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.
I have a rogue (backstab character) and currently i'm using fairly lighter armor to give me quicker reactions. The armor is a weird mask and an outfit that's reminiscent of the spanish inquisition from monty python. Perhaps i haven't leveled enough or more likely haven't gotten the right gear? I'm using a spear mostly. I find the demon's spear to sometimes be useful in some fights if only because it has a longer reach than most spears. That thing was a freaking god send against those giant demons in the lava pit beyond the topless spider queen chick.
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Also this is relevant to 'dark souls' ;P.
There's some cursing so maybe NSFW but it's great. A friend's sister quoted it once before and i would never have even known about this without having seen it at GW.
Oh and look at the 'show more' part below the video. He has some funny stories with it usually.
In general, get as close to the fat roll limit as possible (50%) or go less and take the salto ring for extremely fast rolls and therefore a lot of invulnerability frames when rolling. Unless you're a STR character, of course, albeit even those can roll well.
Spears are bad weapons in DS as they have slow attack animations, low base damage and mostly bad special moves.The only good one is the Silver Knight Spear.
If you want a DEX-focused character, you should look into either the Great Scythe (sucks in PvP, though), Uchikatana or the Balder Side Sword. Highly recommend the latter as it has a superb moveset for both PvE and PvP. My wife preferred the Great Scythe was I always kicked her butt in PvP as its moves are very predictable.
Sigvatr wrote: In general, get as close to the fat roll limit as possible (50%) or go less and take the salto ring for extremely fast rolls and therefore a lot of invulnerability frames when rolling. Unless you're a STR character, of course, albeit even those can roll well.
Spears are bad weapons in DS as they have slow attack animations, low base damage and mostly bad special moves.The only good one is the Silver Knight Spear.
If you want a DEX-focused character, you should look into either the Great Scythe (sucks in PvP, though), Uchikatana or the Balder Side Sword. Highly recommend the latter as it has a superb moveset for both PvE and PvP. My wife preferred the Great Scythe was I always kicked her butt in PvP as its moves are very predictable.
I got 'dark souls' when it was still for windows live i think and the port showed xbox commands for responses to things in the computer version. It was a very lazy port and it was confusing as sh*t. Knowing wtf is needed for what and knowing what each thing does would help tremendously. I sorta figured out on my own but there are bits they really should've thrown into the player's manual even if most casual players cast that aside and never read it i would've liked knowing what stats mean what without going through the slow process of finding out on my own.
I find your opinion of spears to be strange. They seem to handle larger creatures fairly well in my experience. You just have to poke them with it and fall back a little and do that over and over till they take enough damage to die. Demon's spear was really good back when i first used it. I pretty much slaughtered all the monsters i faced with no more than a couple deaths on my part possibly.
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Btw unrelated but how was that animated batman movie 'the dark knight returns'? I only saw clips of it myself but from what i've seen it looks good. One of my friends said it was from arguably the best batman comic ever made.
Finished my last x-com run and tweaked a couple of things. Going to try to use different combos of abilities and squad composition this time. No squadsight in the zone snipers either, too much of a crutch, at least 3-4 times last game she single handedly clutched a bad turn by nuking upwards of 5 enemies out in the open (cyrsalids, muton brawlers that had been softened up, etc), too easy lol.
Can you have more than one shiv on your party? I'd really like to run a squad of mostly SHIVs for fun, but I've never even checked to see if you could take more than one (didn't even research them last time).
From Software is well known for doing extremely poor PC versions. DS1 was unplayable without mods or a controller, DS2 was a mess without mods / controller on top of From Software even porting graphics 1:1, resulting in terrible graphics on the PC.
Spears just have a far lower damage potential than a lot of other weapons, e.g. the ones I mentioned above. The Demon Spear, for example, has the problem of dealing mixed damage thus never reaching the top damage values other weapons can get. On the other hand, it offers a good bit of security due to being the longest range weapon in the game and the terrible, terrible hitboxes. Dear lord, the hitboxes in Dark Souls are awful. Spears in PvP are rather looked down upon because of their terrible hitbox and because of forcing the opponent to a very specific playstyle (aka roll around). Very good vs. fat rollers, but prepare for hate
Yeah, pyromancy is very useful because it can be used without requiring any high stat.
Sadly, with the DLC, balance was thrown completely overboard. Once you reach higher levels, you will exclusively see dark magic users who instantly kill you with one hit.
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.
Archeage is faction based like WoW. Each faction has 2 races and the 2 factions are hostile to each other.
i tried to add your main to my friends list but it was coming back with player not found.
SkavenLord wrote: Looking into Sims 3. Might help me with loneliness issues. If I could only get 1 expansion pack, which should I go for?
Ambitions is a good choice, I think. It's got more substantive content than some of the others. Personally I also like Pets, but that's just because I like... pets.
One that I would not recommend is Supernatural. The new life states aren't that interesting, and the zombies it adds are such a huge pain that modding them out is the only reasonable option.
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.
Archeage is faction based like WoW. Each faction has 2 races and the 2 factions are hostile to each other.
i tried to add your main to my friends list but it was coming back with player not found.
Hrm. I might have misspelled. It's not the best name I've ever come up with, after all.
SkavenLord wrote: Looking into Sims 3. Might help me with loneliness issues. If I could only get 1 expansion pack, which should I go for?
Ambitions is a good choice, I think. It's got more substantive content than some of the others. Personally I also like Pets, but that's just because I like... pets.
toasteroven wrote:One that I would not recommend is Supernatural. The new life states aren't that interesting, and the zombies it adds are such a huge pain that modding them out is the only reasonable option.
Sigvatr wrote: Asked my wife and she said that she prefers Generations, for the fact alone that you can send your kid away to boarding school
Other than that, she also recommends Ambitions for being able to work at home.
toasteroven wrote: One that I would not recommend is Supernatural. The new life states aren't that interesting, and the zombies it adds are such a huge pain that modding them out is the only reasonable option.
I've heard that the vampires in Night Life can also be a problem. If left unchecked, you'll reportedly end up with them overrunning the community.
Defeated O&S... pvpers in dark souls are jannoying as hell, appearing every time you're trying to summon help for a boss. And they're always powergaming donkey-caves, too. I should go offline when I play.
Eumerin wrote: I've heard that the vampires in Night Life can also be a problem. If left unchecked, you'll reportedly end up with them overrunning the community.
Yeah, they would do that. Night Life was in general buggy as all get out, which saddened me, because I liked the city setting. The Sims has always been a bit too suburban for me.
I thought it was kind of fun building towns waaay back in the day until the citizenry got pissy over stupid things and I may or may not have neglected to repair their homes after natural disasters... I've never gotten the appeal of the newer games where it seems like you just play the one person and customize your house or whatever.
May try SWTOR with a friend for a bit, was gonna buy it when it came out but never did. I figure it's F2P as long as I clutch tight to my wallet, shouldn't hurt to check it out.
The only thing about those games that would potentially interest me is all of the tragic ways your little dude could meet their end... and I'm not creepy enough to buy a game *just* for that reason At least not yet.... But seriously, trapping some poor dude in his bedroom boxed in by espresso machines so he can't get to his bed and dies of exhaustion? So mean.
GrimDork wrote: The only thing about those games that would potentially interest me is all of the tragic ways your little dude could meet their end... and I'm not creepy enough to buy a game *just* for that reason At least not yet.... But seriously, trapping some poor dude in his bedroom boxed in by espresso machines so he can't get to his bed and dies of exhaustion? So mean.
Removing the ladder from the pool while a sim is in it is a popular version of what you're describing, from what I understand.
SkavenLord wrote: Looking into Sims 3. Might help me with loneliness issues. If I could only get 1 expansion pack, which should I go for?
Aren't there versions now that come with everything bundled?
Actually, hold on...
*opens up Steam*
Keeeeeeeeeeeeeey-righst... that's an expensive game. Over $439 for the full game.
Yeah, forget that...
Yeah, I only picked up The Sims 3 back when it was in a Humble Bundle. Got 2-3 of the cheaper expansions I'd use (University, Nightlife, Ambitions) and it still cost me more than I'd have liked. Sims 4 isn't getting a look in from me at all, not since they further gutted the base game so they can sell you back its features in yet more Overpriced DLC™.
flamingkillamajig wrote: Why's everybody so crazy for 'the sims'? I haven't played since the first ones. What's changed? Can't say i'm really into it though but i am curious.
I like the Sims because I like designing and building houses and parks and things like that. I've never found another game that quite scratches that itch; where you can go in and design every feature of a home, right down to the paper towel rolls, and then have people live in it, seeing how well the design works.
It's not my favorite game series, but I've got enough out of it to justify what I've put in, for me.
If I'm gonna go design a house I'll probably do it in a version of space engineers so heavily modded that there may very well be more mods than game.
(which also covers what I've been doing when I haven't been playing dark souls)
Automatically Appended Next Post: On a related note, time to dive back in to dark souls and figure out what I'm gonna be doing now that I have the lordvessel.
Don't mean to be 'That Guy' but i pummelled them on my first try. And i don't use cheap tactics like Havels armour, sorceries or iron flesh.
The hardest boss for me was Capra demon, as it's a pretty cheap fight with a long walk between and most player characters, mine included, don't have the stats to wield the good gear they've picked up yet, unless you're a noob and you're using the drake sword lol. I couldn't beat him legit and had to hide on a window sill pelting him with fireballs (a cheap exploit i discovered myself thank you very much ). I also found the Iron Golem fairly difficult but after a couple tries i just gave up and summoned the Tarkus guy.
Playing nothing but Genocide Simulator 8 (aka Dynasty Warriors 8 ). Having a blast just completing all the story missions on normal then gonna try do them on hard or above. Its a very grindy game but I've played grindy games to death so another one ain't gonna hurt haha.
Capra Demon is rather cheap. All you gotta do, basically, is to run up the stairs, drop attack him, repeat.
One of the easiest bosses, though, is...the last boss. Not spoilering, but he's so cheap.
My favorite playthrough, however, was my Ricard playthrough. Just spent the entire game parrying people and dealing insane damage. Awesome!
For bonus troll points, when you get invaded, just morph into a piece of scenery and hide where noone finds ya. Invaders are on a timer and if they can't find you in time, they will be banished. It's hilarious!
I beat Sif in two tries and somehow got really damned lucky and just baaaaarely beat the Four Kings on my first try.
All I'll say is "So glad the shield I normally use (Crest Shield) has good magic resist.", because holy gak did that make it possible at all to survive on my first try, lol. 90% magic block... it saved my life that fight, as I was sometimes caught off guard by the magic attack's homing on me.
So I may or may not have lost a couple of countries from the x-com project for my questionable priorities, but after the last mission I don't think the remaining members can refute my decision to manufacture and field a team of six S.H.I.V.s While them taking damage and going down for repair is annoying, starting in the appropriate country makes them cheap enough to just make a few more. About to get them lasers too!
I realize I'll have to bring one or two humans along *sometimes* but I'm finding I quite enjoy driving a team of little mini-tanks around. Would be cool if you could name them (like you can your human soldiers....) but oh well. Being able to largely ignore the local terrain and keep them close to hunt in packs means they usually win out even without having the best stats individually. We'll see if they keep being so useful as the enemy techs up. Can't wait to get a squad of plasma hoverSHIVS lol.
Okay screw Lost Izalith, it's not hard, it's just really damn annoying on the eyes. Gonna try out DS2, maybe it'll-- OH GODDAMNIT WHY DOES MY CONTROLLER NOT WORK. It doesn't even recognize that the right stick exists -.- and it only got THAT far after I tried several ways-- x360ce got the closest to getting it working...
At least DS2 appears to be better with mouse and keyboard than DS1 was, after heavily modifying its control scheme.
GrimDork wrote: So I may or may not have lost a couple of countries from the x-com project for my questionable priorities, but after the last mission I don't think the remaining members can refute my decision to manufacture and field a team of six S.H.I.V.s While them taking damage and going down for repair is annoying, starting in the appropriate country makes them cheap enough to just make a few more. About to get them lasers too!
I realize I'll have to bring one or two humans along *sometimes* but I'm finding I quite enjoy driving a team of little mini-tanks around. Would be cool if you could name them (like you can your human soldiers....) but oh well. Being able to largely ignore the local terrain and keep them close to hunt in packs means they usually win out even without having the best stats individually. We'll see if they keep being so useful as the enemy techs up. Can't wait to get a squad of plasma hoverSHIVS lol.
Better in enemy within where you can use people in mechs as part of the team.
Got bored so started playing 'Overlord' again. It's a rather fun game. It's exactly what you think in that it's evil pikmin with a little dark humor and regular humor. They also make fun of elves quite a bit which i kind of enjoy.
Melissia wrote: Okay screw Lost Izalith, it's not hard, it's just really damn annoying on the eyes. Gonna try out DS2, maybe it'll-- OH GODDAMNIT WHY DOES MY CONTROLLER NOT WORK. It doesn't even recognize that the right stick exists -.- and it only got THAT far after I tried several ways-- x360ce got the closest to getting it working...
At least DS2 appears to be better with mouse and keyboard than DS1 was, after heavily modifying its control scheme.
Remember to use the graphics mod if ya PC can handle it.
I haven't actually beaten stray demon, i was pretty weak at the time, i think i had only just beaten Quelaag and the magic blast would just one-shot me every time. However seeing as he's an optional fight i just gave up after a couple of goes.
Most Dark Souls experts and players seem to use the Crest shield, i imagine because it's one of the best. I just can't bring myself to throw away my trusty Spider Shield, it was the first shield i found with 100% block and light enough to carry, stuck with it ever since.
I thoroughly recommend 2 BTW, i actually enjoy it more, the camera is WAAAYYYY better for starters, Seath the Scaleless was almost unplayable for me. The only thing i really miss is the labyrinthine level design
Melissia wrote: Okay screw Lost Izalith, it's not hard, it's just really damn annoying on the eyes. Gonna try out DS2, maybe it'll-- OH GODDAMNIT WHY DOES MY CONTROLLER NOT WORK. It doesn't even recognize that the right stick exists -.- and it only got THAT far after I tried several ways-- x360ce got the closest to getting it working...
At least DS2 appears to be better with mouse and keyboard than DS1 was, after heavily modifying its control scheme.
Remember to use the graphics mod if ya PC can handle it.
Don't think it can. I need to figure out how to bind commands to my mouse4 (thumb button)...
Melissia wrote: Okay screw Lost Izalith, it's not hard, it's just really damn annoying on the eyes. Gonna try out DS2, maybe it'll-- OH GODDAMNIT WHY DOES MY CONTROLLER NOT WORK. It doesn't even recognize that the right stick exists -.- and it only got THAT far after I tried several ways-- x360ce got the closest to getting it working...
At least DS2 appears to be better with mouse and keyboard than DS1 was, after heavily modifying its control scheme.
Remember to use the graphics mod if ya PC can handle it.
Don't think it can. I need to figure out how to bind commands to my mouse4 (thumb button)...
Xbox 360 controller should work fine...
Also, Lost Izalith is the worst part of Dark Souls, the creators even said so. They essentially ran out of production time and that's the area that got fethed.
Going to go home how and re-aquaint myself with "Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising" which I got from GoG. £1.19 for a game with voice-overs from Tom Baker (Doctor 4) Paul Darrow (Avon from "Blake's 7") and Glynis Barber (Soolin, from "Blake's 7").
I use the x360ce script to emulate having a 360 controller. However, many people who have 360 controllers are themselves having problems with DS2 that they didn't have in DS1.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Someone got me 100% Orange Juice, a fun little board-game style indie game on Steam. Quite fun to play with friends, dicking eachother over constantly.
After too many hours suffering with the horrid tank known as the T 28, I finaly got myself the Kv1 on WoT. Finaly a tank that dose not explode if someone sneezes or a leaf drops down anywhere near it.
Trondheim wrote: After too many hours suffering with the horrid tank known as the T 28, I finaly got myself the Kv1 on WoT. Finaly a tank that dose not explode if someone sneezes or a leaf drops down anywhere near it.
KV-1 is one of the most effective tanks I've ever had.
Recently got the M12, Cromwell, T32 and AT 8. They all kinda suck.
Trondheim wrote: After too many hours suffering with the horrid tank known as the T 28, I finaly got myself the Kv1 on WoT. Finaly a tank that dose not explode if someone sneezes or a leaf drops down anywhere near it.
How were you using the T-28? It's actually an extremely effective tank if you know how to use it; fully upgraded and with the 57mm gun, and a 100% crew helps, too. Its armour is made of rice paper, but you shouldn't really be getting shot, instead you should be sitting back playing peek-a-boo from a behind a rock, and taking accurate, rapid-fire, well-penetrating shots from a distance. The T-28 is a medium tank in vehicle class only, and should be treated more like a TD; no front-line duty, no scouting ahead, no trying to brawl or 1v1 anything. Your speed should be used to move from cover to cover, not to try and chase anything down, scout, or outflank.
After getting to grips with it, I was quite annoyed that I wasted so much of my playtime in it early on, not knowing how to use it and thinking it was crap, but it's actually incredibly capable.
The M3 Lee, on the other hand... there's a truly horrible vehicle to use. The T-28 is saved mainly by the fact that it's zippy and has access to some very good guns for its tier, but the Lee is just a paper bag on tracks with a limited-arc pop-gun (which is still miles better than the--equally horrible--D.W. 2's gun, which might as well just be the gunner making a gun-shape with his hands, pointing them at a tank, and shouting "Pew! Pew! Pew!").
Just finished 'Overlord'. It's a fun little game. Only died a few times if i recall correctly and it was only against an auto-kill creature i got stuck against.
Not sure if i should try the following 'Overlord' games or go for some 'wargame' or perhaps even some 'company of heroes 2' just because why not.
Debating wether or not too pitch in to the World Of Tanks. But I'm currently dabbling in some Emulation, having gotten frustrated to hell and back with Castlevania on the NES (those fething Medusa Heads!), I'm now playing Mario 2 and The Punisher..Good stuff..
It's a good time to wade in on WoT. There's a promotion going where you could earn yourself up to 4 premium vehicles started today. I'm hoping to at least get the STUG!
So yes, I'm playing WoT when I can get online, and Hostile Waters when I can't.
Trondheim wrote: After too many hours suffering with the horrid tank known as the T 28, I finaly got myself the Kv1 on WoT. Finaly a tank that dose not explode if someone sneezes or a leaf drops down anywhere near it.
How were you using the T-28? It's actually an extremely effective tank if you know how to use it; fully upgraded and with the 57mm gun, and a 100% crew helps, too. Its armour is made of rice paper, but you shouldn't really be getting shot, instead you should be sitting back playing peek-a-boo from a behind a rock, and taking accurate, rapid-fire, well-penetrating shots from a distance. The T-28 is a medium tank in vehicle class only, and should be treated more like a TD; no front-line duty, no scouting ahead, no trying to brawl or 1v1 anything. Your speed should be used to move from cover to cover, not to try and chase anything down, scout, or outflank.
After getting to grips with it, I was quite annoyed that I wasted so much of my playtime in it early on, not knowing how to use it and thinking it was crap, but it's actually incredibly capable.
The M3 Lee, on the other hand... there's a truly horrible vehicle to use. The T-28 is saved mainly by the fact that it's zippy and has access to some very good guns for its tier, but the Lee is just a paper bag on tracks with a limited-arc pop-gun (which is still miles better than the--equally horrible--D.W. 2's gun, which might as well just be the gunner making a gun-shape with his hands, pointing them at a tank, and shouting "Pew! Pew! Pew!").
I had all the moduels researched and avavibal, and the crew where around 95-100% training. I used it much like I used my beloved Hetzer, I hung back and pelted anything that moved with a large dose of AP rounds to the face. But I have had horrid luck with matchmaking and normally ended up as the absolut underdog in a good number of the matches. In the matches I played with/ against similar tier tanks I bagged aroud 1 to 4 kills each round. But I became very frustatred with it lack of decent armour when you had to deal with some pesky speedy foe that sniffed you out and came close.
I never tried the M3 lee but I can see what you mean, if it plays anything like the Grant the pain must have been immense. But then again the Grant actualy have a good gun and can take a few hits before becomming a burnt out wreck
Trondheim wrote: After too many hours suffering with the horrid tank known as the T 28, I finaly got myself the Kv1 on WoT. Finaly a tank that dose not explode if someone sneezes or a leaf drops down anywhere near it.
How were you using the T-28? It's actually an extremely effective tank if you know how to use it; fully upgraded and with the 57mm gun, and a 100% crew helps, too. Its armour is made of rice paper, but you shouldn't really be getting shot, instead you should be sitting back playing peek-a-boo from a behind a rock, and taking accurate, rapid-fire, well-penetrating shots from a distance. The T-28 is a medium tank in vehicle class only, and should be treated more like a TD; no front-line duty, no scouting ahead, no trying to brawl or 1v1 anything. Your speed should be used to move from cover to cover, not to try and chase anything down, scout, or outflank.
After getting to grips with it, I was quite annoyed that I wasted so much of my playtime in it early on, not knowing how to use it and thinking it was crap, but it's actually incredibly capable.
The M3 Lee, on the other hand... there's a truly horrible vehicle to use. The T-28 is saved mainly by the fact that it's zippy and has access to some very good guns for its tier, but the Lee is just a paper bag on tracks with a limited-arc pop-gun (which is still miles better than the--equally horrible--D.W. 2's gun, which might as well just be the gunner making a gun-shape with his hands, pointing them at a tank, and shouting "Pew! Pew! Pew!").
I had all the moduels researched and avavibal, and the crew where around 95-100% training. I used it much like I used my beloved Hetzer, I hung back and pelted anything that moved with a large dose of AP rounds to the face. But I have had horrid luck with matchmaking and normally ended up as the absolut underdog in a good number of the matches. In the matches I played with/ against similar tier tanks I bagged aroud 1 to 4 kills each round. But I became very frustatred with it lack of decent armour when you had to deal with some pesky speedy foe that sniffed you out and came close.
I never tried the M3 lee but I can see what you mean, if it plays anything like the Grant the pain must have been immense. But then again the Grant actualy have a good gun and can take a few hits before becomming a burnt out wreck
At first the M3 Lee seems like the worst tank ever. It's a medium without a turret but near the end I actually had many great games with it and it become one of my top performers. it just takes some getting use to.
Back to Stalker: Call of Pripyat mods. This one's called "Winter of Death" (who names these things...). Its a mod which throws the Chernobyl area into winter, with all those radioactive swamps icing over and the Stalkers toting about in some new outfits. Plus points on the new look, but I managed to run through the whole thing in less than a day. The mod cuts out all of the original missions for its own selection, which while half decent could have done with more polishing (and fell prey to the cliche of just throwing more enemies at you to make things take longer). The real issue is that you spend half of the missions attempting to find an artifact (and repeatedly being screwed over and having to go to another location to find it). When you eventually do said artifact is essentially god mode and you cruise through the remainder of the missions up until the last one which for an arbitrary reason strips you of it and all of your gear (most likely to kill the player to make up for the lack of a proper ending) ...then throws a bunch of enemies at you including one guy who can shrug off RPG hits (I haven't played the series, but he may well be the Juggernaut model from C.o.D.).
Its no Misery, but I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. Stylistically it looked good (I'll be knicking some of those outfits for my Stalker models), but there wasn't much depth to the storyline. A lot of waste potential given they spent the time to make things look pretty (maybe that's where all the time was sunk). =/
Next up is one called "The Way Pripyat". It ditches most of the vannila games areas, so at least I won't have to replay those again. From what I've seen of it its a little rough around the edges (...which seems to be a given with this series' mods), and well if it sucks I'll fall back on cooing at the new outfits again. =P
Trying out Neo Scavenger. It's pretty fun wandering around scavenging crap and crafting things. Finally making a bit of progress on my third start - found a lighter right away which has been a godsend, and after about an hour I finally found a pan and a guy with a good sized backpack I looted after killing him. It makes boiling water a lot easier.
Now if I could just find a goddamned left shoe so my feet stop getting jacked up.
Wyrmalla wrote: Back to Stalker: Call of Pripyat mods. This one's called "Winter of Death" (who names these things...). Its a mod which throws the Chernobyl area into winter, with all those radioactive swamps icing over and the Stalkers toting about in some new outfits. Plus points on the new look, but I managed to run through the whole thing in less than a day. The mod cuts out all of the original missions for its own selection, which while half decent could have done with more polishing (and fell prey to the cliche of just throwing more enemies at you to make things take longer). The real issue is that you spend half of the missions attempting to find an artifact (and repeatedly being screwed over and having to go to another location to find it). When you eventually do said artifact is essentially god mode and you cruise through the remainder of the missions up until the last one which for an arbitrary reason strips you of it and all of your gear (most likely to kill the player to make up for the lack of a proper ending) ...then throws a bunch of enemies at you including one guy who can shrug off RPG hits (I haven't played the series, but he may well be the Juggernaut model from C.o.D.).
Its no Misery, but I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. Stylistically it looked good (I'll be knicking some of those outfits for my Stalker models), but there wasn't much depth to the storyline. A lot of waste potential given they spent the time to make things look pretty (maybe that's where all the time was sunk). =/
Next up is one called "The Way Pripyat". It ditches most of the vannila games areas, so at least I won't have to replay those again. From what I've seen of it its a little rough around the edges (...which seems to be a given with this series' mods), and well if it sucks I'll fall back on cooing at the new outfits again. =P
This is really making me want to dig out one of the Stalker games again, man. But I don't have Call of Pripyat, and I've always found choosing the right mod to be confusing. Do you have any suggestions for mods for the first one, or for Clear Sky?
Well, I had enough of ZoA bs for now. It's a brilliant concept, and I love the magazine system and dynamic world, but holy crap is it an unstable, unfinished and buggy mess.
Trying LURK right now. It's ok, but I'm not sure I like the graphical style.
Wyrmalla wrote: Back to Stalker: Call of Pripyat mods. This one's called "Winter of Death" (who names these things...). Its a mod which throws the Chernobyl area into winter, with all those radioactive swamps icing over and the Stalkers toting about in some new outfits. Plus points on the new look, but I managed to run through the whole thing in less than a day. The mod cuts out all of the original missions for its own selection, which while half decent could have done with more polishing (and fell prey to the cliche of just throwing more enemies at you to make things take longer). The real issue is that you spend half of the missions attempting to find an artifact (and repeatedly being screwed over and having to go to another location to find it). When you eventually do said artifact is essentially god mode and you cruise through the remainder of the missions up until the last one which for an arbitrary reason strips you of it and all of your gear (most likely to kill the player to make up for the lack of a proper ending) ...then throws a bunch of enemies at you including one guy who can shrug off RPG hits (I haven't played the series, but he may well be the Juggernaut model from C.o.D.).
Its no Misery, but I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. Stylistically it looked good (I'll be knicking some of those outfits for my Stalker models), but there wasn't much depth to the storyline. A lot of waste potential given they spent the time to make things look pretty (maybe that's where all the time was sunk). =/
Next up is one called "The Way Pripyat". It ditches most of the vannila games areas, so at least I won't have to replay those again. From what I've seen of it its a little rough around the edges (...which seems to be a given with this series' mods), and well if it sucks I'll fall back on cooing at the new outfits again. =P
This is really making me want to dig out one of the Stalker games again, man. But I don't have Call of Pripyat, and I've always found choosing the right mod to be confusing. Do you have any suggestions for mods for the first one, or for Clear Sky?
AMK 1.4 is apparently really good. If you can get the damned thing to work properly, that is.
Zone of Alienation does work, and it is a variant of AMK (so it has some of the cool stuff), but as I said before, it's unstable and unfinished.
Autumn Aurora 2 is pretty stable. I did receive a fatal crash that stopped my run, but that may have been because I had too many tasks; the only error with AA2 is that having too many tasks at the same time crashes the game.
I do have some nitpicks though; it changes the character models, and introduces skins from Metro 2033. NPCs are immune to blowouts, and the Dynamic News System (borrowed from AMK), doesn't seem to work properly.
Zone reclamation project is a simple bug fix.
Complete is a good first time mod, but I wouldn't recommend it; it makes the game way easier.
Much thanks. I've played the game all the way through once, and halfway through a bunch of times, so I'm not a beginner. But it looks like there's a trade-off with each choice, still.
I'm up for a challenge; I'll try getting AMK to work.
Call of Pripyat is probably the best in the series. The areas have more going on in them, armour and weapons have better customization branches, and yes it only has one ending for the main quest, but each of the individual areas and missions get their own ending slide (Fallout style). However there's probably more mods out there for the first two games, so its a toss up between having more options or playing a game who's vanilla version is better.
If you're going to jump back into the series I'd say that the Lost Alpha is probably where to go. I haven't played it because the link I found was screwy, but if you can find one it looks really good.
For the first two games I haven't really spent much time looking into mods bar new guns and items. I would say though that the bigger mods you can find on Moddb which just add more features aught to be decent, but I couldn't be more specific (I mean Misery does something similar for CoP, but whether you like that's own to your playstyle ...Though I would say there's a version for Clear Sky IIRC).
So I have an insight on what the larger mods for CoP are like, but not so much for the other two. For CoP I'd recommend the SGM mod or one of its derivatives (Geonezis). It adds a load of new missions and items, but tends to keep the vanilla gameplay (or at least doesn't makes things as extreme as Misery). I would admit that you do need to jump through more hoops in order to play the main quest, but if you've played the game already that means you at least won't just be playing through the same crap again. Geonezis is a mod based on SGM which branched off from an earlier version. Instead of adding in most of the old zones from the first two games (damn, yeah SGM adds in extra areas btw) it only sticks in one. However I'd say that yes visiting more areas is cool and all (the older ones certainly run better than the CoP ones), but they don't feel as fleshed out as the vanilla areas unfortunately. So in my opinion I would say go for Geonezis just because there's less "go from area x to area y to pick up item, return to area x. Repeat endless loading screens". There are other SGM mods like Geonezis too, but I haven't really delved into them, but they add similar stuff like new items, weapons and armour, mutants, missions, etc (one has female Stalkers too, but whoever made the models made a hack job of them).
Hmn, I would say that as far as the community goes the Stalker one doesn't lend itself to as much polish as you would see in Fallout's. I don't know if that's down to the engine (Bethesda's game are all about modding), but just in general terms the mods I've played could all do with a bit more polish. Then again Stalkers hardly filled with women in bikinis either (for the hundred busty mods I do wish someone would put the time into something canon). That said the Stalker devs apparently are back together and working on something, so that may well be Stalker 2 (its a pity then that I don't think the guys who went off and made the Metro series and the others working on Survivarum probably won't be coming back. Then again neither will the Areal ones). Still a pity that the embargo on Russian trade's continuing too, as I still want to give the miniature's boardgame a try.
Edit:
Oh and if you want to change the Blowout settings go into the configs folder and find the Atmosfear settings file. There's a list of characteristics that lay out things in simple terms that are easy enough to change (ie stuff like "Result of Blowout: Turn to Zombie/Kill/Exploded/Nothing" or even "Blowouts/Psychic Storms/Eclipse: Turn on/ Turn off"). The same goes for a lot of the game's features, but that involves a bit more work. Hmn, I've found a few mods running the latter versions of Atmosfear have all that stuff in an in-game menu, but well there's a text file there too if that doesn't exist (ah, and btw SGM has a similar menu for all its options too, as does Misery IIRC, just for ease and tweaking).
Eh, I found CoP to be a bit easy. You get good gear early on, and bandits aren't hostile.
I did like the upgrade and armor mechanics though, as well as the anomaly detection thing. That was pretty cool.
Speaking of mods, I just tested out Oblivion Lost 2.2, just to see if it works, as it's a AMK derived mod. It's...interesting. You have a really large stamina pool and 80 kg weight limit, so you'd think it would be easy, but -
*Anomalies have their own "ai"; they move during the day, so you might run into a burner that wasn't there before. AMK 1.4 had something like this, but it was only in the event of a blowout; blowouts randomize the anomaly locations in AMK, and they don't need blowouts to move in OL2.2
*You encounter stronger mutants early on.; Nimble's jacket was being guarded by a psi-dog. At that point I found out why I had the large stamina bar.
I did play Lost Alpha a while ago, but I never finished it. I did like what it had to offer - the maps are much bigger and a tad more complex, and there's a belt system where ammo has to be in your belt in order for you to reload, which I thought was a nifty little mechanic.
What does SGM do? Is it like the CoP version of AMK 1.4?
thenoobbomb wrote: Hearthstone, though I am beginning to loathe it more and more.
Tis be a normal feeling with any Blizzard game, but care to eloborate
It's more to do with the current playerbase; I only seem to end up playing Hunters (and playing Hunters immediately kills my enjoyment), Druids, and Mages with optimised decks. I, personally, like to try and play new things, and things I think that are fun. It's, however, completely impossible thanks to the other players.
thenoobbomb wrote: Hearthstone, though I am beginning to loathe it more and more.
Tis be a normal feeling with any Blizzard game, but care to eloborate
It's more to do with the current playerbase; I only seem to end up playing Hunters (and playing Hunters immediately kills my enjoyment), Druids, and Mages with optimised decks. I, personally, like to try and play new things, and things I think that are fun. It's, however, completely impossible thanks to the other players.
Back to TF2 it is, then!
So in esccense its like WoW? Or Star Craft? But yes I see what you mean. It seems a lot of people is unable to have fun while playing games, and must only use the optimized builds for that game
thenoobbomb wrote: Hearthstone, though I am beginning to loathe it more and more.
Tis be a normal feeling with any Blizzard game, but care to eloborate
It's more to do with the current playerbase; I only seem to end up playing Hunters (and playing Hunters immediately kills my enjoyment), Druids, and Mages with optimised decks. I, personally, like to try and play new things, and things I think that are fun. It's, however, completely impossible thanks to the other players.
Back to TF2 it is, then!
So in esccense its like WoW? Or Star Craft? But yes I see what you mean. It seems a lot of people is unable to have fun while playing games, and must only use the optimized builds for that game
Starcraft seems a good comparison, yes. Way too competitive.
Oh dear that sounds bad, reall bad then. I think I ill continue to shun Blizzard games still then. For my own part I will rather play a SP game or some form of multi player that rewards you for thinking outside the box, and using uncommon/seldom seen methods to achive my victory.
Agreed, the games made by Westwood in particular was absolute stellar works of art. Both Ra2 and the Tiberian Sun series, Firestorm in particular was amazing
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Command & Conquer is a better RTS series anyway, imo.
More freedom, and not as much micromanagement.
This. Even I liked the games and my micromanagement is TERRIBLE. Red Alert 3 was a lot of fun, but the Asians were utterly awful to play as because you had to use the special abilities all the time and their extremely poor anti-air was a major pain in some missions.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: I love RA2! I consider it to be one of the best RTS games ever made.
Also, the intro is amazing -
Tiberium Sun had a particularly neat cinematic that runs the first time you play TS
Hype ensued. I wish more games did that :(
This should beat the 'tiberian sun' intro in every way.
I'd just like to add the end of the opening is every fanboy having an nerd-gasm simultaneously.
Btw if we're talking RTS games i feel like it's best we moved beyond the whole builder and gatherer type of mechanic in the game anyway. I feel like 'star wars: empire at war' did it right at least for the land based battles. I was never that great at space battles oddly enough. It's only too bad westwood/petroglyph could never figure out how to add a third faction in any game without making them way too unique from the other two factions and also way too over-powered as well. The zann consortium was probably fine in a campaign but in an actual land based game they were total BS to fight against. A super powered hover tank with weapons that go through shields and can hit air units. Bite my *ss petroglyph!
One thing i'll always miss about westwood/petroglyph that most RTS's don't have is the super-weapons. The nuke NOD used in the original C&C game was tear inducing for both players. A massive "F You' to the one on the receiving end.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Eh, I found CoP to be a bit easy. You get good gear early on, and bandits aren't hostile.
I did like the upgrade and armor mechanics though, as well as the anomaly detection thing. That was pretty cool.
Speaking of mods, I just tested out Oblivion Lost 2.2, just to see if it works, as it's a AMK derived mod.
It's...interesting. You have a really large stamina pool and 80 kg weight limit, so you'd think it would be easy, but -
*Anomalies have their own "ai"; they move during the day, so you might run into a burner that wasn't there before. AMK 1.4 had something like this, but it was only in the event of a blowout; blowouts randomize the anomaly locations in AMK, and they don't need blowouts to move in OL2.2
*You encounter stronger mutants early on.; Nimble's jacket was being guarded by a psi-dog. At that point I found out why I had the large stamina bar.
I did play Lost Alpha a while ago, but I never finished it. I did like what it had to offer - the maps are much bigger and a tad more complex, and there's a belt system where ammo has to be in your belt in order for you to reload, which I thought was a nifty little mechanic.
What does SGM do? Is it like the CoP version of AMK 1.4?
For the most part SGM adds new missions. For instance turn up at the ship expecting to run after helicopters and be in Pripyat in no time it is not. Nah you need to do a load of favours first before you're even allowed to activate the helicopters (...which is dumb, but meh if you want more to do there's that). It adds in the areas from the first two games and has you treck through them before and between the vanilla game's missions (ie you arrive in Cordon and have to treck through the Swamps to Jupiter, first sorting out a Bandit problem for the military and finding a way to get past landmines first). Plus there's the general new items selection available. What I would say though is the the Geonezis mod does sort out some of my gripes with SGM. For one it gets rid of most of the added anomalies. Not the "ooh maybe there's treasure in there" anomalies, nah the "oh yay, invisible death traps every five feet" type. The areas and missions are different too, but follow the same structure. What I do like is the variety of items (though they could do with having their own huds), I mean there's something like twenty different types of gas mask in there alone.
But well neither's perfect, though for CoP I'd recommend them over Misery as far as overhauls go. Misery adds some cool stuff, but it screws up gameplay too much with its fake difficulty (go back a few pages here and you'll find a spiel of my posts whining about that mod's constant need to throw multiple Controllers at you needlessly ...and the horrible sound effect that that entails). A lot of the other mods only make minor changes to the base game along the lines of new items, which is fine for a first or second playthrough, but at this point I really don't want to be replaying the same missions over and over. So in my case I have Geonezis installed and I'm trying out some mods which strip out the original storyline entirely.
Hmn, I'm looking at Shadow of Chernobyl right now and wondering if I should go back to that actually. I'm having a toss up between AMK and Stalker Soup. Neither go really into a great level of detail about their features though, so I don't know what to go for. I didn't play much of SoC so I'm not bothered about if the storyline's different, rather I prefer mods which add a ton of new gear and gameplay features. Stalker Soup apparently has a ridiculous number of areas (there's a map in the spoiler. Namely some areas closer to the zone's center are only unlocked after the Brain Scorcher's been done with) and tries to cover the original scope of the game more, but frankly I don't know what to go for at all.
It's not entirely clear, but going from what I've seen -
AMK adds blowouts, anomalies that change position after blowouts, new weapons and improves the AI. NPCs loot items, move corpses and can heal other NPCs
The overall world is also much more dynamic; it is very well possible to run into a pseudogiant in cordon, or even a controller.
Speaking of controllers, they are more common, and can now zombify stalkers and mind control mutants to attack you.
Many of these features can also be found in AMK derived mods, such as Zone of Alienation and Oblivion Lost 2.2
Stalkersoup is more of a freeplay mode; it adds areas from Clear Sky, and has it's own story mode. There are also vehicles that may be driven, more types of mutants and anomalies, and more weapons and gear.
I'm currently on an embark to a little spit of land in the middle of a glacier waaay down south- it was the only bit that wasn't pure ice, but it's still plenty cold. I didn't realize, when I first embarked, that there were 0 mountains and only an itty bitty hill in the entire zone. Plus a 3 layer deep aquifer.
So I channeled down through the ice, let it freeze the aquifer, and I'm now building a small surface fort out of ice chunks. I think I'm finally going to be able to do something with proper fortifications, though so far I've yet to have even a single goblin show up- probably due to being surrounded by ice.
Just downloaded the Spintires tech demo (yeah, I'm pretty far behind on video games. I'm trying to catch up). I have to say, as someone who has driven in real life on the exact kind of terrain it is modeling, the physics modeling is pretty dang good!
It took me a bit to decide I liked it though. It turns out that everything off the marked paths is "super mud" designed to instantly bog you down and stop you from hitting the edge of the map (as in your massive tractor tired monstrosity instantly drops to the axles and gets stuck, then your back wheels still on solid ground get stuck when you try to back out. Mud doesn't work like that...). That frustrated me to no end until I figured out what was going on. It's a real shame too because the most unrealistic game and logic destroying feature is the first thing you encounter if you're like me and try going up the hill at the start of the tech demo.
Also sad that I couldn't push a lamp post over. I've felt them move in real life when I've leaned against them...they aren't that sturdy! I'll just console myself by pushing trees over and using them to get across patches of mud by driving on them (which does work. I was amazed when I found that out).
P.S.: Oh, and is it too much to ask for a first person view please? I think this may be the first driving game where I feel less sure of my surroundings by having the camera outside the car.
I've been thinking of getting elite dangerous, the $60 picetag is my only concern. I don't like paying that much. The most I have spent on a single game is probably about $50, but that was with a lot of DLC.
One thing i'll always miss about westwood/petroglyph that most RTS's don't have is the super-weapons. The nuke NOD used in the original C&C game was tear inducing for both players. A massive "F You' to the one on the receiving end.
The only Westwood RTS games I played were their Dune games, and I miss the superweapons, too. Playing as House Atreides was fun, right up until you heard the computer interface say "Death Hand missile launch detected" and you had to rebuild a third of your base...
One thing i'll always miss about westwood/petroglyph that most RTS's don't have is the super-weapons. The nuke NOD used in the original C&C game was tear inducing for both players. A massive "F You' to the one on the receiving end.
The only Westwood RTS games I played were their Dune games, and I miss the superweapons, too. Playing as House Atreides was fun, right up until you heard the computer interface say "Death Hand missile launch detected" and you had to rebuild a third of your base...
To be fair, if you allow your enemy to tech that far you have alread spoiled just about any chance of winnig
One thing i'll always miss about westwood/petroglyph that most RTS's don't have is the super-weapons. The nuke NOD used in the original C&C game was tear inducing for both players. A massive "F You' to the one on the receiving end.
The only Westwood RTS games I played were their Dune games, and I miss the superweapons, too. Playing as House Atreides was fun, right up until you heard the computer interface say "Death Hand missile launch detected" and you had to rebuild a third of your base...
Supreme Commander has super weapons as well.
No fancy message, but they do exist.
I'm currently on an embark to a little spit of land in the middle of a glacier waaay down south- it was the only bit that wasn't pure ice, but it's still plenty cold. I didn't realize, when I first embarked, that there were 0 mountains and only an itty bitty hill in the entire zone. Plus a 3 layer deep aquifer.
So I channeled down through the ice, let it freeze the aquifer, and I'm now building a small surface fort out of ice chunks. I think I'm finally going to be able to do something with proper fortifications, though so far I've yet to have even a single goblin show up- probably due to being surrounded by ice.
Glacier embarks never turn out as exciting as I imagine them to be. Can goblins even reach your location? A lot of times in the current version, I find that the pole areas are cut off from most civs.
Getting a black screen on a new game start? That's what happens to me. It has something to do with the xr_motivator script.
If the modified version is copied over to the gamedata folder you get the crash. If you don't copy it there's no crash, but the NPCs don't move. So you are screwed either way.
Oddly enough, the AMK derived mods, such as Oblivion Lost and Zone of Alienation, works relatively perfectly.
DS2 feels, at the same time, more and less fluid than DS1. I think I liked how DS1's combat flowed more, but at the same time, heavy armor poise isn't blatantly overpowered, and weapons meant for two hands are better balanced agaisnt their one-handed use in terms of attack speed.
Does feel like I'm going through a boss a minute at times, though. More mini-bosses is fun, though, so I'm not complaining. The minibosses do feel like they don't have much variation though, while the main bosses have plenty.
One thing i'll always miss about westwood/petroglyph that most RTS's don't have is the super-weapons. The nuke NOD used in the original C&C game was tear inducing for both players. A massive "F You' to the one on the receiving end.
The only Westwood RTS games I played were their Dune games, and I miss the superweapons, too. Playing as House Atreides was fun, right up until you heard the computer interface say "Death Hand missile launch detected" and you had to rebuild a third of your base...
Supreme Commander has super weapons as well.
No fancy message, but they do exist.
Total Annihilation had superweapons as well... and superweapon interceptors.
I never played it seriously, but I did muck around with it a bit against my brother. Neither one of us really knew what we were doing, so he built a half dozen or so nuclear missiles. And unbeknownst to him, I'd discovered the nuclear missile interceptors, and had built several of those.
He later told me he watched in shock as his missiles flew toward me on his radar... and then just vanished.
SupCom had nuke interceptors, too, but nothing to defend against game-ending experimentals without going and destroying them.
I'm currently trying to actually finish a Rome: TW campaign so I can get access to the other factions without cheating them in. People say it's easy and exploitable, but I'm finding that it's fairly inconsistent at times, like when I wrecked a hoplite army with my cavalry by tempting them out, unit by unit, with one cavalry, and charging them in the rear with the other and insta-breaking them, or quickly pulling back and repeating. The next time I tried that, the hoplite unit ate the charge up their arse, took single-figure casualties, annihilated half the unit that charged them in half a second as they turned around, and practically insta-broke them. No hoplite unit in that force suffered any significant damage from the rear charges I performed, even with my Generals. I might as well have been charging a phalanx head on.
Supcom was great with the superweapon balancing, because they were 'really' super weapons in the traditional sense. They were more just strategic level weapons, with as many counters as anything else.
The things that had the same role as super weapons in other RTSs were the 'game ender' units that were there to basically force an end to a stalemate. If you managed to build one and deploy it, or built it and got it destroyed quickly, it generally decided the game one way or another.
They include an Unlimited Resource Generator building, rapid firing nuclear launcher, an artillery pice that ignores shields and rapid firing artillery.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Getting a black screen on a new game start? That's what happens to me. It has something to do with the xr_motivator script.
If the modified version is copied over to the gamedata folder you get the crash. If you don't copy it there's no crash, but the NPCs don't move. So you are screwed either way.
Oddly enough, the AMK derived mods, such as Oblivion Lost and Zone of Alienation, works relatively perfectly.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Getting a black screen on a new game start? That's what happens to me. It has something to do with the xr_motivator script.
If the modified version is copied over to the gamedata folder you get the crash. If you don't copy it there's no crash, but the NPCs don't move. So you are screwed either way.
Oddly enough, the AMK derived mods, such as Oblivion Lost and Zone of Alienation, works relatively perfectly.
Yeah...
Ok, maybe I will try one of the other ones.
You could try oblivion lost. It's a modified version of AMK, with a few changes.
Oh, another mod - LURK
This is an odd one. It doesn't change that much of the game world, but it does change how weapons work, the weight cap, removed artifact effects (only use is selling now) and is supposed to improve the stealth mechanics.
Stalker: Lost Alpha. Due to the lack of traders and how much loot you can find this is how my average conversation with an NPC goes:
NPC: "Stalker listen up I have this super important mission to give you that you must listen to carefully and act on immediately"
Me: "Oh that's all well and good my man, but first would you be interested in buying some of this premium vodka or ammunition?"
Yeah good mod so far. It doesn't play like the vanilla game so much in that it comes across as being faster paced (or at least less faffing about with side quests). I'm still toting about in the starting gear for the most part, though I'm hoping when I reach Agropom I can finally get a better suit. Finding an AK-74 with a scope felt surprisingly good, especially given how easy it is to find decent gear in the vanilla games (I have three clips for the thing, I think that makes me the richest guy in the Zone).
Soladrin wrote: So, for all you people talking RTS games and such..
This is what comes out in 5 days, made by the old westwood guys.
*videos*
Now get hyped.
Also, MUSIC BY FRANK KLEPACKI YEEEAH.
I am really liking this game based on what I saw on their website. The example match made it look a lot like a smaller scale Supreme Commander, which is great. I love the idea of a moving HQ building/resource extractor. It really fits the theme of the faction. And the music was pretty awesome.
Finished up Darksiders II, was surprised how lame the final boss was.
Tried starting Dark Souls. Felt rigid at best, maybe the PC version is better? May give it another go at some point.
Booted up Destiny on the new Xbox One. Looks amazing. Turned it off immediately to start AC: Black Flag. Enjoying it so far, though I feel like I'm always getting chased for doing damn near nothing.
I do rather wish I hadn't bought DS 1 for PC, and just skipped to 2. I mean, dang, they didn't even replace the 'press x button' decals in the port? And the mouse control is terrible, plus the whole 2 buttons per side doesn't work very well.
I may finally get a controller for my PC for some of my games. Dark Souls, Rogue Legacy, and I'm sure a couple I play with mouse and keyboard now could benefit from controller action.
World Of Tanks goodtimes with my Sherman III, the joy of having a very skilled crew, and all things researced. And having stuff that gives a already great tank crew bonuses also helps to ramp up the joy factor.
Last game saw me knock out three heavy tanks, one TD and one SPG.
Working my way towards the special StuG 4 but lord almigthy, dose the mission requierments have to be so immense?
With Dragon Age Inquisition finished now, I'm not feeling any real need to get a new PC anymore. - At least, not until closer to the release date of Arkham Knight.
I am finding myself tempted to get the Sims 4 though. I don't exactly know why (though Trisha Hershberger may be to blame...)
I got The Sims 3 in a humble bundle a while back, and I pretty much only play it once every 6 months.
Getting trolled in 'shogun 2: fall of the samurai'. Are all total war games like this? It sucks when you have 3 strong enemies one of which was an ally that totally betrayed you. It sucks because dear god the range on their boats for bombardments is ridiculous and they bombarded a ton of my buildings causing them to be in need of repair all the time and ruining some of my money production. It got really f***ing annoying.
Also one weaker enemy decided it had a shot at me and tried invading my home province with a weak army but since i barely had anything it was a hard fight. Due to the most ridiculous luck, skill and everything i managed to win the battle and rout his whole army with 3 levy infantry units and a spear levy unit. Keep in mind i was fighting 3 times the guys with all his levy infantry and 3 generals on horses (which i all killed with one spear levy esp. forcing them to fight me in the water so they couldn't get away really), my fort was mostly destroyed including gates left open and 2 enemy bombardments which i had to dodge like an MF'er. In one case i grouped his guys up around one of my gates and set fire to it which at the last few seconds i ran from and caused all his guy stuck under it to die horribly and rout not long after. Seriously a friend joked this battle was like sparta with '300'. I think i took down a force 3 times in numbers and did 3 times the amount of kills too.
I've not played much of Shogun. But yeah, sometimes things can get a bit ridiculous.
Although, I'm naughty and occasionally savescum when something just downright insane happns like everyone randomly backstabbing you at once for the lulz.
Sometimes I'll reload and they won't even think about trying anything for another 20 turns.
Just started Van Helsing II. I love the little things about stuff like being ordered to save private "Bryan". And I just got word about the the inventor "Telsa".
Compel wrote: I've not played much of Shogun. But yeah, sometimes things can get a bit ridiculous.
Although, I'm naughty and occasionally savescum when something just downright insane happns like everyone randomly backstabbing you at once for the lulz.
Sometimes I'll reload and they won't even think about trying anything for another 20 turns.
Luckily my few powerful copper ships managed to kill most of the ships around my area. Now i just need to repair my ships. My home provinces should be mostly safe now with the exception of a samurai revolt that took place because all my crap was getting bombarded and destroyed buildings equal an unhappy populace. It's funny though because the enemy army i destroyed in that battle had a few remnants and i destroyed the ships that brought them there. Basically they either have to tread all the way back through enemy territory and possibly annoy my allies or die (both very possible) or they can go with round two which i will more likely win as my forces are being reinforced while his aren't being way deep in enemy territory. It's pretty hilarious actually.
I will admit that yeah this is one reason why i'm not too thrilled about total war. At least 'fall of the samurai' has guns and our version of 'realm divide' isn't as crappy. It's gotta tell you how much 'realm divide' sucks when an entire thread was made about it on dakka and actually managed a few pages if i remember correctly.
I'm trying to beat down the 3 bigger armies i have to deal with while only having a couple friendly and allied armies helping me. Admittedly one ally and one of my same allegiance factions sounds really powerful but against at least 3 powerful enemies and whatever d*cks decide to pick on me as i'm down similar to vultures and rats eating the scraps of something.
I just played about 15-30 min of metal gear rising: revengance. That. Was. Amazing.
The visuals are cool, the sound is great, the music really fits, and fighting the giant cyborg dragon is awesome. Can't wait to play more.
Been trying out all the games I bought during the winter sales, and just got to download now that I have a decent connection (1Mb/s instead of 1Kb.s download speed).
Trondheim wrote: World Of Tanks goodtimes with my Sherman III, the joy of having a very skilled crew, and all things researced. And having stuff that gives a already great tank crew bonuses also helps to ramp up the joy factor.
Last game saw me knock out three heavy tanks, one TD and one SPG.
Working my way towards the special StuG 4 but lord almigthy, dose the mission requierments have to be so immense?
Yes. I've given up ever being able to complete enough to get that STUG, but have found out where my talent lies in that game. I hate meduims, the Matilda is too slow, the battle is over before I can get there, the other one I have is a destroyer posing as a medium as it has a fixed, forward firing gun. Heavies are even worse, the standard gun on my only British heavy to date couldn't knock the skin offf a rice pudding, and I can't stand the thought of trudging through loss after loss until I can get some improvements on it - especially as you are forced to spend 2,000XP on upgrading the suspension before anything else. SPGs can be fun now I've learned to use them properly, but don't like members of my own team shooting me in the back as I make my way to position.
I run a Pz1C with all upgrades including the 40 round magazine gun,and it is a yappy terrier biting your ankles and humping your leg!
First match on the map where you start on a steep slope with the battleground in the centre, I decided to try and take out the enemy arty. Started with the church on the right hand side of me, raced down the hill angling right, but didn't see a slight rise in my path. I've never seen a Panzer reach 12 feet in the air before! OK, I blew out my own suspension on landing, but couldn't stop myself laughing for the rest of the round - which was mostly spent spectating as I was destroyed before I could effect repairs. Next time I got on that map, it was in the other direction. I took out all 3 enemy SPGs but got taken out by an enemy medium as I ran back to my own lines. Still laughing all the way.
Ok so more in the deal with shogun 2: fall of the samurai is that i've beaten back my previous enemies and nearly destroyed that traitor clan with the help of a good ally that's reached a pretty ridiculous strength.
Somehow i've managed to distract a large army for 3-5 turns that would otherwise have taken several of my provinces. The army i had coming in to help decided to have some annoying general who led most of my successful victories turning traitor and taking a good chunk of my guys with him. I killed him and the army i was supposed to fight against (making an easy fight kind of hard). He did die though so i'm doing ok. The rest of my generals are at super low negative number loyalty (with the exception of a new one at 3 loyalty) which is terrible.
Oddly enough my closest ally in these fights now has questionable integrity which is a bad sign.
It's so weird that the game currently is more about fighting that traitor clan than all the pro-shogun clans.
Most of my battles are going ok outside of naval battles which i somehow managed to lose through stupid reasons. I only have about 9-10 territories right now. So within a 6 to 7 year period i have to basically take a crap ton of territories with the emperor.
Next time i'm not gonna throw myself so far forward like that.
What difficulty are you playing FotS on? I never really had much difficulty with it; build up economy on the back provinces, rushing first towards a trade port so you get offers from other countries to be trading partners. I personally decline all offers until I get a US one, because the only real difference is the Ironclads you get to build and whilst the British Warrior Class is better than both the US and the French one, the US Roanoke is significantly cheaper, both in build price and upkeep, than the others:
British - Warrior class - 18,000 build cost - 2,250 Upkeep
French - L'Ocean class - 10,800 build cost - 1,080 Upkeep
US - Roanoke class - 7,200 build cost - 720 Upkeep
Japanese (available to everyone at some point AFAIK) - Kotetsu class - 3,600 build cost - 450 Upkeep
As you can see, you can build two Roanoke class Ironclads + a Kotetsu for the same price as a single Warrior class, and all three ships' upkeep combined is still less than the upkeep for that single Warrior. Against the AI, I find that even a single Roanoke is capable enough until the very late-game, at which point you should aim to be in control of most of the sea anyway.
Once you get a trading port and start getting mission offers, I tend to start teching towards the Armstrong Gun, so going right down the cannon line. Cannons are ridiculously OP, especially in sieges, where they can reduce the garrison to nothing on their own. I personally don't care for Gatling Guns, because by the time I have them, I also have an army full of Armstrong guns, which annihilate armies in open maps far before GGs get to fire, and are infinitely more useful in sieges.
After cannons, I try and go down the ship ammo line. Early wooden ships go up in flames easily to explosive ammo, and armour-piercing + improved armour-piercing are even better. I find that wooden ships deploying god-mode ammo is far better than copper or iron-plated ships deploying basic shot.
Once that's done, it's generally just whatever I feel like, usually propping up the economy.
Been playing Civ BE and been enjoying it. My first Civ game. Playing online is a bit buggy and full of people who quit but other than that pretty good.
Soladrin wrote: So, for all you people talking RTS games and such..
This is what comes out in 5 days, made by the old westwood guys.
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Now get hyped.
Also, MUSIC BY FRANK KLEPACKI YEEEAH.
OH. MY. SWEET. JESUS!
Want!
It looks awesome. Might actually convince me to upgrade my PC.
Trondheim wrote: World Of Tanks goodtimes with my Sherman III, the joy of having a very skilled crew, and all things researced. And having stuff that gives a already great tank crew bonuses also helps to ramp up the joy factor.
Last game saw me knock out three heavy tanks, one TD and one SPG.
Working my way towards the special StuG 4 but lord almigthy, dose the mission requierments have to be so immense?
Yes. I've given up ever being able to complete enough to get that STUG, but have found out where my talent lies in that game. I hate meduims, the Matilda is too slow, the battle is over before I can get there, the other one I have is a destroyer posing as a medium as it has a fixed, forward firing gun. Heavies are even worse, the standard gun on my only British heavy to date couldn't knock the skin offf a rice pudding, and I can't stand the thought of trudging through loss after loss until I can get some improvements on it - especially as you are forced to spend 2,000XP on upgrading the suspension before anything else. SPGs can be fun now I've learned to use them properly, but don't like members of my own team shooting me in the back as I make my way to position.
I run a Pz1C with all upgrades including the 40 round magazine gun,and it is a yappy terrier biting your ankles and humping your leg!
First match on the map where you start on a steep slope with the battleground in the centre, I decided to try and take out the enemy arty. Started with the church on the right hand side of me, raced down the hill angling right, but didn't see a slight rise in my path. I've never seen a Panzer reach 12 feet in the air before! OK, I blew out my own suspension on landing, but couldn't stop myself laughing for the rest of the round - which was mostly spent spectating as I was destroyed before I could effect repairs. Next time I got on that map, it was in the other direction. I took out all 3 enemy SPGs but got taken out by an enemy medium as I ran back to my own lines. Still laughing all the way.
Best fun I've had for years!
The Matilda is sheer manliness on tracks! beside the first french heavy tank you can get it ranks as my most enjoyebal tank. And yes, the Churchil is a bad, bad baaad tank indeed. it serves best as a shell magnet The Pz1C is a devil to deal with for ligth tanks, SPGS and some Tds.
Rigth now I am trying to get my T67 and Sherman III to such an level that I can unlock the hellcat & Firefly respectlivly
So, pulled the trigger and bought DA:I... fooled around a bit with my tapestry in the Keep and made (then re-made) a character, but I don't know if I'm really feeling DA:I at all.
In other news, I'm back on the Gihren's Greed again. Playing the Titans (Jamitov Hymem flavor) and going for a good alignment playthrough, because its actually easy to do with Jamitov's Titans (all you have to do is shoot down every single proposal Bask Om has and your alignment will rocket up to saintly levels). Now that I've developed the Mk-V Gundam I'm ready to finish off the AEUG and start kicking the Axis Zeon in the nards.
...and I fully realize that nobody here has any idea what I just typed, but I don't care. This thread is about what games we are playing. It doesn't say they have to be popular, or in English.
Trondheim wrote: The Matilda is sheer manliness on tracks! beside the first french heavy tank you can get it ranks as my most enjoyebal tank. And yes, the Churchil is a bad, bad baaad tank indeed. it serves best as a shell magnet The Pz1C is a devil to deal with for ligth tanks, SPGS and some Tds.
Rigth now I am trying to get my T67 and Sherman III to such an level that I can unlock the hellcat & Firefly respectlivly
Speaking of French tanks...
I reloaded the game the other day, and have been amusing myself with the Japanese line. But I glanced at the French line-up (when I last did any serious playing, they were only *talking* about the upcoming introduction of the French...), and...
Where's the Somua S35? In the late '30s, it was believed to be the best medium tank in existence, and the French built a number of them (enough to equip the three DLMs). In other words, it's an iconic tank that reached mass production. But it's not in the game. WTH?
The R35 isn't present either, iirc. But it was very similar to the H35, which is probably the reason why it was skipped.
Squidhill - I know what you're talking about. Never played it, but I know what you're talking about.
Only the Germans currently get the Somua, as a Tier 3 Premium medium tank. Given that the British only just received the Challenger, Firefly, Sherman, Stuart, Grant, Achilles, and Archer (or, essentially, most of what they actually used in WW2), I'd say that the French might have a bit of a wait on their hands; Wargaming seem more interested in paper-panzers than real ones.
gunslingerpro wrote: Finished up Darksiders II, was surprised how lame the final boss was.
Tried starting Dark Souls. Felt rigid at best, maybe the PC version is better? May give it another go at some point.
Booted up Destiny on the new Xbox One. Looks amazing. Turned it off immediately to start AC: Black Flag. Enjoying it so far, though I feel like I'm always getting chased for doing damn near nothing.
I'm quite addicted to Black Flag. It's the best AC in a while.
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Avatar 720 wrote: Only the Germans currently get the Somua, as a Tier 3 Premium medium tank. Given that the British only just received the Challenger, Firefly, Sherman, Stuart, Grant, Achilles, and Archer (or, essentially, most of what they actually used in WW2), I'd say that the French might have a bit of a wait on their hands; Wargaming seem more interested in paper-panzers than real ones.
They finally did the Firefly eh? Is it a premium tank?
squidhills wrote: So, pulled the trigger and bought DA:I... fooled around a bit with my tapestry in the Keep and made (then re-made) a character, but I don't know if I'm really feeling DA:I at all.
In other news, I'm back on the Gihren's Greed again. Playing the Titans (Jamitov Hymem flavor) and going for a good alignment playthrough, because its actually easy to do with Jamitov's Titans (all you have to do is shoot down every single proposal Bask Om has and your alignment will rocket up to saintly levels). Now that I've developed the Mk-V Gundam I'm ready to finish off the AEUG and start kicking the Axis Zeon in the nards.
...and I fully realize that nobody here has any idea what I just typed, but I don't care. This thread is about what games we are playing. It doesn't say they have to be popular, or in English.
Well, part of the reason I like threads like this is that I can learn about games I've never heard of before.
And I just did, from you! Even if it's a game I can't play, I can still read about, or check out lets plays, and see what it's all about. And that's fun.
Nope the Firefly is a Brithis tank, comes after the Sherman III. Players seems divided in their opinion about it. But from what I have seen it looks like a decent enough tank
I'm doing much better in 'shogun 2: fall of the samurai' now that a few enemies have been wiped out. It was also hilarious causing unending trouble using agents like no tomorrow sabotaging armies/distracting them and throwing out a bunch of rebellions as well as forcing the enemy provinces to go to my allegiance and cause a ton of unrest just with the presence of some heroes. It's pretty funny really but it's also tiring. I'm kind of seeing why i'd rather not play this game sometimes.
Oh and i didn't much like gatling guns either. I will have to say though that using agents a lot more has helped tremendously. Normally i use them to help with order but now causing disorder in the opponent by using them aggressively is even more hilarious.
Bought Warhammer Quest Premium Pack on a whim and actually quite enjoying the grind for stuff. It brings back some good memories and, although I disagree with paid DLC as a rule, the £19.99 I paid for everything is currently good value. Yes, I'm aware that a few commentator's didn't like it (Total Biscuit for one), and that on iOS its tantamount to robbery, but as I said so far it's worth the money on the iMac.
I bough Agarest: Generations of War a while back and played it a little. Kind of got put off by the combat but I've decided to play it some more. Pretty neat game really. It's a JRPG but I like anime on occasion so nothing there to stop me, the voice acting seems good enough and you can flip through the dialog pretty quickly if bored.
Mostly your standard move around on a map and get into 'strategy' or 'tactical' battles that involve moving your dudes on a grid and then often pointing them in silly directions to overlap their 'extended area' patterns. If you have everyone connected, they can all act and join forces to pull of stronger moves, and at the same initiative step as your fastest character. You get bonus rewards for overkilling enemies so silly chains of attacks are encouraged.
You can (and have to?) combine items to make new ones, with a prereq 'tax' of having to buy/find a recipe style book to unlock a batch of patterns. Usually you can get everything from monsters and overkills, or from using the upgrade system to fully upgrade an item. Upgraded items are better, but then you can also convert them into something else, usually a material for smithing, but sometimes an item to stuff into one of your expansion slots you get from gear.
There's also an adventurer's guild (all town stuff is basically just menus with attractive screens and minimal additional dialog btw, which is good since you do a lot of back and forth..) which lets you claim titles (built-in achievements basically) that come along with money and other resources. I actually like trying to complete the achievements in A:GoW since you get useful goods. The adventure guild is also where you can collect items to trade in for extra skills to slot in for your characters.
The monster guild lets you take advantage of any captured monsters, you can either trade them in (usually for monster related items) or combine them in a bid to make a more powerful monster. I was able to combine monsters together and obtain a lv26 pixy when my party was closer to level 12. I guess monsters stick around between generations too.
I think there's some kind of dating-sim like aspect where you have to successfully woo one of three female characters by the end of the generation, and whichever character the MC convinces to marry him modifies the stats of the MC for your next generation. So far there hasn't been a lot of extra dialog or much of anything beyond the three characters occasionally reacting to a military decision the MC has made. Perhaps it gets more in depth later.
Anyway soz mini review, so far it seems like a pretty neat game for the price and like something I could play for many many hours if I wanted to do it all.
I'm currently obsessed with mount and blade warband. I'm playing the mod prophesy of pendor pretty much every night I haven't been this obsessed with a game since city of heroes and WoW. It's just too fun and I love how it's free form and you can do what you want. I now own two castles and a village all extremely close to one another Salvador, Relas and Ymigir (or something). I'm now so pumped as I'm going to start a knightly order. They shall be the Order of the Charging Lemmings (or something like that). I'm not too big on battle tactics I mostly just launch my troops at the enemy and ride round killing archers.... fun times
Is that the mod that has magic/enchanted gear? I thought there was one and that name sounds familiar... MnB is pretty engaging when you get into it lol.
GrimDork wrote: Is that the mod that has magic/enchanted gear? I thought there was one and that name sounds familiar... MnB is pretty engaging when you get into it lol.
Prophecy of Pendor is the low fantasy one. In that it has elves. If anyone wants to know how to find them, I'll spoiler it.
Ahh low fantasy ok. That may still be the one I had heard about, I didn't do a lot of looking. Game usually keeps me busy for a good while even w/o mods.
GrimDork wrote: Ahh low fantasy ok. That may still be the one I had heard about, I didn't do a lot of looking. Game usually keeps me busy for a good while even w/o mods.
Prophecy is my personal favourite mod.
It rebuilds the game entirely. New troops, new factions, new map, random events, new castle/keep upgrades and stuff like that.
GrimDork wrote: Huh cool, sounds good for when I want to play MnB but not *quite* MnB. Thanks for that.
The core gameplay is still the same. It just changes the entire setting.
I have to be honest the setting is probably the least appealing part of mount and blade to me. Its not that the setting is bad its just that it doesn't really interest me all that much.
^Yep! And that's why changing the setting may be all it takes to get many many more hours of enjoyment out of it. I should have taken the blue pill.. or was it the red pill? This Agarest game is gonna take *forever* and I'll be doubting/regretting my choices all the while lol.
I've really been enjoying Alien: Isolation recently, although I can only play it in bursts. It's such a tense game, that it gets too stressful to play for extremely long periods of time.
GrimDork wrote: Huh cool, sounds good for when I want to play MnB but not *quite* MnB. Thanks for that.
The core gameplay is still the same. It just changes the entire setting.
I have to be honest the setting is probably the least appealing part of mount and blade to me. Its not that the setting is bad its just that it doesn't really interest me all that much.
The only thing that annoys me about Pendor is the voice acting they did. I'm far too lazy to turn it off though.
In other news, Thief is a bad, baaad game, and I feel dirty for having spent money on it, lord almigthy whom knew it was possible to make the fourth instalment in a such beloved series, this bad! It boggels the mind
GrimDork wrote: Ahh low fantasy ok. That may still be the one I had heard about, I didn't do a lot of looking. Game usually keeps me busy for a good while even w/o mods.
Get it, I played half a game of native and this mod enriches game play a lot. Villages and castles now pose difficulties to you that you can answer incorrectly which is awesome, Also there are BIG bad nasties wandering around the map that you HAVE to be scared of. I mean really scared.
Like 500 man armies? Cause I could usually punk those 200 man army faction leader forces with an elite cavalry swarm.
The change to villages and castles sounds cool though Do you still have to work for a faction or pretend to be your own faction while simultaneously drawing the wrath of all six other factions, or has that dynamic changed any?
GrimDork wrote: Like 500 man armies? Cause I could usually punk those 200 man army faction leader forces with an elite cavalry swarm.
The change to villages and castles sounds cool though Do you still have to work for a faction or pretend to be your own faction while simultaneously drawing the wrath of all six other factions, or has that dynamic changed any?
GrimDork wrote: Like 500 man armies? Cause I could usually punk those 200 man army faction leader forces with an elite cavalry swarm.
The change to villages and castles sounds cool though Do you still have to work for a faction or pretend to be your own faction while simultaneously drawing the wrath of all six other factions, or has that dynamic changed any?
ABout 1000 mans , and you don't get through to the trash troops as fast as you'd think (in my game anyway). The only time I haven't run away squealing like a girl is when my king happened to be nearby with his retinue of BIG bad nasty, who piled in to the BIG bad nasty. I once tried to take on a BIG bad nasty myself, it didn't go so well as the first fight was ALL elite troops with about half of them being mounted.
Big bad nasties don't take over settlements they just kind of run around, and my kings one occasionally follows him around looking threatening.
Cavalry swarms also aren't quite as powerful as in native, the reason i stopped playing native was my all horse army was just blitzing everything. Horse is still powerful just not as powerful as in native.
I have a force that's about 150 strong but is mostly infantry, with about 1/4 being horse, my advice when you start playing ( coz you really should) is to get surgery asap. I work for the king, I think going rogue would be hard ( i haven't tried it yet). Also stay a merc for a while if you want to roam around as your settlements will get attacked fairly regularly. I have 2 villages and 2 castles, and one village gets continuously mauled as it is not right next to each other like the rest - my kingdom is at war with at least 2 factions generally.
Btw anyone have any tips on getting honour? I was all set to get my order when i discovered i need something like 70 honour, I checked it and had 3, 3! I'm now up to around 10 >< .
Oh ok, 1000 men, that's pretty much not doable even by being cheeky.
Ahh honor is something I'm fairly good at getting, actually Does pendor (or whatever it is) have tournaments still? Winning those gets you points of honor I believe, and you can also get honor by releasing ladies from captured castles and maybe by being merciful to dudes you've beaten. I think, it's been a little while.
I usually get maybe just a few guys or stick to soloing, and kill small groups of 5-15 bandits (but not the horse kind!) solo to gain extra XP and roam around looking for tournaments and such. Gain a bunch of levels that way so I can have a better party and all of that when I finally start building one.
GrimDork wrote: Oh ok, 1000 men, that's pretty much not doable even by being cheeky.
Ahh honor is something I'm fairly good at getting, actually Does pendor (or whatever it is) have tournaments still? Winning those gets you points of honor I believe, and you can also get honor by releasing ladies from captured castles and maybe by being merciful to dudes you've beaten. I think, it's been a little while.
I usually get maybe just a few guys or stick to soloing, and kill small groups of 5-15 bandits (but not the horse kind!) solo to gain extra XP and roam around looking for tournaments and such. Gain a bunch of levels that way so I can have a better party and all of that when I finally start building one.
I used to love tournaments in native, however in pendor they have lance tourneys, which i consider a chance to bash my head into the desk 80 times. They frustrate the hell out of me. I never use a lance in the game, and the way the ai works its very hard especially when you get low on combatants to get a charge off. It is one thing i am considering trynig to take out of the game
Lances are a win button. I'm not sure if Pendor changes how they work, but in native, as soon as you hit a certain speed on horseback you automatically 'couch' the lance, at which point you simply aim at the nearest person and ride at them. Using mouse-button attacks is only useful if you're 1v1 against another lancer, and if you can run rings around them, waiting until they're missed their own lunge to ride close, poke them (or the horse, preferably), and jog out of range again. Mouse-button attacks with lances do pathetic damage, but if you can unhorse the opponent, you can simply ride away and keep couching; a couched tournament lance will usually strike before a thrust attack from an unhorsed lancer will.
If there are at least two enemies left, then keep riding around until nobody is attacking you, and just pick them off with couched attacks.
Lance tournies are one of the few that I almost consider an auto-win, unless one of the opponents gets a jammy hit (at which point I have no guilt in reloading the save I made directly before entering the tourney, and trying again).
In a tournament setting though when it's 1v1 or close, it's ridiculously difficult to get far enough away for the lance to reach couching speed. But what you say about out-poking them is the way of it. Definitely save before tournies sometimes bad stuff happens and it's a lot on the line.
I just hate it when you get a bow (and have no bow skill) and dagger and have to try to find a horse and weapon of choice before you get steamrolled
Finishing up 'shogun 2: fall of the samurai'. I have the enemy on their dying breaths or i will very soon. Me and my even more powerful or seemingly powerful ally (with more provinces than me) has managed to be the most steadfast and loyal even if the integrity was supposedly questionable. Choshu and Satsuma best bros for life. Represent.
Speaking of 'Shogun 2' this archery video of more epic non-hollywood archery that used to be more common is totally a thing. I can imagine some of the samurai heroes in 'shogun 2' were like this. It sounds like they'd run out of ammo fairly fast though.
The amount of skill people had back then was just astounding. It looks like a freaking art. Well i suppose we are much smarter than our ancestors even if they had all the brawn and massive dexterity skills.
Seriously though it makes you wonder what the real '300' story was like. That must have been freaking awesome to see.
Split an incoming arrow in two with his back turned beforehand... epic. That just poops all over robinhood...
Sheesh, maybe I can go back to happily suspending copious amounts of disbelief for book and video game archers having seen that. Obviously that guy is amazingly practiced and probably talented to begin with... but it *is* humanly possible.
GrimDork wrote: Split an incoming arrow in two with his back turned beforehand... epic. That just poops all over robinhood...
Sheesh, maybe I can go back to happily suspending copious amounts of disbelief for book and video game archers having seen that. Obviously that guy is amazingly practiced and probably talented to begin with... but it *is* humanly possible.
I think it mentioned he'd been practicing for ten years or at least that.
Right which is why I'm not rushing out to the nearest archery emporium to go try it in the back yard I mean characters that are scrawny and just pick up a bow and decimate enemy hordes are still stupid. But especially characters that have been in books archerying the hell out of stuff for years and years it helps me be more ok with some of their feats.
Oooooooh... It was just a once off thing. Well then it's kind of hilarious as a tribute to the source material I guess.
I was just gonna say if that was a thing he had started doing all the time...
Heh.
Downloaded prophesy of pendor (there's an S!), did any of you guys read that guide to pendor or whatever that's included with the other mod files? I skimmed the first couple of pages, the guy who put out the mod supposedly had a dying friend who bequeathed a large collection of papers to him and it's supposedly existed for over a hundred years or more. I couldn't tell if it was kind of a neat story attached to the rundown for the background or if it was legit, just read a bit don't really have the time. Kind of neat/odd.
Automatically Appended Next Post: So uhh... this is harder how? I mean I'm sure it is somewhere, but certainly riding around punking little groups of bandits is no more difficult than before, horse archers are such jerks
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, right. I should say, however, that the change of music is quite a treat! The backstory so far seems a little more fleshed out perhaps, and certainly it's a nice change of pace.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Ok, ran into some dudes with proper armor, they increased the effectiveness of that *significantly*. I dunno, this could be fun but I'm afraid it would take even longer to get anywhere with it than native and I dunno if I have the time.
Ashiraya wrote: I will change face, definitely to one without a lipstick, but Ashiraya in all her HD glory is still something to behold.
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Those Pauldrons... GW should take some inspiration from that.
I'm strongly considering getting into either World of Tanks or Mechwarrior Online, just not sure which yet (and the fact my job leaves me with pretty much 0 free time on weekdays at the moment means I probably won't play much of either one). At the moment I'm messing around with Murdered: Soul Suspect. I got it for free on a rebate with my graphics card, and it seems..ok. Nothing really amazing.
Yeah, usually the snake cult leader with the polearm. I just snipe her out with the crossbow. I like the difficulty, usually head out on my own, with noone to answer to, but POP forces you to effectively either team up or die. And if you try and take out a force that's more elite, you can't fudge it up with numbers, otherwise you just get mown down.
Got a force of about 30 or 40 mid-range troops, just dodging in and out of the empire's battles and building their rep so I can marry into the empire and start curbstomping
Doctadeth wrote: Yeah, usually the snake cult leader with the polearm. I just snipe her out with the crossbow. I like the difficulty, usually head out on my own, with noone to answer to, but POP forces you to effectively either team up or die. And if you try and take out a force that's more elite, you can't fudge it up with numbers, otherwise you just get mown down.
Got a force of about 30 or 40 mid-range troops, just dodging in and out of the empire's battles and building their rep so I can marry into the empire and start curbstomping
The best infantry belong to the green dudes. 10 of those make their worth bak in a couple of fights.
I think my current favored method is to roll around making money between tournaments and battles with weaker foes etc, and investing in businesses well before I go around recruiting dudes. That way, when they start costing an arm and a leg to feed (and I hear that's even worse in pendor) I can manage a lot easier. However I'm starting to rethink my agile horse archery type guy, since against even medium opponents the arrows are starting to hit consistently for 0 damage. I dunno if level and weapon skill have anthing to do with that or if I just have to get ridiculous levels of power draw, but it's a bit concerning. May go back to a more charasmatic polearm guy like I usually do, good at trading and eventually leadership roles. And apparently lots of surgery, especially since there are so many elite unit types to feed.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Again, that all makes it sound like I should back out now since I'm not sure i've the time for that.
GrimDork wrote: I think my current favored method is to roll around making money between tournaments and battles with weaker foes etc, and investing in businesses well before I go around recruiting dudes. That way, when they start costing an arm and a leg to feed (and I hear that's even worse in pendor) I can manage a lot easier. However I'm starting to rethink my agile horse archery type guy, since against even medium opponents the arrows are starting to hit consistently for 0 damage. I dunno if level and weapon skill have anthing to do with that or if I just have to get ridiculous levels of power draw, but it's a bit concerning. May go back to a more charasmatic polearm guy like I usually do, good at trading and eventually leadership roles. And apparently lots of surgery, especially since there are so many elite unit types to feed.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Again, that all makes it sound like I should back out now since I'm not sure i've the time for that.
For archery, you have to get power draw; nothing else really matters, except weapon skill. Crossbows will serve you better until you have a decent PD rating, at which point you will start hitting higher than the rather static damage of crossbows, and can do so reliably and from horseback.
Been stomping about WoT with my new Kv1s, and its truly a great tank, except for that the the main gun is utter rubbish. So working towards a new one.
Outside of that I imported my seasoned band of adventurers into icewind Dale 1 Hearth Of winter. I almost feel sorry for my foes, two warriors in +3 full plate withc grants extra HP and bonuses to saves, one armed with a longsword( +5) and full mastery of said weapon, while the other is armed with a equally deadly halleberd, the other front line characther is my cleric, clad in +2plate mail and armed with a trusty warhammer and a enchanted shield. And other fun magical trickets, making up the rest of the party is one thief, a sorcer whom is somewhat insane I think and a master archer.
All in all evil will have a bad day today
Yeah... I was eyeing those crossbows lol, even the cheaper hunting crossbow did double what my riding bow did and could still be horsed. Smaller quivers makes soloing a bit harder of course. Also... why the hell was I accosted by those scorpion assassin guys when I went into a farm lol. It was bad enough when your archer dude went into a village (not farm) and had to fight off a couple of mooks, but those are one of the best infantry in the game, coming at me maybe an hour into it lol.
Automatically Appended Next Post: @Trondheim sounds funtastic I think IWD lets you level up all the way eventually? I remember archer parties were ridiculous in BG1, but they probably slack off faster in IWD since you get more levels faster.
Epic battle is epic, just took on 10 Vanskerry raiders alone, I think 7 of the 93 xp guys and 3 of the 200something xp guys. Wheh. Ran out of arrows after dropping the four that were favoring polearms. Retreated and took a few damage to get free restock on arrows, and guess what? Those suckers came back not with the throwing axes they all started with but two of them instead brought bows! I had to strafe them until they ran out of arrows and huddled up with the others into a 6 man shield wall. My 90 remaining arrows eventually whittled them down. It was tough, the shields were never going to break so I had to duck in close enough to get them to raise their swords and then pop a shot. I tried to get them to scatter but to no avail, meaning charging/bumping was a no go. Got a few shots off under the shields but it's hard from the horse and wastes arrows. Eventually they got down to 3-4 injured guys and one broke off to feel, he died. And that repeated down to the last dude. Leaving me to end the fight at 8% health and maybe 5 arrows left of my second batch of 120 or however many I carry.
GrimDork wrote: Yeah... I was eyeing those crossbows lol, even the cheaper hunting crossbow did double what my riding bow did and could still be horsed. Smaller quivers makes soloing a bit harder of course. Also... why the hell was I accosted by those scorpion assassin guys when I went into a farm lol. It was bad enough when your archer dude went into a village (not farm) and had to fight off a couple of mooks, but those are one of the best infantry in the game, coming at me maybe an hour into it lol.
Automatically Appended Next Post: @Trondheim sounds funtastic I think IWD lets you level up all the way eventually? I remember archer parties were ridiculous in BG1, but they probably slack off faster in IWD since you get more levels faster.
They do and its glorious when one getts there. I always include one arechery master in my parties, because the sheer amount of hurt they can put down range in very short time. Added to the figting prowess of maxed out figthers and a battle cleric its very hard to find anything short of a dragon that can seriosly harm or disrupt my plans
I've gotta be in the right mood but I loves me some BG/IWD/etc.
Bwahaha, add another epic 14 on one battle. This time the entire enemy force was composed of archers and 5 or so on horsies!
I've also discovered the sublime joy that comes from realizing that you can access your baggage while in the middle of the battle and you can swap out to get a polearm or better yet extra bags of arrows! I mean... it makes sense I guess.... but damn is it handy now that I've sorted it out
Oh yes, the baggage train now carries at least 3-4 extra bags of arrows for me, plus a spear and shield for a change of pace! Gonna see if I can change out to my old horse too... Just need some stronger armor and then I can take bigger forces with all of my extra gear.
Doctadeth wrote: Yeah, usually the snake cult leader with the polearm. I just snipe her out with the crossbow. I like the difficulty, usually head out on my own, with noone to answer to, but POP forces you to effectively either team up or die. And if you try and take out a force that's more elite, you can't fudge it up with numbers, otherwise you just get mown down.
Got a force of about 30 or 40 mid-range troops, just dodging in and out of the empire's battles and building their rep so I can marry into the empire and start curbstomping
That's what I thought. That caught me so off guard the first time I played PoP, just going through like normal and the suddenly half my starting guys are dead.
Doctadeth wrote: Yeah, usually the snake cult leader with the polearm. I just snipe her out with the crossbow. I like the difficulty, usually head out on my own, with noone to answer to, but POP forces you to effectively either team up or die. And if you try and take out a force that's more elite, you can't fudge it up with numbers, otherwise you just get mown down.
Got a force of about 30 or 40 mid-range troops, just dodging in and out of the empire's battles and building their rep so I can marry into the empire and start curbstomping
That's what I thought. That caught me so off guard the first time I played PoP, just going through like normal and the suddenly half my starting guys are dead.
Good times, really.
Last time I fought him, I had a fully elite party from the green faction who's name escapes me.
I beat the 'shogun 2: fall of the samurai' campaign. I still had about 3 years left in the game so i figure i could just stomp all my enemies till i get bored. The shogun factions have for the most part been reduced to just a few territories each. One has 2, another 3 and the last one 4 if i recall correctly. I also have to deal with the remaining rebellions much of which i started behind enemies lines to really screw with them and have the rebels capture their territories while they were off fighting wars with me farther away. Sheesh i learned the importance of using rebellions and trying to stop them. It's esp. funny when you get a couple max level conversion guys to their territories and take a lot of the negative happiness while in enemy territories abilities. You may even start rebellions just with their presence without inciting revolts on their provinces. It's really pretty hilarious.
So i've heard there's this computer game called 'grey goo' for PC from the petroglyph/post-westwood guys and it's somehow already made without me even being aware of its existence till release. I don't know much about the game but something tells me the Goo will be the OP faction of the 3 factions. Westwood/petroglyph has never been able to add a third faction or have 3 factions in any game without one being stupidly OP and generally infinitely more unique than the other factions. This is the case for empire at war with the zann consortium, the yuri faction in ra2: yuri's revenge, universe at war's hierarchy, the china faction in c&c generals and pretty much every game i remember them making with more than 2 factions. They also tend to love super powerful tanks that are good against every single unit.
Anyway with Grey Goo coming out i've had this strange interest to play 'Universe at War' again. I stopped somewhere during the Masari campaign after getting kinda bored of it by that point but maybe now is the time to finish the game.
Also in worthwhile news Galactic Civilizations 3's latest update adds some new features the most important of which being battle camera and actual fights. The game sounds mostly done (most of the factions are in, battle camera is in, trade is in and much more features are available) so i might give it a go again after being disappointed when it first went to Beta.
Still working through PoP. My gear has been slowly increasing in quality and having reached level 15 and focused mostly on combat stats... I've been successfully engaging bands of 10-20 or so with almost universal success. I've got a bunch of extra arrows in the party inventory to switch out and I found a fairly impressive 2 handed sword for spearing/cleaving archers, runners, or the last couple of guys with shields (if I've got enough htipoints left to risk melee). Upgraded armor and horse have *really* helped with life expectancy.
I still won't engage adventuring bands or snake cult parties, they tend to have too many heavily armored cav for me to use my usual tactics, though I did take out a 20 man Jutu raiding party. There was technically a 40 man caravan involved on my side but I'm pretty sure I killed *at least* 15 of those suckers. They were filled with mad XP too.
Still don't want to get too much of a party going, just now starting to work on my party skills like surgery and so on, and I've only got about half a dozen enterprises in towns. I've noticed the hire-able NPCs are quite a bit more expensive to pay off this time around, I'm assuming the ones with names still won't die though yeah?
Anyway I'm carrying on...
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh wow I just found my first Tourney too. They changed them a bit.... I was able to bet something like 500 monies on myself each round... well it basically amounted to me winning 2k just 'cause, and then 19900 from bets That's... a not insignificant chunk of change... could easily make two enterprises
GrimDork wrote: Still working through PoP. My gear has been slowly increasing in quality and having reached level 15 and focused mostly on combat stats... I've been successfully engaging bands of 10-20 or so with almost universal success. I've got a bunch of extra arrows in the party inventory to switch out and I found a fairly impressive 2 handed sword for spearing/cleaving archers, runners, or the last couple of guys with shields (if I've got enough htipoints left to risk melee). Upgraded armor and horse have *really* helped with life expectancy.
I still won't engage adventuring bands or snake cult parties, they tend to have too many heavily armored cav for me to use my usual tactics, though I did take out a 20 man Jutu raiding party. There was technically a 40 man caravan involved on my side but I'm pretty sure I killed *at least* 15 of those suckers. They were filled with mad XP too.
Still don't want to get too much of a party going, just now starting to work on my party skills like surgery and so on, and I've only got about half a dozen enterprises in towns. I've noticed the hire-able NPCs are quite a bit more expensive to pay off this time around, I'm assuming the ones with names still won't die though yeah?
Anyway I'm carrying on...
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh wow I just found my first Tourney too. They changed them a bit.... I was able to bet something like 500 monies on myself each round... well it basically amounted to me winning 2k just 'cause, and then 19900 from bets That's... a not insignificant chunk of change... could easily make two enterprises
Oh yeah. Money is now key. You pretty much HAVE to invest in several businesses and/or ransom lords.
Managed to get 22 hours of Saints Row 4 in about three days. Man, that is a well done game. Right blend of good interface, side games, humor, style, mechs and dick jokes. Really knocked it out of the park. Buying that during the winter sale was money well spent.
The only thing I am not a fan of are the rail flying scenes, of which there have been maybe three.
Grabbed Gray Goo, and started playing through the single player campaign.
There's one possible problem that I've noted. The human faction requires that all of its buildings be linked to the HQ by power conduits that run across the ground.
No exceptions.
That sounds fine, except that there's no way to build a new HQ. And thus, as far as I can tell, building an expansion resource base requires running fragile conduit lines out to the new location, and then defending those conduit lines against any and all attacks.
@Eumerin: I think that's the point actually. If i remember they say the human faction has one powerful base that is very defensive, the Beta are the basic rts faction that are decent at everything and the Goo are very mobile and everywhere. The Goo sounds interesting. I feel like Flubber's gone insane and tries to kill everybody and some of it is kind of funny to me. They seem like a combo of zerg and the Borg from what i can tell except more like an amoeba faction. It's confusing what else to consider them. I've only seen one amoeba faction and that was in 'Endless Space' and if i recall correctly they were peaceful and very emotionally aware of others.
So basically after beating 'shogun 2: fall of the samurai' i then took down all the shogun territories for the emperor, took down all the rebellions and finally took down all my remaining enemies in the imperial faction that annoyed me earlier on by either betraying me or siding with somebody else.
Everything you see in white is mine. Basically only my steadfast allies lived and 2 of the weak factions managed to live all game without betraying me so i let them stay alive. Satsuma is my bro for life but they went from being my big brother to being number 2 when i basically out-shined them and dwarfed them with everything i had. Possibly because they just stopped fighting eventually for the most part. Tosa made a small comeback as i was busy destroying everybody.
I was also getting something like 30k in fun bucks every turn so that became ridiculous to the point where i didn't even spend most of it.
I find it funny how helpful character use can be. This one enemy kept most of his artillery outside of his capital/province so instead of fighting them as reinforcements i took a ninja to sabotage them so they wouldn't show up in that battle. After that i just destroyed them pretty easily. The rest of the playing i did today had almost all auto-resolves. I think i'm getting better at the game and it is fun. I actually find the characters to be much more useful than the armies at times. You can't imagine the hilarity of me taking down my last two shogun enemies by sabotaging their powerful armies and then inciting revolts inside their provinces only for their capitals to get captured with them completely unable to do anything about it. Hell that's how i finished them off and since they were outside of the provinces when it happened their armies just disbanded and i never had to fight them which is unusual but also terribly funny. I felt like a jerk for doing it but i couldn't resist.
Anyway if i remember i still have over 2 years left of the game (it's late november and the game ends at the end of 1876 i think) if i keep wishing to play and decide to turn on my previous allies but that kind of a d**k move. I don't think i'm that mean so i think that's it then.
It's kind of funny considering the big stalemate i had for 2-4 years in the game that i started doing well and then finally basically just trampled everybody very easily. Artillery is very much OP as are the advanced armor piercing naval weapons. I made the british warship anyway which if i remember has 42 cannons on it and is built like a pretty respectable battleship.
I just started really playing skyrim. I got it about a year and a half ago, and just powered through the main questline, but got distracted so I haven't experienced the majority of the game. I also have a bunch of utility mods, nothing too drastic.
That is split up with playing Van Helsing II, and metro 2033: last light redux.
Co'tor Shas wrote: I just started really playing skyrim. I got it about a year and a half ago, and just powered through the main questline, but got distracted so I haven't experienced the majority of the game. I also have a bunch of utility mods, nothing too drastic.
That is split up with playing Van Helsing II, and metro 2033: last light redux.
Skyrim should be re-named 'ADD: The Never-ending Quest'. Usually i try to go to a quest area but then i get distracted by picking flowers (not joking) then i stumble upon a cave that leads me to a side quest and then 2 hours later after fighting falmer in some ruins and selling off all the crap i horded i keep going on. Also i have a habit of encountering random dragons when i don't need to. At first it's scary to face em, then it gets kind of annoying and finally it becomes tedious and annoying. I need them dragon bones to make dragon bone arrows though.
Also with the children add-on i feel like the worst and most neglectful parent ever. My housecarl is probably the kid's step-parent while i'm basically off on a quest picking flowers and having adventures. I mean at least they have a home rather than being homeless but i never pay attention to them practically and sometimes i make up for it by giving them a bajillion gold which i have a lot of because it's hard not to be rich later on in skyrim. So basically my kid's on the path to becoming a rich kid's spoiled brat that is bitter their parental figure never did anything with them. I hope i'm not this terrible as a real dad when and if it happens lol. Oddly enough i'm relatively cool with her keeping a fox as a pet even though it's a wild animal and not domesticated like a dog is. I probably figured she needed somebody.
flamingkillamajig wrote: @Eumerin: I think that's the point actually. If i remember they say the human faction has one powerful base that is very defensive,
It's a problem, imo. Building expansion bases without getting noticed is pretty much a requirement these days in RTS games. But that's impossible with the human faction because you've got the conduit lines running all over the place. And a quick bombing run or artillery strike is all it takes to shut down your remote base. There are tech advances that allow you to keep the defenses up and runninng, but those options require you to not take other tech options. And harvesting resources - i.e. the reason why you built the expansion base in the first place - is shut down with the loss of the conduit line.
The betas expand by deploying "hubs", which are centralized structures that the various building types are attached to. No worker unit is required (or even available). You simply select an area that's in your line of sight, and deploy the building. It's delivered from above, and after the appropriate period of time your building is ready.
The goo doesn't really bother with expansion, and so far as I can tell (I haven't played as them yet) has no structures at all. Instead, it appears that they have a production unit called "mother goo" that is both a harvester and production center. You place it on top of a resource node, and have it build units.
I feel like that's basically the difference in factions. I'd personally be very comfortable building with everything connected like that- I'd essentially treat it like 'creep' and just slowly and steadily expand- I think with the humans you need to focus on defense before offense. Build a bunch of turrets, defensive structures, etc.
Also, humans can 'teleport' structures along the conduit- maybe you can teleport your main base eventually? It also lets you do things like warp a bunch of the proper turret to the location under attack, instead of having to wait for units to move there or build new defenses. In fact, if you were to treat the Humans and their conduits like the bridge building system from Netstorm, I imagine the humans could potentially be a very dangerous blitzkrieger faction, depending on how expensive the conduits are.
I just took on the red brotherhood base... had to try it three times and adjust my strategy (and probably get luck), finally managed to do it... barely. Was out of arrows, half dead, and half of my dudes were down and that was with careful planning and some luck. The *entire* point of going was to loot a rare gem that you can turn in for certain quests or upgrades. The *entire* *point*. It wasn't part of the loot though it's 'hidden' in the camp. You only get one shot at this camp that has the gem in it. I mean with the battle won all I had to do was poke around the two caves to find the chest, wouldn't have taken a minute but I FORGOT due to the tenseness of the battle... so yeah guess who's gonna be doing that scenario a fourth or possibly fifth time now
Co'tor Shas wrote: I just started really playing skyrim. I got it about a year and a half ago, and just powered through the main questline, but got distracted so I haven't experienced the majority of the game. I also have a bunch of utility mods, nothing too drastic.
That is split up with playing Van Helsing II, and metro 2033: last light redux.
Skyrim should be re-named 'ADD: The Never-ending Quest'. Usually i try to go to a quest area but then i get distracted by picking flowers (not joking) then i stumble upon a cave that leads me to a side quest and then 2 hours later after fighting falmer in some ruins and selling off all the crap i horded i keep going on. Also i have a habit of encountering random dragons when i don't need to. At first it's scary to face em, then it gets kind of annoying and finally it becomes tedious and annoying. I need them dragon bones to make dragon bone arrows though.
Also with the children add-on i feel like the worst and most neglectful parent ever. My housecarl is probably the kid's step-parent while i'm basically off on a quest picking flowers and having adventures. I mean at least they have a home rather than being homeless but i never pay attention to them practically and sometimes i make up for it by giving them a bajillion gold which i have a lot of because it's hard not to be rich later on in skyrim. So basically my kid's on the path to becoming a rich kid's spoiled brat that is bitter their parental figure never did anything with them. I hope i'm not this terrible as a real dad when and if it happens lol. Oddly enough i'm relatively cool with her keeping a fox as a pet even though it's a wild animal and not domesticated like a dog is. I probably figured she needed somebody.
The seem to really like to attack populated areas, so I have lots of help. It's really bizarre. I have only seen one just out in the wilderness. Might be bug.
I just took on the red brotherhood base... had to try it three times and adjust my strategy (and probably get luck), finally managed to do it... barely. Was out of arrows, half dead, and half of my dudes were down and that was with careful planning and some luck. The *entire* point of going was to loot a rare gem that you can turn in for certain quests or upgrades. The *entire* *point*. It wasn't part of the loot though it's 'hidden' in the camp. You only get one shot at this camp that has the gem in it. I mean with the battle won all I had to do was poke around the two caves to find the chest, wouldn't have taken a minute but I FORGOT due to the tenseness of the battle... so yeah guess who's gonna be doing that scenario a fourth or possibly fifth time now
At this point, I think you're fully within your right to use cheats to win the battle; maybe make a note of how many men survived it originally and then disband the ones that "died" afterwards.
Nah it's fine I'll do it again. Just got to bring a bunch of elite crossbows and slowly advance them. If I can kill the signalian leaders before they rapid fire my lads down in the later part of the fight I've got a good chance.
So, I just found out that they have the DS re-make of FFIV on steam. This is the game that first gor me interested in RPGs and a genre, and introduced me to the FF series. It's will be nice to finally play it on a screen bigger the 2" .
In other news, I found this.... song.
I love Rubicante, personally. He's incredibly badass.
Co'tor Shas wrote: So, I just found out that they have the DS re-make of FFIV on steam. This is the game that first gor me interested in RPGs and a genre, and introduced me to the FF series. It's will be nice to finally play it on a screen bigger the 2" .
In other news, I found this.... song.
Spoiler:
I love Rubicante, personally. He's incredibly badass.
Oh Gods, that battle when you have to face the 4 bosses in a row...
The DS remake of the FFIV had the difficulty of the Japanese game so some bosses were rage-inducing. One of my favorite JRPGs ever. Well, it has Golbez, so that helps. Golbez <3 such a sexy beast
GrimDork wrote: Nah it's fine I'll do it again. Just got to bring a bunch of elite crossbows and slowly advance them. If I can kill the signalian leaders before they rapid fire my lads down in the later part of the fight I've got a good chance.
Just get 10 of the elite melee troops for the nordic faction. Those dudes tank the living gak out of everything. (If it wasn't clear, you now know that these guys are my favourite troop choice.)
They were good in native too, for sure. I think even dismounted knights are better 1-1 than the red brotherhood dudes, it's just that you have to chew through what seems like fifty of them and I can only carry so many arrows The Barclay sappers are preeety sharp at shooting, just have to watch out for one or two enemies spawning in weird places and flanking us.
You know, (though it was like, 5 years ago) the game became Abandonware, and there's now a free version you can get offline. It's still got a somewhat thriving (maybe? time makes fools of us all) community mostly made up of Russians, as far as I can tell. But the meta's turned completely into Bridge Rushing where you just encircle the enemy as fast as you can before they can get any towers going. A perfect example of a single game mechanic that was overlooked- if you could only have more common and cheap bridge-destruction systems it would be much more fun.
You know, (though it was like, 5 years ago) the game became Abandonware, and there's now a free version you can get offline. It's still got a somewhat thriving (maybe? time makes fools of us all) community mostly made up of Russians, as far as I can tell. But the meta's turned completely into Bridge Rushing where you just encircle the enemy as fast as you can before they can get any towers going. A perfect example of a single game mechanic that was overlooked- if you could only have more common and cheap bridge-destruction systems it would be much more fun.
Co'tor Shas wrote: I just started really playing skyrim. I got it about a year and a half ago, and just powered through the main questline, but got distracted so I haven't experienced the majority of the game. I also have a bunch of utility mods, nothing too drastic.
That is split up with playing Van Helsing II, and metro 2033: last light redux.
Skyrim should be re-named 'ADD: The Never-ending Quest'. Usually i try to go to a quest area but then i get distracted by picking flowers (not joking) then i stumble upon a cave that leads me to a side quest and then 2 hours later after fighting falmer in some ruins and selling off all the crap i horded i keep going on. Also i have a habit of encountering random dragons when i don't need to. At first it's scary to face em, then it gets kind of annoying and finally it becomes tedious and annoying. I need them dragon bones to make dragon bone arrows though.
Also with the children add-on i feel like the worst and most neglectful parent ever. My housecarl is probably the kid's step-parent while i'm basically off on a quest picking flowers and having adventures. I mean at least they have a home rather than being homeless but i never pay attention to them practically and sometimes i make up for it by giving them a bajillion gold which i have a lot of because it's hard not to be rich later on in skyrim. So basically my kid's on the path to becoming a rich kid's spoiled brat that is bitter their parental figure never did anything with them. I hope i'm not this terrible as a real dad when and if it happens lol. Oddly enough i'm relatively cool with her keeping a fox as a pet even though it's a wild animal and not domesticated like a dog is. I probably figured she needed somebody.
The seem to really like to attack populated areas, so I have lots of help. It's really bizarre. I have only seen one just out in the wilderness. Might be bug.
Ugh that's even worse. God help you if they kill a quest-line character or somebody that's actually useful. Same goes for vampire attacks. Sometimes i just reload the game because they keep killing shopkeepers or whatever. I need those freaking shopkeepers you jerks!!!
Co'tor Shas wrote: I just started really playing skyrim. I got it about a year and a half ago, and just powered through the main questline, but got distracted so I haven't experienced the majority of the game. I also have a bunch of utility mods, nothing too drastic.
That is split up with playing Van Helsing II, and metro 2033: last light redux.
Skyrim should be re-named 'ADD: The Never-ending Quest'. Usually i try to go to a quest area but then i get distracted by picking flowers (not joking) then i stumble upon a cave that leads me to a side quest and then 2 hours later after fighting falmer in some ruins and selling off all the crap i horded i keep going on. Also i have a habit of encountering random dragons when i don't need to. At first it's scary to face em, then it gets kind of annoying and finally it becomes tedious and annoying. I need them dragon bones to make dragon bone arrows though.
Also with the children add-on i feel like the worst and most neglectful parent ever. My housecarl is probably the kid's step-parent while i'm basically off on a quest picking flowers and having adventures. I mean at least they have a home rather than being homeless but i never pay attention to them practically and sometimes i make up for it by giving them a bajillion gold which i have a lot of because it's hard not to be rich later on in skyrim. So basically my kid's on the path to becoming a rich kid's spoiled brat that is bitter their parental figure never did anything with them. I hope i'm not this terrible as a real dad when and if it happens lol. Oddly enough i'm relatively cool with her keeping a fox as a pet even though it's a wild animal and not domesticated like a dog is. I probably figured she needed somebody.
The seem to really like to attack populated areas, so I have lots of help. It's really bizarre. I have only seen one just out in the wilderness. Might be bug.
Ugh that's even worse. God help you if they kill a quest-line character or somebody that's actually useful. Same goes for vampire attacks. Sometimes i just reload the game because they keep killing shopkeepers or whatever. I need those freaking shopkeepers you jerks!!!
Two mods that I consider essential are When Dragons Attack and When Vampires Attack - or something along those lines. Makes regular folks run and hide instead of attacking barehanded.
Yeah I always have more trouble with master vampires killing townsfolk than dragons. Dragons usually show up for me at the college of magic or dawn..star I think it was? But vampires... yeah no good for townsfolk.
Le Sigh... beating that stupid red brotherhood lair definitely involved luck, another attempt ended poorly. Those signalian leader ladies must have immense powerdraw to hit me that hard through my armor, and their attack speed is phenomenal...
Well if the townsfolk is more often a character that has pretty much no quests to them whatsoever i'm fine with it but i get the feeling i may have just not found them. Sadly some of those female townsfolk with no dialog are pretty cute ;P. Perhaps it's a jab at people not caring about anything pretty people have to say as they'd rather see the view.
Last i checked there was almost nothing to do at dawnstar anyway. There was probably 2 or 3 big things to do and then the whole place is a waste. Same goes for the college of magic. Nobody actually gives much of a crap about winterhold. They just care about the college because that's the important part. I find it funny the people there are annoyed at people not caring about them too much because in truth i don't and prefer to see the college.
I do think it's funny the ridiculous feelings that can come attached with being the dragonborn just like any other god-mode game. Basically you become king of the universe.
"I have 5 homes, multiple children, a wife, a mansion, i'm a jarl's b*tch in every town, i am the best at everything even out-doing people that have worked their craft for 20 years easily, i'm the dragonborn and can kill with my voice, i'm super awesome in every way and legolas sucks my d**k on a daily basis."
Perhaps that gives a ridiculous sense of entitlement to people that aren't aware of real life?
I dunno i might go back to playing skyrim at some point. The sneak heavy archery type of character is still really powerful even if i haven't been upgrading the archery bit so much lately. I pretty much am at the late game where you start leveling up crappy skills you never use for your character in order to level up your character and get skills unlocked for what you do need (basically when the game gets boring or at least it does for me). Also as for sneak archers having trouble with dragons if i'm in a real bind i just switch to sneak mode and drink an invisibility potion and the dragon usually gets bored and wanders away. It also might happen if you get a really good sneak potion done.
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As far as games go i dunno if this counts since it isn't a video game but i played warhammer fantasy today against a faction called 'dogs of war'. It was an updated fan-made faction which honestly isn't that powerful. Perhaps he didn't use em right? I won though part of it was because his leadership 9 general unit managed to panic twice though i did force a lot of panics on his units. I've gotta say it was fun despite the bad luck on both sides (one of my cannons misfired as usual and the first wound the doomwheel took forced it to lose control and move in a random direction. I even used doom flayers and they managed to do ok in a flank. The last fight of the game was crazy though. My general and his unit (hitting him in the front), my abomination (hitting him in the rear) and 2 doom flayers (hitting him in the flank) managed to kill off the whole unit paymaster included and the abomination didn't even finish it's thunderstomp attacks. So basically i tabled him on turn 5-6. Normally i lose games so i'd say this army is probably on the weaker side but it's definitely a nice change from all the elf and lizardmen players i'm used to facing.
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Currently i'm curious which game i should play. Galactic civilizations 3 has most of its features now so i might try that again.
I think my favorite thing in that game was somersaulting up to a giant and one-shotting it with a dagger
Oh and the throat-slit animation never seems to get old.. dunno why. More recently I got a mod that lets you sneak attack with spells, that makes for all kinds of fun characters even if the multiplier was only maybe 1.5 or something.
Muahaha finally kilt all of those bandits. Those Singalian leaders (not even sure if they show up anywhere else) were a pain in the butt. Well the chest, as I was facing them while getting arrowed to death. I managed to kill all three to death and let my boys loose to kill the rest although I think 3 permadied. Still I have the second gem and now I should be able to craft the UBERBOW that's even better than the one I have now. Yay.
GrimDork wrote: I think my favorite thing in that game was somersaulting up to a giant and one-shotting it with a dagger
Oh and the throat-slit animation never seems to get old.. dunno why. More recently I got a mod that lets you sneak attack with spells, that makes for all kinds of fun characters even if the multiplier was only maybe 1.5 or something.
I never did play much with a spell character though i think the additions the expansions had with the archers being able to slo-mo death animation people was awesome. I could totally see a sneak mage though. Use invisibility and then sneak up behind somebody and freeze their mouth shut or turn em to ice or something. It would definitely add more interesting characters.
Oh and as much as i love dagger sneaks the archery ones are still infinitely better. It's sad though as i prefer being a dagger sneak. It just sucks when they turn around sometimes on their patrol and then screw everything up. I also never used pickpocketing that much but i suppose i could do it to enemies for some added hilarity later on.
"Hey you!" *turns around half naked with no armor except a helmet and no weapons*
"What the?! Why am i equipped with a sweet roll?!"
Then you get attacked by a dude that can only punch you.
Btw how does the 'dark brotherhood' and the vampire hunter quest-line work. For some reason i got the black hand of the assassin's guild and nothing else happened (the one you get for helping the aretino boy). Also for whatever reason i couldn't find the vampire hunters as hard as i tried. I tried going to the place on the map where it showed me and in one thing it wouldn't let me go passed a point and in the other i couldn't find a way to the point on the map it kept showing me. Nobody was where it wanted me to go and it was hard enough to get there. Wtf do they want me to do?
The sneak attack spell mod never worked for me, it had an annoying bug of always triggering a kill-cam upon cast and the attack (in my case, the ice ones) never actually connecting, just hitting the floor at the enemy's feet. It was a known bug at the time that rendered the mod unusable.
Huh, I dunno if I got one that worked or I got if before/after the bug but it always seemed to work fine for me.
Did you ever get to 100 sneak? You can just crouch to temporarily vanish and usually that lets you swing out more sneak attacks. I had a dark elf that dual wielded scimitars (forgive me ) and would swap a dagger out to the mainhand for executions and the swords for when the jig was up, but that shadow vanish thing is ridiculously good. I dunno if I had a bow sneak get to that point. I guess that same character probably had one.
Bwahah and wolfbode the slayer has been defeated! Although... I mean... there was already an army of maybe 600 fighting his army of 300... but I still totally iced him personally with my bow and took out upwards of 10 of his personal guards that give almost every other unit fits.... so I feel my contribution was worthy. But man, epic fight is epic. I guess normal Calradian battles could get that big too but still. Dude was twice as wide as a normal NPC and had a horned demon looking horse it was great lol. And then I talked to him at camp and traded his freedom for a gem of all things. Epic loot gem but still.. feel a bit bad for letting him bribe his way free.
GrimDork wrote: Huh, I dunno if I got one that worked or I got if before/after the bug but it always seemed to work fine for me.
Did you ever get to 100 sneak? You can just crouch to temporarily vanish and usually that lets you swing out more sneak attacks. I had a dark elf that dual wielded scimitars (forgive me ) and would swap a dagger out to the mainhand for executions and the swords for when the jig was up, but that shadow vanish thing is ridiculously good. I dunno if I had a bow sneak get to that point. I guess that same character probably had one.
Bwahah and wolfbode the slayer has been defeated! Although... I mean... there was already an army of maybe 600 fighting his army of 300... but I still totally iced him personally with my bow and took out upwards of 10 of his personal guards that give almost every other unit fits.... so I feel my contribution was worthy. But man, epic fight is epic. I guess normal Calradian battles could get that big too but still. Dude was twice as wide as a normal NPC and had a horned demon looking horse it was great lol. And then I talked to him at camp and traded his freedom for a gem of all things. Epic loot gem but still.. feel a bit bad for letting him bribe his way free.
I'd rather not leave loose ends. It really depends how much of a threat he is to you. If not then so what if he was then kill him immediately. I don't have mercy for any serious threats to me. Nothing personal (well sorta but not on a normal level) i just can't have somebody out-do me in power and leave them the possibility to do it again and possibly succeed.
Well if that particular action wasn't the only renewable source of those gems, and if I didn't need more of them than I had at the time, I wouldn't have let him go
Been playing Stranded Deep, pretty good game for Alpha.
Its oddly relaxing, being stranded on tropical islands and doing your best to survive. The Jaws-esque music as sharks approach is a fun touch. Hope they put in bigger islands though. And some salt water crocodiles!
Btw how does the 'dark brotherhood' and the vampire hunter quest-line work. For some reason i got the black hand of the assassin's guild and nothing else happened (the one you get for helping the aretino boy). Also for whatever reason i couldn't find the vampire hunters as hard as i tried. I tried going to the place on the map where it showed me and in one thing it wouldn't let me go passed a point and in the other i couldn't find a way to the point on the map it kept showing me. Nobody was where it wanted me to go and it was hard enough to get there. Wtf do they want me to do?
After you get the letter from the Dark Brotherhood, you have to go to sleep in a bed to trigger the rest of the quest chain. Next time you go to sleep, you will be kidnapped and end up face to face with the leader of the local DB cell.
As for Dawnguard, you can't get to the fort directly on the map (despite the quest marker hanging right over it). There is an unmarked cave (Dayspring Canyon, north of Stendar's Beacon) you have to go into and that will take you to the area the Dawnguard fort is in. Then you can go into the fort and talk to the guy about the stuff. You can start the Dawnguard questline as a vampire, but you can't complete it as one, unless you side with the Vampire faction (or have a particular mod installed) because the head Dawnguard guy kicks you out after a specific quest if you are a vamp.
Playing some Loadout. I love how crazy that game's combat can get sometimes, with flaming spiral-bouncy-rockets flying all over the place. I don't really help much with my new Fire Pulse Skipping Extended Mag Full Auto gun. What can I say, I wanted a flamethrower!
Well it appears some things in skyrim weigh more than what they were made out of. That's pretty damn stupid.
Also, apparently if your follower gets detected, you don't, so while I've been sneaking through the thieves' guild quests, my follower has been slaughtering guards.
I did a bad thing and reinstalled Skyrim after having not played it for three years. According to my ingame hours I was sitting at something like four hundred hours from the first time I actually played it. Well I quite literally installed the game and played it for a day yesterday (as in from morning to night to morning again (yeah I'm on holiday right now...).
I can say so far that my perception of the game hasn't changed much. Not like when I went back to Fallout 3 last year and thought that whoever good it was when I first played it now the writing's just dreadful (though I have New Vegas as a comparison piece at least). Nah it seems all right actually. A bit shallow perhaps, but I think I'm getting into it well. I spent hours downloading mods, though I still think that I'm missing out on a lot of content (as far as mods go I prefer ones which add little things to the world, I mean for instance I have one which simply goes about adding hanging laundry about settlements). I would say that in the base game combat's not very good, and even with some changes its still not amazing (I'd like it if you could knock weapons out of the enemy's hand, throw punches with your free hand which put the enemy off and the like, plus the usual damage increasing).
Is it just me or are the Ash monsters from the Solstheim expansion a bit damage spongey? Maybe its just that I'm too low a level. On the topic of that DLC that place has changed a lot from Morrowind, but I guess put that down to the graphical update. Its a pity though that I had it looking one way in that game and now I'm having to change my perception of it with this one (put it down to the place being covered in ash I guess).
I'm also on the look out for mods which just generally add more bits of content. I mean along the lines varying up the loot and animal pools. Not silly ones like the Monster Mod however, which barring the silly difficulty increase, running across out of place creatures puts me off. The same goes for things like weapons. For one high on my list of things to change with that game is the vanilla weapon models. The mod I found to replace them has an image comparing them to paddles for one. I've been out of the loop for a couple of years so hopefully something good cropped up in my absence, even if it seems to top mods now are the same ones from back then somehow. I just wish someone had come out with a mod like Unique Landscapes for Oblivion by now (not to slight Skyrim's of course, rather I just loved exploring those really interesting looking environments). =P
Oh and damn, something I griped with about the main game, but are there not any mods out there which replace the stupid companion dialogue ones with something like New Vegas' wheel? I thought after Obsidian did it Bethesda would have stripped out the old system and just copy that, but I guess not. It was so much more intuitive. I hate having companions at all, but when I do feel like having one I'd like the experience not to be quite so dire (hell even in New Vegas I didn't like that I had to walk up to the NPC and talk to them to issue commands. Having a separate shortcut which allowed you to issue orders whilst they were within a certain distance of you would have been useful, otherwise you have a fairly basic level of control over them to the extent they're following you about like a dog on a leash. ...Hmn, actually Skyrim has dog as companions come to think of it).
On the topic of Solstheim, remember that Skyrim is set some 200 odd years after Oblivion (I think?) and Morrowind. If not longer. Plus, the little Moon in Vivec turned out to be an asteroid which destroyed most of Vvardenfell when Vivec's 'time freeze' mojo stopped working on it, and it continued its fall uninterrupted. So yeah, I'd expect the island to look rather different.
I do wonder if you can find Stone-Singer's cave, though, and play tunes on the rocks.
Btw how does the 'dark brotherhood' and the vampire hunter quest-line work. For some reason i got the black hand of the assassin's guild and nothing else happened (the one you get for helping the aretino boy). Also for whatever reason i couldn't find the vampire hunters as hard as i tried. I tried going to the place on the map where it showed me and in one thing it wouldn't let me go passed a point and in the other i couldn't find a way to the point on the map it kept showing me. Nobody was where it wanted me to go and it was hard enough to get there. Wtf do they want me to do?
After you get the letter from the Dark Brotherhood, you have to go to sleep in a bed to trigger the rest of the quest chain. Next time you go to sleep, you will be kidnapped and end up face to face with the leader of the local DB cell.
As for Dawnguard, you can't get to the fort directly on the map (despite the quest marker hanging right over it). There is an unmarked cave (Dayspring Canyon, north of Stendar's Beacon) you have to go into and that will take you to the area the Dawnguard fort is in. Then you can go into the fort and talk to the guy about the stuff. You can start the Dawnguard questline as a vampire, but you can't complete it as one, unless you side with the Vampire faction (or have a particular mod installed) because the head Dawnguard guy kicks you out after a specific quest if you are a vamp.
Hope that helps.
Which is funny because i never sleep in skyrim. It's kind of similar to real life how i barely sleep.
Btw how does the 'dark brotherhood' and the vampire hunter quest-line work. For some reason i got the black hand of the assassin's guild and nothing else happened (the one you get for helping the aretino boy). Also for whatever reason i couldn't find the vampire hunters as hard as i tried. I tried going to the place on the map where it showed me and in one thing it wouldn't let me go passed a point and in the other i couldn't find a way to the point on the map it kept showing me. Nobody was where it wanted me to go and it was hard enough to get there. Wtf do they want me to do?
After you get the letter from the Dark Brotherhood, you have to go to sleep in a bed to trigger the rest of the quest chain. Next time you go to sleep, you will be kidnapped and end up face to face with the leader of the local DB cell.
As for Dawnguard, you can't get to the fort directly on the map (despite the quest marker hanging right over it). There is an unmarked cave (Dayspring Canyon, north of Stendar's Beacon) you have to go into and that will take you to the area the Dawnguard fort is in. Then you can go into the fort and talk to the guy about the stuff. You can start the Dawnguard questline as a vampire, but you can't complete it as one, unless you side with the Vampire faction (or have a particular mod installed) because the head Dawnguard guy kicks you out after a specific quest if you are a vamp.
Hope that helps.
Which is funny because i never sleep in skyrim. It's kind of similar to real life how i barely sleep.
It struck me that in all the time I played it there I hadn't actually slept until there was a need to. Unlike Oblivion Skyrim doesn't have that mechanic where you need to sleep to level up (I guess people didn't like that), instead apparently all those dragon souls act like caffiene or something. I guess they didn't consider this when they implemented triggers which only occur when you sleep, ie the Dark Brotherhood questline and vampirism (youknow big things in the game). The first time that I played it I had a mod installed which required you to sleep, so I didn't have to go out my way to start the quest, but without it I doubt I'd ever start that thing as there really isn't a reason to sleep unless you happen to be curious. Huh, but this reminds me to install a basic needs mod (probably the cold weather one too if I can be bothered with its gak), just I don't just tote about the game just clearing out dungeons all day.
...Trying to find a bed to sleep in to start that quest though, hell. I forgot where the inn in Markarth was so thought I could find one in the settlements just outside the walls. Evidently people don't like you sleeping in their beds. Right fine, so how about that house down the road which the owners have run off from and there's Forsworn outside the door. Nah not that one either, I mean the owners might just wander back there for some reason. ...So I wound up in that mining town further along the road staying at the inn. That seems fair and all, bar the room in that inn doesn't have a door. I do wonder how the Dark Brotherhood were able to get in there and take your body all the way to that abandoned shack. Some scheme anyway.
Have you guys never slept for 8 hours in an owned bed?
Automatically Appended Next Post: From the UESPWiki Skyrim:Sleeping page:
Sleeping is the process of resting in a bed, sleeping bag/roll, or pile of hay to fully restore your health, magicka, and stamina.
As long as you are not a werewolf and do not have the Lover Stone active (see notes), sleeping for any length of time also confers a bonus to the rate at which all skills increase, lasting for eight in-game hours. A message on screen tells you which bonus you have received; for example, "You awaken feeling Well Rested".
In a normal bed, you receive the Rested bonus, which confers a 5% bonus to skill increases. In a bed that you own, you receive the Well Rested bonus, which gives you a 10% bonus to skill increases. This applies to beds in purchased houses and beds that you are allowed to sleep in in an inn. If you are married and you sleep in the building where your spouse is, you receive the Lover's Comfort bonus, which is a 15% bonus to skill increases. The Lover Stone provides this same 15% bonus permanently (unless you select another Standing Stone bonus), but it cannot be combined with any resting bonuses. (DG) If you're a vampire and you sleep in a coffin, you will receive the Vampiric Blood Rested bonus, which boosts your resistance to magic by 10% for one in-game day. (HF) If you have adopted a child and you sleep in the same house as your child, you will receive the Mother's Love or Father's Love bonus, which makes healing spells and potions more effective.
The sleeping bonuses are all cumulative with the skill-increase bonuses from any one of the three Guardian Stones—the Mage Stone, the Thief Stone, and the Warrior Stone.
If the Aetherial Crown(DG) is equipped during sleeping, the skill bonus is not activated. You must unequip and re-equip it to sum up all the possible skill bonuses (Guardian + Lover stones + rested/Lover's comfort).
So maybe you don't have to rest for 8 hours even. But regular bed is 5% xp buff, owned bed is 10%, bed in same home as spouse is 15%. Apparently there's even one for vampires though I've never used that.
So not necessary, but if you've got a lot of skilling up to do, no reason not to rest even if for just the 5% from sleeping in a bandit's floor mat.
Now that I have a computer that can actually run the modern games I picked up Far Cry 4....really having fun going bow hunting, learning to shoot the thing accurately against wildlife and enemy alike. This is to give me something to play until March 24th when I'll be getting my GTA 5 on.
I guess, it's certainly not the bed-rocking mini-games of certain other titles... but that *is* kind of a thing that tends to happen between spouses. Of course, if you want to take it that way. Could just mean your MC relaxes better being around his loved one.
There's another different buff if you have adopted kids living in the house too, think that part comes with hearth..fire? Whatever the house building DLC is called. Fathers/mothers love or something like that, think it makes healing items work better.
Co'tor Shas wrote: So.. I became a vampire. First time for everything and what-not.
Remember to feed regularly. The last thing you want is to go a few days without feeding, then fast travel into a city in the midle of the day. You'll be weak as a kitten and the entire city will aggro on you.
There is a mod available that lets you craft "potions of blood" (an item introduced in Dawnguard) at a cooking pot using human hearts and human flesh. Having a few of those in your inventory makes being a vampire easier, because drinking one heals you 100 points and counts as a feeding.
But but... being a starving vampire ramps your abilities up to 11! You've just gotta chill underground when you're hulking out. Or hide during the day, as a vampire should.
Co'tor Shas wrote: So.. I became a vampire. First time for everything and what-not.
Remember to feed regularly. The last thing you want is to go a few days without feeding, then fast travel into a city in the midle of the day. You'll be weak as a kitten and the entire city will aggro on you.
There is a mod available that lets you craft "potions of blood" (an item introduced in Dawnguard) at a cooking pot using human hearts and human flesh. Having a few of those in your inventory makes being a vampire easier, because drinking one heals you 100 points and counts as a feeding.
When I first played the Dawnguard DLC I turned my character into a vampire and had them join that faction. The mod I used to make that way of playing livable was Bottle that Blood which well does exactly what it says on the tin. Of course its perhaps a bit cheatier than having to constantly milk NPCs, though the same could be said of the bottled blood included with the DLC itself, and at least this method of feeding has drawbacks (ie you can only do this to NPCs that are healthy, and doing so almost kills them. Animal blood doesn't give quite the same level of sustenance either IIRC). Of course eventually you'll have to either cure yourself of vampirism or betray the Dawnguard however. However I did like that you could be a vampire hunting vampire for a time, especially as I had that Daedric sword which was supposed to be used against the undead as well (Dawnbreaker? Yeah if you're going to play as a Dawnguard having that's fitting, or just dress up as a Witchunter and tote about with a crossbow).
I never liked the default vampires in Elder Scrolls lore. You get less human but stronger as you go longer without drinking blood. Luckily there are mods that change things up.
I've been playing 'Wargame: Red Dragon' with a friend. We just had a crazy battle vs 3 very hard A.I. The A.I. sure loves to throw massive waves at you. Mostly because they often cheat with resources though i did fail to take some early zones (you need zones to get points to purchase things). We won and probably could've won without the 50 minute time limit. As per usually each of us gets like 4 times the score of a usual A.I. opponent.
Reading people's posts here put me in the mood for Skyrim again, but I'm thinking I'm going to try to play the game as an ordinary person, just fishing and hunting and trying to make a living. I've got one of the needs mods, maybe have to look for some others to add variety to the tasks.
Maybe it'll get boring real quick, but I'm not in the mood for the main game, just the game itself.
I have a random fling with Skyrim every once and awhile. It feels like the healthier type of fling with no emotional attachments where we both know what we're getting into. Nobody gets hurt. Unlike my continual abusive significant other style relationship with my GW products... I keep coming back and getting hurt, and I *know* it's a bad idea but investment/feels!
For now though, I'm quite happy playing MnBoP. I dismissed all of my units and am continually sending my heroes on fact-finding (or right to rule) missions so I can fight solo. The Dark Archer of Doom! Ruby rune bow is just hilarious. I kind of want to get up to 30 strength so I can get two more points of power draw (and ironflesh really) so I'm even *more* likely to oneshot heavy knights or headshot-oneshot the heavier horsies. Gotta work up 2 more levels before all of that so I can get access to the Netherworld charger I looted though. It's slower than my horse is now... but not much.. and it's practically indestructible.
Still haven't sworn allegiance to anyone... but I probably will soon. Drumming up support in ravenstern villages so I can mass-recruit archers for whenever I do obtain a castle!
just trying to finish off the WOTLK in WOW, so I can raid ICC with pals. Also looking to do the Barrel Roll and last achievement in firelands. Loving my guild, they are so supportive.
I just don't understand Rome 2: Total War's naval battles.
I have a large fleet of decent ships, against the same number of enemy 'raiding hermioles' which as far as I can tell are the worst ship in the game.
My scorpion ships don't fire until they're nearly in combat range, my entire fleet gets wiped out, there's still 12 enemy ships left. - Including multiple which apparently have taken 100% fire damage and 106%(!!!!) hull damage.
flamingkillamajig wrote: @Compel: Well that's your problem right there. You're playing Rome 2: Total War.
I don't know how the game actually is though.
How about you stop being such a unbearable commenter
On topic ;
Well you need ships designed for ship to ship action, instead of just a fleet of pure sige ships. I normaly have the following mixture : 50% boarding ships, 20% long range sige ships and 10 normal ranged ships of some sort. Works well for me, should work for you too
flamingkillamajig wrote: @Compel: Well that's your problem right there. You're playing Rome 2: Total War.
I don't know how the game actually is though.
How about you stop being such a unbearable commenter
On topic ;
Well you need ships designed for ship to ship action, instead of just a fleet of pure sige ships. I normaly have the following mixture : 50% boarding ships, 20% long range sige ships and 10 normal ranged ships of some sort. Works well for me, should work for you too
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What got under your skin sheesh? I didn't even say anything harsh to anybody so if you have a problem take it offline.
My joke was that Rome 2: Total War has bugs. If you couldn't get that and instantly turn it into a fight then your first problem is yourself.
I used to do that a lot lol. I think towards the end of my time with MW2 (which is about the last FPS I played online or in general... no time to get good at them) I started taking a much more cautious approach and maybe only got 5-10 kills but with *much* fewer deaths. Really depends on the mission as to if that matters or not. Team deathmatch with respawns and victory based on reaching a set number first... ratio is important. Take and hold with respawns? Die constantly, hold the points anyway
I will say, the 64 player servers can be very entertaining. Theres usually only 1-2 running though. And there will probably be a big drop-off once hardline is released, although probebly no as much as a numbered release.
It always sucks when your FPS iterates and you can't or don't want to pick up the new title. MW2 became a ghost town with only a few too-good players left for the most part. Seems like there were still people playing it while blackops was out but the MW3 saw them all done.
I've been playing a good bit of 'Wargame: Red Dragon'. I'm surprised how some of the campaign isn't straightforward at all. It would've been nice if they told me how to do each thing.
The current campaign section i'm playing has to do with holding what remains of south korea when north korea invades. Basically you're holding off with south korea until reinforcements from the usa can come in and take back seoul.
Spore was the game that taught me the lesson to always do my research, and to be cautious about hype. But I think it's a decent game, overall. There's nothing that makes the tribal section fun for me, though.
What I always wanted was a mod that could drastically reduce the number of space-faring people, so that I could explore planets to my hearts content, without worrying about empire management.
Still playing Prophesy of Pendor. Decided to do the vassal thing. It's cool having my own town, intriguing lords, and courting ladies and all... I just wish I could get these knuckleheads to do what I want more often. If I find a good place to take over they decide to appoint a marshal and follow him around in circles. If I manage to get them all to follow me to siege a town... the enemy has a larger force that comes galloumphing by. Oh well. Kills time.
Spore was the game that taught me the lesson to always do my research, and to be cautious about hype. But I think it's a decent game, overall. There's nothing that makes the tribal section fun for me, though.
What I always wanted was a mod that could drastically reduce the number of space-faring people, so that I could explore planets to my hearts content, without worrying about empire management.
Honestly, Mods would make Spore fantastic. It could allow for the level of progression the game was initially meant to have, and do things like tweak the creature creation engine to not penalize stuff like full armour coverage or tons of limbs- which is something I never understood- if you only get the part bonus for the first part of that type you add, why do additonal copies of that part cost the same in DNA? I so wanted to make a centipede or crab species, but adding more than 4 legs was just too expensive.
I haven't been this obsessed with a game since city of heroes and WoW. It's just too fun and I love how it's free form and you can do what you want. I now own two castles and a village all extremely close to one another Salvador, Relas and Ymigir (or something). I'm now so pumped as I'm going to start a knightly order. They shall be the Order of the Charging Lemmings (or something like that). I'm not too big on battle tactics I mostly just launch my troops at the enemy and ride round killing archers.... fun times 
It boggels the mind
