The biggest requirement, imo, is probably just having an SSD for the game. There’s a LOT of pop ins and textures that just don’t load until a few minutes later. It does have a “slow HDD mode” but it hasn’t really done much from what I can see.
A modern alternative is Songs of Conquest. It has a pretty active community but it’s always good to have more players.
Soul Sacrifice had a system where you had to pick between 3 types of stats to build around which affects which spells you could use. After each mission you would have to pick between saving someone or sacrificing them which affects your stats.
If you chose power, you end up becoming a glass cannon with spells that drain your own hp
if you chose def, you end up with spells that supported you and the higher your hp the more damage you did. The trade off is your damage is mostly low.
if you chose neutral then you were pretty balanced.
All of these were affected also by the factions you were part of and which spells you have access to.
I find handwriting also lets me better organize my thoughts and allow me to practise and develop my reading and writing skills in the initial stages. Writing makes it easier to organize or make edits as I rewrite everything when I move it to my pc. It just adds less steps to the whole process because I can properly focus on making my first edit and rework everything. It also makes it easier for me to bring around to other people when I see them. I find with a digital copy, most people just press spellcheck and be done with it instead of commenting on how and why I phrase certain sentences and which words might better communicate my ideas. I’m also a bit overwhelmed sometimes when I go through my digital documents that I end up just chipping away at the editing rather than be able to focus on it.
On the other, the idea of carrying a little notebook around to jot things down when I have a phone in my pocket, or using a fountain pen for longform text (trust me it would actually help you avoid hand cramps, aside from being less wasteful) all comes across as… intentionally inefficient? I struggle to see intentional inefficiency as anything but pretension. Like it’s all just fetishizing living a more analogue life.
For most people hand cramps are caused by using the wrong/bad tool and bad body ergonomics and awareness. After I’ve upgraded to better pencils and pens, I’ve had to use way less force to use which mitigated some of the cramping. The rest of it was just me using only my wrists and straining my fingers to write which is entirely incorrect.
I’ve also tried to go digital for note taking but I find I rarely ever did it properly and also rarely reviewed. I also ended up waiting way longer for the apps to load than needed for such short and simple notes. Now I only ever add events into my calender, the rest I just write down on a piece of paper whenever possible.
It’s a great game but there IS a catch that wasn’t mentioned.
The devs plan on implementing one of the more intrusive Anti-Cheats (Face It Anti Cheat) which doesn’t work on Linux which also stops all Steam Deck users from playing. It also forces you to disable virtualization on windows. I can’t recall the last time I had to go into bios to disable an option to turn off important windows features.
According to their stream, it’s non-negotiable and will be added regardless of what the community wants. But they did mention that community servers would be able to pick which Anti Cheat they wanted to use?
I dunno wot else to say lol I have a 5800x3D with the 6800.
I think you mightve misread some stuff because they mention directly that even if you disable that feature through group policy it won’t work.
"However, now it seems the company is taking this a bit further and is forcing driver updates for Nvidia and AMD graphics cards, even if you have this feature disabled via Group Policy Editor. "
"A Twitter account named @ghost_motely posted screenshots showing a Windows 11 machine’s Group Policy Editor with driver updates disabled and a fresh Nvidia driver installed recently, seemingly ignoring this setting. "
I do know how to fix these problems myself. It’s just a bad experience since Adrenaline refuses to even boot unless you reinstall the drivers yourself manually.
We had a lot of stutters in the main hub and throughout the missions with a lot of nasty screen tearing in DRG unfortunately. Not sure what’s going on there since we both have pretty decent rigs. I’m hitting over 244fps on it consistently except for when the strange stuttering happens with vsync off.
There were reports that Group Policy didn’t prevent Win 11 from overriding your drivers just last week.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/windows-10-and-11-are-ignoring-update-settings-and-installing-gpu-drivers
It’s been a frustrating experience overall in regards to drivers.
The F2P stuff rarely if ever get me but some of the premium games are very nice. Teeny Titans, Rebuild, Dungeon Maker, Dungeon Princess, Dungeon Squad, Pocket City, and Monument Valley are all very good games, especially on mobile.
The only F2P game that is keeping my interest is Marvel Snap but the monetization is really pushing me off.
My friend updated to the 6800XT and told me the same thing but the moment I told him to boot up Deep Rock Galactic he immediately started to notice a lot of stuttering. Gunfire Reborn also had a lot of stuttering along with a few more games I play like Metro Exodus and No Man’s Sky. V-Sync somehow fixes all the stuttering issues.
I’ve had other problems like Windows 11 overriding my GPU drivers which makes Adrenaline unusable until I reinstall the drivers. It’s very annoying having to do this every time there’s an update since I’d have to either reinstall Adrenaline or make sure I have the proper drivers hidden away somewhere so I can reinstall them.
honestly the a770 can play most AAA games at 1080p which is “good enough” for most people since the majority are still playing at that resolution. If anything the 3060 or the 6600xt are around the same price range for similar performance. If you do need good performance then I would think about the 6800 or the XT version especially when it drops down to $450 again.
AMD is also on the slower side of getting proper drivers ready so even on the 6800, especially in indie games, I’m getting a lot of strange stuttering even though I’m hitting over 100fps on most games at max settings.
It depends what you’re upgrading from. There’s rarely a good reason to immediately buy new hardware for PCs imo, especially if you’re on a budget. If you’re going from a 2080 then you’re still good for the next few years. For me, I recently upgraded from the 970 to the 6800 when it had it’s price drop to $450 last month. Although, I’d say that s far it’s been worth it, AMD is still behind Nvidia so the experience isn’t as nice. Intel is also making massive improvements and works fine for the most part with newer games.
I’ve gotten away with even harder to run games on a HDD but even if it is on an SSD, I’ve found it to be inconsistent plus only BG3 acts up compared to everything else I have going.