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Popped into Hearthstone after hearing about the free packs, and beat a couple of games on Standard.

The C'Thon mechanic is pretty interesting. The C'Thon card (which everyone gets for free) is pretty boring in and of itself. It's an overpriced card that divides its attack value against every enemy on the board at the start of each turn.

The trick is that there are a bunch of cards that provide permanent bonuses to C'Thon no matter where the card is. So by the time you actually get C'Thon into play, it might be an insanely underpriced powerhouse. And most of the tricks used to deal with those sorts of cards (i.e. return to hand, etc...) won't work on C'Thon.

I haven't used it yet, though.

Booted up Planetside 2 for the first time in over a year. Couldn't run it. Ran over to my local computer store and bought 4GB of RAM. Run back to my place and shove that gak in my computers rear end. Run Planetside again. Goes perfectly. Don't go to uni the next two days due to a single FETH HEUG battle that was going on. I love it so much. It's under my most played games, right behind LOL and Mark of Chaos.

I recommend this game to anybody with more than 4GB of RAM.

Add me to the list of people who have been trying out the new Hearthstone set and loving it! C'thun is pretty cool if you live long enough to get him on the table. In one game recently though I got him and he killed a bunch of my opponent's stuff, but then my opponent (a Mage) dropped Polymorph and turned him into a sheep and then proceeded to win the game.

One thing I'm not happy about: it could be just bad luck but in 15 or so packs (3 free at the beginning, 5 for each Standard Wins challenge, plus some I bought with gold) I only pulled ONE epic card. So frustrating.

Played more Wasteland 2. Arsed up with scotchmo having dug up his wife's grave and having him turn on me. Had to kill him so lost a follower there. I should think more about consequences of my actions. Digging up graves indeed. Not sure why I didn't just reload but wasn't aware scotchmo was supposed to be so useful at the time.

Playing wasteland has sent me back to shadowrun my iPad too.

Control Warrior + C'thun, lads

 Ashiraya wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
My brothers and sisters will burn your infidel h-

Besides, its kind of weird how many DKs seem to go full Sylvanas jihad right after being freed from the Lich King. Didn't they learn anything?

Brain rot does things to people.

Dreadnought closed beta. It's frickin' awesome

Sunset Overdrive. Tony Hawk meets Borderlands, and I am loving it.

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Sunset Overdrive. Tony Hawk meets Borderlands, and I am loving it.

Yeah, it's a great game.

 Sgt. Vanden wrote:
Booted up Planetside 2 for the first time in over a year. Couldn't run it. Ran over to my local computer store and bought 4GB of RAM. Run back to my place and shove that gak in my computers rear end. Run Planetside again. Goes perfectly. Don't go to uni the next two days due to a single FETH HEUG battle that was going on. I love it so much. It's under my most played games, right behind LOL and Mark of Chaos.

I recommend this game to anybody with more than 4GB of RAM.

My only problem with it is that a lot of the time it grinds to a halt as players have a vehicle slugging match and infantry can't really participate at all aside from snipers killing heavies that are trying to lob rockets and engineers that are trying to repair tanks.

Three words for you- Anti Vehicle Grenades.

Also, C4. Every class (except the ONE CLASS THAT SHOULD HAVE IT) has access to it, so yeah.


Seriously, when I heard about the AMR, I was all like, "Sweet! Now I can annoy vehicles as an Infiltrator!"- but nope. Infiltrators aren't allowed to do jiggedy-squat to vehicles unless there's a handy cannon turret around. Heck, if we could just hack MANA turrets from enemy engineers, that'd even be better!

I like many cards in the new HS expansion. Overwatch beta should soon be opened. Hope my PC will be able to run it.

Really enjoying how much the meta for Hearthstone has been shaken up by WoTOG, also been occasionally dabbling in Bfg:A

I'm already getting tired of HS again, the new meta is basically the same three decks.

Everyone seem to be playing C'thun, Zoo, face shaman or hunter deck for the moment. I do believe the meta is far more healthy than it was before. Saying that, more interesting decks still require adventures or buying packs.

I am currently playing brawl. I usually play constructed to reach rank 20 or doing a daily quest. I think I'd quickly grow tired of facing the same deck types in standard.

Anvildude wrote:
Three words for you- Anti Vehicle Grenades.

Sadly, those take a ridiculous amount of certs and I barely get maybe a hundred a day at most. I'm trying to save up to try out different weapons...

I take it it's a paywall to earn more?

I managed to get the semi-auto sniper, which I sort of like more if only because it doesn't zoom out to work a bolt (which is really annoying to me), but it's so weak. Ah well.

It's a time=money thing. You can either buy their cash or just take the time. If you want to grind certs, combat medic is great, just focus on healing/resing.

They also have subscription service that boosts your income, IIRC. Although that may have changed after daybreak took over (it's been a long time since I've played).

I haven't use station cash for anything. I didn't think the AV grenades were that expensive- also, I'm assuming you're maining on the Smurfs- they're the only faction that gets a bolt-action as their default rifle, and most folks from other factions are crazy jealous of them.

I quite liked vanu sniping. Not having to worry about bullet drop is fun.

SOE used to have days where you'd get double or triple the amount of station cash for the money you were spending. So if you were willing to spend money, and were willing to be patient, you could get a lot more station cash than normal. I don't know if Daybreak is copying that, though.



The Ghost in the Shell FPS, which is still in Early Access, is having a free weekend on Steam right now. So I hopped in and tried it out. I haven't played much in the way of multi-player FPS, so I can't comment on how it compares to other games. But I had some fun with it.

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Dreadnought closed beta. It's frickin' awesome

I am SO jealous right now. I've been drooling over that game since the trailer they released eons ago. How's the gameplay?

Still working on SupCom; cool thing I noticed though, I got Forged Alliance (the expac) for free after registering the vanilla game. And a bit of Banner Saga...choices, choices, choices.

Beta keys for Overwatch on the Xbox One came in, so installed that. Playing Rainbow Six Siege some more until I can do that

 Frankenberry wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Dreadnought closed beta. It's frickin' awesome

I am SO jealous right now. I've been drooling over that game since the trailer they released eons ago. How's the gameplay?

Really fun. Very tactical with lots to think about. High level of ship customization. Plasma Broadsides is sooooo satisfying...

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Beta keys for Overwatch on the Xbox One came in, so installed that. Playing Rainbow Six Siege some more until I can do that

Fun times ahead. Unfortunately, I've missed the play for free GiTS during weekend.

Finally succumbed and opened my bundled copy of Dark Souls 3. All I'm saying is my worst fears were realised. I havent had as much fun since I spent an hour hitting my head against a wall.

Had much better time playing Shadow of Mordor again. Also been playing new Pathfinder game on iPad. Already one of the best iOS games. Be even better when the numerous bugs are fixed.

Slowly getting through Persona 3 and 4.

And then in Persona 4, I got to who was the culprit.

I gotta say, the addition of base building really bogs planetside down. They just take forever to freaking kill unless you have such a massive numbers difference that nothing relaly matters anyway...

Started playing Xcom 2 for a few hours, and spent most of that time customizing my soldiers.

Doing some Civ 5, and hoping for Beyond Earth to go on some huge sale. I'm playing as Poland, so I get a free social policy on every new Era I enter. Currently, the game has reached 2017 AD, with me having tanks rolling around and whatnot. I'm going for a cultural victory, as I haven't done that yet.

Although my favorite part of this playthrough is my religion; the symbol is the archway, and I named it Baba Getu, in honor of the song from Civ 4, Baba Yetu, and the symbol is the closest thing to a gate. Bad puns are the best puns.

Haven't been playing much in the way of games, but I did go see the Ratchet & Clank movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it, as I am a fan of the games (although I haven't played many of them).

Played about 7 games of starcraft 2: heart of the swarm today as protoss and won 5 and lost 2. The last one i lost went on for about 30 something minutes between myself and a terran player. I honestly thought i had him but must've messed up. Those freaking widow mines didn't help in one case and i didn't know they could hit air.

For whatever reason most factions just can't handle me when i rush or try to destroy their mineral lines or hq's.

Chances are i'll keep doing well till i hit top tier silver like i always do. Yeah i realize i suck in comparison to all the diamond and platinum players but i don't have this down to a science.

This is a fun game for me but i don't love it enough to get really good at it and generally after a point i leave it for another game. Which will most likely happen when 'total war: warhammer' comes out.

 War Kitten wrote:
Started playing Xcom 2 for a few hours, and spent most of that time customizing my soldiers.

I made a couple funny ones as friends and a Dark VIP as michael jackson which was female. The joke was that he sided with the aliens so he could have gene therapy to become a white woman. Hilarity ensues .