Screenshots of your games

[pio]

43 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

James Cameron would be proud XD

 

Well, if they're claiming that "1080p / LOW settings / 30 FPS" is the bare minimum to be playable, I'd like to simply argue that maybe the bare minimum specs are perhaps closer to this.....because this was absolutely "playable" (on a generic 1080p / 60Hz panel).

[Slaughtahouse]

24 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

 

Well, if they're claiming that "1080p / LOW settings / 30 FPS" is the bare minimum to be playable, I'd like to simply argue that maybe the bare minimum specs are perhaps closer to this.....because this was absolutely "playable" (on a generic 1080p / 60Hz panel).

 

There are some areas that the benchmark doesn't represent well, like the planes (second, large biome) or some of the larger bases. That being said, pretty impressive results with a Fury X!

[Slaughtahouse]

Alan Wake II

4K, Max

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

Path Tracing disabled

 

Getting lost in looking all the little details. Fun to toggle path tracing (2nd and 4th screenshot enabled) to see how materials react. It's subtle and not worth the perf loss during gameplay but for screenshots, it's super fun  

[pio]

 

4 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

Alan Wake II

4K, Max

 

 

 

 

 

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Path Tracing disabled

 

Getting lost in looking all the little details. Fun to toggle path tracing (2nd and 4th screenshot enabled) to see how materials react. It's subtle and not worth the perf loss during gameplay but for screenshots, it's super fun  

 

I've been hearing that one's gorgeous.  Definitely on my list of future benchmark titles.  

[Slaughtahouse]

11 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

I've been hearing that one's gorgeous.  Definitely on my list of future benchmark titles.  

100%. 

 

It's beautiful in it's own right. Where Avatar really looks great in both macro and micro views (large vistas and up close with nature and metallic structures), the level of detail in Alan Wake II is astounding. They layer on a lot of video effects, both post processing and active film / FMV over top to present their world in a unique way. When you throw on the path tracing, it's fun to see how shadows, materials, light bounces all dramatically change. From a gameplay perspective, it's difficult to notice but if you stop and stare, you can see it. Too bad it's really 4090 + terriority to play. The only other gripe is that there isn't an alternative AA to the upscalers.

 

I tried to play it at 1440p on my monitor but since there is no AA (E.g., TAA) and I am on AMD (FSR is my only choice), the jaggies are real. I'm choosing to play the game at 4K super sampled on my monitor. Or playing native 4K on my TV. 

 

Alan Wake (1) was one of my all time favourite games, I love thriller films and stuff like American Horror Story, Twilight Zone etc. so this hits all those vibes. A little weird playing on Epic Game Store. I am a sucker for achievements but the sound effect for achievements on EGS is so loud, it gives me a mini heart attack because I am on EDGE... 

 

Only 3 hours in but if you're into Resident Evil, Silent Hill, or the original Alan Wake, you'll be right at home with this. 

[J7SC_Orion]

MSFS 2020 new Dune II w/DDR5 8200...buzzing around on Arrakis 

 

[J7SC_Orion]

Rio and Tokyo in 'regular' airplanes...then ornithopter again, but out of its desert element and into the snowy mountains around Vancouver. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Slaughtahouse]

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

1440p, Max

 

 

Decided to take advantage of the sale. I’m not a huge mech fan, though I enjoyed Hawken from years ago (first person). Action and gameplay is super smooth. A lot of boost / stamina management and rips on PC. Very easy to hit high framerates. I think this is the first From Software game to support >60 FPS on PC. Not open world. No stuttering or hitching.
 

The game’s structure is broken into separate missions with isolated areas and objectives. Gives off arcade vibes with scoreboards but it can get technical very fast with the combat, boosting / stamina management. I haven’t played enough but I see why people love it.

Edited February 26 by Slaughtahouse

[J7SC_Orion]

...some screenies transposed from 4K to 70% jpg...the original CP2077, then on to CP2077 Ultimate, followed by...

 

 

 

 

 

...FS2020

 

 

[Slaughtahouse]

On 02/03/2024 at 14:02, J7SC_Orion said:

...some screenies transposed from 4K to 70% jpg...the original CP2077, then on to CP2077 Ultimate, followed by...

 

 

 

In some areas, CP2077 absolutely beautiful, especially with the way materials react with lighting. Looks straight out of a rendering tool. However, sometimes its disconnected. Lighting is off in this one. Guard rails (fixed and mobile) have inconsistent shadows and the concrete column for the raised highway is missing a large segment. 

 

How is the expansion? I see go to "Dogtown" in the quest prompt, which I believe is the new area  

Edited March 4 by Slaughtahouse

[The Pook]

4 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

I see go to "Dogtown"

 

 

I haven't played the expansion yet either, I started a new character when it released but none of my mods worked with the update so I was gonna wait til everything got updated. Then I forgot about it 

[J7SC_Orion]

2 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

In some areas, CP2077 absolutely beautiful, especially with the way materials react with lighting. Looks straight out of a rendering tool. However, sometimes its disconnected. Lighting is off in this one. Guard rails (fixed and mobile) have inconsistent shadows and the concrete column for the raised highway is missing a large segment. 

 

How is the expansion? I see go to "Dogtown" in the quest prompt, which I believe is the new area  

 

If you have the original CP2077, then adding Phantom Liberty makes it the 'Ultimate Edition'. But no matter its name, I really like the expansion noting that I tend to do less storyline / shooting and more roaming about. There are lots of new things to explore (ie. metro) and new vehicles, tunes and parts of town with more crime. 

[J7SC_Orion]

 

[Slaughtahouse]

Balatro

1440p

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've been insanely addicted to Balatro. I've purchased it on Switch near launch and doubled dipped on PC. I'm around 45 hrs in across both systems. Easy to get sucked into it. Premise is real simple: Beat Ante 8. To do that... Earn chips to beat the blind (round). Each Ante (level) has 3 blinds (rounds), you can skip the small blind (round 1) and big blinds (round 2) but you can't skip the boss blind. 

 

Your deck starts off as 52 cards. You earn chips by playing poker hands. The magic comes from the vouchers, joker, planet, tarot, spectral cards. I'll call them magic cards to simplify. Magic cards enhance, modify, your deck, hand, or how they all behave. You can level up your hands to get better base chips and mults (multipliers). Only RNG is shop items and card pulls. Rest is customizable. It's a roguelite, like Hades, meaning some progress is carried (unlockable magic cards that can pull via RNG) to help improve your odds in the next run. The real fun just comes from how far you can break the game. Watch those chips stack and mults fly, you'll be off to Saturn real quick XD

 

Above are screenshots of my new personal record. Not only did I beat Ante 8, but I went to endless mode and made it Ante 12 and even pulled a 26,000,000 chip hand. I haven't hit hands that are counted in exponents (e.g., 1e17) but I'm getting close.

 

Try this game... and you'll be hooked.

 

Edit: If you type the "Seed" code above (2WF3Z83E) into your game, you'll have the exact same RNG. So you can try to beat my score, apples to apples XD. Good luck!

Edited March 17 by Slaughtahouse

[Supercrumpet]

19 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

Balatro

1440p

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've been insanely addicted to Balatro. I've purchased it on Switch near launch and doubled dipped on PC. I'm around 45 hrs in across both systems. Easy to get sucked into it. Premise is real simple: Beat Ante 8. To do that... Earn chips to beat the blind (round). Each Ante (level) has 3 blinds (rounds), you can skip the small blind (round 1) and big blinds (round 2) but you can't skip the boss blind. 

 

Your deck starts off as 52 cards. You earn chips by playing poker hands. The magic comes from the vouchers, joker, planet, tarot, spectral cards. I'll call them magic cards to simplify. Magic cards enhance, modify, your deck, hand, or how they all behave. You can level up your hands to get better base chips and mults (multipliers). Only RNG is shop items and card pulls. Rest is customizable. It's a roguelite, like Hades, meaning some progress is carried (unlockable magic cards that can pull via RNG) to help improve your odds in the next run. The real fun just comes from how far you can break the game. Watch those chips stack and mults fly, you'll be off to Saturn real quick XD

 

Above are screenshots of my new personal record. Not only did I beat Ante 8, but I went to endless mode and made it Ante 12 and even pulled a 26,000,000 chip hand. I haven't hit hands that are counted in exponents (e.g., 1e17) but I'm getting close.

 

Try this game... and you'll be hooked.

 

Edit: If you type the "Seed" code above (2WF3Z83E) into your game, you'll have the exact same RNG. So you can try to beat my score, apples to apples XD. Good luck!

 

I picked this up a few days ago as well. Only have 3-4 hours so far, but it's a really cool concept. Still trying to find good strategies, but I love the premise.

[Slaughtahouse]

4 hours ago, Supercrumpet said:

 

I picked this up a few days ago as well. Only have 3-4 hours so far, but it's a really cool concept. Still trying to find good strategies, but I love the premise.

 

Since this game doesn’t have cross-play, I had to re-unlock a lot of cards on PC. Unfortunately, it’s really quite difficult to make it to Ante 8 without unlocking at least a few jokers, vouchers that increase tarot or planet probability.

 

My suggestion once you have unlocked about 50% of the cards (see stats for more info) is to not lean too much into one play style at the beginning. Play fluid and diversify into tarot, jokers, and planet cards. You really need the combo of all 3.

 

4 of a kind scales very well but it’s extremely low probability for the first few antes. Each level up increases mult 3x but you’ll need to expand your deck with card packs and clone your best cards with low cards. E.g., sacrifice your 2’s and 3’s into lucky or glass aces. So to start, work with two pair or flush combos and you should get some decent economy to invest more into better hands to swap to a better hand, like 4 of a kind.

 

I typically avoid straights or straight flushes because probability is low. All straights either require a 5 or 10 and with so many other dependencies, I’d avoid in most circumstances.

 

I usually, but not always, skip the first two blinds in the first Ante, depending on the rewards.

 

Steel, glass, lucky are the best card enhancements. Red coins are critical for late game. Purple and blue coins are great for early game. Polychrome is the best edition. Skip foils.

 

Last but not least, this is the most important advice:

 

Card order matters! Pay attention to any cards that multiply your mults XD. They’re best at the right side of your joker stack or your hand. Some cards add chips. Some cards add mults. Stick those to the left. Example: 

 

Hand 1: +3 mult +3 mult x 3 mult = 18 mult

 

Hand 2: x3 mult + 3 mult + 3 mult = 9 mult

 

Hand 1 will score double hand 2. Same cards, just different order

 

Took me about 10 hrs to notice there are cards that mult mults… XD

 

That’s the gist of my advice! Good luck  

 

 

Edited March 18 by Slaughtahouse

[The Pook]

a buddy gifted it to me a few days ago but I haven't played it yet. I don't really understand the premise, he said it was "like poker" but what little I've read about it makes it sound nothing like poker. 

[Slaughtahouse]

51 minutes ago, The Pook said:

a buddy gifted it to me a few days ago but I haven't played it yet. I don't really understand the premise, he said it was "like poker" but what little I've read about it makes it sound nothing like poker. 

 

It’s only poker themed. In truth, it’s a deck builder. You don’t need to understand the rules of poker to play because they don’t apply here. The only poker rule component are hand types, like two pair, 3 of a kind, royal flush etc. Even then, the game gets creative because your deck can be modified to play 5 of kind or flush house, none of which are possible in a 52 card deck.

 

All you really need to think about is how can I beat my blind which requires you to pass a chip score. How you get there is the fun

[J7SC_Orion]

originals are 4K png

 

 

 

 

 

[Supercrumpet]

17 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

Since this game doesn’t have cross-play, I had to re-unlock a lot of cards on PC. Unfortunately, it’s really quite difficult to make it to Ante 8 without unlocking at least a few jokers, vouchers that increase tarot or planet probability.

 

My suggestion once you have unlocked about 50% of the cards (see stats for more info) is to not lean too much into one play style at the beginning. Play fluid and diversify into tarot, jokers, and planet cards. You really need the combo of all 3.

 

4 of a kind scales very well but it’s extremely low probability for the first few antes. Each level up increases mult 3x but you’ll need to expand your deck with card packs and clone your best cards with low cards. E.g., sacrifice your 2’s and 3’s into lucky or glass aces. So to start, work with two pair or flush combos and you should get some decent economy to invest more into better hands to swap to a better hand, like 4 of a kind.

 

I typically avoid straights or straight flushes because probability is low. All straights either require a 5 or 10 and with so many other dependencies, I’d avoid in most circumstances.

 

I usually, but not always, skip the first two blinds in the first Ante, depending on the rewards.

 

Steel, glass, lucky are the best card enhancements. Red coins are critical for late game. Purple and blue coins are great for early game. Polychrome is the best edition. Skip foils.

 

Last but not least, this is the most important advice:

 

Card order matters! Pay attention to any cards that multiply your mults XD. They’re best at the right side of your joker stack or your hand. Some cards add chips. Some cards add mults. Stick those to the left. Example: 

 

Hand 1: +3 mult +3 mult x 3 mult = 18 mult

 

Hand 2: x3 mult + 3 mult + 3 mult = 9 mult

 

Hand 1 will score double hand 2. Same cards, just different order

 

Took me about 10 hrs to notice there are cards that mult mults… XD

 

That’s the gist of my advice! Good luck  

 

 

 

Thanks for the tips! I've been close to looking for some since my runs mostly fizzle out at ante 5 or 6 at the latest in a really unsatisfying and often frustrating way, a surprising number of times less than a thousand off the target.

 

I'd figured some of these over time but a few of these are good to know with your longer term experience. I haven't relied too much on adding cards to my deck since I feel like that's a fairly inconsistent way to go about things, but maybe I don't have faith that my run will last long enough to give me time to put together a better deck lol. So I typically invest heavily in two pair hands and sometimes flushes, and otherwise make small tweaks around the jokers I happen to get. I'll try the approach of tailoring a deck to 4 of a kind hands over time, that sounds interesting. Ironically I've gotten far more straights than 4 of a kind hands, but I think your argument makes a lot of sense. Good notes on card enhancements as well.

 

17 hours ago, The Pook said:

a buddy gifted it to me a few days ago but I haven't played it yet. I don't really understand the premise, he said it was "like poker" but what little I've read about it makes it sound nothing like poker. 

 

I had similar feelings lol. I was introduced to Balatro by a friend who streamed himself playing it over Discord, and he said, "Oh you'll love this game, you like poker and rogue-likes (which is true) so you'll love this." My first comment within 20 seconds was, "this isn't really poker at all, is it" but it was still really intriguing so I picked it up on GMG and don't regret it.

[Slaughtahouse]

23 hours ago, Supercrumpet said:

 

Thanks for the tips! I've been close to looking for some since my runs mostly fizzle out at ante 5 or 6 at the latest in a really unsatisfying and often frustrating way, a surprising number of times less than a thousand off the target.

 

I'd figured some of these over time but a few of these are good to know with your longer term experience. I haven't relied too much on adding cards to my deck since I feel like that's a fairly inconsistent way to go about things, but maybe I don't have faith that my run will last long enough to give me time to put together a better deck lol. So I typically invest heavily in two pair hands and sometimes flushes, and otherwise make small tweaks around the jokers I happen to get. I'll try the approach of tailoring a deck to 4 of a kind hands over time, that sounds interesting. Ironically I've gotten far more straights than 4 of a kind hands, but I think your argument makes a lot of sense. Good notes on card enhancements as well.

 

No sweat   

 

You don't have to stick to Four of a Kind. Thats just one strat and you'll have to be fluid and adjust strats based on RNG early on until you can exercise some control with tarot, jokers, and planets. I only suggest Four of a Kind because its one of the hand types that scales really well, with + 3 mult per level up. Going back to my screenshot, you can see in that run, my mult got to 43 on Four of a Kind and it only required level 13. Two pair was only 7 mult at level 6. I think you get 1 mult per level, so if I invested into Two pair to get it to level 13, I would be at 14 mult. Not ideal for late game. Flush House on the other hand... scales even more crazy. But my deck wasnt setup for it. I was trying to slowly get there but it was too late.

 

Yes, go for card packs when you can and lean into something that makes sense with your hands, jokers etc. I had a joker that gave me x1.5 mult per King in hand. So I quickly started to convert my kings into steel cards (adds x1.5 mult) and then duplicate (sacrifice) cards into steel kings. With all those kings, I had good probability to increase my mult. For best chip score, I went for aces. Preferably lucky or polychrome. I didnt take a screenshot of my deck but it was primairly aces and kings, across 3 suits (one entire suit was sacrificed into kings and aces XD)

 

 

I'm definitely not a pro. I have however beaten Ante 8 about 6-7 times. Furthest run is still the one mentioned, shared above. 

 

 

Edited March 19 by Slaughtahouse

[The Pook]

 

@iamjanco don't buy this game, Fish is in it 

[Slaughtahouse]

Balatro

Switch

 

A few fun rounds on Switch tonight. Lacking… fish XD

 

1. Managed to duplicate a polychrome version of the king in hand buff Joker (Baron). Didn’t get too far but made chuckle.

 

2. Found the spectral card that converts your entire hand to one random rank. Got 9 kings from a hand full of 9s, 7s, and 2s. Huge win. Also didn’t make it far lol.

 

3. Took a chance on duplicating 5’s and leaned into hearts and spades. Had a few killer jokers, many were holographic, one that ranked up my chip value per time’s played, and multiple cards that multed mults when my hand contained a three of a mind. Made it to Ante 11. PR on Switch.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 20 by Slaughtahouse
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[The Pook]

My best last night was round 9, but I mostly petered out at 4-5 

[Avacado]

26 minutes ago, The Pook said:

but I mostly petered out at 4-5 

Sounds about right. Stamina takes practice 

 

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