The unofficial "So what are you playing?" thread

I'm on the last level of SIGIL 2 and damn it is brutally hard on Ultra Violence, waaaay harder then Sigil 1. One map is divided into like 3 huge sections and 3 different Cyberdemons spawn in guarding them. Once you get to the exit the last one spawns in and you either have to kill it or run past it in this tiny little hallway. Very brutal. Glad I am not playing a 100% kill run.

The difficulty reminds me of Doom Eternals first DLC on Ultra Violence.

I was on another map and at the end but I had only found like 12% of the secrets so decided to go back. Managed to track down a secret that portals you in to a huge section that looks nothing like the level you were in, really cool mixture of styles. I was impressed and glad I went back.

Last night I finished a very vertical mission and I had 8/9 secrets found. Decided to go wander. There was a little room attached to a larger building. I used the No Clip cheat and went inside and got 9/9 secrets. Obviously cheating to get a secret is lame so I reloaded and I spent a good 45 minutes wandering all around the general area trying to figure out how to get in. Finally threw in the towel and just went to the next mission.

I absolutely HATE secrets in games where a switch or button a 10 minute walk away trigger a secret door in the other side of the map and last I checked Romero agreed so no idea what I missed.

The game's what, two years old? That's cheap compared to newer AAA games, many now over $100 for the premium/deluxe versions (which doesn't even guarantee you'll get access to all future DLC). lol


PC gaming pricing - hardware (especially gpu's) and downloadable games (i.e. no physical media.. you don't own it) doesn't make much sense in general, besides that they charge whatever people are willing to pay.

That's why I don't buy all games on Steam. Someday, they could get bought out or go bankrupt, and you'd lose your library of games.

Wow Jedi Survivor is getting a new patch after they said they were done patching it. Right away, it says they improved framerates for various configurations, improved raytracing optimization, and also removing Denuvo DRM.

The game runs okay but there are definitely issues, one thing I notice constantly is that the game is utilizing very little CPU and GPU power, so hopefully this patch addresses that too.

I remember when they remastered Bulletstorm, they charged $60 for it. It's still $40 which is a lot for a game that old (2011), finally bought it on sale for $5 at some point and it came with a DLC that turns the main character into Duke Nukem complete with some dialogue.

Happy to be playing Baldurs Gate 3 finally

Saw it uses DLSS 2.0, downloaded the latest DLSS .dll. Even on ultra settings can run DLAA just fine. With 1440p and DLAA not a jagged line in sight.

I wanted a pretty vanilla experience so the only mod I started using was one that makes party members speak their lines more often. Similar to Dragon Age party members have a bunch of lines they say, the mod makes sure you can hear pretty much everything they say in one playthrough instead of having to play multiple times.

Noticed the game is a very top down point and click perspective. Just googled what the best mods were and people rave about Native Camera Tweaks and WASD movement. People said it makes it feel a lot like Dragon Age Origins.

I got those both installed. Game crashed. Fuck.

However when I reloaded the game worked fine.

It feels way better with the WASD movement and having the camera rotate around. It really does make the game feel like Dragon Age Origins. A massive improvement. I see why people say they can't play without those two mods.

Sounds like The Last of Us is still messed up:

Playing BG3 with no frame limit my system is pulling 550+ watts and the fan is running the loudest I've heard. Pulling 200+ fps.

Decided to just cap the framerate at 120 fps, then use Lossless Scaling Frame Generation. Now its humming along at 238-240 fps at all times. Yes half of the frames are "fake" but when your base FPS is 120 you don't notice.

Could go for 3x but think thats overkill.

Boltgun has been on my list of Boomer shooters to play for a while now. I still haven't played Dusk even though I have it installed, actually I have played it but only for like 15 minutes. Also the expansions for Quake / Quake 2 which are supposed to be excellent I never got around to finishing.

The only modern Boomer shooter I ever finished was Project Warlock, great game, but it was more of a Wolf3D homage then Doom, I heard a lot of mixed things about Project Warlock 2, never got around to trying it

For sure but that genre description seems to have stuck. Its like in the 1990s one of my favorite genres was called IDM(Intelligent Dance Music). The people who this label were applied too hated it because it implied other forms of electronic music were stupid in comparison.........however no other term seemed better "electronica" was so overbroad it could mean anything with a synth in it.

Sounds like they're sticking to the same formula. Divinity Original Sin 1 starts on a beach as well.

I was determined NOT to get stuck at the end of Act 1 in BG3 like I did in DOS2. Yesterday I ended Act 1.........then I realized I forgot to do a companions quest. It was pretty simple to finish.........forgot BG3 is so packed full of content every 10 feet you walk that it triggered another quest and led me to a very powerful NPC. I had 5 hours of gameplay left in Act 1 I didn't even know about.

The party limit is 4. One of the mods I have removes this. Despite having _7_ people in my party NONE of my melee could use heavy armor. Turns out they were using subclasses that got you very strong abilities that make you sacrifice heavy armor. So I kept finding these amazing pieces of heavy armor and couldn't use them. The most difficult fight in the game so far rewarded me with a piece of heavy armor.

Finally in Act 2 I got a companion that can use heavy armor.

In the Dragon Age games or any other RPG I play the goodguy my first play-through because that is how developers intend the story to go. You usually get the best story and rewards. So far when I have been doing stuff in BG3 I get achievements that like 60-70% of other players have done.

Got a quest to do something crazy pure evil for a big reward right away, its 100% optional. I made a note of it to do it my 2nd play-through...........then I was like well how will this effect the story? I made a backup save and did it. Got my reward, and my companions are pretty disgusted with me "How could you do that? You are turning into who I was sworn to fight!" lol.

I got a Steam achievement that only 6% of other players have done this. 6%. Its a pretty messed up choice to make.

Decided to stick with it and not go back on my decision. I'm curious how this will effect the ending of the game.

I did Arcane Warrior / Blood Mage last time I played. Completely breaks the game. A mage that can sit and tank a dragon with no worries then cast AE blood magic as well.

Haven't found anything that game breaking in Baldur's Gate 3 yet. It is set in the Forgotten Realms tho which is a ridiculously "high magic" realm. Like ancient Tevinter in Dragon Age but worse.

I found a neat combo of items for Heavy Armor. Heavy Armor blocks dexterity bonus, got just AC but saving throws. There is a very rare set that lets you get your full dexterity bonus. Most warriors are Strength based so not that big of a deal. I found a pair of gloves that sets dexterity to 18.

So when you combine that heavy armor & gloves not only do you get bonus AC from have 18 Dex you also get the saving throws.

To be honest I love RPGs but I am not a big fan of D&D rules in games. I've only played D&D IRL once when I was 14 so I don't have an opinion but I see why Square went with Magic Points with Final Fantasy. In long battles you just end up out of all abilities and its very annoying.

Getting pretty far in Baldur's Gate 3. There were a ton of quests to the south of a map, I just wanted to finish up this one questline to the north. Then it tells me "Are you sure you want to do this? If you do the worldstate will change and you may not be able to do certain quests". I said yes since everything is going fine and I can't imagine this messing up my sidequests.

So I finish that section and immediately go to the south, and notice is says I never id 3 different quests that were too the south. wtf. They were sidequests and I was literally going there next.

Backed up my savegame and reloaded to just before I zoned in to where it says "are you sure you want to do this?" and teleported south. I have to replay about an hour, I'm going to be annoyed if I do these sidequests and then it locks me out of what I was doing in the north...

Also I was running around with 8 people but despite being on everyone elses level this one dude seems really weak, you can actually respec your companions to the point that it conflicts with the story but instead I just told him to wait at camp.