The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Don't have much installed right now as I only just got my gaming PC back a couple of days ago. Steam has me pissed off though as none of my recent saves for the Witcher 3 or Fallout 4 seem to be in the Steam cloud. I really don't know why that should be as especially for Fallout 4 they should have been synced and backed up long before my problems with the PC started. Strange thing is, those saves are missing from my manual back-ups taken from before my PC went back as well, as if Steam deleted them from my hard drive beforehand. 

I think I'd going to stop using Steam cloud after this. It isn't the first time it's fucked me over.

Right now I've mostly going to be replaying both Tomb Raider reboots, though I may make an effort to try a few of the indie games I've picked up over the years in between since those are kinda building up to an unmanageable amount now thanks to cheap bundle purchases. Of course I will be giving this Skyrim special edition a look when it comes out at the end of next week. Not sure I'm ready to invest in a fresh Skyrim run at this point though. Knowing Bethesda it will need some patching before it works well anyway. Little fact: the original Skyrim running with no mods still managed to drop frames rather than keep a smooth 60FPS on my new PC running a GTX 970, even though it's recommended GPU is a GTX 260. 

Oh yeah, and I took the plunge and pre-ordered Dishonored 2. Disc version as it was £8 cheaper than Steam, which it will most likely activate on anyway. I find it really odd that the release is so close and there are absolutely no system requirements for PC in sight, though with my new rig I shouldn't have any reason to worry about not being able to run it. 

The trouble is being early access there are still some teething issues with it, especially regarding frame rate. On one map in particular the FPS was all over the place and I'm running a GTX 1070. I'm sure it used to run better than that but there have been a lot of graphical improvements, especially to the weather systems, since I last played.

Another problem is its been so long with a played this character I can't find my base! I'm spent days now trekking between all my usual haunts and I can't find my stash anywhere. There's some bullets in there I need desperately. 

Further impressions, about ten hours in:

Mission 2: I missed a rune and a painting here despite going round the whole level at least three times poking in every nook and cranny for them. I guess they might have been on the ship that is your base (I didn't even think to look tbh) but if they were in the main level, I didn't find them. Nor does the heart point to a rune still to find. Overall good level. Unlike the first game it served as a part one for mission 3, meaning that it had no target of its own. Managed to try out a few of Emily's powers. Far Reach is basically Blink with physical movement at its base level. That makes a small difference with stealth situations I've found. Upgrading it to be able to grad distant items proved the only way I could obtain a rune and bone charm without being seen. Shadow Walk has proved handy to sneak up to an enemy quickly as well as making an escape to a more hidden location. Domino may end up coming across as overpowered once fully upgraded as with it you can take out up to four enemies in one move. Apart from Dark Vision at base rank I haven't taken any of the other powers yet. 

Mission 3: I can't really say much about this mission without plot spoilers so suffice to say that I really enjoyed it. I managed to find everything on this one (well not all coins but I've never managed that in any Dishonored level).

Mission 4: This is the clockwork mansion one seen in pre-release material, though I'm still trying to get inside right now. Quite looking forward to this one especially. 

Will update again later.