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Nine days after finally being accepted to the World of Warships closed beta, it's open beta time! 
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What video games have you been playing III: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
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madviking
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anyone buy rocket league?
PhroX
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Nine days after finally being accepted to the World of Warships closed beta, it's open beta time!
http://worldofwarships.com/
Welcome aboard
If I may give one tip, it's, should you decide to play a battleship, do not make the mistake of assuming you are an indestructible unstoppable force of nature. You aren't. You can die very easily if you take a full torpedo salvo. And no, destroyers and carriers aren't OP, they just feast on battleship drivers who obliviously sail in straight lines despite knowing torpedo armed enemies are within range.
Contrary to the thread subtitle, you don't necessarily need a bigger boat, you just need a brain
Battleship is the weakest class by far. I've been playing since July 5 or so 
now that Cities: Skylines is working properly for me, though, I've been devoting some major time to that. I currently have a sprawling city of 11,000 that I'm slowly raising to the sky.
now that Cities: Skylines is working properly for me, though, I've been devoting some major time to that. I currently have a sprawling city of 11,000 that I'm slowly raising to the sky.
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Witcher 3. Takes forever to finish but there's no rush and the quests are good. A bit buggy and clunky. Great game in all. I wish there was a 'cheat-story'-mode option which led you to the better endings. I'm spoiling the story for myself now because some of the quests and dialogue options alter the ending, and there's no chance I'll play it again anyway.
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Battleship is the weakest class by far. I've been playing since July 5 or so
Maybe at low tiers - the first BB for each nation is really bad - but once you hit T5 or so, they become very strong. I can see the argument that they are the hardest class to play well (except perhaps American destroyers), but they are not weak by any stretch of the imagination.
Incidentally, DDs are, at least based on my CBT experience, the opposite. They really drop in power after T5, compounded by the fact that people are usually marginally less dumb at higher tiers so you don't get quite so many of those battleships that just sail happily along in straight lines when there's 10 torpedoes heading towards them....
azzaman333
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I just finished Little Inferno. Interesting little puzzle game, probably worth about the $5 I paid for it.
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Back to Oblivion for me, I guess. I'm so sorry I left you for Skyrim for so long!
I'm also thinking I should get back into Cities Skylines for a bit too. I'll have to figure out what sort of climate/style/type of city I'm in the mood for at the moment. I think I'll probably settle with generic modern utopialand.
I'm also thinking I should get back into Cities Skylines for a bit too. I'll have to figure out what sort of climate/style/type of city I'm in the mood for at the moment. I think I'll probably settle with generic modern utopialand.
gay_Aleks
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Always walk in the shhadowhs of Sithis, sistah!
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Questions for the EU3 people:
How do I lower my war weariness? I'm stuck in this cycle now of constant rebellions to put down, which keeps raising war weariness, which leads to even more rebellions. How do I stop this cycle?
What about infamy? Is it more a matter of not letting my infamy get so high in the first place? I'm playing as France and my infamy went above 80.
How do I lower my war weariness? I'm stuck in this cycle now of constant rebellions to put down, which keeps raising war weariness, which leads to even more rebellions. How do I stop this cycle?
What about infamy? Is it more a matter of not letting my infamy get so high in the first place? I'm playing as France and my infamy went above 80.
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There's all your problems all at once. Even 40 is far too much!
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
EU3? You're outta luck, you don't have a much choice beyond waiting it out...which with 80 infamy is a bad bad idea
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I've decided to give Skyrim another shot, playing a muscular Redguard. I'm envisioning a hybrid rogue/warrior, "light infantry"-type. Sort of like Conan, but using a sword & shield instead of a two-handed sowrd. I'm concentrating on one-handed swords, shields, stealth, archery, light armor, and lockpicking. No magic, as yet, but he's only Level 6.
I do have one question, though: Do shields count as armor, for any purposes? I know that using your shield improves your Blocking skill and not your Armor skill. However, each shield is labeled as being Light Armor or Heavy Armor, and so far I've only found one shield that qualifies as Light Armor, the Hide Shield. Will I ruin the skills that require all Light Armor if I use a heavy shield?
So far I've said "up yours" to the Imperials, 'cause they tried to cut my head off for no reason; activated the Thief Stone outside Riverwood; cleaned out Bleak Falls Barrow and recovered the Dragon Stone and the Golden Claw; and met the Jarl of Whiterun. So just a few hours in.
I do have one question, though: Do shields count as armor, for any purposes? I know that using your shield improves your Blocking skill and not your Armor skill. However, each shield is labeled as being Light Armor or Heavy Armor, and so far I've only found one shield that qualifies as Light Armor, the Hide Shield. Will I ruin the skills that require all Light Armor if I use a heavy shield?
So far I've said "up yours" to the Imperials, 'cause they tried to cut my head off for no reason; activated the Thief Stone outside Riverwood; cleaned out Bleak Falls Barrow and recovered the Dragon Stone and the Golden Claw; and met the Jarl of Whiterun. So just a few hours in.
madviking
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I think shields count if you have any of the perks that are like have-all-armor-from-the-same-set.
But idk I did an Imperial/Nord hybrid, light armor stealth+two handed weapon build.
But idk I did an Imperial/Nord hybrid, light armor stealth+two handed weapon build.
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I've been playing tons of Medieval II. Started as Venice, conquered Hungary after they DOWed me, fought with Holy Rome and Poland and the Byzantines until the pope excommunicated me, and then it was Total War until a 1346 Long Campaign victory. I controlled all of Italy save Rome, and all of mainland Europe north through Denmark, east until the border of the mid-1800s Russian Empire, and west through France, but not including Iberia. And also excepting Switzerland, because nobody ever conquered the Swiss.
I'd forgotten what a good game M2TW was. Definitely a nice change of pace, and the generals' traits were entertaining as always. My last leader made it up to Mongol-level amounts of Command and Dread by the end - 9 Command, 10 Dread (the max). Had there not been a max, he would have had 12 Dread, and had he not been an alcoholic, he could have had 12 command. Instead he was a mercilessly conquering alcoholic who, thought perhaps not deserving excommunication when it was received, certainly justified it after a reign of terror against the Poles, Germans, and, to a lesser extent, the French.
By the end, the only nation that I had halfway decent relations with were the Mongols.
Yeah, infamy that high causes all sorts of problems. I know, because when playing as Burgundy I intentionally let my infamy climb to almost 300 in the late game, just to see what wound happen. Pro tip: don't do that. All my neighbors declared war on my as soon as their truces expired, and I had revolts everywhere. You get a lot of nasty events for high infamy, such as +15% revolt risk in certain provinces - and fighting that will indeed make it hard to keep war weariness low (and since you'll likely be at war with your neighbors, it will be even more difficult to lower war weariness).
So yes, you shouldn't let it get that high. There's a red flag in the status bar with a number such as 80/42 - the first is your infamy, and the second is your infamy limit. If you go above the limit, bad things happen, and the farther above, the more bad things happen. You're pretty far above it - the highest I've seen the limit is about 45.
I would recommend releasing a few vassals, as IIRC in EU3, releasing vassals lowers your infamy. Release enough to get it below the limit, and within a few years the bad events will wear off, and eventually you should be able to get things under control. In the meantime, hire one of the advisors who decreases revolt risk by 0.3% per level, and perhaps also one of the ones who lowers infamy by 0.05 per year per level. And going forward, try to stay under the infamy limit!
See also, the EU3 Wiki article on infamy (sometimes referred to by its EU2 name, badboy).
I'd forgotten what a good game M2TW was. Definitely a nice change of pace, and the generals' traits were entertaining as always. My last leader made it up to Mongol-level amounts of Command and Dread by the end - 9 Command, 10 Dread (the max). Had there not been a max, he would have had 12 Dread, and had he not been an alcoholic, he could have had 12 command. Instead he was a mercilessly conquering alcoholic who, thought perhaps not deserving excommunication when it was received, certainly justified it after a reign of terror against the Poles, Germans, and, to a lesser extent, the French.
By the end, the only nation that I had halfway decent relations with were the Mongols.
Yeah, infamy that high causes all sorts of problems. I know, because when playing as Burgundy I intentionally let my infamy climb to almost 300 in the late game, just to see what wound happen. Pro tip: don't do that. All my neighbors declared war on my as soon as their truces expired, and I had revolts everywhere. You get a lot of nasty events for high infamy, such as +15% revolt risk in certain provinces - and fighting that will indeed make it hard to keep war weariness low (and since you'll likely be at war with your neighbors, it will be even more difficult to lower war weariness).
So yes, you shouldn't let it get that high. There's a red flag in the status bar with a number such as 80/42 - the first is your infamy, and the second is your infamy limit. If you go above the limit, bad things happen, and the farther above, the more bad things happen. You're pretty far above it - the highest I've seen the limit is about 45.
I would recommend releasing a few vassals, as IIRC in EU3, releasing vassals lowers your infamy. Release enough to get it below the limit, and within a few years the bad events will wear off, and eventually you should be able to get things under control. In the meantime, hire one of the advisors who decreases revolt risk by 0.3% per level, and perhaps also one of the ones who lowers infamy by 0.05 per year per level. And going forward, try to stay under the infamy limit!
See also, the EU3 Wiki article on infamy (sometimes referred to by its EU2 name, badboy).
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Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Pretty fun space strategy game. Command various classes of starships in naval-style combat against a variety of enemies with pretty decent tactical AI. The only downside is that some of the missions get a bit repetitive, falling too often into the "Kill all enemies" mission objective.
Pretty fun space strategy game. Command various classes of starships in naval-style combat against a variety of enemies with pretty decent tactical AI. The only downside is that some of the missions get a bit repetitive, falling too often into the "Kill all enemies" mission objective.
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