Hey Welcome to Zach's Tech Turf and Weekly Download episode number 72, which is my tech
and PC gaming news series.
Today I'm gonna be playing yet again some Destiny 2 while I give you this news and I
got myself a blue gatorade for today's episode.
Make sure you guys let me know in the comment section what you're sippin' on, let's
get into it.
To start off the tech news this week, Asus unveiled an absolutely insane gaming monitor,
a 24 inch 240Hz FreeSync monitor.
It's the ROG STrix XG258Q and along with that insanely fast refresh rate is also a
1ms response time.
It is however a TN 1080p panel, but people that are actually interested in this type
of thing don't really care about the resolution and actually probably prefer a TN panel.
It's on sale now for $449.
I do NOT think I'll be reviewing this one, sorry.
To go along with a ridiculous monitor we have a new ridiculous monitor cable standard, HDMI
2.1.
HDMI 2.1 was released all the way back in January, but we got some juicy details about
the new cable standard this week.
2.1 will be able to handle 10K resolution at 120hz.
Yea 10k.
I don't think we'll see this cable out for a while, but I do believe it's safe
to say that we won't need HDMI 2.2 or HDMI 3.0 anytime soon.
Next up AMD released an apparently very important hotfix for their Vega cards, as a few Vega
owners were complaining that their graphics card was causing intermittent crash issues.
I actually didn't know that this was going on, so I'm curious if any of you out there
were experiencing this issue with a Vega card.
Either way, the hotfix is available for download now in the Crimson ReLive software and you
should be good to go.
And to already wrap up the tech news for the week, Microsoft introduced their future plans
with Windows that involve sets or a tab based operating system.
Think about how your internet browser like Google Chrome or Firefox have tabs, well Microsoft
wants those tabs to be a feature for the entire operating system.
They're called Sets and the reason they want to do this is because they want Windows
to open up other applications in a set whenever you open up similar programs at the same time.
For example, if everytime you open up powerpoint you also open up Google Chrome to do research
for your presentation, Sets will automatically open up google chrome for you so you don't
have to.
It sound like a cool feature I guess, but I feel like it'll take a long time to develop
and hopefully it won't be implemented in an annoying way.
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Alright so we had a ton of Destiny 2 drama this week, as a random redditor uncovered
the fact that there was a hidden scaling system that reduced the amount of XP we earned in
game to unlock those precious bright engrams.
Apparently the longer you played the more your exp scaled up, so it didn't favor people
like me that only play for about 30-60 minutes at a time.
Well Bungie has announced that they completely removed the scaling system, but now they ended
up doubling the amount of exp it takes to earn the engrams so it's even worse than
how it started.
As of writing this video Bungie says that they are still working on improving the scaling
system, but it just hasn't been implemented yet.
And in some more quick Destiny 2 news, Bungie also announced this week that they are launching
a free trial version for the game.
The free trial includes the single player campaign for the Earth and Titan zones, Crucible
PVP, and progressing up to level 7.
I'm definitely 100% on board for them to do this, as I'm sure a bunch of PC gamers
are still on the fence about buying this game.
I love it, so I think you should go try it out for free if you're interested.
Moving on we got some Intel this week that the Electronic Art's stock value went down
by $3 billion dollars since this whole Battlefront 2 drama started, which is pretty insane, but
much deserved.
I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about by now, they released the game with
some terribly unfair lootboxes and players completely revolted, and now their stock value
is paying the price.
EA creating another Star Wars game should have been a huge opportunity for them to make
money for the next several years and this is actually hurting them.
Hopefully this sends a message to other game publishers not to be so greedy.
Civilization 6 is getting a brand new expansion pack called Dark and Golden Ages and it's
coming on February 8th of next year.
Players will guide their civs through the Great ages and there's a new city loyalty
system and a bunch of other new features.
There's a full announcement trailer at the link in the description, which is where I
link everything I talk about every week.
And finally to wrap up the PC gaming news this week, a new Witcher 3 mod released called
Wither 3 Enchanced Edition and it actually looks pretty baller.
It completely overhauls the , in my opinion, very sub par combat system and it also tweaks
the game quite a bit.
Instead of all these items being upgraded by leveling and what not, with this mod everything
will have a set level so you actually have to progress through the game to unlock and
use certain things, it acutally sounds like a lot of fun.
I still actually havne't finished the Witcher 3, not even close to be honest, but this mod
really makes me wanna go try it out.
I might actually feature this on a Gaming on a Sunday Morning series episode here soon,
that sounds like a good idea.
Well that wraps up Weekly Download episode number 72.
Make sure you guys let me know in the comment section what your favorite tech or PC gaming
news was this week, or if I missed anything.
Well I hope you guys enjoyed this video, please drop a like down below to help support my
channel, and as always, thank you for watching and please subscribe for more Zach's Tech
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