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I've been playing command and conquer 3 in the nod campaign. I was getting pretty close to winning the final mission on hard. A few of the nod missions at the end are really tough esp. The last and the one where you have to capture 4 enemy hqs and keep them intact (even while captured) with a token force while making sure the 2 enemy forces don't accidentally kill each other's hqs.
The other game I've been playing is barotrauma. A friend got his sub working ridiculously well. I'm actually rather impressed with it. I dunno what it is with barotrauma but it went from an ok game to a promising one to a really, really good game. There's definitely complexity with it and the devs keep adding more free content. I'd say I'd like game devs to take note but usually when they do they buy indie companies and go mainstream. When anything goes mainstream it tends to get ruined.
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I played through all the CnC 3 campaigns a couple of years back, You're right, the campaigns are really fun but some of the missions were pretty challenging! What saved me was that the AI seems to run out of steam in some missions and stop sending attacks, and in other missions the AI gets confused if you set up your base in a different area than the mission intended.
I'm playing a game called Forsaken Remastered atm, apparently it came out for N64 originally. I'm really enjoying the combat + powerups and the levels are requireing a lot more exploration than I was expecting. Where some people have nostalgia for pixel art, mine is for N64/ PS1 era low polygon 3D.
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I started playing The Witcher 3 since it was on sale on Steam.
I recently played HZD and its expac. I liked the story, despite some gaping plotholes.
Also started playing Cyberpunk 2077 with some visual mods using a Stealth/Cool focus that I hadn't tried before, but dropped that for The Witcher 3.
TW3 has to be the single most overrated game I've ever touched. I've tried to get into the first two and it just didn't happen. I kept hearing that The Wild Hunt is so much better and it's not.
Spoiler:
1) Combat is flat out awful. It's trying to be Dark Souls or something like that, but lacks the responsiveness and fluidity.
2) Basically no actual customization for your character visually or in terms of playstyle.
3) Inventory system and a lot of the management menus are an eyesore and annoying to use.
4) Traversing the world is also annoying.
5) Ugliest open world I have ever played in outside of Oblivion which is much older. HZD, AC:Odyssey, Cyberpunk, and Skyrim all have beautiful scenery.
Maybe the story/quests will end up being really good. Based on what I've seen so far I doubt it. The biggest difference I see between this game and other RPGs/open world action games is that the there is more moral ambiguity in The Witcher setting. CDPR handled that very well in Cyberpunk, hopefully that will be the case here.
Lastly, the world setting is uninspired IMO in comparison to other major fantasy titles. There are interesting concepts, such as the origin of the various monsters, the Witchers, the vampires, but the setting as a whole falls short of what it could be.
The only way we can ever solve anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy
@kroem: Finally beat the final nod mission. I had to make a secondary base between the main gdi forces and the scrin and spam obelisks and stealth tanks. Sadly I lost once because the scrin were dumb enough to attack me with heavy air to ground ships even though I was saving them.
Unfortunately I wasn't using my favored approach of stealth bombers. Oddly I found they didnt hit as hard as I needed them to once super weapons keep hammering your bases. My secondary got hit anywhere from once to twice in the succeeding final mission which is pretty nuts all things considered and it didnt help the scrin attacked me once right after gdi's ion cannon nuked my defenses.
I think the problem is as good as stealth bombers are they're expensive. I say this but I had maybe 5 factories pumping out mostly avatars or stealth tanks. Avatars build slowly so it was easier to just spam factories to make one or two per factory at a time. Sad thing is towards the end you kinda need to have avatars and "upgrade" them (by murdering a vehicle and salvaging its weapons or abilities) so that they can do the jobs most of your end-game obsolete vehicles held but now are too fragile to do.
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I spent a good chunk of time yesterday playing another ahistorical game, this time as Turkey, using the changes from the last DLC. For most of the game, there were five power blocks. There was the Comintern (pretty much just the USSR). Germany and parts of Eastern Europe made up the Axis. Japan and it's Chinese puppets ended up joining a Low Countries faction that I'm not going to attempt to spell. And that's probably because both groups were already fighting The Allies, represented by Fascist Great Britain (and parts of it's reclaimed Commonwealth) and Italy. France and the parts of Eastern Europe that weren't Axis joined the Little Entrance, and got knocked out early by both the Axis and the Allies working together. And the USA and Canada formed the North American Alliance (which I ultimately joined). Comintern was fighting Allies and the Low Countries faction, but NOT fighting the Axis, who were at wat with the Allies. That made for some odd situations as Germany got rolled up and Comintern could finally reach Allied territory (the Axis had originally been in the way). The North American Alliance joined in against the Axis (who are now out of the game), but are not currently at war with anyone. I think I'm going to change that, though, by opening the Georgian Front against the USSR...
That's not the weirdest thing about this game, though. The weirdest thing was when Portugal suddenly got puppeted by Japan. I haven't got a clue why or how it happened. I had initially guessed that something weird had happened with Macau. But when I checked, Japanese troops still couldn't reach it by land, and it was still owned by Portugal.
TW3 has to be the single most overrated game I've ever touched. I've tried to get into the first two and it just didn't happen. I kept hearing that The Wild Hunt is so much better and it's not.
Spoiler:
1) Combat is flat out awful. It's trying to be Dark Souls or something like that, but lacks the responsiveness and fluidity.
2) Basically no actual customization for your character visually or in terms of playstyle.
3) Inventory system and a lot of the management menus are an eyesore and annoying to use.
4) Traversing the world is also annoying.
5) Ugliest open world I have ever played in outside of Oblivion which is much older. HZD, AC:Odyssey, Cyberpunk, and Skyrim all have beautiful scenery.
Maybe the story/quests will end up being really good. Based on what I've seen so far I doubt it. The biggest difference I see between this game and other RPGs/open world action games is that the there is more moral ambiguity in The Witcher setting. CDPR handled that very well in Cyberpunk, hopefully that will be the case here.
Lastly, the world setting is uninspired IMO in comparison to other major fantasy titles. There are interesting concepts, such as the origin of the various monsters, the Witchers, the vampires, but the setting as a whole falls short of what it could be.
I'd agree with most of that (particularly not being able to get into the first two), other than ugliness of the open world.
I also hate most of the major characters, which doesn't help. They're terrible people, and their excuses for being terrible are... lacking.
The concepts definitely don't gel into a interesting whole.
I would have much rather played a nameless wizard or sorceress just interacting with the setting in a mercenary-hobo fashion. The story quests left me cold.
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Jesus, I thought I was the only person in the entire universe who couldn't get into Witcher 3. I tried 3 times to get into it and just couldn't. I think it's something to do with the setting. I tried reading the books a couple years ago and couldn't get into it. Ditto for the tv show.
creeping-deth87 wrote: Jesus, I thought I was the only person in the entire universe who couldn't get into Witcher 3. I tried 3 times to get into it and just couldn't. I think it's something to do with the setting. I tried reading the books a couple years ago and couldn't get into it. Ditto for the tv show.
People have different tastes. For instance while I sometimes like Blizzard games (at least nothing after starcraft 2 and no Warcraft whatsoever) I tend to find blizzard to always be over-hyped. I still think the only game that needed the old mine minerals and gas system even back 10 years ago was command and conquer and only because the game is basically all about the resource.
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I might play more cnc 3 today. I never really played any command and conquer game made post vanilla cnc 3. Considering where the franchise eventually went maybe im ok with that. Making the Japanese so big in ra3 just feels like it's stealing the thunder away from the Soviets. Some of the fairly big actors in ra3s cutscenes sound so amazing though. Tim curry and George takei during fun moments with both. Maybe I should play the game just for them. George's character probably didn't work so well by being so serious tho.
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Wanting something light to play I decided to begin my journey of acquiring and beating all the Assassins Creed games. As of now the only 2 I have beaten were the first one and Black Flag. So I got Assassins Creed 2 from the Steam sale and an gunna try and burn through it.
Commodus Leitdorf Paints all of the Things!! The Breaking of the Averholme: An AoS Adventure
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Commodus Leitdorf wrote: Wanting something light to play I decided to begin my journey of acquiring and beating all the Assassins Creed games. As of now the only 2 I have beaten were the first one and Black Flag. So I got Assassins Creed 2 from the Steam sale and an gunna try and burn through it.
Not a bad choice for something light. The Ezio trilogy is often considered the high point of the series, so you’re in for a treat. Have fun!
Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD!
TW3 has to be the single most overrated game I've ever touched. I've tried to get into the first two and it just didn't happen. I kept hearing that The Wild Hunt is so much better and it's not.
Spoiler:
1) Combat is flat out awful. It's trying to be Dark Souls or something like that, but lacks the responsiveness and fluidity.
2) Basically no actual customization for your character visually or in terms of playstyle.
3) Inventory system and a lot of the management menus are an eyesore and annoying to use.
4) Traversing the world is also annoying.
5) Ugliest open world I have ever played in outside of Oblivion which is much older. HZD, AC:Odyssey, Cyberpunk, and Skyrim all have beautiful scenery.
Maybe the story/quests will end up being really good. Based on what I've seen so far I doubt it. The biggest difference I see between this game and other RPGs/open world action games is that the there is more moral ambiguity in The Witcher setting. CDPR handled that very well in Cyberpunk, hopefully that will be the case here.
Lastly, the world setting is uninspired IMO in comparison to other major fantasy titles. There are interesting concepts, such as the origin of the various monsters, the Witchers, the vampires, but the setting as a whole falls short of what it could be.
I'd agree with most of that (particularly not being able to get into the first two), other than ugliness of the open world.
I also hate most of the major characters, which doesn't help. They're terrible people, and their excuses for being terrible are... lacking.
The concepts definitely don't gel into a interesting whole.
I would have much rather played a nameless wizard or sorceress just interacting with the setting in a mercenary-hobo fashion. The story quests left me cold.
I'm around 25-30 hours in so I'm warming up to it, but some of what I mentioned remained issues.
Overall, the quests and dialogue are probably above average even though major characters are annoying. There are definitely strong moments of dialogue...but the same is true of DA:I party banter...
I would say in terms of sheer volume...that The Witcher 3 has more interesting sidequests/secondary MQs than Skyrim/DA:I but if sacrifices customization, gameplay, and locales for that. Seriously, Velen/Novigrad/Skellige are pretty bland. The secondary characters (your party) are better in DA:I than Geralt's close friends/lovers.
There is also a not so subtle degree of sexism that permeates The Witcher world that is offputting. You've got fat men, ugly men, jacked men, skinny men, etc, but all women are either old or gorgeous. Even the ones that are "fighters" have caked-on makeup and absolute cleavage. Adult Ciri is clearly someone's fetish.
The only way we can ever solve anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy
Been playing a Total War: Warhammer 2 campaign Alith Anar I started ages ago. Going okay.
"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
Eumerin wrote: Started a new game of Hearts of Iron 4. Was playing as Manchukuo, and wanted to get the Dragon Swallowed the Sun achievement (Manchukuo annexes Japan while not in a faction). Set myself up on the "break free of Japan" path, and watched while the German military overthrew Hitler on the other side of the world. Put my attention back to East Asia, and jumped through the necessary hoops. Now all I needed to do was build up my troop strength, and then trigger the "declare independence from Japan" event.
And then Japan and Communist China went to war. On the surface, this wasn't anything to pay attention to because the two countries didn't have access to each other. But then Mao joined the Comintern, which meant that the Soviets were getting involved.
/sigh
I initially ignored the calls to arms. But I knew that wasn't really an option, since both Nationalist China (which promptly joined in) and Communist China have claims on Manchukuo, and the moment Japan was beaten, the Comintern was going to invade me. And then Italy joined the East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere (seriously!), and dragged me into a war in southern and Western Europe. That was fine... except that the British joined as well, and just invaded the Japanese Home Islands.
It's now 1940, the war in Asia is going reasonably well except that the Japanese Home Islands are getting rolled up, and pretty much the only pieceful places in Eurasia right now are Germany, and Poland.
Oh, well.
two tips for that achievement.
Go historical, no worries you are faster then japan.
From personal experience it's easier to go with the United tree to get acess to the whiterussian advisors and the further 7 full experienced units.
Basically build a 20 cav army (you get 3 via decision) that destroys the other jap puppet.
Build 40 inf divs (the 12 width ones), 20 visit the treaty ports, the other 20 storm korea.
Press the button for free civs, and fully upgrade the sneak attack plan, you will get rifles for this war there not via production.
You will have with the 5 peoples tree access to the banner divisions, these are very usefull to push especially initially.
After your first peacedeal which japan offers , you take that. then you pay a visit to the rest of china whilest you invest in bathtubs (uboat 1 spam) and Cas / fighters to bomb the japanese navy.
then you land on multiple spots, preferebly around Hiroshima, the lower island, and in the north to spread the japanese forces thin.
Someone with 3000+ hours of HOIV....
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Anvildude wrote: It's the 1940's, and the peaceful places are Germany and Poland? Wow. That's... something.
HOIV ahistorical germany is especially if it goes democratically a bro to all countries which normally get eaten by the soviets.
Which is more than you can say about France and the UK, which even on historical start warmongering if you wait long enough as germany.
Also HOIV ahistorical produces some truly wierd and majestics things.
Like a Portugal that declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy for being fascist, Carlist ¨ÜBER-SPAIN, the HRE (yes i have seen that...) and Confederate USA with incognito Hitler as it's leader. (also achieved that)
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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
Also HOIV ahistorical produces some truly wierd and majestics things. Like a Portugal that declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy for being fascist, Carlist ¨ÜBER-SPAIN, the HRE (yes i have seen that...) and Confederate USA with incognito Hitler as it's leader. (also achieved that)
Most fun I had was making Anarchist Uber Spain.
Basically single handedly won the war in Europe by grinding the German, Vichy French and Italian forces to nothing as they threw themselves at my forces sitting in fortresses in the Pyrenees (and destroying ill-planned naval invasions). I then swept into France and grabbed a load of it, took all of Italy, took all of North Africa, took most of the Middle East. Only thing that stopped my march into Germany was the Americans turning up and cutting through while not giving me military access (stupid non-aligned designation which means that apparently some dictator in South America likes me more than the American forces I was providing a staging area for). Then the Soviets, who had somehow managed to avoid any war with Nazi Germany, declared war on the allies and I joined in there, taking the southern USSR oilfields, Afghanistan (which they had annexed), Stalingrad, Leningrad, Kiev, Crimea and Moscow. Then I got ground down over time and couldn't push for Vladivostok. The allies were just sitting on the land I had taken, not doing anything to help, so I just said feth it, pulled my forces out and went home except for some troops holding key strategic locations (the oil and Crimea, basically).
two tips for that achievement. Go historical, no worries you are faster then japan. From personal experience it's easier to go with the United tree to get acess to the whiterussian advisors and the further 7 full experienced units.
Basically build a 20 cav army (you get 3 via decision) that destroys the other jap puppet. Build 40 inf divs (the 12 width ones), 20 visit the treaty ports, the other 20 storm korea. Press the button for free civs, and fully upgrade the sneak attack plan, you will get rifles for this war there not via production. You will have with the 5 peoples tree access to the banner divisions, these are very usefull to push especially initially.
Don't they also have access to the secret factories decision thing which allows you to make cheap, unreliable guns?
But the game doesn't keep track of what guns were made whilst it was active so when you turn it off, those cheap unreliable guns become just like every other gun. So you turn it on during peace to churn out a ton of guns really cheaply then turn it off when you go to war, then back on when you peace out etc.
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The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
No, you only have access to the underground workshop and expanded royal guard when you go with staffing the court with manchus.
Yes the rifle bug is still in there.
The reason as to why i reccomend the white russians is the 5 peoples armies focus and the white russian advisors. I found the Division recovery, defense and offense on core teritorry too important further the banners and peoples volunteer divisions come fully equiped, why bother producing and training divisions into shape when you can get them instantly... also later on you profit from the legislative council which allows you to completly get rid of low legitimacy, which increases productivity anyways. Since you require speed initially far more then anything else since the munitions shortage only works for i believe a month of fighting from the secret plan
But i am a bit of an Assaultgun / mechanised fetishist and avoid even in china infantry spam as much as possible. Even though it lends itselfs to be inf spam in china / SAE period.
As for Anarcho spain is fun, except the anarchist uprising decision... that one is just bad.
in regards to Manchukuo, the most interesting run possible is when you go Obidience and Japan goes unthinkable, that way you gain all the colonies and become actually quite dangerous
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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
The problem lately has been that Japan inexplicably declares war on Communist China before it declares on anyone else, and before the United Front is formed. That causes Communist China to either join the Comintern (bringing in the USSR), or to form the People's Front, which can potentially get communist countries anywhere in the world to join (as well as the other Chinese factions). And then there's my current game as Turkey in which the Nationalists got replaced (peacefully) by Xibei San Ma, causing the formation of the United Front to get pushed back while he played catch-up in his new decision tree.
Eumerin wrote: The problem lately has been that Japan inexplicably declares war on Communist China before it declares on anyone else, and before the United Front is formed. That causes Communist China to either join the Comintern (bringing in the USSR), or to form the People's Front, which can potentially get communist countries anywhere in the world to join (as well as the other Chinese factions). And then there's my current game as Turkey in which the Nationalists got replaced (peacefully) by Xibei San Ma, causing the formation of the United Front to get pushed back while he played catch-up in his new decision tree.
In short, it gets messy.
On historical that shouldn't be the case.
There's just some achievements that require that tickbox to be ticked... as someone that has done hardly anything sevres and pre integration decision Austria Hungary i talk from experience.
As for why Japan always declares war first on the commies, especially in non-historicals, is simply because it goes either historical or royalist. If the later happens the Commies do 9/10 sabotage actions in manchukuo which then triggers the Japanese to invade.
(indeed since that is so reliable it's one of the easiest ways to get Tojo shot first, via restoring the emperor you remove the research debuff and still can get china.)
Anyways, will probably today do a manchukuo rebellion run on Historical, this whole thing enticed me to take the mandate of heaven again
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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
Advance Wars 2 Black Hole Rising. Or trying to, the old cartridge is fethed keeps fething up, freezing up, making the music into a horrid buzzing noise, which hurts my ears. It's funny because I chose to continue my old as feth multiplayer game and found it's the scenario I made based on the siege of Vervunhive of Necropolis and I just so happen to be listening to the audiobook of Necropolis now, quite the coincidence. Also, made another scenario basd off one of the ambushes in Honour Guard. Made that maybe more than fifteen years ago...jeez lol
"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
Advance Wars 2 Black Hole Rising. Or trying to, the old cartridge is fethed keeps fething up, freezing up, making the music into a horrid buzzing noise, which hurts my ears. It's funny because I chose to continue my old as feth multiplayer game and found it's the scenario I made based on the siege of Vervunhive of Necropolis and I just so happen to be listening to the audiobook of Necropolis now, quite the coincidence. Also, made another scenario based on one of the ambushes in Honour Guard. Made that maybe more than fifteen years ago...jeez lol
Edit: Woops, double post: The site seemed to be unable to be reached for some reade
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"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
Adrassil wrote: Advance Wars 2 Black Hole Rising. Or trying to, the old cartridge is fethed keeps fething up, freezing up, making the music into a horrid buzzing noise, which hurts my ears. It's funny because I chose to continue my old as feth multiplayer game and found it's the scenario I made based on the siege of Vervunhive of Necropolis and I just so happen to be listening to the audiobook of Necropolis now, quite the coincidence. Also, made another scenario basd off one of the ambushes in Honour Guard. Made that maybe more than fifteen years ago...jeez lol
well, if all else fails ya, i believe i saw they are rereleasing that game with updated stuff together with the first one at some point
Adrassil wrote: Advance Wars 2 Black Hole Rising. Or trying to, the old cartridge is fethed keeps fething up, freezing up, making the music into a horrid buzzing noise, which hurts my ears. It's funny because I chose to continue my old as feth multiplayer game and found it's the scenario I made based on the siege of Vervunhive of Necropolis and I just so happen to be listening to the audiobook of Necropolis now, quite the coincidence. Also, made another scenario basd off one of the ambushes in Honour Guard. Made that maybe more than fifteen years ago...jeez lol
well, if all else fails ya, i believe i saw they are rereleasing that game with updated stuff together with the first one at some point
Yeah, I heard about that is it coming out on The Switch? Still haven't got me one of those despite the last Fire Emblem game coming out on it. Love that series.
Back on topic. Back playing Disco Elysium and boy it's too damn good, the world, the story are so engaging and immersive. The characters are amazingly interesting and well written and a lot of them a very likeable. It's very addictive too. Need to find out how this side quest will end etc etc.
"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
two tips for that achievement.
Go historical, no worries you are faster then japan.
From personal experience it's easier to go with the United tree to get acess to the whiterussian advisors and the further 7 full experienced units.
Basically build a 20 cav army (you get 3 via decision) that destroys the other jap puppet.
Build 40 inf divs (the 12 width ones), 20 visit the treaty ports, the other 20 storm korea.
Press the button for free civs, and fully upgrade the sneak attack plan, you will get rifles for this war there not via production.
You will have with the 5 peoples tree access to the banner divisions, these are very usefull to push especially initially.
After your first peacedeal which japan offers , you take that. then you pay a visit to the rest of china whilest you invest in bathtubs (uboat 1 spam) and Cas / fighters to bomb the japanese navy.
then you land on multiple spots, preferebly around Hiroshima, the lower island, and in the north to spread the japanese forces thin.
Someone with 3000+ hours of HOIV....
Just tried that after my Turkey game ended.
Two problems -
The first was that Japan and China went to war immediately following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, and Japan was getting its tail handed to it. It was REALLY bad - to the point where Japan had effectively lost all of its initial holdings. Just before I declared independence, it managed to successfully perform two naval invasions further south, and was finally expanding there. But the northern holdings were gone, as was over half of the other puppet state.
The other is that there was some sort of bug going on with the army deployment system. I'd tell my army to deploy along the border, and one of two things would happen. Either the *entire* army would deploy in one space at the far end of the border, or the army would ignore the deployment order completely. I've seen this in the past, but I've been able to get around it in the past by cancelling and reissuing the order to deploy along the border. I'm not sure, but I think what's happening is that for some reason the AI will *only* deploy in spaces that border a non-friendly (not necessarily hostile, but not actively friendly) country. If the space that occupies the end of the border also happens to share space with the Soviet border, then the entire army will be deployed to that space. If the spaces at the end of the border don't, then the AI just ignores the deployment order.
I got around this by manually placing my troops. This worked for an army that didn't have non-friendly territory in its assigned spaces. But the army that was assigned to the Eastern Korean border kept stripping most of the troops back out to move them to the eastern-most space (where the borders between Manchukuo, Korea, and the USSR all met together). And then when I declared independence (ironically, at the exact same time that Germany invaded Poland), the computer decided it needed to play musical chairs with my troops and reshuffle them along the border instead of invading Korea.
If the bug persists, then I'll need to use fall-back lines next time. Micro-management is acceptable to a certain extent. But there are limits. And I really don't like fighting with the game when it's actively ignoring the rules about how it's supposed to work.
Throwing this out there. The two expansions for Witcher 3, Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone, have vastly superior main quests to the base game. Side quests throughout all are consistently good. Setting for Blood and Wine is much more visually impressive to me.
The only way we can ever solve anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy
I also struggle with the witcher 3. I like the dark souls combat analogy. It wants to be dark souls but pulls it of far worse mechanically. The "dance" in combat is just more clunky in witcher 3. The story is good and I have to respect the amount of work that's gone into the world. There's so many details and the side stories are so good. The rewards for various stories feel very lackluster though. I mean why would I care about a sword with +1% better at a particular sign? I'll probably finish it at some point but it's a bit of a struggle firing it up and getting into it.
I've been playing zombie games lately. My girlfriend has taken a liking to death road to canada so we've been playing that togheter alot. Then I decided to fire up they are billions. It's really fun playing the survival maps, though the campaign is a bit dull. I always put the zombie population at max, All of the zombies will be in my game! I usually give myself quite alot of time dealing with them though. With proper time to prepare the size of the horde becomes less of an issue. It certainly makes for a magnificent zombie fightging spectacle though. Especially the final horde!
His pattern of returning alive after being declared dead occurred often enough during Cain's career that the Munitorum made a special ruling that Ciaphas Cain is to never be considered dead, despite evidence to the contrary.
Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD! 
