Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
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Got access to the early launch of the Rainbow 6 Siege Technical Test Server which opens tonight, so gonna check out some of the new features on there, but other than that I've not done any gaming since last week!! Been feeling rotten with illness, but getting better now!!
Also: Wildlands is amazing so far...
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I have been sucked into the 7 Days to Die (think Zombie Apocalypse meets adultish version of MineCraft) world, as well as been sucked back into Warcraft (wife started playing, lol).
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@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I have been sucked into the 7 Days to Die (think Zombie Apocalypse meets adultish version of MineCraft) world, as well as been sucked back into Warcraft (wife started playing, lol).
I've heard that that is good.
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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I have been sucked into the 7 Days to Die (think Zombie Apocalypse meets adultish version of MineCraft) world, as well as been sucked back into Warcraft (wife started playing, lol).
I've heard that that is good.
Assuming you mean 7 Days... yeah, it's addicting. A friend got it for me. It've already sunk 40 hours into it over the last couple of weeks, ha ha.
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Got Spore today.
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Played a bit of Star Citizen last night. Finally have a PC that can play it at a reasonable FPS.
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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Got Spore today.
Is it still horribly DRM encumbered?
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The original Spore was actually really good if you ignored the hype that surrounded it.
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@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
The original Spore was actually really good if you ignored the hype that surrounded it.
Not sure that I ever heard of it
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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
The original Spore was actually really good if you ignored the hype that surrounded it.
Not sure that I ever heard of it
It was one of the first games with SecureROM DRM. Which was a disaster... it was super easy to circumvent but punished people who legitimately purchased the game.
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Literally playing all 162 games batter by batter in OOTP 2017 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. In June I was 8 1/2 games out of first. Made a couple of deals (Martin Prado and Sonny Gray for prospects) and now I am within 1 1/2 by the All Star break.
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Current lineup:
LF Starlin Marte
3B Martin Prado
CF Andre McCutchen
1B John Jaso
2B Josh Harrison
SS Jordy Mercer
RF Gregory Polanco
C Francisco CervelliNot exactly murderer's row.
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The kids are playing Twin Saga.
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What do you guys think of this Gaming PC build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/wirestyle22/saved/BbmK8d
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@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
What do you guys think of this Gaming PC build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/wirestyle22/saved/BbmK8d
Do you have another HDD? 120 GB will vanish in about 4-5 games. I would upgrade that above most anything else.
Do you need an optical drive? If yes, will you need the versatility of a Blu-Ray writer?
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@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
What do you guys think of this Gaming PC build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/wirestyle22/saved/BbmK8d
Do you have another HDD? 120 GB will vanish in about 4-5 games. I would upgrade that above most anything else.
Do you need an optical drive? If yes, will you need the versatility of a Blu-Ray writer?
I have a 120 GB SSD currently, seems to work for me (could just use the old one and new one). Don't need a blu-ray player. One thing I don't have listed is a 4k monitor. Any advice on that?
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@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
What do you guys think of this Gaming PC build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/wirestyle22/saved/BbmK8d
Do you have another HDD? 120 GB will vanish in about 4-5 games. I would upgrade that above most anything else.
Do you need an optical drive? If yes, will you need the versatility of a Blu-Ray writer?
I have a 120 GB SSD currently, seems to work for me (could just use the old one and new one). Don't need a blu-ray player. One thing I don't have listed is a 4k monitor. Any advice on that?
It really depends on budget and how much you care about fidelity and refresh rates. I haven't bought a monitor for gaming in at least a decade, but I get these for work: https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-24-236-399.
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@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
What do you guys think of this Gaming PC build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/wirestyle22/saved/BbmK8d
Do you have another HDD? 120 GB will vanish in about 4-5 games. I would upgrade that above most anything else.
Do you need an optical drive? If yes, will you need the versatility of a Blu-Ray writer?
I have a 120 GB SSD currently, seems to work for me (could just use the old one and new one). Don't need a blu-ray player. One thing I don't have listed is a 4k monitor. Any advice on that?
It really depends on budget and how much you care about fidelity and refresh rates. I haven't bought a monitor for gaming in at least a decade, but I get these for work: https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-24-236-399.
That actually looks like a really good price for a 1ms monitor. Great find. Thanks!
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Anyone have good video graphics benchmarks? Price vs. perfomance the Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 seems to come out ahead
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@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Anyone have good video graphics benchmarks? Price vs. perfomance the Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 seems to come out ahead
Tom's Hardware keeps up handy lists for this sort of thing. From that it looks like an R9 Fury X is your best price/performance leader while a GTX 1080 or GTX 1080 Ti are the highest performing at something close to a reasonable price for gaming.
Personally, I've got a R9 290 that is only adequate for most 2k (2560x1440) gaming. If you want to play at 4k and any sort of eye candy at all, stick to the cards in the top two rows in that chart.
I like my HP ENVY 32". It's big enough to fill my peripheral vision while at normal distances from a desk. Providing enough resolution without the pointless 4k that I'd have to be like 6" from the screen to see a difference is why I grabbed it, I think two years ago now.
