Thanks guys. I’ll switch to PoleAxe and see how it suits me.

I had quit this game for a few months, but got dragged back into it somehow. I had mained SoW for 99% of my Chiv career, but wanted to start a new weapon to revitalize my interest in the game. I’ve been having fun with the Bearded Axe, but wondering if there are any pro tips/do’s and don’ts of it. I can’t seem to find that chart that had all of the stats of weapons, and not sure if it’s even updated. Are there any swings of the bearded axe to avoid? Is the stab never worth doing for example. Also, should I go poleaxe instead? I remember it used to be better than the Bearded Axe way back when, but I think I remember there was a buff to Bearded Axe. Thanks

I’m curious to see the play style of someone good on PS3….staying tuned…

durnk 2 eh m8

I’ve been reading about this all day because I was very close to pulling the trigger on a 970. It’s a helluva deal and a great performer for the price, but I’m going to wait for this whole VRAM thing to blow over, and I want to see Nvidia’s official solution.

To my somewhat limited knowledge, basically what’s happening is, when people are going over 3.5gb VRAM on their 970, instead of getting the advertised 224gb/sec memory bandwith, it drops down to 10x slower 20gb/sec and even though you’re not maxing out your VRAM your performance is crippled by this. Nvidia unveiled today that there are two partitions in the way the 970 delves out VRAM, the 3.5gb and a separate .5gb partition. A better explanation…

“The GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with 4GB of dedicated graphics memory. However the 970 has a different configuration of SMs than the 980, and fewer crossbar resources to the memory system. To optimally manage memory traffic in this configuration, we segment graphics memory into a 3.5GB section and a 0.5GB section. The GPU has higher priority access to the 3.5GB section. When a game needs less than 3.5GB of video memory per draw command then it will only access the first partition, and 3rd party applications that measure memory usage will report 3.5GB of memory in use on GTX 970, but may report more for GTX 980 if there is more memory used by other commands. When a game requires more than 3.5GB of memory then we use both segments.”

This is the first we’re having about this from Nvidia, so it seems to reach the great price/performance of the 970(a $330 card beating the original $650 MSRP GTX 780), it seems they cut corners…If the other .5gb partition performed up to par this wouldn’t be an issue. And for me personally who’s only going to be gaming at 1080p and know I probably won’t get close to 3.5gb usage, this still gives me great pause in pulling the trigger for purchase. So I’m going to wait for a hopefully inevitable v2 revision, or maybe a driver/bios update that can fix this. As to the issue of limited availablity, where are you located? I don’t think they’re being pulled from stores because of the aforementioned issue so that’s odd you’re having trouble finding them, they are very popular though.

@lemonater47:

You don’t. £40 pounds was alpha.

Though for some dumb reason I can’t login to my bloody account. Its like it doesn’t exist anymore.

sheeeeeeit lol

@LongSun:

there’s a tech alpha version out now on Steam for backers. installing it now :D

I backed it up on the first 15 pound tier, how do I get the alpha?

ayy lmao

/5

Still not a fan of the 2H OH newer anims