Hot Sauce

2 hours ago, Twinblade said:

 

The lemmings and myself have been owned

Back down to 59% and not fresh. Flop, TCHBO

It's up to 60% and fresh now. TLHBO

Higher than I expected.

The Twisted Metal show isn't doing too bad.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/twisted_metal/s01

Price and smartphone competition I'd guess.

You guys are putting way too much stock in a random website's math on a claim of revenue from "company sources."

I really need to watch the Expanse.

Just now, -GD-X said:

Ah true. 

Those games are old as fuck so I don't know why I said them when you already said old games lol. Valorant, Overwatch 2, and Warzone aren't going to have any trouble on a 1650 either.

20 minutes ago, -GD-X said:

I guess it’s fine for indies and older titles. 

Also for competitive games. Could easily do 150+ FPS on a 1650 in CSGO/Dota.

38 minutes ago, -GD-X said:

damn, isn't that life 4 years old? 😮

Yep, April 2019 for the first model. They upgraded the VRAM from GDDR5 to GDDR6 in 2020, though.

4 year old GPU that launched at $150.

9 hours ago, Ramza said:

And you have people pretending PC gaming is still about the premium experience when you have a vast majority of PC gamers having shitty low to mid range PC and laptops, the rest has small little gay handhelds and you have the 1% who actually has a 4090 and half of them pirate their games because they are broke from buying the aforementioned overpriced GPU. 

Most popular GPU on Steam is a 1650.

9 hours ago, Twinblade said:

Yeah digital games shouldn't be that expensive. If they're cutting out the retailer then they should at least be $5-$10 cheaper.

Retailers wouldn't stock games if there wasn't price parity.

37 minutes ago, JonbX said:

Difficult because its hard or difficult because there is too much shit going on

Both, with the latter exacerbating the former.

You're going to find it too difficult and stop playing pretty quickly. 

Can't be worse than FF16.

3 hours ago, Mr. Impossible said:

I don't think he really made many decisions for either since those are publicly traded companies so there's boards overseeing decisions. It was never Musk driving either of those entities and he's had a career of having his personal ideas overridden. 

SpaceX is private and Musk has majority voting control.

Tesla is public, but company bylaws require 67% of votes for changes. Prior to his recent selloffs Musk owned enough voting shares such that 89% of the outside voting needed to vote against him to make changes while only 55% of the outside voting needed to vote with him.

Musk has had control and it's incredible that the adults in the room were able to jingle enough keys in front of Musk to keep him from torpedoing those companies.

I'm not normally a fan of executives getting bonuses or pay raises, but I really think the executives at SpaceX and Tesla deserve them for keeping Musk's manic bullshit out of the decision making and spotlight for all these years.

15 minutes ago, Ike said:

This was offset by the 13% year-over-year decline in hardware revenue, which Xbox points out was simply due to a lower volume of consoles being sold than this time last year.

Oh, thanks for clearing that up Microsoft.

13 minutes ago, Casual said:

Damn so far that server is 3/3 on the bans. Must be nice to not rely on the weirdos to keep a place active, don’t have that luxury here. 

"We banned Dyno for racism and ignored Mala until he left" really is the best marketing a place could have.

10 hours ago, Twinblade said:

He actually did it  this feels like a super late april fool's joke

 

 

This has got to be a troll. 

I thought this was funny and didn't know where else to post it

26 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

Actually, looks like hot sauce is wrong based on the wording from Ubisoft

 

 

 

That's just the same Tweet from the first post.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/559218/could-gdpr-policy-erase-your-games-it-happened-to-an-ubisoft-customer.html

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Ubi officials, however, flatly insist whatever happened in Tor’s case isn’t normal and that it has never deleted any account that hasn’t been logged into in less than four years. The company also says any account that has a purchased game tied to it, would also not be up for closure at all.

Ubisoft has free games on their store, too, so it's not even like the Tweet is incompatible with the previously stated policy. Maybe the policy has changed, but I'm not going to take a random Ubisoft support tweet that's gone viral as evidence Ubisoft has stopped caring about EU laws.

It only applies to accounts with 0 games. Non-story.

Bad series of games gets another bad game. Shocking.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/diablo4/23964909/diablo-iv-patch-notes

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We are adjusting bonus experience rewards for killing monsters that are a higher Level than the player.

Pre-Season of the Malignant bonuses:
1 Level higher: +15%.
2 Levels higher: +20%.
3+ Levels higher: +25%.

Post-Season of the Malignant:
1.5% bonus per Level up to 10 Levels.
+1 level: +1.5%.
+2 levels: +3%

+3 levels: +4.5%
+10 levels: +15%.

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The Tortured Gift of Mysteries chest has had its cost increased to 250 Aberrant Cinders from 175.

Aberrant Cinders drop rate reduced.

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Strength: 50% Stronger when on Weapons -> 25% Stronger when on Weapons.
Dexterity: 50% Stronger when on Weapons -> 25% Stronger when on Weapons.
Intelligence: 50% Stronger when on Weapons -> 25% Stronger when on Weapons.
Willpower: 50% Stronger when on Weapons -> 25% Stronger when on Weapons.

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Cooldown Reduction: Reduced by ~30%.
Imbuement Skill Cooldown Reduction: Reduced by ~30%.
Trap Skill Cooldown Reduction: Reduced by ~30%.

Critical Strike Damage: Reduced by ~17%.
Lightning Critical Strike Damage: Reduced by ~17%.
Critical Strike Damage with Bone, Earth, Imbued, and Werewolf Skills: Reduced by ~17%.
Vulnerable Damage: Reduced by ~40%.
Critical Strike Damage (Inherent on Swords): Reduced by ~50%.
Vulnerable Damage (Inherent on Crossbows): Reduced by ~65%.

Blizzard heard the game was a slog and people wanted better mob density, so they decided to just nerf damage and survivability across the board and reduce XP gains.

My favourite change:

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The channel time for the Leave Dungeon ability has been increased from 3 to 5 seconds.

Like what purpose does that serve other than to waste the players time? What a bunch of dicks.