mumei
I recently got back into it, and it’s not that bad if you go in with the knowledge that you won’t get a top tier item without investing an absurd amount of currency and with curbed expectations.
You can get some decent rares by limiting yourself to three or four mods items without spending too much and by offsetting your equip’s shortcomings with your passives.
I think the main issue is that the game is balanced around trading, which lead to incredibly overpowered items and monsters… just yesterday I got oneshot through 8800ES while monsters where cursed with Enfeeble on my build from three or four years ago, in a lightly modded T9 map, by a Delirium boss, I think?, which is kinda nuts
I’m gonna go SSF next league without expecting to get to Red maps and see how it goes, but crafting doean’t seem too bad now and this comes from someone who never crafted anything, always bought my equip
You will have to look at the second hand market for sure, but you can probably get a decent 1080p 80-100fps medium/high build.
Something like (or equivalent):
Ryzen 5 3600
RX 6600
16GB DDR4
1TB SSD (probably not NVMe)
Whatever case
Whatever monitor, even if only 60Hz, for now
Whatever MoBo
Tier A PSU from the Cultists Network PSU tier list
You can most likely get everything used if you buy from a second hand shop that has a form of buyer protection (eBay and similar) and thoroughly check and clean and test everything you buy
I see, thank you!
Gating it behind EoD was already not great, since it’s no progression and all, but now asking a price for it…? Unless it’s a trivial amount, like $2, I really can’t see why would anyone pay for it. A real raid would be better in all conceivable ways, except the stress of course. You can acquire map knowledge on your own oflline raid, ad PvP against friends, while useful to an extent, without the actual risk of losing your gear won’t be as good as real PvP.
EoD has offline coop?
we removed the EoD version and some of the EoD features need to go back (offline co-op for example)
Not that it matters too much, as playing only against bots isn’t what EFT is good for, in my opinion
Haven’t seen this mentioned, but did you make sure to plug the display cable into the GPU and not the MoBo?
edit: nvm, just saw a comment with same suggestion
Nitro+ worth it?
I guess not for that much more. A 10% increase is substantial, and I don’t think the difference in actual performance is enough to justify it; but you also said that your region can get toasty in summer, and the Nitro+ has better cooling which could help. I don’t think the Pulse will get too hot to work, but it may be something to consider!
DDR5
Those are one of the best performance to price ratio, and they’re very inexpensive for what they are (plus full support for AMD overclocking, EXPO I think it’s called); you can also go higher frequency, but prices will go up as well.
cooler
Good call then, AIO will probably perform a bit better with extreme high ambient temps
970
All good, a 970 Evo Plus might be cheaper so why not!
5.0
Yeah, there’s no way gaming will saturate PCIe 5.0 anytime soon, no need to pay premium for specs you won’t benefit from
Happy building and gaming!
About RAM, Trident Z5 NEO @ 6000Mhz seems to be the best price/performance ratio.
About GPU, I’d personally go for a Sapphire as they’re one of the historic AIB for AMD GPUs and I also dig a lot the design of the Nitro+ lol
See if you can save something on the MoBo (by getting a lower trim) and 2x2TB might be a bit overkill for gaming only (ofc it depends on your habits, but I personally don’t have games installed for more than 500-600GB). Also, you picked two PCIe 4.0 NVMEs, so maybe consider a 970 Evo Plus if it’s cheaper than the 980 Pro
About cooler, I’d prefer an old fashioned air cooler simply because it can’t leak lol
Thanks for the reply!
player speed
Tried that already, since GAMMA allows to modify it straight from the mod menu, but I can’t go too low with character movespeed otherwise it feels very unnatural.
steam discussion
Thanks, even though that’s for SoC and CS I also agree that it should be very similar for Anomaly as well. I’ll check that out later, hopefully nothing breaks haha