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To be fair, a Skaven Stack is, like, the equivalent to a single Runeweapon. Your ratslaves aren't going to be doing much except smothering the enemy with their corpses.

Hopped back into Payday 2, which since I last played however long ago, now has four new heists, a new heister and even more free guns that I'll never use.

Decided to do the whole Infamy thing again, because why not?

Anvildude wrote:
To be fair, a Skaven Stack is, like, the equivalent to a single Runeweapon. Your ratslaves aren't going to be doing much except smothering the enemy with their corpses.

And I was far past the point of using ratslaves, largely due to experience in the middle of my advance on dwarven territory, where Thorgrim hit a recovering army and garrison and essentially soloed half an army after I kited his forces to death. As absurd as that was (and it was very- he killed something like 600 rats, and was the only dwarf on the field for the last 5 minutes of the battle), it isn't what I mean.

The battle (actually, my ambush) I was referring to had an auto-resolve of ~75% in his favor, when he had the Warriors of Dragonfire Pass, 2 longbeards, a warrior and a miner unit and that was it. I had my then typical stack that was a base mix of storm vermin (both types), death runners, night runners with poison slings and plague catapults, with a few other higher tier things to fill things out to 20 (clan rats at worst, maybe some rat ogres, possibly a hero, since I'd finally dealt with their assassin spam). The autoresolve said one thing (and I tried it out on the save, complete destruction with minor dwarf losses), actually fighting it was the exact opposite, a trivial fight where the dwarves were utterly destroyed, with minimal losses on my side. That kind of thing is annoying.

And it's a problem that goes back further than the dwarf 'revamp'- every ME campaign I've run has involved the dwarfs absolutely dominating their neighbors, crushing the greenskins and usually stomping the vampires flat. Every time, without exception, unless I'm playing an army close by and . take Karaz-a-Karak in the first 30 turns or so and stop the deathball from rolling. It's fairly absurd.

Yeah, the auto-resolve in Warhammer Total War is a little faulty. I don't play Total Warhammer 2, but when I was playing Total Warhammer 1 with Vampire Counts auto-resolve was always wrong. Apparently it favors some factors more than others, usually ranged weapons.

Maybe they have it set up with "Fluff Rules". Like, I think watching a Tomb Kings player, he had similar issues- even on the Auto Resolves that he won, he took heavy, heavy losses.

Maybe the Skaven AI they use is a lot less careful about friendly fire? Or deliberately explodes their own units for fun?

Did the first mission in Strange Brigade with a friend last night. It was fun, if a bit repetitive.

Hoping for more challenging puzzles and enemies to come.

Picked up inquisitor for the Xbox one. Will have a look tonight and see what it’s like.

I just finished Uncharted: Drakes Fortune.

Jet-ski aside I liked it, well, until the plot twist. Up until then, I sort of liked how they'd kept it more grounded (to a point anyhow).

The plot twist just felt sort of unnecessary, really.

And to boot, I kinda feel a little more disappointed in the latest Tomb Raider movie too...


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Oh, and before I forget.

Space Marine is currently free for PC on Humble Bumble.

Well had a play through of the first few missions and all was fine until I had to defend the marine Sargent. Now i can’t seem to deploy the turrets or mines.

Now figured it out first play through this morning. Christ I only had to press left on the d-pad. Lol

After stumbling over some videos on youtube during last night's I-don't-want-to-go-to-sleep-yet-youtube-binging, I decided to dust off my old N64 and play some Ocarina of Time. Maaaaan, I love that game.

nothing on Steam Store to catch my eye ... c.b.a. DLing FO4 and installing all the mods again

oh look .. Portal 2 last played like 20 years ago, .... man this is fun .... "Yeah Honey, I'm coming to bed ... in a minute ... just after GladOS calls me fat one more time!"

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Yeah, the auto-resolve in Warhammer Total War is a little faulty. I don't play Total Warhammer 2, but when I was playing Total Warhammer 1 with Vampire Counts auto-resolve was always wrong. Apparently it favors some factors more than others, usually ranged weapons.

The problem with it is that it just based on statistical calculations. It doesn't fight the real battle. If effect it adds up the amount of potential damage a unit can cause and calculates a likely cost for that battle. As such missile troops are weighted higher because the total output after including all their ammo is much higher. It doesn't take into account that the weak unit of bats might be set up on a flanking position to shut down those missiles troops. Damage is also distributed more evenly across all units which might result in one sides units meeting its break limit sooner than in an actual battle. It does't take into account that some units are fodder units to protect more valuable ones. In Warhammer 2 this is particularly obvious for the Skaven with low leadership and Tomb Kings can sometimes get an easy auto resolve against a much harder army.

Figuring out how Source Hammer works. Trying to put a TF2 map together, though I did not expect objective construction to be so complicated.

After this one, I might go back to Quake mapping for a bit.

Been playing Medival 2 Kingdoms as of late, currently busy conquering the Whole of Eastern Europa with my Lituanian King, great fun and just finished of the damned Novogrodians. Now for the Teutonic Order and their Danish allies

Grabbed Sunless Sea when it was on sale, figuring out the game though trial and error. Current character death count: 3

I've been juggling a couple of games lately but I started playing Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun yesterday after picking it up in a humble bundle a while ago. Absolutely loving it so far

Shadow Tactics is indeed awesome, but I wish it was longer. If I’m rembering correctly, the dev’s secured the rights to the Commando franchise shortly after Shadow Tactics acheived commercial success and they’re heading into development.

Yeah, I'm only on the second mission so far but I am very much enjoying it. I would love it if they did a Commando reboot. I used to play that and Desperados a lot as a kid

Anvildude wrote:
To be fair, a Skaven Stack is, like, the equivalent to a single Runeweapon. Your ratslaves aren't going to be doing much except smothering the enemy with their corpses.

I could almost swear people don't know how to use skaven right (or at least the A.I. doesn't). You gotta take several armies and boost the ambush skill with them so that when your army has multiple friendly armies nearby and the enemy has several friendly armies nearby all 3 of your armies ambush only one of their's. Only one of your armies technically can deploy against theirs in ambush formation but only your armies come in as reinforcements. It's basically a superior form of lightning strike. Enjoy as it's like the best thing ever.

All that said queek's starting location is the absolute worst of all possible player start positions. You're wedged against mountains squaring off against most of the tomb kings, various vampire counts, the main orks, the main dwarfs not much farther than that and you have to fight one of the main lizardmen factions not too far out. There's also a massive expanse of land to the west that causes massive desert attrition, getting land-locked and therefore blocked for sea trade is quite possible for a long time and there's a serious lack of food and that isn't even considering the public order being lower from not having karak eight peaks for a while. By comparison Tretch's campaign is a walk in the park esp. since his army boost is helpful early on for ambushing and does it's best boosting for early campaign units like clanrats. Not to mention if you're ever hurting in public order all you have to do is break a treaty with someone you're gonna be at war with anyway and it lasts quite a while (13 turns i think).

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The auto resolve is total balls for certain armies though. I will say Legendary Lords do seem to be really tough to fight against though just because they never die so can level up pretty high making them fairly immune to heroes. Dwarfs has a ton of Legendary Lords so messing them up with heroes tends to be very hard.

 pix3lboy wrote:
I've been juggling a couple of games lately but I started playing Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun yesterday after picking it up in a humble bundle a while ago. Absolutely loving it so far

I'll just leave this here...

https://desperadosgame.com/

Totally addicted to Mobile Legends Bang Bang. I used to hate League of Legends because I was poo at the controls, and thought a mobile MOBA would be trash... I was VERY pleasantly surprised. 600+ games later and I am still not playing much else besides MLBB.

My little sister was singing the praises of Stardew Valley. I was browsing Steam, saw it was only a Tenner, and picked it up. I figured as long as I got a few hours of enjoyment out of it, I'd call it money (reasonably) well spent.

That was Tuesday.

Four days later, I'm 31 hours in... and nowhere near getting tired of it yet!

It's a very easy game to sink time into, and I like the relaxed pace, well worth the price I paid, IMO.

Playing Age Of Empires II, including all of the expansions. 20 years later, still one of the best games ever made.

Found myself watching some youtube vids of European Air War circa 1999.
Wonder if I could get it setup on a modern PC

Livelock on XB1. It's a funny little topdown Diablo style of pewpew.

Plus you play as robots trying to save humanity's consciousness, and that's just entertaining.

Bought Stellaris, lost my whole weekend.

Plus side: I own half of the galaxy, treble before my megacorporations!

Tropico 5. These Tropicans are too efficient. It’s not taking years to make a garage anymore. I’m not used to it and I don’t like it!

Battletech and Space Marine.

I won my game of AoE as the Goths; 3 barracks and a castle producing an endless stream of huskarls that swept over everyone.

Revisiting Skyrim. Unfortunately forgot I left 3 different follower mods on Aela, and she kept looking like liquid. Now I'm re-installing around 7gb of mods, and using this as an excuse to start a new character.
Feels good to re-explore the place though. Perhaps it's just the familiarity, along with a bit of excitement to finish mods and quests I had not touched. Orsinium, Falskaar, Rigmor, Bruma, Vigilant, and Apotheosis especially are ones I want to try at some point.

Random curiosity however. I've heard Enderal is getting its own Steam page. Would I still be able to switch between Enderal and Skyrim of both are installed, or should there be a clean install to use it?

Also heard it's possible to make FPS games via Javascript. Will certainly give that a shot, though I'm having a bit of trouble finding an API or compiler if they are even available.