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| News Comments > Company of Heroes 2 Closed Beta Nears |
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 Closed Beta Nears |
Dec 8, 2012, 23:27 |
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| No, it's pretty plainly stated that the post-release content updates will be free. Then in another sentence (there should probably be a paragraph break), they start talking about a separate sort of premium VIP access thing. |
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| News Comments > PlanetSide 2 Double XP Weekend |
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Re: PlanetSide 2 Double XP Weekend |
Dec 8, 2012, 17:09 |
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NicklePop wrote on Dec 8, 2012, 16:47:
Considering you can play and get those same items, isn't it also 'play to win' as well?
If you like battling uphill in the blinding snow for a few hundred hours to get there, sure, I guess... But their business model is based on virtually nobody doing so. I could see hopping on to play with friends once in a while, but I am not interested in investing serious playtime into this, and certainly not any money. |
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| News Comments > PlanetSide 2 Double XP Weekend |
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Re: PlanetSide 2 Double XP Weekend |
Dec 8, 2012, 16:03 |
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| Double XP doesn't mean much... Ranking up doesn't help you unlock new stuff. Well, apparently you earn the free in-game currency for time played (1 per hour) and every 250 XP, so I guess it's something. I played for a couple hours, ranked up like 6 times, and yet I only had about 30 of the Certification Points. The cheapest guns, which from what I can tell are only alternate versions of ones you start out with, cost 100 of that currency. The real upgrades cost more like 1000. Or, you know, 700 SOE cash. Which is $7. PER GUN. PlanetSide 2 is the definition of pay to win. I'll admit it is really cool gameplay, but the progression is on the same level as the usual crappy F2P shooter. |
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| News Comments > Far Cry 3 HUD Patch Planned |
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Re: Far Cry 3 HUD Patch Planned |
Dec 8, 2012, 13:11 |
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| That trick disables more than DoF, though, just so people are aware. I preferred leaving the option on Ultra than an alternative Low, despite the DoF. That's mostly because the game world was designed to have DoF on... Mountains, for instance, look mighty ugly when you can see them clearly. Same goes for placeholder textures and models beyond the draw distance. |
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| News Comments > Far Cry 3 HUD Patch Planned |
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Re: Far Cry 3 HUD Patch Planned |
Dec 8, 2012, 12:25 |
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Oh, I absolutely love Far Cry 3, in fact I'm about 6 hours into my second playthrough. My comment is more of a critique on [consolized] game design in general.
This HUD patch is a step in the right direction, but it won't satisfy me unless you can disable any and all on-screen elements. While they're at it, they should tweak the FOV adjustments so that your weapon actually becomes smaller like it's supposed to, not grow to scale with your perspective. |
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| News Comments > Far Cry 3 HUD Patch Planned |
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Re: Far Cry 3 HUD Patch Planned |
Dec 8, 2012, 03:01 |
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| Yeah, really stupid that we have to "look for the prompt" in order to do something. How about programming your game to be intelligent enough to figure out that I'm trying to do that thing, rather than use big red buttons as a crutch? |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Re: etc. |
Dec 7, 2012, 12:19 |
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| Well maybe if they were awarding best game of 2001, your dinosaur MMO would be in contention. |
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| News Comments > Humble THQ Bundle Grows |
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Re: Humble THQ Bundle Grows |
Dec 6, 2012, 23:23 |
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| I like to give the Humble tip, too, but yeah, I've been cutting out the charity on the last several bundles I've bought. I guess I feel bad about getting so many games for dirt cheap more than I feel charitable. |
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| News Comments > Far Cry 3 Released; Patched |
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Re: Far Cry 3 Released; Patched |
Dec 4, 2012, 22:50 |
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Shok wrote on Dec 4, 2012, 22:27:
Does a Uplay disconnection cause the single player to kick you out?
Can this be played entirely offline?
I'd really like to get this game but only if single player can be played entirely offline since my internet is too flaky at times. Otherwise I may buy it bargain bin in a year or so and use a 3rd party *ahem* enhancement to make it offline capable.
You just set Uplay to offline. It will complain about you not being able to access all the features, blah blah, but Story mode works perfectly fine. The hooplah a few days ago about their servers going down and screwing people over was due to some weird design glitch where attempting to launch in online mode and then failing to connect caused problems. Still stupid, but entirely avoidable.
LazyCat wrote on Dec 4, 2012, 22:35:
Horribly buggy, about what you would expect from ubisoft.
Second mission in, you cant even get out of the jeep. You are just stuck there.
Never happened to me. However I did see a different glitch, sort of similar I guess, in a later mission. Just reload your checkpoint/restart the mission and it should be fine. I'm guessing you don't play many games, if one little instance of something like that pisses you off? |
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| News Comments > Far Cry 3 Released; Patched |
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Re: Far Cry 3 Released; Patched |
Dec 4, 2012, 22:11 |
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The story is "pretty short" in Skyrim, too, if that's ALL you do... If, however, you wander around, craft, collect treasure, liberate outposts, uncover the map, and try out some other side quests and tasks in between (basically, PLAY THE GAME), Far Cry 3 really is not that short at all. Depending on how much time you spend exploring, you're looking at 20-30 hours, at the very least. Literally the only way it could be less than that is if you're bee-lining toward every primary mission location, but even then it's much longer than any Call of Duty, etc. And that's not including the entirely separate co-op campaign, or somewhat unique competitive multiplayer.
The single-player alone is worth every penny of the $50, IMO.
Funny story about hard-coded key bindings: I changed crouch from 'C' to 'Ctrl' like any sane PC gamer would do, but later in the game they use that for deploying your parachute... Needless to say, the awesomeness of that surprise equipment upgrade was spoiled a teeny bit by the inevitable *SPLAT* caused by the game prompting me to hit the wrong key. |
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| News Comments > New NVIDIA Reference Drivers |
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Re: New NVIDIA Reference Drivers |
Dec 4, 2012, 17:31 |
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jdreyer wrote on Dec 4, 2012, 17:21:
jacobvandy wrote on Dec 4, 2012, 14:12:
Well, you really don't need that stuff anyway, unless maybe you're hooking up a TV via HDMI and need the audio output from the GPU. If you're getting the graphics driver and PhysX driver, you're good to go. NVIDIA Update is a piece of crap, it doesn't actually update you, just checks for new drivers posted and links you to the website...
Sound over HDMI is exactly what I need. Hopefully there's a fix.
Well, the fix is below (manual install), if you do happen to run into this issue. Many people don't. |
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| News Comments > New NVIDIA Reference Drivers |
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Re: New NVIDIA Reference Drivers |
Dec 4, 2012, 14:48 |
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| It's not partially installed, each item has its own installer and identity on the Add/Remove Programs list. They just wrap it all up with one big master installer to streamline the process. Just suppress that OCD. :p |
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| News Comments > New NVIDIA Reference Drivers |
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Re: New NVIDIA Reference Drivers |
Dec 4, 2012, 14:12 |
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| Well, you really don't need that stuff anyway, unless maybe you're hooking up a TV via HDMI and need the audio output from the GPU. If you're getting the graphics driver and PhysX driver, you're good to go. NVIDIA Update is a piece of crap, it doesn't actually update you, just checks for new drivers posted and links you to the website... |
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| News Comments > Steam Big Picture Mode Launches |
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Re: Steam Big Picture Mode Launches |
Dec 3, 2012, 20:40 |
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| Yeah, there's no way anyone could honestly say that Steam looked good on a 50" HDTV from 10-15 feet away before... This is basically their version of Windows Media Center, but for cool shit. There have apparently been updates to some games that allow for more streamlined installation, too, so you don't even need a mouse to click through the initial setup or whatever. |
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| News Comments > Crysis 3 Specs |
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Re: Crysis 3 Specs |
Dec 3, 2012, 11:55 |
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| Lol, of course they would point to the best hardware available as offering the best performance. Who wouldn't? Completely meaningless in regards to their game, specifically. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 2, 2012, 18:18 |
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The Top Sellers shown on the front page of the store is not the same thing as this Top 10 by revenue for the week. I don't know if they've ever said what it means exactly, but it updates much more often. I'm guessing something like "most units sold in the past hour," or six hours or whatever. Something goes on sale and it shoots right up to the top of that thing right away.
w00tie wrote on Dec 2, 2012, 17:19:
You know that all four of those titles were at 50% off at some point during the sale, right?
I'll give you Borderlands 2, but LOL, no, Black Ops 2 was not on sale. Modern Warfare 3 (last year's) was barely 50% off, and it's regular price is STILL $60. Activision is incredibly tight-assed about Steam sales, despite countless other developers/publishers knowing full well that discounts on the most popular digital storefront can mean more revenue. They may not have come out and commented on it like EA, but they obviously feel very strongly that "devaluing their IP" is something they don't want to do.
And Torchlight 2 being $10 instead of $20 only reinforces the point I was making. It brought in more revenue at $10 a copy than Black Ops 2 did at $60 a copy.
This comment was edited on Dec 2, 2012, 18:33. |
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