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Afternoon all, Speaking with a few people who are whitelisted on the sever but new to modded Minecraft, I have updated the server to run FTB Academy. From the mod page; https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/ftb-academy The biggest problem people have when they first start playing modded Minecraft is that there's no clear choice for which modpack to play. Learning the mods requires scouring online wikis and guides, and watching videos. FTB Academy aims to fix that problem. It is designed especially for people that have never played with mods. The modpack has over 300 quests to walk you through each step of the progression of the most common mods, and nearly 100 pages of Guides to give a more in-depth explanation for what needs it, so you don't have to go searching through wikis. Players will spawn in a school structure, where they will follow quests and in-world images to learn modded concepts like automation, technology, and magic. Once this tutorial area has been completed (only takes 5-10 minutes), you will be teleported to the Overworld to begin playing properly. I've had a quick look through in single player and the in game guide looks pretty comprehensive so should be good for teaching people the basics. For anyone more experience, with the exception of the guide and quest book, the game isn't changed so can be played as a regular mod pack. Server Details: Address: FGBeyond.minecraft-crafting.pro IP: 62.210.66.45:25414 Setting up modded MC I think that covers everything but any questions on setting up the modpack or anything in game feel free to ask. @Plumbers Crack @BO7H B4RRELS @datfroggieguy @craftofboredom @Spacedeck @Misneach_ - Tagged everyone whitelisted @Emma - I whitelisted you the other day but it doesn't like your username so guessing it's wrong somehow. If you want to join let me know and I'll whitelist your correct username.

This! I forgot there was a birthday section topic. Hope that massive lockdown party you had planned wasn't too wild James. I hope the Tesco Delivery driver at least was friendly and well mannered. Would of been nice if he/she sang happy birthday to ya. 🥳

Basically Honey I Shrunk The Kids survival game from Obsidian.

Hi folks, I’m going to be using this thread as an online journal for my training over the winter now that I am returning to proper strength training. Feel free to voyeur and watch my progress or comment your support 👌

My understanding is there are currently 3 prestige levels (55, 50 and 100) in this 'pre-season' period. I expect more to be added once the actual season/battle pass (separate leveling) starts. Thankfully you keep all you stuff earned but what's struck me is that the levels are really slow rather than mimicking that of the first prestige XP rate. Prestige One level 1 may as well be level 56 with the amount of XP required - it's taken me about 8 matches just to reach level 3. Getting to level 50 for Prestige 2 is going to be one hell of a slog. I've seen quite a few Prestige 3 level 100's already which is just fucking insane. They have to be playing and sweating it non-stop for over 12 hours a day to reach that level holy fuck. Either that or they are consuming a crazy amount of Mountain Dew and Doritos for the DXP codes.

That's awful, you put in some work. Is annoying losing like that. I had that connection interrupted yesterday near the end of a match. Luckily it was finished soon after. Definitely a bit of lag here and there. Was just reading your post about combined arms. I also played a couple of games to try it out and felt the exact same way. The big crossroads map is dogshit and full of tanks and snipers camping for bloodthirsties, I do understand it tho. Cartel plays better, I feel it's too big for 6v6. Again Armada is massive and just seems like people sniping from boat to boat. Feels like you can't find anyone for ages just running through the insides of the map. Armada and Crossroads Strike are excellent maps imo, I really enjoy them. Satellite is getting a bit stale and Moscow just doesn't play that well sometimes. I'm finding Checkmate a bit annoying as well. Had to play it 3 times in a row last night. Altho I like the map, I think it's just the Sbmm and the sweat is taking over and exaggerating it and making it play worse. Was getting beamed by someone with Diamond snipers and MP5's. Ugh lol.

It seems like it - I've played quite a few games today and only gone from Prestige one level 1 to 8 - usually I can nail that in about 4 matches but now it's taking 5-6 matches just to level. I honestly don't know how some people have maxed out already.

Looks like there's some form of a campaign/onjective in this one to discover what someone has left around the place which makes it even more inviting for me. Damn Rachel, you're killing me with these survival games 😁 Its £24.99 atm so I see whats occuring as its getting close to Crimbo. Great idea, lets hope it has lots of crafting items to make and do different stuff.

As the entire game including Beyond Light is now on Game Pass I thought I'd give it a go on Xbox. Anybody else playing it? Add me TheBironicMan.

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Oh. My. Word. What a fiasco

The giddyness within me when it finally came kicked in. I hadn't noticed i'd asked Hayley about 25 times if she had seen when the delivery would happen! It finally arrived half way through Zoom video calls in the day, but I managed to get it setup through them so when i clocked off, I could start having a bash through it. First and biggest selling point? The controller. Hands down the first bit of kit to come out of this next gen era of gaming which is absolutely meets that category. You have to download the Astro Playroom that comes with the PS5 to fully experience what this controller can do. Its ridiculous. I felt like a 12 year old again getting Hayley to come over everytime it shown me something new. "H! H! Quickly, get here! How awesome is this?!!". I'm completely with @Stretch616 , the Haptic Feedback in the triggers is the dealbreaker. How new games (when they get here) can take advantage of how they program that will be frickin awesome. Its like there is a click in there at one point and then nothing the next. Incredible design and can see why they're worth their money. Other positive points include loading times - even with PS4 backward compatible games. I've never seen Destiny 2 load so quickly and thats only gonna get better when they release the PS5 upgraded version. It would be good to see how GTA Loading does on this. Then theres the Share Screen play. Playing on FG Friday where we all just playing random games in the chat, Stretch could play Overwatch and watch us play FIFA with FGFC in the corner of his screen with no lag and virtually no delay either. This will so help when one of your teammates is stuck and you want to show them quickly where to go or what action to do from your screen. Negatives are still there. Games. Where are they?! I likened it to the Xbox 360 launch when they only had 13 of them delivered to Toys R Us in my area and I managed to secure one of them but I could only play FIFA Road to World Cup which was exactly that but with no World Cup tournament in it! Even the existing games like Destiny and FIFA are being upgraded in early December. Clearly they wanted to get the console out for Christmas to grab some cashflow early doors. The chat/message/party system is still a mess for me and it invites a little ignorance into gamers if you ask me. If you need a party private for your own reasons it was easy, but now you can't even nudge someone to join the existing party they're in without nudging the other 60 people in the group cos everyone sees the message as there is no way to 'invite' to an existing chat. I can't even say pop in and say hi to others playing games if we don't use existing groups we've set up cos you have to be in it to speak. Big thumbs down from me. The UI i'm undecided on. Its just getting used to it I think which will have its niggles. Overall I still like it, the haven't overhauled that bit i'm glad about because their sleek design was hands down been better than Xbox for years. I think it has some snazzy subtle features that we'll all love when we work them out. Oh, and the setup for my existing Hard Drive was easy peasy so I can play my PS4 games straight off the bat. I'm not liking the internal storgae size at all for PS5 games but new games seem to be smaller in size so I hope it'll be a while until we have to work out what next additional storage to buy thats compatible with PS5 games. Frustrating but not dealbreaking seeing new sizes of games. @Diddums is also right that a £250 headset can't work without an adapter due to no optical output. Weird design decision, but maybe helps them plug their own 3D Pulse Headset perhaps more so? I've picked up Valhalla, Cold War and WRC9 so will finally give some PS5 games a go shortly in their true form over the coming weeks. I'm just super glad we can all chat with no issues across PS4 and PS5. Well worth the money.....Just.

This was an insanely good watch! Love how many film and game references in this there are!! Brilliant find @J4MES OX4D !

To be fair, at least they change the aesthetics each year. It is what is is, you know you're getting into a sweatfest in that map but it is very easy to do well on. Plus RPG's in the windows always work a treat. Demolition on Nuketown was my favourite game mode in BO2.....Those spawn traps! And Safeguard in BO3!

This is embarrassing

Happy belated birthday @J4MES OX4D

Very cool. I'll give this a look when I've got some time. Sounds interesting.

I saw that on Reddit. There was a lot of discussion about what that means... 60fps? stable 60fps? No one really seems to know, but overall, I'm good w/ it. I'll fall somewhere between High and Ultra w/ RT min. Damn, I can't wait for this game. I need something new and refreshing. Pretty sure this will be the ticket.

So jealous! 😖

Fantastic win for Spurs over Man City as they go top! Man Utd currently beating West Brom 1-0 which is equally impressive😎

At least you gave it a go, Doc. 👍

To be honest, I was going to do this thread myself but ended up playing on the damn thing a lot later into the night than I should have!!! So, I have a PS5 and I can confirm, its fucking BIG!!!! I thought I had plenty of room for it in my tv cabinet, wrong!! I had do make some quick furniture rearrangement which pleased the mrs no end!! The controller is a significant step forward in feel and weight, much like the difference from PS3 to PS4. If I'm honest, it feels like a pro controller straight out of the box. The feedback system is just out of this world!! It's not just a rumble pack and away you go. Every inch of the controller feels alive with the gameplay and just makes everything that much more immersive. However, the adaptive triggers were the thing that really blew me away. The fact that the specific part of the gameplay will dictate the pressure and feedback required on a button press is just mind blowing. Honestly, this is a game changer in terms of non-obtrusive next gen hardware. UI is simple, if not a little bare for my likings. But familiar at least. No real complaints on it other than that stupid party chat system is still in place. I was able to share my Mortal Kombat gameplay with @GazzaGarratt whilst he grinded away on Destiny. Neither of us noticed and performance drop in doing this. The SSD is a massive quality of life upgrade. Load times are a thing of the past and general interaction between one game and another becomes a breeze. I wasnt playing anything too intensive on loading last night but with that said I dont really recall ever having to wait for anything, which can only be a good thing. With all the positives above, here comes the negative. Games. I'm confused as to how many ACTUAL true next gen games are out at the moment but it cant be more than a handful. I know theres a remaster of that and a collector's version of the other. But true showcase AAA titles just aren't there at release and that is the only way you're going to get £70 out of me for a game. Happy to maybe look around the £40 mark for a remaster but it feels like a bit of a piss take at the moment. The PS Collection helps to redeem the situation somewhat with a great catalogue of games that can hopefully guide the system through this sparse release window. Bloodborne last night looked absolutely fantastic and I'm loving playing it at the higher frame rate so I'm looking forward to seeing what other games are like. All in all I'm happy with it. My PS4 was on it's way out so it made sense to upgrade. YMMV but I'm totally understanding of people that wont invest for a while yet. PS4 was all about the players, PS5 is all about the patience it seems

Well, where to start? The controller sucks, the menu sucks, the party system sucks, the lack of optical out sucks, the amount of launch titles suck, it's far too big, and the people I play with suck. Am I missing anything? Ok for realsies then: The controller feels a bit chunky and very Xboxy but this is probably just a case of getting used to it. The menu system is a bit odd at first but like the controller, I'm sure it'll become second nature soon enough. God knows how much I'd be whinging if they didn't change it, I'd be all "new content everybody" on their asses so they're never gonna win regardless. The party system can get in the sea, what the fuck Sony were thinking with that is anyone's guess. There's only one USB port on the front of the console, the other is USB-C which may or many not be the future, I guess Sony was also stuck between a diddums and a hard place here because we're sort of in this weird twilight era of transition between those bullshit USB plugs that only ever go in on the third try, in the same orientation as the first, and USB-C, so they need to cater to everyone and that's a bitch. We'll make it work I'm sure. There's a USB on the back which is nice, so when I eventually have to plug in an external drive because Sony's removed the ability to use any drive you want I won't have any cables hanging out the front which I don't need. I suspect these external drives will be quadruple the price of the exact same drive without the Sony logo because Sony tax but I'll whinge about that one when we get to it. The lack of an optical out has irritated me no end and seems like such a stupid oversight. This means I can no longer adjust the balance between the chat or game sound which is a massive loss for me as it effectively kills the most used feature on my £250 headset. Thanks Sony. Ah but there's a solution y'see, buy an HDMI to Optical out adapter for £50 (fifty fucking quid! can buy the whole of Yorkshire a cup of tea for that!) and even then we don't know if the console will simply output all the sound over it or split it like the PS4 did and I've no intention of spunking £50 to find out it doesn't work. Maybe there'll be a workaround, we'll see. The silence of the console is fantastic but then those fans and fins are all squeaky new and dust free so we'll see how that evolves over time. The snappiness and responsiveness of the system as a whole is amazing. It reminds me of the first time I installed an SSD, the zippyness of it all is excellent. Also doing a software update in a matter of a couple of minutes rather than hours was fantastic and this seems to be reflected in the download speeds too which are considerably faster than the PS4. The Playstation Collection or whatever it's called, you know, that last-minute shit we're gonna get pwned by xbox's game pass so make something quick! thing is great and has some good games on it too. I hope this is just the beginning and not just a ploy to sucker people in. The playroom game is fantastic and a proper homage to the legacy of Playstation, if you haven't played it, get cracking. Overall I'm happy, certainly worth the money and most of the little niggles are things that I will get used to over time, however the optical port problem is inexcusable and will need a solution.

85 today eh @J4MES OX4D Good going you old git, happy birthday 🤗

So, just watched a review and a bit of gameplay of Godfall. At £60/70, no thanks. Would have probably had a punt on it at £30. Back to square one again as I've just not really been grabbed by anything at this moment in time. I'm almost at the point where the first proper PS5 game I'll get will actually be Cyberpunk. Till then I'll make do with the PS4 game pass thingy. Bit underwhelming to be honest for the next gen, almost makes me question why I went to the lengths to pre-order that I did 🤷‍♂️

🤣 I wish my OCD in that game would transfer over to real life then i'd be all gravy 😜 I will be asking the wife to pick up some Vitamin D at the shops today. I believe I took these for a while before know you've explained what they are for as my mum was consicous on how little I was getting outside before we had a lockdown a few years ago. Its not a bad shout to start again. Like most things, its just a force of habit I need to break.

Each session I will post my main compound lifts and the sets reps etc. It will look like this: setsXrepsXweight for example: 1x5@127.5kg means 1 set of 5 reps using 127.5kg of weight.

Levelling tips ! Just started an extra alt (my much neglected warlock). With the 1200+ guns from the Titan the warlock started at around 1118 light and then a bit of vanguard token handing in got him to 1148 ish pretty quickly, without really doing anything. Now blasting through the story just to try and get some powerdrops done before i finally start on the hunter main. Story is much easier now i'm over levelled ! Idea is the warlock leapfrogs the titan, and then the hunter leapfrogs them both, but the grind the grind the grind! Enjoying the game, although I've never been overly fond of destiny story mode, so will be glad to put it behind me. Story is much too long if you ask me!!!

Happy birthday to the only FGer I know thats had their own special FG cake! Have a super day DaveyDave @IPSWICH HIGASHI !!

I've had a dreadful session tonight - lost more than I won and some of the teams I've been landed on have been embarrassing. Connection seems to be worse tonight and lag comp is out of control. I've even had the vintage 'connection interrupted' pop up. This sums up the shit I've been playing with.