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Door Kickers: Action Squad.

It's on sale on Steam, daily deal or something, plus there was a coupon for it in my Steam inventory, so it cost almost next to nothing.

And a pretty fun game to boot.

Eumerin wrote:
As you play further into the game, you'll continue to see raid bosses that have punishing mechanics, and that wipe raids that just try and out-dps the mechanics instead of playing by the rules. But my recollection is that none of the 24-man raids have as many bosses like that in a single raid instance as the World of Darkness raid. There's a reason why I groan a bit whenever it comes up during a raid roulette. ^^;;

And, of course, speaking of 24-man raids, the first one for the new expansion is scheduled to arrive next week. The raid is a cross-over with Nier: Automata, and I'm curious to see what they'll do with it.

As much as I look forward to the Nier stuff, I am still woefully underlevelled, ditto with my gear. So by the time I can finally do that one it'll be two or so years from now.

 Necros wrote:
I'm playing the Outer Worlds too, really enjoying it. I'm taking my time and exploring a lot, doing all the side quests I can find. Right now I'm up to the point where you have to go to Byzantium and I did all of the planet side quests along the way so I'm in no rush.

For the first time I'm feeling like I need to crank up the difficulty. Combat overall just seems way easy to me, I just have it on the normal setting. Got myself a modded hunting rifle and I mostly just sneak, hit the time button, boom headshot, turn off time button. Rinse Repeat. Unless it's a big encounter my companions rarely get to fight at all.

Combat is easy, definitely. I died exactly once... because I thought the elevator was up when it was down, and got squashed. Most encounters didn't appreciably reduce my health bar.
Sneaking and sniping seemed unnecessary- plasma all the way, except for bugs, who are better crumped and staggered by lead via assault rifle.
Though n-rays are good too. The 'science' weapons were largely disappointing.

It does seem fairly easy on Normal, outside of a few boss fights, even without sneak. An Assault Rifle Ultra with a plasma conversion and the various TTD perks makes short work of most things I'm coming across, and unlike Fallout, Ammo rarely seems to be an issue outside of the first areas. It seems balanced, and the various weapon types do all seem to perform equally well, but enemies are maybe a little bit flimsy.

That said, I definitely want to try a run on the Survival mode, which seems like it might be a bit more demanding, if it makes combat altogether more lethal both ways a la FO4's one rather than just making enemies ridiculous bullet sponges. The companion permadeath should be a genuine challenge for any non sneak builds at the very least.

More Long War mod for xcom 2 and oddly I think I might win this one or at least get insanely close. Avatar progress keeps getting sabotaged and once I get the shadow chamber and some better weapons then this game should actually be pretty solid. Most of the world is contacted except 3 areas and one of those 3 is in the middle of being contacted. I'm in the middle of sabotaging an alien facility and the next region i'm contacting also has an alien facility to sabotage. Some of my weapons are getting fairly obsolete though so I've gotta get more resources as well.

Anyway things are getting interesting so hopefully I win. A ufo is on my ass right now though and this is one that you have to fight due to story progress sadly. For that reason I've been holding back a squad. Anyway that's all I've got for now.

 Necros wrote:
I'm playing the Outer Worlds too, really enjoying it. I'm taking my time and exploring a lot, doing all the side quests I can find. Right now I'm up to the point where you have to go to Byzantium and I did all of the planet side quests along the way so I'm in no rush.

For the first time I'm feeling like I need to crank up the difficulty. Combat overall just seems way easy to me, I just have it on the normal setting. Got myself a modded hunting rifle and I mostly just sneak, hit the time button, boom headshot, turn off time button. Rinse Repeat. Unless it's a big encounter my companions rarely get to fight at all.

Sounds like the stealth bow build in skyrim. That build was so hilarious and stupid OP for stealth players. Very fun even if you had to always crouch thus making the game take infinitely longer. Shame they didn't make backstab builds more viable.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:


Sounds like the stealth bow build in skyrim. That build was so hilarious and stupid OP for stealth players. Very fun even if you had to always crouch thus making the game take infinitely longer. Shame they didn't make backstab builds more viable.

Wait, backstab builds in Skyrim were broken as well. High damage dagger with some enchantments for more damage, poison(preferably paralysis and lingering health damage/damage health), x15 backstab damage perk, dark brotherhood gloves to bring it up to x30, invisibility potions/spells/powers

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, which is so Lovecraftian and awesome it isn't funny. Combat sucks, though and that whole games thing when you're in close confines (which is almost always) when you're trying to slash a sword it bounces off the walls constantly which can get frustrating. Love it, though.

Playing 'figure out how Steam works with their new terrible update.'

Its like someone vomited useless colors, activity feeds and timelines all over my library, and hid most of the useful UI elements as tiny buttons.

I decided to have another playthrough of the DoW2 series, from the first game to the last.

IMHO DoW2 is still one of the best 40k games around.

Voss wrote:
Playing 'figure out how Steam works with their new terrible update.'

Its like someone vomited useless colors, activity feeds and timelines all over my library, and hid most of the useful UI elements as tiny buttons.

Really missing small mode and the filter to hide uninstalled games.

Ah. I have everything installed tag as a 'favorite' which is a bit absurd, but helped organize things under the old system. Sticking them in a 'collection' might work too. There is an option to hide everything else (its inexplicably a play button one button removed from the games drop-down menu)

Battlefield's Pacific content dropped today--so am playing that.

It's Iwo Jima and "Pacific Storm"(Paracel Storm from Battlefield 4 reimagined, effectively) for now--with Wake Island coming in December.

The first part of rhe 24-man YorHA raid dropped on Tuesday in FFXIV, and I ran it last night. I only played the demo of Neier, so I can't say much about it aside from the scenery and enemies looking appropriate. Got the gloves for my Machinest to drop on my second run, so that's my drop for the week.

Clearing the raid also drops a 9S card (which I got), a 2B costume pack, and a couple of pieces of music.

And something new happened after I finished my first run. The (empty) zone was unlocked, and I was sent back where I could look for lore logs to pick up.

 Adrassil wrote:
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, which is so Lovecraftian and awesome it isn't funny. Combat sucks, though and that whole games thing when you're in close confines (which is almost always) when you're trying to slash a sword it bounces off the walls constantly which can get frustrating. Love it, though.

That's a blast from the past. Scariest game I ever played with a good story too. You playing on N64 or did they rerelease it?

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, which is so Lovecraftian and awesome it isn't funny. Combat sucks, though and that whole games thing when you're in close confines (which is almost always) when you're trying to slash a sword it bounces off the walls constantly which can get frustrating. Love it, though.

That's a blast from the past. Scariest game I ever played with a good story too. You playing on N64 or did they rerelease it?

Do you mean Game Cube? Nah, wish I'd got it as a teenager but in those days I was ignorant of the awesomeness which is Lovecraft and Lovecraftian Horror. Shamed to admit I'm playing it on an emulator :(
Have you played through the different endings?

I do enjoy the uniquely Lovecraftian solution to the best ending.

It's SUCH a good game, but the sanity meter being visible on screen kind of ruined a lot of the surprise factor for me. Still nothing like it.

Finished the outer worlds the other night with a mostly happy ending. Kinda felt like the game should have lasted longer. There were also I think 3 planets in my star map that were always grayed out and I could never visit them. Don't know if I missed a side quest to pick them up? Or maybe there is something planned for a DLC? I don't know if I'd wanna do another play through though to find out, RPGs are usually boring for me the 2nd time around.

 Necros wrote:
Finished the outer worlds the other night with a mostly happy ending. Kinda felt like the game should have lasted longer. There were also I think 3 planets in my star map that were always grayed out and I could never visit them. Don't know if I missed a side quest to pick them up? Or maybe there is something planned for a DLC? I don't know if I'd wanna do another play through though to find out, RPGs are usually boring for me the 2nd time around.

OW was planned as a transition title without DLC. But the 'greyed out' worlds are notably gas giants, so there isn't much to land on. Also compare to the.. final planet, which spent most of the game with a lock icon on it.

 Adrassil wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, which is so Lovecraftian and awesome it isn't funny. Combat sucks, though and that whole games thing when you're in close confines (which is almost always) when you're trying to slash a sword it bounces off the walls constantly which can get frustrating. Love it, though.

That's a blast from the past. Scariest game I ever played with a good story too. You playing on N64 or did they rerelease it?

Do you mean Game Cube? Nah, wish I'd got it as a teenager but in those days I was ignorant of the awesomeness which is Lovecraft and Lovecraftian Horror. Shamed to admit I'm playing it on an emulator :(
Have you played through the different endings?

No...didn’t realize there was multiple endings...

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
No...didn’t realize there was multiple endings...

Yup. Think there's a secret one if you play a fourth time if you choose all three gods with Pious Augustus.

Now I'm back on The Witcher 3. Almost clocked Blood and Wine, but stuck on the final fight with Dettlaff. Oh man his bats attack is OP as hell lol

Finally onto Heavensward with Final Fantasy. Only took 100 filler quests and more than an hour of back to back cutscenes to finally get there..

But at long last, new content and the machinist class.

Doing Outer Worlds atm, it's really good, though with one nitpick.

I read all the stuff about the game purposefully avoiding either Capitalism Good or Capitalism Bad, and how stuff would be nuanced, no real good vs evil just folk making choices etc etc. So I decided to do my first run as a proper revolutionary, willing to do distasteful things for The Cause and so forth, and that kinda works there have been opportunities to RP that way.

But there's no companion who really fits that approach. The one guy who does lean firmly anti-corp is also a whingy, noncommittal little gimp who chucks a hissy if you try and stick to the "hard times require hard choices" approach, and doesn't seem to have any kind of actual ideological bent of his own beyond "authority is bad, mostly" and "but, like, don't be a meanie about it".

Honestly once I got the two good ones I've never even bothered to talk to the priest, the pirate-doctor, the aforementioned whinger, or the robot again, let alone had them tag along. They're just kinda meh.

More than made up for by Nyoka and Parvati though, especially the latter - I usually find the "adorkably naive" archetype pretty irritating, but Parvati is just fun. I think it helps that her "romance subplot" is more about you playing Cyrano than the usual "tick boxes to make NPC say they love you now" affair.

 Adrassil wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
No...didn’t realize there was multiple endings...

Yup. Think there's a secret one if you play a fourth time if you choose all three gods with Pious Augustus.

They're not really any different. I think the secret ending triggers on the third playthrough, but its been ages.

Base Ending:


Secret Ending:

 BrookM wrote:
Finally onto Heavensward with Final Fantasy. Only took 100 filler quests and more than an hour of back to back cutscenes to finally get there..

But at long last, new content and the machinist class.

Machinest in the new expansion is a lot of fun. If played well, it's one of the highest dps jobs. And unlike Black Mage, the highest dps job, it's also very mobile.

I switched over to it after they wrecked my previous main, Astrologian, and have been having a lot of fun with it.

 LunarSol wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
No...didn’t realize there was multiple endings...

Yup. Think there's a secret one if you play a fourth time if you choose all three gods with Pious Augustus.

They're not really any different. I think the secret ending triggers on the third playthrough, but its been ages.

Base Ending:

Spoiler:

You summon a dark god to eat the dark god Pious chose in the opening, Pokemon style. The only real difference here is the color of the god summoned and eaten

Secret Ending:

Spoiler:

Across multiple realities, Pious has summoned a dark god, but in each reality you've summoned the dark god that preys upon it. Because the gods exist outside of reality A eats B, B eats C, and C eats A, effectively killing all 3 of them.

Agh! Although I've already watched a Let's Play I'm not touching those spoilers lol

Eumerin wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Finally onto Heavensward with Final Fantasy. Only took 100 filler quests and more than an hour of back to back cutscenes to finally get there..

But at long last, new content and the machinist class.

Machinest in the new expansion is a lot of fun. If played well, it's one of the highest dps jobs. And unlike Black Mage, the highest dps job, it's also very mobile.

I switched over to it after they wrecked my previous main, Astrologian, and have been having a lot of fun with it.

Same! Doing leves right now to get some levels going, but already liking the class a lot so far. I think this may replace my Dragoon class if future skills are as flashy and useful.

Started Luigi's Mansion 3 last night. Such a wonderful little series and so far the latest feels like a good marriage of the atmosphere of the first with the gameplay of the second. Not very far along but I'm liking it so far.

I am currently about to beat the final boss of Pikmin 2 for the first time ever. Had to pause the game and turn of the tv with the gamecube running while I went to work just like I used to before I went to school 15 years ago when the game first came out. lol. My wife thought that was hilarious.

NeverwinterNights 2 on a Persistent World (Baulder's Gate:Sword Coast Chronicles).

I get to do a lot of RP there. My first character regaled a passing friendly elf from Amn about he was almost just eaten by a *puddle*. The elf replied simply that "We call those Oozes". I knew that, my character didn't. So my character learned.

My druid argued with the party about whether to "raid" some creatures' "home". The party did, and my druid was very unhappy about that. Some great RP experiences, everyone enjoyed that!

And my "Tonivan" has only been accused of being a warlock once. But successfully convinced the accuser that he was no warlock - he just new a lot about magic and magical items. So he's doing what he can for people, while hiding the fact that he's made deals with devils.

It's not as good as an actual in-person tabletop D&D campaign, certainly. But it's the next best thing I've ever experienced. Best RP I've ever had in a game. And I really feel the investment and development of my characters.

Gunlord, DreamCast. Tough as nails.

Played WoW Classic but didn't pay subscription last time. Got Pre-raid gear already but I have no time for raiding. And there is no PvP right now. Nothing to do in this game.