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Darktide does sound enticing, especially since it’s being made by the same folks who worked on Vermintide. Vermintide did have its issues (download size and DLC), but they really got the Warhammer feel spot-on while keeping game-y enough to work.

I hope they differentiate the characters as they did in Vermintide. While some were stronger than others *cough* Kerillian *cough*, it helped keep things varied.

Oh gosh, I was just reminded of that 40k Space Marine based Planetside-esque MMO that never happened.

 Compel wrote:
Oh gosh, I was just reminded of that 40k Space Marine based Planetside-esque MMO that never happened.

Do you mean WH40K: Eternal Crusade? That did actually happen.
It came out, did poorly and transformed into a 'free' game with microtransactions

It was the usual sort of ridiculous claims and over-promising features when the basics just didn't work.

Ok so xcom 2: long war mod game is going fairly well i think. I did lose 3 guys in the avenger defense after the ufo managed to take our home base ship down and a lot of dudes were wounded and nearly died. Thank god for the specialists with multiple shot overwatch though. It's absolutely amazing against enemy reinforcements coming in. I also managed to evac the 3 dead and one unconscious soldiers to the base before we left so i didn't lose any gear.

Other than that i've had a couple missions and managed to get full magnetic weapons. I'm kinda wanting to get my guys healed up again but i also have my defense matrix being built in case another ufo shows up and a facility to heal my troops because they're so badly wounded a lot now. I'm also wanting to have some healing specialists when possible.

I went on a supply raid in today's playthrough and managed to get a good amount of supplies and resources and then one of the rewards from the resistance for a successful mission gave me more alloys when i scanned so i'm doing alright for resources.

I'm probably gonna do elerium research soon because it's late august and it's only a matter of time until my weapons become outdated again.

I'm fairly close to the region where the advent black site is and i have at least one skulljack already made so i can lower avatar progress a bit.

I'm kind of annoyed i can't really go on too many advent regional hq raids because i need to go on more missions so i can get more intel and spread out more. Right now it just kind of matters more to have more regions.

I also might want to start training some officers so i can infiltrate big missions faster like advent regional hq's. It's also gonna be a pretty big deal to find some alien facilities to sabotage. I'll just have to attack the black site instead. Labs may also be good since my scientists are off improving mission quality in some regions.

Basically i need a lot of everything and don't have the resources to do it. It's easier to say what i don't need and what i don't really need is more soldiers but i would like them to be healed (i had 40 soldiers at the start of today's playthrough and ended with 37). Also my resources are ok right now.

Replaying Witcher 3 again New Game+ as I redownloaded Witcher 2 and made sure the save file of the endgame that Letho lived so he would be in 3. He's one of my favourite villains and it's cool he has a quest and can take part in the Kaer Morhen fight in 3.

Voss wrote:

 Compel wrote:
Oh gosh, I was just reminded of that 40k Space Marine based Planetside-esque MMO that never happened.

Do you mean WH40K: Eternal Crusade? That did actually happen.
It came out, did poorly and transformed into a 'free' game with microtransactions

It was the usual sort of ridiculous claims and over-promising features when the basics just didn't work.

Wait, WHAT? Oh yikes... It must have done REAL poorly, I've genuinely never heard anyone mention it...

 Compel wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Compel wrote:
Oh gosh, I was just reminded of that 40k Space Marine based Planetside-esque MMO that never happened.

Do you mean WH40K: Eternal Crusade? That did actually happen.
It came out, did poorly and transformed into a 'free' game with microtransactions

It was the usual sort of ridiculous claims and over-promising features when the basics just didn't work.

Wait, WHAT? Oh yikes... It must have done REAL poorly, I've genuinely never heard anyone mention it...

To be fair, this was kind of during that weird period where GW was tossing its IP to a bunch of different companies to pump out games. Some seemed to work out (Apocalypse) many seemed meh (Regicide, Sanctus Reach, that one Rogal Dorn visual novel) and some were just unnecessary (Warhammer Quest, Space Wolf). If Mechanicus, Gladius, and the Total War games are any indicators however, there appears to be at least some kind of recent shift in quality control.

Eternal Crusade was started back before that period of random stuff.
Here's the Dakka thread on it, started back in 2015...so don't post in there cause it would be threadomancy!

 SkavenLord wrote:
Darktide does sound enticing, especially since it’s being made by the same folks who worked on Vermintide. Vermintide did have its issues (download size and DLC), but they really got the Warhammer feel spot-on while keeping game-y enough to work.

I hope they differentiate the characters as they did in Vermintide. While some were stronger than others *cough* Kerillian *cough*, it helped keep things varied.

Speaking of Darktide, they will be unveiling a gameplay trailer tomorrow.

 SkavenLord wrote:
*cough* Kerillian *cough*

I wish they turned the April Fools DLC into an actual feature, one can only stand to hear her say "Lumberfoot" so many times before it wears on you.

Still only playing Hearthstone, but I am really excited to play Cyberpunk 2077. My xbox controller is broken, and I'm moving, so I probably won't get to it until after the holidays.

Voss wrote:

 Compel wrote:
Oh gosh, I was just reminded of that 40k Space Marine based Planetside-esque MMO that never happened.

Do you mean WH40K: Eternal Crusade? That did actually happen.
It came out, did poorly and transformed into a 'free' game with microtransactions

It was the usual sort of ridiculous claims and over-promising features when the basics just didn't work.

Jeez, I fully bought into that game at the time, bought the early access and stuff and the end result was just crap. It wasn't quite Peter Molyneux levels of hype and bull crap but it wasn't far off. What a shame, because they made it sound great.

I'm somewhat looking forward to Cyberpunk, might get it over christmas on my xbox.

 Olthannon wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Compel wrote:
Oh gosh, I was just reminded of that 40k Space Marine based Planetside-esque MMO that never happened.

Do you mean WH40K: Eternal Crusade? That did actually happen.
It came out, did poorly and transformed into a 'free' game with microtransactions

It was the usual sort of ridiculous claims and over-promising features when the basics just didn't work.

Jeez, I fully bought into that game at the time, bought the early access and stuff and the end result was just crap. It wasn't quite Peter Molyneux levels of hype and bull crap but it wasn't far off. What a shame, because they made it sound great.

I'm somewhat looking forward to Cyberpunk, might get it over christmas on my xbox.

That sucks. I almost did...made an account on their forum by the same name and almost...almost pre-ordered it when I learned you had to to vote for the next factions and I really wanted Raven Guard to get in. Luckily, I didn't.

Actually, Eternal Crusade is still going. It's got a really dedicated group of players, a couple Discord servers... And there's been a couple updates, still? I think that, like, one or two of the original developers still dabbles with it, and it makes enough money that the servers are still up. It's fun enough to jump in now and then.

The biggest issue that it has is that the territory capturing is less Planetside and more For Honor- that is, it's not an ongoing open world, but instanced battles with defined starts and ends. So you can't hop in and out like you might want to.

I personally think the core gameplay is pretty fun, though.

More xcom 2: long war mod campaign. I managed to do enough missions to get enough intel to reach the middle east where the black site is located. I'm probably gonna do a few more missions before i assault the black site. The supplies will be refilled in one day which is pretty fast. The defense matrix and the med-bay are both up and running and have been for a while. Most soldiers are ready and healed or at least many more than before.

I took out a codex and i could use some labs and later maybe the shadow chamber. I need the labs to speed up research again so i can get elerium research done. I basically have all the needed supplies for elerium research but that'll put my elerium and elerium cores on the fairly empty side. Since it's early september in game i feel like i'm gonna need coilguns done within a month or so.

I should probably also attack both the black site and the 2nd advent regional hq which is in new mexico in that time. Doing both at once is probably a decent idea since it'll be a while till coilguns but it could really put my gear and most of my soldiers worth a crap out and fighting rather than defending against raids or something. It's possible that'd leave me rather vulnerable esp. if another ufo showed up. God all i would want right now is another avenger defense mission.

Phasmophobia

Started up Jedi: Fallen Order, great game and I love the feeling you get of being in the Star Wars universe. The way you obtain force powers is a little janky and it doesn't "feel" Souls-like in terms of gameplay but I'm getting the feeling now after getting my backside handed to me by giant frogs.

Played about 5 hours so far, and I'm pretty much in love with how much detail is packed in.

Anvildude wrote:
Actually, Eternal Crusade is still going. It's got a really dedicated group of players, a couple Discord servers... And there's been a couple updates, still? I think that, like, one or two of the original developers still dabbles with it, and it makes enough money that the servers are still up. It's fun enough to jump in now and then.

The biggest issue that it has is that the territory capturing is less Planetside and more For Honor- that is, it's not an ongoing open world, but instanced battles with defined starts and ends. So you can't hop in and out like you might want to.

I personally think the core gameplay is pretty fun, though.

In a way I'm really glad to hear that, when it first came out it ended up like a poor clone of that Space Marine game that came out around the same time.

In other news, did that Darktide gameplay trailer happen yet?

drowning in emotional memorys right now........

Xcom 2: long war mod. I completed more missions, got elerium research done, got my labs to max capacity and just about everything i can build is built or building. Shadow Chamber will take 22 days to fully build and coilguns are at 11 days left to research. Paying the cost to research both elerium, the lab space and scientific power to research it effectively and paying for the coilgun research is bankrupting most of my supplies except for alloys.

My intel is ok but what i really need to do now is lower avatar progress. There's 4 bars until it's full but the blacksite mission is not long until it's ready.

I'm also building the skullmining enhancement in the proving ground so that should help with hacking and even if i desperately need some extra intel or maybe even a facility lead if i'm lucky. I'm not sure if the lower difficulties have this skullmining reward in long war but i remember it in xcom 2 and it's expansion on hardest difficulty so it's possible.

Being unable to play Cyberpunk 2077 as it crashes during the updating process. Playing Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines again, this time as a Malkavian, this'd be the 2nd time I've played it as a Malkavian, 1st time in the Clan Quest/Camarilla mod. First time using melee instead of unarmed at the beginning and by the Emperor, combat is so much easier and faster with blades. It also doesn't help I'm playing as a Toreador who haven't any claws or ways to upgrade their fists.

I got Cyberpunk working on my PC after doing a clean windows re-install (was crashing constantly before doing that) but I think I am just gonna give it awhile before trying again. Its running pretty good for me and my impressions are positive, but there still is so much strange minor glitchy things going on that are a distraction. In particular objects floating in mid air seems to happen all of the time.
I suppose I could pretend my character's cyber implants are just acting up lol but maybe waiting for a few more patches is the way to go....

Only just started a new campaign of xcom 2 long war mod. The last campaign helped me learn for this one and I think I should take a heavier focus on getting haven advisors for enemy corpse research as well as officer upgrades since once I buy those GTS upgrades I should be able to infiltrate larger squads easier and that could be ridiculously valuable. Also interrupting faceless meeting with aliens could allow me to amass some enemy corpses again and amassing faceless corpses allows you to turn them into a infiltration vest or something which turns out is great for fighting missions with little time.

Anyway the main idea is to get upgrades as soon as they're available to be bought. Officers can buy more upgrades at its for faster infiltration which is needed so badly in this. Combined with what I'm already doing it could help a ton. Guess we will just have to see.

Ah, R-Type Delta. How I missed your boss theme...




...the R-Types were always hard but never impossible. You die learning the patterns while others you kick yourself for yet another stunning display of stupidity...


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 FrozenDwarf wrote:
drowning in emotional memorys right now........

My word that brings back memories! It was a PS1 and Wipeout, and this disk. FrozenDwarf, what an adventure!

Actually got the original XCom: UFO Defense on Steam for like a buck a while ago just out of curiosity. Figured if it was playable that could open up a whole new series of cool games. Unfortunately it is just too old, too dated. I don't think my haggard old brain can tolerate something without a Tutorial anymore.

So instead I'm playing Company of Heroes. This old game is holding up a lot better.

Got my laptop finally fixed up and so able to play Cyberpunk 2077 and I'm enjoying it. Driving the car controls sucks though, doesn't help I'm thinking of driving on the left because we do that in old Kiwiland lol


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Also, I got to do prep for my Rogue Trader session tomorrow lol so it's hard to keep myself from playing it.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Actually got the original XCom: UFO Defense on Steam for like a buck a while ago just out of curiosity. Figured if it was playable that could open up a whole new series of cool games. Unfortunately it is just too old, too dated. I don't think my haggard old brain can tolerate something without a Tutorial anymore.

So instead I'm playing Company of Heroes. This old game is holding up a lot better.

You should give Xcom 2: long war mod a shot. It definitely freshens xcom 2 up a lot. I dunno if i can even play xcom 2 vanilla without WotC or long war anymore. It just seems so bland esp. a lot of the music. WotC with the X-com UFO defense remixed music is amazing.




and for when **** gets real!

Ya but then I’d have to buy it again a second time. Maybe someday.

Playing Dark Dreams Don’t Die. Truly strange but unfortunately unfinished.

Still playing Cyberpunk 2077. My build is a corpo based on Attelus Kaltos from my 40k fanfic Secret War, which has some Cyberpunk stuff in the story, him starting that story as a corporate merc and all. But he's pretty much Mr Stabby from that ancient flash animation from the 2000's: run forwards and I slash and over and over until everyone's dead. Tried to download some mods, one to help a bit with the driving mechanics, supposedly, they still suck, though. Need to own a self-driving car, that'd make it a lot better, though.

 Adrassil wrote:
Still playing Cyberpunk 2077. My build is a corpo based on Attelus Kaltos from my 40k fanfic Secret War, which has some Cyberpunk stuff in the story, him starting that story as a corporate merc and all. But he's pretty much Mr Stabby from that ancient flash animation from the 2000's: run forwards and I slash and over and over until everyone's dead. Tried to download some mods, one to help a bit with the driving mechanics, supposedly, they still suck, though. Need to own a self-driving car, that'd make it a lot better, though.

I generally find that there are enough fast travel points that it doesn't matter much. Some short driving stints to find some of them, but it gets to the point that they become part of the visual clutter on the map.
And the areas where you really need the car (like the badlands) the roads are virtually empty and straying off the road is merely a bumpy inconvenience, thanks to the dozens upon dozens of arroyos (and literal mountains of trash)

Voss wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
Still playing Cyberpunk 2077. My build is a corpo based on Attelus Kaltos from my 40k fanfic Secret War, which has some Cyberpunk stuff in the story, him starting that story as a corporate merc and all. But he's pretty much Mr Stabby from that ancient flash animation from the 2000's: run forwards and I slash and over and over until everyone's dead. Tried to download some mods, one to help a bit with the driving mechanics, supposedly, they still suck, though. Need to own a self-driving car, that'd make it a lot better, though.

I generally find that there are enough fast travel points that it doesn't matter much. Some short driving stints to find some of them, but it gets to the point that they become part of the visual clutter on the map.
And the areas where you really need the car (like the badlands) the roads are virtually empty and straying off the road is merely a bumpy inconvenience, thanks to the dozens upon dozens of arroyos (and literal mountains of trash)

Yeah, I keep forgetting the fast travel points despite having played The Witcher 3 which had an exact same system. I'd like to be able to RP driving around, too, it's a shame it's so frustrating :( I've been told and somewhat find driving bikes are a bit better but can't get...the bike from the garage for some reason.

Also, found references to both The Office (American) and Ghost in the Shell which made me happy. The latter being a given, the former would've been out of the blue if my cousin had told me about it beforehand.