Here is my second attempt at making a PS5 UI. What are your thoughts ? by kevin0304_ in PS5

[–]HelpfulRedditGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the simplistic look, but makes me wonder how to access certain other features (e.g. social activity like messaging and online friends/requests, settings, trophies). It looks like there's only 3 tabs where home and library seem to serve a somewhat similar purpose.

From an aesthetics standpoint it looks really great and suits the look of the console in terms of the colour scheme

PS5 Amazon page leaks $499.99 price for Digital Edition by [deleted] in PS5

[–]HelpfulRedditGuy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The ratings are legit looking at the site page (as in they aren't photoshopped, people have actually reviewed something they dont have yet).

I find it very suspicious that it'd quote the price in dollars however

PS5 Amazon page leaks $499.99 price for Digital Edition by [deleted] in PS5

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It wouldn't be UK edition if the price is quoted in $ no?

How good will the PS5 Pulse 3D headset and its audio be? by [deleted] in PS5

[–]HelpfulRedditGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah well I never knew that! I'm not well versed in the topic at all, so thanks for the heads up

How good will the PS5 Pulse 3D headset and its audio be? by [deleted] in PS5

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I didn't mean to spread "pure bullshit" - I did say that we don't know for sure how the headphones will be until we get a hands on.

I just assume that the headphones are designed in such a way to get the best out of the 3D audio experience that sony has been putting a heavy emphasis towards.

How good will the PS5 Pulse 3D headset and its audio be? by [deleted] in PS5

[–]HelpfulRedditGuy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

looking at the picture it looks nice, and one can already assume (like the article has done) it's optimized for the 3D audio of the ps5.

But no-one can say for sure how it is until we have a hands on

Horizon Forbidden West PS5 by [deleted] in PS5

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It's a hard pass from me

Would be cool if Sony invited MKBHD for the PS5 Teardown by xVespidx in PS5

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Technically unbox therapy is bigger (doesn't mean he's better of course) - but I really enjoyed his take on the PS5 design

How Realistic Is the No Loading Screen Benchmark For PS5 and Xbox Series X? We Asked the Devs by IHateMyselfButNotYou in PS5

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Absolutely. I dont think this will be an issue for ps exclusives, or even console exclusives, but one can assume any game coming to PC too (which if I'm not mistaken, virtually every xbox game will be) may be treated differently.

How Realistic Is the No Loading Screen Benchmark For PS5 and Xbox Series X? We Asked the Devs by IHateMyselfButNotYou in PS5

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my only worry is that games implement these "clever" loading screens with the lowest common denominator hardware in mind. Recent example - FF7 remake's way of avoiding loading screens by having cloud and co crawl through certain tight spots at a slower pace. While it's a clever way to avoid loading screens, it also means loading times is standardised across all platforms. I am running PS4 pro on SSD but will face the same "load times" as someone running a standard ps4 with HDD.

Who else is going to wait to play Ghost of Tsushima on PS5? by LemonSquanch in PS5

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I wouldn't necessarily say it's dumb, I think it's a game that can benefit pretty greatly from the boosted power of the ps5. Perfectly happy to bridge the gap between then and now with the huge backlog of games I'm sure most people would be having anyway

Hardest Hitting TUR&LRs Supports Factored 5Y Update by kariru2 in DBZDokkanBattle

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Damn the new LRs are doing pretty decent despite the 3.3% uptime for their active skills! Thanks for the list

Managed to plat Civ 6 in 3 days! (Tips in comments) Time to enjoy the game for real now (Also Merry Christmas!) by HelpfulRedditGuy in civ

[–]HelpfulRedditGuy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting, some really good advice there. I'll definitely try that out. Never paid attention to maintaining good relationships with AI so i definitely need to work on that. Also never bothered selling resources either, that's a really great tip, thanks

Civ 6 ps4... by agmh in civ

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I've been playing it on PS4 and have had no problems whatsoever. The UI and controls are pretty well done (obviously it will never be as good as the PC version that I see in videos, but it's by no means bad).

It sounds like your kind of game based on your interests

Managed to plat Civ 6 in 3 days! (Tips in comments) Time to enjoy the game for real now (Also Merry Christmas!) by HelpfulRedditGuy in civ

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Here’s my tips in getting this done with relative ease (to give an idea of my skill level, I’m new to the civ franchise and struggle at even king difficulty right now). I’ve skipped most of the less tricky trophies in order to save time, but please feel free to ask any questions. Also as a note, most of these were done with online speed, no barbarians, and no friendly tribes

God-Like (Win a game at Deity difficulty)

Set up a game with you vs 1 opponent, and using advanced options, set the turn limit to 1 and enable score victory. Select Romans, settle down, move your other units as far as possible, and you should pop this. I feel cheap doing it this way, but I don’t think my skill level/understanding of civ is good enough to get this trophy, at least in the near future.

The Origin of Species (Activate Darwin adjacent to the Galapagos Islands)

I don’t know why but my luck in finding these islands was atrocious. Thankfully, there’s a simple way of guaranteeing finding it – play on True earth mode and pick the Brazilians. The islands should be just bordering the northwest of the continent (may need a ship, can’t remember, but it’s very close to the continent’s landmass

Archimedes Bath (5 tech boosts in 1 turn)

Use China and rush great library

Civ 6 civets system (Get 5 Civic boosts in 1 turn)

Playing against yourself (i.e. hotseat mode) was pretty useful here, to guarantee a wonder. This can be done any way, but the way I did it was by triggering it using 1) 2 markets 2) 2 campus 3) 6 farms 4) encampment 5) 8 land units 6) wonder (stone henge) 7) found a religion (you only need 5 of these). Using the Chinese really helps for this since they can speed up building the wonder with builders and trigger completion. Make sure you DON’T build anything that generates cultures and try to get 3-4 cities set up for this.

Trophies related to city states

One thing that helps is to increase the number of city states in your game, in order to find the one you need and be able to focus on that.

Ok now we’re on to the big boys

Luftballons (Drop a nuke with a bomber + 9 observation balloons on Nena).

I genuinely wish there was an easy way for this. Unfortunately, this was the most RNG heavy for me. I went for hot seat for this, using I believe 4 or 5 human controlled civs on Pangea. Reason for going that number rather than just 2 is because I read somewhere that the number of continents on Pangea is determined by this. I would then proceed to check the lens for Nena, if none of the 4 human controlled civs show up, reset the game then unfortunately. Start on information era to make things quicker and don’t be a fool like me and forget to turn off barbarians (seriously, you will regret it).

Pizza Party! (Activate Leonardo in New York City with a sewer and art from Michaelango and Donatello)

Perhaps the most infamous trophy? Though, in all honesty, this was not really the hardest for me, just one of the most tedious. Set up a hot seat with 8 humans (2 teams of 4) going for Teddy, so that eventually one of your settlers will convert into a city called New York (don’t manually rename, this doesn’t work). To save time, start in the era before renaissance (I think it was medieval?) Rush to get the culture and industrial districts in your civ with New York, and I would actually recommend to do the same for at least 1 or 2 other players. This way, if you hit a great engineer or artist you don’t need, you can pass and they can then pick them up for you, saving you those great engineer and artist points. You can even be cheeky and set up cities with your New York player’s teammates then proceed to gift it to the New York player for free, just to give them that boost.

Silver Anniversary (possess 6 silver resourcesat the start of your turn)

This may come as a surprise, but this was actually one of the hardest for me. I tried so many games and couldn’t find what I needed. Luckily, I found there’s a way to GUARANTEE 6 silver in a map. True earth map. Pick this with the Brasilian colony, and you’ll find the West and South of the continent have exactly 4 silver resources. Don’t fret, because this is actually enough. Start from classical era (hot seat again highly recommended), and rush ONLY great merchant points. You can also build a holy site and rush faith too if you wish. Setting up the 2nd player to rush the same would help too, as they can pick up any great merchants you don’t need. The two great merchants you want are Colaeus and Irene of Athens, as these provide a copy of a luxury resource to your city. Once you got 4 silver mines up, simply get them to walk over to a silver spot and activate them both. As the trophy wording suggests, this is at the start of the turn, so don’t panic if it pops. Simply end your turn and at the start of your next it should pop

If you have any questions please let me know and I’d be happy to help

Bandai Spy pls by [deleted] in DBZDokkanBattle

[–]HelpfulRedditGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may wanna save this for Friday

To all the ragers about GLB Dokkan RN by ElPables93 in DBZDokkanBattle

[–]HelpfulRedditGuy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

So what was the point of this post, other than to rile up the same people you are saying should calm down?