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Post by Pegasus Actual on Nov 21, 2017 16:38:08 GMT -5
Yup it's the cheapskates that don't want to pay for season passes that are forcing this p2w crap on everyone.
Oh wait other games manage to provide good content without a required season pass. And really Battlefield has a pretty oppressive unlock grind. It's so tedious that they can sell a 40 dollar shortcut pack. Oh shit it is half off on Origin right now. Mighty tempting. If Battlefield is your main game you're going to grind away all the stuff eventually... but it's like 4th or 5th on the depth chart for me at the moment and the unlocks are just too fucking much.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Nov 21, 2017 16:29:27 GMT -5
I guess we can add Fortnite to the list, seeing as it's super popular cartoon PUBG for Minecraft and console babbies. Since I play with a lot of Xbox babbies I've played way too much of it. The fort building crap really ruins the end game for me. Aside from that it's ok. The weapons are too RNG spready. But otherwise it's a reasonably fun faster paced PUBG knockoff. But the way it plays just makes it feel much less intense or satisfying.
Meanwhile I've finally gotten going a bit on PUBG. But I've hit a bit of a wall. The SBMM keeps putting me in tougher lobbies.. during my first 50-100 games I got into 5 final 2s, and whiffed them all. And now closer to 200 games I'm not getting better than 5th most of the time. My 'skill' rank keeps going up despite never getting a win, and despite my k/d being in the 0.80 range. I'm all for competition in general, but I don't know if a 100 player game mode really needs skill based matchmaking. On the bright side I guess the leaderboards reset monthly so I'll have a better chance to get a win in another 10 days. I'm starving. I need that chicken dinner.
I switched to random squads, and despite getting nothing but Chinese over the mic from my randoms, I clutched out a 1v2 to win that quarter-chicken meal in TWO games.
I've been doing mostly 3rd person but kind of feel like maybe I should switch to first person. That feels more sweaty. But then again it kind of sucks getting ambushed by the 3rd person invisipeeks. Also I am INCREDIBLY lazy... and just the fact that the search always defaults to 3rd person makes me far more likely to stick with it.
Xbox launch in a few weeks. Vaulting and new bullet travel physics coming soon as well. So between that and the chicken starvation I just haven't really played in the last week or so after going really hard at it for like 10 days.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Nov 21, 2017 16:13:45 GMT -5
its very rough around the edges, but beneath theres a really good game. Its a shame that it never got the full funding and attention it really deserves, and it never will It's been a long road... and I certainly don't agree with everything they've been doing with the game... But I've got to say that it seems to be getting the attention and funding. A full third year confirmed, plus I guess another 2 years of Pro League. Even though Operation Health didn't quite fix the game, it seems like with the patches since it's more or less finally stable. It doesn't crash on Xbox anymore. No blue screens. Dedicated matchmaking works. The party lobby still seems P2P and that causes issue with certain people who between them and their provider ARE REALLY BAD AT INTERNET... but for the most part it works. They've slowed down on maps, which kind of sucks, especially since the GROM season got cancelled and dumped into the asian seasons... And they seem to be compensating with uhhh... really stupid lore. Ok, it's two sisters with a sibling rivalry and daddy issues. And they can magically somewhat tank each others' abilities... because they are sisters. Derp-a-derp. I can do without the anime backstory. They seem to be trying to make the operators have more personality to tap into I guess that Overwatch thing. I don't get it, the weirdos were still happy to dress up as the 'boring' original operators. Another major issue with recent content is power creep. Zofia is like Ash paired with Ela, except without having to reload her breaching rounds, and getting an extra concussion round. The two Worst Korea operators have a choice of ridiculous machine pistol sidearms to go along with pretty awesome seeming primaries. Better weapon loadouts and extra abilities. It's a bit much. Still, the game is the strongest it has ever been in terms of playerbase. Destiny 2 has already fallen behind on (what I presume is) the US charts. If it wasn't for NewCOD it would be top FPS overall... And I guarantee sooner or later it will be overtaking the yearly COD. And the Steam charts with the latest free weekend are once again setting new highs: steamcharts.com/app/359550One of the craziest success stories in the last few years of gaming.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Nov 7, 2017 16:27:51 GMT -5
4. Kings Fall - Kings fall had a great boss fight, as it required moving around and actually fighting. This made it solid, maybe the best boss fight. But...the rest? It was ok, but everything being in the same room, it was kind of bland. There was no exploration, excitement of a new room, new boss, etc..I do get that it was supposed to be like being trapped in an arena, that type of vibe, but I don't think the game pulled it off. I didn't feel it. I didn't do the last one with the DLC I think you missed two raids, because what you're describing sure sounds like Prison of Elders and not King's Fall.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Nov 5, 2017 20:50:21 GMT -5
Hey guys we won the Destiny! See you all for Destiny 3 where uhh.. we have to go raid the robots? The robots are up next again right? Robots?
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Nov 2, 2017 8:35:49 GMT -5
Mal ain't on no PC. Mal be faking. Also I'm not sure if Dumien is really in or not. This may all be related to a certain horse being quite bad at telling Wednesday and Thursday apart.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Nov 1, 2017 17:03:23 GMT -5
Dumien is out, time doesn't work for him
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 31, 2017 15:31:40 GMT -5
I'm in of course. Btw, contact has been made with Pr00toss and the Fat Man on PC side. Pr00toss is winning on the leveling front between the three of us. But malgato is all about the way the winds are blowing so just a heads up. This game really just needed cross buy or at least cross play.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 31, 2017 9:55:31 GMT -5
While I think your general theory is sound, I don't think that goes for the average skill level. I feel that a threshold point would be somewhere in the noob skill curve, not the average gamer. I have seen console players (like N kuch) who have barely any playtime on PC and they are already hitting more shots on PC than I do on console. Now I am no PvP god, but am at least above the skill curve. I have played some CoD on PC every once in a while too, and within a day of practice, you can hit more shots on PC than you did on console (but ofc so can your opponents). I think the amount of players who use a controller on PC is very very slim either way. To be honest it sounds more like you are trying to convince yourself it is ok to use Kb+M + aim assist because "using a game pad is just as easy". But why wouldn't you just use a game pad if that was really true? I think you are vastly oversimplifying the use of a game pad. I have been playing a gosh darn golly gee whiz lot of PvP on D2, and hitting 5 consecutive shots with mida is not as easy as you make it sound, especially with all the flinch (which is btw easier to correct for with a mouse). So bottomline, while I could see a defensive argument for using xim + auto aim on console (although I wouldn't agree unless you have a handicap), I think using xim to gain aim assist on a pc game is essentially cheating. I think you're overestimating the average m+k user's aim. Now D2 has changed from D1, I have a pretty small sample size (though slightly more if you add in the beta) and obviously there are more noobs, but the impression I get is that going up against D2 m+k players is easier than going up against D1 console players was. You say the PC controller population is very small, and maybe that's true. I don't think I've seen anyone report actual numbers though. Really, only Bungie knows. I would suspect that the gamepad percentage for D2 would be the highest for a first person shooter. After all it is a sequel to a console only game from a developer known for console only games. The thing is, the controller-using demographic on PC is only growing. Console kids grow up, make more money, and decide to get w/ the PC master race. And some of them try mouse and keyboard and say "fuck that" and stick with what they know. It's not so much the mouse that gets them down, it's the keyboard. Nobody likes it after learning FPS on a gamepad. They need convincing. I've dealt with these people. It hurts my head. I don't need to convince myself or you about what's cheating or not. It's not cheating in any of the traditional wallhack aimbot 3rd party tool ways. So it's unlikely to get detected (people seem to act like it's undetectable... I don't really agree with that point, it's definitely problematic to detect, but then again I have little interest in helping someone block a XIM in their game as it might get me banned). So the endgame argument isn't even really protecting myself against gamepad players, it would be protecting myself against other XIM players. Meanwhile at the XIM forums I argue with a guy who thinks that native m+k beats XIM if you're competent with a mouse. Crucible isn't fun for me. It never was. It's only a means to the end of having fun in the PVE. And XIM will minimize the time it takes to get some weekly loot out of Shaxx. Most of my time with XIM on PC is for science. Just how good is XIM against normal m+k players. Though admittedly I do prefer XIM input as far as button mapping to certain PC games. Destiny's controls are kind of a mess so that doesn't really apply here. For any given PC game, D2 included, my XIM time on it is probably like 0-10%. I've even used XIM on PC Siege (no aim assist on the game for gamepads even on Xbox) just for muscle memory reasons. But it's a pain to switch my XIM off the console and back again. And you can't lean without ADS-ing on a gamepad. But aside from that I prefer the compact control scheme and am even willing to lose infinite PC turn rate for it. For that matter I've used an Xbox One controller on D2 PC for a bit. With maxed out sensitivity as it was setup for XIM and I was too lazy to change it. Why? Because sometimes mouse input stutters in D2 for no reason and it's completely awful. Meanwhile the controller input seems to be working fine. Even with totally wack sensitivity PVE was still pretty easy. I wouldn't be shocked if I could outperform my native m+k self in D2 with a gamepad in PVP after some practice. And I definitely consider myself a better mouse player than gamepad in general. My position is that gamepad just shouldn't get aim assist on PC. But Bungie doesn't want to alienate those players. The consequences of that choice is on them. Not me.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 30, 2017 10:31:04 GMT -5
So you think gamepad + aim assist gives advantage over M&K - aim assist? That is not what I have heard from most (all of them really) players I think that it might be the case at least for a significant portion of the skill curve. Some PC elitists act like everyone has pro level counterstrike aim and just won't miss any shots. From my (comically brief, so take my opinion for what it's worth) time with D2 Crucible it seems like the most important ability is to string 4-5 shots together in a row. I'm talking in terms of like a mid to long range scout rifle fight. Which was 90 percent of what I did. PC players act like they can hit those all shots but they really can't, if both dudes are strafing, the m+k will miss a shot or two. The controller aim assist is a bit more all or nothing. If you get on target with your first shot, chances are you are going to hit all your follow up shots assuming you're decent with a controller. Because the aim assist will track the target for you for a time. So if you fire while tracking a guy to your right, and he strafes to your left just before you shoot, your reticule will track and you will still get the shot. And if your reaction time is decent the shot after that will be on target as well. In the same situation m+k you will miss the transition strafe shot unless you happen to guess correctly, and you need to perfectly track the followup shot. If a gamepad player nails their first shot they are in a better position than an m+k who hits their first shot. And if they miss their first shot they have a larger window to disengage than an m+k player would on average. I think the gamepad player gets an overall advantage even if you grant that the m+k player will land more first shots of an engagement. I think most people would agree that there's a tipping point with dialing up aim assist where gamepad is just plain better. Even if you don't think D2 is at that point, it's undeniable sometimes that a really good mouse player is going to hit 4/5 really tough shots 1v1 against a mediocre gamepad user who does one nice stick flick, and then sticky aims his way for 5/5 shots.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 29, 2017 8:37:01 GMT -5
Pr00toss seems to have a couple of characters going, his main one like power level 230 or so. No clue on the fat man. I think he is done with the horse. Is there a viable group? Probably not. Then again, is there one on Xbox?
Do you need a new video card? Well of course you do but hey they're your finances.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 27, 2017 22:10:33 GMT -5
Using Xim on pc to get auto aim is on a whole other level of douchery though tbh. Oh sure, it's completely preposterous. On the other hand it is becoming shockingly normal for big budget multiplatform games to have aim assist even in multiplayer for people using gamepads on PC. Which is something that is always arbitrarily balanced and easily exploited. Destiny 2 is completely overboard with the aim assist. I'm not going to go in there aiming by my damn self when gamepad players are auto-turreting my ass!
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 26, 2017 13:35:06 GMT -5
How do you feel about D2 PvP on PC? Warming up to it at all, or hate it almost as much as console? I don't particularly like it. It plays better on PC obviously. I was barely holding down the Ws for the two casual matchmaking games, and then we were getting trounced in the first competitive game so I quickly rearranged some cables and unleashed XIMception on them for the comeback win in the 'you get X respawns as a team' mode. Then at full XIM capacity my team roflstomped them in the discount S&D mode with an IW5k like flawless from me. The recoil changes for mouse vs pad make no sense. There are a lot of reasons to prefer native mouse support over XIM on a comfort basis. But the soft aimbot is just too good. I was playing at like 4am pacific so I had the benefit of going up against pretty much the same group of players. And guys I was struggling with 1v1 instantly became sad splattered XIM victims. It made it so I would have to work to miss a shot. I don't know if there's much point to playing Crucible, but I might do the milestone once or twice for the powerful gear drop until I'm up near 300. What should I use for my exotic slot, Mida-Multi Tool or Fighting Lion? Sorry didn't have an exotic at the time. Based on my games I suggest whatever random white weapon has your highest light because light level probably does more damage as that is the only thing that makes sense why else have it? And then just don't use your secondary. It's important to have your heavy be a sniper that you have no intention of using. That way you don't get distracted. So in conclusion. No exotic.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 26, 2017 13:18:38 GMT -5
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 26, 2017 13:12:46 GMT -5
I'm undefeated all time in D2 Crucible, 4-0 bitches Shaxx so impressed he wants me to play more.
My infinite wisdom is here for the taking, AMA!
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 24, 2017 14:10:49 GMT -5
A couple of restarts sorted it out. Boy stumbling around MW1 Nuke style for the fourth time is... just as unexciting as the first. It seems to have remembered my key bindings from the beta... but oddly not my sensitivity? Maybe they just saw my awesome keybinds and decided they needed to be the default.
Anyway game runs great. I still need to hook up my XIM and try the comedy show of aim assist. But need to nap first. And then some work. I'll add you from your posted info in the clan thread.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 24, 2017 13:11:34 GMT -5
On the bright side infinite loading screen at least has that sweet ass Destiny music!
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 24, 2017 11:55:49 GMT -5
I was too lazy to try to cancel my pre-order. In for game plus season pass. On Xbox it was just the game impulse purchase style. Not sure how much I'm going to play today... I'm in a very bad spot with sleep at the moment. I mean it's morning here. But I didn't sleep at night. So that leaves "soon" as my time to sleep. Which is also when D2 launches. Sad!
Going forward if they make the game better. Which I have to assume they will. At some point. Eventually. Maybe Fall 2018. But it should get t here. Anyway, going forward I'll be all PC I think. I'm still down for an Xbox Raid for achievement purposes. Though I think the Crucible achievements on Xbox will have to be sacrificed because I'm not doing that shit. Maybe I'll give PC Crucible a try at some point. Competitive 30fps makes me want to kill myself. But I think Destiny PVP gameplay in general also makes me want to kill myself. So I'll discover how much self-killing comes from column A, and how much comes from column B.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2017 18:05:37 GMT -5
There is no man who is as accurate with an unassisted mouse as the lowest controller Destiny player with aim assist.
If I had mod powers I would lock this thread and ban Hebb Prime for making it. Then I'd ban Hebb 2.0 North Korea style. Generations of your family would pay.
Crucible. Bah!
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2017 13:31:11 GMT -5
So I haven't read or played anything Call of Duty related for literal years, but I'll be getting this one on PS4. My expectations are realistic (low) but at least I hear we won't be flying around this time. Are there stats yet? I didn't realize there was a beta until it had already ended. Also, long time no see. Liked for boobies avatar.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2017 8:45:45 GMT -5
I grabbed a Buffalo classic SNES knockoff pad, because I could get same day shipping. I have an 8bitdo coming next week. For some reason Cuphead doesn't respond to any inputs so I had to use Xpadder to get it working with keyboard commands. That's only strange in that I was getting dual inputs off the DS4 when I ran DS4Windows, so it would clearly read a device that wasn't Xinput.
Anyway a decent d-pad is a nice upgrade for this game, especially for the plane levels. I've been trying to beat the game 0 deaths style. I'm through the problem spots in world 2 now, just got to get through the rest of 3 and the finale. I think the only real trouble spots left are Rumor Honeybottoms and maybe Cala Maria. Rumor especially messes me up with the randomness of the platforms, the weird triangle attack in phase 2, and also the middle attack with the bullets going up each side. And the final attack sometimes the fists are just in really tough spots. I also don't really have an optimal loadout.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2017 1:42:33 GMT -5
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 20, 2017 23:58:08 GMT -5
Disable your serial ports in BIOS that should free up some IRQs and let you plug in directly to the ISA bus. If Plug and Play doesn't work consider setting the jumpers manually to one of the free IRQs.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 20, 2017 10:45:51 GMT -5
You spelled Rockets McDickface wrong. I didn't mind Valus Ta'aurc being the bullet sponge he was. It made sense looking at his armour, but he was nerfed hard so he had less armour than a glorified zombie. And now we have Thaviks who shows Valus Ta'aurc how to be a more annoying bullet sponge boss. I bet plenty of players didn't think that would be possible. Valus is a motherfucking gangster. I will take any opportunity to drag this video back out:
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 19, 2017 14:06:00 GMT -5
I think I actually have a little more overall time on the Division than D2 right now. Hard to say since DestinyTracker is giving me nonsense numbers. But the Division is almost 5 days and D2 was under 3 last I looked and I doubt it's hit 4. I have zero motivation to boot up the game. If I stumble upon 5 ready-to-roll proper Den bros looking to raid sure I'm in just because I don't even have a clear yet... but... Flashpoints? Nightfalls? Hell... even the exotic quests that I haven't done yet...?
PC version is right around the corner. Will I be able to build up enough will to grind up even one character?
I played some BF1 and Rocket League last night. That was way funner.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 19, 2017 13:24:58 GMT -5
If you can set up your DS4 with DS4fix with the hide original controller mode then it should work fine. I tried it out on my Win 10 install and I couldn't get that setting to work in Windows 10, nor were the purported workarounds doing the trick. It's playable without DS4fix except that the D-pad doesn't work and you have to use the stick. So the main benefit of going DS4 is instantly lost. This is on the Win 10 Store version of the game (since it's crossbuy with the Xbox version I figured I'd go that route). Maybe steam handles DS4 better.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 19, 2017 13:11:24 GMT -5
They did a pretty lackluster job with long term support on BFH. I called a multiplayer lead a scumbag on reddit and he hunted me down on Xbox where we spent an awkward hour playing together while arguing about attack helicopters. And now he's unemployed. So you know what that means right? It means I fucking win! Shouldn't have gotten rid of attack helicopters in the DLC. Like if you didn't want them in Heist or whatever who the fuck cares. But why in the fuck would you think it's a good idea to drop them from Conquest in favor of some cheesy ass scout helicopter that is way less maneuverable. Has NO weaponry... can easily be brought down by small arms fire not to even mention the most ridiculous anti-air weapon ever in a Battlefield game, the BFH version of the Stinger... which can basically drop a helicopter from almost anywhere on the map. Can be spawned in any car. Not to mention is available as a battle pick up in multiple spots on the map for some reason even though the scout helicopter isn't even a threat to anyone.
If I had actually ever gotten around to playing Dead Space I might have more feels for the studio but it is what it is. Hopefully Respawn's Star Wars project is going smoother than the studio-ender Amy Hennig came up with.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 19, 2017 12:28:55 GMT -5
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 18, 2017 12:34:26 GMT -5
Uhh I use an Xbox One controller. It definitely has keyboard controls. It doesn't look like you can do two players on keyboard though so you'll need at least one controller.
Default keys are just as bad if not worse than default controller mappings though.
Ideally I think I would go with a SNES type pad. I should have grabbed an 8bitdo. The D-pad on the XB1 controller isn't good enough and a thumbstick isn't exactly ideal.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 18, 2017 9:50:13 GMT -5
What's holding you up in World 3?
If you're using a controller with default controls... don't. Get dash and shoot on the triggers. Makes life much easier.
Aside from that, in general charge shot paired with like chaser works pretty well. Or spread for some things. Smoke bomb is OP.
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