What Video Games Have You Been Playing #11: I should go

[Takhisis]

Eh, not really.
You don't really have any control over the battles besides some basic scripting for your troops and a few rounds of commands for your mages. The game has a bajillion different spells and artifacts that all interact with each other, troops, and mages in different ways. Think Paradox level systems but unlike a lot of paradox systems that exist simply for you to manage them, Dominions systems all feed back into each other. More territory allows you to recruit more troops and mages, which allows better research, which lets you fight better, which lets you conquer more territory, and so on until you have seized enough Thrones of Ascension to become the next god. There are something like 40+ different factions which all play differently, some (like Ermor, the Ashen Empire) play really differently. You have cannibalistic giants from Jewish mythology (the Nephilim), insane Cthulhu starspawn, Ivan the Terrible era Russia, the Tuatha from Irish myth, and so on.

Hmmm… if it'd been TW with magicks then I might have taken it, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for.
(this is proof that I have to learn programming as well as 3d modelling and start my own videogame)

 

[Akka]

If I remember right, you get the last squadmate very late in the game, so you might want to save some sidequests to do with them.

Nope, terrible idea !

Do all that you can before the Reaper IFF. You still have a little bit of time afterwards to do any last-second quests. Key phrase being "a little bit".

You have the time to do ONE quest before, and you obtain one quest from the IFF. Do the math !

 

[Akka]

The spreading out in Medieval2, I think, add some valuable gameplay decisions in that in penalizes players for just rushing at a point and can make units very vulnerable to cavalry rear charges.

It just destroyes any possibility at immersion, though, so that's a deal-breaker. It just looks ridiculous to have soldiers "in formation" being five metres apart and waiting their turn at dueling.

As far as battles being too quick and units getting destroyed to fast, I dunno. Most battles in Medieval 2 take 15-30 minutes for me (far longer than even my biggest battle in Warhammer). Unless if there are heavy cavalry rear charges or you are fighting knights with militia, Medieval 2 units can stand and fight a long time. It is one of the reasons why morale is so important in the game because unless you can do something to shatter their moral, a unit of dismounted feudal knights will fight forever and a day.

Are you sure you don't use a mod ? Because I certainly don't remember them to last a long time (save maybe two heavily-armoured units, like foot knights, fighting it out for a while).

Oh, also another thing annoying in MTW2 and much better in RTW2 that I forgot : the diplomatic aspect. MTW2 has few factions, the game includes a weird "random attack" case (each turn, there is a chance that a faction simply declare war on another, regardless of their relations, which explains why sometimes someone declares war, and then easily accept peace) and there is also a bug about long-lasting relationship not giving bonus to relation. Also, outside these main factions, small settlements are "rebels" without aim.
RTW2, on the other hand, has LOTS of faction, and doesn't have the concept of a "rebel faction", so every faction is fully functional. That makes for a much more organic world.

 

[Arakhor]

You have the time to do ONE quest before, and you obtain one quest from the IFF. Do the math !

Akka knows the score (even if it is maths).

 

[Dachs]

You have the time to do ONE quest before, and you obtain one quest from the IFF. Do the math !

you actually have time to do two if you engage in that most unusual of RPG player behaviors, "not exhausting all conversations immediately"

Spoiler derp :

finish Reaper IFF
wake Legion up but don't talk to him a second time (to avoid getting his loyalty mission)
go on one significant mission (with Legion if you like)
have the loyalty mission conversation
do Legion's loyalty mission
start humming "Daisy Bell"
go through the Omega Relay
keep the lady who engages in bestiality with varren alive

 

[Manfred Belheim]

You missed the final step:

Ruin everything for Aimee

 

[Dachs]

thank you for the warning

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I reloaded a save just so I could record this

 

[EgonSpengler]

I really spun my wheels in Path of Exiles end-game this past weekend. Only 1 new map. Only 1 appearance by the Immortal Syndicate. No sulphite deposits. I spent a few hours flailing around on some maps I'd already completed, gaining almost no XP and finding no items I could use, and then gave up. I find this game really relies on a sense of progress to hold my attention. If I'm not moving the story forward, gaining meaningful amounts of XP, or finding gear that's more than just an incremental upgrade, I get bored after half-hour to an hour. Maybe it's my character build.

p.s. On another forum, I saw mention of some sort of "daily mission" that Zana gives out, but I couldn't figure out what it was or how to get it.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I really spun my wheels in Path of Exiles end-game this past weekend. Only 1 new map. Only 1 appearance by the Immortal Syndicate. No sulphite deposits. I spent a few hours flailing around on some maps I'd already completed, gaining almost no XP and finding no items I could use, and then gave up. I find this game really relies on a sense of progress to hold my attention. If I'm not moving the story forward, gaining meaningful amounts of XP, or finding gear that's more than just an incremental upgrade, I get bored after half-hour to an hour. Maybe it's my character build.

What level are you? What is your main skill and what tier maps are you doing? Synthesis or standard?

 

[Birdjaguar]

I really spun my wheels in Path of Exiles end-game this past weekend. Only 1 new map. Only 1 appearance by the Immortal Syndicate. No sulphite deposits. I spent a few hours flailing around on some maps I'd already completed, gaining almost no XP and finding no items I could use, and then gave up. I find this game really relies on a sense of progress to hold my attention. If I'm not moving the story forward, gaining meaningful amounts of XP, or finding gear that's more than just an incremental upgrade, I get bored after half-hour to an hour. Maybe it's my character build.

p.s. On another forum, I saw mention of some sort of "daily mission" that Zana gives out, but I couldn't figure out what it was or how to get it.

Once you meet Zana and bring her into your HO, you can get daily missions. Depending upon where you live, the POE day starts at a certain time (for me in NM it is 6:00 PM). when that happens all the master missions reset based on the last map your ran on the "previous" day. A Zana mission will appear in your atlas when you hit G. You can also see missions for Einhar, Niko, Alva and Jun. they have different symbols around each map where the mission is located. If you complete a Zana mission, she will offer you new maps to buy.

 

[EgonSpengler]

What level are you? What is your main skill and what tier maps are you doing? Synthesis or standard?

78th level Marauder-Juggernaut using a pair of axes. I mostly use Cyclone. I'm doing Synthesis, so most days I have something to do. I'm hoping yesterday was just bad luck. On the Atlas, I've done fewer than 20 maps, mainly level 1-2 maps and a couple level 3s, I think.

Once you meet Zana and bring her into your HO, you can get daily missions. Depending upon where you live, the POE day starts at a certain time (for me in NM it is 6:00 PM). when that happens all the master missions reset based on the last map your ran on the "previous" day. A Zana mission will appear in your atlas when you hit G. You can also see missions for Einhar, Niko, Alva and Jun. they have different symbols around each map where the mission is located. If you complete a Zana mission, she will offer you new maps to buy.

Okay, I didn't know any of that. I do remember meeting Einhar and Alva once each, but I figured it was random. I'll have to look at the Atlas more closely. I remember seeing those symbols, but I didn't know what they meant and I didn't see a legend anywhere. Last week, I met Zana once inside a mission, where she gave me a map-within-the-map. Was that one of the 'daily missions'?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Yeah, lots of POE stuff is not well publicized. There is no key to atlas symbols. IIRC: yellow gold wing=Syndicate; grey ring = Niko; Red ring = Einhar; and Zana is the complex one that is left.

i have not been enamored with Synthesis so I don't play it much and my marauder is only in Act 6. I do party with some beginners there to move them along and help them understand the unstated best ways to do things.

White maps should drop frequently so you probably had a bad RNG day. BTW, I love ax builds and my two favorites in standard are Soul Taker builds. One is a max block with shield and the other dual wields it. Both can do T16s.

In addition to daily missions, masters can appear in maps at random. If you click on a master in your HO, you'll see a small i icon in the top right. It will tell you what you need to do to move your master to the next level.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Hmmm...I thought i just read in the POE forums that axes and cyclone don't mix. As of some recent patch cyclone requires swords or daggers. I will check.

EDIT; No, it was Whirling blades that can't use an Ax.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

78th level Marauder-Juggernaut using a pair of axes. I mostly use Cyclone. I'm doing Synthesis, so most days I have something to do. I'm hoping yesterday was just bad luck. On the Atlas, I've done fewer than 20 maps, mainly level 1-2 maps and a couple level 3s, I think.


Okay, I didn't know any of that. I do remember meeting Einhar and Alva once each, but I figured it was random. I'll have to look at the Atlas more closely. I remember seeing those symbols, but I didn't know what they meant and I didn't see a legend anywhere. Last week, I met Zana once inside a mission, where she gave me a map-within-the-map. Was that one of the 'daily missions'?

we should play as three sometimes. funny, my main on synthesis is marauder, too, as is birds. triple marauding.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Yes we can, but you and I would have to catch up a bit to match his mapping level. Marauders are a fun build, even if not meta speed machines.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm off to get the Reaper IFF.

Spoiler :

Grunt, this isn't a good time to be thinking about that.

EDIT: I think I discovered the new squadmate!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Spoiler Mass Effect 2 spoilers :

So I did Legion's loyalty mission and the next time I accessed the galaxy map suddenly everybody went to the shuttle and....just left? To do what? How do they all fit in there? And now I'm playing as Joker. And everybody got kidnapped by Collectors. I'm a little confused now.

How is Joker even able to walk? In the first game he said he needed crutches. Maybe Cerberus gave him some of those heavy bone weave prototypes?

EDIT: Everyone's loyal. Ship's fully upgraded. Time for the suicide mission. I hope I don't screw up.

 

[Arakhor]

I believe the idea is that he's either got implants or is wearing orthotic supports under his trousers.

 

[Synobun]

He wasn't exactly a spry spring chicken while the Collectors were attacking.