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LunarSol wrote: You've probably figured this out by now, but the Acorn quests get much easier once you get the equipment that lets you jump higher.
Haven't gotten back into those yet but yeah got the jumping acc now, wondering wether eventually you can equip more than one acc though (probably will considering trying to equip another states something along those lines)
At first didn't even realise you could use your summons during and just tried jumping everywhere with the "I weigh 50 bags of potatoes" propulsion you have by default
Anyway, Also found a dojo somewhere in a classical town (also has chickens you can hit for a chicken storm but sadly cannot learn them -_-), did the find the chicken quest too.
In the dojo you get incremental cool minigame arenas, none of which are really hard but still a lot of fun to try to perfect.
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"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
LunarSol wrote: You've probably figured this out by now, but the Acorn quests get much easier once you get the equipment that lets you jump higher.
Haven't gotten back into those yet but yeah got the jumping acc now, wondering wether eventually you can equip more than one acc though (probably will considering trying to equip another states something along those lines)
You absolutely can. Location in spoiler tag if you like:
Spoiler:
The Great Fairy will let you equip multiple items by paying her rupees. Her fountain is in Lake Hylia where the ice dungeon is in A Link to the Past. It's pretty close to the place you upgrade the Sword
KamikazeCanuck wrote: I think Civilization is for me what XCom/Xenonaughts is for flamingkilamajig. I always have a game on the go. Started up a new one as Korea.
On that subject i'm becoming rather bored with xenonauts 2 now that i think i've reached the end of the milestone the developers are on. Nearly 300 days in game and at the moment nothing is much of a threat to me. I have a crap ton of soldiers. I have most of the tech if not nearly all of it. My weakest link is i might not have enough tier 3 fighter aircraft. I've been able to interrogate both an alien officer and a leader.
The alien base i'm about to attack is the only thing i might struggle with and the 3rd tier dropship i have which cost a bundle of resources allows me to transport 16 soldiers (as absurd as that sounds). They are decked out with all the top tier gear i can get. If somehow i suffer severe losses i will be shocked. I imagine this was originally the dropship made to fight battleship crash sites but the issue is when you're telling 12-16 soldiers what to do the game bogs down. I've been having that issue with 12 soldiers and i can only imagine what 16 is like.
I honestly think the biggest problem with the game right now for me is money issues rather than resources since i've nearly got all the resources i need only nearly running low after i built almost everything i have. All i have to do is a couple Cruiser crash sites and bam i'm drowning in resources again.
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I wonder if i'll ever play xcom 2 again but maybe a Long War of the Chosen game of it. I maybe won that game twice on 2nd hardest on ironman. The mod is just absurdly harder than the base game which i could do hardest on ironman runs very reliably at my peak.
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Wonder if i should do Hoi4 again but maybe i should try a nation that isn't the UK. The issue is USA is too OP, France kinda sucks hard and loses unless you ww2 early and UK is fairly tough on many fronts. I could play the baddie factions of soviets or fascists but that seems a bit distasteful and these days you can't play as the bad guys without people seeing you as them because people don't understand you can play pretend and not really be something. I may do another japan or italy run. The funny bit is japan was probably worse than germany on war crimes but it happened in asia so nobody cares in the West and so won't mind me playing them.
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LunarSol wrote: You've probably figured this out by now, but the Acorn quests get much easier once you get the equipment that lets you jump higher.
Haven't gotten back into those yet but yeah got the jumping acc now, wondering wether eventually you can equip more than one acc though (probably will considering trying to equip another states something along those lines)
You absolutely can. Location in spoiler tag if you like:
Spoiler:
The Great Fairy will let you equip multiple items by paying her rupees. Her fountain is in Lake Hylia where the ice dungeon is in A Link to the Past. It's pretty close to the place you upgrade the Sword
Lol that is literally the only place on the map I have not gone to. -_____-
edit: no wonder I'm walking around with like 1k in rupees..
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"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
Addicted to Gladius: Relics of War. Playing as Eldar with a Dark Eldar ally against two Necron enemies which I felt was fitting. Just wiped out the Necrons so might do the "campaign" now. There's also a crap ton of wildlife around to kill.
"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
I love the variety of wildlife in Gladius and how it and random map generation provide variety in how games go even if the player/NPC factions stay the same.
It's a missed opportunity that Tyranids can't dominate Hybrids the way Tau can with Kroot Hounds and Vespids, though. Maybe they save it for a Genestealer Cult DLC, if they ever make one.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Beat ice dungeon in Zelda, boss was annoying but not as annoying as the desert boss who I had to beat again in a challenge for the samurai blade and had forgotten how I did it before and so struggled a fair amount this time. -_- (first time I beat it as a boss I didn't even get hit but could hardly hit the damn thing this time during the challenge ..weird)
Anyway the ice dungeon boss..
Spoiler:
bats worked great, just summon a bat, take control over bat, jump' so bat starts higher, release.. and it homed right in on its helmet, switch between fire and ice bats when needed
Will do jungle next, mountain last because I don't like being set ablaze -_-
"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
I just finished the mountain with plans to do the forest next myself. Tip for the mountain; you can grab bats after you summon them to make them work like chickens for gliding. This weirdly doesn't work for all flying summons and I ended up with some dumb workarounds because I thought you were supposed to do the Follow thing and let them float you over eventually.
LunarSol wrote: I just finished the mountain with plans to do the forest next myself. Tip for the mountain; you can grab bats after you summon them to make them work like chickens for gliding. This weirdly doesn't work for all flying summons and I ended up with some dumb workarounds because I thought you were supposed to do the Follow thing and let them float you over eventually.
Spoiler:
Been noticing some (welcome) jumps in difficulty in the 2nd triad of dungeons so far, I do tend to do puzzles my own weird way and find out later that the meant way is a lot less difficult lmao, im halfway into jungle rift now, the pre-mission (stealth) was pretty gnarly but I just psykered my way through (well, and hopping around in a vase), took me a bit to figure out how to turn off all the torches (6 of them) but doing a 360 while holding a windcannon worked.
"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
So i do find myself once in a while playing gladius but it's not a thing i'm massively into. The A.I. doesn't seem to know how to play eldar and possibly dark eldar due to the webway gates aspect. I do enjoy dark eldar and their influence heavy economy means they can really attack in many places but it's also iffy. Dark Eldar are amazingly fragile without their vehicles and you kinda need to pump out vehicles and infantry at the same time. Of course you can also reinforce areas near allies almost instantly with webway gates as well as keep up an attack fairly easily. I imagine they're much nastier in multiplayer than in singleplayer but in multi they're really gonna destroy every webway gate they see if they don't play some form of eldar or dark eldar.
I've only really played multiplayer with friends and not really against anybody that good at the game. It'd be interesting to see a game with more matched sides.
If i recall orks, necrons, tau and a few others are pretty strong (maybe tyranids). Guard start off amazingly weak but can get strong late game/late tech (long range but mostly slow aside from tank commanders boosting tank speed and aircraft). Chaos is somewhere in the middle. Necrons just don't like to die and are strong. Tau drones, sub-systems, battle suits and hammerheads make them strong. I find sisters of battle to be weak or at least the game plays them terribly. Dark eldar have some interesting things but they have more tech which grants them interesting abilities to keep them going. I've never really played eldar but they have some strong wraith units and other things. Orks are stupidly aggressive and as long as they win fights they can do well (dark eldar is somewhat like orks in that respect). Nids are above average or strong. Space marines are middling but have a crazy ability to attack aggressively and only have one city but once there they can't re-direct back home too easily. I'm not sure what other factions i may have missed talking about.
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I can't say about higher difficulty levels, but the standard AI in Gladius doesn't use alternate means of movement with the exception of jump packs. No webway gates. No transports. Not even Deathmark teleportation, which is only different from a jump pack in that it has unlimited range. I guess that's the relevant difference. The AI is based around keeping most of its army together, and if stragglers are engaged, the army tends to move to reinforce such a fight with little to no regard for other considerations. If it's a limitation of the AI rather than one based on difficulty, I could see sending small detachments around the map on tactical maneuvers to interfere with the fundamental directives that decide unit actions.
Not all factions are equal. I'd agree with that. The game is fairly cleverly set up to mitigate limited rosters and unit capabilities that tend to hold back AI Sisters, Tyranids and Dark Eldar. It appears that at the start of the game an AI faction is randomly assigned a focus along which it develops. While AI armies always mix units and you are likely to encounter all available units if the game lasts long enough, you can see that they are weighted in favor of some units. In the game I played yesterday, early on the Orks were heavily focused on Boys with minimal support from Burna Boys and Kans. They got pretty far against the wildlife, but once they ran into my Tactical Marines and Thunderfire Cannons they were out of luck. In the previous game I played with Orks as an opponent, they had a wider mix dominated by Kans and Buggies. That was a very tough match up for my Necrons.
Then there's resource and wildlife randomization, as well as difficult terrain and bottlenecks. During the early expansion phase a wrong turn is all it takes for an army to run into tough opponents like Kastellans or Umbra, and then instead of leveling units and taking outposts to improve the economy, the AI is set back by attrition. This influences success and failure far more than basic faction options. Once a faction has leveled higher tier units, it doesn't matter much if it's Guard or Chaos or Sisters. A lot of an AI faction's success is based on economy and momentum.
Which I find to be a decent way of making the game interesting in the long run. You can't rule out any one faction's ability to put up a good fight any more than you can assume that Guard, Orks and Necrons will be totally overwhelming every single time. It's nice to have that kind of variation.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Really good game, but of course I’m not gonna go into details as there are still those enjoying their first run.
I don't think there's a postgame?
I beat jungle boss, really easy one.
Going mountain now, when I finish the game I'll sell it back to the store for about 50% returns and order something warhammer for the moneys. Will have my hands full on shin megami tensei V vengeance anyway I had put on pause while playing this zelda.
edit: finished the game, here's my spoilerbox;
Spoiler:
final boss was a bit chaotic but I just spammed ice-octopi everywhere (7 of them at all times lol) so it wasn't hard, dunno if there's different endings, mine was a bit short but ok, credits were nice.. would've been nicer if it had been a sequence rather than just pics, like how a link to the past ended. All in all the music was recognicable now that I had played the game through. Mountain dragon boss was a pushover btw. Saw some new bigger monsters in the final dungeon that I had not seen anywhere else, perhaps those were postgame area stuff but not really interested in that, going to sell the game. For kids its a must play, its very cute', for zelda fans I'd say only play it if you like this type of game, otherwise it may be a bit too expensive for the type of game it is with little to no replay value, or wait till it gets a bit cheaper.
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"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
Back at playing Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance 1st playthrough (not using guides) getting lost in 2nd map a bit, my main char is lvl 34 now and getting a bit bottlenecked in the whole max-demons limitation with barely an oppertunity to fuse that what I have so no ways to slim it down -_- (then again, walking around with two perma elementals kindof does that I guess, not willing to fuse them with anything for all the stat buffs they got (and cost).
"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
naxium wrote: I've found myself going back and playing old games I really enjoy. Currently replaying through a couple games:
Ps2 Gladius, Radiata Story
Ps1 Jade Cocoon, Legend of Legaia, Vandal Hearts
GBC Pokemon Blue
has anyone else been going back to older games they loved?
All i ever find myself playing these days are indie developer games and older games. That said i'm getting thoroughly bored with my current games so i may buy something new or try something else that's old.
I was playing command and conquer generals with the GLA campaign. This game....didn't age well like at all. Shocking how cnc3 looks so much better than this with infantry at the very least.
I was also thinking of playing wh40k: dawn of war 1 series. God what a classic series. Oddly i never tried the mods because i was a purist against mods until Long War for xcom 2.
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I'm curious if i should take the plunge and play Sins of a Solar Empire 2. I never played this series before but i heard the newest one is very good. That's honestly a first to hear anything new having good reviews these days.
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All i ever find myself playing these days are indie developer games and older games. That said i'm getting thoroughly bored with my current games so i may buy something new or try something else that's old.
I was playing command and conquer generals with the GLA campaign. This game....didn't age well like at all. Shocking how cnc3 looks so much better than this with infantry at the very least.
I was also thinking of playing wh40k: dawn of war 1 series. God what a classic series. Oddly i never tried the mods because i was a purist against mods until Long War for xcom 2.
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I'm curious if i should take the plunge and play Sins of a Solar Empire 2. I never played this series before but i heard the newest one is very good. That's honestly a first to hear anything new having good reviews these days.
Sins is a popular game but I have yet to find myself grabbed by it. I've come back to it several times but I end up just getting.... meh. With every playthrough I do lol.
Speaking of games that didn't age well at all, I tried checking out N64 golden Eye and was blown away...... like I spent an entire summer and school year playing that game and now... yeesh lol.
I still like giving Sins 2 a shot. Shame my computer is balls and i otherwise can't play any games like space marine 2 or helldivers 2 or even baldur's gate 3 (that said i'm not big into rpg's anymore).
I never really got to own golden eye. I'm not really a graphics nerd but for old games i never played certain things oddly don't look so good in full 3d when it's early 3d vs more 2d aesthetics if that makes sense. I suppose what i mean is red alert 2 is still fun but c&c generals is kinda ugly in 3d. Another game i oddly never played is the old x-com with the time units. I enjoy xenonauts 1 and 2 but xenonauts 1 is probably the lowest graphics settings i'll try. The original X-com has such hilariously weird movement with its characters it reminds me of those marionette dolls they used for team america: world police. It's hard to take seriously for a game where your soldiers are dispensable meat bags with names.
It also doesn't help generals is kinda politically incorrect these days. I find it funny because i'm not uptight but it's something that might be hard to stream because there's only 2 options for that (twitch and youtube) and both are uptight and downright aggressive against streamers and content creators.
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naxium wrote: I've found myself going back and playing old games I really enjoy. Currently replaying through a couple games:
Ps2 Gladius, Radiata Story
Ps1 Jade Cocoon, Legend of Legaia, Vandal Hearts
GBC Pokemon Blue
has anyone else been going back to older games they loved?
Considering I've got all my physical oldtime consoles on a laptop as emulators I did that for a fair while.
I no longer own a television so cannot play those consoles themselves see..
Some of my favorite replayed games were Jade cocoon 2, although somehow the savefile corrupted due to using a wonky savestate -_- (laziness)
FF8 (my fave of the series) and 7, but also played some timesplitters (best shootemup ever created) series and some weird games I used to play with my younger brother like cel damage (arenaesque racing game with subquests during and loads of awesome weps, all cell shades) and freaky flyers (similar, with planes). But ofcourse also Yugioh (ps1 and 2 games, war of the roses for instance), and monster rancher
But that was about a year ago when I last went at it, today I have a switch lite with a few games, not really into next gen anymore though but handhelds are fine to me.
"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
Downloading Mechwarrior 5: Clans. Once I get back from work, I'm diving in.
Looks to be a single player campaign where you are a participating in the Clan invasion of the Inner Sphere. Its got mixed reviews on Steam, but I'm gonna give it a shot after work. I tend to get my money's worth out of Mechwarrior/Battletech PC games.
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"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Considering I've got all my physical oldtime consoles on a laptop as emulators I did that for a fair while.
I no longer own a television so cannot play those consoles themselves see..
Some of my favorite replayed games were Jade cocoon 2, although somehow the savefile corrupted due to using a wonky savestate -_- (laziness)
FF8 (my fave of the series) and 7, but also played some timesplitters (best shootemup ever created) series and some weird games I used to play with my younger brother like cel damage (arenaesque racing game with subquests during and loads of awesome weps, all cell shades) and freaky flyers (similar, with planes). But ofcourse also Yugioh (ps1 and 2 games, war of the roses for instance), and monster rancher
But that was about a year ago when I last went at it, today I have a switch lite with a few games, not really into next gen anymore though but handhelds are fine to me.
Ah, first time meeting a fellow Monster Rancher connoisseur! also fantastic games and great tv show! I have all my old games still on disc thankfully! Jade Cocoon 2 is great too though it's a very different feel from the first game imo
I wish i could play either steel division 2 or warno or even Divinity 2 with somebody but nobody is willing to play any with me due to time or not interested in the game.
Considering I've got all my physical oldtime consoles on a laptop as emulators I did that for a fair while.
I no longer own a television so cannot play those consoles themselves see..
Some of my favorite replayed games were Jade cocoon 2, although somehow the savefile corrupted due to using a wonky savestate -_- (laziness)
FF8 (my fave of the series) and 7, but also played some timesplitters (best shootemup ever created) series and some weird games I used to play with my younger brother like cel damage (arenaesque racing game with subquests during and loads of awesome weps, all cell shades) and freaky flyers (similar, with planes). But ofcourse also Yugioh (ps1 and 2 games, war of the roses for instance), and monster rancher
But that was about a year ago when I last went at it, today I have a switch lite with a few games, not really into next gen anymore though but handhelds are fine to me.
Ah, first time meeting a fellow Monster Rancher connoisseur! also fantastic games and great tv show! I have all my old games still on disc thankfully! Jade Cocoon 2 is great too though it's a very different feel from the first game imo
I find it very hard to go back to 1 after playing 2, I did play and finish 1 but never played it again on rom, just not interested, I mean.. sure the customizable-monster thing is nice but 2 just feels so much more comfortable to me with the jump in-jump out gameplay.
Also, first time I played 2 I was like 18 or 19 and kindof fell in love with Cure (no shame!, so I can understand todays youth having crushes on virtual characters, it goes with the age)
As for monster rancher, I used to own a matrix OST cd and getting that special monster (poison, a special pixie)made me feel special.
I didn't really care for games like pokemon although I had trading cards, monster rancher was a lot more inviting to me.. all the memberberries there, never even watched the anime ever, but woah.. things like suezos, mochis and jellys are so reconicable.
Never managed to get the moths, I think the best thing I ever got in that game was a dragon. Never understood how to unlock special cups, back then there were no online guides. I did once use a cheat-cd that maxxed your monsters stats but that was late in, played it for like a year and a half totally legit.
Oh how can I forget now that we're on this subject..
Another series I have always loved (and detest how its discontinued to localize);
YOKAI WATCH.
Funfact there.. the rarest game in the entire world for the 3ds is Yokai watch 3, and I own it. xD
edit: I also have boxes full of all my physical games, cannot sell them because its like photographs to me, and some of them are impossible to ever find again once you lose em.
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"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
I played dawn of war dark crusade until the sound bugged out for some reason and then the game stalled after i won a slightly hard battle due to massive map size vs eldar. My compute basically stopped running which pissed me off considering i was starting to carve out a very nice little empire on kronus for imperial guard.
Funny how imperial guard is like the only faction i ever really played in DoW 1 and i was halfway decent during its winter assault in its downward spiral after dark crusade was made. Shame at the time tau and necrons just felt so powerful for me to really enjoy dark crusade. I wonder how i'd feel about it now.
Reinstalled Darkest Dungeon this arvo. Holy crap I'd actually forgotten how much this game doesn't pull its punches. "What's that? You want 60 stress on Dismas and a negative quirk for both him and Reynauld before you've even reached the hamlet for the first time? Sure thing, now go and get fethed!"
Never have I had such a love/hate relationship with any other video game. I've never walked away from any other game in such anger, frustration and general despair and then gone running back to it with furious determination as often as I have with DD. It was worth every cent of the... $20(?) I paid for it on Kickstarter.
been playing through the megaman x collection on and off the last few weeks
i played the first 3 a lot way back when on the snes, but never got around to the later games
didn't realize back then that the games have an actual continuing story
currently playing on x7, which is proving to be my least favorite of the series so far (honestly, i've found myself liking them less and less from about x4 onward, initially from level design, but then later from the poorly explained upgrades you can maybe get from rescuing bots during missions)
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