Topic: PC Gaming

Not specifically PC, but it is where I play this game so figured this as good a place to share this as anywhere. Outriders is pretty much completely overhauling itself based on community feedback - and it isn’t charging you to do it. There are at least a couple of digs at the Destiny business model thrown in here. In addition, there is also a tease for some paid DLC coming at some point next year, as well, but the big overhaul patch (I think they said about 16 gig?) dropping today is free. If you check out their Reddit page, they have extensive patch notes for those interested.

Sadly, I am away, so I can’t play around with this but I’m definitely looking to giving this a try in the new year.

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I’m waiting on Halo’s campaign. Not really interested in the multiplayer, or any other online only multiplayer based games.

Only exception I make for that is Monster Hunter for co-op, and Splatoon for competitive. Aside from that, basically single player only.

Ugh. It’s gonna be another year before my Deck arrives. I wanna play some Steam games but just don’t have it in me to commit to TV only right now. I need my hybrid freedom. By the time I actually get my Deck, they’ll be announcing a revision model with slimmer bezels, slightly smaller form and weight with OLED screen (Deck currently has bezels larger than the v1 Switch). But, if so, then so be it. I’ll buy another one. They know my kryptonite.

@JaxonH not interested in Halo for the multiplayer...? That seems kind of like saying I'm only interested in Pop-Tarts to see what the outside crust tastes like.

@OptometristLime
If I hate what the inside tastes like and love what the outside tastes like, then what's the problem

@OptometristLime Throwing my hat in the ring for the Halo PVP vs campaign debate, I'm generally not into the PVP aspect of shooters outside of a few exceptions (Splatoon, TF2), but I enjoy playing through the campaigns. I'm just not into the competitive side of things in any genre really, and going off of my few experiences with Halo's PVP when the MCC dropped on Steam, it's pretty inaccessible to newcomers given the amount of veterans dominating the scoreboards. I'd be lucky to even land a hit before getting killed in the matches I played. I'll try Infinite's PVP and see if it's easier to get into now, but when it comes to Halo, I've had much more fun just playing the first two campaigns in co-op with a friend. They're decently meaty campaigns and the mechanics are solid, I don't see the problem with focusing more on that aspect of the series.

Man, the previews for the Halo Infinite campaign are making me interested in Halo Infinite really for the first time. Despite being more a Xbox guy/PC guy for most of my gaming life, Halo is one franchise I just never really got into over the years somehow. I don’t really know how it passed me by in the way it did, but nonetheless it did. I have made attempts to go back and play the games now I’m older but to me they just feel so dated and not very fun to me. However, Infinite seems to be brining Halo into modern times, in the right way and I am liking what I’m hearing. I mean crazy FPS action + grappling hook + open world sandbox? That is pretty much my holy trinity.

@Pizzamorg get the master chief collection and play the previous games. they are still great.

The one thing that I'd advice straight away is to not purchase a laptop for your gaming needs. The major downside to getting laptop for such heavylifting tasks is that it'll get hot quickly. Which in turn leads to a quicker hardware deteriation and the need to change thermal paste pretty much every year.
Just get the regular tower PC with replacable components and discrete videocard and you're good to go. And it will cost you less than laptop with similar specs.

I went through 2 gaming laptops and they both quickly gained heat up to some crazy degrees. Fan cooler on one of those laptops (it was an MS gaming laptop as I recall) produced noticeable levels of noise while trying to snuff all that heat out. Both laptops were from 2017-2020 era so they were not ancient or something like that.

I have tried I think, 1, 2 and is it OST? All had the same dated, floaty, shooting mechanics and basic engagements. Just didn’t vibe with it. I think you had to be there.

@Pizzamorg ODST is the only "bad" halo game i have played. it has its moments, but it feels way different and not that halo-like

if you didn't like halo 1 and 2, then you won't like infinite either. it is still the basic formular. you can try the free multiplayer, but i dislike that. don't know why but i got smashed in infinite even though i rocked at halo LAN-parties back in the days...

@anynamereally I'm sorry to hear that, but a regular PC isn't really an option for me as I'm often away from home. I'm just curious how many hours a day did you play and did you max out the graphics settings? I don't play that often and I'm fine with moderate to lowish settings.

To be blunt, this is BS. A PC is a PC is a PC. Of course if you want to push the limits of gaming a desktop is a far better value. And yes you do get more thermal/power headroom with a desktop especially if there is a reasonable amount of airflow. But, laptops aren't useless.

@chipia my suggestion would be to get whatever fits with how you want to use it. If you're fine with lower settings or slightly less modern games? A laptop should be fine. If gaming is your goal I'd go with Nvidia + Ryzen at this point in time. Don't go bellow Ryzen 4000 series for the CPU and if your budget allows aim for GTX 3000 series for the GPU. Do look at reviews though because the same components can perform dramatically differently in different laptops depending on power/thermals.

If you're fine with 1080p, and you probably will be on a sub 17" display, you don't really need much horsepower. You should be able to get decent framerates on just about anything with a reasonable dedicated GPU if 1080p is your goal. If you intend to plug it into your TV but I'd be going for a desktop. With that said, depends on how far back you go. If you're intending to run 360 era games? You should be able to get to 4K with a mobile 1650Ti. If you're planning on playing Gamecube era games you can probably do 4K on a toaster

Oh, and try and get a laptop that has HDMI 2.1

Lol, Steam having it's Autumn sale & I'm basically scrolling through my library most of the time .... Still managed to find some games, of course, that had either not been in sales before or something

Yeah, there are precisely three items on my wishlist that aren't on sale. Decisions, decisions.

Everything on my Steam wishlist is still full price or close to.

I got Deathloop for $30. But Guardians of the Galaxy is a “wait for $20” game. And, there’s not much else I don’t already own and have interest in.

I do have the Halo campaign preloaded though.

@skywake Thanks for the answer. Yeah I'm fine with a 14-16'' display. I would like to play current or soon to be released games like Elden Ring.

But the major thing I'm still worried about is the durability of the laptop. What parameter do I pay attention to, to estimate the lifespan? I mean, anynamereally went through 2 Microsoft Laptops in 3 years? That's a situation I'm afraid of and want to avoid.

Are MSI laptops good in that regard? This one has nice specs (for 950€) but I'm worried about the durability: MSI GF65 Thin 10UE-273: 15,6" FHD, Core i5-10500H 6 x 2,5 Ghz, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 3060 GB

@JaxonH Not a fan of how windows 10 forces install locations but my surface pro can run the AoE games and that’s good enough for me.

So Skill Up dropped his Deathloop review, probably one of the only recognisable video game voices that didn’t give this a glowing review. For me, however, while I agree with his overall sentiment here, I actually disagree with many of his finer points. The big reason I don’t like rogue games is because of how brutally punishing they can be and for all the many things I felt Deathloop got wrong, the one thing I really appreciated about Deathloop was how it protected progress. You could argue that kinda goes against the whole rogue thing, but to me, just playing the same thing over and over and over again to make tiny dribbles of progress in between long stretches of frustration is not the sign of a good time. Deathloop’s real stroke of genius for me is it was a time loop game, where you only ever had to do an objective once, no matter how many loops you went on.