Has anyone had a go on Pubg? There's a guy I watch on Twitch who plays it every now and then and it looks brilliant. The only thing holding me back is the idea of playing a shooter with a keyboard and mouse which I have no experience with. There's also apparently an aimbot hack going around but I haven't seen that in game yet.
Anyone played it / recommend it?
Me and @Baz play it. It's utterly brilliant.
He's posted some videos of us playing (hiding in bathrooms and being useless)
I picked this up Sunday night and have to say I am loving it too. The fact you went -30 on any course blows my mind. I was new to the game so expected it to be Tiger Woods with better graphics but the realism on this is fantastic. I finish most rounds 1 or 2 over or under. And its so refreshing to play a game that isn't just swing and win. I remember on tiger woods on the par fives using a driver on my 2nd shot from the fairway, try that on this and the results are comical.Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
Only thing I dont like so far (due to not understanding it) are the career mode and society. What's the benefit of leveling it? I know it lets you play more events over a season but you chose when the season is over so why not just keep doing new seasons with 4 events....
Do you use a keyboard and mouse?
The career mode and all that is for those who want to play a single player aspect. The real meat of the game is in the courses created by many fantastic designers, and joining societies. If you can't find any societies, sign up here:
http://tgctours.com/
and go to the forums, there's loads of them who welcome people of all skill levels. TGCTours mirrors the real life golf schedule too, play for virtual cash, world rankings etc so if you want to get involved in that aspect its worth it. Ya don't have to play every week, just whenever you want or can, 4 rounds a week. The TGC2 season kicks off at the end of this month. You do Q-School over six courses, get your score, submit it, and you're given a card from either PGA/Euro through to the amateur ranks of CCA through to Z. I'm on Euro, hence the -30. Was top 30 in the world at one point.
Going 1 or 2 over as a brand new player is impressive regardless of which clubs you use, TGC has always been the hardest console golf game around. If you're on PS4 feel free to add me (DorkSirjur), I'm around most nights/weekends and its easy to join into a round I'm on or vice versa.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...s-2-announced/
Well that's a welcome surprise.
Appreciate that, massive help. Is there any particular course designers to follow? Do you need to be in a society with a high amount of members and a high level? For example, if me and my mate are the only 2 members of a society will there be parts of the game that I'm missing out on? Yeah the -30 sounds unbelievable the way the game plays.
My favourite part of the game so far is how satisfying a birdie is on this. Ive got the odd eagle but you gotta play very well to even be in with a shout. I play on PC and after a quick google search it shows that courses are cross platform but doesn't say anything about playing cross platform or using your ghost.
For courses designers, the six best I'd list as:
Scarpacci (My favourite designer and a fantastic geezer)
ArticFury85
CrazyCanuck1985 (known for stunning courses, and Canuck, aka fucking crazy, greens)
Reebdog
TasteGW
theCLV (The best real course recreator out there)
Worth keeping a check on here too: http://tgctours.proboards.com/board/9/completed-courses
I'd also highly recommend St. Andrews and Magnolia currently, both amazing courses to play and fantastic version. You don't miss any parts of the game by not being in a society, or only having mates in one, bar winning more in game cash to buy frivolous shit, really. Most societies have weekly tournaments for fun, however.
A very quick tip I can give you is elevation/downhill. For every 3 feet of uphill, add 1 yard to your shot. So say its 165 yards 21 feet uphill, it'll be roughly 172 exactly to the pin (not including wind into the calculation). Do the same for downhill, so if its 220 yards down 30, its 210 yards to the pin exactly (give or take a yard or two on these estimations due to lie as well).
Putting, use the marker, always, it gives leeway on your putt. So a 15 footer up 10" is 25 feet of power or a little more. 30 feet down one foot will be 18 feet of power. Move the marker to the answer after doing the math, move it left or right due to break, then aim at the marker, not the hole. The marker will give you a 2-3 leeway on power so it allows the ball to drop a bit easier.
Wind, and the rest of the math is still up in the air as we all get used to it, but the math side won't be as important as TGC1 (math was everything in that game) due to the loft boxes being less exploitable.
Oh and the putting tips depend on green speed, which you can see above your putter in the top right. The higher the number, the faster the greens, 187 is fastest, so it putts like shit off a shovel, 101 is like treacle. Adapt to that, too.
Ill give them all a follow tonight and hopefully play through a few of the courses. Thanks for all that, a lot clearer now and I look forward to achieving my 30 under round tonight! Just didnt want to be losing out on things by being part of a society with only 2 people in it and stuck on level 3. Putting at first was an absolute nightmare, I was 4 putting on greens at one point.
I three putted from 7 feet yesterdayDon't be thinking a score like -30 is a regular occurrence, I only worked my swing out yesterday.I'm mainly averaging about -4 or -5 a round.
It took me about three hours and my PC almost went out the window, but I got my PS4 controller to work on Pubg and it's brilliant
Had a great game just now. Got down to the final 10 and I was hiding in a roadside hut. The circle closes in and I'm outside it so I make a run for it and there's a guy running alongside me at my 10 o'clock position. I get up close enough, couple of blasts with a shotgun and finish him off with a pistol. I then run into a house and make my way up to the first floor and there's a fucking guy hiding in there. He puts a few bullets in me, I return fire but he finishes me off and I finish 9th. My hands were shaking afterwards. This game is amazing.
Aye I can't wait for it to come out on the Xbox later this year, its about the only PC game I really wanna play.
Yeah, the only reason I took the plunge is because it looks like it will take ages to come out on PS4. It really is top quality, though. The adrenaline rush is like no other game I've experienced.
Awesome. Loved the first one, shoving someone in a giant mixer for interrogation always counts as a win.
Anyone wondering what all the Dayz hype was about back in the day, it was this x100.
We do.
I'm watching a Let's Play of RE7 and quite enjoying it. Well, I'm actually watching my second playthrough because Game Grumps were doing the VR version but then stopped so I've picked up with "Two Best Friends Play..."
It doesn't make me want to play it myself but it looks a good game. The lighting / shadows are ace, even just looking at somebody else playing it.
Its goes from exceptional after the first 2 hours to varying between bang average and very good for the rest. The opening is the closest we've had for a while to a proper horror experience in gaming.
Solid 8/10 as a whole though.
Yeah, I mean as soon as:
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As you say though, the opening bit is superb.
On the flipside I've now watched the first part of Many a True Nerd doing The Evil Within.
It looks like utter shit.
I bought it for a fiver, quit within 15 minutes and gave it away. Yes, yes it is.
The best bit so far is that the character nearly gets his calf chainsaw'd off, somehow manages to outrun chainsawman down a corridor into a lift, and then when he emerges from the lift is FULLY HEALED and no longer limps. There's a sort of perverse curiosity in watching games where either the developers couldn't give a shit, were genuinely inept or were fucked over by other things.
From the small amount I've seen of DayZ, isn't it pretty aimless? It just seems to be endless running with no actual goal. With pubg you're always forced to move towards the restricting play zone and so it forces engagement. I don't think I've been in a game that's gone over 30 minutes.
I have DayZ and PUBG and Battlegrounds is way more fun to play.
I meant the mod not the shit new one.
The tense encounters they're looking to re-create in these games were the ones we enjoyed in the mod, they were less frequent but the investment in your current character was much greater so they felt like they had more meaning. You can track the evolution of this stuff from the original Dayz mod (and other modes like Wasteland etc) through Battle Royale in Arma 2 & 3 right up to the recent spate of arena deathmatch things like Culling and Plunkbat.
Still got it lads
I'm yet to get a hole in one but I imagine it feels glorious. Played a round yesterday and finished E through 17. Bogeyed the last to finish 1 over. Raging. Went straight to profile and purchased some ridiculous clothing and now I look like a clown on the tee.
Played an online course too and it was amazing, cant remember the name of it but it had the word Bear in it and the last hole green was in the shape of a bears face. (Sounds shit I know)
Wanna squad up sometime @7om?
Add me on teh steams.
I'm a twit
Nice man, sounds like you're steadily improving. Took me about 2-3 months of playing TGC1 before I was consistently going under par, its rewarding when it all starts to click though.
I'm yet to get a hole in one but I imagine it feels glorious. Played a round yesterday and finished E through 17. Bogeyed the last to finish 1 over. Raging. Went straight to profile and purchased some ridiculous clothing and now I look like a clown on the tee.
Played an online course too and it was amazing, cant remember the name of it but it had the word Bear in it and the last hole green was in the shape of a bears face. (Sounds shit I know)
Sure, although weekdays I'll only be on past midnight UK time. Weekends should be ok. What is your Steam name?
EDIT: Actually, I'm friends with Mike on there. I should be able to find you through him.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...mport-nemesis/
Pretty sure I killed the one who was the biggest pain in my arse as soon as I got chance.
Steamworld Heist has saved me from one of those evenings where I've got loads of things to watch / play and didn't want to do any of them.
Cracking little game.
PUBG is essentially the greatest game ever
https://twitter.com/m0ron/status/882403175671619584
Ace. We often play Sunday evenings but not sure what time that is for you. Do you have Discord and a mic?
I'm a twit
It's on my wishlist, though I'm thinking of getting it on the Ipad.
But yeah, looks ace.
I have a PS4 headset but I've never tried it on my PC so I don't know if that'll work. Never even heard of Discord.
I love that. Might have to get it.
Discord is excellent. You should definitely use it for any PC multiplayering you may be doing.
The excellent Steamworld Heist has led me to have to make a surprising and very difficult choice.
Is Steamworld Heist's robot band better than Machinarium's?
Do you have to find shitty instruments for your heist? I'm going to play / cheat my way through Deus Ex. It's sat there long enough and I need to know.
Finished Wolfenstein: The New Order. Really, really liked it. It's got a really weird clash of tones but they do a better job of tying it all together than you'd expect.
Interesting that they largely keep the weapons fairly straightforward, other than the magic laser thing that gets more and more powerful.
Yeah, Blazkowycz going on about feelings and shit is real weird. Especially when he's saying, "Wake up, you're dead!" to Nazi Commandants.
One minute he's dual-wielding auto-shotguns against SUPERSOLDATEN and the next he's talking about shit that happened in his childhood. And yet because the animation on the characters is great and the voice actors aren't spewing ham everywhere it somehow hangs together. I don't think I'll bother with The Old Blood but I'm looking forward to The New Colossus, which I did not realise is the name of the poem that's on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.
made a start on The Signal from Tolva and enjoying it so far. One bit in particular of note is an interior area where it has portal-type things that you wouldn't notice outwith scan mode but reposition you in the ship. In the first instance before you realise what's happening it has a slightly disorienting, bigger-on-the-inside type effect.
EDIT: Was just looking to see if any of the gaming channels I've started watching have a Let's Play of it. I was looking at the comments (I know, I know, I normally don't) and it says: "This game is like a borderlands clone with less polish to me."
I can only assume he hasn't watched any of the 40-minute video he's commenting on.
The thing I missed early on are the three little proximity bars that point you towards various types of goodies.
Thuwha? I'll need to keep an eye out for that.
See the lorebook in the gamefiles, am I better reading that before/after the game or doesn't it matter?
There are three little coloured bars on the HUD that fill up as you get close to signals, the red hexagon things, and normal loot/scrap. Either the game doesn't tell you what they are or I completely missed it, they're bloody useful when you're clearing out areas. The lorebook is absolutely not required reading but it does a nice job of framing what's going on. I think I read it when it was about half way through.
Sounds good. I'll let you know on Steam if we play. We are rubbish though, be warned.
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