Video games. Video games. We love them. I've
been playing them. I've been playing one game.
Is it World of Warcraft? No, I've been fucking
battlefielded, man. I've been in the trenches,
bruv. I've been... I sent you that picture, didn't
I, where I went 28 and 2. 28 kills, 2 deaths,
28 assists. it's pretty fucking it's pretty nice
numbers all of that from the safety of a tank
in the turret i was with this geyser this completely
random geyser who jumped in a tank i jumped in
the turret and he was just he was a whiz at maneuvering
that thing he knew where to fucking put it he
knew when to get out the way when to drive off
he didn't fucking leave me when i jumped out
to repair it he jumped out with me to repair
it he was getting kills he finished second in
the table so me and him as a team did pretty
fucking well and the one time when the tank got
blown up we both sat and waited for the tank
to respawn because we knew we knew what our roles
were i literally i sat there and waited for the
little timer to finish on the tank and then when
i clicked on it he was fucking sat in the driver's
seat as well i was like what a geezer what a
fucking geezer and then yeah i was just i was
popping i was going mad Absolutely mad. And then
my next four games were dog shit. Yeah, so it
goes. Some of the worst games I've ever played
in my life. I turned it off. I was like, I'm
sick of this, but I had such a good fucking...
I don't know if the XP for the tanks is different
to everything else, because I levelled that fucker
up a hell of a lot in that game. When the game
finished and it went to my progression, it was
just like... Sick. They updated all the XP, didn't
they? So everything's going up a lot quicker
now. Maybe it was catch -up stuff as well, but
it was just... love them tanks man I love being
an engineer just blowing the shit out of people
and even I always forget that I have RPGs playing
a game of Rush yesterday and obviously some of
the maps are quite close quarters and there's
just people hiding behind walls and shit like
that I've completely forgotten until about half
way through that I can just blow a fucking hole
in them so I was just doing that just taking
buildings down I was like you want to camp on
a roof that's fine I'm taking the roof what a
great game it was fantastic fantastic I'm sending
you two videos of my battlefield favourite moments
of the week. I've got two of the furthest snipes
I've got on the game. Which was what? I don't
know, 400 metres or something. 400 metres? Well,
it says it's like 400 and sat in on the longest
thing. So unless I've accidentally got one further.
This is you in a tank. You shot out of that chopper,
did you? Oh, yeah. Right on the rudders. Yeah,
that was one of my favourite shots. Horrible
bastard. I love that. I absolutely love that.
Yeah, it was satisfying, that one. It's good
when people actually paint stuff and all. Yeah,
I like that. Always forget that that's a thing
that you can just do, just paint stuff up. I'm
not terrible for it, but I must admit there's
been multiple times when I'm in the tank and
I forget that it's got, like, sometimes it's
got the gun where it will paint someone. I often
do it with the sniper class because you do it
with the binoculars. What's this little sniper?
Are those the towels that you can actually make
blow up? Yeah, and then there's a geezer climbing
the ladder as well. They can purge them. Little
fucking geezer climbing up the ladder, give him
a little one bang, bang, bang, bang. Because
what are you doing? The noise is so satisfying.
I haven't touched a sniper yet, you know. It's
easy, man. I haven't touched one. Change that
fucking zero in. Never have to worry again. My
mate Leon has finished the sniper, the recon
challenges now. Oh, wow. One where you've got
to get like 200 headshots at 200 metres away
or some shit like that. He's done that. It's
just ridiculous, but he's been farming that pretty
much since Battlefield come out. I mean, he's
doing it in portals. No, no, no, no, no. He's
just... No, he hasn't been doing portals. That's
just normal gameplay. I haven't touched portal
either. No, I haven't. I won't. I refuse. I don't
like getting confused. Yeah, I don't want to
get confused. I don't want to get overwhelmed.
I also don't want to touch a bot lobby. I don't
want to get XP that I don't deserve. I don't
want to make the game easy. I just want to play,
man. Yeah. Play normal. How it was designed.
What I did do is turn cross -play off to see
the difference, and it definitely plays nicer
without being filled with PC players. I bet.
I'm noticing that there's more kills coming in
because there's less sweats knocking around via
mouse and keyboard. So, yeah. Yeah, that's something
I need to do. I played that other mode for the
first time, you know, when we capture three and
then it takes one of the zones away. Yeah, yeah,
it's cool, man. It's a cool mode. Yeah, it's
interesting. I've no idea what I'm doing half
the time. I'm just running around like a loon,
but it's fun. I've been using SMG all week, to
be fair. Oh, they're good. They are good, yeah.
They are good, but I do miss the old ARs. Yeah,
SMGs all the way. The Battle Royale shadow drops
on the 28th. Does it, yeah? Not much of a shadow
drop. Well, they haven't confirmed it. Is it
leaked, is it? That geezer that never gets anything
wrong. Yeah, I'll be over that, to be fair. I
will be on that. Tom Henderson. said that I can
now independently verify that Battlefield 6 Battle
Royale is indeed planned to shadow drop on October
the 28th. Where does he get his info from? That's
what I want to know. So I haven't commented any
insight into the decision behind why they are
shadow dropping it instead of full marketing
on it. He said Byron Bede is leading the charge,
I believe, and he was a key figure for Warzone's
shadow drop strategy, so I imagine he's just
replicating. I'm very interested to know because
I think this is either going to make or break
Battlefield. I think the game's going to be fantastic,
but if they want to have a real staying power,
Battle Royale needs to hit hard because multiplayer
games are great, but you want that Battle Royale
audience as well. You've already taken a lot.
Well, I don't think you've taken player base
away from Call of Duty because they're just sitting
there until... Black Ops 7 comes out. Exactly.
Yeah, you do. You want to take from the Battle
Royale player base. As much as I don't particularly
agree with Battlefield having a Battle Royale,
fuck it, they're already doing it, so crack on.
All the COD Battle Royale players will go back
to Call of Duty Battle Royale if Battlefield
isn't fantastic because they'll just go back,
play Warzone and just complain that they're playing
Warzone. But carry on playing Warzone. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. They need to drop it. But what I'm
interested in is how they implement it. Is it
going to be a PUBG way of doing it where you're
picking up attachments? Is it going to be a loadout
system? Are you going to have to level the guns
in a multiplayer? Same as Call of Duty. What
is their avenue of doing the BR? Or is it just
find what you find? I would imagine... I think
they'll go loadouts, personally. Yeah, I was
going to say, I reckon they'll do loadouts only
because they've got the loadouts set up and the
free separate loadouts that you can create for
a class and for the vehicles and planes and helicopters
and all that shit. It would be... I don't think
I'd like a PUBG -style setup. grabbing attachments
i just find annoying unless you're playing pub
g um but i would also wouldn't mind the idea
of picking up the weapon as you go but again
that makes it annoying if you want to play the
game a specific way you've then got to go and
find that weapon is that is that too annoying
if you've got to do it that way or is there then
just going to be a i'm sick of seeing fucking
meta videos i'm sick of them I'm sick of them.
I hate co -players so much. I haven't even looked.
I just play what I've... I try something and
go, it feels like shit, and I change it. Yeah,
they're so fucking annoying. Look at this AR
meta. Fuck off. You're so annoying. Yeah. Obviously,
that doesn't... It's not aimed at me, otherwise
I'd watch it and enjoy it. But I go, will you
just go away? These shitty fucking videos. Here's
the quickest way to level up. Shut up, man. All
I've seen is the SMGs that are fucking melting
and all that bollocks. But I'd say I just use
what I feel like using and that's all I'll do.
Well, like everyone says, you can throw as many
meta videos out as you want. Which one helps
the best against a 40mm fucking tank? An RPG
to the face. Which gun's going to help me out
with that one? None. One that has a silencer
so they don't hear you. So yeah, Battle Royale
is going to be interesting. 28 is cool. Is that
the only game you've been playing? Well, I played
a little bit of Dying Light, but I won't lie,
Battlefield has just sort of taken over from
that, which is what I feared would happen. And
then with Outer Worlds 2 on the horizon next
week on Wednesday, it's going to be very difficult
to find the time. and the patience to jump into
Dying Light with those two games. So, yeah, for
now, that's all I've been jumping into. It's
had some decent reviews. Outer Worlds, too. Not
bad. It looks good. I'm going to get it regardless,
even if it had bad reviews. I'd still buy it
because I liked the first one so much. I am slowly
falling and slipping and crawling and holding
on to my sci -fi love, but I'm falling back into
fantasy. Connor! I'm trying to train myself to
like, why can't I just like both simultaneously?
I just can't. Because it's how the brain works,
isn't it? No, but it shouldn't. I could not just
play Star Wars Battlefront 2, shooting all the
droids up, being Luke Skywalker, and then just
go and play Baldur's Gate. I couldn't do it.
My brain doesn't... Like you, I couldn't play
Dying Light 2 and then go and play World of Warcraft.
I just couldn't do it. My brain does not allow
me to... play the two things yeah but that's
probably that's probably quite normal you're
an extreme point because it's like you get into
fantasy and then everything else gets shut away
even though you still love it everything else
is shut away whereas I don't think that it's
out of the realms of normality if you're playing
if you're playing Dying Light smashing the shit
out of zombies and then jumping into something
like Battlefield or But that's normal. Maybe
because that's just warfare. They're the same
thing, aren't they? Jumping into something like
World of Warcraft or Baldur's Gate, then I don't
think it's too crazy to not want to do that because
your mind's involved with something else. But
you're a more extreme version of it because everything
else just gets thrown to the fucking walls. I'm
scared because I've spent a lot of money on Warhammer.
I've painted one of them. Yeah, but you're ADHD
to fuck. Yeah, I know. So, well, I don't know,
but I assume that is the case. But now I'm going
to be like, well... It's definitely the case.
Well, the Warhammer 40K and all the paint, they're
just going to stay in the spare room. Of course
they will. Pointless. Of course they will. So
what a waste of fucking money until I get back
on my sci -fi kick. Yeah, don't worry. Roman
done the exact same shit. And then Roman spent
loads of money on Warhammer, then got crazy addicted
to painting Warhammers and painted fucking loads
of them, but also did a crazy thing of... popping
every single bit out rather than putting it together
by instructions. And then sold all of it. Dropped
it all and sold all of it. But now it's going
to end up going around Connors for Warhammer,
apparently, unless he's winding me up, which
he probably is. It's how the ADHD brains work.
Your Warhammer will sit there for fucking ages
until you jump into space again. I know. I haven't
left space yet. I'm just teetering. Yeah, but
you are. This is a seasonal thing. You're just
like the leaves on the trees. They're all going
yellow and falling off. I just miss elves and
that. Yeah. I just miss swords and that. Yeah.
And capes. Yeah. Yeah, I'm exactly the same.
I'm dipping my toes. It's been a couple of days
now where I've jumped into Legion Remix. and
I made a warlock because obviously I'm playing
one at the moment in Baldur's Gate. Sorry, not
Baldur's Gate, in actual D &D. I'm playing Baldur's
Gate with Steph. That's fucking going fantastic.
Mega, mega fun. The other day we spent like a
solid four, five, maybe even six hours. We spent
all day playing Baldur's Gate. That's the best
thing I've ever heard. Tell us about it then.
I loved it. It was great. Where are you? We were
shouting at each other. I was getting angry.
Obviously. We were dying a lot. Kept dying. Why
are we so shit? I said, what are we doing wrong?
I think it's just the strategy of it. It's just
a hard game, isn't it? No, it's not. No, it is.
It's not, bruv. It's not. There's moments where
it's a bit tricky, but most of it's quite simple.
Well, Howson's dead. Who? Howson. The Druid geezer.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Where did he die? Where he was
held. Yeah, same. In the cell. Yeah, first play
through. Did you throw a rock at him as well?
I don't know, I just killed him. Yeah, well,
Steph had the option in the dialogue to, because
we basically, we had a right touch, because where
he's held in the goblin cage, in the area, in
that cave, whatever, obviously there's goblins
fucking everywhere. But at the beginning of that.
I don't remember them fucking. But at the beginning
of that, we got all the goblins on our side.
So we were able to just walk around freely. We're
like, yeah, this is sick. And then walking around
looking at all these goblins going, fuck having
to fight all of these. That's so annoying. And
then we basically split off and we're looking
at all sorts of different things. And then housing,
obviously, that's why we was in there. But we
also got a quest to find the night song. So we
found there was this geezer called Liam that
was being tortured. Steph was busy talking to
housing. while these goblins were throwing rocks
at him and this Liam geezer was being tortured
so the goblins turned around to me and they were
like either get involved or fuck off so I'm getting
involved so I stabbed him in the bollocks and
then I took his toenails and then he started
talking and giving me all the information I want
then the goblins fucked off I persuaded them
to leave us alone and then I actually rescued
Liam after torturing him and the geezer was like
But you tried to kill me. And I was like, it's
for your own good. I've done you a favour here.
Saved him. Fucking sent him on his way. But before
he went, he was like, oh, we was here for the
night song. It's in a secret passage under wherever
we are. So I was like, right, well, I've got
to try and find that then. In the meantime, Steph's
talking to the goblins that are throwing rocks
at housing. And it gives you the three options.
And it was like, throw a rock at him. And I said
to Steph, throw a rock at him, see what happens.
And she was like, no, I'm not doing that. And
we basically said that if we come up with a decision
that we can't agree on, we'll spin the wheel.
So I put the answers in a spin the wheel on Google
and it come on to throw a rock at him. So she
threw a rock at him and the geyser didn't react
very well because he busted through the cages
and mauled everyone to death. But obviously this
place is filled with goblins. So they overpowered
him pretty much. And the way that we found out
is because of the quest itself to save him updated
and completed the quest because he dead, he dead,
he dead. It popped up and said that he's died.
So we were like, oh, whoopsie daisy. Maybe we
shouldn't have thrown that rock. I feel bad for
spinning the wheel. And then we explored some
more and found these two spiders. that were locked
up in a cage. Well, Steph's got good animal handling
and animal speaking. So she got them on our side
and let them out. But they just went to town.
They tried to escape but then got cut off by
goblins. They just went fucking ham. There's
this big bugbear geyser or whatever that Steph
had killed previously in her own playthrough
or spoken to or whatever. Fucked his ass up.
spiders come running in saved us like you know
where obviously when you you do know but when
you're fighting it goes from person to person
like um fucking what's the what's the fighting
style called turn based um and then yeah it went
for me and then went all the way to one of the
spiders and i was like oh shit the spiders are
involved they're fucking they're on our side
uh and yeah we fucked all of them up and then
next to that building was this woman um Menethil?
Menethil? Menethil? Someone like that. Who Steph
has interacted with before. And she was like,
oh shit, she's over there. Let's go and speak
to her. There was a couple of goblins around
her. We thought she was being held captive. No.
No, no, no, no, no. Started attacking us. Killed
us about three times. So we save scummed it.
And then figured out that actually, in order
to get her to interact with you, when it's in
that state, you knock her out. rather than killing
her, knocked her ass out, killed everyone else,
and knocked her the fuck out, apparently she
ends up in some other place, and then you can
interact with her, and I'm pretty sure we booked
it out of there, and then left it there, but
that was, we killed a lot of shit, like it was
clicking, it was clicking pretty well then, and
then I sort of had this moment, where I was like,
do I want to, You meant Mindira. You're talking
about the drow? The purple... Yeah. Oh, yeah,
yeah. Yeah, I know who you're talking about.
Yeah. Well, you knocked her out. Yeah, she was
beefing us. Yeah, she's hard, yeah. Yeah. She
was beefing out. Killed all of us, bar me. She's
quite a big character, man. Yeah. Yeah, well...
You nearly killed her. I nearly killed her. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah. I don't know what happens if you
kill her. Yeah, I knocked her arse out, man.
She's... yeah she's she's quite a big character
yeah yeah that's why we were so annoyed because
Steph had obviously in her own play for interacted
with her and that's where she was like oh she's
really cool yeah and then she's attacking us
because we've already started a fight with the
goblins and yeah like I say we died like two
or three times um and then and then Steph googled
it and it was like no if you knock her out then
it it puts her back she ends up somewhere else
and then yeah she basically killed all of us
bar me and even then I only had like five health
left I think and yeah I just popped her ass with
an arrow and it just it knocked Minthara Steph
just text me Minthara yeah yeah that's the one
yeah she's cool man the rain didn't get on well
with her Solax gets on a lot better with her
because they're drowse yeah it was a bit it was
a bit nutty but we knocked her out and then and
then booked it out of there but um I'm in a bit
of a conundrum because of actual D &D, where
I'm sitting there thinking, do I want to swap
to a warlock? Well, you can. Because I like warlocks,
but obviously I haven't got any warlock stuff.
That's easy remedy though, isn't it? I think
they'll probably give you base warlock stuff.
I don't know. I need to Google it, because obviously
from withers, you can change it, can't you? Withers.
And I'm just trying to work out whether I want
to change over to being a warlock, as opposed
to... doing because I'm a fighter now but specialised
into whatever the fucking specialisation is archery
whatever it is and it's cool but at the same
time playing a warlock is very cool as well I
think I think the biggest tip I can give you
in any game like that if you're going to continue
with it change because You want to enjoy your
character. I loved Rain. Rain's like my favourite
character I've probably ever made in any game
ever. But the problem is with him, he was shit.
He was by far the worst character in the party.
Whenever it come to his turn, I was like, I may
as well skip. He was just useless. He used the
bow all the time. He done about four damage to
end game. He was rubbish, mate. My best damage
dealer was by far Lazelle. Lazelle. She was by
far the most powerful character. She used to
be able to hit like fucking six times in a row
and just keep wailing on people. If she died,
I might as well just restart. Yeah, because she's
a fighter as well, which is what I am. Very powerful.
Running different specs. But I think, yeah, just...
You should always enjoy the character that you're
playing, otherwise it kind of takes away a little
bit. You want your character to be good, not
like a fucking bag of old shit. My character
is a bag of old shit. I mean, I enjoy my character,
but I just feel like I want more flavour to it
that I'm not getting from shooting arrows. Even
though the arrows do cool things, I'm just not...
Because at the moment... Yeah, I don't know,
man. I'm using like an explosive shot if there's
things grouped up, which does decent. But then
outside of that, it's just like a poison arrow.
And that's it. It's not really my... It ain't
really my vibe. So I might switch. Because Warlock
does seem fun. I'm never going to be a bard or
any of that shit. I'm never going to be a sorcerer.
I'm just not. Or maybe I might be a sorcerer.
That's what I play. That's what Solex is. But
a warlock just seems fucking fun as shit, man.
And then having a little familiar that runs around
with you as well. And then just the cantrips
and all that Eldritch Blast. Just seems cool.
But Connor was telling me that warlocks, by default,
are quite squishy. Because I've always known
warlocks from a WoW point of view. And in a WoW
point of view, they're very, very fucking durable.
They've got like... insanely high health and
armor for a for a cloth wearer um but con was
telling me that in the dnd world that's a that's
they're like almost the polar opposite where
they're still very powerful but they're not they're
like glass cannons yeah i think anything that
deals stuff damage that's not just solely with
weapons is going to be squishy in it that's just
the nature of the beast that's why wizards sorcerers
archers they're all squishy because They're using
things from afar. Yeah. And they're powerful
in what they do. So they can't be powerful and
strong. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, that's
true. Magic users tend to be powerful, but we're
squishy. When you class change, do you get to
change your attributes and shit as well? Or is
it literally just the... I imagine you respec
all your stuff. I've never done it, but I assume
that is the case. Yeah, because I suppose you'd
be fucked, wouldn't you, if you specced all your
stuff into constitution and charisma or whatever,
whatever stat, dexterity, and then you swap to
a sorcerer and you can't change your stats. And
you go, great, I'm a sorcerer with fucking seven
intelligence, but 69 constitution. Like, what
the fuck? Yeah, I'm not too sure. I assume. I
mean, fuck me, my Warlock in actual D &D has
a minus two to strength. If I have to use anything
that involves strength, I'm fucked. I've got
like seven of it with a minus two. Decent. It's
going well, though. I'm enjoying it. It fills
me with warmth now that you're playing my favourite
game of all time. It's very good fun. But yeah,
I want to play... I got the Steam Deck out the
other day. Pissing around with that. And I just
got a real big urge to play Divinity Original
Sin 2, which is Larian's game before Baldur's
Gate 3. A lot of people say it's like, it's on
par with Baldur's Gate 3. It's not got the same
level of cinematography and all that, but it's
all voice acted. It's all fantastic. It's got
the narrator and all that sort of stuff in it.
So yeah, and I played it on PS4 or PS5, one or
the other. And I really enjoyed it, but... I
fucking struggled hard. But now I have Bowler's
Gate under my belt and now Rogue Trader. Yeah,
yeah. I feel like I'm becoming a bit of an adept.
Yeah, a connoisseur. Yeah, of these sort of turn
-based games. So I feel like I should give it
another go. And Dfinity is like, is Larian's...
it's his own ip so it's something they care deeply
for they invented divinity one divinity two and
i assume their next project will their next big
project will be divinity three i assume um so
yeah i was wanting to play that and i thought
should i play it maybe i should play it on the
steam deck and i thought well if i buy it on
steam then i've got the option of playing it
on the pc and steam deck simultaneously yeah
so Well, you know, if we're watching a film or
something, I can just play on the Steam Deck.
You know what I mean? I feel like that's a...
So did you give it a go? No, because it's 30
quid and I've got it on PS4. I've got the disc
at home. So I'm just like, do I want to spend...
I put it on my wish list hoping for a sale. If
it goes down, I'll buy it. But yeah, I don't
really want to pay 30 quid for a game I've already
got. I'm pretty sure it was on the sale when
me and Connor did an episode and we was looking
through the Steam sale. Probably. I feel like
I see it pop up on there. oh fellowship is also
is also on steam i completely forgot about that
i have no idea what that is fellowship is um
pause the fucking trailer so i don't scream our
ears out fellowship is basically world of warcraft
but they've taken out the the world bit so it's
basically a mythic plus dungeon game so you're
just doing dungeons Same sort of formula as World
of Warcraft, but there's a fellowship as a multiplayer
online dungeon adventure set in an exciting fantasy
setting with endlessly scaling dungeon runs.
Basically a fucking, they've just copied a lot
of shit from WoW and it is quite popular. Because
that's more or less what you do at Endgame is
Mythic Plus. But even like a lot of the characters,
like the rogue, looks very similar to how a rogue
plays in World of Warcraft, even down to the
animations and shit like that. But that's meant
to be quite good. And that's 20 great British
pounds. But we weren't looking at that. What
was we looking at? The video original Sin 2.
I assume. Yeah, no, it's still fucking 30 quid.
Yeah. It's still 30 quid. Or you could get the
Saw Saga for 41 quid. What the fuck is that?
All of them. Includes the Divinity Original Sin
Enhanced Edition and then Divinity Original Sin
2 for 41 great British pounds. Surely it's on
CD keys. I don't know, mate. I'm new to all this
PC gaming, aren't I? It must be on CDKs. Let
me look. Formerly known CDKs. What was it now
known as? Loaded. Divinity. Does it have to be
number two? So you can get it on CDKs for 14
quid. If that helps. But then do I have access
to Steam? You can get it. Oh, no. Never mind.
That's on GOG. Yeah, no GOG for me. No GOG. There
is Steam on here, but it says notify me for the
codes, and that's 22 quid. So I'd imagine they
don't have any fucking Divinity Sync codes for
Steam, which is fair enough. But that's always...
Obviously, you're in the world of PCs now. So
CD keys and shit like that is something. Or you
can spend 100 quid on Game Pass and have that.
Woo! No, thanks. Maybe I'll just play on the
PS5. It seems a lot simpler. Yeah, probably.
But I really, really want to play on the Steam
Deck. I just want to have it just to be like...
But I don't know if it's good on the Steam Deck.
Do you know what I mean? Maybe. Maybe. I need
to ponder more. I've got Football Manager for
fuck's sake. Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah,
I don't know. Because I would say... I'm not
trying to, you know, blow smoke up my own arsehole
here, but Football Manager seems to be one of...
listeners' favourite subjects. Whenever anyone
mentions this podcast, everyone loves it. It
is. So I think I'm going to start saying maybe
we should just hide it behind the paywall. See
how much you fucking love it now, dickheads.
No. No. No, fair enough. That's so corporate.
We've identified the most liked subject matter
and we're now going to make you pay for it. That's
awful. It's your USP, isn't it? Your unique selling
point. Football manager. I get that shit paid
for. Imagine being known as a pod for that. Yeah,
they got really famous for their fucking football
manager content and then stuck it behind a paywall
and then increased the patron by 50%. It's now
15 quid. Yeah, fucking... I would never do that.
Before we go into that, yes, Divinity Original
Sin 2 is considered excellent on the Steam Deck,
running smoothly at 60 frames per second on high
slash ultra settings with the perfect controls
right out of the box. It offers a very similar
experience to Baldur's Gate 3, but with better
performance on the deck, making it a great alternative
for those who find Baldur's Gate 3 too demanding.
This game is officially verified for the Steam
Deck. So there you go. High performance, expect
to run the game at a high frame rate with many
users reporting a consistent 60 frames per second
on ultra settings. Excellent optimisation, the
game is very well optimised, making it run smoothly
even on the highest graphical settings. Sorry,
did you say you can play Divi Original Sin 2
on Steam Deck at 60? Yeah, on ultra settings.
It's bullshit, because I just... Why are you
laughing? I'm reading it out saying that many
users reporting a consistent 60 frames per second
on ultra settings. No, no, I'm not saying it's
bullshit. I'm saying it is bullshit because on
the PS5, you can only get 30. Because I remember...
Because you're in a world of PC world. You're
in PC world now. Yeah, but the Steam Deck shouldn't
have it at 60 and the PS5 at fucking 30. Yeah,
but the Steam Deck's a PC. Don't think of the
Steam Deck as a console, it's a PC. Well, I'm
going to have to buy it on the Steam Deck then.
Because I remember playing it on PS5 and thinking,
this is great, but I wish it weren't jittery.
Do you know what I mean? I can't go back to that
Jerry shit. It says the main drawback is that
playing with high settings can significantly
drain the battery, but it says the controls work
perfectly on the Steam Deck without any need
for user adjustments. The game looks beautiful
on Steam Deck with the OLED version showing off
its HDR capabilities. The enhanced edition is
fully supported, including HDR and OLED models.
Turn -based combat system is well -suited for
handheld play. To conserve battery, you can lock
the frame rate to 45 or 30 frames per second
while still enjoying ultra settings. While the
graphics are not as advanced as Baldur's Gate
3, the performance is significantly better on
the deck, making it a more enjoyable handheld
experience for many. Did you ever play Baldur's
Gate 3 on the Steam Deck? No. It looks awful.
No, but I will. There's a lot of tweaking that
needs to be done. Steph did, and it don't look
fantastic, and it runs like shit. I don't know
if I'll play it on the deck, but I'll definitely
buy it on Steam because I want to play them mods,
man. There's some big mods that come out soon,
and there's one that I think is called Return
to Menza Baranzen, which is all about the underdark
for the drow. I follow their Discord, like their
updates on it. And like I say, all that sort
of stuff will be available on the PC, which I'm
now familiar with. I'm sure a YouTube video will
get me where I need to be in regards to... Yeah,
Baldur's Gate's 50 quid on Steam. Well, yeah,
I'm going to play Div anyway first. But then
I'm still trying to claw myself into the sci
-fi stuff. I'm not pulling myself out yet. Why
the fuck is Channel Divinity 2, Channel Original
Sin 2, on PS5 30 frames in? Who the fuck knows?
I just Googled it then because I thought it would...
I thought if he can run that on Steam Deck, surely
it can do 60 on PS5 now. But no, they must have
different clients. I don't know the ins and outs,
but they must be different games entirely in
code for it because I don't understand why. Because
PS5 surely is more powerful than the Steam Deck.
Of course it is. Right. It says Divinity Original
Sin 2 runs at 30 frames per second cap on PS5
because the definitive edition is a PS4 game
running through the PS5's backwards compatibility
and it was not optimized with a 60 frames per
second mode for the newer consoles. While the
PS5 is capable of a much higher frame rate, without
a specific patch or native PS5 version from the
developers, the game defaults to the performance
it was designed for on the PS4. So that's why
then, it's because it's... It doesn't have a
PS5 patch. Makes sense. So it could, but it doesn't.
I don't understand how or why that works like
that, but it does. And there you go. But apparently
it's very, very good on Steam Deck. That's fine
then. I'll just buy it on Steam, sucker it up,
buttercup, because I'm desperate to play it.
I've just been thinking about it all week. I
don't know why. I must have seen a video or something
that's gone, oh, yeah, I need to play that. I
just love Baldur's Gate so much. Anyway, full
manager, should we get into that juicy topic?
I haven't got a lot to discuss. What can I say?
I downloaded the game. The end. Well, this is
the last text I received from you. And if my
phone would unlock, please. And it says, I got
a photo of it, didn't I? You did get a photo
of it, yeah. Where are you? You sent me a photo.
And you said, uh -oh. Uh -oh. And there was a
picture of Football Manager 26 downloading. At
29%. At 29%. And then you sent me a picture of,
I'm going to assume you've made the manager look
like you. Otherwise, it's just another bald,
bearded man. Which you all look the same, if
I'm honest. Once you've got a shaved head and
you grow a beard, you all look the same. I am
aware of this because I showed Rye this and he
went, oh, you made Clarkie. I was like, no, that's
me. That's generic bold man B. Yeah, it could
be anyone. I am generic bold man. And you said
going in with no experience, no badges, nothing.
Starting unemployed again as I did last time
and see where the journey takes us. Indeed. I
didn't actually read any of the stats. Attacking.
What does that say? Unsuited. defending unsuited
fitness what does the unsuited bit mean? it means
I'm shit I'm unsuited for any of it so all the
stats except for motivating you're reasonable
but every other stat you're unsuited I'll explain
why because when you start the game on this iteration
they've changed it up a little bit because it
used to be all out of numbers these sort of things
but now they're doing it via words instead of
it being you know ones and twos it's now saying
unsuited but when you start the game create your
manager yada yada yada then you can pick past
playing experience they've enhanced that now
normally it's like professional footballer Sunday
league footballer blah blah blah blah now you
can be Premier League footballer world superstar
footballer like background experience Obviously,
you're going to command more respect for new
things like that. You can also do referee, linesman,
media, pundit, all that sort of stuff. Well,
that's your background. So you can have all that
as your background, like stuff like that. So
I was a pundit and now I'm trying it as a manager,
stuff like that. But I just went nothing, zero
experience. You've got nothing. You've come from,
you were a forklift driver in the Argos warehouse
and now you've decided, I'm going to become a
football manager. Exactly that. That works. That's
what I'm going with. 24 stone. No. Hepatitis
B. You can see I've not got... And a gangrenous
foot. That's true. And you've gone, right, football
manager is my next pathway. Yeah. And then after
that, you can do your coaching badges, which
is a sore subject, of course. Yeah, of course
it is. So I just click none. Because... Well,
you can say how many badges you've got. Yeah,
you can put yourself at the top. World superstar.
You can have coaching badges. If your background
is nothing to do with football, I'm going to
assume that you don't have any coaching badges.
Well, yeah, I know. But it's your game. You can
do what you want, right? I've never touched football
in my life, but I've got seven. Mm -hmm. And
a Michelin star. I mean, you're kind of cheating
because you get more of a leg up if you're doing
all that bollocks. Don't get me wrong, if you
are a professional footballer, because there's
fucking millions of professional footballers
that play Football Manager. It's very popular
across everybody. A lot of players play Football
Manager when they're on playing journeys and
stuff like that. They're always posting. So you're
basically, this playthrough, you're playing as
a fucking souls -born That whole genre, what
do they call it when you decide to make the shittest
character ever? The preset one, like a milk toast.
I've never heard that. Milk toast one, and then
there's another one where it's like scum. It's
basically whatever the pre -made character is
where they have the lowest stats possible. And
then that's what you run with. I'm just doing
me, man. So if you want to call me scum and milk
toast, then sure, I am being me. I mean, in that
world you are, though, aren't you? If you was
to go to an interview now, I'm Wigan. I need
a new manager. Well, first question would be
like, why the fuck am I in Wigan? I don't want
to manage your shit football club. This is rugby
country, isn't it? Yeah, I know, but that's the
problem. That's why we need a new manager. Yeah,
I'm not interested. Well, yeah, but we haven't
even given you the offers yet. I don't want to.
I don't want to hear them. So then why have you
travelled all the way to Wigan? You've wasted
my time. It sounds more like I'm interviewing
you at this point. I don't want to be here. I'm
being held captive in an interview. There's a
long line out the door of people wanting this
job, and we've given you the opportunity. I don't
want it. You haven't even heard the offers, though.
I don't want to hear it. I'm not interested.
But it's taken you hours to get here, no? No.
I was just passing by. I was just stopping at
Greg's. Right. See you later. No worries. Next.
That'd be a cracking interview. That's where
I get my keen motivation from. Become Wigan's
rival. So, yeah, fucking coaching badges, I put
zero. And then you can do your style, which is
a new thing. So you can, if you... You can be
like, oh, I'm an attacking coach, so I want to
play attacking football, I want to play entertaining
football, I want to play fast -paced football,
I want to play counter -attacking football. Can
you pick multiples of that? You can pick two
or three, I believe. I pick developed young players
because that way, especially if you're where
I am now, in the lowest league possible, because
the way... non -league football is or the bottom
tier of football a lot of the players aren't
on contracts they're on like they are on contracts
but basically if if you're playing for the team
that i'm currently managing um and fucking chelsea
come in for you you can just leave you haven't
they haven't got to like cause any ruckus you're
not tied to anything really so a lot of them
are on like weird contracts so in the lower leagues
trying to get youth players through And then
developing your own talent because you've got
no money to spend is the way to really build
a club. That's the way I think anyway. That's
why I picked Develops Young Players. Inspires
others. I picked that because I'm quite an inspiring
person, you know. Just put that out there. And
keen motivator. Abso -fucking -lutely, Bob. Yeah.
So I went with that. Yeah. And then I clicked
next. Three very good traits. And my bold man
started his journey into the world of... Football
management. Nothing happened for a while. What
do you mean nothing happened? Well, there was
a couple of jobs come available, so I applied
for them and they just laughed me out of it.
Oh yeah, because you've got to go through the
whole interview process. Yeah, I had no fucking
nothing. You have to answer questions and shit,
right? Yeah. So I applied for a job. Funnily
enough, the first job I applied for was Real
Oviedo, which is a Spanish club, which I actually
own shares in, in real life. Fair enough. So
I thought that. Why? Why? They were going bankrupt.
And it was like a thing where they were like,
oh, you can buy shares in our club, keep us afloat.
So I bought like 50 quid's worth of shares. I
don't know why. I don't know how to sell them
now, but I've got them. They're there. So basically,
I can turn up to Alaviada and demand. Yeah, I'll
go, I'm a shareholder. Let me in the boardroom.
Yeah. I own part of this club. I do. Literally.
So let me in. I'm the same with Southend United.
That's cool. I own shares in Southend United.
It's cool, isn't it? I do have the certificate
somewhere, so I'm one step ahead of you. I've
actually got proof of me owning them. Oh, you
want proof? I can give you proof. Oh, you've
got proof of... Oh, yeah. You, butt naked in
the boardroom. No, no, no, I've got proof, but
don't you worry about that. Does it say how many
shares you've got? I don't know, I can't... I
have that somewhere. I don't know where it is,
but it is somewhere. Looking around now, seeing
if I can find it, but... I canny. It's somewhere.
What is this? You're going through the archives
finding a photo of the certificate. No, yeah,
I've got the certificate. I've purchased four
shares. There we go then. So you can go in there
and go, I own four shares. Let me the fuck in.
I wonder if you'd get laughed at the door. I
assume so. But no, I know people that have bought
shares. And they've gone over there and they
treat you like king. Treat you like Roy. If you
go over there and you've got shares in it, they
give you free ticket in, free match day experience,
everything, because you saved their club. You
know what I mean? That's our holiday book then,
isn't it? Yeah, exactly. So you had interviews?
Yeah, so no, no, I didn't get interviews for
ages. They just laughed at me. Real Oviedo being
one of them. And then some American team. I can't
remember. I saw when an American club's laughing
at you. Yeah, basically I was aiming way too
high. What, like Premier League division sort
of high? No, no, Championship League one, but
I'm like, I wasn't even getting them jobs. I
love that it's like, no, I know the person behind
the screen knows how to run this, but ignore
the character in front of you. You need to look.
deeper into who's playing the character because
they can do it. I promise you. Yeah. I'm not
sure I can. So, I am now the proud manager of
them. Alfredton. Yep. Let's Google them, shall
we? Alfredton Town. Alfredton Town FC. That's
the babies. And they are in the National League
North and South. Correct. Fucking damn right.
Look at that. Let's have a look. They lost their
last two games. When are they last? They haven't
won a game. Where are they in the table? It's
encouraging. They're 21st in the table. They've
won one game so far in their last five and they're
currently sat on 10 points. having played 12
games. That's fine, because they're not managed
by me. And they also don't seem to have a badge.
They're playing Buxton tomorrow. Yeah, they're
a three o 'clock kickoff. Oh, what, are you following
them now? I've got to keep an eye out. I like
to keep an eye on the club. I've looked around
the area. It's in Derby. It's a nice place. Does
it live update? Anything like that? What do you
mean? Well, no, no. I suppose it doesn't, does
it? But it's always the immersion to follow.
It's interesting because then you'll be like,
oh, I sold that guy. He was shit. He was banging
them in. It would be so cool if you were able
to like fabricate the league matches and stuff
like that. So like have them in Football Manager
play Buxton next. Well, that's what they do.
So the fixtures will be the same as they are.
Oh, yeah, because they're in the fucking... Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Yeah, they will be. But yeah, so
I had a job interview with them. I basically
told them a load of lies. Yeah, that's good.
They were like, oh, we think we want to try and
keep mid -table position by the end of the season.
I was like, fuck that. We're getting promoted.
That's a lie. I've no idea. Yeah, no, that's
good. So just over -promise is what I did. And
they seemed chuffed, to be honest. They seemed
chuffed that I was going to basically win the
Champions League with them. Well, they listened
to you. They listened to me and they gave me
a job on 450 quid a week. So I snapped that up.
And then they decided to let me know that I've
got no money to spend. Yeah. Which I assumed
would be the case. Yeah, what did you expect
from a bottom in the table from National League
North and South? I know, I know. What's the next
move up from North and South? Just National League.
Yeah, and then it'll be League 2. League 2, League
1, Champions. There's a long way to go. Well,
it's not too bad. You've got to win promotion
to get in the National League. One more to get
into... It was my first game and the last one
was fucking... I can't remember who I was manager
of. I won my first game, lost like 12 and then
fucked off to China. Did alright, didn't I? Did
alright. Ended up at fucking Antwerp. Didn't
get your badges though. That was the problem.
Yeah. Interestingly though, considering they
missed FM24. then so it was the last one i played
then fm25 didn't exist so fm26 i watched an interview
with the creator the other day saying this is
the biggest jump they've ever made in foot because
they've rebuilt the whole game everything's different
the menus are different ui is different the match
engine is fucking amazing by the way um of which
i believe tom from the guild actually actually
worked Yeah, interesting. Provided the data for
that engine and was part of the reason why they
had delays. Yeah. Cheers, Tom. Yeah, all of that.
So they said this is the biggest shift in football
management in like 25 years. Since like 94 to
95 or something they said. Because it used to
be championship manager and then it's football
manager. This game's been going on since I was
a kid. I mean, yearly. It's the first time they've
ever missed a game as well. So it's a big, big
change for them. I can't remember why I started
telling you that story. What were we talking
about? Football manager. Yeah, I know that. We
were talking about... What the fuck were we talking
about? We could rewind it, but I can't be bothered.
Oh, right. Yeah, no, because... So what I mean
is... So they missed FM 25, but... The interesting
feature that is in there, you can import your
FM24 save into FM26. That's cool. Which is mental
considering the whole game is built. I have no
idea how that works because players, different
ages, I just don't understand how that works.
I didn't bother because I was unemployed. I've
left that save. Fuck Antwerp. That's gone. That's
gone. It was Antwerp, wasn't it? I took to the
European final. Fucking... Is National League
North and South still EFL? Or is EFL from something
up? English Football League EFL stands for. Yeah.
So I'd imagine the National North and South is
in. People that play in these are like semi -professional
footballers. They're not like, they've still
got jobs. So I think the Football League is from
like League 2, League 1. They're professionals.
League 2 up. So yeah, I've only played one game,
which was a friendly. and I won 5 -3 to a club
I'd never heard of. But more importantly, every
single goal I scored was a header. And the reason
for that is because I'm old school. You've got
Harry Maguire up front. I looked through my squad.
I said, every cunt is six foot and above. Get
that ball on the wing, you cross it in, and you
hit someone's head. And that's what we did. We
played for set pieces. We ran down the wing,
we crossed it in, we headed it in. We absolutely
dominated and the future is bright. I love the
idea of, what's your guy called in this? My name,
Ashley. Ashley. That's it. I love the idea of
Ashley coming into Alfredstown Town FC with absolutely
zero experience when it comes to football and
especially managing football. And then that first
team talk. And then just reeling off strategies
like you're in the prem. Just going, we're going
to do this, that, your fucking tool, headers,
this is how we're going to play. But from this
guy that on the face of it knows nothing. It'd
be like me walking into there. And going, this
is what we're going to do. This is how we're
going to attack. This is how you're going to
defend. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Whilst
it's funny to assume that, I think if I went
into Manchester City, right? No, I'm serious.
If I went into Manchester City and they were
playing, fuck knows, West Ham, say, for example,
I'm confident I would win my first game. Now,
the players would laugh at me and think, what
a plonker. Granted, and I'd understand that.
But all you need to do is, there's a certain
level to it. You tell players, just go out and
play football. You know how to play football.
You're some of the best footballers in the world.
You do not need me how to tell you how to play
football. Keep safe at the back. Keep structure.
Keep your formation when we haven't got the ball.
But just do go and express yourselves. They would
go and win that game. I don't need to tell them
how to win that game. Football at its core is
such a basic sport. Get the ball and put it in
that fucking net. It gets so overcomplicated.
Now everyone's copying PSG's kickoff routine.
Have you seen that? Everybody's doing that now.
When they just send it out. Yeah, just fucking
loft it strong. But it makes sense. Because then
you get further down. And people have adapted
it now, which I think is much more, which is
better than PSG's one. I can't remember who I
see do it the other day. So they get the ball
from kick -off. They kick it back, which they
have to. The geezer flicks it up first time,
boots it in the air towards their goal, but outside
their box if he can. And then all their team
just rushes forward. So it just causes mayhem
so that the keeper doesn't know where to come
out for a bouncing ball that's outside his box.
Defenders and midfielders are rushing back trying
to head the ball. You try and win that second
ball, you're in on goal. It's a great tactic
because all that happens normally on a kick -off
is it gets passed back and you can't get out.
You can't get out of your own half. That's why
they always kick it long because there's no way
out because the structure is too rigid. No one's
moved from their positions. So, yeah, I think
football at its core and its basic. is very,
very, very simple. That's such a weird tactic,
isn't it? It's weird, but it makes sense. I'm
just going to blast the ball straight down. Because
it puts them under pressure straight away. That's
why. You don't want pressure. You don't want
pressure instantly. You know what I mean? So
it's a smart tactic. But then surely the opposition
just adapts to that then. They go, right, this
is their tactic, so we're just going to fucking
have people sitting in the back. ready for that
to happen yeah but they haven't adapted yet because
it's new and that's what it's all about and always
finding new ways of tricking people and new tactics
and stuff and that's why football's fantastic
um but yeah when it comes to laughing at me about
being a manager of alfredson the baseline if
someone just comes in I'm not saying I don't
know anything about football. I'm saying I've
never had a career in football. That is the difference.
So you know football. You'd have some understanding,
limited understanding, but I've watched football
most of my life. So I have a good understanding.
I've also played Sunday League football. I've
played zero level of ability football, but I've
played against Chelsea Academy players. I've
played against players that have played for Chelsea
Academy. Can't get a ball off them. They're just
different levels well above me. I wouldn't even
get close to them. I know the fundamentals of
football I know how to play football and I understand
the simplest tactics I can give them is run down
the wing and hit it in the box to the big fellas
big fellas make late runs into the box all that
sort of stuff is very simple and to get out of
the lower leagues that's what you need to do
you need to keep it simple and not complicated
when you get up to the Premier League levels,
then you can start going, right, I want to, I
want to Geigenpress. I want to play out from
the back with all these fancy ways of playing
because you've got the players to do it. Right
now, kick it in a box and try and get it in a
fucking goal. And that's how we'll get up. Mark
my words. That's it. In the box. Mic drop, but
I didn't drop the mic. In the box. In the goal.
Mate, we're going up. Done. We are going up.
I said we are going up. And then I'm going to
assume that we're going to get an update next
week about that. absolutely fucking see you later
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