What other games are we all playing?

EUS

EUS
OK just started a new X4 game, haven't played any of the 2 DLCs yet, figured might as well start off a new human story, have to check settings, getting massive lag when I get out of the pilot's chair and move to the elevator.
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
It's that time of year again... so with the day off, I played Golf.

In particular, the Army, Pirate, and Pinball Golf variants. ;)

Army Golf: in the rough off to the left... then right... then left... then right
Pirate Golf: scream Arrrrgh! after every swing
Pinball Golf: bounce the ball off of several trees before coming to a stop five yards in front of you
 

Hank

H
You Sir, are a bad man. You're more bad than anybody here ... to post a video like that is terrible. ... I'm going to have to reload my mwo to see if mw5 is in my future and you've shown me the future is fun
 
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Jezzah

Jezzah
New World (Amazon MMO)

I got into the alpha test phase of this a week ago. Aside from a few rounds in Escape from Tarkov, I've played New World ever since.

This is the first MMO I've played since quitting Eve Online several years ago. I'm not terribly knowledgeable on the MMO scene otherwise, dabbled with Warcraft and ESO several years ago but they didnt grab me.

This game is a lot of fun. Very pretty and has mountains of lore to grab you in. The crafting system is very well developed alongside the ways you hunt or gather the absolute glut of materials available in the world. It's fairly understandable work, use what you have, craft better, collect faster, upgrade your stuff, collect more and faster sort of affair.
The combat is hugely varied also, the game is set in roughly approx 1600s to 1700s, so the weapons available at the time are there, muskets, swords, rappers, hammers etc. There is also a magical set of weapons including staff of various types and magical gauntlets of varying sorts. All the weapons have skill trees available in them and each weapon plays very differently to others. The combat itself is satisfying and meaty, I personally use muskets and spear. One gives a ranged option and the other a good close in option.

The audio is brilliant in this I have to say, they have put alot of effort into making the world Audibly rich and immersive.

There is also opt in PvP flagging if people dont want that they can untick the PvP flag at any time. You get a boost to XP though if you have it on, I left it on all the time I've played and never been killed yet outside of trouble ive started myself. The alpha community seems quite PvE focussed I'd say. That will likely change with Main release at a guess.

Overall this is a very strong, interesting and satisfying game from Amazon. It's a flat one time purchase with a cash shop for cosmetics and quality of life bits, personally I haven't seen the cash shop aspect yet as it's not implemented yet. There was some hoo haa about them doing this a few months ago but considering it's one time price and the quality overall I woildnt begrudge a few quid here and there personally.
 

Vasious

Vasious
Juniper said:
Anyone played this? It looks pretty good... a bit rough around the edges graphically, but an interesting premise and looks like quite a bit of fun. Also it supports VR.

(my Quest 2 has arrived, and I'm simply blown away by it. Need a better strap, but I was surprised just how much of a step up from the CV1 it is)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPEdW8FxaAM
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Oh wow it has reached 1.0

Was great fun in the beta but haven't played it for years due to the people I was a crew with having kids and disappearing of the face of gaming,

Really captured the small ship crew experience al Fire Fly mixed with Star Trek exploration and beaming down to a planet or over to a ship to explore and figure out the mission.
 

Hank

H
Ralph Vargr said:
Anyone have experience with Evochron Legacy?
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I have a lot of experience with Evochron in the pre-ED days. It was my space game before ED. I still like it's space flight model better than any other sim including ED-FAOff; but then that's humble opinion. The systems you can fly to are structured similar to X4; its not a model of a galactic sector (which is why I moved to ED, to fly around our Milky Way galaxy).

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Just thought I'd throw out a couple of other things about Evochron.
Its similar to ED in that, its you and your ship; no big fleets or management like X4. It does have a crew system which gives you four slots to fill (scientist, weapons officer, navigator and engineer iirc); they are not required to play and fly. Each one has different levels of skill and loyalty that enhance the ships functions. But, no pictures or animations, just names and numbers plus they will bail on you if you don't keep them paid.

You can also customize your ship with weapons, engines, etc. You can change the aspect ratio for dimensions of the ship parts to make different looking designs. The ships start with several basic configurations for different functions such as military or commercial. You don't build it from scratch like SE.

Its a very different game from ED. Its an older game but a very attractive game. You can also fly down to planets or through gas clouds. There's one station in a green gas giant you can land in; its quite a trip. Evochron is a great space sim from the pre-ED days and is basically a one man show; its just dated now.

I bought it at full price and never regretted the investment.
 
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milligna

milligna
I'm having a lot of fun finally catching up with Red Dead 2 using the VR mod. You need a beast rig to pull it off well, but if you have one - pretty neat stuff late at night!
 
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