With the release of WH40K DarkTide literally two days from now, I wanted to share my experience with anyone interested in getting into it if they haven’t already, and offer this bit of advice if you’re thinking about getting it on release day:
Don’t.
This game is nowhere near ready to play in its current state. Many features that are an integral part of the game, such as crafting, won’t be fully released until December at the earliest. Some weapons, such as the Pergatus staff for the Psyker, will instantly crash the game when used. This issue has been reported by many people as far back as a week ago from what I can tell. The game will crash randomly throughout a match, sometimes at the very end of a mission so that you’ll get denied any rewards. IO devices will disconnect randomly for 10 - 15 seconds at a time. I’ve personally finished only a handful of missions without at least one game crash, and with two level 30’s and a handful of level …
So the last time I can remember really good 3d positional audio it was using a Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic with CMSS-3D over some Sennheiser HD497 .. almost 20 years ago.
Since then its felt like a bit of a cluster fuck, with new supposedly positional audio formats coming and going, sound cards going extinct, console gaming hitting the big time and causing all sorts of porting issues, and basically no sign of any kind of unified pc audio format that is widely adopted.
Ive shied away from even looking into 3d audio because most of the time its a coin toss if a game you want to play will support it, or one of the competitors, or just have its own audio engine that barely works (looking at you siege). Some headphone maker will come out with a format, be supported by one game, and then disappear. Even big names like dolby and thx are often missing from big titles.
Then there is the problem of getting a headset that supports it properly and doesnt try to do the BS 7.1 or some other …
Happy Cyber Monday!
I’m giving away a master download key for MW2 that I received from building my PC with an Intel CPU.
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The winner will receive instructions and the download key to redeem. The code needs to be redeemed by 12/31/22 through SoftwareOffer.Intel.
Good luck!
Any other VR players who have played this and enjoyed the hell out of it?
It’s unfortunate that it came out during a time where VR was getting its first big standing in the consumer market with the launch of the PSVR and all, because it is really short (I’d say 50 minutes or so if you wanna play around with stuff like we all do in VR, aha). But it’s a solid story told in a very concisely delivered package.
Never hear this particular title mentioned much, any of you guys have thoughts on it?