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

[FriendlyFire]

Which mods are you using?

Running cosmetic mods, face, hair eyes, as well as hacking, picklock
Cant get scrap everything to work so Iam planning on clearing the game again before messing around with more mods again. Interested in settlement building mods and then look at some of the more interesting content mods

 

[Quintillus]

You need a little DLC to really enjoy it, but wait for Steam sales. I recommend "After Dark" and "Mass Transit". Both really improve the game.

Good to know. Which reminds me, IIRC when Snowfall came out, it added a snow option, but the cities with snow were permanently snowy, rather than a seasonal cycle. Is that still the case? Winter seemed like a potentially interesting addition - thinking of snowplow budgets and varying solar power output by season - but not when it was all the time.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I checked and I have the snowfall expansion too. I haven't had the snow all the time. It's seasonal, if I'm remembering right.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've been posting random screencaps from that mission, but it's a pretty elaborate mission. When I was first planning it, I posted a thread on reddit to get some feedback and advice about my plans, and people told me to post a thread when I put everything in place and did the mission. Well that was a couple months ago now and I'm not even done yet. When I'm done I'm probably going to be posting a detailed thread there, and will link to it here. There's just so much that this mission involves though, it might make sense as a set of posts rather than just one.

The screenshots thread seems dead, but I posted an update there recently

I love lengthy discussions of KSP mission, I'd definitely read and comment but I'm just one guy. Pictures are awesome too, I'll give this a look.

I thought that's what the AI in civ did now?


I started a playthrough of mass effect 2, due to this thread actually reminding me how much I like it. Unfortunately it seems like all the dlc is messed up now that you can't log into cerberus network. I may have to break down and buy it off origin now. I had only a couple dlcs like dragon armor and a weapon pack for the old disc version.

But the game itself is kind of lagging. I picked an adept since I never played them much. I have only finished playthroughs on soldier, though I went pretty far with a vanguard and infiltrator. I put it on hardcore and it's quite boring. Pretty much every fight is hunker down and take pot shots at enemies with warp and singularity. Rushing in I die and the sub machine gun isn't accurate enough at distance if enemies won't come out of cover. I run out of ammo really fast with it, thus you have to just sit behind stuff and bend warps around cover to kill guys. Like I just did okeer dossier last night, miranda and jacob got wasted by all the missile touting blue suns guys so I was on that ramps part before okeer just me vs like a dozen blue suns, but they never actually come to get you. They just sit across catwalks behind cover launching rockets all day. Super dull.

I also find having played the game already I'm not that interested in the dialogue. I have next to no motivation to talk to anyone on the normandy between missions. It just slows stuff down. It's sad cus I wanted to get everyone loyal so no one would die during the final mission but it probably won't happen.

I might reroll and try a vanguard speed run, something more fun.

Regarding crew, I guess you can kind of take anything. I did adept with warp ammo. I maxed singularity first, next going for the passive to get my renegade score up. I like to combo with miranda cus she can blow up singularity with warp and our weapons are all bad vs armor but with two warps on the team armor drops fast, and she has overload for shields. She's very balanced.

Jacob I just bring along for squad fire ammo but his lift is really strong and works well with our warps as well. I might try to sub grunt for him, I think he has fire ammo too, but Jacob works really, really well at keeping those pesky guys who run up at you like krogan at bay. Just lift em, blast em with some warp ammo and a warp attack and they always die. His lift has saved my butt more than a few times when pinned down with a krogan charging.

I feel like even though garrus and zaeed have better weapons they don't actually kill more enemies in the game. I guess AI just isn't that accurate? And garrus's skills kinda suck. Maybe group concussion shot is ok later.

I think I said this already, but EA was actually really good about getting me the ME 1 DLC when I was unable to play it. Of course, they were no longer selling that DLC (not sure if they still sell ME 2 DLC) but it's worth opening a support ticket over.

 

[CurtSibling]

Mount & Blade Warband, with my own version of Anno Dominae 1257 mod.
There is nothing so joyful as leading the charge of 200 Teutonic Knights!

 

[civvver]

I love lengthy discussions of KSP mission, I'd definitely read and comment but I'm just one guy. Pictures are awesome too, I'll give this a look.

I think I said this already, but EA was actually really good about getting me the ME 1 DLC when I was unable to play it. Of course, they were no longer selling that DLC (not sure if they still sell ME 2 DLC) but it's worth opening a support ticket over.

I only owned 1 paid dlc and a couple bonus ones from having dragon age like the blood armor. I really wish they would just discount the whole complete versions of the triology for like 9.99 on origin. It'd be an instant buy for me. I already owned dragon age origins on disc with whatever dlc that came with like stone prisoner and dragon armor, plus awakenings, and I still bought the complete digital version off gog for $8 just to get the couple hours other dlc I was missing and have digital.

But normal prices it's like $30 a game to get all the dlc, ridiculous for something over 7 years old.

 

[Senethro]

Those were the days when everyone was out to get you to sign up to their DLC selling platform, instead of just selling it through one of the distributors like Steam.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Trying to beat They Are Billions at 60% on the Peaceful Lowlands. I discovered, in consecutive games, that a Dead Town near your base can erupt a decent sized horde. It was around Day 20 or so. Unlike the periodic hordes that arrive from off-map, these are unannounced, so you don't have any warning until they're piling up on your wall. On my third game at 60%, I finally managed to stave off this sudden attack. Barely. Of course it's only Day 25 or something. I'm sure to get killed some other way. Anyway, get rid of those Dead Towns asap, at least the ones near you. I find a platoon of Soldiers does the job, with a little micromanaging.

Speaking of which, I strongly caution against using the "Chase" command, because even if you have a group hot-keyed as one unit, they'll split up pursuing separate targets, which is basically throwing your whole game away. It's like the "Explore" command on your Scouts in Civ VI, the difference being that when your Scout dies because he's a moron, you're not completely screwed. I don't know why games include these automated command functions when the AI isn't capable of using them with even basic good judgment. "Let's split up" is, like, basic horror-movie stuff. I mean, come on.

 

[Senethro]

The chase command is great! Once you've occupied the middle 50% of the map train up a mob of 40 snipers, have them clear up to a map edge and then set them to chase. Bully them until they're all walking in the same direction and they'll clear out the entire map over the course of about 15-20 days with minimal supervision. Really sets you up for the final wave.

 

[Lexicus]

Speaking of which, I strongly caution against using the "Chase" command, because even if you have a group hot-keyed as one unit, they'll split up pursuing separate targets, which is basically throwing your whole game away. It's like the "Explore" command on your Scouts in Civ VI, the difference being that when your Scout dies because he's a moron, you're not completely screwed. I don't know why games include these automated command functions when the AI isn't capable of using them with even basic good judgment. "Let's split up" is, like, basic horror-movie stuff. I mean, come on.

That's interesting, because I actually like the automated commands like "attack move" in AOE II and Rise of Nations. They make your troops much more effective as instead of all bunching to attack the single unit you click on to execute a command you can just have them attack move into the midst of the enemy army and they'll attack whatever unit is closest to them and then move on to the next one automatically.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The chase command is great! Once you've occupied the middle 50% of the map train up a mob of 40 snipers, have them clear up to a map edge and then set them to chase. Bully them until they're all walking in the same direction and they'll clear out the entire map over the course of about 15-20 days with minimal supervision. Really sets you up for the final wave.

I'll give it a try. I don't use Snipers for expeditions very much, because they're so slow, but I bet they handle Spitters better than Soldiers do.

That's interesting, because I actually like the automated commands like "attack move" in AOE II and Rise of Nations. They make your troops much more effective as instead of all bunching to attack the single unit you click on to execute a command you can just have them attack move into the midst of the enemy army and they'll attack whatever unit is closest to them and then move on to the next one automatically.

That's true, Ye Olde Attack Move has been a staple, I think at least since Warcraft. I do use Attack Move in They Are Billions quite a bit. The difference-maker with "Chase", as with Explore in Civ, is that the units choose their own destination. I'll try Senethro's tactic, though. Maybe Chase is just a bad choice for Soldiers.

 

[Lexicus]

That's true, Ye Olde Attack Move has been a staple, I think at least since Warcraft. I do use Attack Move in They Are Billions quite a bit. The difference-maker with "Chase", as with Explore in Civ, is that the units choose their own destination.

Ah, yes, I can see how that would get annoying very rapidly. Seems like it must've been designed for units to chase a single unit or something. I also use the automated scouting function in those games (well, in AOE2 you have to queue a bunch of move orders around the map but it amounts to the same thing). In RoN I play with rush rules that prevent the scout from being killed until the map is largely explored, and in AoE2...well...it's just in God's hands.

 

[H4run]

Shadow Fight 2 (Android/Ios)

If not because of the in app purchase, I will definitely claim that this game is one of the best 2D fighting game in 21st century. The movement is both beautiful and natural, the offline and online (raid) gameplay is awesome, wonderful graphic and huge weaponry option many of it posses historical value and it comes from many different culture.

But because the in app and the stinginess of the developer somewhat make the game need lot of grinding. Spending money (I did spend some of my money) can also drag you to spend another more money, because even though you bought a very cool equipment, when you level up you need to upgrade it again with higher cost, if the weapon is unique or special, you can only upgrade it with gems which you unable to grind. 1 level different can turn the difficulty to insane or impossible. But yeah if you are skillful in 2D fight, you can beat insane or impossible difficulty. I beat lot of insane opponent and some impossible.

However If you like KOF, Fatal Fury, Samurai Spirit and other 2D fighting game, by all mean play this game.

 

[civvver]

That's interesting, because I actually like the automated commands like "attack move" in AOE II and Rise of Nations. They make your troops much more effective as instead of all bunching to attack the single unit you click on to execute a command you can just have them attack move into the midst of the enemy army and they'll attack whatever unit is closest to them and then move on to the next one automatically.

You literally cannot play aoe 2 without doing this. If you click on one unit your troops try to form up and attack that one unit and usually just shuffle about without doing anything. Archers are the absolute worst, they won't even fire back properly without using attack move.


I bought a used Nintendo 2ds. I'm a very cheap person when it comes to video games, probably spoiled by all the humble bundles. My pc is 7.5 years old. Of course I'm borderline broke right now as well, kids aint cheap! So I found a 2ds on offer up for $45 and jumped on it. Ocarina of time is really cool on it.

But I'm kind of regretting not just splurging on a 2ds xl. The 2ds plays fine and feels fine in my hand but the screen is so small. And I didn't know this until I started browsing the eshop but apparently none of the super nintendo virtual console games work on the 2ds because of some compatibility issue with the processor. I already have super mario world and a link to the past on my old GBA but if mega man x or super mario kart worked I would've beaten them both already.

Oh well, there's still digitally available both zelda oracle titles which I have never played, the improved link's awakening for GBC, all the gameboy mario titles, kirby titles and mario 3, plus the new 3ds one a link between worlds is becoming a nintendo selects next month ($20 msrp).

 

[EgonSpengler]

I (re-)downloaded Subnautica last night. I bought it something like 2 years ago and it didn't grab me, but it's had a lot of work done since then.

 

[Commodore]

Bought the remastered version of StarCraft because I wanted to play through the campaigns again and didn't want to jump through all the compatibility hoops to get it working right on a modern system. The updated graphics look pretty good. They didn't redo the cutscenes though, but that was to be expected. It does seem like they re-rendered them in a higher resolution though which does make them look a little better.

Gameplay wise, they didn't change anything. That's a little disappointing since I was hoping they'd at least fix some of the lingering pathfinding issues and other small bugs like that. But true to their word, Blizzard only overhauled the graphics. Apparently this was at the request of the StarCraft community though, as they said they only wanted updated graphics but wanted the same old StarCraft in terms of gameplay, bugs and all. So I guess too much blame can't be placed on Blizzard for not modernizing the gameplay as well.

 

[Lexicus]

I bought a used Nintendo 2ds. I'm a very cheap person when it comes to video games, probably spoiled by all the humble bundles. My pc is 7.5 years old. Of course I'm borderline broke right now as well, kids aint cheap! So I found a 2ds on offer up for $45 and jumped on it. Ocarina of time is really cool on it.

Is there backward compatibility with original DS games? I've been thinking of getting one so I can play pokemon heartgold and soulsilver.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Original DS games can be played on the 2DS and 3DS.

 

[civvver]

Yes. Technically it says most games. I don't know what that means. Those pokemons aren't available digitally but they go for under $20 used.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

There are a couple of DS games that used the GBA slot for accessories.