AHA-Lambda
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STEAM | August 2016 - No Man's Sky will leave Mankind Divided
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Same, I wonder what goodies I have to sell?
bobnowhere
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I just finished W3 without any DLC a couple of hours ago, 117 hours it took. I think I did pretty much every quest though I only JaseC'ed Velen/Novigrad. Skellige still has like 100 question marks to go!
I'm currently close to the ending in the main game, have started on Hearts of Stone (probably not too far into it) and plan to start Blood and Wine after the regular ending and I'm currently at 135 hours. Soo, maybe 160 after all is said and done? But I did take my time with the main game (without actually finishing all treasure hunting quests)
freshVeggie
Member
Great watch. One of the reasons OG Deus Ex is one of my favorite games and one of the very few I replayed multiple times.
Having already clocked nearly 50 hours in No Man's Sky, I must say I like the game very much.
It doesn't have much (if any) engaging gameplay per se, so if that's what you're looking for - stay away, it will likely bore you to tears very soon. I, however, just wanted a relaxing, memorable exploration experience where I can land on a huge exotic planet, and be able walk around and discover weird, beautiful or otherwise interesting stuff. And in this NMS really delivers.The worlds in the game have alien creatures of all shapes and sizes, mountains with canyons and strange underground caves, vegetation ranging from sparse shrubs to dense forests (where the 'trees' can sometimes look like weird mushrooms). And then you can look at alien-looking moon hanging in the sky above and realize you can go there and explore it as well. Latest patches have fixed my performance problems and the game now runs pretty smooth, although it did crash on me a couple times.
Some shots of a cool planet I visited yesterday. It had harsh cold weather with occasional freezing storms, plenty of non-aggressive critters to scan, and actual forests (something I haven't encountered before after visiting a dozen or so other planets). It also had plentiful vortex cubes (rare and therefore expensive items you can harvest), which allowed me to earn almost a million units and upgrade to a better ship. I almost didn't want to leave.
The next planet was a desert, scorching dry one.
It doesn't have much (if any) engaging gameplay per se, so if that's what you're looking for - stay away, it will likely bore you to tears very soon. I, however, just wanted a relaxing, memorable exploration experience where I can land on a huge exotic planet, and be able walk around and discover weird, beautiful or otherwise interesting stuff. And in this NMS really delivers.The worlds in the game have alien creatures of all shapes and sizes, mountains with canyons and strange underground caves, vegetation ranging from sparse shrubs to dense forests (where the 'trees' can sometimes look like weird mushrooms). And then you can look at alien-looking moon hanging in the sky above and realize you can go there and explore it as well. Latest patches have fixed my performance problems and the game now runs pretty smooth, although it did crash on me a couple times.
Some shots of a cool planet I visited yesterday. It had harsh cold weather with occasional freezing storms, plenty of non-aggressive critters to scan, and actual forests (something I haven't encountered before after visiting a dozen or so other planets). It also had plentiful vortex cubes (rare and therefore expensive items you can harvest), which allowed me to earn almost a million units and upgrade to a better ship. I almost didn't want to leave.
The next planet was a desert, scorching dry one.
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bobnowhere
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Why is it I can download something like Mankind Divided at my max rate of 5.8 MB/s but I can barely download Nightsky at 100k or less even after changing servers?
freshVeggie
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Tea brings in the goods, something coffee doesn't. Once again Tea > Coffee.
freshVeggie
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The audience is going crazy for everything. Looks neat though. Much better than when I tried it out pre 2.0.
Good write-up. Agree with all you said. Very relaxing, little feeling of danger.
So I started up The Witcher III again, and is currently at the first inn, where I'm asking around for Yennefer and learning the game of Gwent. I have been here in my last playthrough as well before I started over, but I'm excited to get to the point where I haven't been before. I'm taking this one nice and slowly.
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Quality giveaway!
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
That's the prologue
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"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
funny, isn't it? How people ever could believe that SC is a scam is way beyond me.
I mean nobody knows if it will be any good in the end, but a scam, just lol
That said the demo was mighty impressive!
Oh I see. The last time, I got to a castle with some baron king and did quests for him. I got up to the point, where I got a whistle because I had to look for someone.
Well for anyone who ordered Deus Ex from GamesRepublic, you're not getting the pre-order junk: https://twitter.com/GamesRep/status/766925700490072064
On top of that, likely no preload, lol: https://twitter.com/GamesRep/status/766927002087542784
Probably the last time I'm buying anything from them, at least when it comes to pre-order bonuses. They still haven't updated the game page to make it clear.
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On top of that, likely no preload, lol: https://twitter.com/GamesRep/status/766927002087542784
Probably the last time I'm buying anything from them, at least when it comes to pre-order bonuses. They still haven't updated the game page to make it clear.
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Tizoc
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Preload complete
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That's like the god damn chaos dunk.
I'm having an issue here. So I have part of my Steam library on my portable HDD that I had setup on a previous OS install, but because of some Windows 10 horsecrap, I lost that install and had to re-do some stuff. I now find out that while the games are still on said portable HDD, Steam doesn't recognize it.
How do I get Steam to recognize the Steam Library WITHOUT having to re-download these games?
EDIT: I figured it out.
- Went to Settings
- Went to Downloads
- Hit Steam Library Folders and set a new Folder
How do I get Steam to recognize the Steam Library WITHOUT having to re-download these games?
EDIT: I figured it out.
- Went to Settings
- Went to Downloads
- Hit Steam Library Folders and set a new Folder
Even lower with the coupon code : BNE15OFF
It can be applied to all the sales at Bamco store.
freshVeggie
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Something in Firefox 48 is borked. Ever since the update, the browser starts chugging heavily with only a couple dozen tabs.
someguyinahat
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I remember attempting to sink a basket for the achievement in DE:HR. It was damn near impossible (he's got augmented arms but he still got no game.) You basically had to stack up those cylindrical drums, climb up them, and just drop the basketball in to get the achievement.
hardcastlemccormick
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Wow, that's about how far I got too and that was easily 5-6 hours of the game. I stopped playing on the PS4 and I've been waiting to fire on the PC.
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I'm planning on wrapping up Tomb Raider 2013 this weekend. Played the first half on PS3, PS4 and now finally PC where I'm in the third act. I really like the game; it makes me swear less than Uncharted games, which always end up having some level design where I wonder "the developers thought this was good?" after I die for the 20th time. I get none of that with TR.
I should probably return to Shadowrun Returns as well. I was really enjoying it and everyone says Dragonfall is even better. Cannot wait!
Might play The Witcher 1 and 2 for the first time ever in preparation for 3. I did already beat 3 but I thought I was missing out on story because I hadn't played 1 & 2. Also this time I'll have the DLC to play as well. Any essential mods to 1 & 2? Anything else? To be honest I wouldn't play them if it wasn't for the 3rd entry in the series.
Wok
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Ditto. I stopped because my config is not powerful enough.
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
For 1, I remember liking the mod that added scabbards. There was some texture mods for characters that seemed like they helped. And I don't remember how that game handled inventory or weight, but if there's one to remove those go ahead and grab it.
For two, pretty much just the weight and inventory ones.
Baron von Loathsome
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The funhouse was my least favorite section of the game. At least they succeeded at
making it feel utterly miserable.
I have not played 3. I was going to start with 1 first, but was told about a bit in a swamp being so absurdly shit that it isn't worth playing. I have started on 2, running the game "maxed out" with ubersampling, looks bloody great! A bit confusing with the lore though, which does get explained gradually, but I think I might watch a playthrough of 1 so that I can better understand 2
Once I finish that, I'll finally buy and enjoy Witcher 3
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Baron von Loathsome
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stop
AND if you managed to get a DLC code from when the game came out, that still works. At least it did for me. Since you couldn't redeem it without owning the game first, and them saying it was going to expire a week after it came out, I thought I'd give it a try. It worked.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Well, I totally get what you're saying. It feels cramped. But this escape room is cool. Now for VLR and 999 to go on Steam and on sale.
Steam keys don't expire. They can be blacklisted in select circumstances (this massive blunder being the most extreme example), but they otherwise exist in perpetuity.
No Man's Sky Patch Notes
20 AUGUST - HELLOGAMES
Since No Mans Sky on PC released last Friday the team has been incredibly busy. Weve gathered all the support requests to support@hellogames.co.uk, but were also tracking posts on Steam, GoG, Reddit and anywhere we can find online.
Right now the team is fully focused on categorising and fixing support issues in order of priority, based on the number of people they are affecting. The information and crash dumps youve posted have been indispensable in helping us track down and fix these issues.
Weve now released 3 patches, and hopefully they really improve the experience for everybody. As you can see its been a huge amount of work for a small team. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Next week expect at least one more major update, which will enter testing on Monday once we finish working on it this weekend. Once all our support requests have been answered then we can begin improving the game with new features
See below for notes on all three recent patches!
Patch 1
The focus of patch 1 was to add greater support for more hardware. Either specific hardware configs, or hardware outside our min spec. We want as many people to be able to play as possible, and these were our most reported issues.
AMD Phenom Support
Game is now confirmed working on Phenom CPUs.
Thousands of lines of assembly have been rewritten to support AMD CPUs. The game code no longer relies on anything above SSE 2,
Havok Physics has also now created new libs for us to add Phenom support.
Alt-Tab has improved
Some systems/configs were crashing or not pausing correctly on Alt Tab. This should now be resolved.
Improved Performance
On CPUs with 4 threads or fewer, performance has been improved.
On CPUs with exactly 8 threads, performance has also been significantly improved.
Framerate Stuttering due to Shader Caching
Framerate was initially stuttering due to shaders not being correctly cached by the GPU on some systems. We have replaced the GPU caching system. You may notice some stutter during the Galactic Map intro to the game (the very first time you run), but it should be smoother from then on. This is particularly true on ATI cards.
Max FPS Cap
On some CPU/GPU configurations, setting Max FPS to 60 or 30 was not giving 60 or 30 FPS (causing stuttering). This has been fixed.
Radeon 6xxx
Added support for this GPU, which doesn't support OpenGL 4.5 fully.
Save Corruption
Solution to try to prevent saves getting corrupted no matter whats going on in background processes (see Patch 3 below, where we also are attempting to recover corrupted saves).
Intel GPU Detection
We do not currently support Intel GPUS. We are working on this for a future patch, to expand our min spec.
In the meantime, the game will now let you know if you are trying to run with an unsupported GPU. This will hopefully flag for some users that their high end GPU has not been selected.
Gsync
Gsync has been disabled by default, which was causing an issue for some users
Mouse Smoothing
Generally this is most helpful for players with sub-30 FPS.
Smoothing on mouse movement has been improved to prevent hitching or stuttering, and is now adjustable through the Options menu in Mouse Smoothing.
It defaults to off. If you feel micro stutters in framerate affecting controls, feel free to turn this up. If you feel the framerate is "slow" or "lumpy", please make sure that this is turned off
Patch 2
For patch 2 our focus was on the most reported bugs or crashes. Our aim was to improve stability, and make sure players saves are safe in future.
Stuck under the world
It was possible for players to save their game stuck under the terrain, leaving them stuck. This was caused by getting shot down in atmosphere, and their ship reaching ridiculous speeds as it crashed to the planet. This has been resolved.
Whilst it won't happen anymore, if you are currently already stuck under the world, we detect this and do our best to rescue you.
Crash after warping
Occasionally at random the game would lock up after a warp, or return to desktop. This was due to very specific timing in hardware (a threading specific bug) meaning that unfortunately for some people it was regular, and for others they would never be able to recreate it. This was our most reported crash during gameplay, and has now been resolved.
Game failing to save until you died
If the player died, and then loaded the game ten times without saving, and then died, player progress wouldnt be saved from then on until you died again. This is fixed now! This was also causing players saves to grow in size.
Crash fixes in scanning
Quite a rare crash, but in certain scenarios it was possible to scan from space or on planet and crash the game.
Crash warping inside a freighter
When warping into a battle sometimes the player warped into the inside of a freighter and everything went crazy
This is fixed now.
Patch 3
Patch 3 is targeted at our next most common support requests, fixing the next most common crashes, as well as trying to help players who have become stranded or have corrupted their save files.
Stranded in Space Station
If you died in your ship while in atmosphere of a planet with a damaged ship, you could respawn in a space station with your launch thrusters and pulse engine damaged. If you did not have the resources to fix them then you could no longer take off and be stuck there. This will no longer happen.
Loading Corrupted Save Files
Some players have corrupted save files, weve been working with them to still load saves even if they are corrupted (this can happen for many reasons outside of the games control). This fix has allowed many players to still load their save even if they have become corrupt on PC.
Crash fixes for next three most commonly reported issues:
- As the player gathers a huge amount of discoveries, there was a threading issue that becomes more prevalent the more discoveries you have, and could cause the game to crash.
- If you had collected a large number of blueprints, in a specific order it was possible to crash the game when you received a new blueprint. This has been fixed.
- Players who set a large number of waypoints could find themselves in a situation where they could crash the game in the Galactic Map, this is remedied now (PS. A better waypoint system is coming).
Overall these fixes should remedy around 70% of our current support requests. We're working on the next 30% right now. If you are still experiencing issues please do mail support@hellogames.co.uk
Thank you,
Hello Games
20 AUGUST - HELLOGAMES
Since No Mans Sky on PC released last Friday the team has been incredibly busy. Weve gathered all the support requests to support@hellogames.co.uk, but were also tracking posts on Steam, GoG, Reddit and anywhere we can find online.
Right now the team is fully focused on categorising and fixing support issues in order of priority, based on the number of people they are affecting. The information and crash dumps youve posted have been indispensable in helping us track down and fix these issues.
Weve now released 3 patches, and hopefully they really improve the experience for everybody. As you can see its been a huge amount of work for a small team. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Next week expect at least one more major update, which will enter testing on Monday once we finish working on it this weekend. Once all our support requests have been answered then we can begin improving the game with new features
See below for notes on all three recent patches!
Patch 1
The focus of patch 1 was to add greater support for more hardware. Either specific hardware configs, or hardware outside our min spec. We want as many people to be able to play as possible, and these were our most reported issues.
AMD Phenom Support
Game is now confirmed working on Phenom CPUs.
Thousands of lines of assembly have been rewritten to support AMD CPUs. The game code no longer relies on anything above SSE 2,
Havok Physics has also now created new libs for us to add Phenom support.
Alt-Tab has improved
Some systems/configs were crashing or not pausing correctly on Alt Tab. This should now be resolved.
Improved Performance
On CPUs with 4 threads or fewer, performance has been improved.
On CPUs with exactly 8 threads, performance has also been significantly improved.
Framerate Stuttering due to Shader Caching
Framerate was initially stuttering due to shaders not being correctly cached by the GPU on some systems. We have replaced the GPU caching system. You may notice some stutter during the Galactic Map intro to the game (the very first time you run), but it should be smoother from then on. This is particularly true on ATI cards.
Max FPS Cap
On some CPU/GPU configurations, setting Max FPS to 60 or 30 was not giving 60 or 30 FPS (causing stuttering). This has been fixed.
Radeon 6xxx
Added support for this GPU, which doesn't support OpenGL 4.5 fully.
Save Corruption
Solution to try to prevent saves getting corrupted no matter whats going on in background processes (see Patch 3 below, where we also are attempting to recover corrupted saves).
Intel GPU Detection
We do not currently support Intel GPUS. We are working on this for a future patch, to expand our min spec.
In the meantime, the game will now let you know if you are trying to run with an unsupported GPU. This will hopefully flag for some users that their high end GPU has not been selected.
Gsync
Gsync has been disabled by default, which was causing an issue for some users
Mouse Smoothing
Generally this is most helpful for players with sub-30 FPS.
Smoothing on mouse movement has been improved to prevent hitching or stuttering, and is now adjustable through the Options menu in Mouse Smoothing.
It defaults to off. If you feel micro stutters in framerate affecting controls, feel free to turn this up. If you feel the framerate is "slow" or "lumpy", please make sure that this is turned off
Patch 2
For patch 2 our focus was on the most reported bugs or crashes. Our aim was to improve stability, and make sure players saves are safe in future.
Stuck under the world
It was possible for players to save their game stuck under the terrain, leaving them stuck. This was caused by getting shot down in atmosphere, and their ship reaching ridiculous speeds as it crashed to the planet. This has been resolved.
Whilst it won't happen anymore, if you are currently already stuck under the world, we detect this and do our best to rescue you.
Crash after warping
Occasionally at random the game would lock up after a warp, or return to desktop. This was due to very specific timing in hardware (a threading specific bug) meaning that unfortunately for some people it was regular, and for others they would never be able to recreate it. This was our most reported crash during gameplay, and has now been resolved.
Game failing to save until you died
If the player died, and then loaded the game ten times without saving, and then died, player progress wouldnt be saved from then on until you died again. This is fixed now! This was also causing players saves to grow in size.
Crash fixes in scanning
Quite a rare crash, but in certain scenarios it was possible to scan from space or on planet and crash the game.
Crash warping inside a freighter
When warping into a battle sometimes the player warped into the inside of a freighter and everything went crazy
This is fixed now.
Patch 3
Patch 3 is targeted at our next most common support requests, fixing the next most common crashes, as well as trying to help players who have become stranded or have corrupted their save files.
Stranded in Space Station
If you died in your ship while in atmosphere of a planet with a damaged ship, you could respawn in a space station with your launch thrusters and pulse engine damaged. If you did not have the resources to fix them then you could no longer take off and be stuck there. This will no longer happen.
Loading Corrupted Save Files
Some players have corrupted save files, weve been working with them to still load saves even if they are corrupted (this can happen for many reasons outside of the games control). This fix has allowed many players to still load their save even if they have become corrupt on PC.
Crash fixes for next three most commonly reported issues:
- As the player gathers a huge amount of discoveries, there was a threading issue that becomes more prevalent the more discoveries you have, and could cause the game to crash.
- If you had collected a large number of blueprints, in a specific order it was possible to crash the game when you received a new blueprint. This has been fixed.
- Players who set a large number of waypoints could find themselves in a situation where they could crash the game in the Galactic Map, this is remedied now (PS. A better waypoint system is coming).
Overall these fixes should remedy around 70% of our current support requests. We're working on the next 30% right now. If you are still experiencing issues please do mail support@hellogames.co.uk
Thank you,
Hello Games
They should all work.
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