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In Crusader Kings 2, my character's wife confronted him about having an affair on the same day she gave birth to the child of the man she was having an affair with.

It's the children I feel sorry for, really.

 toasteroven wrote:
In Crusader Kings 2, my character's wife confronted him about having an affair on the same day she gave birth to the child of the man she was having an affair with.

It's the children I feel sorry for, really.

Are you sure you shouldn't feel sorry for the man? Pretty sure he's about to spend a lot of time in either a dungeon or will be executed.

Also, is the child a leper? Because that would be some nice icing on the cake.

Can you murder your wife's lover, bake him into a pie and feed him to your wife? Guest Right be damned...

Wow, cuckolded boosh.

Still chipping away at Agarest, it doesn't so much feel grindy yet.. but I can see the switch coming. Maybe as early as the next generation (4 out of 5) things will likely be getting out of hand.

A selfie item has been added to WoW.

Blizzard have no idea of what they have unleashed.

Oh good gravy.

Soladrin wrote:

 toasteroven wrote:
In Crusader Kings 2, my character's wife confronted him about having an affair on the same day she gave birth to the child of the man she was having an affair with.

It's the children I feel sorry for, really.

Are you sure you shouldn't feel sorry for the man? Pretty sure he's about to spend a lot of time in either a dungeon or will be executed.

Also, is the child a leper? Because that would be some nice icing on the cake.

Well, they're both having affairs. And they both have children with their lovers, as well as two legitimate children. So they probably deserve each other.

Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:Can you murder your wife's lover, bake him into a pie and feed him to your wife? Guest Right be damned...

Sadly, Greek tragedy inspired assassinations haven't been implemented yet.

Playing Lords of Shadow 2 just to beat it. The story is decent, but some of the sections aren't fun and the stealth sequences/tutorials really kill the pace of the game.

Started up on "Elite: Dangerous".

Initial thoughts are rather mixed. It's a digital download at the moment - I didn't fancy paying the extra £10 for boxed product and waiting for that to be delivered. As a modern version of "Elite" it's good, some of the ship designs are really close to the original wireframe ones, but the graphics are certainly up amongst the best there are today, it's the first game to tax my rig in that regard.

Bought it because I had found out that it had a "Solo" setting, so thought that I could get it, and still play it when I go home (No internet whe I do, my 85yo mother doesn't need it, so we don't pay for it just to cover me for the odd week I go home.) but no. Even the solo mode requires internet access. That's because it is not run from servers, it's a P2P network, so if you can't join, all the markets and different docks are unavailable to you. (WTF?)

And the station they start you in has no market anyway, so the first thing you have to do is launch, fly to another station and buy some stuff to take elsewhere and trade to make a profit. I got ganked by an NPC in solo mode during that journey. This bigger ship makes me drop out of jump and demands I drop my cargo or I'm dead. Well, guess what!

At least if that happens and you don't have another ship, you get the basic Sidewinder replaced, so no real biggie.

The basic Sidewinder has a starting gargo capacity of 4 (units, tonnes, I don't know) but by going to an outfitters when you have made some cash, you can expand that. By removing the shield generators, and getting the biggest cargo racks I could, I got mine up to 10. By using the old fashioned "Pen and Paper" system of working out what was profitable, within the last two afternoons, I have made enough to upgrade to the Hauler, which if I did the same as the Sidewinder, would have 22 cargo capacity. I am running with 20 as I also bought and installed a docking computer

Overall, I think the game is great, but to get the most out of it, I'm sure glad I watched a series of vids from a guy calling himself "NetherVvoid" on Youtube. They really helped me out.

Well, re-beat MK9. God, Shao Khan is such a douche. Beating him isn't even playing a fighting game...its "stand in a corner with fireballs" as Liu Kang, or "jump, uppercut" as Raiden/anyone else outside of story mode. It's an effort in futility. Threw my controller more than a few times before I beat him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow5fR_0cj44&t=19m35s

Or you do it like a boss.

I unlocked C4 for the Support class in Battlefield 4 the other day.

I've been blowing up things ever since, whether it's tanks, hotels, or prisons (or just other people)! I'm having way too much fun.

They're bricks of friendship!

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
They're bricks of friendship!

That's the conclusion I've come to, yes.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
I unlocked C4 for the Support class in Battlefield 4 the other day.

I've been blowing up things ever since, whether it's tanks, hotels, or prisons (or just other people)! I'm having way too much fun.

Once I unlocked the C4 for the Support Class I started using the Recon less because the Support can refill his own C4

I downloaded planetside 2 because it looked cool and it was free. I've played a few hours, died a lot, and had quite a bit of fun. It seems to have some "pay to advance for free" things, but it doesn't seem to actually be P2W. And the way it works means I get into games much easier than I can in BF4. And I do like my sci fi.


I did notice something interesting though, it has a built in FPS thing at the bottom of the screen. It averaged at about 15, and the fact that I noticed no difference between it and other games, means I might want to upgrade by laptop.

PS2 *can* be really fun. I think the only things you can buy that you can't earn are special silver/golden versions of the guns, and maybe some camo/decals.

New items will only be immediately available to players who buy them, or who have been hoarding their certs, however. Like when they came out with the crossbow secondary to compliment the changes to one of the sniper/recon/i-forget-what-they-call-them active camo abilities... you'd have to buy or earn one, and people with money had them first. But doesn't mean someone couldn't get one after grinding or have saved points.

Spending money also helps to make your vehicle of choice much more effective much quicker. You have to spend certs to upgrade your proficiencies and weapons and vehicle weapons, can't spend money for that... but some of the guns for the tanks, planes, ATVs, and the party bus are *much* better than the stock weapons.

Like a mosquito with stock nose gun and the extra engine pods will probably get demolished by someone with the A2A missiles which, if you're just starting, are miles away.

Fun game though.

 Ashiraya wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow5fR_0cj44&t=19m35s

Or you do it like a boss.

With combo spam. Which is basically what he said.

 Ashiraya wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow5fR_0cj44&t=19m35s

Or you do it like a boss.

Went and watched that video. The basic premise is the exact same thing I did, except sub zero has the freezing bonus and can combo Khan on the ground. But the entire fight in that video involves leaping over him and hitting him in the back: only with ice and combo instead of uppercut. It's the most monotonous fight ever. Any time he tries to break from that norm, he takes a rising shoulder or hammer to the face.

Original Everquest again....just nailed out my Epic 1.0 on the Cleric. Working on the SK now for his Epic 1.0

Edit

On patch day. The first "Rome: Total War"

Welp, it seems my biggest ability is dieing, but never-the-less, I am now battlerank 7 in planetside 2.

Dying is easy, especially if you're spawning at a base under heavy siege or from a sunderer that's really close to the action.

What class are you playing? Heavy was always popular when I played but I usually spent a lot of time between engineer and infiltrator cause snowflake Medic is pretty awesome too. It's a lot better with 4-5 levels pumped into the medic gun thing, but they get the second best class of gun--assault rifles. They tend to have a range/damage boost over carbines, though they aren't quite up there with HMGs. The medic's AOE heal is pretty useful too, it's kind of like the heavy's overshield but you can share it. Plus when you are a n00b with bad gear, battle rezzing the skilled and geared players around you is the most help you can give

Been switching between heavy and combat medic depending on the situation.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Been switching between heavy and combat medic depending on the situation.

Medic is probably best for early leveling. Get the res grenades and you can make a bunch of certs especially during large battles. The key to playing that game as cheap as possible is to pick one or two things and only do those things. If you try to spread your certs out amongst all the classes and vehicles you will take forever to max anything. Make use of the VR training to check out guns you might want and grind for them. Optics are also cheap cert wise and can do a lot for you - there are generally a bunch of different options nowadays so once again, check 'em out in the VR training and see what you like. Pick a playstyle and practice, and look for a decent outfit because attacking a base with 40-50 dudes is where the game really starts to shine.

I agree with Bromsy, my VGADD caused me to waste a lot of effort (and a little money), but if you can find one thing you like and focus fire it.. you'll do fine.

Working my way through the campaign missions of Starcraft 2. Also learning to play Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Working my way through the campaign missions of Starcraft 2. Also learning to play Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm or both. I've never been much of a zerg fan myself. I am really looking forward to the protoss campaign whenever that happens. Protoss in my mind were the best faction in Wings of Liberty at least. In Heart of the Swarm terran may have appealed to me more but i'm unsure. I used to like terran in the original. I just can't get behind zerg though. It just seems all weird to me in comparison to the other 2 factions. That said i'm getting more used to it.

I picked up Hotline Miami 2 and had a run through it. Phew, its the first one and more. Plot everywhere, which is great ...if you're into its style. Doing away with the masks I'm not entirely sure about, but they replaced it with multiple characters and more unique play styles for each (forcing you to adapt to these at certain points varied between a right bugger and an interesting variation). I'll say its definitely harder than the first.

That second last level (for those who've played it, I'm meaning before the trippy gak) was a nightmare ...perhaps self enforced due to not electing to use any weapons but the character's fists. A hundred attempts later and I was moving through the last floor on some sort of meticulous path. One screw up and I was dead, particularly difficult given that I kept thinking to myself how much easier it would have been if I could just shoot some of the guys.

So a great step up in the series, and I'd love to see more. Though, heh, that ending. I like the plot and setting, but I don't know where they could take it, and I'm not sure if they should. Seeing more games from the developers with similar themes would be cool at least.

Still loving World of Warships.

I suck, but I mean SUCK when I use battleships and yet they are the ones I love the most. I just keep getting destroying, but I don't care, I'll keep using them because they are AWESOME!

What can only be destined as too much planet-side 2. That game just pulls you in. There is this huge influx of NC in the region, they contol about 80% of the land now. I was in this one defense, 30 vs 70, but we held for well over half an hour.