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Hi! I’ve just joined up so thought I’d have a go at this whole introduction thing 😂 I’m Scott from the UK. And I’ve played games for many years starting on the mega drive and PlayStation as a kid. I played Final Fantasy 14 until very recently but I’m now looking at expanding out a bit and trying something new to try and find a fun new group of people to play alongside. I’ve played a lot of RPGs but I’ll give any genre a go. Good company makes anything fun I think 🙂

While most of my PC is only a year old, the GPU is two years old, and I have no plans to upgrade for at least another two or three years unless the 1080ti suddenly stops being a beast. I can live without ray tracing. But if I was building a new machine this card is pretty amazeballs.

Cmon Tommy, you know better than to ask these questions. It all depends on what you play, what resolution, what graphics settings and what you'd consider a playable framerate. Off the cuff I'd say another two years easily provided you're not expecting 100fps @4k on everything in a couple of years time. This new 3k series of cards are looking good. Everyone's raving about them because they're such a huge leap above the 2080ti, however I think this says more about the 2080ti than it does about the 3k series. The difference between the 2080ti and the 1080ti is pretty much negligible, whereas the difference between the 980ti and the 1080ti is massive, the same again between the 2080ti and the 3080. It's always been like this with Nvidia, massive upgrade ---> mediocre upgrade ---> massive upgrade ---> mediocre upgrade. AMD has been awfully quiet during all this, I can't wait to see what the 6 series cards offer. With them shitting all over Intel they've likely been able to plough a fucktonne of wedge in to R&D in to their GPU arm. We can only hope it pays off. Never know with AMD, it could be an absolute stonker, or it could be another Radeon 7.

Till it burns out Tommy or you get a dose of Mustupgradeitis....speaking of which <scuttles off to piggy bank>

Agree Phil, there’s quite a leap in performance though the 3000 series doesn’t suddenly make older cards rubbish. I’d love a 3000 series card but I think realistically I’ll be looking at skipping a generation to a 4000. I do find it funny all the headlines of how much faster these cards are than 2000 series with seemingly no-one pointing out some of that is down to the 2000 series not being a great step up in rasterisation over 1000 series. But the 2000 series was a new card design and it seem nvidia have knock the design iteration out the park with these cards. Now to wait and see what team red bring to the fight.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/nvidia-rtx-3080-review-founders-edition-benchmarks/

The world is still generating, looks like it's all going to plan though. I've been chatting to the server people and they say it's running how it should be, so hopefully we'll have a new big world to play on in the next 10hours haha

@Greboth and @J4MES OX4D I will present you with your prizes tomorrow 👍🍻

PS5 Standard confirmed at £450/$500 and a Digital-Only unit to be £360/$400

Good stuff, thanks guys. I'm good with two years.

If you're gaming in 1080p then it'll last many more years but if it's 1440p then the card will probably only have another couple before you'll be gaming with barebone settings and missing out on all the lavish new graphical features. If you go up to a 3070 then that'll give you a good few years of 2K at the very least with a strong performance return and the RTX extras.

This looks like fun. Haven’t played in a very long time though. Steam id is kill3erz ( don’t judge me I made it when I was like 14 😂) discord is Scott.T#6544

I'm yet to find this "good company" of which you speak and I founded the fucking place seven years ago. The company on here are basically what you'd get if you ordered friends from Wish.com I jest ofc, I'm honestly proud to call some of these scamps and delinquents my friends, these guys can turn even the shittiest days in to a good one. Welcome aboard, hope to see you online soon 🙂

You told me where to go so I went, you didn’t expect me to actually be looking where I was going did you? 😂 I think the funniest of this server was running over the bear. Watching as the bear gets flung up in the air, getting back up just to be hit by whomever was driving the second car. It was perfect comedy timing by accident. Hopefully the map will have loaded by tonight so we can start getting all that juicy XP.

We'll wait until the new server is up to see how we update this thread going forward. We've had so many nights over the past few weeks i could write about but I just can't remember it all! The fact that we can drive straight off a cliff into the deepest Canyon in the game not once, but twice in the matter of days made me laugh so hard. @Greboth and @tronic44, you both blamed me but clearly we know who was at fault here! 🤣🤣

happy birthday @tronic44

Really down for this boys! Just let me know when and where. I'm trying to work out if I could utilise an old kart chassis I have as a racing rig but I’m terrified it could end up in divorce when the wife comes home and finds it in the front room 😄

Aww fanks Lee 😘

Happy birthday to our wonderful Rachel Richyboi @tronic44! We're all wishing you a fun packed year and that your job actually gives you the standard holiday that we're all entitled to this year so we can play more video games with you 😎😬 Stay classy buddy and enjoy some sleep! 💃🍺

Welcome, Scott. Have you played Witcher 3? That's what I've been hooked on as of late. I just started Far Cry 5 tonight as well.

Great intro Scott, welcome to the community 🙂

Thanks Lee! Nice to meet you! I can’t agree more with FF7 my tag name may be a clue there though 😂 Yeah the variety here was a big draw in for me. I’ve mainly been on PC recently but I’m down to play on any platform really. I played a lot of Destiny 2 when I played solely on PS4. I’ll take a look around and see what takes my fancy 😃

The sports games are exactly that. What's funny is we're having an absolute blast on FIFA 20 Pro Clubs and the PSN Store now has it on offer for £4.19. Yes, that's right, all for a pint. And the game is possibly exactly the same as this next installment. I wouldn't play it if it wasn't for a bunch of people here getting it (and PES continually not dropping a Pro Clubs gamemode) however, very much like GTA 5 that we play here on some FG Fridays, if you like football and have tried a footy game in the past you might as well spend less than a fiver and have a blast with us 🤷‍♂️

🤣 Nice one Phil! 👍

From interviews earlier this year, the PS5 will have a 825gb SSD and it also supports additional third party storage however only certain types will be compatible to maintain speed consistency and the correct size also applies. This could end up being an additional £150-240 looking at comparable 1tb drives and any official ones may not be much cheaper either. The way it's going, people will need a separate drive just for Warzone alone😂 I think 3rd party controllers will also be widely available at launch and after but many first gen ones may miss the benefits that the official PS5 bad offers until more development is done on them in the long run. I don't believe PS4 pads are compatible with the new console so that would also render all third party ones obsolete too.

@GazzaGarrattthis is a fair upgrade from my humble caffetiere! Its more of a hobbyist machine, the coffee is literally as good as you make it. You can get it too bitter, too sour or just right depending on a number of factors. If you just want to roll out of bed and get your hit I would probably go with a decent nespresso pod machine or similar. Me and Hollie are enjoying the technical side of this though to be fair, we are literally comparing how much (in grams) coffee to use with what grind size? and how long it takes to pour and different beans have different settings etc haha. Its a fun science if your into it and when you get it right its a proper buzz but if you just want a decent cup quick its not worth the investment. My caffatiere coffees used to be spot on too.

Matt. His name is Matt. @Misneach_

A good night on this last night with 6 of us on for horde night. With so many of us on meaning so many zombies, I really thought the base was a goner. But it survived thanks to @tronic44rebuilding and strengthening the walls of the base, @Diddumsand @phil bottle being an ecological disaster by turning all the trees in to spikes, @GazzaGarrattmaking turrets and powered traps for our moat and @craftofboredom making all of the molotov’s and ammo. All while I took a leaf out of @Plumbers Crack book and spent my time digging holes for things. The question is though, are we keeping this base now that it’s proven it can survive a horde night with the right defenses?

Those walks around the office... man.... those were a majority of my steps every day. Now, I'm lucky if I break 5k steps a day lol. As for going back in full-time... I wish I could say I was optimistic and say it won't happen, but I'm not. Remote working won't be mainstream until those who run the companies stop valuing physical face time and seat time. Just because they can't handle messaging apps like Slack or Teams, they can't understand how collaboration works without people in an office. I will tell you that the leadership in my company went from thinking during COVID "hey, remote work is great... we can hire people not in our immediate area" to "employee X moved to a random state? I guess they aren't our employee anymore". How about it in your area?

It's been some busy times for me and haven't been playing 7d2d as much as I'd like. I started doing this online course since it seemed like a good idea when I registered. lol. And I've been helping @Emma with dyeing her hair blue. And also started watching Dragonball, the very first one from 1980s. I'm still not sure if this was a good idea since I now have the rest of my life to watch the remaining 1,000,000,000 episodes. LOL. So.... I was wondering if anyone wanted to play on Friday or Sunday? @Plumbers Crack your username is hard to associate with gentleman. 😂