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Has anyone played Conan Exiles?
I like the concept. No fixed spawn points, no set maps, no XP for better weapons, random loot places, a diminishing arena as time passes or bodies drop? You'll always have guys who devote themselves to the game and figure out the nuances, but it sounds (in theory) like a good experience for a casual gamer.
macNcheese
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Hmm...I see a Shadowspear Linkup on the island of Erangel in our future. I'm on vacation starting tonight, but mid-June when I return? Time to recruit some of our members!
Kraut783
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Didn't know what the game was, then looked at some game play on youtube...looks fun.
R.Caerbannog
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Finally purchased a non ASUS laptop for GIS/gaming. Went with an Acer laptop that I'm going to upgrade as I get time. I think it has a decent processor and graphics card outta the box. Later on I can upgrade the ram and easily install an hhd drive when I get the time. Thanks @Ranger Psych for the info on the ROG's.
Amazon.com: Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, Intel Core i7-7700HQ, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, 15.6" Full HD, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, G3-571-77QK, Black: Computers & Accessories
Amazon.com: Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, Intel Core i7-7700HQ, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, 15.6" Full HD, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, G3-571-77QK, Black: Computers & Accessories
macNcheese
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Far Cry 5 details are coming out. It's set in Montana. Looks pretty good.
http://kotaku.com/far-cry-5-is-a-game-about-resisting-an-american-militia-1795576487
http://kotaku.com/far-cry-5-is-a-game-about-resisting-an-american-militia-1795576487
Right now we're looking at...
- $350 for a 900+ GB SSD
- $300 in labor to disassemble, clean, redo thermal pasting and any other issues
- $99 for another 16gb of RAM for the system
I'd love to meet the manufacturers in a dark alley with my trucking deadblow hammer.
Kraut783
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Never played any of the Far Cry...but started looking into it now. Worth playing the older ones, or just wait for FC5?
If you want to feel like Rambo! lol I've never played Primal but FC 3 and 4 were awesome.
Kraut783
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Sweet....will look at 3 and 4, kinda of bored with my games right now.
R.Caerbannog
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That's insane dude, I wonder how they got so sloppy on the manufacturing end. The way laptop technology is advancing, I'm just hoping that I'll get two years out of my laptop before I have to upgrade the RAM to 32gb. I love gaming and advances in graphics but learning all of the lingo and associated jargon just to pick out a laptop without overpaying was a nightmare.
They're idiots that only survive by leveraging the general masses that don't know what they are buying. The only reason WE purchased it, was due to the price point of that specific system due to it being a good condition display model and prior research vs components etc made it a value even with eventual expenditure into the maintenance and rebuild of the system.
End result, $580 for 3 billed, 6 actual hours of labor for disassembly, RAM install (as an aside while having the system broken apart), all thermally protected components cleaned with arctic silver thermal compound applied before having heatsinks reinstalled, installation of SSD and attempt at cloning of the HDD to the SSD we bought for it*, and cloning of the kid's 160GB HDD to a 240GB SSD we picked up used for $60.
* Due to UEFI, it wouldn't cooperate with cloning off system, it took me about 30 minutes at home to do. They do it off system as a normal thing, where I'm more used to installing the drive and just booting my own environment to clone it on the hardware the customer provides. Doing it off-system, if it had worked, would have been a time saving measure as you could have system B doing the cloning while you're breaking down system A, but his equipment wouldn't even recognize the partitions on the stock HDD off this laptop.
All said and done, that $580 resulted in a 900GB Crucial SSD and 32GB of ram with a totally cleaned out and better performing thermal control system on the Asus, and the kid's Dell now boots in like 10 seconds even with the piddly Atom processor, and she's got almost an extra 100gb of space to boot. Plus it's lighter. Not a bad deal, given I don't like working on laptops as a general rule.
Here's the SSD's performance on the Asus laptop vs my PCIE M.2 SSD on the desktop, Dragon is the laptop and it's the lighter window result:
Looks like they intend to kept the cheesey story lines intact forever........ Seriously, how hard would it be to model the game around a conflict on the Korean Peninsula? Perhaps that's too close to home.
Wouldn't be an Ace Combat game without the cheesy storyLooks like they intend to kept the cheesey story lines intact forever........ Seriously, how hard would it be to model the game around a conflict on the Korean Peninsula? Perhaps that's too close to home.
(I wonder if maybe if maybe their definition of cheese just greatly differs from ours or something). Its nice to be back in Strangereal and it can't be worse than the Assault Horizon story, though. The gameplay looks like a return to form, since I didn't see any signs of Dogfight Mode, the graphics looks stunning and there's no "Go Dance with the Angels" in the trailer, so this is going to be a must-have for me.
