pweidman

Diablo fans are starved for some news, any news, about D4, or a possible D2 remaster, and Blizzard knows this. This is on them. They hyped "new projects in the Diablo universe", then dispelled any hype of a possible D4 announcement. How did they expect their loyal following to react to an outsourced Diablo phone game as their big 'Diablo' reveal? Blizz looked like tone deaf idiots and deserved the sarcasm they got. Over 140K dislikes on the new Immortal trailers and they are on like their third or fourth re-uploaded trailer. Epic PR fail.

I'm having a real mixed bag experience with RDR2. It's equal parts amazing, funny, and entertaining, and the constant frustration caused by varied ridiculous fail states and way overly sensitive wanted triggers, along with some really terrible control design decisions. Here's just one: why would they decide to put the contextual action/reaction and drawing your weapon on the same LT? Maybe the silly fails are part of the intended design, but it really tears away at the immersion and the weight of the story and interesting side content for me.

I loved RDR, one of my fav all-time games. This one I'm not feeling and it's becoming a chore more than fun. Not giving up yet but I hope the story momentum builds up soon and carries me through...the awkward and frustrating gameplay mechanics be damned.

The controls have bothered me too. Two things though, the SA pistols have to be cocked for every shot, hence the delay, same with the lever action rifles. Another design choice lending to the deliberate feel they're going for. Also, during the first 5 or so hours it seems the game is in tutorial mode and it plays extra sluggish...word is it smooths out later. Maybe someone farther along can corroborate, and maybe it's a skills/perks type of thing that you unlock as you progress. Definitely need more time in the game to be sure.

Just bought Forsaken and playing Destiny 2 again after a long time away. Heard good things about Forsaken and Xbox Live had a killer sale so....I'm lvling from 20 to 30 playing all the story missions in the first 2 dlcs, and wondered if any other duders just jumped back in on xbox. I'm super casual, just wanna see all the new content mostly, competitive stuff ain't for me. Pretty much anything PvE co-op is great though. Hmu if you wanna run. GT=PWEID5

The xbox clans are all full apparently, hence see above. :-)

Has Danny No-clipped this game and its developers? Seems like an obvious one but I can't find it if he did.

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Haven't tried filters yet, but I'll check that out for sure. Bought a recommended B700 tune for the Suby 22B barn find yesterday from a very experienced tuner and it made the car much better in every way, only 20K. You can look at the tuner's creative hub, and this guy had several hundred tunes, designs, and vinyl groups along with a lot of blueprints, and hundreds of thousands of downloads.

I agree that the tunes are the most helpful w/cars that need much better handling, like the older cars, muscle cars for sure. I've gone through the tedious trial and error, and actually managed to successfully tune a few cars on my own in previous Forza Motorsport games after downloading some disappointing ones. Don't have the patience anymore. I'll be buying tunes in FH4 and hopefully they work as well as the two I've applied so far.

'Modular News Desk', lol. What is going on with my GB? Lookin' all successful and fancy, and way too professional. :/

Oh well, by the end of UPF I didn't mind the change and it looks to streamline the shots of everyone while games are played. I'm guessing Jan's very cool w/it all.

Oh and the chairs can't be Herman Miller can they? Pricey chairs if so, but by all accounts really great.

In game, look in the Garage, on the right is the 'Upgrades and Tuning' box. Tunes will be shown for the car you're in at that moment.

And as an FYI, the 'tunes' are really upgrades and tuning in one, so if you choose one, you have to pay for the parts. After that the tune is locked, you can't check anything, and if you open it(haven't done this yet), it says it'll be erased or deleted, forget the exact wording. I have applied one tune so far for my drag racing Nova and it works quite well. The game will prompt you to 'like' the tune at some point too. Each tune shows the tuner's review ratings and tuning lvl for clues to the quality, but before choosing, check all the differences in the compare screen to your car's current performance stats to guesstimate how expensive it'll be, the class you want it to end up, and if it'll meet the needed performance categories you're looking to improve.

Very early impressions are that the S class 05 Suby STI you can choose is really good. It's already upgraded, just needs a good tune. The STI or the Focus RS are my favs so far for just finding stuff or accumulating skill points. Other notables: The Baja Bug is surprisingly great...it's laughably arcade and the exhaust note is placeholder, but very fun to race the cross country stuff nonetheless. The Hyundai Veloster N is quite good stock. Just added max width rubber and it handles very predictably. The Chiron seems to drive and handle quite well even w/all of it's 1500 hp. The stock GT350R is a handful and pretty damn loose but maybe after some added grip and tunable suspension it will get better. Looking forward to upgrading the 02 GTR V-Spec to at least A class; should be a beast. Btw, that 'Upgrade Heroes' info box is a great addition. Been quite a while since I played 3...seems new to me.

I like all the seasons and the winter traction is much better than in the FH3 DLC. The variety of the changing environmental conditions only adds to the depth and fun.

Yeah it's bad I agree. It's the extremely cheesy tone of the dialogue that bugs me the most, and that they are in your ear far too often. But the countryside and the driving are so good it's easily swept away.