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  1. Archer
    Didn't Ubisoft say PC was the lead platform? It's ACIV all over again. Interestingly, Watch Dogs sold more in 24 hours than any other Ubisoft game has in its lifetime. I'm sure this is the perfect excuse for them to maintain such poor PC coding.
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    Thanks for the heads up azreal. I was planning on my own build, but sadly, my lack of time, inexperience, and desire for a very small PC (I'm not a fan of large towers, especially when the same components can be stuffed in a smaller chassis) lead me to making an order on OriginPC. I went with their Hadron Air chassis (which is water-cooled as standard), and decided to go with a stock Haswell i7 (not the -K model), alongside an over clocked GTX 780. Hopefully this desktop (I'm shocked at how small an EVGA Hadron Air is, it's about the same dimensions as an Xbox 360, albeit slightly bigger on all three axes) will give me the performance I've been looking for. I'd like to avoid upgrading for at least a few years, and hopefully a GTX 780 will help with that at 1080p gaming. I went with a 27 inch HP Pavilion 27xi IPS monitor to round things out. I like large monitors, and abhor TN panels, and HP had this monitor for a very fair $260 price tag (and it looks nice as well!).
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    Thanks for the tips guys. I'm looking at an i5 4670k, with an AiO liquid cooling solution, coupled with a GTX 780. This will most likely be packaged into a mid-tower PC case, so cooling will be decent. Hopefully, it should keep me relevant for a few years.
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    Another update, and a change of heart one: I returned the MSI GS60 Ghost Pro that I recently bought. Unfortunately, not only was the GTD 870m not giving me the performance I wanted at this price-point, but it was consistently hitting 92 - 93 degrees Celsius in temperatures. It started to crash from time to time, and even I could see that it wouldn't last. Going to invest the 1800 dollars in a proper desktop, throwing mobility to the wind. With that in mind, does anyone actually recommend an i7 over an i5? A lot of games are recently starting to throw in i7 requirements for ultra settings, and that's worrying me a little (since I'd prefer to spring for the cheaper i5 instead).
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    I didn't really enjoy CCA all that much *runs for cover*
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    ^ I actually think India is one that works. I only know that because I'm Indian, and they were available when I tried to stream them a few months back when I visited India. Don't know about any other specific countries though
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    I've had a lot of fun with Titanfall, and I actually found the controls and movement paths to be very intuitive. It may just be that I'm so used to COD (used to play a LOT a few years ago). While games like BF4 are incredibly frustrating for me (since I'm new to Mouse/Keyboard), Titanfall's PC controller and aim assist support has been wonderful. That said, I don't know about Xbox One, but Titanfall PC is basically dead as of late. It takes ages to get into a match! I've never seen such a large AAA game lose its player base so rapidly (I can understand why though, the game is starting to get old for me too, and I've yet to hit the level cap)
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    Any hints or information regarding what happens to banagher, riddhe, and friends? I don't think "Zeon" ever makes a return save for in references after this. You would think God Mode Banagher could do something to "better" the world or something.
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    But srsly though, does anyone know what happens after unicorn? Is there some obscure novel/manga that I've missed that explains how everything changes so quickly?
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    ^I believe you can still rent off the Sony Entertainment Store if you download Sony's media go program. You can stream digital media from your PSN download list directly on your laptop. At least, that's how it's supposed to work. Hope that helps! Or if you have an xbox or windows 8, you can get the dubbed version off the xbox store.
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    I saw it yesterday as well, and I thought it was excellent. A beautiful ending to an epic series. Sunrise has really stepped up it's game recently. I REALLY want to see what happens between unicorn and f91 though, it's kind of a hole in the UC history timeline outside of hathaways flash. How does the government change so starkly in a time frame of only about 30 years. What happens to Banagher, mineva, and all the zeon remnants?
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    I can't seem to find it on playstation network. Guess I'll wait it out a little to see if they update the store with it. All other 6 episodes are available. Edit: Thanks Azreal. I can wait till tomorrow.
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    Wow, that's insane! Glad to see AoT holding up stateside, even though I'm sure a lot of interested parties have already seen the sub.
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    Wait, season 2 is legit confirmed? With how successful season 1 was, I should have seen this coming, but still. I'm excited
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    So, as an update, I received my MSI GS60 Ghost Pro today (it has an 870m). I didn't get a chance to do too much with it (mostly, I left it alone while installing games), but I did notice some things. First and foremost, SteelSeries Engine immediately picked up on my Sensei mouse and added it to the software (which was already added since the keyboard of the laptop is made by SteelSeries as well). All was well and fine as I messed around with the program. Unfortunately, I tried to add profiles to the mouse, and after it hung up, I tried to close and restart the program. I don't really know what happened, but the SteelSeries engine refused to open after that. I had to uninstall it and get a fresh download of the program from the MSI website. After that, it doesn't seem to show any issues. Needless to say, I'm not gonna try and mess around too much with this software, as even others have noted that its a bit touchy, unreliable, and the most recent version direct from SteelSeries (Engine 3) won't work on windows 8.1 (so MSI use an older version). I only tried one game so far, and that was Skyrim with the HD textures pack. I didn't jump into ultra settings (as I was worried about the 870m throttling in such a small chassis), but the game ran beautifully on high settings.....for about 3 minutes. After that, I don't know why, but the game crashed, and crashed hard. Couldn't even crtl/alt/del my way out of it, and had to restart the computer. Upon logging back in, it appeared that steam was performing some update in the background. I don't know if that is what caused the crash, but after trying the game again, I experienced no such further crashes (I think it was a random one time deal, it's happened before to me on my mac, so I don't think it's a big deal). The touchpad isn't nearly as good as the one on my macbook, but truly, I've yet to find a touchpad as good as the one apple makes. That said, I actually REALLY like the steel series keyboard that MSI packages. It's "firmer" than a standard macbook/ultrabook chiclet keyboard, and feels heavy duty in a way. Haven't tried any fps yet, but when I get bf4 running, I'll report back about temperatures on the keyboard when gaming. With all this said and done, the laptop is pretty light, and games BEAUTIFULLY. I know you guys with actual desktops may think light of this, but I've never actually had the chance to game with such "high" specs. My only experience with PC gaming has been with the 2012 retina mac's GT 650m, and the jump to an 870m has been glorious. I was playing skyrim before (with HD textures) at 1680 x 1050 on low settings, and barely managing 45 fps. Now, 1080p at high settings, with a full 60 fps, is jaw dropping, and that's on a game as old as skryim. I look forward to how battlefield 4 and Metro LL play on this card. Overall, money well spent! (obviously a desktop is more economical, but as a college student, it's not really plausible since I move around so much).
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    Does the cpu take a performance hit at high polling rates?
  17. Archer
    I'm pretty soft core when it comes to gaming. The most "competitive" fps I play is BF4, and that's for casual play only, not really competitive. Most of my friends have a PS4, and not a gaming PC, so I'll be reserving my multiplayer heavy games for the PS4. What's a 'good' or 'common' DPI that most people use for 1080p screens? I know it's user preference, but I'd like to set the mouse to one well adjusted DPI and call it good. I highly doubt I'll be taking advantage of the competition features like different profiles, polling rates, etc. Plug and play is more my sort of thing.
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    My body is ready I really hope they don't go with the novel's ending, but we'll see.
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    Awesome, thanks! And yeah, I realize that there are downfalls to an external hard drive set-up for gaming. The rMBP that I've used for PC games the last 2 years has been limited with only about 90 GB in windows [bootcamp], so I've always had to delete a game before I download another. Now, with file sizes upwards of 30 GB, it's getting more and more unfeasible. Obviously the MSI laptop has a 1 TB secondary storage, so space is no longer a paramount issue, but I'd rather not just shelve the Mac if at all possible. This is why external hard drives seemed to have some potential. And thanks for the simple mouse explanation. I'll be sure to screw around with DPI settings. Hopefully, I can set it up so that I have a "standard" DPI and a "sniping/precision" DPI. As for mouse comfort, I had a magic mouse before this that I really liked, and the sensei is about the same size, so I think it will be fine. With that said, obviously I've never done too much gaming with an apple magic mouse, so I don't know how my claw grip will translate to intense gaming.
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    Do any of you guys use external hard drives for storing games? I would imagine the biggest cap to be the UBS 3.0 transfer rate, but I want to see if it's feasible. In other news, my GS60 is yet to show up (GentechPC took their sweet time shipping it), but I purchased myself a gaming mouse in preparation for it. I found this: http://steelseries.com/us/products/mice/steelseries-sensei on amazon for 40 bucks, so I pulled the trigger. I've never used a gaming mouse before in my life (I've always been a console guy, just now getting into PCs). The SteelSeries Sensei seemed to have gotten rave reviews, so I thought it would be a good place to start (and it matches the steel series keyboard of the laptop). How does one micromanage DPI, and how does DPI relate to in-game mouse sensitivity options? For example, I know BF4 has a built in mouse sensitivity controller, but I know that this mouse also has the option to customize DPI settings on the fly as well.
  21. Archer
    So, a little update to my laptop situation (thanks for the suggestions by the way everyone). I ended up splurging some more money than initially expected to get myself an MSI GS60 Ghost with GTX 870m. I was planning on getting an ASUS ROG g750 or MSI GT60, but when I saw both in person, I figured there was no way I was willing to carry around 12 pound behemoths like that. I ordered from Gentech PC, and I'm not familiar with their order processing time (it's been pending for a couple days now), but I'll let you guys know how the laptop is. Hopefully, that GTX 870m destroys the GT 650m that I'm working with right now (getting Witcher 2 to even run is a struggle). I'm also hoping that this laptop will be able to outperform the PS4 I purchased (which, all things considered, I'm thinking it will), so that I can move all my next-gen gaming needs to this laptop, at least for the next 2 years, after which I plan on building a proper rig.
  22. Archer
    They promo'd that 1/35 GFF 4 years ago, but it never went on sale. IIRC, it's a non movable statue (well, the hatches work), and Bandai reps were saying a price tag of about $800 - $1000. Again, that was 4 years ago. We don't know what's changed, or why they decided to bring this back.
  23. Archer
    Ubisoft is saying you'll need GTX 780 and Core i7 to get this into ultra O_O
  24. Archer
    Looking for a gaming laptop that will be able to max or near max games for the next few (2) years. That being said, I don't really want to break the bank. Any suggestions? Don't mind aesthetics too much, since I'm going for power/money, nothing else. Edit: By max, I mean ultra settings in 1080p or even 900p if it comes to it
  25. Archer
    I wonder why the -0 series arms were so prone to breakage when Yamato got so many other "arms" right. I wonder if the -0 series arm design is just delicate inherently (which is why they went with diecast here)
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