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I think it's only fair to mention to you all in advance, but I'll be removing the server password at some point this weekend. While it's been fun watching us get to grips with DayZ, it just isn't DayZ without the ever present threat of being murdered by a ghillied stranger from 800 metres. We'll never know if there other players on our server, unless we run across them. And that is DayZ. Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

See? I spread my legs everywhere. Like a flower opening its petals to the gleeful sunshine on the first day of spring.

We're all good buddy: • Leviathan Raid / Raid Lair - 300 Power Level • Spire of Stars Raid Lair - 370 Power Level • Spire of Stars Prestige Raid Lair - 380 Power Level • Last Wish Raid - 550 Power Level • Scourge of the Past raid - 640 Power Level

What a game. Well deserved for Spurs but I thought they blew it after taking the lead twice. Son is an incredible player, I think he's close to Player of the Year at this rate. As Dave says though, letshope they can cope without him in the first leg. Just need a Spurs vs Barca final and that would be ace to watch...Harry Kane scoring the winner in a 3-1 finale 😎

Gaming history in general was sporadic of playing other peoples games. Gaming for me really took off when I got a OG playstation. Back then it was all about racing for me and I spent countless hours on Gran Turismo and Colin McRae Rally. I then switched to PS2 and continued my racing with more Gran Turismo and NFS. It was around the time of NFS, I think underground 2, I got a network adapter for my ps2 and tried online gaming. It didn’t work too well and was a laggy mess with everyone teleporting all over the place. I guess the infrastructure wasn’t really there so online gaming for me really took off with the Xbox 360. Project Gotham Racing, Forza 2, 3 and 4 and Halo, Halo, Halo and a little bit more Halo. I pretty much played Halo 3 from day of release until MW2 released. It was around this time I bought and built my first PC (rather than scrounging hand me downs off other people) which is why I joined the OCUK forum. The PC allowed me to really get in to my sim racing, mostly Live for Speed though also played NKPro, rFactor and GTR2. I joined several teams, took part in leagues and wasn’t all that successful. I’d finish mid table so better than some but I never had a chance of winning. I then set up my own team and ran than for a year or two before folding as I had lost interest in serious sim racing. It was around this time I started playing CoD’s and Forza’s with some of the OCUK’ers. Then came the PS4 and Destiny, that really got me in to gaming with the people from the OCUK forum. It was good fun as it is a huge community so it meant there was always raids and NF’s going on. Though generally played with the same small group. This is where I got to know Diddums and TehBlueBear and ended up here. The rest they say is history

This moment was insane

Christ, where to start. We weren't well off in South Africa, in fact a computer was about as far out of reach for me then as a Chiron is today, but I managed to scrounge up whatever components I could from any source I could get them and eventually ended up with a working 386 with a monochrome monitor. This bad boy was my introduction to PC gaming and the hurdles I had to overcome (you have any idea how shit it was to build a PC back then? SCSI cables, jumpers, master / slave drives, DOS operating system, RAM sticks that had to be literally identical to work, drivers which were a complete and utter pain in the ass, remember, this was all offline so if you had the wrong driver you'd have to hop on your bicycle, go to a mate's place with internet, hope his internet works, download a tiny little file for about 3 hours, then copy it on to a floppy and hope to hell it still worked when you got home (floppies were unreliable as fuck). If the driver was still wrong you had to start all over again. it was like building a space ship back then) meant I grew some serious appreciation for it. I learned to code on it, the pinnacle of which was coding Snake by copying text from a magazine my cousin in the States used to send over with all his hand-me-down clothing. My aunt used to visit and give me loads of his old clothes and stuff and his magazines. Never had I experienced such excitement as when I got those magazines and together with those I learned how to code in Qbasic, as well as make batch files for DOS (which anyone of a certain age will know, remember autorun.bat? that was your PC's main batch file, the .bat suffix was short for batch). They were basically files which were lines of DOS command prompt commands, so you could literally automate your entire PC with them, or if you were naughty, give someone a floppy with a batch file on it which when ran would format their PC. The good ol' days. On this old 386 I started off with whatever I could find, mostly Commander Keen ( @McNasty I can't think of this game without thinking about you anymore, lol) and some other side scrollers, the names of which I can't remember right now, but those old demo floppies which came with magazines were like gold and shared primarily amongst the rich kids, occasionally I'd get one and this single 1.44mb floppy would have like 5 demos on it, it was unreal. Ah fuck, how could I forget Street Rod 2. There was a glitch in the game where you bought a specific used car and tuned it to a certain spec and it'd spank anything, so that was probably my first game cheat ever. Anyway... Word obviously got around about my keenness and ability in the PC world and my grandparents eventually commissioned a PC to be built for me by a man named Jan Meulen, I'll never forget that name, lovely old man, I wonder if he's still alive. Anyway, thanks to the funds my grandparents gave him, he built me a Pentium 120mhz with 16mb of RAM, in a case which would barely fit in the back of a van. That was my true love and would remain with me for many, many years. I played mostly demos, whatever I could get my hands on, until one day I had enough money to put a CDRom drive in my PC. I'll never forget it, it was a 4x drive, my mate had a 12x in his parents' 486 but my budget never went that far. The 4x was still great and opened up a whole new world because I could now start playing the demos on those CDRoms you used to get with magazines back then. A magazine then was like buying a PS4 game today, they were expensive as fuck (all imported, Saffrica didn't have much in terms of PC tech back then) and the magazines we bought were dictated by the demos that were on the CD. My old friend Kevin Pretorius and I used to share everything, we'd even chip in our money together to buy magazines and share the discs. Occasionally we'd buy a South African magazine but those discs always had shit games on them, they were mostly word processors, internet software, all the boring stuff. There was a flea market quite close to me which had some stalls that sold shareware games (remember those? No DRM, just enjoy our products!) on floppies, some of them having over 10 floppies per game (if I remember correctly, Blood was the record holder with 24 floppies, or was it Rise of the Triad? can't remember). They were fairly affordable and Kevin and I used to chip in and buy them together and copy the floppies at home. It would take a whole night to copy 10 floppies because the floppies we used were all shitty second hand, worn out, unreliable pieces of crap that others had consigned to the bins, but we weren't quitters, this was gold to us! Games I played thanks to these floppies and CDs were Blood, Doom, Wolfenstein (all of them), Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Test Drive, Stunts, Quake, GTA 1 (bought from my computing teacher at school, Mr Brandon Hill-Jowett, he had a loaner from one of his pupils and copied discs for us at a price of R50 each). Eventually I bought my first ever non-pirated game, Dark Reign for R50 or R150, can't remember, but my mom drove me about an hour each way to pick it up, came with box and everything. This was my first proper PC gaming experience. No piracy, no copying floppies, no nothing. It was also the first ever game I played which had a proper cutscene. Around the same time I also bought my first ever sound card which I guess also elevated that game to a whole new level. I played the everliving hell out of this game, until I eventually sussed out that by editing a file called units.txt, you could alter the properties of every unit in the game, so I had little puny soldiers one-shotting tanks from across the map and whatnot, this eventually killed the game for me. Then I moved to Holland and brought my PC with me, where it laid unused for a year or two because OMG NEW COUNTRY! Eventually I bought a new PC with the money I made from my paper round, it was an AMD Athlon 1600+ with I think 256mb of RAM. No graphics card mind you, but it was a start. This would eventually come with me to London, and right before I left I got what was then the most powerful graphics card for it, an Nvidia 6600GT. This thing was ridiculous. This was also during the time of torrents, Razor 1911 and TONS of other people all getting involved in this piracy boom, where games were literally everywhere you looked. You couldn't go past a friends' place without seeing at least a few Razor 1911 CDs lying next to their PC, often filled to the brim with not only the games, but also the software required to circumvent the very primitive (and offline, very important) DRM. We had all sorts of injectors, disc loaders / mounters, fake keys, hex key-generators, you name it, we had it all. We could install almost any game and get it to run without the disc, until Need for Speed came along. I think it was Most Wanted or Underground, can't remember, but this was the first game to put up a real fight. We had to use every trick in the book to get it to work but we got there in the end and the sight of that E46 M3 GTR, together with that awesome soundtrack, whilst the CD drive was empty, was the most amazing feeling ever. We felt like Acid Burn on Hackers, we were the fuckin' bznz. Anyway, played shitloads of these games and eventually moved to London and brought my PC with me, the whole screen of NFS went blurry when you hit the nitrous which coupled with my trusty 6600gt looked fucking awesome and I blew most people out the water with it. I should point out that in my entire gaming career until this point, I still didn't own a single console. My PC career died when I moved to London. It went from being a pasttime to being Plan B, Plan A being getting pissed, taking drugs, trying to shag everything I could, it was basically one long party from the moment I landed to the moment I woke up from being asleep on the couch on Tuesday the 9th of November 2006 at 2am in the morning to the sound of my cousins' girlfriend screaming. I opened the door and there was my cousin, who'd fashioned a noose from his bed sheets and killed himself. Party over. We all moved out, I lost my PC somewhere, and life was just a huge haze. Eventually having met and married Kyla I bought my first ever console, a PS2. It wasn't played much but the internet started playing a more pivotal role in my life and then the PS3 came out, and having seen all the shenanigans people were having online, I finally bought MW2. I got it towards the end of its career and joined on MW2forum to ask something about claymores, and from that point of view, the rest is history. I met some of my fondest friends on there who I'm still great friends with today, and most of them will be reading this. I played on console pretty much exclusively with this lot for years, eventually moving on to the PS4, a brief stint on the Xbox 360 inbetween and a massive WoW stint which almost cost me my marriage but I really can't be arsed talking about that, this was right after my counsins' suicide and I think I just happened to turn to the most addictive game the world has ever seen to try and deal with it. I was given some games a couple of years ago which highlighted just how old my 2500k was getting, @phil bottle bought me Star Citizen which instantly killed PC gaming again because it killed my poor 2500k to the point I could almost hear it crying as it was pumping out 2fps. Thanks to building @Plumbers Crack's PC recently however I managed to bag some high end stuff which has reinvigorated PC gaming for me, which coupled with the current crop of shit games on the PS4 means I'm pretty much back on PC now. For current games I'm enjoying a bit of WoW now and again, DayZ, Star Citizen, probably going to install BF4 this weekend. It's great having all that choice again. Does this mean consoles are dead to me? Hell no, I think I just got burned out on it, and in gaming in general, so only time will tell if that one game comes along and reunites us all again. It's nice to see some others jumping on the PC bandwagon too, @phil bottle has been trying to convince me to get back on for ages, @tronic44 is now a member of the master race, @Plumbers Crack has now joined us whether he likes it or not, @GazzaGarratt has finally got his shit together too, @crispymorgan has a beast of a PC now as well, so we're growing. Obviously the console is still connected and will be used quite a bit but for now I'm just enjoying playing games again. As for your question, yes I would get there in the end Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops, World of Warcraft, Black Ops 2, Destiny, Planetside 2, and many, many more, with hopefully many more to come! Well that got out of hand didn't it? If you have 10% of the fun reading it as I did writing it then it's all worthwhile I guess! Happy easter you bastards!

My poor heart. Mental game. Ajax next will also be the same, guaranteed craziness the way we go about things [emoji23][emoji1] Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

Phil's a happy bunny, James' a happy bunny la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!!! I think Son being suspended for the SF first leg might be a bit of a problem though

Transistor is FREE on the E*** G**** S****.

The 660p is great. QLC means it's a cheap NVMe. Not the best for an OS because of the nature of how the quad logic works (it needs greater amounts of voltage to use over time the more it is accessed) but great for games.

My next upgrade will be a massive NVME, but this means I'll also have to upgrade my motherboard, which I'm not ready to do yet. My config is as follows: 250gb Samsung 850 EVO = OS & frequently played games. 2tb WD Black = less frequently played games. 4tb WD Green = recordings, music, films, music, etc. I really want a 2tb NVME but we're paying for Kyla's brother and sister to come over in August so that's going to be pretty much all of 2019's spending money gone.

Thank FUCK for that. Not gonna lie, walking around with nothing but retarded zombies as a threat was boring as fuck. Shall we promote the server too? Could be fun to get slaughtered. And die in the game, ofc.

I remember the Xbox One when it was first launching - online only and no pre-owned games destroyed them before it even went on sale. Even a u-turn at the 11th hour wasn't enough to cover up their bad decisions and direction and they've paid for it ever since. There will be a monumental backlash if they make any future consoles solely digital-only as physical media is still essential to console gaming and will be for a long time going forward. Also gaming retailers which still probably make up about 60%+ of console sales will go under if they have no games to sell on top, so the reduction of supply chains flogging units and peripherals will be shot to pieces and could massively impact the likes of Microsoft, Sony and even Nintendo from the loss at the retail sector. New game sales will also suffer immensely because people ain't gonna be paying £49.99-$60 for each new game that they could've got for £44.99-$50 physical and could've traded in upon completion. It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft do offer this as an alternative from the get-go for future consoles and they'll probably even have their own streaming system soon too. You can't beat traditional console gaming and hopefully that will forever remain.

Somoe epic updates above^ For me, ‘video gaming’ in general started in the days of the Commodore 64. The 1980s. Even in those days gamers were already dicks. There was (in the UK) a war of superiority between C64 and ZX Spectrum owners. Though this generally ended with both sets ganging up and mocking the solitary BBC microcomputer owner which had Elite and pretty much nothing else going for it. Though I did learn BASIC using a BBC machine, think they were made for the BBC by Acorn. The C64 had the better graphics by the way. And was the superior machine. International Soccer loaded via a cartridge. And I’ll never forget the days of listening to the cassette player load Manic Miner or Way of the Exploding Fist. Plus, the very first football manager I ever played was on the C64 and is one of my favourite games of all time. The PSU would generally overheat before I got tired of playing that game. The Amiga followed the C64 but I had moved onto consoles by this stage. I loved the SNES and the Sega Megadrive (Genesis) and then the N64 and PlayStation. At which point I was back on a PC. I had crap internet for years, so only played stuff like Black, early CODs and Conflict Desert Storm type games, oh and of course Football Manager. My mate Dan had a better PC and internet so my first experience of online play was around his playing Unreal Tournament and Quake. Special mention to the PS2 slim, which is one of my favourite things of all time, it was tiny and awesome. It wasn’t until the Xbox 360 that I finally experienced online play in my own home. COD4 and World at War were good games but it was MW2 that really grabbed me. I played with a bunch of work mates and used to dream of UAVs circling overhead. Great days, great console. Then the DayZ mod for Arma 2 came along in 2012 and hammered the first nail into the console coffin. I watched those early vids of folk playing the mod and it blew me away, there was nothing like it at the time. What a fucking game. The mod support was incredible, new maps, Namalsk, Lingor, Pantera and the awesome DayZ Origins on Taviana. I used to play with Aitchy and Battlefield John from the DayZ forums and I miss the mod a lot. I only had a laptop but it played DayZ without any problems, except that it would overheat playing around the 90 minute mark. So I saved up my pennies and sorted myself a very nice PC. I did buy a PS4, a year after release, under duress from a certain South African. It was actually from playing DayZ and meeting @Diddums on the DayZ forums that lead me here

They can do what they like with CD trays, as long as they have a DVD tray/reader...just saying 😎

Leigh's fucking off with his family, the selfish cunt. We may have to rock on just the three of us, @crispymorgan you bought it yet?

What PL are the raids now? If it's over 650 this game can do one. If not, count me in.

70 and 120fps is a huge jump, I'd be very surprised if that's running at full capacity. This coupled with your inability to download Planetside 2 I'm inclined to say you may have a little gremlin somewhere. I'll Teamviewer in to your system this weekend and have a mooch around, probably something small like a driver.

Driveclub is a shambles, it deserves to go. I'm evidently not in the minority with this opinion otherwise this topic wouldn't exist. It suffers terribly from an identity crisis. Is it an arcade game? Is it a sim? It doesn't know what it wants to be. The driving is a bit sim-ish, the weather is pure sim and a benchmark for game weather systems as far as I'm concerned but the menus, unlock system, all arcade. Except there's no ability to upgrade your cars, which is another nail. The racing, whilst tight, is all over the place. Gran Turismo does racing right, it's still fun, has a million times more content, upgrades, etc. For arcade, GTA is pretty much top of the pile. It's a buggy, stuttery, shit graphics mess with physics that look like they were pulled from the 90s but it just works. It's not trying to be serious, it just takes the tools it has and fucks around, to a reasonable degree of success I'd say. Driveclub has always been a lost game, it was meant to be some kind of open world MMO type thing where you can visit each others' garages, roam the free world and challenge others, but it just didn't work, like any MMO type racing game hasn't (Test Drive anyone?). They cut all that and turned it in to a racing only game and whilst it's enough to keep some entertained, it was only a small element of a massive game. They removed the rest and suddenly the racing only aspect felt more like a PS2 game than a PS4 game. Glaring holes in the content, missing TONS of stuff to do, it's just... not all there.

If I wanted to buy digital only I'd own a PC, hang on... It's pretty ignorant if you ask me that whilst the current (new) generation of gamers mostly play on Digital only, the nostalgia and market for physically owned games is still huge. And that market would be a lucrative one if they stayed in it.

You forgot the backstory. They've given the AUTHORITAH their plans for Notre Dame to be used to help rebuild the cathedral, and to help save their asses from the chopping block show their solidarity with the French they're giving out the game for free. You know, a 99p game. Because they're amazeballs like that.

Yeah it was a bit underwhelming, I was thinking with it only being six episodes that there would be a lot more excitement. It did set up a lot of storylines though

Champions League has been a bit mental so far - City scored after 4 minutes so I went to make a cup of tea and when I came back a few minutes later it was 2-2😎

Trying to play this game after 6 months of Gran Turismo is quite an experience. Driveclub is a good looking game but the handling is atrocious. Gran Turismo is still only 14.99 on PSN.

What an appropriate name for this console😎