriously, this game is amazing. Caught me completely by surprise. I started playing it without any expectations as I knew absolutely nothing about it. It's more like a very pretty movie/story where the player just tags along. It's not difficult but the graphics are amazing and compared to other games, I just want to keep playing it. Only a few hours in but I'm having a great time. I find myself just stopping in random places in the game just looking around amazed how nice it looks.

Oh and the rats... the rats... the devs did a great job with the swarm.

 

Im a racing lunatic...

Still playing real racing 3 on my galaxy s9 plus. I recently beat forza 7 took me like 80 hours....im like 120 hours into real racing 3 and like 5 percent complete..highly recommending if your a racing fan...just dont let the fact its android based throw you off.

 

Metro 2033 redux, yea, or nay?

 

I'd say yeah. I actually installed Metro 2033 redux to get back in the 'zone' before diving in Exodus but having already played it a long time ago, I just kept getting distracted with other games...

Right now I'm having way too much fun with Rage 2. Not sure how long it'll last... progression seems a bit quick to be honest but I like it and the gunplay is satisfying. The vehicles part not so much. Driving feels clunky.

 

Can't beat Dirt 2 if you are into sim racing.

So disappointed from the reviews so far. While they vastly improved the gunplay, seems it has all the flaws from Rage. Short campaign, really short campaign. Crappy driving, at least only one mission this time requires it. Bland campaign, bland quests, characters that aren't memorable. Bummer. I was really hoping ID Software was going to redeem themselves with Rage 2. I'll still get it, but damn.

 

Yes, this all seems to be true. I don't feel I progressed very far and I think there's not much left. They didn't do a good job balancing it. I started it on normal difficulty but very soon bumped it up to hard and it still feels quite easy most of the times.

Also, I really don't like their decision to not make sniper rifles just to artificially force the player to play only close quarters.

Still, for now the shooty shooty part is entertaining. Even exploration was fun and challenging at first but that also gets ruined once you unlock a certain vehicle which makes it trivial... I'm trying to not spoil.

 

I would say yay.
It's rough around the edges, but definitely worth for post apocalyptic atmosphere.

 

I'm having a blast with Rage 2. Love it. Definitely do a lot of side stuff before you tackle the main story missions.

 

I own Rage 1 but never could get into it. How would you describe Rage 2? Similar games? I love open world RPG's and shooters, games where you run around and collect things and do quests and stuff. Sounds almost like the Far Cry 3-5 but I love those games.

 

I'd just read reviews on Steam. Sentiment is very split, I just happen to like it. I'd just end up repeating what's there for no reason.

 

Yes, I'm having a lot of fun too. The balancing problem can be easily fixed by playing on a harder difficulty setting. I started on normal, moved to hard at some point and now, I'd say in the middle of the story (just did the crazy docs mission so far and lots of side things), I moved to nightmare. Feels much better. Not too easy, not too hard. For context, I'm not that good at games, I almost never play on the hardest difficulty levels.

If I may share two spoiler-free tips which will help anyone have a good time:

- do the Doc's missions
- upgrade damage (only)

 

I did pick up Metro 2033 redux. Good call on the yes, it's got issues but seems like a decent game. I am BTW very early in so opinion may change; this is thanks for the advice in any event.

 

I started tackling Metro: Last Light Redux recently. Was fun so far. I paused it to play through a couple other games but I'm going to pick it back up after. 2033 was a lot of fun, still recall the ending.

 

Good to know, I got them both while they were on sale as a package so I'm sure I'll segue into that one not too far down the road. Meanwhile I've been playing... Diablo 3 also

 

Planetside 2 and Battlefield 5 when I get time!

 

Normally I'm not really into sim games but I grabbed PC Building Simulator and have been enjoying it, something different yet strangely familiar.

 

Also, if you're a programmer and enjoyed sims such as rollercoaster-tycoon they have RCT2 open-source project on Github https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

 

Waiting for Rising Storm to finish download, afterwards it's gonna be this:

 

Metro2033
Original version.

 

I'm still waiting for the upcoming Rage 2 patch. I'm stuck at a certain point with literally nothing else on the map to do because Kvasir won't talk to me. (Not counting the bounty boards...there's only so many times I can run those..) I've sunk 50 hours into it and loved every second of it. I think the people that are upset with it for being so short just blew through the main story without exploring all the random stuff you can do. I guess I can understand the 54% steam rating from that perspective, but I would definitely put it somewhere in the high 80's personally. Had a blast with the game play, it feels great, and I've definitely created some moments in the game where I literally audibly laughed at what happened, which is pretty rare for me.

I started a new Grim Dawn run in the meantime and was having some fun with Q2 RTX.

 

Can you describe where in the story this happened? I'm curious if I've got past that point or not. I think I've done all of Kvasir's missions.

 

Spoiler: spoiler territory for Rage 2

It's the point at which you need to talk to him for the DOUBLE CROSS mission. It's the only thing I have left that I can do. Anywhere. I try to talk to him and it doesn't register. It's a line item in the channgelog that was posted for the patch coming this month.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/548570/announcements/detail/1613891161342786092

• Audio fixes, such as NPC audio dips
  
• Menu optimizations (reduction in latency)
  
• Several crash fixes
  
• Racing bug issues, including finishing in 1st place but receiving 2nd place (how rude!)
  
• Reducing the amount of Wasteland Wizard locations (from 15 to 3!)
  
• A dialog prompt issue with Kvasir
  
• Mouse acceleration/smoothing options
  
• New AMD sharpness algorithm for all platforms (to address “blurry” complaints)
  
• Nicholas Raine armor fix

 

Spoiler: spoiler territory for Rage 2 - reply

Strange indeed, I've done this mission recently and he spoke to me.
Directed me to deposit Cross's head in his machine and the story continued...

I did notice that the prompt to speak with him didn't work all the time. Not sure how to explain, I've had to position myself around him a few times and once the dialog triggered. Most likely this is the bug they will fix with the patch, but in the mean time, do try what I did. Try also to move around in his lab, so he comes to you in different positions... maybe it helps.

 

Me, too. Really good.

Spoiler: Quake2 RTX

Even the settings/options menu looks much better...

Lighting is greatly improved over the beta RTX version I tested...

Here is a reflection of myself in the glass...

This area was so dark before (with the beta RTX version) that I had to shoot the laser gun to see.

So, that's what the secret under the steps actually looks like. It's a silencer, but it was always difficult to see.

Here's a shadow from the jet plane/space ship flying by overhead.

Just a couple of nice random shots.


Looking outside at the scenery that I never knew was there. Nice clouds on the horizon.

This is playing on Windows 7. (Windows 10 is not required for ray tracing except for when the game dev is too busy kissing Micro$lop's butt to make their own decisions.)

 

That did it. hah. I had to jump up on top of the center console of his lab area and talk to him while on top of it. Seems that's the only way I can trigger it. I think perhaps it's a problem with the mutant he rides, I'm actually talking to it instead and I can't talk to him specifically unless I change angles.

 

Reinstalled Assassin's Creed Odyssey and enjoying added The Lost Tales of Greece quest lines. Definitely better than majority of the side quests in vanilla game.
Thought about getting a season pass, but unfortunately during sale they didn't offer a price reduction on it and it's 40 Euros. Yikes!

 

Been playin Overwatch lately, good game for turning my brain off from the world for a few hours.

 

I'm logging some serious hours on Diablo 3 Season 17 while waiting for WoW classic to drop.

I still have Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to play. I was waiting for all the bugs to be worked out. I guess they've had enough time since it was launched Aug 2016...

 

World War Z with 2-3 buddies online. Surprisingly fun for a shoot-em-up zombie killer game. Compared to other games (Blackout in particular) partying up, joining a game, leaving and re-joining a game all work flawlessly.

 

I just refinished the Witcher 3 with all the DLC and watched CDPR's withcer 10 year video on youtube... hits your hard in the feels man..

I played a lot of division 2 over the free weekend and that game is actually amazing. It is the smoothest feeling 3rd person shooter Ive ever played. I enjoyed it tons, and once ubisoft manages my support ticket, I will buy it and continue!

 

Better than at launch, but still a number of bugs remaining that will probably never be patched, like some dynamic shadows flickering/disappearing at certain angles, DX12 being worse than DX11, performance degradation over time in Prague, and occasionally not being able to interact with highlighted objects unless you reload the save.

 

Playing some Zone of the Enders 2 5x resolution 2xMSAA

 

I just started Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (DRM Free from GoG). It actually plays well on my little handeld PC (GPD Win 2) so I can play it over lunch hours at work. It's basically a Metroidvania on steroids, with a ton of RPG elements like leveling, stats, gear, crafting etc. Haven't got very far yet to review but I like it better than roguelites which I detest.

 

My Friend Pedro
The marketing for this game was spot on - it really is bananas.
Also like gif saving feature. Good thinking devs!

 

Current:
Metro Exodus
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Forza Horizon 4
3dmark

Started:
Prey
Quake II RTX


Sometimes:
DOOM
Dishonored 2
Sea of Thieves
Ace Combat 7
MHW - waiting on expansion

 

Quake II RTX is pretty amazing. If you have full version with the sound track, it's even better. Awesome sound track. This video has a couple of clips from the sound track.

 

I play a lot of 3Dmark too! It was one of those steam purchases that made its worth! XD

I really got bored playing metro.. literally just downloaded it to try ray tracing, but the story and the delivery numbed my mind.

Forza 4 is definitely the best arcade racer! I really liked that game.

But the division 2 is what satisfied me the most recently. It feels really fluid, truly new gen third person shooter. After playing most of the content, I whole heatedly recommend it.

 

Just bought Hitman 2 and loving it. Great story with amazing performance. Running at full graphics and doesn't lower the 120fps. Totally worth it

 

I am very curious, is real time ray tracing actually that choppy looking in that simple of a game with a 2080ti gpu? I was thinking about trying that implimentation software with a few games ever since pascal got ray tracing support. I imagine it would would not work though at this point with a game like skyrim, warframe, or even an older game like morrowind.

So far minecraft has been the most convincing real time RT, but I believe thats even simplier then quake, depending on how its scaled too.

 

No what you're seeing is OBS on Linux. Not only is it not very smooth, there are artifacts, screen tearing and other glitches on Linux. The game is very smooth on Linux and Windows. Screen capture on Linux is not very good in general due to the lack of an elegant software solution. OBS isn't the best product to use for Windows either, but I haven't found anything that works better for Linux. The being said, I do not think you are going to have a good experience with real time ray tracing with a Pascal GPU. Even a 1080 Ti is going to have trouble with it unless you turn the settings way down. Even on an old game like Quake II the load created by ray tracing is pretty significant and totally independent of the texturing and other graphics quality settings. If I switch from RTX to OpenGL mode the framerate goes from 75-80 FPS to as high as 800-1,000 FPS. Ray tracing looks great, but it's not necessary and most of the GPU options available cannot gracefully handle the load it creates. Even a 2080 Ti is barely enough to do a nice job of it.

 

WWE 2k19. Games have always been good fun with friends.

Also just started Outward with the intention of playing co-op with my wife. Not sure if gunna refund or not. Good game, but has some pretty big design flaws imo.

 

I'm finding myself enjoying The Sinking City a lot.
Haven't play it that much but for the life of me I can't understand why gamespot gave it such a low rating.

I like the graphics and general atmosphere (reminds me a lot of Dishonored), and so far the story is cool too.

 

I am not familiar with linux, so I am uncertain. I am wanting to get into it with say mint linux, however getting around software compatibility and issues is my main hurdle. Assuming the current trend of performance increase per gpu generation increases as it has in the past 12 years, we should have at least modestly convincing ray tracing in complex environments, but at the current rate I think that will take at least a good 10 years, if not more given how generatiions are lasting longer such as pascal.

 

While it looks nice, I do not see ray tracing as being a "to die for" and I view they hype around it that has recently surfaced to be a marketing strategy for NVIDIA. I know there are folks that will vehemently disagree with me on this, which is fine. As I mentioned, I view it as being unnecessary. Ray tracing cannot and won't be the next big thing if it causes slightly older and weaker systems to be incapable of gaming with decent results. There is no way game devs will go along with releasing games that only run fluid on the latest and greatest hardware. They will lose too much money on sales. If you look at the minimum system requirements on most games, they are fairly anemic hardware specs based on current technology. That is by design and necessary for the financial success of game development.

 

Personally I don't give a f*ck about rtx and fancy graphics. I want a game to perform well and good playability. Hate fancy useless crap that only degrades performance in-game (HDR, RTX.. BLUR)

 

Man this game is fun!