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PC Gaming Era | December 2018 - We got 99 problems, but 76 ain't one

What are your plans for Christmas?

  • Family

    Votes: 572 49.6%

  • Games

    Votes: 681 59.0%

  • Beer

    Votes: 273 23.7%

  • Anime

    Votes: 259 22.4%

  • Complaining on the internet

    Votes: 507 43.9%
  • Total voters
    1,154
  • Poll closed .
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ThirtyFour

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I wish I could get good weapons every Dead Cells run
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Been a few months since I last played but pretty sure you can increase the frequency of certain weapons appearing during a run.

Something I considered as well is starting a completely new run and only putting souls into weapons and items I knew were good/I liked. Not necessarily a great idea as you'd still need to grind up all the little improvement like the passives and the flask upgrades.
 
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ThirtyFour said:
Been a few months since I last played but pretty sure you can increase the frequency of certain weapons appearing during a run.

Something I considered as well is starting a completely new run and only putting souls into weapons and items I knew were good/I liked. Not necessarily a great idea as you'd still need to grind up all the little improvement like the passives and the flask upgrades.
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Oh ya I already knew that before I started playing so I did, but sometimes my yellow drops are base items and sometimes I don't get a good weapon to deal with Conjectivius or whatever the hell the eye is. In those cases probably better to go the other path but gotta get that loot.

I should just start bringing a shield on sewer runs I guess.
 
Echo

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I was reading that article on Kotaku about Valve booting AO content games in school settings, and one thing that stuck out to me was that a dev claimed "thousands of people had it wishlisted, we don't want to lose access to those customers" (or something like that.)

Is it true devs can see how many people have their game on wishlist? Do you suppose that effects sale price by gauging demand?
 
Shelbyville Milhouse

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Echo said:
I was reading that article on Kotaku about Valve booting AO content games in school settings, and one thing that stuck out to me was that a dev claimed "thousands of people had it wishlisted, we don't want to lose access to those customers" (or something like that.)

Is it true devs can see how many people have their game on wishlist? Do you suppose that effects sale price by gauging demand?
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Yeah, pretty sure devs see wishlistings. It's a really important tool for them to gauge interest in a game, it's vital. And it probably effects pricing as well to some degree but I wouldn't worry too much about that.
 

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Next OT:

Well well well, Tim, how the turntables






Watched too much The Office lately
 
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ThirtyFour

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Dec said:
Oh ya I already knew that before I started playing so I did, but sometimes my yellow drops are base items and sometimes I don't get a good weapon to deal with Conjectivius or whatever the hell the eye is. In those cases probably better to go the other path but gotta get that loot.

I should just start bringing a shield on sewer runs I guess.
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Yeah tbf there is a certain build I like that, if I get, allows me to steamroll all the way to final boss. Without it my runs are kinda lacklustre, a lot of the weapons I enjoy using aren't really that great in the later levels unfortunately.

I've never actually bothered trying to use a shield, I like dot build so after applying my dots I'm free to focus on dodging until I need to reapply. No need to block damage that way.
 
SatelliteOfLove

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StereoVSN said:
I'll probably cave once Supergiant game comes out on Steam (might wait for a sale though) but everything else for the most part I am skipping. That includes Prey 2. Bethesda launcher can go and die.
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I don't blame any devs like Supergiant from accepting a moneyhat (<3 Kasavin), cuz people gotta eat and a ton of quality independant devs go under despite spraying quality everywhere with each release.

And like you said, they'll largely come out on other formats (Steam/Switch/etc), or they won't. I'll live, and so will these studios.
 
Derrick01

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I slacked on Hitman 2 for so long that now I have 3 other games to play (mutant year zero, JC4 and smash) and I'm sitting here and don't know what to focus on first. I've only done the miami and colombia levels so far.
 
jtb

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Derrick01 said:
I slacked on Hitman 2 for so long that now I have 3 other games to play (mutant year zero, JC4 and smash) and I'm sitting here and don't know what to focus on first. I've only done the miami and colombia levels so far.
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I loved the first game's episodic structure, so I think Hitman is a good game to pace out episode by episode - don't need to do it all at once. Only problem is then you start missing out on ETs (I already missed the first one, ugh)
 
Lashley

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Derrick01 said:
I slacked on Hitman 2 for so long that now I have 3 other games to play (mutant year zero, JC4 and smash) and I'm sitting here and don't know what to focus on first. I've only done the miami and colombia levels so far.
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JC4 seems to have a myriad of problems. Hitman 2 is cool and I like Mutant Year Zero.
 
Talus

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Probably posted already but Monster Hunter World is getting official 21:9 ultra wide display support in Jan/Feb 2019 for the next title update.

Note that it seems it still wont be supported in cutscenes... which is a bummer. There's also apparently more stuff coming in the title update as well.. whatever that could be.

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Derrick01

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QueenOfHunting said:
Put jc4 on burner till patch comes in few weeks. Id say hitman
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Lashley said:
JC4 seems to have a myriad of problems. Hitman 2 is cool and I like Mutant Year Zero.
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Yeah so far I haven't touched JC4 and I'm going to hope the first big patch fixes some of the graphical issues without it ruining the framerate. You never know after how JC3 went. I did start mutant year zero on xbox last night and played up until getting to the Ark. It seems like a cool game so far. Already had some Xcom-style RNG happen lol.

jtb said:
I loved the first game's episodic structure, so I think Hitman is a good game to pace out episode by episode - don't need to do it all at once. Only problem is then you start missing out on ETs (I already missed the first one, ugh)
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I wanted to do each level once just so I can experience them and avoid some spoilers but I get distracted so easily anymore. Episodic was the better model for this game but not necessarily for me personally. By the time new levels came out I had moved on to other games so I only did most of 2016's levels once or twice.
 
Phoenix Splash

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Remij said:
Probably posted already but Monster Hunter World is getting official 21:9 ultra wide display support in Jan/Feb 2019 for the next title update.

Note that it seems it still wont be supported in cutscenes... which is a bummer. There's also apparently more stuff coming in the title update as well.. whatever that could be.
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There's also a stream taking place Dec 10th. Probably related to g-rank. I wonder if it would be releasing on PC at the same time.
 
Mengy

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I've got an odd Steam question....

Lately I've been seeing some people on my friend's list who seem to begin playing a dozen or so games all at the same time. I get the "So and So is now playing <game name>" but I'll get many of them back to back, often three at a time.

What is happening here, and is there some new Steam feature I missed?
 
Madjoki

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Mengy said:
I've got an odd Steam question....

Lately I've been seeing some people on my friend's list who seem to begin playing a dozen or so games all at the same time. I get the "So and So is now playing <game name>" but I'll get many of them back to back, often three at a time.

What is happening here, and is there some new Steam feature I missed?
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Sounds like someone using Idlemaster to glitch card drops faster. (Most likely to get cards to sell for winter sale)
 
Gevin

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Mengy said:
I've got an odd Steam question....

Lately I've been seeing some people on my friend's list who seem to begin playing a dozen or so games all at the same time. I get the "So and So is now playing <game name>" but I'll get many of them back to back, often three at a time.

What is happening here, and is there some new Steam feature I missed?
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They are idling the games for trading cards. That happens because games are idled at the same time until they have 2 hours of playtime.

EDIT: or what madjoki said.
 

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I'm not going to lie (and I know I'm not really anyone here), but outside of this thread, I'll mainly be active at MC.
 
Parsnip

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Gawd the mobile theme feels like ass on my phone.

Echo said:
Is it true devs can see how many people have their game on wishlist? Do you suppose that effects sale price by gauging demand?
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Yup, they can see how many wishlist they are on and I think there's also stats on how many wishlist entries turn into purchases.
 
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