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

[EgonSpengler]

Path of Exile: Legion

AugustusDimachaerus. Duelist. Two swords. A dualing duelist, or a dueling dualist? Some things we're just not meant to know. Level 20-something. Recently executed all 3 Bandit Lords, mainly out of indecision. If one of them had made me a better offer, they could've saved him/herself, but they weren't negotiating. Oh, well. Nobody likes bandits, anyway.

Blood & Sand. Flesh & Stone. Lacerate. So far, I'm not in love with Lacerate; it feels more like a ranged attack than a melee attack. I want to try Bladestorm, but I think I have to kill General Gravicius first, which could be a while. Until then, maybe I'll see how Cleave feels to me.

Using Dash, but was disappointed to find you can't traverse open spaces, like severed bridges, although you can go up and down short cliffs. Might go back to Leap Slam, which I seem to use on every character.

Passive Web: Bloodletting; Master of the Arena; Bravery; Art of the Gladiator. Sitting on some points now, until a need becomes evident.

2 or 3 of the crystal spires have crashed my game. I might take a few days off to let them patch that.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Sounds like Sarmatia but with dinosaurs

sounds like Sauromania, a legendary festival held every 666 years in middle earth where the high society of evil doers comes together to smoke pot and burn elves.

 

[Lexicus]

Sauromania is a psychiatric condition that was added to the DSM after my groundbreaking study of a patient who presented an unhealthy obsession with Christopher Lee, kept combining Lord of the Rings lines with Count Dooku's dialogue from Attack of the Clones.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Sauromania is a psychiatric condition that was added to the DSM after my groundbreaking study of a patient who presented an unhealthy obsession with Christopher Lee, kept combining Lord of the Rings lines with Count Dooku's dialogue from Attack of the Clones.

If someone had done an adaptation of Sherlock Holmes vs. Count Dracula, Lee could've played both parts.

 

[Ajidica]

Sounds like Sarmatia but with dinosaurs

Per Wikipedia, Sauromatia is likely just a Greek spelling variant of Sarmatia. However, in Dominions, Sauromatians do ride lizards....

 

[Dachs]

Per Wikipedia, Sauromatia is likely just a Greek spelling variant of Sarmatia.

This is correct. Both are Greek terms. It is unclear why some authors used the variant spelling.

Attempts to connect Sauromatia to anything involving lizards are...probably?...folk etymologies.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Path of Exile: Legion

AugustusDimachaerus. Duelist. Two swords. A dualing duelist, or a dueling dualist? Some things we're just not meant to know. Level 20-something. Recently executed all 3 Bandit Lords, mainly out of indecision. If one of them had made me a better offer, they could've saved him/herself, but they weren't negotiating. Oh, well. Nobody likes bandits, anyway.

Blood & Sand. Flesh & Stone. Lacerate. So far, I'm not in love with Lacerate; it feels more like a ranged attack than a melee attack. I want to try Bladestorm, but I think I have to kill General Gravicius first, which could be a while. Until then, maybe I'll see how Cleave feels to me.

Using Dash, but was disappointed to find you can't traverse open spaces, like severed bridges, although you can go up and down short cliffs. Might go back to Leap Slam, which I seem to use on every character.

Passive Web: Bloodletting; Master of the Arena; Bravery; Art of the Gladiator. Sitting on some points now, until a need becomes evident.

2 or 3 of the crystal spires have crashed my game. I might take a few days off to let them patch that.

I've been farming Oni Goroshi in the Twilight strand for the past few days. I have two and hope for at least one more. I'll start my slayer soon and he will have lots of goodies from 4 days of farming Hillock with four characters.

Cleave is always my skill of choice. Go for it!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Fans are not happy with the new main-line Pokemon games called Sword and Shield. The graphics are pretty terrible, they ditched the gimmicks of previous games that people liked while replacing them with a worse gimmick and the games will not allow you to transfer all of the Pokemon you have collected into the game. The reasoning for this last thing is that they 'don't have the resources to model all the characters' which is, well, if not a lie then they have some explaining to do. Pokemon X and Y were delayed and ran very poorly because at that time they built HD, 3D models of every future Pokemon specifically to avoid having to model them again for future games. Like, Game Freak said that at the time and yet here we are.

And everyone's pretty sure they will introduce the missing Pokemon to Sun and Shield later on...as some form of DLC.

Big mood.

 

[Lexicus]

Attempts to connect Sauromatia to anything involving lizards are...probably?...folk etymologies.

I will die defending the Roman unit stationed in Britain comprised of Sarmatians--->King Arthur legend theory!

(edit: I mean, I know how far-fetched it is but it is badass)

 

[Phrossack]

In Total War: Rome 2, my Carthaginian campaign was going alright. I was gradually expanding into Hispania and Mauretania while my mighty fleet kept the Romans at bay.

Then a Roman legion literally walked over my fleet and the Strait of Messina to attack me.

My entire campaign collapsed because of a stupid game mechanic I couldn't have foreseen. It was as if the British evacuated at Dunkirk only to be pursued across the Channel by water-walking Nazis.

So I started a Parthian campaign instead. After conquering Baktria, the Dahae, and the Roxolani, I had a good-sized and rich kingdom going. Unfortunately my path south was blocked by a big blob of friendliness. A bunch of Persian factions had split Persia between them and are all allied to each other, and at least one was my ally while another had a non-aggression pact with me. I hadn't expected peace and treaties to last forever, but they have. I'm not mean enough to break faith without any provocation, so I'm headed west after subjugating a nomadic confederation to the Bosporus or Caucasia. These accursed Persians are just too nice to kill.

And boy, are spies OP. Starving a whole nation by literally stuffing its entire agricultural output into ONE PERSON'S POCKETS seems a bit extreme... I don't think they even had pockets back then!

 

[Lexicus]

Then a Roman legion literally walked over my fleet and the Strait of Messina to attack me.

that is weird, could it be a bug?

 

[Akka]

Then a Roman legion literally walked over my fleet and the Strait of Messina to attack me.

Was your fleet in "increased movement" mode ?

 

[Phrossack]

that is weird, could it be a bug?

Apparently the strait counts as a land bridge, even though ships may pass through. That way, armies don't need to turn into boats to cross, and since they're still "on land," they can't be blocked by ships.

This is apparently also hard-coded into the map and cannot be modded away.

 

[Lexicus]

Apparently the strait counts as a land bridge, even though ships may pass through. That way, armies don't need to turn into boats to cross, and since they're still "on land," they can't be blocked by ships.

This is apparently also hard-coded into the map and cannot be modded away.

Wow. That's a step down from Medieval 2 - IIRC the straits (Messina is one, Bosphorous and Dardanelles are the other ones I remember - there's also a passage between Denmark and Sweden) are land bridges but if you park a fleet in the strait no one else can move land units across.

 

[Phrossack]

Wow. That's a step down from Medieval 2 - IIRC the straits (Messina is one, Bosphorous and Dardanelles are the other ones I remember - there's also a passage between Denmark and Sweden) are land bridges but if you park a fleet in the strait no one else can move land units across.

Exactly. Even in Shogun 2, which is mostly the same engine as Rome 2 IIRC, blocking straits was THE strategy for defending islands even though straits could be crossed by armies, since ships could block them.

Suddenly the dominant and logical defensive strategy doesn't work.

 

[Lexicus]

Fortunately the AI is too stupid to stop me from crossing the straits that way

 

[jarred!]

I used to play Rome: Total War, where none of the straits were land bridges. All it really succeeded in doing was make the game harder for the AIs.

 

[Phrossack]

I used to play Rome: Total War, where none of the straits were land bridges. All it really succeeded in doing was make the game harder for the AIs.

If you take pity on the AI, you don't have to block the straits. That would help it, especially since it's too dumb to break through with its own fleet.

 

[Traitorfish]

So I started a Parthian campaign instead. After conquering Baktria, the Dahae, and the Roxolani, I had a good-sized and rich kingdom going. Unfortunately my path south was blocked by a big blob of friendliness. A bunch of Persian factions had split Persia between them and are all allied to each other, and at least one was my ally while another had a non-aggression pact with me. I hadn't expected peace and treaties to last forever, but they have. I'm not mean enough to break faith without any provocation, so I'm headed west after subjugating a nomadic confederation to the Bosporus or Caucasia. These accursed Persians are just too nice to kill.

Bordering factions failing to declare war on you is a very un-Total War problem to have, right enough. Are you sure your copy wasn't somehow cursed by a vengeful witch?

 

[Phrossack]

Bordering factions failing to declare war on you is a very un-Total War problem to have, right enough. Are you sure your copy wasn't somehow cursed by a vengeful witch?

Apparently I bought Total Peace: Rome 2 in error. Peace has broken out all across the already peace-torn Middle East, causing deaths by peaceful causes beyond reckoning. Dark times indeed.

Because peace...Peace never changes.