AMD Radeon RX 6000 ‘RDNA 2’ Refresh Rumored For Mid-2022 Launch, RX 6500 Non-XT In May For Around $130 US

https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-6000-rdna-2-refresh-rumored-for-mid-2022-launch-rx-6500-non-xt-in-may/

Sony's Jim Ryan to GameIndustry.biz: "We are starting to go multiplatform"

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-playstation-bungie-will-considerably-accelerate-our-journey-with-multiplatform-live-service-games

"I've been on record talking about increasing the size of the PlayStation community, and expanding beyond our historic console heartland. This can take many forms. And definitely one of the main ones is the ability for the wonderful games that we've been making over the past 25 years to be enjoyed in different places and played in different ways. We are starting to go multiplatform, you've seen that. We have an aggressive road map with live services. And the opportunity to work with, and particularly learn from, the brilliant and talented people from Bungie... that is going to considerably accelerate the journey we find ourselves on."

"Philosophically, this isn't about pulling things into the PlayStation world. This is about building huge and wonderful new worlds together."

I do think this increases the chances of having day 1 releases on PC. Especially now that Sony is going to lose a notable chunk of their revenue thanks to MS making games exclusive.

Newegg Scammed Us

Gamers Nexus bought an open box motherboard cause they were having an issue with one of theirs. By the time the motherboard came, they fixed the issue so they didn't need it anymore. Gamers Nexus started a return as they didn't even open the shipping box but once it got returned to newegg, newegg declined the return due to bent pin.

This is certainly insane but it's also why I never buy open boxed stuff. The only time I'd even think about buying open box would be from Amazon, Bestbuy or Apple cause their customer service will take anything back without any fuss. Good to see newegg land on a mine and hopefully, something will change.

I would say at a minimum, get a 3060 laptop. Also many of the laptops are being refreshed with new generation of CPUs/GPUs as we speak so it might be wise to find one with 12th gen Intel CPUs or 6000 series AMD CPUs. 12th gen does have a pretty notable performance advantage over 11th gen in laptops while adding in better battery. AMD's 6000 series CPUs also has good performance while having much better battery life then Intel but CPU performance should be weaker.

I personally avoid HP laptops as they are known to have issues. I personally look for Asus or Alienware when they are on sale. One thing to note though is Intel's 12th gen and AMD's 6000 series uses DDR5 ram so you won't be able to put your 32gb into the new laptops.

Just looked for that laptop, MSI GE76, it had a price of about $4751, that is way more than I would be willing to spend. And it's out of stock nou.

If looking for 3060 that narrows down my choices to

ASUS TUF F17 FX706HM
Intel® Core™ i7-11800H, RAM 16GB, 1TB SSD, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 6GB
cost $1600

ASUS TUF F17 FX706HM
Intel® Core™ i9-11900H, RAM 16GB, 1TB SSD, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 6GB
cost $1875

I think I'll go with the i7, don't think the performance gains would be worth the cost of the i9.

I wasn't recommending the GE76 but rather just to show you the performance uplift of 12th gen compared to previous generation CPUs.

And yea, I wouldn't get the i9. An i7 or i5 laptop paired with a 3060 would be the best bang per buck. If you don't need it right away, the 11th gen CPU laptops should be getting discounted as more and more 12th gen/6000 series laptops come out. If you do need it right away, then yea, the i7 would be the best in your selection.

So Team17 cancels it because of the backlash rom gamers and developers. Good. But why is EA also taking back what they said? (Not that I'm complaining, tho).
Could this be, just maybe, the result of the massive rejection from gamers and also developers?

Also, if that's true, Bandai Namco deserves to go to hell.

Sorry I can't help you with your laptop upgrade. I know next to nothing about them (other than I have them with passion). Thankfully, Yuri is here to help.

I also wondered how long was the waiting time between sales. Hopefully someone shares that info now that it's been changed.

I know half the reason as to why this is becoming a thing now, and that's partly down to the fact that there are some servers out there that contain very few Alliance players, while there are some servers completely dominated by horde or vice versa, and by them allowing both to play together, it means faction imbalance on any server would become a thing of the past.

So not only does it make sense lore-wise, but it also makes sense, player count/business wise (since those on nearly dead faction servers would simply cancel their sub, rather than pay to transfer all their toons to a new server). 

For me I've been Horde for years lol. I started the game as Alliance, opting for Human Warlock, but by BC I went with an undead Warlock and never really went back (except for that one time I wanted to thank an Ally player for saving my skin on a world boss pull, so I made a Worgen to thank them, as Horde/Ally cannot speak to one another, thanks to the stupid language barrier). 

This might also get me to create a few Alliance toons as well, since Id like to see raids/dungeons from different pov's, and being able to play with both now is gonna make that more enticing. 

Dying Light 2 Stay Human: PS5 vs Xbox Series X/S Comparison - 30FPS/60FPS/RT Modes Tested!

Ray Tracing seems to make quite a big difference in visuals for this game.

Of course, that does mean quite the performance deficit for RDNA 2 based systems and it's hard to run on Nvidia GPUs as well. Here are some early benchmarks if you are looking to play this game but I'd wait until DF releases their PC review.

Ray Tracing:

Ray Tracing + DLSS/FSR:

Raster:

https://gamegpu.com/action-/-fps-/-tps/dying-light-2-stay-human-test-gpu-cpu

1080P for PS5/XSX for performance (60FPS) mode is pretty awful. And looking at the performance charts on PC, looks to be a super demanding game. It does look nice though.

@Chazore Yeah I mean I got a free transfer on one of my mains (EU) on one of my old characters on a dead server, so its not so bad in some cases. Though transfers don't solve the issue of server/realm imbalance so a x-faction play was kinda needed. Also a lot of people aren't willing to spend money to transfer their toons so they can play the game, so many quit. 

I kinda dabbled with both but my friends always want to go Alliance for some reason lol. Tbh I'd want them to remove the language barrier eventually since its quite annoying that you can't chat to the opposing faction without making a new character on Retail or the server's Discord.

It took me some years and a few transfers to figure that me moving from dead server to dead server wasn't going to last forever, so I stopped bothering with it and stuck myself with an EU horde dominated one. Only annoying issue with it is, is that the damn thing reached a high player cap, which means you're stuckin line (though thankfully that doesn't happen much these days, what with SL being in the gutter atm). 

They really should remove the barrier, because we both know that lore-wise, all races have spoken English to one another, save for the semi recent alien/insect style races (the ones with less intellect). 

I guess their original excuse was that they didn't want both factions to spam swears and insults at one another, and thought no one on the same side would ever rage at their own faction players...oh boy was that ever wrong: