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Playing a fairly even mix of Dead by Daylight and Fallout 3

I play:
Dawn of War with a truckload of mods(UA, allmost all race-mods,...).
Medieval II the same(Westeros, Call of Warhammer-Endtimes,...).
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, guess what....

Since the death of my guild, no MMORPGs(Damn Trion and Rift!).

Been playing Mad Max. As far as movie games go, it's a pretty damn good one.

Spending Waaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on Injustice: Gods Among Us.

In a way, I'm glad the Suicide Squad season is over {I have Harley, the Joker, and Deadshot at maximum level, maximum elite.) but I am disappointed that the challenge mode has now changed back. The first challenge not to feature the suicide squad characters, and the easiest level requires 3 particular characters - and I don't have a single one of them!

Still, I get to spend more of my free time working on the online challenge instead. Aiming for one of the top 1% globally.

Rome 2:Total War. My Egyptian campaign is winding down and I really just need to buy a bunch of mercenaries to finish my objectives....but Pompey is annoying me so I think I'll wipe him out before I do that.

Wahey!

UP Pompeii!

100% done Fallout 4, started playing Assassins Creed Chronicles: China. Which I didn't realizes was a side scroller.

Not sure how to feel about it yet. A bit puzzle focused for me, and the score system is annoying me more here than it did in the 3D games. But not bad.

The Sims 3.

The sale drew me back in, man. I thought i had escaped, but no.

There is no escape.

Someone removed the pool ladder.

I tried getting into Sims 3 a while back, but it just felt like a nicer-looking but shallower Sims 2, and I definitely didn't like the usual DLC-spamfest.

Still playing Armoured Warfare, I think I may be addiced to this game after probably having spent some 180ish hours on just blowing stuff up with my tanks, AFVs, Wheeled tank destoyers and self propeld artilliry

The Brigamore Witches DLC. Going to be all ready for Dishonored 2.

Listening to the Wheel of Time series of audio books got me playing another playthrough of Skyrim. This time and Argonian thief/Assassin that doesnt use magic. Trying to rely heavily on alchemy. Also putting perks into lockpicking (which I never bothered with the perks before). I have played stealth before but am investing in some different skills and limiting others.

Playing right now "Death Racing". Actually I enjoy this game.

 SickSix wrote:
Listening to the Wheel of Time series of audio books got me playing another playthrough of Skyrim. This time and Argonian thief/Assassin that doesnt use magic. Trying to rely heavily on alchemy. Also putting perks into lockpicking (which I never bothered with the perks before). I have played stealth before but am investing in some different skills and limiting others.

I find that choosing a certain set of skills and limiting yourself to them makes the game enormously more fun than the usual 'whatever works' approach. I've said it before on here, but I've had more fun running a sword'n'board Paladin (resto and 'holy fire' magic, only using the 'good guy' looking armour) than I've ever had with my 'little bit of everything' characters. A little bit of RP goes a long way. I even leave the gold in corpses (well, those that don't attack me, that is).

EVE online. Just because.

Heroes and Generals, or the combined arms multiplayer game I was hoping War Thunder eventually turned into / an arcady version of Red Orchestra 2.

A neat wee game so far, though I can see the upkeep costs becoming a bit much if you don't play a lot. I'm sticking to being a sniper right now, with prospects of having a Panther one day.

Sniping's a rather easy affair as most players are seemingly oblivious to you as long as you're prone. Bonus points if you pick up an enemy sniper rifle too, as nobody pays attention to shots which come from their own rifles (I *hate* guys who pick up enemy guns myself though, as you then can't hear someone sneaking up on you).

Mechanically the game's fine, but generally I'm finding that players are oblivious outside of their own tunnel vision. "Kill, kill! Attack, attack!" is the quote I'll use for most. ....Which would be fine, but this game has paratroopers. That objective everyone left empty to attack? Yeah, one guy just landed on that and now enemies are spawning behind us...

(If you hadn't guessed, I'm the guy left behind with a pistol to fend off guys dropping from the sky with SMGs constantly).

Overall its a fun enough game, as ever made better whilst playing in a squad, even if you're going solo as a sniper. I've had a fun time running with one guy all night as a sniper and spotter team ("go on tank commander, pop your head up just for a second, its such a lovely day out...").

 Gamgee wrote:
The Brigamore Witches DLC. Going to be all ready for Dishonored 2.

Ayyyyyy! Me too! I finished my first play through of dishonored last week and I LOVED it.

The last few days have been mostly Destiny: Rise of Iron. I stopped actively playing the game about halfway through TTK, but came back because Gjallarhorn and Thorn are a thing again.

Killing time until tonight, then gonna lose myself in XCOM 2 for like 2 months.


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Killing time until tonight, then gonna lose myself in XCOM 2 for like 2 months.

More Heroes and Generals.

I've leveled up enough to have become one with my inner bush. A scoped sniper rifle, binoculars and a pistol. Pity the decent camo costs silly amounts.

My current goal: level up anti-tank grenades. Unfortunately that means I need to drop everything bar my rifle, and even then I can only carry the bare minimum of rounds for that till I level up to cheaper mines.

However, like your average soldier who's completely obvious to you as soon as you hit that magic crouch key (you're a hacker if you go so far as hitting the full prone button...), tank players in this game also seem to carry horse blinders as part of their default equipment...

Last night's game: 2 tanks sitting site by side. I spend a few minutes jumping all over their hulls whistling after they don't notice me walking right up to them and planting a few mines. They don't budge. I shoot them with my rifle. Nadda. Eventually I give up, and have blow up my mines from a distance with my rifle. :(

(I only attacked the tanks in the first place because the pair of them decided to drive right past me then sit a few meters away whilst I sniped from some long grass. The amount of times I've almost been run over by tanks whilst sitting in cover...)

Back on Fallout 4.

Since hearing about the latest DLC being raider based, I thought it was a good time to start a new character and go for that.

Called "Dick", he was in the engineer corps whilst serving in the military, but was fed up with the way things were run. He knew that troops were being sent out with sub-standard equipment and developed the skills needed to modify them to make them more efficient for his friends.

Upon realising that he had been frozen twice, for a total of over 200 years, he realised that everyone he knew was dead. He had no idea how long he had been frozen for the second time, but even his son could be dead. He was all alone in a dead world.

Home had no meaning for him now, so he stripped Sanctuary hills of everything he could. No point being sentimental. He set up a temporary base in the Red Rocket filling station just outside of Sanctuary, and proceeded to strip that too.. The only things he left in those locations were the workbenches. They were too valuable to destroy.

Once set up, he started scouting around the area, eventually coming across an old, abandoned drive-in. Realising the potential this location had as a defendable, independent base, he started work at once. Firstly strip mining the area for valuable resources, and clearing the LZ.

He then used his combat engineering knowledge to start producing a level base on which to build. He built around the pond in the middle of what once had been the car park of the theatre so he had somewhere to put a couple of industrial pumps he had cobbled together and therefore have a decent supply of drinking water.

After finding some fertilizer bags on a trip out, he was able to make a start on some hydroponics units so he could grow food inside his base. Adding concrete walls which also enclosed the little shack with the workbench gave him security, and coupled with the electronic door ensured he was the only one who could get inside - or at least he would be, once he finishes the ground floor walls.

He will have to go out and scavenge some more, or wait until he can afford another trip to Diamond City to buy another consignment of concrete from that half demented Mr. Handy there.

Back into Stardew Valley big time, taking a stab at the whole relationship thing while we're at it.

Hoppend on the Heros & Generals train, so far I am enjoying it immensly. Although there are moments whre I pull my hair in frustration

Back in Ark; Scorch Earth. Its a damn challenge for my 86 toon

Diablo 2 - nostalgia, but the resolution is killing me :(
Grim Dawn - when get bored of nostalgia.

Also tried Gal*Gun (it's just dumb) and Mother Russia Bleeds (that one is pretty cool, actually).

Revisiting Dead island again after a few years. Very enjoyable so far.

 Ratius wrote:
Revisiting Dead island again after a few years. Very enjoyable so far.

Really?

After having done some major work in my storage rooms I dug out my Xbox 360 and started playing Gears Of War again, Much manly tears has been shed as regarding Dom

Really?

Ya! didnt like it?

 Ratius wrote:

Really?

Ya! didnt like it?

Well no not really, I found it far to random and somewhat hap hazzard really. but it was a decent game non the less

World of warships, and heavily modded skyrim.

My desktop PSU snap crackle and popped so I put skyrim in the tabtop. Gotta use a controller which is...different. had to disable skyui as much h as I like it, was hitching whenever I opened inventories. Now we're running low settings smooth as chunky peanut butter and that works for me. Left the music mod and the ones that let you pick a birth sign and class, with a random start in the world. I think I had spell sneak attacks too may have to reroll a magic assassin.

May go to GameStop later and try to find a N64 display adapter thing. I have crap for games except smash brothers but my 4 year old has been wanting to play games. I figure with the right settings it can be pretty sandboxy and forgiving plus she'll recognize the Pokemon immediately.