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Hello to all!

I’m Lea aka TroubleGirl playing PC games for couple of years now.
My favorite genre is first person shooter, however since I stopped playing Q4 and TF2 competitively, I had more time to explore other genres and play more games.

I bought dozens of games in past couple of years, including Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, which I purchased back in 2010, it was included in one of the bundles. But I never played it as I was avoiding rpg games back then, due to dedicating my time to one game at that time.
Anyhow, couple of days ago I installed Titan Quest and got in love. Good bye FPS games, Hello Grim Dawn, Crate Entertainment and lovely community you have here :slight_smile:
I am lucky to have a boyfriend who explained me the whole history of Titan Quest and about it’s development studio… he played hundreds of hours in TQ. So, I’ve decided to browse and I ended up here.
I’m very happy I finally ended up where I should have 2 years ago, but well, I am here now.

My first arpg was Torchlight, then I tried Diablo II for just a little bit and claimed that Diablo II copied all after Torchlight lol … By now I know it’s visa versa 0=)

In coming months I’ll be following Grim Dawn, playing TQ & D3 until Grim Dawn’s alpha test will open.

I’m happy to say I pledged for Grim Dawn today, and so did my boyfriend.
I also “spammed” my blog with Grim Dawn, hopefully more people will pledge :slight_smile:

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Hey hey hey what is up!

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butbutbutbut, why abandon fps now, tribes ascend just came out? also there is/was a competitive quake 4 scene? based on a mod or is my memory of it being spiteful?

anyway, welcome aboard.

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Howdy …and seriously, damn diablo and all those torchlight clones. everyone’s always trying to copy max schaefer, geez.

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Thank you. Yes, there was competitive quake 4 scene, we used Q4max mod. Once they released Quake Live, everyone moved there. I agree community isn’t that big there, compare to some other fps games.
I am not fully abandoning fps games, I’ll still play them, just not as active as I used to be. I might play CS:GO or some other upcoming fps game. I didn’t have chance to have a a proper look into Tribes Ascend, yet. I was playing BF3 past half a year.

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Hey Lea,

Welcome to the forums and this community is the best isnt it? :stuck_out_tongue:

Im just starting up TQ myself as well but ive had it for a LONG time but never got past the first act lol. These are great games to play for sure and where did you usually rank in the FPS?

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Welcome aboard!

Since you played a lot of FPS and are now into this kind of loot-em-up hack’n slash action games, I assume you also played Borderlands?

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Medium FPS, medium RPG, very bad technically (FOV > 80 O_o) and the worse end boss ever. But I still liked it. Won’t bother playing a second time, it was mainly the claptraps’s jokes that pulled me.

Anyway, re-Hi TroubleGirl.
For FPS, you may take a look at Urban Terror someday. It’s a free Quake-like (fast paced) in a realistic (modern guns) setting with a competitive community.

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Indeed, this community is best :slight_smile:

My ranking was nothing special. I define competitive playing = daily practices attend in some events - cup leagues, no money included in my case, except that all servers I had were sponsored.

I attended in one of the Q4 Duel Cups, I won only 1 match in group, so I didn’t qualify… In Quake Live I played Quick Zotac Cups I usually got kicked out in 1st draw, got smashed real bad xD

Team Fortress 2 (TF2), I played for 2 years 6on6, highest I got with the clan I played in was winning division 4 - season 4 in both ETF2L & EDTF2L league.
After that we could have played in division 3, where it was big rival, division 2 and division 1 were more than less elite teams and everyone wanted to get up there.Unfortunately some of the clan members didn’t wish to continue the journey so we didn’t attend season after. I took a break too and helped out too other clans. Until the fashion show started and then I left (hats everywhere).

Since Dec 2011, I haven’t really played any fps game for longer than 6 months, I sometimes miss every night practice matches :slight_smile: I’d like to do it for last time with some clan in some game, before I move fulltime in arpg. But Battlefield 3 community or Medal of Honor weren’t having that much population nor competitions like Call of Duty or Counter Strike has :slight_smile: That’s why I might try CS:GO once it comes out.

No I didn’t play Borderlands 0=) It was released in year when I was still playing TF2 only.

I also played Left 4 Dead series, Battlefield Bad Company 2, CS:S, Warsow, Homefront.

Maybe I shouldn’t have pointed competitive word out 0=) but it was real fun, I’ll never forget some matches. Especially those when you start losing 4:0 and the come back, equalize to 4:4 and then in literally in last second, score last point for victory :slight_smile:

Thanks for the Urban Terror suggestion, I’ll check it out.

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hi and welcome

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Hey Lea,

Welcome aboard and enjoy your stay! =)

You should definitely try playing TQ along with your boyfriend, we had great fun playing it with my wife. =)

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I’m going to say that you spent at least a couple hours playing these FPS games :smiley:

I have played a few myself but sucked at them sooo much. Everybody would get luck kills off of me like a missed sniper shot that gets me while i just step foot in an alley way hahahaha. If you ever want to rack up some kills just have a game with me :stuck_out_tongue:

Hows TQ coming along for you?

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Hey & thank you
Yea it’s 3 of us who are playing TQ together, we have lots of fun

Yea I am sure I did over 800 hours in TF2 and for Quake series I wouldn’t know, probably around that time too, while in BF3 only over 200h hours.

TQ is fun & funny, I’m level 25 with Ranger characters and 21 with Druid, I like both characters same. I prefer to play ranged classes compare to close combat ones. But I’ll surely try one of close combat characters too, some day.
The only thing which I dislike about the game are entrances to tombs / caves. I often get stuck outside, so we use portals once one of the other players manages to get inside. So I am like holding a breath every time I try to enter a cave lol

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Welcome to the community.

Re: the caves, i rarely encounter it, but the few times it happened to me it was really annoying.

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Hey :slight_smile:
I’m glad we ain’t the only one.
We check every cave, every spot of the map possible :slight_smile: No rushing through…

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Well, I reckon you like Borderlands. It’s more enjoyable in coop, but I can recommend it.

I used to have the issue with caves and exits a lot, when I still had an on-board videocard. Which leads me to believe it’s related to your GFX drivers in some way. But that’s probably only the case if you have a crummy videocard. Anyway, it’s unfortunately not an uncommon issue.

Here’s what I could find;

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When I had my MMO phase I racked up several years of playtime over about ten years of realtime. Not so much competitive but fiercely cooperative on the brink of insanity.
When job and other real life commitments started intruding on my quality gaming time, it simply didn’t work out any more. Still made a few attempts to come back but all failed.
To be a hardcore gamer, you really need a gamer’s life. Mine doesn’t qualify any more. =P

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hehe I understand and agree. I’ll probably just stick to casual playing and Grim Dawn in future :slight_smile:

@yerkyerk
No onboard graphic cards here -.- nvidia 560Ti
all settings on highest possible setting… it’s not that big of a problem just annoying I guess, we passed every cave so far, when I play alone the problem doesn’t seem to appear or it’s just a coincidence.
I’ll test it with shadow settings tho :slight_smile: ty

I might try Borderlands eventually, but I am not planning to buy any game in near future, I’ll be playing Diablo III :stuck_out_tongue:

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Traitor! Heretic! Witch! :smiley:

@yerkyerk Didn’t you fix the cave entrance bug in the fan patch?

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LOL

We have fan patch 1.17 installed, as we hoped for bigger ui in multiplayer mode. The left side part where other party players are listed. Font size is a bit small on 1920x1080 resolution. I beleive Grim Dawn will not have same “problems”, so it doesn’t matter to me, we are having fun and that’s what matters!!!