What Video Games Have You Been Playing #15: Computer not on fire yet? Better add more mods!

[Morty]

Even in a video game I can't handle driving in the UK

As soon as I get onto the continent, I'm spending most of my time saying "drive on the right, drive on the right" like some sort of mantra!

I wish I could enjoy the trucking simulators but my mind's eye simply cannot grok the reversing

me neither! I find myself doing very unsafe u-turns just to avoid having to reverse wherever possible. And any time I can "auto park" it, then I take that option!

Do these simulators have a damage mechanic to show how much total damage caused to other vehicles and various buildings during the trip?

As @Loerwyn said. Sometimes the AI driving leaves a lot to be desired....never my fault...honest.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Yeah, I don't tend to pay attention to chat in PoE - once I get into the rhythm of killing stuff, I just tunnel vision on the action. It doesn't help that the chat window fades pretty quickly after you get a message, so if you're not paying attention at the right moment, you miss it.

I've wondered if that's my problem too.

Started a Saboteur earlier to try out Mines, as I haven't played them since the rework. Decided pretty quickly I don't like them and switched over to Lightning Trap, and I've breezed through the first 3 Acts. Fun so far, but I'll see how it goes.

I keep thinking that I should play a traps & mines character. I think it's the only character mechanic I haven't tried out yet. 'On paper' it doesn't really fire my engines, but sometimes I have to try something to get it.

 

[H4run]

I disagree, in the sense that it has a wide range of ways to attack and block, but they're much too precise and fiddly for a fast-paced multiplayer game. I just tend to roll footman and spam my mousewheel.

I'm not surprise you disagree because the reason I try that game is because it is currently celebrated as the most realistic medieval combat game, hence I already know that my opinion is on the minority side about this.

Yes most weapon are heavy, but you are not suppose to swing it by pulling it far to the end of the angle to further more the other far corner, I like sword and have some of them, even though I'm not train in using weapon but as other combat sport that I have a little knowledge about it-I believe sword fighting also work in the same principle, you want to decrease the opening as little as possible when you are attacking, opening cannot be avoid but it can be minimized, but instead Mordhau attack move mostly consist of a large and heavy haymaker move unless you can manipulate your mouse to "accelerate it". The slow and sluggish combat phase maybe good for playing with precision and good planning because otherwise your opponent will punish you with their counter-attack, but it may makes it a good game for some, but it doesn't makes it realistic in my opinion. Even the light and short one handed sword is still sluggish and heavy, ugh.

Mordhau is about as close to realistic as you can get while still being fun

"as close" is an objective observation, and it's relative, I may agree on some part of it. But fun, man it's a torture for me.

 

[H4run]

Attacks have to be almost telegraphed in order for you to parry...

Make sense, the more it telegraphed the easier it is to be parry, but the way it telegraph is like an Orc swinging a giant warhammer I just cannot make sense when it will land, the timing is just too slow for my mind, when I switch it to lighter weapon and hoping for a much close and tight slash and jab, it's still wide, screamy and sluggish. I wish I never bought that game, still haven't rate it though, I still want to give it a try later.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I just remembered that in Fallout 4 you can join the brotherhood and get access to their vertibirds. In my regular difficulty games, I never used them because I preferred to fast travel. In Survival Mode, fast travel is off so I have to hoof it on foot and being able to ride as a door gunner in a vertibird to cross the map would be far better. Oh I'm so excited lol. I wish I had remembered this sooner and saved myself a few hours in real time traversing the game map.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

In Skyrim, I had a mod that actually let you ride the carriages when you hired them. But I also had another mod that resulted in more people traveling on the roads. Splat! Crunch! Then the carriages sometimes flipped over and kept being dragged upside-down along the road.

Then when I got out of the carriage at the end of the ride I'd spontaneously launch 500 miles into the air and fall to my death.

Good times.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The vertibird door gunner position is so freaking sweet.

 

[Commodore]

I just remembered that in Fallout 4 you can join the brotherhood

Yeah, but why would anyone want to join those bigoted techno-snobs anyway? Destroying the Brotherhood of Steel is always priority number one in any Fallout game I play.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

In Skyrim, I had a mod that actually let you ride the carriages when you hired them. But I also had another mod that resulted in more people traveling on the roads. Splat! Crunch! Then the carriages sometimes flipped over and kept being dragged upside-down along the road.

Then when I got out of the carriage at the end of the ride I'd spontaneously launch 500 miles into the air and fall to my death.

Good times.

It was a slightly buggy mod.

 

[Zkribbler]

Just won my 39th straight game of Regency Solitaire.

 

[Takhisis]

The vertibird door gunner position is so freaking sweet.

Play it with Turbonegro's ‘Death from above’ as background music.
Lyrics:
Flyin' in on the wings of destruction
with freedom in our eyes
it's the death from above
and everybody dies

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Play it with Turbonegro's ‘Death from above’ as background music.
Lyrics:
Flyin' in on the wings of destruction
with freedom in our eyes
it's the death from above
and everybody dies

I prefer Flight of the Valkyries but that's a good one too.

Yeah, but why would anyone want to join those bigoted techno-snobs anyway? Destroying the Brotherhood of Steel is always priority number one in any Fallout game I play.

Because I haven't seen that ending yet and the vertibirds have proven crucial today. I made some serious gains with my new found freedom.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Just acquired the remastered Bard's Tale Trilogy. For those who don't know their history, this is the original 'grind 'til you're blind, then even more of a grind' D&D style game for the earliest computers.

 

[dusters]

Legends of runeterra card game which opened beta yesterday is neat.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Into the Breach is much less brutal than Faster Than Light which I appreciate. However, it's still bloody hard and it's not uncommon to go from complete domination of a battlefield to a total wipeout inside of a single turn. Thankfully, the game lets you both reset a single turn once per match. Also, when you are about to lose, you can teleport one of your pilots back in time to the beginning of the game while keeping their XP (a la Edge of Tomorrow). It's a pretty fun game but even on easy mode it gets very challenging about 2/3 of the way in.

 

[Synobun]

I've been trying to play the remastered version of Cursed Treasure 2, a tower defense game, through Kongregate, but it's so poorly designed that it melts my laptop. I kid you not, Crysis runs better.

I'm sure the version they have on Steam runs better since it's not in a web frame, but still. It's absurd.

Besides that... I haven't really played anything except some mobile games. Current one that are holding my attention: WordFeud (Scrabble), Seaport (Idle), Egg, Inc. (Idle), and Dino Park (Idle). I've thrown the devs $7 each for Egg and Dino because their micro-transactions aren't hot garbage and you can progress without them. I may get the premium version of WordFeud if my friend doesn't bail on it after a couple more games.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Actually @Synsensa's post reminds me of something I meant to include in my Into the Breach mini-review: It runs super fast. As with FTL, there are no hiccups or holdups or any graphical issues that I've encountered. I haven't even run into a bug yet, which is probably a product of divine intervention given how the other game I'm playing at the moment is Fallout 4 where I literally spent 30 minutes in a crash loop yesterday.

Speaking of FO4 - the veritbirds are cool in that when you are flying across the map, you can tell them to put you down at any point. Unfortunately, you can't tell them to hover over a single spot so you can pound the enemy into the ground with the minigun. :-/

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Crashing is the best. I had nearly a hundred megabytes of crashlogs by the time I finally got my problems with the Sims 2 sorted out.

 

[Loerwyn]

I picked up the East Coast Main Line (London-Peterborough) pack for Train Sim today so I can more authentically use the Class 91 pack my bestie got me for my birthday late last year, and I also picked up Car Mechanic 2018 (but none of the DLC packs, as I don't really care for them) so I'll be playing that shortly.