Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
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I got Tropico 5 installed on my Ubuntu DDE laptop. Looking forward to getting to dig into that!
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Just bought Horizon Zero Dawn, Complete Edition on Steam.
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Also got Blacksad: Under the Skin
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Time to start stocking up on games and getting them downloaded and set up so that we have games to play without needing to use all of our bandwidth!
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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Time to start stocking up on games and getting them downloaded and set up so that we have games to play without needing to use all of our bandwidth!
Get better bandwidth
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@jaredbusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Time to start stocking up on games and getting them downloaded and set up so that we have games to play without needing to use all of our bandwidth!
Get better bandwidth
Have to be prepared!
But we are planning on getting local fiber and placing our order for Starlink this week. They are already taking orders for Starlink in the village so we should be good.
They are nearly to the point of nationwide fiber now, so really good access there.
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No Man's Sky Prisms Update
Update 3.5, Prisms, dramatically refreshes the No Man’s Sky experience with a range of new visual features and technologies. The universe has never looked better, with reflections, new texture effects, more biome detail, improved lighting, new skies, new warp effects, creature fur, and a host more besides.
Awesome update!
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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Just bought Horizon Zero Dawn, Complete Edition on Steam.
The best game I’ve ever played
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@voip_n00b said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Just bought Horizon Zero Dawn, Complete Edition on Steam.
The best game I’ve ever played
My daughter definitely loves it. Looks great, I hope to get a shot at it.
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@obsolesce That does sound like a really nice update, I'll have to download it and attempt to check it out later. Although, I'm pretty sure my GTX 970 is going to scream at me - it already struggles at times with the current version, and I imagine it will only be worse with the new visual features they added. Might be time for me to seriously consider buying a pre-built so that I can get something like an RTX 3070 so that I can actually run smoothly with these new features...
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@srsmith said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@obsolesce That does sound like a really nice update, I'll have to download it and attempt to check it out later. Although, I'm pretty sure my GTX 970 is going to scream at me - it already struggles at times with the current version, and I imagine it will only be worse with the new visual features they added. Might be time for me to seriously consider buying a pre-built so that I can get something like an RTX 3070 so that I can actually run smoothly with these new features...
FWIW, it runs flawlessly on max graphics settings with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q.
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So I did a thing... I got an Oculus 2.
It's quite a bit of fun, actually. I have the Obligatory Beatsaber, lol. The unit itself runs smoothly and does an excellent job at keeping me from tripping over the coffee table or walking face-first into a wall, so that's also a plus.
I've almost got it working nicely with SteamVR, but don't have but a couple of games for that. I've found a few other VR games I want to try out.
Anybody else have one? What games do you like, etc?
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@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I got an Oculus 2.
What's that? I've not heard of that one, did it just come out? We have the Rift S, which has been the top of the line. But they've dropped their flagships and were going only with the Quest and lower lines now. Did they change that?
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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I got an Oculus 2.
What's that? I've not heard of that one, did it just come out? We have the Rift S, which has been the top of the line. But they've dropped their flagships and were going only with the Quest and lower lines now. Did they change that?
I meant the Oculus Quest 2. My brain has been lagging behind badly today.
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Going to be playing some You Don't Know Jack with some friends tonight.
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@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I got an Oculus 2.
What's that? I've not heard of that one, did it just come out? We have the Rift S, which has been the top of the line. But they've dropped their flagships and were going only with the Quest and lower lines now. Did they change that?
I meant the Oculus Quest 2. My brain has been lagging behind badly today.
Ah.
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Both daughters have a friend sleeping over.
I will vanish into my office and play EQ (private emulator server) with some friends.
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Been playing Borderlands 3, looks like Gearbox is dropping some new content the realm of BL.
I’m still looking to replace this desktop. It’s better, but still has performance issues,.. and rather replace- get new replacement over trying to find a suitable video card... NewEgg for the search...
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If anyone wants some of the DragonQuest games, they are on sale on most platforms.
https://link.square-enix-games.com/view/5e42e651639ec8147d45ce67ebprg.e3p9/7d5666fb
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@obsolesce said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@srsmith said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@obsolesce That does sound like a really nice update, I'll have to download it and attempt to check it out later. Although, I'm pretty sure my GTX 970 is going to scream at me - it already struggles at times with the current version, and I imagine it will only be worse with the new visual features they added. Might be time for me to seriously consider buying a pre-built so that I can get something like an RTX 3070 so that I can actually run smoothly with these new features...
FWIW, it runs flawlessly on max graphics settings with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q.
Finally got around to checking out this update for a bit and I am pleasantly surprised - it is actually running very smoothly with the "Enhanced" preset. While I've only been able to get about an hour into the game so far, I am sure that this is another quality update from HG - they have been constantly improving the game with every update since release. I'm still hoping I can grab a 3070 so that I can run at max settings, but this will do for now.
Side note: the game has run flawlessly so far on Manjaro using Proton - no workarounds necessary. I just told Steam to use Proton 6.3.4, launched the game and it didn't seem to care at all. It seems to be harder to get modding tools running than it is to get the game itself...
