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Well, as she's one of the earliest snipers you get, I kind of just assumed you had her.


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Now you've made me want to go replay it. Not that I really had anything else on my plate right now.

A bit of advise, the lancers may seem flat out worse than the edlwyss at anti-tank, and, in a way, they are, but they have one very definite advantage, the ability to fire multiple times cheaply. Get a couple of lancers with an engie to re-supplyt and they wreck gak like nothing.

Also, the engies can disable mines (hit the space bar near them if you get the popup, you can actually disable them before they go off if you step on them), fix sandbag fortifications, and the engineer tool works like ragnite on tanks, (fixes them). with the engie tool equipped, go up to a a tank and go into aim mode, and if the crosshair is blue when you are over the tank you can fix it. The distance can be finiky, so try and stay nice and close.

I like Valkyria Chronicles, it's the anime version of the Netherlands fighting against an anime version of Nazi Germany and we win this time round.

Endless Legend which I beat with Broken Lords. Basically they can't gather food but can heal everything with dust when hurt and they even buyout workers with dust whereas others use food to get theirs.

Then I played more with the 'Cult' and their mechanics are also totally unique. They can't build settlers so you can only make your first city which is your capital. You can build you city bigger than others given district level go up to 3 instead of just 2. It's a bit hard to get luxury goods when they're spread among other lands but I've found pacifying minor villages and then 'uplifting' them to the cult's way makes everything great. I get resources from them, they recruit free guys on their territories per turn and and I even get 1 worker per 'uplifted' minor faction village for helping my citizens in the main capital. This tends to require a crap ton of both cash (to bribe the enemy and force them to pacify) and influence which I can get a lot of right now (and I use to get them to join the 'cult' in their own way).

Honestly getting enough minor factions by getting them to 'join the cult' ends up giving you some of the craziest spam armies. I could just throw wave after wave of crazed cultists at the enemy all dying for the cult and probably doing their job till I send my more elites to do the hard work.

To give you an idea of how many I have I currently have about 11 workers and then another 11 due to all the places I turned into cultists. So I'm at 22 for one city which is giving me some good boosts for now.

Been playing a little Age of Empires 2 HD edition. My workshop glitched out though and now I have a ton of old stuff I no longer want. But it says I'm not subbed to.

I.E: I downloaded amp a few months ago any now it says it's not in my workshop subs even though that's where I got it from

Also, a bit more Valkyaria advce. Try to get all classes up to level 11 (IIRC) by chapter 10 or so (the skirmishes are your friend there). That's where they become elite, and unlock special weapons and abilites, very useful.

Edit: Oh, and if you are sticking Maria (or eventually Catherine) up in a tower to snipe, bring them down after they fire. They have a tendency to get shot off there by tanks and other snipers. I learned that one the hard way.

Ok, Valkyria Chronicles it's without any doubt one of the best things I have ever played in my life. Admittedly, I am extremely biased because my favorite game of all time is a TRPG (Shining Force III) but still, this is DAMN. GOOD. Very happy I'm playing it for PC!

It isn't truly perfect because I spoiled myself a long time ago by watching the anime. Selvaria

Selvaria?!

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Selvaria?!

Spoiler:

Come on, what about Isara! I'd say she's more of a thing to get sad about. Although never watching the anime, there may be differences in perception. But her death was a real punch to the gut, especially as I kept messing up on the mission preceding it, so I was celebrating defeating it.

The anime is even worst after checking what happens in the game thanks to youtube

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Selvaria?!

Spoiler:

Come on, what about Isara! I'd say she's more of a thing to get sad about. Although never watching the anime, there may be differences in perception. But her death was a real punch to the gut, especially as I kept messing up on the mission preceding it, so I was celebrating defeating it.

The anime is even worst after checking what happens in the game thanks to youtube

Spoiler:

In the game Is dies but manages to trade a few last words with her brother and the gang. The anime? She's alone with Rosie. She's shot. She dies. Doesn't even say a word to Rosie. She drops dead. And yet I hate Selvaria's abuse by that fething Max even more.

Yeesh. That is bad.

Also, if you like Selvaria, play her DLC missions. It gives a lot more on her character (she really cares about the men under her). And I think you unlock some stuff if you complete them all. Plus, you get to play as her, which is pretty awesome.

Battlefield 4, as usual.

Bewildered by how people somehow prefer the RPK over the RPK-12, seeing as the latter has a larger magazine, faster reload, and pretty much equal anything except for the slightly larger first shot recoil. I guess it's the wooden stocking the original RPK has? Or the fact that the latter requires a lot more grinding to unlock...

Hmm, the mysteries of the strange world of Battlefield have yet to unveil themselves to me!

Back on Bf4 too. Man I love Paracel Storm.

Still playing the gak out of Valkyrie Chronicles and loving every second of it. I'm even attempting A-ranking the Skirmishes just for the hell of it (and the bonus XP and money is nice too).

Hell, in fact, all hobby related stuff has been placed on the back burner because I'm too "MUST PLAY VC". Last time this happened was with Dishonored, IIRC.

I'm really glad you like it so much, it's one game that I see as severely under-appreciated.

What chapter are you on now?

 Ratius wrote:
Back on Bf4 too. Man I love Paracel Storm.

It's a pretty decent map. I like most of the maps, though.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I'm really glad you like it so much, it's one game that I see as severely under-appreciated.

What chapter are you on now?

Spoiler:

Such a beautiful 2D Selvaria <3 Oh, such an amazing look. <3

Anyway, I have beat Chapter 6's battle and now the gang is going to see the inside of a certain building in a certain desert

I have spent far too much time playing around with Skirmishes and restarting some missions because I keep going "NO! This can't be done so half-assed! My team must be awesome"

EDIT: Oh wow, I can't believe the Vegetable's trade routes turned into an actual mission and a pretty tough one filled with special conditions xD Marvelous!

Completed DOW Retribution. A few more multiplayer matches, and I'll be uninstalling that one for a while. (Need to save some hard drive space)

Also starting my third yearly playthrough of the Mass Effect series.

Found an old Doom II disk, which I tried running, both from installation and straight from the disk. Sadly, after hitting 'Play Game' the menu music kept playing, but that was it. The game didn't even show up on task manager.

In other news, I fiddled a bit more on Besiege, and did a couple more skirmishes of the Ultimate Apocalypse mod for Soulstorm. I've deduced that a maxed out Angron (with the 10 bloodthirsters) can easily solo any other top tier unit from any army. Without his daemon armies things are a lot less one sided, but together you can't stop him.

Edit: Got an emulator, so now Doom is working perfectly

Just tried the Ghost In The Shell MMOFPS beta. It's solid. Most of my issues come from lag.

Chipping away at Infested Planet myself, at the final mission now, though I'll be replaying some of the older missions first to get some more cash going before playing that one.

Playing Tomb Raider 1. Yes, the first one from 1996. It's...strange. Graphics are dated and controls are clunky, but the gameplay itself feels better than what I experienced in a lot of "modern" games. Just the right mix of exploring, jumping and shooting. Amazing game.

I'm playing 2 games at the moment.

Mordheim. Its shaping up well but needs some serious balancing before it is released into the wild.

Armoured Warfare. WoT with modern vehicles and better graphics. Its still not in open beta (next weekend) so I'm not sure how the matchmaker is under a real population load. It can't be worse than WoT though.

*looks at some of the above posts*
Seems the folks here have some good taste. B)

I have recently finished Fallout 3 again, in the sense that I fully finished the main game and all DLC minus one as I'm still on Point Lookout. In previous play throughs I have either got distracted by another game half way through or not completed the DLC.

I figured I should at least get that played through before the new game comes out.
Now I'm deciding on whether I should start to play 'Wasteland 2' or Planet Explorers. c:

Did some of the Viking Conquest campaign. Every choice I make feels like the wrong one, but all of the others are just as bad.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
I'm playing 2 games at the moment.

Mordheim. Its shaping up well but needs some serious balancing before it is released into the wild.

Armoured Warfare. WoT with modern vehicles and better graphics. Its still not in open beta (next weekend) so I'm not sure how the matchmaker is under a real population load. It can't be worse than WoT though.

How's Mordheim for replay value? I've wanted to try that game for some time, but the price tag keeps scaring me off.

I've been playing a lot of things.

Dungeon Siege 2
Age of Empires 3 Asian Dynasties
New Vegas
Little bit of mincraft Pixelmon
Mechwarrior 4
and some Age of Empires 2

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Found an old Doom II disk, which I tried running, both from installation and straight from the disk. Sadly, after hitting 'Play Game' the menu music kept playing, but that was it. The game didn't even show up on task manager.

In other news, I fiddled a bit more on Besiege, and did a couple more skirmishes of the Ultimate Apocalypse mod for Soulstorm. I've deduced that a maxed out Angron (with the 10 bloodthirsters) can easily solo any other top tier unit from any army. Without his daemon armies things are a lot less one sided, but together you can't stop him.

Edit: Got an emulator, so now Doom is working perfectly

Take the wad files from your doom 2 install and run it in Zdoom. Doom is still supported by the mod community now and has it's own engines to improve how doom runs. Go dig into the Cacoawards for some cool new maps to play.


At the moment I'm playing Digimon Masters Online. I'm trying to decide if I want to keep grinding away and join a guild or put it down and call it a day, it's extremely korean.

Still playing Spore.

I get to the space stage, I start over. Since the servers are down, I'm populating the galaxy with everything my own creation.

Enjoyed the rainbow six sidge beta. The core gameplay loop is a lot of fun but the things around it like the matchmaking abd parts of the ui I have issues with. Hope it improves before launch but I can't say I am optimistic

 SkavenLord wrote:

How's Mordheim for replay value? I've wanted to try that game for some time, but the price tag keeps scaring me off.

It should be pretty decent, although there are only 4 Warbands at launch. I would wait for release though if you haven't got it already.

It plays a bit like a cross between XCOM and Bloodbowl (the PC version) if that makes any sense.

Gave Valkyria Chronicles a rest today only because it's time for Vermintide's beta AND MY OH MY, IS THIS GAME GREAT!