what to actually play

[Gurgumul]

For anyone thinking about getting PUBG:

Is it like DayZ or Tarkov, but without the survival/scavenging bullshit, only pure action? One thing I hate about games like DayZ is that it takes hours of walking simulator to get decent gear, then you die and lose everything. Tarkov is a bit better in that sense, but only has predefined loot spawns, so everyone goes to and camps at the same spots. Also you need friends to achieve anything in Tarkov, alone you'll just get shot while looting.

[Jona]

Is it like DayZ or Tarkov, but without the survival/scavenging bullshit, only pure action? One thing I hate about games like DayZ is that it takes hours of walking simulator to get decent gear, then you die and lose everything. Tarkov is a bit better in that sense, but only has predefined loot spawns, so everyone goes to and camps at the same spots. Also you need friends to achieve anything in Tarkov, alone you'll just get shot while looting.

There are no survival aspects, but there is scavenging. However it is very streamlined to the point where everyone spawns with no items and within the first 30 seconds basically everyone has at least something. There are weapons just laying around everywhere, with enough to go around that should you be near others you should be able to find something for yourself to use unless you're insanely unlucky. The way spawning works is everyone parachutes onto the map and every building starts with its door closed. So if you want to enter a house to loot some stuff but see the door open, you know someone beat you to it and you better look elsewhere.

Tl;dr: Tt's 99% action, 1% scavenging. Of course you may start off with a weaker weapon, in which case you can continue to scavenge throughout the whole game (and you probably should anyways, for ammo/med kits, etc.) until you're satisfied with what you have. It just isn't required as much as those other games since getting started takes no time. Also you can of course just loot dead bodies for easy gains.

[Vibe]

Is it like DayZ or Tarkov, but without the survival/scavenging bullshit, only pure action? One thing I hate about games like DayZ is that it takes hours of walking simulator to get decent gear, then you die and lose everything. Tarkov is a bit better in that sense, but only has predefined loot spawns, so everyone goes to and camps at the same spots. Also you need friends to achieve anything in Tarkov, alone you'll just get shot while looting.

It's a battle royale game, ~30 minute matches, everyone drops naked on an island, loots gear and weapons and then shoots eachother as the zone gets smaller and smaller. It's basically almost pure action.

[Teeth]

I am currently playing Paladins, which is a F2P hero-based shooter very much "inspired" by Overwatch. Granted, if I had bought Overwatch after the open beta I probably would not be playing this at the moment. However, I have some sudden free time and I felt like playing a shooter, and I have been very pleasantly surprised. I expected a poor man's Overwatch, but the gameplay is very smooth and responsive, and some of the differences from Overwatch actually make it a much more enjoyable experience to me. There is no pay to win, only pay to unlock the heroes faster and pay for cosmetic stuff, but so far the in-game currency accrues faster than I can learn new heroes.

Every player spawns with a mount for transportation, so there is less walking time. Killing also takes a bit longer than in Overwatch, so overall there is a lot of combat time. There are roles like tank and support, but they are less specialized so there are no classes that do junk-tier damage. In Overwatch the support classes largely felt like a chore to me, but in Paladins I find all roles very interesting. Also, boring Mercy full team revives. There is no mid-game hero switching, instead there are card load-outs for each champion and within a game there are buyable items. With these you can adjust your playstyle or build reasonably well to account for the composition of the enemy team. These offer quite a lot of depth.

Now I haven't played enough or even with a full stack on voice chat to decisively judge the balance or the game design, but the game seems reasonably competitive, and I am having fun. It's worth a shot if you are too cheap for Overwatch, or are frustrated by it.

[Gravoth_iii]

Get tekken 7 because team based games are for losers with skinny weiners. Also because its amazing if you like getting invested into something.

[Xant]

nah, I don´t fiddle around with overclocking, I´d probably break something with that

You're seriously screwing yourself over. It OCs to 4.4ghz easily and most mobos come with ready-made settings that you just have to press an arrow key and hit enter once to enable. Refusing to OC 3770K is like getting 200 dollar value out of your CPU when it could be 500 dollar value. It's a massive performance increase for practically no effort.

shouldn´t be that much of a prob if I mix up 2x ddr3 and 2x ddr4, nah?

That might not work, mixing RAM is never recommended, even if it's the same type and from the same manufacturer, always a dice roll whether it works or not. Even if it does work, RAM always works at the rate of the slowest stick you have, so your DDR4 would be DDR3.

[Ikarus]

mixing RAM is never recommended

hm I kinda expected that

It's a massive performance increase for practically no effort.

I´m not an expert in OC but I´ve been avoiding it since a) it needs additional cooling and I don´t know if my current cooling system could handle it b) it heavily reduces the life expectancy of the  3770K (and if you overclock one part, doesn´t it have side effects on other parts of the system too?) c) the whole system might loose stability and that´s exactly what I don´t need when I´m working on my pc. After all,  the machine isn´t only for gaming, but also for working.

I´d have to read into the topic to make proper adjustments, but I currently don´t want to invest time into it. There´s a lot of other, more important stuff atm to be taken care of #baaa~

but I´ll keep it in mind, thank you

[njames89]

Will be good when there is a steam sale. Definitely gonna grab a bunch of warband to give away!

[Algarn]

Summer sales may be coming in a week, the dates leaked a while back.

[Asheram]

idk how's the PvP in FFXIV? I did sink about 200 hours into it when it was first released but only ever did PvE. Wouldn't mind wasting some time on an MMO actually, preferably something with fun PvP.

Finished Prey recently, wasn't too bad
GV needs that big update before I could look at it again
Lost interest in the Witcher 3.... don't bash me dudes
I'm not that keen on FPS games although I did enjoy Planetside 2 for a while, maybe just for the grind   

GV update is on, I posted link in GV thread.

[Asheram]

So Steam summer sale starts today and unfortunately no PUBG sale  probably because its still EA title? But GMG sent a 27% off voucher for PUBG to my GMG account puttint at $22. Sad though if I get it from GMG and dont like it I am stuck with it.

[Kadeth]

GV update is on, I posted link in GV thread.

And it still has all the same de-sync problems, one of the laggiest games I've ever played (and it has an Australian server so it's not just me  )

[SixThumbs]

I've won a PuB game three times now out of a dozen or so mostly by map movement. The game is fun with friends but the movement and shooting feel awful.

[Xant]

Movement and shooting in PUBG are great. Smooth and just the right speed, no clunkiness like in ArmA/DayZ but not arcade either.

[Umbra]

Path of Exile: Fall of Oriath is coming out soon. They are adding 6 new acts for a total of 10.

Difficulties will be removed for a single 10 act play-trough and then the endgame maps. So you wont have to slog trough same content 3 times.

Keep an eye out for the release, should be good