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 malfred wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Im playing XCom. I cant get passed the mission where you go into the base after you get the shard.
I only have on person with a med pack, Although she has deep pockets.
My other guy with a med pack go shot down last mission and he could carry up to 6.
I think Xcom is like an abusive relationship. You love it but it beats you too a pulp but you like it an keep coming back.

1. Use cover. Take forever if you have to, but always use cover.

2. What kind of equipment are you packing?

3. Positioning. Don't move your sniper with the squad. He/she moves into cover and the
squad follows at a safe distance on overwatch. The following turn your sniper will be free
to shoot and your squad can uncover enemies for the sniper to shoot at.

4. Seriously. Rockets.

1 Do
2: 2 snipers, a heavy, 2 support and a sqaud. All with laser or plasma weapons.
3: Ok.
4: I know.

With two snipers, you should be moving slower, not faster.

Just because one positions and the other moves doesn't mean
you should. Try to position both before you bring up the squad.

Im only using two snipers because one of my two heavies died, Im going ot train a new one soon along with a new support.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Im only using two snipers because one of my two heavies died, Im going ot train a new one soon along with a new support.

Yeah, you have to constantly cycle new guys into your program.

I do, Atleast I have all officer upgrades. +25% to kills is great, as having them assigned talents BEFORE they go into the field.

Usually it's just best to wait a while if the Base is too hard but you should be able to get through it with laser and plasma weapons. Perhaps your squad is underarmoured?

 Grimskul wrote:
Been replaying Fallout New Vegas again after a hiatus due to exams as well as other familial stuff to go through. Mainly been finishing up the DLC's; particularly Old World Blues. It's really awkward when a disembodied brain and a light-switch can be both be disconcertingly sensuous and seductive at the same time. That and calling your hands penis-tipped appendages...

Other than that Borderlands 2. Gunzerkers are the definition of Dakka Dakka!

Old world blues is the best for weirdness... Muggy and the Toaster are great

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Usually it's just best to wait a while if the Base is too hard but you should be able to get through it with laser and plasma weapons. Perhaps your squad is underarmoured?

4 with titan armor, 3 with carapace. I need medics I think is that biggest problem, Im going to train new heavys and new support today though.


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 shrike wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:
Been replaying Fallout New Vegas again after a hiatus due to exams as well as other familial stuff to go through. Mainly been finishing up the DLC's; particularly Old World Blues. It's really awkward when a disembodied brain and a light-switch can be both be disconcertingly sensuous and seductive at the same time. That and calling your hands penis-tipped appendages...

Other than that Borderlands 2. Gunzerkers are the definition of Dakka Dakka!

Old world blues is the best for weirdness... Muggy and the Toaster are great

Just stay away from Dead Money(I think that is the name) My chracter was made for sniping, Suddenly im thrown in to a melee fight.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Usually it's just best to wait a while if the Base is too hard but you should be able to get through it with laser and plasma weapons. Perhaps your squad is underarmoured?

4 with titan armor, 3 with carapace. I need medics I think is that biggest problem, Im going to train new heavys and new support today though.


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 shrike wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:
Been replaying Fallout New Vegas again after a hiatus due to exams as well as other familial stuff to go through. Mainly been finishing up the DLC's; particularly Old World Blues. It's really awkward when a disembodied brain and a light-switch can be both be disconcertingly sensuous and seductive at the same time. That and calling your hands penis-tipped appendages...

Other than that Borderlands 2. Gunzerkers are the definition of Dakka Dakka!

Old world blues is the best for weirdness... Muggy and the Toaster are great

Just stay away from Dead Money(I think that is the name) My chracter was made for sniping, Suddenly im thrown in to a melee fight.

@Shrike Yes! The toaster is absolutely hilarious! I love all the comments they murmur when you pass by them, like when the toaster tries to trick you to stick your hand down it's slot in it's attempt to burn you it's definitely one of the most flavourful and entertaining DLC's especially considering how wonderfully incompetent the Think Tank is. I really felt sad for Gabe though, I'm happy I made Borous realized what he had done, even if it was just for a little while.

@hotsauceman1 I actually finished Dead Money before Old World Blues, I kind of went backward accidentally by doing the Lonesome Road first then Honest Hearts, Dead Money and now Old World Blues. By far in terms of gameplay I think that Dead Money is the weirdest in the sense that you can't bring any of your stuff with you making it really awkward due to needing to use the Holorifle and some crappy guns if you're ranged. Luckily I had my repair skill at 100 already so I was able to maintain them relatively well thanks to Weapon Repair Kits. The story was great, gameplay not so much thanks to the explosive collar and the stupid speakers blowing you up. If it wasn't for Christine (bless her heart) or Dog as companions it would have been hell to finish. It really sucks you can't bring her back to Veronica to make up and all. Overall it had a very nice melancholic feel to it and I felt sad at the end after the whole "letting go" speech by Vera Keyes.

If anything Honest Hearts was the most surprising from the inclusion of Christianity (even if it came from non-orthodox sects like Mormons) and that it survived even after the purging flame of the apocalypse. Seeing Joshua Graham and his attempts for redemption by returning to the path of Christ was very nice, though I did kill him a few times to see how hard he was before I reloaded my saves...

Playing bioshock infinite, man this game is terribly boring compared to the last two in the series.

I've got to make myself keep going back to it in the hopes of finishing it and removing it to save space on my hard drive.

Christianity's been in a lot of the Fallout games (there's an odd, but real sect operating in Rivet City). The Mormons were meant to be one of the factions in the original Fallout 3. Thus when people are saying "where's New Canaan anyway" they really mean "pity we had to cut all that". In Honest Hearts it turns out New Canaan's been razed ...as well the original game was set a decade or so before and presumably because the player wasn't there to save them they eventually got killed off by the tribals ...again. =)

The Mormons are shown in a pretty good light in the games. As well in the world of Fallout it doesn't matter to people much if you have quirky beliefs, only that you're good people. Though we could talk about the Children of the Cathedral a little about that one...

Though Honest Hearts is the second DLC, it has more ties to the main plot than the DLC's subplot. So I'd suggest that it be the first played. Dead Money's great though. I *always play a guns character, however I seem to find myself going from 15 Melee to 60 during the process of it simply because cosmic knives and the like are so much more efficient. ...Its hellish to play on hardcore though. ...And with mods that quantruple the damage done to unarmored characters.


Currently replaying New Vegas (again... again). This time my character's a balled hispanic woman named Marcella. Typically all her points are in speech (I hate loosing out on dialogue options, and yes, Chris Avellone is a god to me). Presumably it isn't the best idea to be running about in a tshirt and khakis, but I'm not into the look of the armours on the player ...not that they look bad, I just don't like how they look on my character ...because that makes some sort of sense. I found an ACOG sight in some loot yesterday too. However somehow I'm yet to find any M series weapons that can hold it. Something about wastelands and everyone being armed with AKs ...not that I'm running about with an AKMS or anything. =)

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Christianity's been in a lot of the Fallout games (there's an odd, but real sect operating in Rivet City). The Mormons were meant to be one of the factions in the original Fallout 3. Thus when people are saying "where's New Canaan anyway" they really mean "pity we had to cut all that". In Honest Hearts it turns out New Canaan's been razed ...as well the original game was set a decade or so before and presumably because the player wasn't there to save them they eventually got killed off by the tribals ...again. =)

The Mormons are shown in a pretty good light in the games. As well in the world of Fallout it doesn't matter to people much if you have quirky beliefs, only that you're good people. Though we could talk about the Children of the Cathedral a little about that one...

Though Honest Hearts is the second DLC, it has more ties to the main plot than the DLC's subplot. So I'd suggest that it be the first played. Dead Money's great though. I *always play a guns character, however I seem to find myself going from 15 Melee to 60 during the process of it simply because cosmic knives and the like are so much more efficient. ...Its hellish to play on hardcore though. ...And with mods that quantruple the damage done to unarmored characters.


Currently replaying New Vegas (again... again). This time my character's a balled hispanic woman named Marcella. Typically all her points are in speech (I hate loosing out on dialogue options, and yes, Chris Avellone is a god to me). Presumably it isn't the best idea to be running about in a tshirt and khakis, but I'm not into the look of the armours on the player ...not that they look bad, I just don't like how they look on my character ...because that makes some sort of sense. I found an ACOG sight in some loot yesterday too. However somehow I'm yet to find any M series weapons that can hold it. Something about wastelands and everyone being armed with AKs ...not that I'm running about with an AKMS or anything. =)

Hm, didn't know that. I only played Fallout 3 then New Vegas so I'm relatively new to the Fallout Franchise, thanks for the info! I understand the dislike towards armour on the player though, especially in terms of female characters. The way they structure her figure makes her butt awkwardly stick out oddly enough even in power armour and helmets from combat armour sets (especially the later advanced ones) look really silly since they seem a bit oversized. To be honest only certain sets of power armour and of course the sexy veteran ranger combat armour (or the riot gear variants from Honest Hearts/The Lonesome Road) really capture the killing machine that is our protagonist is. Have to agree on the speech part too, nothing like getting someone to open up to you and get free goodies in the process!

^^ Oh its not because I want to see her smexy bodeh or anything. My male characters don't wear armour either actually. I also use body mods/animation replacers, so they look more natural. There's plenty of mods out there that redesign the armour to better fit female characters (no, not redesigning as in changing them into shoe laces), but I'm just not really into having my character done up like a soldier. Instead I prefer to arm up for long hauls, ie a few more cans of beans instead of a fancy combat helmet. This is mostly for roleplaying, ie its probably not a good idea to be travelling about a desert for extended periods in a suit of heavy armour.

.......Yes, I do roleplay to a horrible degree at times. Like dropping my backpack with everything but my character's gun, a few clips, grenades and a canteen when going into combat (though this actually gives an AP boost for sprinting/bullet time), or having a gas mask hotkeyed for when the geiger counter starts going tic tic tic, or maybe just when going into some maintenance hallways where there could be some exposed gas. Playing without a compass also goes a ways for this too. You learn to slink about abandoned buildings, peering around every corner, after the x time you ran into a room only to be blasted away by a guy with a pistol. ...Yeah, that tshirt and khakis really doesn't hold up to bullets. =)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. does also happen to be a favorite of mine if you hadn't guessed. ^^

There's actually a perk from a popular mod that allows you to blow up people's brains with your mind based on your speech skill. ...Not that I'd risk my roleplaying experience to take it or anything.

 Necroshea wrote:
Playing bioshock infinite, man this game is terribly boring compared to the last two in the series.

Thank you!

 Minx wrote:
I was contemplating to buy UnEpic. What's it like and is it fun?

I had fun but it's not impressive or super creative. It's pretty linear and quite repetitive. Still, *I* was not disappointed but I have a problem with recommending it because it's not great, it's OKish.

Sorry if I'm not helpful but it's really in the middle. Not bad but not great either.

O.O REALLY? That mod would be amazing and hilarious! I have the PS3 version of new vegas so I've never been able to download any mods in particular. Sounds like you're having a blast though, and again to each their own as I understand the dedication to your roleplay especially considering it is an RPG afterall. The farthest I've gone with role-play in my time in playing New Vegas was properly showing my allegiance to whatever faction I was allied with by wearing their armour/colours and having specific trophies (i.e. I kept and brought decapitated heads (particularly NCR heads) to my safehouses/homes during my tenure as a Caesar's Legion Character or when I put a pile of Legionnaire corpses as my NCR character in front of Nelson and lit it up with my flamer as a sort of challenge/death threat).

Thanks for the advice guys on how to work this, I made it through the base, Not a single loss, although two of my guys where gravely injured. It also helped to have 5 plasma weapons

Grimskul wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 shrike wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:
Been replaying Fallout New Vegas again after a hiatus due to exams as well as other familial stuff to go through. Mainly been finishing up the DLC's; particularly Old World Blues. It's really awkward when a disembodied brain and a light-switch can be both be disconcertingly sensuous and seductive at the same time. That and calling your hands penis-tipped appendages...

Old world blues is the best for weirdness... Muggy and the Toaster are great

Just stay away from Dead Money(I think that is the name) My chracter was made for sniping, Suddenly im thrown in to a melee fight.

@Shrike Yes! The toaster is absolutely hilarious! I love all the comments they murmur when you pass by them, like when the toaster tries to trick you to stick your hand down it's slot in it's attempt to burn you it's definitely one of the most flavourful and entertaining DLC's especially considering how wonderfully incompetent the Think Tank is. I really felt sad for Gabe though, I'm happy I made Borous realized what he had done, even if it was just for a little while.

@hotsauceman1 I actually finished Dead Money before Old World Blues, I kind of went backward accidentally by doing the Lonesome Road first then Honest Hearts, Dead Money and now Old World Blues. By far in terms of gameplay I think that Dead Money is the weirdest in the sense that you can't bring any of your stuff with you making it really awkward due to needing to use the Holorifle and some crappy guns if you're ranged. Luckily I had my repair skill at 100 already so I was able to maintain them relatively well thanks to Weapon Repair Kits. The story was great, gameplay not so much thanks to the explosive collar and the stupid speakers blowing you up. If it wasn't for Christine (bless her heart) or Dog as companions it would have been hell to finish. It really sucks you can't bring her back to Veronica to make up and all. Overall it had a very nice melancholic feel to it and I felt sad at the end after the whole "letting go" speech by Vera Keyes.

If anything Honest Hearts was the most surprising from the inclusion of Christianity (even if it came from non-orthodox sects like Mormons) and that it survived even after the purging flame of the apocalypse. Seeing Joshua Graham and his attempts for redemption by returning to the path of Christ was very nice, though I did kill him a few times to see how hard he was before I reloaded my saves...

Lonesome road is my favourite DLC. OWB has more content, but as far as the main questlines go, Lonesome road is epic. Ulysses is great, and there's nothing like at the end where you go back-to-back against the horde. Plus, the various veteran ranger armours are epic

Still haven't bought Dead money, I've not heard that many great things from my friends about it compared to the others. Were they correct in such comments?

Dead Money's unlike the vanilla game a lot. Well unless you play up the survival aspects of the game. Its not as open, and you find yourself searching everywhere for resources. You have to pay attention more to the story too, as a lot of its given through your companion's dialogue and terminal entries. ...Though Chris Avellone's a bit of a too with some of the stuff. Ie if you choose to repeatedly question the ego centric ghoul character then he'll show you just how he feels about you (though if you don't talk to him at all and be nice to him when you first meet you may not even know this happens).

The devs actually supposed that most players would go away with the bad ending because they wouldn't get the message. All of the DLC's have the motif of "letting go" and seeing stuff past your open problems, but apparently most people didn't really get this (they say "let go" a few thousand times. Its literally spray painted/written in blood on the walls). If you've not played it then you may not get that, and so your decisions in the latter ones might not be influenced as much.

I'd recommend you play it just to have played all of the game's content (and not as if it costs that much now). =P

 Macok wrote:

 Minx wrote:
I was contemplating to buy UnEpic. What's it like and is it fun?

I had fun but it's not impressive or super creative. It's pretty linear and quite repetitive. Still, *I* was not disappointed but I have a problem with recommending it because it's not great, it's OKish.

Sorry if I'm not helpful but it's really in the middle. Not bad but not great either.

Thank you for the brief review. I think i'll wait for now and see how it develops.

Been playing Wild Arms but I honestly can't wait for my copy of Ar Tonelico to arrive.

Yeah, me and recent games haven't been going together so well...

As I (im)patiently spin my wheels waiting for my new PC to arrive, I've gone back to Arkham City. This will be the 5th time I've played it and I have become exceedingly efficient at it! (/Architect)

Replaying the entire Megaman series. Currently at Megaman 3. Goddamn, games were hard back then.

Focusing on my NHL 13 Be a Pro, mainly my RW as a Kingston Frontenac heading towards the draft.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:
Played a bit of Halo 4, Although the level design (Aside from the lovely visuals) isn't very good, the core loop (or 'sandbox' like they desperately want us to say) of the combat is great, better than the sterile Halo 3 (the weakest bungie halo game). I think once you realise how to kill those robot knights a bit more efficiently the game becomes alot more enjoyable.

Once you take care of the enemies that resurrect and/or shield them
- charged plasma pistol shot and DMR/BR shot to the head
- shotgun/scattershot
Solves almost all Promethean Knight infestations. It's a shame that the best way to engage them is so similar to the Elites.

I thought the shotgun was TERRIBLY underpowered in this game. I preferred the Battle Rifle to kill the Watchers and to knock down/weaken their shields, and the Assault Rifle to finish them off. The Light Rifle does a great job too, in my opinion (but only in campaign ).

On Topic - Still playing Far Cry 3. Been really impressed so far. I spent a good deal of yesterday just walking around and hunting various animals, while doing side-missions and exploring. Safe to say that tigers on that island are a bunch of donkey-caves.

 mega_bassist wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:
Played a bit of Halo 4, Although the level design (Aside from the lovely visuals) isn't very good, the core loop (or 'sandbox' like they desperately want us to say) of the combat is great, better than the sterile Halo 3 (the weakest bungie halo game). I think once you realise how to kill those robot knights a bit more efficiently the game becomes alot more enjoyable.

Once you take care of the enemies that resurrect and/or shield them
- charged plasma pistol shot and DMR/BR shot to the head
- shotgun/scattershot
Solves almost all Promethean Knight infestations. It's a shame that the best way to engage them is so similar to the Elites.

I thought the shotgun was TERRIBLY underpowered in this game. I preferred the Battle Rifle to kill the Watchers and to knock down/weaken their shields, and the Assault Rifle to finish them off. The Light Rifle does a great job too, in my opinion (but only in campaign ).

On Topic - Still playing Far Cry 3. Been really impressed so far. I spent a good deal of yesterday just walking around and hunting various animals, while doing side-missions and exploring. Safe to say that tigers on that island are a bunch of donkey-caves.

One word, Suppressor. You can kill the knights with one mag. The suppressor is USELESS in ANY other scenario though. Killing the watchers is obvious, i just found the knights a little too bullet spongey in general. I always play with 'tough luck' on (ever since ODST) and the plasma pistol usually gets dodged, or they do that cheap teleport thing.

I found the exploration the weakest part of FC3. If i needed a new ammo pouch i just looked for the relevant animal map marker, fast travelled, popped the yellow detective-vision syringe and shotgunned the creature. Job done in about five minutes.

Ive been playing New vegas. I cant believe people are saying the DLC pack in the Big MT is good. I am slogging my way through it and it very nearly put me off the game completely, i stopped playing FNV 4 months ago because of it. The instances are good but the overworld is horrible, you are forced to fight huge waves of Lobomites and robot dogs every time you want to walk 5 yards, its really obnoxious. At least it gives you 2 freakishly overpowered weapons, otherwise i would have been completely stuck. To be fair to the game, sneak is pretty broken and that was my choice of character, meaning he's hopelessly underpowered unless he's indoors.

I started CoC Dark Corners of the Earth last night and it's a great game (for $10) but also a prime example of why I hate playing games on PC: tons of crashes in Windows 7 that require various resolution and AA settings ... I only have X time to chill out with video games these days. I don't need to spend X/2 googling unofficial patches and fixes ... For any dedicated PC gamer (who is used to that malarkey and has the time for it), I'd really recommend this game. The escape from Innsmouth is pitch-perfectly harrowing. I think people who are less familiar with HP Lovecraft might even enjoy this game more than those who are, given that you have more to piece together and learn as the story progresses. I also love the sanity mechanic in this game. What an underrated gem ... when it works at least ...

 Perkustin wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
I thought the shotgun was TERRIBLY underpowered in this game. I preferred the Battle Rifle to kill the Watchers and to knock down/weaken their shields, and the Assault Rifle to finish them off. The Light Rifle does a great job too, in my opinion (but only in campaign ).

On Topic - Still playing Far Cry 3. Been really impressed so far. I spent a good deal of yesterday just walking around and hunting various animals, while doing side-missions and exploring. Safe to say that tigers on that island are a bunch of donkey-caves.

One word, Suppressor. You can kill the knights with one mag. The suppressor is USELESS in ANY other scenario though. Killing the watchers is obvious, i just found the knights a little too bullet spongey in general. I always play with 'tough luck' on (ever since ODST) and the plasma pistol usually gets dodged, or they do that cheap teleport thing.

I found the exploration the weakest part of FC3. If i needed a new ammo pouch i just looked for the relevant animal map marker, fast travelled, popped the yellow detective-vision syringe and shotgunned the creature. Job done in about five minutes.

Haha, very true. I'd use the Suppressor if the Assault Rifle wasn't an option (which seemed to be often), and it did pretty well against Knights.

As for Far Cry, I can see where you're coming from. I'll agree that the animals are a little too plainly marked on the maps. But right now, I'm trying to avoid using the syringe perks and fast travel. Makes the game way more interesting. But I just love exploring, and checking out the scenery. I stumbled across a huge ravine...that was filled with water, and perfect for jumping into...not to mention all the caves and hidden buildings and temples where relics are located.

 mega_bassist wrote:
I thought the shotgun was TERRIBLY underpowered in this game. I preferred the Battle Rifle to kill the Watchers and to knock down/weaken their shields, and the Assault Rifle to finish them off. The Light Rifle does a great job too, in my opinion (but only in campaign ).

The shotgun really isn't great, but it does do wonders up close against Elites and Knights. When my wife and I were playing one of us would agitate them from afar, the other would get close with a shotgun (or if we were really lucky an assassination).

 Perkustin wrote:
One word, Suppressor. You can kill the knights with one mag. The suppressor is USELESS in ANY other scenario though. Killing the watchers is obvious, i just found the knights a little too bullet spongey in general. I always play with 'tough luck' on (ever since ODST) and the plasma pistol usually gets dodged, or they do that cheap teleport thing.

I never thought to try them, good tip. The Suppressor and SAW always struck me as inferior Assault Rifles that were less powerful, more inaccurate, but had a larger magazine.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
[I never thought to try them, good tip. The Suppressor and SAW always struck me as inferior Assault Rifles that were less powerful, more inaccurate, but had a larger magazine.

The SAW was pretty meh in the campaign, but it's brutal online. With the high ROF, it tears down shields pretty quickly.

Playing Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, such a great game from my childhood, but man does Icewind Dale 2 kick it's arse so much .

I need to beat this game so I can move on to IceWind Dale (I have it somewhere in my house ) and it's expansions, and then play Neverwinter Nights 2 (the only games in those early to mid 2000s DnD PC games I haven't beaten, though I may have beaten IWD 1 already...