In What Electronic Entertainment Have You Been Partaking #18: Reticulating Splines

[Arakhor]

One lightsabre or two? That's the difference between the Guardian/Juggernaut and the Sentinel/Marauder.

 

[Synobun]

One lightsabre or two? That's the difference between the Guardian/Juggernaut and the Sentinel/Marauder.

I thought the other Force-wielding class was power-focused?

Uhhh.

Uhhhhhhhh.

God, I don't know. Maybe this is a good sign the game's worth playing again when I can't remember basic details like these. It'll be like new again!

Pretty sure it was Guardian/Juggernaut.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I got Aven Colony a few months back on Steam sale. Played it a bit, put it down for a while. Now I'm playing it again through the campaign. It's oddly addictive. I'd recommend it, but wait until it's on sale.

It's also...a bit heavy on my system. I can hear my computer fans going vrooooooom whenever I boot it up. Thankfully the temperatures are within the safe range.

 

[Arakhor]

I thought the other Force-wielding class was power-focused?

Well, yes, but each class has two subclasses. Those were the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior subclasses.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I mean....

 

[Arakhor]

Aven, huh? That was one of those games that I was vaguely inclined to try at one point.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Only about 50% of my housing capacity was used....

 

[Takhisis]

Does the red colouring mean that the buildings are on fire?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It means I can't build them because I don't have enough....thingies.

 

[Takhisis]

Flammable materials?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Lightning strikes can set buildings on fire...

 

[Lexicus]

I did something

 

[REDY]

Good job....Now I would teach Salazar what the anarchism is and guarantee independence of France... to save Italy from fascist forces

 

[Lexicus]

Good job....Now I would teach Salazar what the anarchism is and guarantee independence of France... to save Italy from fascist forces

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I also turned off the food & drink requirements in Subnautica and it was immeasurably better that way. Very, very few games have gotten 'survival' gameplay right. 99% of the time, it's just tedious micromanagement that gets in the way of the game's actual gameplay features.

I think Fallout 4 did a pretty good job with survival mode. You have to eat and drink but it's not a huge logistical burden and it feeds back into the stat modifying system so it's not a completely useless chore either.

I must just suck at the game, then. I couldn't get past the mission at DS9 where you're stuck in your shuttle and have to dogfight... somebody. I forget the enemy. There was a timer on the mission too, but I couldn't take on the ships anyways. I tried and tried and tried and then finally rage quit.

The UI for that game was awful and probably still is. The in-game economy also made no sense beyond the fact that it was designed to force you to spend real world money. There were at least 3 or 4 different currencies in-game and it sucked. I still liked it and probably would have stuck with it had it not developed some serious graphical glitches on my computer.

 

[tjs282]

Finally finished the Far Cry "Cooler" level on Challenging (admittedly, I actually glitched my way past the last Fatboy, but I'd repeated that section so often by that point, that I didn't care), and then made it all the way through the "Boat" level in a single run -- even knocked down Crowe's chopper on the first try.

But now I'm on the "Catacombs" level, and although the first section was mostly a clean-ish run (only died once!), I'm really not looking forward to the underground temple section, which is an utter pig (Trigens, and Fatboys, and Locusts, oh my)...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I caught my first legitimate Mew in any Pokemon game! I got him in Pokemon Go after finally finishing a ~2 year quest. It was also the first of these main quests I have managed to finish in 6+ months because the other quests are blocked as I don't participate in the PvP aspects of the game - many of which I couldn't participate in if I wanted to because of Covid.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I've been watching High Score, a documentary about early video games. It's...fairly good so far, with some omissions. I'm halfway in and eagerly anticipating the arrival of id games, but I think I have to wade through the Sega/Nintendo fracas first. I've never been a console gamer*, so some of this is lost on me.

* Except for the fact that I bought a PS4 specifically to play RDR2, and a used Xbox 360 specifically to play RDR1.

 

[cardgame]

Congrats on Anarchist Spain. Dat 0% stability tho.

 

[Lexicus]

Congrats on Anarchist Spain. Dat 0% stability tho.

Actually, they're supposed to play with 0% stability. It's part of their unique mechanics - they get the national spirit shown in the screenshot plus a unique economy law from a focus that counteracts almost all the negative effects of low stability.

The one thing you can't compensate for is the -20% PP growth.

They also have an absurdly broken (but extremely fun + awesome) mechanic allowing them to core any occupied states at the cost of political power (50 for a state bordering a core state, 150 for a state that doesn't border a core state).

Joining WW2 against the Axis, I was able to gobble up significant amounts of the continent which were controlled by Vichy France and Italy.

In this game, I played with Germany strengthened by 2 levels, and Italy and Japan each strengthened by one - a necessity due to germany's tendency to collapse by 1943 or even '42 at normal settings in this patch. Ditto for Japan, except instead of collapsing they get completely driven out of China and the west Indies and stuck on their home islands.
In this game, Germany was crushed by summer 1946 and Japan conquered almost all of east Asia, first China and India, then the indies and Australia, extending all the way to Africa! Giving me an opportunity to capture a bunch more territory, to be cored as I have the PP to do so.

here are some more screenshots:

Spoiler :

Peak occupation of African territory during the 1st stage of WW2. I was able to core most of these territories, meaning they did not instantly return to the colonial empires when Germany capitulated. Coring Nigeria, with its 22M manpower pool, felt especially nice. It effectively doubled my military manpower from 2M to 4M.

A screenshot showing some of my occupation of Europe before Germany capitulated (unfortunately I could not core any of this territory so it all returned to various Allied states after the peace treaty was signed). This one also shows the effects of the unique economy law mentioned earlier.

Spoiler :

Japan occupies a significant portion of east Africa (territories I had occupied were returned to the Allies and their puppets bc I did not have time to core them all before Germany capitulated):

Spoiler :

And I declare war on Japan and boot them out:
Awesomely, they sponsored a fascist uprising in South Africa which took over almost all of that country, enabling me to also take those territories (though I can't core them because the original South Africa still exists):

Spoiler :

The Allies are also at war with the Comintern right now after the Soviet Union invaded Turkey. Soviets also puppeted Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq, and are pushing into north Africa via Palestine. Europe isn't the scene of much fighting because West Germany and several Balkan states form a neutral corridor which has so far confined all the fighting to the mountains of Greece and the Balkans.

Japan still occupies most of eastern and southern Asia and much of Oceania including Hawaii.