Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 18:18:

jacobvandy wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 17:51:
Resetting your skill doesn't reset your damage to noob levels because you still have your uber gear... You're still powerful, just not as much as you were previously. That is, until you level up the skill again and gain some levels and end up being MORE powerful than you started.

Your skills wouldn't end up more powerful, though. They'd be exactly the same as they were before you reset them. You'd have some extra health or magicka, and that'd be it.

And I think you need to have a look at your uber gear and see how much of that damages comes from skill. At skill 15, the difference between a longbow and a daedric bow is around 12 points of damage. It isn't until you get the skill up and get the 5 perks to get the damage up that it really becomes impressive.

Look, it's up to you how you use this skill reset business. You can reset a bow skill or a sneak skill on their own, and still be pretty uber, or both and have some challenge again. Or you can decide you don't want to reset anything at all, doesn't matter to me or anyone else.

Oh, I don't mean to imply that it's bad they put it in or something. It's awesome they put the option in there. I just wish there'd be some kind of purpose in resetting your skills. (like, the reset and Legendary status give it a +10% bonus or something.)

Merely gaining levels (which is going to take FOREVER anyway. I think 80 to 81 already took like 400 skill increases) doesn't really seem that big of a deal.

Creston

CutterZane wrote on Feb 8, 2013, 10:37:
Agree with Wildone - we're LONG overdue for another Star Wars space sim. There's not been one since X-Wing Alliance in 1999. Instead we're getting rubbish like Star Wars Pinball

wtf_man wrote on Feb 8, 2013, 09:26:
I still don't get the WoW addiction. I've played many MMOs that I thought were better (and held my attention for a year or two), and after getting to the mid levels in WoW within a couple of months... looking for the addiction that everyone else seems to find... I just couldn't stand it anymore, quit, and never looked back.

It has to be one of the dullest MMO's I've ever played, and I don't know why... because it's not that far off the typical MMO designs from games I've played that I felt were superior.

/shrug

Bhruic wrote on Feb 8, 2013, 09:39:
It's an odd time to pick. We know what the end result is going to be - no more Jedi (barring Obi-wan and Yoda). We know there's no other Sith. So unless they are going to do non-Force users, they'd be pretty limited in what they could put in. And, frankly, I'd have no interest in a Star Wars RPG where I couldn't wield a lightsaber.

Redmask wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 16:21:
If the worst result of this sale is that I have to click launch twice in Steam and uPlay to get into the South Park RPG then I can live with that. The Koch Media purchase is an odd one, I think they're the parent company behind the Dead Island guys. The companies and IP are often two separate things, it would be good to know which companies are being purchased with their respective IP intact or not.

NegaDeath wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 12:16:
Microsoft wants to be like Apple so much now I'm surprised it isn't the iXbox.

ASeven wrote on Jan 11, 2013, 12:14:
After Kalypso's terrible handling of Legend of Pegasus, I'll wait for a shitload of user reviews to come in before I consider getting this one.

Yeah BR on the PC is a mishmash of proprietary software requirements and weird HDCP issues. I spent a bundle putting such a setup together and eventually scrapped it out of frustration. Probably easier to just switch inputs to a player or get a second monitor for movie playback hooked up directly via HDMI. You'll need to worry about sound as well.

Just make sure you throw the latest firmware on it after installing, Crucial has a little updater that will automate it for you

I'm not sure I understand the first question but you can buy different kits, though often times it makes the most sense to buy ram with the same specs to eliminate potential sources of hassle when troubleshooting.

They are both very good drives, I prefer the M4 since its relatively well tested by the community at this point but Intel drives have awesome warranties. Flip a coin.

Honestly unless you really want to play back BR on your PC I would skip an optical drive altogether. You can do OS installs from USB media and its significantly faster. Bluray playback on PC is a fucking mess right now due to the licensing and DRM issues. Hard drives are cheap enough again that backing up to BR media doesn't really make much sense either. I tried to do the whole HTPC with BR drive thing and ended up with an HTPC for local media and a PS3 to play back BR discs.

SpectralMeat wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 15:32:
SATA3 drives will work fine with SATA2 mobos.
For SSDs however don't worry about SATA3. If you only have SATA2 mobo that will be fine, you can not tell the difference between 2 and 3 with the SSD drives.

SpectralMeat wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 09:14:

Ceribaen wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 09:11:
Do SSD use a different controller than the standard IDE or SATA ports I have?

No, SSDs are SATA

Verno wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 09:39:

So I fired up the old desktop and took a look at what I actually had in it... Might be in better shape than I thought, though I think an SSD might be desireable after all the talk here and dealing with a lot of HD chugging as it was going through all the windows updates

Motherboard is a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R. So PCIe 2.0 for graphics, LGA1366 for CPU.
CPU is an i7 920, so I think it's actually in reasonable shape still.
Graphics is a Radeon HD 4850(pretty sure it's a 50 off memory... definitely was a relatively powerful card at time of purchase).
Have 6GB RAM, though not sure if it's 1066 or 1333 though. Looks like I still can upgrade here if I'd like.
HD is a 1TB drive, but pretty sure that it was a Caviar Green.

So I guess my main area to upgrade is the HD. Do SSD use a different controller than the standard IDE or SATA ports I have?

I would upgrade the videocard and the hard drive to an SSD, running Windows 7 on a 5400 RPM drive must be...interesting Everything else you can probably hold over until Haswell or whatever it's called.