curious to see how this ends up being. it looks like they tried to ramp up the whimsical in a game that’s mostly somber, which seems weird and disjointed. and good luck beating DRG in the whimsical dept

i hope it does well. huge control fan

has a 1060

Then you get 1070p

Can’t argue with that!

I would not describe Control as mostly somber.

Things about it that are somber / serious:

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• The formality of a government agency
• The overarching plot about Dylan and the quest about your home town
• The hiss
• The board
• Trench :::

Things about it that are whimsical:

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• Philip
• Ahti
• All of the documents and writing you find
• Dr. Casper Darling
• The mould
• Dr Underhill
• Jesse’s cool quippy demeanour when she gets through something or learns a new thing
• The Maze
• The music video tunnel
• All of the posters and announcements
• All of the generic FBC NPCs.
• Emily
• The former :::

Things about it that are both:

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• Northmoor :::

I have complete faith in Remedy, both of the Alan Wakes and Control have been surprisingly funny and whimsical, often in unexpected ways. Quantum Break had less humour and was a bit more self serious, but Microsoft also had more control of that project.

I have a 2070 non-super just sitting around, PM me and perhaps I can sell it to you.

That’s nice to hear. Alan Wake 2 was a great game and gorgeous, but even after upgrading my gpu, it was a pain trying to get it to run even sort of smoothly. A bit over ambitous, methinks.

Control, otoh, ran great when it came out and still runs great, all while looking great as well. Going back to whatever strategy worked their seems like a good idea.

COME JOIN THE THRESHOLD KIDS

Same. I have a 1080ti my pal gave me…but it’s overclocked to all fuck, and I can’t afford to build a custom water-cooling loop to upgrade from the 1060…we’ll…I COULD afford it, but there’s other stuff that’s more importanter

Can’t you underclock it using MSI afterburner, so it’ll run cooler?

Sure! But my buddy had thrown away the stock cooling system and just gave me the card with the custom water block on it…

Maybe buy a broken one that has working fans and then yank the cooling.

That sounds an awful lot like work

That’s supposed to be very friendly? I think someone might be a bit out of touch.

Well, even underclocking it won’t make it run that cool. Sounds like a radiator & pump and tubing might be cheaper than buying a dead card and cannibalizing.

Or you could always try to sell it and get a newer card

Yeah, just a whole lot of expenses going out right now. So even £150-200 is off the books for me atm

*Relative to what we’re seeing out of the Triple Ehh space.

Less work than setting up a water block solution lol

Yeah, that’s not bad! Now, that is with quality upscaling, so not at native 1080p. And on low settings, which we’re yet to see how that looks.

But yeah, compared to most of the industry (even themselves with AW2), this is a pleasant surprise! It makes me more open to trying it, since I find shooters on kbm to benefit greatly from higher framerates.

Anyways, I’m not expecting call of duty or cs2 framerates. Lower quality options in those games tend to look pretty presentable, and framerates can get past 120 fps depending on the rig and settings. This game isn’t PvP, though, and I think this middle ground between performance and quality is a great fit for PvE. Helldivers II is where my mind goes (except this game will have half-competent upscaling).