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Well last night i got close enough to some of the northern empire territories and empire and bretonnia are actually really weak now. In fact though wood elves hate me they decided to go at war with bretonnia (making my job simpler as beastmen) and a bunch of factions are either at war with the Empire or with their sub-factions. Basically if i really wanted to at this point i could raid a few territories in the wake of destruction by warriors of chaos, the norse, other beastmen, vampire counts and to an extent even wood elves (my only really strong enemy currently) and just win after they murder those factions. Basically i went from surrounded by enemies to everybody surrounding most of my enemies or at least the campaign important ones. I'm getting close to a short campaign victory. A long campaign victory would be significantly harder however as dwarfs are actually reasonably strong and i still need to raze a bunch more settlements to do it but besides that everything's going really well.

Spent almost the entirety of today with my brother playing Factorio. After having not touched the game for more than a good year now, we were curious to see what changes had been implemented and we were not disappointed.

We made some good progress and are about to fully deploy the much-needed drone logistics network again.

After that.. uranium refining so we can make nuclear bombs.

Dark and Light.
Had to give War in the East a rest. About to hit the first mud phase. On the verge of capturing Smolensk, Keiv, Odessa, and allocating divisions to Group North to help cover down on the front there and I get pass that big arse lake near Leningrad

 BrookM wrote:
Spent almost the entirety of today with my brother playing Factorio. After having not touched the game for more than a good year now, we were curious to see what changes had been implemented and we were not disappointed.

We made some good progress and are about to fully deploy the much-needed drone logistics network again.

After that.. uranium refining so we can make nuclear bombs.

I mis-read that as "Fictorum", thinking you'd had some sort of early-access thing going. Was very confused when you started talking about drones.

Ok bretonnia is destroyed. The empire has one territory. Both the main undead factions are on their last legs as well (like 1-2 territories per faction). Wood elves and dwarfs are still insanely strong. In fact their power level is higher than that of warriors of chaos but all the marauder tribes should help i hope. Wood elves are almost unassailable though and they've basically bubble wrapped the Empire with all their armies meaning even to win short campaign i have to go on a massive campaign into wood elf territory and make serious ground in there. After just going near wood elf territory i got the crap kicked out of me (i won the first fight but suffered about as much and then got hit by another of his armies that had 3 forest dragons). Then after that somehow mannfred comes by after i get outta there and kicks my teeth in to my annoyance. I dunno how i lived that but i'm glad i did.

However despite all this crap with wood elves most of their armies seem to be in bretonnian lands and if i can get to the forests of athel loren and destroy some of their main settlements then perhaps their income would go to absolute crap and i could taint their lands as an added bonus. Super risky but considering just about all wood elf income comes out of the forest of athel loren razing it esp. in its defenseless state (or seemingly defenseless state) seems like a really good idea.

Also wood elves with the exception of one territory (under empire control and in the middle of bretonnia) have taken over all of bretonnian lands and one territory i razed of estalian lands earlier in the campaign. The empire is almost totally a chaos tainted ruin and what isn't is under vampire control or corruption so yeah a sad pathetic crater of its former self. Greenskins are almost dead factionwide except skarsnik's faction which i befriended along with a bunch of mostly useless beastmen factions that i should probably just confederate if things are going poorly. Warriors of chaos and the norse are doing most of the work with me just tearing apart the enemy's territory from the back or like a cancer from the inside.

For now i'm mostly attacking border princes and it's helping. Not sure if i'll win the next battle vs 3 armies since they're badly damaged from attrition and other shenanigans. Also hilariously enough since they've been settling chaos tainted territory i just deployed a couple gorebulls to lower public order even faster and now in a turn one of their territories will rebel (the one with all 3 armies) and then another territory will rebel in about 2 turns. Hilarious stuff to be sure. Might just kill their armies for me but it could cause more trouble than it's worth. We'll see.

Did more Factorio with my brother this evening, finally setting up a limited logistics network run by drones (212 drones right now) and for gaks and giggles having a train run the science packs from that facility to our main research blob.

While he was doing that I've been busy stockpiling gakloads of flamethrower fuel and using it to burn out nearby nests of locals that were getting a bit too close to our outposts and railways. The battle for Outpost Oil was a long one, but in the end nothing but charred corpses and several acres of burned down woodland remained.

Next up when we find the time.. nuclear power. We've already decided to call our first reactor Chernobyl, because we all know where this is going.

State of Decay.

Agents of Mayhem, preloading now.
If you don't hear from me tomorrow, it means my head exploded from sheer awesome.

Still plodding away at Factorio, we've gotten around to building four nuclear reactors, all we need now is enough fuel to run it all.

Also decided to play Metal Slug 3 again after watching a YouTube channel play through all games in a row. I'm still horrible at it, but it's still a fine game to play nonetheless.

I am trying my hardest to build a zoroastrian chiefdom in finland. History? who needs history? (crusader kings)

I am Also playing a bit of mass effect when i get the chance

Xcom 2: long war again. Turned down the difficulty to 2nd lowest (of the 4 difficulties). So far things seem to be going pretty well. The game is super slow though due to having 4 missions progressing all at once.

Playing through a load of Fire Emblem recently, currently on Sacred Stones, probably my favourite of the GBA titles anyway. To spice it up a bit though I randomized the characters, and suffice to say I'm getting pretty screwed over but I guess that's where the challenge is. I'm also trying to find a decent emulator to play Radiant Dawn and Path of Radiance on, but so far it has been pretty hit and miss.

Still playing Agents of Mayhem. It's fun, but it doesn't have the same magic that Saint's Row 3, 4, and 4.5 had. I think the problem is that AOM tried to take itself seriously. "Seriously" isn't really the best word, though. It's like it's trying too hard to be internally consistent, trying to explain it's over-the-top aspects, etc. When I first started playing Saint's Row 3, it metaphorically grabbed me by the balls and swung me right over the top, so-to-speak, in that SR3 didn't take things seriously, it didn't care, and it took a maniacal glee in doing so. AOM is something of a very immature GIJoe cartoon. That's not a bad thing, though. I just wish I had prepared myself a bit more for that. It doesn't help that the game is a bit of a slow start, and you don't get some of the coolest agents right away. And the coolest agent of all, Johnny Gat, is locked if you didn't preorder the game. Fortunately, I did (because Steam refunds are a thing, if I didn't like the game). But I do like the game, having fun now. Need to go back to killing some gak.

Biggest problems I have with Agents of Mayhem right now are the poor PC performance and lack of coop. We usually guy these games for the awesome coop experiences.

I've been playing Agents of Mayhem on my Xbox One. I also agree about it not being quite what I had expected. I'm not sure what exactly is missing, but there's definitely something. I can definitely point to one thing, though - no moments like the duets between the boss and Pierce in the earlier games which were silly, heartwarming, and incredibly fun (and, of course, the moment in 4 when the big bad joins in and spoils the whole thing). AoM just feels like a random group of people thrown together. Now admittedly, that's what they largely are. But the game doesn't have to feel that way. Even the one confirmed romantic relationship in the game (so far, at any rate) between just feels like the developers decided to throw two people together for no apparent reason.

The game appears to be a parody of Saturday morning cartoons, with an action team operating out of a secret base against an international evil overlord. It succeeds in that for the most part. But at the same time, there's something missing that was present in the Saints Row games (note that I've played SR 2, 3, and 4).

Took my first dive into the Souls games with DS2. So far I have yet to git gud, but am having fun with the combat and the environment. Also feth the Pursuer.

 gnome_idea_what wrote:
Took my first dive into the Souls games with DS2. So far I have yet to git gud, but am having fun with the combat and the environment. Also feth the Pursuer.

The Pursuer is quite annoying for beginners

Once you learn to parry, though, he becomes one of the easiest bosses in the game. Bait out his charge-with-shield-up-swing and parry, then get some free hits in and repeat.

Just had an rather unpleasent battle against the Advent in Xcom 2, my mission was to attack and demolish a blacksite. And to be fair the mission was labeld as very difficult, but I did not expect meet four pods of Mutons with one Muton beserker just for lolzs. My squad managed to dispose of them after a rather hectic and violent battle, it was at this moment where two massiv feth all two legged metal monsters came stomping into view.
Sometimes I think the Ai just do this to give me grief

Besides 40K, have had some games of GoT as the series is on HBO for the 7th season.

Cheers,

CB

I managed a game of crusader kings where i lost in the first month. it has been a while since i had something like that happen. (Custom ruler somehow got and died of dysentery)

Started back into DX mankind divided. Forgot what a gem it was

Bought "Remember Me" a few days ago, as it's a cyberpunk game, but I don't think I'll be remembering this one, quite a mediocre mess.

I vaguely remember "Remember Me". It was a decent enough game when it came out, but I remember feeling that it was far too linear. They build this pretty world, but you couldn't explore it. Every time there was a fork in the road/corridor, either one path dead-ended right away, or both just rejoined each other within 5 seconds.
The memory rebuilding thing was a neat idea, though.

Yeah, it had potential. Unfortunately, it wasn't able to live up to that potential.

It's by the same people who made 'Life Is Strange".

Fallout Nevada (new version based on Fallout 2)
I want to try new official patch to HOMM 3 with real Multiplayer :-)
And Path of Exile (PoE) for poe orbs. If you know something, just let me know
I will be happy when I buy Exalted Orbs, buying PoE Currency is a matter of life and death. Buy Exalted Orbs and Chaos Orbs (cheap)
https://odealo.com/games/path-of-exile

I still need to play Life is Strange but after Remember Me I'm not really looking forward to it.

Finally finished Breath of the Wild. In a holding pattern until Yakuza Kiwami, and I don't see much that really excites me for the Switch until a RPG that looks interesting. Maybe Battle Chasers?

 BrookM wrote:
I still need to play Life is Strange but after Remember Me I'm not really looking forward to it.

They're very different games.

Keep in mind that 'Remember Me' is a third person action game with an unusual mechanic that not many people remember, while 'Life Is Strange' is a Tell-Tale-style adventure game with an unusual mechanic. And while the former was released first, only the latter has an announced follow-up.

Playing HoI IV. I did this. NSFW. (Severe bordergore)

I thank you for leaving the Netherlands alone.