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DOOM Eternal is on sale at a massive discount, so picked that one up and 90 minutes later I had it refunded, because holy fething gak, to me personally, YMMV obv, none of the daemonic magic of the first game is present in this one. It felt as if I was missing a large chunk of the story or something when the game started, the annoying amount of pop-ups, brightly coloured weapons and powerups floating everywhere, the cut-scenes taking you to third person view. Also, those melon-fething jumping segments, whoever thought those would be fun.. why?! It feels like another studio did this game and just winged it.

I did like the massive mechs littering the maps, giant daemons stalking in the background along with a radio broadcast calling daemons "mortally challenged", but that's about it.

In the middle of installing Arma 3. Only played Arma Cold War Assault, so I'm kind of expecting that with better textures and (hopefully) more intuitive controls.

Does anyone know if this thing has bots or a mission editor? Never liked playing these sorts of games for the multiplayer.

Playing more xcom 2 except long war mod. I seem to be doing better with my 2nd try in a row. This time we gonna do an assault on the advent regional hq pretty fast and liberate east Africa (basically just Nigeria and soldiers and staff and not sure what else from others.) The other interesting part is in long war mod you can end up with a lot of people from the regions you do missions on so my only region for missions right now is west africa and therefore nigerian staff and soldier reinforcements are a significant makeup of the team.

I should add people I know on the internet to my already pre-made characters. I gotta make fun of the characters somehow and make their intro as a soldier for xcom hilarious. Basically I'd need to know the people I'm turning into xcom 2 soldiers enough to tease them and that usually takes a decent friendship on my end.

The game's global map is at around April 20th or so so only 50 days in and I'm doing mostly decent in most ways. I gotta get some new regions contacted. Other than that I have lots of soldiers, good amount of staff so far, my guys are healing faster so they can get back to fighting quickly, nobody's died or been capture yet, the advent regional hq should be started to infiltrate soon with full laser weapon gear and not a lot. Just basically get more Intel and get more regions contacted. Even my supplies and resources aren't too terrible right now.

Started Playing Star Wars Squadrons. It's actually a lot of fun in single player. Like its X-Wing/Tie Fighter predesscor it isn't trying to be a hardcore sim, but more of a fun 15 minute excursion.

Started playing Destiny 2 again with some friends as it's all free to play on xbox game pass. We played it at the start but Bungie/ Activision kept doing that damn thing where they'd release an expansion and expect you to pay for the entire game again (particularly a bugger if you'd also already bought the season pass). It's such a fun game, the gun play is just so enjoyable. And the later story missions have been lovely too. Seems like a whole host of 40k idea thievery.

So I thought I was renewing my PS+ subscription last weekend and woke up this morning to a "Welcome to Playstation NOW!" email. So I guess I have playstation now for a year now.

Browsed through the selection of games and honestly it feels kind of sparse. But I went ahead and threw the Dark Cloud games from the PS2 on my list for nostalgias sake, and Katamari Forever because I have always wanted to try the katamari games but never managed to pick one up.

I'm not great at the Katamari games, but they are fun enough.

I also started Hollow Knight. I liked it, was interested in playing more. but its going on the backburner while I make the most of this accidental PS Now sub. lol

Just picked up Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and Predator: Hunting Grounds from the Black Friday Sale rack at Walmart the other day. Haven't started playing either one yet, but it was nice to get them both cheap.

Still on Vampire: the Masquerade- Bloodlines. Must admit I can't help be a bit of a simp for Velvet Velour the Toreador vampire in Hollywood lol. I think the Immersive Sim is perhaps one of my favourite genres. I bought Deus Ex and Deus Ex Human Revolution a while back on GOG and Prey during the recent Steam Sale. Should play them sometime soon. Now NaNoWriMo is finished.

picked up Pathfinder Kingmaker on a BF discount. Played quite a bit over the weekend - not entirely sure about it though I am not very far in, having restarted once after getting a better understanding of some of the mechanics.

It does feel rather "old school" in that a lot of the exploration is done by dying often and reloading - maybe that is more just me and i need to get better at the game.

petrov27 wrote:
picked up Pathfinder Kingmaker on a BF discount. Played quite a bit over the weekend - not entirely sure about it though I am not very far in, having restarted once after getting a better understanding of some of the mechanics.

It does feel rather "old school" in that a lot of the exploration is done by dying often and reloading - maybe that is more just me and i need to get better at the game.

It has a heavy system mastery requirement, that's for sure. The big key is to have enough spellcasters, and that buff spells (and summons) are _the best_, and direct damage spells are terrible.
Restoration, protection and remove condition spells (or potions) are also _required_ for certain chunks of the game.

Its also rough on replays, since the sections are very contained and often there's nothing left to do but let time spin until you unlock the next bit of kingdom management that will let you adventure again. At other times, you're fighting against multiple timers (some of which you won't be fully aware of), trying to get things done as the game days slip away.

 Adrassil wrote:
Still on Vampire: the Masquerade- Bloodlines. Must admit I can't help be a bit of a simp for Velvet Velour the Toreador vampire in Hollywood lol. I think the Immersive Sim is perhaps one of my favourite genres. I bought Deus Ex and Deus Ex Human Revolution a while back on GOG and Prey during the recent Steam Sale. Should play them sometime soon. Now NaNoWriMo is finished.

Never played vampire the masquerade but I remember seeing scenes of VV. God any man would beg for a single night of fun with a woman that hot. I'm just sad I don't think I've seen female characters that attractive in games in forever. I find it funny she says she loves the main character. I mean it's not like vampires can reproduce so you don't have to worry about protection for those reasons tho if this is vampires are dying flesh you still would wanna keep something just in case and some air fresher too or heavy cologne.

I never played any deus ex besides human revolution and mankind divided. I found mankind divideds human interaction with augmented humans to be ridiculously over the top in cruelty. I dunno i think human revolution had a lot more nuance. In human revolution you didn't know who to trust exactly. Nobody was real squeaky clean morally or at least if they had power. I kind of want to play the original now. I heard it predicted a lot of things such as with terrorism and monopolies controlling everything and more.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I found mankind divideds human interaction with augmented humans to be ridiculously over the top in cruelty.

They were trying to catch the feeling and experience of apartheid. I'd say they were pretty successful at that.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Never played vampire the masquerade but I remember seeing scenes of VV.

I really recommend getting VTMB on GOG or some such. It's a great game, especially now with all the fanmade patches and the mods. The dialogue is top-notch, although, the combat, not so much...

Been playing alot of Hunt: Showdown lately. Thought I was done with the whole "battle royale" genre, but this is a nice mix of PVP and PVE. The graphics, art and overall vibe of the game is so off the wall and right up my alley.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I found mankind divideds human interaction with augmented humans to be ridiculously over the top in cruelty.

They were trying to catch the feeling and experience of apartheid. I'd say they were pretty successful at that.

I can't exactly fault entertainment for not displaying what it's like specifically and i think both of us don't know what it's actually like to experience firsthand (thankfully!).

To explain what i mean my mom died of cancer years ago and while the first time i saw Guardians of the Galaxy the mom's cancer scene hit a bit hard it also didn't display cancer like my mom suffered. You see a person bloats when they have cancer and they also cough up light yellow chunks of themselves as well as have lots of burping gas. Also a person's face looks a bit shriveled. When my mom ultimately died i couldn't even recognize her and i didn't want to with how much pain she was in. None of this was displayed in the first GotG movie. My mom also lost consciousness in the last day or two of her life when she started mumbling about things incoherently without seemingly too aware. You have to keep in mind they put her on morphine at the time so i imagine treatment, cancer and the medical drugs a person is on really does a number on their thinking. The difference with the movie is the attachment isn't quite the same esp. if you never experienced it or it's not you and Starlord's mom looked like she was shaved and had slight makeup to look pale. It's much, MUCH different irl.

I can't say some of the stuff they did in Mankind Divided wasn't legit stuff that happens in apartheid. Does this apartheid totally make sense in the game's universe after Human Revolution....uh a bit but it seems a bit extreme even if it is eastern europe.

To be completely honest i only got about halfway through Mankind Divided and then stopped playing for some reason. I stopped right as the in-game lockdown and curfew took place where they shot people outdoors on sight. I prefer Human Revolution but honestly for some weird reason i played Human Revolution on xbox 360 so playing Mankind Divided on PC is a huge button shift for me and that may have caused me to lose interest faster (esp. since my computer isn't the absolute best).

 Adrassil wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Never played vampire the masquerade but I remember seeing scenes of VV.

I really recommend getting VTMB on GOG or some such. It's a great game, especially now with all the fanmade patches and the mods. The dialogue is top-notch, although, the combat, not so much...

Ya know i don't know what it is about you but i oddly seem to like most of the games you like and have fairly similar opinions on em. Maybe we should play a game some time or something. I feel like i should either be friends on dakka or steam with you. I'm not sure.

I can't say some of the stuff they did in Mankind Divided wasn't legit stuff that happens in apartheid. Does this apartheid totally make sense in the game's universe after Human Revolution....uh a bit but it seems a bit extreme even if it is eastern europe.

There were some videos released shortly before Mankind Divided came out that gave some background on the way that augmented humans are treated in MD. It ties back to what happened just before the end of Human Revolution, with the insanity virus. Quite literally, nearly every augmented human - many of them superhuman - went berserk. And that scared most of the world's population. The result was the segregation and second-class citizen status that you see in MD. IIRC, the developers caught some flack for the videos because they incorporated some real-world anti-discrimination slogans.

MD has some improvements. For one, there are choices that *actually matter* in MD, above and beyond "pick a button to choose the specific ending" of HR. But I didn't enjoy the overall gameplay as much. There were some blatant sequel hooks at the end, but I don't know if and/or when we'll see a third Adam Jensen game. There was an attempt to turn the characters from a side story novel into a mobile game. But that flopped. So between that and the not as good as expected reception of MD, Square-Enix is letting the property get some rest for the moment.

The are three DLC missions that are all completed outside of the normal campaign. The first one involves figuring out who was behind the train station bombing. The second one features the return of Pritchard as he enlists your assistance in an information-gathering job for one of his clients. And the third one has Jensen infiltrating a prison for augmented humans in an attempt to make contact with an undercover Interpol agent..

There's also the online thing. But I messed around with it for a bit, and then decided it wasn't worth it.

Whelp i just lost my xcom 2: long war game. I had a fairly decent chance but a ufo was following me and then another dark event went off where another followed me. I had 2 following me at once. I waited like a month with reserves until i couldn't wait any longer to do the advent hq mission. You are seriously penalized for not doing missions with all your guys and you absolutely have to do like one assault advent hq mission by september or august i think or you auto-lose in long war.

Literally within a day or less of deploying to that assault advent hq mission and failing a mission with a near squad wipe for a damn near worthless ****ing mission with an even smaller payoff and far greater losses the alien ufo attacks. I have no proper gear to fight it off with so i basically rage quit and quit to main menu. I only had one set of predator armor and i need like 12 just to fight off the enemy. I had no chance.

 SkavenLord wrote:
In the middle of installing Arma 3. Only played Arma Cold War Assault, so I'm kind of expecting that with better textures and (hopefully) more intuitive controls.

Does anyone know if this thing has bots or a mission editor? Never liked playing these sorts of games for the multiplayer.

Bit late with my reply, but ARMA 3 has Zeus, which is an easy to use mission creator / sandbox tool which allows you to pretty much plan everything in advance or just make things up as you go, which includes messing around with bots.

As for the controls.. it's ARMA. It's seen some improvement over the previous games, but the horrible command menu is still present.

Doing another xcom 2: long war game and aside from a couple missions all game things have gone really well. I'm progressing much faster in most respects except for liberating a region from advent. I still need to succeed in another liberation mission for my home region and when advent stops anal probing my dudes with stun lancers in the new mexico region i can do my 2nd liberation mission there.

Some things i've noticed is that you generally want to turn most of your new regions to intel and then scan for missions until you can do plenty of prison raids for civilians. Once you have a good amount of civilians in a region then you can either keep them on intel as long as advent regional strength is between 1-3 usually, switch to supply if advent strength is 3-5 or go into hiding if advent strength is beyond 5 in a region mostly because advent raids start to get really ridiculous at that point. At advent regional strength 3 they tend to start attacking intel operations (possibly stop using your scientist as a haven advisor at that point because intel raids for me have a solid chance of a dead scientist as the result of that mission) but i think they only do that for supplies at advent strength 4 and advent strength 5 is when they start retaliating against resistance outposts.

It may seem like a good idea to build a radio relay as a hub for a lot of other future contacts and is the case somewhat in the base game of xcom 2 but not really long war. In long war you want to obviously build radio relays where you can complete continent bonuses but also in an area with very low advent strength and if possible a lot of civilians that can boost intel because radio relays improve a region's civilians action in a job if i recall correctly. So 10-13 with a relay is good but i can only imagine how much better it'd be with a scientist improving them. I have plenty of scientists right now but i dunno if i want to put them in danger as well as slow my research for possible better missions or more time on them.

It's also helped a ton to buy the GTS upgrades for my troops so they increase experience an extra 100% per kills and vulture giving far more loot than normal. I think in one mission i got 3-4 elerium cores just from enemy dropped goodies. I've also got about 5 advent datapads just sitting around mostly right now because the more you crack em the longer each next one takes to crack. I gotta say vulture really, really helps in Long War and you can sell a lot of the goodies you find too for a sweet supplies pay off which i'm kinda lacking right now of all things.

Took a day playing Gladius, the 40k civ game. I set up a crazy map. I played Imperial guard, added a space marine ally, 1 ork and finallly 7 Tyranids all allied togheter. What followed is the most fun I’ve had in months. The ‘nid swarm is never ending. We fight, we hold, but they don’t stop. Carniflexes have fallen by the hundreds by now, countless smaller ‘nids are dead. But our foe by now surely knows that big guns never tire.

Wasteland 3, fun game, but a bit streamlined compared to Wasteland 2, would still highly recommended.

So updates on the xcom 2: long war game. It's been going really well for a while but i need to spread out and get more contacted regions or i'll be in some big trouble. I have about 6 regions contacted but good missions to go on are slowing down (due to advent regional strength going up across the board) and i haven't been getting enough civilian-rebels to make my regions produce better. I'm gonna build a radio relay or 2 in some of the weaker regions in advent strength and maybe add a scientist to each to see if that helps. I do have about 8 scientists and it's almost july but not quite so that's a fairly big deal.

Another big thing is i can go on the mission to assault an advent regional hq to force advent out of the a region and liberate it in my main hq region. I'm held off for a little so i can have some basic magnetic weapons to assault the hq with because it takes so long to infiltrate the mission some of your equipment gets a bit outdated.

I also have a 2nd region where i'm doing my 2nd liberation mission with so it'll have a mission to attack the alien comms area after that and if i succeed with both then i can assault another advent regional hq.

I've also got about 16 or 17 predator armor suits (which cost a bundle of alien alloys to make per suit) and the squads are on full lasers. I've been getting elerium cores out of every aliens orifice and managed to get 7 alone out of one mission combined with the advent warehouse raid. I've been mostly selling them to get supplies (basically money) so that i can buy alloys from the black market as well as buy more soldiers or other facilities that really need to exist right now. I'm mostly spending a lot to equip my squads so i can do 3-4 missions per squad (an average of 20 soldiers away on missions) and i've done a pretty good job equipping them such that they can handle most things without issue.

Decided to give Ghost Recon Breakpoint another go, what with the latest update they dropped a month ago. A lot of tiny tweaks and changes make for an even better experience, especially the tweaks to stealth.

Throwing open Golem Island to us friendless schlubs is also a nice gesture, it's fun to explore a new locale, especially one with a completely new biome.

Spent some time on Deathwing (the FPS) and have to say, wasn't particularly impressed by it.

The graphics and design are great, but the actual combat itself sucks. Even with gamma turned up a lot you can't see much half the time and are just listening to your squad taking pot shots. Then you shoot and can't really fail to hit as it's like you're firing tennis balls.
Then you just go from point to point (you know it will be the furthest corner of the map each time) to click X on something.

I was hoping for something with really narrow corridors, tense moments of waiting getting false echoes on scanners, and moments of intense action (like the board game) but it just a bit of a generic FPS.

I played more Hollow Knight, just beat the Soul Master boss. I'm really enjoying this game. but that god for online walkthroughs or I would have given up a long time ago.

Started playing Horizon Zero Dawn with my wife on PS NOW. I really wish we didn't work opposite schedules the majority of the week because I want to play more.

 BrookM wrote:
Decided to give Ghost Recon Breakpoint another go, what with the latest update they dropped a month ago. A lot of tiny tweaks and changes make for an even better experience, especially the tweaks to stealth.

Throwing open Golem Island to us friendless schlubs is also a nice gesture, it's fun to explore a new locale, especially one with a completely new biome.

Don't forget that there's new challenges too, that give us friendless schlubs the raid cosmetic stuff too!

Finally, finally beat FFXIII-3. Took like 67 hours. That is quite the epic trilogy actually. Happy with the ending but didn’t realize it would be so long.

Anyway, somehow along the way I’ve managed to accumulate all the FarCry games except 1 but have only played #3. Figure I’ll try a few of these. I’ll start with #2 and see if it’s aged too much to be playable nowadays.

Just liberated my home region of eastern usa (which in this includes parts of canada) in xcom 2: long war mod. I should be able to liberate the new mexico region next (basically american southwest plus mexico). I can technically liberate the western usa area but i don't like those guys ;P and also realistically the advent strength there was fairly high. I'd rather not assault an advent regional hq with more than advent strength 6 and it's at 7 right now.

I currently have 40 soldiers that are alive. A bunch of em are squaddies and a few are rookies but the main thing i need is a bit of teching up my gear and maybe throwing down a med-bay. I already added a power plant in a spot that gives extra power and i should have enough power to build anything i could foresee myself making esp. with the other shielded power coil in case i gotta build a laboratory or something

So yeah i'm trying to get advanced magnetic weaponry and a ufo starts following me so i had to do the research to make a ufo defense area and it'll also probably hold back a fairly solid squad or two until it eventually decides to attack. Please ufo i'm not in the mood for an alien ship that follows me for over a month and attacks me when most of my crew are off doing missions. You take our latest ship and we'll just have to grab some of yours as re-compense.

Anyway not much to say. Alloys and supplies seem so hard to come by now. Maybe if i do some proving ground projects with all those elerium core it could prove worthwhile.

To be incredibly honest i probably should've lost a couple soldiers in my first advent region hq raid due to advent strength 6 or 7. Worst i got from the aftermath were injured guys i healed up later and a stun lancer made a lady soldier go unconscious She'd already shot her rockets since she's a technical so no big there.

Most of the territory i'm around has manageable advent strength and a significant haven civilians/rebels running them. You gotta try missions where you get lots of good liberation and find a lead missions. I may need more intel and supplies however due to how slow things seem to be going now.

Perhaps i should slow down on trying to free those 2 advent region hqs and instead do mission that get me gear or supplies to help the upcoming fight. Doesn't help the incoming ufo is gonna force me to lay around a bit with one fully tooled up 8-10 soldiers and i'm gonna make them sorry they wasted my time.

 BrookM wrote:

 SkavenLord wrote:
In the middle of installing Arma 3. Only played Arma Cold War Assault, so I'm kind of expecting that with better textures and (hopefully) more intuitive controls.

Does anyone know if this thing has bots or a mission editor? Never liked playing these sorts of games for the multiplayer.

Bit late with my reply, but ARMA 3 has Zeus, which is an easy to use mission creator / sandbox tool which allows you to pretty much plan everything in advance or just make things up as you go, which includes messing around with bots.

As for the controls.. it's ARMA. It's seen some improvement over the previous games, but the horrible command menu is still present.

That's certainly helpful to know. Been playing around with it, and the amount of variety in this thing is quite staggering! Thanks for the heads-up Brook!

 Pacific wrote:
Spent some time on Deathwing (the FPS) and have to say, wasn't particularly impressed by it.

The graphics and design are great, but the actual combat itself sucks. Even with gamma turned up a lot you can't see much half the time and are just listening to your squad taking pot shots. Then you shoot and can't really fail to hit as it's like you're firing tennis balls.
Then you just go from point to point (you know it will be the furthest corner of the map each time) to click X on something.

I was hoping for something with really narrow corridors, tense moments of waiting getting false echoes on scanners, and moments of intense action (like the board game) but it just a bit of a generic FPS.

That's a bit of a pity. These are the same folks that made EYE Divine Cybermancy, which is quite the opposite of what you mentioned. EYE was certainly far from generic, so I'm curious as to what happened during the development.

Deathwing is best played in coop where possible. It has the visuals and audio down just right, but the mediocre gameplay and some really questionable things (like those horrible random crits and the controls) are what really detract from the overall experience. It is not trash tier like some would make it out to be, but it has room for improvement.

Hopefully Darktide will become the proper 40k FPS we've been waiting for.