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Enemy health bars don't belong in an action RPG. Hell if you really want to display damage points you still don't have to display enemy health bars, even an action MMORPG like MapleStory didn't and it worked fine. I don't get why people think breaking immersion is a good idea. Keep that nonsense in MOBAs and MMORPGs.

spent over an hour on a haunted dreads mission in deep rock only to lose when the 3 of 3 was at 15%. constant misplays, but most of all the most experience player was pretty shit. he was driller and wasnt digging routes proactively, only when people needed revives. he also randomly started the 2nd boss and called in our last resupply far away from the rest of us. first boss was the retard who spawns 3 or more praetorians and is invincible for a long time, so we wasted a lot of ammo at that part. kinda ironic how the lowest level in the lobby was gunner calling out in voice comms (without micspamming either, he was a good guy) a lot regarding the detonator ghost and even apologized after the mission failed. host kicked driller and i managed to tell gunner it wasn't his fault before the lobby closed. fuck man, drg can be so agitating based on cave generation and what your teammates do. the difference between a mission success and loss is huge, even if you get some benefit from not altf4-ing the lobby in anger.

What's the most complex RPG ever? I'd play dwarf fortress but they've ruined it with the new shit art style

>>83587
i fixed this, turns out it was the XMP ram profile that was causing it, i disabled it in bios and the pc started up straight away

>>84061
It's not like you can't still play the normal dwarf fortress. It's available for free on the bay12games site.

Still updated too.

>>84181
XMP is a "best guess OC" by the motherboard. this often doesn't work for cheap/unknown brands of RAM sticks that the motherboard manufacturer hasn't tested with. in those cases it might set too tight timings or too little voltage if it has no information about those untested sticks. disabling XMP on the other hand often means your RAM sticks would run at a minimum standard, often below what their rated speeds are (e.g. two DDR4-3200 sticks running at only 2133MHz).

i would take photos of your bios screen to record what XMP sets your clock speeds, voltage and timings at so you can cross-reference to see what XMP is getting wrong. i would also record what VVCIO and VCCSA voltage values XMP sets it at just in case, but it shouldn't matter if you're not going above 3200MHz for DDR4.

you need to take out your two RAM sticks, google their product codes on the stickers, and find out exactly what their clock speeds, voltage and timings are rated at.

once you know what speed and voltage they're rated at, set it at the lowest clock speed and highest voltage between the two.

e.g. DDR4-3200 1.35V and DDR4-2933 1.30V means you should increase clock speed to 2933MHz and voltage to 1.35v. technically you probably could get by with 1.30V in this example because underclocking usually provides undervolting leeway, but i would keep it at the highest between the two just to be safe (and get it over with sooner). if you set voltage too low or clockspeed too high you'll get BSODs.

if it's stable, you can squeeze a tiny bit more performance by correctly manually setting the highest timing values between the two. e.g. 16-14-16-38 and 15-15-15-39 means you set it at 16-15-16-39. if you set any value too low you'll get BSODs.

btw make sure to also disable "accessibility.force_disabled" by setting it to "1" in firefox's about:config since it has a significant memory leak that mozilla doesn't want to fix in the near future

>>84192
im just going to leave it, im thinking if it works then im just going to leave it alone, all the games i play run great and thats all im asking from my PC

>tfw missed 2 weeks of ESO daily's

I have $40 AUD in Steam Gift cards uploaded to my account, what should I spend it on?

I was thinking the bundle with Forgive Me Father 2 and Deadlink.

Or Turbo Overkill.

anyone have a link to minecraft? i used to have a mojang account but i missed the date when i was able to convert it into a microsoft Minecraft account

preferably a version before the enchanting and villagers bullshit

fallout london yes or no

>>84211
Whatever one (you) want the mostest!

DRG Survivor is not good. Feels like the developer doesn't understand how to make a survivor game. Way too much randomness going on. The level-up perks are almost never interesting (% bonus to damage, fire rate or reload speed) anyway, but it's ridiculous how much variance there is between perk qualities. Common is generally 10%, uncommon 15%, rare 25%, epic 35% and legendary 50% for weapon-specific upgrades. Possibly having to waste 5 level-ups to get the same value as a legendary is outright stupid design. You are only going to get so many levels in a given run.

Sometimes, there will just be way too many bugs and they'll be spread out too much. I'll be looking for a path to run and have to accept that, no matter which way I dig, I will be losing at least half my HP in a moment. Overall, you just don't feel like you have much agency in any aspect of the gameplay. Survivor games are supposed to be semi-mindless power fantasies (the only controls on many of them are directional movement and most of what you do is just avoid touching enemies, though many do add more interactivity). On DRGS, you just feel like a weak little bitch slapping zergs with a wet napkin because either many of the weapons suck or the enemies have too much health.

There are some mechanics of the weapons that actively fuck you over, too. Biggest one is knockback. Sometimes, weapons with knockback will push enemies into me instead of away from me. Cryo is another inconvenience. Getting close to exploders to purposely trigger their suicide bomb gets paused when they're frozen, which can fuck up their alignment with bosses (knockback also screws with this).

Grinding for the passive progression system is terrible, too. You need thousands of resources when you only get a couple dozen per run at best. There are also too many things to do on each stage of a run, so you can miss out on a lot of resources and build development. By the way, you only have 30 seconds to board the drop pod after the boss dies or you lose your run, so you can't even clean up any secondary objectives soundly.

Some cool, unique concepts in this game like digging paths to control the flow of enemies, but there are too many things wrong with it overall. It's probably the worst survivor game I have played so far. Some very easy changes to implement would be narrowing the disparity between perk qualities (e.g. common perk baseline is 22% and each quality above it is 7% more, maintaining legendary at 50%) and significantly lowering the amount of resources needed for the progression system. There are other, more complicated and fundamental issues with the game, but those seem like they could be updated within a day.

Super Mario 64 port for GBA

Tomb Raider port for GBA

Helped my cousin score a Steam Deck with the Dock at a decent discount (got him a mouse and keybort as well heh), he's never had a gaming PC before. What are some iconic pc only or just better on pc games a consolef*g either never had access to or may have ignored? heh

>>85007
That's an overbroad question. PC has a lifetime of great games already, and many decent console games have been ported or were released on PC as well. You should look into jailbreaking it with him so that he also has access to tons of free emulator stuff. I have heard you can even run Nintendo Switch games on a deck.

I should've added, wishlist tons of games and watch Humble's website (bear in mind not every bundle is for Steam keys, however). I really wouldn't know how to advise you on specifics otherwise. I feel like they should just bundle the Valve library in with a deck, to be honest. Most of those games are decent, at least.

If you can provide more feedback on what your family likes, maybe I can give you some specific recs. But still, looking into emulating on a deck would be great. Swear your nephew will have access to 1000s of free games. New shit is often pozzed anyway.

>>85007
What genre of video games does he like?

>>85016
How'd you break your laptop?

>>85009
>>85010
>>85016
He likes Civ, Fallout, and Warhammer 40k DoW (which he used to play on my gaming laptop).

Being computer illiterate he bought a Chromebook thinking he'd be able to play games on it (smdh), so I arranged a deal between him and a friend for the Deck instead. He specifically wanted to play DoW so I knew that was a good start.

I already bought him the DoW1 quadrilogy, Fallout 2 and Vampire Survivors. I was thinking Half-Life 2, and another friend suggested the Portal series. They were both on Xbox but I feel like they'd have gone under the radar for most console gamers. Was considering getting him Inscryption which I've never played myself but a lot of friends have sworn buy heh

Not 100% sure he played Skyrim or Oblivion

>>85022
They have a digital version of Catan. I can't remember, but I think the base game is free. If he likes Fallout then maybe he would like Arcanum Steamworks, too. Pretty sure Tim Cain worked on that as well. Icewind Dale is another good isometric RPG. Different genre than DoW, but the Warhammer Vermintide games are pretty fun. I think Vermintide 2 is supposed to get versus multiplayer like L4D soon. There is also Darktide if he prefers 40k.

I wonder how Bethesda games are on the deck. A big draw is being able to mod them.

>>85025
Yeah I think most all old (Morrowind and up) Bethesda stuff is accessible on the Deck.

>Icewind Dale
I never played the game but I own it (intend to at some point) and it does work on the deck; I used it to test how clumsy the console touch pads are in place of a mouse (and in that game-and many other's-case: very). I enjoyed the narration of the opening though, very based and 90s low-fantasy pilled.

Looks like Arcanum is unsupported, maybe the Baldur's Gate games will work but they're a bit overpriced rn. He'll probably be happy with DoW for a while so not a huge rush-good suggestions overall.

>>85029
I'd just start wishlisting dozens of things that look like he might remotely enjoy them. Regular prices on Steam usually suck, but they have sales where tons of stuff goes half or more off a few times every year.

>>85018
It was on the couch plugged in and my fiance kicked the cord cos she didn't see it, and it fell onto the floor. So now it's in an automatic repair bootloop; and won't even go into windows recovery environment, so I took the SSD out and put it in a dock/USB cradle, and it only reads one of the partitions (the least large one, 40GB) but that might be because her laptop isn't the most powerful. So I might have to just cop it and try reinstalling windows and lose all my files and see if that helps.

I'm phone posting atm.

>>85035
Most likely just corrupted system files due to sudden power loss. If so, should be fixable without reinstalling. The most common PC filesystems (NTFS on Windows and ext4 for Linux) are very brittle against sudden power loss. Microsoft is a shell of its former self and lacks the leadership and will to create a new "exNTFS" where it's designed around "copy-on-write" like newer filesystems like BtrFS and ZFS (used now by Linux servers) and/or "atomic writes" (used by iOS' APFS and Android's atomic writes extension for ext4) as innovative features against corruption from partial writes which is the most common issue from sudden power loss. If Microsoft cared so much about mobile devices like they claimed, where sudden power loss is common, this would be a priority if they weren't seriously mismanaged and corrupt.

You've already tried pressing F11 repeatedly while it boots up to get into Windows recovery menu and run in the command prompt "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth"? If F11 is also the laptop's BIOS or boot option key make sure to continue clicking F11 repeatedly after selecting to boot the SSD to try to get it to recovery menu before it tries its automatic repair stuff.

You've already tried shutting it off (hold down power button for at least a few seconds), then hitting the BIOS key (look it up for your laptop, could be either F1, F2, F4, F11, F12, Del, Tab) repeatedly while it boots up, and checking if boot order in BIOS is correct (e.g. SSD first)?

>so I took the SSD out and put it in a dock/USB cradle, and it only reads one of the partitions (the least large one, 40GB) but that might be because her laptop isn't the most powerful.
Read from what? You checked the partitions in Linux and not just Windows' Disk Management? You can boot into a Live USB Kubuntu (no installation) or something on a 4GB or larger USB flash drive.

Kubuntu 24 ISO
https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/
Rufus (bootable USB formatter for Windows)
https://rufus.ie/en/

>>85035
Why has your fiance been a fiance for like four years?

Isn't the point that you are going to get married?

>>85044
After 9 months in Aussie-land they mark (you) down as being fiances, they do that in canacuck as well.

>>85047
That is pretty strange but I believe it.

>>85048
It's true (you) can look it up.

>>85043
>You've already tried pressing F11 repeatedly while it boots up to get into Windows recovery menu and run in the command prompt "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth"?
First this whole mess started as an 'automatic repair bootloop'. Then I tried to get into WRE to try use a system restore point, or press 'repair startup' to see if anything could be done. There were no system restore points saved, and I got a message that startup repair couldn't fix the issue. Cmd prompt was plan B, but I am unable to get that far because now, for whatever reason, I just cannot get into WRE at all. I've tried pressing F8, 9, 10, 11, repeatedly to get into WRE and it just won't do it.

>You've already tried shutting it off (hold down power button for at least a few seconds), then hitting the BIOS key (look it up for your laptop, could be either F1, F2, F4, F11, F12, Del, Tab) repeatedly while it boots up, and checking if boot order in BIOS is correct (e.g. SSD first)?

SSD has boot priority in BIOS atm and nothing happens past ASUS splash screen. Once or twice, a blue screen has come up with something like 'we can't start this computer at all, press F8 (I think, I'm going from memory) to get into WRE. I try that, and then it still just won't boot.

>Read from what? You checked the partitions in Linux and not just Windows' Disk Management? You can boot into a Live USB Kubuntu (no installation) or something on a 4GB or larger USB flash drive.

Haven't tried anything with Linux yet. I tried taking the SSD out and putting it in a dock and reading it from another windows laptop, and it just won't open, except for that one small 'temp files' partition.

Funny you should mention Rufus, I've used it before, but I tried to make a bootable USB with Windows Media Creation Tool, and this is what pops up when you boot from USB; for some reason it thinks my main partition is completely empty; even though I haven't formatted, deleted or touched any partitions yet. Would I have better luck just getting a Windows 10 ISO off of a torrent site, and using Rufus, to see if that would allow me to repair startup/reinstall windows but keep old files? Because atm it won't let me do that with Windows Media Creation tool at all.

I remember a while back there was an option you could do where you keep your old files, right, and reinstall Windows? Where they're renamed something like 'Windows.old' in C:/?

idk I'm not an expert in this sort of stuff; I've mostly just learned it myself from years of piracy in Minecraft online

>>85064
Can you access recovery mode and command prompt with that bootable media? This probably won't help, but I had a problem where I couldn't boot into Windows a few months ago and fixing the boot record did the trick without having to format everything:

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/command-prompt-fix-issues-your-boot-records/

>>85065
Got command prompt working with USB boot, and tried all of that, still doesn't work.
Diskpart literally won't even work and is stuck on saying Diskpart with the name of the computer.
Idk I think I'm just gonna have to lose all my files

>>85064
Download MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable Edition
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/wq21P0jgky_uhg (select Скачать)
(Source: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=76932015#76932015 )

Format it to a USB stick using Rufus
https://rufus.ie/en/

Boot to it via BIOS menu or boot selection menu on the affected laptop with the affected SSD in the laptop.
Select the primary Windows partition, I'm guessing it's that 780GB one. Click on "Check File System". If it finds a bad cluster, allow it to fix it, and then run "Check File System" on that partition once more, fix again if necessary. See if the partition comes back on Partition Wizard and on Windows recovery tools.

If there's no luck with Partition Wizard fixing the partition (i.e. doesn't find a bad cluster at all or see any partition), then you will have to try to recover your files with Linux to see if it can see the partitions' files (use your other laptop with a bootable Linux like I said before, buy a Samsung Bar Plus flash drive or something off amazon.com.au to copy over your files) or a recovery program like PhotoRec (open source data recovery program).

>>85069
Forget about Microsoft's limited tools (for now), once Microsoft's own setup or Disk Management tool can't even recognize their own partition you have to rely on third-party solutions.

>>85035
next time you tell that stupid fat bitch to watch where shes going

>>85071
>>85071
All that happens when I click on 'launch minitool partition wizard' is the hourglass symbol, then nothing. Literally nothing.

I think this drive has to be dead. If I format it, and reinstall windows, and use a recovery software, will I at least get some of my shit back?

>>85107
Re-insert the SSD just to be certain. Maybe there's something wrong with that Partition Wizard version, could try an older version https://disk.yandex.com/d/Ih5wVnwitHvdPw
Don't even think about formatting if a bootable partition management program can't even detect your SSD, one step at a time.

>>85123
Can also try AOMEI Partition Assistant
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/p_FuIzPY6t_PPA
Steps are a little different, you right-click your partition, click advanced, check partition, check and fix errors w/ chkdsk.
I don't know if this is as effective as Partition Wizard, since I don't know if PW uses its own drive sector repair algorithm instead of just using chkdsk which is an IBM/Microsoft tool.

If none of this works then you really should try to boot into a bootable Live Linux to see if Linux can at least see your files. Then you copy over your files to another USB stick.

>If I format it, and reinstall windows, and use a recovery software, will I at least get some of my shit back?
If you format or install Windows you will lose a bunch of files. Don't do that. Yes if the SSD isn't totally borked you can recover some files with programs like PhotoRec, Recuva, EaseUS Data Recovery, etc. But first boot into a live Linux and see if Linux can see the partitions on your SSD.

>>85146
>>85146
Tried AOEMI, now nothing will boot but it's not AOEMI's fault; I appear to be getting the 'click of death'; the SSD is making a clicking, then whirring sound, and we are stuck on a black screen with mechanical clicking and whirring sounds.

I think she's dead, Jim.

>>85168
>the SSD is making a clicking, then whirring sound
>mechanical clicking and whirring sounds
...Yo, wait what? This was actually an HDD this whole time??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
>A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device. It provides persistent data storage using no moving parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive
>A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces.

An SSD can easily absorb shock. A mechanical device like an HDD obviously can't. I would've told you to back up shit immediately (via Live Linux USB stick, to move your absolute most important files from your HDD to your waifu's storage device) and not bother with command prompt stuff or Partition Wizard. Though maybe the end result would've been the same and Linux wouldn't've seen the files anyway.

Regardless, put the HDD in a freezer inside an airtight bag (to prevent moisture in the freezer from seeping inside the HDD) for a couple hours. Then leave it out in room temperature for 15 minutes. Basically you want the HDD to be colder than room temperature but not so cold that there's still teeny-tiny ice crystals inside (which would be present after immediately removing it from the freezer), and then to hook it up via the HDD dock to your waifu's laptop booted in Live Linux USB (not Windows) so you can see if the HDD works and if files in your partitions are accessible, and if so to quickly backup your most important files first to your waifu's partition (or another USB stick). The idea is to constrict the metals to free up the stuck platters. This sounds crazy but I've temporarily resuscitated "dead" (clicking and inaccessible) hard disk drives in the past with this, usually lasting anywhere between a few hours to a few days, and have been able to back up files before they died. Try this freezer trick at least three times, if it's still stuck afterwards. Hell, shake the fucker (gently) if freezing it doesn't work, then keep hooking it up, repeat this process multiple. Just don't open it up, that'll always make it worse almost guaranteed, I know from experience, better to be patient with freezing, and then just shaking it repeatedly if that doesn't work.

>>85173
I may have mixed up my terminology, apologies.
It's the hard drive inside the laptop, which would be a HDD right? One of these.

>>85278
Yes

Old School RuneScape Removes Gender Options, Forces Pronouns on Players

https://nichegamer.com/old-school-runescape-removes-male-and-female-from-character-creator/
https://dailystormer.in/old-school-runescape-removes-gender-options-forces-pronouns-on-players/

A new update for Jagex’s Old School RuneScape has gotten fans upset as it not only removes traditional male/female sex from its character creator, it also forces mandatory pronoun usage on players.

A new “Diversity & Inclusion” update for Old School RuneScape was released today that removed the 20+ year old MMORPG’s biological male and female sexes from its character creator, as seen above. In their place are the options “Body type A” and “Body type B.”

The game also now has mandatory pronouns for player characters where they must choose either He/him, They/them, or She/her. The last major “Diversity & Inclusion” change made in this update is that all facial hair styles can be used on either body type.

It’s worth pointing out that any major updates or changes to the game require at least 70% of players voting to approve it – however – both game integrity updates and the above “Diversity & Inclusion” updates are mandatory and not voted on by players, and cannot be vetoed by the community.

Another “Diversity & Inclusion” update released earlier this summer altered a long-running and fan-favorite “kiss the frog” event, which had players kiss the frog “prince” or “princess”, just like the fairy tale. Now, players pat the head of the frog and acquire both the “prince” and “princess” parts of the Royal frog costume.

The same update also censored the Ethereal Man or Ethereal Lady with an “Ethereal Being” during Lunar Diplomacy, although its physical appearance will reflect the player’s “body type,” again, which is clearly based on biological male and female sexes.

>>85295
it didnt remove anything retard theyre right there

>>85295
I don't think I'd call the frog event a "fan favorite". I have so many of those worthless tokens. I wish they had a way to block one or two events from ever spawning on you. That would be my first choice. I'd rather get the retarded Jekyll event.

>>85302
runescape is cringe shit and you are a retard

>>85304
You being a whiny little nigger-fucking faggot and perpetually complaining like a girlbrain bitch about the interests of others and about a bunch of people who made you butthurt in the past on dead boards is cringe retard shit and you should suffocate honestly. Dumb little fucking gay mongrel sperg.

>>85306
lol seethe more

>>85317
That's what you do all day every day, desperately crying for your boogeymen to post on your dead offshoot so you can ban them. You're so fucking pathetic lol.