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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
How are you enjoying the game with the most exploitative and outrageous monetisation system in modern AAA gaming?

If they aren't offering a $27,000.00 partial unlock packs for assets that don't exist, in a game that may never exist, as a non-refundable donation with no guarantee of delivery, then they are at best a runner up on that front.

I've been playing the planet zoo beta. It has a lot of the same pitfalls as planet coaster (the scenery system is way too detailed and slow, the path system is janky as all hell) but overall it's a super fun game and I'm enjoying trying to get my zoo to work.

balmong7 wrote:
I've been playing the planet zoo beta. It has a lot of the same pitfalls as planet coaster (the scenery system is way too detailed and slow, the path system is janky as all hell) but overall it's a super fun game and I'm enjoying trying to get my zoo to work.

Always impressed / concerned by the time some people must spend getting the most out of the scenery editors in these kinds of games - like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHuk7Bj6OHM

A.T. wrote:

balmong7 wrote:
I've been playing the planet zoo beta. It has a lot of the same pitfalls as planet coaster (the scenery system is way too detailed and slow, the path system is janky as all hell) but overall it's a super fun game and I'm enjoying trying to get my zoo to work.

Always impressed / concerned by the time some people must spend getting the most out of the scenery editors in these kinds of games - like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHuk7Bj6OHM

Honestly, these videos are both the reason I bought the games and the reason I don't enjoy playing them as much as I should. I know that I can't do what they do, but also it takes so long to make something even servicable that I just end up playing something else. I find Parkitect to be better than Planet Coaster from a simulation perspective and just ease of making simple good looking scenery. I can only hope that something similar comes out to fill the planet zoo itch. Until then, I will struggle to learn planet zoo to the best of my abilities. lol

A.T. wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
How are you enjoying the game with the most exploitative and outrageous monetisation system in modern AAA gaming?

If they aren't offering a $27,000.00 partial unlock packs for assets that don't exist, in a game that may never exist, as a non-refundable donation with no guarantee of delivery, then they are at best a runner up on that front.

And to think, all people wanted was another Wing Commander

Still playing borderlands 3.. finished the story, was pretty good. Now I’m doing the proving grounds a lot. Tried circle of slaughter a few times but if you don’t have a good group that can be a real nightmare.

Some of the builds you can do are pretty insane. I’m still playing Moze, I got the skills where you regenerate grenades and get shield regen from crits and kills and stuff. So I just run in, toss a bunch of grenades out that have DOTs on them and are constantly critting things over and over.. it’s almost like god mode. Been playing on Mayhem 3 difficulty, you really constant heals to be able to survive some of those fights. If I get carried away gunning stuff down and forget to keep tossing my grenades out, I can end up 1-shotted to death. My favorite is the zone that’s only tinks, just because the voices make it funny.

Currently Brutal Legend, and Kingdoms of Alamur. Never played either, can't tell which I like more. Prolly Brutal just because of the silliness.

I was playing MHW last night, farming drops from Jyuratodus. And then after it ran away the first time, it got into a turf war with Barroth. So I settled in to watch the two from the far side of the area.

And then the Pink Rathian landed right on top of them...

Grinding away at Final Fantasy XIV, almost got enough tickets to buy a horse during one of the many special events they're running, so hoping to get that done tonight because tomorrow, different game'll be taking up my spare time for the coming days.

Also managed to get a minion that when you use the [BECKON] command sits on your shoulder. It's not a tiny succubus, but for now this cutie will do.

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
Currently Brutal Legend, and Kingdoms of Alamur. Never played either, can't tell which I like more. Prolly Brutal just because of the silliness.

I quite liked both. Brutal gets really awkward when the gameplay changes, but I enjoyed the story beginning to end. Amalur is just a really fun little sandbox. Kind of like a Fable game with a little more generic style and much better combat.

 LunarSol wrote:

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
Currently Brutal Legend, and Kingdoms of Alamur. Never played either, can't tell which I like more. Prolly Brutal just because of the silliness.

I quite liked both. Brutal gets really awkward when the gameplay changes, but I enjoyed the story beginning to end. Amalur is just a really fun little sandbox. Kind of like a Fable game with a little more generic style and much better combat.

The combat in Amalur is great! One of my go to games for just relaxing.

Doing a sloooow campaign playthrough with Bretonnia in a TW2 Mortal Empires campaign. Pretty much declaring war against every faction thats not Empire or other Bretonnians as soon as they become known to me. Been alot of fun.

And still playing Insurgency: Sandstorm on a semi-regular basis. Like most hardcore FPS's its great when you are with a competent or semi-competent team, but it still has the same problems as any other FPS.

 LunarSol wrote:

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
Currently Brutal Legend, and Kingdoms of Alamur. Never played either, can't tell which I like more. Prolly Brutal just because of the silliness.

I quite liked both. Brutal gets really awkward when the gameplay changes, but I enjoyed the story beginning to end. Amalur is just a really fun little sandbox. Kind of like a Fable game with a little more generic style and much better combat.

Brutal Legend was great but ya they stuck an RTS in first person in there that almost made me ragequit. Made it through though and glad I did.

More long war mod in xcom 2. Sadly I have no internet till tomorrow and I can't play xcom till then. Looks like I will lose my currently liberated territory and I think I'll have to bail out of the current mission. There are too many enemies invading. So many in fact it caused the game to crash which is a common problem in long war. Hopefully I can keep most of my soldiers alive to evac but I probably should've just skipped the mission entirely. I will liberate a new territory soon anyway if all goes to plan and depending on where they invade from this might actually be a good thing. Whelp fingers crossed it works out and not many soldiers die.

I also loved the Brutal Legend story and music of course, but wasn't a fan of the RTS stuff. Was expecting it to be a hack n slash kind of game.

But on that note, if they made a brutal legend minis game, i'd buy that for a dollar.

Decided to give Destiny 2 a try since it's finally on steam. Was not disappointed. It's a beautiful game with some of the most amazing gun play I have ever seen in any FPS. I cannot believe how smooth and controlled the weapon handling it.

I like the character customization options, and the variety of different weapons, I rolled a Titan for my first play through and so far, I'm having a lot of fun. So much so I bought Shadow Keep and Forsaken today!

Definitely recommend it.

Still playing MHW, and it's kinda funny...

When I started back up, I had four monsters left to finish the High Rank storyline. The first of those -Kushala Daor - had already stomped on me once or twice. So I set my Long Sword aside, farmed the components for a decent Light Bow Gun, and - after a couple of tries - took him down.

Then I started farming up for Teostra. I decided I wanted the fire charm, but had troub le getting a rare drop for the second rank version. So I finally decided to just try a test run. And I beat him pretty easily. Then I immediately went after the next monster, and beat him quickly as well (though he was more difficult). That took me to the final boss of the storyline. I figured I'd give it a test run... and beat it, too (though I think I almost ran out of time).

So now I'm in Iceborne.

My plan right now is to get some of the new basic gear that only requires metal or bone (which can be harvested from deposits). I can't see the weapon stats yet, but the new basic armor has a huge jump in defense. Once I've got that, I'll clear out the lower-ranked optional quests that have been accumulating, and get some of the optional cloaks and other items that I skipped past.

This is how true socialist paradise looks like.

Is that a church in Traktorsk? And a complete lack of uniform brick apartment blocks?

So keeping that one city liberated failed and I lost everything there including most of my guys and their stuff. However I have since gotten 2 more regions liberated and did a lot of other stuff. Sadly most of my territory resistance members have to hide now because advent strength has gotten that crazy and I don't want any other regions to get wiped out from retaliations. I still think I will lose this game as I lost quite a few soldiers but oddly I think this is the farthest I've ever gone and best I've ever done on this difficulty in long war for xcom 2.

Voss wrote:
Is that a church in Traktorsk? And a complete lack of uniform brick apartment blocks?

It must pre-date the glorious liberation of the people from the yoke of their oppressors. It is likely only still attended by a few aging hold-outs who refuse to recognize the glorious peoples' utopia that they live in, and who are carefully watched for any and all signs of disloyalty to the state.

It's also possible that these are mere Potemkin communities, set up by treacherous bourgeouisie fascist running dogs in some sort of convoluted plot to destroy the glorious people's utopia. See, for instance, that there are no clouds of black smoke - the sure sign of a happy and productive proletariat - coming out of the smokestack in that photograph! Clearly there is something amiss here that bears further investigation by the noble and valiant upholders of our people!

Comrade Hawky, it is my duty to inform you that you have an appointment tomorrow at 9am with your local political officer regarding these so-called settlements.


*cough*


On another note, I mentioned that I've been playing Monster Hunter World. Someone mentioned Epic's Dauntless, so I took a look at that. It's clearly inspired by Monster Hunter. But at the same time, it's much simpler. Sometimes this is a good thing. Sometimes it's annoying. For an example of the latter, in MHW (note that I haven't played any of the other Monster Hunter games, so I can't comment on how the non-open world games work) you find your target monster by locating tracks, and then following them to the target. Dauntless dumps you on a large-ish floating island, and has you run around - with no map - until you find your target. When one of the players finds the monster, he or she launches a flare that (briefly) signals their location (along with the monster, presumably) to the other players.

And then mid-way through the fight, the monster runs away, and you have to repeat the process. It's not so bad when the monster flies away. When that happens, you know which direction it's going. But it's a bit of a nuisance when the monster tunnels or teleports away.

The monsters in Dauntless so far have been a bit on the smaller side when compared to Monster Hunter World.

Dealing with health is both easier and harder. You get five potions at the start of the hunt. You can't change this. You can use a potion to instantly restore half of your health. When they're gone, that's it. You can also revive yourself three times if you're knocked out. Other players can also revive you by performing an action that takes several seconds - assuming that the monster has not maxed out its threat rating (which is similar to the enrage mechanic in many MMO boss fights; but don't confuse it with what's called the enraged mechanic in Dauntless, because that's something different). There's at least one other method of healing, but apparently it requires a higher level than I have to unlock it. In MHW, you can carry up to ten potions and mega potions. And you can craft new ones over the course of the battle assuming you can get the ingredients. If you get knocked out, you're carted back to your camp. If the total number of knockouts in the entire group reaches three, then the hunt ends.

Eumerin wrote:

Voss wrote:
Is that a church in Traktorsk? And a complete lack of uniform brick apartment blocks?

It must pre-date the glorious liberation of the people from the yoke of their oppressors. It is likely only still attended by a few aging hold-outs who refuse to recognize the glorious peoples' utopia that they live in, and who are carefully watched for any and all signs of disloyalty to the state.

It's also possible that these are mere Potemkin communities, set up by treacherous bourgeouisie fascist running dogs in some sort of convoluted plot to destroy the glorious people's utopia. See, for instance, that there are no clouds of black smoke - the sure sign of a happy and productive proletariat - coming out of the smokestack in that photograph! Clearly there is something amiss here that bears further investigation by the noble and valiant upholders of our people!

Comrade Hawky, it is my duty to inform you that you have an appointment tomorrow at 9am with your local political officer regarding these so-called settlements.

Comrade Eumerin, what you see are just the beginnings of a socialist paradise that is yet to come. Currently, we are gathering resources to build a thousand glorious panel houses to accommodate every good comrade and let them have many babies, future factory workers and red army soldiers, yes. With collective efforts, we will crush the fascist NATO dogs and their corrupted countries filled with hedonism and debauchery. We are also currently surveying the mountains for iron deposits, so we could reforge in into tanks and have a thousand tank divisions! And once we conquer the west, our factories will produce the glorious Trabant for every family.

Also, the collective agricultural establishment in Traktorsk won 1st prize for growing crops this year. They grew and harvested the most, so, there is a potential.

Worry not Comrade Eumerin. We will prevail!

 Hawky wrote:

Eumerin wrote:

Voss wrote:
Is that a church in Traktorsk? And a complete lack of uniform brick apartment blocks?

It must pre-date the glorious liberation of the people from the yoke of their oppressors. It is likely only still attended by a few aging hold-outs who refuse to recognize the glorious peoples' utopia that they live in, and who are carefully watched for any and all signs of disloyalty to the state.

It's also possible that these are mere Potemkin communities, set up by treacherous bourgeouisie fascist running dogs in some sort of convoluted plot to destroy the glorious people's utopia. See, for instance, that there are no clouds of black smoke - the sure sign of a happy and productive proletariat - coming out of the smokestack in that photograph! Clearly there is something amiss here that bears further investigation by the noble and valiant upholders of our people!

Comrade Hawky, it is my duty to inform you that you have an appointment tomorrow at 9am with your local political officer regarding these so-called settlements.

Comrade Eumerin, what you see are just the beginnings of a socialist paradise that is yet to come. Currently, we are gathering resources to build a thousand glorious panel houses to accommodate every good comrade and let them have many babies, future factory workers and red army soldiers, yes. With collective efforts, we will crush the fascist NATO dogs and their corrupted countries filled with hedonism and debauchery. We are also currently surveying the mountains for iron deposits, so we could reforge in into tanks and have a thousand tank divisions! And once we conquer the west, our factories will produce the glorious Trabant for every family.

Also, the collective agricultural establishment in Traktorsk won 1st prize for growing crops this year. They grew and harvested the most, so, there is a potential.

Worry not Comrade Eumerin. We will prevail!

ohh boii.
Time to dig a bunker more....

on another word. is it a decent game?

Yes, it is. Still early access, so a bit buggy and a lot of features you'd expect are missing, but I enjoy playing it. On a Steam sale too right now, for 16EUR I think.

 Hawky wrote:
Yes, it is. Still early access, so a bit buggy and a lot of features you'd expect are missing, but I enjoy playing it. On a Steam sale too right now, for 16EUR I think.

Nice, have some spare change and after seeing what ubisoft has done to ANNO i am perfectly willing to cut my losses and go build a socialisct utopia.

The game might be a bit confusing, especially if you are used to classic city builders, so... Let me give you advice.

The goal is not to make money. The goal is to not spend money.

Enjoying Destiny 2's relaunch. I played it back before, but the launch on Steam has been flawless for me so far, and it feels the game is better than ever now that Bungie is no longer under Blizzard's thumb. It's one of the smoothest and well polished first person shooters on the market.

Turned a raspberry pi into an Amiga with Amibian this evening and had a go on Saint Dragon, Shadow of the Beast, Gods and Chaos Engine. Chaos Engine is a great laugh!

Never had the pleasure of the Amiga back in the day but I've chosen it for some retro game development. Not only has it got muscle but it is also able to produce game assets with excellent programs such as Deluxe Paint. Good times are ahead...

Oh definitely some absolute gems on the Amiga, get rooting them out!

I know we all hate the epic store, but Surviving Mars and several of the DLC are currently free on it.

It's installing on my computer right now and I plan on playing it when I get home from work.

I haven't been giving epic my money, but if they want to give me free games. I will take them.