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Been very stressed about studies lately so I’ve gone into something I can play in quick bursts. Starcraft 2 fit the bill. The games are pretty short. Quite enjoying it and was surprised to land at gold 1 after placement matches.

There are quite a few easter easter eggs in Cyberpunk. I think the first one I noticed was the e-mail announcement for "Nolife 3", which was finally being released after a fifty year wait.

Playing Cyberpunk as well, and among the world lore shards you can pick up, there's a number of them containing quotes/references from the TT RPG, which, now that I got those on humble bundle I find both cool, and funny.

Also noticed, lying around in game, occasionally you'll see the Cyberpunk books lying on tables and shelves, they even got the covers right.

Personally, I'm playing the game on PC, but using a usb controller, so I don't quite understand the full frustration with driving (some cars are worse than others, and drifting/powersliding a vehicle around corners can be annoying, but its not game-breaking for me)

Currently playing through a Corpo character, no real aims/builds in mind, I'm just taking perks and whatnot that look like they'll help where I'm at now. I have files for both a street kid and a nomad, so those will likely have a bit more "direction" in their builds.

Try driving with KBM. Motorcycles are fine, but cars go 0-100 in like 2 seconds and tapping WD is like an immediate 45 degree turn.

Horizon Zero Dawn has absorbed my life. I can't believe I slept on this game for so long.

balmong7 wrote:
Horizon Zero Dawn has absorbed my life. I can't believe I slept on this game for so long.

Yes!!! I played it for the first time back in October and kicked myself for not snagging it at launch. It's so fething good. One of the best games I've played this gen, if not the best. I absolutely cannot wait for Horizon 2 next year. I will be heartbroken if it gets delayed.

 trexmeyer wrote:
Try driving with KBM. Motorcycles are fine, but cars go 0-100 in like 2 seconds and tapping WD is like an immediate 45 degree turn.

Acceleration and Deceleration can kill. I don't know the numbers but there's an amount that will kill you. Also i imagine jets and spacecraft are similar. Probably part of the reason why we want things to be more robotic. Less fragile meaty bits that are super needy for food, water and air and less responsibility for when things go wrong.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
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.

Depends how much you like the rebooted xcom. I'm very nervous about xcom 3 because chimera squad was pretty bad. Oddly though i think the game may have had less bugs and crashes than either xcom 1 or 2 so they at least got that right. Chimera squad had a few good things but most of what they had was bad. Bad and cringy comedy, the movement of characters is very static, you can't carry soldiers out, the game is too easy on first try up to the point it loses what makes it tense, lots of characters i didn't like, most of the aliens had inappropriate voices barring Verge maybe (the sectoid) and in general things felt pretty safe and obnoxious. If xcom 1 was an action movie from the 80s and 90s mixed with an alien movie from varying times as well as conspiracy theories. Xcom 2 was more serious and story intensive (not that it always works with xcom) with an authoritarian and good guy rebels/freedom fighter/terrorist bent but still over the top violence and action cams. Chimera squad is just like an Indie game and it doesn't feel good. It's more like a buddy cop version of xcom and nothing feels very tense about the game. Things aren't quite at stake like in the other games and it takes away the mystery and horror of the first 2. Making the unknown known is part of what ruins the game.

 Nerak wrote:
Been very stressed about studies lately so I’ve gone into something I can play in quick bursts. Starcraft 2 fit the bill. The games are pretty short. Quite enjoying it and was surprised to land at gold 1 after placement matches.

I feel like i should play starcraft 2 again. Oddly i have this weird falling in and out of starcraft vibe going on at times. If command and conquer is about the super weapons then i'd say starcraft is about spells/abilities and learning what to make and when. I'm rather shocked how merely by checking what a person makes in units can often tell you about what they are about to make or do. I'll tell ya the game is certainly complex in ways i don't think the developers intended.

Just finished Cyberpunk 2077 today and then saw that Stardew Valley just got a major update. So, gonna play some Stardew Valley again.

 trexmeyer wrote:
Try driving with KBM. Motorcycles are fine, but cars go 0-100 in like 2 seconds and tapping WD is like an immediate 45 degree turn.

Yeah, I got 'top end' car as a reward from a quest, and its basically undrivable. It is fast, but turning at all puts me off any road, and trying to straighten out involves constant fish-tailing back and forth.
The default car and the free bike are much more functional.

I just wish all the 'for sale' cars could be permanently hidden and removed from the map and quest log. I just don't care, and the map filter is not as useful as it could be.

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I like the game, and have had few problems with it, but I'm dragging on finishing the main quest.
The end of chapter 1 was great (the Heist, not the Interlude), loved Judy's questline, but Johnny and the chip just make me annoyed.
Had fun with the sidequests and fights, but there needed to be more in-depth stuff with the secondary characters, as they tend toward excellence when they actually get screen time.

Hmm, this is the mod I mentioned before for driving and now it seems to be working better on WASD. I hope this helps!

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/210

More Deep Rock Galactic as I chip away at things and collect more cosmetics, weapon mods and whatnot.

Also decided to pick up Horizon Zero Dawn for Steam on a whim and I am really enjoying it so far, just the kind of open world stuff I need right about now.

Xcom 2: long war is oddly going ok right now. That said the game is in august and i only have lasers with all the tier 2 armor. My issue is i'm way behind in territory from regions contacted, liberating regions, current scientists researching and even supplies somewhat.

I'm planning on building a lab on the elerium coil that's almost excavated so it doesn't mess with power production. It should be reasonably helpful and if i can get the oceania continent bonus soon enough then i can get a boost per lab space which would really boost research. I'm mostly scared of falling behind though in tackling the avatar progress and staying a step ahead in my weapons and armor tech.

Steam and GOG sales are on now, so I finally gave the demo of Desperadoes III that I downloaded back in June a try.

Fantastic so far, just like their last game, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Bought it on GOG for 50% off, including all the DLC.

If you're a big fan of Commandos 1 or 2, then you will adore these games.

After buying the DLCs I was missing for the Steam Sale Gladius- Relics of War 40k I tried to play it as The Eldar, but for some reason the frame rate decides to chug a lot even when I put down the graphics. Otherwise enjoying, though.

 Adrassil wrote:
After buying the DLCs I was missing for the Steam Gladius- Relics of War 40k I tried to play it as The Eldar, but for some reason the frame decides to chug a lot even when I put down the graphics. Otherwise enjoying, though.

Eldar as a faction are strong but tricky due to webway gates being destroyed giving you anxiety a bit. If you can keep them around you can have serious mobility. You also should probably have more hq's than some factions. Not gonna lie the game is fun but often times there's one or two faction traits that either make a faction fun for me or ridiculously annoying to play with. To an extent eldar are both of these.

Might have to get DRG on sale right now.

I've actually been playing Bloons TD 6 a lot lately. It's really just... the weird, rubbery pinnacle of Tower Defense games, I feel.

Anvildude wrote:
Might have to get DRG on sale right now.

I've actually been playing Bloons TD 6 a lot lately. It's really just... the weird, rubbery pinnacle of Tower Defense games, I feel.

Surprised Bloons even got on Steam. Glad to see some of those old Flash games are preserved though.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
After buying the DLCs I was missing for the Steam Gladius- Relics of War 40k I tried to play it as The Eldar, but for some reason the frame decides to chug a lot even when I put down the graphics. Otherwise enjoying, though.

Eldar as a faction are strong but tricky due to webway gates being destroyed giving you anxiety a bit. If you can keep them around you can have serious mobility. You also should probably have more hq's than some factions. Not gonna lie the game is fun but often times there's one or two faction traits that either make a faction fun for me or ridiculously annoying to play with. To an extent eldar are both of these.

Lol finally used to that mechanic now. At first I went and destroyed a few webway gates thinking for some reason they were Necron things and to farm some exp. Now I've taken control of a few I'm able to zip around the map with ease. Reminds me of playing Eldar in Dawn of War multiplayer and dominating quite a few matches by zipping around with webway portals and such, thinking I was SO damn good, but it turned out Eldar were just too damn OP lol

Welp! I don't know why but Cyberpunk 2077 keeps crashing when I try opening it, thought I might've mucked something up in the folder so re-installed it again, but it's still crashing when I try to open it. So I finally completed Blaz Blue: Continuum Shift Extend, beating the crap outta Terumi in the true ending with Ragna is damn cathartic the had a quick go in Blaz Blue: Chronophantasma Extend, but wish to complete the stories of the characters I have yet to complete in Continuum Shift. Managed to defeat Kusanagi in one try, I slaughtered her 2nd round too. Fun games.

I'm finally playing cyberpunk on my father in law's computer and I'm sort of enjoying it? Started as a nomad and I'm just at the heist start but I've got to say it's a sloooowww start. I'm enjoying it a bit more now that I plugged in a controller. I do like cyberpunk the genre but I'm not utterly wowed by the game itself yet. The environments are pretty cool and the size and aesthetic of the city are pretty damn sweet. Maybe it's just me but to be honest I'm only playing it because I feel like I have to? Usually with a game I'm like oh damn can't wait to sit down and play. This I'm more like oh well I guess I'll pop that on for a bit..

Because I only had Blaz Blue: Continuum Shift on PS3 and not Continuum Shift Extend I hadn't done Mokoto's, Platinum's and Relius Clover's stories but I just managed to get Relius Clover's (Although, you find this out in Carl Clover's story) true ending and, well, he's probably even more despicable a villain than Yuki Terumi. And perhaps one of the most horrible of villainous father-figures I've seen in fiction besides maybe my own character Serghar Kaltos, the father of the main character Attelus Kaltos from Secret War.

Both are complete examples of utter psychopaths.

Also, Shou Tucker from FMA, can't forget Shou Tucker.

To be able to do that to your own daughter and wife...jeez...

I picked up Transport Fever on the Steam Winter Sale, and I'm totally hooked!

Me and a couple of friends were thinking of picking up Gladius in the steam sale as we play a lot of civ, how is it? Actually any good?

 Olthannon wrote:
Me and a couple of friends were thinking of picking up Gladius in the steam sale as we play a lot of civ, how is it? Actually any good?

I enjoy it, a lot! Although it lacks the diplomacy elements of many 4X strategy games, it's damn fun to play!

Playing the main campaign of Blaz Blue: Chronophantasma Extend and...well...it seems to have gone full-tilt into the "Visual Novel" aspect of the game as it took me like an hour into it before I got into my first fight, it took so long I was beginning to wonder if there would be any fights at all. I guess that's because they are no longer doing single character campaigns combining them into a few different ones and it's nice not seeing the writers forcing characters into fights through contrived reasons.

 Olthannon wrote:
Me and a couple of friends were thinking of picking up Gladius in the steam sale as we play a lot of civ, how is it? Actually any good?

Rough. Very rough.

It would depend a lot on how your lot plays civ. If you're happy and accustomed to being super aggressive and eliminating each other fast, the lack of/limited nature of most 4X features probably won't bother you.
But if you go for 'gentlemen's agreements' and prefer to let the game develop (I've seen this a few times with friends in wargames, just because punting someone fast means they basically don't get to play), the lack of depth could be annoying.

Soul Calibur 6. Haven't played it in a while, also have to get used to the change in controls from Blaz Blue. Great game, back to basics (sorta) it's like SC2 which is still easily one of my favourite fighting games ever.

Assassins Creed Odyssey - It’s bonkers how much there is to do in that game but I am loving it atm.

Voss wrote:

 Olthannon wrote:
Me and a couple of friends were thinking of picking up Gladius in the steam sale as we play a lot of civ, how is it? Actually any good?

Rough. Very rough.

It would depend a lot on how your lot plays civ. If you're happy and accustomed to being super aggressive and eliminating each other fast, the lack of/limited nature of most 4X features probably won't bother you.
But if you go for 'gentlemen's agreements' and prefer to let the game develop (I've seen this a few times with friends in wargames, just because punting someone fast means they basically don't get to play), the lack of depth could be annoying.

Oh knackers, because that's exactly how we play it

Ach well it was a tenner when I bought it so it's not the end of the world.

Playing a lot of phoenix point. A LOT of phoenix point. Now that i have 3 bases (2 mostly active ones near the mist and a support base) with 2 squads and 2 ships ferrying people across europe and india for missions and to protect havens things seem to be going fairly quickly. I wonder what it'll be like when i have even more ships or bases.

Pandorans as an enemy mostly seem like a pushover except for those siren creatures. I also find ranged opponents far tougher to face esp. the human or robot variants. Pandorans develop pretty quickly but i just don't find them a huge threat yet except in huge lairs or something.

Maybe all this will change when i up the difficulty once i have a handle on the game. There is maybe one time the enemy tried a really smart strategy on me. It moved out of a crater, mind controlled a soldier and then hid in the crater again. I wised up to it a bit and fell back somewhat so it couldn't just keep mind controlling people. I think that power has limits though. So glad i brought 6 soldiers on that mission. Even if it depleted most of my resources it was really needed.

The final thing i gotta say is synedrion the tech anarchist/democracy/communists/socialist? (at least some of their leaders in the lore are marxist or into anarchy) seem to get rolled by pandoran raids a lot. Oddly it's usually the militaristic sorta fascist faction that beats back the pandorans. I guess being militaristic when the world is at war with a biological mutant cthulu spawn civilization turns out to be more useful than a civilization that has no true leaders and squabbles over petty things like whether to cut the crusts off bread. It's honestly kinda obvious i guess. I'm not saying i approve of any of these factions though. They all seem to suck in their own unique way.