Hello everyone. Sorry I didn’t post this last week. I was overwhelmed by events and forgot. Anyway, I’ve been playing lots of balatro and Nightreign for the past 2 weeks. I hope everyone has had a relaxing weekend
Mostly Warframe, also picked up Noita and Total War Three Kingdoms though so got a few hours in each. Noita is… very difficult to figure out. I think I just need to explore more, but I also installed the Spell Lab mod for some help in figuring out the basics and tbh I don’t think it helped much lol
I started MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries a while ago. Im not a big MechWarrior guy, but this is legit a fun game. You build up your little merc outfit, starting with a bunch of scrappy 20 to 40 ton mechs, and gradually replace them with 100 ton death machines.
If I had to compare it to something, it’s a bit like Mount and Blade in space, with giant mechs duking it out. Lots of tinkering with the mechs loadout and reparing them after battles and keeping an eye on your pilots and cashflow for your merc unit.
Oh, and it has co-op, which is a big reason I ended up playing it more than I planned to. I’m currently over 20 hours in, and I’m definitely going to keep playing it with my buddy as we collect bigger and badder mechs and take jobs from anyone offering a good payday.
Also has a great modding scene with some really huge ones that add a lot of stuff and content.
I got back into KSP which is why I’ve barely posted for the last like two weeks
so much fun!
I’m doing a huge mod list with a wormhole to a distant system and lots of advanced engines and stuff
I’m still grinding through Cyberpunk out of sheer sunk cost fallacy. I’m currently 14 hours in.
It’s not a good open world game since the open world is not very engaging. It’s not a good RPG game since most of the choices don’t feel meaningful. It’s not a good FPS game since the enemies are bullet sponges.
They should have called this game Yapping Simulator 2077. And the yapping isn’t even that good
huh, I found Night City to be among the best representation of an actual lived in city.
Also skip most of the gunplay and spec into cyberwizard to blow people up with your mind
It looks good but every part of the city looks identical. I understand that cyberpunk as a genre is a critique of capitalism and the city is supposed to be a claustrophobic hellscape. But this doesn’t make for very rewarding exploration in a videogame. At least in my experience so far.
I recently played The Ascent which is another cyberpunk game, they handled this much better. Every part of the city is visually distinct and has its own personality.
But I’m gonna continue playing Cyberpunk, I still feel like I have just scratched the surface, maybe I will change my mind.
It looks good but every part of the city looks identical.
Huh, you think? I thought at least the in-universe Chinatown, Watson, the Suburbs and Pacifica felt very distinct.
i’ve bounced off it a couple times, i feel like the writing is just not that good which is unforgivable in an RPG
Everyone sound like try-hard pricks in it, especially the player character. It’s so grating.
yeah… that game was really disappointing for me… i’m not sure what exactly i expected, but it wasn’t the game they made
I got Kerbal Space Program. I still really suck at maneuvers and Mun is yet out of reach, but I’ve figured out how to get a dude into orbit (and sometimes even get him back home!)
One of my favorite games of all time. If you have generic questions feel free to ask and if you want more structured tutorials I can point you that way too. Good luck on your journey to the Mun!
I’ve been working my way through Hades 2, the new extra difficult bosses are indeed extra difficult with any of them able to clip a death defiance off me. The final bosses in particular are extra rough and I’ll have to learn how to fight them a bit better. The new aspects have been pretty fun to play with as well.
Slowly making progress on horizon forbidden west as well. It’s not mind blowing but it certainly is one of those explore big map and get more powerful type games. The plot is quite fun as far as sci Fi future stories go and I find myself always enjoying the story beats when they happen.
The System Shock 2 remaster: Lots of fun so far! Def scratches that BioShock itch after so long
Playing some Tomb Raider on the TR1X open source port, Final Fantasy VII (2013 steam) and Resident Evil 1 (GOG)
I have been playing Lies of P and I’ve started the DLC before beating the main game cuz I read that the dialogue changes in the rest of the main game if you do.
I’m finding it very obnoxious because every enemy has 12 hit combos and just never stops attacking.
Makes me feel like dodging is not viable and you’re supposed to play entirely like Sekiro and master perfect parrying or else you’re screwed.
You absolutely have to parry yeah. Dodging becomes completely unviable as you go further in the game. You can also lower the difficulty to simply be able to take more hits so the combos don’t immediately kill you. Which you may want to do unless you have the time to learn the precisely parry timing for each boss. I mostly played the dlc on the middle difficulty.
I’m rocking Morrowind on the steam deck with openmw. Up scaled textures, AI voice acting and audiobooks, and I finally got custom shaders working on flatpak so I have volumetric clouds & mist.
Morrowind is the best Elder Scrolls game. Good choice,
Rimworld Odyssey DLC baybee
I wanna return to Rimworld soon. I kinda bounced of Rimworld …which is funny cause I vibed with the steamversion of Dwarf Fortress.
Been doing balatro and umamusume, loving rogue like summertime.
However death stranding 2 arrives today so likely I’ll be starting that this week
Oha Balatro and Umamusume. Dont think I could make time for death stranding with those 2 games being near by ^^
Once I enter Kojima’s magical realm I’m pretty sure I’ll make time for it
Only one joker to go on Balatro to get every joker on Gold Stake. Then two challenges to complete every achievement.
Been playing 9 Kings. The devs have been listening to a lot of feedback and making updates. The latest change to skill trees has been kinda “meh” compared to the old system. There’s also a lot of units that could use rebalancing. Some are auto-picks, others are a waste of space.
Next week I’m going to the game club to show people how to paint and convert models. Not sure what projects of my own I want to bring. I’ve been stripping the paint off a bunch of stuff (mostly Mage Knight models and some unlucky person’s 40k stuff they left in the lost and found for like 6 months years ago when I was in uni).
I got the new rimworld dlc on Friday, so I been playing that a lot this weekend. Its pretty cool playing a high-tech nomad. You have limited time in each tile before the mechanoids find you n assault your base, so you gotta just stash as much shit as you possibly can into your gravship and leave before they come. Its such a fun way to play the game, slowly building up your ship and leaving to new areas of the map, or raiding orbital stations or mining out an astroid.
Your eventually supposed to take out the mechanoid cluster that’s hunting you but I haven’t gotten that far yet
That sounds really fun. Enjoy
So many great games these year I feel a bit overwhelmed. Been mostly playing Dune Awakening, but also picked up Nightreign with a friend of mine, and almost finished my first run of The Alters.
