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 Ratius wrote:
Is Skyrim SE worth it you think?

I dunno. It showed up in my steam library one day, no explanation. I think everyone who bought the original got SE for free.

The issue with SE is that is it is the same game, with the added creation-crap content added in. Microtransactions.

But, Bethesda forced steam to hide the page for the original game, so unless you bought it when it released like I did, you can't get the original anymore on Steam - finding a key or hard copy somewhere.

It's not unusual for a game to be completely replaced on Steam by its "improved" version. I own Sleeping Dogs and Deus Ex: HR, and both take you to the improved version of the game if I tell Steam to take me to the store page of the unimproved versions.


On another note, Battlefleet Gothic 2 is free to play on Steam this weekend, so I downloaded that last night.

´Playing Breath of the WIld. The weapon degradation is not annoying me as much as I thought it would, though I do think the game would be better with out it, or if you auto switched to the next weapon in your inventory instead of having to break the flow of the fight.

Dark Souls 3 with the Cinders mod. It's a weird mod that added a bunch of things, some of the rebalancing has allowed me to finally beat Darkeater Midir, an optional boss that is normally such a huge pain it's not worth bothering with.

just got Mount&Blade Warband with Red Wars mod.

Gotta stomp the bolsheviks into the ground.

 Hawky wrote:
just got Mount&Blade Warband with Red Wars mod.

Gotta stomp the bolsheviks into the ground.

For what Monarch?

Spent a good while on Alien3 on the SNES last night.
Fun little game, the terminal missions/blue prints are a nice touch and overall gfx and engine are pretty darn tight.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Hawky wrote:
just got Mount&Blade Warband with Red Wars mod.

Gotta stomp the bolsheviks into the ground.

For what Monarch?

Swabian Reich.

 Hawky wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Hawky wrote:
just got Mount&Blade Warband with Red Wars mod.

Gotta stomp the bolsheviks into the ground.

For what Monarch?

Swabian Reich.

Shamefur diapray, anything not Habsburg is shamefur


/Joke.

 Hawky wrote:
just got Mount&Blade Warband with Red Wars mod.

Gotta stomp the bolsheviks into the ground.

I've gotten myself addicted to the Prophesy of Pendor mod recently.

Native, Floris, and Gengoku have all devoured large portions of my life.

I'm out of a rig that will even run good old mount and blade anymore, but I had a load of fun with Prophesy of Pendor. The additional tier of "sort of magical" items allows you to get away with some silly shenanigans like solo horse archering entire enemy forces (even the wandering heroes ones), but of course I stopped playing before total dominion

I've been playing Darkest Dungeon but it's stressful. Works pretty well on the Switch though.

I've been playing starcraft 2. I dunno why I had the urge to play it but I just do. Perhaps I needed a fairly popular rts to scratch my rts itch. I'm actually enjoying it so far.

Still in the lower leagues (only silver :() and my wins vs losses is even right now. I play protoss in 1vs1 online and fighting toss is average, zerg are just so obnoxious to face and I usually lose against them but terrans right now are just pushovers.

So far all the terran tend to do is quick harass which is countered by stalkers easy, proxy barracks which usually leaves their main base super defenseless for various raids, and if they make siege tanks and those siege helicopters you just out-range them with tempest and snipe those units. You also use high templar to psi storm armies and feedback medivacs.

One of my best terran opponents made many successful though costly raids but I eventually stopped his expansions and destroyed his refineries a lot which forced him to just build marines which psi storm just destroyed. I mean terran are easy to counter so far overall. Of course I'm in low ranks so that could change.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I've been playing starcraft 2. I dunno why I had the urge to play it but I just do. Perhaps I needed a fairly popular rts to scratch my rts itch. I'm actually enjoying it so far.

I also fire up SC2 every now and then. Last I play I hit low gold. It’s a fun rts. In all honesty though after Total biscuit passed on my interested lowered for the game. His shoutcraft Kings series was awesome.

Got into Sekiro: not at all stealth dark souls. It’s great fun but... the game is having an identity crisis. My favorite part of the game is the ninja stealth sections. However, if you go full ninja you’ll be woefully unprepared for the boss fights. Learning to fight (and mostly to parry) is king but you lose out on it if you just stealth your way through the game. Don’t get me wrong, I like it a lot, but it falls short on many of the design philosophies that made dark souls as great as it is.

SO has me playing FFXIV. Certainly isn't a bad game as far as MMOs go.

I sorta regret what I said about terran being easy to fight. Today I was getting thoroughly curb-stomped by terran while playing protoss. People are right about zerg going down hard to raids or early pressure though.

Legacy of the void multiplayer is very much a different beast than previous versions of starcraft 2. I see terran do the 1-1-1 build a lot and the speed they can change into other builds is annoying. Battlecruisers and thors are also obnoxious and siege tanks are pretty annoying early on when someone uses disposable marines ahead to spot for siege or when they scan to siege opponents. Not to mention the counter I use for siege tanks comes way too late and seems to get countered by nearly everything terrans throw at it.

There has to be something I can do but the nerf on immortals was sort of a nail in the coffin. I suppose I could try putting more stasis traps around and then maybe killing siege units when the marines are in stasis and can't do anything. Guess I'll try next time but I imagine they could become wise to it eventually. I still think destroying terran refineries should help a ton. Wish I didn't have to wait so long to find out a good counter.

Currently playing Astral Chain on the switch and it’s pretty good so far. Usual charming mix of cool and bat gak crazy that you get from Japanese games aimed at there home market.

I’ve been sucked into crash team racing: nitro fuelled and I can’t get out. Actually, I don’t want to get out.

 Da Boss wrote:
´Playing Breath of the WIld. The weapon degradation is not annoying me as much as I thought it would, though I do think the game would be better with out it, or if you auto switched to the next weapon in your inventory instead of having to break the flow of the fight.

I think it really helps that the game doesn't focus on equipment progression and eventually wears you down to the point where you stop trying to horde things and just let them break. It keeps the sense of scavenging throughout the game and keeps the power level rather flat so you're free to roam rather than needing to direct the player or level up the world to keep pace. I believe you can quick change weapons with the D-pad? Been a while; I do remember feeling like it could have been implemented smoother, but a lot of it was early frustration from years of degradation systems being more of a tax where I was expected to conserve things. Much happier with them game once I started letting everything break.

Finally got into Mutant Year Zero : Road to Eden, after buying it like 6 months ago.

Its pretty tough, as I like my turn-based squad games. Thought I'd use my X-Com experience and start on "Challenging" difficulty...

Well, that didn't last long and I'm at about level 12 on my 3 squaddies on normal difficulty and its still an endeavor. I'm getting better at the real time movement before combat starts to set up ambushes and such, but I still find myself getting into tough fights. Even small skirmishes need careful maneuvering, lest you alert the nearby enemies.

Its a fun game so far, and I love the characters. Never knew I needed a game that teamed up Bebop of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fame and Howard the Duck of ... uh, Howard the Duck fame in a turn based squad tactical shooter. Also have some sort of weird horned girl in the team as well.

Captain Blood for the ZX Spectrum.

Tried a warhammer total war goblin cav army only challenge campaign as skarsnik.

Boooy did i get my ass handed to me.

Even more starcraft 2. I think I do fairly decent vs zerg right now but terran are still a problem. Dunno why but I tend to face almost all the same faction for like 4 or so games straight. First terran and nothing but for like 5 matches and then mostly zerg and some protoss.

My Mount&Blade Pendor game got really exciting when I broke away from the D'Shar and founded my own kingdom (jerk king wouldn't give me Janos, when I conquered it, and it's right next to my Ethos). Unfortunately, I waited too long before rebelling, and could just steamroll D'Shar even before promoting a couple companions to Lords.

I took all of their original territory, knocked them down to 2 castles that used to be Sarleans, and then they called a truce. Works for me - somehow their king still loves me.

So I have all the starting D'Shar territory, all but Cez and 1 castle of Baccus's territory, Sarelaons capitol city, 2 Fields castles, and all but 3 Sarleaons castles. Plenty of territory.

Nobody dares declare war on me. And my right-to-rule is only 30. They must be (rightfully) terrified of me. I was hoping Baccus would attack, so I could annex their last two holdings (which are in the heart of my empire).

So I just build up Knights, hunt spawns, and do Noldor tournaments. Just founded my CKO, so I'm training them up too - but I have ~100 Knights of an existing chapter, atop a couple hundred top-tier units, hanging out in Ethos. I have over 200 Noble Recruits ready to be recruited. I make 5-digit income weekly even with mercs upkeep. And a party size north of 400. I think there's no way I'm losing this game.

It's been fun, but what to do next? Get Elixers to bring Str/Agi/Cha to 30? Improve companions to better train my CKO? Start a war? Just keep hunting? Max out my rank with KotBC?

Hearts of iron IV owb, they Expanded the mod recently, and having a cartel running alone on Coffee is hillarious, especially when you builly the AI

Did well at starcraft 2 last night. About 2 out of every 3 games were wins.

Still playing BotW, and LunarSol, I kinda agree with you. It is just a bit annoying sometimes, but definitely not a fatal flaw with the game. I also get why they did it, it basically makes any cool gear you get a temporary buff only, which makes for interesting strategy for the player. Putting even one "I never break" weapon in would have screwed with that system. I just feel some stuff is really ridiculously flimsy, and it annoys me that my enemies weapons never break.

Also reinstalled Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. One of my all time favourite games. I know some people prefer the DoW2 style with the small squad stuff, and I can see the appeal, but I really enjoy the more traditional RTS nature of DOW1 and Dark Crusades map campaign is a lot of fun to play through. If only Tyranids had existed in this version of the game, it would have been perfect!

Gave world of war ships a go on the Xbox. It’s fun although with few maps and ships. Not something I’d pour hours in to, but ok as a pick up game .

Am looking at ancestors legacy too but think it’s only download on the Xbox so might wait to see if it goes on the Xbox discount sales at any point.

Back playing Fire Emblem, About half way through my 2nd play through and I still think it’s the best game I have played in ages.

Going to take a break though as Nintendo just added a SNES emulator to the switch which includes a couple of RPG classics in Zelda a link to the past and Breath of Fire.

gave WoW classic a go, s'alright

unlikely to stick with it as the time sink to get to the point of 'progress' from where I was at the end of Vanilla (cleared BWL and a boss or two in Naxx and AQ40) is just too much of an ask these days

I think I'll get promoted to low gold soon from high silver. Still fairly low leagues but I feel good about it. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this game.

I'm also playing long war on xcom 2 and seem to be doing better than ever before and it's all about what build order you take. I also did well in 40k tabletop with guard so I'm having a winning streak. Hopefully I don't get a losing streak to balance it out.

Also though the epic store is sleazy I keep wanting to give in and play Phoenix point more and more. It doesn't look completely bug free and is still early access but when it comes out of early access in December I think I'll buy it epic store and all.