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Still on my World of Tanks binge. I love the Centurion 1, can't wait till I get the 7/1.

Still playing Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. Haven't wanted to play any other games which is a shame since I have Pokemon Omega Ruby and Fire Emblem: Awakening for my 3ds.

Messing around with a few weapon types on Monster Hunter to see what others I can use, the Great Sword is starting to bore me a bit.

Just completed a Binding of Isaac rebirth run, got Sacred Heart, epic fetus and half a dozen non-synergizing items in one run

 toasteroven wrote:
If charging at a deathclaw with a pea shooter is wrong, I don't want to know what's right.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Getting owned in impossible ironman even more. I got close once to beating the first council mission in france but one lucky shot from the last alien failed that and my good soldiers were mostly dead anyway. I also had another more recent go at it and had a ton of guys but fewer available heavies which as usual proves to be a death sentence. I may need rapid recovery and the will boosts or something (3-4 guys panicking happens often enough that i need to make sure it doesn't happen). That or adaptive bone marrow early or something to speed up recovery times.

Man, now I got to get XCOM out again. Not impossible ironman though; I do not have those skills.

Lately i'm wondering if even i do at 1,000 hours of play time with all xcom: enemy unknown and enemy within games combined.

The farthest i have been getting on impossible ironman is up to the french convoy ambush mission and the best i did was killed all but one thin man. There's about 8 just in the beginning before you get to the raider survivor and then about another 8 thin men on the way back as well as a sectoid. I've been doing this with a max of 5 guys and only ballistic weapons on month 2 so i get close but i can never kill every one.

Perhaps i should go scientists first this time. Normally i do an engineer first approach but i don't seem to survive long enough to use em.

Just watched Knights of Badassdom on Netflix. Pretty good flick and got me in the mood for some hack n' slash, so i'm replaying Dark Souls 2.

While not my favorite in the series (DS 1 for sure), it is a step up from the S&M fest that was Demon's Soul.

Some more BF4. Unlocked most things support - just C4 and some LMG's to go (although I'll probably stick with the Type-88).

Played xcom enemy within for hours until daylight broke out. I still can't beat impossible ironman or get even close. The farthest i get is around the bit with the french convoy. At one point i won but was so depleted of guys i lost anyway. Oh and i lost the convoy raider in that mission at the very last guy.

I'm trying to go for double scientist abduction rewards so i get a total of 8 more scientists to add to the original 5 (so 13). I plan to get my engineers through throwing up a satellite over a country with an engineer per month reward. Hopefully everything works out.

Currently this game is just really obnoxious :(.

I think the death sentence this time was once again no heavies. It's totally random who gets what class and if all your heavies get injured or killed there's nothing you can do. It sucks that i don't even want my heavies to participate much after i use their rockets now as one wound means they're in med-bay for 9 days on average and i may get unlucky with another hard mission right away.

Btw am i the only one that feels like they increased research times for laser weapons and carapace armor or have i just not played xcom in forever?

Assassin's Creed Liberation.

I played a bit of Medal of Honour (single player) tonight. Dunno why, but something just reminded me of the old days of playing Allied Assault. It's not like the old das.

I've decided to reward myself with the FANV DLCs if I do well enough on my midterms, so I've just been exploring. I love Raul (the old zom-I mean ghoul mechanic), he's such a sarcastic bastard.

I'm playing WH40K:Armageddon. Its actually stopped me from playing WoT.

It reminds me so much of the old Epic game. I just wish it had simple animation for unit movement. A Titan sliding across a map just isn't right.

Been wasting fools in Galactic Starfighter in SW: TOR and started another Skyrim playthrough, this time with a Requiem-compatible Alternative Start mod and the Rigmor of Bruma companion quest-mod, which is really fething cool (and too short, IMO, I cannot wait for the next chapter in it).

Got sucked into Minecraft again. Thats all my painting time blown again.

Ugh so i lost another go of xcom enemy within on impossible ironman. Closest to successful run yet. I barely lost the french convoy mission by one last thin man killing my last guy. I also messed up several other missions (the council mission where you board the train i lost by one turn even though i activated all 4 relays and went to the last panel) but against everything and nations panicking i would've held on till i made the most embarrassing mistake ever. I forgot to leave enough elerium to make the skeleton key. Sadly the next ship to come by later was a supply ship i think and that just owned me as i didn't have the proper aircraft for the job. At that point i was just hoping i'd do ok. I had 3 satellites up but 4 countries or more panicking just meant one last one was needed to take me out of the game. I even beat an exalt mission and the last abduction mission of the month as well as a terror mission. So basically i was still in the game with the exception of a simple but critical error. Sadly it was the last one i could make.

I'm gonna see if i can do another run but it's late and i should sleep. I've been sleep deprived big time for a while now and it's not good for me.

I picked up Besiege a few days ago on steam, and it is taking up hours of my evenings at a time.

After having moved recently my PS3 is temporarily unavailable, so I'm looking at my PS2 gaming options. Gihren's Greed is fun, but the frustration can really build quick and I like to take a break from it so as not to gouge out my eyes in gamer rage. Just not sure what to play in it's stead... I have been pondering another run through of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but playing that game is a serious commitment. It devours hours of your time every time you turn it on.

Battlefield 4 on the ps3

I started playing League of Legends as a way to keep a friend of mine distracted a month or so ago, and now I can't stop playing, so I've basically only been playing League of Legends and Lego Batman 3 recently. (It isn't half fun though)

I started playing a visual novel so I could see what the fuss is about. It's not what I expect. No where near as racy as I imagined.

I play a lot of League, Dota 2, and Smite.

I've taken a break from them though to get through some of the single player games in my Steam library as well as some older console games.

Some big games coming out this year that really interest me so I want to get through as much of my backlog as possible.

Mortal Kombat X is already coming out next month and Final Fantasy Type-0 HD for PS4 is out this month.

After another batch of bad impossible ironman runs in xcom: enemy within that went nowhere (and left me seething with rage till i took a break) i managed to get another group all the way to the french convoy mission. So far things are going really well and i have 2 heavy lieutenants, a sniper sergeant, a squaddie support and squaddie assault (if i recall those last two correctly).

The rocket guys should help make things easier. My last abduction mission of the first month with just 4 guys and the 2 heavies really helped against the sectoids to a ridiculous degree.

Anyway this french convoy mission will be the moment of truth but sadly i must wait till tomorrow as i have work in the morning and it's already very late.

The combo i used in the first council mission was very effective. I had my sniper shooting at range and picking off a sectoid per turn and then having my heavily armored (for 1st month) warriors go into hunker down and increase cover by a lot. I may use this some more provided i can get some good shots with my sniper. Then again in month two those thin men and floaters really hit hard.

Good luck! The French convoy mission is the one that I dread in my new games, even on classic.

Thanks! I guess we'll see in mere moments when i play provided i decide to eat dinner first or after the mission.

The train boarding mission in china is also a real hard one esp. since the downed battleship is right after if i recall.

Update: Ok so big news! Nobody died, nobody was injured and the mission was successful so completely it wasn't even funny. Also i got 4 of my guys promoted. The mission's name was 'purple throne' which sounds strangely sexual.

Anyone else play battlefield on the ps4?

Finished up AC: Black Flag. I've got 100% chests, maps, bottles, buried treasure, contracts, etc. Basically everything but some challenges, suits/boat cosmetic upgrades, and the 100% mission side objectives. I don't think I'll be going 100%, the aggravation on a few missions doesn't seem worth it.

I started AC: Unity, but I'm having a hard time connecting to the setting. I may be suffering from Pirate withdrawal. The game is definitely glitchy, and I'm not in love with the new free running/combat controls, but it's not without merit. Having four players do a mission over Xbox Live is pretty awesome, as everyone was specialized for something specific.

I'll have to give it more time. Though I do enjoy the crime scene investigation side missions.

Ok so after lots of craziness and what felt like 3-4 missions one after the other (including retrieving the battleship intact with zhang) and losing a couple vets i managed to have a very good stable run. I ended may with a fully decked squad in carapace armor, double items, almost all the officer school abilities completed, all possible missions completed with one abductor getting away sadly and a crowing achievement of eliminating the alien base. I have lost 6 council nations so far but i have so many upcoming satellites that just about every nation should be covered by next month. Not bad considering i've been doing all this with just 2 satellites on countries.

So yeah everything's been working out in xcom: enemy within. I took a break because i'm hungry and haven't stopped playing since i last posted.

Finished the Order:1886 followed by another round of Dying Light with my friend.

Also started the new game Helldivers on PS4, it's nice to see that there is at least some source of couch co-op that is being made for next-gen. It's surprisingly fun, and deliberately screwing with your friends when you drop stratagems in the middle of a firefight is priceless. It's like a mix of Starhawk and Dead Nation.

Warframe on the ps4 with friends. Surprisingly fun.

World of Tanks, concentrating on my tier 2,3, and 4 TDs plus my Pz 1 C, and Tier 3/4 SPGs

Also started ANOTHER playthrough of Skyrim, this time as a naked Khajiit hunter (Only use bow and sneak) and thinking of trying "Moonpath to Elsweyr" for the first time.

Looking for a decent mod to give me a house where I can display all the Daedric items I find and the special armours such as the Nightingale armour.

Also looking for more content, especially if it increases the level cap.

 carlos13th wrote:
Anyone else play battlefield on the ps4?

Nope, Xbox One

Almost unlocked C4 for Support - yay!