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Did some more Banished, as well. My storages are overflowing with food and fuel, now, but I'm still only at 45 citizens!

Also completed the first chapter of Tales from the Borderlands

Been dipping into shadowrun Hong Kong.

 carlos13th wrote:
Been dipping into shadowrun Hong Kong.

I should actually probably still buy that while there's still a steam sale.

Having a hand at the Elder Scrolls Online. I'm trying to get some particular crafting ingredients which only drop in group dungeons. I ran through the same dungeon four times as a Tank no bother, but damn, the fifth...

In EOS when group finding you mark down your expertise: DPS/ Healer/ Tank, but can chose more than one at a time. I'm a Tank, and just a Tank. Someone else however was a DPS/ Tank. OK, no problem, that guy just switches to DPS. ...At least you'd think that. Instead its the painful situation of two tanks having bosses drawn back and forth between each other - with the bonus being that the party doesn't have the DPS to kill the bosses quickly. This went on for almost an hour in a dungeon which should only take twenty minutes (in a game where only the group leader can kick other players).



Hah, at which point I translate the chat logs and find out the other guy was swearing at me in German the whole time. XD

Okay, I can tick off two things on my Final Fantasy bucket list. First, I got a Chocobo mount, second I got a fat Chocobo pet.

I haven't tried any dungeons in ESO yet. I've been doing some PVP, though. Mainly scouting ahead for large groups as I'm still low level - although I did mine some veteran-tier ores

 BrookM wrote:
Okay, I can tick off two things on my Final Fantasy bucket list. First, I got a Chocobo mount, second I got a fat Chocobo pet.

Spoiler:

Dang it... I"m trying to avoid that game because I know it'll just break my heart like so many MMO's (especially FF XI)... but those pictures are tempting me to use my Gamestop credit.

Tonights Game of Thrones:

"That worked out better than I expected."
"That really worked out better than I expected."
"That went WAAYYYY Better than I expected."

"You've made your family proud today."

So yeah, everyone's going to die....

Well, I'm undergoing some Clash of Drama. To spare the details, I'm in Clan A, and Clan B is having a very bad run with Clan Wars. Both clans feature close friends, so that's why I care, mind you. Clan B had a mass migration to Clan A, only to slowly head back, one by one, or to join the newly formed Clan C. Overall, the movement was pointless, as everyone is going back to the original clans, and will still have the same problems, so nothing got solved.

I know, high school life is so hard. /sarcasm.

@BrookM

 thenoobbomb wrote:
I haven't tried any dungeons in ESO yet. I've been doing some PVP, though. Mainly scouting ahead for large groups as I'm still low level - although I did mine some veteran-tier ores

Unless you join a group outside a dungeon they level to V16. All players levels to that as well, but without champion points/ skill morphs/ armour set bonuses. What that means is that someone with veteran ranks will be superior to someone without. Whilst in the regular dungeons this may not be so much of a liability, I wouldn't recommend queuing for Veteran dungeons until you have some veteran ranks. ...And even then, for the sake of having decent DPS, only if you have maybe a dozen ranks.

Whilst DPS is the big concern, secondary comes the odd instance where players go into dungeons without soul gems. Lower leveled players are useful for resurrecting the higher level ones to free up the others, but I guess many don't use the auction house much to pick up cheap gems. Though this seems to be an issue at all levels, which is a real pain when you're the guy who's the only one ressing people. The alternative however is having people resurrect themselves at a wayshrine, which is a terrible idea it takes them back to the start of the dungeon (a dumb mechanic). ...Try doing that when you're at the top of the Imperial Palace when the shrine's all the back in the sewers. :(

As for PVP. Yuck. Good when you're in a large group, but you're screwed all to quickly once you're singled out. There's not much you can do when you're a Vet 12 going up against a Vet 16 as the leveling isn't flat. Its better than it was with Champion Points at least (where's that video of one guy soloing Molag Bal - a 10+ Vet Boss), but you can still put the points in to have silly multipliers and crit chances (which make putting points into resistance a bit moot given their DPS).

 djphranq wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Okay, I can tick off two things on my Final Fantasy bucket list. First, I got a Chocobo mount, second I got a fat Chocobo pet.

Spoiler:

Dang it... I"m trying to avoid that game because I know it'll just break my heart like so many MMO's (especially FF XI)... but those pictures are tempting me to use my Gamestop credit.

It's what, $9,99 on Steam right now, plus you get a month of free play if you get just the basic game. That's what I did myself. Not a bad way to spend a tenner in my opinion.

Terraria.
Its been a while since I last played, and boy did they add some content.
Its also harder; there are tougher enemies, and in the world I generated they put my spawn 5 seconds away from Crimson and 10 seconds away from the entrance to the Underground Desert.

Trying to play some Planetside 2 with a buddy, but Daybreak's being a jerk 'cause my account was originally with SOE.

PS2 isn't through SOE anymore? Does it still have the same ridiculous microtransactions store then? I had bought a lot of stuff (well to be fair I had a subscription and use the ingame points mostly, the sub just gets them to you much quicker) but I guess it's kind of moot as I rarely have time to play FPS these days.

I'm a horrible, horrible person.

"Cersei is impressed."

Anvildude wrote:
Trying to play some Planetside 2 with a buddy, but Daybreak's being a jerk 'cause my account was originally with SOE.

SOE was purchased, and renamed Daybreak Studios. It's essentially the same, but with different owners.

I bought Chivalry in the Steam Sale, and I gave it a try.

Just sent in my refund request, what an awful game that is.

I don't know, I liked Chivalry. Although I do just use it to have a but of fun, as I find it oddly satisfying to do free for all with bots as a knight, and racking up huge kill counts.

Yeah, I really like Chivalry. Something about the combination of the almost Monty Python-esque violence and a surprisingly complex combat system I find very fun. That said, I only downloaded the offline demo, not the online money, so it didn't cost me anything... I might pay the £12 or so it's going for on Xbox, but I wouldn't pay a full game price for it.

I got mine on sale awhile ago, for like $4 IIRC, and bought my friend a copy for $2 this winter sale. A pretty fair deal, as he loves that game, and got me the Doom series bundle beforehand.

It's just a lot of m1 and m2 pressing with the occasional use of the mouse wheel, while getting either destroyed by max level players, or teamkilled by people who start teamkilling because they got teamkilled, all while listening to a lot of groans.

A whole lot of Fallout 4.

Just finished my Sith playthrough of KOTOR. Have TSL loaded up with some mods from the workshop. Will start that sometime this week.

Have also been paying a lot of Drop Assault but at the moment it is crashing on load.

Played Mass Effect 3 multiplayer for the first time. It was fun times. Losing repeatedly style fun time.

In the middle of a Clan War on Clash of Clans... practically threw away a potential 3 star because I double deployed a couple golems on one spot when I meant to spread them out... then I screwed the timing on the deployment for everything else... my jump spell was totally mistimed ... ugh... it was ugly... got away with a single star... totally missed the Town Hall due to bad timing on dropping my Barbarian King plus the jump spell.

Prepping another army for my second attack... I'm hoping for 2 stars on this one... I'll be using my iPad instead of my iPhone this time... not sure why I didn't think of that for the first attack.

One of the things I love about the ME3 multiplayer is, you do actually feel like you're getting better the more you play it.

For example, eventually someone will end up being able to solo bronze missions.

Fallout 4 after recovering from having my 670 card melt down.

Concentrating on making Sanctuary a bigger settlement than Diamond City and making Mirelurk's heads explode with my non-legendary 50 Cal silenced recon sniper rifle.

Must plant more Mutfuit, make more adhesive, and work on giving my settlers more recreational activities. My pool table only has one cue, the cue ball, 2 ball, and 8 ball. I think I'm missing some!

Going to re-arrange my home in Sanctuary - "Twopenny Tower" - so that all the beds for the settlers are not on the ground floor [I have two empty floors after all] and adding the lounge area to the floor with the pool table will enable me to get around another 40 beds in. That will give me a capacity for 80 settlers in the one building, with the possibility of putting up another 2 similar buildings on the site providing I don't run out of ground to grow food in.

Then I might actually give in to Preston's whining and go take back the Castle to use as my military base in the area.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Been dipping into shadowrun Hong Kong.

I should actually probably still buy that while there's still a steam sale.

Keep in mind that its pretty glitchy.

Playing through Tales from the Borderlands now. Fething funny game (if you've played at least Borderlands 2 through to the end).

Also finished Wolfenstein: The New Order. That was a cool FPS.

 Compel wrote:
Tonights Game of Thrones:

"That worked out better than I expected."
"That really worked out better than I expected."
"That went WAAYYYY Better than I expected."

"You've made your family proud today."

So yeah, everyone's going to die....

I finished that a week ago. Have fun.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Well, isn't that all city builders? I can't really think of any city-builders that actually have a win state.

Tropico.