General Videogame Thread

[Blue Maverick]

Couple of questions, is Xbox gamepass worth it for pc, I know the first month is a quid but not sure how much thereafter and also is Bannerlords 2 any good?

Gamepass is worth it mate, loads of games on there, google how to do cheap Gamepass ultimate don’t be paying £11 a month you can get it much cheaper.

 

[Dogtanian]

Gamepass is worth it mate, loads of games on there, google how to do cheap Gamepass ultimate don’t be paying £11 a month you can get it much cheaper.

Ah didn't know it was that expensive for pc, was expecting it to be 6-8 quid

 

[Blue Maverick]

Ah didn't know it was that expensive for pc, was expecting it to be 6-8 quid

Ye sorry it’s £24 for 3 months, ultimate let’s you do Xbox. Cloud etc that’s £12. If you do the Turkey trick tough think you can pick it up still cheaper.

 

[shevtheblue]

Regarding an incomplete game, I fully agree.

But what can you do here when the player-base poured 1 billion for half a game.

And unless you didn't know, next year they are continuing the title, but will charge another 70 for part two of this game. So the 2 year cycle was a lie. Sledgehammer are making that now. No difference on engine, or graphical approach. Just guns and maps. Disgusting.

K/D is something they are slowly syphoning off, since COD Vanguard Season 4, they removed Deaths as a statistic from in game tracking.

Check if you got the double XP from the vault edition, I got them 3 weeks later lol.

In terms of Gameplay, I only starting doing well once I actually slowed down my gameplay massively. Playing the game as it "WANTS" to be played. And of course, playing meta-guns.

Season 1 launch will bring Shipment and Shoot House back from MW19 btw.

That's fucking annoying that they dont show stats. Maybe its a good thing, since the SBMM is so high i just get 1 good game and then 3 shit ones with sweaty players or guys with crazy ping.

Yeah that's the issue i have, if i play it how it wants to be played then im bored shitless. I don't want to walk about, i don't want to pre-aim, i don't want to use the same guns over and over. It's basically tryna pull the fun out for me.

Oh i did like both those maps so that would be good.

 

[ultimateharold]

And now for something completely different...
I've managed to scrape together enough to build me a new rig (AMD 58003XD, TUF 3090ti) and running Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is finally a pleasant experience. Around 60 fps in the air at ultra 4K. Last winter I was given a voucher for one hour in a professional 737-800 simulator and I have barely time now to get some training in before I have to use it. Invested in the PMDG add-on and my godness there's a lot of stuff to digest. I mostly did GA with a Cessna 172 in the sim before. Fasten your seatbelts.

How's it running at a busy airport? Looking at bumping up from a 2080s.

 

[ultimateharold]

Couple of questions, is Xbox gamepass worth it for pc, I know the first month is a quid but not sure how much thereafter and also is Bannerlords 2 any good?

Got a code you can try if you want. They can be picky as to whether they work but worth a try if it does..

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Ye sorry it’s £24 for 3 months, ultimate let’s you do Xbox. Cloud etc that’s £12. If you do the Turkey trick tough think you can pick it up still cheaper.

Is this changing region? You can get it for the price of a xbox live gold plus 11.99 joining fee.

But you have to load up the gold vouchers before you subscribe to gamepass. I'm waiting until mine expires and I'll put three years on (maximum), if it still works then.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Is this changing region? You can get it for the price of a xbox live gold plus 11.99 joining fee.

But you have to load up the gold vouchers before you subscribe to gamepass. I'm waiting until mine expires and I'll put three years on (maximum), if it still works then.

Ye that’s the one let it expire 3 years of gold then convert to Gamepass I think Turkey is the easiest way of doing it

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Ye that’s the one let it expire 3 years of gold then convert to Gamepass I think Turkey is the easiest way of doing it

I tried to do this with an EU region card (not turkey, Germany I think) and ended up fucking it up last time, needed to get into a chat with tech support.


I think it still works in your home region with gold, but the region switch saves a bit more.

 

[City_Sean]

It's made to be consumed by masses, and to encourage low skill-gap. It's made to be played by everyone, removing elements that separate skill such as advanced movement, ( bunny-hopping, slide-cancelling, fast sprint, lower Time to Kill, with very slow ADS times and quite simply useless gun attachments ). There is a huge problem regarding the aim-assist as well, with PC players on controller having a huge margin less of it against console.

The problem however is the match-making which has a much more aggressive Skill Based Match making, basically forcing everyone to connect based on an algorithm rather than connection. So rather than playing at 5-25 ping, this gets progressively worse as you play more and more, and the game forces the lobbies, to generate 0.8 - 1.2 KD's across the board for what they want as a "balanced" experience.

Since the game has made 1 billion US dollars in less than 10 days, and has the largest player pool of any COD these changes which go against what old COD players would want, ( including map design ) will never happen. Activision simply caters for heavy casual gameplay. As WZ2 will be released soon, a large swath of players will leave, cleaning the servers a bit of, snails, campers, and people playing the game on 3-3 sense whilst having a fit if moving more than 25 inches on the map. ( I am having fun not going to lie, but's it's quite difficult to imagine playing on the same engine, movement rules and TTk for two years... )

Yeah that's fair mate but as someone who's played the series since COD 4, it's ruining the entire appeal to me.

I can understand SBMM, it's not fair if you're a lower skill and are constantly getting leathered by better players.

Forcing crossplay when you're up against PC players with a big advantage is just a pisstake. I don't want to get into a PC v Console debate but I'd rather just have consoles play consoles.

The maps like I say are just a disaster, that border map is honestly just hell, I genuinely leave every lobby every time it's selected.

I'm not interested that much in warzone, the first was exciting for about a month before I got fed up of it. I barely played Caldera in all honesty.

 

[DruntBlunt]

How's it running at a busy airport? Looking at bumping up from a 2080s.

Down to 30-40 in the busiest airports. I haven't done much fine-tuning on the settings so I'm sure I could get some more even at mainly ultra. On lower (than 4k) res it is often the CPU bottlenecking the framerates. The 5800x3d is a true monster on this sim, barely breaking a sweat.

 

[shevtheblue]

Yeah that's fair mate but as someone who's played the series since COD 4, it's ruining the entire appeal to me.

I can understand SBMM, it's not fair if you're a lower skill and are constantly getting leathered by better players.

Forcing crossplay when you're up against PC players with a big advantage is just a pisstake. I don't want to get into a PC v Console debate but I'd rather just have consoles play consoles.

The maps like I say are just a disaster, that border map is honestly just hell, I genuinely leave every lobby every time it's selected.

I'm not interested that much in warzone, the first was exciting for about a month before I got fed up of it. I barely played Caldera in all honesty.

The advantage that console players have over PC for aim assist in this game is bigger than any previous FPS i can think of. You can try it yourself, don't touch the controller and have a friend just move past you and see the aim auto tracking the player - its mad.

The border map is legit the worst map i think i've ever played. In the original mw2 there was a DLC called trailer park or something, i thought that was bad but this is next level. There's a video i saw on Twitter of a guy who spawns and dies from exploding cars on that map about 6 times in a row - wtf?

I'm kind of the same with warzone - i never really like it that much. I guess it can be fun when you're partied up but i prefer the faster pace of multiplayer.

 

[bluetonium]

Got a FM23 key and been playing it for a couple of days. Yet to see where they've changed anything, beyond a new squad progression planning tab and an extra 'speak to the agent ' button.

Very, very poor SI. Just a glorified yearly data update now.

Think I'm going to head into Total War. What game does everyone recommend as the best in the series?

 

[Big-P]

Have to admit. The state of the current maps in MW2 is genuinely disgraceful. The game itself feels really good in terms of shooting and movement but the maps are fucking wank. They're literally so unbalanced with terrible objective locations, bad spawns and just encouraging people to not move.

It's the same problem MW 2019 had but these are actually worse which takes some doing.

It makes a game that should be a 9/10 a 6/10 because they're just horrendous.

I just want them to bring A shipment 24/7 game mode in haha

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I'm waist deep in Elder Scrolls Online at the moment. Ticking all the boxes - mindless grinding, collecting gear, doing quests and occasionally jumping into a 4 member party to do a dungeon. Just what I need right now. I've played it a few times over the last few years, started in earnest in Lockdown 1.0 but returned to my character late last year only to find all my stats and skills had been reset due to some update to the class. Then ploughed hours into an archer style character only to get to quite a high level before finding out it just wasn't that good. Playing as a Tank now and seem to have found the role for me.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Yeah that's fair mate but as someone who's played the series since COD 4, it's ruining the entire appeal to me.

I can understand SBMM, it's not fair if you're a lower skill and are constantly getting leathered by better players.

Forcing crossplay when you're up against PC players with a big advantage is just a pisstake. I don't want to get into a PC v Console debate but I'd rather just have consoles play consoles.

The maps like I say are just a disaster, that border map is honestly just hell, I genuinely leave every lobby every time it's selected.

I'm not interested that much in warzone, the first was exciting for about a month before I got fed up of it. I barely played Caldera in all honesty.

Agree with the comment regarding cross play and people on PCs. Way easier to aim using a mouse than on a controller.

 

[Scottyboi]

Agree with the comment regarding cross play and people on PCs. Way easier to aim using a mouse than on a controller.

Complete bollocks now, was the case years ago but not now with aim assist. All the pros now use controller as it is better in close quarter fights. There is no advantage to pc anymore the new consoles do 120 fov and 120 fps.

 

[shevtheblue]

Complete bollocks now, was the case years ago but not now with aim assist. All the pros now use controller as it is better in close quarter fights. There is no advantage to pc anymore the new consoles do 120 fov and 120 fps.

The aim assist on mw2 is insane. I just don't have fun on controller though, i have a PS5 controller and an Xbox Elite controller but playing with them on PC just makes the game so boring for me personally. I was watching a video this morning of Handler playing (search and destroy player) and he said he's not going back to keyboard and mouse for this game at all, it's accompanied with footage of him using the SPR with a controller and just beaming everyone. You see as he ADS's the aim assist kicks in and automatically starts moving to target so he's even able to beat snipers without a scope. There obviously has to be some level of help with a controller as you just simply can't move the thumbsticks quick enough and accurate enough to aim without aim assist, but they should just bin off cross-play in that case. Removing cross-play in game (i've not tried it on mw2 tbf but have on mw2019) causes so many issues trying to find games.

 

[shevtheblue]

Anyone ever used any of the mods from Nexus? A friend of mine has been raving about all these mods he's added to Fallout 4 to make it into a whole new game, it looks amazing but a bit of a faff..

 

[ultimateharold]

The aim assist on mw2 is insane. I just don't have fun on controller though, i have a PS5 controller and an Xbox Elite controller but playing with them on PC just makes the game so boring for me personally. I was watching a video this morning of Handler playing (search and destroy player) and he said he's not going back to keyboard and mouse for this game at all, it's accompanied with footage of him using the SPR with a controller and just beaming everyone. You see as he ADS's the aim assist kicks in and automatically starts moving to target so he's even able to beat snipers without a scope. There obviously has to be some level of help with a controller as you just simply can't move the thumbsticks quick enough and accurate enough to aim without aim assist, but they should just bin off cross-play in that case. Removing cross-play in game (i've not tried it on mw2 tbf but have on mw2019) causes so many issues trying to find games.

Cod is a content factory these days and little else. Having assists act like that makes for good clips.