thedarkavenger wrote: Firing up Skyrim again. After playing DA:I, I need to play a finished game.
Skyrim
Finished
I assume you mean a modded to hell and back again Skyrim?
Is the final plot quest rendered incomplete by the main boss not animating? Seriously, I had to restart the final mission in inquisition SEVEN times to get it to work.
Oh no, I can understand Inquisition being a buggy mess. I'm just saying you are arguing Skyrim's a finished game when the bugs are enough to break itself repeatedly and
Spoiler:
ultimately disappoint you with it's awful story mode.
Compared to Inquisition, Skyrim looks, and feels, like it has no bugs in sight. Case in point, inquisition nearly fethed my ENTIRE PS4 by causing the laser to nearly overheat.
Tried using my new 38(t) in WoT tonight. On my other account I loved the thing, on this one... It's pretty much the stock model, with a low-end tier 2 gun, a turning speed that'd be jealous of a snail, a traverse that tortoises turn their noses up at, and an actual speed and acceleration that most of the tier 1 light tanks would laugh at. Combined with sod-all armour and only a 310m view range, and the fact that the 38(t) (not to be confused with the tier 4 38(t) nA) is not counted as a scout by the matchmaker, you'd think I'd see mostly tier 2/3 or tier 3 battle, wouldn't you?
You'd be dead wrong. I've yet to see a tier 3 fight, never mind a Tier 2/3. All of them thus far have been 3/4 or 4/5, and in the last one, I was the sole tier 3 tank in the match, with the majority being tier 5. Even the SPGs were faster than me, and I had the worst view and signal range of any tank there. I was, for all intents and purposes, and complete and utter handicap.
This tank is fun to run in tier 3 games, or 3/4 when it gets its better gun, but right now... I can't scout, I can't snipe, I can't arty/TD hunt, I can't do anything except act as target saturation and try not to die very quickly when doing so. I'd be less annoyed if I was put in these games after I've put on track, engine, gun, and radio upgrades, but to shove a stock T3 against majority T5s when the T3 doesn't even have the potential to scout...
thedarkavenger wrote: Firing up Skyrim again. After playing DA:I, I need to play a finished game.
Skyrim
Finished
I assume you mean a modded to hell and back again Skyrim?
Is the final plot quest rendered incomplete by the main boss not animating? Seriously, I had to restart the final mission in inquisition SEVEN times to get it to work.
Oh no, I can understand Inquisition being a buggy mess. I'm just saying you are arguing Skyrim's a finished game when the bugs are enough to break itself repeatedly and
Spoiler:
ultimately disappoint you with it's awful story mode.
Compared to Inquisition, Skyrim looks, and feels, like it has no bugs in sight. Case in point, inquisition nearly fethed my ENTIRE PS4 by causing the laser to nearly overheat.
What makes you think it was the game? There were a lot of reported bugs for Inquisition, none of which reportedly made PS4's almost explode. If I were you I would get my console checked instead. Overheating laser is caused by a faulty laser, not buggy code in a game.
Also, I still think it is down to hardware and age also, as I had only a few minor dialog bugs, and my PS4 is only two months old. Corypheus not animating is a new one for me; never heard anyone complain about him yet.
As an aside, as someone with friends in the industry, I challenge anyone outside of it to make a 'finished' open world game as many would call it; even in simple games you can't catch everything and when you make such a complicated system that becomes harder to do.
Also, though not in response to you directly, I find the term 'story mode' used in reference to Skyrim in the quote above cute.
thedarkavenger wrote: Firing up Skyrim again. After playing DA:I, I need to play a finished game.
Skyrim
Finished
I assume you mean a modded to hell and back again Skyrim?
Is the final plot quest rendered incomplete by the main boss not animating? Seriously, I had to restart the final mission in inquisition SEVEN times to get it to work.
Oh no, I can understand Inquisition being a buggy mess. I'm just saying you are arguing Skyrim's a finished game when the bugs are enough to break itself repeatedly and
Spoiler:
ultimately disappoint you with it's awful story mode.
Compared to Inquisition, Skyrim looks, and feels, like it has no bugs in sight. Case in point, inquisition nearly fethed my ENTIRE PS4 by causing the laser to nearly overheat.
What makes you think it was the game? There were a lot of reported bugs for Inquisition, none of which reportedly made PS4's almost explode. If I were you I would get my console checked instead. Overheating laser is caused by a faulty laser, not buggy code in a game.
Also, I still think it is down to hardware and age also, as I had only a few minor dialog bugs, and my PS4 is only two months old. Corypheus not animating is a new one for me; never heard anyone complain about him yet.
As an aside, as someone with friends in the industry, I challenge anyone outside of it to make a 'finished' open world game as many would call it; even in simple games you can't catch everything and when you make such a complicated system that becomes harder to do.
Also, though not in response to you directly, I find the term 'story mode' used in reference to Skyrim in the quote above cute.
Oh, you mean the brand new console that is barely even three weeks old? Sure.
As for the finished remark. I've had areas and missions that are rendered incompletable due to party selection.
Is that because you had a summoned creature? Just wait for it to die or switch to the necromancer and kill it and then it will complete.
If your laser is overheating to the point its destroying your ps4 you might wanna get the PS4 replaced as its more likley to be the hardware than the game, it will obviously be in warranty.
Trondheim wrote: In other news, I also went and purchased the new expasion pack to Company Of Heros 2, and well. The Arden assault would be nice if it came as a free/ cheaper expansion pack. I would also have really liked to see a bit more varied sort of missions, and designe of the campagin map. Also I would not mind seeing some heavier allied armour than the Shermans, seeing how they really come up sort when you have to deal with x amounts of tiger aces, panthers, Jagd panzers and assult guns.
I thought about grabbing it, but $40 seemed a bit steep for the time being.
As for heavier allied armor... it's the US, after all. The Sherman was the heaviest tank available to US forces at the time.
Pretty much this. The Pershing had only just started production, never mind entered active service anywhere, so the M4 was the heaviest tank that the Americans had available to them. They had at least one Sherman Jumbo--named 'Cobra King'--that was hailed as being instrumental in breaking the siege of Bastogne, but since only ~250 Jumbos were actually produced (compared to the nearly 500 King Tigers), and a fair amount would have been either destroyed or be out of commission by the time of the Battle of the Bulge, it probably wasn't worth putting them in the game.
I know this, and I realize they propably wanted to make the game as close to the historic facts. But still. From a gaming point of view, I would have really, really liked either a Pershing or a Jumbos to help break the deadlock, as of now I have to relye on AT guns and the far to expsensive M36 Jackson or M10 Wolverine
thedarkavenger wrote: Firing up Skyrim again. After playing DA:I, I need to play a finished game.
Skyrim
Finished
I assume you mean a modded to hell and back again Skyrim?
Is the final plot quest rendered incomplete by the main boss not animating? Seriously, I had to restart the final mission in inquisition SEVEN times to get it to work.
Oh no, I can understand Inquisition being a buggy mess. I'm just saying you are arguing Skyrim's a finished game when the bugs are enough to break itself repeatedly and
Spoiler:
ultimately disappoint you with it's awful story mode.
Compared to Inquisition, Skyrim looks, and feels, like it has no bugs in sight. Case in point, inquisition nearly fethed my ENTIRE PS4 by causing the laser to nearly overheat.
What makes you think it was the game? There were a lot of reported bugs for Inquisition, none of which reportedly made PS4's almost explode. If I were you I would get my console checked instead. Overheating laser is caused by a faulty laser, not buggy code in a game.
Also, I still think it is down to hardware and age also, as I had only a few minor dialog bugs, and my PS4 is only two months old. Corypheus not animating is a new one for me; never heard anyone complain about him yet.
As an aside, as someone with friends in the industry, I challenge anyone outside of it to make a 'finished' open world game as many would call it; even in simple games you can't catch everything and when you make such a complicated system that becomes harder to do.
Also, though not in response to you directly, I find the term 'story mode' used in reference to Skyrim in the quote above cute.
Oh, you mean the brand new console that is barely even three weeks old? Sure.
As for the finished remark. I've had areas and missions that are rendered incompletable due to party selection.
I don't believe the age of your console has any influence on faulty hardware in it
thedarkavenger wrote: Firing up Skyrim again. After playing DA:I, I need to play a finished game.
Skyrim
Finished
I assume you mean a modded to hell and back again Skyrim?
Is the final plot quest rendered incomplete by the main boss not animating? Seriously, I had to restart the final mission in inquisition SEVEN times to get it to work.
Oh no, I can understand Inquisition being a buggy mess. I'm just saying you are arguing Skyrim's a finished game when the bugs are enough to break itself repeatedly and
Spoiler:
ultimately disappoint you with it's awful story mode.
Compared to Inquisition, Skyrim looks, and feels, like it has no bugs in sight. Case in point, inquisition nearly fethed my ENTIRE PS4 by causing the laser to nearly overheat.
What makes you think it was the game? There were a lot of reported bugs for Inquisition, none of which reportedly made PS4's almost explode. If I were you I would get my console checked instead. Overheating laser is caused by a faulty laser, not buggy code in a game.
Also, I still think it is down to hardware and age also, as I had only a few minor dialog bugs, and my PS4 is only two months old. Corypheus not animating is a new one for me; never heard anyone complain about him yet.
As an aside, as someone with friends in the industry, I challenge anyone outside of it to make a 'finished' open world game as many would call it; even in simple games you can't catch everything and when you make such a complicated system that becomes harder to do.
Also, though not in response to you directly, I find the term 'story mode' used in reference to Skyrim in the quote above cute.
Oh, you mean the brand new console that is barely even three weeks old? Sure.
As for the finished remark. I've had areas and missions that are rendered incompletable due to party selection.
Sounds like you got that copy of DA:I that had the super buggy 'break machines by forcing the working parts to do things they shouldn't do' edition. I'm with you, it sounds like a game that governs no aspect of how the physical parts operate is DEFINITELY causing the problem.
Anyhow, speaking of Skyrim, I fired up some old saves on the 360 and I realized that playing on anything other than Master seems to easy to me now...sadly. Because starting a new game you almost always have to go the bound weapons route in order to deal with ANYTHING you have to fight.
Finally beat Borderlands Pre-Sequel. Now to farm Iwajira (Godzilla) to get the "best" drop Legendaries for grinding good stuff. Plus, he was great XP when I hadnt quite gotten up to the level I wanted.
carlos13th wrote: Is that because you had a summoned creature? Just wait for it to die or switch to the necromancer and kill it and then it will complete.
If your laser is overheating to the point its destroying your ps4 you might wanna get the PS4 replaced as its more likley to be the hardware than the game, it will obviously be in warranty.
It wasn't due to summons. It was due to companions bugging out because of reasons.
And I know it's not the PS4 that has issues. It was the first thing I had checked.
I finished xcom: enemy within's campaign yesterday and now don't really have a set game i want to play next. I was planning to play some 'Wargame' until i saw an ongoing chat in that game. Sometimes online chat for some games needs to be disabled. Seriously popularity, lack of depth, sheer violence instead of plot and other factors can make for some really nasty communities for games. It's sad as i've known some decent ones in the past. Nobody can expect to play halo or counter strike or similar without hearing something offensive. Makes me not want to play those games.
Have you considered the Long War mod? I haven't tried it myself, but it looks interesting.
Every class has a subclass, there are new weapons (SMGs, Sawn Off Shotguns, couple of machine gun variants), and there are supposed to be more enemies and XCOM soldiers on the map.
Started a new game of Bioshock. I've forgotten how much better it is than Infinite. It actually has gameplay and atmosphere.
Went and downloaded the Longwar mod for Xcom Enemy within, and by the hammer of Thor this game is damned hard. On the first deployment I encounterd what I thougth would be some easy and managebal foes, the litle grey ones, but oh how I was wrong.....
For me right now impossible difficulty is enough. I am finding though that the nano fibre vest helps a bit. Not sure if i'll try to use gene mods more. The health regeneration and auto bleed out ones could be helpful for early on though i can't remember what you have to autopsy to get it (berserker possibly? as i'm pretty sure chrysallid was the stealth detection).
Right now i'm unsure if i want to play xenonauts.
Also strangely enough both 'mordheim: city of the damned' and 'galactic civilization 3' got updated. Gal civ 3 got the Yor faction and mordheim got Sisters of Sigmar and some gear choices. When my steam updates finish i'll be sure to check them out.
Divinity 2. It reminds me a lot of Risen, but with a better enemy curve (its still no Skyrim however). What I'd do for a first person mode...
Having played the prequels it'd be nice if there was another game in the series which went into just how the world goes from being Steampunk to High Fantasy. Its gone into a bit in the background lore, but given that I CBA reading any of the in game books (which aren't very good anyway), having actual NPCs go on about it would be cool. I'm meaning how massive airships, mecha, tanks, guns, etc, were replaced by swords and sorcery. That and where the elves went, and how the undead, imps and goblins became generic mindless (and in the later case tribalistic and malformed) enemies (the undead in Dragon Commander were the religious faction, imps the best technicians and goblins the best pilots in the world).
So yeah, a decent enough game of what I've played so far (I think I'm about a third of the way through), but its giving me a hankering for Skyrim. Damn, I said I wouldn't go back to that game. ...Maybe now's the time (que spending a week downloading all the mods).
Wyrmalla wrote: Divinity 2. It reminds me a lot of Risen, but with a better enemy curve (its still no Skyrim however). What I'd do for a first person mode...
Having played the prequels it'd be nice if there was another game in the series which went into just how the world goes from being Steampunk to High Fantasy. Its gone into a bit in the background lore, but given that I CBA reading any of the in game books (which aren't very good anyway), having actual NPCs go on about it would be cool. I'm meaning how massive airships, mecha, tanks, guns, etc, were replaced by swords and sorcery. That and where the elves went, and how the undead, imps and goblins became generic mindless (and in the later case tribalistic and malformed) enemies (the undead in Dragon Commander were the religious faction, imps the best technicians and goblins the best pilots in the world).
So yeah, a decent enough game of what I've played so far (I think I'm about a third of the way through), but its giving me a hankering for Skyrim. Damn, I said I wouldn't go back to that game. ...Maybe now's the time (que spending a week downloading all the mods).
I played an Archer in that. Made me ragequit the game to this day.
I did the same when I first played it, but Dragon Commander was an all right game so I went back to it. This time around I went for melee instead and its actually playable. It seems that the game really wants you to be melee, with the option of supplementing it with some ranged attacks. I just ignore all the other classes and go pure warrior however. I mean I could add some ranged attacks, but pretty soon on you can unlock a rush attack which allows you to close with any ranged enemies, so there's no point in putting any stats into non melee attacks. The same goes for healing. Why waste magic on that when it could be going to buffing melee attacks, instead I just have a massive passive regenerating health rate. =P
But yup, no Skyrim. I mean that's similar in that you can't get away using a bow in close combat, but they were still viable for picking off some targets at range and you had to contend with dragons. That and you could backtrack and fire as you moved. I think there was a mod where you could just throw your axe at a guy though...
Wyrmalla wrote: I did the same when I first played it, but Dragon Commander was an all right game so I went back to it. This time around I went for melee instead and its actually playable. It seems that the game really wants you to be melee, with the option of supplementing it with some ranged attacks. I just ignore all the other classes and go pure warrior however. I mean I could add some ranged attacks, but pretty soon on you can unlock a rush attack which allows you to close with any ranged enemies, so there's no point in putting any stats into non melee attacks. The same goes for healing. Why waste magic on that when it could be going to buffing melee attacks, instead I just have a massive passive regenerating health rate. =P
But yup, no Skyrim. I mean that's similar in that you can't get away using a bow in close combat, but they were still viable for picking off some targets at range and you had to contend with dragons. That and you could backtrack and fire as you moved. I think there was a mod where you could just throw your axe at a guy though...
I remember with my archery spec, healing was just too good on enemies. Especially bosses.
Wyrmalla wrote: I did the same when I first played it, but Dragon Commander was an all right game so I went back to it. This time around I went for melee instead and its actually playable. It seems that the game really wants you to be melee, with the option of supplementing it with some ranged attacks. I just ignore all the other classes and go pure warrior however. I mean I could add some ranged attacks, but pretty soon on you can unlock a rush attack which allows you to close with any ranged enemies, so there's no point in putting any stats into non melee attacks. The same goes for healing. Why waste magic on that when it could be going to buffing melee attacks, instead I just have a massive passive regenerating health rate. =P
But yup, no Skyrim. I mean that's similar in that you can't get away using a bow in close combat, but they were still viable for picking off some targets at range and you had to contend with dragons. That and you could backtrack and fire as you moved. I think there was a mod where you could just throw your axe at a guy though...
I remember with my archery spec, healing was just too good on enemies. Especially bosses.
You can take down an enemy to a hit away from death then they'll pull out a healing spell and be back up at full. With later enemies some can do this multiple times.
Wyrmalla wrote: I did the same when I first played it, but Dragon Commander was an all right game so I went back to it. This time around I went for melee instead and its actually playable. It seems that the game really wants you to be melee, with the option of supplementing it with some ranged attacks. I just ignore all the other classes and go pure warrior however. I mean I could add some ranged attacks, but pretty soon on you can unlock a rush attack which allows you to close with any ranged enemies, so there's no point in putting any stats into non melee attacks. The same goes for healing. Why waste magic on that when it could be going to buffing melee attacks, instead I just have a massive passive regenerating health rate. =P
But yup, no Skyrim. I mean that's similar in that you can't get away using a bow in close combat, but they were still viable for picking off some targets at range and you had to contend with dragons. That and you could backtrack and fire as you moved. I think there was a mod where you could just throw your axe at a guy though...
I remember with my archery spec, healing was just too good on enemies. Especially bosses.
You can take down an enemy to a hit away from death then they'll pull out a healing spell and be back up at full. With later enemies some can do this multiple times.
That's what I mean. Imagine that. On a pure archery spec!
Wyrmalla wrote: Divinity 2. It reminds me a lot of Risen, but with a better enemy curve (its still no Skyrim however). What I'd do for a first person mode...
Having played the prequels it'd be nice if there was another game in the series which went into just how the world goes from being Steampunk to High Fantasy. Its gone into a bit in the background lore, but given that I CBA reading any of the in game books (which aren't very good anyway), having actual NPCs go on about it would be cool. I'm meaning how massive airships, mecha, tanks, guns, etc, were replaced by swords and sorcery. That and where the elves went, and how the undead, imps and goblins became generic mindless (and in the later case tribalistic and malformed) enemies (the undead in Dragon Commander were the religious faction, imps the best technicians and goblins the best pilots in the world).
So yeah, a decent enough game of what I've played so far (I think I'm about a third of the way through), but its giving me a hankering for Skyrim. Damn, I said I wouldn't go back to that game. ...Maybe now's the time (que spending a week downloading all the mods).
Risen has got to be one of the worst games in the history of gaming.
I thought the start of Risen was fine, till around about the bit after the swamps. The difficulty curve was just silly (I'd hate to think what it'd be like if I had gone to the swamps before grinding it through the town first). Had they sorted out that it seemed not too horrible (admittedly I did eventually just stick on god mode and run about the map). I have the second one in my Steam library, but I've not heard good things about it. If the difficulty was dealt with maybe I'd consider it.
Eugh, what's with devs who think that the only way players can beat an area is luring away one enemy at a time and wailing on them, rinse and repeat for the other fifty? Sends them at me in clumps and let me go all power fantasy on them. If you want your game to be realistic then how about sort out the combat system and don't have such spongey enemies (I did play Skyrim with the damage at something like five-ten times the regular settings...).
I've been playing more and more of Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. I'm some 30 hours further in than my initial impressions and I'm liking it more and more.
The biggest flaw is probably that it could stand to be more challenging. The combat system actually seems like it has the a surprising amount of room for depth, but they don't really explore this much. When the enemies have more abilities and the AI blunders it's way into using them in an effective fashion it's engaging. It's really odd that so many just spam basic attacks or use the abilities they do have in nonsensical ways.
The side quests may feel very back-tracky for some, but I found it to be a nice change of space. It's probably just a product of its time but it's actually kind of nice to go back and forth through the same areas, looking for things that aren't marked on the map. It gives sense of space that often feels lacking these days.
I suppose those are relatively minor nitpicks as it does well to avoid common jRPG pitfalls like random encounters and grinding. In terms of presentation I can't really call it much more than competent even considering the age of the original release (2004). However because it's stylized and colorful it has aged fairly well, it feels simple but not ugly.
I honestly can't pick out any one thing about it as exceptional but it somehow feels like more than the sum of its parts. I think the tone goes a long way with me. I found myself stopping at points being just kind of amazed at how many characters are being reasonable, helpful or just plain decent. I think it serves to underscore how tired I am of crapsack worlds, or games where every authority figure is a hard-headed obstacle to overcome. Nobody's angst is the front and center of the story, or even their own character arc. At the same time it is not so saccharine that every conflict is the result of some convoluted misunderstanding.
If you want to play an oldish-school jRPG about big-eyed anime teenagers out on an adventure you could do far worse. I also have to say for being one of the folks who grumbles about female characters in games in general,I think this game does more right than wrong particularly with the game's lead. Hell I even like her character design, which is something that happens for me even less.
Sigvatr wrote: Risen is a damn good game, it's just very...German.
Isn't Risen the series of games which offers you skills which may never be of use to you at all, whilst offering no refunds for points put into skills?
Currently getting back into World of Tanks. Been out of it for some years as I didn't have internet at the place I rent until recently, qand I'm finding my performance is very .... variable.
Some matches I can take out 2 other players, others I die without even seing the enemy that took me out. I really need to get a better handle on the different upgrades as it doesn't always seem that the next gun to research is actually better than the one I used to have.
I'm also not convinced as to which type of gun is better, should I take the rapid firing type or the bigger one that takes longer to reload?
Conrad Turner wrote: Currently getting back into World of Tanks. Been out of it for some years as I didn't have internet at the place I rent until recently, qand I'm finding my performance is very .... variable.
Some matches I can take out 2 other players, others I die without even seing the enemy that took me out. I really need to get a better handle on the different upgrades as it doesn't always seem that the next gun to research is actually better than the one I used to have.
I'm also not convinced as to which type of gun is better, should I take the rapid firing type or the bigger one that takes longer to reload?
I know the feeling about mixed performance quite well too. I have found at least when I play as an tank destroyer/ ligth or medium tank that having the best possible enginge, suspension and radio really helps in the long run. As for rapid fire cannons Vs the more slower but heavy hitting cannons, I have always found that for dealing with ligth tanks, artilliery and some tank destroyers a decent quaility rapid firing one will do just as well as the more slow firing ones, although they can struggle agains heavyier tanks and various AT vehicels.
What tanks are you using?
Presumably just the basic ones, I only signed up and got the 8GB patches done yesterday. My favourite is the only British one I have, but I have got that fully researched and upgraded so I am ready to go to tier 2 on that one. I am having severe difficulty on the smallest French tank, so may persevere with that until I can upgrade it too.
I always upgrade the radio first as it allows you to integrate into the team a lot better. You can spot for team-mates and you are aware of the enemies location more. Then I generally go engine, then suspension, finally turret and guns.
Sigvatr wrote: Risen is a damn good game, it's just very...German.
No just no, the game is a less than subtle gestures to the players to well Im not sure the words that comes to mind are allowed to use on Dakka
You don't see the history behind it. It's Gothic 4, the sequel to the most German games series...ever. It's hilariously clunky to play. Running and jumping is just..ugh. It has tons of features that nobody needs or do nothing and combat is about as intutitive as fixing a car engine. Every single thing out there wants to kill you. And it most certainly can. "Oh, just a single wolf, I'll just..."...dead. It basically is the Dark Souls before Dark Souls.
Conrad Turner wrote:Presumably just the basic ones, I only signed up and got the 8GB patches done yesterday. My favourite is the only British one I have, but I have got that fully researched and upgraded so I am ready to go to tier 2 on that one. I am having severe difficulty on the smallest French tank, so may persevere with that until I can upgrade it too.
I always upgrade the radio first as it allows you to integrate into the team a lot better. You can spot for team-mates and you are aware of the enemies location more. Then I generally go engine, then suspension, finally turret and guns.
Ah I see, well then. Things will get much much more enjoyebal once you get to the heavier stuff. And low tier french tanks do take some time getting rigth
Sigvatr wrote: Risen is a damn good game, it's just very...German.
No just no, the game is a less than subtle gestures to the players to well Im not sure the words that comes to mind are allowed to use on Dakka
You don't see the history behind it. It's Gothic 4, the sequel to the most German games series...ever. It's hilariously clunky to play. Running and jumping is just..ugh. It has tons of features that nobody needs or do nothing and combat is about as intutitive as fixing a car engine. Every single thing out there wants to kill you. And it most certainly can. "Oh, just a single wolf, I'll just..."...dead. It basically is the Dark Souls before Dark Souls.
Oh I know how Gothic 4 was, lord I still have bad dreams about that game. While Gotich 4 had a charm of its own, Risen lacks any reedeming qualities what so ever
Thinking of downloading Witcher Enhanced Edition. It says it will use up about 16000 mb on my hard drive. Does that mean it will take up about 16000 mb of Internet data to install?
SkavenLord wrote: Thinking of downloading Witcher Enhanced Edition. It says it will use up about 16000 mb on my hard drive. Does that mean it will take up about 16000 mb of Internet data to install?
No... It means the total disc size needs to be 16000 mb on the HDD. You will still be limited by your Download capacity (depending on your speeds, anywhere from a couple mb/s to 100 mb/s)
finally, after a good two weeks, i've beaten xenoblade chronicles........my god i've sunk less time into final fantasy games that i did most all the sidequesting for
So, I decided to play just cause 2 to 100% completion, which is quite fun. I'm up to about 50%. The thing with just cause is that it is impossible to play it and not have fun. I do have to send my computer in for repairs, so I'm going to have to put that on hold for a while.
I beat Trails in the Sky, and the last stretch was definitely a disappointment. The ending especially left a sour taste in my mouth, even if it was fairly predictable. However, it's got a direct sequel and the poor final hour doesn't really detract too much from the rest of the experience. Fairly minor on the scale of bad-ends, I guess.
SkavenLord wrote: Thinking of downloading Witcher Enhanced Edition. It says it will use up about 16000 mb on my hard drive. Does that mean it will take up about 16000 mb of Internet data to install?
Possibly. It might actually take up twice as much. Tera Online, for exmaple, takes 56 gigabytes to install a 23 gigabyte game.
SkavenLord wrote: Thinking of downloading Witcher Enhanced Edition. It says it will use up about 16000 mb on my hard drive. Does that mean it will take up about 16000 mb of Internet data to install?
Possibly. It might actually take up twice as much. Tera Online, for exmaple, takes 56 gigabytes to install a 23 gigabyte game.
SkavenLord wrote: Thinking of downloading Witcher Enhanced Edition. It says it will use up about 16000 mb on my hard drive. Does that mean it will take up about 16000 mb of Internet data to install?
Possibly. It might actually take up twice as much. Tera Online, for exmaple, takes 56 gigabytes to install a 23 gigabyte game.
...but why would anyone want to play Tera?
Because people insist on playing a free MMO with me and I refused to play Archeage again, so they nominated Tera.
Because people insist on playing a free MMO with me and I refused to play Archeage again, so they nominated Tera.
Have you & your friends looked into GuildWars 2? The game itself isn't free, but it's got the friendliest, most open, and most accesible free to play system I've seen.
SkavenLord wrote: Thinking of downloading Witcher Enhanced Edition. It says it will use up about 16000 mb on my hard drive. Does that mean it will take up about 16000 mb of Internet data to install?
Possibly. It might actually take up twice as much. Tera Online, for exmaple, takes 56 gigabytes to install a 23 gigabyte game.
Because people insist on playing a free MMO with me and I refused to play Archeage again, so they nominated Tera.
Have you & your friends looked into GuildWars 2? The game itself isn't free, but it's got the friendliest, most open, and most accesible free to play system I've seen.
I know, but getting some of them to shell out the money for the initial investment is hard. Poor college kids, and all that.
Melissia wrote: Funny, hte install size made it unplayable for me XD
I am more surprised by our resident FRA even considering playing the MMORPG with the most sexist character portrayal around
I've never played TERA if that's what you are talking about.
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I always thought 'The Witcher' was pretty bad in that sense. I mean most attractive women in that game are easy. Sheesh a few paragraphs of text is often all it takes to bed them and then you get a sexually provocative card afterward. Ugh geralt's such a man-w****. That said i'm a total pervert myself but strangely enough i just don't like perversion in my games. I find it distracting. When i'm playing a game i want to play the game not something else. That said i still might buy the 2nd witcher game on sale even if every sex scene shown of it on youtube is basically a copy/paste of the same scene with a different face. That's just lazy.
Aside from the sex i still find 'the witcher' to have ridiculous choices that are far too extreme in most cases to force a sort of guilt on the player rather than having multi-layered possibilities with some seeming better the more you work out a good solution for the problem. For instance i feel like with decision-making 'deus ex: human revolution' did it better.
One last bit on 'the witcher' is even though the game is pervy you gotta admit Triss is quite attractive. Still in the first game i felt Alvin needed a family or at least not to be turned into a human guinea pig. Maybe that's just me. I dunno. You have to admit his life sucked esp. for such a young kid. That sort of stuff can mess with your head if so much bad happens to you or around you at a young age.
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Other good candidates for really pervy things in games would probably be age of conan (if i remember correctly) and God of War. Oddly enough i've never played either. Once again i just don't find games with sex to be very appealing. I'd rather just flip on some p*** on the internet when i'm in the mood.
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For me i'm mostly just playing 'xcom: enemy within' again. Not sure what else to do. I think i'm gonna play 'Xenonauts' fairly soon but i really need to catch up on painting and making my skaven models in warhammer fantasy.
There's also the case for playing skyrim or 'endless space'.
I picked up Valkyria Chronicles for the PC and I'm enjoying it. I thought it was funny how you can tell that Sakimoto worked on the soundtrack within like.. 3 minutes of turning the game on. I really like his style, but he could stand to stretch his legs so more.
There are a lot of really oddball design decisions in this game. Like why are the menus so partitioned up? Why are the story segments between missions arbitrarily divided into smaller pieces? Why are all the special abilities strictly random? Why can't I view the strategic map during unit's activation? Why does the game progress in real time while I'm walking, but not while aiming? Why mines? Why do the dialogue boxes only hold 2 lines of text? Ugh. While I really I am liking it I just have 1000 little nitpicks about everything.
But but... Dwarf in it's very name. If it is indeed big, seems like they're missing the point
I loaded up Dungeon Siege III, but I dunno not sure that's something I'm really feeling. Do feel like picking something up to play occasionally since I've typically got less to do in the winter but meh. Maybe I load the NWN back up and finish that.
I'm still trying to juggle my spare time between Dragon Age and Elite. I thought I'd be done with the former by the time ED releases, but DA3 is a bit bigger than I anticipated. Not that that's a bad thing, just unexpected after DA2. This one seems to be longer than even Origins. And already I know I can't wait for the inevitable DLCs. Lots of new world background in it as well, which will surely be of use for my Dragon Age P&P group! And Green Ronin has already announced a "Faces of Thedas" supplement for it, too!
Several other games on my list - Mordheim, the new update for Shadowrun Online, and I wanted to take a look back at MWO now that Community Warfare has launched and the Draconis Combine needs my support, but I just can't find the game.
Eh, better to have a few games on the backburner than not knowing what to play, I guess.
flamingkillamajig wrote:
Sigvatr wrote:I am more surprised by our resident FRA even considering playing the MMORPG with the most sexist character portrayal around
I've never played TERA if that's what you are talking about.
Pretty sure our resident MRA was referring to Mel.
GrimDork wrote: But but... Dwarf in it's very name. If it is indeed big, seems like they're missing the point
I loaded up Dungeon Siege III, but I dunno not sure that's something I'm really feeling. Do feel like picking something up to play occasionally since I've typically got less to do in the winter but meh. Maybe I load the NWN back up and finish that.
This is big like... a mega-project, built by tiny dwarfs. It's big dwarfy news.
Lynata wrote: I'm still trying to juggle my spare time between Dragon Age and Elite. I thought I'd be done with the former by the time ED releases, but DA3 is a bit bigger than I anticipated. Not that that's a bad thing, just unexpected after DA2. This one seems to be longer than even Origins. And already I know I can't wait for the inevitable DLCs. Lots of new world background in it as well, which will surely be of use for my Dragon Age P&P group! And Green Ronin has already announced a "Faces of Thedas" supplement for it, too!
Several other games on my list - Mordheim, the new update for Shadowrun Online, and I wanted to take a look back at MWO now that Community Warfare has launched and the Draconis Combine needs my support, but I just can't find the game.
Eh, better to have a few games on the backburner than not knowing what to play, I guess.
flamingkillamajig wrote:
Sigvatr wrote:I am more surprised by our resident FRA even considering playing the MMORPG with the most sexist character portrayal around
I've never played TERA if that's what you are talking about.
Pretty sure our resident MRA was referring to Mel.
Meet me on the battlefield....on mordheim. Pistols at dawn d**n it!!!
But yeah i know he was talking about her. I just wasn't sure whether he was talking about the TERA game or 'The Witcher'.
Also honestly lynata both sides of that argument bug me but for some reason i find FRA people more annoying. Sorry man. You're still a cool guy when you don't go on about that stuff. Just gotta remember there's more to life than being offended about everything. I mean take 'deus ex: human revolution' for instance. We both love that game. I dunno how frequently women were portrayed in it. That's not to say it's trying to be sexist. Perhaps it was made by more guy writers or they wanted to appeal to a certain audience. It's not like they seriously wanted to stick it to women and flip them off while doing so. I mean perhaps the bigger issue is you need more female writers to write female leads. I often see people write with a style that reflects their personality or themselves. All that said i'm seriously going way off topic.
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Anyway i've mostly been doing well at 'xcom: enemy within'. I suppose it's the only game i'm absolutely fantastic at currently. If only i could get better at warhammer fantasy. Perhaps my faction just really needs an update, i need new models and i need to play more frequently to come up with better strategies. Currently almost always losing is very frustrating. I'm starting to see all the contempt 'sisters of battle' players have.
Melissia wrote: Funny, hte install size made it unplayable for me XD
I am more surprised by our resident FRA even considering playing the MMORPG with the most sexist character portrayal around
You might also be surprised that I enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever and was one of the few people defending it after its release.
I would have greatly preferred Guild Wars 2, myself, but the rest of the group didn't want to at the time because it cost money to get in to even if it had no monthly.
I would also have been okay with Champions or DCU Online, as well...
I'm actually rather curious though about the game 'Farcry 3: Blood Dragon'. It seems like everything duke nukem forever was not and minus sexual stuff.
I'm fairly surprised when women want to play games like duke nukem forever, grand theft auto and 'the witcher'. I'm not saying girls aren't allowed but rather those games seem to not target them. It's like if i was to play 'sparkly the last vampire' where i got to decorate a vampire and then date him. It just feels a little off.
My god this game is hilarious but damn is it brutal.
I actually was waiting for that game before it was even greenlit on steam. Man you must be so lucky. It's only like 3 USD last i checked. I think it gets repetitive after the first 10 times or so.
My god this game is hilarious but damn is it brutal.
I actually was waiting for that game before it was even greenlit on steam. Man you must be so lucky. It's only like 3 USD last i checked. I think it gets repetitive after the first 10 times or so.
I got it for a dollar.
I started to make some fun fanfiction with it.. I think I might put some of my friends into really stupid situations. I put my ex and an old friend of mine into it and one of her friends. And they all got killed by piranhias.
Next I started taking some Dakknauts and putting them into funny situations. I took LordHats, Alpharius and Darknnit and they survived until a dragon killed them all. O.o
They aren't the only ones, but you can make some funny fanfiction with it.
The laptop I have been using died, or more specifically it's harddrive did, so I'm playing on my 1Gb ram, windows XP PC. I've been playing a lot of my older games, and have decided to finally finish HL2. I kind of got distracted and never got around to doing it.
Co'tor Shas wrote: The laptop I have been using died, or more specifically it's harddrive did, so I'm playing on my 1Gb ram, windows XP PC. I've been playing a lot of my older games, and have decided to finally finish HL2. I kind of got distracted and never got around to doing it.
Ouch!
1 gb of ram. Man My 8 gb ram rendering computer feels sorry for yours. 1 Stick of ram must really suck.
Co'tor Shas wrote: The laptop I have been using died, or more specifically it's harddrive did, so I'm playing on my 1Gb ram, windows XP PC. I've been playing a lot of my older games, and have decided to finally finish HL2. I kind of got distracted and never got around to doing it.
Ouch!
1 gb of ram. Man My 8 gb ram rendering computer feels sorry for yours. 1 Stick of ram must really suck.
It only has one slot, and it originally came with half a gig . I have developed an intense hatred for it over the years, I only got my laptop this fall for college, and upgrading to 6gb, and from windows XP to 8.1 was quite a experience .
Co'tor Shas wrote: The laptop I have been using died, or more specifically it's harddrive did, so I'm playing on my 1Gb ram, windows XP PC. I've been playing a lot of my older games, and have decided to finally finish HL2. I kind of got distracted and never got around to doing it.
Ouch!
1 gb of ram. Man My 8 gb ram rendering computer feels sorry for yours. 1 Stick of ram must really suck.
It only has one slot, and it originally came with half a gig . I have developed an intense hatred for it over the years, I only got my laptop this fall for college, and upgrading to 6gb, and from windows XP to 8.1 was quite a experience .
I did that too. But Personally Would you should of done is found a realtively nearby guy to help fix your laptop. I mean hard drives die on rare occassions. But if they do it might still be in a warranty ever since it was this fall. If they say no, then say the hard drive failed. AS long as your in good spirit and talk about it to them and tell them when or how the issue occurred it might of been a hardware failure from the manufacturer.
My laptop is meant as a word processor and as a sub-par game platformer.
But my Render computer is meant to render lots of animations and 3d models. But it is nowhere near as good as the computers at my school.
It's still under warrenty, so I sent it into sent 2 days ago (supposed to be 7-10 days but that doesn't factor in the holidays). The good news is that they will also fix the case (it's a bit bent and cracked because somebody sat on it).
Automatically Appended Next Post: I'm going for a CS degree, so I really need a computer.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Trying impossible difficulty in Enemy Within.
It's kind of bs. I think I prefer Classic.
I'm kind of used to it by now and i don't even think i'm as good at it as i used to be. I'm rather surprised how much nano-fiber vests help early on. It's fairly useful vs sectoids. That said once you meet up against thin men it's usually pretty irrelevant and you may want to stick to grenades and such. Starting play-style is also somewhat dependent on the continent bonus you start with. Going with the europe bonus i tend to throw down plenty of workshops and labs, whereas with south america autopsies and interrogations speed up research and give decent gene mods super fast and with asia the officer training school and foundry bonuses are just beyond useful.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Yeah, that pip of health helps.
I didn't play it on ironman though, so I did the XCOM tradition of save scumming
I only wanted the second wave options anyway.
I can't do second wave options. Impossible difficulty is hard enough on it's own. A 2 panic level country will full panic if you don't help them during an abduction. It's pretty freaking lame.
I know right? The panic rises stupidly fast in impossible.
You'd think a country in the blue could take an abduction, but before you know it they are crapping themselves just because some sectoid nicked their goldfish.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: I know right? The panic rises stupidly fast in impossible.
You'd think a country in the blue could take an abduction, but before you know it they are crapping themselves just because some sectoid nicked their goldfish.
I won't lie i am kind of bummed you have to wait for a country to want to buy some gear before being able to sell your plasma weapons. I just wish i could capture aliens all day and sell their gear just as frequently. It gets easier and easier. Mimetic skin on fast moving scouts is a definite must as an arc thrower carrier. It also helps to have flashbangs, gas grenades or snipers with disabling shot to slow down and disarm enemies, make them shoot terribly or just make them easier to capture. I've also found out gas grenades don't work on chrysallids, thin men or dudes that even originally came equipped with a med kit. I remember flashbangs being ridiculously effective vs EXALT though. For the aliens gas usually seems more effective since you can use it on their psychics. That said they must have crazy will because even with gas grenades, combat stims and every other freaking thing if an ethereal or sectoid commander wants in they're gonna get it usually.
Man that game seems to have gained so many new things with the expansion. I may have to pick it up some time. Don't have enough time/patience to devote to the harder difficulties, but all of the new toys sound kind of fun.
GrimDork wrote: Man that game seems to have gained so many new things with the expansion. I may have to pick it up some time. Don't have enough time/patience to devote to the harder difficulties, but all of the new toys sound kind of fun.
If you use anti-psychic gene mods on the final battle with the ethereals you're in for a real treat. You can usually curb stomp them pretty easily even on impossible difficulty.
I beat Valkyria Chronicles (surprisingly short), it was an interesting game. It had some nice ideas but it felt really unfinished. I will say I'm happy to get an ending in game that actually provides some damn closure for once. With so much sequel baiting and half-baked non conclusions it's to finish a game and not feel like I was left hanging.
I just grabbed that on steam, it was $5 off (my excuse ). I think every should should head on over to the steam page just to see the video. The music and visuals are really funny at some points when you have massive war being fought with some beautiful tranquil music to accompany it.
Both metro redux and metro redux last light were on sale (The sale has like 24 hours left if anybody is interested), so I nabbed those as well. I really enjoyed metro 2033, but I haven't played last light yet. AI and graphical, and gameplay improvements can only do good to the most immerse game I think I have ever played.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: I know right? The panic rises stupidly fast in impossible.
You'd think a country in the blue could take an abduction, but before you know it they are crapping themselves just because some sectoid nicked their goldfish.
I won't lie i am kind of bummed you have to wait for a country to want to buy some gear before being able to sell your plasma weapons. I just wish i could capture aliens all day and sell their gear just as frequently. It gets easier and easier. Mimetic skin on fast moving scouts is a definite must as an arc thrower carrier. It also helps to have flashbangs, gas grenades or snipers with disabling shot to slow down and disarm enemies, make them shoot terribly or just make them easier to capture. I've also found out gas grenades don't work on chrysallids, thin men or dudes that even originally came equipped with a med kit. I remember flashbangs being ridiculously effective vs EXALT though. For the aliens gas usually seems more effective since you can use it on their psychics. That said they must have crazy will because even with gas grenades, combat stims and every other freaking thing if an ethereal or sectoid commander wants in they're gonna get it usually.
You could do that in the old games; the market in that game was much bigger. If you had something, you can sell it.
In fact, you could break the economy of the game by making cheap laser rifles, and selling them for something like $10,000
It gets even sillier later on, when you have a stock of plasma weapons.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: I know right? The panic rises stupidly fast in impossible.
You'd think a country in the blue could take an abduction, but before you know it they are crapping themselves just because some sectoid nicked their goldfish.
I won't lie i am kind of bummed you have to wait for a country to want to buy some gear before being able to sell your plasma weapons. I just wish i could capture aliens all day and sell their gear just as frequently. It gets easier and easier. Mimetic skin on fast moving scouts is a definite must as an arc thrower carrier. It also helps to have flashbangs, gas grenades or snipers with disabling shot to slow down and disarm enemies, make them shoot terribly or just make them easier to capture. I've also found out gas grenades don't work on chrysallids, thin men or dudes that even originally came equipped with a med kit. I remember flashbangs being ridiculously effective vs EXALT though. For the aliens gas usually seems more effective since you can use it on their psychics. That said they must have crazy will because even with gas grenades, combat stims and every other freaking thing if an ethereal or sectoid commander wants in they're gonna get it usually.
You could do that in the old games; the market in that game was much bigger. If you had something, you can sell it.
In fact, you could break the economy of the game by making cheap laser rifles, and selling them for something like $10,000
It gets even sillier later on, when you have a stock of plasma weapons.
I honestly wouldn't mind in some cases. Even if i could only sell plasma rifles for about 50-100 dollars a pop i'd probably do it. Currently in game i have about 10 heavy plasmas (give or take a couple) and only built one. I'm wishing so hard a country will just come in to buy the heavy plasma weapons. I don't even care if built plasma weapons can be sold for more than a weapon tied to a stunned alien or vice versa. I just want some freaking cash. That said in the game at the moment money is a non-issue but sometimes that's not the case. It helps a ton getting the council requests done for stuff though. Just as long as early on they give me money, engineers or scientists and later on just stick with money because at that point scientists and engineers are a non-issue. I mean some good money helps a ton for buying the higher end stuff because even with most of the council nations you're not getting that much money with them.
As I've decided to put together some S.T.A.L.K.E.R. minis (need to find a way of having a link to that thread in my sig somehow) I've gone back to the Misery mod for Call of Pripyat. I played the original version of it, but now they're on their 2.0 release. What does that entail? Why adding in a gak ton of items and making the mod even more of a nightmare than it was the first time around (...I mean making a game that's already considered difficult even worse).
Heh, so I spawned in the arse of nowhere next to a pack of boards and died immediately. Try again. Next time a cat killed me. One more time? Ok we made it to the safe zone (dodging mutant pigs and dogs on the way) just an emission hit (a random event which kills everything on the map unless they're in cover. ...not something which should happen as soon as you spawn anyway). So I made it that far and actually had a go at playing the game, and yup its definitely living up to its title in comparison to how hard things were last time I tried it.
Now I'm up and running a bit (ditching the Mosin-Nagant for an AK-74 with red dot site) it seems all right. I've already experienced an earlier version of the mod, so know what to expect. However things were a lot more lenient then, so this is a big step up in terms of difficulty as well as complexity (the aforementioned bazillion items, all of which you're expected to know the use of otherwise expect to either miss out on something or die randomly from not drinking enough coffee). Given the amount of time I've put into the mod so far I'd expect to be further along if I were just playing the vanilla game, but nope, that's time spent with my character coughing up a lung (the stamina meter's a real pain) or spending half an hour slinking about in a loft taking pot shots at some bandits.
I'll stick with it though, and it certainly beats replaying the same game I've completed a dozen times already. Lost Alpha looked interesting, but all the downloads I can find of it are broken unfortunately. Actually going back and playing the series again has given me an incite on where to take things on the model front at least, so I'll probably be having a go at sculpting up some of the Stalker outfits after I've finished the existing batch of crap (the crashed Hinds in the game are a better reference for the one I'm making than trying to sift through news articles on the war in Ukraine for references).
Ugh xenonauts is kicking my ***. I just came back into the last mission after putting it on hiatus. That game is tough esp. the last mission. Have fun getting reapers (basically chrysallids) coming up your butt while you try fighting off enemies to the front as well as eventually trying to assassinate the alien leader. Ugh it's so ridiculously hard. It's like they ramped the difficulty up to 11.
Heh, yeah, it can be pretty... interesting. In my current game, the pope has like four lovers. Which is pretty accurate for some historic popes, I guess.
toasteroven wrote: Heh, yeah, it can be pretty... interesting. In my current game, the pope has like four lovers. Which is pretty accurate for some historic popes, I guess.
That many? I am sure he is just spreading the love for his crucefix amoungst the pious few
Found an old GAME gift card in my man bag yesterday and managed to pick up the SEGA Megadrive collection and Dragon Age:Origins on 360 for the princely sum of 99p!
So after quite a few sessions of murdering EVERYTHING remotely evil during my ongoing adventure in Icewind Dale 1, I stumbeld upon what can only be described as the most incompetent evil would be genius in the world to this day. This person planned to use his massive Iron golems to dispose of me, but in his haste he also told a rather disgrunteld gnome the command word to make said golems uselss.....
Needless to say, when my party of six kicked down his door, murderd all his monsters and would be saviors things got bloody. My paladin removed his evil head from the shoulders it rested on with his new shiny sword. Good times good times
Sadly i chose the easier route where the brave heroes that take part in the alien leader assassination mission die but it was more important as the lack of time was definitely a thing.
So yeah apparently the world is saved and the next importance was showing fireworks across the world. I think i'll play again maybe. I'll have to see if i'm up for it. I never really used the end-game interceptors.
Holy crap though you basically fight off enemy aliens in a ship while getting swarmed by reapers. It is not fun at all. That said the enemy leader went down to one volley of one of my heavies. Thank you heavy you have probably saved the world from being eaten by reapers (chrysallids) or similar.
Started another game of Xenonauts. So far 2 missions and only 3 injured soldiers. No deaths have happened yet. Surprised how easy it is currently and both missions were night missions. First mission only had 2 sebillians (regenerating lizardmen) and the 2nd had 4 though they seemed to be fairly weak.
More Misery. Damn does this mod ever live up to its name. So I trudge up to a down helicopter objective. Now Typically this thing's guarded by a poltergeist which can't strictly be called an enemy as all it does is randomly chuck things about. With Misery? Well the poltergeist is still there, but its also joined by an endlessly respawning horde of zombies (carrying guns), two boss level psychic mutants which one shot you from a distance (even being close to them drains your health rapidly) and a tank mutant ...which isn't so bad, but it takes a million hits to down.
What did I do? Well other than die a lot (bearing in mind every time this happens you need to reload, which takes a good while), went screw it, turned on god mode and spawned an RPG.
...I stilled died a load of times. Yeah those psychic mutants (Controllers) are a real bitch in this mod. Still I cheesed it. I just wonder how the rather sick devs have decided to change the other objectives given that that one used to be an easier one.
Woo masochistic difficultly levels. My next game after this'll be Kaizo Mario. =P
Enjoy it. It's awesome. Clunky...but..awesome. Successor sadly isn't as good.
I got up to the ornstein and smough fight and i just couldn't get passed it. I got really, really close once but it was a teasing harpy that only tried to tempt me only to stab me, spit in my face and laugh at my pain as i bled to death.
i got bioshock 2 about 4 hours ago. still kind of just starting, it's harder than I thouhgt it would be, Hell I've changed m difficulty from normal to easy, which I barely ever do.
I finally convinced my brother to get guns of icarus online, so I'm going to be playing that quite a bit. I'm off to college again, and he's going to Florida for work so were going to be doing that. I'd heartily recommend people get that, currently only $4 on steam, or $5 for the collector's edition (which comes with the soundtrack, great BTW, and a costume pack).
If anyone is interested in playing (once my laptop gets back from dell), I'm Indignant Hedgehog on steam.
The British line in WoT finally got the Archer, Firefly, and Achilles, so I've been trying to run down that line.
Unfortunately, the only way to get to the Firefly is through the Grant (essentially just a British M3 Lee with access to a QF 6pdr, but otherwise still as boxy, thinly armoured, and easy painful tank to grind through), and the Archer to Achilles line requires going through the Cruiser I, which at T2 is a rather tedious grind since you have no armour, no speed, no manoeuvrability, and the 'PomPom' costs almost as much exp to unlock as the next tank along for a gun you'll never use again, and isn't required to unlock Tier 3, so you're stuck using the fairly lengthy reload and aiming times of the 2pdr.
Its becoming a sort of sad running joke this pair of Controllers spawning at every objective with the Misery Mod for Call of Pripyat. I wander up to something and for a second think "oh god, finally somewhere where I don't have to deal with those things", then seconds later get hit by white noise and die (I have mentioned that the game literally plays white noise at a volume that makes your ears hurt when these things turn up. ...Its *immersive). Meh, I have a grenade launcher right now at least, just a pity that the game bugs out and screws up my save files whenever I'm fighting those things (I'm beginning to wonder if the mod makers thought it'd be *immersive to corrupt your files in certain situations to represent the screwy psychic attacks, or to say "yeah you died, that means your character died for real. Go start the game again").
Ah well. You know I kind of think that series would be better without all the mutants. Keep the Stalkers and anomalies, but those things are just annoying. The books and film didn't have invisible vampires or hordes of tumor ridden dogs. Nah, rather just general weird gak and a great atmosphere were good enough. Hmn, good as the series is I'd rather it was more in line with its background material and less of the shooter crap. =/
I wonder if I can replace the in game music with that film's OST...
It removes those, but if you know what you're doing its just a case of rewriting the lines they changed. What it replaces them with is heavy breathing and obscures your vision with the inside of your armour's helmet (which becomes rather fun once the armour's damaged even a little bit. Que moisture all over the screen and eventually a view so obscured by cracks that you may as well take the helmet off). It also removes the warnings before blowouts hit, and the handy indicator as to what area's safe and what isn't ...a problem considering that the drugs that save you if you're caught in one also don't work any more. That last post was written after I encounter 30+ zombies, a squad of mercenaries, four Bloodsuckers, four Pseudodogs, and two Controllers just guarding the entrance to the Jupiter Plant. Not inside the actual plant where typically you encounter a sole Pseudodog (well the doppleganger variant, whatever its called), nah, these replaced the pack of six or so blind dogs that wander about the outside instead (who the hell knows what's there instead of the Pseudodog. Eight Controllers and a couple of Chimeras probably).
Eugh, I really don't understand why mod makers think that making things ridiculously tough somehow creates better gameplay. For a mod all about *realism I'd hardly think a bunch of mutants which are apparently quite rare would be crowded together like that (in the vanilla game you probably meet about four Controllers total, that is if you explore every location, including where they're scripted to spawn). When I look at game mods which add new enemy types I just wish they were balanced properly, but no, rather instead of the optional plugin which reduces spawn rates to reasonable levels (I wound up taking a grenade launcher to that horde of zombies. ...Ran out of grenades), instead they have things like "even higher spawn rates" and "spawn rates so high that you can't get higher than 1FPS. Don't worry though, you'll be dead before that frame's even over". I guess the type of people who play such mods are like those who are into Kaizo Mario. They've played the base game so long that they need the extra challenge. Tsk, well there's a difference between extra challenge on top of the vanilla game (which is made easier for the mass market audience) and just plain fake difficulty.
...But yeah, to bring myself back to the mod, it wouldn't be nearly as bad if the mod makers hadn't decided to replace the already annoying Controller sound effect with ear bleeding level white noise. A lot of potential, but its creator's have their heads up their arses about all the *realism that it gets old pretty fast. Why balance a mod when you can just say its intentionally hard and slap on a title like "Ragequit", or in this case Misery?
So...it's bs then. That's a pity, I was planning on trying misery out, but if its as frustrating as ZoA I might not even bother.
Is there a mod that increases the difficulty without resulting to such bs? The complete series is ok, but I found it made the game really easy, even on Master.
There's a mod for Misery out there called something like "Misery Unfethed" which is amalgamated into a general fix mod. However I have that installed and its still a mess. I'd rather it just added the new items and mechanics (bar the artifact containers, screw those) without the needless difficultly boost. So yeah you can play it that way, but you'd need to first install the mod and that "fix" then go into the config files and work your way through them resetting the damage stats back to their defaults (though I think a part of the issue is the "improved Ai" mod that's included as part of Misery. That entails that enemies can snipe you from a mile away, and because grenades are tied to gun accuracy for ...reasons, that enemies can literally hit you with those things through walls. ...Luckily that fix can remove enemies using grenades). Its a pity that the fix doesn't deal with enemy spawns, nor (despite claiming to) deal with enemy damage output, so even if enemies are less bullet spongey there's still a million of them about the objectives, each of which can one shot you before you even see them. =P
IIRC Misery's the major mod for Pripyat. Modders put the effort in for the first two games, but by the time of the third I don't think there's any other major overhaul. Mods that add new weapons, outfits, etc and make other changes yes, but having all those work with one another instead of being part of a pack like Misery isn't so easy. So yeah, either play Misery and edit the files so it isn't so cheap, try and have a series of mods interact with one another, or have a go at Lost Alpha, I've head its decent (...if you can get it to work. I'm playing CoP as I couldn't find a stable download link).
Meh, its perhaps a bit redundant to criticize a free mod (god help me if I were on that open Beta team...). Metro: Last Light's still sitting there to be completed, even if its hardly the same experience. At least the mod's not soured my will to make some models based on the series, and well its not as if there isn't material outside of the games to deal with (...tracking down a hard copy of the novel's sequel is a right pain however).
I saw CoH2: Ardennes Assault had 25% off, and was immediately put off by the fact that even with the discount, it's still £22.49. I'm not getting it until it falls at least below £10, even if that takes another year; anything more is just a complete rip-off.
For Blighttown, there's a way of mitigating blowpipe damage, inflicting toxic on yourself first with dung pies. The damage you take is based on what inflicted toxic to you in the first place, not what attacks filled the toxic bar. If snipers fill the bar for you, and you then use a dung pie to inflict it, you will take the 7dps of the dung pie instead of the 14dp0.6s of the blowdart, and subsequent toxic darts will have no effect.
You can also use the Spider Shield to block them, since resistance to toxic is built in to the resistance to poison stat.
Alternatively, suicide charge them, since they never respawn.
Melissia wrote: In the immortal words of James Rolfe, whoever designed Blighttown is an donkey-cave.
"Okay, I have no idea why so many people complain about Blighttown, it seems ok so f-"
PFFF PFFF PFFF
"MOTHERROCKING BLOWPIPES! GO AWAY YOU GODDARN FLIES! I SWEAR THERE WAS NO CHASM BEFORE!"
Steam sale is extremely "meh" so far. Lots of games neither of us is interested in (or has already) and lots of 20% or 33% sale stuff. Meeeeeeeeeh.
For me the blowpipes weren't all that bad, compared to the terrain itself. It was the narrow ledges you have to fight on...I'm playing a strength build with light armor and two-handed weapons...
Melissia wrote: In the immortal words of James Rolfe, whoever designed Blighttown is an donkey-cave.
"Okay, I have no idea why so many people complain about Blighttown, it seems ok so f-"
PFFF PFFF PFFF
"MOTHERROCKING BLOWPIPES! GO AWAY YOU GODDARN FLIES! I SWEAR THERE WAS NO CHASM BEFORE!"
Steam sale is extremely "meh" so far. Lots of games neither of us is interested in (or has already) and lots of 20% or 33% sale stuff. Meeeeeeeeeh.
Blight town was annoying but i find the massed dragons way worse. Ornstein and smough fight is by far the most annoying thing i faced in the game and i stopped playing it at that point. Oh and have fun getting shot by super arrows while walking/running up very narrow paths.
Having finally got Halo MC Collection to install/download updates on the new XB1 (seriously, what was wrong with the days you just put in a disk and played without any of this install nonsense?) after about 8 hours of waiting, I have now played a few rounds of multiplayer and watched a couple of campaign missions. The verdict? Holy crap the remastered Halo 2 is awesome! Amazing visuals, amazing sound, very, very smooth and just all-round awesome. Compared to the dissappointment that was remastered Halo 1 a couple of years ago, it's hard to believe the two were done by the same company.
Wife bought Postal 2, am replaying it now. Still such an awesome game. It's utterly disgusting and offensive but I like it for that. You can be an absolute psycho brutally murdering and peeing everywhere, and the game's so over the top...what I really love about it, however, is it sandboxy character. We need more games like this that. Like...you go into the sewers and suddenly end up in a terrorist hideout, freeing dog food eating US Marines and finding WMD you promptly use to kill the remaining terrorists
Sigvatr wrote: Enjoy the first game as long as you can. The second one, sadly, falls off quite harshly.
I like both Dark Souls games really. each has its own redeeming qualities and such that makes them nice to play. But if I have to choose I liked nr 2 the best, if only for the change of scenerery
Melissia wrote: In the immortal words of James Rolfe, whoever designed Blighttown is an donkey-cave.
"Okay, I have no idea why so many people complain about Blighttown, it seems ok so f-"
PFFF PFFF PFFF
"MOTHERROCKING BLOWPIPES! GO AWAY YOU GODDARN FLIES! I SWEAR THERE WAS NO CHASM BEFORE!"
Steam sale is extremely "meh" so far. Lots of games neither of us is interested in (or has already) and lots of 20% or 33% sale stuff. Meeeeeeeeeh.
Blight town was annoying but i find the massed dragons way worse. Ornstein and smough fight is by far the most annoying thing i faced in the game and i stopped playing it at that point. Oh and have fun getting shot by super arrows while walking/running up very narrow paths.
The part where you have to climb the ledge on the outside of the cathedral and would just keep getting knocked off over and over and over again by the stupid dragon archers...
Melissia wrote: Inferior level design to things like Blighttown? I find that hard to believe.
A huge selling point of Dark Souls was the non-linearity and the feeling of "I will go there!" whenever you ran around and went exploring; i.e. seeing something in the background where you will be or have already been in the past. It made the entire world feel connected. That's almost non-existent in DS II. My worst exampLe: you spend most of the game looking for 4 special souls to open a temple's gate. Well...that "temple" is the size of a garden pavillon and stands somewhere lost in a forest. You can easily go AROUND it but are blocked by a knee-high pile of dirt. I am not kidding. It just destroys the entire immersion if a pile of dirt you would easily be able to take a long step over suddenly forces you to collect 4 mighty souls and open the door. Ugh.
The overall map does not make sense. Like e.g. you ride UP in an elevator and suddenly stand in a giant lava pool. Some users recreated the map and showed that parts of it overlap.
Quite a few bosses in DSII are blatant re-skins (Smaug) or get recycled a lot throughout the game (Executioner).
PvP was nigh-unplayable at start and still is a horrid mess thanks to "Soul Memory".
No longer being able to upgrade your stats at every bonfire, but instead being forced to teleport to a specific bonfire means 2 loading screens every time.
Boss design was...meh. I mean...in a good, hard boss fight, the enemy is able to adapt to your tactics and telegraphs less, forcing you to react quickly. That's how a good difficult fight is designed. Randomly throwing 3 critters in that attack and poison you is pee-poor game design.
And the PC port is complete garbage, as usual. Starts with terrible KM controls and includes the lazy-donkey graphics part.
The DLCs for DS II are awesome, though.
The game is still good...ish. It just felt like a huge letdown after DS1 and felt more like a cash-in than a true successor.
Trying out the Autumn Aurora 2 mod for SoC.
It's pretty good. It manages to be difficult without resorting to bs, you can actually see what's going on even with the graphical changes (unlike Zone of Alienation) and it pulls off a minimal HUD without being a confusing mess.
So i've been playing a lot of xenonauts. Managed to down some battleships this time around and beat those missions to collect their gear. There's this one powerful handheld weapon you can get from it that only heavies can wield. Basically it's like a vehicle mounted explosive weapon in the game. It's pretty ridiculous using the final tier stuff. The high end magnetic weapons are pretty interesting. I just skipped that whole bit in the last game. I'd be using the absolute final tier bomber plane but it has no cannons and more importantly the explosive it can use supposedly can take out the entire area 8 km around (which is pretty scary but in game terms prevents anything being salvaged from the crash which is pretty much the anti-thesis of the emp cannon in xcom: enemy unknown and somewhat undesirable when you want more materials) so i don't think it can kill any fighters though it might outrun them (not sure if you can).
I kind of actually hope there will be a xenonauts 2. Even if it's heavily based around xcom the game is pretty fun. I'm curious what happens to the Earth after the invasion and if there are more much later on. The point to the end is that the alien fleet would be stranded and you'd wipe out the rest but i'm not sure if i want the game to end so quickly. Besides i'm not entirely sure the aliens would give up so easily and there is a possibility of an earth resistance movement or an intergalactic resistance movement against this ultimate alien power.
Well I've given up on Misery, that mod's just too unbalanced to be fun for me. Instead I'm now playing another overhaul mod called SGM. Its been off my radar because its natively Russian rather than English, but well I needed to pick something up. Now from the looks of things it doesn't go about changing every little detail like Misery did, rather it just adds a load more content. What type of additions? Well how about the maps from the first two games. ...Yeah this mod has you trudge through a few areas before you even reach the CoP bits (the vanilla game skipped these to get you right to the plot, but I guess the mod's logic is that you need to go through Cordon to get into the zone. Fun though as this time because you're friendly with the Military you can just waltz right through the place).
Ah, anyway, it looks fun from what I've played. The thing I'd say I was happiest about was turning on the game and instead of hearing the usual dreary soundtrack I was faced by some happy polka (there's an MP3 player as an item, and it changes the main menu to be tracks from there. Definitely cheered me up after listening to the same grungy music). That and everything isn't so fething grey!
*Shrugs*. I just bought the game Kairo for 99 cents, and I'm enjoying it so far. There haven't been any really big games I've seen going for sale, but I've found a few neat things through this one.
No, Gul'dan is an enemy but he has yet to be a raid boss. Instead, he orchestrates various dungeon/raid enemies and you encounter him during several quest chains.
F**king xenonauts. I played a game where there was alien commanders with mind control and a freaking ethereal wanna be called a praetor. At one point they mind controlled 2 of my guys at the same time. Also just to give you an idea of how BS is this unlike xcom: enemy unknown when your guys get mind controlled they get to fight in the enemy turn so you don't even know they'll be mind controlled and the enemy can do so once in a while all the way across the map. Add to that the enemy at one point mind controlled my super rocket guy and then shot and killed 3 of my guys (out of 12) including the super rocket guy at the beginning of the base fight and things just went downhill from there. When you think about it a good chunk of my deaths were from alien mind controlled units. It's just such BS i have to worry about my own guys. I may as well throw up a constant smokescreen to advance through in case my guys turn on each other but i'd run out of smoke in no time. Oh and i also lost at least one guy to a dude berserking.
So yeah i basically restarted that mission and saved it. Hopefully there aren't as many casualties next time. That said if nothing else keeping my guys far apart whenever my super heavy rocket dude has a loaded weapon is a good idea as well as possibly smoke (then again the explosion is so big it's almost worthless.
Seconding Transistor. It's a piece of art and one of the best games we have ever played. Both me and my wife love it. The art is jaw-droppingly amazing and the story is told in such a mature and elaborate way...it's art. Period. Enjoyable, interactive art.This is how an "artsy" video game should be like, an actual game with actual gameplay packed in a superb presentation, not hyprocritic crap like Gone Home or Dear Esther. Transistor is pure art.
Today has been devoted to world Of tanks, lord knows its rather "amusing" to be the last tank standing when you drive a relativly newly aquired French heavy tank. But thankfully I did survive, it helped that the last two foes where realtivly ligthly armoured AT vehicels, so quite a few of their shots bounced of my front armour.
But I think I will invest in a medium caliber gun rammer for increased reloading speed and advanced optics so that I can spot foes faster and take apropiate measures accordingly.
Ok, earlier in the thread I complained jokingly that everyone in Europe is having affairs with everyone. (Crusader Kings 2)
It's actually become a problem. Like a "wait for a patch to fix this nonsense" problem. Like, my game is constantly being interrupted by the same three people trying to seduce me, making it impossible to get anything done. Every woman my character marries is instantly seduced, and becomes pregnant with their seducer's child. I tested it with console commands. I mean, I don't even mind the affairs, I just need a legitimate heir!
The other life paths do not seem to be this event intensive. I am not constantly barraged by a hail of white stags every two weeks if I am a hunter.
Last purchase of the holiday season: Tropico 5. A bit disappointed in the reduced customization options when it comes to non-appearance based things (Tropico 4 spoiled me perhaps), but the game itself looks well polished so far, and the gameplay mechanics are nicely done.
I got around to getting Beyond Earth, an hour in I'm not very happy with it. The old tech tree made sense and you could see a tangible benefit from heading down a road, it all seems a bit messy and overly complex to me at the moment.
toasteroven wrote: Ok, earlier in the thread I complained jokingly that everyone in Europe is having affairs with everyone. (Crusader Kings 2)
It's actually become a problem. Like a "wait for a patch to fix this nonsense" problem. Like, my game is constantly being interrupted by the same three people trying to seduce me, making it impossible to get anything done. Every woman my character marries is instantly seduced, and becomes pregnant with their seducer's child. I tested it with console commands. I mean, I don't even mind the affairs, I just need a legitimate heir!
The other life paths do not seem to be this event intensive. I am not constantly barraged by a hail of white stags every two weeks if I am a hunter.
Got the full-DLC version of Saints Row 4 for the holidays. Been playing that a lot. I like how the developers decided to keep the game fresh by turning it into a superhero game, instead of sticking with the GTA clone formula (which the games originally were). The last time I stole a care was like twenty minutes into the game. I've been super jumping everywhere since then.
Also, I picked up Skyrim on Steam. I've played it extensively on PS3 already, but I'd run out of things to do on PS3 (well, I suppose I could actually do the main quest, but who the feth wants to do that?). With the switch to playing on PC, I can use mods to add even more things to do to avoid having to play the main quest!.
toasteroven wrote: Ok, earlier in the thread I complained jokingly that everyone in Europe is having affairs with everyone. (Crusader Kings 2)
It's actually become a problem. Like a "wait for a patch to fix this nonsense" problem. Like, my game is constantly being interrupted by the same three people trying to seduce me, making it impossible to get anything done. Every woman my character marries is instantly seduced, and becomes pregnant with their seducer's child. I tested it with console commands. I mean, I don't even mind the affairs, I just need a legitimate heir!
The other life paths do not seem to be this event intensive. I am not constantly barraged by a hail of white stags every two weeks if I am a hunter.
I can imagien it, oh the horror of being a king
You want horror? Immediately after I posted that, the Duchess of Brabant tried to murder me. And then the game crashed.
I can't decide if I want to play that game (Saints Row IV i mean) or not... It looks either just crazy enough to be awesome or just a notch too crazy for me to be able to enjoy it. Hard to say from just the videos.
GrimDork wrote: I can't decide if I want to play that game (Saints Row IV i mean) or not... It looks either just crazy enough to be awesome or just a notch too crazy for me to be able to enjoy it. Hard to say from just the videos.
I think that Saint's Row IV is a blast. The story is over the top and silly fun, and the super hero mechanics work really well, and make traveling around the city a pleasure, rather than a bore. It's one of my favorite of the open world sandbox city whatever games.
GrimDork wrote: I can't decide if I want to play that game (Saints Row IV i mean) or not... It looks either just crazy enough to be awesome or just a notch too crazy for me to be able to enjoy it. Hard to say from just the videos.
If you liked SR3, you should enjoy 4. The storyline has the same over-the-top humor from 3 and added the new superowers to keep the game fresh (since you are playing in the same city from 3, they had to do something to keep things feeling new). There are metatextual jokes aplenty and more pop culture references than you can shake a stick at. The tone is pretty even (not all over the place like 2 was) and Laura Bailey does the voice for Fem Boss. That last bit may not be a selling point for you, but it pretty much makes the game in my eyes. They've added a reggae station on the radio, if that's your thing.
Oh, the one downer bit is that Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For a Hero" isn't on the Mix radio station anymore. I don't know about you, but that song was the designated soundtrack to like half the missions I played in 3.
Oh, the one downer bit is that Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For a Hero" isn't on the Mix radio station anymore. I don't know about you, but that song was the designated soundtrack to like half the missions I played in 3.
But... but... but.... Doesn't SR4 add in... The Touch?
Oh, the one downer bit is that Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For a Hero" isn't on the Mix radio station anymore. I don't know about you, but that song was the designated soundtrack to like half the missions I played in 3.
But... but... but.... Doesn't SR4 add in... The Touch?
Unless they play it while I'm fighting giant robots while dressed as a giant robot, it won't be the same.
The Touch will be played at just the right moment, at full blast, while the game tells you to be.. A BADASS. Bonus points to the writers for having your character quote verbatim the lines from a certain animated movie that heavily featured the Touch.
I'm currently in the process of being enchanted by 'Braid' all over again. Had it on my old 360 and just bought it again on a whim. 'Tis a wondrous game and I have already lost two hours without even noticing
I've been playing a lot of Endless Legend. It's an interesting if flawed game. I love the general approach to resources, unit design, faction identity and story. However it stumbles a lot on balance, pacing, writing, providing interesting decisions. The tech tree feels to compressed, and you don't really get a sense of things changing in any meaningful way.
It's a lot of good ideas tied up with a lot of bad execution and half-finished implementations. Despite all the problems I really enjoyed it, I'd certainly say it's worth a try (at least when on sale) if you're fan of 4x in general and want to see one trying some oddball things.
I picked up Valkyria Chronicles 2 as I liked the first one enough. Though with the holidays over my gaming time will quickly shrink again.
So did WOW. Ended up getting screwed over by the latest patch, which broke a quest chain....Then the latest patch corrected it....
So all is well.
Also.
Master of Orion again. Had a super Expansionist Agressive Sillicoid, An Honorable human, The Silicoid decided to expand up to me, and now the human is as well. So I've hit the Silicoids, and will probably make peace as soon as I grab his ultra rich Tundra and homeworld, then war with humans, and then I will grab Orion.
Melissia wrote: Inferior level design to things like Blighttown? I find that hard to believe.
You're conflating quality of something with difficulty. Blighttown was designed to be a major SOB to play - it's an absolute torment, but you get something of a sense of achievement when you battle your way through against the odds, the odd rage-quit thrown in along the way!
BTW, do we have a Dark Souls/Dark Souls 2 discussion thread? Rather thank having to discuss piece-meal across other posts.
Going through my back library of games in preparation for getting an Xbox One.
Tried playing The Raven. Found the controls clunky but loved the animation. May give it a go again soon.
Darksiders II currently taking my attention. Didn't play the first one, already like the second. Very WOW character design, but it's a lively little thing.
I always go to continue Destiny, then lose interest once I see what else I have to play.
Reinstalled X-Com: Enemy Unknown, figured I'd give it another run without the expansion and then maybe pick that up later if I was interested enough.
I'm gonna stick to normal and skip Ironman, I just don't have the time/patience for extra difficulty as I'm normally being climbed on by a toddler and other such distractions
But what about the Second Wave options? Any hidden gems in there?
Does Marathon make for a fun longer game, or does it just make research take forever and make things more boring overall?
What about the random starting stats, damage, currency output? Neat, or obnoxious?
Does the Red Fog add challenge or just get annoying? How about the automatic crits on flanking?
GrimDork wrote: Reinstalled X-Com: Enemy Unknown, figured I'd give it another run without the expansion and then maybe pick that up later if I was interested enough.
I'm gonna stick to normal and skip Ironman, I just don't have the time/patience for extra difficulty as I'm normally being climbed on by a toddler and other such distractions
But what about the Second Wave options? Any hidden gems in there?
Does Marathon make for a fun longer game, or does it just make research take forever and make things more boring overall?
What about the random starting stats, damage, currency output? Neat, or obnoxious?
Does the Red Fog add challenge or just get annoying? How about the automatic crits on flanking?
Thanks
The automatic crits on flanking actually make the game somewhat easier, as all you have to do is out position the enemy
Red Fog is pretty annoying; the Aim penalty is pretty significant, and it doesn't appear the aliens suffer the same debuffs
Yep. The game is still fun, as I had expected. I'm particularly amused that I have a support specialist nicknamed "Santa" as it's just particularly fitting. I'm a bit disconcerted, however, as I've already lost at least a couple of members and I think my first playthrough only saw one death overall to unexpected fast moving chrysalids... Perhaps the random damage worked in my opponents favor there, and it was a shot down the flank.
Loving Elite: Dangerous right now. I'm just mining asteroids and then a big pirate ship shows up to steal my stuff. Before he even engages me he's hounded by two federation security ships and the second they take his shields off I turn around and blow the bastard up. Thanks for the extra 17k!
Alien: Isolation. I got stuck for a bit in the first evasion set-piece, when you get the codebreaker--apart from messing up stealth and dying a lot, there's a door that opens when the scavengers appear, but no indication of which one, so it took me a few tries to find it. I like how this game really winds up the tension to screaming point. You think this would be a perfect setup for the alien to first appear, don't you? Did you notice this hiding place and all this cover? Here's a task to do that will surely trigger....nope, just messing with you! Keep guessing, smart guy.
Spoiler:
And then when you're like ok, enough false alarms, let's get this next bit done and oh crap it fell out the ceiling oh no I've forgotten which floor I came in by I can hear it oh no it's killing them all oh god i glimpsed it coming up the stairs did it see me gotta get to the door and put in the code and my hands are shaking come on come on.....
Random damage gets a bit annoying when your sniper with laser rifle hits or 1-2 damage when she should one-shot the target.. but hell it's a squadsight in the zone sniper, she's just fine regardless. I feel like I have almost too many options right now as it is, for research and equipment, the Enemy Within stuff seems almost like too much extra from my perspective.
Trying out Space Hulk Ascension. It seems to suffer a lot from the concept of "can you figure out the most optimal way to spend your action points? If yes, have an easy time. If no, prepare to get your squad killed." I like the game but it feels kind of unpolished, plus the maps are really bloody dark! When you can not physically see which rooms connect to each other that is kind of a problem.
Just started Valkyria Chronicles. My mood has gone from, "Hey, this is a fun game." to "You know what? feth tanks." to "feth yeah, I have a tank!" in very rapid succession. Really, the only complaint I have is I wish it had better mouse control, but that's it.
Sunset Overdrive. Finally got around to starting it the other day. Wicked awesome fun. Its like I'm playing a Tony Hawk game w/ wicked awesome crazy weaponry
djphranq wrote: Sunset Overdrive. Finally got around to starting it the other day. Wicked awesome fun. Its like I'm playing a Tony Hawk game w/ wicked awesome crazy weaponry
I've heard the mute option is quite a preferable option on that game.
I am currently playing the Dark Souls of 2D platformers.... Shovel Knight.
Been playing Kingdoms Of Amalur Reckoning.... This game would be incredibely more awesome if they ditched the cartoonish art style and invested more time on the look & feel of the world.
But the combat system is absolutely jaw dropping and a insane amount of side quests and such to do.
All in all I am enjoying it but looking forwards to the end of it, so that I can find another game to immerse myself in.
Kingdoms of Amalur is a great game. - Especially for the price it sells at now.
But, a word of warning. You can complete the game quite handedly at full level by doing less than half of the zones in it. - Same with the faction-ey ones.
If you don't like a faction, or a zone, don't feel obligated to hang out there. There will be somewhere else more fun to suit your tastes at the next entrance/exit.
I really do like how KoA embraces pseudo Celtic mythology with the Fae and the Sidhe etc as opposed to your typical LOTRish elves is a breathe of fresh air.
d-usa wrote: Started playing The Last of Us on PS4, great game so far.
I found it had a weak second half. Without spoiling too much (though still in a spoiler if you'd prefer to avoid any impressions at all)
Spoiler:
There is something of a change in perspective near the end, after which it seems to jump fully off the deep end. By the time the game ends the narrative seems to have abandoned all plausibility or internal coherency in favor ham-fisted and painfully forced drama.
For me it was so abrupt and poorly executed I couldn't help but feel like they switched writers midstream or ran out of money and just threw something at the wall hoping it would stick.
Player be warned I guess.
Anyway I've started to get into Valkyria Chronicles 2. It is a lot more polished from a mechanics perspective. A lot of the half-finished systems and poorly executed good ideas have been corrected. Upgrades are more diverse, retreating/deploying has been made a lot more elegant, tank fights are a lot less binary, the mission structure is more fluid and there are restrictions in place to stop the worst of the Zapp Brannigan tactics the first game encouraged so much.
That said the move to the hand held platform really kills some of the presentation. I liked the visual style of the first game a lot and the weaker hardware can't quite pull it off. The camera is a bit sticky, the sound is flat, the controls aren't as smooth, and everything just feels more awkward.
Still if you liked the recent steam release of the first game, and still have a PSP kicking around it's worth checking out.
Everquest. Havent seen any MMOs in the last few years capable of competing for my interests. Every now and then I jump on Skyrim as even though it is 3+ years old, it still is better than any other attempt at an RPG that has come out since that I have seen and always more to do.
Still chipping away at Payday 2, almost at level 100 for a third time now, but I won't be resetting any time soon this time round, all that grinding from scrub to champ is wearing me down.
I’m currently having a blast playing Hearthstone’s new Gnomes vs Goblin expansion.
I just really hope Blizzard makes some kind of Dragon expansion for HS in the future.
Think about it for a moment, cards with dragons on them are specifically classified as being of the “Dragon” type. Surely there must be some 'planned' reason for this, right?
Am I just imagining things again?
GrimDork wrote: Reinstalled X-Com: Enemy Unknown, figured I'd give it another run without the expansion and then maybe pick that up later if I was interested enough.
I'm gonna stick to normal and skip Ironman, I just don't have the time/patience for extra difficulty as I'm normally being climbed on by a toddler and other such distractions
But what about the Second Wave options? Any hidden gems in there?
Does Marathon make for a fun longer game, or does it just make research take forever and make things more boring overall?
What about the random starting stats, damage, currency output? Neat, or obnoxious?
Does the Red Fog add challenge or just get annoying? How about the automatic crits on flanking?
Thanks
Marathon kinda sucks, just makes research slower. The game is paced properly for the normal game. I like using the random stats it makes each guy feel more unique and therefore authentic.
Random stats seem fine. Random damage kind of gets obnoxious, I'm sure it's helped me once or twice but I've seen a lot of shots that would normally kill something only do one damage =/ Sometimes twice in a row. The red fog thing is interesting for a long game as with marathon, seems to promote leveling up more soldiers than sticking to a single dream team as any injuries will weaken them over time
Marathon seems ok. I think I ran into some monsters a bit earlier in terms of tech than I did playing normal, but my guys had more experience so it kind of balanced out. The research goes slower but when you throw up a bunch of labs it still finishes fairly quick. If anything, I've run out of stuff to research/upgrade with too much game left.
I may tweak some stuff around for the next run, I still want to do a mostly SHIV group. Gotta have at least one dude for the stunner and whatnot.
GrimDork wrote: Random stats seem fine. Random damage kind of gets obnoxious, I'm sure it's helped me once or twice but I've seen a lot of shots that would normally kill something only do one damage =/ Sometimes twice in a row. The red fog thing is interesting for a long game as with marathon, seems to promote leveling up more soldiers than sticking to a single dream team as any injuries will weaken them over time
Marathon seems ok. I think I ran into some monsters a bit earlier in terms of tech than I did playing normal, but my guys had more experience so it kind of balanced out. The research goes slower but when you throw up a bunch of labs it still finishes fairly quick. If anything, I've run out of stuff to research/upgrade with too much game left.
I may tweak some stuff around for the next run, I still want to do a mostly SHIV group. Gotta have at least one dude for the stunner and whatnot.
I used to play with random damage but then realized it was dumb too. Sometimes it saves you but but is that really a good thing? You should be penalized for making a dumb move. And also it just took the oomph out of some of your weapons. Nothing worse than seeing a Plasma Sniper round that should slaughter a guy cause 2 damage.
I'm not always the best at games, but I'm straight up bad at this one. And yet I still like it. I wish some other games could have factions as varied as this
Anyway I've started to get into Valkyria Chronicles 2. It is a lot more polished from a mechanics perspective. A lot of the half-finished systems and poorly executed good ideas have been corrected. Upgrades are more diverse, retreating/deploying has been made a lot more elegant, tank fights are a lot less binary, the mission structure is more fluid and there are restrictions in place to stop the worst of the Zapp Brannigan tactics the first game encouraged so much.
That said the move to the hand held platform really kills some of the presentation. I liked the visual style of the first game a lot and the weaker hardware can't quite pull it off. The camera is a bit sticky, the sound is flat, the controls aren't as smooth, and everything just feels more awkward.
Still if you liked the recent steam release of the first game, and still have a PSP kicking around it's worth checking out.
Aww, but I found running 4 lancers at Jeager's tank the first time you encounter him to be awsome . "Defeated" him in one turn. Although I'm always irriteated on the AI can get shots off scot free, but even if I hammer the aim button, I still get shot at.
I'm personally stuck at the mission where you have to take out the giant tank in the desert after the encounter in the valkyur tomb thing.
Still playing Archeage, I know I told myself I was going to quit because Trion is complete garbage but I just cant stop playing.
Anywho originally I wanted to make a fishing boat and then my server had a giant war and fishing kinda went out the window for me, then I saw the ship customizations coming up in the next big patch and I knew I was going to need a bigger boat.
So I present to you my Nostromo! (I am the one actually on the ship in the second pic, I needed a guildie to take a SS because the POV while at the helm sucks.)
If you don't play Archeage ill explain the fun that was had acquiring this beast.
First I had to craft about 50 trade packs and ferry them from my faction's land across the open ocean (free for all pvp zone) to an island to trade for tokens to buy ship plans. This island is normally camped by pirates (they have their own faction), the enemy faction and my own faction, I did a few trade runs with my guild and we had loads of fun.
After I had the plans in hand I needed to gather enough materials to craft the 15 packs I needed to build the ship, it took a bit ( I bought a bunch of materials because im not going out of my mind growing 5,000 cotton) but I had all my packs and I started building my ship. I had a bit of help moving my packs from where I kept them on my land to the dry dock I had placed in a cove.
Now I need to craft cannonballs so we can do some naval pvp!
@Deathklaat- I'm doing some Archage myself, finally got going. Aside from my Firran that I'm playing to hang with a coworker, my main is a Naian named Bortheraz. Think you could drop me a friend invite or something?
Just getting past the first 15 levels and starting to try and get into crafting- got any tips for someone who's wanting to do weapon and armoursmithing?
Got the Halo 5 Beta going today, and I have to say I'm impressed. HUD scopes, unlimited sprint and boost go a long way towards making the Spartans seem more like supersoldiers, and the new weapon designs are awesome for the most part (love the new Battle Rifle and magnum!). The new game mode is quite cool too; one life per player per round, last team standing wins!
The only bit I'm not too keen on is the CoD/Battlefield-style trigger-to-scope, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.
You have to hold down Left Trigger to zoom in. I think this is pretty standard for FPS these days, but Halo has always has a click of the Right Stick to zoom, which I've always preferred.
You have to hold down Left Trigger to zoom in. I think this is pretty standard for FPS these days, but Halo has always has a click of the Right Stick to zoom, which I've always preferred.
Huh. I don't play and FPSs on consoles, so I wouldn't know.
You have to hold down Left Trigger to zoom in. I think this is pretty standard for FPS these days, but Halo has always has a click of the Right Stick to zoom, which I've always preferred.
Cant you change this with the stick layout in the options? Would be annoying if they removed those features, as I appreciate the older layout.
Currently playing some MC direwolf and a Xenonauts run.
You have to hold down Left Trigger to zoom in. I think this is pretty standard for FPS these days, but Halo has always has a click of the Right Stick to zoom, which I've always preferred.
Cant you change this with the stick layout in the options? Would be annoying if they removed those features, as I appreciate the older layout.
I imagine you'll be able to on full game, this is just a beta so there's not really options.
You have to hold down Left Trigger to zoom in. I think this is pretty standard for FPS these days, but Halo has always has a click of the Right Stick to zoom, which I've always preferred.
Cant you change this with the stick layout in the options? Would be annoying if they removed those features, as I appreciate the older layout.
I imagine you'll be able to on full game, this is just a beta so there's not really options.
World Of Tanks has been getting almost all my attention these days, managed to improve my skills substantialy I like to think too.
But some of the vehicels like for instance the M8something Tank destroyer that to my suprise came with a howitzer as a stock weapon has left me rather annoyed. Whom in their rigth mind gives a dedicated At platform such a weapon?
Trondheim wrote: World Of Tanks has been getting almost all my attention these days, managed to improve my skills substantialy I like to think too.
But some of the vehicels like for instance the M8something Tank destroyer that to my suprise came with a howitzer as a stock weapon has left me rather annoyed. Whom in their rigth mind gives a dedicated At platform such a weapon?
Is it the M8 Scott?
Historically, that wasn't a tank destroyer. It was a snub-barreled 75mm howitzer mounted on a Stuart chassis. It was used for close support anti-infantry/gun work in armored units. Whether it actually belongs in WoT as a distinct unit (as opposed to a modification of the M5 Stuart) is a good question. But it's an historical vehicle that saw plenty of combat on the Western front until it was replaced by the M4(105).
Trondheim wrote: World Of Tanks has been getting almost all my attention these days, managed to improve my skills substantialy I like to think too.
But some of the vehicels like for instance the M8something Tank destroyer that to my suprise came with a howitzer as a stock weapon has left me rather annoyed. Whom in their rigth mind gives a dedicated At platform such a weapon?
Is it the M8 Scott?
Historically, that wasn't a tank destroyer. It was a snub-barreled 75mm howitzer mounted on a Stuart chassis. It was used for close support anti-infantry/gun work in armored units. Whether it actually belongs in WoT as a distinct unit (as opposed to a modification of the M5 Stuart) is a good question. But it's an historical vehicle that saw plenty of combat on the Western front until it was replaced by the M4(105).
That be the name of the devil yes, after a stint of CoH2 I recognized the fiend. its equally bad in that game too And I got a new gun on it so now its all good.
Been spending too much time on WoT myself recently.
I know that my play style is not well suited to using a light tank, so I can't wait to get up above tier 3, but other than that I can't decide on whether to go for heavier tanks or branch out to Tank Destroyers more. My current favourites are my T18, Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t), and Vickers Medium Mk. III.
And although I have favoured maps - and indeed favoured starting positions on those maps - my performance on the couple of T3 machines I currently have is decidedly variable. some matches I do very well indeed, the next I am taken out early, generally to a single shot from a T5.
I know that my play style is not well suited to using a light tank, so I can't wait to get up above tier 3, but other than that I can't decide on whether to go for heavier tanks or branch out to Tank Destroyers more. My current favourites are my T18, Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t), and Vickers Medium Mk. III.
And although I have favoured maps - and indeed favoured starting positions on those maps - my performance on the couple of T3 machines I currently have is decidedly variable. some matches I do very well indeed, the next I am taken out early, generally to a single shot from a T5.
Is this normal as you move up the tiers?
The T18 is one of the best tanks of that tier, simply because unless you're accurate enough to hit the gun mantlet, your aim time is fast enough to shoot before the T18 does, or you're fast enough to get behind it, it's all but impenetrable; even rear-shots can bounce from half the guns T2 tanks have available, and some T3s also struggle. It's one of the favoured tanks of seal clubbers (expert players who either go into low tiers alone, or in platoons, simply to beat a load of newbies) because it's not only powerful, but angling can bounce even more shots, and knowing where to hit a target can result in a goodly amount of 1-shots. A lot of T2 games can be decided simply by who has the most T18s.
The 38(t) is also one of my favourite tanks (I also have them in my Flames of War Czech Panzerkompanie), and is quite underrated in my opinion. Fairly agile, decent armour, decent gun; it's a very well-rounded and effective tank.
The Vickers, however, is one of my personal hatreds, that I found a painful grind to the Matilda. I loathe most of the early Brit lights and mediums, with the exception perhaps of the Cruiser Mk. II, solely because of the howitzer. Slow compared to most other nation's tanks, with at best average guns that, whilst accurate or relatively fast-firing, struggle to penetrate wet cardboard, and armour that might as well be wet cardboard, you're targeted first by any savvy tanker and seen mostly as a free kill; especially the mediums with their ridiculously large silhouettes and completely vertical armour. If the enemy ignores you, and/or stands still, you can usually bag a kill, but Brit lights and mediums tend to rely on getting the drop on enemy tanks, hopefully killing them before they can return much fire, or scaring them off, and getting the hell out of dodge before their rice-paper armour meets a gentle breeze, which is why I love the 3.7 howitzer; long-range, powerful (capable of 1-shotting most tanks you'll meet), and can be used as a quasi-SPG, especially if you can find a rise you can drive up so you get more shell-height, allowing you to fire over hills. Auto-aim is your friend with the howitzer, and since it stays locked for a few seconds after a target disappears, you can sometimes bag a kill on a hull-down enemy tank that's retreated slightly below their rise.
The general advice for WoT is to choose a nation, choose a type of tank, and stick to it until at least Tier V, preferably until you're elited that tank and maxed out the crew's exp, then go for another. Currently, USSR and US are probably the most balanced factions, mainly because the US is the US and because Wargaming is a Russian company, so naturally they have a Russian bias. The US have a good SPG line (also my personal favourite SPGs), TD line, and Medium line, with the M4 Sherman being one of the best non-premium Tier 5 money-making tanks in the game. The USSR have worse SPGs than the US, but the T-34 is a decent medium, and their TD line is also fairly good, but their strength lies in their heavy KV-1, KV-1S, and KV-2 tanks. The only downside of trying to access the M4 Sherman, or the KV-1, is that you have to grind through fairly rubbish tanks, first. The M3 Lee, for example, is widely regarded as one of the worst tanks in the game due to its large silhouette, lack of armour, and gun position. Historically it was fairly well-armoured, and posed a good threat to the German tanks in Africa, but Wargaming sometimes stomp all over historical accuracy, and this is one of those times. The M3 Lee is a painful grind, but the M4 is seen as worth it.
The T-28 grind to the KV-1 can be equally as painful, but if you get favourable maps and know how to use it, it can be an excellent tank. I used to think it was crap until I realised I was playing it as a medium tank, when I should be playing it as more of a TD. With its Medium Tank label, its powerful range of guns, and its speed, you might be tempted to play it as a front-line medium or a flanker, but don't be fooled into trying it, as your stretched chassis gives a lot of room for track shots and your armour might as well have been spray-painted on as an afterthought. You will NOT survive a fire-fight with anything, even Tier 3 lights, so don't even try. What you should do, is rush the very fast-firing and accurate ZiS 57mm gun. It also has good penetration, and whilst its alpha is low, the consistent damage you can put out through fast, accurate shots really build up. Use your speed to shift from cover to cover after firing (SPGs adore your stretched chassis), and try and hide your length behind rocks or other indestructible cover. Support your team from a distance, targeting enemy TDs first (they have little armour, and your quick firing can panic them, or take them out before they realise it; aiming for their tracks first makes them a sitting duck) and then go for mediums or heavies that are giving your team a hard time. As with the TDs, a lot of quick hits can panic enemy tankers, forcing them to disengage to save their own skin, or make mistakes (such as turning to face you and revealing their side armour to one of your TDs) that can then be punished.
Against heavies, tracking them is always a good shout, even if that's all you can do. An immobile heavy is a sitting duck, and you'll rack up credits like crazy by damaging even the same parts over and over. Against some, there are weak spots that not many people tend to target. The KV-1, for example, is an armoured behemoth that has incredibly thick, even hull armour, as well as a well-armoured turret that can be upgraded to be 110 all around. You'll struggle to do much, even with your 57mm's excellent penetration, but there are places like the completely vertical, thin armour on the front, where the viewport is located, that can be easily penetrated, and the back side-rear armour houses a very flammable engine. Never, ever target the turret of a KV; it's an exercise in futility. Some tanks, like the British AT-2, have more easy-to-spot weak-points, like giant commander's cupola (affectionately known as 'the tumour') on the top, and large gun mantlet. Reading up on the weak-spots of the more common tanks you see will give you a huge advantage, especially since the T-28's 57mm accuracy and relatively quick aiming time make it a great tank for targeting them.
My mind is reeling as I am not at all familiar with all these tank designations, but will put a lot of thought into what I am going to do before my next game.
I do have a large garage in the game, and a lot of different tanks at the moment, a relic from when I was playing 4 years ago. I will have to take a look at what is in there - I know I have some elite premium stuff like the T7 Combat car, but was looking at having 3 or maybe 4 slots for each of German, English, and US - so may have to concentrate on the US side of things and look at the SPG side of things now I have found out that that is what people were calling "Arty" and I have found out how to use their indirect fire.
Thanks again. I'm going to print out your words so I can study them more.
You have to hold down Left Trigger to zoom in. I think this is pretty standard for FPS these days, but Halo has always has a click of the Right Stick to zoom, which I've always preferred.
Cant you change this with the stick layout in the options? Would be annoying if they removed those features, as I appreciate the older layout.
I imagine you'll be able to on full game, this is just a beta so there's not really options.
There are. You can switch the button layout to Halo 4's (which is what I've done), as well as some other options.
US Artillery is very good, boasting good accuracy, aim-time, shortish reload times (if you want to see a long aim and reload time, get the French Lorraine 39L AM--you can end a game having fired about 2 shots, waited for the reticule to get as small as possible, and missed both by miles, and not through lack of trying to hit), decent splash damage, and good all-round damage on impact. The Priest and M37 are where they start to shine. When targeting an enemy with arty, don't centre the reticule on the tank, put the central aim-dot behind the target.
One thing I forgot to mention in the first post, but is one of the most important rules, is to look where you're going. I only remembered this because I was about to get the kill-shot on an enemy Hetzer (in a non-SPG, target the lower glacis on a Hetzer; it doesn't share nearly as much armour as the rest of the hull, and is easily penetrated; don't be put off by every shot bouncing on its sloped hull) and had a team-mate drive full throttle right across mine and another ally's firing line, resulting in him copping my kill-shot in his rear (and also costing me credits for his own lack of situational awareness), and the enemy Hetzer bouncing 3 allied shots on his hull and getting away. If the team-mate beside me had fired, too, the allied tank who crossed our firing line would've been toast, and very likely gone on a sweary rampage.
The team-mate beside me was also positioned in such a way that I couldn't actually moved from my spot, so my hurried second attempt at a kill-shot clipped the Hetzer's sloped armour, since I couldn't move to see his glacis. Also, take a few seconds at the start of each game to see where people are going, and allow the idiots who turn their turret one way and drive full-throttle in a direction they can't see to get past you. It's far easier to wait than cop flak from some idiot--because he wasn't looking where he was going and rammed into you--for being in the way, and helps you avoid actually getting in peoples' way.
Learning how to drive and utilise common sense at the same time is a valuable skill that a lot of tankers in the game lack, and blame everyone else because of it.
Anvildude wrote: @Deathklaat- I'm doing some Archage myself, finally got going. Aside from my Firran that I'm playing to hang with a coworker, my main is a Naian named Bortheraz. Think you could drop me a friend invite or something?
Just getting past the first 15 levels and starting to try and get into crafting- got any tips for someone who's wanting to do weapon and armoursmithing?
Which server are you on? i play on Salphira.
If you want a profession to level that will make you loads of gold, i would pick up mining.On my server a stack of 1k raw stone will net you about 130 gold, if you turn that stone into hereafter stones you are looking at about 230g.
crafting weapons, armor and jewelry are some of the hardest things to do due to the included RNG factor and the cost to make the items, it also doesn't help that the weapons and armor you get from quests are far better than anything you can craft at the same level.
one thing to understand about crafting weapon, armor and jewelry is that to make the next tier you need to use the previous tier as a component, this is easy to do until you are able to make the level 44 stuff and beyond. Hardcore crafting starts with the crafting of the level 44 set. There are 4 of these sets for each armor type [cloth, leather, and plate]. What's really fun, is the fact that when you upgrade your set, you don't know which of the 4 set options it will turn into.
To put it simply, you are guaranteed only a Illustrious(lvl44) piece of equipment. After that you have a 1 in 4 chances of having the right Illustrious to upgrade to Magnificent(Low50). After that you have a 1 in 4 chance to having the correct Magnificent to upgrade to Epherium(Mid50), and lastly you have a 1 in 7 chance of having the correct Epherium to created your Delphinad(High50). And after you get to high fifty, there is a 1 in 7 chance you get the weapon you are hoping for.
You have a 1 in 112 chance of upgrading straight to Delphinad, and a 1 in 748 chance of getting the Delphinad equipment you want.
Weapons adhere to a similar upgrade pattern. There are 4 level 44 weapons of each weapon type, only one of which can be upgraded to the low level 50, of which there are 4, and out of those 4 only 1 can be upgraded to the middle level 50, of which there are also 7 and of which also only 1 can be upgraded to it's final high level 50 form. Same chances apply.
There are. You can switch the button layout to Halo 4's (which is what I've done), as well as some other options.
Yeah, I just found that! Makes an already fun game even more fun as my brain doesn't keep trying to reconcile Battlefield controls with Halo visuals. I've actually managed to get a kill or two now!
I'm still amazed by how 'fast' is plays compared to the previous game. The infinite sprint, boost and vaulting/climbing really make the whole thing feel so much more than 'gun with legs'. Can't wait for the full game to arrive.
I know that my play style is not well suited to using a light tank, so I can't wait to get up above tier 3, but other than that I can't decide on whether to go for heavier tanks or branch out to Tank Destroyers more. My current favourites are my T18, Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t), and Vickers Medium Mk. III.
And although I have favoured maps - and indeed favoured starting positions on those maps - my performance on the couple of T3 machines I currently have is decidedly variable. some matches I do very well indeed, the next I am taken out early, generally to a single shot from a T5.
Is this normal as you move up the tiers?
The PzKpfw 38(T) and the other variant of the 38 is silly good for its tier, It is the single vehicel that landed me the most kills, I avaraged around 2 to 5 kils each round with it. As for the tanks I have now I have to say its the French BGR b1, with its 90mm gun its silly good against just about any enemy tank, SPG or TD.
And yes, I have lost track of the times I have been reduced to a smouldering wreck by a higher tier tank.
I've been playing 'shogun 2: fall of the samurai' of all things. I must have gotten totally bored as most 'total war' games are not my style, fairly boring and just take a while (the a.i. also often makes weird negotiation decisions). Add to that the fact i can't get into eastern culture or at least warfare and it's just not too much for me. That said the littering of bodies is pretty freaking crazy in 'total war'. 'Fall of the samurai' is more my style as it has guns and no stupid crap 'realm divide' but artillery in 'fall of the samurai' just seem so OP.
I started playing FTL:FTL a few days ago. Got to the flagship for the first time with the torus. Basic ion, hull laser, and hull beam as weps, combat, sheild, and system repair as drones (with a hull repiar in storage for after battles. I was at the point where I was killing triple shielded rebel ships with no damage done to me. Then I got to the flagship. And I died.
The only way I could have stood a chance is if it didn't have hacking and the ability to charge weapons while cloaked.
Meh, still considering FTL to be one of the most overhyped games ever. While luck usually plays a certain role in roguelikes, FTL is the equivalent to flipping a coin.
I'm not sure how normal runs, I tend to stick to easy as even there a single lapse of judgement/observation can wipe you out... but after I learned how to play properly I can consistently get to the end and *usually* take out the rebel ship. It was never hyped to me, I just saw it, bought it, and fell in love. You do get some bad luck, some voyages do seem to be 'cursed' but I wouldn't go quite so far as to say flipping a coin
@Co'tor the rebel flagship is a bag full of dicks, it's meant to be. Think of it as an MMO raid boss that has specific phases and a fairly specific way to deal with it. Everyone can charge guns while cloaked btw. It having hacking is a bit new since the advanced version (which I haven't played a whole lot).
To beat the flagship though you've got to have a strategy for neutralizing it's guns quickly. No other ship in the game brings as much firepower to bear (9 shots and a beam capable of piercing 2 layers of shielding IIRC) while having as much hull and as many ridiculous secondary systems. It also has a fat crew compliment and the best medbay you can get.
Read through a guide if you need to, the thing is brutal. But take out the guns and quick, either with missiles, boarding parties or what have you. I find the missiles to be the most disastrous, followed by a tossup between the ion and lasers. The beam is only bad if the two shield-depleting systems are up. Missiles, bombs, and boarding parties are my usual go-to methods for nuking the weapon systems in short order.
There are a few other optimizations/efficiency issues you may need to deal with as well. The whole game before the flagship is there to prepare you for the final battle. If you get to the RFS with 50 missiles 50 drones and 30 fuel, you've done it wrong. You don't need the fuel and won't be likely to use that many missiles or drones fighting the boss. You should have traded them out as you went to get more resources for upgrades or better weapons. It's also pointless to have any banked scrap by the time you hit the endzone, you may not get to shop again before the fight. Same idea, make sure you have weapons that will hurt the boss by the time you get there. Even if it will make the middle of the game lean/weird/potentially get you killed, think about what you will need for the final fight. Cloak at at least lvl1 is almost mandatory. Remember, cloak doesn't *have* to be used to give you more charge time while the opponent cools his heels, you can use it as an active defensive cooldown. Wait till your enemy fires a large number of shots, then activate your cloak to max (or nearly so) your evade rating. Kind of like how Rogues in WoW used to be able to trigger Vanish while spells were traveling to them and cancel them out (it did get changed though lol). To use it like this, even if you have level 3 bought, level 1 is still best. It incurs the shortest cooldown allowing you to juke waves of shots more often. Especially critical to avoid certain special attacks.
Anti missile drone is also pretty darn useful until you get the missiles down.
Also realize that you can't probably upgrade *every* system to the max by the time you get there unless you are particularly lucky. The engine upgrades eventually start giving diminishing returns (though still useful) and while having 4 shield bubbles is best, the cost to go from 3 to 4 is pretty high and the scrap may be better spent elsewhere.
Not knowing how far along you got I don't really want to say more as it might spoil the fight for you.
My main problem is paying too much attention to the enemy ship and not enough to mine. I died one round because I forgot they destroyed by O2, and didn't realize for 2 jumps .
Anvildude wrote: @Deathklaat- I'm doing some Archage myself, finally got going. Aside from my Firran that I'm playing to hang with a coworker, my main is a Naian named Bortheraz. Think you could drop me a friend invite or something?
Just getting past the first 15 levels and starting to try and get into crafting- got any tips for someone who's wanting to do weapon and armoursmithing?
Which server are you on? i play on Salphira.
If you want a profession to level that will make you loads of gold, i would pick up mining.On my server a stack of 1k raw stone will net you about 130 gold, if you turn that stone into hereafter stones you are looking at about 230g.
crafting weapons, armor and jewelry are some of the hardest things to do due to the included RNG factor and the cost to make the items, it also doesn't help that the weapons and armor you get from quests are far better than anything you can craft at the same level.
one thing to understand about crafting weapon, armor and jewelry is that to make the next tier you need to use the previous tier as a component, this is easy to do until you are able to make the level 44 stuff and beyond. Hardcore crafting starts with the crafting of the level 44 set. There are 4 of these sets for each armor type [cloth, leather, and plate]. What's really fun, is the fact that when you upgrade your set, you don't know which of the 4 set options it will turn into.
To put it simply, you are guaranteed only a Illustrious(lvl44) piece of equipment. After that you have a 1 in 4 chances of having the right Illustrious to upgrade to Magnificent(Low50). After that you have a 1 in 4 chance to having the correct Magnificent to upgrade to Epherium(Mid50), and lastly you have a 1 in 7 chance of having the correct Epherium to created your Delphinad(High50). And after you get to high fifty, there is a 1 in 7 chance you get the weapon you are hoping for.
You have a 1 in 112 chance of upgrading straight to Delphinad, and a 1 in 748 chance of getting the Delphinad equipment you want.
Weapons adhere to a similar upgrade pattern. There are 4 level 44 weapons of each weapon type, only one of which can be upgraded to the low level 50, of which there are 4, and out of those 4 only 1 can be upgraded to the middle level 50, of which there are also 7 and of which also only 1 can be upgraded to it's final high level 50 form. Same chances apply.
Yeah, I'm a Salphira Naian (due to your earlier post?) Not necessarily looking at crafting for money, though I'll gladly mine and sell stone and stone products for a little gild. Not entirely sure how the inter-player trades work right now, though, and I've realized I'm really still in the early tutorial levels yet- just got through the first couple Blue Salt Brotherhood missions.
So there's no way to get the proper dust or motes? I know you can mag-salvage stuff, and that's how I've been working on the Sun dust, but it's incredibly annoying getting Moon or Star instead (planning on making myself a shortspear when I can. Sad that the shortspear animations aren't all thrusts, but oh well).
Like I said, the game is not your friend. It has built in warnings for most of the common 'get yourself killed' errors, but they are easy to miss when the entire screen is flashing red. If you're having a hard time remembering to check, make yourself a pre-jump checklist
Yeah, I'm a Salphira Naian (due to your earlier post?) Not necessarily looking at crafting for money, though I'll gladly mine and sell stone and stone products for a little gild. Not entirely sure how the inter-player trades work right now, though, and I've realized I'm really still in the early tutorial levels yet- just got through the first couple Blue Salt Brotherhood missions.
So there's no way to get the proper dust or motes? I know you can mag-salvage stuff, and that's how I've been working on the Sun dust, but it's incredibly annoying getting Moon or Star instead (planning on making myself a shortspear when I can. Sad that the shortspear animations aren't all thrusts, but oh well).
the dust comes from coin purses, if you intend on going the armor route i would salvage any items you grow out of
Sigvatr: Perhaps, but after spending so long fighting big enemies that take several hits even with an ultragreatsword, it's nice to fight winged demons, whom I can kill in one hit, as long as I dodge their combos.
Oh, and also the painting guardians (whom I initially called "kkk-ninjas" until someone gave me their correct name), but that's just a single room so that hardly counts.
I know that my Naian is in a faction, but then I made a second character to play with a friend, who's Firran. I couldn't communicate between the Naian and the Firran, but when I made the Firran myself, we were in the same starting zone.
Melissia wrote: Sigvatr: Perhaps, but after spending so long fighting big enemies that take several hits even with an ultragreatsword, it's nice to fight winged demons, whom I can kill in one hit, as long as I dodge their combos.
I'm not sure if you know what I was hinting at, but I don't want to spoil it for you
@Sigvatr: Hehe well just let her know to turn around and watch what ornstein and smough are doing and to back flip and such away from them when she gets there. Seriously after my last rage quit i don't want to go back but seeing melissia get so far is kind of p*ssing me off. I'd rather her not get farther than me. Speaking of which i thought you guys hated each other. What's all this buddy buddy talk coming from? You seem so helpful and nice to each other.
Been playing Final Fantasy XIV. Got Rogue/Ninja to 50 earlier today, and got the Relic Zenith weapon for the job.
thedarkavenger wrote: Currently playing Hatoful Boyfriend, and 4 other Dating sims on my iPhone. One of the phone ones has a Tsundere ninja!
While poking around Steam a little while back, I stumbled across a game called Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius. It's a combination of a sci-fi turn-based tactical game (with starships and mecha), and dating sim. The tactical elements aren't X-Com level depth, and I haven't played around with it enough to know how involved the dating sim elements get. But it's free, so I can't complain.
And then yesterday I happened to notice that the developers of Sunrider are apparently going to pull a reverse Muv-Luv move. Steam has a demo for a (presumably upcoming) game where you and all of the girls from Sunrider are attending the same high school.
flamingkillamajig wrote: Speaking of which i thought you guys hated each other. What's all this buddy buddy talk coming from? You seem so helpful and nice to each other.
Huh? Why would I hate her? I've always made it clear that I highly respect her for her vast knowledge of games and her well-written posts, while being too opinionated and emotionally involved in regards to one topic in order to get a normal discussion going. There are only 3 people on my super-ignore list and given the time on Dakka, I'd say that's a pretty low number
Not sure why it angers you that Melissia is farther ahead than you though
flamingkillamajig wrote: Speaking of which i thought you guys hated each other. What's all this buddy buddy talk coming from? You seem so helpful and nice to each other.
Huh? Why would I hate her? I've always made it clear that I highly respect her for her vast knowledge of games and her well-written posts, while being too opinionated and emotionally involved in regards to one topic in order to get a normal discussion going. There are only 3 people on my super-ignore list and given the time on Dakka, I'd say that's a pretty low number
Not sure why it angers you that Melissia is farther ahead than you though
Must be his own feeling of despair, brougth out by not having beaten said obstacels. And I may add my voice to that opion regarding Melissa when it comes to games. I may not agree with her on all things game related or other things. But all in all I think she is a valued member of Dakka
Just waiting for the next patch in WOW, then finishing the Cata quest chain underwater.....Have to take out that drokking Kraken at the end.
I took out the whale shark as well. That was....well.....yeah quite scary. When it's already half your screen in size, and you aren't close enough to cast spells.
Sigvatr wrote: The fight is far from being as hard as so many people claim. Both enemies heavily telegraph their attacks and their attack pattern is very limited.
By themselves they're not that hard but together fighting you at the same time it's different. Spend too long attacking one and the other will jam its weapon up your ***. Not good times that's for sure.
Sigvatr wrote: The fight is far from being as hard as so many people claim. Both enemies heavily telegraph their attacks and their attack pattern is very limited.
By themselves they're not that hard but together fighting you at the same time it's different. Spend too long attacking one and the other will jam its weapon up your ***. Not good times that's for sure.
The fight only becomes difficult if you are either underleveled or if you want to fight Smaug first in order to get Ornstein's soul (then again: why would you?), as Ornstein will always be in your back. Especially STR-fighters (such as Melissia) can get in trouble as attack animations (normally) are very long. Ornstein, however, is rather fragile and has low defenses, making it easy to take him down by your usual circle-strafing. As usual, however, STR-weapons are at a disadvantage and need to be quick on their toes as the window to start an attack is shorter for them. There really isn't much to say or give advice about the fight, it's pretty straight-forward with no secret tricks.
In case that anyone doesn't know it yet, there's an awesome song about Dark Souls; "Lordvessel" by Tanouki Suit. Careful, it has light spoilers.
Yeah, the archers are terrible and not well-designed. Dark Souls usually is hard because you need to figure out enemy patterns in order to defeat them, but in order to get by the archers, you have to exploit the poor AI.
I never found archers that difficult, because taking advantage of crappy AI is something I learned playing through NES games. ANyone remember the TMNT game, and the trick to defeating Bebop using Donatello? Heh.
Haha, I assume you're roughly at my age then. Most NES games boiled down to exploiting, though...stuff like moving the screen back and forth to trigger enemy spawns, getting unlimited lives / points by exploiting spawn systems, trying to clip projectiles to avoid getting damaged etc. #nostalgia
Archers in general aren't a problem. There is a specific place in Anor Londo, however, that's rather annoying as the archers are on a small ledge above you and you have to cross a narrow path to get to them, making it impossible to dodge them. Blocking hardly works either as blocking means getting pushed back and likely falling down. There's a neat trick to get past them, though. Not sure if you got to that point yet, so I'll shush
The poor AI is DS biggest problem. This is bad in DS1 and even worse in DS2. The entire game minus the bosses suddenly becomes super easy mode if you choose a ranged weapon / magic. The problem is that From Software did not implement an actual AI. The AI is extremely basic and in order to not make the game too hard, FS implemented artificial area limitations. If an enemy comes across such an invisible line, he will immediately turn around and start walking back, allowing you to easily shoot at him. And even apart of that, enemies just ignore being shot at most of the time.
angst 
