What Video Games Have You Been Playing VII: The Real Ending is Locked Behind a Paywall

[Birdjaguar]

Has anyone played Oriental Empires?

 

[Synobun]

Has anyone played Oriental Empires?

I haven't played it myself but have kept vague track of it over the months. From my understanding it finally got given the full English treatment and ended up as being a decent enough game after they went through around a year of bug fixes and tweaks. It's comparable to Total War.

It will probably go cheaper than 40% off during the Steam Winter Sale, though.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Thanks.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Very much so. I'm sure I've rhapsodised about it before, but if you're on the modding straitjacket that is the PS4, then there's little help for you.

That looks like a lot of fun. I enjoy building out one or two settlements per game but having to build out every settlement gets tedious and I end up just throwing sleeping bags everywhere and planting tons and tons of carrots on any available land. I prefer carrots because they are much harder to destroy by gunfire in a raid.

I'm aware that PS4 is one of the worst ways to enjoy this game but I do not have a modern gaming rig or any plans to make one at this time.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I had a lot of fun building my settlements, one way of generating funds was setting up massive water farm operation along with the needed defenses and equipping all the settlers with weapons, Armour
In fact I hoped that it would be expanded a lot more

I do the same with water farms - I now generate more than I know what to do with and I walk around with 50k+ caps so I'm thinking about decommissioning some of the more extensive water farms.

Is there a way to guarantee that your settlements can successfully defend against raids? I had a settlement under attack that I forgot to get to and I got a notification that it had defended itself successfully but that's the only time it ever happened that way and I don't know how I managed it.

Does anyone else have to erect buildings with doors to protect your power armor suits? I found out the hard way that NPC's will suit up in power armor that's standing around when they are under attack. Normally they will exit the armor some time after the attack but one time I got a weird glitch where an NPC morphed into my prized X-01 suit such that the suit became their skin and they looked like a mutant freak creation. They never took the suit off and I was pretty pissed. Now I always have a dedicated building with doors to house my armor. I don't know if it will really keep the NPCs out of the suits but it's worth the effort.

Also, can your power armor get stolen if you leave it in a settlement or out in the world?

 

[Broken_Erika]

Settlers might take it if the settlement gets attacked. Afterwards they'll wear it until they want to use a chair or bed, then they'll leave it somewhere stupid.

 

[Lexicus]

Anyone have any involvement in the apparent utter crapshow that is Battlefront 2?

 

[Synobun]

Anyone have any involvement in the apparent utter crapshow that is Battlefront 2?

Fun game. Terrible management. It would probably be considered a great title if it weren't for EA's horrendous idea on how to monetize and cap progress.

The story is short but decent, and also considered canon so it's worth reading up on if just for that.

 

[Lexicus]

Fun game. Terrible management. It would probably be considered a great title if it weren't for EA's horrendous idea on how to monetize and cap progress.

The story is short but decent, and also considered canon so it's worth reading up on if just for that.

What did you think of the original battlefront reboot?

 

[Senethro]

Well produced but its like they took much of the bad aspects of the battlefield series and recreated them.

 

[Synobun]

What did you think of the original battlefront reboot?

It was trash.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Is there any VR content for it?

 

[Synobun]

There was supposed to be but they slashed it during the summer. I guess it didn't convert very well.

 

[Snerk]

I really liked the last Battlefront game, played it quite a bit and almost got good too. All the singleplayer stuff was meh but I didn't come for the singleplayer. I do think the MP modes showed some lack of creativity though. You can only play walker assault that many times. DICE is really pushing the if it ain't broken approach in MP. I wish they'd try some new stuff like the Titan mode in Battlefield 2142. Which was frickin' awesome.

I shan't be getting Battlefront 2. Don't care about the single player stuff and MP looks way too samey.

 

[Arakhor]

Also, can your power armor get stolen if you leave it in a settlement or out in the world?

Always take out the fusion cell, first! Otherwise, yes.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I do the same with water farms - I now generate more than I know what to do with and I walk around with 50k+ caps so I'm thinking about decommissioning some of the more extensive water farms.

Is there a way to guarantee that your settlements can successfully defend against raids? I had a settlement under attack that I forgot to get to and I got a notification that it had defended itself successfully but that's the only time it ever happened that way and I don't know how I managed it.

Does anyone else have to erect buildings with doors to protect your power armor suits? I found out the hard way that NPC's will suit up in power armor that's standing around when they are under attack. Normally they will exit the armor some time after the attack but one time I got a weird glitch where an NPC morphed into my prized X-01 suit such that the suit became their skin and they looked like a mutant freak creation. They never took the suit off and I was pretty pissed. Now I always have a dedicated building with doors to house my armor. I don't know if it will really keep the NPCs out of the suits but it's worth the effort.

Also, can your power armor get stolen if you leave it in a settlement or out in the world?

You need a certain level of defence points per population of your settlement, for that settlement to fight off raids while you are not there
You can access the Settlers they will exit the power armour, you can remove the core for power armour to stop settlers from borrowing them
They should also exit them when you fast travel, but the power armour ends up being unequiped at the last NPC position

 

[Arakhor]

Your defence must at least equal food + water and is better off higher still.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Your defence must at least equal food + water and is better off higher still.

That's really dumb. Well maybe not. I guess it makes sense, the more food and water, the juicier the target for raids. It's still a high bar to set for even modest settlements but it does help stop you from wrecking the in-game economy with water mining settlements.

 

[Snerk]

Been playing The Hunter: Call of the Wild. Man the views are amazing, lighting effects in particular are very well crafted.

It's a game of patience though, nothing arcadey about it. I spent an hour last night in a shed overlooking a cornfield looking for Fallow deers trying to complete a mission. Didn't see anything other than the odd bird. But that's what I love about it, weather you're tracking or camping, there's no rushing anything.

Still haven't seen, much less shot, any of the higher level animals like Moose or Bison. But the environments are huge and I've only explored a fraction of it. There's also plenty of perks and skills to unlock.

My only complaint is that the UI needs a little work. The font is too damn small and toggling through all the items instead of some kind of quick access wheel is well tedious. Should work well with mouse/keyboard but the console version seems to be stuck with a bad port in that regard.

Also I hope they do some kind of small game dlc. For now the main focus seems to be big game.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Ever tried Deer Avenger?