Topic: What are you playing? (games)

[jfrabat]

Just waiting for the next GTA and Battlefield to come out...

We played both at Destination PlayStation a few weeks back; GTA is just AWESOME!  You can REALLY do anything you want!   The guy even has a credit card to buy stuff!!!

[Jeffy]

Just waiting for the next GTA and Battlefield to come out...

I'm done with battlefield I think.  3 was OK but got old fast.  I'll wait for Battlefront.  Borderlands is really good though.  I love the co-op but wish you could have more then 4 people.  It's a mix of FPS with a RPG.  I got it on Steam for $36 when they had the summer sale.  That's the game, Season Pass, 2 other DLC's and some random stuff.

[Jeffy]

Anyone playing http://warthunder.com/?  It's like World of Tanks but with planes.

[chrisfranklin]

I decided to give Battlefield 4 a go.  A few years ago I bought Battlefield BC 2 but for some reason never bought Battlefield 3 (watched a few youtube videos of BF3 game play, so got a rough idea for how BF3 looked/played).

Anyway, BF 4 looks great and looks like it has big potential.  But as of the last two days, though, it's been crashing for me like crazy on multiplayer. 

My system is 5 years old -- I7 920 overclocked, Windows 7 64, pair of 560ti video cards, latest nvidia driver.  But, according to the BF forums, guys with newer systems and 7-series video cards are having the same crash problems on BF4 as me, even after the recent patches.

Based on the BF 4 forum and my own suspicions, I'm thinking the game is still a Dice/EA work in progress.  Might demand my money back in the next few days, then repurchase the game at some point. 

Undoubtedly different experiences with the PC version of BF4 at this point -- multiplayer servers do suggest hundreds of players are going at it and when I do manage to log-on I see guys that are already up there in the ranks.   

But if I had to do over again, I'd have probably stayed clear of the PC-version of BF4 until some time in 2014...   

[chrisfranklin]

So far I've been messing around with the "Test Range" with BF4, ok. 

Driving some of the BF4 military trucks on the Test Range offers a pretty good imitation of an desert/off-road driving, imho.   No low-range, lockers, articulation or anything like that, but am still kind of impressed.  The M11161 ITV lets you fold down the windshield and shoot from the passenger seat.

[sharpxmen]

Nvidia driver 331.65 has issues, apparently 314.22 is the best one but lacks support for latest games, 320 and up have had a lot of problems yet to be fixed. I play F1 2013 and has stuttering issues in SLI when playing at 5760x1080 on full (even though the min FPS is at over 40 with an a max >100 it is choppy at times), read the forums and it says to disable SLI but have not tried that yet, for now i reduced multisampling and lowered the trees and a couple of other things to get it to run smooth. Didn't try BF4 yet.

[jfrabat]

I am about 35% into Batman Arkham Origins; so far, I HIGHLY recommend the game (well, if you like Batman, anyway!).  This one is as good a Arkham City for those that have played that one.

[Jeffy]

I've been playing War Thunder with some other guy's as well as trying to finish my second run though Borderlands 2.  I did the first run and all of the DLC's and optional missions.  Now I'm doing a clean run with no optional missions then what people call 2.5 by doing a third run with the optional missions so there are better drops.

I'm not really into twitch anymore.  I'm waiting for some other friends to get into ARMA 3 which I've had for several months now.  We played Arma 1 and 2 before.  Other then that there aren't too many games I'm looking forward to.  Maybe I'll get Assassins Creed 4.  I still haven't finished 3 but so far it was good.  I also have Dishonored which I haven't even played yet.  I've had it for almost a year now.  Need to finish Mirror's Edge as well.  I keep stopping about 9/10's though the game for one reason or another.

[chrisfranklin]

I started playing Tribes Ascend earlier this year, mostly because the reviews were decent and it was free. 

Game had already been out for awhile and it kind of plays like ice-hockey with guns.  Seems popular with Australians for some reason.

It uses the Unreal Engine from Unreal 3.  Never bought Unreal 3 but did play a lot of Unreal 2004 in '04.   Tribes basically feels like a 10 year old game to me. 

Currently level 46 out of 50 without coughing up dough to hi-rez to jump the ranks faster.   Handle is "BobStalin."

Lot of hackers and hi-rez is clearly not pulling the money from Tribes to justify tasking anybody to regulate the game with consistency at this point.  So known, hi-level players tend to congregate on the pubs and games are often stacked as a result.  Still kind of fun, though

[sharpxmen]

how many battles does BF4 single player has? I hate playing online (since i get killed before getting to fire a shot) but would like to play it in s/p if it is extensive enough, i remember one of the BFs only had like 2 maps for singleplayer and it sucked.

[Jeffy]

how many battles does BF4 single player has? I hate playing online (since i get killed before getting to fire a shot) but would like to play it in s/p if it is extensive enough, i remember one of the BFs only had like 2 maps for singleplayer and it sucked.

I think that's a bad reason to get BF4 then.  I've heard SP Campaign is short.  Even when watching the movies you can probably run through it in 3-4 hrs.

[chardrc]

If you spawn at the base rather than a squad member you will have a better chance of getting to do something before during. I broke down and bquht bf4 last Friday and it has been a lot of fun so far. But it has had some lockup and crashing issues but I think that's more because I'm still on a core 2 duo and a slow hard drive...

[sharpxmen]

If you spawn at the base rather than a squad member you will have a better chance of getting to do something before during. I broke down and bquht bf4 last Friday and it has been a lot of fun so far. But it has had some lockup and crashing issues but I think that's more because I'm still on a core 2 duo and a slow hard drive...

did you go thru the s/p campaign? how long is it?

and did anyone play Crysis 3?

[Jeffy]

Anyone running an off-brand 2560x1440 Monitor?  I'm thinking about getting one.  I currently run two GTX 560 Ti in SLI.  my current monitor is a 1440x900 and is really hard to see some thing in the distance without it looking like a dot.

[chrisfranklin]

My main monitor is a 30" Dell 2560 x 1600 60hz bought about 5 years ago.   The 30"-ers Dell is selling these days are essentially the same model.  Probably find one for under a grand. 

If the off-brand 1440p you're looking at are high hz models, that's a different story, though.