The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Erik Setzer]

Arkham Knight being called the worst PC launch ever, bunch of retails no longer selling it and offering no conditions refunds.

It's got to be pretty amazingly bad for that. I did watch the first half of an Angry Joe meltdown on it last night, with the game repeatedly crashing. But other games have been like that as well. IIRC, SimCity couldn't work because it required online servers (for a single player game). SWTOR was a bit of a mess... it ran okay most of the time, but was missing a lot of the stuff it was supposed to have. Battlefield 4 was a mess. Diablo III couldn't be loaded because it's tied into online servers. There's a lot of PC launches with issues, and those are just the ones I remember recently. "Worst ever" is pretty strong.

So... how bad exactly are we talking here?

[Mr Mystery]

30fps....

[Psychosplodge]

30fps....

worse, cinematic 24fps

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[URL="https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/614181606429982720"]Bethesda [/URL]suddenly inundated with caps...

[Erik Setzer]

30fps....

CAD did a joke about the framerate. That's not really forgivable in a modern PC game. I think they bragged about that in the 90s, but, well, I game with people who weren't born back then.

[Paintingplasticcrack]

Not sure if this video from Bethesda on Fallout 4 has been linked here. Sharing anyway. I am super excited for this game. This presentation is very good if your a fan.



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Part 2

[Psychosplodge]

We're all going to be trawling the wasteland for the right bit of scrap aren't we? I look forward to the idea of making a laser sniper rifle.
Even better if we can name them. I'm hoping there is more support for following a laser weapons build this time.

[Kirsten]

playing the Planetside 2 beta on PS4. wasn't sure about it on PC, too much going on and not enough information, and the PS4 beta drops even that basic tutorial. quite enjoying it though. I managed to jump in a turret and rack up about twenty five kills without reply, went up four levels.

[Kirsten]

I am the queen of turrets. I have 80 odd kills now, most of them from turrets. either the base anti tank turrets, which are great fun, or deploying one as an engineer. I deployed one at a junction and killed loads of players from both of the other factions as they each advanced down the two roads to meet the T where I was. the rest of my faction seemed to realise that was a pretty good idea and several others did it after a while too. I did kill one of my team though and get a 'grief token' or something because he suddenly popped up in front of me as I was firing, which is hardly my fault.

It does seem to have glitched though. I was playing as an infiltrator initially, and after upgrading my sniper rifle, I can no longer select it. I am carrying it around, but can't switch to it at all.

[Psychosplodge]

That's quite impressive. On PC you'd have been sniped long before that

Get the bolt action sniper rifle they have the longest range and power if slowest reload. I can't really offer advice on engineer as they've nerfed the way I used to play it. (cert into anti tank mines and suicide charge vehicle columns)

TBH planetside two has changed that much since it started I barely recognised it last time I went on. The "meta game", I think the call it, has changed completely.


I spent Sunday afternoon playing WarThunder on the PS4. Struggling with the aircombat, maybe I need to remap the controls. So switched to the tank combat. Spent about five hours on it. Unlocked and upgraded the the panzer IVc/e. became moderately competent.
Went home and downloaded it on steam.(apparently its crossplatform multiplayer) Took 90 mins to get to the same point in experience, and once I'd unlocked the IVc I came top or second on all the games I've played since. The aiming is obviously miles easier with a mouse, but I was genuinely surprised that the driving was improved by the keyboard, as it allowed me to drift the tank in a manner I didn't expect.
Best result I think was eleven tank kills for no loss.

[Kirsten]

Well careful placement alleviates sniper tisk. I know, I am usually the one sniping

I have now shot down to aircraft with the base anti tank turret. Had to email the Planetside people because of the sniper rifle glitch, hopefully they get back to me today

I am saving up for C4 at the moment for tank killing.

Played some PS4 warthunder, wasn't sure about plane controls, not as good as proper air combat games. Didn't get much chance for tank combat but it didn't seem as good as world of tanks