My gamer heart has been beating like a madman for the last week. Let me show you why.
At the end of October this year my favourite hardware reviewer released the following video:
Best thing evar? Yah sure like every thing that gets reviewed and labeled as "the best" is true, hah! I'm not that dumb Mister Linus, besides, every Ultra Wide screen has had one flaw or another. High refresh rate? Low pixel density. High Resolution? Massive input lag. All of the mentioned? On a TN Panel. That's why I stopped looking for a new screen and stayed on my BenQ XL2411Z, which is a great 24" screen don't get me wrong, one of the best for it's size, but I wanted more.
So I'm watching that video and he starts to mention the specs; 34" 21:9 aspect ratio nice, I knew that. A 3440x1440 resolution, damn, That's close to 4K, a very nice resolution with high pixel density sweet. It's an IPS Panel, which means high colour density and accuracy but has a bit higher response time than a TN panel (the BenQ I used has 1ms G2G, the x34 has 4ms) which isn't really a noticeable difference. Then he says "It has a 60Hz refresh rate" and I was like see? See what I mean that every cool monitor has a flaw? Why the hell can't it have higher "...but it can be over clocked to 100Hz". Oh, nice? I mean it's not 120 or 144Hz but 100 is a very nice number. Ok, please tell me more. "It has G-Sync" Whaaaaaaaaaat bonged! That was all I needed to know, from that moment this monitor was burned into my retina and I had to have it, I want it for Christmas.
I adventure myself into all the online shops checking for availability and I notice, not even one has it in stock, nor is able to give a precise delivery date. I phoned around, sent emails, checked shops in neighboring countries, nothing, they all say that Acer are not giving them any more detailed info. Many already changed the delivery date to 2016. I ordered it at a shop that had it's price around 8% lower than anybody else, but their delivery date changed many times. First it was 27th of November, then the 1st of December, then 3rd and then suddenly, 15th of March 2016 and I was like:
The Pre-Christmas Miracle
I received an E-Mail saying "Your Predator X34 is now on its way, here's your tracking number". WHAT?! They actually got a small batch of monitors and they were able to ship some of the early orders, I was one of them. God was I hyped. *Jumps around in the living room*.
And I am so happy that I was able to trust my guts on this one, it has been a huge investment so I really didn't want to have any bigger issues with it, like game compatibility or back light bleeding and such. Nothing, everything is perfect. I fucking love it. I had to get a Zotac GTX 980ti AMP! to make sure I would get the best out of my new monitor. Closest, and in my opinion best 4K experience you can have. Here are some screenshots of the games I configured and tested so far, each one plays like a charm, I also downloaded Skyrim again because of reasons.
Grand Theft Auto V
Fallout 4
DayZ Standalone
Rocket league
Kerbal Space Program
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Battlefield 4
Since I installed the Acer Predator X34, every time I leave work I get super excited to sit in front of my pc again, it feels like back when I got my first PC at home when I was like 15 years old. Damn I love gaming, and this monitor made it even prettier. The only downside? Every screenshot is now 9Mb big, "we gonna need a bigger drive".
Switch to controller already! Okay so, I'm finally doing it. I've been playing Rocket League since its release back in summer 2015 and I've been using my keyboard and mouse for input ever since. I was Gold in Season 1, Shooting Star in S2 and All-Star in S3, but my progress in this last season really took a halt. I began to notice the limitations of the hardware I was using and after a long time thinking about it, I decided to dust off my XBONE controller, reset my muscle memory and start again from the bottom of the leaderboards. I want to share what I've learnt and, if someone wanting to transition over to controller is reading this, show you what you'll probably have to go through.
At the end of the experiment, you will be baked, and then there will be cake. I feel equally sad for leaving and proud for the things created. It has been quite the long run but it's time to end it. I've entertained, helped and informed people through monthly contributions to the gaming community, and also helped myself to understand games and gamers while teaching myself some English along the way. This has been my greatest project ever and it was a blast. It all began mid February of 2014. I thought about creating my own website many times but never really went through with it, until I found out about how easy it actually was when checking out Google's Blogger. The enthusiasm was quite palpable as I was writing my first entry on this blog : Diary of gaming awesomeness? Holy shit I have so much time to waste on this!! LETS DO THIS! At first I didn't really have structure or fixed idea about what I wanted to write, so for the first few months I just posted...
Warning! You are now entering a contaminated zone! In about three weeks Titan, Stealth and I must have put around 250h collectively into this game. We took our time to level up, played in the Dark Zone for quite a bit before reaching level cap and spent most of the time maxing out our stats for the level we were in. It always went like this; play story quests and side missions until you level up, get excited for being able to equip that gun or armour you had put aside until you reached the necessary level, start window shopping from vendor to vendor to see if they sell any piece that has like +2 of something you're looking for and then test your equipment in the Dark Zone. But aside from bigger and bigger numbers, what else does this game have to offer? This is our experience.
I adventure myself into all the online shops checking for availability and I notice, not even one has it in stock, nor is able to give a precise delivery date. I phoned around, sent emails, checked shops in neighboring countries, nothing, they all say that Acer are not giving them any more detailed info. Many already changed the delivery date to 2016. I ordered it at a shop that had it's price around 8% lower than anybody else, but their delivery date changed many times. First it was 27th of November, then the 1st of December, then 3rd and then suddenly, 15th of March 2016 and I was like:
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