Evening Reading: Rights Management Training
Then there's the case of gaming on the go with laptops. One of the cases made for the continuing strength of PC gaming is its massive installed base. Laptops make up a substantial part of that and as someone who's traveled for work I can say being able to pop on a game wherever I happened to be was definitely part of the appeal. Sure, you can buy mobile hotspot access at the airport and hotel, and in-flight Internet access is becoming more common but this requirement makes those connections mandatory for playing my game.
On the other hand, for the core PC gamer with a good gaming rig setup this system sounds pretty tolerable on paper. It doesn't run resource hogging services and enables running the game without a disk in the drive. Even with these benefits it shows how damaging the impact of piracy has grown to be on Ubisoft's PC business that they would put in place such a potentially controversial solution. Sounds like it's time to revisit the subject with some PC developers to get their refreshed take on the subject.
Here's a little refresher on our takes for the day:
- Discuss Mass Effect 2 in the big launch day thread
- One part of the day one ME2 DLC slightly delayed
- If for some reason you don't have it, get Psychonauts for $2 on Steam
- New Halo Reach screens!
- Star Wars Galaxies still kicking, gets an expansion
- Monster Hunter coming to 360, at least in Japan
- Dead Rising 2 will be out this year but more importantly be sure to watch the trailer for the movie!
And not that it comes as a shock but it was pretty funny to see/hear the McGraw Hill exec blow the "offical" announcement of the Apple tablet.
Televised car chases are all the rage in LA but this one tops any I've seen yet.
Not that I don't have enough eye strain from staring at the screen all day but these 10 optical illusions are pretty rad
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Woot Mass Effect!
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Looks like someone figured out how to disable mousesmoothing and tweak sensitivity further than low / mid / high.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/765942
you need to edit the file with notepad++ or the game will crash on launch, haven't tested this myself so backup the file first / use at your own risk! -
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This game is fucking awesome, but there's still some "Huh?" moments.
Like, discovering that your piecemeal armor choices have in-game effects, and that having a helmet of some sort is better from a gameplay perspective...but that the helmet stays on during conversations so you never see your own face. And further, that for some absurd reason, they realized that it was nice to let you easily swap weapons at points throughout a mission but didn't think to let you do the same with armor.
Or coming fresh out of Dragon Age and expecting lots of hilarious inter-character banter and getting almost none. In fact, aside from doing the character specific quests and talking to them on the Normandy, it feels like their personalities vanish entirely as soon as they're recruited.-
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Nope, no way to look at weapon specs, you just have to go by what the descriptions say, although I get the impression that barring a few things (heavy weapons, for one) it's pretty much a given that a new weapon is an upgrade.
And yeah, each piece of armor has a particular advantage to it, most are things like 5% extra health, or shields, some boost your damage, but having no helmet gives you nothing.
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You can interrupt lines in conversations now depending on your Renegade/Paragon score.
Sometimes, an icon will appear - Left Mouse Button on the left-bottom side of the screen or Right Mouse Button on the right-bottom side of the screen - and if you press the button before it goes away, your character will cut the person you're talking to off and interject with something tailored to your Renegade/Paragon score.
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Shack tags use both, it depends on the tag.
http://sapiens.shackspace.com/ShackTags.png
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mass effect 1.
done all the side quests i have available. done numeria, feros, and finding liara t'soni.
i think this leaves virmie and the race against time quests left before i have this finished and can join everyone in mass effect 2.
20 hours dumped into this in a matter of 4 days. O.o
I wish I had stuck it out beyond the first couple of "side missions" during my first attempt. -
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ME2 question:
Did they fix the extremely poor enemy AI (bum rushing you like zombies as soon as you enter the room), equally poor ally AI, horrible Mako exploration side tasks, and the awful inventory UI?
I enjoyed the story in the first one and to a lesser extent the combat, but I don't want to deal with any of the bullshit caused by those factors again.-
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Yeah, enemies duck behind cover a lot now. You really have to move around to get to them sometimes.
As for rushing, the only enemies that I've ever had the rushing thing with is the Krogans, but really they're fucking Krograns. Krogans are huge, badass aliens. Of course they're going to rush your ass.
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What the shit is this? I don't have a game saved? I just played for 3 1/2 hours, had auto saved checked and watched the game save itself regularly, yet now when I get to the main menu, there is no "load" or "resume" option?!?!? The "Save" tab was greyed out during my play so I figured I was in an unsaveable area, but apparently I can't save the game? I rented it so I didn't unlock the Ceberus Network thing. Is that really required to even save the game?
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