Just doing the lords work and spreading the news of W11 IoT Enterprise LTSC. It only has Defender and Edge; no Xbox, App Store, Copilot, nor Recall, or any other bloat. Perfect for gaming. Don’t waste your time looking for it on sites like massgravedotdev.

Lmao, I read that and legitimately stopped reading immediately. Thank you. Lesson learned!

Edit: I’m an idiot who stopped reading too soon.

“Dragon Age: The Veilguard is this year’s Alan Wake 2”

…wot…Alan Wake 2 is a work of art, DA:tV is yet another series being dumbed down and half assed.

The first time you play it is immensely intense. If you can, play with friends and only use in game voice. 10/10 moments when the ghost starts to hunt and everyone has to run and hide for their lives and radio comms go static. When it’s all clear talking over voice “everyone alive? Uh oh I don’t hear Steve…” then you find their body in some wild pose, dead.

Edit: Forgot to add, if you’re one of the few with a VR headset, it is an even better experience in VR. Pants extra brown. The experience of hiding in a closet as the ghost tries to open it, and the feeling of actually grabbing and holding onto the doors to keep them closed is mega fun. Also walking around and actually aiming the flashlight, and reaching to your shoulder to mimic the old school walkies with the should mounted extensions.

OK…

Free to play Call of Duty clone.

Will be interesting to see if 343 just sucks at making Halo games, or if their engine was holding them back. Or both I suppose.

I hope multiple Halo games confirmed means some singleplayer/coop story stand alone titles. Seperate and quatantined from the online live service multiplayer titles.

Don’t forget child labor for in game premium currency, since Roblox.

People like that CS doesn’t change. It just eventually gets visual upgrades with new engine versions. You can hop on CS, and know the exact game play you’re going to get.

Also, custom CS servers for extremely different game play are a thing.

I’ve tried that far too many times with both W10 and W11. Microsoft always finds a way to re-bloat. I’m pretty sure they have a team dedicated to making sure you get a bunch of bullshit bloat, and to find work arounds to however you removed it.

Way less painful to start over with LTSC and then forget about keeping on top of bloat, AI, and telemetry.

Im here to spread the good word for those who need/want to still use Windows, look up W11 IoT Enterprise LTSC.

Things it doesn’t have: Recall, copilot, ads, cortana, TPM requirement, secure boot requirement, ms store, XBOX and gaming services.

Once it’s freshly installed, it’s like a fresh XP install, naked. Can even group policy to turn off all telemetry. It’s fantastic for gaming.

Since they refuse to license it to just anyone, check out massgravedotdev.

It’s combat so far has been 50/50 me.

Sometimes everything works smoothly and it’s incredibly satisfying to mop the floor with 100s of xenos. It makes me cackle like a maniac and RP out loud as Titus.

Other moments it’s just pure clunky-slow feeling and completely tilting. Like you’re hack and slashing your heart out, and its giving you the cues for dodge or parry/block, but you’re already way too deep into queued up combos, so spamming C or space to react to them does nothing. So you just get stun locked non stop until you can finally roll away, likely being nearly 1 HP. Then you have to scramble to hope there’s Xenos in execute range to fill back armor.

Like it tries to make itself a precise timing reaction style combat game, but then made it’s combat clunky and slow since you’re a hulking space marine, so it’s never consistent if you can actually do precise timings?!

Also, wtf is making me turn green?! It’s infuriating for an enemy to do what I assume is poison me, and then everything is green and muffled for what feels like minutes, and I can’t see shit to find and shoot whatever it was that made me green!

GORGEOUS game, and man does it run smoothly without any problems on my 5800X3D and 6800 XT. Incredibly immersive!

Not an FPS, but a 3rd person shooter.

On W11, every time I get shot, my game freezes and stutters for about 0.5 second. Unplayable until fixed. A friend I play with has his FPS tank into the ~30s at the worst possible times, and then the mouse and crosshair feel disconnected, so also unplayable for him. We both have up to date everything.

Having played it, I’m basically 100% convinced it was designed for consoles. I’d hope there’s no way internally someone on the PC side didn’t protest the new UI, and was overruled.

I know this is subjective and all, but I’d say MADiSON/VR took that title, which is funnily enough HEAVILY inspired by P.T.

I’m playing its VR port for my first play through. First game I’m legit in 0 rush to play and progress further because it’s so terrifying.