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2BlackJack1 wrote:

 djphranq wrote:
Had a Clan War today in Clash of Clans. Got both my attacks in already. 1st attack was a 2 star which is more than I was expecting. Did a gowipe but just didn't have enough punch to my army. 2nd attack was supposed to be a 'clean up'... i was supposed to get the third star from a previously attacked base. Only managed to get 2 stars so of course no gain. I ran out of time... just needed maybe 20 more seconds and I would have had that 3rd star.

I've been there before, and it's never been a pretty sight. I've witnessed the infamous 99% one star because dragon's AI made them sweep an entire base and ignore the Town Hall. My current war is pretty easy. Both bases I have to face are rushed town hall 8's, and I'm nearing max town hall 8. Gowipe both of them, and I'm in the clear.

I also finished that Civ 5 game as Gandhi. I ended up doing a science victory, but made sure to let every country know who led the world in wars before I finished. That meant wiping out Babylon, and destroying every other civ's navy (thea was mostly ocean, so that removed their entire armies as soon as they were out of production). I also bullied some civs into giving me cities when theu called for peace treaties. (Thanks for half your country, Egypt. )

Nice! This makes me want to reinstall Civ 5. I love guaranteeing a victory in something but then going ahead and completing the domination haha.

War Kitten wrote:I've been playing Dragon Age: Inquisition. Never beaten the game, just keep restarting for some reason, but I just love all the choice you get.

Been looking to try it out. I bought it the other day. What is keeping me from playing it right away is that I'm trying to finish the first 2 games to carry over save files.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I just hate facing those jerks in night missions (lower human player vision radius) and on terror missions where there are lots of civilians and similar around. It forces you to go out and find the chrysallids (reapers) but if you go too fast you leave yourself open to getting shot by the other aliens. Corner up and shoot enemies and then you'll have so many chrysallids (reapers) on you that you'll get overrun.

In X-Com UFO Defense, you invariably met them in a terror mission, which meant that it was night with lots of civilians around, while carrying regular rifles, and with no armor heavier than the cloth uniform your troops were wearing.

Or in other words, you're meeting their copies exactly the way that you're supposed to.



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 djphranq wrote:


Been looking to try it out. I bought it the other day. What is keeping me from playing it right away is that I'm trying to finish the first 2 games to carry over save files.

You don't carry over save files anymore. Everything is handled through Dragon Age Keep. You're supposed to be able to import your saves into the Keep, but in my experience it's buggy.

Eumerin wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I just hate facing those jerks in night missions (lower human player vision radius) and on terror missions where there are lots of civilians and similar around. It forces you to go out and find the chrysallids (reapers) but if you go too fast you leave yourself open to getting shot by the other aliens. Corner up and shoot enemies and then you'll have so many chrysallids (reapers) on you that you'll get overrun.

In X-Com UFO Defense, you invariably met them in a terror mission, which meant that it was night with lots of civilians around, while carrying regular rifles, and with no armor heavier than the cloth uniform your troops were wearing.

Or in other words, you're meeting their copies exactly the way that you're supposed to.



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 djphranq wrote:


Been looking to try it out. I bought it the other day. What is keeping me from playing it right away is that I'm trying to finish the first 2 games to carry over save files.

You don't carry over save files anymore. Everything is handled through Dragon Age Keep. You're supposed to be able to import your saves into the Keep, but in my experience it's buggy.

That's horrifying. I just tackled my first battleship crashsite and had to skip out on the battleship that forced a terror mission just shortly after. It was pretty lame that I couldn't do anything. Had I tried with my wounded troops (3 also died) then I would've lost everybody. A tough call but southern Africa will survive that attack for now. It'll seriously hurt income for next month though. I'm also going to have to start getting faster ships again like marauders. The other ships are nearly as fast but just barely outpaced by the enemy ships. They're still effective but not as much as they need to be. For some odd reason I can't even get alien leaders anymore lately. Perhaps I missed out? I did come upon a dead praetor (ethereal) in the crashed battleship though. I really want to get MAG weapons if nothing else but I can't seem to lately. Perhaps I should try some of the caesan battleships if I'm even able to find some.

Btw that carrier ship I fought and won on the 3rd time landed and that's when I had to attack it. It can be a very iffy thing but landed UFO's have all the tech intact so it's a much better keep. That said I'm not facing reaper battleships esp. at night. That's just an ugly situation waiting to happen.

Having fun with Blackguards (What an awesome Humble Bundle) and Trine 2 while I wait for Fallout 4. I am so damn hyped for this game.

Hearthstone's new Tavern Brawl is really fun!

Is DA Inquisition on Steam or Origin?

Gonna play some more Planetside 2.

Origin.

After completing RDR I decided I needed a bit more of a challenge, and started on Bloodborn again. And damn! This game be kicking the living shades of blood out of me, but its great fun and the atmosphere.

Been playing a lot of Europa Universalis IV recently, mainly because the common sense expansion actually makes the game quite difficult.

I have also started playing Shadow of Mordor finally, what a great game, incredibly well made.

I STILL HATE DEAD MONEY.

THAT IS ALL.

Started to really enjoy Fallout Shelter now I have learned NOT TO LEVEL UP ANY OF MY DWELLERS - EVER!

Oh, and getting into FNV too. Now, where can I find mods for my Plasma rifle? My pistol is almost as powerful. I also like the fact that laser and plasma pistols share ammo, and laser and plasma rifles share a different ammo. Kinda makes laser weapons redundant, though.

Conrad Turner wrote:Started to really enjoy Fallout Shelter now I have learned NOT TO LEVEL UP ANY OF MY DWELLERS - EVER!

Oh, and getting into FNV too. Now, where can I find mods for my Plasma rifle? My pistol is almost as powerful. I also like the fact that laser and plasma pistols share ammo, and laser and plasma rifles share a different ammo. Kinda makes laser weapons redundant, though.

Well, laser weapons have much faster projectiles and fire faster, so you have to be more accurate with plasma weapons, but mods are always hard to find. Gun runners usually has a few though. If you are on PC, then I'd reccomedn getting the weapon mod vending machine mod or something similar, it still costs the same ludicrous amounts, but you can actually find mods. Also get weapon mods expamded (WMX), it brings all weapons to have 3 mods.

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Started to really enjoy Fallout Shelter now I have learned NOT TO LEVEL UP ANY OF MY DWELLERS - EVER!

Oh, and getting into FNV too. Now, where can I find mods for my Plasma rifle? My pistol is almost as powerful. I also like the fact that laser and plasma pistols share ammo, and laser and plasma rifles share a different ammo. Kinda makes laser weapons redundant, though.

Silver Rush in Freeside, opposite the atomic wrangler.

Been playing the odd bit of ARMA 3, trying to get a hang of flying the Little Bird with a controller.

Mount and Blade Warband. A bit. Sort of. I put in an admin applicable for a server which sorely needs some, but the owner's have dragged their heels about it for almost a month. ...And given the snitty response which was given when following up on what's going on I'm not entirely endeared. ¬¬

Besides that its been the Elder Scrolls Online. I bought the latest DLC. Its all right, just another zone really. The progression seems a bit flat, but perhaps that's been due to me doing mostly the side quests. For a piece of DLC its more seamless than the last one, though like a lot of the veteran areas the better gear seems like its only available to those who want to spend their lives grinding random loot drops. :/

...On which subject - Chitin Armour (a common low level set from Morrowind) is hellish to find even one piece of. :(

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Started to really enjoy Fallout Shelter now I have learned NOT TO LEVEL UP ANY OF MY DWELLERS - EVER!

Oh, and getting into FNV too. Now, where can I find mods for my Plasma rifle? My pistol is almost as powerful. I also like the fact that laser and plasma pistols share ammo, and laser and plasma rifles share a different ammo. Kinda makes laser weapons redundant, though.

Silver Rush in Freeside, opposite the atomic wrangler.

Tried there and gun runners several times. No luck as yet. Maybe now I'm L10 I'll head down to the abandoned BoS base and do that for a while. Will have to stock up on ammo before I leave, so I'll probably trawl all the merchants and buy out all the cells I can.. Glad I found out I can 'buy' drained energy cells for nothing, convert them to full ones, and either use them or sell them for a profit. Probably ought to do that with ammo remains too, but as I am an energy based character, I have not been bothering with physical ammo at all.

Thanks for the suggestions though, looks like I'll just have to wait a bit more - not too long I hope, as the bombs drop in just 3 days, 15 hours and 24 minutes!

finally have gotten around to playing This War Of Mine, enjoying it so far.

also gog.com are having a sale, and I've already unlocked the codes to some games I already have. Anyone interested in System Shock 2, Chronicles of Riddick, or Banished?

Just played episode 1 of Tales from the Borderlands. 'Twas free on Xbox Live. Tons of fun, gotta get the full game now. Telltale Games is proving itself to be an awesome game company.

Just had a figth with a rather odd characther in Bloodborn, whom saw himself as a guardian of the beasts you butcher on your way trough the game. Some rather unexpected deep and complex dialouge from that one, made me pause and think about the enemies in the game, Witch is something that seldom happen really these days. Yet another reason why I love this game

 Conrad Turner wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Started to really enjoy Fallout Shelter now I have learned NOT TO LEVEL UP ANY OF MY DWELLERS - EVER!

Oh, and getting into FNV too. Now, where can I find mods for my Plasma rifle? My pistol is almost as powerful. I also like the fact that laser and plasma pistols share ammo, and laser and plasma rifles share a different ammo. Kinda makes laser weapons redundant, though.

Silver Rush in Freeside, opposite the atomic wrangler.

Tried there and gun runners several times. No luck as yet. Maybe now I'm L10 I'll head down to the abandoned BoS base and do that for a while. Will have to stock up on ammo before I leave, so I'll probably trawl all the merchants and buy out all the cells I can.. Glad I found out I can 'buy' drained energy cells for nothing, convert them to full ones, and either use them or sell them for a profit. Probably ought to do that with ammo remains too, but as I am an energy based character, I have not been bothering with physical ammo at all.

Thanks for the suggestions though, looks like I'll just have to wait a bit more - not too long I hope, as the bombs drop in just 3 days, 15 hours and 24 minutes!

Ah ok. There were many weapon mods cut from the base game, but there are mods which add them back into the game.


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 timetowaste85 wrote:
Just played episode 1 of Tales from the Borderlands. 'Twas free on Xbox Live. Tons of fun, gotta get the full game now. Telltale Games is proving itself to be an awesome game company.

Their Game of Thrones is a bit disappointing though.

Walking Dead Season 2 was incredible.

My brother roped me into playing league of legends with him, fun so far.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

Ah ok. There were many weapon mods cut from the base game, but there are mods which add them back into the game.

I am playing the Ultimate Edition, including "Dead Money", "Honest Hearts", "Old World Blues", "Lonesome Road", "Gun Runner's Arsenal" and "Courier's Stash". Should I be looking for more?

 Conrad Turner wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

Ah ok. There were many weapon mods cut from the base game, but there are mods which add them back into the game.

I am playing the Ultimate Edition, including "Dead Money", "Honest Hearts", "Old World Blues", "Lonesome Road", "Gun Runner's Arsenal" and "Courier's Stash". Should I be looking for more?

No, I mean there are 3rd party Mods on PC on sites like Nexus which restore cut content ( such as gun "mods") back into the game.

The reason why some weapons don't have any mods/upgrades are because they were cut from the game before release.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
My brother roped me into playing league of legends with him, fun so far.

Eh. I played that for a while. It just got boring after a time. That and the obvious *HACKripoffCOUGH* borrowed from DOTA nature of the gameplay and several champions just killed my interest in playing.
I still enjoy watching my brother play, but I've no interesting re-joining the league myself anytime soon.

Gone back to some Spellforce. Wanting a job so I can buy L4D2 and play with some buddies.



@Conrad Turner. Some mods to try out after your 1st playthrough

A World of Pain
New Vegas Bounties 1, 2 and 3
Classic Weapons mod
Weapons of the new Millenia

Some quest and Weapon mods there. Greatest things ever.

Just played GCPD Lockdown, the Nightwing 'post ending' DLC for Arkham Knight.

What a freaking waste of time that is. 2 fights and a predator map. - And the second, final fight was just a rehash of the GCPD fight in the main game.

Of course, it added nothing at all to the actual story.

Finished Halo 5: Guardians. The storyline hasn't really been as gripping as it once was, and I wasn't pleased to see I wasn't as much of a walking tank anymore. (Honestly would've preferred not being able to be revived, but had more health instead).

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Finished Halo 5: Guardians. The storyline hasn't really been as gripping as it once was, and I wasn't pleased to see I wasn't as much of a walking tank anymore. (Honestly would've preferred not being able to be revived, but had more health instead).

I wish I still had an XBOX One so I can play Halo 5. I really love the series... well mostly 1-3 plus odst, reach, and halo wars... 4 was kind of cool but still felt weird for some reason.

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Finally got around to trying out my copy of Black Ops III (was going to play yesterday but got sleepy...only had enough energy to finish installing.)

I'm loving the campaign so far. I put it right up there with COD4:MW and Halo 3:ODST as far as campaigns that really sucked me in. I have yet to try multiplayer... I'm really curious to see how the abilities you get in the singleplayer translate to mulitplayer.

Also discovered a new Mobile game: Fantasy War Tactics

Really great polish to it and so far no abrupt crashes. I like the story so far ... reminds me of Excel Saga.

Valiant Hearts

Bring tissues.

Think I might start up Fallout 1 again. Got as far as Shady Sands last time. Better late than never eh?