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Well I know I played the worse mission because I played the all. All the missions names with rewards are available. Which one was the worse mission? There are number of them. "Ghost team" with the boss battles and you allies crouching in the corner jerking off for me was the worse. I don't know how you can do that on veteran level as it is such a cheat by the AI "alone" was probably next. Too long, too pointless. For fucks sakes Ghost if you know where I am how about coming over and helping a brother out man. Another ally crouching in a corner jerking off. Almost felt like trying to win an objective based game with randoms

Our Friends Adrian bought one and has let us borrow it until next week. Mostly to help Sarah get over her cold quicker. I really dig this machine. It's comfortable in the hands, all the buttons/analog sticks are easy to access and don't feel out of place. I really like the dual touch pads. It gives that mouse kind of quickness and control with something portable. I think I may have to buy one for us.

Bingo! What a fucking awful mission.

Reading about this on other discussion boards, quite a few people said they were already using ExtremeRate back buttons. So I thought I’d give them a go and so far so good. If you want to be able use L3/R3 or the touchpad button on the back buttons you need to do some soldering. Otherwise it’s basically disassemble the controller, replace a couple of ribbon cables and put it back together with their back on. I went for the 2 button version as only really care about jump and duck being. I fitted it yesterday in about 40 mins and only tested everything works but so far so good.

Basically a £349/$400 starting handheld gaming PC. 64-512gb models available with the highest capacity one £569 Valve announces Steam Deck handheld, starts at $400 | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM The devices will ship in December 2021. Steam Deck WWW.STEAMDECK.COM Steam Deck is a powerful handheld gaming PC that delivers the Steam games and features you love.

What also shocked me is it takes literally 12 missions before you actually have a level where you can run and gun without having some on-rails gimmicky event dominating the mission. Even then, the next mission after that is a stealth+crafting one which was utterly painful. Also got sick and tired with the amount of enemies that wear body armour in the very few missions where you're actually shooting - the developers literally have a hard-on for Warzone fodder nonsense in this game. The tank boss battle was also hilariously bad - you wouldn't see this amateur garbage design even in Call of Duty 3. The oil rig mission that I was really looking forward to turned out to be nothing more than musical chairs with cargo containers too! Every time I get to a new mission and think this looks interesting it turns out to be nothing more than rage-inducing trash with some tacked on garbage mechanic or infuriating combat encounters with bullet-sponge enemies. The checkpoint system is also a joke - on some missions it saves literally every 15 seconds even if you're just about to be shot and on the worst missions you can be set back many minutes of torture.

Yea, I'm done with this one. It was fun up until the volcano, and then it just got worse. The haunted manor enemies are cheap as fuck, so much so, that once one of them starts the animation of throwing a sickle at you, no matter where or how you move, it locks on and hits for big damage. But, the second "race" was what did it for me. You're never really in the lead. Your mostly following some bastard, but when platformers drop right in front of you just before you reach them is cheap as fuck. Fuck. This. Game.

Finally got back on. Enjoyed running in for the most part....and then somehow I got an infection. FUCK! Tried my best to keep running so far through the woods to get up to Carl @TurboR56Mini as he had some tetro...dffdkcjvbugvchjbsdsddsk pills or whatever you call them, but La @RenFengge advised me that if you have it too long Stage 2 kicks in and then i'm on the slow path to no way back. However, I thought I lucked out as I was going to Gorka and stumbled upon a Hospital! What are the chances, eh? But then what are the chances of the Hospital having any tetro...,sdfhdfuhdciudhcbcy pills? Charcoal tablets galore, surgical gloves and a way to get my blood out if i wanted....but no tetro....you get the jist. I opened the door and Zimbies were right outside, so trying to battle through so I could start my pessimistic run to Carl, I got battered and knocked out. Waking up in a daze, with pretty much no health, I thought I would try one last attempt to get healthy...by removing a bag of my own blood, combining with an IV kit, and then giving myself a transfusion back into myself. Yes, I am that stupid, but hoped it would glitch out my stupid infection. Alas, it did not. I was dead. 2nd life rolling, I got a great spawn up on the East Coast so felt good thinking I could meet Carl soon. I thought I would go to the first town to get supplies before heading off. Berezino didn't have much and I just needed abit more food before Zombies approached my area. Next thing I knew my pipe wasn't hitting them hard enough and after playing the Crystal Maze with 4 Zombies over fences and around Greenhouses, they cut me. Problem was my bandage was all used up, no type of knife to cut some rags, so.....I was dead. I really have a problem playing this game. 😅 Will see what the next day brings. Hopefully some extra life and no ruined Apples and Pears.....

Fair play @Greboth, I just don't think I could spend time doing that...and knowing full well I'd screw it up too 😅 If there are replacement parts for the most common areas that gto wrong, then this controller might not be all bad. The £20 replacement sticks make it sound like it may be something that we could work with.

I think I may have just played the worse mission. It was very annoying. Again. Seems they just want to piss off players.

I just did the convoy mission and it's probably the worst mission I have ever played in the franchise. Far too drawn-out, repetitive and boring plus the whole thing is practically on-rails. The premise is ridiculous too - agent gets captured by most the most feared terrorists and you and your team of 4 manage to capture her back the very next day battling 40 vehicles, helicopters, mines, drones and a tank literally. The upside-down section was also laughable and served no enjoyment. Despite the visuals impressing, the gameplay is almost rooted into 2007 and feels even more conceptually archaic but this time with the most horrendous level design and writing imaginable. I've heard there's a worse missions after this too which really doesn't bode well. I was gonna play a few missions tonight but this one has ruined me mentally.

Episode 16 is LIVE on Youtube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Sarah's Dead????? No, she's just contracted the plague that I had the previous week. At least she has a Steam Deck to play with. And yes, I went on a rant about Sony, @IRaMPaGe 😂

Wow you got lots of veg there, I’m to old for an allotment, I have enuff with garden, can I ask? What’s the purple spike looking plant called, it’s very nice. Like ive said, I just plant and pray, mostly they do seem to grow, but I couldn’t say what each flower is called lol. I have taken some seed pods from some plants for next year, not really done much from seed, just normally buy from shops or garden centre.

Leeks! 👍 👏 👏👏

Demo is live now Fair play for them for doing it but I probably wont play it this way. These newer ones were intended for first person so it'll probably seem a bit weird. Certainly looks like a mod from what I've seen of ti but it still works well.

Yeah it's really quite peaceful, when the weathers nice there is a lovely view from our lot as it's up on a hill. We also had strawberries, tomatos, pumpkins this year and I still have leaks growing. Generally we keep the allotment for bulk growing stuff though as it's a 15 minute drive and fuels not exactly cheap so keeping it to a trip a week is ideal and next year we are going to put more veg beds in at home and try parsnips, carrots and the such.

I saw something about them redoing RE: Village as well, but in third person 😅

Awesome 😍 I spent a bit of time on my mate's allotment in Tottenham this summer, just by the river, its an oasis of green and tranquility. I mostly just drink beer there though😁

And final photos are some of the produce we got from our allotment this year -

This next lot, some photos of the allotment, though things had not really gotten going yet but show's a couple of the areas -

So first post with photos are from my garden, so just a quick photo of the garden and then some of the flowers I have grown this year -

The majority of elite controllers are always pricey. Now, if these things have the track record of say SCUF controllers and just break down or fuck up within 30 days, that'll be another thing altogether.

The price feels insane. Probably because its a controller and we're still used to that type of money giving us more bang for our buck. I think I just sense they charge it because they can. The gaming market is evolving, gamers want more, so they develop more. And if SCUF and the Elite controller are already above the 150 mark, selling this for 210 won't bother them in the slightest. And as Chad says, people will still spend that money on them cos they can. I think the main challenge will be how sturdy and long will it last - reports of many Elite controllers having to be sent back within 6 months tells me this type of tech isn't as strong as we'd like it to be. Would love to own but game wise, not sure there is much pushing me towards it just yet....maybe if we end up rolling on CoD MW2 and OW2 hard then I'll consider it.

Sony's DualSense Edge PS5 pro controller costs £210 WWW.EUROGAMER.NET Sony's pricey new PlayStation 5 pro controller - the DualSense Edge - will launch on 26th January 2023 and cost £… £210. Two hundred and ten fucking pounds! Haha! Fuck right off, Sony. They're just taking the piss now but all of the fanboys will still defend bullshit like this.

So this will be my last post for a little while as I think now it's time to get to grips with the system and really enjoy it but to provide another update. Last night I had another play, I now have GTA V up and running, so that means Epic games work and though GTA is getting on a bit now it is still a fairly demanding game and the deck runs it fairly flawlessly (I did turn down settings to medium just to max out the performance and it was lovely). In addition to that, I may have mentioned that I like the idea of taking some of my retro games with me. Lugging round a CRT and SNES or Gamecube is obviously not practical so I looked at setting up the emulation side of things. I at first tried to install a couple of emulators separately, the PS2 one ran ok but the dolphin emulator wouldn't detect the steam deck controller and buttons. Looking about online I came across emu deck, turns out it's a script you can download and run and it installs and sets up all of the main emulators for you including dolphin. So gave it a go and it was incredibly simple, got it up and running and just loaded up fire emblem path of radiance (something on my to buy list but depends on how much my work christmas bonus is this year) and it seemed to start up really well and looked fantastic. I will give it a proper go later on today but the deck is really impressing my with it's capability at the moment.

Today is the big day for the first batch of Steam Deck customers. Emails are being sent out at 10am PST and then each person has 72 hours to pay in full. Unclaimed reservations go to the next person in line. I hear it may be a slow roll out and peripherals such as the Dock won't be on sale until the summer. Also, while they're still working their way through the library to verify games, apparently it's only multiplayer games that have issues with anti-cheat that have any problems. No idea when I'll get mine, happy to wait but must admit that I'm very excited and already have a list of games I want to play on it. Here's a sample: Disco Elysium Katana Zero Dishonored 2 Hotline Miami 1 & 2 Prey Rimworld To be honest I won't know where to start. I used to play DayZ mod and Civilisation in bed on my laptop 10 years ago, which I loved lol and the return to horizontal gaming will be interesting 😁

What's the ETA of yours?

Just put a deposit down. Ideal as a second gaming PC for Alex when he's at mine, and great for me to play games in front room

Bad news

Sure so long as it doesn't impact on the rest of the production. Otherwise games might start being produced to a lesser standard to be compatible with the Steam Deck.

I think it's gonna be a case of some developers having to optimise their games specifically for this system. Ones with controller support immediately have an advantage but others may need improved display and scaling support. There may also be instances where some games are just not suitable to be played this way. The device may also come with a quick-zoom function or something too.

This does look interesting, even though it only outputs at 720p. With this being the case though, what about text on screen? wouldn't that be a little small? I imagine if you play certain games, action adventures or FPS, this should be great. I already see mention of Civ on this, but do you think it would work? I have Civ on the VITA and that's a watered down game compared to the full game, I can imagine the resolution and screen size alone wouldn't be ideal for them types of games unless they are designed with handheld in mind. Then there's grand strategy games like HOI or RTS games like Company of Heroes, them I can see as not being ideal for something like this. So it'll highly depend on the games you play. The concept is awesome though, price tag not so much. Although if you can load other apps on the device, having GOG Galaxy installed for some of the older titles would be super cool to have on the go.

Yep, this is the draw for me. I've quite a few games like Civ, Anno, WH40k etc that would get a lot more play time on a handheld.

Good point - and they'd be more the types of games I'd play on a hand held. Stop tempting me Phil!! 😄

Depends on the game, don't need more than 30fps for Civilisation type games for example. What it offers is choice. If they get it right and properly support it, it'll sell by the bucket load.

Valve says it hasn't found a game Steam Deck can't handle | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Even 2021 games are running no problem.

Is this that intrigues me like we spoke last night. Although looking at the cost currently, I do think its a little on the steep side. I totally get this and I think it makes sense depending on what games you like to play 'on the road'. When it comes to indie games which are the main games i'd probably play on hols, I don't have much care for them so I usually end up buying those games on PC where they are really cheap (or free) and keep my switch for unique games that are available. If they could bring the cost of the largest memory down to as close they can get it to 300 they might have a chance but considering next gen costs around 400-500 it needs to be more competitive to push people to buy this instead.

No. It's fine.

Turns out the Steam Deck's final spec is now more impressive than Valve first listed | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Valve corrects the Steam Deck specs page, and its massive memory bandwidth is hugely important for its performance.

Probably nothing significant and there's the added wow factor of seeing huge games being played on a handheld which should override any visual downgrades that do exist. 60fps is also another major factor especially seeing that we've been playing most games 30fps on the PS4/XB1 and those couldn't reach full 1080p potential.

I really didn't think of it that way when I saw the handheld being announced. Its now making me think it could be a good investment at some point, as some PC games I would rather play on my holidays as to when i'm at home. Is 720p that much of a downgrade from 1080p on a screen that size?

So, yeah... if anyone wants to buy me one of these, I'll gladly accept! lol I think this thing will be huge. I can see people doing all sorts of things with this. Should be interesting!

Users who were eligible to place an order couldn't because it said they weren't allowed and when instructed to refresh the client, they could then place the reservation but it would then say they made too many purchase attempts and get kicked out😅 Valve's retail operations are so outdated and unreliable it's horrendous. They will sell out of the Deck so they wont care about these issues but they really should hire a proper distributor with a credible purchase framework because this in-house regime they have makes me so uneasy.

Very annoying right now as there's stuff I want to check on DayZ tonight and can only access the web version, which itself took a few attempts. Even more annoyingly, I've just put down a deposit on the 500gb steam deck 😅 ffs

Yeah, the Steam client is struggling right now, I imagine this has been a popular release for Gabe and the crew

Its a Linux sub system / you can wipe it and install windows- should people could turn this into a monster emulation machine. Steam Deck: First Hands-On With Valve’s Handheld Gaming PC - YouTube

honestly with the prices of the gpus and cpus this seems like the best thing if you want to play pc games for the foreseeable future without selling both of your kidneys, now if you could hook it up to your monitor and use kb/m that would be swell

You can install Windows on a Steam Deck and possibly other game storefronts too | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Unlike the Nintendo Switch, the Steam Deck will be an open platform that lets you do whatever you want.