Not to offend anybody, but to be honest with you, the terrain texture looks rather shit. Hope thats not its highest possible resolution, cause its fairly blurry compared to the 3D models of buildings and units, which are pretty sharp otherwise. Its difficult to put into words, but the it looks weird overall and just not right - unlike sandy and grassy landscapes from the original game.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="3653633"] Quoting psychoak, reply 4 Ashes isn't mod friendly, has an over-simplified research system, doesn't have any depth to unit balance, has no sea units, no transport units, no non-hover land units, no manual ability control. TA was an immensely
So is this going to be akin Act of Aggression, which nowadays is playable in 2 versions - original and reboot? If yes, are u sure this is a good idea? What if i am hypothetically in the TA camp, so not so high on strategic zoom and more complex economy, but i would looove those additional units, which come with Escalation, to have in my base game? BTW, to me Ashes does not feel like having more content on release than Sins had in 2008. Sins felt far more nuanced from the beginning.</p
[quote who="Jafo" reply="7" id="3649678"] Thermaltake Level 10 VL300A9N1N Titanium Limited Edition Case [No.221] Corsair ASX 1200I Platinum Certified 1200w Modular PSU ASUS X99 Deluxe LGA2011v3 MotherBoard Intel i7 5960x 3.00Ghz @3.50Ghz LGA2011v3 CPU Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 LGA2011 CPU Cooler 32G Corsair Dominator Platinum [4x8G] 2666MHz DDR4 Ram ASUS Strix GTX980 4GB GPU 512G Samsung XP941 M.2 PCIe x4 SSD <b
[quote who="Phoon" reply="2" id="3649562"] They are including an adapter in the box that will allow you to connect standard headphones. It won't be too long until wireless headphones take over anyway. Thinner does not necessarily mean it will break easier either. The alloys they are using in these things are getting better. However, if you are stupid enough to have a $700 phone that you don't have in a protective case I suppose you are activ
...so, anyone saw yesterday´s Keynote? Your thoughts? Personally, its more or less in line with what i expected, thus usual hardware improvements of CPU, cameras, battery etc... and no new killer feature, something innovative nodody else does. I guess that died with Jobs. The most interesting to me, as someone who cares about aesthetics, is the new darth vadersque Jet Black color option. I own / owned only white/silver iPhones so far, but gotta say, this one looks
Some gameplay video with the introduction of the new units and all the new stuff in general would be nice. Cant really see whats new on those screenshots - except the terrain texture and global view.
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="24" id="3648550"] You asked about cpu temp. I just watched a few episodes of Orphan Black, (video streaming)and then ran speecy. Core was 90 and red. Its been decreasing since I stopped the video streaming. Seems to 'rest' at 66-70 (orange). When I run speecy, it jumps back up to 74, and then slowly decreases. I think this means the cpu is running too hot, doesn't it. [/quote] <p
Anyone saw it? I did yesterday..at last. It was more or less as expected - like all the recent movies of this kind. Cant really say better or worse than say Superman vs Batman...just i guess bit of more of my cup of tea cause of all the spaceships and shit. Then again, the whole alien "harvesters of the worlds" theme already alluded in the first movie reminds me of Vasari so much - almost makes me want to play the game again (did not play it at all past few months, did not even buy th
[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="2" id="3636350"] That's a pretty bizarre list (despite me loving several of the games on it). [/quote] Lets just be honest, thats pretty terrible list. Half of the game is like from past 3 years, Warhammer, as pointed out, is not even out yet... and so on. Obviously this is pretty subjective, so whatever...
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="3635910"] Quoting Ticktoc, reply 19 A bit more choice [e digicons]:)[/e] : https://www.bluesnews.com/s/171643/nvidia-gtx-1080-review-roundup Good series.
Not my kind of game, but the trailer is very nicely done. Stunning visually and i guess you cant never go wrong with the "Sunshine" music.
There are rumors going around that custom non-ref version of 1080 from AIBs could clock up to 2,4GHz... if true, the cards could actually be quite awesome. I was bit disappointed by the low CUDA core count, but if they can clock that high, the performance could get perhaps 40 percent above OCed 980Ti, which is quite acceptable. All in all, i am fairly glad i skipped 980Ti last year, should be getting better GPU now for more or less the same money, and not better just by some miniscule differe
[quote who="BadVoltage" reply="4" id="3634772"] Quoting , quoting post Will the New Nvidia GTX 1070 and 1080 work well with this game? How about the Direct X 12 capability? There is no use in speculating how good these cards may be, the PR people ALWAYS tell you new stuff is better, so BUY IT! <
Since my now kinda oldish GTX590 broke last year, i am using borrowed GTX580 as a replacement...thus i will very likely buy this new 1080. Although my primary concern is not its gaming performance, but GPGPU capability. At advertised 9TFlops of FP32 performance compared to 6TFlops in case of GTX980Ti, it looks rather good, although its bit shit to pay 700-800 EUROS for 300mm2 chip knowing in maybe less than year there will be bigger and more powerful replacement, perhaps another 50 percent fa
[quote who="redviper37" reply="9" id="3633998"] Quoting Seilore, reply 8 Quoting Horemvore, reply 7 Haha "This Video con
[quote who="eviator" reply="2" id="3633028"] Art is expensive , both in terms of development and performance. May get better over time as the development budget increases and hardware gets better. My perspective differs from yours in that I'm more interested in a deep and replayable gameplay experience, not so much art. The former holds my interest for many hours, the latter for only a few. It's funny I read one post that said "This game is terrible wit
Good choice, getting Rebellion. I am sure you wont regret it. BTW the Loyalist factions are not quite the "standard" races from original Sins. They are as much different from the vanilla factions as the Rebel subfactions. Neither is vastly different though, its more like refinement or addition, rather than complete overhaul, so you should not worry about getting overwhelmed by the new stuff, regardless of playing as Loyalists or Rebels. Not sure which of the factions in origin
[quote who="Scartch" reply="20" id="3629992"] Thanks very much for your excellent advice Darvin3. I abandoned that particular quest when I took a closer look at what was arrayed against me, My next foray will be more along the lines of your strategy. Thinking that it takes too long to arrive at the technology to colonize the ice world, so I'll start with the asteroid. Going back to read again the advice for "beginners post". Chee
[quote who="BadVoltage" reply="8" id="3629474"] Quoting Neinhalt_Sieger, reply 7 " There was a really cool RTS game by the name of Warzone 2100, where you could design your own units, different bodies, weapons, propulsion and so on, and this game engine with that amount of customization would really be epic!" <b
Sorry to tell you, but i doubt it. While the cards dont have to be the same AFAIK, as with regular SLI/Crossfire, there needs to be some performance parity. IIRC 280x is akin to 7970, that makes 270x 7870? And you paired it with 7570, which is pretty much low-end, so no wonder it made the game run worse. I am not totally sure how it works with Ashes, but with regular multi-GPU set-ups, the second GPU renders the odd frames. Now imagine your 270x can do it at 30FPS, but 7570 only at 10
Congrats! Looking forward to those DLCs, third race and naval combat. Now feel free to announce Rebellion 2 on the Nitrous engine [e digicons]:D[/e]
I cant say for sure, but IMO there are some differences. Once again the bombers on Nvidia HW lack the glow on the engine trail and i find it highly unlikely that would be down to different monitor brightness or something along the line. If so, i would expect the effect to be just less pronounced, but to me its like that particular effect its just not there at all on Nvidia. Not that it matters that much to me, i would still buy Nvidia card over AMD cause of CUDA. Just saying how i see
It certainly looks like there are some glow effects missing on the right side. Especially visible on bombers close-up picture, no engine glow on Nvidia HW for whatever reason.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="7" id="3619087"] Quoting Timmaigh, reply 6 And abstract stuff like math is notoriously difficult to visualize. One of my 'party tricks' was to do long division in my head ...[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Like Rainman? [e digicons]:D[/e] &nb
