Another humble choice then. Again nothing majorly grabbing me but maybe just about enough to hang in there. Need DS's view on teh golf (2K21)...

My PC is - after bloody ages of being hidden away and collecting dust - turning on but not out putting to the monitor.

Best bet to just take it all apart and put it all back together again?

Feel like it's worth point out Nioh is free on Epic right now. Obviously well worth a punt for nothing. I started and it fell off radar, but the quality was clear.

It's Soulslike alright. Perhaps a bit too much?
Haven't reached the first boss yet but the gameplay loop and menu structure are very..... familiar.

its a good game but the lack of variety with enemies wares thin.

Try wireshark.

Balsa Model Flight Simulator just went into early access, and the free playtest will remain up for a few days apparently. It's a passion project from the original lead dev of Kerbal Space Program and his brother, plus a few others but a lot of the content will be coming from the community.

After playing it solidly for the last couple of weeks I'm quite confident this will become my most played game by some margin, so I can certainly recommend it if you like flight and have a tinkering engineering mindset. There are many crazy bugs and issues still, but for the price I think it's easily worth it even if it doesn't go much further (quite confident it will though).

The flight physics are really quite good, feels great with a joystick and head tracking. There's still stuff they'll add I think, like prop wash and atmospheric effects, but even now it's a joy to just fly about with people, and the dogfighting when it kicks off is great fun. I've actually somewhat gone off Microsoft Flight Sim now, just because I find designing and flying my own planes that I've tuned just right more fun.

Here's one I made earlier -

Is the 8bit do dongle needed to connect a ps4 controller to PC? 

Sorry Boris, can't help with your question, as I always let B buy things through steam. The one PC purchase I did this year was FFXIV, and that's already a month ago and still can't play it (square seems completely stunned by the idea of people living in the US, but using an EU account to buy things). Plenty of time to figure out how I'm gonna set up controllers though.

I've had problems with steam when buying gifts, it doesn't like me buying stuff for my brother (EU) with an US card. Can't see why that would be an issue for you, if it used to work before.

Would be using it for FFXIV, which I didn't buy through steam but through the SE store. And you definitely can't swap those versions around, there's always a couple posts a week on the FFXIV subreddit of people playing pc or steam trial, buying the game for the other version they played the trial for and messed it up for themselves. It's a whole side quest in itself. But no steam in between controller and game at first.

Good to know about the dongle, it's not too expensive so might get it to make it easier, I will both be playing at desk or on the TV, so would like the wireless option.

Would have used the 8bit do pro controller, but the right trigger is already very weak compared to the left, so that's no use. Was surprised by that.

You can create shortcuts in Steam to non Steam games and take advantage of its joypad emulator. Not sure about FFXIV as that probably has a launcher  - if so, could try creating a short cut to the executable and launching the launcher first.

Also, a normal bluetooth dongle should work with the DS4 but I found lots of people having issues when I researched it - but also many saying a cheapo dongle worked fine.

The key thing about the 8bitdo is that it is reliable and doesn't drop inputs.

mrsmr2 wrote:

You can create shortcuts in Steam to non Steam games and take advantage of its joypad emulator. Not sure about FFXIV as that probably has a launcher  - if so, could try creating a short cut to the executable and launching the launcher first.

Yeah it has a launcher, I haven't been able to run the game yet as I can't register my key.

The whole set up is gonna be complicated anyway, I'm gonna have to use playstation remote play for party chat, so that needs a dualshock connected to that. I can set my headphones to have audio from both remote play and pc, have tested that.
But then I assume I'd need a second controller to connect the the actual PC, so having the dongle might just simplify it a bit.

All the just so I can play both on desk and on the couch, with the PS5 people and they're sweet ssd's. Currently on PS4 pro and that's slow.

Why are you using American Express? Most places in Europe don't even accept it.

Are you in America?