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Red Dead Redemption 2: coming to PC november 5th

Evilmatt on Wed, 2019-10-30 20:16

Rockstars cowboy epic with new pc enhanced graphics out early next month

It'll include their online mode Red Dead Online

Doesn't look like it will be coming to steam at this point instead epic or Rockstar store

It looks like if you go with the rockstar store you get a free upgrade to either the special edition or the ultimate (not sure why you wouldn't just pick ultimate as that should include all the stuff in special edition)
[edit] I looked at it and it works such that if you buy standard you get special or you buy special you get ultimate [/edit]

The Outer Worlds: More or less Fallout New Vegas In Space

Evilmatt on Wed, 2019-10-30 20:09

I've been looking forward to Obsidians new game for a while one of the splinter factions that spun out of the death of Black Isle who made some classic RPG's (Baldurs gate, Fallout) Obsidian have been making interesting if sometimes flawed games for a while with the great but unfinished KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2 which had alot of promise but was hamstrung by the engine. Things like Alpha protocol the slightly shonky Spy RPG game the third dungeon seige game and then the excellent but buggy Fallout New Vegas.

Pulsar - Lost Colony, co-op space-em-up possible SNG?

brainwipe on Sat, 2019-10-26 07:10

It's a bit like Artemis but with walking around the spacecraft. Co-op online and looks like a laugh.

£20 at the moment but I think we'll get our fun out of it.

Borderlands 3: More of the Same

Evilmatt on Fri, 2019-09-20 20:20

So borderlands 3 came out a short while back. Annoyingly epic exclusive although I managed to pick it up in the badly managed epic mega sale for a nice discount before they realised their mistake and pulled it.

Rockstar Force Use of new Rockstar Launcher

Evilmatt on Wed, 2019-09-18 02:01

So another bloody launcher just popped up presumably as an advance move to get RDR2 sales and microtransactions in house for more cash when the game comes to PC at some point in the future

However they've also retrofitted it into the Steam versions of things like GTAV such that it won't launch without it breaking things like Offline mode

I'm also seeing some reports that it has extra drm or just shitty networking stuff which causes the game to load even slower than it already does.

Astartes 40K fan film

Evilmatt on Tue, 2019-09-03 05:58

Some really amazing work here which is supposedly by just one guy

Minecraft Win 10 using nVidia RTX raytracing tech

brainwipe on Mon, 2019-08-19 11:13

A little bit of wee came out.

And then in the official article, it says:

Minecraft probably has the most mods of any game, ever. So ray tracing will of course also be moddable, enabling players to generate endless ray traced content for themselves and others

Epic store still a broke mess road map now a complete ficition

Evilmatt on Thu, 2019-08-15 05:48

So Epic is bad everyone knows it

They promised a bunch of features like preloading and cloud saves basic stuff all modern game stores support. If you look at their roadmap these are marked as implemented but it came out recently that the upcoming borderlands 3 supports neither preload or cloud saves. They've also pushed back a bunch of features to later this year that were promised in the first 6 months.

Games disapearing from Epic Launcher

Evilmatt on Wed, 2019-07-17 03:58

Some people have been finding games have been disappearing from the epic launcher that they bought. Mostly free ones but the current "resolution" is for people to pay for them again which isn't great. It seems like there is some sort of link with games vanishing from an account on an uninstall or some such with them not being listed in the account purchase history.

Learning Blender Part 3

brainwipe on Tue, 2019-07-09 22:08

I snuck away for an hour after a spot of work and learnt how to do curves with point manipulation and grease pencil. I give you: SQUIGGLES!

Three dimensional curvey squiggles in red and blue

Definitely good fun. I'm enjoying the course, it gives me a little bit of structure to work with.

Next step is working with 2D, I don't think that's more grease pencil but using 2D reference art; which will be handy because that tends to be how I work.