Computer games.

[Tubey]

Finished Bloodborne DLC last night - amazing game.

Just spoiled things a bit by doing too many chalice dungeons, so had a brute of a weapon that just steam-rollered everything (gemmed out whirligig saw). The Orphan of Kos is meant to be the hardest boss in all of Souls and I walloped him second go - Midir in Dark Souls 3 must have taken me 100 tries.

The Twin Princes in DS3 were my hardest in the series I think. It's weird because I can do it first time now, once I beat it a mental block went away.

Dancer same story from the same game, and Pontiff. Ornstein and Smough were nightmarish for me in DS1 too.

Ever played Dark Souls II?

Never play Dark Souls II.

I detest that game with every bit of my being.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

The Twin Princes in DS3 were my hardest in the series I think. It's weird because I can do it first time now, once I beat it a mental block went away.

Dancer same story from the same game, and Pontiff. Ornstein and Smough were nightmarish for me in DS1 too.

Ever played Dark Souls II?

Never play Dark Souls II.

I detest that game with every bit of my being.

Yeah it's funny how people find different bosses easy or hard - different playstyles and builds I guess.

I've played so much Souls that I even like DS2. They took some risks with it and tried different stuff, a lot didn't work (Soul memory is an atrocity, actually breaks jolly co-op) but a lot did - it has a lot of cool little things plus some major fundamentals like build diversity and pvp balance. I only started playing these games in the past few years though, so the distance prob helps. If you picked DS2 up on release, peak Dark Souls 1 time, then I can see people justifiably saying WTF is this game?

DS3 is mega smooth and accomplished but falls just on the wrong side of fan service for me. Also very derivative of Bloodborne (I can now see) - in a good way, because the BB engine is awesome, but also in a bad way of using imagery and level design that isn't Dark Souls.

 

[Terrarian]

From software have a new one in the pipeline, i can't remember what it's called but it's basically a new dark souls with a different name

 

[Tommy.]

From software have a new one in the pipeline, i can't remember what it's called but it's basically a new dark souls with a different name

Elden Ring, I'm a little bit excited about it.

 

[Terrarian]

Elden Ring, I'm a little bit excited about it.

That's the one yeah,, should be good.

 

[LocalNative]

Currently downloading RDR2 onto my PC. Have played through on PS4 but looking forward to seeing it in proper 1440p on my new rig.

 

[Baines' left foot]

I’m so glad I spent the extra money and got the 3070. Some of these modded DayZ servers are very demanding.

Anyone got any tips on how to get the most out of your PC? I’ve had no issues so far, I just want to make sure I’m getting the most out of it. Any programs or settings to tweak to optimise really.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Currently downloading RDR2 onto my PC. Have played through on PS4 but looking forward to seeing it in proper 1440p on my new rig.

That’ll be lovely with a decent a frame rate. One of my all time favourites that game. I may pick it up for PC if it ever goes on sale.

 

[LocalNative]

That’ll be lovely with a decent a frame rate. One of my all time favourites that game. I may pick it up for PC if it ever goes on sale.

On Steam atm for £36 which is the cheapest i've seen it outside of this cd key sites.

 

[Tommy.]

I’m so glad I spent the extra money and got the 3070. Some of these modded DayZ servers are very demanding.

Anyone got any tips on how to get the most out of your PC? I’ve had no issues so far, I just want to make sure I’m getting the most out of it. Any programs or settings to tweak to optimise really.

It's a basic one but make sure you have mouse acceleration disabled, also, don't mean to patronise but have you adjusted your display settings to 144hz? It's a common mistake.
Enabling game mode will also limit background processes and just play with the in-game settings, anti-aliasing for example, it's resource hungry and really doesn't add much IMO.

 

[Baines' left foot]

It's a basic one but make sure you have mouse acceleration disabled, also, don't mean to patronise but have you adjusted your display settings to 144hz? It's a common mistake.
Enabling game mode will also limit background processes and just play with the in-game settings, anti-aliasing for example, it's resource hungry and really doesn't add much IMO.

I've got the Nvidia GeForce Experience overlay and I've enabled automatic tuning. The monitor I've got is FreeSync compatible, so I believe it automatically synchronises your monitor refresh speed to your FPS.

I've been playing around with the graphics settings and I've currently got everything on the highest settings. On non or low modded servers I get up to 160fps, but on heavily modded servers it can drop a fair bit lower in places. I've just turned hardware ailiasing down to low and it's just shot up to 160fps on a heavily modded server! Christ.

 

[Tommy.]

I've got the Nvidia GeForce Experience overlay and I've enabled automatic tuning. The monitor I've got is FreeSync compatible, so I believe it automatically synchronises your monitor refresh speed to your FPS.

I've been playing around with the graphics settings and I've currently got everything on the highest settings. On non or low modded servers I get up to 160fps, but on heavily modded servers it can drop a fair bit lower in places. I've just turned hardware ailiasing down to low and it's just shot up to 160fps on a heavily modded server! Christ.

Huge difference isn't it mate! As I said, proper resource hungry.
Glad you opted for GPU over CPU, as me and @longers were saying, that is where the bulk of difference is made.

Both my monitors are GSync but I know that Nvidia have opened their GPU's up to FreeSync, I can't comment on the veracity of it from personal experience but I know that it's a must. Screen tearing is a complete no-no, huge annoyance.

Seems like you're pretty much there though, glad you're enjoying it.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Huge difference isn't it mate! As I said, proper resource hungry.
Glad you opted for GPU over CPU, as me and @longers were saying, that is where the bulk of difference is made.

Both my monitors are GSync but I know that Nvidia have opened their GPU's up to FreeSync, I can't comment on the veracity of it from personal experience but I know that it's a must. Screen tearing is a complete no-no, huge annoyance.

Seems like you're pretty much there though, glad you're enjoying it.

Yeah for sure. My CPU usage goes up to 50% at the absolute most, so I'm glad I didn't get a better one as it wouldn't have been neccessary at all. I nearly opted for an 6700XT and a Ryzen 5 3600, but I'm glad I struck to my gut feeling and got the best GPU possible. And anything better was out of my price range.

Yeah I'm really enjoying it so far. In general the community seems more mature on PC too, so I don't feel like the only adult amongst kids any more lol

 

[Tommy.]

Yeah for sure. My CPU usage goes up to 50% at the absolute most, so I'm glad I didn't get a better one as it wouldn't have been neccessary at all. I nearly opted for an 6700XT and a Ryzen 5 3600, but I'm glad I struck to my gut feeling and got the best GPU possible. And anything better was out of my price range.

Yeah I'm really enjoying it so far. In general the community seems more mature on PC too, so I don't feel like the only adult amongst kids any more lol

There's plenty of squealers mate, give it time.
The proportion of them though is definitely an improvement!
Enjoy the early access games as well, another huge difference over console.

PC and PS5 is the future, Playstation do have some amazing developers. I've just started a new run of Demons Souls but with a magic build because I'm a big dirty cheat.

 

[Baines' left foot]

There's plenty of squealers mate, give it time.
The proportion of them though is definitely an improvement!
Enjoy the early access games as well, another huge difference over console.

PC and PS5 is the future, Playstation do have some amazing developers. I've just started a new run of Demons Souls but with a magic build because I'm a big dirty cheat.

Oh I'm sure! It's a lot easier to be annonymous on PC. On Playstation Sony makes it a lot easier to identify people. No more friend requests or party invites thank God.

I'll probably get a PS5 eventually. Maybe in a couple of years when they're more around the £300-£350 range for the disc version.