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Re-downloaded Empire: Total War and Darksiders. I had never played Darksiders before. I got it years ago through some free promotion. Pastured it for about 20 minutes and realized it's just not my style/ genre of game.

Currently playing as Russia in Empire. Doing better than my suspended Spainish campaign. It is much harder to control a noncontiguous empire early in the game.

Still plugging away on Warframe and Blacklight. Why, oh why are people morons on FPS games. Especially ones where you can see enemies through walls. Not a single victory based daily in over a month.

Oof, that's rough.

Have you tried using the VOIP in your PUGs (in Blacklight)? If I remember, it's Capslock by default- I remember one game just starting to give enemy positions (as best I could) and having others chime in and the whole team just... coagulate throughout the match.

Just keep it business, and I think it works alright.

Anvildude wrote:
Oof, that's rough.

Have you tried using the VOIP in your PUGs (in Blacklight)? If I remember, it's Capslock by default- I remember one game just starting to give enemy positions (as best I could) and having others chime in and the whole team just... coagulate throughout the match.

Just keep it business, and I think it works alright.

Im playing on console, as my laptop's GPU is dying. I did finally get the 3 win daily.

It's not that the team isn't finding them. It's just that I seem to get lumbered with people who dont understand the concept of a fire button.

I tried out Eternal Crusade today.

It's not a mmo. Not in anyway shape or form. It's more like space Marine crossed with Planetside2 and hints of battlefield.

I also managed to BSOD the demo machine about 3 minutes after I sat down at it. Not one that I'll be running out to buy I think.

A little too obsessed with Overwatch at the moment. I even called in sick so I could stay home and play all day. Can't remember the last time I did that for a video game

Lol a game sounding like Space Marine crossed with Planetside2 sounds kind of immensely fun....but not if you had your hopes up for 40k MMO.

It took me so long, but I finally did it! Dark Souls 3 completed, all optional areas and bosses done to boot! GODS, IT FEELS SO GOOD.

The new doom is awesome.

I finished my second playthrough of dark souls 3.

I am currently waiting for witcher 3's new blood and wine expansion.

Currently I am also playing hearthstone.

Terraria got an update, so I'm plugging away at a new world. Looking to use the new wiring stuff to really change how I build my home base.

Gotta get fancy,

 toasteroven wrote:
Terraria got an update, so I'm plugging away at a new world. Looking to use the new wiring stuff to really change how I build my home base.

Gotta get fancy,

Wait what did they add?

Lots of thing involving wiring and devices and traps. Not sure what all of it is yet.

Also medusa was moved to hard mode, so marble caves should be less terrifying.

Overwatch is my current online crack. It's just <3

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Overwatch is my current online crack. It's just <3

Winky face. Let me know, if you want to try it in duo.

I might get that, but I'm waiting 'till I get payed. My brother got it and he is entertainingly bad. He can't aim for his life.

Overwatch? The trick is playing heroes where aiming is optional.

Started playing Total War: Warhammer. I love how the Warriors of Chaos are listed as being hard, when I'm so far finding them the easiest to play as.

 Knight wrote:
Overwatch? The trick is playing heroes where aiming is optional.

This is legitimately a valid tactic for Overwatch and probably most of the reason I'm not completely incompetent at the game.

Reinhardt, Zenyatta and Tjorbjorn are good options for it.

Don't forget Winson. Tesla Cannon does the aiming for you.

Or, in some Heroes, the Ulti can do that.

Stellaris. Saw some talk about it, convinced myself my tabtop wouldn't run it. Bought it anyway. Seems ok so far. In a bit over my head as I don't tend towards playing this kind of game but it's still interesting.

I randomized my race and wound up with some kind of scary looking fish dudes that just love the crap out of aliens and want to be everyone's friends. They look like some kind of nightmare starfish/shark monsters, but apparently they're quite enlightened and peaceful. Gonna roll with it.


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Wow I just realized my guys are gonna be the butt of many jokes. The Athallid Star State. What an acronym .

 SkavenLord wrote:
Started playing Total War: Warhammer. I love how the Warriors of Chaos are listed as being hard, when I'm so far finding them the easiest to play as.

I already beat the short campaign of it as vampire counts on normal difficulty. Not sure why people are saying the game is harder than other total war games. I stand by the statement that 'realm divide' in 'shogun 2' was the single hardest thing i had to deal with in any game outside of maybe dark souls and xcom: enemy unknown.

As far as warriors of chaos goes the 'hard' comment that it made was for starting position and early game difficulty. Later on not it matters less.

For me spreading vampire corruption was annoying. At first nobody wanted to really declare wars on me and i avoided some opponents as they had a bunch of allies and those wars always end up being super tough. It was such a pain too as i brought down archaeon and killed off one of the marauder tribes (Varg was the name) and there was only one left. Basically the only problem was the greenskins and i mostly had them in check. Then a small dwarf faction (a vassal i think) decides to go to war with me and brings in empire (the one that owned them) another super small dwarf faction and bretonnia (who i was trading with). I strike back and take out good chunks of the empire. I take about 1/3 to a 1/2 of the empire's territory before i start to see any meaningful resistance. Keep in mind at this point everybody is fighting me except one norsca tribe that just didn't like me.

What bothers me most about this is how much work i did and was in many ways a very nice vampire to the 'good' guys and they just spat it back in my face and tried to annihilate me. I know the game is called 'total war' but they were 'total ***es'. Anyway i start receiving some massive resistance on every side and then make peace with bretonnia to calm things down a bit. At that point i could manage. I do find it odd the greenskins were just sorta building up armies and not attacking with them for the most part (least to my knowledge or at least not me). It was just a bit odd is all.

Anyway i won the vampire counts short campaign. Still took like 265-285 turns or so to do. I think i'll go back and face bretonnia now as they're the only thing i have to kill to get a long campaign victory too.

Starting to play Overwatch with a buddy.

I have discovered that I have D.VA Fe.VA, enjoy Zarya though I am not good with her (yet), like Roadhog and Junkrat, and though I thought I'd be a big fan of Reinhardt, am absolutely terrible with him (which is then not fun because spawn is far away and he is FAT and SLOW.)

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
What bothers me most about this is how much work i did and was in many ways a very nice vampire to the 'good' guys and they just spat it back in my face and tried to annihilate me. I know the game is called 'total war' but they were 'total ***es'. Anyway i start receiving some massive resistance on every side and then make peace with bretonnia to calm things down a bit. At that point i could manage. I do find it odd the greenskins were just sorta building up armies and not attacking with them for the most part (least to my knowledge or at least not me). It was just a bit odd is all.

Every nation has an "Aversion" stat on their diplomacy screen that appears to exist solely to force a nation to be hostile to its designated "disliked" races. So for instance, all of the Empire factions have a negative Aversion modifier when dealing with Vampire Count factions. Since, unlike all of the other diplomacy modifiers, the Aversion stat never reduces itself to zero, you'll have to constantly work hard to keep a positive diplomatic rating with nations that have it toward you.



And on another note, I would like to echo what others have said, and point out that the tutorial for this game sucks.

My brother got it, and was talking about his experience in the Dwarf campaign. Took him forever (and an orcish army popping up in the middle of his territory and conquering one of his cities while my brother's main army was elsewhere) to realize what "Stances" were for armies. And more importantly, that stances enable dwarves and orcs to "move underground".

Started the most recent Thief game, my first time playing a Thief game since I was a kid. Not bad so far, but I feel like I have too many options and not enough guidance sometimes.

I casually still play MKX, and I realise how much I suck.

When I need like 12 tries to get down Corrupted Shinnok on hard... :(

I spent more time watching that stupid fatality of his than actually fighting him, felt like.

I got sucked back into World of Tanks. It is a serious love- hate relationship.

Got my first Mark of Mastery on my SU-152. I have a lot of fun with that derp machine even in losses.

Had a real bad string of a dozen games or so. It is baffling how bad teams can be at the top tiers.

I kicked myself in the ass to get myself together and tried Endless Tower in MKX. I lost at the 26th fight, putting me at spot #2086 on the global leaderboards. Not bad.

Picked up Uncharted 4 while I was down at EB Games renewing my edge membership, enjoying it thoroughly so far. Got sucked into it enough that I almost missed my ride to the LGS tonight...

Building up my cheerful theocratic dictatorship in Stellaris. It's all about love, and brutally conquering and converting anyone who doesn't believe that.

 GrimDork wrote:
Lol a game sounding like Space Marine crossed with Planetside2 sounds kind of immensely fun....but not if you had your hopes up for 40k MMO.

It sounds fun; but Eternal Crusade is an awful game period.