Gaming for truckers

Found a new game, and it's got me hooked. Its a few years old, originally made on pc, but it was ported over to the Xbox one last fall. Its called "The Long Dark". Its a survivalist game with a deep story line. After your plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness, you must find your love and solve the mystery of tyre geomagnetic storm that caused your plane to go down.

This game is very addicting a extremely hard but oddly satisfying when you survive through wolf attacks, harsh blizzards, falling off Cliff faces, hunger, dehydration, and hypothermia, there are literally a thousand ways to die in this game. And it's not even in full release yet. For$20, excellent game. My suggestion is try out the free trial. Its also available through steam

 

Ive watched youtubers play that. Looks fun and hard.

I preordered and should be arriving today Spin Tires : Mudrunner. $35

 

I thought dark souls was a hack and slash rpg

 

I'll give it a go.

The plane scenario is interesting. What sort of plane was it?

Even if you were in say a 737-800 at FL 360, the QRH says establishing a Airspeed of 275 indicated in knots would be needed to flow the air past the engine fans in sufficient power and volume to attempt a restart on both of the engines.

Failing that you now have to knock the airspeed from 275 down to between 205 and 230. Add 2.5 or 5 degree of flap to hold it there. (Once you commit at 1500 agl to a airfield you will have her at 170 indicated and 15 for flaps. With dead engines you are not coming back upstairs and this one would be all the Marbles.

3km forward per 1000 in altitude lost depending on weight using the first 30,000 feet of 36000 (Denver international is not much below 6000 feet msl. (Mean sea level...) means you can have about 90 km of room (Or about 60 miles below your airplane) before you consume the last 6000 feet getting into a field.

Anyway enough of this babbling from me. A plane crash is not necessarily a plane crash.

 

Im buying a copy asap.
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Just one little question. How is that shifting? 18 speeds maybe with splits? Or is it just the generic crappy sim 4 gears shifting with a stack of wav files for engine revving?

Anyway I love that 8x8 tank and log hauling vehicle with it's own trailer.

Maybe this will be a game we can enjoy online in cooperative multiplayer. Or even have our own TTR Contests to hold records for bragging rights or what not.

 

I'd suggest watching some videos before you commit heavy. The plane was a single engine Cessna type, but you don't get to control the plane. The long dark is strictly based on survival, everything you do impacts whether you live or die from starvation, exposure, mauling, or any other way you can think of, it's not an actin game, it's survival strategy

 

@MACK E-6 @x1Heavy

Here is a play through of the first episode of the long dark, outs rather long, but it'll give you a solid idea of what the game is like.

 

I understand. I'll do the viewing, it's teaches many things.

Years ago I was heavily involved in Beta testing or actually even some alpha believe it or not in the Novalogic company with the games they had online. There was a number of battlefield products as well that came out pretty good in those days as well. It was a happy time during testing for me. I had built two to four rigs, each one progressively top of the specs possible in the old stack of 4 raptor 150's in raid 0 with a back up. This was before SSD's and bar none the fastest drives availible and still reasonable on the money.

I still have three of the surviving raptors to this day, one exhibits a dreaded click of death announcing a pending death whenever that will be. These were the enterprise black versions, not the run of mill customer editions. These were made for business in mission critical applications with a ginormous hours before to failure. Well, I exceeded those hours beleive it or not in a number of years apporaching two decades.

Those drives in raid zero were allowing me to load map online first and move first before any of the other 64 players loaded in. That enabled me to get to first objective base and take it. Moving halfway to base number two before the enemy forces fianlly started deploying from their main spawn.

Game map loading timer clocks forcing everyone to wait 30 seconds before start of a new map is directly attributable to my system loading first and putting our team into a winning position by points before anyone on regular drives will load.

I even had a Iram drive which is essentially a bank of RAM memory sticks tied to a daughtercard that mimicked a hard drive. As long you had power (It was supported by a battery backup apu and a generator behind that that only needed 3 seconds black out from mains off grid to react and light off to provide power. That Iram loaded bloated software soo fast...

I run a stack of 6 SSD's from the vertex threes. I have 5 more that came from the previous system that I paid 300 each for. the 6th from that stack did not survive. So a total of 11 SSD's in Raid 5. About a terabyte. It will read averaging ATTO from 4kb sectors blocks to 256 kb sector blocks across the board and across the drive's virtual surface so to speak at a rate of about 1.85 mbit averaged. All 10 SSD's in place with a 11th tied to USB 3.0 as a windows page file (All 128 gb of it...) for win7 64 bit simply blazes the system through whatever we need it to do. Literally no more waiting. 128 gig of ram on 8 sticks. turns it to a jitter error prone monster when overclocked. I tend to back off the clock and be more conservative on the RAS.

I am literally able to run anything up to 4K games if I had to. Monitor will have to be replaced to resolution that high that big fast enough (Around 144 hertz...) to be worth doing. And the video cards will have to be replaced. I think it will take approximately 3000 dollars plus shipping by air to get three video cards that can run at 4K

So theoratically 4500 dollars already committed to the new build.

Im hunting for a optical interface so that I can array the 10 SSD's into a stack and stick it on the back of the machine riding the light interally. No more cables and metal interface cards. other than what is needed to go optical. Im hoping to reach the physical limits of SSD read/write which is in the realm of 8.7 mbit.

Im also getting ready to consider wireless for interal data work instead of the tired old interface cabling all over the internal space in the box.

I don't know how to design and build anything faster that fits under a desk. It will take about 10K dollars to complete. Waiting for the holiday sales so that the pricing on componets will fall by at least half and being online tax free. *Shrugs.

It will be the last system I will design and build in this life time. I have built over 20 plus (Approx 1 per year...) ever since I decided that computer stores are BS and i don't need to be raped by the staff knowing nothing. I'll build my own. Of the 20, three survive in rebuilt form one is a new build going on it's 15000 th hour in 2 years service.