August 2025 General Game Discussion

[Colif]

i prefer steelseries mice - I need to run its software to maintain its ultra low battery usage mode - battery life is 18 days longer without RGB so I haven't really bothered looking if Microsoft supports it.
given my longest lasting mice have been steelseries I know they make good hardware as well.

All hardware makers are annoying. They all force you to use their software to access features.
Need to use RGB fusion to get any RGB on my motherboard (though it supports Dynamic lighting)
Need to use Powercolor app to get RGB on my GPU
Need to use mouse software to change profile settings, but it does save some info onto the mouse

The on-board memory on the mouse will save the last active profile in Engine. The mouse will only save the following on board:

• Basic button bindings, such as mouse/keyboard buttons
• CPI Settings
• Polling Rate
• Lighting Disabled

https://support.steelseries.com/hc/en-us/articles/15250138269837-Aerox-Family-Onboard-Memory

no hardware makers want to share.
Logitech aren't that bad really, can use dynamic lighting with their mice.

 

[neogunhero]

All hardware makers are annoying. They all force you to use their software to access features.

One thing I haven't tried yet is to see if Dynamic Lighting will persist even after uninstalling Synapse. I have to install Synapse to turn on the Dynamic Lighting option, though I bet once I uninstall it the settings will revert.

 

[Zed Clampet]

It takes a lot of work to go on hiatus in Dune Awakening. I was going to just nurture the base for a few months until Guido's xmas break, but I decided today I don't really want to bother. We'll lose the base and all the stuff in there that you can' t pick up. The rest of the stuff we can take to Arakeen and store it there. We have a few vehicles we are going to lose, which is painful and the crafting machines, power generator, water generators, etc. We may log back in in December and just say, "nah."

 

[Johnway]

Still playing POE1 and so far my build remains very, very good. So the good news i can do all the content, the bad news is that after a quick check i can probably do up to 24 challenges. 4 short of what i need. Again the problem is the serious grind or too much luck based to succeed for one person. I'll keep playing till october and see what happens.

The other Path of exile news is of course the POE2 weekend. Beat act 1 to get all the loot? yes please. bad news is that i need to download 100Gb first... unlikely to even be ready till tomorrow lunchtime. How long will it take me to get past act 1? we shall see. i mean, in POE1 you can normally blitz act 1 very quickly (if you don't do the side content). Once i've beaten act 1 i'll play a bit more before uninstalling it. Twitch is of course streaming and giving a way a free gift. EDIT: correction its a skin for your stash (a clam shell) and a helmet (helmet of the abyssal). I'm all for more cosmetics!