What other games are we all playing?
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Still playing Shooty Boats.
Stray because cat.
Every time I see an ad for WoWs, I tell myself I need to reinstall it. My combat itches get scratched by Armored Warfare a t m. But I could get some satisfaction from WoWs too.
As I mentioned above I've been eyeballing U-Boat lately. Today as I was culling old WWII History magazines I saw an article on the USS Batfish. It was one of two Allied subs to sink three enemy subs. (and possibly a fourth unconfirmed kill) The other was the HMS Upholder ... for you military historian types out there.
So, playing a sub sim becomes even more enticing. I never played a sub in WoWs but I probably will in the future.
GL HF
I just ground out HMS Fiji. Good ship, but only AP for shells.
AP does not work for you. You work for AP (overpens, ricochet's, etc).
AP does not work for you. You work for AP (overpens, ricochet's, etc).
U-Boat for simming focus. Cold Waters for more arcade element. You simply control the boat differently. CW is also faster due to modern era. It's a lot like Red Stom Rising plus a 3D viewport (3rd person cam) while RSR was only 2D - there is 2D map tho.
UBoat is more management, you can roleplay Kaleu moving through boat in 1st person or play 3rd person boat view or plot on the 2D map. It's kinda more immersive and a chunk load more complex (research progression, pick your own hunting grounds, crew management, damage control, torpedo solution). Mods can let you install TDC and do it all manually or you let the officers handle.
In terms of damage model UBoat comes closest to SH3, not quite there but quite good.
Surviving Mars is pretty chill, actually. You can kinda cruise thru Endless games, but they have a couple concepts to wrap the head around, yeah. KSP: I brute force it by strapping more fuel and engines on until it works (sometimes it doesn't). Yeah, always planned to build a geostationary refuelliung station, but couldnt bother.
You mean like before boss fights? Wasn't there a disengage method?
Some kind of weirdo System Shock?
The only disengage method I'm aware of is abandoning quests, which has serious negative consequences.
It's deliberately a very unforgiving game and the inability roll back any mistake or reroll any random event is a big part of that. However, it's also frustrating if that's not what one is looking for. I'm not so enthralled with the game that I want to restart a dozen times in the process of learning what stuff does.
I've just started playing Dishonored. It was on sale on Steam with all it's DLC, so I thought it worth a punt.
The graphics are no worse than a lot of games I still play, but do look a bit dated. I'm finding the linear-with-branches maps quite entertaining whilst also a little claustrophobic and limiting.
Overall I'm enjoying it and will likely play it all the way through, and then delete it. I'm onto the third chapter (the bridge) and feeling that replayability is fairly low, but we'll see. The 'levels' or 'maps' all seem quite small, and so I can't see them bearing repeated playing.
But it is good fun!
The graphics are no worse than a lot of games I still play, but do look a bit dated. I'm finding the linear-with-branches maps quite entertaining whilst also a little claustrophobic and limiting.
Overall I'm enjoying it and will likely play it all the way through, and then delete it. I'm onto the third chapter (the bridge) and feeling that replayability is fairly low, but we'll see. The 'levels' or 'maps' all seem quite small, and so I can't see them bearing repeated playing.
But it is good fun!
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Path of Exile. I've been meaning to try this game for years, and now I'm kicking myself that I didn't try it earlier. If you love Diablo 2 like games, you'll probably love this too. The modern day updates are great, and the scope is quite staggering. I thought I'd largely finished after the original ten Act campaign, but I see now it's like I've only now opened up the main content... very impressive.
Following levels will be - or at least feel - bigger and packed with more paths than they seem. Then play Dishonored 2 and its standalone Death of the Outsider and you'll have a treat for gorgeousness and crazy level design ideas.
Then play Prey and you'll see what CryEngine can deliver when put in competent gamedesigners hands
Arkane is my favourite game studio, but I guess you figured it out
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I've added my own sub-game to Dishonored, whereby I leave the unconscious in deeply compromising postions, normally with empty bottles strewn about... ...it makes me laugh...Following levels will be - or at least feel - bigger and packed with more paths than they seem. Then play Dishonored 2 and its standalone Death of the Outsider and you'll have a treat for gorgeousness and crazy level design ideas.
Then play Prey and you'll see what CryEngine can deliver when put in competent gamedesigners
Arkane is my favourite game studio, but I guess you figured it out
Also of note, the voice acting is well done too.
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I was hardcore into Elite before Odyssey dropped. Started on Xbox, then picked it up on PC and added VR to the mix. I fell off from playing when Odyssey dropped with its original issues and no VR. I started playing a lot of SC and have been waiting for Elite to get in a better place. Still upset about the VR thing, but now I'm waiting on the migration of my XBOX commander and ships over here to PC.
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