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Game looks neat, and beyond my current rig. Is the focus on multiplayer or is there some kind of campaign? Is it massively or just multiplayer? It's very pretty. That's fairly neat how your paint got chipped
Still playing Transistor in bits and pieces. Kind of interesting to have a talking sword do all of the narrating/talking to NPCs, and though I feel like I'm bad at the combat overall, it's still fun to play around with the skills and muddle through.
Weening myself off of the nostromo and I fear it's going to take me years to get comfortable with just the keyboard and mouse again given the short and irregular gaming sessions.
The multiplayer bit is entirely optional - you can choose to play single (online or offline), private (only encountering people on your friendslist), or entirely open (meeting random players). Barring those who play the offline singleplayer version, every pilot will share the same galaxy, which means that their actions will influence each other. I suppose that you could call this massively multiplayer, although the amount of players sharing a single "instance" (everyone has their own mobile instance like a bubble as they move through space, but the servers can merge these bubbles if players get into proximity of one another) is limited to 32 at the moment.
The game follows in the tradition of original Elite, which means a huge sandbox (in fact, ED recreates the entire Milky Way, 1:1, using procedural generation based on current scientific data) and no goals other than the ones you set yourself. You can go become a courier, a miner, a trader, an explorer, a merc, a pirate, a bounty hunter, ... pick a role, or switch between them as you see fit. The online component merely adds human players to all the NPCs you encounter, opening the door both for cooperative gameplay with friends, as well as social interaction between people who only get to know each other in the game (for example, there's currently a Great Expedition of players forming up to plan a long range journey to the center of the galaxy).
The above also means the game won't really have a story as in an all-encompassing plot - it's more like the devs flipping on a switch and seeing where it goes. There is a background simulation in place that generates events and missions based on player input, and the devs may kick off narrated events from time to time (such as the currently ongoing conflict between a Federal Intervention Fleet and the independent colony of Eranin), but ultimately the players pretty much write their own story simply by experiencing the game as per the choices they make.
Minimum system requirements are surprisingly tame by the way (quad core CPU min. 4x2 GHz, 2 GB-RAM, Nvidia GTX 260 or ATI 4870HD and higher) as their in-house Cobra engine seems to be ridiculously efficient and adaptable - they've even future-proofed the game by adding options you won't feasibly be able to use with today's consumer hardware (but you can already take screenshots in that mode, the game just stutters for a second as it tries to render this stuff with your current machine).
If you've got 15 minutes to spare, here's a cool recent interview with the makers, showing off some cool stuff and telling a few interesting bits of background:
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I just made a new soviet deck in 'Wargame: Red Dragon' and beat it with my american deck. Not sure if i'd say it's a great soviet deck but that seed aircraft (the Raven) really helped.
All this said a lot of PACT factions seem to be less radar intensive on their AA. Usually the longest ranged AA is radar based as well as some of the better stuff but in some cases there's no need to have SEED aircraft when rocket spam aircraft will do.
I'll have to try the soviet deck next time as it included buratinos (crazy massive napalm artillery that can cover a whole city with just one volley of one vehicle), smerch's (cluster munitions artillery), some nice helos and other good units.
My U.S. tanks actually had a tough time against the soviet ones and their artillery.
Other than that not much else. I really wish somebody else would play 'Wargame' or 'Xcom: enemy unknown' or 'Xcom: enemy within' with me.
GrimDork wrote: Ahh yeah I see it now. I shall maybe wait for it to hit steam (maybe already there) and hit the magic half-off sale the others seem to have done.
I think I started the dragon disciple sorcerer on BG:EE, the breath attack is pretty harsh but you give up some sorcery things.
Think I may go buy Transistor, it's half off on steam and looks interesting.
heres an update for you. The bard walked into a massive melee she had no place taking part in. I had a paladin, dwarven defender and berserker fighting. Anyway. I'm down to a 5 man party. Oh well. The bard was useless anyway.
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Tropico 5 is 50% off on Steam, so I finally broke down and bought it. About to jump into it; nine beers deep I am feeling some banana republic dictatorship action.
@Lynata thanks for such a detailed review I may have to give that video a watch when I get the chance. I may be able to play that just fine after I upgrade my card. Huh.
@TDA aww poor bard. Bard isn't for fite! Bard is for having free identification all over the place so nobody gets the cursed gender-bender (or berserk, or cursed to 3 int), plus a party wide to-hit buff, plus spells almost on par with a wizard (because they level so fast, on par with a rogue). Also if they have kits in IWD, and the jester is available, he can wipe out entire enemy groups solo by going invis and singing the confuse song until they kill eachother
I had a MC bard for BG 1 and most of 2, pretty hilarious when properly geared and supported
If IWD1 is like 2, you might be able to just snatch a new character to dump into the party? Would only be lvl 1, and may not be a feature... Besides only having 5 members means you level up faster as a party
fire emblem awakening. you know, when they say hard, they mean that they took fire emnlem shadow dragon's difficulty ad timesed it by two. every damn kill is satisfying.
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It works for me - and I'm currently looking at it from another PC...
The hoster isn't perfectly reliable - sometimes you may have to reload an image. Sorry. :/
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Picked up the Bioshock series on Steam sale and currently playing through #1 with a view to going through them all.
Had played 1 before. Still holds up well but is a little dated.
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Bromsy wrote: Tropico 5 is 50% off on Steam, so I finally broke down and bought it. About to jump into it; nine beers deep I am feeling some banana republic dictatorship action.
Tropico 5 came out a while back. Haven't played it myself, but apparently there's a time advancement mechanism and you play across a few generations of El Jeffe's family line.
Yeah, Tropico 5 is pretty good. Despite feeling vaguely had for having bought three different Tropico games for what I feel is about one and a half to two games worth of refinement and advancement, it's still probably worth a buy at 50% off.
Of course, if you are more bothered by DLC shenanigans and having to sign into Calypso's DRM server thingy on top of Steam; then it might be different for you.
As far as actual gameplay; I like it. Every game has been at least an incremental advance. I approve of the added timeframe - Colonial through Modern, the dynasty type mechanic, the research mechanic, the added military and trading depth.
I haven't messed with multiplayer. It's a good game, I just wish I would have skipped 4. And maybe 3.
Done a lot of really nice runs in Payday 2 recently. Need to get back in to Civ:BE, but every time I do my friends ask me to play payday or starbound
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Some more 'Wargame: Red Dragon' and it's pretty good. We played Nato vs Nato and i got a 4-1 kill to death in points. It was myself, an online friend and a medium difficulty AI against 3 very hard AI. I got over half of the kills in our whole team so that's gotta amount to something. My tanks were decent medium tanks and destroyed their light tank spam (they did very well too as higher quality tanks seem to rake in the kills off worse tanks) and my pivads (land based AA guns) managed to kill a crap ton of flyers. My SEED aircraft had some ok kills but nothing too special. My infatry esp. the SMAW rocket infantry managed to get quite a few kills as well.
So yeah all in all lots of good crazy kill streaks for many of my units.
I'm not sure if i like the a-10's anymore though considering all the multiple strafes they need to do. Sure they're armored and sure their fire and forget missiles are awesome as well as the main cannon but they throw themselves out there which can be bad if there's AA around. Cluster bomb aircraft however seem to be good vs spammed tanks that are stationary somewhere which is a good thing. That said sometimes that has resulted in their deaths as well so i'm unsure.
I might say more when i'm playing something different but i seem to have the hang of wargame now.
GrimDork wrote: @TDA aww poor bard. Bard isn't for fite! Bard is for having free identification all over the place so nobody gets the cursed gender-bender (or berserk, or cursed to 3 int), plus a party wide to-hit buff, plus spells almost on par with a wizard (because they level so fast, on par with a rogue). Also if they have kits in IWD, and the jester is available, he can wipe out entire enemy groups solo by going invis and singing the confuse song until they kill eachother
I had a MC bard for BG 1 and most of 2, pretty hilarious when properly geared and supported
If IWD1 is like 2, you might be able to just snatch a new character to dump into the party? Would only be lvl 1, and may not be a feature... Besides only having 5 members means you level up faster as a party
My bard wasn't capable of any of that. She couldn't understand how to follow the rest of the party.
Also, after getting to the caverns in HoW, I can safely say, feth trolls. feth them to hell. My only sources of flaming is an axe with a chance to do flaming damage or AoE fire magic.
Been playing a lot of Ace combat Assault horizion, and some of the older games in the series. Good times indeed with shooting down the badguys and listening to Sabaton
Playing the newest Borderlands. I really expected the Lawbringer to be my favorite, but I seriously prefer the Gladiator and Enforcer classes. Almost beat the game with my Gldiator, I think, after being bored with the Lawbringer.
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