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What was the problem with the boss fights again? I don't remember too much about them.

They essentially forced you to go the combat route no matter what despite the fact you might have played and specced your character as a stealth or hacking type.

Oh yeah. Alright, that makes sense. I played through kind of sneakily, but doing the takedowns was too much fun to avoid. So was headshotting people with the AP pistol from a vent

I got to play a quick game of Beyond Earth with my sister. Well, I mean, we didn't finish the game, but it was nice to play alongside a human person for once.

Probably a sign of how we used to play Alpha Centauri is that she went for harmony, and i went for supremacy.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Eumerin wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Director's Cut or Vanilla?

Uhhh, there's different cuts? I guess Vanilla...

The Director's Cut redoes the boss fights (as already mentioned) and integrates the Missing Link stand-alone add-on directly into the game. It also has improved graphics.

The Missing Link was a DLC made available not long after the game was released that covered some otherwise skipped over time in the original game. After DX:HR had reached its final stage, but before the actual release, the development team figured out a way to improve the graphics engine. The improvements couldn't be added to the base game without having to completely redo everything. But the Missing Link DLC used the improved graphics. As a result, it was essentially a completely independent (albeit short) game that only required the original game to play "because they said so".

A while later, the decision was made to release DX:HR on the Wii U. The new release used the updated graphics engine for the entire game, and not just The Missing Link. It also redid the boss fights, and integrated The Missing Link directly into the base game (it also included some functionality that required the Wii U's secondary screen). And, in part because having a game look better on the Wii U than on the 360, PS3, and PC, would make fans upset, the Wii U upgrades were ported over to the other platforms as well under the label "Director's Cut". Existing owners were offered it at a heavily discounted price (with an even bigger discount for those who owned Missing Link as well as the base game).

Picked up the Blackwell Epiphany, many sads that the series is now over, but it was a good one and ends it quite nicely.

Splitting time between Destiny (new update is very interesting, Bad Juju buff FTW) and Warmachine: Tactics (which appears to be updating daily).

 Melissia wrote:
Dishonored on Steam is on sale for five bucks right now. Picked it up and installing.

Prepare for disappointment.

so while playing ArcheAge the Queue



I installed 19 gigs of Arena Commander for Star Citizen and gave it a go.
I updated War Thunder and had at it again.
I updated World of Tanks
I updated Diablo 3
I updated Payday 2
I updated Eve Online again

I cleared out my Steam update and download queue.

Now I play Spider Solitare to pass the time.

I've... never had that issue with ArchAge. Granted, I haven't played for about a week, but is it really suddenly that crazy?

they massively broke something right before castle sieges. EU was the same way but they fixed their servers faster. It also appears they are running drastically reduced pop servers to combat the lag and stability issues.

is it good news that the test server is coming "soon" ? If I didn't know any better I would swear Trion has lost their " Porting Korean MMOs for Dummies" book.

Trion hasn't ever really been a good developer....

Picked up Fallout 3 GOTY edition. Have no idea what the heck I'm doing. The tutorial didn't explain half of the little thing I see every where.

Do your guns break? Like do you need to repair them often?

Yeah gun condition degrades with use. You use your repair skill to fix them, using parts from (and consuming) another gun of the same type. So if you have half a dozen 9mm pistols, you can cobble together one or two pistols in better shape pending your repair skill.

Thats almost all gear too while I'm at it. Vault suit, armor, batons, i think you get a pass on hats and glasses but helmets still need fixed.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Picked up Fallout 3 GOTY edition. Have no idea what the heck I'm doing. The tutorial didn't explain half of the little thing I see every where.

Do your guns break? Like do you need to repair them often?

The bolded part is completely normal. When I first got F3, I didn't know what the hell I was doing, either.

Your guns do break, and you will need to repair them fairly often. To start out, acquiring a Hunting Rifle is probably your top priority in terms of weapons. It's fairly accurate at range, does good damage, and they're bloody everywhere, so you'll nearly always have spares handy for repairs. In your inventory screen, your weapons and armour have little bars that show their condition, and they'll get worse the more deteriorated they are. In order to repair, you need more of the same item or a similar item. How far you can repair an item is determined by your Repair skill (which is practically mandatory to take in Fallout 3) and also the Repair skill of any NPC you're paying to do it for you (which is a waste of caps IMHO), with the maximum condition you can repair to being determined by--according to the wiki-- this calculation: 40% + (0.6% x Repair Skill), so if your skill was 50, for example, the calculation would be 40% + (0.6% x 50), allowing weapons and armour to be repaired to a maximum of 70% condition. Repair also increases the efficiency of repairs. (See more here: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Repair#Fallout_3)

You can read up on the gameplay here: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_gameplay and that wiki can answer most questions. If not, a quick Google should bring up any answers or beginner tips and guides.

Okay. Thanks guys!

From what I have learned in FO3, stealth + combat shotgun = limb dismemberment palooza.

Seriously if I don't take your head clean off with my 2 volleys of combat shotgun with VATS then my subsequent running away will make you lose an arm or leg.

When I got my first sniper rifle I was like oh yea im going to snipe some wasteland baddies but then I saw the chance to hit was laughable. Unless you are shooting rockets or tossing nades, go close range. Shotguns and flamethrowers.

 Deathklaat wrote:
From what I have learned in FO3, stealth + combat shotgun = limb dismemberment palooza.

Seriously if I don't take your head clean off with my 2 volleys of combat shotgun with VATS then my subsequent running away will make you lose an arm or leg.

When I got my first sniper rifle I was like oh yea im going to snipe some wasteland baddies but then I saw the chance to hit was laughable. Unless you are shooting rockets or tossing nades, go close range. Shotguns and flamethrowers.

I actually rarely use VATS, especially when sniping. The only time I'll use it is to slow time down to assess a situation, if I'm getting swarmed--in which case situation assessment is included, or if I'm up close and without an automatic weapon. This is especially true for me in New Vegas, too, where I use VATS so rarely that it might as well not be in the game.

I didn't use VATS much for ranged work. I tended to run my action points down for when stuff got hairy or I was trying to shoot off an antenna from close-ish range. I can't remember if turning on the iron sights is a thing (think it is) or if it helped, but all I do remember is that I used the hunting rifle for one-shot-head-shots all the time, from extreme range. To the point that they didn't always come running after me 'cause they didn't know I was there. I could never find enough rounds for the sniper rifle to justify carrying one honestly.

It's still an RPG, once you get to a high enough level with strong enough skills and supporting perks, you can roflstomp your way through almost any situation with almost any loadout. I had a doctor/scientist who ran around in a labcoat and glasses with virtually no combat skills to speak of. Then she found a power fist and started dumping points into whichever skill that uses and the next thing you know she was blasting even super mutants into chunks (well ok their head and maybe one arm falls off, they don't really 'splode like humans do).

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Picked up Fallout 3 GOTY edition. Have no idea what the heck I'm doing. The tutorial didn't explain half of the little thing I see every where.

Do your guns break? Like do you need to repair them often?

My experience with FO3 can be summed up as


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Like, my first day of playing was me wandering about, getting killed by some dudes. So I reloaded, and wandered in the other way. Ran into a load of dudes who tried to kill me. These guys died.

Then I found the plot mission. BY COMPLETE ACCIDENT. And got killed by Super mutants in the city. Reloaded. Couldn't find the mission.

I suppose that's what I get for playing drunk!

Man I did not have the trouble some of you guys seem to have had. I just got the couple of guns you can get from the vault, stocked up on security helmets and uniforms, and went straight to megaton. I kind of avoided Rivet City for a long time on purpose but unless you deselect it, the main quest tells you where to go from the start

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Dishonored on Steam is on sale for five bucks right now. Picked it up and installing.

Prepare for disappointment.

Uh no, good game.

I was thinking of getting dishonored myself. I got something else instead. Some of the command and conquer games were also on my mind for the time (except cnc 4). The moment passed and it doesn't really matter without the sale or money left.

 GrimDork wrote:
Man I did not have the trouble some of you guys seem to have had. I just got the couple of guns you can get from the vault, stocked up on security helmets and uniforms, and went straight to megaton. I kind of avoided Rivet City for a long time on purpose but unless you deselect it, the main quest tells you where to go from the start

Weirdly enough, the fact that the game tells you where to go led to one of my biggest disappointments with Fallout 3. I remember climbing out of the vault, walking out into that ruined street with the robot buzzing by, and it all felt very desolate and lonely and haunting. It really felt like being cast out into a strange and frightening new world.

And then I walked a few feet and bam! There's a town. Shattered the mood right then and there.

I still liked the game though.

Bethesda's been going down the dissapointing path of hand-holding when it comes to quests. Granted, I started my Elder Scrolls in Morrowind, where I could literally spend multiple real-world days attempting to find a specific cave, and it was all the sweeter when I managed it. I'd at the very least like an option to turn the map markers off without turning off the compass.

And I miss the Morrowind Journal. It was so flavourful!

Anvildude wrote:
Bethesda's been going down the dissapointing path of hand-holding when it comes to quests. Granted, I started my Elder Scrolls in Morrowind, where I could literally spend multiple real-world days attempting to find a specific cave, and it was all the sweeter when I managed it. I'd at the very least like an option to turn the map markers off without turning off the compass.

And I miss the Morrowind Journal. It was so flavourful!

Yeah, Morrowind was the first one I played, (I feel like I might even be thinking of the same cave) and they've never had quite the same sense of the joy of exploration since. There was nothing like stumbling on a shipwreck, or the weird angular ruins... One of my favorite mods for Skyrim got rid of most of the compass, apart from the actual compass directions. Why would I want to be told where something I haven't found is? I want to be surprised!

Oh jeeze, I remember when I first saw those Daedric Ruins. Things creeped me out so much. Then I finally get the courage to wander in, and run into a Scamp. Oh, little demon guy, I think, I can take care of this!. But I don't have any magic weapons on me, and the thing kills me dead.

buddy of mine let me borrow his copy of xenoblade chronicles (which was awesome, since its years old and still stupid expensive)
i'm having a good deal of fun, but i'm a little tired of getting quests that involve areas where the enemies out level me by 50 or 60 lvls

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Dishonored on Steam is on sale for five bucks right now. Picked it up and installing.

Prepare for disappointment.

Uh no, good game.

The setting is great and it oozes with style, I just wish the so-called moral system wasn't so heavy handed.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Dishonored on Steam is on sale for five bucks right now. Picked it up and installing.

Prepare for disappointment.

Uh no, good game.

Linear missions and a tiny campaign(less than 8 hours on the hardest difficulty) in a game that was billed to be a freeroaming assassination stealth game.

HOWEVER. The freeroam was nonexistent. The missions were boring. The environments were uninspired. Seriously. I can look at screenshots of Victorian London and get something similar. Gameplay was meh at best. I wound up investing in Blink and the possession power.

Stealth was badly implemented and buggy. You could stand with one foot behind a wall, and not be seen but crouch half behind a wall and get spotted. The game forces you to use combat to progress some parts. And as someone who went through it with the aim of not killing, I was sorely disappointed. The game does not do anything Assassin's Creed doesn't do better.