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This deal seems pretty hot. Is it not? I was in the market for a 280x several months ago, then Bitcoin happened and prices spiked so I stopped looking. $200 for a 280 + 3 games sounds pretty awesome. Is the card crap? Not many reviews on the egg but nothing bad besides one DOA and a...

Hi All, Apologies for the new thread. The main BF4 thread is a sh!tshow and I don't want this post to drown in the whining. I'm having a fun time with BF4 so far. It runs surprisingly well on my 5850 at 1900x1200. My only gripe is that the X360 controller I use for flying jets and...

I may be an anomaly or something but the game has been flawless for me on the rig in my sig. I haven't crashed once and the only technical issue I've had is that distant sounds once cut out on me for a round. I'm actually completely shocked at how well my 5850 has held up. I was going to...

What does it do to performance if you use a bit of both? Seems that setting Post to low or medium may protect general image quality while pairing with 2x MSAA would help smooth poly edges a bit. Or do I have it all wrong and mixing the two causes all kinds of calculation collision that...

Beta performance has been ok on my current rig which is somewhat shocking. Looks like going from 5850 -> 7970 is the right move to 1920x1200 to max everything out. I haven't done much reading about the next generation of gpu's, but prices seem pretty good right now and, as far as I can tell...

Before any of you give me hard time, I have very little time to game these days and I've played very little besides BF3 since it came out, so I'm sure I'll get my moneys worth out of BF3 as well. I'm a bit confused about what version to pre-order. I know I'm going to get BF4 and I know I'm...

This. I liked the single player fine in COD4, and the multiplayer was enjoyable and brought some new things to the table (perks, weapon variety, kit options), but, besides the atrocious respawn system, the one thing that ruined the game more than anything was kill streaks. Constant artillery...

Yeah, I'm aware of the sway and holding breath. I'm saying that even with my breath held, or on a bipod, I will have the crosshairs perfectly on an enemies head, and it looks like it hits them (i.e. the tracer goes through the face portion of the model, or at least appears to) but it doesn't...

Is it just me, or do sniper rifle rounds not land right on the reticle? I'm not talking about bullet drop, but just in general, I'll have my crosshair right on an enemies head and it will miss even though it looks like the tracer practically goes through his face, just missing left or right. Is...

Also, according to this symthic post it seems there are no IFV's (LAV/BMP/BTR) or medium transports (HMMWV/VODNIK). Not that it's a big deal, but the variety would be nice.

I only managed about an hour on Alborz and I spent 90% of it in an attack heli. I felt like I'd learn the map and routes faster flying around. Turns out I'm just as bad a pilot as before, but at least there's plenty of real estate to work with to try to out-range lock-ons. Overall it seemed...

Ugh AA missiles are terrible. Was playing as RU on Wake and the US stole our attack chopper. I spent a solid 10 minutes trying to shoot the thing down with the IGLA (of course no SOFLAM to be found so the Jav was not an option) until I got pissed off and switched to the RPG. Managed to shoot...

Soooo close to service starring all the non-sniper rifle primaries. I know it's not much of an accomplishment this far after release, but with my limited play time it's still pretty exciting to know I'll have put all the guns through their paces before settling on a smaller population of...

I wound up pretty disappointed and not buying much as well, but it's probably for the best. I've got a ton of games I've still not completed from previous Steam sales (namely Mass Effect 1 & 2). I suppose you could say I learned my lesson. All I bought was Trine 2 ($3.75) and Red Orchestra...

I snapped up DA:O for free. I'm not a huge RPG guy, but I've heard it's great. Honestly Origin has been pretty good to me. I got BF3 pre-ordered for $40 + free Dead Space 2 by going through their support chat thing, and now free DA:O. That's $40 for around $100 in AAA games. I also...

I hate that it tracks k:d, but I like the weapon achievements. In shooters of yore I used to find a favorite and play with nothing but that weapon. I've been working on starring every gun before settling in to regular "builds". I'm still under 100hrs played so I don't have all of them done...

Is it possible to just buy CQ? On Origin all I see is spam for Premium. I don't want the label, tags, knife, or any of that other crap, nor do I even know what the other DLC's contain. I'm not going to drop $50 on an unknown when there are plenty of dirt-cheap games out there and I've still...

Space Marine for $10 or less. Maybe RAGE and/or Trine 2 for $5 or less.

Anyone know if guest pass characters carry over if I upgrade? Just killed the Skeleton King with my Barbarian and I'm considering upgrading. Was going to try out another class or two before I did it, but I don't want to level up multiple classes and lose it all if I upgrade.

Gah...looks like I need to camp the thread to get one. Curse my friends that all bought digital!

I'm interested in a guest pass as well. I was let down by SC2 and haven't been convinced by reviews and available media if I'll like D3 enough to drop $60 on it. I'm also curious to see how it runs on my laptop before I buy.

That's how I felt watching gameplay videos and also how I felt about Starcraft 2 after ignoring my gut and buying it.

I tend to stick to FPS or RTS games. My top games of all time are probably (in no particular order) Half-Life, STALKER:SoC, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield 2, and Dawn of War 2 (I acknowledge that Company of Heroes is "better", but I like 40K so I enjoyed it more). Clearly I'm not a huge RPG fan...

Am I the only one that has practically zero interest in this game? The only interest I really have is trying to understand what others are find so compelling. With other dreckware like Madden and CoD, I don't like it, but I at least get why others do. Every gameplay video I watch is just...

I use Amazon. Every user gets 5gb of Cloud Drive space for free and anything bought through Amazon does not impact that space. You can pay per year for more space, which is the $20 you're referring to. You can stream or download anything on the Cloud Drive on any device by simply logging in...

They won't invest much in optimizing for PC, so I won't invest much in the game. I bought AC 1 and 2 for $5 each on Steam sale. Never bothered with Brotherhood or Revelations and I've got quite the backlog anyway. I'll get AC 3 for $5 in a year or two and Ubi can be happy to get that much.

I find the LMG's lacking in every scenario except choke-point or area defense. ARs, Carbines, and even PDWs are better if you're mostly on the move. A few LMG's (MG36, QBZ-95, M249) are decent on the move with a foregrip, but I still feel like I'm at a disadvantage when stepping around a...

Strategy games are great. I've just found that since I started working full time and am now married that I don't have time for them. Multiplayer matches are too unpredictable in duration for me to plan them into an afternoon, so now I find myself hopping in/out of FPS games as time allows...

Can't tell if serious... TDM and SQDM are terrible. Sounds like you played Noshahr Canals, which isn't the greatest map. Caspian, Firestorm, Sharqi, Oman, Kharg and Karkand are the best CQ large maps (imo).

This. It's intended to be cheaper, faster, just as accurate, larger strike capacity, and safer for the host platform. Right now the SSGN subs have the biggest individual cruise missile capacity (up to 154) and that's on an absolutely massive submarine. You could fit 154 of those rounds on...

Really hard to pick a favorite map for me. I love Karkand, Sharqi, Oman, Caspian, Firestorm and Kharg any day. I don't hate any maps, but I think Wake Island has to be my least favorite. It's easily the most pro-sniper map available and the layout is somewhat irritating. Seine, Bazaar...

Anyone ever get a 100 point kill assist? I've finally started trying to service star recon after getting my assault, support and engineer service stars and I got two 100 point assists after hitting targets with sniper rifles. Keeping in mind that I play on hardcore so health doesn't...

Likewise. At least 90% of my time is on 64p Conquest Large Hardcore. If the [H] server went hardcore and at least 750 ticket I'd always join it as long as it wasn't empty to help keep it full.

Dark Forces: When I got to shoot Stormtroopers to death for the first time I smiled ear to ear. Ocarina of Time: Stepping out into Hyrule and feeling like the world was genuinely huge. Freaking out when night fell and skeletons rose from the earth constantly. World of Warcraft...

I think it's stat padding to go around capping flags on an empty server to get vehicle unlocks, but I think more people should do it and I'll tell you why. 1. You should learn to use the vehicles without making the rest of your team suffer through learning. Nothing is worse than a beginner...

Buck/fletchette damage is the same across all guns. Frag and slug is higher on the 870. What makes the 870 so effective is it has a narrower choke, so the buck/fletch spread is the lowest, which gives it a longer effective kill range. That said, the 870 fires slowest and has a long reload...

Try the MASS without the rail. It's a fine standalone weapon and the irons are easy to use. I find that it doesn't take much longer to switch out whether it's attached or not. I'll run a 4x on an accurate rifle with foregrip and the MASS alone. It's very effective, though M320 smoke or...

The 870 has the tightest choke of all the shotguns (lowest spread) so it has the longest effective range with buck/flechette. I've got a service star with both the 870 and the M1014 and I definitely think the 870 is overall better, though the M1014 is more effective for room clearing. I've...

I just hope we get a back to BC2 map pack eventually with 5-6 of the best BC2 maps redone for BF3 and some of the missing weapons (AUG, XM8, MG3, UZI, AT4, etc). In BC2 I loved Rush as it felt the maps were built for that primarily whereas BF3 seems more Conquest focused. It's strange how I...

I just hit rank 30 yesterday and still have one weapon for Assault and Support (besides the starting guns for the other team) left to unlock. I also have a grand total of 3 Recon kills. I've been stopping after 100 kills with each weapon and trying them all to one service star before I decide...