Anyone here played 'Doorkickers'? I got it for a pound in the GOG summer sale, and it's really very good, but blisteringly hard.
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Anyone here played 'Doorkickers'? I got it for a pound in the GOG summer sale, and it's really very good, but blisteringly hard.
One problem with computers... Drivers and finicky hardware. My graphics card has been crashing the driver lately, possibly due to overheating, so I need to try to get more fans for it. Part of the problem is that the tower is quite open, lots of holes to vent. That leads to issues with dust as it is. But then my cats decided that hey, it's beside me, and it's warm, so a good place to sleep. But that prevents air being pushed out the top (also resulting in kitties being way too warm), and ends up with fur being dropped down into the computer as well. Just not an ideal scenario. I've taken to covering the top of the PC with darts to keep them off.
The video card doesn't have a problem with a lot of games. Civ V, no trouble. Fallout New Vegas, runs okay. But in World of Warcraft, it will crash multiple times when I'm in a dungeon, forcing me to end the process on the game and then reload it and log back in ASAP so I don't miss an important fight or get booted.
But the worst is NBA 2K15... I've been having a lot of fun with it, but I don't think I can run more than one game without letting the computer sit off for a while to cool down. I've been in a game, with the team leading by a good bit, my player's performing well, it's coming down to the closing minutes... and boom. Driver crashes, shuts down the game. Luckily the game auto-saves between pretty much everything it does (though sometimes things change, like my trash-talking session with Kevin Durant prior to a game changed to a more respectful tone, which is cool with me). But when you play the same matchup four times just to see the game crash as it's getting toward the end... it's brutal.
Also in soul-destroying moments... Had a match where the other team got up quite a bit, I think 16 points, and somehow the team I was playing for started playing good defense and scoring better, and it was in the closing seconds, I got the ball, ran down the court, boom! Put the team ahead by a point with 4.8 seconds to play. "YEAH! I WON THE GAME!" Ha. Other team had a timeout left, used it, got the ball, flung it to a guy at the other end, he went to get it in, and rather than make a good block, the guy on my team fouled him, letting him get two free throws, which he made, leading us to a one-point loss. After the game it showed a scene in the arena tunnel and the player who's basically my player's mentor walks up and says, "You look like someone stole your puppy." Yeah. Something like that. So elated I might have a heart attack all the way down to "I hate everything" in a moment.
Never thought I'd get that into a basketball game, but the presentation around the player career game style is pretty good.
In other news, playing New Vegas, I accidentally blew up a bunch of NCR, killed an NCR hit squad, pissed off my companion, and then got pardoned. (Helios One. Hey, you put a giant death laser in front of me, why would I NOT use it?)
Sounds about right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
I hadn't even heard of it, it looks a bit like a top down version of the original rainbow six.Quote:
Originally Posted by YorkNecromancer
@Erik, how old is your gpu? I was using a second hand card about five years ago that was crashing under load, and all it needed was the two capacitors on the pcb replacing (not the surface mounted ones).
Using C4 does seem like a waste of time, only being able to carry one and it doesn't do muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
One? I'm pretty sure last time I played I had two. That might be a platform difference.
I don't know why it would be.
you had to cert into two slots on pc
Maybe three years now? Can't recall exactly. It's a GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Not the newest or hottest thing, and I could probably get more performance by replacing it by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
I think it was the heat issue. Last night, after leaving the computer off all day, I was able to get through four games in NBA before it crashed in the fifth one (also probably a good hint it was time to get ready for bed). At some point soon I need to either make a trek to a store or place in a quick-ship order for a fan or two and some canned air to really blow all the gunk out of the cracks and crevices. Clean it more, add some extra cooling, should be able to handle things better, until I decide on a new card.
Might start looking for a card in the $200-$250 range. I'll have a bit of extra cash in a couple of weeks, maybe I can keep myself from throwing it all at a local convention.
Put some fresh thermal paste on the heatsink?
Going to take a break from Arkham Knight for now. Hunting down the Riddler trophies is starting to feel a bit tedious.
So....onto Alien Isolation! And yes, I have just done my laundry, so many clean pairs of pants are available in case of the jumpies.
Alien: Isolation is great. Totes scary, try playing it in the dark lol.
No.
Shan't.
WUSS MODE ENGAGED.
That might help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
I *was* running a game for over four hours at almost top settings (I turned the crowd down from high to medium... didn't really notice, because, well, they're the crowd). I think just having the amount of cooling I'd originally intended would help. There's areas for fans that I know I'd meant to put on there, but for some reason didn't. I also need to make sure the circulation is right. If the fans right behind the card are blowing inward, they might be just keeping the heat trapped inside rather than pulling it out. Side fan should be used for drawing cool air in, but there isn't a side fan right now.
The more I think about it, the more I'm surprised it went this long without trouble.
It basically is.Quote:
it looks a bit like a top down version of the original rainbow six.
Which is great, because Rainbow 6 is one of my favourite (if not the favourite) games of all time (for gameplay at least. Which is true of all the Tom Clancy games: astonishingly good gameplay, godawful stories).
sounds interesting, I will have to look it up
at the time I played it I loved that game. The first time I completed the embassy siege without losing any of the hostages I was so impressed with myself :D
The planning was meticulous though
hmm, Halo?
No idea, just thought it was amusing hehe.
Bright Wizard for Vermintide is........a woman
And not that inappropriately attired, given she's a Wizard.
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flame on
Nice, not young an pretty either. 2/5 characrters are women, respectable.
Also the third female Warhammer human Wizard as far as I'm aware?
You've got Elspeth from Tamurkhan (badass), the lass from Elfslayer, and now this one.
Good on them for bringing representation to an underrepresented profession.
It was too hot to use any computer or console yesterday to play games. I had to sit outside like an animal :(
Still not clear in gameplay though, you control a single player and have a team of NPCs? Or its multi-player? Or they can be NPCs or controlled by player if you want to play with friends?
Dunno, but it's coming to PS4 so I'll defo be picking it up.
should be interesting anyway
I am downloading the demo for Elite on Xbox One as well, looking forward to trying that over the weekend
Elite was quite fun, but it is a time sink.
Who was playing the Mordheim early access? Is it improving?
I was, and yes it is. still a little wonky, but good fun. Regicide I so far haven't been able to complete a game before it crashes, but it is downloading an update at the moment so hopefully that will improve.
Whens its done we still need a Bols league :D
for which?
Mordheim? if theres some sort of campaign, league setting where we can get the warbands to actually accrue experience and skills and whatnot
that I would be up for. I suck at chess, so regicide is a no :p
lols.
I have spent this weekend playing World of Warships. very satisfying when it goes well. today I had a game where my destroyer sank four of the eight enemy ships single handed with torpedoes. and another where my cruiser held off four ships alone, sinking three of them before succumbing, giving the rest of my team time to sink the other four, and swing round to finish off my last.
looks neat, gonna give it a try as well - I still fondly remember playing NavyField some 10 years ago, which was pretty much the same game, only top-down. Hella fun as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
For something similar in space, I'll just drop a quick recommendation for Fractured Space - really good looking Capital Ship battles, and while it's in Early Acces, the Devs are both active update wise, and communicate a lot with the players, so it's the good kind if Early Access.
Had time on the way home, stopped in at GameStop, picked up FIFA 15, came home, gave it a try... Pretty fun game. I like that in the career mode it has skill practice that actually tells you what to do and lets you work at it. Pretty simple game play, once you get the hang of it. Not knowing the rules of the game, I also messed up a couple times, but learned to watch for things like the yellow flag indicating I'll get a penalty if they pass the ball to me where I am. I'm certain I'll get a good number of hours out of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
I'm just bummed they don't have Armada FC in there. Guess it's in a "minor" league. But hey, it's my home town team, so if I had a chance, I'd definitely play them.
yeah I downloaded Fractured Space, it was free one weekend on Steam. not tried it yet though.
I did try the Elite demo on Xbox One, and the tutorial was pointless. tells you to destroy some barrels, but gives you no clue as to the buttons. that in itself was ok, I looked them up and started firing, but after burning through five magazines of ammo against the first barrel, and it still not breaking, I stopped.
Fifa is great fun. plus it is a free kick for being offside, not a penalty ;)
I've started playing Craft the World,its a fantasy crafting and citybuilding sim where you use dwarfs to build whatever you want starting completely from scratch. It's really addictive and really good. you need to craft things to research technology and every 45 minutes you get attacked by monsters and stuff.
I think it just uses the yellow flag marker to help indicate any time when you're in danger of doing something wrong. It's helpful, too, because sometimes the camera angle doesn't make it that easy to tell where you are in relation to other players (which seems to be what offsides is about?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten