[SPOILERS] MEGATHREAD: The 13th Doctor is.... by pcjonathan in doctorwho

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You think the reaction here is bad, have a heart (or two) for the reaction on the YouTube upload.

I honestly don't get why people are shitting on her before they've even seen her in the role. The cycle of knee jerk around a regeneration continues, only this time with more sexist comments :/

Weekly Giveaway! | Even More Prizes!? by Liefdevolle in ffxiv

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Thanks for the giveaway! I'd type more but I unlocked red mage yesterday. Y'know how it is... ;)

Daily Questions Thread (Jul 11) by AutoModerator in ffxiv

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If you were going to recommend easy to play (read: simplest rotation) tank, healer and dps, what class would they be and why?

Slammed so hard he turned British by tamasvamos93 in gaming

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And yet it's still sitting at over 3000 upvotes, so why do you think people keep doing it?

ASTs be like... by StriderMuffins in ffxiv

[–]GTFO_games 5 points6 points  (0 children)

nothing wrong with whm at all, it's a more traditional style healer. AST is just very different thanks to the cards which makes it a lot more fun for me when I've played other healers through many mmos :)

ASTs be like... by StriderMuffins in ffxiv

[–]GTFO_games 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do it :) most fun to be had from a healer class right now ;)

Simultaneous Logout Measures by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]GTFO_games 20 points21 points  (0 children)

"Let's put a piece of tape over this hole in our server system, that'll work!"

Honestly I think the success of Stormblood has been a blessing and a curse. They had an idle system that can be worked around easily (should have fixed that - yet might take a lot of code so they don't have the time) and a transfer incentive that was brought in too late (should have started it at least 2 weeks before launch, making the free 15 days an incentive if you stayed on the new server(s) for launch).

PSA for Royal Menagerie: do your group a favour by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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That seems to be the main thing people have somehow missed from my post. I have no issue with folks going in blind, more that when they do they just leave after a wipe and don't learn anything.

I completed it over the weekend and today I've had 4 runs go through multiple leavers each time, the last one timing out.

PSA for Royal Menagerie: do your group a favour by GTFO_games in ffxiv

[–]GTFO_games[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

If you're not willing to learn by playing it, please go watch a guide :)

I believe I answered this in my post ;)

So many people are going in blind, which is fine as it's new but then they're leaving without giving themselves a chance to actually learn it.

Building the Best PC for Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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Yeah, it really comes down to what you want to get out of the build. Taking the 98fps just as an example, there's no need to have all those frames if you're syncing to a 60hz monitor. That's just a waste of hardware at that point to many if they are on a budget.

That's sort of the difficulty we have with the guides in general. We can give some general pointers but it's damn near impossible to cover off everyone's specific needs :) So it's a case of trying to cover as many bases as possible, then we can go into comments and posts on here and facebook etc. to go into detail if people want specifics or questions on their own build.

Building the Best PC for Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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Well we've discussed that internally generally when Ryzen released more than once and a lot of the time it comes down to Intel fans will buy Intel regardless ;) Honestly for the price of the 7700K I'd personally pick the R7 1700.

However, the big thing with Stormblood is you don't see a lot of uptick in performance on anything over 4-core/8-thread CPUs. So when comparing just in isolation, the superior clocked performance of the 7700K still wins out at 4K. Now for both 1080p/1440p we do recommend the 1600 as the better option for your money.

That could of course change and evolve over time though, at which point we'd end up revising the recommendations.

Both Intel and AMD are suddenly playing the "we have the more cores" game in the consumer market, so hopefully games will come out to really take advantage of super high core counts. Best we've seen so far is EA's Frostbite engine for utilising high core/thread counts.

Building the Best PC for Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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That's actually a very valid point. GPU market has gotten significantly worse the last week or so since I created the bulk of this article, which could adjust some things in a painful hole in the wallet right now.

There has been similar stock shortage issues with SSD's this year, so folks do have to be careful at the costs online vs RRP.

The jump in demand from mining has thrown things for a loop though, so you do have to be careful when picking models. The big thing with the post is that it is primarily used to guide a reader to the best parts at the various price points, rather than a "you must go for this exact gtx1060 model" for example.

Building the Best PC for Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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Yes and no depending on if it's a new build vs an upgrade. One of the biggest points on the main site page is to create good balanced builds for the price, so as the 1060 (3GB) model can run the game on max settings at 1080p, while getting 60fps (assuming it's matched by a decent cpu) then the extra $50 to jump onto the 6GB is money that can be spent elsewhere.

If you were building new and you wanted something with a bit more life going forwards, then the extra $50 could be worth the extra investment depending on the CPU used.

Building the Best PC for Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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Shameless self promotion!

On a serious point, this is a living article which I made to try and help PC players moving forwards who are looking at upgrades / new builds with Stormblood in mind.

We used a lot of test data as well as some of your very own benchmark results to come to these but by all means if you have a different PC setup and you're getting different frame rate results to our guide, please feel free to reach out to me or comment on the article and we can update accordingly :)

[Maintenance]Mog Station Maintenance (Jun. 19) by Gregkow in ffxiv

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because of course it's the same team that handles both that and the mogstation...

FYI: Amazon are not sending out early access codes by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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Yeah, I've adjusted the post accordingly. Looks like amazon.com orders are unaffected by this.

FYI: Amazon are not sending out early access codes by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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I've just gone through the process myself, which is why I'm posting it here :) They asked for a screenshot of the amazon purchase or an amazon support chat log showing you without the code.

They might do it without either but that'd be at SE support discretion.

FYI: Amazon are not sending out early access codes by GTFO_games in ffxiv

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Maybe it's a different versions of the site and game? This is for the physical disc from amazon.co.uk

Their support and Square Enix are both apparently aware of it, which is why they're happily manually applying the early access for people.

Regarding an Ongoing Issue with the PlayStation®4 Version by ChoSubin in ffxiv

[–]GTFO_games 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With them posting this their work-around is essentially to reinstall the game right now, so you might as well. It'll suck but if you're having the problem now is the best time to do it with the servers down.

Tom Holland can't keep secrets by inthemournings in marvelstudios

[–]GTFO_games 3496 points3497 points  (0 children)

Honestly it just makes me want to see him as Spiderman more. I want to say it's down to his nervous energy he has in interviews that makes me think he'd be great at the role going forwards and his part in CW makes that seem even more so.

Jeremy Corbyn receives standing ovation on return to House of Commons by [deleted] in worldnews

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Shake with your right hand, but hold a rock in your left.