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I've been enjoying the career mode of the HBS Battletech game. It is much improved from the last time I played it a year ago! I'm looking for the expansions to go on sale now.

Also- picked up all the DLC for Darkest Dungeon (which is 50% on steam for another few hours), and I'm about to begin a full run on it.

Still playing the Socialist Utopia simulator (Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic)

I built a new city of Kirov, oil refinery and two-track railway connecting the city of Wirau, Traktorsk, Kirov, and customs house to transport workers and export fuel.
I'm currently building a steel mill, and the next scheduled 5-year plan is to build farms and food processing.

Started up a new game of Total War Three Kingdoms the other day. I spotted someone I wanted to attack camped out on his pig farm, and moved my army so that I could attack him the following turn. Surprisingly, he then rushed out to attack me, even though I had twice as many men in my army.

And then I noticed his reinforcements. Apparently the pig farm garrison *by itself* had over a dozen units...

Currently eyeing the battletech season pass (finally) I refused initially since the first one offered little, and they didn't let anyone know what was in the later DLC, but the third one finally dropped today and the 'season pass' is currently a 'bundle' which is 45% off, (so $33 rather than $60).

Still not entirely convinced by the value of each DLC, but they have added a lot in total, and a few free updates that are worth patting them on the head for (including actual mod support)

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What I'm oddly in the mood for is a JRPG where I can grind and overlevel to a ridiculous degree and god-mode through the story. Waiting for the Steam sale to see if any of the existing ones hit the sale, though.

Mordhau still.
However i did run into Karl Franz.

I tried a few games that were just added to xbox gamepass the last week or so, and so far all were misses for me. Glad I didn't have to pay full price

Rage 2 - was OK but the game got real repetitive real fast, made it to the final mission where you have to get into some tank and go assault the bad guy base, but there was a glitch making it where it won't give me that last quest. Looks like it's been happening for a while. So, I gave up.

Blair Witch - as soon as I got into the woods in the beginning, I got bored and almost fell asleep waiting for my dog to do stuff.

Darksiders 3 - Got to the first boss and got killed pretty quick, didn't really like the gameplay anyway, so I gave up.

Halo master chief collection - I started replaying the original remastered game and it was nostalgic at first, but compared to more modern shooters it's just not as fun as I remember it being.

Samurai for the ZX Spectrum. Fittingly its like an Osprey tabletop skirmish game for the old speccy. Top stuff!

I am once again playing the "WHY IS MY GAMING COMPUTER RANDOMLY FREEZING!!??" game. I thought I'd stopped playing it, since it hadn't happened for a good couple of weeks... But nope. Now I'm having trouble even getting it to start.

And I'd just managed to get the Diablos in MHW...

Soul Calibur 6 for the first time in ages got stuck on trying to defeat the last boss (Azwel is his name) of the campaign drove me insane dozens of tries, so fought him again and even though I used a mercenary I SLAUGHTERED him 3 rounds to his 0. Did they nerf him in one of the last updates? Lol

Decided to play through the first rebooted Tomb Raider series (Legend, Anniversary and Underworld) and start a new game on Stardew Valley after the massive content patch dropped not that long ago.

I've been playing a stupid amount of Gundam Battle Operations 2. Something about that game is brilliant, but I'm not sure what.

With all the DLC packs out, I've jumped back into BattleTech. It's amazing fun, with tons of stuff to do. I do fear that I'll eventually fall into the gameplay loop of just running really samey missions over and over again. But for now the new 'Mechs and upgrades are coming in thick and fast, so I'm good.

Of course I did just buy W40K: Gladius in the Steam sale... hmm...

Finished Luigi's Mansion 3 over the holiday. Really fun little game, even if the slam attack makes a few too many of the ghost encounters a little trivial.

Was playing DOW2 for the first time (Verdict: Excellent game, but DOW1 scratches the RTS itch perfectly for me for Sci Fi).

But then the sales game and I got derailed. Picked up Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate (how many names does a game need?) for my switch and am putting the work into getting into it. I liked the first boss fight, but I have to say I hope the number of tedious fetch quests declines as you get into it, because so far there are only those sorts of quests and no further monsters.

Picked up a few things for PC as well, Warhammer 2, Battlefleet Gothic and RE2, as well as No Man's Sky, since I heard it is a lot better now. Enjoying it - I think it is my speed at the moment.

Just beat Subnautica and trying out Below Zero next week. LOVED LOVED LOVED everything Subnautica made me feel. I was scared, terrified, hesitant, incapable of making even the slightest dangerous trip, because I might loose something I worked so hard to make.

It's like playing Diablo 2 on Hardcore. Loved it. Loved the story, and the cameos by Doraleous and associates.

Witcher 3. Unlike my first two tries at it, I'm actually getting into it, though some of that is ignoring the main characters as much as possible (though Geralt makes that difficult).

Definitely needs a better inventory/sale system though.

 Adrassil wrote:
Soul Calibur 6 for the first time in ages got stuck on trying to defeat the last boss (Azwel is his name) of the campaign drove me insane dozens of tries, so fought him again and even though I used a mercenary I SLAUGHTERED him 3 rounds to his 0. Did they nerf him in one of the last updates? Lol

I take it you've not fought the weapon master secret bosses (inferno, etc) ?
If you ever feel like hating the game forever, the only way I found to beat that was was seigfriend, backing away sideways for the whole fight and throwing out the occasional drop-kick. Hate bosses that can spam quick, unblockable instant death attacks.

Got beta keys for GTFO, been looking forward to this one for quite some time now, will be fun to have something cooperative again.

And also more Stardew Valley, managed to really get into things again, thundering through that community checklist like no tomorrow, not long now until I've got that greenhouse and I can really break the game.

A.T. wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
Soul Calibur 6 for the first time in ages got stuck on trying to defeat the last boss (Azwel is his name) of the campaign drove me insane dozens of tries, so fought him again and even though I used a mercenary I SLAUGHTERED him 3 rounds to his 0. Did they nerf him in one of the last updates? Lol

I take it you've not fought the weapon master secret bosses (inferno, etc) ?
If you ever feel like hating the game forever, the only way I found to beat that was was seigfriend, backing away sideways for the whole fight and throwing out the occasional drop-kick. Hate bosses that can spam quick, unblockable instant death attacks.

I think so, maybe? Or have the yet to appear on the map? The most annoying and had to defeat enemy for me was a side fight who was indestructible and the only way to defeat him was ringing him out, drove me up the wall trying to defeat him lol

 Adrassil wrote:
I think so, maybe? Or have the yet to appear on the map? The most annoying and had to defeat enemy for me was a side fight who was indestructible and the only way to defeat him was ringing him out, drove me up the wall trying to defeat him lol

If you get a weapon type to maximum level and go back to edge master he'll send you to fight a mini-boss. Do that for half the weapons in the game and you get to fight inferno.

There is another boss fight unlocked by mastering all the weapons in the game but the first one was enough for me. You are pretty much either abusing its AI or playing over and over until it randomly decides not to use it's unblockable auto-win move.

Dune 2000 as Ordos and Mercs.

Currently playing/struggling through Breath of Fire 4, which so far has been far more fun than I remember it being. Will probably end up playing Breath of Fire 1, 2 and 3 again after I'm done with this one!

SamusDrake wrote:
Dune 2000 as Ordos and Mercs.

That's really ancient...

Pheonix Point finally dropped. Apart from some "How did this get through testing?" bugs right at the start. I'm really enjoying it.

A.T. wrote:
There is another boss fight unlocked by mastering all the weapons in the game but the first one was enough for me. You are pretty much either abusing its AI or playing over and over until it randomly decides not to use it's unblockable auto-win move.

Ah! So I haven't then. I've only defeated the master of Taki's and Mitsurugi's weapons, respectively. My save for the Taki's weapons got corrupted though so will have to do that again. Sounds like beating that'll be a bastard lol Thanks for the warning.

SamusDrake wrote:
Dune 2000 as Ordos and Mercs.

Excelent game! Great choice

Trying to clock out Inquisitor Martyr on PS4. Single player done.
Game is a lot of fun but it’s hard now to find players online willing do play together


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Voss wrote:
Witcher 3. Unlike my first two tries at it, I'm actually getting into it, though some of that is ignoring the main characters as much as possible (though Geralt makes that difficult).

Definitely needs a better inventory/sale system though.

Awesome game. Completed on PS4 when released. I heard they improved it a lot since then and the DLC’s been great as well

 Blooddragon1981 wrote:
Trying to clock out Inquisitor Martyr on PS4. Single player done.
Game is a lot of fun but it’s hard now to find players online willing do play together


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Voss wrote:
Witcher 3. Unlike my first two tries at it, I'm actually getting into it, though some of that is ignoring the main characters as much as possible (though Geralt makes that difficult).

Definitely needs a better inventory/sale system though.

Awesome game. Completed on PS4 when released. I heard they improved it a lot since then and the DLC’s been great as well

I've got mixed feelings about it, to be honest. Parts are good, particularly the hunts and some of the story. Other parts... not so much.

Partly its the open world problem (much like Dragon Age: Inquisition), where you're presented an urgent, time critical quest, but they game really wants you to faff about picking flowers and deal with a bizarre array of secondary activities, some of which are actively trivial.
Some of it is the relentless grimdark. It fits the tone, sure, but there are time it desperately needs a break.

Some of its purely mechanical, like the inventory system, and the camera in small buildings (especially towers).


But overall, yeah, its pretty good. There are story moments that are pretty profound and significant.
I just hope Cyberpunk has a larger range of interaction and reactions in conversations. Geralt's limited range gets tedious.


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Finally got to the end of the main game. Pretty good ending, except for the random and pointless interlude about punching out an ice age or whatever.
I actually stopped mid-cutscene to hunt the internet for a fething explanation for that nonsense.

Voss wrote:

 Blooddragon1981 wrote:
Trying to clock out Inquisitor Martyr on PS4. Single player done.
Game is a lot of fun but it’s hard now to find players online willing do play together


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Voss wrote:
Witcher 3. Unlike my first two tries at it, I'm actually getting into it, though some of that is ignoring the main characters as much as possible (though Geralt makes that difficult).

Definitely needs a better inventory/sale system though.

Awesome game. Completed on PS4 when released. I heard they improved it a lot since then and the DLC’s been great as well

I've got mixed feelings about it, to be honest. Parts are good, particularly the hunts and some of the story. Other parts... not so much.

Partly its the open world problem (much like Dragon Age: Inquisition), where you're presented an urgent, time critical quest, but they game really wants you to faff about picking flowers and deal with a bizarre array of secondary activities, some of which are actively trivial.
Some of it is the relentless grimdark. It fits the tone, sure, but there are time it desperately needs a break.

Some of its purely mechanical, like the inventory system, and the camera in small buildings (especially towers).


But overall, yeah, its pretty good. There are story moments that are pretty profound and significant.
I just hope Cyberpunk has a larger range of interaction and reactions in conversations. Geralt's limited range gets tedious.


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Finally got to the end of the main game. Pretty good ending, except for the random and pointless interlude about punching out an ice age or whatever.
I actually stopped mid-cutscene to hunt the internet for a fething explanation for that nonsense.

Yeah you are right, parts of Witcher were too limited/simple but overall atmosphere, realm of the great series of books mapped, successfully moved to gaming screens was one of the best games that year.

Cyberpunk imo will be absolutely smashing, more free world, the world open and changing, same as the character you create. I cannot wait!
I did play Cyberpunk Role-Play for few years back in my teen-age years and it was an amazing time, the system, the climate and possibilities of developing your character. One of the best Role-Play systems imo. Next to Werewolf/Vampire Role-Play universe.

I'm looking forward to Cyberpunk, but as RPG systems, both Cyberpunk and WW are mechanically terrible.

Cyberpunk tends to be a meatgrinder, with a much too long creation process for the death rate, and a skill system that does too little.

For the time it was made, some of its mechanical flaws can be forgiven (though that doesn't apply to WW), as it was it came out the 80s and people were still learning how to write effective RPG mechanics.


Most of the flaws shouldn't apply to the computer game, though. They seem to be borrowing atmosphere and tone, and not bothering with dice systems, just borrowing a few game terms for stats.