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 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity and World of Warships.

WoW open beta shouldn't be too far off, so I don't think I'll be unlocking that many ships until then, tier VIII Battleship already takes a massive ammount of XP.

PoE is just... wow... what a fething awesome game.

What is your favourite ship so far?

Kongō is love, Kongō is life. BURNING LOVE, FTW!

Spoiler:

In all seriousness, besides loving the KanColle character, it was a very happy coincidence how Kongō IS my favorite ship so far: It's a battleship with cannons that manage to give one hell of a fight to both Fusos and Nagatos (and annihilate both cruisers and destroyers, ofc), her AA is top notch for tier V and her speed, oh man, a battleship with 30 knots of speed? It's heaven. I manage to dodge torpedos much easier with my burning love dispenser than with the slowpoke the Nagato is.

If your love is burning, you should probably see a urologist.

I am sorry, I just can't help it.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity and World of Warships.

WoW open beta shouldn't be too far off, so I don't think I'll be unlocking that many ships until then, tier VIII Battleship already takes a massive ammount of XP.

PoE is just... wow... what a fething awesome game.

What is your favourite ship so far?

Kongō is love, Kongō is life. BURNING LOVE, FTW!

Spoiler:

In all seriousness, besides loving the KanColle character, it was a very happy coincidence how Kongō IS my favorite ship so far: It's a battleship with cannons that manage to give one hell of a fight to both Fusos and Nagatos (and annihilate both cruisers and destroyers, ofc), her AA is top notch for tier V and her speed, oh man, a battleship with 30 knots of speed? It's heaven. I manage to dodge torpedos much easier with my burning love dispenser than with the slowpoke the Nagato is.

Fair, I'm loving my Aoba.

Played some Hearthstone last night... just figured out how to play other players without having to spend gold. Yay!

Going to play some more tonight after I get some hobby work started.

I'm still on Warframe. Putting off the formaing of my gear as I don't want to level it all up again.

Busy levelling my Shadow Priest through Draenor. It's fairly good, moderately laid-back questing, and improves a bit further on the breadcrumb-trail questing from Cataclysm and MoP. MoP especially, didn't particularly like you straying from the quest chains, and there was a lot of running around and going back and forth to complete all the zones, but WoD gives you a hub in each zone early on, and the option to go off and do whichever quest chains you want in whatever order, with nearly all of them ending with you in a position to immediately pick up another.

The introduction of 'events' (image GW2's events, and you've pretty much nailed it, except WoW's have been once-per-character as far as I can tell) has made questing a bit more enjoyable, as you can take a short diversion and be rewarded with A LOT of exp (I'd go as far as too say a little too much) for a reasonable amount of effort, but over a small, clearly-defined area.

One thing I don't like that MoP started on, are common-as-muck 'rare' mobs. The rares you get in WoD are only rare until your character kills them for the first time, and most of them aren't even true rares. They usually respawn in under half a minute, and don't really mark anywhere of importance; they're just named monsters that drop garrison resources and a rare/'epic' (they might as well be rare; I see no point in them being purple) item.

In MoP, they had an actual respawn timer, but there were so many of them that you could do a circuit of an area or two and the first one you kill would have a decent chance of having respawned already. On an empty server, or late at night, you basically had free rare farm. This rare-until-killed system in WoD combats rare-farming, but has added so many of the things that it no longer feels like an achievement to find and kill them. Most of them are weaker than the mods that are around them. Going back to the system of Vanilla-Cataclysm of having a small number of always rare mobs with multiple potential spawns and decently long respawn timers would be infinitely preferable.

Aside from that, the only other niggling issue I have is that instance quests are now located whilst questing again. Nobody in PUGs shares quests, so having all (or the majority of) the instance quests able to be picked up inside the instance was a great help, and meant that even when levelling, you'd do each instance at least once so you got the quests done--the quest exp and rewards usually made up for the exp you'd have gotten whilst questing normally. Now there's really no point, and it's back to how it used to be before the Cataclysm overhaul of old content: ignore dungeons completely when levelling, because they just slow you down.

Not that I can see it slowing you down massively. I've done 3 dungeons thus far, and still managed to get 8 and 1/3 levels in Draenor over the past 2 nights. The levelling experience is definitely a hell of a lot more different than the hellish slog-fest that MoP's levelling was. I don't actually feel like topping myself when I quest any more.

Playing more Galactic Civilizations 3. It is definitely a thing on normal difficulty where influence can easily win the game with very little influence boosts. It's so potent the other victory types become pointless. Even if i was to disable it 90% or more of the worlds i get would be through influence alone. I may have to increase the difficulty of enemy A.I. but i feel like aside from not knowing how to handle the player's zone of influence and being able to counter they don't do too poorly. That said this is partly because i'm a noob but if i'm not mistaken they seem to have way more crap than they should considering the worlds i take from them. It's the typical cheating A.I. in strategy games with boosted abilities to make up for knowing wtf they're actually doing.

I feel like if you want a real challenge go against human opponents in this game. If you don't the A.I. opponents are rather disappointing so far.

Alien: Isolation.

This is a game that understands how to do its genre right. A REAL survivor horror, not a run 'n' gun game iwth a few jump scares.

 Melissia wrote:
Alien: Isolation.

This is a game that understands how to do its genre right. A REAL survivor horror, not a run 'n' gun game iwth a few jump scares.

It's a shame they padded the length of that game so much, would've been near perfect if they didn't do that.

Went from Angry Chicken to Leper Gnome in Hearthstone tonight.

 djphranq wrote:
Went from Angry Chicken to Leper Gnome in Hearthstone tonight.

I bet you feel icky right now!

I'm still doing BF4 - just hit Rank 23! Still using that AK12 on the Assault class, since I got that fancy IR scope on it.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity and World of Warships.

WoW open beta shouldn't be too far off, so I don't think I'll be unlocking that many ships until then, tier VIII Battleship already takes a massive ammount of XP.

PoE is just... wow... what a fething awesome game.

What is PoE?

 Desubot wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity and World of Warships.

WoW open beta shouldn't be too far off, so I don't think I'll be unlocking that many ships until then, tier VIII Battleship already takes a massive ammount of XP.

PoE is just... wow... what a fething awesome game.

What is PoE?

Player vs Enviourment I assume

 Desubot wrote:


What is PoE?

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Desubot wrote:


What is PoE?

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity

Oh woops sorry what kind of game is it?

 Desubot wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Desubot wrote:


What is PoE?

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity

Oh woops sorry what kind of game is it?

An old school RPG. Basically the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate.

I thought it was Path of Exile.

Not in this context.

I actually play a lot of Runescape right now. Otherwise, I can be seen playing Ace Combat: Infinity (on PS3), Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2, Tropico 5, and Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth.

Yeah it was Path of Exile for awhile, now it's probably going to be Pillars of Eternity, or well both...

Agarest Generations of War: 5th generation, I need forbidden tome IV so I can get the 4th gen MC back and have my 5-generation hero party I really need another proper character, as usual I was using NPCs that disappear at the end of the generation and now I'm stuck with placeholders till I find new characters I like better.

Loaded up Agarest Zero just to check it out, looks pretty much the same with some graphical updates and menu tweaks... kinda looking forward to it.

May run Valkyria Chronicles sometime too.

Got in a couple more games of Hearthstone this evening to silence the voices in my head. Eventually though they were shouting loud enough that I had to stop and switch to looking at kitten videos on Facebook... the voices are pleased...

Elite: Dangerous.

Warning. Clinical Psychopaths only need apply.

That game is seriously frelled! Thought I would play it safe on solo play before I went out with others. So I got ganked by an NPC on my first flight, he demanded my cargo or my life.

Problem 1. The game starts you in a system that is going through what is a civil war, no matter what you do, you are going to annoy someone and risk a ganking before you have really got your feet in the game.

Problem 2. You start at a station without a market, so you can't buy anything there. You have to fly to another station to buy anything and then on to a third to sell it.

So I had no cargo to drop, and I got ganked by a much larger ship. NO FUN!

And despite being 'solo play', it requires a functioning internet connection because it's actually a P2P network and that means that the prices at the stations are probably stored on someone else's computer! You can't play it off-line whether you want to or not.

Still, I'm going to keep slugging away in solo until I have a decent ship, and have upgraded it completely. Then I'm going to go into the galaxy with everyone else and vanish.

They reckon that people are mapping 12 new systems a minute in the game, but at that rate it'll still take over 150,000 years to map them all. I aim to bring that down a bit once I'm equipped to do so.

Wait, what? Is the game procedurally generated, or what? Or is it based on 'real space' and everybody in it is PCs?



Just bought Runers, and am planning on playing a little today. Got into a Let's Play of it, was intrigued by the spell crafting system.

I'm about to start playing some Hearthstone again. yay... gonna try to make it past Leper Gnome.


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so ... uh ... yeah... made argent squire... gonna go sleep now YAYAYAYAYAYAY!

Anvildude wrote:
Wait, what? Is the game procedurally generated, or what? Or is it based on 'real space' and everybody in it is PCs?



Just bought Runers, and am planning on playing a little today. Got into a Let's Play of it, was intrigued by the spell crafting system.

Pretty much. I believe even the 'solo play' takes all the information on what has been discovered/what the market prices are from the MMO side of the game, just you don't interact directly with all the other players. Strange that even then their actions affect your market and yours affects theirs. This means that after 2 weeks away, the trade routes I had before, aren't as profitable, which means that I will have to do more of them and risk losing my ship and cargo to an NPC git again. I went from 10K bank balance to owing 1.3K just to get back to having the ship I was in and a 1K loan so I had capital to start buying cargo again.

This is why I am so desperate to get a good ship and go out scanning new systems - minimal chance of being acosted by NPCs OR PK's, and you can sell the scan data.

 toasteroven wrote:

Anvildude wrote:
Why would you do a Completionist Run of a Bethesda game? That's practically madness.

Isn't that reason enough?

Yes it is. I played through all the quests in Fallout 3. Now I just need to explore every single location on the map!

Getting back in to Minecraft/FtB a little bit. I strangely still enjoy starting over fresh sometimes...

Playing Terraria to relax. It soothes me, not sure why. Discovered my first bugged ocean, though. No water, just a flat expanse of sand covered in coral and shells.

My guilty freemium pleasure is the Simpsons Tapped Out game.

I keep going back to Insurgency.

Generally not a fan of online shooters, but this one keeps drawing me back in. I play "Push" mode exclusively, as I love the pace and the maps, even Sinjar.

Got to the point in Shadow of Mordor where I can start minds controlling Orcs. Wasn't sure I'd like/use that aspect at first, but do I? Oh hell yes! Nothing quite like wading in to about 30 Orcs, pulling off a few combos and having half of them on your side. Use them to even the odds, wipe out the enemy, then explode the heads of any of your guys left over! *maniacal laughter*

What, they're only orcs