Video Game News and Miscellany

[GasBandit]

My GF bought Civ 7 and she's played it all day for the last couple days. Haven't heard any major complaints from her yet...

GF says there's no issues with the core gameplay. Firaxis just posted some stuff about QOL improvements, but she says she hasn't really felt there were any issues that would have prevented her from recommending the game.

 

[Ravenpoe]

I tried the Open Beta last night. I made my Hunter and Palico then did the first hunt which was really fun and very pretty.

My computer got a “good” on the benchmark as well. I turned off that frames generator thing to play the beta. There were a few laggy points, but I wasn’t surprised as I was following a monster to finish it off and we passed through an area with a herd of endemic creatures doing their thing along with collectible bugs, plants etc and the glowing line to stuff we had in World.

The beta was only available after 7 pm Pacific last night (11pm local) so I just did the one hunt. The Beta took ages to download shaders and get itself ready to go.

I plan to try again tonight.

I tried the benchmark on my Steam Deck. It too took ages to download the shaders. It made a brave effort on the benchmark, but pooped just as the hunter and handler entered the area with thunder and lightning.

This is with ray tracing on maximum, so I guess I can run it.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

The Playstation Network is down right now. I can still play games on it, since I don't play online games, but it sucks for millions of others.

What worries me, though, is the last time it was down this long, it was due to a hack where many accounts were compromised.

 

[PatrThom]

The Playstation Network is down right now. I can still play games on it, since I don't play online games, but it sucks for millions of others.

--Patrick

 

[bhamv3]

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--Patrick

I've always wanted physical copies. Steam is great, but having the option to install and play games without involving the Internet would be preferable.

 

[Bubble181]

Say hello to my external hdd with GOG installers.
On the other hand, literally no computers these days have an internal optical drive anymore, and external ones are becoming harder to find too - I have shelves full of dvds and CDs I struggle to install.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Say hello to my external hdd with GOG installers.

You can do this with steam too, the backup option will make an installer for any steam game you want and allow you to save it to an HDD or burn an image to a disc