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Pathfinder class and the whole of the Red Rock DLC felt like it was intended to be launched at the start of the game rather than here. It was really enjoyable and the mechanism of the Tactical Caches plus the drone uplink was a nice treat!

I've been having a lot of fun with SD Gundam Cross Rays on steam. Like, more fun than I thought I would.

 LordofHats wrote:
I've been having a lot of fun with SD Gundam Cross Rays on steam. Like, more fun than I thought I would.

Wait, SD? The spin-off with the mini Gundams? Surprised those are still kicking around. I thought SDs in general were tolerated at best. Not that there’s anything wrong with liking them of course.

 SkavenLord wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
I've been having a lot of fun with SD Gundam Cross Rays on steam. Like, more fun than I thought I would.

Wait, SD? The spin-off with the mini Gundams? Surprised those are still kicking around. I thought SDs in general were tolerated at best. Not that there’s anything wrong with liking them of course.

There's been a bunch of games using them. I think they're generally tactical strategy games, though I've never actually played any of them myself. SD style is frequently used in games like that. For instance, the units in the Super Robot Wars games are always represented on the game maps by SD versions of themselves.

Battletech again here with all the add ons/DLC, new career. A few mods to improve AI. This game is so great, ended up playing it a good part of the weekend...

I've really been in a warhammer mood a lot lately! (big suprise) So I've been playing total war warhammer 2, dawn of war games (dow2 is my fav ♥) and I even bought vermintide last night so I hope to play that soon!
Though I've found myself just watching youtube/netflix while painting and (trying) to build some lists.

So glad I got into the hobby properly now, it's so fun ♥

I was in the mood for a musou game and have been catching up on One Piece so I picked up Pirate Warriors 4. It's... exactly what you'd expect. Mindless power fantasy with a decent One Piece skin. It probably has one of the more incoherent plots that relies HEAVILY on you already knowing what's going on.

I've been enjoying Among Us, in between getting disconnected from a lot of games due to server reasons, I don't think it's my internet that is the issue!

Game has seen a massive uptick in activity as of late. Picked it up myself today so I can get some games in with my brother and his coworkers.

If you can get a party of people involved, it's unbelievably good fun for what is effectively wink murder or secret hitler.

Playing on your own, not as fun, but a good lobby can help!

The Division.

Ubi offered it for free, so I got it. Even played for a few hours with a friend from work.

It's super grindy, and there's way too many different bitsy things to tally to get fragments of keys to unlock pointless cosmetics, but otherwise it's fun.

Only real downside to the game is the bullet sponge enemies. Having to put three sniper-rifle bullets into the head of a guy who is wearing a hoodie for armour is really dumb.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The Division.

Ubi offered it for free, so I got it. Even played for a few hours with a friend from work.

It's super grindy, and there's way too many different bitsy things to tally to get fragments of keys to unlock pointless cosmetics, but otherwise it's fun.

Only real downside to the game is the bullet sponge enemies. Having to put three sniper-rifle bullets into the head of a guy who is wearing a hoodie for armour is really dumb.

Are you playing the first one, or the second one?

I've been playing the second one a lot since it came out. I enjoy it quite a bit. Bullet sponge enemies are annoying, and even frustrating at times. But aside from that, I have a lot of fun with it.

Agree that the bullet sponge enemies are a chore and take away from the game (played a lot of Div 2) but after a certain point there doesn't seem much they can do to make it more difficult/challenging?

I do love the environment in Division 2 though - really amazing. Would love this style of game, set in a similar big city environment except instead of human gangs as opfor make it alien invasion or something like that where you fight to take the city back. It would give the designers a lot more room to have enemies of different strengths/powers etc.

Eumerin wrote:
Are you playing the first one, or the second one?

First one, as Ubi gave it away for free to drum up interest for the upcoming Division 2 expansion.

I've been playing the second one a lot since it came out. I enjoy it quite a bit. Bullet sponge enemies are annoying, and even frustrating at times. But aside from that, I have a lot of fun with it.

 SkavenLord wrote:
IWait, SD? The spin-off with the mini Gundams? Surprised those are still kicking around. I thought SDs in general were tolerated at best. Not that there’s anything wrong with liking them of course.

There's apparently an entire franchise called G Generation or something, but the games haven't been released in North America until last year when they released Cross Rays.

Eumerin wrote:There's been a bunch of games using them. I think they're generally tactical strategy games, though I've never actually played any of them myself. SD style is frequently used in games like that. For instance, the units in the Super Robot Wars games are always represented on the game maps by SD versions of themselves.

I think the Super Robot Wars franchise uses the same style. I don't know how those games are mechanically. Cross Rays is basically Fire Emblem with Gundams. The user interface is pretty god awful and really holds the game back from being as good as it could be, but I love Gundam so I'm willing to look past it to deploy the dream team; Heero in Wing Zero, Duo in Deathscythe, Setsuna in Gundam 00 Qan[T], and Mikazuki in Barbatos. So yeah. The one heaping praise I'd lay on it is that if you love a mobile suit from Wing, Seed, 00, or Iron-Blooded Orphans or any of the related side materials it is in the game. It's got a big old Gundam Pokedex to fill out.

I'd give the game a 6/10 for what it is, 8/10 if you love Gundam XD

If it wasn't for the bullet sponge enemies, the Division and its sequel would be more frequently played by me, as they've got great setting and location full of life, great characters and a neat story to tell, just crappy combat mechanics.


Decided to play through the Dig over the last two days, with the aid of a screenshot for that one puzzle we do not talk about. Wooden dialogue delivery and that one puzzle aside, still enjoyed it a lot though.

 LordofHats wrote:

 SkavenLord wrote:
IWait, SD? The spin-off with the mini Gundams? Surprised those are still kicking around. I thought SDs in general were tolerated at best. Not that there’s anything wrong with liking them of course.

There's apparently an entire franchise called G Generation or something, but the games haven't been released in North America until last year when they released Cross Rays.

Eumerin wrote:There's been a bunch of games using them. I think they're generally tactical strategy games, though I've never actually played any of them myself. SD style is frequently used in games like that. For instance, the units in the Super Robot Wars games are always represented on the game maps by SD versions of themselves.

I think the Super Robot Wars franchise uses the same style. I don't know how those games are mechanically. Cross Rays is basically Fire Emblem with Gundams. The user interface is pretty god awful and really holds the game back from being as good as it could be, but I love Gundam so I'm willing to look past it to deploy the dream team; Heero in Wing Zero, Duo in Deathscythe, Setsuna in Gundam 00 Qan[T], and Mikazuki in Barbatos. So yeah. The one heaping praise I'd lay on it is that if you love a mobile suit from Wing, Seed, 00, or Iron-Blooded Orphans or any of the related side materials it is in the game. It's got a big old Gundam Pokedex to fill out.

I'd give the game a 6/10 for what it is, 8/10 if you love Gundam XD

Coincidentally, the game is currently on sale on Steam right now for 40% off.

As noted, the vanilla game includes (super-deformed) mobile suits and characters from Wing, SEED, 00, and Iron-blooded Orphans. The add-on dispatch mission sets include additional mobile suits and characters from Gundam X, Gundam AGE, and Turn A.

Eumerin wrote:
As noted, the vanilla game includes (super-deformed) mobile suits and characters from Wing, SEED, 00, and Iron-blooded Orphans. The add-on dispatch mission sets include additional mobile suits and characters from Gundam X, Gundam AGE, and Turn A.

Also G Gundam and Reconguista in G. It also has suits from Gundam Build Fighters and Gundam Build Divers as a hidden bonuses.

Apparently Burning Gundam/God Gundam is consistently slipped into every SD Gundam game as a super OP broken unit for the last 20 years XD

Wanted to play me some Sonic Gems Collection, but realised I don't have a Game Cube controller on me :(

No Man's Sky just got another big update, so I'm playing that again. Slightly annoyed that I deleted my old save to start a new one, since it seems they removed the easy way to make money with buying/selling cobalt.

Just spent almost three hours playing Among Us and we had a blast. Only got to be Impostor twice and managed to win once in this role, via self-reporting and throwing my fellow impostor under the bus.

 BrookM wrote:
Just spent almost three hours playing Among Us and we had a blast. Only got to be Impostor twice and managed to win once in this role, via self-reporting and throwing my fellow impostor under the bus.

that is a dick move.

I think it's time for the song.

In my defence, I am a poor liar, he was already suspected and we just needed one more round.

We also encountered a rare bug where I reported a dead body, only to be killed by the second impostor at the same time, resulting in a very hilarious meeting where I couldn't report on anything due to being dead.

But still, when played with friends or people you know, this is such a blast to play.

Started up Fire Emblem Three Houses again. This time I am gonna finish it I swear.

Whether I will then go onto finish the other 3 story routes remains to be seen.

I just started with Vermintide 2. It just popped up on Xbox gamepass. I played the first one and didn't love it, but I love this one, enough that I went and got all of the DLCs.

I mostly play the witch hunter, he's up to level 25 now, but the other 4 are all still in the single digits.

One thing that kinda bugged me though is when I switched from regular missions to veteran missions, you don't get any bonus xp, just your loot chest has a higher power level max

 Necros wrote:
I just started with Vermintide 2. It just popped up on Xbox gamepass. I played the first one and didn't love it, but I love this one, enough that I went and got all of the DLCs.

I mostly play the witch hunter, he's up to level 25 now, but the other 4 are all still in the single digits.

One thing that kinda bugged me though is when I switched from regular missions to veteran missions, you don't get any bonus xp, just your loot chest has a higher power level max

I actually just bought it on steam the other day and I'm yet to try it out. Hope it's fun!

fell into the Factorio hole and I’m trying to climb back out.

 Nerak wrote:
fell into the Factorio hole and I’m trying to climb back out.

Have you tried automating this process?

i started rimworld

I suck at it

Not Online!!! wrote:
i started rimworld

I suck at it

You'll never master the game, only suck less is what I gathered from my experience! Just don't scum save all the time, enjoy the narrative

I'm playing Hearthstone again, I still find arena drafts fun.