I downloaded it on xbox game pass, booted it up and played a game with no problem. But there was a severe lack of voice chat. Not sure whose idea it was to release a cross-platform co-op game with public matchmaking and NO voice chat but I won’t be playing again until it is a feature

Like, professor Oak didn’t ask if you’re a boy or a girl for decades?

one of the early quests in the main story requires you to target a ship’s engine to make it shut down you can rescue someone inside. targeting ship parts is a skill you don’t get until you put a point into it

the 1070ti is a minimum requirement. which was badly worded in the article as “recommends at least” since recommended requirements and “least” requirements are two different things

the IGN reviewer is the same guy that gave duke nukem forever (one of the worst games ever) an 8/10, so I’m not going to trust that one much

nice theory but it doesn’t really work for this game:

no, it’s on game pass, which you have to pay for.

I cleared a bunch of space this morning because I had less than 100gb left on my SSD... only to find out that starfield had already preloaded automatically and I didn’t need to actually clear the space

so it’s about half the size of modern warfare 2019 then

it’s kind of required in this game. at one point I made a wrong dialogue choice and it led to my party being wished out of existence, instant game over.

Things got even messier when Gamers Nexus alleged that Linus Tech Tips then sold the prototype rather than giving it back to Billet Labs so it could be sent out to other reviewers. Sebastian clarified later that it had not been sold, but rather auctioned off for charity during an Extra Life fundraiser for the…

It’s a game that looks nicer at high framerates

Overwatch 2 was just released on Steam for the first time.

About karmic dice: in early access they did “mitigate failure and success streaks” but they have been changed in full release to only mitigate failures. They will now only benefit you. However, they also benefit enemies. Meaning that your high AC tank is going to get hit more often than they would with normal dice.

there isn’t a shared inventory but you can press tab and it opens all the active party members’ inventories and you can freely move items between everyone. and you can click on an equipment slot on any character and it will show a list of everything that be equipped there, even if the items are in someone else’s…

you can also skip it and still use steam. just add “—skip-launcher” to the launch options 

lost me too, just for performance reasons. cloud gaming does not work for anything other than turn-based games. and before someone replies about how they do it all the time with no noticeable latency: you’re just bad at noticing latency.

“FUCK SPEZ” reads enormous swathes of the picture, over and over, referring to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman

half-life alyx: valve taunts everyone by reminding them that yes, they do remember that they never made half-life 2 episode 3, let’s open up that old wound by revisiting the ending of episode 2 after 13 years.