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I have Fallout 4, but it only seems to work when it wants to. Sometimes I load it up and everything is fine, other times, everything freezes up the moment I try to move.

So I got out Fallout 3 instead, because I never finished that one, because I got too overmodded. Playing it with no mods at all this time.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Rome 1 and Shogun 2 are some of my favourites!

Which one would you recommend? I've got the capabilities to play both, might need to do some computer stuff to make them run on Windows10.

 Ashiraya wrote:


My main conclusion is 'Alarak is awesome.'

His mission series is the next set for me.

 Frozocrone wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
Rome 1 and Shogun 2 are some of my favourites!

Which one would you recommend? I've got the capabilities to play both, might need to do some computer stuff to make them run on Windows10.

No idea of how well they run on Windows 10. I'd suggest Shogun 2 simply because it's newer and has graphical and mechanical improvements, but Rome has some charm that simply can't be matched.

I'd choose based on your preference of location and time period.

 Frozocrone wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
Rome 1 and Shogun 2 are some of my favourites!

Which one would you recommend? I've got the capabilities to play both, might need to do some computer stuff to make them run on Windows10.

Never played rome 1 but if you get shogun 2 make sure you have somewhat of a love for eastern culture's warfare. I didn't and it was kinda meh for me. That said shogun 2: fall of the samurai is a lot of fun. It takes place around the time of the American civil war and there are a lot of guns, gatling guns and awesome cannon based ships. Naval warfare is more about blowing the enemy up and land warfare is very heavy on artillery to the extent it basically carries the team. The old wooden cannons are the exception but even they can snipe out some generals as funny as it can be and they can destroy enemy walls in fortress fights. Late tier it's absolutely true about most shogun units being made obsolete. Unless you try storming a fortress without cannons then it can be rough.

I also have only respect for those that love deus ex though I only got to play 'human revolution' myself and found it fantastic. As much as I liked Adam Jensen I kinda wished he did die as it made more sense for the game but I like his character a lot.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
The only casualty that my Possessed warband seems to suffer is my Magister, he seems to die EVERY SINGLE GAME. I have taken to hiding him now and using him as a spell caster and even that doesn't work. Last game he suffered the curse of Tzeentch that hit him for 6666 damage and ended up breaking his skull. Stupid spell casters, whats the worst that can happen?

Its come on massively as a game although there are still issues (the AI likes to get stuck in terrain, secondary objectives are nearly impossible to fulfill because the enemy tends to rout before you get a chance to do them, various balance problems...)

I play with skaven and for whatever reason my black skaven with heavy armor and esp. the halberd are proving to be potent. The other basic henchmen seem kinda weak and I chose to make them more shooting based (sadly they can only use skuriken stars but at least they reload super fast and fire easily). My leaders tended to die a lot early on and now my most experienced guys are the heroes beneath the leader. It's mostly the nightrunners esp. the one with the boosted gear. I wish I'd known about the veteran system's abilities you can unlock. Anyway the game is fun and losses tend to be a big deal.

I sacked my brain damaged Magister, his stupidity was crippling even with his high intelligence.

My new one uses a bow

Halberds are a bit unbalanced in that they are effectively great weapons that you can parry with which makes them markedly superior to all the other greatweapons (unless thats been recently changed, I've not used my Mercs in a couple of patches).

Started both War Thunder and WoT. Definetly prefer War Thunder

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Frozocrone wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
Rome 1 and Shogun 2 are some of my favourites!

Which one would you recommend? I've got the capabilities to play both, might need to do some computer stuff to make them run on Windows10.

No idea of how well they run on Windows 10. I'd suggest Shogun 2 simply because it's newer and has graphical and mechanical improvements, but Rome has some charm that simply can't be matched.

I'd choose based on your preference of location and time period.

Found my Medieval II disc! Luckily I don't need to do anything for Windows 10 (aside from installing it with the CD key from Steam) so I've got that to tide me over and get to grips with the mechanics again.

I know what you mean about Rome. I've played Heroes of Might and Magic III & V. The former just...clicks.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
I sacked my brain damaged Magister, his stupidity was crippling even with his high intelligence.

My new one uses a bow

Halberds are a bit unbalanced in that they are effectively great weapons that you can parry with which makes them markedly superior to all the other greatweapons (unless thats been recently changed, I've not used my Mercs in a couple of patches).

I've played a lot more. Got one of my leaders killed. At one point another guy was crippled so bad he was not able to be healed. Pretty sure that's means you're the next meal in the case of skaven.

Sadly my eshin sorcerer got a cracked skull and is now stupid. He was finished off by casting a spell and had low hp. I actually laughed at it. Same as I laughed when one of my henchmen tried jumping up and failed horribly finishing off his last hp and dying. I will say tripping on a trap is super annoying though.

For skaven I find the ranged weapons are doing fairly well. Not insanely good but my favorite skill is warp poison. You'd be surprised how potent it is on your ranged guys. A few shots on some choice heavy duty enemies with lots of actions points renders their action points super low. Even if things go bad the shooters tend to handle combat ok currently. Skaven are still fragile though but I imagine the super fast ranged soldiers are much better. It allows me to move around the opponent and grab lots of warpstone.

I've actually accomplished some bonus objectives and they help somewhat by awarding you extra xp and some special gear. I think it's mostly just items but the bonus to do it is definitely there.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I think it's mostly just items but the bonus to do it is definitely there.

It is, I have done a few. The issue with them though is that they are largely luck dependent; they are heavily dependent on the map and even if I get good map placement the enemy warband usually routs before I can actually do the mission anyway, even if that was to knock out 2 specific enemies.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I think it's mostly just items but the bonus to do it is definitely there.

It is, I have done a few. The issue with them though is that they are largely luck dependent; they are heavily dependent on the map and even if I get good map placement the enemy warband usually routs before I can actually do the mission anyway, even if that was to knock out 2 specific enemies.

I agree that it is. Lord help you if most of the enemy warband is facing just a few of your guys and most of your dudes are off twiddling their thumbs hanging around nowhere.

 Ashiraya wrote:


My main conclusion is 'Alarak is awesome.'

I suspect that he's voiced by the always awesome John Delancie ('Q'). Unfortunately, I can't be completely certain of this, as I didn't see the VAs mentioned anywhere in the credits roll. Not sure what's up with that.


Also, I've now completed the campaign. Very cool storyline finish, although I hated the last mission.


There was one item that I was rather puzzled about.





Edit -

Apparently Blizzard's got more single-player content for StarCraft II on the way. Three sets of three single-player missions called "Nova Covert Ops" are scheduled for release, with the first expected by June of next year. As the name suggests, they'll star everyones' favorite blond ghost (who will *finally* be getting her own release...), and they'll show players what's going on in the post-war Terran Dominion.

Trailer and brief interview located here - http://www.gamespot.com/articles/starcraft-2-legacy-of-the-void-nova-covert-ops-ann/1100-6432039/

Fallout 4. Don't really like the "Sims: Fallout" sections as that and the mod system is making me hunt the wasteland for things that don't make sense - how many usable bottles of superglue and rolls of duct tape would there be 210 years after the bombs being dropped for you to turn into "Adhesives" so you can paint your power armour a different colour?

But still, really love roaming the wasteland with my currently unmodified laser musket dressed in a Tux and glasses. Kinda wish that my character had shaved now. That 5 O'clock shadow doesn't really suit the image.

I have recently been finding that ammo is scarce, but that should improve now I have the Scrounger perk, and have switched to an unmodified smg which has been a blast in the Corvega factory.

For me shogun 2 I and the expansions / standalones for it are the best games in the total war series.


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I wish fallout 4 let you put armour ontop of clothing like tuxedos etc, would be a lot of fun to stroll the wasteland in an tuxedo with bits of tire and metal over the top as armour.

Alarak is indeed Q! It's been confirmed.

In a couple hours, I can say Battlefront! First in line to get my ticket (and I live a mile away, can go home while I wait until they assign groups).

Almost done with Black Ops III campaign. Man what a trip! Just found out I can upgrade my cyber powers. Woot!

Also been playing Call of Duty Heroes on my iPad... its pretty much another Clash of Clans clone just with a COD skin.

Almost at the end of Black Ops III's single player campaign... think I got 1 more mission to go. After that I'm thinking of going through the Dragon Age games starting with Origins.

After getting Morrowind and noticing the first 3 Elder Scrolls games came with it, I'm thinking of playing through all 5 in order as soon as I get Oblivion. I like roleplaying the situations, and having my character act as if it was its own character. I'm thinking of doing something similar to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, where each game's protagonist would be another member of the "family" (which would be weird if Daggerfall had an Orc and then Morrowind had a Breton, but whatever).

Eumerin wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:


My main conclusion is 'Alarak is awesome.'

There was one item that I was rather puzzled about.

Spoiler:

Wings of Liberty had two different choices that you had to make during the game. One was whether to help the colonists fight off the Protoss, or help the Protoss burn out the Zerg. The other was whether to side with Nova or the rogue specter. The second choice had a quick callback in Heart of the Swarm (Nova apologizes if you helped her in WoL, but orders are orders). But so far as I noticed, there were no other references either way to the choices you made in WoL. I found that rather surprising. Also, I noticed that the zerg queen who was conspicuously abandoned in HotS aboard the Protoss starship that she infested was never mentioned in Legacy of the Void. I guess they're leaving that for the future.

I'm actually surprised they incorporated your choices from wings of liberty in 'heart of the swarm'. That said sadly as is the case in most games regardless of your choices the ending is usually the same regardless as if it didn't even matter. I am reminded of KotOR 1 and 2. If you were good or bad or male or female in the first it didn't really seem to effect the outcome of KotOR 2. In some cases they just didn't talk about it. In starcraft 2 heart of the swarm the only real difference with the choices was some dialog according to you but the main events never really changed.



So yeah it's just disappointing sometimes as if in the end your choices don't really matter in the game. It's part of why I don't like open ended games when sequels are concerned.

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I've been playing mordheim a lot. I find it funny my spellcaster has stupidity and seems to fail the test often enough, one guy has only one arm (oddly this improves his dodge and he now has 80% dodge chance), another has one leg (which sucks overall for movement purposes) and another is missing an eye which isn't too bad oddly enough. I find it funny the missing arm guy is actually one of my nice fighters with such a great dodge ability. It's kind of funny some teams are falling apart at the seams.

Oh and one time I tried casting 'bless with filth' on my eshin sorcerer and he did 6666 damage to himself and died instantly at game start. It was a mixture of funny and crap. Honestly though spellcasters sound cool I can't help but feel they kinda suck in the computer version of mordheim. Either that or I just fail magic tests too much and having a stupidity based wizard really sucks.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Honestly though spellcasters sound cool I can't help but feel they kinda suck in the computer version of mordheim. Either that or I just fail magic tests too much and having a stupidity based wizard really sucks.

There were all but useless in Mordheim as well.

Some spells are pretty useful in this version though, lure of chaos is great (it forces a leadership to check to break from combat, allowing anyone in melee range of the target to get a free hit).

Final Fantasy XI is winding down. The final changes to the game will go live sometime next Spring, and console support for the game will end shortly afterwards (the game will still be playable on the PC, but there will be no further content changes). The developers just released the last bits of the final storyline, and are in the middle of another of their "vets can play for free" events. So I logged back on to take a look at the final storyline.

It's not bad. It's not as spectacular as some of the earlier storylines - at least, not yet. But it's not bad. But I'm about two-thirds of the way through it, and I think I just hit a brick wall that's going to require some farming to get myself in a position where I can kill the mobs that I need to take down for the current mission.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Honestly though spellcasters sound cool I can't help but feel they kinda suck in the computer version of mordheim. Either that or I just fail magic tests too much and having a stupidity based wizard really sucks.

There were all but useless in Mordheim as well.

Some spells are pretty useful in this version though, lure of chaos is great (it forces a leadership to check to break from combat, allowing anyone in melee range of the target to get a free hit).

I recently fulfilled a big wyrdstone request and sold some more and finished up act 1-2. With all that money I got gear and used most to train my guys (mostly active skills but some passive ones too). Now they're much more elite. I got another wyrdstone request for about 240-260 something weight of wyrdstone. I have about 12 days to accomplish this goal starting from 0 weight so wish me luck. Shouldn't be too hard but I dunno. Current warband rating is about 1600 something points.

The new tavern brawl in Hearthstone.

Everyone but me gets the good cards.

Sorry for not having bought a thing, Blizzard! (my friend that just bought the adventure got 6!!! Legendaries that were all amazing)

About to complete The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2, so far it has been a good and fun game. Unlike the sorry pile of fanservice the last expansion for Star Craft 2 was, Damnit Blizzard I want my money back!

 SkavenLord wrote:
After getting Morrowind and noticing the first 3 Elder Scrolls games came with it, I'm thinking of playing through all 5 in order as soon as I get Oblivion. I like roleplaying the situations, and having my character act as if it was its own character. I'm thinking of doing something similar to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, where each game's protagonist would be another member of the "family" (which would be weird if Daggerfall had an Orc and then Morrowind had a Breton, but whatever).

Here's something that'll really be cool- read the books of lore as you go through the games. Each Elder Scrolls game is canonical history to the games that come after, so, for example, in Morrowind, you'll find books describing the adventures of your character in Arena and the events of Daggerfall- and Skyrim has references to the Nerevarine and the Oblivion crisis.

In mordheim i currently have most of the wyrdstone request done. Just need about 100 more weight's worth in about 8 days I think. It should work out. The wizard with stupidity got out of training and now he can spend more spell points to get even more potent but once again I may wait till the wyrdstone request is completed.

I'm not sure if there's an amount of time you have to wait before the next wyrdstone request is given after you complete or fail to complete one or if it's just based around a certain time after the request is supposed to be fulfilled. An idea of how long it takes till the next wyrdstone request is given would be nice so I can either hold off on a shipment till it's almost time to ship or if I should do it right away and get it out of the way. I may also do my first hard mission tomorrow in a long time. Hard to say if I should but i'll probably curse up a storm. In the game I don't mind when the enemy takes super low level wyrdstone fragments off my guy's corpses but if it's shards or even worse clusters then I get angry. For reference fragments are worth a measly 1 weight, shards are 5 and clusters are 15. In the game fragments take up a lot of space and don't do a lot for you unless it's wyrdstone rush or you need money but shards sorta are more worthwhile and clusters are a must grab. Just do some simple math and you see that 3 clusters equals out to the same amount as 45 fragments in weight and payout and you'll understand fragments are a waste of time.

I also find some things in mordheim interesting like how sisters of mercy have no ranged weapons so far though they have spells or acts of faith. They're basically fantasy sisters of battle. Chaos is also mostly melee and fear based though archers do exist. Empire and skaven have the idea to take ranged firepower of all kinds (in fact empire excel at it esp. at long range). I'm almost curious to see the empire faction's campaign just in case they get snipers and such. If skaven get jezzails I will lose it in excitement. Eshin was never really about that though. Would be excited to see some brass orbs or poisoned wind globes or some such.

Minecraft and call of mini

Anvildude wrote:

 SkavenLord wrote:
After getting Morrowind and noticing the first 3 Elder Scrolls games came with it, I'm thinking of playing through all 5 in order as soon as I get Oblivion. I like roleplaying the situations, and having my character act as if it was its own character. I'm thinking of doing something similar to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, where each game's protagonist would be another member of the "family" (which would be weird if Daggerfall had an Orc and then Morrowind had a Breton, but whatever).

Here's something that'll really be cool- read the books of lore as you go through the games. Each Elder Scrolls game is canonical history to the games that come after, so, for example, in Morrowind, you'll find books describing the adventures of your character in Arena and the events of Daggerfall- and Skyrim has references to the Nerevarine and the Oblivion crisis.

Really? I always thought the background material only went as far back as Morrowind. Thanks for the tip.

I should be playing Battlefront right now but the postal service has failed me for the last time...