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Post by dazk on Apr 6, 2022 23:21:35 GMT
Today was a bit of a wild one. Continued on with Podarkes's and his rebels and a lot of strangeness happened. First up when going through the fort with Kyra...well I went through the fort with Kyra. She decided for whatever reason to just start walking through the fort and join me in the attack which got her into a fair bit of trouble so I was not able to really stealth it that well. But got it done and then she just continued walking through the fort...so had to go back in to trigger the cutscene which was outside to confirm that the game glitched. Also, did Call to Arms and I should have known better though it was a while but since this was a weird set up for a conquest battle. And well seems that pre empted all the stuff with Theleatas so...oops. And then killed Podarkes...actually it was funny now that I think abut it. I also did 'M is for murder' and I was just about to get the doll but Podarkes was there in the room and well he woke up so I had to knock him out. Anyways I still think he was knocked out by the time I got there to kill him. And then I forgot if you did the bear quest what's her face showed up as a lover for Barnabas. And a LT. Of course I let her join the crew and even if she wasn't a goldy I still would have let her in. From there did the quest where I gave Alkibiades...cast...to that officer and I blamed Alkibiades. Ended the night on a rather bitter bill. Went to Argolis next for the main story and well I decided to humor the guy this time and save his patient. And well he needed me to get something for me. First big stealth fail of this Playthrough and this quest always tends to give me trouble. But yeah in the end saving that one guy cost me probably a half dozen Athenians or so, two mercenaries, and Sokrates's patient. I do try and play Kass a little peaceful and not so quick to kill, but also as someone who doesen't really dwell on things. I think this will bother her for awhile. What happens if you give you blame the cast on Alkibiades I have never done that or have you not been back to him yet?
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Post by colfoley on Apr 7, 2022 0:14:51 GMT
Today was a bit of a wild one. Continued on with Podarkes's and his rebels and a lot of strangeness happened. First up when going through the fort with Kyra...well I went through the fort with Kyra. She decided for whatever reason to just start walking through the fort and join me in the attack which got her into a fair bit of trouble so I was not able to really stealth it that well. But got it done and then she just continued walking through the fort...so had to go back in to trigger the cutscene which was outside to confirm that the game glitched. Also, did Call to Arms and I should have known better though it was a while but since this was a weird set up for a conquest battle. And well seems that pre empted all the stuff with Theleatas so...oops. And then killed Podarkes...actually it was funny now that I think abut it. I also did 'M is for murder' and I was just about to get the doll but Podarkes was there in the room and well he woke up so I had to knock him out. Anyways I still think he was knocked out by the time I got there to kill him. And then I forgot if you did the bear quest what's her face showed up as a lover for Barnabas. And a LT. Of course I let her join the crew and even if she wasn't a goldy I still would have let her in. From there did the quest where I gave Alkibiades...cast...to that officer and I blamed Alkibiades. Ended the night on a rather bitter bill. Went to Argolis next for the main story and well I decided to humor the guy this time and save his patient. And well he needed me to get something for me. First big stealth fail of this Playthrough and this quest always tends to give me trouble. But yeah in the end saving that one guy cost me probably a half dozen Athenians or so, two mercenaries, and Sokrates's patient. I do try and play Kass a little peaceful and not so quick to kill, but also as someone who doesen't really dwell on things. I think this will bother her for awhile. What happens if you give you blame the cast on Alkibiades I have never done that or have you not been back to him yet? In short... he freaks.  He says that this is 'not good' and that I 'ruined his plans' and that 'he has some thinking to do.'
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Post by dazk on Apr 7, 2022 1:09:17 GMT
What happens if you give you blame the cast on Alkibiades I have never done that or have you not been back to him yet? In short... he freaks.  He says that this is 'not good' and that I 'ruined his plans' and that 'he has some thinking to do.' Thanks for letting me know, I was tempted last time to say it was him because I have always followed his instructions but in the end it gets you nothing supporting all the time anyway.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 7, 2022 11:14:08 GMT
Another bit of a weird and fun day. The temple of Akeplioses kind of ended up becoming a sort of center for mercenary central. Probably four or five of them. BWhich brings me back to one of the things that really drove me up the wall about the game, hasn't happened, in awhile...but then with one of them going through and well it got everyone else mad at me....for some reason. Bunch of military guards...bunch of civies. Luckily I think I got away with not killing anyone...this time. And I blugeoned abunch of them before escaping. Though later I killed someone swinging through and hitting someone I knocked out...
It did occur to me to that with the sacred heart quest that while I think I usually save the kid but it did occur to me that as far as it goes, relating it back to the Blood Fever quest earlier, that both of the people who came up weren't actively showing symptoms. Sure, they could be infected with it but the girl was and well...I mean they were all worried about dying from a disease that I couldn't even be sure they had. And even in the case of the farmer it was even worse considering I am not even sure if he was worried about the disease. So the kid gets it.
Killed Chrysis...
And then I had a lot of fun trying to get into the land of Xenia. I had reached the overencumbered weight and had been flirting with that for most of the night so had to keep on dismantling stuff. My intention was to get to a blacksmith on Keos and then next time start off dismantling and selling off gear. And well I thought it odd when I got there that even the dock was in the red. Turns out I had forgotten...because I usually beeline for Xenia...that the entire port is closed off till you talk to her. And I did. Which I suppose it is also kind of odd in hindsight that you don't have to do anything for her she just tells you about Myrinne the second you ask.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 8, 2022 11:25:10 GMT
So sold off all my stuff. I am rather surprised at just how much legendary gear you have...even after selling everything off I still had 149 slots filled. Yikes. Though this did also inspire me to look at the transmog and play around with a few things on that end. Namely what caught my eye is the 'Origins' armor...they added the cosmetic kass was wearing at the end of the game in the new DLC into the game. And well...its weird. Its close but A. I like the beat up look of the Master Assassin gear...and it looked weirdly modern.
From there though went to Eubeo. But it was fun because going there I thought going 'right' wouldn't be too easy so I decided to go 'left' to swing around the island that way...the island turned out to be the mainland. So that didn't work out.
And...got to Eubea and did a little more guilt free murder murder. The set up here is always a little ridicilious considering it seems like 'the authorities are actively engaged in helping out the Dagger and supporting his operation. Plus in the whole warehouse thing there was a very tight nit group gathered around the guy you needed to get. So.... I answered with an overpowered shot, which wiped them out. Also overpowered shotted the people harrasing the theater people. But weirdly enough between this and then the whole Fort where the farmer was sent didn't seem like any of my murdering actually caused me to acrue a bounty so that was nice.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 9, 2022 10:55:16 GMT
Weird stuff continues with this playthrough.
I think I am having a little bit of 'difficulty' transitioning away from Vahalla in the usage of the archery. This playthrough I am emphazising it far more I think with Kass then I have in the past. Which of course is not exactly a *bad* thing it is still quite fun, but weird. The highlight was going after the Centaur in Eubea and then the campe outside well went up to the side of the cliff just across from that little *thing* in the center. Well there was the group gathered there and I started raining in Predator Arrows, they did not wake up, so I had to rapid fire them in there, didn't miss once. Overpowered the rest. Of course this does have issues because it would have been a lot simpler to just rush assassinate the Cultist and his little dog too...but I predatored the dog too. Of course it only bought him five seconds as a Heroic strike finished him off.
Speaking of dogs though...the weirdness. For some reason I just got into a loop of dogs attacking me. On the way back from the quest where you get the Dagger's dagger they kept attacking me...I tried to ignore them...and then got ganked by a chicken, the aforementioned dog, maybe another, a bunch of guards, and I think even a civy joined the fray. I won but still...oi.
The charge up the Skyros town to deal with the Dagger is always a highlight of any playthrough for me. More Archery porn.
And I finished off in Athens. Man I don't know if I talked about it last time, can't fully remember when the last time I played was but this whole thing just hits pretty different after 2 years of... well 'you know what.' Kleon just standing there and insighting the crowd and whipping them into a frenzy. Instead of dealing with the problem he is using it for his own agenda. Some things never change.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 10, 2022 11:19:06 GMT
Archery is fun, until you miss a point blank shot on the cultist guard who then proceeds to whack you one. Still dealt with him but ugh. This playthrough continues to be boundless in its weirdness. I think something that happened for the first time. I was just goofing off knocking into one of the soldiers that joined my attack with Myrinne on the Naxos beach. And he said something like 'I'm warning you!' so I kept at it wondering if he would actually do anything. But then I got bored and paused to spend my ability point but when I unpaused...he started attacking me! I was able to knock him out of course I wasn't intersted in killing him. But then it got weirder...after following Myrinne back into Naxos I discovered the soldier who put the bounty on me...for repelling the soldiers on the beach. And he started attacking me to without any provocation at all! And then more guards joined in to! I was rather proud of myself though because I loured the final guard to an out of the way corner of Naxos and just waited for him. He eventually came on in looking for me still and I knocked him out to. Oh and also before I forget to riding around Naxos with Myrinne and there was a peasent...I thought we would clear him...but Myrinne didn't...and she knocked him into my horse's path. |
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Post by colfoley on Apr 11, 2022 11:45:53 GMT
So my game froze so there was that and thus didn't get much done since I almost never feel like continuing that if the game crashes.
For some reason I am actually think I'm having a lot more fun then in previous playthroughs with the naval battles. Like it was just one of those things that has been a lot of fun this time around. With Naxos you get the two ship battles in quick order. First one was rather fun as I got into a bit of a chase it seemed...uh stern chase as they would say...but my ship just wasn't moving so I just had to sit there for a second but I realized it was because my stamina was low...so I gave it a second and then finished off the charge but there was a lot of tactical moments like this. Then going after Silanos's main fleet I don't think I realized a Spartan ship followed you in there. Which was neat and cinematic but I was pulling away more and more from them but I figured that they would catch up. And they did. Highlights of that particular battle was Silanos's flag ship got way too close to the beach which gave me the advantage. The trouble was that I was worried the final ship was out to sea so I could end up in the same position but nope they didn't. I was able to slam into it with it essentially land locked then burned the hell out of it...I had a lot of firepower. Then slowly turned to crawl my way back out to sea to deal with them...but the Spartan whip was laying in fire arrows as I charged in. Again epically cinematic.
Then the bug. Got to Naxos, hunted down the cultist, and then tried to escort what's his face to Xenia...but he wouldn't come off the ship. The brief flash of memory occured to me so I thought I would say...went to quit out...and it crashed.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 12, 2022 12:01:46 GMT
So kind of turns out the big bug from last night might not have been that big of a bug...which makes it crashing even more of an interesting and concerning fact that it did so. But in the end continued on with the mission and what happened was you actually had to dock with the closest dock to Xenia and then the DLC will trigger. Which I just underestimated the travel distances involved which is why I didn't pursue it last night. From there hit Phokis and looked for that one cultist in the wolf den...which ended up going into Malis. Whic I got eventually and then later the first God of the Aegean... Also did the whole Lalia village thing. Got what's her face killed. I must say I have been sort of keeping a bit of a running tally in my head. Based on Dragon Age 4s sub forum the thread in there 'no good deed goes unpunished' about good actions leading to bad outcomes. Of course the issue I have...which I'd go into if I ever go in there ...is that it has to make sense. It can't be an issue of an unset up negative consequence...see the Witcher 3...but it has to actually make sense and be set up for it to go wrong. And I think ACOD does a good job enough of that, just take the 'blood fever quest'. I bring this up though because I am a bit uncertain if that qualifies for that. The choice for Lalaia is to go after the scouts or the weapon caches. Now Thyia did make reference to how the scouts could cut their throats in their sleep...so that works for set up. But it is still a little bizarre in its own way because you go to the caches and wipe them out...that is basic military tactics one oh one. Wipe out someone's supplies and they cannot effectively fight a war so they should retreat. And as bonus points here the scouts only got the attempt because the SoX was still able to launch an attack. I don't know I am probably putting way too much thought into this and it is still probably effective from a story perspective, it does get the emotion going, but I just don't like the feeling that to avoid the death I would have to meta game here and I am just having trouble fully justifying Kass's choice either way. Though I think one of them dies either way? |
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Post by colfoley on Apr 14, 2022 10:40:57 GMT
So... I find it funny that I was basically bee lining through the story, more or less, about 20 hours in. But now I am branching out and going through the 'grind' of side content. Off to Pephka and the Beast of Belos and the rock of Athens.
Oh I think i might have done this before but it occured to me of trying to get the guy threatening to jump to kick him off to prempt the quest...this time with the battlecry of Ares...that did not work.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 15, 2022 9:17:19 GMT
Pephka/ Messara has to be one of my favorite areas in the game. Did the whole Minotour thing and it still has me in stiches...love that quest so much. I also love it I always tend to pick the whole 'this is for your sick mother' thinking it will be a sarcastic response but in a way that makes it better still when you reject it still . Got up to starting the Minitaur arc (the real one) with the sword fish. I always don't know why but this is one of the things I always have trouble remembering how to start so it took me a couple of minutes to realize you had to talk to the kid which gets you in the direction of the Swordfish. Also the bandit camp with Leandros was quite fun becauwse that gives me fits to...just not this time. I actually sniped from the clips and thinned them out before going in with a Rush assassination to get three more of them. BCAd the rest of the encampment essentially. |
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Post by AnDromedary on Aug 25, 2022 20:17:35 GMT
Finished Origin (and the Hidden ones DLC, skipping the fantasy DLC) and moved on to Odyssey again and started a new game on hard difficulty (which is not that hard so far). Playing as Kasandra again of course. I just can't do Alexios. Fun fun fun. Still on Kephalonia though. Defeated that first mercenary dude yesterday, did a few quests and probably will give the Cyclops a right thrashing tonight.  |
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Post by dazk on Aug 26, 2022 0:08:00 GMT
Finished Origin (and the Hidden ones DLC, skipping the fantasy DLC) and moved on to Odyssey again and started a new game on hard difficulty (which is not that hard so far). Playing as Kasandra again of course. I just can't do Alexios. Fun fun fun. Still on Kephalonia though. Defeated that first mercenary dude yesterday, did a few quests and probably will give the Cyclops a right thrashing tonight.  I miss Kasandra so much.  Poke the Cyclops in his other eye for me. 
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Post by Sanunes on Aug 27, 2022 13:43:19 GMT
Finished Origin (and the Hidden ones DLC, skipping the fantasy DLC) and moved on to Odyssey again and started a new game on hard difficulty (which is not that hard so far). Playing as Kasandra again of course. I just can't do Alexios. Fun fun fun. Still on Kephalonia though. Defeated that first mercenary dude yesterday, did a few quests and probably will give the Cyclops a right thrashing tonight. I miss Kasandra so much.  Poke the Cyclops in his other eye for me.  I miss the voice actress for I don't believe that Ubisoft could make a character that is that much different their their previous ones and then go back to there old habits with the next game.
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Post by AnDromedary on Aug 29, 2022 16:43:13 GMT
Finished Origin (and the Hidden ones DLC, skipping the fantasy DLC) and moved on to Odyssey again and started a new game on hard difficulty (which is not that hard so far). Playing as Kasandra again of course. I just can't do Alexios. Fun fun fun. Still on Kephalonia though. Defeated that first mercenary dude yesterday, did a few quests and probably will give the Cyclops a right thrashing tonight. I miss Kasandra so much. Poke the Cyclops in his other eye for me. So I did just that. Then got off Kephalonia, did the whole Megaris and Phokis thing and am now on my way to Athens.
I gotta say, I kinda forgot a little how much of psychopath Kassandra really is in the beginning (though granted, so are most of the others).
I mean, I was kinda rooting for Elpenor for quite a while there. On Kephalonia, There is this really weird thing happening when Kassandra and Marcos just "so there are these new guys who just arrived on the island, let's just kill all of them and take their money". They seriously just decide to slaughter those dudes for no reason. It's not even that they think they might work for the Cyclops or something like that, oh no. Marcos says specifically that they just look like they might have some money on them, so Kassandra should kill them all so that he can pay off the Cyclops.
In fact, even the Cyclops himself kinda seems like he isn't really that much of a villain. Apparently Marcos really did owe him the money, so he esnds Kassandra to kill him so he doesn't have to pay him back. Sure, the Cyclops is a bit of a brute and all but he is kinda the one who is in the right here.
Ok, after all that, you go to Megaris and kill a whole bunch of Athenians, so you can get to the Spartan general (you father) with the intent to kill him. I ended up not doing it in this playthrough. Did it in my last one (and it was a cool scene) but this time I want to try and get the whole family back together in the end.
Anyway, after that, it gets a little iffy because in Phokis, you can kinda do things out of order. If you did it the "right" way and go to the oracle of Delphi first, she will tell you that Elpenor is part of the Order of Kosmos and that they are hunting you. In that case, it does kinda make sense that you hunt him in return. But in my case, I found Elpenor's hideout before ever getting to Delphi (because let's face it, it is kinda on the way there anyway). So as far as my playthrough was concerned, Kassandra just walks in on Elpenor - who has paid her handsomely for two jobs at this point - and start to yell at him that he deserves to die and then you just kill the poor man. The motiv for Kassandra to do so was only revealed by the oracle alter at which point she just goes "oh yea, already killed the dude, haha".
So yea, No I am reminded why I ended up playing her like a weird spycho later in the game as well ni my last playthruogh. Because those first couple of hours really drive that impression home. Don't get me wrong, still love her and her ... rather casual attitude towards life and death. But I am not sure I wanted to cross path with that woman IRL. 
Oh, by the way, different topic. I am playing with this mod, which allowed me to turn off a lot of the hud elements, including ll the location markers and - very important - all the question marks. It makes the game so much more enjoyable as you can actually stumble onto stuff rather than seeing it all on the map and compass all the time. It really allows you to explore the world much more. I whole-heartily recommend it. There is also a version for Origins, which I used as well and it has the same effect there.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Aug 29, 2022 17:47:36 GMT
Meanwhile me playing a Kassandra who uses sneaking and non-lethal combat to do those quests never got that impression.
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Post by Sanunes on Aug 30, 2022 4:01:40 GMT
I miss Kasandra so much. Poke the Cyclops in his other eye for me. So I did just that.  Then got off Kephalonia, did the whole Megaris and Phokis thing and am now on my way to Athens.
I gotta say, I kinda forgot a little how much of psychopath Kassandra really is in the beginning (though granted, so are most of the others).
I mean, I was kinda rooting for Elpenor for quite a while there. On Kephalonia, There is this really weird thing happening when Kassandra and Marcos just "so there are these new guys who just arrived on the island, let's just kill all of them and take their money". They seriously just decide to slaughter those dudes for no reason. It's not even that they think they might work for the Cyclops or something like that, oh no. Marcos says specifically that they just look like they might have some money on them, so Kassandra should kill them all so that he can pay off the Cyclops.
In fact, even the Cyclops himself kinda seems like he isn't really that much of a villain. Apparently Marcos really did owe him the money, so he esnds Kassandra to kill him so he doesn't have to pay him back. Sure, the Cyclops is a bit of a brute and all but he is kinda the one who is in the right here.
Ok, after all that, you go to Megaris and kill a whole bunch of Athenians, so you can get to the Spartan general (you father) with the intent to kill him. I ended up not doing it in this playthrough. Did it in my last one (and it was a cool scene) but this time I want to try and get the whole family back together in the end.
Anyway, after that, it gets a little iffy because in Phokis, you can kinda do things out of order. If you did it the "right" way and go to the oracle of Delphi first, she will tell you that Elpenor is part of the Order of Kosmos and that they are hunting you. In that case, it does kinda make sense that you hunt him in return. But in my case, I found Elpenor's hideout before ever getting to Delphi (because let's face it, it is kinda on the way there anyway). So as far as my playthrough was concerned, Kassandra just walks in on Elpenor - who has paid her handsomely for two jobs at this point - and start to yell at him that he deserves to die and then you just kill the poor man. The motiv for Kassandra to do so was only revealed by the oracle alter at which point she just goes "oh yea, already killed the dude, haha".
So yea, No I am reminded why I ended up playing her like a weird spycho later in the game as well ni my last playthruogh. Because those first couple of hours really drive that impression home. Don't get me wrong, still love her and her ... rather casual attitude towards life and death. But I am not sure I wanted to cross path with that woman IRL.
Oh, by the way, different topic. I am playing with this mod, which allowed me to turn off a lot of the hud elements, including ll the location markers and - very important - all the question marks. It makes the game so much more enjoyable as you can actually stumble onto stuff rather than seeing it all on the map and compass all the time. It really allows you to explore the world much more. I whole-heartily recommend it. There is also a version for Origins, which I used as well and it has the same effect there.
I thought the game itself allowed you to turn off HUD elements?
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Post by AnDromedary on Aug 30, 2022 4:18:19 GMT
I thought the game itself allowed you to turn off HUD elements? Not to that extent as far as I know. |
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Post by Cyberstrike on Nov 4, 2022 20:43:06 GMT
Getting ready to do the arena quest in Fate of Atlantis part 3.
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Post by saandrig on Mar 12, 2023 7:51:16 GMT
I have ascended, fellow demigods. To the RTX 4090 heaven. Had to tinker around 3 hours with PC (battery change, SSD upgrade, cable management, missing bolts and creative GPU bracket solutions).
Odyssey was one of the games I tested yesterday. Holy cow, Batman...
Maxed out every setting and it still got me double FPS over what my 1080Ti could at 1440p optimized settings. And that is while obviously being severely CPU bottlenecked, no upscaling options. Athens was running at smooth 100 FPS, give or take.
CP2077 with everything maxed out (still CPU bottleneck) and no DLSS or FG gave me 70 FPS on the benchmark. And 138 FPS on the old settings I used to run.
HZD maxed out graphics with DLDSR (4k uplift) and DLSS looks absolutely amazing and runs practically at 130+ FPS all the time. The smoothness is real!
Yikes, I should consider a CPU upgrade from now on.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Mar 12, 2023 8:29:45 GMT
Welcome, fellow connoisseur   Seriously, though - well done. For all the negative talk around their release, this thing barely raises a sweat no matter what gets thrown at it. Enjoy. |
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Post by saandrig on Mar 12, 2023 9:12:38 GMT
For all the negative talk around their release, this thing barely raises a sweat no matter what gets thrown at it. Enjoy. The card is insanely good. The price however shouldn't have been higher than 1500 (with taxes and all) for the highest AIB models. 2000 euros being the lowest baseline (with taxes) is ridiculous, but it's what it is. I figured there are plenty of awesome games this year and I want to play them at the best possible graphics and smoothness. Last time I upgraded the GPU was for MEA. Now it's kinda for Dragon Age Dreadwolf. Let's hope the next ME game isn't in 6 years for my next GPU upgrade, rofl. Btw, just tested Frame Generation in CP2077. That thing is INSANE. 180 FPS at max settings, let's fucking goooo... |
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Post by saandrig on May 2, 2023 5:35:23 GMT
A 4070Ti would always be the better choice for the long term gaming, especially at 2560x1440p. The CPU will not matter nearly as much. Even a 3080 won't be close enough. And when the game supports DLSS3 (Frame Generation) the 4070Ti will leave any 3000 card in the dust. DLSS3 also helps the CPU. So if you use your system for 4+ years, a 4070Ti is what you want instead of a 3000 card. At raster level, the 4070Ti is 20%+ better than a 3080. But with Frame Generation enabled, that difference can jump easily at least above 60%. And the 4070Ti does way better any Ray Tracing loads. Just no contest. As an example - now both cards can do 100+ FPS. Say you got a 144Hz monitor, so the difference between a 100FPS with the 3080 and the 120FPS on the 4070Ti doesn't look that much. But in a couple of years the 3080 meets a game where it struggles and gives 60 FPS. The 4070Ti does around 72 FPS, but the game supports Frame Generation, so you turn it on and suddenly are back playing at 120+ FPS again without lowering the graphics. It's an amazing tech. Plus - the 3000 series are power hungry with big transient spikes (so require better quality PSUs). The 4000 series are very efficient in comparison and the transient spikes are no issue. The Ryzens are good CPUs, especially if you don't do water cooling. The newer Intels practically require water loops, unless you want to gimp their power draw massively in the BIOS (with an acceptable performance loss). If you get a 5xxx Ryzen, the best one is 5800x3D. Still among the top gaming CPUs. If you can't get it now, you can still grab the 5700 with the potential option to replace it down the line with a 5800x3D. They both use the same motherboard, so it will be just a CPU chip switch, without changing anything else. But just in case - look up the motherboard and which CPUs it can support. |
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Post by dazk on May 2, 2023 7:14:55 GMT
A 4070Ti would always be the better choice for the long term gaming, especially at 2560x1440p. The CPU will not matter nearly as much. Even a 3080 won't be close enough. And when the game supports DLSS3 (Frame Generation) the 4070Ti will leave any 3000 card in the dust. DLSS3 also helps the CPU. So if you use your system for 4+ years, a 4070Ti is what you want instead of a 3000 card. At raster level, the 4070Ti is 20%+ better than a 3080. But with Frame Generation enabled, that difference can jump easily at least above 60%. And the 4070Ti does way better any Ray Tracing loads. Just no contest. As an example - now both cards can do 100+ FPS. Say you got a 144Hz monitor, so the difference between a 100FPS with the 3080 and the 120FPS on the 4070Ti doesn't look that much. But in a couple of years the 3080 meets a game where it struggles and gives 60 FPS. The 4070Ti does around 72 FPS, but the game supports Frame Generation, so you turn it on and suddenly are back playing at 120+ FPS again without lowering the graphics. It's an amazing tech. Plus - the 3000 series are power hungry with big transient spikes (so require better quality PSUs). The 4000 series are very efficient in comparison and the transient spikes are no issue. The Ryzens are good CPUs, especially if you don't do water cooling. The newer Intels practically require water loops, unless you want to gimp their power draw massively in the BIOS (with an acceptable performance loss). If you get a 5xxx Ryzen, the best one is 5800x3D. Still among the top gaming CPUs. If you can't get it now, you can still grab the 5700 with the potential option to replace it down the line with a 5800x3D. They both use the same motherboard, so it will be just a CPU chip switch, without changing anything else. But just in case - look up the motherboard and which CPUs it can support. Thank you very much. Cheers
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He says that this is 'not good' and that I 'ruined his plans' and that 'he has some thinking to do.' 
He says that this is 'not good' and that I 'ruined his plans' and that 'he has some thinking to do.' 
Then got off Kephalonia, did the whole Megaris and Phokis thing and am now on my way to Athens.
