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Got Middle Earth: Shadow of War last night for $17 -- it's on sale right now until Oct. 1st, I think... From what I hear, the game is now balanced to require no micro-transactions just for enjoying the main game, though the post-game or "end game" content is grindy as hell and is played to unlock a second shitty ending to the storyline, so that's where they "get you". Personally, I'm not much interested in this weak fan-fic storyline anyway, it's the combat and Nemesis system that makes this thing so cool.
If you've been thinking of getting the game, now's about as low cost as it's gonna get. DLC is still full price, but I'm sure that will also see sales before the end of the year. Regardless, IMHO it's pretty weak DLC, short like all DLC and completely different "flavor" than the main game, so it probably doesn't feel like content that was gated off just to have DLC to charge for.
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I tried the game... well i didn t feel anything different from the first game. The shadow strike at long range is op af... I finished everything and deleted the game, there s not too many things to do after the story.... except some other super op orcs or "forts". Don t listen to me, have fun. I personally love the story!!!
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(I can't remember if I already posted this, was sitting in the reply box when I was going to make a post - looks promising:)
So, I was reading some forum on a totally different topic, one guy suggested this CompactGUI as a tool for the Windows 10 "Compact" function. It seems this is no new feature, but the version in Win10 is much more powerful and more optimized.
TLDNR; You can take a program, for example my ARK installation folder (>100GB) and compress the contents with little to no performance loss when running the application. Doesn't turn it into a ZIP or RAR achive, either - we'd not notice the change as users. It is a disk space saver, and it's very good at it. According to the reports, my ARK could potentially turn into a ~50GB folder instead of twice that!!
Check it out, I'm gonna:
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When I first got here to my Pop's house in Wisconsin back in July, they had DSL internet through AT&T (coming in though a tiny old school phone line) and were paying $46.99 a month for internet speeds equivalent to circa 2004 internets. I have just upgraded them to Spectrum (Time Warner) high speed broadband internet via cable, with a top-in-class consumer modem (Arris) with dual band WiFi, 16 channels, and speeds of up to 250Mb/s Down and 20Mb/s Up (for a monthly cost of $47.99)
.... yea. ... yea.
I feel bad for the parentals that they've been wasting money on terribly frustrating slow speeds for years, but glad I was able to get them up to 2018 USA standards for nearly no change in price.What a world! Gonna pop onto the ARK Server (finally) and feed my dinos before the rest of them starve to death like the little ones did a week or few ago. Don't want to start over with my breeding program, put a fair bit of time into that.
Might even get onto the Falcon server for a multiplayer flight to show my Pops what it's like. NASCAR next weekend at Road America, the "clowns" of the road course - will be fun to see those 2 ton monsters try to navigate that classic road course. We'll take plenty of pictures.