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Fallen London. It's amazing!

Been easing back into Payday 2 to prepare for the free stuff unlocked for Crimefest: http://www.overkillsoftware.com/crimefest/

Also, if people join the Payday 2 Steam group you'll get the first game for free on the 18th of October!

http://steamcommunity.com/games/218620

Thanks for the heads-up - joined!

 mega_bassist wrote:
Really, the only thing similar I can think of is X-Com: Enemy Unknown. I've also been looking for a turn-based similar to FFT for a while, but nothing really grabbed my attention other than X-Com.

The main issue I have is that squad members are randomly assigned their roles, but I understand why they do it that way.

I think it just seems snipers are more common. Stuff like supports and assaults have a pretty high death rate. Snipers on the other hand stay out of most of the fight if you play it like you're supposed to. So basically snipers just have the longest lifespans.

 BrookM wrote:
Been easing back into Payday 2 to prepare for the free stuff unlocked for Crimefest: http://www.overkillsoftware.com/crimefest/

Also, if people join the Payday 2 Steam group you'll get the first game for free on the 18th of October!

http://steamcommunity.com/games/218620

Ohhh! I'll have to join that tonight! Thanks!

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
Really, the only thing similar I can think of is X-Com: Enemy Unknown. I've also been looking for a turn-based similar to FFT for a while, but nothing really grabbed my attention other than X-Com.

The main issue I have is that squad members are randomly assigned their roles, but I understand why they do it that way.

I think it just seems snipers are more common. Stuff like supports and assaults have a pretty high death rate. Snipers on the other hand stay out of most of the fight if you play it like you're supposed to. So basically snipers just have the longest lifespans.

While I'll agree with that, I've also just drafted a lot of snipers. I remember one easy mission where I used three new recuits, and two of them became snipers >.<

 Sigvatr wrote:
Fallen London. It's amazing!

Probably the best browser game I have ever played, certainly the only one that I have spent actual money on.

I just had a gang of sentient rats break into my home (using tiny pickaxes) and build a warren to hide their ill gotten loot (using dynamite) and then attempt to force me out of my own flophouse. After a long and hard fought battle involving duels with pistol toting rats, rat assassins attempting to poison my cheese, becoming a grim legend amongst rat kind due to my expert use of a pointy metal bar, a daring rooftop chase after what turned out to be a badly disguised squirrel, a duplicitous rat catcher who spent more time playing poker with rat guards than killing them, looting the rats rather meager hoard of moon pearls and finally a hard fought duel with the rat chief who I managed to best in such a way that he has become my somewhat surly minion (alongside a half wild mandrake root whom I spent ages finding a singing coach for so that its song will help me to catch a legendary monster, a taciturn Mynah bird that I am slowly befriending and a rare yet naive salt ferret). That was just one quest line amongst many.

I tried Sunless sea but its not as good but then it is still on early access so it can only improve.

 mega_bassist wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Been easing back into Payday 2 to prepare for the free stuff unlocked for Crimefest: http://www.overkillsoftware.com/crimefest/

Also, if people join the Payday 2 Steam group you'll get the first game for free on the 18th of October!

http://steamcommunity.com/games/218620

Ohhh! I'll have to join that tonight! Thanks!

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
Really, the only thing similar I can think of is X-Com: Enemy Unknown. I've also been looking for a turn-based similar to FFT for a while, but nothing really grabbed my attention other than X-Com.

The main issue I have is that squad members are randomly assigned their roles, but I understand why they do it that way.

I think it just seems snipers are more common. Stuff like supports and assaults have a pretty high death rate. Snipers on the other hand stay out of most of the fight if you play it like you're supposed to. So basically snipers just have the longest lifespans.

While I'll agree with that, I've also just drafted a lot of snipers. I remember one easy mission where I used three new recuits, and two of them became snipers >.<

Then again, a whole squad of snipers on overwatch when a muton shows up can be hilarious. I actually like snipers more than support considering the squad-sight ability can make me put a heavily armored rookie forward and leave most, if not all the heavily fortified snipers in range.

On topic: Oh my goodness, I LOVE this TF2 game. Still trying to find out how I'm randomly getting weapons, but It's looking pretty good. Also trying to find out how to not make my full name appear as the name of the player. Bots are actually pretty competent and make for a nice challenge (despite the lack of spies and snipers) so maybe I'll stay with those for a while longer.

Also found a game called System Shock for 10$ on Steam. Might look into that later

For each certain amount of time you play up to a weekly maximum, you get a random drop. I'll have to look up on the wiki what the time and maximum are though.


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Players are guaranteed to find items at regular intervals of 30 to 70 minutes, with an average interval of 50 minutes.


The system has a cap on the amount of playtime in which drops can occur. This cap has been estimated to be 10 hours each week. Playing beyond the cap will not yield additional items. Mann Co. Supply Crates and other usable items drop on a separate timer, meaning that these items do not affect the interval between regular drops. The system resets each player's playtime cap every Thursday at approximately 00:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)[7:00 PM EST, 8:00pm EDT Wednesday].

 SkavenLord wrote:
If you want to improve restoration, try casting equilibrium and healing at the same time. With healing, you won't lose health and with a heavy magicka regen, you'll probably be able to do it almost indefinitely.

OT: Got started on TF2. Because I'm a little intimidated of PvP, I'm going to stick with bots for the time being.

Thanks for that skavenLord.

With the enchants I currently have, I can use the begining Destruction spells for free, and my most powerful only costs 21. I didn't end up going for the spell school + magica regen enchants as they didn't give as much reduction in casting cost. I'm really looking to top off my Alteration to get that Atronach perk by the time I get to 90+ Resto and with the same enchants focused on Resto spells as I have in Destro, I don't think running out of Magika is going to be a problem, I'll try that spell combo tonight.

The original TF was a right hoot, unfortunately I don't have as much internet access as I used to, so haven't played TF2 at all. I used to love playing as an engi and dropping turretts in places that were hard to reach but gave a good field of fire to take down members of the oposition.

Also, thanks for the heads-up that the original System Shock is on Steam at the moment, I'll have to pick that one up. Graphics are horribly dated now, but the gameplay is amazing. I already have SS2, but want to play through the original first.

 Palindrome wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Fallen London. It's amazing!

Probably the best browser game I have ever played, certainly the only one that I have spent actual money on.

Agree, liking it a lot. Ingrid Glynn, charming and keen-eyed lady, highly manipulative and cold-hearted, digging up secrets and rumors from everywhere by any means possible...be it threats, sex or a silver tongue. Why do the job yourself when you can let others do the dirty work?

 Conrad Turner wrote:

 SkavenLord wrote:
If you want to improve restoration, try casting equilibrium and healing at the same time. With healing, you won't lose health and with a heavy magicka regen, you'll probably be able to do it almost indefinitely.

OT: Got started on TF2. Because I'm a little intimidated of PvP, I'm going to stick with bots for the time being.

Thanks for that skavenLord.

With the enchants I currently have, I can use the begining Destruction spells for free, and my most powerful only costs 21. I didn't end up going for the spell school + magica regen enchants as they didn't give as much reduction in casting cost. I'm really looking to top off my Alteration to get that Atronach perk by the time I get to 90+ Resto and with the same enchants focused on Resto spells as I have in Destro, I don't think running out of Magika is going to be a problem, I'll try that spell combo tonight.

The original TF was a right hoot, unfortunately I don't have as much internet access as I used to, so haven't played TF2 at all. I used to love playing as an engi and dropping turretts in places that were hard to reach but gave a good field of fire to take down members of the oposition.

Also, thanks for the heads-up that the original System Shock is on Steam at the moment, I'll have to pick that one up. Graphics are horribly dated now, but the gameplay is amazing. I already have SS2, but want to play through the original first.

GAK! Sorry, I meant SS2. Still, who knows? It might be there after all...

 Sigvatr wrote:

Agree, liking it a lot. Ingrid Glynn, charming and keen-eyed lady, highly manipulative and cold-hearted, digging up secrets and rumors from everywhere by any means possible...be it threats, sex or a silver tongue. Why do the job yourself when you can let others do the dirty work?

I have seen one too many terrifying abominations and have gone raving mad. I am currently wandering around bedlam hospital trying to find the manager while starting the occasional fire and being put of my breakfast by coffee drinking cats. I'm sure that I will be fine...

Nightmares are a bit of an issue as they are quite hard to get rid of and the most common method will significantly increase your nightmare score if you fail the luck roll as I unfortunately discovered.

 SkavenLord wrote:
GAK! Sorry, I meant SS2. Still, who knows? It might be there after all...

NP. I already have SS2, and frankly I consider it inferior in many ways. It is really punishing if you don't set your character up just right, and I never could work out that perfect balance. There area too many times you need to use tech skills to get into locked places, and if you have concentrated purely on weapons, then you run out of ammo and are stuck. If you go for mainly tech skills, you are an easy take-down.

It's kind of the reverse of "Oblivion" where you tell the game you are a warrior, then play a sneaky archer character and hardly level up making your skills overpowered for the enemies you are fighting, but in SS2 if you don't produce the perfect character, everything else seems to level much faster than you and soon you are surviving on luck alone and praying for the next enemy to drop the ammo you need, or knowing that what you need is just the other side of that door, and you can't unlock it.

and I never did like the organic bits of that game. Still, I may look out for a guide and give it a go again once I have finished this current play through of Skyrim - when I get every perk available!

Still, thanks for the help, SkavenLord!

Ladies and gentleman, I'm in love:




I have discovered this game thanks to a "Let's Play" and it was instant love. I've always given great importance to music and one of my favorite RPGs, Ar Tonelico, gives a lot of importance to it. Unfortunately, most music based games are usually rhythm games that I feel are completely "Meh".

This one, "Crypt of the NecroDancer" is a Rogue-Like Fantasy Dungeon-crawler where your character can only move or attack if it follows the beat. You don't see in the trailer, but there's a heart near the bottom of the screen with some bars that tells you the Beat. Every monster has a pattern related to the beat: Some move together with the beat, some move between beats, you have to learn their patterns so you can fight them and survive.

And of course, the music is fething awesome. I mean, just listen to the first one!




Oh, and the shopkeeper you meet in each floor joins the fun. He starts singing. It's just wonderful <3 That's who you hear "singing" there.

Yeah, I saw this game a while ago on Tru3Ta1ents stream, looked quite fun.

And the music is indeed great.

 Palindrome wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

Agree, liking it a lot. Ingrid Glynn, charming and keen-eyed lady, highly manipulative and cold-hearted, digging up secrets and rumors from everywhere by any means possible...be it threats, sex or a silver tongue. Why do the job yourself when you can let others do the dirty work?

I have seen one too many terrifying abominations and have gone raving mad. I am currently wandering around bedlam hospital trying to find the manager while starting the occasional fire and being put of my breakfast by coffee drinking cats. I'm sure that I will be fine...

Nightmares are a bit of an issue as they are quite hard to get rid of and the most common method will significantly increase your nightmare score if you fail the luck roll as I unfortunately discovered.

Ugh...I thought that it would decrease over time...not going to use any mirror cards anymore...currently having trouble making money. I thought I'd be paid for my poetry and what do I get? Silk scraps? Dafuq!

 Sigvatr wrote:

Ugh...I thought that it would decrease over time...not going to use any mirror cards anymore...currently having trouble making money. I thought I'd be paid for my poetry and what do I get? Silk scraps? Dafuq!

Its actually quite easy to decrease your nightmares back to 0 in bedlam (a lot of the events are free) and you also pick up some of those mysterious traits that the game is so fond of so it may even be beneficial. I have never been paid in any actual money for anything that I have done in the game

How can you afford to buy anything then? D:

I want a new dress!

You can sell stuff

The Scuttering Boys have found a new base in a larder of Watchmaker Hill... and they're making lightning raids through the postal system. Send a box of lethally armed saboteurs to a friend, but not a badly wounded one. That would be unsporting.

lol

An occurrence! Your 'Complication: a Surly Goat-Demon' Quality is now 3 - Obstreperous!

Also lol

You don't need money, the loot that you find (souls,candles, jade etc) can be converted into higher tier items and its possible to find items (rarely) via events. Apparently its safe to sell of Moon pearls and Rostygold providing that you have a ncie reserve should you need some for an event. I haven't bought anything since I started the game and that was purely on the basis of RPG+gear=good but the starting cheap stuff is pretty much rubbish.

I'm kind of surprised. I'm actually doing pretty good on the online matches of TF2. Pyro especially, is one I seem to be pretty good with.
Now if only I can get the hang of the Spy and Demoman...

Man, I haven't played TF2 in about a year now, love that game. Soldier ftw!


Skyrim sidenote: Anyone found an effective way to level alchemy and/or illusion? Additionally, playing a pure mage, is it worth staying robes (don't really care about the RP aspect) or should I go for light armor?

I've done zero math, but if you are going to worry about alteration at all, there's a perk in it that gives you something like 300% (after 3 perks) better armor from the magic armor spells. I'm don't know if that's better than the benefits of a maxed out light armor skill and perks or not, but it's certainly more mage-like.

Illusion? Idunno if this one has some kind of super-trick like alteration (both water breathing and especially detect life can level the skill up super fast), but i usually just ran around town throwing out whichever the highest level of calm/rally i had at the time. As long as it affects the target, it counts for xp, and neither will get you into trouble like fury/frenzy/fear stuff.

Alchemy is super easy if you have hearth..whatever, the DLC with the house building. Get the house with the greenhouse attachment, fill the greenhouse (and the farm outside) with money making potion mats, or just mats that you'll use like for healing/mana/poison, and make the stuffing out of them, every couple of days it seems like it regens.

Failing that, get a proper guide to expensive potions out, and make a circuit. The guide will say, but i think its 48 hours for vendors to restock or something, so find a route between two or several towns that takes that long. Buy up all the especially cheap ingredients, and there will be a few to keep an eye out for that you'll buy regardless of cost because they make the final potions worth more/better. Giants toe, boy, you want a lot of giants toe. Make your circuit, brew, sell, repeat. Makes you money while you level it.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Useful_Potions

I usually use that as a reference, scroll about halfway down to expensive potions, get those things, make those potions, profit!

Selling all those potions gets tedious, you can get a mod or use a simple trick, that's technically an exploit, but it's your game so you decide... If a vendor dies while you're playing, and you reload the game, their inventory will reset. So you can sell your potions, buy the mats that are worth buying, quicksave, kill the vendor (i mean there are accidents but that's the most expedient way...) reload, sell/buy/save/kill/reload/repeat. It cuts out the middle man of traveling to different towns, but it starts to feel a bit shallow after awhile.

Another pretty basic tip for leveling either of those things, but you asked, is to use enchanting to make gear with a bonus to those skills, or a decrease in the cost to cast those spells. Better alchemy makes better potions which are worth more xp to make, and casting spells more often before resting is obviously going to be quicker.

 Frankenberry wrote:
Man, I haven't played TF2 in about a year now, love that game. Soldier ftw!


Skyrim sidenote: Anyone found an effective way to level alchemy and/or illusion? Additionally, playing a pure mage, is it worth staying robes (don't really care about the RP aspect) or should I go for light armor?

Have you completed the College of Winterhold quests? You'll get a couple of items that will improve your magicka regen (I'm not saying what they are though so I don't spoil anything). One of them covers the head slot, so you may not need robes with it. If you go light armor, you may not be the best magicka-wise, but will offer you some protection at least. I use elven armor and it's working quite well.

Considering armor may give where you are away, muffle is a spell that I've found levels up illusion pretty quickly and stops others from hearing your footsteps. Even if you're playing pure mage, I guess it doesn't hurt to have a small dabble in stealth, right?

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Snipers on the other hand stay out of most of the fight if you play it like you're supposed to. So basically snipers just have the longest lifespans.

Enemy Within did something about that...



I've been playing Eterium off and on recently. It's a decent Wing Commander 2 clone.

Hearthstone. Love it.

Waiting on Kingdom Hearts 3 and the new Fallout game to give me a reason to actually buy a PS4. As the titles that have come out so far are.... lacking.

I've started on Mass Effect 1.

Enjoy it, play all 3 they are great but be ready for a let down of an ending.

Yeah, that's what I've heard..

I doubt I'll be playing all of them, since as soon as the Xbox One and Halo Master Chief Collection will be released I'll be mainly occupying my time with those. Once I'm done with that out come Dragon Age Inquisition and The Witcher 3, so yeah..

Im scared to buy DAI. I heard that it is going to play more like the first one. (Which I hope, because the second one sucked so hard it almost created a black hole)

Never got into the Witcher though.

I am glad that the titles I am interested in are not coming out for a while. Over the last 3 months I bought 2500 points of DA and 2500 points of Lizardmen.... I need time for the wallet to recover... that and I am ALMOST done painting it all.