Desura is dead! Punch Club talks piracy, XCOM 2 receives an upgrade, and VALVe wants you to design their next controller. Then PAYDAY 2 faces the CHAIRQUISITION! All this, plus your hate mail!
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- http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/100577/en-us
- https://developer.nvidia.com/hairworks
- http://frictionalgames.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/soma-6-months-later.html
- http://tinybuild.com/punch-club-has-been-pirated-over-1-million-times
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160316203326/http://www.desura.com/
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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
CAD
http://steamcommunity.com/games/353370/announcements/detail/901091250587237164
- Ugh, do you know how long it’s been since I created a penis in CAD?
- Is your plan to 3D print a dick to tittyfuck an areola controlla? Because if so I am 100% on board
- Can’t find anything to open the fkrs.
- That a good idea! It’ll let people with 3D printers print accessories or enhancements for the AC.
- And it’s not just for the visual stuff, it may even make the controller more accessible for those of us that don’t exactly have symmetrical hands.
- Changing the button layout would be tricky unless VALVe sells you the internals and you print your own PCB.
- I mean, theoretically you could disassemble it and move the guts around, but that’d be a very involved mod
- Changing the button layout would be tricky unless VALVe sells you the internals and you print your own PCB.
5
https://twitter.com/obriend17/status/712389378195075072
- TLDR: Expect Vives to start arriving April 5th
- I propose we mark the day by calling it “The Facefuckening”
PAYDAY 2 launch
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218620/
- MAC users already throwing a shitefest.
- Holding a steady 60 @ 1080 on YOLO.
- And by 60 I mean it will not go above that.
- Not an EON port. Awwww yeah
- Damn good port from the looks of things.
As we breath a collective heavy sigh of relief
https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/news/549/
- As we had suspected
- #noteon
- Soooooo, your announcement was an announcement #yodawg
- Listen man, between this and Payday, I’m fine with announcing the announcement of the annoucement.
- And if this goes well, we might be getting some other Squenix games. Like Deus Ex. That would be nice
- Good!
- “coming this spring”
DLC & Patch
http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412448158150022524/
- The Children of Anarchy DLC had been delayed for Linux and Mac but it is now available.
- If you bought the premium/deluxe/turbo edition, you already have this.
$pace $im
http://store.steampowered.com/app/427970/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
- You want $39.99 for FKN Early Access?
- An ambitious single player VR version of EVE online.
- I wonder if it will ever exit early access
OMG u guyz it iz finally time! Candice is out & ready 4 u 2 play!!!!!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/453790/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
- According to my estimate, this game will give you cancer faster than standing out in the sun for extended periods of time
- I saw Jim Sterling’s video on it, I’m good thanks!
- “IS THIS MEMES?!” –JSS
Ground Fox 64
http://store.steampowered.com/app/384330/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
- I don’t think this critter has AI opponents.
- Doesn’t Race the Sun do pretty much the exact same thing?
News:
Non-Beta Vulkan
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/100577/en-us
- Not only Vulkan support, but EGL support for both Wayland and…that other one.
- Don’t forget MIR support motherfu*kers!
- Not 100% sure if this plays nice with the wayland implementations of Gnome/KDE etc that are shipping with fedora/arch/whatevers. Will definitely try to fuck around a bit with it this week.
- Don’t forget MIR support motherfu*kers!
- Something something [email protected]
- At this point it’s just… sad.
- GLVND is now primetime, so no more shady nvidia hacks
- Vulkan TALOS bench is within +/- 1FERP.
- I’m getting about the same performance I did with .29.
Furries!
https://developer.nvidia.com/hairworks
- Kill performance on AMD cards!
- It’s available now in UE4, but it doesn’t look like it supports OpenGL or Vulkan.
- Also, WHAR SUPER SAIYAN DEMO?
- This is DX11 only for the time being, guess NVidia’s looking for the community to help them migrate this over to the Vulkans.
SOMA – 6 months later
http://frictionalgames.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/soma-6-months-later.html
- “people lump both titles under a “Current Horror From Frictional Games” label.”
- This was on the topic of each new game causing decreased sales of previous titles.
- I love Frictional but let’s be honest, you can spot one of their titles from orbit.
- That’s not a bad thing, they are the clit-commanders of this genre.
- “but since SOMA is in many ways quite different from Amnesia, we thought it wouldn’t happen this time.”
- So, you’ve seen it happen every single time and you expected this time to be different? You lot are insane!
- I liked SOMA, but I didn’t like it quite as much as I did The Dark Descent. And I didn’t like The Dark Descent as much as I liked Penumbra.
- What really killed it for me in SOMA were the glowing head WAU monstrosities which caused the camera to go full metal headache inducing pixely.
- Honestly, I think they’re right about the survival horror thing
- There have been a lot of games recently that have borrowed a lot of the tropes from the amnesia games, and that can cause some fatigue
- To frictional’s credit though, they are some of the best at doing that genre.
Punching
http://tinybuild.com/punch-club-has-been-pirated-over-1-million-times
- So what I took away from this article is that if you want to curtail piracy, neglect the Portuguese.
- Real Portuguese, not those wannabes over in Spain.
- Yeah, the brazilian game price mark up is astronomical.
- Until developers realize that, shit’s gonna get pirated.
- Also, and this is a personal thing, don’t localize stuff in Portuguese on accounts of Portugal.
- Most people here will just cringe with each every mistake made by the amateurs you got to do the localization.
Desura.gone
http://www.desura.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160316203326/http://www.desura.com/
- It’s just, gone.
- Even the Google Cache won’t load properly.
- I found that Web Archive link with the latest snapshot being from March 16th.
- I hope you all downloaded your games when I told you to.
- NO BITCH I DO WHAT I WANT
- I’m honestly not surprised, considering they supposedly ran out of monies a while ago.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Payday 2
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/218620/
Devel: Overkill (a Starbreeze Studio)
Engine: Diesel Engine 2.0
Price: 19.99 / CDN 21.99
Wazzat: PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew – Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains – as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
Makes with the working
V-
- The first few times you start this critter up is launches in 8X6 and that’s a bit jarring @ UHD.
- I think I had to set the res twice manually but it eventually obeyed.
- It took a performance dip while playing /w an AI team but that was sorted in the 2.2.GB update.
J-
- Empty and Venn both reported that the resolution setting kept getting reset. I ran into no such issue
P-
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Shiny / Sounds
V-
- Even with Anisotropic filtering set at 16X the jaggies were visible at 1080.
- Cranking the res to 2160 sorts most of that.
- Visually the easiest way to describe PAYDAY 2 is L4D2 with a slight graphical upgrade that takes place (mostly) during the day.
- The environments rage from Malls, to banks, to warehouses and a somewhat unique meth lab.
- Oh, there’s also a freeway map that will get you killed to death. True story.
- The gun sounds are there along with the radio announcer who will update you on your current tasks but all that is drowned out by the wub wub.
- However you might want to keep that playing since the 5.0 shows up at the drop.
J-
- If you’re focusing on the soundtrack instead of the screaming of your buddies, or you screaming at the AI, you’re doing it wrong
- It definitely makes with the jaggies
- The voice acting is competently done, despite it just being random yelling
P-
- The wub-wub got muted pretty damn fast.
- I didn’t think I’d ever NEED AA as much as I do for this game.
- The sound effects are on-point, but I’d like an option to have surround.
- I’m not even going to ask for 7.1 which this headset supports, just 5.1 would do.
- Counter-Strike Global Offensive has it, why doesn’t this one?
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Control
V-
- WASD + gerbil with a logical layout that you can rebind.
- Didn’t need to futz around with any settings. OOTB
- If I had to gripe about something it would be the on/off crouch but it kinda makes sense.
J-
- Standard FPS fare. Had to switch q and c because why would you not make your switch weapon button Q? Like every other game ever?
- I’m not really a fan of the ironsights style shooting, to be honest. I get what the game is supposed to be, but it’s just a nitpick
P-
- Rebindable controls and a mouse sensitivity slider that actually works.
- The shooting feels responsive enough for a game that actively pushes stealth or at least a much more tactical approach.
- As someone who plays a lot of CS:GO I don’t particularly like the shooting in this one but more on that later.
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FUN
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- Let’s get this out of the way; PAYDAY 2 has some thirty odd bits of DLC that it really really wants you to buy.
- In fact, it’s hard to find a single in-game menu that does not mention some type of available DLC.
- And yes, I know all about the pay-to-win SNAFU but everything I’m about to say comes from the perspective of someone who never plans to spend a dime on it.
- Minus the initial purchase price.
- We cool? Alright!
J-
- This game gets three chairs because of one fact and one fact alone:
- Multiplayer with your friends is stupid fun
- The game basically boils down to Left4Criminal, and it works.
- Having played the single player after trying multiplayer, I can tell you that the fun factor for single player is severely lacking.
- There’s a fairly detailed customization system as well, however most of that is locked away behind a metric fuckton of DLC
- Joining their steam group gets you some stuff, but you had to pick up a ton of cross promotion DLC to get any of the cool stuff. And that isn’t cool man
- Despite all that, I had a blast playing with Venn and Empty. Fun is fun
- Also, the police in this game apparently have mastered the instant transmission technique
P-
- First thing I see when I start the game, a fucking ad for DLC.
- Guess that’s to set the tone for the rest of the game.
- When you’re not in a mission, there’s always ads scrolling down the bottom left hand side of the screen telling you to get the new DLC.
- The top item in the Main goddamn Menu is a big blinking button telling you to buy DLC.
- This is usually a $20 game! Why are you pushing Free-to-Play marketing bullshit?
- Weren’t these the guys that said they wouldn’t do Pay to Win bullshit DLC but then totally went and did it?
- I suppose it’s a good thing they let you play for free until the 31st.
- But enough bitching about the DLC, let’s talk gameplay.
- You may remember the past few weeks when I said that, in a game, I’ll take solid gameplay over narrative any day of the week right?
- You may also remember when I’ve mentioned I don’t like Real Time Strategy games.
- While I think the gameplay and mechanics of PayDay 2 are damn solid and you should at least try it out on the free until the 31st, I don’t like Tactical FPS.
- The only one of those I ever played was the OG Tom Clancy Rainbow Six from 1998. I didn’t like that either!
- The only reason I’m even remotely competent in CS:GO is because that game actively rewards lone-wolf tactics.
- I can run around and nope people with any gun I damn well please and no one gives me shit for it. (Unless I kill them, then they’ll call me a cheater and a hacker)
- PayDay 2 is a stealth game that requires everyone to know exactly what to do or else there’ll be cops.
- And everyone starts with the same shitty AMCAR and the same shitty Glock ripoff.
- What’s that? You don’t like those weapons and would rather have a shotgun or a sniper rifle in order to be useful? Well, hope you have some friends to carry your picky ass over a couple of missions so you can buy it.
- Or you know, drop some actual money on the bullshit DLC. Bad Pedro, we were done with that!
- If you’re playing offline, the brain-dead AI teammates will get shot down within minutes of the first assault.
- Forget getting into an online game with randos. You’ll get kicked almost immediately until you’re anywhere north of level 20.
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