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Anvildude wrote:
I mean, it's HoTS. You can literally be 3 people playing 1 Hero if you want.

Cho'Gall is two players controlling a single character, and with Abathur, you can have a third person 'helping run things' if you will.

I think Jesse Cox did that once.

Was going to mention ChoGall, you beat me to it. This strategy may limit your team, but it'll lead to some funny games.

Picked up Cosmic Star Heroine. Pretty decent $15 RPG, very 90's Chrono Trigger reminiscent

Started playing Grim Dawn this week and its been a long time since I have grinned so much while I game, the setting and the music hits home. That and the very much grim tone of the game makes it feel as some sort of steam punkish version of Diablo 2 mixed with 40k. All in all a great game and very reasonably priced as well

Grim Dawn is great. The only thing I disliked about it is that the maps aren't randomly generated. Gets boring after several hundred hours.

Still derping Diablo 2 with poison Amazon. So much fun. Also, there should be a ladder reset any time soon now, so helooo sleepless nights.
And when tired of grinding, I decided to replay Dark Souls 1. Just this time without actually power zweihandering, but being all sneaky with riposites. Which is actually kinda hard to do using only kb/m setup

Picked up battle brothers and lost way more hours to it then I had planned. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes turn based strategy. It could do with a little bit more enemy variety (dire bear? Vampires? Witches?) but all in all I think it's an amazing game for what it is.

Edit: If you're into warhammer I'd highly recommend this game.

I got ArmaIII as Ann early birthday birthday present. Have played some of the campaign and some MP. Great looking game. Pushes my aging PC though.

However I can't believe they are still using the same basic plot for the 3rd time. Everyone of these haves starts exactly the same.

Need to find a Unit to join because depending on random Helo pilots in KotH games is very frustrating.

Picked up Metal Gear Solid V 5 Definitive Experience and been playing it for a bit now. It's fun, but would've been so much better if the plot didn't have all these flying rodent gak insane things thrown in as well.

Okay, so beating up base personnel not only raises morale, they'll also thank you for it..

 BrookM wrote:
Okay, so beating up base personnel not only raises morale, they'll also thank you for it..

Damn straight. They know who the Boss is. Also, make sure you grab and interrogate them. Some of them can give you the location of diamonds scattered around Mother Base.

Found Quiet, unlocked her for missions and at first I was wondering what her major malfunction was, until I found out how to order her around (through clunky menus, yay...) but after doing the requisite amount of staring at her she's now bestest of friends with me and well, when I tell her to scout out a camp she not only scouts it out, but also drops supplies at several handy overlooking positions. When I tell her to cover me, she shoots everything in sight. I really, really need to unlock the Sinful Butterfly soon to really have her do her job a 110%.

Also discovered that it is possible to change out Venom Snake for members of the base, who are equally as mute as him (no problems with that by the way, it's refreshing to play a Metal Gear game where the protagonist is not a fething idiot who repeats everything his conversation partner says!)



That look says it all.. she's seen some gak man.

Ok, that's me officially completed Mass Effect Andromeda.

Overall, a good game, but could very well have been a great one if it weren't for the bugs.

The chief bugs and issues I experienced:

4 missions uncompleteable. 3 due to bugs in event triggers. 1 was due to jerkiness by the developers - one chance only to collect some things. You fail, tough luck, can't finish the mission.

Levels 60 to 70, aka tier 8 items... Don't exist in the game, unless you make them yourself. As a sidenote, levelling from 60 to 70, really frikking hard.

Had to restart a few 'boss' fights, again due to event triggers not... triggering.

One of the big payoff events and quests in the game? They forgot to render my character. They literally didn't exist in one of the great 'scenes' in the game.

3 hour session on BF4. Boy, I had forgotten how good and fun of the vanilla maps are

I finally got around to picking up Dark Souls 3 now that the Fire Fades edition was released.

Having fun so far poking things to death with my spear and liking the added options that the weapon arts bring.

Mariokart 8 ladies and gentlemen. Mariokart 8. This game is so damn enjoyable, Im currently working on getting all gold stars on the gran prix races

Picked up 10 old Star Wars games from Steam's "May the 4th be with you" sale. All of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games, all of the X-wing/TIE Fighter games, and Empire at War Gold Edition. I was too young to really remember the X-wing series or Dark Forces, but it's still a trip through Star Wars gaming history. Empire at War is really fun and might occupy a lot of my time in the near future.

Aw man, wish I'd realized about that. Coulda picked up KOTOR.

PUBG,

Nothing like whipping out an enemy squad with a cross bow

For Honor, grumbling to myself about how much I despise the AI Valkyrie players

Right now I am playing battlefield 1.

Downloaded Injustice 2 to my tablet last night.

It's a good enough game from what I've seen so far, but that's not much as it requires a live internet connection to play the single player matches!

WTF! That is a serious step BACKWARDS for me. I rent a room and therefore have to share their connection, in a village 6 miles from the nearest hub station, so my signal just keeps dropping out. When it does, the whole thing shuts down. I can't even take a look at the 'shop' side of the program, just close it down, see if I can fix the connection and re-start, or just leave it 'til later.

I can therefore only play late evening or early morning [after 10PM and before 7AM] and forget weekends!

So I will still be plugging away on Gods Among Us for the foreseeable. At least I can play the single player without a connection on that. Might eventually add injustice 2 on my phone and therefore I can use the 4G to keep that going, but will have to see about how that eats my data allowance.

Also glad to hear that the latest ME:A patch will probably have fixed the problem I have with the Architects not moving on to the final waypoint making it impossible to take them down. will probably be playing that to fill the time in whilst I take a look at the requirements for the PS4 version of Injustice 2.

Anvildude wrote:
Aw man, wish I'd realized about that. Coulda picked up KOTOR.

Ive never used steam myself but I own KOTOR and its sequel and it was tricky getting them to run right on my pc. They still have the odd bug here and there. Great games though...well the first one anyways

Just had to quarantine well over a third of my Motherbase staff. So much for living that dream then..

Just picked up Human: Fall Flat on Steam for half-off. So far I'm impressed with the game, it's a puzzle-solving physics game whose puzzles feel very organic and intuitive, and it's suprisingly addictive. My main issue is that it's not very well optimized, at least right now.

They just released some lovely new free portraits for Stellaris! and i mean it when i say lovely, the larva portrait is utterly pretty as heck.

 amazingturtles wrote:
They just released some lovely new free portraits for Stellaris! and i mean it when i say lovely, the larva portrait is utterly pretty as heck.

I feel kind of dumb asking this, but what is Stellaris? I've heard it's name before, and I've seen a bit of gameplay but what's the actual goal of the game? What do you spend most of your time doing?

Injustice 2 (once you have the connection) is a deeper game than Gods among us.

There are more game modes than before, including daily quests and a story mode where you have to use the character indicated.

There are also more moves than before. The simple quick/heavy/block of the original is now quick [tap], heavy [swipe right], evade [swipe left], high attack [swipe up], low attack [swipe down], ranged [swipe/tap combo], and block [visible button , bottom left].

Characters level up as normal, but you can also get XP bonuses from the dailies. They increase tier from collecting 'character shards' with more shards required both for higher grade [silver/gold] and for higher tier characters.

Matchmaking in single player is somewhat easier too. You get to know the rating of the opposing team, and the team with the higher rating has their rating highlighted in green. Make sure that's your team and you are in for an easy ride.

Character purchase and upgrade is with crystals earned from the game or bought. 100 gets you 5 shards initially, but the cost for each character increases on subsequent packs of shards, two different characters are offered each day. 150 gets you a character box. This is a random character, including a chance of a rare one. If you already have the character, you get 10 character shards towards an upgrade.

Equipment is now 5 slots, not 3, but is restricted in that each slot has a particular piece of gear and won't accept any other. For example, Scarecrow's [silver] 'glove' slot item HAS to go on the Scarecrow character, not one of the upgraded [Gold] versions of the character, never mind giving them to Batman who doesn't have any gear. Breaking down gear gives you components that can be used to upgrade any piece of gear.

There are also a lot of Abilities and Talents that I have not had time or game currency to play around with yet.

Overall, a very good game, providing it doesn't stall all the time when your connection drops out.

Have to disagree about the Injustice 2 mobile game. It's an overly complicated mess, that quite frequently goes unresponsive when I'm trying to string moves together. I played through the available story missions, and some of the campaign missions, and found myself thoroughly frustrated by the combat. Additionally, the game just stops explaining things early on. I've got sim chips, but no clue how to use them. Some of the alternate game modes still aren't available, and there's no explanation as to what needs to be done to unlock them.

Just for fun, I hopped onto the original last night. It appears to be still going strong, as the game was running a challenge to get a free Aquaman card with the Injustice 2 skin. So if the original is still doing well, why did they opt for something that literally has almost nothing in common with it?

Re started fallout 4 as couldn't really get on with it when I tried a while ago. Enjoying it a lot more this time, only a few hrs in and have walled in sanctuary with a few settlers plus red rocket as my home base.
Now just pushing out in to the waste lands collecting scrap/crap.

Injustice 2 sim chips let you 'simulate' a battle. I have been using them once I have beaten a character in Campaign Heroic, once that character has been beaten, you can go back and you just need the Sim chip and the energy. The battle is simulated and the outcome given (presumably) based on the combined threat levels of each team. It can be a quick way to get gear for certain characters as well as shards to level up characters you already have.

If you have spare gems, pump them into Operations as soon as you get access to them. Any character not in your team can be sent on an operation, but you can only have a maximum of 3 operations on at a time. I have spent a load of gems and now am up to level 20 upgrades - +20% completion speed, +25% XP, +15% gear chance, +25% credits, and +15% chance of gems. In the long run, the extra gems I will receive will outweigh the gems I have paid out to get this, and I am running operations almost round the clock now.

The toughest operations require characters with a minimum individual threat rating of 4,000n and take 9 hours and change to complete. I have 2 of them that I put on this morning. They should finish just after I get home from work, when I will put another 2 on. If I wake early in the morning, another 2 will go on.

Also, nice to see another start on FO4.

Wth all the talk about the Fallout minis game I got back into Fallout 4 recently. Even though I got the season pass I never played any of the DLCs, so I'm doing the robot one now and will work my way through the other. Ada seems like a good companion, but I prefer being sneaky so I'll probably switch back to Piper when I get finished with the robot quest line