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4 hours ago, Captainant said:

I really wish they would remake TIE Fighter, it's too bad EA tried to turn Squadrons into a live service game

The biggest issue was that they released it, then about 6 months in, abandoned it. But it's not entirely EA's fault -- the number of players dropped off a cliff within a week of its release. For whatever reasons, it was a pretty failed product.

But playing with HOTAS is an entirely upgraded experience from playing it with a mouse or controller. Now there's a big learning curve to having to map all of the controls, learn how to use them, and then after that you've gotta figure out why it crashes to desktop 4 out of every 5 times you try to launch it*, but once you're in the game and playing? It's AWESOME.

*still don't know why

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51 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

The biggest issue was that they released it, then about 6 months in, abandoned it. But it's not entirely EA's fault -- the number of players dropped off a cliff within a week of its release. For whatever reasons, it was a pretty failed product.

But playing with HOTAS is an entirely upgraded experience from playing it with a mouse or controller. Now there's a big learning curve to having to map all of the controls, learn how to use them, and then after that you've gotta figure out why it crashes to desktop 4 out of every 5 times you try to launch it*, but once you're in the game and playing? It's AWESOME.

*still don't know why

Add in a VR headset and baby you got a sim goin! I used to play Elite Dangerous with some friends that way, it was a blast

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Add in a VR headset and baby you got a sim goin! I used to play Elite Dangerous with some friends that way, it was a blast

Yeah, VR headsets aren't my thing. I don't mind playing with my son's, but he's really complaining about the Oculus 3, and hoping to sell it and eventually upgrade to the latest Steam thing when it comes out.

They're making a new podracing game apparently.

@Rimbo have you tried Ace Squadron? Have a buddy that enjoys that one.

16 minutes ago, ztejas said:

They're making a new podracing game apparently.

@Rimbo have you tried Ace Squadron? Have a buddy that enjoys that one.

Naw.

It's all about that Larry Holland-style X-Wing/TIE Fighter style piloting. Larry Holland didn't design the games past X-Wing Alliance, but Squadrons follows a lot of the design decisions of Holland's games -- power management, shield balancing, etc -- and has a very similar feel. If you want a modern TIE Fighter game, that's pretty much the game to play. Only thing missing from it is the ability to swap how the blasters fire -- you could switch between individual bolts, dual bolts, and (on X-Wings/TIE Interceptors) quad bolts firing at the same time; on Squadrons, you get one shot per blaster period, and all blasters at once -- so e.g. on the B-Wing the Ion and Blaster cannons all fire at the same time, and as far as I can tell there's no way to just use the ions or blasters.

I don't even care to play real flight simulators. I just wanna lock s-foils in attack position and go blow up a Star Destroyer

3 hours ago, Captainant said:

Add in a VR headset and baby you got a sim goin! I used to play Elite Dangerous with some friends that way, it was a blast

2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Yeah, VR headsets aren't my thing. I don't mind playing with my son's, but he's really complaining about the Oculus 3, and hoping to sell it and eventually upgrade to the latest Steam thing when it comes out.

a friend said vr headset with an A wing is basically cheat code

10 minutes ago, elfenix said:

a friend said vr headset with an A wing is basically cheat code

dunno' bout that, but Rez with VR is absolutely a cheat code

5 hours ago, Rimbo said:

It's all about that Larry Holland-style X-Wing/TIE Fighter style piloting.

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What's a fair price for this 3060 card on FB Marketplace (should I sell somewhere else?)? Purchased 3/2023 ($384.47 + tax), usage light to moderate, perfectly clean. Replaced it with a 5070.

MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 15 Gbps GDRR6 192-Bit HDMI/DP PCIe 4 Torx Twin Fan Ampere OC Graphics Card

Amazon link with details

$200? less? The box MAY be in my attic, but I haven't laid eyes on it yet, so assume bare card.

12 hours ago, Dr Fear said:

What's a fair price for this 3060 card on FB Marketplace (should I sell somewhere else?)? Purchased 3/2023 ($384.47 + tax), usage light to moderate, perfectly clean. Replaced it with a 5070.

MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 15 Gbps GDRR6 192-Bit HDMI/DP PCIe 4 Torx Twin Fan Ampere OC Graphics Card

Amazon link with details

$200? less? The box MAY be in my attic, but I haven't laid eyes on it yet, so assume bare card.

180-200 in most markets.

do i need a new graphics card? no. my 3060ti seems to be holding up pretty well at the resolutions and the games i play. but it seems inevitable that those thing shoot up in price too so i got a 9070xt at microcenter. i think i'm set with the 7800x3d for a while and i should probably cull my steam library a bit to ease up on storage pressures since it doesn't seem like i'm buying a new SSD any time soon.

I’ve seen this topic return to the top of the board a few times now, and while I don’t have need of a gaming computer, I do have a curiosity as how building your own compares price wise to buying something. I get that you can spend and save where you wish when buying at the component level, but please indulge me in asking how, for example, this system from Costco compares to cost of building a similar system yourself or if it is lacking in areas?

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I picked a random one mid priced with a decent rating, there are plenty of others.

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I’ve seen this topic return to the top of the board a few times now, and while I don’t have need of a gaming computer, I do have a curiosity as how building your own compares price wise to buying something. I get that you can spend and save where you wish when buying at the component level, but please indulge me in asking how, for example, this system from Costco compares to cost of building a similar system yourself or if it is lacking in areas?

Costco Wholesale
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MSI Aegis Gaming Desktop – AMD Ryzen 9 9900X – GeForce RTX 5080 – Windows 11 Home - 32GB RAM - 2TB SSD, AMD Ryzen 9 9900X (12-core), NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 5080 16GB, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3, 360mm L

I picked a random one mid priced with a decent rating, there are plenty of others.

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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Processor. Ryzen 9 9900X Granite Ridge AM5 4.40GHz 12-Core Boxed Processor - Heatsink Not Included. Ryzen 9 9900X. MSI X870E-P Pro WiFi AM5 ATX Mo therboard. X870E-P PRO WIFI AMD AM5

860 for this bundle. Buy a 5080 of your choosing. ~1500 is about right budget.

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/msi-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-16g-gaming-trio-oc-16gb-gddr7-pci-express-gen-5-graphics-card-black/J3P7TX6L24/sku/6615227

Then a case and a PSU and an SSD. 2TB is gonna be like 250 for a good one 400 for a top end one. PSU is 90 bucks and case is 120ish

So quick math is 860+1500+250+90+120=2,820 without deal hunting for an equivalent.

DRAM prices aren't priced into some of these pre-builds yet. It's wild out there. Same computer was probably 600 cheaper about 4 months ago. Maybe 700 cheaper.

Surely ram prices can’t keep that up indefinitely. Been needing to put together a new vm server, but not with these prices.

14 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Surely ram prices can’t keep that up indefinitely. Been needing to put together a new vm server, but not with these prices.

They are forever going to be high until something else comes and takes its spot in the memory hierarchy. Intel would have made so much money with optane right now it's crazy how bad they fucked that.

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