Rhett wrote on Nov 24, 2020, 01:48:
...and barely any contention over quest objectives (either shared or made lootable by everyone).

I'm pleased to hear this. I feared for the launch week since the questing is linear this time, with everyone going through the zones in order - I too well remember the launch of The Burning Crusade, where everyone fought over mobs in Hellfire Peninsula so quests would take several times longer than if you were solo. They did say they'd be sharding zones once player levels reached a certain amount - sounds like that's working.

Hopefully tonight I can make a start and enjoy it, in this case.

NKD wrote on Oct 1, 2020, 21:24:
I don't think they've delayed an expansion this close to release before. I'm clean from WoW for a couple expansions now so Im a bit out of touch but a little more time can go a long way. Hope they aren't crunching their dudes.

The only other expansion that was delayed was the first one (Burning Crusade). It was announced at the end of October 2006 that it would now be released January 2007 - so that must have been pretty close to whatever the original release date was (which I can't find right now).

The general feeling from devs and related staff on Twitter seems to be relief that the info is out and that they have the time - and bear in mind they haven't even given a specific release date now other than "this year." I would throw my hat in the ring with "Early December," a few weeks ahead of Christmas to get all the initial server and game issues either sorted or put on hold until the new year.

Slick wrote on Jul 7, 2020, 07:00:
(looks like WD: Legion will be a lot more serious)

You saw Granny Helen, right?

If you're looking at playing the whole shebang, then the Season Pass is £6.80 on the UPlay store until Friday (£5.44 if you trade in 100 Club Units). And yes, you can buy the season pass without already owning the full game first. Not sure what the price is in other countries.

https://store.ubi.com/uk/watch_dogs-2---season-pass/5836a1894e0165af278b4567.html

Huh. I wonder if they'll re-release the original games back on Steam at some point.. you can get them in this bundle, but still not if you want them piecemeal. Which is a shame, as I don't have any VR kit so the bulk of the cost of that bundle (the new VR game) doesn't apply to me :/

Blue wrote on Feb 5, 2020, 08:14:

residual wrote on Feb 4, 2020, 22:22:

saying players will be able to transfer their game and items (but not items) from Battle.net to Steam

Not battle.net but the Bethesda launcher.

Dang. Fixed. Thanks for catching that, them referring to it as B.net addled me.

See? SEE?? It's misleading!

Google Translate will soon offer real-time transcription.

..because we've all seen how accurate the auto-subtitles on YouTube videos are?

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 7, 2020, 18:16:
DCH driver installs the control panel via desktop-bridge, making it a trusted microsoft app. It's even in the driver FAQ In fact you can download the control panel from the app store and it gets updates from there too.

Ah.. I don't use the DCH driver, just the standard one, which explains why mine isn't an app.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 6, 2020, 15:57:
Yeah, I think I will happily just do a full driver re-install every time anyway, especially as the control panel is now a W10 app....

Um. The Control Panel isn't a W10 app. Not sure where you got that from? I even just checked with the latest driver installed, in case they'd changed it in this one. Nope, still a regular application.

RIP Constable Odo

I just started playing this a few days ago after someone gifted it me for my birthday, and I'm loving it too. Just.. well, it's not exactly an uplifting story so far (Chapter 8 of 15), so don't play it if you're depressed already..

[VG]Reagle wrote on Dec 5, 2019, 21:51:
We have officially reached rock bottom as a species.

May I introduce you to Rock Simulator?

I remember playing the original Halo when it was finally released on PC all those years back, and I could never understand what the fuss was about. The PC shooters of the time seemed so very much further advanced. As such it's kinda hard for me to get excited about these being on PC now.

Had a similar experience with Gears. Played Gears 5 recently as my first Gears game after hearing the hype for so many years and.. well, underwhelmed is about right. So many things could have been improved in it, but after putting a few hours in and reaching the second Act, I just gave up.. kinda walked away shaking my head at it.

jdreyer wrote on Nov 28, 2019, 02:35:

VoodooV wrote on Nov 27, 2019, 20:44:
I had my fun with Overwatch last year with some friends. was fun while it lasted, but the repetitiveness got me in in the end.

There is only so many times you can die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/
die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/
die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/
die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/
die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/die/respawn/
die/respawn

...before it gets old

Isn't that literally *every* MP shooter though?

Exactly what I thought as I read that.. and also why I don't play MP shooters

They can have my biggest content drop for free too

*pulls trousers down*

Pepe wrote on Nov 21, 2019, 07:28:

MoonSpook wrote on Nov 21, 2019, 05:14:

Kxmode wrote on Nov 20, 2019, 22:28:
...and the more recent Wolfenstein entries.

Wait, what? That was MachineGames..

They worked together with Arkane for the latest one, Youngblood. Might also explain why it is rather crappy compared to the other entries in the series.

Oh. Huh. I had no idea.

Kxmode wrote on Nov 20, 2019, 22:28:
...and the more recent Wolfenstein entries.

Wait, what? That was MachineGames..

Yep, just had a look and the column is waaay better now

On desktop Chrome I'm seeing a huge gap in the left-hand column:

https://imgur.com/a/ffrg770

This is in a maximised window, 1920x1200 res, no ad-blockers or any other extensions running. If I resize the window down I can make it look normal, but if I stretch it across both monitors the big blue area just gets bigger and bigger

Xero wrote on Nov 5, 2019, 14:25:
If I own the standard edition, is there a way to upgrade to this? I'd probably give the game an entire new play through with any new content since launch. Just had no desire to reinstall after beating it to play some new tombs here and there... I had a good time though.

From what I can see on the Steam page, the "Definitive" Edition has entirely replaced the original version now as a "Bundle" - and normally Steam discounts those bundles based on your library. So I guess just visit the page and see what price it offers you? I don't own any of it, and it's saying it's £44.78.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/750920/Shadow_of_the_Tomb_Raider_Definitive_Edition/

Edit: For ref, it's a few quid cheaper for the "Croft Edition" (essentially the same thing) at CDKeys:

https://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-croft-edition-pc-steam-cd-key