The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

One thing or rather NPC that really started to irk me about the Sanctuary settlement though was one of Preston's group from Concord, Marcy Long. Man do I ever despise this character. I get that her story is that she lost her child but I got news for her, the Sole Survivor is in the exact same boat. I hate the way she is always complaining about something and being rude. I also hate how she is hard-coded to only be able to live in Sanctuary. At least until I found a console command to change that. I shipped her off to Spectacle Island out the way. 

I call this screenshot Banished from Sanctuary (after the Blind Guardian song).

I also removed her essential status with the console though, which meant she walked right into a trio of roaming Super Mutants before she'd barely got past Red Rocket. 

Good news is that Amazon have agreed to take it back and have given a full refund for it, so I was able to purchase a new card. 970 again as because as much as I'd like one I can't really afford to go up to 980 or even 980 Ti (let alone Titan). Went with a different manufacturer though, EVGA instead of Palit. Apparently they have better warranty if things go wrong. New card looks like it has better fans too. 

I also got Rise of the Tomb Raider for free with the new card, which was pretty nice. Specs say I should be able to try it out before it arrives if I want to (I've returned by old GTX 650 Ti Boost to my machine as a temporary card), but I expect I'll wait until the 970 is here for better performance.

That sucks that your card already broke, but getting Rise of the Tomb Raider for free sounds great. Sadly, I won't have a PC capable of running it any time in the near future, so I'm stuck waiting a year for the PS4 version, because Xbox got it as a timed console exclusive  I believe my brother has a 980 Ti, and he showed me the game running on his PC and the graphics looked absolutely incredible.

The Fallout 4 DLC looks pretty cool so far. I'll probably try the robot one as soon as it's out, maybe hold off on the trap one until I do my non-idiot character (by that I mean, not play it until then: I technically paid for it already, since I bought the season pass), and obviously Far Harbor looks like the first full expansion, so I very much look forward to that.

This is the checklist for the above level (I haven't found everything yet):

Tombs: 3

Optional Missions: 5

Challenges: 4

Strongboxes: 14

Crypt Treasure: 2

Relics: 18

Documents: 26

Murals: 12

Survival Caches: 21

Coin Caches: 9

At this stage I can't say whether I enjoyed it more than the 2013 reboot because it mostly feels like a logical continuation. Systems are more developed with more options such as keeping every weapon you ever get instead of just upgrading to have one of each type (so different ones have different strengths and weaknesses such as higher damage but slower reloads, smaller clip sizes etc). You can also change Lara's outfit, some of which have bonuses although this area could have been developed a lot more I think as most special outfits have the same bonus (quicker delay before health regen). Lara can now craft some ammo types and heal on the fly so long as she has the correct items in her inventory, which is greatly expanded with multiple salvage types. 

This is the new spec that should be with me sometime after the next ten days. 

OS: Windows 7 64 bit

Motherboard: Asus Z170M-PLUS

CPU: i7 6700k 

Heatsink: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

GPU: GTX 970 (to be fitted myself)

RAM: 16GB DDR4 3000MHz

HDD: 3TB

PSU: Corsair CX 750W

 

The system was fine until my previous 970 went wrong but there was something strange there even after that was replaced. Someone on the Nvidia forums suggested the PSU was on the way out but I couldn't say for certain that that was the case. I know when I tried a couple of the games I was seeing graphics glitches in on my laptop that they don't appear whereas they did on my gaming desktop using different GPU's and different driver versions. It makes me wonder if something else in the system caused my original 970 to go wrong. I decided to stop using it just in case. 

I'd been wanting to upgrade the rig at some point anyway and was actually considering buying anew due to the system's age as the technology has moved on. Processor sockets are different on current gen motherboards so if I'd wanted to upgrade my i5 2500k I'd have needed to either search for an equally out of date part (at the time there was only one used on Amazon) or replace the entire motherboard. Since I'm not confident enough with taking computers to bits myself to do that I'd have needed to pay someone on top of that, and those costs add up, as I'd have replaced the PSU as well if only for peace of mind.  I'm keeping my replacement 970 to put in myself though so I saved a bit of money there. 

I was playing Skyward Sword on the Wii on and off as well but man do I ever despise the Wii control system. It does my arm in and I find it so touchy and often unresponsive. I'm generally shocked that Nintendo hasn't gone the way of Sega where consoles are concerned really.