phil bottle

Sorry @Luseth can't make tonight after all, forgot i'm at a birthday drink 🙈
 
 

So, after 7/8 years in early access Tarkov 1.0 gets released in just over a week.
 
Finally releases on Steam too.
 
Apparently there's going to be a storyline, they've been keeping things close to their chest so don't know much more than that. 
 
To experience the full version means I will have to wipe my character, which will be a fucker but I'll definitely be doing it.
 
 

I've only played solo where not everyone shoots on sight but would be good to be in a group 🙂
 
I can be on over the weekend, just give me a shout when you're likely to be about. Maybe tomorrow evening? I have it on Steam but it does have crossplay, so that shouldn't be a problem.
 
I reminded of that Fallout saying, Lee, Lee never changes 😅
 
 

They apparently sacked an entire studio for gross misconduct in relation to confidential information leaked online. Those employers are backed by a union but it's hard to tell whether this actually happened in which it is a severe breach of contract or Take2 are looking for an easy way out to cull more employees now the job is 95% done. I'd say it's the latter because I can't see how 40 individual people would collectively leak such information at this stage. It'll probably go to a tribunal and then Rockstar will just frustrate the process and try and pay them off limited compo and piss them off to such a degree, they wouldn't ever want their jobs back. 

Saturday should be do-able, Sunday is a no go as it is my wife's birthday. I will jump in the game room about 8ish tomorrow once kids are in bed then 🙂 

Can't wait to read your thoughts on it. I never got into this one, and I can't really explain why, it looks good here though

I've only played solo where not everyone shoots on sight but would be good to be in a group 🙂
 
I can be on over the weekend, just give me a shout when you're likely to be about. Maybe tomorrow evening? I have it on Steam but it does have crossplay, so that shouldn't be a problem.
 
I reminded of that Fallout saying, Lee, Lee never changes 😅
 
 

I ended up picking this up @phil bottle if you are around at any point to jump on. I think it is really atmospheric and looks really good too. Did a couple of missions on my own and extracted with a bunch of gear and started building up my benches. Then played one with @GazzaGarratt & @Macca89 and Lee decided to take some walker thing on, some snitches etc after looting all the boxes so Macca had no loot to grab, we all lost our health to it then got took out by enemy players.
 
I think my limited experience with Lee suggests he is not suited to the slower pace of these games and that you don't need to keep running off everywhere.

They're just another scumbag company that treats its workers like shit.
 
Maybe this is because they worry that they can't force people into ridiculous long hours any more, as I hear their staff are trying to unionise. 

Battlefield 6 Campaign






 

Ha ha no sitting in bushes or corners, I just use top tier armour and headshots. Level 37 now and over 300 raids with about same kd. This year this game hit my all time top 5 favourite games of all time since I embraced doing all the tasks. 
 
Game comes out of early access on 15 November so I have until then before the final wipe 🙂

So I have been looking at these, I think it is difficult to say if the price is wrong or right as similar to the PC market there is such a wide range of price points based on the hardware and specs.
 
The base model puts it similar to the OLED steamdeck and looking at reviews performance wise I don't believe they are too far apart. Where you lose out with the screen though the screen is still meant to be decent but you then get access to all gaming librarys a bit easier and game pass which is a lot trickier with the steam deck. The more expensive model comes in a little more affordable than the premium options such as the Legion Go 2 and the onexplayer and such.
 
It has reviewed quite well and the Xbox ally X is an improvement on the Rog ally X that it was built upon. However the limiting factor seems to be the OS still, it's windows and it is just not optimised well enough. I am planning to upgrade my steamdeck (my brother is having it) and have my sights on the Lenovo Legion Go S. It is comparable to the base Xbox Ally specwise but performs much much better and by all accounts it is just down to the Steam OS and it's optimisation of games and such.

Played the intro round and then a proper one, managed to not die. 
Runs well on my 1080ti, I'm getting 110 fps on medium settings which is just insane. Finally a new game that has proper optimisation for older cards 🥳

Played the intro round and then a proper one, managed to not die. 
Runs well on my 1080ti, I'm getting 110 fps on medium settings which is just insane. Finally a new game that has proper optimisation for older cards 🥳

Doesn't surprise me sadly. Games like these need consistent and clear development and they need to get decisions correct from the get-go. When you piss players off early on, lose a huge chunk of them and then spend the next two years trying to recover to a small population, it's kinda game over really. 

Saw some interesting news that not long after their latest DLC has just come out, they've confirmed the game will have no more updates and make the latest DLC free to play. That means a curtain will call at some point in 2026 or 2027 surely.
 
Mad to think its been out for 5ish years or more and its not had enough backing to finally be turned off at some point soon.
 
Hard to take on a WoW alternative game these days.
 

I am praying its as good as the first series. A great watch.

I loved the first season, so Fallout season 2 will hopefully be just as good.
 
With it involving New Vegas and rumours of a remaster to what many feel was the best FO game, bring it on please : )
 
 
 

Drops on Thursday and I'll be playing on Steam 😘
 
 

Yeah I'll be picking this up, it played decent on PC for me in the first playtest so I think that's where I'll go for it. Tough game and yeah, although its 3rd person it reminds one a lot of Tarkov as it's essentially an extraction shooter. 

So, this,game finally drops on 30 October, there was a playtest this weekend but I missed it. For certain this will be my next purchase, just have to decide whether its PC or PS5
 
 
 

PS5 release is imminent, and i highly recommend, particularly as they recently added night vision.
 
 

Two new maps it seems
 
 

Season 1  trailer
 
 

New map preview 🙂