General Game Discussion for February 2026

[Zed Clampet]

What do these instructions mean?

The bottom under "Attacking" looks to me like "right click" plus "mouse 4" and move the mouse to do the hack thing on the right, but it didn't work.

 

[BeardyHat]

Windows 11 has been giving my oldest hell in the past bit, constantly freezing on this old MSI laptop he's been using. Boot up? Freeze. I swapped the ram, SSD and reformatted it more than once, but once it hits a certain update, there's no helping it.

So I finally installed Linux on it and it's working much better. That said, Linux is so fiddly. Some games work great with an older graphics driver, others don't work at all. But if I install a newer one to get the other games working, the games that ran great now run like crap.

The thing is 11 years old with a 4th Gen i7 and a 970M 3gb, so I think it's time to put it out to pasture. I'm still going to try and sell it and get a little bit of money for it, but I'm going to replace it with a desktop, though an old one.

I've got an old i5-2500k, 16Gb RAM (might actually be 8. I can't remember) and a RX 570 4Gb that came back to me last year. I sold it a long time ago and it was used for awhile then returned to me, which is amusing. Anyway, I'm going to throw in an i7-3770 for a slight performance bump, grab a cheap monitor and some speakers and set it up for him. Should play stuff better than the MSI and I'm hoping Windows will work better on it than the laptop, that way I can finally let him play Fortnite.

 

[Pifanjr]

Played some more Subnautica: Below Zero. I had to find a specific iceberg with only somewhat vague description of where to find it and it somehow took me forever. It doesn't help that it's really hard to see around you at the surface of the water, especially if there's a blizzard or if it's night.

I also had to go back to the ice plains, where I again spent way too long trying to find a specific cave. Turns out that cave can only be entered by a little robot you can craft. I thought those were just for reconnaissance, like the camera drones you use under water, so I never made one before.

I now agree with the complaints that all the stuff above the surface in this game is easily the worst part. I think I'm done entirely with that part though and I'm pretty sure I'm close to finishing the game entirely. I'm looking forward to it.

What do these instructions mean?

The bottom under "Attacking" looks to me like "right click" plus "mouse 4" and move the mouse to do the hack thing on the right, but it didn't work.

Maybe it's supposed to be "mouse 5"?

 

[Zed Clampet]

Played some more Subnautica: Below Zero. I had to find a specific iceberg with only somewhat vague description of where to find it and it somehow took me forever. It doesn't help that it's really hard to see around you at the surface of the water, especially if there's a blizzard or if it's night.

I also had to go back to the ice plains, where I again spent way too long trying to find a specific cave. Turns out that cave can only be entered by a little robot you can craft. I thought those were just for reconnaissance, like the camera drones you use under water, so I never made one before.

I now agree with the complaints that all the stuff above the surface in this game is easily the worst part. I think I'm done entirely with that part though and I'm pretty sure I'm close to finishing the game entirely. I'm looking forward to it.



Maybe it's supposed to be "mouse 5"?

I guess. I've never seen the nearest side button labeled as anything but 4, but it's worth trying. I didn't bother to assign 5. I'm using an mmo mouse, and the side buttons default to numerals. Probably makes sense if you are playing a hotbar MMO like WOW.

 

[Zloth]

What kind of volleyball did you play?

Me?? A little in gym class. My nieces, however, played it a lot.

I now agree with the complaints that all the stuff above the surface in this game is easily the worst part. I think I'm done entirely with that part though and I'm pretty sure I'm close to finishing the game entirely. I'm looking forward to it.

Have you put custom music into the jukebox? Maybe switched some in-game shots to some of your own screenshots? It's fun!