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 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I decided to take a break from continually dying in PS2, and tried out warframe. Quite fun.

PC, PS4, or Xbone?

PC .

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I decided to take a break from continually dying in PS2, and tried out warframe. Quite fun.

PC, PS4, or Xbone?

PC .

I mostly play on the PS4, but I dabble in the PC version.

May the Fourth Be With You.

I'm slightly annoyed that Steam gets the X-Wing series a week after I buy X-Wing Alliance from GOG.com...

But, I did eventually give in and buy the classic Star Wars bundle.

I'm amazed that after 17 years, since I first played Jedi Knight, I still remember where many of the secret areas are on the first level.

I had a play at Jedi Outcast as well. - More games need to have OTT enemy deaths like that. Kill a stormtrooper by hitting them in the arm and they do a triple spin before landing on the ground.


I do really need to think about buying a new computer though, especially now the Dragon Age 3 DLC is out and the imminent arrival of Arkham Knight.

I'm looking at the Infernodon 4790K from http://www.dinopc.com

I know people suggest building your own, pretty much ALL the time. But I tried that once and ended up with wire and cable chaos, so never again.

Anyone got any good recommendations for other UK suppliers though?

BTW, have you guys seen the stuff for just cause 3? It looks like it's going to be good.

My BF bullied me into picking up Warframe.

I like it so far. It is much better than I expected. For some unknowable reason I had gotten the idea that it was a co-op 2D platform game. I am most pleasantly surprised.

 Compel wrote:
I'm looking at the Infernodon 4790K from http://www.dinopc.com

I know people suggest building your own, pretty much ALL the time. But I tried that once and ended up with wire and cable chaos, so never again.

Anyone got any good recommendations for other UK suppliers though?

I got my last one through Chillblast, although that was around 2 years ago. The warranty ran out recently, but no problems yet. Was able to specify the system I wanted, and although I specified a pretty pricy one, it's still running everything at max graphics today without complaint.

Not sure what they called it, but I got a single powerful graphics card with the ability to link it with another if I feel the graphics are starting to slow, water cooled CPU, and all in a white Corsair Vengeance C70 case. Looks great and is quiet.

Take a look at http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast-Fusion-Piledriver.html for an idea.

Been playing some more Battlefield 4, while also trying out that Twitch thingy.

 Ashiraya wrote:
My BF bullied me into picking up Warframe.

I like it so far. It is much better than I expected. For some unknowable reason I had gotten the idea that it was a co-op 2D platform game. I am most pleasantly surprised.

Platform? Looking for new folks to play with.

PC.

 Compel wrote:
May the Fourth Be With You.

I'm slightly annoyed that Steam gets the X-Wing series a week after I buy X-Wing Alliance from GOG.com...

But, I did eventually give in and buy the classic Star Wars bundle.

I'm amazed that after 17 years, since I first played Jedi Knight, I still remember where many of the secret areas are on the first level.

I had a play at Jedi Outcast as well. - More games need to have OTT enemy deaths like that. Kill a stormtrooper by hitting them in the arm and they do a triple spin before landing on the ground.


I do really need to think about buying a new computer though, especially now the Dragon Age 3 DLC is out and the imminent arrival of Arkham Knight.

I'm looking at the Infernodon 4790K from http://www.dinopc.com

I know people suggest building your own, pretty much ALL the time. But I tried that once and ended up with wire and cable chaos, so never again.

Anyone got any good recommendations for other UK suppliers though?

Just for playing jedi outcast you have entered into my list of awesome people though other things have put you there.

 Ashiraya wrote:
PC.

*flips table*

Heh.


You might be able to use the PS4 login on PC. It shouldnt be too hard to run on PC, considering I can run it on my laptop.

Pillars of Eternity.....brings back some good ole memories... : )

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
PC.

*flips table*

My gaming fix is STILL World of Warships... loving it more and more, I can't wait for the next big patch. I want my American Battleships!

I am playing the latest dragonage and I think someone may have complained that dragonage 2 was too short because there are way too many quest. It's too much busy work and the game even makes you do it. They require you to do so many of the meaningless stuff before they will let you take on the next story quest. Bla to that. I am not really plaything this game to hunt for ore deposits.

It's one of Dragon Age 3's fundamental problems - it has too much shallow content that was merely added to increase playtime and not add anything meaningful. Bioware added the exploration stuff in order to cater to the Skyrim crowd, but stuffing the world with meaningless content isn't good game design. Good game design is useful game design. Everything in the game should feel like it's there because there's a reason for it...an in-game reason. Not "We can easily add 20 hours on the total playtime!".

Still playing HotS. Abathur is So. Much. Fun. He's completely different from any other MOBA hero and he's awesome. You really feel like your team's general, constantly supporting them, informing them of dangers, motivating them, stopping them from tearing themselves apart etc. A truly unique experience.

...and on top of being a very good combo with Illidan, you know you're having fun when your wife ults and screams: "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!" at 2:00 am. Good thing we don't have neighbors

Right now, well before and after class.... Tropico 5 and ME3 depending on how many friends are available to play. I need to finish alien isolation though, and I have shadow of mordor waiting for summer in two weeks...

I'm about to press the button on buying my new pc...

I'm looking at going for The Infernodon 4790k:

4.5Ghz - Extreme Overclock
Intel Core i7 4790K
Corsair H100i Extreme Water Cooler
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3
16GB Corsair 2400mhz Vengeance Pro (2x8GB)
Crucial 512GB MX100 SSD
10x Blu-Ray RW S-ATAOnboard 7.1 Audio
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB
Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO PCI-E card
Corsair Graphite 730T Case
750W Corsair CS Modular

With this as a case:
http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/ShowInfo.asp?SIArray=2084,&cd=Case


Except, none of my hardware-ey knowledgeable mates are around to tell me I've missed something vitally important...

 Compel wrote:
I'm about to press the button on buying my new pc...

I'm looking at going for The Infernodon 4790k:

Intel Core i7 4790K
4.5Ghz - Extreme Overclock
Corsair H100i Extreme Water Cooler
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3
16GB Corsair 2400mhz Vengeance Pro (2x8GB)
Plextor 128GB M6e M.2
Seagate 2TB (Hybrid 8GB SSD)
10x Blu-Ray RW S-ATA
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB
Onboard 7.1 Audio
Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO PCI-E card
750W Corsair CS Modular

With this as a case:
http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/ShowInfo.asp?SIArray=2084,&cd=Case


Except, none of my hardware-ey knowledgeable mates are around to tell me I've missed something vitally important...

Maybe a couple extra case fans? Sometimes I add a couple to whatever build I'm doing. Great pick on the case btw! I used to have a similar one. My current build is an itx type and I'm regretting going to that just for the sake of space. The graphite case wasn't even taking that much space anyway. But c'est la vie.

EDIT:

About to put some time in on some Blizzard games while I wait for ma and pa to give me a ring as to when to pick them up. Rotation goes: Hearthstone, D3, WoW (I'm scared to go back to Starcraft 2 in fear that I'll be sucked into it like last time and forget to look at my phone )

Heh. Got back into playing Diablo II. I'm so happy I don't have to re-buy it (again). I've already bought it and the Expansion twice, once on their own, then again with the battlechest when the originals got thrown out by accident.

I'm getting back into it with a Melee Necromancer (focus on Bone armours, Poison dagger, and curses for flavour). I'm thinking about doing a Let's Play or two with similarly rare builds- maybe a throwing-spear specialized Amazon, a Throwing-mastery Barbarian, a Feral druid (all Werewolf, all the time!), that sort of thing.

Throwing barb... so fun. Bit of frenzy or whatever to get the haste going and then just machine gun things down. And of course he was named Cap'n Ahab (harpoons)

Ahaha! I'm thinking axes, maybe. I wonder if Axe Mastery would stack with the Throwing Mastery? Since most throwing weapons (not the po...ti...ons... Hrm....) also have a standard weapon type... Like, throwing daggers count as daggers for the Poison Dagger skill.

Yeah, I used a lot of axes too, I think they tended to be superior usually (and there may have been some really good unique variants?) but harpoons were for the style points!

Poisonmancer. You'll never look back.

Also, WW barbarian before the huge nerf. Spin to win.

Lightning fist paladin. Ride the lightning.

 djphranq wrote:

 Compel wrote:
I'm about to press the button on buying my new pc...

I'm looking at going for The Infernodon 4790k:

Intel Core i7 4790K
4.5Ghz - Extreme Overclock
Corsair H100i Extreme Water Cooler
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3
16GB Corsair 2400mhz Vengeance Pro (2x8GB)
Plextor 128GB M6e M.2
Seagate 2TB (Hybrid 8GB SSD)
10x Blu-Ray RW S-ATA
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB
Onboard 7.1 Audio
Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO PCI-E card
750W Corsair CS Modular

With this as a case:
http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/ShowInfo.asp?SIArray=2084,&cd=Case


Except, none of my hardware-ey knowledgeable mates are around to tell me I've missed something vitally important...

Maybe a couple extra case fans? Sometimes I add a couple to whatever build I'm doing. Great pick on the case btw! I used to have a similar one. My current build is an itx type and I'm regretting going to that just for the sake of space. The graphite case wasn't even taking that much space anyway. But c'est la vie.

No, the H100i is a double fan radiator. A factory sealed, self-contained water cooling unit with two fans pushing air through the radiator. It should keep his CPU frosty. Can't see anything missing, CPU, M/B, memory, cooling, Graphics card, seems like a solid build. I might be tempted to increase the OS drive to a 256GB as there seem to be a fair amount of programs that don't give you the option, but the 2TB SSD will see you through most things. Only other thing I'd change is the case, and that is a purely personal choice. I love my Vengeance. If I have to take it anywhere, the top handles are a godsend - and who desn't like a protected reset button?

http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/ShowInfo.asp?SIArray=1731,&cd=Case

But both cases allow the option of adding another radiator at a later date dedicated to the GPU, so I can't see any real problems with those choices, and nothing is jumping out at me as having been forgotten.

Currently trying to play the following:

Batman Arkham Origins
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dragonball Xenoverse
Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends
Skyrim

However I can't seem to play any of them as I've went back to Runescape on the 2007 servers and it has sucked me right back in. Playing Runescape again is actually allowing me to get some painting done which is good.

I'm now onto having a play at Empire At War.

God damn... This game really genuinely is as badly balanced as 40k.

 Compel wrote:
I'm now onto having a play at Empire At War.

God damn... This game really genuinely is as badly balanced as 40k.

I always thought it was the zann consortium that ruined the balance. If i remember the base version was pretty well balanced for ground battles with rebels and empire.

It's kind of a recurring theme with westwood and petroglyph though. They never know how to balance a third faction. Usually they make one faction really interesting and unique in comparison to the other factions and then they make that faction OP. Either that or they just give one faction some uber vehicle that can counter anything and when spammed is hard to stop.

OK, so it's Star Wars day, right (May the forth be with you!), and last night I was exploring in "Elite: Dangerous" and came across the Death Star.

No I'm not kidding.

Ok, it may have not been the actual Death Star, but as soon as I had done a detailed surface scan, I got out of there before it had a chance to fire at me so I'm not 100% certain.

It shows up as a small planet, 428kM in raduis with a composition of 100% METAL!

So I'm hightailing it back to Empire space to sell them the blueprints!