#it's definitely more suited for playing with a mouse and keyboard but I was impressed with how they handled controller input

[gittetj]

I've spent the last 3 days absolutely consumed by Hypnospace Outlaw and wowww 10/10 what a fantastic game!

It'd been on my wishlist for years, but I kept putting it off because it looked kind of... messy? All over the place? And it IS! It's just as messy as the early internet culture it's paying homage to, it revels in it, but it's held together by a surprisingly dry and logic-based gameplay loop. You're a moderator of a y2k era online community and it's your job to collect evidence of the users' misdemeanors. That's all.

I think it's best to go into the game without knowing anything about the plot, but the gameplay actually reminded me a lot of the puzzle approach in Return of the Obra Dinn, where you have to play detective, alternating between going down the rabbit holes the games throws at you, while at the same time keeping a methodical overview of the information you've gathered. Return of the Obra Dinn is perhaps my favorite puzzle game of all time, so it's very high praise when I use it as a comparison.

And then, on top of that pretty solid core, Hypnospace Outlaw has ssooo much heart. There are so many little side stories you can dig into, so many odd characters, so much creativity - there's like 20 different music acts that were made up specifically for this game, many of them quite good, there's art collectives, there's drama, there's conspiracy theories, there's games within the game, and all of it is sprinkled with a healthy dose of satire of capitalism, tech-bro culture, and what the internet is like today. And it's so impressive how, despite how much content is there, almost all of it ties in with the main plot in one way or another.

I'm just blabbering to get my excitement out of my system, but if you're looking for an untraditional puzzle game, it has my most heartfelt recommendations.

Now, I'll have to find the soundtrack so I can listen to my sweet Fungus Scene tunes

[samuelryanlilly]

Steam Deck First Impressions

For anyone unaware, the Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer developed by Valve with the main purpose of getting their Steam library onto a portable platform. After the their commercial flop of the home console the Steam Machine, they basically shifted towards a number of solutions to make sure their next attempt to bring Steam games to more people would go a little smoother. Enter the Steam Deck, a device that's best described as a chunkier yet beefier Nintendo Switch that is specifically tailored to run Steam games quickly and conveniently. I've been using it for roughly a week and half now and wanted to share some of my first impressions.

The physical design is pretty good. While it's a bit big to be going in any pockets and a bit heavy too, it's ergonomically very fitting to the hands. There's enough to hold onto so that makes it feel a bit lighter and to be fair, it's not as big as the promotional materials lead me to believe. For size comparison, it's about as long as the Switch with the Hori Split Pad Pro joycons on, though still thicker. Or relatively similar in size and feel to the Wii U Gamepad, though notably heavier than that. I got the 512GB model but it does have a microSD card slot for external storage expansion. There's also a headphone jack and a USB-C port for charging and peripherals. I tested these out some with headphones and a headset in the jack. I used the USB port to connect a mouse, a keyboard, a controller, and a USB hub to do all three at once no problem. I even connected a USB-C to HDMI cable to use it on my TV in the meantime waiting for the official dock to come out (which has at the time of writing this). I didn't test anything with the bluetooth connection but most of the USB stuff I connected with a USB-A to USB-C adapter with no issues.

After a quick setup I was logged in and ready to start using the Deck. The SteamOS interface here is pretty smooth aside from a few pages that require touch input or a mouse to navigate. You can tweak some settings but the biggest ones are brightness and frames per second because these will make a noticeable difference in battery life. While it's only a 1280x720 16:10 LCD display, being able to play in 60fps with this much powerful hardware is definitely a jump up from a Switch in handheld mode. One of my absolute favorite things they've implemented on the Deck is the compatibility system. Fixed specs means they can test if games are compatible or not pretty easily. Anything with a green check mark is considered great on Deck with full compatibility. A yellow “i” means it'll work but some features may not be ideal for the Deck such as interface, text, and so on. There are unsupported titles which may work just fine but are considered too much of a hassle to get working, among others I'm sure just won't work. I haven't found any yet that failed to launch or run but I did have one poorly optimized indie game become more trouble than it was worth to fix. And then there are the question mark ones that aren't tested enough to categorize. The reason I love this compatibility system is because I can just open up the store or the library, filter for everything with a green check mark, download, and I'm playing. No need to hunt through specs and hope it'll magically work with my configuration.

It's also even easier to play because most games will pick a default template for the Steam Deck controls, but you can also change templates to other presets or custom community ones. Plus the trackpads, touch screen, and extra back buttons give you lots of extra inputs and ways to control games otherwise not well suited to controller inputs. The innards of this machine are pretty respectable as well. Sure, it's no match for a full gaming rig, but for a portable system it does an admirable job delivering great performance and visuals. It feels so nice to just turn on a game, have it work, and be able to play with controller-type controls. I mostly have been watching YouTube stuff on the side while playing and it's great. No need to setup at my computer and plug in all my stuff. I can just pick this up, turn it on, and go. You do need internet for the cloud sync or downloading games, though. Cloud sync actually lets you switch between that and your PC pretty seamlessly. You can also use the auto-suspend of putting the Deck to sleep to resume games later without closing or leaving the system on. So easy and convenient and capable.

Is the Steam Deck a Nintendo Switch killer? Probably not. The libraries don't really overlap a ton so if anything it's like a Switch companion because if you already like playing games that way then you'll probably be more enticed to get through your Steam backlog on the Deck. It could replace it if you used a Switch emulator but that's not likely very legal. And to be fair, while I know you can do tons more with the Steam Deck in terms of emulators and dual booting operating systems and all that, I really just got it to play Steam games. That's what it was made for. And in that regard I think it excels incredibly well. It's a much cheaper alternative to gaming laptop for the ease of portable PC gaming. It's easier to pick up and play at a moments notice to relax than on a PC too. It can play a lot more games with more options and content than modern consoles and handhelds as well. And for anyone on the fence about which way to lean between console and PC, this comes in not only as a good midpoint experience, but also a midpoint price. It's just so impressive and it really does exactly what I've wanted for my Steam games for the longest time. It gives me the ability to spend less time troubleshooting and more time actually playing. If you think you'll like the Steam Deck already, you probably will. Go for it. It's worth it. But we'll see how it holds up past these first impressions as time goes on. I'll keep ya posted. Until then, thanks for listening to me ramble. It's just really nice to still find reasons to be excited about gaming.

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[writeroffline]

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I actually had to source a guide online for control usage, and found a good one on Ground Zeroes that mostly works, except they changed CQC commands from arrow keys to number keys. The only caveat is Japanese developers are very console (cough, SONY) centric, so even if you do get good actual KB/M performance, there are still little quirks, like inadequate control explanation in the controls menu, mapping diagrams that only serve gamepad users, and even gamepad prompts showing onscreen instead of KB/M ones. I find that analog sticks are horribly inadequate for aiming, which is why a lot of games, even shooters like CoD Black Ops III, still have auto target for them. I still need to figure out the hitbox for helmeted headshots, though. It's not been perfect and half the time it's killed my stealth runs, but thankfully the game is tolerant of this and I've just gotten past Traitor's Caravan (with a lot of Side Ops grinding involved to make the GMP needed for beating it). There's definitely that complaint I have alongside others that movement is way too imprecise on keyboard (especially for this kind of stealth game) and that aiming is rather imprecise on gamepads as well, so I've been playing about 50 or so hours on gamepads to try and learn how to overcompensate with FPS thumbstick aiming which compared to all the other problems is usually the bane of my existence. There was a time when I would play third-person shooters with KBM like GTA IV but those times effectively died once I got a gamepad that the games were originally designed for, with mainly the exception of certain GTA Online missions where KBM accuracy's vital to pulling off a timing-sensitive assault. Swap out the PS4 controller for a wired 360 controller and you've got my general attitude on it. Played this mostly with a PS4 controller. Too bad the game won't allow for using controller+mouse at the same time and also does not support remapping of the controller binds, would actually love to try that combination.įor some reason, I like kb&m for 1st person games, but prefer controller for 3rd person games. I do miss the accuracy of using the mouse tho, aiming with the sticks never felt natural to me and having to depend so much on auto-aim (there's even weapon mods for increasing it) feels kinda cheap. There is a separate keybind for "slow walk"? I didn't even notice that, tho i didn't play around that much with kb&m because the lack of analog movement just felt too weird for an MGS game. As for the movement, I mapped sprint to shift, crouch to ctrl, slow walk to spacebar, and dive to alt, and never had a problem sneaking up behind people, even without the sneaking suit. With a mouse I can turn 180 with near equal speed and effort as I can line up headshots, no bullet time or auto aim required. How anyone could characterize analog sticks as even remotely "precise" blows me away. Trying to aim a gun quickly and accurately with a controller is fucking maddening. Trackpad tech isn't as precise as it needs to be. From what I've heard of that thing though, it doesn't sound very impressive. I am kind of desperately hoping the Steam controller fixes this problem by offering the precision of both mouse aiming and controller movement. Someone needs to make a mod that does that for MGS V. I think that is brilliant and I have no idea why any stealth game wouldn't do that on PC. I mentioned this on the Steam forums and someone who agreed mentioned that the Splinter Cell games would map the mouse wheel to movement speed. I love the precision of movement I can get with the analog stick. Sneaking suit dampens the sound of footsteps but it's not perfect.

Holding ctrl makes me move too slow, it's impossible to sneak behind anyone unless they are standing still because they walk faster than me. I move too quickly and they hear my footsteps. I really wanted to play with K+M because aiming is so much more accurate.īut the movement controls! GAH! It's terrible on a keyboard.

[loadingfox721]

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The trackpad is a vital component for any desktop. It allows you to interact with the graphical user interface in ways keyboard shortcuts simply don’t allow.

With a trackpad not working Mac and PC devices may feel downright useless. As we’ve become accustomed to interacting with our computers using a trackpad or mouse, a Mac trackpad not clicking or responding to gestures is troubling.

But don’t worry, if your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air keyboard is not working, as you’ve arrived at the right place, get some of the best possible solutions here. Why Is MacBook Keyboard Not Working? Macs are usually smooth-running machines. However, software and hardware related issues can arrive during use. The documentation indicated that the update: 'Fixes a stability issue that could occur during heavy CPU load on 16in MacBook Pro (2019 and 2020) and 13in MacBook Pro (2020)'. Hopefully we won't. The 16-inch MacBook Pro brings a whole new class of performance to the notebook. Thanks to a more advanced thermal design, the Intel Core i9 processor with up to 8 cores and 16 threads of processing power sustains higher performance for longer periods of time — and delivers up to 2.1 times the performance of a quad-core MacBook Pro. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip, as well as production 1.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645, all configured with 16GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Tested with prerelease Shapr3D 3.45.0 using a 288.2MB model.

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If the MacBook trackpad not working is an issue for you, the easiest fix is to plug in an external trackpad or mouse to your Mac.

The first thing to do is check if your version of macOS needs an update. To do so, click the Apple logo in the Mac’s menu bar, select ‘about this Mac,’ then ‘software update.’ If the Mac you’re using has new firmware available, download it.

The reasons for a MacBook trackpad not clicking are varied. It could be the macOS version it’s running, or an app that’s causing issues behind the scenes. It may even be that your system is overworked, and the trackpad is unable to keep up with your clicks and commands.

Finally, your settings may be to blame, especially if an app changed them without notifying you.

How to fix trackpad on your MacBook

There are six key ways to diagnose and fix an unresponsive trackpad on your Mac. Keep in mind an external mouse or trackpad plugged into a Mac is the simplest way to navigate these issues, as a plugged-in peripheral device has no connectivity issues.

Check system preferences

The aforementioned steps for updating Mac also apply, but you can do the same in system preferences. Here’s how:

Select the Apple logo at the top left corner of the Mac menu bar

Select “System Preferences”

Select “Software Update”

If prompted, download and update your version of macOS or OS X

Disable force click

The trackpad on your MacBook has two main interactivity types: force click, and tap to click. The difference between the two is how firmly you need to press your trackpad to get a response. Tapping allows you to simply tap the trackpad to select items, while force clicking demands you press firmly enough on your trackpad to hear (and feel) a click.

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If you’re tapping and not clicking, it may be the cause of your issues. Here’s how to toggle the setting:

Select the Apple logo at the top left corner of the Mac menu bar

Select “System Preferences”

Select “Trackpad”

Under the “Point & Click” heading, toggle the “Force Click and haptic feedback” off

In this heading, you can also tweak how forcefully you need to tap or click your trackpad to elicit a response. Simply select the “Click” slider, and change the setting to suit your needs.

Reset trackpad

A MacBook pro trackpad reset is not as daunting as it seems. All you’re really doing is toggling your MacBook’s trackpad back to the factory settings in System Preferences.

Most of us altered the settings of our trackpad to better suit our individual needs, and it may have caused issues in the background that causes a trackpad to become unresponsive. To toggle settings back to their original positions, follow the first three steps above to get into the “Trackpad” section in System Preferences.

Make sure “Tap to click” is unselected. In the “Scroll & Zoom” header, ensure “Scroll direction: Natural” is selected. These two setting should return your trackpad to its default state.

Reset NVRAM or PRAM

A lot of niggling issues can be solved with a simple NVRAM or PRAM reset. It’s a simple fix you can do any time, too. Here’s how:

Shut down the MacBook completely

Wait 30-60 seconds

Open MacBook and press the power button

Once the MacBook screen illuminates, immediately press and hold the option, command, P, and R keys

Hold the keys down for 20 seconds, or until you hear a startup sound

Release the keys and let your MacBook boot up normally

Reset the SMC

The SMC reset protocol depends on which MacBook you have. For those MacBooks introduced in 2017 or earlier, follow these steps:

Power down MacBook completely

With the MacBook off, press and hold the shift, control, and option keys

While holding those keys, press and hold the power button

Hold all four keys for ten seconds, then release

Press the power button to boot the MacBook

For MacBooks 2018 or later (with a T2 security chip) follow these steps:

Shut down your MacBook, and make sure it’s unplugged from any power supply

Wait 15 seconds, and plug the MacBook in

Wait five seconds, then power MacBook on by pressing the power button

Run Apple diagnostics

Your MacBook can run a simple diagnostics check from startup. Here’s how it’s done:

Disconnect the MacBook from all external devices except a power supply (if necessary)

Shut down your Mac completely

Power the Mac back on while holding down the D key

When you see a screen asking your language preference, release the D key and select your preferred language

Allow the diagnostics to complete its check

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Apple has determined that a very small percentage of 13-inch MacBook Pro displays may exhibit one or more of the following behaviors:

Display backlight continuously or intermittently shows vertical bright areas along the entire bottom of the screen

Display backlight stops working completely

Affected devices were sold between October 2016 and February 2018. Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider will service affected MacBook Pro units, free of charge.

To identify your computer's model and to see if it is eligible for this program, choose Apple () menu > About This Mac. Eligible models are listed below.

MacBook Pro (13-­inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)

MacBook Pro (13-­inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports)

Note: No other Mac notebook models are part of this program.

Please choose one of the options below for service. Your MacBook Pro will be examined prior to any service to verify that it is eligible for this program.

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Contact Apple Support to arrange mail-in service via the Apple Repair Center.

To prepare your unit for service, please backup your data.

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[godpool]

Rainfall and Sparks

A story following two partners on the last few legs of their mission.

“Laet, I’m going to the gas station,” Evan said as she walked out of the bathroom.

The room was brightly illuminated by the lamps sitting on both sides of the bedside table. Their soft yellow glow casting warmth into the drab grey interior of the hotel room, forming shadows on her companion’s face.

“It’s going to rain soon. Here,” Laet procured a small black umbrella from her travel bag, “take this.”

Evan accepted the umbrella with a small kiss, her long pale body hidden within her oversized sweatpants and jumper. She stood in the centre of the room, overlooking Laet. Her keys and trinkets jingling as she fiddled around in her pocket. “I’ll be on the intercom,” she said as she moved her reddy-brown hair out of her eyes, exposing her thick unkempt eyebrows.

Laet rolled her eyes as she continued to ruffle through her bag. “Could you stop using my underwear? You have your own,” she complained.

“Buy your own,” she shouted as Evan stepped out into the hallway, the sound of her footsteps lessening as the door clicked behind her. The corners of Laet’s mouth twitched upwards.

The room was quiet for only a second before it was awash with the rampant sounds of the daily life of eastern Verde. The sounds of cars aching on past through the peak hour traffic, the abrupt beeping of impatient drivers in the distance and the chirping and cawing of birds milling about in the trees brushing against the open windows.

Laet inhaled deeply as the fresh, earthy air outside seeped into the room. The breeze was cool and kind against her flushed skin. Twisting her mouth, Laet picked up the intercom lying beside her thigh and played with the buttons until came forth the familiar mix of different ringing tones meshed together.

Biiiiiiip… Briiiiiiing…

“Routing your call,” a mechanical voice intoned. Then silence.

“Uhhh, Agent Jugshit in the clear, over,” somebody staggered out. It was an impressive imitation of their coworker back home, Agent Dennis.

A husky voice could be heard on the other side of the intercom, his voice accompanied by the repeated clicking of a keyboard. “Oh shut up, Evan. You couldn’t be me even if you wanted,” Dennis snarked.

A different man snorted and soon, conversation was booming as her coworkers mercilessly teased each other. The two men on the line, Agents Dennis and Isaiah, were monitoring their target’s location all the way back from their home base in Lokaus.

The bickering of her companions faded into background noise as Laet continued to organise her garb for the night ahead. For when they would be called to approach and subdue Simon Kousch, a government operative that went rogue. Paid the Lokaus government's benevolence back with theft.

Laet spent hours on her flight over to Verde imagining what the Golden Eagle could be, and why its retrieval was so vital. Potentially a hard drive containing undisclosed files and unsanctioned cases, Laet mused. Cases like this one, perhaps?

She stood up and sat on the bed, bringing a small audio recorder onto her lap as she untangled its wires. Then again, does it even matter? “Evan, are you there y-?” She was interrupted by the ringing of a store entrance.

“Yeah, I’ve just entered the servo now, actually,” Evan replied distractedly.

There was a lull in the conversation. Laet itched the base of her scalp as she picked up a minuscule brown brick lying beside her clothes. It felt solid and heavy in her grasp, the ridges on its side helping her grip the device with ease. Laet lifted it higher and looked at its curved tip, the rounded glossy edge reflecting her brown face.

She methodically tightened her fingers around the device. A strong buzzing sound erupted from it, causing sparks of brown light to come from within its glossy black tip. Her hand shook from the vibration. She put it down, satisfied. “Just testing the brick,” Laet murmured.

Isaiah hummed in response.

Soon, the crinkling of plastic rang through the intercom. Dennis and Isaiah collectively sighed.

Evan clicked her tongue. “Listen, you signed up for this,” she said. The crinkling intensified. “You knew that working at The Warehouse meant that you could no longer have deliciously sour and savoury junk,” she drawled out, her grin practically transparent through the call.

“Sucks,” Laet said. “How about you get me some sour cream and chives and,” she said dragging the last word, “some Starbursts.”

“The big packet?” said Evan.

Laet scoffed. “When is it not?”

Dennis sighed once more. “Must be nice,” he said glumly.

Laet smiled, able to perfectly envision the sad, gloomy look in Dennis’ eyes as he said that. His elbow resting on the black bench with his palm smooshed into his cheek, his youthful brown skin making the sight all the more pitiful. They could hear Isaiah patting Dennis on the back and Laet rolled her eyes.

The clicking of a mouse rang through as Isaiah spoke up. “We have new intel for you.”

“Our overlords bless us,” Laet deadpanned.

Isaiah continued, “Simon’s at —and make sure you write this down—”

“Give me a second,” Evan muttered. “Alright, shoot.”

“The Hilltop Marquee up in Lower East, room 22 on the fourth floor. You got that down?”

Evan hummed.

Laet frowned. “Marquee?”

“It's a historical thing, I guess,” Dennis said.

“Why now?” Evan’s voice was faint, overshadowed by the tittering and chatter of women near her. They waited as Evan exchanged a few words with somebody before continuing on her way, the ringing of the store door behind her as she stepped back onto the roadside pavement towards their hotel.

“He's in contact with another high-level target,” Isaiah said.

“And that's a bad thing,” Dennis interjected. “You need to subdue Simon this nightfall, as planned.”

Laet picked up a light brown knife and rested it on her forearm, the blade tip near the crook of her elbow. The knife blended in well with her caramel skin, with only the serrated edge glinting.

“I'll send you the digitised perimeter of the area,” Isaiah said.

Laet removed the knife from her arm and leant over the bed, her fingers searching for a thin laptop just underneath. She grasped it and positioned herself back on the bed, the laptop already logged in.

The cursor began to move across the screen without her control and opened an application. It was an animated live feed of outside of the Hotel Marquee. The graphics were limited, comprising primarily of black line drawings and small red circles indicating civilians and hotel staff.

Laet zoomed into the hotel and clicked onto the entrance door of the hotel. The application adjusted itself so that the entirety of the first floor was in frame on the screen. Laet leaned towards the monitor as she scanned the screen. “Would I be foolish to assume that Simon’s indicator is distinct from the non-targets?”

“Yes,” Isaiah affirmed. “His is a yellow star one-point-seven times larger than the other indicators.”

“He's not currently there, but we have eyes on him,” Dennis said. “We expect him to be back later this evening.”

Laet clicked the toolbar up top of the application and the live feed changed to focus onto that of the second floor. Her mouth was pursed as she watched two small red circles walking down a hallway and into what she assumed to be a closet, their indicators coming so close together they almost appeared to merge into one. “He's in for a world of hurt tonight,” Laet muttered.

“That he definitely is,” Evan said softly.

Silence fell once more on the intercom.

The rain was not ideal. The sun had long gone past the horizon, leaving only dark blue skies blanketing above them. Harsh winds pelted raindrops against the sides of their face, the seeping chill of the rain distracting the women. But this was what they’d been working towards for months. They were tougher than smack of the raindrops, or the biting sting of the wind against their fingers and eyes.

The gravel below them gleamed with water and mud, their footsteps creating small splashes as Evan and Laet slunk towards the rear of the Hilltop Marquee. They inched towards the back, warily eyeing the small cliff adjacent to the hotel that leads down to a murky abyss.

This side of the hotel was empty. There were a few lights embedded in the wall barely illuminating the small stone steps underneath various grey doors. There were dozens of small balconies peering towards the sea overhead. Their intricate spiral design almost lost in the darkness.

Laet adjusted the cuffs on her glove before walking towards the building, raising her head as she regarded the balcony above her. They were fairly high above ground, almost double the height of Evan. “Anybody in there?” Laet asked. “We’re looking at the second floor, room 4.”

There was a brief pause of static on the intercom before Isaiah responded. His voice was clipped. “All clear.”

Evan cracked and released the pressure in her knuckles before bending her knees, jumping high into the air before grabbing the railing. Her arms were pressed flush against her body as she held herself up with only her hands, her feet finding anchorage on the balcony floor before throwing a leg and manoeuvring herself over it onto both feet.

Laet followed suit and jumped after her, her right hand slipping on the slick metal railing. She immediately grabbed at the horizontal bar underneath the top railing, gritting her teeth as her hand began slipping once more. Her left hand tightened in place as she swung her feet beneath her, using the momentum to heave her feet right at the edge of the balcony. Tightening her grip once more, Laet hauled herself upright until both hands were clutching the rail and threw herself over.

Evan simply tilted her head as Laet faced, causing Laet to flush. Those farting gloves.

Laet opened her mouth to speak before coming to a halt as Evan pulled down the lip of her scarf and wiped away at the trickle of snot slinking down and pooling into her philtrum. “You’re disgusting,” Laet grimaced before looking inside the room through the glass balcony door.

As she moved away from the direct wind and rainfall, Laet noticed the slight static in the intercom. “Isaiah? Can you still hear me?”

The time it took until Isaiah next spoke was uncomfortably long. “Yeah, I can. The system is getting a bit garbled, so bear with me.”

“Is the third floor clear, either room 10 or 11?” Evan asked as she played with the straps of her backpack crisscrossing over her stomach.

The static continued as Isaiah’s voice peeked through, unusually small. “All clear.”

The two followed each other upwards, angling their body over the edge of the hotel as they stood atop the balcony. They climbed onto the third floor, using the horizontal rails to inch upwards, their feet dangling freely in the air.

The two were grinning as they twisted themselves over the railing and onto solid ground. “That was some straight up spy shit,” Evan laughed.

Laet playfully nudged at her before resting her backside on the railing, asking once more: “Fourth floor, room 25?”

“Negative. Go to room 24,” Isaiah replied, his voice warbling in and out.

The static then went out, along with sound completely on the intercom. Evan and Laet looked at each other, their eyes wide at the silence in their ear. Laet lifted up the edge of her beanie and tapped at the intercom, half expecting it to turn back on.

Evan knelt down and unclasped the buckles of her backpack and placed it on a section of dry pavement. She opened the smallest zipper in the front and withdrew a small mobile-like device, then stuck her intercom into a small output parallel to the screen. The screen came alit, displaying various numbers and symbols.

“What’s wrong with it?” Laet asked as she peered towards the ground, keeping guard. She whipped her head as light shone through the curtains of the room to their left, room 26.

Evan’s fingers continued sliding on the screen, her gaze briefly flickering to the room now alive with people. “I don’t know,” Evan said slowly.

The hair on Laet’s arms stood up at that. Technology was not an area she excelled at or had any desire to, preferring to leave that to the others while she focused on the more physical nature of her job. But it was during times like this that Laet wished she’d bit the bullet and learnt all she could about the equipment she would be using. This time I swear I’ll actually do it, Laet promised.

Evan soon retracted the intercom from the device and placed it snugly back into her ear. She returned the device and took out a small tablet in its place, quickly readjusting the backpack around her body. “It’s out for good,” Evan said. “I can’t connect back to the base.”

“We don’t even know what we’re looking for!” Laet said in a hushed whisper. “Shit!” She pictured herself kicking her foot in frustration, imagining the painful vibration reverberating up her leg and into her hip, hearing the sole of her boot grating against pavement. She kept still.

“We’re going to have to go on without them.” Evan fiddled around with the tablet until the live feed of the hotel was on the display. “Gotta jump the next two balconies to get to Simon.” Evan strode to the end of the balcony and gestured forward. “We’ll capture him and transport him to a safe location until we can contact  The Warehouse.”

Laet wrapped a hand above Evan’s elbow as she started making her way over the railing. “This is not a good idea, we can’t just go off script-” Laet hesitated as Evan gave her a look, her hand slowly sliding off, “-not to this degree. The extraneous variables are off the charts.”

Evan lowered her scarf and sighed, a small cloud of warm air rising between them. She stepped closer, her eyes beseeching for Laet to reason. “We’ve had to abort missions so many times, Laet, this will get us fucking nixed. We can’t let him escape again, they’ll ruin us.”

“So what are we going to do once we’ve gotten him? What then?”

“We’ll improvise, just like we’ve been taught to.”

Laet remained silent, her eyes trained heavily on the other woman’s. She could hear the sound of an emergency vehicle wailing past the hotel and down the street, along with the crashing of the waves nearby. She pressed her lips together, rolling it before stepping back. “Okay,” she murmured.

Nodding, Evan lowered her scarf further and placed the tablet between her lips, stepping over the fence and onto to the edge of the balcony. The balcony of room 24 was about five meters away, not absurdly far at all, giving Evan all the more assurance to leap over with Laet following behind. The rushing of the wind masked their presence.

The doors of this balcony were closed yet the transparent curtains revealed the happenings inside. Laet spared them a glance, finding an older man and woman dancing together at the foot of their bed, the soft hum of instrumentals wafting out from the room. Evan and Laet didn’t bother crouching as they passed the wide doors, knowing that the intensity of the light inside the room would conceal them against the darkness of the night.

They were soon huddled at the balcony door of room 22, the gritty wall flush against their backs. Evan held the tablet as she glanced at the screen once more, her brows coming together at the star indicator’s sporadic movement on the live feed.

The blinds were closed, but again this meant little as the light from Simon’s quarters spilt out across the balcony, leaving two triangular slivers of darkness. Evan peeked into the room and saw a man, Simon, hunched over at the side of his bed. “He’s got his back turned,” she whispered. Evan gestured her head towards the other side of the door and waited as Laet got into position.

She looked once more inside to make sure Simon was not facing them, and when clear, stood up from her crouch to reach for the handle, opening the door just a fraction. The two women stared inside as he got up off the floor and shoved a vintage mobile phone into the backpack he was clutching. This continued for many minutes, with Evan and Laet readying to enter the room only for Simon to face the balcony.

Finally, as Simon’s bag was filling up and the room became emptier, Simon ducked down underneath the computer desk and started meticulously rooting around in the rubbish can.

Evan swung the door open, the hinges of the door easing along, allowing Laet slip in unnoticed. Evan kept silent as the static on the intercom suddenly returned, albeit almost mute, watching as Laet stalked up to Simon. She closed the door behind herself, the soft thudding of the door causing him to turn and fall onto his backside in alarm.

Laet kicked the underside of his jaw before he could register, sending him to the floor clutching his face. “Argh!” he groaned, before twisting left of Laet’s lunge, quickly getting onto his feet.

A smiling Evan greeted him with a sweep of the legs, causing him to stumble back onto the bed. As Evan approached him, he kicked out his legs and slammed into her torso before rolling over to the other side of the bed, only to find himself flanked. Laet was scowling as she faced him, her fingers twitching on the grip of her small brown brick.

Simon felt Laet kick his groin, leaving him to clutch at the metal cup between his thighs for only a second. So much for being prepared, he berated himself. He could see her eyebrows raising in surprise before she smacked the side of his head, leaving him disoriented.

Fingers gripped at his loose turquoise t-shirt from behind, digging painfully into the soft flesh of his neck as he was pushed back on the bed. Laet quickly straddles his thighs, restraining his movement, a stony expression on her face.

Simon gazed wretchedly into her eyes as Laet forcefully pressed the brick into his chest and squeezed the grip, watching detachedly as the glossy tip came to life, sending powerful sparks into his body. His body twitched violently underneath her but Laet kept the sparks going, stopping only when Simon fell unconscious.

Laet retracted her grip and glanced up at Evan. “Live feed?” As she was sliding off his limp body, the intercom in both their ears ringing static at a lower pitch.

They both whipped their gazes to each other as the volume of the static descended and eventually Isaiah’s voice penetrated through. “-....Agents, come in. Can you hear me?”

“Yes! Yes, we can hear you,” Evan responded immediately, relief plastered over her face.

Laet pulled off her scarf and parka, the heat of the room slowly suffocating her. “We’ve subdued Simon, and we’re in the clear,” she said. “We need to know what we’re looking for, buddy.”

Isaiah was furiously clicking away on his keyboard, “you’re looking for three small gold balls.”

“Real small,” a foreign voice piped in.

Laet and Evan exchanged a confused look.

“They’re identical, golden balls that have irregular spiralled edges,” Isaiah said.

Evan began digging through his backpack, gingerly taking out Simon’s clothing and inspecting it. Laet focused her attention on Simon, patting him down before removing his clothing.

“Who would’ve guessed,” Laet said softly.

Evan’s eyes flickered to Laet, keeping silent.

The two continued on for a while, with Evan filling in Isaiah and the foreign voice, a lady called Maria, on the happenings during their disconnect, watching as Laet grew frustrated as she finished her search on Simon. Laet eventually moved onto checking the bathroom for the Golde- balls, when Evan looked over Simon’s body once more. His t-shirt was bunched into a ball nesting in the crook of his neck along with his mismatching socks, his belt buckle not yet re-clasped.

The pads of Evan’s fingers ghosted across Simon’s torso, searching for any irregular protrusions. Her fingers inched up his pectoral muscle, her index finger ghosting over the indent of his armpit. A slight bump.

Evan kept her finger still as she marked the area with a waterproof marker from her backpack. She could hear the hollow thud of the toilet seat falling down and its following clink as Laet repositioned it back up. Didn’t think it’d play out like this, she thought grimly as she bent over and unsheathed a syringe on her calf.

She breathed in deeply, drowning her thoughts out with white noise as she turned around and stalked towards Laet.

It was early morning by the time Laet came to, judging by the pale blue sunlight streaming into the room. She tried to turn around but was stopped by a sharp, stinging pain on the side of her neck. Laet lifted her head and tentatively touched the source of the pain, surprised when her fingers come back free of blood.

Every muscle in her body was cramping as Laet blearily threw her legs over the side of the bed, and groggily took in the cold tray of food before her. Beside her feet lay her weapons and a busted recorder rested upon her parka and scarf. That’s when it all came rushing back to her.  

Simon. The Golden Eagle. Evan.

Evan.

Laet jumped up and grabbed her serrated knife, cautiously surveying the hotel room. Empty. Just… cold empty rooms. The tiles were cold underfoot as Laet stepped into the bathroom, noticing the lack of toiletries or mess near the sink. All the cupboards were empty. The floor was clean and nothing was left underneath the bed.

She swallowed painfully as her fingertips eased around the sliding door of the wardrobe. Her heart was in her throat for a single second at the brief glimpse of something in the wardrobe. Yet that something turned out to simply be coat racks and their corresponding plastic jackets.

It was then that it really sunk in. Laet kicked the door in frustration, refusing to acknowledge the hurt encompassing her.

She could feel her skin itching underneath her sweaty clothes, eager to tear apart her own skin. Despairing thoughts desperately trying to squeeze out of her tear ducts and onto the mess she was stuck in. Instead, Laet untied the messy bun holding her permed hair, ignoring her sick desire to pull at the strands until they fall loose, and pulled it into a taut ponytail. Don’t lose it.

Laet turned around to eye the meal on the table. The adrenaline she initially felt was waning so all she could do was stare at the tray of food before her. It was was a small dish of fūl - Evan’s favourite food. Said it reminded her of home, of better days- paired with Lebanese bread and small saucers of dips, one of which she knew was hummus.

What stole her attention, however, was a small piece of paper isolated on the far side of the tray. She would recognise that scrawny writing even on her deathbed. That brought her pause.

Laetti,

I’m sorry. 

446 350 846 090

Growling, Laet scrunched up the paper and rocketed it towards the bin. Her lip curled as the sheet twirled around above the bin before gliding to the floor, meters away from the bin.

She fell onto the bed, her hands covering her face. Betrayal radiated from her chest and coursed through her body, turning hurt into anger, anger back into hurt, and hurt into numbness.

She lay like that for some time. The light outside intensifying and casting a golden glow into the room, memories of the last few months playing unbidden in her mind. Looking for signs that she missed.

Laet eventually roused from her detached state with an old familiarity, halfheartedly grasping at her bundle of stuff on the floor. After righting the equipment and concealing it underneath her clothes, Laet placed the intercom into her ear and dialled for The Warehouse.

Briiiiiiing…

Weird not hearing two dial tones.

“Routing your-,”

The Warehouse immediately connected to the call, cutting off the automated robot. “Agent Laet, please update us on the current events,” Dennis demanded.

Laet steeled her back but could not control the wavering of her brows, desperate to furrow. “Agent Evan is a threat. She incapacitated me last night as we were searching Simon’s hotel quarters. Both Simon and Agent Evan are unaccounted for, along with all his belongings and the Golden Eagle.”

She could hear Dennis, along with other members of their team cursing in the background.

“I’ll need an extraction team. I don’t know what she’s playing at, or if she’s working for somebody, what they’re working at. I’ll discuss things further when I get back. Just make sure I can see The Doctors as soon as possible,” Laet finished. She rubbed a hand over her face, the crusts in her eyes scraping at her skin and causing her to wince.

“Done,” Dennis said. His voice took on an odd lilt, laced heavily with concern, “what damage did you sustain?”

“She injected me with something that induced sleep extremely quickly. My neck is absolutely sore and I feel like I’ve fallen off a cliff onto a very unreceptive rock,” Laet said tiredly.

“Just get back to the airport, we’ll deal with everything else,” an unfamiliar young voice said. He sounded young, his both friendly and confident.

Laet frowned at the young man, unable to shake the feeling that nothing good awaited her back home at Lokaus. “Okay,” she said keeping her voice steady. “I’ll see you guys later.” Click.

With nothing left to do, Laet simply stared at the front door before moving to the side. She grabbed the scrunched up piece of paper lying on the floor and hid it inside the pocket of her parka, refusing to acknowledge the implications of what she was doing.

She quickly descended to the first floor, hiding her face from the lobby cameras as she left the hotel. The sun was high in the air and there was laughter and chattering amongst the small crowd. Laet prayed her heart would turn to stone as she walked alongside families, grieving a life she had lost before she could even experience it.

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Attractive, good, mature strategy game is seeking a player! Despite the twenty years of which bear gone on, the new Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition still manages to deliver a wonderful experience.

The Age of Empires series is a legitimate grandfather of the real-time strategy genre – this been around for over two decades. Some time since, we walked a remaster on the principal part, named Definitive Edition and it was... good, it was what it was, let's place this in which. Let's answer I hugged it with all its limitations. Also really honestly, I did not assume the changes will be so general in the remaster of the subsequent part, the opus magnum of the RTS genre created by the Ensemble Studio. Basically, I stayed still really considering this assignment. Meanwhile, exactly what I meet in the main flow in the game exceeded the wildest expectations. Age of Empires II Definitive Edition, despite its archaisms, comes out ahead and stretches horrible ideas with the upcoming fourth installment.

Dance Macabre

This actually isn't the first time the moment piece was renovated and published – we've previously declared the HD Edition. Apparently, though, Microsoft wants to be like George Lucas, who's forever enhance their Star Wars, and while in the case of the silk Jedi learn, the policy doesn't necessarily win fan approval, you can really be glad about how things turn out with the discussed strategy. AoE2DE is better than something we've seen in this collection so far. That so good it doesn't have any serious cons. A little forced, aren't they? Form, this is the opportunity of acclaimed dinosaurs sent to a funeral home, the slogan that remains "Dressed in our own coffins you search more successful." But seriously. Finding fault with a twenty-year last game is basically defeat a boring horse. Particularly given that that game comes with major expansion, also the skeleton may still dance by numerous personal computers.

Visual delights in 4K

I won't beat about the bush. The above heading is a piece provocative, but the mostly real. Imagine that you have the appropriate hardware (I learn most of you don't have to imagine that at all, but I did to help), people launch Age of Empires II Definitive Edition in 4K, and your eyes are poised with a planet of tiny characters working around the area, that is exactly as razor and has tremendous textures weighting 16 GB and set up specifically for this occasion. Fact be related, I've only seen that earth in a dozen frames per minute, so it probably doesn't count (I ended up participating with 1080p). In any case, the people from Forgotten Empires went to great lengths to make certain persons are given here surprise if they only have the best rig.

And that certainly not the "omg-next-gen-so-much!" type of awe, but rather "Dang, that's what a twenty-years-old game may look like?" They place almost everything that is fixed. From the growth from the natural world to stars and lives of all units. The smooth activities are pleasing to the eye, especially as you could now zoom popular using the mouse wheel. Considering a background full of warriors rendered in armor that sell virtual damage to each other has not been so exciting.

Collapsing buildings look very impressive – they disintegrate to items and watch every brick falling upon a pile of rubble. I've never grow bored of admiring collapsing castles and it sounds i won't think about this being pointless interest for a long time. It's mind-blowing!

Game designers have managed, among other things, to make sure that players will not give any difficulty identifying specific buildings. Already at this level, each building looks a little different, which makes it easier to get a notion of what's actually happening in this prevailing chaos – in the drive or in the fast increase regarding the capital or community.

More holes and user interface

In addition to aesthetic and graphical marvels, it was also important to adapt the old-school user interface with a slightly newer model. By we mean a substantial and modern UI which is better suited near it is end.

In the menu there is a another decision to degree the client interface, which is a great idea for newcomers, who are not yet accustomed to the in-game hotkeys. Enlarging the symbols enables one to understand a better knowledge of their occasion; used for a difference, professionals can get rid of the main interface almost entirely. By the way, concerning the keyboard shortcuts – today people not just have the possibility to vary key bindings, but also to create separate profiles, which will surely be enjoyed in those who create their own control systems. Also, it is possible to easily select all parts or buildings of the broken type on the place also to remove them with just one click of the major.

For the second staff of UI we can look at just how various folks we can recruit before we go out of conscious quarters. A different and extremely valuable star will demonstrate us just how many villagers are unemployed. By pressing on it, the game leads us to each one of these (one before a single) also were able to assign them a brief.

There is and a new feature – queuing of tasks, thanks to which it is possible to sketch the next activities of a hand unit in advance. All buildings under building or knowledge that are currently being used are indicated at the top from the television. This allows you to quickly understand the current situation.

Select army feature has been improved. Not just you can see the way many things you have marked, but you can also make sure that workers will never become incorporated into a massive faction of selected soldiers. It helps a lot! Especially when you have to quickly counter to the unexpected circumstances.

One of the coolest development is the opportunity to restore a farm later it last out of stocks. Simply check out this option along with anyone no longer need to concern about the supply of food. It seems so different which no one have come ahead with such an idea twenty years ago. It was a really annoying issue.

We've was given the informed AI in the HD edition from the game, playing with the Definitive Edition the fake intelligence approach includes experienced several significant polishing. I bought the brand that the AI-controlled enemy doesn't focus so much at making one brief when another, but rather acts in a new dispersed and extreme way. Employees are not directed to perform one action with another so as to improve in the future time. However, it doesn't signify the redesigned AI is slower than the older one. This aims to help settle the overall economy with prioritizes jobs in a greater way. During the individual battles, the game enables one to choose which AI scripts must be used in specific civilizations – whether they should help those from the first report, the HD form or the latest translation in the game. I encourage you to conduct your own experiments with the original AI order. It can be a quite addictive and fascinating activity.

Another critical new report is the possibility of giving orders to allies when performing 2vs2 scenarios. The number of available commands is overwhelming (around a hundred or more) then they fear questions such as – demand for coaching of the certain form of thing, sending a specific type of troops to the ground, requesting support in an episode, put the ally to focus on some type of production or even construction of an wall on designated location. You will have to use a lot of time if you want figure all this away. Many highly, the coordination seems to be doing very decently.

Other essential novelty is the beginning of a fresh level of difficulty. Despite their brand, Great difficulty doesn't make the action to fast. It is rather a surface trick, designed to assess the difficulty levels available from the game, so that they are not like mixed so previously. Thus, the Great difficulty level is very similar to the Difficult one, told on the previous edition from the game. Any direction, a challenge would remain a challenge.

Revamped multiplayer

Speaking of problem. With DE, you will get job in challenges which consist in achieving certain objectives as easily as possible – for example, advance to the next era. New adepts in the lines should spend the time to report the basics of game mechanics, if they aim to help fight against a real opponent in the multiplayer duel. The standard tutorial, which is and a Scottish battle against the English, turns out as a complete joke. In no income it will make you representing a multiplayer battle.

Just before we move onto additional notes on multiplayer mode, I should point out the whole element of the experience was utterly redesigned. No more peer-to-peer connections. Instead, game designers have put together multiplayer servers which must provide a much smoother and lag-less experience. At least unlike which includes occurred to me during my gameplay experience.

The design and features of multiplayer’s lobby has been modified. Now you can make personal and password-protected game sessions. Among the new features there is a possibility to watch multiplayer conference of others as a spectator (there may be virtually any number of people watching). The new map selector makes this better to filter them before produce your own sets. After all, the renewed matchmaking system should enable a better wealth of rivals due to the more explicit research criteria. That would entail additional time, than I had after the game's release, to get to see these novelties and innovative solutions i always have described above. Despite that, I have to divulge in which anything I've tested did well.

A multicultural game

The designation of Definitive Edition grants to begin something over simply updated graphics, interface, AI and restored multiplayer. The designer have managed to save all expansion sets – including most cultures that occurred within every add-on. Moreover, they have included some extra content. Thanks to that, twenty-four movements are awaiting you inside only person mode! In other words, it's countless times of excitement! Four new the world have remained put into those previously being from the level story with frequent add-ons. Also, three of them say picked up unique campaigns. Despite the fact Spiele Umsonst downloadspiels.com that game designers have decided to take an easy direction with based the armed forces capability of all new people in cavalry, we should be happy that they've expanded the previously diversified puddle of civilizations.

For the new we can handle the responsibility of Lithuanians (unfortunately, this population was denied of special campaign). And, you can sport because Tatars, Bulgarians and Cumans. The end are well-known from Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I've played every new fights and also via what I've seen so far, many new country are somewhat threw in assessment to their opponents. Or I'm a born boss also a talented strategist? I'm kidding, although I might not be disturbed if the new people were effectively balanced in a patch that may be generated from the next future (mainly within the perspective of multiplayer matches).

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I'm aware of the fact I give managed to discover and suggest all the differences within judgment to the primary. I only expectation to I've noticed most of them, and have suitably told them in this review. Age of Empires II Definitive Edition is a fantastic solution to the supporters of strategy genre. It was successfully restored and renewed by Forgotten Empires and most certainly it won't go unnoticed – at least with supporters that have this sort of activity and are not scared of adult game mechanics. That resembles a living (walking down?) corpse that's still rather pleasant next survived fixed in total conditions. So, the idea going to end for at least few seasons more. I talk about it with a lot of sympathy because I love how nicely it was preserved. Also, I hope that this a promising sign before the freedom of the several chapter in the cycle that’s awaited in many home-grown tactical leaders.

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AoE II: Definitive Edition game Review

Attractive, good, mature strategy game is looking for a player! Despite the twenty years of which comprise happened, the new Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition still manages to deliver a wonderful experience.

The Age of Empires series is a real grandfather of the real-time strategy genre – this been around for over two decades. A while ago, we followed a remaster of the former job, named Definitive Edition and it became... positively, it was what it was, let's effect this on which. Let's answer I hugged it with the entire the weaknesses. And fully seriously, I did not think the changes will be so general in the remaster with the following part, the opus magnum of the RTS genre produced by the Company Studio. Really, I wasn't actually very considering this mission. Meanwhile, exactly what I saw within the original cycle from the game exceeded the wildest expectations. Age of Empires II Definitive Edition, despite their archaisms, comes out ahead and turns big things with the upcoming fourth installment.

Dance Macabre

That really isn't once the second position was renovated and announced – we've already held the HD Edition. Apparently, though, Microsoft wants to become George Lucas, who's forever boost the Celebrity Wars, and while in the case of the cotton Jedi grasp, the method doesn't necessarily win fan approval, you can in fact happened content about how things turn out with the discussed strategy. AoE2DE is better than something we've seen in this series so far. It's so good it doesn't have any major cons. A slight forced, aren't they? Fit, this is the opportunity of acclaimed dinosaurs sent to a burial family, the slogan which remains "Within our coffins people search more living." But really. Finding problem with a twenty-year old game is really defeat a quiet horse. Especially while this game comes with major development, and the skeleton may still party with many individual computers.

Visual pleasures in 4K

I won't beat about the bush. The above heading is a bit provocative, but the mostly real. Imagine that you have the appropriate hardware (I see most of you don't have to imagine that at all, but I needed to help), you launch Age of Empires II Definitive Edition in 4K, and your judgments are decorated with a world of little characters running about the place, that is strong as razor and has tremendous textures weighting 16 GB and prime specifically for this event. Truth be declared, I've only realized this world for a dozen frames per second, so it probably doesn't count (I ended up participating in 1080p). In any case, the people from Forgotten Empires went to great lengths to make sure players are left here amazement if they only have the proper rig.

And this not necessarily the "omg-next-gen-so-much!" type of awe, but rather "Dang, that's what a twenty-years-old game can look like?" They placed just about everything that could be fixed. From the exterior in the nature to tattoos and lives of units. The level developments are choosing to the vision, especially when you can now focus popular using the mouse wheel. Looking at a prospect full of warriors rendered in suits who offer virtual damage to each other never happened so exciting.

Collapsing buildings look very impressive – they disintegrate to parts and watch every brick falling upon a pile of debris. I've never find bored of enjoying collapsing castles and it sounds that I won't believe it because pointless activity for a while. It's mind-blowing!

Game designers have managed, among other things, to make sure that players won't have any problems with identifying specific buildings. Already at this stage, each building looks somewhat different, making it easier to get a perception of what's really going on in this prevailing chaos – in the fight or through the fast expansion of your city or village.

More resolutions and client interface

In addition to aesthetic and graphical marvels, it was and important to adjust the old-school user interface with a slightly newer product. In we mean a pure and modern UI which is better matched toward their objective.

In the selection there is a new solution to size the client interface, which is a good idea for newcomers, who are not still familiar with the in-game hotkeys. Expanding the icons allows that you find a better understanding of their functions; representing a trade, professionals can get rid of the main interface almost completely. By the way, concerning the keyboard shortcuts – now anyone not merely have the risk to modify key bindings, but also to create separate profiles, which will definitely be welcomed in those who use their own power systems. Also, it is possible to immediately select all troops or developing of a given type on the plan also near erase them with just one click of the significant.

On the top block of UI you can check exactly how lots of folks we can recruit or we go out of conscious quarters. A different and extremely valuable star can indicate us the way many residents are unemployed. By pressing on it, the game leads us to every single of which (one in single) also were able to assign them a task.

There is too a new feature – queuing of tasks, thanks to which it is possible to plan the next actions of a hand unit in advance. Many buildings in structure or technologies that are now being developed are displayed at the top from the panel. This allows you to quickly understand the current state.

Select army feature has been increased. Not just you can see exactly how many thing you have marked, but you can also make sure that workers will not be built into a massive knot of elite soldiers. It helps a lot! Especially when you have to quickly respond to the unexpected circumstances.

One of the coolest development is the opportunity to restore a farm once this flows out of stocks. Just confirm this alternative then anyone no longer have to worry about the supply of food. It seems so funny that nobody have come ahead with such an idea two decades since. It was a really annoying issue.

We've was given the informed AI in the HD edition with the game, playing with the Definitive Edition the synthetic intelligence organization includes gone through some key polishing. I got the idea that the AI-controlled enemy doesn't focus a lot on working one activity when another, but rather acts in a new spread out and hostile approach. Employees are not directed to perform only one activity when another in order to increase into the next time. However, it doesn't imply that the redesigned AI is slower than the old one. This endeavor to help rest the budget and prioritizes tasks in a greater way. During the individual battles, the game allows one to choose that AI scripts should supply with specific civilizations – whether they should use those from the first type, the HD side or the latest form from the game. I push you to conduct your own experiments with the original AI order. That can be a quite addictive and amazing activity.

Another large new feature is the possibility of giving demands to allies when performing 2vs2 scenarios. The number of available draft is overwhelming (around a hundred and up) and they worry problems like as – demand for point of any point form of units, sending a specific type of troops in the ground, requesting support in an attack, request the ally to focus on a certain type of production or even design of the fence on selected location. You will need to invest a lot of time if you want figure it all out. Most importantly, the system seems to be working very decently.

Other significant novelty is the beginning of any new level of difficulty. Despite their name, Great difficulty doesn't make the action to difficult. It is instead a surface trick, designed to balance the levels available in the game, so that they are not as mixed so previously. So, the Acute difficulty level is very similar to the Difficult one, known in the previous edition with the game. Each direction, a challenge shall remain a challenge.

Revamped multiplayer

Speaking of problems. With DE, you can get position in problem which consist in getting certain objectives as suddenly as possible – for example, advance to the next era. New adepts of the line should give the time to survey the basics of game mechanics, if they expect to help fight against a real opponent in the multiplayer duel. The standard tutorial, which is also a Scottish struggle critical of the British, turns out as a complete joke. By no means it will make a person designed for a multiplayer battle.

Just before we turn on to more depth about multiplayer mode, I should explain that this entire element of the game was entirely redesigned. No more peer-to-peer connections. Instead, game designers have put together multiplayer servers that must provide a much smoother and lag-less experience. At least unlike which gets gone on to me in our gameplay experience.

The style and efficiency of multiplayer’s lobby has been modified. Now we can develop personal and password-protected game sessions. Among the new story there is a possibility to watch multiplayer sessions of people as a witness (there could be almost any number of people watching). The new map selector gets that easier to filter them before make your own sets. At last, the revised matchmaking system should enable a better diversity of rivals due to the more explicit research criteria. This would entail much more time, than I did after the game's release, to get to see all these novelties and innovative solutions i always have described above. Despite which, I have to acknowledge in which everything I've tested worked perfectly.

A multicultural game

The ownership of Definitive Edition helps to create something more than simply updated graphics, interface, AI and restored multiplayer. The creators have managed to gather all expansion sets – including all worlds which showed up in both add-on. Moreover, they have created some further content. Thanks to that, twenty-four works are awaiting anyone from the record person mode! In other words, it's hundreds of times of enjoyment! Four new cultures have happened put into those previously living in the average style and many add-ons. Also, several ones have collected unique campaigns. Despite the fact that game designers have decided to take an easy method with based the armies might off new states in cavalry, we should be grateful to they've broadened the previously diversified band of worlds.

For the new we can carry out the role of Lithuanians (unfortunately, that people was denied of unique campaign). And, you can performance when Tatars, Bulgarians and Cumans. The last are well-known from Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I've played all new wars also from what I've seen so far, many different nations become a little threw in assessment to their opponents. Or I'm a worn principal then a talented strategist? I'm kidding, but I wouldn't be surprised when the new people were effectively balanced in a piece that may be launched in the nearest future (especially in the perspective of multiplayer matches).

A grin walking dead

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#49 boss/intern for Vishnal/Arthur would be great if thats a pairing you would write for!

Here you are Nonny! Vishnal/Arthur is not a ship I've ever written for, but I'll be damned if it wasn't fun. it's too much fun to play with Vishnal's obvious uh... attraction to authority figures.

I went back and forth a few times on whether I wanted this to be a Modern Office AU or an in-game canon AU where Vishnal gets assigned as Arthur's personal butler.

but I had a little more fun writing the Office AU, so here it is. Lowly employee Vishnal and New Boss Arthur, complete with teasing coworkers.

Ficlet AU Prompts

“Heads up, new boss alert.” Vishnal’s heart gave an unpleasant lurch as his head shot up from the spreadsheet he had been working on to crane over the sea of cubicles. Leon’s warning had been spot-on. There was a small group of important looking people all gathered around what used to be Mr. Volkanon’s office. The office had been cleared out of any of their former manager’s personal effects after his retirement party last Friday, and it looked like someone new was moving in this morning.

Vishnal skimmed the small crowd, wondering who among the besuited bodies was going to be their next manager. Almost all of them were older, at least in their fifties, but there was one younger man amongst them, blond, bespectacled, holding himself rigid and looking nervous with an armful of folders. Vishnal had to sympathize, he hated being the intern lackey dragged along with the higher-ups.

The thought crossed his mind that he should probably get back to work, but he realized he wasn’t the only one in the office scoping out the crowd for their new boss. Actually, the only one among them who appeared to still be diligently working was his other cubicle-mate, Clorica, who had dozed off while staring at her computer screen. Vishnal nudged her awake.

Clorica woke with a small gasp, automatically wiggling her mouse and putting her fingers on the keyboard and typing in a few nonsense characters, proclaiming in a rushed whisper, “I’m working, I’m awake. Wait…” She looked at Vishnal and Leon who was doing his best to hide as a breathy cough. “What’s going on?”

“New boss is in. didn’t think you’d want to miss it.”

“Oh.” Clorica joined the rest of the office in watching the group at the front.

The group was breaking up, several handshakes were exchanged, before one by one they all walked out of the office, leaving a familiar woman and the young intern behind.

Ms. Ventuswill was the general manager of their work group, Mr. Volkanon’s boss. Vishnal frowned slightly, she wasn’t taking over as their manager, was she? That seemed like a demotion for her.

She stepped forward, clearing her throat before saying in her normal, commanding voice, “May I have your attention please?” It was a needless request, she had everyone’s attention already, but she did stop the murmurs that were bubbling up across the office. Ms. Ventuswill smiled at the silence office. “I’ll make this quick, I’m sure you have plenty of work to do today and don’t need any further distractions. I would like to introduce you to your new manager, Mister Arthur Lawrence.”

The young blond man stepped forward and shifted his hold on his folders to offer the office a small wave. “Hello’s, I am really looking forward to working with all of you.” He was much softer spoken than his predecessor. Mr. Volkanon’s booming voice could be heart two floor away if he got into a particular mood. Still, Mr. Lawrence’s voice carried quite clearly all the way to Vishnal’s ears in the furthest cubicle. “I think we can all be a very cohesive team. I hope you won’t mind if I take some of your time today to meet each of you individually, but until then, I’ll let you get back to it.”

At that, Ms. Ventuswill and Mr. Lawrence turned to step into his office, closing the door behind them. Chatter erupted immediately in the office space as cubicle-mates quickly began discussing their new boss. Vishnal’s cubicle was not exempt from that.

“Did you hear that?” Leon demanded, dropping into his chair so he leaned over the back. “His name is Lawrence. You think he’s one of the CEO’s kids?”

Clorica tapped her chin thoughtfully before saying, “Yes, I think he is. I remember seeing him at a couple of the company gatherings.”

Leon scoffed. “Nepotism in its finest.” He propped his chin on the back of his chair and swung around in a slow arc. “So, how do you think he’ll be? Overly familiar, open-door, pushover? Useless and lazy slob? Or a micromanaging tight-ass who’s desperate to impress daddy with his first big boy job?”

“I don’t know, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.” Vishnal shrugged.

Leon hummed and spun around in a circle. “I bet he micromanages to impress daddy. He gives me that same small-anxious dog vibes that you do, Vis.”

“Hey! I do not micro-manage!”

Clorica snickered. “Only because you’re at the bottom of the food chain, mister color-coded-productivity tracker.”

Vishnal merely huffed and turned back to work. He would have to be more diligent than normal to make sure he got all of his work done with the added distractions today. His productivity tracker kept him organized, damnit, it was useful.

Mr. Lawrence worked through his personal introductions to their office group in order of seniority, it appeared, and Vishnal was the last one to go into his office. It was strange stepping into an office that had, just a few days ago, been covered with Mr. Volkanon’s personal touches – the man had a lot of grandchildren and plenty of pictures of all of them. The walls were still bare, freshly spackled and painted over to make a blank canvas for Mr. Lawrence’s décor of choice. All he had hung so far were two framed degrees, his Bachelor’s and a freshly obtained Master’s, but Vishnal spied a box sitting in a corner that looked like it had some more decorations tucked inside. Mr. Volkanon’s old desk had been replaced, as had his chair, with shiny new counterparts. Mr. Lawrence’s desk was already half covered with a scattering of paperwork and binders.

Vishnal paused in the doorway and knocked to announce his presence.

Mr. Lawrence looked up from the paper he was skimming and smiled, “Yes, come on it.” He walked around the desk and shook Vishnal’s hand. “Vishnal, right? Old Volkanon had nothing but good things to say about you.”

“O-oh, he did?” Vishnal’s brain forgot how to work briefly as he took in Mr. Lawrence. He was much more handsome up close than Vishnal had thought, and young – well, probably older than Vishnal, but still younger than any manager he’d ever known. His brown eyes sparkled, and his classes complimented the shape of his face, his impeccable suit fit him perfectly, cut to properly accentuate his lithe frame. He was vaguely aware that Mr. Lawrence was still speaking, he heard nothing because all him mind was doing was screaming a long, agonized “Ooooh nooo, he’s cute!”

He tuned in just in time to catch, “Go ahead and take a seat, I’d just like to take a minute to get to know you better.”

“Uh, yes Mister Lawrence.” Vishnal hurried to sit in the spare desk chair that had been rolled into the office.

“Please,” Mr. Lawrence tittered wearily, “Just call me Arthur. Mister Lawrence is my father, and I’m not nearly as much a stickler for formalities as he is.”

“Oh, okay, Arthur.” Vishnal liked the way that name rolled off his tongue. His anxiety on the other hand, didn’t quite care for that much informality between him and his new boss, and it was doing a wonderful job keeping a very tight leash on Vishnal’s imagination. Now was not the time to be fantasizing about the things he and his boss might do on this pristine new desk. Nope. Definitely not! To derail that train of thought, Vishnal tried a small joke. “I bet you’ve said that line about a hundred times today, huh?”

“Ninety-seven times, to be exact.” Mr. Law- Arthur smiled back weakly. Vishnal laughed weakly, realizing his joke had been recognized. “Really it’s more for logistics’ sake than anything. With half of my family working in this company, and a good portion of them my brothers, things get a little confusing with a dozen Mister Lawrences running around. That and it makes me feel old.” He shuddered comically and grinned. “I’m not even thirty yet, I can’t be a Mister.”

“Yeah, that makes sense. But I suppose it makes ordering company letter head much easier.”

Arthur laughed, genuinely this time, and it was such an endearing warm sound. “Yes, that it does.” Then the smile fell somewhat and he straightened the papers in front of him. “Now to business, I understand you’re our newest addition to the team. You just started… eight months ago?”

Vishnal somehow managed to keep his wild imagination in check over the next fifteen minutes and carried on an entirely professional conversation with his very cute new boss. How, he wasn’t entirely certain, because he was sure any moment Arthur would notice how flush Vishnal’s cheeks had become or how sweaty he suddenly was, or the nervous stuttering. But he said nothing about it and sent Vishnal back to work with another firm handshake and a smile.

Arthur must have just been polite, because as soon as Vishnal got back to his cubicle Leon called him out immediately. “Ooooh, I know that look. Someone’s got a crush on the new boss.”

“N-no I don’t!”

“But, Vis,” Clorica said, so sweetly and innocently. “Why is your face all red then?” She rolled over and gently poked on of Vishnal’s burning hot cheeks.

“Anxiety. I don’t do well with authority figures. I was nervous.”

His cubicle mates shared knowing looks and diabolical grins. “Uh-huh, sure,” Leon drawled. “A problem with authority figures.”

Vishnal brushed them off and turned back to his work, waking up the computer with a determined wiggle of the mouse. Leon would get bored eventually if he didn’t interact with him, and Clorica would eventually drop the game and get back to her own work. And so what if he had a little crush on their new boss? It was just a crush, perfectly normal and innocent and harmless. Even if his imagination was doing its best to bring up images of what the two of them could do in that office, or in the copy room, or maybe leaving early together on a Friday to go get some drinks…

“Oh look,” Clorica’s gleeful voice chimed in. “Now his ears are red too.”

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Loupedeck+ Review: A Big Improvement From The Original

I’ve seen peripherals like the Loupedeck+ and its competitors around the market for a while now and I’ve been quite skeptical about the practicality of their use. Not that they are bad things, just that I’ve spent so many years with a keyboard & mouse combo that the thought of learning a new device to work on my images caused me a near panic attack. I will, however, admit that after getting hands on with the updated Loupedeck+ after WPPI 2019 that my opinion has changed greatly! While I’m still pretty clunky with it, the ease of use, accuracy, customization and versatility with the variety of supported apps make it more than worth the $249 price tag.

What Is It?

The Loupedeck+ is a photo & video editing console or keyboard that was created (initially by crowdfunding) to help you edit your photos & videos faster and easier than via the computer/mouse combination. It takes the software version of your sliders in Adobe Lightroom (among others) and gives you a physical button to use instead. I can also confirm that the knobs actually give you more control, or better accuracy than when using just the mouse in most of the applications as well.

[REWIND: Introducing Loupedeck+ | Loupedeck Gets An Upgrade & No Longer Just For Lightroom]

At Loupedeck, We’re Passionate about each and every step of the photo and video editing process. From first shoot to the final edit, we know it’s the small details that often make the biggest difference between a good image or video and a great one.

Quality

Having not been familiar with the first generation of Loupedeck, I did a fair bit of homework as well as picking the brains of the folks at SLR who did the initial review here. Among the biggest “cons” that I found from users with the original was the actual build quality. From what they’ve told me and what I’ve seen in my own use of the Loupedeck+, while the dimensions are the same, the quality of the product has improved significantly. The console is sturdier and the buttons/dials have a much more stable and satisfying feel when pressed and adjusted.

Another improvement is the addition of completely customizable functions, buttons, and a much improved software/plugin & interface.

Setup & Install

Here’s what I loved about this product. The first thing you have to do is download the updated software/drivers for your operating system from the Loupedeck Website and install them like any other application. Once you’ve done that, just plug in the console via the USB cable and that’s it. The system even recognizes when you’ve connected the device and lets you know that it’s running. That’s literally it. No confusion, no crazy setups; it’s just ready to go out of the box.

As you can see from my screencap above, if you open the application the system recognizes which application is “using” the devices and from here, if you choose to, you can go crazy and start customizing the buttons and layouts to suit your personal preference. Regardless of whether or not you do, as you turn the dials and buttons on the console, the relating sliders and settings in Lightroom (or the other supported applications) adjust accordingly.

Using It / The Process

So here was my personal bottleneck using the Loupedeck+. I’ve had such a muscle memory developed for Lightroom after using it in the same process every day for nearly a decade that moving to this hardware was a bit of a challenge. I was actually afraid that it would take me days, if not weeks, to actually get used to and comfortable with this peripheral. As mentioned above, it nearly gave me a panic attack when I was looking at the PILE of client work I needed to rush through.

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Once I got over that initial anxiety and actually started to play with the device, I was kinda blown away with how easy it was to get used to. In fact, I even found myself using more of the available sliders/features in LR simply because they were laid out so clearly in front of me and not hidden in my often collapsed menus on screen. The part that got me was just how accurate adjusting the dials was compared to manually dragging the sliders in the OS. I found myself happier with my edits and have started to test out more features and creative tools that usually were glanced over in the past.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself looking at the screen, finding the slider, then looking back to the Loupedeck+ and finding the corresponding Dial/Button, making an adjustment, and then looking back at the screen & sliders and back again to make sure everything worked the way it should…and then you’ll realize you’re wasting a ton of time and you can just focus on the image while making fast and accurate adjustments with a newfound muscle memory for each of the preferred dials & buttons in your workflow.

Granted, I’m still not up to the speed I want to be with it, but it’s starting to feel natural and that’s making the difference every time I’ve sat down to edit. The learning curve is actually quite simple once you actually start to use it.

Price Point

The original Loupedeck launched with a price point of $300 US and now the updated Loupedeck+ is available for just $249. While that may seem steep, when you compare it to the other options on the market, it’s actually one of the best and most affordable ones out there. Especially when you look at the extreme high end console/decks for video production that start at price points of nearly $10,000. If you spend a lot of time working in any of the applications listed below (with more being added), $249 is a very small price to pay for the amount of time it can save you and the amount of creative control it will add for you!

Check out the pricing from our preferred retailers below;

Amazon | B&H | Adorama

Who Is It For?

Let’s get straight to it. If you’re in the business of dealing with a large number of files like a wedding or event photographer, than this is the device for you. It feels like that is the primary target market for the Loupedeck company and it definitely works there. As a wedding or event photographer, this would make editing a lot more fun, especially since I can sit back at my desk with the console on my lap and work away with ease on my images.

Even if you’re not a wedding or event photographer there is still a lot of value in this device for portrait and landscape shooters. Since speed isn’t really at the front of your requirements, this device will let you get more flexible and creative with your edits, finding and using more features within lightroom than you may have without, thus letting you explore many more possibilities with your final images.

The only market I didn’t see any real value beyond the “fun” portion was Commercial Photography. The reason here is typically in this world you’re shooting for a specific look, culling images quickly, and then editing small batches (if not just a single file) in Photoshop to meet a client deadline. Again, maybe as a commercial photographer you’d love it, but terms of a first impression and its broad usage, that’s really about the only field I felt wouldn’t get the most out of it.

So if you’re a high volume shooter, or you spend a lot of time in Adobe Lightroom already making every image absolutely perfect, it may be worth knocking on your friends door to borrow their loupedeck to see if the device is right for you.

Technical Details

Supported Software

Adobe Lightroom Classic CC

Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Adobe Photoshop CC

Adobe After Effects CC

Adobe Audition

Final Cut Pro X

Skylum Aurora HDR

Beta Support for Capture One Pro

System Requirements

Adobe Lightroom® 7.4 or later

Adobe Lightroom 6

Adobe Photoshop CC

Aurora HDR

Beta integration with Capture One

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019

Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.4.5

Adobe Audition CC 2019

Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1

Mac® OS 10.12 or later version

Internet connection needed for Loupedeck software download

USB 2.0 A

Upgrades to the Loupedeck+ include:

Mechanical keys with a more precise and sturdy feel

Improved build quality

Two dedicated customizable dials and seventeen buttons

“Custom Mode” that allows full user control of all dials

Configuration software built from scratch for an even better, faster and more stable photo editing experience

Additional application support for Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects, Audition, Final Cut Pro X, Skylum Aurora HDR, and beta support for Capture One Pro

Things to Improve Upon Still

Wireless support like with wacom tablets would be a huge addition

Addition of tilt functions like most keyboards have for additional ergonomic benefits

For More information on the Loupedeck+ be sure to check out the loupedeck blog here.

[REWIND: Loupedeck Review | A Thorough Review Of The Lightroom Controller Console]

If you’re reading this you’re likely into post processing, and if you really do and want to absorb lots of this kind of information, I highly suggest you take a look at our Lightroom Organization & Workflow workshops. Premium SLRL Members get access to it all. They’ll get you up to speed, and fast, allowing you to get the most out of this program we spend so much time with.

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Hitman 2 Review: It’s a Hit, Man…2

It was many years ago that I first played as Agent 47, and I found the game series interesting but a bit too slow in how you must have the patience to wait for the right moment to kill your designated victim. I know, I know; these are stealth games so they have to be slow-paced. Given the pacing and my lack of skill in this genre, I’d just dabble in prior Hitman games back when game magazines would come with demo discs and such.

The only truly positive experience I had with Hitman until now was Hitman movie at the cinema. Even if the movie didn’t receive good marks I enjoyed it and I found it engaging, but we’re not here to discuss about the quality of movies-based-on-games.

Sixteen years after the first Hitman 2, it’s time to see if I can have a positive experience and stealth-succeed at this new Hitman 2.

They see me rollin’, they hatin’…

My Impressive First Mission

From the start, Hitman 2’s presentation is very grand. There’s a great opening cinematic, fantastic cinematography, seamless transitions between introductions and actual gameplay, excellent voice acting, and much more.

All this creates such a powerful draw, getting me fully engaged into the action, ready to direct Agent 47 towards his target. However, I actually find myself preferring to stay close and admire the panorama: a marvelous grey sky reigns over a beautiful beach, with the wind breezing by Agent 47’s bald head.

There’s so much wonderful attention to detail. Far away, in the distance, an exquisite modern villa can be seen. That’s the place I have to go to find someone to kill. The beginning tutorial is well-implemented, being unobtrusive, and clearly explains how to do what is needed with unnecessary information.

In addition, the minimal user interface lets me focus on the world itself to find my purpose, objective, and relevant distances and markers. This clean display is great for honing in on the real purpose of the game: the hunt.

The opening cinematic is just stunning!

Thanks to the excellent tutorial, I know how to gently switch off any camera around the villa, how to overcharge control panels, or how to break into blocked places. So I stealthily proceed into the villa.

To get in, the garage door seems useful: overcharging the switch, it opens without any issue. But in front of me, two corpses are on chairs meaning the owner doesn’t want guests. But apart from the silent duo, nobody seems to be at home.

Inside, somewhere the key information must be kept about my target and perhaps the mysterious Shadow Client, which claims to know everything about my/Agent 47’s past. It’s time to explore and investigate!

First up is my target, Alma Reynard, a dangerous environmental terrorist with some shadowy connections I need to know about. Searching her PC turns up some files, and then she arrives back home with some friends. This isn’t good!

I’m blending in! You can’t see me! Well, you can’t see who I really am, anyway!

I must remain silent because I need to work (aka kill her) without being noticed. Perhaps I should wait until she showers à-là-Psycho? Or perhaps another less disturbing method?

From this tricky multiple choices situation, it’s already clear that choosing the method of murder is a difficult and huge part of the strategy of Hitman 2.

Remember how I said I’m not one for slow-paced stuff? My chosen method is to shoot her as soon as she enters the house. BANG, shot in the forehead (headshot!) from a distance! Then I run away as fast as possible to some bushes by the beach. I proceed to disguise myself as a guard and take the boat to safety.

So there is the first mission. It seems easy in retrospect. What you didn’t see was the frequent saving in combination with helpful autosaves, which allowed me to finally, after many attempts, complete the mission.

Creative Studying, Planning, Executing

In thinking about my first mission, sure, I didn’t use as much stealth as possible, but that’s the strength of Hitman 2: it gives the player creative freedom. There’s so many variables to study and options to plan. And then there’s the actual playing out of the plan, which usually goes off track and requires improvisation.

More experienced players will find many of these missions quite simple probably, but the game does continue to offer new challenges to test your skill as much as you desire.

For instance, the second mission, in Miami, has two targets, a mess of people, many NPCs, numerous costumes for disguise, lots of eyes on you, and tons of guards. This chaotic scenario creates a great contrast to the first mission and gives a nice rhythm to the game.

I’m a waiter… because I wait?

Each mission continues to deliver a nicely recreated location around the world: from New Zealand to Miami, Columbia to India, and Austria and beyond! Each area is a “sandbox” to play with and structure the best strategy to kill the targets.

There’s such diversity of playstyles here. Each mission can be completed in dozens of different ways and can also be replayed to find the best mix of solutions. The more creative the player is, the more points the player will gain.

You can learn much about the world if you desire through not only the initial mission briefing but also listening to hundreds of NPCs chatting about everything, useful or not. Taking time to really study and listen is another great way to enjoy the game.

A Full Game Package

Drawing fully from the first Hitman reboot, there are episodes but they’re released as a whole game this time. No longer being forced to wait for the next content release makes the game feel more complete, which makes spending money on it feel more reasonable.

Here’s me doing my bench press…because it’s a bench…and the press. Get it?

Hitman 2 also includes two new game modes: Sniper Assassin and Ghost Mode. The first one gives you and one other player the chance to play together for a common objective, working as a team.

The second mode is a challenging mode where you have to be quicker and better than your rival in killing your targets. What makes this second mode interesting is that you and your opponent are located in two different identical copies of the same game world.

A sunny, breezy day. Ready for some creative killing.

And if you’re like me and haven’t played the first Hitman reboot, buying the Legacy DLC lets you play the “old” maps from the previous game in Hitman 2. This is a nice way to enjoy the first game’s missions in the second game.

Issues and Concerns

The only great flaw is the menu: aesthetically speaking it is great, but from a user point of view it’s a little bit of a mess. Some options are hard to find and can slow down the process of getting into the action.

A few other issues are noted in the Cons list below. There’s some time limited content, which is unfortunate if you want to play on your own schedule. Some missions can get a bit long.

Just out boating…definitely not here to hunt down and kill someone…

Conclusion

Hitman 2 may seem like an ordinary mission-based game, but it’s more than that: it offers so much quirky and creative gameplay moments. Stalking NPCs while they chatter on about life. Wandering around role-playing as a mechanic. Changing clothes in the bushes.

It’s certainly not a game for everyone, but for those creative players with plentiful patience there’s something very rewarding here. There’s a lot of slow downtime, but that makes the high intensity payoff moments all the more fulfilling.

This is a must have for the fans of the genre and the series, but even if you’re a “newbie” like me, you’ll notice that there is nothing out there like Hitman 2. I’m still playing the game, and I really want to discover every little detail of the game, enjoying all the cities on offer.

Hitman 2 is a unique game without much competition. It can teach you how to kill an important finance genius, who’s also a terrorist, while you wear a clown suit, and how to love and appreciate all of it.

Creative gameplay choices

Many details to discover

Graphically impressive

Very replayable

Great voice acting

Hitman 1 maps DLC

English voices only

Frustrating for newbies

Elusive targets time limited

Some missions are too long

Keyboard/mouse and joypad don’t play well together

Playtime: 30 hours total (and counting). Mathieu has not completed the game, but he’s still playing!

Computer Specs: Windows 10 64-bit laptop computer, with 16GB of Ram, Nvidia 1050Ti.

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Laptop Workstations & Ergonomics

Regardless of whether it is your very first time buying a personal computer or acquiring 1 as a replacement to the old, it is usually helpful to have a little knowledge on what is being sold in the industry today. Even far more, Computer workstations are capable of supporting a large quantity of connected devices, and often include higher-bandwidth buses for maximum data transfer rates. AFC’s wall mounted medical laptop workstation is a versatile and state-of-the-art gear to help healthcare and healthcare providers. Meticulously made by our in-property workstation specialists, the CyberStation Graphics variety is prepared to deal with the most demanding rendering at ultra-higher speeds with multi-threaded, higher efficiency processors. Workplace furniture is an very crucial and integral component of a functioning atmosphere it contributes to making the office a wholesome and pleased location for an employee to be in. Although distinct function environments dictate the use of diverse office features such as gear, furnishings, space and so on.

Some desks even come with personal computer systems integrated, which implies the working components of your computer can be hidden a lot greater, a small like a kitchen with built-in appliances. The principal assumption in the method of designing new modular desks was to create and define a common which – due to its modular building – would allow a wide variety of available combinations of technique elements. All through the 1990s and 2000s, the four massive vendors for workstations have been HP, IBM, Sun, and Silicon Graphics. HP’s reinvention of detachable PCs started earlier this year with the introduction of the HP Spectre x2 and the HP Elite x2. Today’s introduction of the HP ZBook x2 completes HP’s trifecta with its most strong detachable resolution targeted for the creative community.

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Town Of Salem Hack

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Loupedeck+ Review: A Big Improvement From The Original

I’ve seen peripherals like the Loupedeck+ and its competitors around the market for a while now and I’ve been quite skeptical about the practicality of their use. Not that they are bad things, just that I’ve spent so many years with a keyboard & mouse combo that the thought of learning a new device to work on my images caused me a near panic attack. I will, however, admit that after getting hands on with the updated Loupedeck+ after WPPI 2019 that my opinion has changed greatly! While I’m still pretty clunky with it, the ease of use, accuracy, customization and versatility with the variety of supported apps make it more than worth the $249 price tag.

What Is It?

The Loupedeck+ is a photo & video editing console or keyboard that was created (initially by crowdfunding) to help you edit your photos & videos faster and easier than via the computer/mouse combination. It takes the software version of your sliders in Adobe Lightroom (among others) and gives you a physical button to use instead. I can also confirm that the knobs actually give you more control, or better accuracy than when using just the mouse in most of the applications as well.

[REWIND: Introducing Loupedeck+ | Loupedeck Gets An Upgrade & No Longer Just For Lightroom]

At Loupedeck, We’re Passionate about each and every step of the photo and video editing process. From first shoot to the final edit, we know it’s the small details that often make the biggest difference between a good image or video and a great one.

Quality

Having not been familiar with the first generation of Loupedeck, I did a fair bit of homework as well as picking the brains of the folks at SLR who did the initial review here. Among the biggest “cons” that I found from users with the original was the actual build quality. From what they’ve told me and what I’ve seen in my own use of the Loupedeck+, while the dimensions are the same, the quality of the product has improved significantly. The console is sturdier and the buttons/dials have a much more stable and satisfying feel when pressed and adjusted.

Another improvement is the addition of completely customizable functions, buttons, and a much improved software/plugin & interface.

Setup & Install

Here’s what I loved about this product. The first thing you have to do is download the updated software/drivers for your operating system from the Loupedeck Website and install them like any other application. Once you’ve done that, just plug in the console via the USB cable and that’s it. The system even recognizes when you’ve connected the device and lets you know that it’s running. That’s literally it. No confusion, no crazy setups; it’s just ready to go out of the box.

As you can see from my screencap above, if you open the application the system recognizes which application is “using” the devices and from here, if you choose to, you can go crazy and start customizing the buttons and layouts to suit your personal preference. Regardless of whether or not you do, as you turn the dials and buttons on the console, the relating sliders and settings in Lightroom (or the other supported applications) adjust accordingly.

Using It / The Process

So here was my personal bottleneck using the Loupedeck+. I’ve had such a muscle memory developed for Lightroom after using it in the same process every day for nearly a decade that moving to this hardware was a bit of a challenge. I was actually afraid that it would take me days, if not weeks, to actually get used to and comfortable with this peripheral. As mentioned above, it nearly gave me a panic attack when I was looking at the PILE of client work I needed to rush through.

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Once I got over that initial anxiety and actually started to play with the device, I was kinda blown away with how easy it was to get used to. In fact, I even found myself using more of the available sliders/features in LR simply because they were laid out so clearly in front of me and not hidden in my often collapsed menus on screen. The part that got me was just how accurate adjusting the dials was compared to manually dragging the sliders in the OS. I found myself happier with my edits and have started to test out more features and creative tools that usually were glanced over in the past.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself looking at the screen, finding the slider, then looking back to the Loupedeck+ and finding the corresponding Dial/Button, making an adjustment, and then looking back at the screen & sliders and back again to make sure everything worked the way it should…and then you’ll realize you’re wasting a ton of time and you can just focus on the image while making fast and accurate adjustments with a newfound muscle memory for each of the preferred dials & buttons in your workflow.

Granted, I’m still not up to the speed I want to be with it, but it’s starting to feel natural and that’s making the difference every time I’ve sat down to edit. The learning curve is actually quite simple once you actually start to use it.

Price Point

The original Loupedeck launched with a price point of $300 US and now the updated Loupedeck+ is available for just $249. While that may seem steep, when you compare it to the other options on the market, it’s actually one of the best and most affordable ones out there. Especially when you look at the extreme high end console/decks for video production that start at price points of nearly $10,000. If you spend a lot of time working in any of the applications listed below (with more being added), $249 is a very small price to pay for the amount of time it can save you and the amount of creative control it will add for you!

Check out the pricing from our preferred retailers below;

Amazon | B&H | Adorama

Who Is It For?

Let’s get straight to it. If you’re in the business of dealing with a large number of files like a wedding or event photographer, than this is the device for you. It feels like that is the primary target market for the Loupedeck company and it definitely works there. As a wedding or event photographer, this would make editing a lot more fun, especially since I can sit back at my desk with the console on my lap and work away with ease on my images.

Even if you’re not a wedding or event photographer there is still a lot of value in this device for portrait and landscape shooters. Since speed isn’t really at the front of your requirements, this device will let you get more flexible and creative with your edits, finding and using more features within lightroom than you may have without, thus letting you explore many more possibilities with your final images.

The only market I didn’t see any real value beyond the “fun” portion was Commercial Photography. The reason here is typically in this world you’re shooting for a specific look, culling images quickly, and then editing small batches (if not just a single file) in Photoshop to meet a client deadline. Again, maybe as a commercial photographer you’d love it, but terms of a first impression and its broad usage, that’s really about the only field I felt wouldn’t get the most out of it.

So if you’re a high volume shooter, or you spend a lot of time in Adobe Lightroom already making every image absolutely perfect, it may be worth knocking on your friends door to borrow their loupedeck to see if the device is right for you.

Technical Details

Supported Software

Adobe Lightroom Classic CC

Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Adobe Photoshop CC

Adobe After Effects CC

Adobe Audition

Final Cut Pro X

Skylum Aurora HDR

Beta Support for Capture One Pro

System Requirements

Adobe Lightroom® 7.4 or later

Adobe Lightroom 6

Adobe Photoshop CC

Aurora HDR

Beta integration with Capture One

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019

Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.4.5

Adobe Audition CC 2019

Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1

Mac® OS 10.12 or later version

Internet connection needed for Loupedeck software download

USB 2.0 A

Upgrades to the Loupedeck+ include:

Mechanical keys with a more precise and sturdy feel

Improved build quality

Two dedicated customizable dials and seventeen buttons

“Custom Mode” that allows full user control of all dials

Configuration software built from scratch for an even better, faster and more stable photo editing experience

Additional application support for Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects, Audition, Final Cut Pro X, Skylum Aurora HDR, and beta support for Capture One Pro

Things to Improve Upon Still

Wireless support like with wacom tablets would be a huge addition

Addition of tilt functions like most keyboards have for additional ergonomic benefits

For More information on the Loupedeck+ be sure to check out the loupedeck blog here.

[REWIND: Loupedeck Review | A Thorough Review Of The Lightroom Controller Console]

If you’re reading this you’re likely into post processing, and if you really do and want to absorb lots of this kind of information, I highly suggest you take a look at our Lightroom Organization & Workflow workshops. Premium SLRL Members get access to it all. They’ll get you up to speed, and fast, allowing you to get the most out of this program we spend so much time with.

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