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 filbert wrote:

FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
likely for the next 18 years (hint)

Why? Are you going into prison or something?

Not according to the Ultrasounds. (Babies likely take 18 years until they are capable of surviving outside their parent's womb/house)

You underestimate how fun it will be to play vidjagames with your kids. I was actually introduced to Diablo II by a friend's mom. She was playing it (hydra Sorc, actually! Also used a voulge for some reason) the first time I visited their house.

Also at first when you are doing the evening shift and the baby is asleep, there isn’t much else to do

Multiplayer stuff is hard because you might need to drop everything at a moments notice, so no more 100 player pubg or whatever, but single player stuff you can pause? Definately space for that.

You all assume I'm not going to also have a full time job, and we won't be perpetually taking extra levels of exhaustion.

I feel like in 4 months my stat line will be:

Human Dad:

Strength 10 (Because I can't go to gym anymore)
Dex 8 (Cus i'll be fat)
Constitution 13 (Because of powerbars and caffine)
Intelligence 15 (able to make car seat work)
Wisdom 14 (Able to tell the difference between Diapers and baby food)
Charisma : 18 (Dad jokes and no more hair)

FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
You all assume I'm not going to also have a full time job, and we won't be perpetually taking extra levels of exhaustion.

I feel like in 4 months my stat line will be:

Human Dad:

Strength 10 (Because I can't go to gym anymore)
Dex 8 (Cus i'll be fat)
Constitution 13 (Because of powerbars and caffine)
Intelligence 15 (able to make car seat work)
Wisdom 14 (Able to tell the difference between Diapers and baby food)
Charisma : 18 (Dad jokes and no more hair)

The first few months are certainly a bit like that but it does ease up over time. There certainly comes a point in which you say how much more exhausted could I possibly get?

But like all things it eases up. Also when the baby is asleep there's sod all else to do.

Also re: Flinty. I bloody hate games not having a pause. Or worse, when you hit the pause button but the game keeps going and you've just brought up a menu.

Agreed. You hit start and go to the toilet or something, then When you get back youve been eaten by wandering squirrels or something. Very annoying.

@Fezzik - you will be tired all the time anyway, and it’s important to keep up a few things that you genuinely enjoy otherwise what’s the point?


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Also I just started on Chorus that turned up on Game Pass. A distracting action Space fighter shoot and loot. The main characters are all so very conflicted it’s a little overdone, but the sentient psychotic space fighter is quite entertaining.

Just completed Chaos Gate: Demonhunters.

Highly recommend to any fans of X-com type games.

Ugh another failed long war of the chosen modded xcom 2 run. If at first you don’t succeed I suppose. I’m certainly trying. I’ve gotta be doing something wrong that I have to fix.

Has anyone done much time in Wasteland 3? I saw it was on sale and I didn't HATE the last one, but people told me this was more combat less story, which is already better than 2. I hated the story and the people of 2. I hate being forced to make people die horrible painful deaths, because the devs think binary solutions are edgy. Also I heard all the combat bugs from 2 are back for 3. Standing pointblank and missing with a automatic shotgun because RNG rolled a 1.

FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
Has anyone done much time in Wasteland 3? I saw it was on sale and I didn't HATE the last one, but people told me this was more combat less story, which is already better than 2. I hated the story and the people of 2. I hate being forced to make people die horrible painful deaths, because the devs think binary solutions are edgy. Also I heard all the combat bugs from 2 are back for 3. Standing pointblank and missing with a automatic shotgun because RNG rolled a 1.

I enjoyed it a lot, though it did have quite a few “No happy Ending” sort of choices, with no way to find middle ground. Particularly towards the end with certain characters.

Its been awhile since I played, but I was satisfied with the combat. Challenging but not frustrating. I gave it 3-4 playthroughs with different builds and character choices for different endings.

Music choices were… inspired, but weirdly seem to work in the world its set in.

DLC left much to be desired, particularly the game play mechanics of the Steeltown. I think the 2nd DLC was reviwed so poorly that I didn’t bother, though I’ve been meaning to give it at least a try.

If its on sale at a the $20 range, I’d say its well worth a shot.

Xcom 2 wotc with the commander ironman run and the long war of the chosen mod.

It's actually going really well and it's only early June (so a little over 3 months of the game world time). I have like between 15-20 sets of predator armor and 1 set of battle armor for rocket spamming as well as full lasers. Just about everybody has decent gear now and lots of vets as well as doing about 4 missions at a time. I should probably aim for at least researching magnetic weapons soon enough.

It really helped to get the vulture ability in the GTS and 100% extra xp for enemy kills helped a bit too. I was getting so many elerium cores i started selling a bunch for extra supplies esp. when the black market gave double supplies for each elerium core. I must've made hundreds upon hundreds of supplies that month in particular esp. with vulture.

I also have about 4 regions, 5 engineers (6 soon), 6 scientists, a GTS, a medbay and a proving ground (builds special items).

My only issues so far are intel, the fact i could use more enemy corpses and the fact i haven't done so much trying to liberate regions.

Fallout: New Vegas and, damn, just completed the Russell mod, it was very good. I am quite impressed, especially with Someguy's dialogue and characterisation.

I recommend his mods to anyone who plays FO: NV on PC!

Ok so I have elerium research done and power armor almost researched and it’s like early September in the game. I have only 7 scientists and 10 engineers now. I don’t think I need many more engineers. I need significantly faster research however.

I’m gonna try for an advent regional hq assault soon enough. Maybe a 2nd if I can. I’m waiting till my most frontline troops have power armor equipped.

I think I have about 50 soldiers now but 10 aren’t that good and about 3 I never use.

Anyway it’s sort of going well but I need to lower avatar progress big time.

Played through Inside, getting both the standard ending and the secret ending. Normally not my cuppa, but the atmosphere and mood of the game was something else alright.

Also got cracking on Escape Simulator, nothing too deep, but some fun brain teasers to work on after a long day at work for sure. Also did a partial speed run of Monkey Island 2 to create a save file for someone stuck on the notorious and still not fixed acid death trap bug.

Also played a crapton of demos due to it being demo week over at Steam. Personal highlight has got to be "GHPC" which is giving off some serious Armoured Fist 2 vibes, ace!

Gotten a hang of the combat in Witcher 3 now so I'm enjoying it a lot more.

Gave Duskers a try recently, at a friends house, and It wierded me out. I'm an adult human, and this is a video game. Why am I shaking in fear and getting angry?

Got a bit farther in xcom 2 long war of the chosen mod. Felt like it took forever for those 6 days till power armor to go by. Now I have about 6 sets of power armor. I’m also gonna need to research coil guns but I might want to buy more power armor in the mean time. I may have to save up elerium cores later as well.

Currently I have 11 dead soldiers and 49 living soldiers and nobody is currently captured.

There isn’t a whole lot else to talk about besides having to do like 8 to 10 missions every 3 week period usually but it’s slowing down a little due to me infiltrating an advent regional hq. The advent strength of the hq’s region is fairly low so it should be a cakewalk hopefully.

Giving 2017's "Prey" another playthrough with 2nd to hardest difficulty and survival options enabled. Its rough, but fun.

Not perfect, but IMO one of the best singleplayer FPS's in the past decade. Arkane Studios projects always seems to be quality.

 nels1031 wrote:
Giving 2017's "Prey" another playthrough with 2nd to hardest difficulty and survival options enabled. Its rough, but fun.

I've been meaning to finish the mooncrash expansion, but it has been so long I suspect i'd need to start from scratch. It relies heavily on the player building up a strategy and efficient path through the objectives as the game ramps up, and it has been years since I played it last.

Slogging through the 'Through the Ashes' DLC for Wrath of the Righteous.

They apparently wanted to make a sneaky puzzle game and well, it doesn't really work well with their engine or the rule-set (six characters making d20 rolls for stealth checks statistically fails frequently, folks. Its not viable without meticulous prebuild strategies).

Also not fun: puzzles that explode and auto-magically kill everyone for no reason, even characters that aren't even in the room. How old was that save? Ah, entering a building or map transition now doesn't trigger an autosave. Good to know. I think I'll quit for the night rather than start the entire zone over again.

For my less serious gaming, I'm playing Tale of Immortal. It's still in pre-release, which means I sometimes get the odd but of untranslated Chinese text. Aside from that occasional nuisance, it seems to play solidly enough.

For my serious gaming, I've started up DCS. So far I've managed to pitch the nose forward and break the propeller while parked in the civilian P-51 that comes with the base game. I think I had the throttle set too high at the time... No idea if I'll stick with it yet, mind you.

 nels1031 wrote:
Giving 2017's "Prey" another playthrough with 2nd to hardest difficulty and survival options enabled. Its rough, but fun.

Not perfect, but IMO one of the best singleplayer FPS's in the past decade. Arkane Studios projects always seems to be quality.

Prey confuses me. Wasn't the original Prey something about portals and alien abduction and you were a Native American of some sort? Then the other Prey was, like, "Prop-hunt SCP foundation" or something.

Anvildude wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Giving 2017's "Prey" another playthrough with 2nd to hardest difficulty and survival options enabled. Its rough, but fun.

Not perfect, but IMO one of the best singleplayer FPS's in the past decade. Arkane Studios projects always seems to be quality.

Prey confuses me. Wasn't the original Prey something about portals and alien abduction and you were a Native American of some sort? Then the other Prey was, like, "Prop-hunt SCP foundation" or something.

No, that's the second Prey. The original Prey was never released. IIRC, it was the planned "next game" after the amazing success of Duke Nukem 3D. My recollection is that it was supposed to have you fighting against a skilled and powerful enemy - possibly something along the lines of one of Quake Arena's bots, but better. Didn't happen, obviously. But apparently the name stuck around for quite a while even with no actual game attached to it. The game that had you playing as the "Native American abducted by evil aliens" caught me off-guard when it shipped, since it appeared to have nothing with the original concept that had been mentioned a long time before.

The new Prey is a lot more like System Shock 2, imo.

And I see that’s the next property to be dragged out of the depths and dusted down. Shodan returns!

Well my previous run failed a while back. I faced 3 avenger defenses of which 2 were chosen defenses. I failed the 3rd defense due to bad choices and Ironman meant I lost everything.

In this play I have less soldiers I think and my deaths are probably higher for being so early but my tech has developed really quickly. I also have elerium researched which is probably extremely fast considering the current game’s date (either late July or august but likely late august). Pretty sure I have about 7 scientists and maybe 5 or 6 engineers. I also liberated a region by assaulting the advent regional hq. I’ve also got 7 regions now but most have significant advent strength so doing missions is harder.

I have full mags and full predator armor but I might want better armor soon. Ofc power armor is expensive and my resources which are decent may not be enough to field much of it for now. My supplies are also really low so that could be another problem.

Anyway we’ll see how it goes when I get back to it.

Finally got a PS5 and picked up Elden Ring and the new Rachet and Clank. I've never been a huge fan of the latter franchise, but this one really clicked with me, I think just because games with this much focused action and creativity feel so rare these days. Elden Ring seems solid, but feels so slow in comparison. Just surprised how much I'm liking R&C.

 LunarSol wrote:
Finally got a PS5 and picked up Elden Ring and the new Rachet and Clank. I've never been a huge fan of the latter franchise, but this one really clicked with me, I think just because games with this much focused action and creativity feel so rare these days. Elden Ring seems solid, but feels so slow in comparison. Just surprised how much I'm liking R&C.

I would highly, highly recommend you also try Horizon Forbidden West. If you're into open world RPGs, it's one of the best there is. It looks absolutely gorgeous on ps5.

I’ve been playing Starship troopers: Terran command. It’s fun but sadly no multiplayer is gonna hurt people trying to play this game for a lengthy time.

I used to like most units except snipers but snipers help to suppress the royal guard enemies enough so that they can get destroyed by rocket troopers.

Anyway I hope this game gets dlc or other campaigns besides kwalasha or a co op mode or multiplayer. It’d really help this game a lot.

 creeping-deth87 wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:
Finally got a PS5 and picked up Elden Ring and the new Rachet and Clank. I've never been a huge fan of the latter franchise, but this one really clicked with me, I think just because games with this much focused action and creativity feel so rare these days. Elden Ring seems solid, but feels so slow in comparison. Just surprised how much I'm liking R&C.

I would highly, highly recommend you also try Horizon Forbidden West. If you're into open world RPGs, it's one of the best there is. It looks absolutely gorgeous on ps5.

Already got it; loved the original. I had actually planned to start there, but R&C won the family vote and while I planned still to switch to Horizon right away, R&C really sucked me in.

Since its on sale at 90% off, I got a few of my gaming group to purchase 2018's Strange Brigade. Its mostly mindless shooter fun with a few logic puzzles and scavenger hunts thrown in to change things up. I had forgotten how corny the narrator was, but he's kind of funny.