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Yeah dying and coming back over and over has always been one of the things in MMOs that I've had trouble suspending my disbelief over. The fact that the game design allows (encourages?) you to do this during dungeons is... meh. Glad I never went past the beta. Thanks for the information though

No problem. Admitedly when playing the regular game myself when I got bored of grinding through locations to reach quest givers I'd do just that. I'd sprint through the place up until a roadblock like a door, ignoring all the mobs, and let myself die when I got there. When I resurrected in the same spot, make it past the roadblock and repeat.

Of course that's just when you're lazy. As a Tank I don't have amazing DPS, but mitigated that by being over leveled most of the time. In dungeons you can do the same thing, but need to kill the bosses. If you're any good though you shouldn't be dying. Dying comes down to someone screwing up.

As a Tank I die either: because I didn't see the obvious tell for an attack and didn't block it. I stepped in glowing red "don't stand here" AOE. I had to do someone else's job on top of pulling all the aggro. Even with avoiding all the nasty attacks, I ran out of magicka/stamina to heal myself and the healer didn't then step in and heal me. The latter at least can be covered by using my invulnerable ability.

...But yes, that's all under the assumption that everything goes well and people know what they're doing. In public groups expect to die over and over. Which at least from a plot standpoint is justified in that you're a warrior who doesn't have a soul, so uses other's to bring them back from the Daedric planes (or, if you complete the main quest, the champion of a god(s)).

Renowned Explorers: International Society. It's pretty fun so far.

So a steam buddy of mine was very nice and gifted me Rocket League. It's a ton of fun, but holy crap am I bad at it. Like REALLY bad.

Still playing tons of MWO and some Wreckfest alongside RL

I did some SW Battlefront, and I have to say, Palpatine's jump ability is terrifying. The fether is jumping through jungles, and that noise he makes when he does it only makes it worse.

I managed to shoot a pilot out of an attack heli in Battlefield today.

My life lacks purpose now.

Saw a friend put 'Papers, Please' on his wishlist and talked about it with another which decided to play it. I watched my 2nd friend play it and I've gotta say it looks fun and addicting though tedious. It's so weird it's like a more dystopian version of my low paying job.

Preloading "The Division" beta right now on my xbox.

Hooray, 44%!

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preloading "The Division" beta right now on my xbox.

Hooray, 44%!

Too cool! I finally got around to watching a video for this game and it looks wicked awesome.

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Tried out Blade and Soul last night... having back flashes to trying out other korean mmos... I doubt I'll continue playing. Given time I could probably adjust but I'd rather use that time for my WoW or SWTOR characters.

EDIT:

Tried out Talisman on a whim... it was pretty fun... might have been even more fun if I played with more players (I just did a 1 v 1 game against AI). Got schooled by a Priest (I chose sorceress).

 djphranq wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preloading "The Division" beta right now on my xbox.

Hooray, 44%!

Too cool! I finally got around to watching a video for this game and it looks wicked awesome.

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Tried out Blade and Soul last night... having back flashes to trying out other korean mmos... I doubt I'll continue playing. Given time I could probably adjust but I'd rather use that time for my WoW or SWTOR characters.

I've been playing Blade and Soul. It's not as grindy (at least, not yet) as typical Asian f2p fare. Just running quests seems to do a decent job of leveling you up.

The grind aspect that I've seen so far revolves around equipment. The best equipment in the game is the "Hongmoon" gear that you get very early on. But there's a catch. In order for your gear to remain competitive, you have to level it up by sacrificing similar pieces of gear. And after every five levels of gear upgrades, you have to "evolve" the item using a specific piece of gear. The grind aspect revolves around the RNG element needed to obtain some of the items. For instance, to evolve your weapon, you might need a weapon of the same type that you can only obtain by spinning a Wheel of Fortune (yes, these exist in the game). And you get between 2-5 spins (depending on how much damage you did) every time you kill a frequently respawning boss mob. If you're lucky, then the spin will give you a locked weapon chest (there are a number of other items of varying value that might result). If you're really lucky, then when you use a key to unlock the chest, you'll get the weapon you need, and not a weapon for another class. Keys are frequently provided by quests within the game, can be purchased from merchants, and can be crafted by players. So you're not going to spend yourself into debt trying to level up your character (at least, not that I've seen so far).

About half of the gear appears to be vanity-only. You have a weapon, a ring, a necklace, and an earring that all boost stats. Your clothing-slot is purely cosmetic, and there are a few other slots that I believe are also cosmetic-only (though I don't know for sure). There's open world faction-based PvP (and everyone has to eventually join one of two factions - you can either do it early on, or later in the story). But if you're not interested in open world PvP, then you simply don't equip the outfit for one of the PvP factions.

Combat is purely action-paced, somewhat similar to Tera. Strike blows, block enemy attacks, and string a sequence of moves along to form a combo and do something special (for instance, block a move by an opponent, which allows you to knock them back, which dazes them, allowing you to kick them up into the air, follow them into the air while punching them, and then slam them into the ground).


The gold-spammers are *really* bad, though. They appear to be organized, which makes things even worse. When I was online the other day, faction chat (which you can't join until you join a faction, which requires you to at least play through the opening sequence) was hit by what appeared to be five characters, all spamming for the same website. Then a little while later, there were five more spammers, all spamming for the same web site. Then five more. Then five more. Then five more. What was happening was that as each set of five spammers disappeared (and presumably got dealt with by the GMs), five *new* characters would start spamming the chat channel. Given that you can't just automatically spam the Faction chat channel a couple of minutes after creating a character, this implies that one of the RMT websites had created dozens of characters beforehand in anticipation of spamming the faction chat channel in question. The end result was that every few minutes, the chat channel in question was rendered unusable.


Personally, I'd like to tar and feather every individual who has ever used an RMT service. They deserve it for encouraging the RMT scourge.

I just checked out Star Wars: Battlefront after the latest patch.

Woohoo! The party system is only hmm... 80% terrible now!

Since you're able to create private matches now, hopefully playing with Geek And Sundry tonight will actually work out alright, instead of spending half an hour in the lobby before finding a game.

Started a new game of the Long War mod for Xcom, in anticipation of Xcom 2, so far its been going well enough, I have avoided any deaths although five troopers are in ICU atm after a nasty run in with a horde of Mutons and Sectoids. But the day was saved by two Xcom operatives. I am very very pleased I brougth two medics along.
The next thing on my list to do is one of the missions where you get the psy gifted woman.
Also DAMN! they ramped up the crazy factor in the latest version of the mod.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preloading "The Division" beta right now on my xbox.

Hooray, 44%!

This finished at 1:30am last night, and I found out the beta starts at 4am EST on Thursday.

I think I'm going to wake up early...

Re-installed Tera mostly because Blade and Soul for some reason had me wanting to play that instead.

Having more fun with that so far. I haven't tried playing it with a controller yet but I'll probably try that next session.

Totally addicted to SWTOR now. Have 3 characters going right now. Lvl48 Sorcerer, Lvl17 Assassin, and lvl12 BH Pyro. I want to do the Agent and a Warrior as well. Bio-Ware is just the best at storytelling. But I have seen in chat on my server that some think the stories are all downhill after the Inquisitor. But we shall see.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preloading "The Division" beta right now on my xbox.

Hooray, 44%!

This finished at 1:30am last night, and I found out the beta starts at 4am EST on Thursday.

I think I'm going to wake up early...

I DID wake up early and play!

Pretty solid so far. The cover can be clunky at times, but it definitely feels like it's still being fine-tuned on that mechanic.

More Borderlands 2.

A friend of me got it in the Steam Sale as well, so guess what I'll be playing tomorrow?

Skyriming around in Skyrim. Forgot I had Hearthfire installed, then forgot that the house near Dawnstar is only available after you do a quest that you can't get until you're at the right level. Is it the only house that's level locked? Because it bugs me.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preloading "The Division" beta right now on my xbox.

Hooray, 44%!

This finished at 1:30am last night, and I found out the beta starts at 4am EST on Thursday.

I think I'm going to wake up early...

I DID wake up early and play!

Pretty solid so far. The cover can be clunky at times, but it definitely feels like it's still being fine-tuned on that mechanic.

Is that one only really fun/playable as a multiplayer experience?

I've been playing a lot of Tabletop Simulator.


Though I don't think would go well for the Menites.

 Kojiro wrote:
I've been playing a lot of Tabletop Simulator.


Though I don't think would go well for the Menites.

I feel like I have to play this. Can it work really well for 40k and other games?

Pretty sure we can talk about it since talking about vassal and games on it is allowed.

 Kojiro wrote:
I've been playing a lot of Tabletop Simulator.


Though I don't think would go well for the Menites.

If I owned it I'd just use it for that.

The reason I don't like Vassal is because I can't stand the viewpoint. It's impossible to tell what's what half the time. I just don't enjoy it. THIS on the other hand looks awesome


Sooooo.... Loadsa MWO. Some F$ here and there. SOme Wreckfest and some good old fashioned Mechcommander 2

I was considering TTS... There's support for x-wing too...dint really have time though

Getting bored (finally) of FFT so I may install the emulator and pick up an old rpg or something.

My Legend of heroes is about done too. It's never got gak up to saving the world... But it has escaped a lot and been a fun journey. The second game is supposed to just be more of the same yet better..so I'm pretty excited for that.

Kinda need to finish agarest too, awful close to the end of that..

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

If I owned it I'd just use it for that.

It's $10 on the Humble Bundle atm.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preloading "The Division" beta right now on my xbox.

Hooray, 44%!

This finished at 1:30am last night, and I found out the beta starts at 4am EST on Thursday.

I think I'm going to wake up early...

I DID wake up early and play!

Pretty solid so far. The cover can be clunky at times, but it definitely feels like it's still being fine-tuned on that mechanic.

Is that one only really fun/playable as a multiplayer experience?

I've only played it solo, so it definitely is playable solo.

I have been playing Call to Arms and Men of war Assault 2

Mordheim.

The rolls seem to taunt me, but I do think it's just comfirmation bias. (Is that the right term?)

Yes, my guys seem to miss at the worst possible moments, but I also had an archer get cornered by one of the sister types, and then survive a bunch of rounds as she swung and missed at him over and over. So it's not just me getting all the bad rolls.

It just seems like it.

Ever have one of those sessions where you can literally perceive the ebb and flow of your own luck? I notice it more with tabletop games that directly use dice, but sometimes with games.

I'll start out all crits and max damages, and then it slowly winds down to where I'm rolling all ones, and then back and forth for awhile.

Shooters are much more predictable, almost always infinitely better for the first round or two and then I slowly get worse as I burn off whatever accumulated 'good at shooters' magic that slowly builds over time. I always seemed to to do better my first map or two after being away for a couple of weeks. But always worse after a few rounds. That's not luck so much as barely perceptible fatigue setting in though, I guess.

My luck seems to work based on how much I've planned something. If I've got a move lined up just right, it's got a high percentage of success, and may make or break me? Yeah, that'll fail.

It's the times that I'm not paying attention to what I'm doing, when things don't matter... Those are the times my luck comes back.

Ahh yeah. I'll take x-com for instance. Say I always make sure I've got 100% chance to hit so I'm good to go, that one time I need to hit at 70% in order to save someone or whatever... boom miss. Every time. Next time I take a wild <50% chance to hit that isn't important... that'll go through