Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Back in the land of the living (and just started my Silent Hill 2 journey)! Good day, @Enriesto. Not too often I see a fellow Canadian around these parts, let alone from the prairies. Nice to make your acquaintance! Hope you enjoy your time here.

@Jimmer-jammer And am wishing you well from the flatlands and rolling hills of Manitoba. Happy to make your acquaintance as well

@Enriesto Likewise, from the badlands and foothills of Alberta!

@Jimmer-jammer Excellent! Welcome back and looking forward to hearing about your experience in Bloober's particular version of that "special place. 😃

Edit: I also thought you'd be pleased to know I got the Greatsword from Caelid in Elden Ring and am at 52 Str, leveled the Greatsword up to +3 and plan to upgrade it up to at least +9 or +12 before tackling the Lion boss in Liurnia in order to obtain the Lion's Claw AoW and then take on Margit with my Jellyfish ashes!

(I've been stealth-farming that troll that sits under the peak of a semi-ruined structure in Limgrave, in the field of five trolls and the destructible statue between the Gatefront Ruins and Warmaster's Shack, by sneaking up on him, weakening him by swiping at his ankles several times then going in for a critical hit to his face when he has fallen over).

@NapoleonDynamite Oh, yeah, thanks for pointing that out - now that you've said that I do remember reading that the devs have stated that. 😅

Some people have mistakenly described it as such, though, so that may have been where my confusion was stemming from.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Think I know just the troll you’re speaking of! There’s something oddly satisfying about finding a good farming strategy, isn’t there? Good luck with Margit!

I’ve just about made my way through the Blue Creek Apartments (just need to track down the ‘second’ hand). So far, I’m incredibly impressed by what Bloober Team have built here. Hopefully they stick the landing!

Well the Liam Payne news certainly wasn’t what I expected to wake up to. He had his problems over the years but it’s just horrible, he’s probably the first major celebrity for my generation to pass away.

RIP Liam. It's a very sad thing to have happenned.

@Jimmer-jammer @Enriesto Have you heard of Kobo Abe? I hear he's apparently Japan's answer to Franz Kafka, he's won various literary prizes and apparently his fiction is the Dark Souls of Literature, ruining all other pieces for everyone once you've done a deep dive into his work. 😃

Edit: I haven't read him yet but I plan to, after I've read Melville, Chekhov, and the Indian Abstract Artist, M.F. Husain's biography that I'm interested in - I certainly don't want Melville and Chekhov to be "ruined" for me before I've had a chance to read them!

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I haven’t heard of Kobo Abe but did read some Kafka in school. In fact, ‘Metamorphosis’ is a story that still lives fresh in my head to this day. I’ll look into him, thanks!

Honest question here —

Do most people use gyro aiming? I saw that AW2 is implementing it and I just wonder if this is actually something they people want.

Personally, I’ve never played a game in which I’ve used gyro aiming to any significant degree. So I assumed very few people (like maybe… 10%? Just a guess) ever use it. I might be completely off base here

@Th3solution not me 🙋‍♂️

@Th3solution
No. Not sure I ever have but then I don't play too many FPS, especially online competitive games where I assume the precision aiming is most needed

@colonelkilgore @sorteddan Good to know I’m not completely out of touch. I was starting to wonder if I was doing this all wrong.

@Th3solution The only time I've used it is when I played Zelda BOTW. I turned it off eventually as I couldn't get used to it. I know a few peeps on these pages that use it, swear by it

@Th3solution @JohnnyShoulder Same here, think BOTW is my only experience with it. It didn’t feel that intuitive and still doesn’t feel like it would be a natural option for me.

Both Gravity Rush games had Gyro for the shifting mechanic @Th3solution.

I turned it off immediately.

Like bob above says, it never feels natural to me and just puts me off. I'll just stick with analogue sticks thanks!

@JohnnyShoulder @Bob_Salat @HallowMoonshadow Looks like so far it’s 100% in favor of just using the analog sticks. Maybe it’s something that the younger gamers use more because they haven’t programmed their brains to play a certain way over bazillions of hours like we have. I even have gyro aiming on my remote control for my TV and I don’t like using that either. 😂

@HallowMoonshadow @Bob_Salat Glad I'm not the only one!

@Th3solution it was fantastic in Dragon's Dogma 2, I think that's my best experience of it. I was gonna use it in Horizon FW, but I didn't stick with the game long enough to know if it's good in that (I felt like I had to really try to tune it early on to feel right though, and not sure if it ever did feel right)

Apparently it's in TLoU and its turned on in my game, but I've only shot people manually with analogue so far, not even considered testing it, and didn't notice the reticle moving so far so not sure if it is actually doing anything. I'll test it at some point.