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Cataclismo - 92% Overall on Steam

Cataclismo - 92% Overall on Steam

This list is the way to go. My last Lan party was about 17 years back but there is one golden rule, which is still more important than anything else: pick a game no one has played or one that everybody is familiar with! The biggest fun killers are unbalanced teams and matches. Despite that, we liked the first flat out game which now should be wreckfest and strangely enough a soccer mod for CS:S back then.

So how did it go? Were you able to bring down the temps?

TBH I wouldn't recommend this one blindly. Sure it would help but it depends on the skills, used paste and circumstances. Under "normal" use with a branded thermal paste the intervals should be somewhere between 4 and 5 years. If the CPU and GPU are cooking the whole time then yeah, 1 to 2 years. But even then, if you're not a little bit tech savvy, impatient and cautious you can mess up pretty badly...

The anti sag brick looks nice but is restricting airflow from the side, if you can look for a stand for the corner of the GPU.

You don't have to populate all available fan slots. I would recommend you to remove the bottom one entirely, even if your PC is on top of a table and dust isn't a problem, this fan redirects a lot of the air, coming from the front 2, slightly up to the CPU.

The problem with the top one is, even if you rotate it to be an intake, it could push the air, coming from the front, down away from the CPU flow.

Short: try and simply remove the bottom and the top front one entirely.

Like someone already stated, you want the air to move linearly from one side to another.

I don't recommend to use air guides since they can create pressure points and block other components. Components like RAM, VRMs and drives also need some fresh air.

What's the thing between the PSU and the GPU?
And what's the orientation of the fans?

The main question is: does your GPU have a no fan idle mode? AFAIK the fans won't spin till the GPU reaches 60°C and cool it back down to 40 or 45, sorry can't remember.

Usually you want to have a 3 intake at the front panel and 2 exhausts, one at the back inline with the CPU cooler and one at the top as far behind as possible. Since you're running, what looks like, a mini tower you can with the same layout as a midi but 2+2 (2 intake front, 1 exhaust back, 1 exhaust top far behind). For a positive pressure you can mount an additional fan on top, at the front as an intake.

For the best result you should take your time and fiddle around, measure and document

IMO we really should try to look at these games as "new ones" and not put them into a Schublade (pigeonhole). Please correct my phrasing if I'm wrong.

It's its own style, gameplay and story. Sure we can make comparisons but we shouldn't expect them to be like the games we compare them with. As an example, Avowed was compared to Skyrim and people immediately jumped the train and accused it of being too linear, not big enough and not having much choices. Undeserved because it's nothing like Skyrim, at least for me.

I hope Rebellion didn't chase any trend and had its own ideas but we will see. And btw: never, NEVER preorder!

The parkour system in unity is the most advanced, most fluid one in the whole series!

Soooo... I think I'm about to leave the first proper map. The voices aren't as bad as I thought at the beginning. Some NPCs have stronger accents than others, taking the backstory of the island to account it totally makes sense since a lot of people are coming from different regions.
I love the comments from the companions every time you stumble across a new region, street, house. It really lets you feel like they know the way around and you're the visitor.

The story picks up a notch and gives enough choices for every mood. Also it lets you remember some of your choices and opens new ways to solve some quests. Combat feels better and better as more you dive into. All weapons are viable and are well balanced. I started as a heavy two hand melee but now my second loadout is a book with a pistol...

The map design is really really nice IMO. You really have to take a look behind everything to find something. The loot is plausible. Enemy placement don't feel off.

After all it's a good solid game. Maybe not a full priced one but for 10-20€ off a really nice worth to be played one.
I hope it doesn't fall off the more you play..

Performance got worse in Paradis but still is around 90 in my case.

Only the Add-on, 30% off or so.