I can, but the OP also just purchased Fallout 4 and said they’d like to hear tips on the game too, So I don’t think I’m hijacking here. @EllisDee, would you like me to take my dumb newb F4 questions to another thread?
ETA: correction—I see the OP, as of the OP, hasn’t actually purchased F4, yet, is or was just debating whether to.
I don’t mind either way. Welcome to discuss it here or create a new thread if you like.
I did purchase Fallout 4 two nights ago though I haven’t started playing yet.
Anyone going to be buying and playing the new “Guardians of the Galaxy” game? My son pointed out to me that I get it as a free gift because of the video card in the computer I recently purchased, so I just preloaded it. It gets unlocked tomorrow. Seems to be getting pretty good advance reviews online.
Yes, but not right away. It’s single-player only and is relatively short (I’ve heard 15-20 hours altogether), so I don’t feel compelled to buy it right away. I’ll pick it up used for the PS5 in a month or two and save twenty bucks or so.
It is getting good reviews, though. It sounds like while it’s not breaking any new ground, it’s a very solid all-around brawler with entertaining dialogue and banter.
Yeah, the game may not be worth the full price, but the price I paid was right for me. Only $1200, and they threw in a new computer and graphics card for free 
One of the more amusing bugs in FO4 is that it occasionally allows you to interact with someone without the target being anywhere near. You could pickpocket or plant a live grenade on someone without even seeing them!
Well, shoot. Windows Update is telling me it’s ready to install Windows 11. Anyone here taken the plunge yet?
Watch Dogs 1 & 2 are on sale on Steam right now for $7.49 and $9.99 respectively.
The second one is better than the first. I liked the idea of the first one more than I liked the game itself. The hacking was an interesting mechanic, and the side quests/minigames (“digital trips”) were innovative and fun, but the main story missions were pretty blah. Everything was improved and refined in the second one. Either are well worth picking up for under $10 IMO.
In fact, there’s a whole Steam Halloween sale right now though (as of this moment) I don’t think many of the discounts have populated yet.
Speaking of Halloween, I’ve been playing Back 4 Blood with some friends. It’s a team zombie shooter and was developed by original Left 4 Dead devs which has people either thinking it’s cool or wailing at how it’s not just more L4D. Of particular note is a deck-building mechanic where you select cards for abilities/buffs each stage to create a “build” (melee, sniper, medic, etc)
I’ll be honest and say I was never a huge L4D fan; I played through the campaign but the online stuff was always full of sweaty tryhards who’d lose their shit if you took two steps to the left when the meta said to take one step to the right so I bailed on that aspect of the game early. So I’m probably lacking some of the preconceived notions of what B4B “should” be, given its pedigree, and instead am enjoying it for what it is and with some friends. It’s included on PC Gamepass (from Microsoft) so wasn’t anything additional out of pocket to try it. Though I am locked into buying it through Microsoft now if I don’t want to lose my progression – that’s how they getcha.
Im a fan of L4D, and was sorta interested in B4B until I see this. Just not a big fan of deck building games.
It’s not really a “deck building game”, it’s more like choosing your perks, more like a call of duty game. You get cards for stuff like bonus melee damage or giving your group a health buff. But the perks are, I think, random drops which makes the whole thing way more obnoxious.
Yeah, you unlock perks and then decide which perks, and in which order, you want to come up as you progress through the maps. There’s not a random nature to it (which some people assume there is).
That said, if it still sounds like it’s not your style, that’s cool.
No, the perks are unlocked from “Supply chains”. Basically three different tracks you can follow and buy the stuff in them. It can still be a pain the have to unlock stuff you don’t care about to hit the cards you DO want since you have to progress on each track in its order. But it’s not random; you can find the tracks all online and plan how to spend your points if you only care about making a melee/tank style build.
Baldur’s Gate III is the game of the year next year. The only game I’ve ever (or probably will ever) buy for full price, in early release.
Mine is saying the same. How long is the upgrade process? Any way to speed it up?
From what I’ve read it’s basically just a reskinning, so it might be similar to any other significant update.
Don’t do it! If you’ve got an AMD CPU, your system might become slower. Just wait until all of these kinks have been worked out.
Yeah I’d seen that before but that’s a good reminder. I’m Intel and Nvidia so I’m not worried about that, at least. (And in fact this kind of thing is one of the reasons I’m an Intel guy. The issue is no fault of AMD; it was Microsoft and Intel working together and freezing AMD out.)
With the update already queued and showing up as a tray icon, can I go turn off TPM 2.0 now and have the update just go away, do you think? I think I might be past the point of no return.
I feel like Windows Update is just going to go ahead and install Windows 11 on its own, probably by next week.
I didn’t see any reports in my usual news outlets about Microsoft forcing updates to Windows 11, and didn’t find anything on a quick Google. Everything before this said that Microsoft would not force the upgrade on anyone—at least, not until Windows 10 gets nearer to EOL (end of life).
So I suspect that the “ready to install” doesn’t mean it will force the installation. I wouldn’t even be sure it had downloaded Windows 11 yet. It may just be telling you that your computer meets the requirements for an upgrade.
That said, as long as you didn’t actually do anything with your TPM after enabling it (e.g. you didn’t enable Bitlocker or mess with Windows Hello), it shouldn’t do anything to turn it back off, and so wouldn’t hurt.
@Mahaloth: I wouldn’t recommend doing the upgrade yet, unless there is something in Windows 11 that you really want. And, even then, I’d still wait a bit longer for the unpaid beta testers (i.e. the early adopters) to iron out bugs.
Personally, I’m not upgrading for as long as I can, to make a point about the bogus TPM requirement. I’m hoping more people will join me so that Microsoft will see that this requirement negatively impacted OS uptake, and won’t try that sort of thing again.
I have tried it, in a VM. I don’t think there’s anything to write home about. They added curves, but the UI is still inconsistent. And I don’t get why they went to all that trouble to put the Weather on the taskbar to then hide it away on a “widgets” panel.
I’d say that you really need to get the edition of Watchdogs 2 which includes the DLC. I played through the game, and found it short. I often forget there’s DLC. I think I eventually picked it up, but never got around to playing it. Otherwise it’s too short. One of the few games where I think that it’s needed rather than extra.
Watch Dogs 2 comes bundled with Easy Anti-Cheat for the online component. I’ve had the game for just over four years and still visit their version of the Bay Area sometimes to mess with the gangs. Last time I did, the fact that it’s a Steam title caused EAC to throw up an error. If this has not been fixed, the workaround is to enter Properties and add -eac_launcher to the launch options.
I assume this has something to do with the fact that the game now launches Ubisoft Connect as well.