With open world games, I don't care where I go or what I do most of the time because it's just a giant sandbox for me. My issue though is when I return to something so vast, like in Pillars of Eternity, after a while I don't know what to do and I'm overwhelmed by all these quests to keep track of. Even with games like Subnautica I need to focus on just beating it in a few weeks. Then theres Factorio... I'll never understand what I was previously up to because suddenly all my previously laid out plans seemed so dumb.
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For anyone playing it on Steam Deck, the devs are going to be adding Face It Anti Cheat which is incompatible with linux devices. And for anyone who needs virtualization for work and other activities, Face It Anti Cheat forces you to turn it off from bios before playing the game.
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?
It's the one device where it's a joy to use the dpad. After using it I'm still trying to find one that comes close to how good the dpad functions.
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.
There's 10 campaigns and each campaign has it's own unique events that will always occur alongside the random events. The random ones helps with replayability and it allows you to explore ways to create a specific character because it can drop extremely strong weapons or give you unique traits. A lot of the replayability comes from creating and building unique characters. Some events could technically hinder you but it gives you choices. There's also modding which could add longevity to the game.
Co-op is fine for the most part. It's really simple, you can either drop into an existing game or create a new run with new characters or import characters from previous campaigns. It's a bit similar to For the King if you're familiar with it. The host keeps all the progress in their machine and no one else can access it unless the host is around.
The Maps, Events, and Relationships are all randomized so lot of the same events might pop up. They've added more events but you still see a lot of the same pop up every run. It's just one of those games where you can't take it too seriously because RNG can really screw around if you're trying to roleplay. We've had a few guys find a character they wanted to start a relationship with but cuz of RNG, the same two guys ended up married to each other which was pretty hilarious.
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.
In the servers browser I've noticed some community ones but there are only a few and mostly in different regions. Hopefully they will open it up for more players to host soon.