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Yeah, but...that's totally deliberate. The whole quest chain is a huge joke at their own expense, even making fun of the Conrad import bug in ME2.

Goddamn Cryptic's prepatching shit is a fucking fiasco. If it's not my launcher spontaneously deciding to crash whilst in the middle of prepatching it's deciding to freeze instead.

All of this could have been averted if Cryptic ditched its shitty and buggy launcher in favour of a torrent distribution of patch files.

Stofsk wrote:Goddamn Cryptic's prepatching shit is a fucking fiasco. If it's not my launcher spontaneously deciding to crash whilst in the middle of prepatching it's deciding to freeze instead.

All of this could have been averted if Cryptic ditched its shitty and buggy launcher in favour of a torrent distribution of patch files.

No shit. But these are the same fuckwits who host all of their mmos on the same server architecture.

Stofsk wrote:Goddamn Cryptic's prepatching shit is a fucking fiasco. If it's not my launcher spontaneously deciding to crash whilst in the middle of prepatching it's deciding to freeze instead.

All of this could have been averted if Cryptic ditched its shitty and buggy launcher in favour of a torrent distribution of patch files.

But torrents are evil

Okay okay, they're not. But I haven't had any problems with it. *shrug*

Maybe it's the Aussie curse?

So I went onto the tribble test server, but haven't looked at the new content for KDF or Roms, just did the Fed tutorial again.

Is it my imagination or does STO look really fucking good with Legacy of Romulus? They must have tweaked the graphics settings. For whatever reason, I was just wowed by it.

I installed it last night, probably won't get to play until Tuesday, though. What server do you guys play on ?

Stofsk wrote:So I went onto the tribble test server, but haven't looked at the new content for KDF or Roms, just did the Fed tutorial again.

Is it my imagination or does STO look really fucking good with Legacy of Romulus? They must have tweaked the graphics settings. For whatever reason, I was just wowed by it.

Yep, they redid some textures and stuff is what I heard. Don't know what else, but it does look prettier.

Losonti Tokash wrote:I installed it last night, probably won't get to play until Tuesday, though. What server do you guys play on ?

There's only one server, so no worries there. And no big rush, since the expansion launches Tuesday anyway, so good luck getting on then.

Technically there's two, tribble is the second.

Well shit, they'd told me it was already live.

Stofsk wrote:Technically there's two, tribble is the second.

Three whenever they bring out Redshirt.

But Tribble and Redshirt are Test Servers so I don't count those as such. There's only the one "Live" server to play on.

Losonti Tokash wrote:Well shit, they'd told me it was already live.

It's on the Test Server, but not the Live Server/general release. So they may have been speaking less than clearly.

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Xbox bounce

Argh, I was at like 87% of the patch before STO's patching server crashed on me. Granted it's launch day and I shouldn't be terribly surprised, but I thought I was doing so well.

I'm trying again, seems I have like 590MB left. Not too bad. About halfway through that...

is the xbox release not going well, or something? Or is it some kind of anticipation for the playstation 4 triggered by the xbox 720?

evilsoup wrote:is the xbox release not going well, or something? Or is it some kind of anticipation for the playstation 4 triggered by the xbox 720?

It went fine. I mean they actually showed off their console so...

OK
I'm just wondering why that'd give Sony a bounce

It's Xbox One get it right, evilsoup.

really? That's a terrible name
should have caused it Xbox X
(the extra X stands for X-treme power)

It's called the Xbox One, now ( Maybe it means "how many devices do you need plugged into your TV?"), and it's pretty funny to compare the two consoles.

Both:
8-core CPU
fancy pants GPU, either on-chip or otherwise efficiently attached. No actual specs from MS yet on theirs.
Combo bluray/dvd drive
a bunch of social/cloud integration
8 gigs RAM (PS4 has DDR5, One has DDR3)

Xbox appears to have some more forward thinking built in, though. They have integrated cable-box passthrough, support for 4k output, three 802.11n's, massively upgunned Kinnect support and resolution, three OS's designed to multitask the hell out of everything, etc. Blahblahblah, they want it to multi every single media.

No release date beyond "later this year." The console is made entirely out of right angles.

Funny part*10^3: The CPU/GPU for both consoles involve heavily engineered tech from AMD. I don't know if nVidia didn't even try, or whatever, but I'm deeply amused that AMD is basically manufacturing all the guns used in the next gen war)

I'm waiting for the Photoshopped "An Xbox of One" pics myself.

multi every single media is what they should be aiming for
I basically use my PS3 as a Lovefilm box / DLNA client
I can't remember the last video game I played, lol

evilsoup wrote:multi every single media is what they should be aiming for
I basically use my PS3 as a Lovefilm box / DLNA client
I can't remember the last video game I played, lol

The things I'm reading online say that they are seriously trying to push the multi every single media, so it's looking good for them, at least.

Was anything revealed about pricing? I've heard it's gonna cost more than 600$. If so that knocks it out of my price range until after I finish school.

that's it. They did it. They went and fucking did it. Everybody said that they wouldn't be stupid enough to do it after Sony said they wouldn't but they went and did it anyways.