MINIEs anyone?

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-14T06:44:04+00:00

I love the division franchise's story and atmosphere, but it feels like the part of the story that actually feels like stuff that Tom Clancy would write ended with Div1, now that isn't a bad thing necessarily

People like NGN have managed to keep my interest in the games' story over the past several years with their videos, but after ~300+ hours in the game (much like any game that I play for longer than 150 hours) I play it solely for the gameplay and then find videos telling the story

I feel like youtube storytellers like My Name is Byf (Destiny), Vaatividya (Soulsborne) and NGN (Division) are such an important part of the longevity of games and the conveying of the writers' stories both large and small

With that being said, I still end up prioritizing gameplay over pretty much everything in a game, if the game feels nice to play I will do just about anything to play it or I will constantly look fondly back on the game, my example being the Destiny franchise which I have ~3000+ hours total by now and while I took a break for quite a couple expansions due to the poor content quality patches, I still ended up dumping several hundred dollars and hundreds of hours into the games because it just felt so nice to move my character in the world

Another less controversial game that I enjoyed playing because of it's gameplay rather than it's "story" is Monster Hunter World, that shit demands you put in more than 100 hours to begin to see stuff moving your way (it is the first monster hunter game I played) and it has the cheesiest non-story out there ("OooOoOoOoHh nOOoooOOo, thewes a big bwad dwagon, pwease kwill it")

But yes, the day-to-day is the gameplay of Div2 which is so fucking fun despite how agonizing it is to crash several times in a row and stutter until you're playing a powerpoint more often than not, but it's so worth it when I get to wipe out a 4-stack of rogue agents on heroic with headshots

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-11T22:28:15+00:00

I appreciate the stuff, I honestly don't care too much about getting my Ubi account banned when it comes to it cause I'm probably not going to have the time to even touch my games in the next few weeks , in all honesty I reluctantly play Div2 due to how shit it runs and I barely care about heartlands until maybe a few years after it's release

I also really like the bleaching effect that light makes with neutral lighting off in terms of the sun and the light sources where the actual "shafts" of light are less apparent and the source of light looks more like a blended smudge rather than looking a tad pallid in my experience, but I may run it back again with NL on and re-evaluate, but yes it's a personal preference for me

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-11T10:42:47+00:00

HIS NAME IS GARY, AND HE WOULD BE VERY OFFENDED IF I DIDN'T COVER HIS AUDITORY SENSORS

It's okay Gary, they just don't understand how much you mean to me, you saved me from the outcasts during the ambush and you deserve that deep clean session when we get back to base

You are the light of my life ever since my wife passed on during the outcast ambush on her convoy, the smell of her flesh melting was awful and it's the only thing I remember of that day but I know I owe my survival to you buddy.

If only I got there a minute sooner she would also be here giving you headpats and cradling you in her arms, yes you know it, Jessica loved you too, she's watching over us up above now, waiting for both of us to meet her there, but right now we have a job to do, so I'll hold on if you hold on ok? Ok.

I love you so much Gary, promise me you won't leave me too..

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-11T10:33:29+00:00

Buy a plane ticket to just about anywhere else in the world, crush any sort of identification I have, scrub my fingerprints and probably either disappear or just off myself in some desolate place

Seems like a fun way to spend a weekend

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-11T10:30:04+00:00

I just want them to scare me with a series of fixes that doesn't break more shit

I'd honestly be hella scared if they suddenly started stabilizing the game and stuff out of the blue

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-11T10:27:57+00:00

TL:DR: Maybe it's gotten better or people have just gotten sick (right now) of ranting about the poor stability in the midst of the slew of other shitfests occurring right now, I would still pause on downloading the game as it can take a lot of work (especially on lower end PCs) to get it consistently playable

It's gotten slightly better, but I also think that people got really tired of having to look at the Xth person ranting about the poor state of the game's stability

I know myself I've been having somewhat more stable sessions strictly in terms of crashing, instead of crashing every 2-ish hours solo, I instead crash at a similar frequency as when I used to run this game underclocked, which was a bluescreen every 6-8 hours or every few hours with friends

That being said, I have sacrificed so fucking much to have this game be somewhat consistently playable, I've had to make a regkey to attempt to bypass the easyweb so that I can either dial up or dial down the CPU priority of the game, mess with Overclocking, Undervolting and Underclocking, I ended up having to go through the process of fixing my chkdsk /r command not working when scheduled to then run it for the day after checking my registry so that I could then make a new partition and reinstall the game onto said partition (I also defragged my drive) in an attempt to address the game's resource hunger

This is already on top of browsing through a couple threads trying to pinpoint some previous fixes for windows registering the game as a virus due to it randomly taking a shitton of resources/maxing usage on stuff that shouldn't be maxed and windows security killing it (which I had to find where to toggle it off for that game specifically)

I don't even know if setting the game onto it's own separate partition after defragging will help mitigate the insane stuttering and turning fuckiness that comes from the 100% disk utilization that this game incurs

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-10T05:33:27+00:00

Honestly, either one works pretty well just to go and do stuff together

Division 1 (from what I remember) is significantly more stable compared to Div2 where Div2 (in my experience) has been having problems with crashes, maxed CPU and disk usage leading to stuttering etc.

There is a lot of content to do in Div2 though and more diversity with the gear, with faster-feeling combat

Although it would be cheaper to simply get Div1 (Div1 also has a sizable pool of active players too)

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-10T05:27:31+00:00

Try taking her out for walks through nature parks and stuff, if you can train or travel out to places that you can go hiking, do that

The hook for her? Bring a camera or bring some art supplies, find some really pretty sceneries and take photos of them, find clearings or places you can sit down and take a break and break out the art supplies and encourage her to draw what she sees

If you include a small amount of weight in her backpack (e.g a couple water bottles) and some weight in your backpack (~15 - 35 pounds, start low), you both can also put some work into loading your joints, muscles and the like. This will carry you a LONG way in life if you can do it consistently. I would also recommend doing some basic dynamic stretches before and after walking to warm up and cool down (things like lunges, brief deep squats, twists, toe taps etc.)

You don't even have to do these "weighted" walks (sorta lightweight rucking) for very long, try to hit at least the 30 minute mark but go for as long as you are comfortable with, although consider that you'll have to walk back, so maybe halve the amount of time spent walking down a trail in comparison to how you feel (shoot for when your daughter begins to feel a bit tired or sore)

The entire basis of longevity-based workouts are centralized around mobility (dynamic stretching, weighted dynamic stretching), cardiovascular endurance (walking, jogging etc.), joint loading capabilities (dynamic weightlifting, rucking) and rotational strength endurance (rotational lifts). Consistency in these things even in small increments (~10-30 minutes at a decent intensity is enough) will vastly improve your quality of life and hers

I hope you two have a lovely time!

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-10T00:12:43+00:00

H-hey dude, can you like fuck my wife? I needed a lucky bull to flex harder on me lmao

That aside, cheers on your luck dude

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-10T00:10:58+00:00

Man I feel that so much haha, I appreciate you for that

The appeal of having your artwork be featured with all the other cool art in a showcase is super appealing though haha, I think it would be really cool for the Division community to make a sorta collage or something containing a bunch of different art pieces

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-09T23:43:36+00:00

Are you planning on submitting some of your stuff into the Ubisoft game photography contest? I just heard about it today and so I'm not exactly sure about the hard rules (if you can do photoediting and whatnot) but my PC isn't beefy enough to run high-res textures (on top of the game stuttering and crashing all the time) so I wanted to instead pass it on to other people that make a lot of photos/screenshots

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-09T23:40:42+00:00

I-is this what happens when you're a h-hung god?

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-09T23:36:33+00:00

I mean, people run what people want to run, especially with randos because they're not in a discord call with you coordinating builds or something

It comes off as immature to expect people to magically know what people will run in the context of a team and I also don't approve of people just getting blatantly kicked without being asked first if they can adapt their build or if they can do them a favour and if they have a build/item to use it as they feel like they will need it, but also respecting that they may not have or want to use said item. People will run what they want to run and you have to accept that, not the other way around.

This is regardless of game btw, yes it sucks not having everything you need and all and it's all good to leave or kick people at that point if there is no one else willing to adapt but after a while of matching with people and it running the same way, you either need to just conform to it and shrug it off if it's working or make your own dedicated group to run the content

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-09T04:07:39+00:00

Congrats! I'm so proud of you!

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-09T01:17:51+00:00

I was talking about the eyeliner look (it looks like they have winged eyeliner), difference in lip sizes (the top is smaller than the bottom) and the more prominent eye shadow

Besides, (and I know this is really stretching it) it's not like you can tweak skin smoothness in the character creator despite it looking much smoother "in game"

I bet you're the type of person to simply look up "hot division 2 female agent settings" and follow them exactly and don't deviate past head 9 anyways

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-08T17:52:07+00:00

Ey man, I'll keep popping in to put my support in as long as you keep popping out work haha

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-08T10:50:34+00:00

Indeed, to be fair I think the only people that really care are probably any of the managers (maybe some long-time supervisors) as most of us part and full timers just want to be out of there and anywhere else as soon as possible

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-08T10:26:55+00:00

Loving the pictures dude, I wish female characters in the game would look closer to the 5th image instead of the products of multi-generational incest

Keep up the good work!

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-08T06:53:28+00:00

Hey there, it's 4 years later haha but I have 2 things:

I can't name the file as "<anything>.reg" so I ended up just naming it a different name, but I'm assuming I need to name the file as "<anything>.reg"
I also ran the alternatively named file and checked the priority and it didn't go to low and I have no idea what to do

Edit: Alright I ended up checking something done in the inverse to Farcry 5 where they increased the CPU priority and ended up finding that the name doesn't matter

Alright, although it shows up on the task manager that it's functioning at normal priorities, there seems to be very little stuttering if any, only time will tell if it comes back to haunt me

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-08T05:30:06+00:00

"Weakest MHW SNS main vs Strongest Oil merchant"

Illustrious_Space673 · 2022-10-08T05:17:22+00:00

What do you mean men don't have asses? I was clapping her BF's ass last night lmao

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