PC Gaming Era | October 2018 - Jason and the $10 Argonauts

sredgrin · Oct 16, 2018

Origin Access is basically a "new to PC gaming" sub service it seems like. Great value overall, but a lot of the games are A.) Good and old, B.) have been discounted or bundled heavily. And so anyone that's likely to be a deal saavy person (as in, likely to maybe sub to services like this) probably has everything already.

Same thing with that Discord store so far. Hard to get excited for it when my Amazon Prime sub got me those games (if I didn't have them already) a long time ago, plus the other services that Prime has.

SpectrumWarrior · Oct 16, 2018

Hektor said:
Supposedly none of their own
https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/95zggb/discord_will_not_require_drm/

That's not what they're saying in that tweet, Discord has its own drm and it's the devs choice to use it or not.
https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/dispatch/branches-and-builds#drm

You can choose to add DRM to your game. Dispatch will wrap your executables and prevent a user from launching the game if they are not logged into Discord.

Dinjoralo · Oct 16, 2018

devSin said:
We'll find out tomorrow. There's only two real possibilities: either the remaster was such that they could stick the old assets back in there and have it all just work (in which case, it's going to look very bad), or they re-exported the assets at normal resolutions and used the old FMVs (in which case, it will probably look fine).

I'm afraid of the former, definitely. That makes it not so much an optional download.

The base size is still more than twice as large as the original. That's got to come from somewhere, and I'm guessing it's from the textures being a power of two larger.

devSin · Oct 16, 2018

Dinjoralo said:
The base size is still more than twice as large as the original. That's got to come from somewhere, and I'm guessing it's from the textures being a power of two larger.

That was my guess as well, but it seems to be a lot of work in the short amount of time they had (it's been less than two weeks since they posted the system requirements and people complained).

I don't remember how the size broke down for the SO4 assets to make any reliable assumptions. The new textures (just smaller) seems the most likely source, but we won't really know until tomorrow.

Gabbo · Oct 16, 2018

Knurek said:
I like Win 10 Start Menu, come at me.

I need mine to start with all the folders closed like. Mine is a mess. Teach me the ways

Dinjoralo · Oct 16, 2018

Knurek said:
I like Win 10 Start Menu, come at me.

So do I. Though I spend a good deal of time clearing out some clutter from the apps list. Y'know, moving the shortcuts out of the folders to save a click, that kind of thing.

DeejayDoom · Oct 16, 2018

pantsattack · Oct 16, 2018

Knurek said:
I like Win 10 Start Menu, come at me.

I'm not a fan of your colors, but stock Start Tiles work great for me. Everything I want is visible with one press of the windows key.

AMD · Oct 16, 2018

Knurek said:
Eww, Stardock.

I can understand why you're less than enthusiastic about them but Start8 helped to preserve my sanity when Windows 8 first launched and I really wish Microsoft would bake something like Fences into Windows.

Mivey · Oct 16, 2018

Knurek said:
I like Win 10 Start Menu, come at me.

Ganado · Oct 16, 2018

DeejayDoom said:

That's deep.

Dezzy · Oct 16, 2018

Last minute reminder, RimWorld is finally leaving Early Access and hitting 1.0 tomorrow Oct 17th. The price may rise as well, but I don't think it's been confirmed as a definite yes or no. The dev did say that they have a no-sale-price policy for the foreseeable future, so now might be the time to bite if you've been interested. If you have Humble Monthly you can get it on the Humble Store for the 10% off and save a few bucks at least.

Some people might see that graphics and the $30 price tag and not give it another look, but I hope they do. RimWorld is a very deep and engaging game that anyone interested in survival, building, and management will likely love. You'll also get great emergent stories from everything that happens with your colony and its people. It's just an amazing game.
It's also great for those of us(like me) that want to play a Dwarf Fortress like game, but have trouble getting into DF itself, and want something a bit more approachable.

Illusionary · Oct 16, 2018

Tizoc said:
Huh is this the cheapest Chaos Reborn has been?
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/chaos-reborn

Around $3ish.

Not quite, but it's close. I'm seeing it as £2.47 from HB (or £2.22 as a Monthly subscriber) and it's been as low as £2.09 from Fanatical earlier this year.

https://isthereanydeal.com/game/chaosreborn/info/

Aaron D. · Oct 16, 2018

Dezzy said:
RimWorld is a very deep and engaging game that anyone interested in survival, building, and management will likely love. You'll also get great emergent stories from everything that happens with your colony and its people. It's just an amazing game.

When people ask me what makes PC gaming unique (spoiler: they never do), I point to RimWorld and Crusader Kings 2 as the greatest PC exclusives of all time.

Uzzy · Oct 16, 2018

Knurek said:
I like Win 10 Start Menu, come at me.

This is awful. Truly unforgivable awful. Playing as Alexios levels of awful.

Rhaknar · Oct 16, 2018

113 hours spent with Kassandra was time well spent. Now come the post-game blues :(

Kvik · Oct 16, 2018

Knurek said:
I like Win 10 Start Menu, come at me.

I always known you for a person with impeccable taste in games, Knurek. But that ad-laden uTorrent client has to go. It's not Anno Domini 1998 anymore.

Use something decent like transmission-daemon, for instance.

Uzzy · Oct 16, 2018

Rhaknar said:
113 hours spent with Kassandra was time well spent. Now come the post-game blues :(

Listen to the rain, get some blues on and reflect with a glass of something good.

Tizoc · Oct 16, 2018

Illusionary said:
Not quite, but it's close. I'm seeing it as £2.47 from HB (or £2.22 as a Monthly subscriber) and it's been as low as £2.09 from Fanatical earlier this year.

https://isthereanydeal.com/game/chaosreborn/info/

Hmm I see. I guess I could see it show up as a $1 tier in a bundle sometime soon :S

Redowl · Oct 16, 2018

Tizoc said:
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, the first game, is locked to 30 FPS and is your basic run of the mill kart racer themed game.

Transformed doesn't have an FPS lock, and has a different cast as well as different stages. The game's gimmick is that certain paths will transform you vehicle into an aircraft or water jet-like vehicle.

Both are decent games IMO and the first game has a few characters not in Transformed like Zobio and Zobiko from House of the Dead series.

Oh yeah those.
All I can say is that they are more tolerable without having to deal with motion controls :V

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-pc-builders-thread-i-need-a-new-pc-v2.61531/

There ya go, luv~

astro Also, this might be helpful. https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc-questions-that-dont-really-deserve-their-own-thread.4962/

The Cellar Letters · Oct 16, 2018

Finally picked up Vermintide 2 anddddd I'm stuck in an infinite loading screen. Why.

rainking187 · Oct 16, 2018

So with Fallout 76 less than a month away is there any chance Bethesda makes their client not shit between now and then?

Tizoc · Oct 16, 2018

Hmmm

Also

Caaaaaaaaaaaaats

Dio · Oct 16, 2018

Kvik said:
I always known you for a person with impeccable taste in games, Knurek. But that ad-laden uTorrent client has to go. It's not Anno Domini 1998 anymore.

Use something decent like transmission-daemon, for instance.

transmission sucks tho(at least on windows)

Kvik · Oct 16, 2018

Dio said:
transmission sucks tho(at least on windows)

To be honest I haven't really used the Transmission standalone client for a fair while. I used transmission-daemon and transmission-gui to manage it. I know I should really used rakshasa/rTorrent as the number of torrents I'm seeding grows, but it's always a pain to switch clients, so I left it the way it was for so long.

Teppic · Oct 16, 2018

Why would you use anything else than qbittorrent?

Dio · Oct 16, 2018

Teppic said:
Why would you use anything else than qbittorrent?

deluge is awesome

Coreda · Oct 16, 2018

SpectrumWarrior said:
You can choose to add DRM to your game. Dispatch will wrap your executables and prevent a user from launching the game if they are not logged into Discord.

Click to expand...

Click to shrink...

Does this suggest Dispatch is effectively online-only DRM? I'm not familiar with the Discord standalone client.

Blu · Oct 16, 2018

matimeo · Oct 16, 2018

Aaron D. said:
When people ask me what makes PC gaming unique (spoiler: they never do), I point to RimWorld and Crusader Kings 2 as the greatest PC exclusives of all time.

With the developer's announcement and with it getting so much praise from people like yourself I picked it up on humble and used my 10% off discount since that's technically the only way to get a discount.

Blu said:

Interesting!

Angelo · Oct 16, 2018

Blu said:

Now this is very cool!

Echo · Oct 16, 2018

Teppic said:
Why would you use anything else than qbittorrent?

Yeah this one is nice, it's like utorrent without the bullshit and shady ties. So if you're used to the settings and UI of uTorrent, qbtorrent is the easiest one to jump to.

For Linux I use Transmission. Or I did for a while anyway. Haven't messed with Linux in a while, ubuntu circa 2013 lol.

Knurek · Oct 16, 2018

Kvik said:
I always known you for a person with impeccable taste in games, Knurek. But that ad-laden uTorrent client has to go. It's not Anno Domini 1998 anymore.
Use something decent like transmission-daemon, for instance.

Yeah, I hadn't used uTorrent in a while, switched to Tixati, just forgot to change the pinned icon.

Redowl · Oct 17, 2018

Hey, what was that FPS game a la Duke Nukem? Not Serious Sam. Someone put up a link a few days ago and I didn't bookmark. The guy says hilarious one liners while blasting away.

Kvik · Oct 17, 2018

Teppic said:
Why would you use anything else than qbittorrent?

In my observation qbt consumes a lot more RAM compared with transmission-daemon/rtorrent once you're seeding more than a few hundred torrents.

Knurek said:
switched to Tixati

Proprietary license? :thonking:

Mr. Tibbs · Oct 17, 2018

Redowl said:
Hey, what was that FPS game a la Duke Nukem? Not Serious Sam. Someone put up a link a few days ago and I didn't bookmark. The guy says hilarious one liners while blasting away.

Is it Project Warlock?

Catshade · Oct 17, 2018

Redowl said:
Hey, what was that FPS game a la Duke Nukem? Not Serious Sam. Someone put up a link a few days ago and I didn't bookmark. The guy says hilarious one liners while blasting away.

Ion Maiden?

Redowl · Oct 17, 2018

Mr. Tibbs said:
Is it Project Warlock?

THANK YOU!!!

Mr. Tibbs · Oct 17, 2018

catshade said:
Ion Maiden?

Ion Maiden's such a great game. I can't wait for the full campaign to release early next year.

Redowl said:
THANK YOU!!!

No worries! :)

Knurek · Oct 17, 2018

Kvik said:
Proprietary license? :thonking:

Dark mode beats source code in my book.
(As I'm getting older and older my eyes just can't handle sudden switches to white background)

Atraveller · Oct 17, 2018

The second season of Telltale Batman game is pretty great so far. Story moves faster than before they got better at putting players between a rock and a hard place.

Alexandros · Oct 17, 2018

rainking187 said:
So with Fallout 76 less than a month away is there any chance Bethesda makes their client not shit between now and then?

It's Bethesda, so I highly doubt it.

Madjoki · Oct 17, 2018

Looks like we may have humble game bundle this week after all:

Humble Bundle's Featured Charity is Crisis Text Line! You can choose however much of your bundle purchase helps us provide free, confidential, 24/7 support to people in crisis. In crisis yourself? You can reach any of our trained volunteers by texting us at 741741.

Here are some of the bundles we're featured on right now:

Humble Discovery Pack (through 10/23, 11:00 am PST ): Includes War for the Overworld + Heart of Gold DLC, Osiris New Dawn, Kentucky Route Zero, RWBY: Grimm Eclipse, Phantom Brave PC, Tricky Towers

Humble Day of the Devs Bundle 2018 (through 11/2, 10:00 am PST): Includes MINIT, Hyper Light Drifter, Day of the Devs VIP Ticket, Rime, Crossing Souls, Yooka Laylee, Full Throttle Remastered, Burly Men at Sea

Plus there are new bundles being added at the end of the month! You guys have probably already tuned in to the recent conversations around creator burnout, so we're happy to be working with Humble Bundle to address this issue. Everyone deserves to have help with their mental health.

AHA-Lambda · Oct 17, 2018

Whatever happened to the planned Yooka Laylee DLC actually?

Deques · Oct 17, 2018

Madjoki said:
Looks like we may have humble game bundle this week after all:

I assume they accidentally posted that somewhere. When will the new bundle come though? Some time this week?

Catshade · Oct 17, 2018

Deques said:
I assume they accidentally posted that somewhere. When will the new bundle come though? Some time this week?

Bundles usually last for 14 days. So based on the end date, this Friday.

Aangster · Oct 17, 2018

Durante said:
MS doesn't give a shit about how well it works, what's important to them is being able to display their shitty game bar on top of your games. And they can't do that for actual full screen games (unlike everyone else) since that would undermine their UWP story.

It's nasty business. I can understand the need for apps across multiple devices, but MS' work on replacing Win32 with UWP on desktop has been shambolic. The crashes, lost functionality, and UI inconsistencies alone drive me nuts.

Wok · Oct 17, 2018

Deques said:
I assume they accidentally posted that somewhere. When will the new bundle come though? Some time this week?

The end date (Nov 2nd) is weird: if the bundle is up for 2 weeks, that would mean it would released this Friday.

GrrImAFridge · Oct 17, 2018

AHA-Lambda said:
Whatever happened to the planned Yooka Laylee DLC actually?

It's still coming.

Valkerion · Oct 17, 2018

How was Fallout 4? Did not follow it at all. Wondering if I should try that or go for 76. Heads up I only played Fallout 3 and enjoyed it, Elder Scrolls never floated my boat, no 3, 4, or 5.

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