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Even as a controller user in GT and other purely racing games, I stick to either the hood or bumper views for the extra sense of speed. If I'm feeling extra spicy and I want that "I'm actually driving this thing" feeling, I go for the cockpit view.

Waaaay down on my list of preferred views is the 3rd person floating-behind-the-car option. I just can't seem to bring myself to use it.

Now if we're talking driving in GTA or others of that ilk, then surprisingly the exact opposite is true. 3rd person all the way and sometimes (usually in the case of a Far Cry game) the cockpit view.

"I'm not quite sure officer. It all happened so fast... 10 or 15 times"

I think you may be underestimating quite how big and recognisable the property of CoD is globally in the mainstream.

Even with the recent controversies, that IP is no doubt worth Billions on its own. There's a reason that on most of the mainstream tv news headlines it's been reported as "Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard -- maker of Call of Duty"

And it's an all cash deal too. That one section of Microsoft can drop $67.5Bn to buy one company speaks volumes about their net worth.

That's one hell of a "pro-active adjustment" after "evaluating [their] relationship with Activision Blizzard"

I wonder how good Phil Spencer must have felt to be able to write the line "Once the deal is complete, the Activision Blizzard business will report to me as CEO, Microsoft Gaming".

From the wording of that first announcement (with many mentions of inclusivity and diversity along with that picture of their management team), I feel they are going to be going through that company with a high power jet wash to clean house top to bottom fairly soon.

Pretty sure Kotick is going to eventually disappear in a cloud of money.

I can't help having the feeling now that someone's eyes are going to be fixed on Epic.

...or just aimlessly punching the wall as you fall to [yet another] death!

I picked up Doom Eternal on the PS5 just recently in the Black Friday Sales and it was not, in my opinion, money well spent.

I was a big fan of the 2016 Doom, but they really lost me with Eternal.

I didn't mind so much that they cranked up the difficulty with the types and amounts of enemies they threw at you. Even constantly running out of ammo was not completely frustrating.

No, the one thing that, in the end, made me delete the game was the damned traversal nonsense. It killed the game stone dead for me.

Even putting points into an upgrade for better in-air control did nothing to alleviate the situation.

Also, by the time I quit the game, the story was absolutely no incentive to carry on and see where it was going.

The upshot being, I had infinitely more fun with Titanfall 2's campaign than I had with Doom Eternal... even though I had no interest in the first Titanfall.

@gtxforza: A healthy dose of caution is always sensible in terms of software like this. It's a fine line we tread between being early adopters / enthusiasts wanting the latest hotness and also having to rely on a stable product to get work done.

For me, the whole thing will probably feel like one long depressing reminder of the unavailability of the PS5!

@chaser324: But they told us during the reveal that "It. Just. Works!"
Then again, that really emotional man in the video also told us to go out today and buy a new Windows 11 Ready PC, so that would probably be why.

@lettuceman44: Well as a small update, your post was super helpful! Thank you.

My ultimate problem lay in the fact that my boot drive was MBR rather than GPT. (even though my extra drives are GPT) Thanks to the how-to article you linked, the process of converting the drive was quick and easy.

Now the Windows Security panel is happy that my system meets all the requirements for Hardware Security and the Health Checker app also says Windows 11 would be happy to have a home on my PC.

With my luck, I'm sure all this will inevitably come back to bite me in the bits somewhere along the line, but for now it's all peachy!

@humanity: I'm kind of in the same boat as you. I long since gave up trying to drive back the tide of processes wanting to fill up my Task Manager screen. I'm looking at you Adobe and Nvidia....grrrr.

Me from 2012 would probably hit me around the back of the head with my own keyboard after all the trouble I used to go to meticulously pruning startup programs, regEditing and obsessing over single extra processes.

Just a quick update...

Saw all the mentions of the TPM 2.0 issue floating around the web, so took a look in my Bios.

At first I was dejected as there was no mention anywhere in there of TPM that I could enable and assumed that I was just SOL and would have to buy yet more hardware!

Turns out that on my Asus motherboard, TPM 2.0 is actually called PTT under "Advanced PCH-FW config" (in case anyone else is having the same issue)

After enabling that, and ensuring that Secure Boot was enabled and running Windows UEFI mode, I tried again...

TPM 2.0 Security ... Check!

Secure Boot ... Check!

Windows 11 Good to go? ... "Computer says Naaaah!"

My guess now is that, as a desktop PC without a fingerprint reader or webcam for Windows Hello, logging in with some form of Hardware Security is not supported and so that's where I'm falling short.

Anyway, we've got many, many months to go to sort it out, so I'm sure something will get resolved one way or another...