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I think I may have a copy. I'll have to rummage a bit. I'll keep you posted.
 
Just picked up PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, played 3 games, died 3 times, but somehow managed to kill 2. It is actually a good time, not what I expected. A little frustrating, but a good game. I can't wait to see what they do with it over time.
 
AWP said:
Just picked up PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, played 3 games, died 3 times, but somehow managed to kill 2. It is actually a good time, not what I expected. A little frustrating, but a good game. I can't wait to see what they do with it over time.
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It is a hard game to play solo. The game is best played with a team of friends. Squad play can get really fun and competitive. Solo play usually turns into a camp and 3rd person peek fest. First person view is the great equalizer.
 
ke4gde said:
It is a hard game to play solo. The game is best played with a team of friends. Squad play can get really fun and competitive. Solo play usually turns into a camp and 3rd person peek fest. First person view is the great equalizer.
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I'm on vacation in Sep. Maybe we can link up for a bit and play. Being over here puts me on Asian servers, but I'll try some US and see if my Net makes it playable.
 
Purchased Homefront: Revolution.....it's currently on sale for about 17 bucks (PS4), but it's also for sale on steam too.

Haven't played it yet, but wanted to give a heads up...think the sale ends on 8/25.
 
AWP said:
I'm on vacation in Sep. Maybe we can link up for a bit and play. Being over here puts me on Asian servers, but I'll try some US and see if my Net makes it playable.
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When it comes to connecting to the US servers from Asia(Korea), I've had better luck using a VPN to one of the west coast stateside locations. For whatever reason the traffic without it ends up with a ton of packet loss. In games with stateside friends playing on Asia, they haven't had any issues. YMMV.
 
AWP said:
(loads PUBG)
(jumps)
(clears house)
"Oooh! A Vector with a red dot? I'm in business!"
(heads down stairs)
(headshot)
(quits to lobby)
"Fuck this, I'm going to play Hearts of Iron."
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Last night I loaded into 4 singles FPP where I died as soon as I landed. One was even by getting hit in the head with a frying pan. I rage quite soon after that and went to bed. The game can be fun, but is highly rage inducing.

Protip: don't forget to switch to auto lol
 
ke4gde said:
Last night I loaded into 4 singles FPP where I died as soon as I landed. One was even by getting hit in the head with a frying pan. I rage quite soon after that and went to bed. The game can be fun, but is highly rage inducing.

Protip: don't forget to switch to auto lol
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I think duo or squads makes the game wildly less rage prone. The mistakes that cost people a win when two or three others are watching, like missing a window with a molly and setting yourself on fire, can be hysterical. All alone, that would be rough.
 
Isiah6:8 said:
I think duo or squads makes the game wildly less rage prone. The mistakes that cost people a win when two or three others are watching, like missing a window with a molly and setting yourself on fire, can be hysterical. All alone, that would be rough.
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One of my duo matches w/ @ke4gde went like this:

k: We're going to the shooting range.
me: Two guys just landed.
k: We're on the other side.
Me: Cool.
k: Here's a shot gun.
(5 sec. later: gunfire)
k: Contact west.
(I watch a body drop then more gunfire)
(I move to loot the dead bad guy)
(I don't math so good)
(The lone survivor drops us within 5 seconds of each other)

Time elapsed from landing to death: less than 30 seconds.
 
AWP said:
One of my duo matches w/ @ke4gde went like this:

k: We're going to the shooting range.
me: Two guys just landed.
k: We're on the other side.
Me: Cool.
k: Here's a shot gun.
(5 sec. later: gunfire)
k: Contact west.
(I watch a body drop then more gunfire)
(I move to loot the dead bad guy)
(I don't math so good)
(The lone survivor drops us within 5 seconds of each other)

Time elapsed from landing to death: less than 30 seconds.
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Those first 30 seconds of awkward 1st person gun fights are usually the best. At best you get a shotgun and go ham, at worst there is a horribly pathetic death full of whiffs and spastic m1 mashing.

Hot point lz's (range/any containers/school/military/apts/prison) are almost always 50/50 on if you are going to get kitted out or are spectating in 30 seconds. The houses (3 in a triangle 1-200M apart) just SE of shooting range kits out a 2 or 3 stack and nobody drops there ever. I will shoot you guys a PM w/ my steam id if you ever want to stack. I queue w/ @Ves when our time zones align, would be fun to get an SS squad game.
 
Been playing with my Oculus Rift a bit more again. Figured I'd write up a quick review for you guys.

Since buying the Touch controllers, I'd have to say I'm pretty impressed with the intuitive nature of them. Having played a bit with the HTC Vive, there is no comparison in controller feel. Granted I've heard HTC is coming out with something called knuckles, but haven't looked into it.

Problem is lack of solid AAA game content and overly simplified content playing with what the devices are capable of. I hope that the price point keeps getting lower so that more people get an opportunity to play with it because it does demo well. I usually bring people through Oculus Dream Deck, First Contact, and then maybe Google Earth. If they do well with that, I take them to Robo Recall. Which might be too fast paced for some. I wish I was into driving games or flight sims, because most of the hardcore gamers I've seen online that have all the specialty controllers and immersion experience are moving towards VR.

One scene in the Oculus Dream Deck has a reduced polygon camp scene (below) that looks incredibly fake, but when you add the immersion of VR, it suddenly becomes more real than you think.

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Another scene had my buddy get a bit of vertigo while looking down from a building.

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Robo Recall below.

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Bottom line, I don't think I would have ever gotten this on my own if it hadn't been given to me for free after kickstarting the dev kit. This thing is amazing compared to the dev kit experience and I can't wait to see what the big and indie developers out there come out with in the future.
 
Been playing the COD WWII beta....only two maps right now....really pretty fun, like the backgrounds. Can't wait for the full release, I am expecting a pretty enjoyable campaign.
 
Florida173 said:
Problem is lack of solid AAA game content and overly simplified content playing with what the devices are capable of. I hope that the price point keeps getting lower so that more people get an opportunity to play with it because it does demo well.
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Hard agree. This is the reason why I ended up selling mine - there really weren't any games that I would want to play for more than 2 or 3 hours total. EVE Valkyrie held my attention for a little bit, but the high price point and niche factor of the Oculus ensured that it didn't have a big enough multiplayer community.
 

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