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TL;DR of this thread, a Mac Pro has the power to run a very large server (probably not more than 150-200 players though depending on what plugins and such) but the kind of bandwidth needed to run a server that large is insane you're much better off renting an enterprise level server from a data center.

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Seems you did not played to doom at nightmare(Monsters respawn fast and are dangerous forcing the players to go fast if they do not want to die as resources are limited)

Doom was definitely an Arena shooter.


Anyways with the popularity of esports rising, and the fact that Arena Shooters are way harder than your average CoD or BF, I expect people will start moving to games like Quake Live and Unreal as they have extremely hard learning curves and are frickin awesome to watch as a spectator. Also games like TF2 and CS:GO are massively popular right now and while they aren't quite like Quake or Unreal, they are much more like Arena Shooters rather than Tactical FPS.

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If you have time read my thread "Overkill Build?" I was having my potential build discussed and after coming to the conclusion on one of those suggested I decided to see how it compares to a prebuilt. But I didn't find much difference except terrible reviews of overheating and having to replace parts. I don't want to buy a prebuilt but I'd like to save as much money as I can

so even though my build and prebuilt ones have the same specs I'm guessing all the money is going to better quality hardware more than better performance.

Both the PC's you linked to are actually worth the price listed. If you were to build the PC's yourself, you would get roughly the same price (give or take maybe $20). I feel like you didn't even like at Xiae's post.

I don't care what your monitor resolution is, what resolution is the game running in?

As to point number 2, there is so much more to Minecraft than mining that honestly, mining is by and far the most boring part of the game. Once you've been in one cave, you've been in them all.

Look, I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows. At this point, I may as well uninstall Ubuntu because Windows does everything it does but better.

Windows, believe it or not is actually more stable, better for programming and has way more software support.



First off, Windows is way more stable than Ubuntu. Why? It's developed by a massive company with tons of programmers, as well as if you have any problems there are thousands of forums online with very helpful people. Ubuntu is not run by a company with thousands of people working solely to create a bug free, stable OS. The forums are still really helpful for working around the issues you'll have with it and you can get lots of support for Ubuntu, but it's much more likely you'll encounter a bug that nobody can help you fix.



Windows is better for programming, why? Because of the wonderful program called Microsoft Visual Studios. There is no single programming environment I enjoy more than it. Ubuntu has nothing even close to it, Code::Blocks is decent, but Visual Studios outclasses it in every way. Also programs you make for Ubuntu are doomed to fail unless you port to windows, why? Nobody uses Ubuntu, Windows and Mac are by far the most used platforms in the world.



Also lastly, Windows has way more software support. Almost every program in the world that has ever been developed has a port for Windows. Every company that wants to make a profit has a version available for Windows. Also, you can't watch Netflix on Ubuntu (this was actually a dealbreaker for me).


In the end, if you want to use Ubuntu/A different distro of linux, your choice. But there is really no reason to use it over windows besides the fact that it's free.

In windowed mode my Intel HD 4k can get 20-25 FPS with Seus (though I was using V9 I think).

While this isn't good, a 650 Ti pulling 40-50 does not surprise me at all. Now if he was playing at 1080p I would be quite surprised by the results (and probably call bs).

Quote from likeidkmanjustchill

Let me guess, religious parents?

Or you know, you think swearing is classless.

Not to be rude but swearing just makes people seem ignorant and stupid most of the time. Of course it depends on the situation and context but in general that's how I feel.

I've been in your position before.

You simply cannot upgrade your PC.

Finding a graphics card that would actually work for one is pretty hard, and for two it would be ridiculously expensive. I paid $60 for a GPU that is worse than Intel HD 2500, complete waste of money honestly.

You're better off saving money for a $350 PC, it's what I ended up doing and it works fine.

You could spend $60 and maybe be able to play MC at 10-20 FPS, or you could save up for a while and get a PC that can play Minecraft at 60 FPS. Plus a new computer won't die on you like mine did.

Quote from Frog81

....TF2.

Tf2 isn't thaaaat great. It's decent, I personally never really had much fun with it.

Quote from Crontical

Now hold on, hold on! Valve is one of the fiew non-greedy corporations, so that doesn't count!

Valve isn't greedy? Do you know how much money they make from game dev's who release their games on steam? Yeah a lot, like seriously a lot. Valve is greedy, just like every corporation (every corporation is by definition greedy), it's just valve is good at cloaking their greed.

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Under the hood, maybe, but in terms of looks and usability, I go with 7. Unless it's on a tablet, of course, then Windows 8.

I honestly don't understand the hate with Windows 8, I don't have any problems with it. If anything it's even better than Windows 7, and I've used both extensively.

Antichamber. The mind melt is extravagant, also in the latest humble bundle that is fricking fantastic.

I've played Dota 2, League of Legends, Smite, Dawngate and Awesomenauts.

I love League of Legends. It's got very simple mechanics but it is extremely complex and there is so much depth to it. The champions are fun and interesting but not confusing. The community is not the best, but that's really the only weak point of the game IMO.

Dawngate is probably my second favorite, it's very similar to league in many ways but the jungle is a lot more fleshed out and it has some interesting mechanics (turrets respawn for instance) and the item system is fairly simple.

Awesomenauts is my third favorite, it's a very casual game and has a cool art style along with fun champions. However there are 3 big issues with the game that stop me from playing, lack of teamwork, the matchmaking and fairly straightforward champions. While champions are cool from a design standpoint, they really lack gameplay. All champs pretty much play the same way and hard right click carries basically don't exist since burst abilities scale so hard. Matchmaking is absolute crap in the game and often you get put into a game that cannot be won (often you'll get put into a game that's already started). Also there is no teamwork, even in League 4 (which is where I used to be,when I last played I was League 6 and am probably like League 9 by now since I haven't played in forever).

Dota 2 is down here on the list because while it has great depth and IMO is the most balanced of any MOBA, the community is horrible (worse than league of legends imo, or I just get all the toxic players) and some design things annoy the crap out of me. For one items are like extra abilities, I don't like that at all (I can't really say why, it just grates on me) and the heroes annoy me (personality wise, it's not like they are bad from a variety or gameplay standpoint but it's like Valve was trying to make a cartoon). Dota 2 is a great game from a gameplay stand point I just can't stand it. Also pretty much all Dota 2 players are arrogant. I was playing a League game on my smurf account and we had a Katarina who was a Dota 2 player. She snowballed hard, because I helped her out a bunch. She wasn't that good at the game but she was so arrogant and saying stuff like "Dota 2 players can stomp League players" completely ignoring the fact that this was a really low level game and she was playing a pub stomp champ that no one actually knows how to counter below level 15 /rant

Smite is last on the list because I can't stand the champions or art style, played maybe 5 games and was done.

Quote from DarthTrogo

This is awful, its incredible how so many people think it is godly.

This is even worse, for some reason the company think it's additional features will make them millions.

Honestly, for the money, PS4 gives you some decent hardware. Xbone just kind of sucks hardware wise, more expensive less powerful.

I'd definitely take the PS4 over my current computer any day of the week if it ran windows.

Quote from PianoDude1011

Okay, assuming these are both real, which one would be better? They're priced the same, so I'm not sure which one is better for playing Minecraft, MapleStory, and video editing (not all at the same time lol)

Both are complete crap, do not buy either.