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I've been watch some Phoenix point gameplay and it looks amazingly uninspired. 5 episodes so far, and it's much the same thing over and over. Human enemies break up the monotony a little, but those fights feel random with no real reason.

Map repetition and lack of enemy diversity seem a real problem, as does a lack of challenge. See crabs, shoot crabs

I'm currently playing Monster Hunter Iceborne. I'm so happy to hunt Tigrex and Glavenus from Generation again.

I started over in Mount & Blade Pendor. Got some easy fights early, so nailed 150 Renown day 1. Then just kept finding Tournies. I had enterprises in every city but the lord-hates-you ones and the Baccus Empire ones (Because Baccus hates me), and most of the compainions I wanted, by the end of day 5.

I decided Baccus hates me because I was wrongly accused of being Snake Cult. So I made up my mind to seek out witnesses (Baccus Ladies-in-waiting - rescuing them increases your rep). But Baccus kept being a tool, so I wound up just fighting them more. On day 8, I saw the entire Baccus army get caught between Sarlean and D'Shar, so I took my crappy 100-man army and took Almera - unaligned.

Baccus never attacked me. They sueed for peace on day 14.

It's now day 60, and nobody has attacked me. What the heck. I'm the king of a single castle and village (which I gave to Rayne, so I have at least one vassal). But no real enemies to fight. Just upping my CKO, taking on rare spawns, and grinding up troops. The game really stalled out between day 14 and day 60.

I think I might start "joining wars" to help "keep the peace" (meaning, fight whoever's winning, as a reason to get into wars).

Well, I beat the main campaign in Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.

Was a fun trip, but got kind of boring towards the end because of the lack of a variety of enemies. Every fight felt the same for the most part. The game is definitely challenging and I don’t regret the purchase, but I have no motivation to dig into the DLC campaign as it just looks like more of the same.

Once the new DLC hits for Warhammer 2, I’ll be knee deep in that for the foreseeable future.

Total war warhammer 2. I’m taking a break from my running high elf campaign (which has been ridiculously easy so far). I’ve confederated all but 2 factions of ulthuan and they’re going to be conquered. On hard difficulty any of the military alliances with about 10.000gold will land you nice confederancies. Anyway, I’m trying out the vampire coast (on hard) and much enjoying roaming the seas. Don’t have much of a plan yet but it’s so much fun to hunt down treasure maps and generally raid and loot. This is my first horde army playthrough and I’m really enjoying it. Also like the infamy system telling me just how much of an ocean terror I am.

 Nerak wrote:
Total war warhammer 2. I’m taking a break from my running high elf campaign (which has been ridiculously easy so far). I’ve confederated all but 2 factions of ulthuan and they’re going to be conquered. On hard difficulty any of the military alliances with about 10.000gold will land you nice confederancies. Anyway, I’m trying out the vampire coast (on hard) and much enjoying roaming the seas. Don’t have much of a plan yet but it’s so much fun to hunt down treasure maps and generally raid and loot. This is my first horde army playthrough and I’m really enjoying it. Also like the infamy system telling me just how much of an ocean terror I am.

I would still consolidate a base though.
Which VC are you playing?

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Nerak wrote:
Total war warhammer 2. I’m taking a break from my running high elf campaign (which has been ridiculously easy so far). I’ve confederated all but 2 factions of ulthuan and they’re going to be conquered. On hard difficulty any of the military alliances with about 10.000gold will land you nice confederancies. Anyway, I’m trying out the vampire coast (on hard) and much enjoying roaming the seas. Don’t have much of a plan yet but it’s so much fun to hunt down treasure maps and generally raid and loot. This is my first horde army playthrough and I’m really enjoying it. Also like the infamy system telling me just how much of an ocean terror I am.

I would still consolidate a base though.
Which VC are you playing?

Count noctilus. He seemed the most badass to me. Of course I’ll upgrade the malestorm but won’t bother with much else I think.

 Nerak wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Nerak wrote:
Total war warhammer 2. I’m taking a break from my running high elf campaign (which has been ridiculously easy so far). I’ve confederated all but 2 factions of ulthuan and they’re going to be conquered. On hard difficulty any of the military alliances with about 10.000gold will land you nice confederancies. Anyway, I’m trying out the vampire coast (on hard) and much enjoying roaming the seas. Don’t have much of a plan yet but it’s so much fun to hunt down treasure maps and generally raid and loot. This is my first horde army playthrough and I’m really enjoying it. Also like the infamy system telling me just how much of an ocean terror I am.

I would still consolidate a base though.
Which VC are you playing?

Count noctilus. He seemed the most badass to me. Of course I’ll upgrade the malestorm but won’t bother with much else I think.

In that case i'd still Grab Saratoga.
Etc.
Just to have fallbacks for your lords.
That said noctilous is probably the best suited for sea Terror.

Currently playing Greedfall, and thoroughly enjoying it.

Voss wrote:
I've been watch some Phoenix point gameplay and it looks amazingly uninspired. 5 episodes so far, and it's much the same thing over and over. Human enemies break up the monotony a little, but those fights feel random with no real reason.

Map repetition and lack of enemy diversity seem a real problem, as does a lack of challenge. See crabs, shoot crabs

Really? I was hoping to get that game. The boons I saw is you can customize your soldiers with sub-faction upgrades (in one case mind control or other evolutions) depending on who you helped and a few things looked cool like aiming at different enemy body parts. Of course what I saw seemed to show that the game wasn't ready yet. Some slowdowns or crashes and yeah the combat seemed to favor certain weapons. Grenadiers are stupidly strong but more due to doing weapon damage and lots of other damage. I don't have the game myself though so I can't say yet.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

Voss wrote:
I've been watch some Phoenix point gameplay and it looks amazingly uninspired. 5 episodes so far, and it's much the same thing over and over. Human enemies break up the monotony a little, but those fights feel random with no real reason.

Map repetition and lack of enemy diversity seem a real problem, as does a lack of challenge. See crabs, shoot crabs

Really? I was hoping to get that game. The boons I saw is you can customize your soldiers with sub-faction upgrades (in one case mind control or other evolutions) depending on who you helped and a few things looked cool like aiming at different enemy body parts. Of course what I saw seemed to show that the game wasn't ready yet. Some slowdowns or crashes and yeah the combat seemed to favor certain weapons. Grenadiers are stupidly strong but more due to doing weapon damage and lots of other damage. I don't have the game myself though so I can't say yet.

yeah, I've been watching a playthrough by Retcon Raider over on youtube. He's pretty thorough but not shouty or exciting. He seems to like it but... eh. It reminds me a lot of Xcom2, and not in a good way. A lot of waiting for story things to pop and fairly mediocre fights on 'random' maps that repeat a lot and enemies that can be customizable, but don't seem incredibly interesting. Sometimes they have guns, but mostly they just shamble toward you and ineffectually try to shield themselves.

But then I didn't like Xcom2 itself, so a mashup between that and elements that remind me of Fallout at its blandest doesn't really strike a chord.



I'm more interested in Greedfall, which seems pretty solid despite games media whining (mostly about the setting, and in Kotaku's case, not being mechanically incentivized to be moral, which strikes me as missing the point), and despite Spiders' previous games looking terrible.
It does look like it has things that will really irk me (early on an NPC runs away from you, in the worst RPG railroad manner possible- the screen goes dark and your character announces he's escaped. Despite him starting inside a wooden stall where he _couldn't_ have gotten away easily. That sort of thing just... ugh.)

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

Voss wrote:
I've been watch some Phoenix point gameplay and it looks amazingly uninspired. 5 episodes so far, and it's much the same thing over and over. Human enemies break up the monotony a little, but those fights feel random with no real reason.

Map repetition and lack of enemy diversity seem a real problem, as does a lack of challenge. See crabs, shoot crabs

Really? I was hoping to get that game. The boons I saw is you can customize your soldiers with sub-faction upgrades (in one case mind control or other evolutions) depending on who you helped and a few things looked cool like aiming at different enemy body parts. Of course what I saw seemed to show that the game wasn't ready yet. Some slowdowns or crashes and yeah the combat seemed to favor certain weapons. Grenadiers are stupidly strong but more due to doing weapon damage and lots of other damage. I don't have the game myself though so I can't say yet.

I've been playing Phantom Doctrine recently. It has some key differences with XCom (the RNG is pretty much completely removed in combat, which is both good and bad). But it successfully implements some of the elements that frustrated me the most about XCom 2 (for instance, the lack of true stealth gameplay). With some care, you can finish most of the missions without ever going loud.

Dragon Breed, Arcade.

I'm playing long war and starcraft 2. Not really much else to say. I think I'm doing alright in both.

I may need another xcom style game soon whether mutant year zero, phantom doctrine or Phoenix point. I find it odd stealth sounds more important in the first 2 than xcom 2 but if you're an xcom vet you know the power of a concealed scout that spots enemy pods for the rest of your force.

Oh and whoever decided in legacy of the void that battlecrusiers when handled with slight care can warp in front of their enemy's base and kill crap and warp back out not long after should've been shot. Seriously i almost kill them and when back in their base they stop for repairs and do it over again. I imagine the only way to handle it is to choke enemy gas supplies.

A bit of Far Cry 5 weekly challenges for the silver bars and decided to start a new game of Wildlands in preparation for Breakpoint.

 BrookM wrote:
A bit of Far Cry 5 weekly challenges for the silver bars and decided to start a new game of Wildlands in preparation for Breakpoint.

How did you deal with The Predator in Wildlands? I've yet to successfully do that, even cranking the difficulty down.

Predator is the only one I could not beat. I tried it at its easiest, hid in a certain spot that I thought was plasma safe, even sent in droves of rebels as support before triggering the final part of the mission, picked the best LMG and sniper rifle I had, but it's too tough to drop.

I got back to Rimworld, where I have a narrative scenario of Wehrmacht squad who got lost in Soviet Russia and is trying to survive frequent raids.

There is a rule to launch a raid every 7 days in addition to what Randy comes up with, and pawns are limited on usage of weapons made before 1945.

Erwin is an officer
Hans is medic
Michael is a regular soldier
Mark is an engineer
Wilhelm is a sniper
Otto is a machinegunner

Themed games of Rimworld look so interesting to play.

 Hawky wrote:
I got back to Rimworld, where I have a narrative scenario of Wehrmacht squad who got lost in Soviet Russia and is trying to survive frequent raids.

There is a rule to launch a raid every 7 days in addition to what Randy comes up with, and pawns are limited on usage of weapons made before 1945.

Erwin is an officer
Hans is medic
Michael is a regular soldier
Mark is an engineer
Wilhelm is a sniper
Otto is a machinegunner

Mark is a spy.
Clearly

Playing Borderlands 3 currently. Picked it up yesterday, and it feels great so far. Idk about the story yet, but gameplay is good.

Not Online!!! wrote:

Mark is a spy.
Clearly

Those glasses are land-lease materiel stolen from the Russians.

 Hawky wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

Mark is a spy.
Clearly

Those glasses are land-lease materiel stolen from the Russians.

No, the name! If anything he would be called Markus

Borderlands 3 for me too. Went with the gunner girl, because mechs.

 BrookM wrote:
Predator is the only one I could not beat. I tried it at its easiest, hid in a certain spot that I thought was plasma safe, even sent in droves of rebels as support before triggering the final part of the mission, picked the best LMG and sniper rifle I had, but it's too tough to drop.

Him and the Sam Fisher mission are giving me fits. The spawn rate on those dang grunts is annoying and being unable to even knock out is ruining it for me.

About to start BL3 tomorrow, going to play as FL4K, mainly because pets but also ProZD.

Recently just platted Doom though, pleasantly surprised by how good it was.

I’m playing as Zane. Two skills at a time is great. Worth it over the grenades. Two allies, plus skill trees improving based on two skills...yup!

Playing a bit of starcraft 2 and more long war for xcom 2. I think I've grown somewhat bored of sc2 again. I dunno I guess we'll have to see. Both games keeping trolling me esp long war.

There are more pawns in my fort, however.
Achmed and 'Fez', two Turks
Yekaterina, a female partisan
Ivan, Osttruppen sharpshooter
Hilda, Markus' mother. How did she get there is beyond me.

There also was Elsa, but she was shot dead.

Also, a herd of cows.
Schnitzel (bull) and Greta & Mia (cows)

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Hawky wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

Mark is a spy.
Clearly

Those glasses are land-lease materiel stolen from the Russians.

No, the name! If anything he would be called Markus

Ok, renamed.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Predator is the only one I could not beat. I tried it at its easiest, hid in a certain spot that I thought was plasma safe, even sent in droves of rebels as support before triggering the final part of the mission, picked the best LMG and sniper rifle I had, but it's too tough to drop.

Him and the Sam Fisher mission are giving me fits. The spawn rate on those dang grunts is annoying and being unable to even knock out is ruining it for me.

I did that one in a single play through, but it's a poorly designed mission for sure, unless they fixed it, which I doubt, but I hate that once you go loud, Sam does nothing to help in the fight. It may have something to do with being one of the earliest extra missions they've done, in stark contrast with the final story mission they released, Operation Oracle, where Cole Walker hulks out and can go on rampages on his own without your intervention.


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Last day on my Final Fantasy XIV sub, so decided to grit my teeth and spend my day off getting as far as I can before it runs out or before I punch the screen in frustration at all these idiotic fetch quests.

Many annoying quests later, I am finally a level 50 Dragoon and get to wear the decent-ish class armour:



Needs a better spear, but whatever, got a full set, matching colours to boot.

Discovered a pool near the guild house, so I could detox from all those annoying quests and read up on the crapton of ingame stuff the game keeps throwing at me:



Upon renewal.. find new spear, grind through those annoying guild assignments so I can finally buy and decorate a room of my own at the guild house. Also pound through the last story quests and hopefully finally reach the good stuff of the first expansion. Also, find a new mount, I am getting sick AF of the music that plays whenever I ride the Company Chocobo. Sorry Ace, but I'd rather walk / run than force myself to listen to your tune one more time.