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Please Grom, your shtick is clearly more important to you than being clear in explanations, you don't really have a leg to stand on in the narcissism front. It's not particularly difficult to do a simple explanation of the differences if you concentrate on doing that instead of maintaining a character. Manual action guns: requires a user performed action between each trigger depression/ firing. In modern weapons this would typically involve ejecting a spent casing from the breech, and cycling a new round into it via a simple mechanism like working a bolt, pump or lever. Rate of fire is typically slow, but it's reliable and accurate. Semi automatic: similar to a manual action in that you get one firing per trigger depression, but there is no additional user performed step required between each trigger pull so long as there is ammunition in the magazine. The case ejection and loading of a new cartridge is performed automatically, typically using the recoil or gas ejection of the fired round to drive its reload/ ejection mechanism. Rate of fire is considerably quicker than manual. Automatic: similar to semi auto in that the gun's cycling is performed automatically, but it will continue firing so long as the trigger is depressed and there is ammunition available. Rate of fire is quickest by far, but it tends to be more less accurate per shot and more prone to failure and jams. Most personal automatic weapons can be set to a single shot semi automatic mode in addition to full auto.

Dunno, I guess they might view it as being able to use release hype twice, a year apart. That's partly the point of repackaging games into 'gold' or 'goty' editions after all, to get some new release publicity out of an old game. If you listen to the more ardent steam supporters nobody will buy it, slightly less ardent and they'll buy it when it comes to steam; how many of each group there are compared to the game's audience, who knows. Their games have sold well, there just haven't been many of them. Not really my sort of games either and they keep canceling the games that sound good, but I guess they're the ones EA thinks makes them money and they must be paying Disney a fair bit for the license. I wouldn't expect a reincarnated LF games division to do any better, LucasArts SW performance was as bad as EA's in its later years- half arsing projects, constant rebranding, canceling projects, no focus at all- and Disney is as interested in money as EA is.

It will always be the great irony that 95% of the people complaining about Epic Store exclusives would be completely fine with it being a Steam exclusive. Either exclusives suck, including steam exclusives, or they don't in which case ES exclusives are fine. (And it's probably good news overall for GOG users, since we wouldn't have got TOW on release day in any realistic scenario. As it stands now we might even get it the same day steam does)

Me? Yeah, s/a == semi auto since I can't be bothered typing it half a dozen times per post. I would have thought from context it would be pretty obvious since I've said multiple times that full autos are illegal here so they can't be used by either hunters or pros (armed forces and one police unit only, to be specific). Even the ones owned by collectors have to be mechanically gutted, as I also mentioned. You never hit the target. It's the one thing you're 100% consistent about. Remedial reading comprehension and dropping the shtick would help. No charge for the advice, as I'm not expecting you to follow it.

I'd see a recreational use case for s/a where there's potential personal danger. I doubt anyone would want to be working a bolt while an injured bear is charging them having muffed a first shot. That isn't really a concern here, except maybe for wild pigs. Culling of feral/ noxious animals is though, and recreational hunters shooting your feral goats or deer with a s/a is both highly effective and free, and without it they'd do a lot more damage than the amount they do already. Probably more humane overall than the only realistic alternative of fluoroacetate poisoning too; and 1080 ain't even practical in many cases.

Semi autos are rare here though*. Most people just buy the cheapest gun that will get their particular job done, a majority would be bolt action .22LR for bunnies or possums, or shotguns for ducks. Serious game hunters would tend to go for a large calibre bolt action if they're after deer to eat, s/a only if they're culling rather than hunting, or hunting something potentially dangerous like a boar. And handguns are illegal, so a large class of s/a guns aren't here anyway. *I wouldn't really know what the proportion of s/a guns are as a whole worldwide- and I doubt there's a sensible way to determine it either. I'd expect most in the US to be, but they are restricted in a lot of countries, and in others there's no one stopping you just getting an automatic. I'd be pretty confident 90% of the guns designed haven't been s/a, though it would depend a fair bit exactly how 'invented' was defined- the Brown Bess was in use for a century plus but was it always the same model, are clones of out of patent or licensed designs new models, was someone gunsmithing in their shed in the 19th century inventing a new design or not etc.

They can't. Their [the people complaining, to be specific] response with respect to most things including Twitter and Facebook is, basically, outrage or sadness porn with a dollop of authoritarianism for good measure, and I loathe Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter. But, there are literally people here who are quite earnest in their belief that not only should Twitter/ Facebook/ Youtube be prosecuted- when we can't even get them to pay taxes but they seem to think we can throw Zuck in jail or something- but many of them also think anyone who got the guy's video autostreamed to them should be prosecuted for receiving it (!) and that isn't being helped by the police making pointless threats that judges and prosecutors will throw out of court/ never prosecute in the first place. I'd have a decent amount of hope that cooler heads will prevail eventually. Some suggestions are plain impractical. Ban all semi autos and how do farmers control 50,000 rabbits a year? With a semi auto .22. OK, how about feral pigs or deer or goats or thar or moose that you cannot reliably take down with a bunny buster? Well OK, but we still want to ban ***weeoo weeoo trigger warning weeoo weeoo*** semi autos that look like an AK or AR-15.

I wonder if Google has solved cold fusion along with lag. Can't wait to let Uncle Googie not monitor my gaming as well as search, email, browsing, cloud service, phone, images, apps etc. Amazon's forthcoming game service will probably be more successful, this smells like a G+ more than Android/ Gmail/ Google Search. Guess it's good news for AMD though.

That's the irony about it, guy hated muslim immigration and the one place we could have banned immigration from to stop it wasn't Afghanistan or Syria, but Australia. But yeah, Australia didn't send their best. It isn't banning all video of course, and expecting some dude in the US to bow before NZ law is about as presumptuous as expecting us to bow before US law (albeit that's a lot more common) but then again threatening people with 14 years in jail for watching the gunman's video is also utterly moronic. I can't help but think a lot of the reason why they're trying to suppress his views is not so much public protection and copycats but that they're following the exact path he predicted they would in response with knees jerking through desks. Knees understandably jerking through desks, but I'm not a fan of changing anything just because of that bellend, and there will inevitably be people trying to push their pet projects on gun control and information dissemination now they're 'doable'. The old 'something must be done, this is something, ergo it must be done' fallacy is very much in play. You cannot practically rebuild the semi autos sold here to automatic. You can't sell models that just have auto mode disabled in some way so if you want to convert you'd have to rebuild the entire weapon. That's a bit of a sore point with some collectors as they have to gut their collections mechanically. Typical Grom. I specifically say the AR15 is a semi auto, Grom complains and two posts later is saying that it's a common mistake to say it isn't an auto as if that isn't exactly what I said three posts ago.

Valve would have a point about DRM/ EULA being off topic review bombing if it were possible to buy the game in question without the DRM/ EULA. If you have to buy the game with it, it's part of the product and by definition not off topic. It's like having a delivery driver punch you while dropping off your new dish washer- technically, you did get the dish washer delivered, so you 'have' to rate the delivery service 9/10 by Valve's logic and anything else is a negative review bomb irrelevant to the fact you got your new dish washer. Frankly, this policy is their most direct response to Epic Store, and as always with Valve it's the lowest effort possible response I do love their doublespeak used to justify culling DRM/ EULA discussion though. We're not really saying your views on DRM are irrelevant and lead to complaints from publishers that you're negging their game! You, the enlightened DRM/ EULA concerned types are the well informed elites and we take your concerns very seriously! Unfortunately a lot of the unwashed masses in the form of the general steam user will be confused by your enormous intellect, so we must protect them from confusion by muting your views because we're just so nice that way!

Typical Gromnir, 50 people dead and the most important thing is trying to nitpick. And you even manage to fail at that. It's almost like the misleading stats I debunked were your misleading stats and you've been nursing yet another grudge for years. But anyway, it's not even grammatically incorrect since most of the AR15s sold here aren't actual AR15s, they're knock offs. So are the AKs for that matter, most are Norinco copies rather than Izhmash (as was).

No kidding, but the AK on the other hand is notoriously an auto weapon even if the models sold here are mechanically s/a same way as an AR15 is. No disambiguation and people would think I meant full auto AKs were legal. Point is, of course, that the AR15 looks like a M16 and an AK semi auto looks like an assault rifle version. Neither version sold here is automatic, neither can be retrofitted to their military equivalent. Can't say I'm surprised you'd try for a zinger, equally unsurprised you missed. Don't think I've ever opined about US gun laws either except in an abstract manner, as it isn't my business. I debunked some doctored pro gun statistics someone posted here once, but then I'd debunk doctored stats on paint drying. And since I didn't state it explicitly last post, literally nothing has changed legally in the past 3 days as parliament wasn't even sitting over the weekend.

FFS, we haven't banned assault weapons in 2 days. Watching overseas ignorami opine about our gun laws etc etc has been far from an edifying experience since they fail to get even the most basic facts correct most of the time- and are far more interested in firing off zingers at their domestic political opponents than getting things right. Assault rifles have been banned here for ages, all you can buy is a semi auto that looks like an AK or AR-15. The main problem in Christchurch was that while it's illegal to own 30 round mags with an A cat license it isn't illegal to sell 30 round mags, so 30 round mags got sold. That's the sum total of the loophole which was exploited, albeit it's a ludicrously moronic loophole to allow. 30 round mags can only legally be owned if you have an E cat license, and you're not getting one of those as a member of the general public. Honestly, if you lined people up here- or most places elsewhere- and asked them to ban two guns out of our semi auto AK/ AR15 models and a WW2 M1 Garand they'd instantly pick the 2 'assault rifles' despite the Garand being far more dangerous, because the Garand looks like a bunny buster and not an assault rifle.

That would be Alexios. The only reason I'd play through AC: Od again would be to see if Kassandra (whose VA and scripting is 100% fine) was quite as jarring as he is when their roles are switched around.

Anyone willing to recommend or otherwise Watch_Dogs (2) since it's on sale at the moment? I've enjoyed/ am enjoying AC: Odyssey well enough but I definitely wouldn't want to play another similar game immediately after* and the rep of Ubisoft games is that apart from their more niche titles like Anno they all have a similar approach. Plus the premise of Watch Dogs seem to be one of the more interesting ones. *AC: Odyssey is just too repetitive at its heart, then again if you're getting tired of a free game after near 100 hours you don't have much to complain about in the greater scheme of things. I wish there was more mission variety and a bit more substance to the war- being able to murder hordes of Athenians and Spartans with no consequences makes little sense and you can kill leaders, steal their money and burn their supplies then turn up to their army recruiter 5 minutes later and all is forgiven. OTOH the visuals are great, I like Kassandra and the historical angles are mostly accurate and add a great deal of depth to what could have been a fairly shallow game.

Given the "Origin read my medical records" FUD* I'm going to be a bit skeptical about such accusations- if it's privileged information then fundamentally it ought to be encrypted by steam and thus not be publicly accessible. *He was storing his medical records in the programdata folder for some weird reason- well, I always suspected it was recursive and he put his medical records there deliberately because he'd chcecked Origin scanned the folder. Plus there was the "Origin will sell your private info to 3rd parties" FUD, when actually Origin's policy was way more stringent than steam's which specifically excused 3rd parties from following its privacy policies, unlike Origin which made them follow its more stringent ones.

Epic Store is literally, literally literally- banned in China though. Unlike Steam. The accusations about Epic Store are even more nebulous than those against Huawei- where it's increasingly looking like the complaints are because there aren't NSA backdoors built in rather than there being Chinese ones present. Bit of an open question though as to how many/ what proportion of customers are outraged about it or have a negative perception of the Epic Store. Some certainly do, but whether it's enough to generalise about customers in general is certainly not clear. I'd suspect most don't really care or don't know and only the enthusiast social media types care. From Epic's POV Tim Sweeney has seen Steam as a negative for years, them leaving Steam is hardly surprising and per the Borderlands 3 hints I wouldn't suggest anyone hold their breath for it not being Epic exclusive, I'd guess that's half the reason it's being made and it will be ES's Halflife 2/ Steam equivalent. You don't generally hear devs complain about Steam publicly, but then you wouldn't expect most to since Steam is the biggest and by far the most powerful store so you have to be careful about offending them, but there have been issues bubbling under the surface for a while. Very few devs like the current approach to Discovery for example and the inundation of low effort shovelware burying their products for example but without an alternative what can they really say about it? Similarly many question why Valve takes a near retail sized cut despite being being a digital store with digital store overheads. Game journalists on the other hand are just utterly useless and a fair few literally literally hate gamers and will think any outrage from them has to be unjustified and any criticism of anything by them has to be entitled gamers throwing toys from cots.

You know, one could just as easily question where did you get that 25% number from.It's oddly specific and reputable people that promised to benchmark the thing didn't deliver so far. Perfectly fair to question where it came from. 25% is the highest drop observed and yeah, it's 100% anecdotal. Various drops have been observed by pro reviewers with ~12% being the highest and lower single figures being more common, but then even when doing a proper CPU limited scenario at very low resolution (which only the ~12% youtube review bothered with) the reviewers still had high end hardware in the 8700k class with lots of threads, rather than more typical hardware. With 12 threads hardly any program will use them all so Denuvo overhead can largely be offloaded onto an empty thread, with proper coding- but the case is quite different if you don't have any spare threads as is more likely with an i5/ minimum hardware set up. Nobody has formally tested that so far as I am aware though, there are only anecdotes which show the big frame rate drops. It won't effect most people (much) because the vast majority of people are GPU limited rather than CPU limited; it's brought up because mkreku previously claimed denuvo had no effect at all.

Meh, people who support DRM being stockholders in Denuvo is a bit conspiracy minded really- it's any sort of drm that gets defended and iirc Denuvo is made by a privately held Austrian company. Far more likely he just hates pirates for whatever reason, so since pirates are bad any countermeasure taken against them has to be good, and if you're not for said countermeasures it has to be because you're pro pirate rather than being annoyed that you as a legit customer have to suffer through bad drm. End of the day that would be a very human logical progression.

Or.. these developers implemented Denuvo poorly. Or are you suggesting Denuvo has a 25% performance hit every time? Well, you said there would be zero hit under all circumstances so that is already out the window. It will have up to 25% performance hit dependent on CPU type and whether the computer is CPU or GPU limited. If it's GPU limited there will be no performance hit unless the extra overhead pushes it into CPU limited territory, albeit 25% is a lot of extra overhead. The amount seems reasonable for a system that requires on the fly encryption and decryption plus multiple hook monitoring, they could never realistically do that for 'free'.

Being a bit old isn't a problem, being from someone who uses Resetera is. That site is utter cancer. I'm still disappointed they didn't get kicked entirely for their doxxing and harassing rather than just being given a final warning by their host. If cut were such a big deal... everyone would run their own store and get 100%? Then again, if cut were irrelevant then nobody would run their own store and everyone would just use Steam, and Gaben could put his cut up to to whatever he likes? It's almost as if the situation is a bit more nuanced than he's letting on. Itch.io and Humble aren't even the cheapest options anyway, direct selling via BMTmicro is so far as I am aware, and in reality they're all selling slightly different things- BMT is cheap as chips but completely bare bones, Humble is high(ish nowadays) volume but very low margin, itch.io is tiny; and the bigger players have services with more features. Having said that though many Steam features are designed not carefully to appeal to developers and customers but carefully to promote the maximal amount of lock in to steam as a service- same for Origin (Access especially, though it si very good value if you're willing to cancel your sub when not using it), uPlay and to a lesser extent GOG. Bags of money to throw around is a pretty massive plus to have though. Practically it has a different market from most of the smaller players including GOG (all of whom's greatest competitor is Steam), Humble has a different sales model, while Origin and Uplay exist to sell EA and Ubisoft titles. Epic Store is completely irrelevant to some of those stores and mostly irrelevant to the rest. GOG is hurt by CDPR not having a recent release and still being mostly an old game site where most people have bought what they want. GOG is also not primarily in competition with Epic and Epic Store may actually be better for GOG- as they may well end up getting titles like Metro Exodus the same day that their main competitor (steam) does instead of well after.

You can easily see why they did it, and it's a good approach for Epic as well. Gamers are abject morons fickle as a group and couldn't stick to principles to save themselves (COD_boycott.jpg), a decent number will receive the Epic Store keys and just decide to use them as they're 'free'. (4) is wrong though as it's "if we exclude the drm, then it has no DRM" just like arguments that Steam is DRM free. An extraneous program for download, install and updating is 100% DRM if it's Epic Launcher or the steam app. Yellow Peril is so cringe; whether it's 10c or Huawei. As if Steam hasn't sold out 100% to the US and other governments- and was planning on selling out to China as well. Fig/ Kickstarter are not sales, technically neither are standard pre-orders as a sale is a contract for goods receive in exchange for money, until you receive the good it isn't a sale. In many places cancellation should be available after 28 days and right up to release (and given they've clearly varied terms they would have no standing for cancellation fees etc). Investors should be ecstatic with a minimum sales pledge though, assuming they're really investors rather than super fans.

DirectX12 support has been added to Windows 7 (!) Given that Win7 is meant to be non supported inside a year that really is pretty random video game news.

So it looks like Denuvo actually does eat your CPU cycles, thanks to DMC 5's Denuvo free developer fork being public for a few hours alongside the standard denuvoed exe. Up to 25% of your precious fps go straight to the DRM anti tamper. I haven't been so surprised since I last dropped something and it was accelerated towards the object of greatest local mass. Or maybe it's all a plot by dastardly pirates to slander Denuvo's good name...

I've been playing AC: Odyssey, having never played an Assassin's Creed game before. It's good fun, though it's basically Witcher 3 but a little worse in every respect, and I find myself appreciating the effort put into the historical aspects plus it's clearly had an equal effort put into the world building. I do wish other games would take a leaf out of Witcher 3's book- hoho- and make their places of interest, well, interesting rather than just being another place to clear out. The big world building strength of Witcher 3 was not that it was huge, nor was it its somewhat (and at times very) stilted main quest line, but that it gave a good impression of being a real world where its points of interest may have been templates but had always seemed to have some unique features about them to keep interest up instead of being make work/ padding. The variety of quests AC: Oy is also just a bit worse all the time and are almost always just to kill everything or deliver something. But it is certainly nice having a more or less full cast out of Thucydides and have them be recognisable as such and the world is huge, pretty and detailed. OTOH I haven't even been to half the world- about half the islands, 'Macedon' and almost the entire Peloppenese including Sparta is unvisited- and I'm lvl 49, top merc and have all the sensible usable skills maxed out; and that seems a tad excessive for having half the content remaining.