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Mostly just playing Steel Division with a friend and streaming xcom 2: war of the chosen.

In steel division we've had some good games. I find it interesting how you get more income based on the amount of land you take. That can really push a battle if you push the lines within the early stages of the game.

In xcom 2: war of the chosen some sessions ago i took out the assassin chosen first which is probably the first time i took her out first (she has sword and shotgun with swift movement) but the last mission i played yesterday i fought and killed the hunter chosen (he has sniper rifle and pistol with significant mobility). Now the only chosen i have left to fight and finally kill off is the warlock and he rolled up the teleport ability which is really annoying to face on some chosen since you can't lock them down as easily.

Oddly yesterday even though i never really the vest i just figured out yesterday perhaps taking the vest that returns all melee damage to the attacker and sets it on fire would be really effective against the assassin since her sword strikes can never be dodged and always hit 100% of the time. It does have the potential to be really disgusting on her. Perhaps i will try it next time. Sadly that would require research into chryssalid autopsies and that can be mid-late game in xcom 2 and its expansion.

Eumerin wrote:
Mechanicus is free this weekend on Steam, so I took it for a spin. There's a lot of good stuff in the game. But the Cogitation Points system bugs me. Having to collect points in the middle of a battle just to use anything but the most basic equipment is silly. "Excuse me, but I need you to go look at that terminal over there before I can fire this rifle at the Necrons that are attacking us."

As the game progresses it becomes easier to gather and reduce points costs. Late game tech-priests roll up and down the game area hoovering up blackstone and cog points and blow away necrons in bunches.

 trexmeyer wrote:
I finally played through The Outer Worlds.

It's a fun game and I'm sure the sequel will be stunning, but it really lacks enemy variety and there are a couple of massive plot holes that are ignored by seemingly everyone from in-game characters to the fans.

Spoiler:

The idea that the best of the best are all on The Hope reeks of elitism and poor planning. Apparently, the poor sods on the Groundbreaker are just completely incompetent and need their betters to come to save them...that really rubs me the wrong way. Also, what kind of pants on the head government puts all of their brightest on 1 ship instead of dividing them up to prevent exactly what happened?

Oh, you would be amazed! I can dredge up an unholy amount of people in various departments, and governmental agencies who would think such a thing to be a great idea. Besides that, I agree with you, but the game left me somewhat miffed, I expected far more and felt cheated in some odd way.

I finally found the last SHD tech in the Division 2, now that is done New York should be safer. Back to waiting for the next manhunt target now. Been doing a few of the league activities, but replaying the same missions x amount of times in order to advance in the league makes a bit dull. But the gunplay and feel of the Division 2 keeps drawing me back in

@BrookM

Yeah, Crossout's neat. The core gameplay (build, drive, destroy) is solid and enjoyable, even with the simple, basic stuff you have. But it's definitely got that "This stuff can all be got for free, but it's annoying enough to do so that you're encouraged to spend money on it" Free to Pay model.

Finally picked up a game I never hear people talk about much. It's called Starlink: Battle for Atlas. Basically it follows a plucky group of explorers who are trying to rescue their leader from the clutches of an evil alien wannabe-God (or something, haven't fully seen his motivation yet). The gameplay involves flying ships around both in space and on the ground and using various weapons to blow up bad guys. The twist for the game is that it is one of those "toys-to-life" games, kind of like Skylanders, in that there are physical objects that you hook to a special controller attachment and use to represent your loadout (e.g. when you swap a weapon on your model ship, that change happens to your in-game ship). That kind of feature might not be for everyone, and you can get all the ships/pilots/weapons as digital versions if you don't want to use the toys, but I kind of like swapping out the guns by hand and having a model ship on my controller. Maybe that's just the kid in me, I dunno. I've already sunk several hours into the game and I've got a bunch of add-on stuff on order to expand my arsenal from the fairly basic starter set, but so far I think the game is massively underrated (it released in 2018 and apparently sold very poorly). Certainly the best-executed "toys-to-life" game I've ever seen.

Also, the Nintendo Switch version of the game has Star Fox in it (including Fox himself as a playable pilot and the Arwing ship, both with physical models), which is actually how I first heard of the game when it came out. I don't have a Switch, but rather a PS4, so I had to miss out on that sadly.

Some Stardew Valley. Pretty chill, wanted to see what had changed with the updates since I last played. Spent far too much time sunk into that game.

My friends want me to finish ghost of tsushima so I can play the new legends mode with them. The longer I play this game the less I like it. the ramping difficulty in act 3 just stresses the tiny mechanical faults more and the level design really seems to have taken a hit in this last area making the stealth route frustratingly difficult to pull off because there are so many fewer places to hide.

This game should have ended 10 hours and every additional hour of gameplay at this point is docking it points off its final grade. lol.

age of empires 3 definitive edition.

Love the game, in general an improvement over what AOE3 was , especially in regards to multiplayer and all cards beeing available from the beginning.

otoh, some of the old and even some new pathfinding bugs exist. (new one is the magically pulling in settler torwards a freshly built trading post to be stuck there as a sacrifice to the dark gods i guess.)

then there's the wierd thingy of the renamed ages.
I never really heard of a commerce age

The new nations are fun to play, i still suck at it, but overall, well worth 25$ bucks.

 Adrassil wrote:
Some Stardew Valley. Pretty chill, wanted to see what had changed with the updates since I last played. Spent far too much time sunk into that game.

Damn that game is so addictive..

I was a piece of fruit away from finishing the town hall, must go back to it sometime!

What are the main changes with the latest release?

Enjoyng Vampyr on the PS4 (freebee)

Impressed with the open world element and that your choices have consequences...

Oh yes, nothing quite like some Stardew with a fellow mod, beats complaining about the usual chudwumps we keep running into on these forums.

We've unlocked the cinema last Sunday, are both married and are just doing whatever right now, as most big endgame goals are out of the way now, though I am mostly aiming towards getting that half a million saved up so we can replace the trailer in town with a proper house. After that we still need to placate gramps, as I am a bit behind on the whole social thing.

Added bonus, said fellow mod always ends the session with a nice screenshot of our farm:



Yes-yes, there is a lot of empty space right next to my house and just below it, I'll be turning that into a forest next time we play again.

Also played through Tomb Raider, wrapping it up this morning and started on Rise now, debating whether or not to finally try and 100% it like the first game.

I tried to get into a modded out FNV, but the gunplay is atrocious.

Ended up setting up FO4 on PC for the first time (I've done it on XBOX). From a purely fun perspective it's up near the top of games all time for me. Playing FNV/FO3 I felt like I had to actually quest to get anything out of the game. With FO4 I can spend an entire playthrough just clearing buildings.

 trexmeyer wrote:
I tried to get into a modded out FNV, but the gunplay is atrocious.

Ended up setting up FO4 on PC for the first time (I've done it on XBOX). From a purely fun perspective it's up near the top of games all time for me. Playing FNV/FO3 I felt like I had to actually quest to get anything out of the game. With FO4 I can spend an entire playthrough just clearing buildings.

randomized start mods are fun for that.
As are random challange runs.
Personal favourite, if you hate yourself, start out in Far harbour and switch to hardcore ...

 trexmeyer wrote:
I tried to get into a modded out FNV, but the gunplay is atrocious.

Ended up setting up FO4 on PC for the first time (I've done it on XBOX). From a purely fun perspective it's up near the top of games all time for me. Playing FNV/FO3 I felt like I had to actually quest to get anything out of the game. With FO4 I can spend an entire playthrough just clearing buildings.

The best mod I found for FO4 is Sim Settlements. Once you unlock a settlement, you choose a town plan and then the sim inhabitants build the town themselves and assign themselves jobs etc. Its the sort of mod that is so good, it should have been in the base game.

Started a new total warhammer 2 Bretonnia campaign. Playing on very hard. Got attacked by the red duke, orks, norsca, more orks, marienburg and even more orks at the same time. I’m not kidding, 6 separate factions marched into my territory on the same turn. Norsca and marienburg even came with 2 armies each. I ended up only losing 2 settlements and have 3 more besieged. due to some desperate holds I didn’t lose more settlements so far though. Of course king Louen Leoncour is made of stern stuff. He is leading a campaign to free the Bretonnian land of all these foul invaders. Since this is early game I ended up going crazy overboard with peasant armies but so far it’s working. One by one the enemies are being driven back.

 filbert wrote:

 trexmeyer wrote:
I tried to get into a modded out FNV, but the gunplay is atrocious.

Ended up setting up FO4 on PC for the first time (I've done it on XBOX). From a purely fun perspective it's up near the top of games all time for me. Playing FNV/FO3 I felt like I had to actually quest to get anything out of the game. With FO4 I can spend an entire playthrough just clearing buildings.

The best mod I found for FO4 is Sim Settlements. Once you unlock a settlement, you choose a town plan and then the sim inhabitants build the town themselves and assign themselves jobs etc. Its the sort of mod that is so good, it should have been in the base game.

That sounds amazing. I haven't ever managed to complete that game, as I always run out of steam spending hours just building stuff in the settlements or having to respond when a settlement comes under attack.

Picked up Fallout76 for pretty cheap. Actually seems pretty decent after playing up to level 25. The world/environment is great, yep its still buggy but for $12 I am not overly bothered.

 filbert wrote:

 trexmeyer wrote:
I tried to get into a modded out FNV, but the gunplay is atrocious.

Ended up setting up FO4 on PC for the first time (I've done it on XBOX). From a purely fun perspective it's up near the top of games all time for me. Playing FNV/FO3 I felt like I had to actually quest to get anything out of the game. With FO4 I can spend an entire playthrough just clearing buildings.

The best mod I found for FO4 is Sim Settlements. Once you unlock a settlement, you choose a town plan and then the sim inhabitants build the town themselves and assign themselves jobs etc. Its the sort of mod that is so good, it should have been in the base game.

I thought about getting that, but I prefer either building up walled settlements or flat out ignoring them. I also have like 70 mods running and a few that impact scripts so I'm not terribly keen on another one.

The graphics overhauls, operator style gear, and a few gameplay tweaks are pretty amazing on PC compared to XBOX.

The community is very sketchy though...a lot of mods are pseudo-private, 'hidden' on Discord channels, and there are a few illegal ports of assets from other games.

The Outer Worlds got its Steam release, so been giving that a try.

I went into Vault 88 for the first time. It's pretty neat, but I have two complaints about whatever Bethesda was smoking when they made it.

Indoor lighting sucks. You have to use the default lighting to get anywhere.

It's too big and the layout outside of the main room is absurd. I didn't even realize you could unlock additional areas at first and thought it was a pretty solid size in just the main room.

Three and a half years after release, I finally started playing Horizon Zero Dawn on my Ps4. 10 days of my life vanished. That was legit one of the best games I've ever played in my entire life. Were it not for God of War, I would say it was the best game I've played this Gen. I might actually rank them equally, they were so damn good.

Thinking of trying out Ghost of Tsushima next.

Ghost of Tsushima is a definite recommend from me. It really nails that Kurosawa feel for me and the game is gorgeous. You can be riding through a field of pampas grass and then suddenly the sun begins to set and the whole field is bathed in gold and orange.

Plus you get to pet foxes and write haiku and can play the flute to change the weather.

Trying to finish games I bought long ago, Managed to tick Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Origins off the list. Now working on Red Redemption 2 and Ryse Son of Rome. Next on the list include Gears 4 and Quantum Break. Lots to go.

Playing the Outer Worlds in short bursts, along with some Deep Rock Galactic, which has nice new mission types added in. Bit miffed that moments before finishing the mission the game crapped out on me, that's forty minutes of digging tunnels and laying pipe wasted.

I finally beat Tsushima last weekend. The game really started to wear on me towards the end. They cranked up the difficulty of the combat which just resulted in me noticing the tiny mechanical faults more and more. However, the story wrapped up in such a perfect way that I forgave it for every minor annoyance.

Damn, that was a good game. 9/10 for sure. just needed to be about 10 hours less of side quest content

balmong7 wrote:
I finally beat Tsushima last weekend. The game really started to wear on me towards the end. They cranked up the difficulty of the combat which just resulted in me noticing the tiny mechanical faults more and more. However, the story wrapped up in such a perfect way that I forgave it for every minor annoyance.

I found that the increase in enemy AI in the later game (dodging your strong strikes rather than just block and get staggered, for example) made me react and use my Ghost weapons more to compensate.

Can't dodge when they're reeling from a kunai to the chest or a sticky bomb to their mate standing next to them :headtapgif:

Poison arrow enemies can go jump off a cliff though, archers are always target priority number one

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

balmong7 wrote:
I finally beat Tsushima last weekend. The game really started to wear on me towards the end. They cranked up the difficulty of the combat which just resulted in me noticing the tiny mechanical faults more and more. However, the story wrapped up in such a perfect way that I forgave it for every minor annoyance.

I found that the increase in enemy AI in the later game (dodging your strong strikes rather than just block and get staggered, for example) made me react and use my Ghost weapons more to compensate.

Can't dodge when they're reeling from a kunai to the chest or a sticky bomb to their mate standing next to them :headtapgif:

Poison arrow enemies can go jump off a cliff though, archers are always target priority number one

I ran into the issue of weird mechanical issues like, trying to throw a ghost weapon and nothing happening because I pressed the button too soon after releasing the R2 button and the game hadn't caught up yet, or I switched stances then hit the attack or dodge button only to not attack or dodge but stand there and get hit by the attack because the window hadn't closed all the way yet and it just registered as me changing stances again. The absolute worst was the bow, where I would press the button to fire an arrow but because I pressed it too soon after pulling out my bow it didn't register and the arrow had never been drawn back.

Just got a new puppy, so the only thing I have time to play is hearthstone.

I've just completed Bloodstained: Ritual of the night. As a platforming and Castlevania fan have to say it's one of the best games of that genre I have ever played.

Really love how many little easter eggs and neat touches of design there are in the game. Am playing on the PS4 and am actually thinking of having a go at getting a platinum trophy (which I've never done before), am enjoying it that much. Thoroughly recommended.

 jaredb wrote:
Just got a new puppy, so the only thing I have time to play is hearthstone.

The new game mode seems to be a lot of fun but they want freakin’ 40$ to access it!? I do want to play dungeon run pvp.