np, it happens. :)

Elex

I truly need to give this game another go, can’t really say why I stopped playing it. But it is EuroJank all the way.

Funny tho, I noticed most of the character animations I saw in Elex are straight up the exact same they were in Gothic 3, possibly from even earlier games’ of theirs. Nothing wrong with reusing assets, but damn they’ve gotten some mileage out of them :D

I did state that I can’t remember - entirely possible we did, but it has been quite a while since we played it.

Aliens: Colonial Marines

IMO, the game is better than it’s reputation - at least in it’s current state. After the .ini tweak to fix the alien ai-typo makes it a bit better - afaik, I can’t remember if my group played it with the fix or not, we’ve played the campaign at least 3 times now.

The game’s not a masterpiece by any means, though. It is pretty enjoyable action game in COOP and fairly high difficulty. Sure, arguments could be made that any game is, but game still more fun than not. Now, would I play the game on my own, as single player? Eeeeeeeh, dunno… But if my gaming group asks to play some ACM, I’m down.

Some random points about the game summarized:

• Pulserifle goes BRRT, alien goes splat.
• Could do with less of the human/android enemies though, or at least the parts with androids felt like they dragged on for considerable time.
• Quite a bit of collectible guns, they’re mostly sidegrades but they are different enough, imo.
• runs on a toaster
• goes for pennies on Steam sales, so gaming group funny hours per unit of currency -ratio is pretty good, imo.

using a 3090, switched dlss to use the new transformer -model and it’s GREAT. Basically all smeared surfaces while moving are gone, wet pavement stays crisp while waking the rainy streets…

Kinda feels like the image quality which previously was “DLSS Quality” can be achieved with “DLSS Performance” now, just with higher framerate.

For laughs I tried the dlss -files with other games (The Ascent, PGA TOUR 2K23), and overall the visuals appear more detailed with less artifacting when using DLSS. Apparently the results could be even better if I tinkered a bit with nvinspector and enforced the “J” profile for dlss for the games, too.

Radiotower as a Service.

As a 3090 owner: ok, but largely meh & IDGAF.

Admittedly, I’ve only tried the FSR on a single game (Cyberpunk 2077), and while it looks cool & smooth, the input lag it generates feels horrid. While the DLSS FG might offer a bit lower input lag, it’s still more than it would be without FG, so… meh?

I didn’t like motion smoothing on TV’s, and (so far) I sure don’t enjoy it on my pc. Old man yells at cloud, etc.

Ask for a lot, try to appear less shit when ONLY asking a bit less

Or you know, business as usual

I’ve mostly thought about playing Balatro, but haven’t gotten around to it as I’ve only watched numbers go big in Untitled Space Idle (idler/clicker/absolute-timewaster).

It’s been a slow gaming week for me. :D

edit: maybe I should actually elaborate a bit on the idle-game.

Essentially: you have space ship, space ship must fight other space ships, which get tougher and tougher the further you go. As you go, you research, build, etc. more things to your ship to make it sturdier, deadlier, and faster, then reset and do it again, but BETTER. Rince and repeat, the usual idle-game loop.

There’s so many different ways to make the ship better - but you’re gonna need them all anyway, having multiple systems you can/need to level up, but usually can’t do so in one go is just a time sink.

It’s a simple game but if you identify as “scandisk/defrag watcher”, it’s for you.