I have continued my Kenshi antics, killing slavers and freeing everyone. I have most of the UC slave farms down now and finally finished my “I got the Phoenix” world tour and handed him to the Shek.
Also bashed through a lot of Jump Space with friends. 4p co-op mission-based PvE space FPS, think Deep Rock on a ship. Love it. Incredible pacing, honest. Could use some player progression, but I’m assuming that’s just the early-access-ness. If this is all that ever comes of it, I’ll still have gotten my money’s worth and would just think of it as a bit repetitive on the content. But fun as hell.
Tried Arc Raiders. Absolutely furious about it. Gamers suck. Thought this could be a learning moment for them since all meaningful loot comes from not-other-players, so the PvPvE should really lead to mostly PvE play and freeform team-ups, but gamers are gamers and deserve the gulag. It’s just another Tarkov; most players are pieces of shit. (Note: I have not gotten good, but the moral judgement stands.)
Team Fortress 2.
Uhhhh… I have been itching to play a game in a while and I was exhausted with trying to run windows games in Linux I gave up and played TF2 for 2 hours this day. Is cool game, I can chat again (I remember they lifted the f2p chat ban like… months ago?) and bots don’t exist (well mostly, but it’s just idling bots now, kicked easily, usually). I was wondering what to do, but I just played and overall, it was fun, with some fun moments.
Though, the chat… having people who are terminally online produces either AI (horny and not horny) discussion or someone using the n-word hen they’re mad… So, again, I had to be careful on what I say lol.
Picked up Kingdom Come Deliverance with all DLCs for like 8 bucks.
Started playing, since i love making things way too hard for myself I started in hardcore mode having never played before. I’m getting my ass eviscerated by any random group of bandits but I’m enjoying it a lot! 'Enry is a fun protag.
Mostly DnD. That counts right?
I’m still working through 100% every non-mmo final fantasy game. Yesterday I worked on FFII.
A friend wants to 100% Factorio together so I did the tutorial for that too.
Ooh, Factorio, now that’s a game with great trains
. Have fun!Working through every Final Fantasy is a neat goal. Hell of a series.
I can already tell I’ll have fun with Factorio but it will mostly be my friend speedrunning for that 40hr achievement and I’ll just be along for the ride, lol.
I’ve always loved final fantasy but only every played in fits and starts. Figure no time like the present to fix that.
Ooh, Factorio, now that’s a game with great trains
There’s even a project cybersyn mod to make them even better. Although mods invalidate achievements, unfortunately.
How are you liking Final Fantasy II? That game has been on my radar for a while, I’ve heard it’s good but a little rough around the edges.
I mean it’s old school final fantasy. I like the weapon based leveling system in theory but it’s not balanced and you see a very clear optimal choice quickly
Nice, I’m working on doing all of FF up to 6. I’m on 2 right now. It’s fun, but the grind on those older games gets to me. Second-screening it for sure.
What? You mean you don’t like seeing the same three square feet of the map for four hours as you try to get the Warmech?
Kids these days have no patience anymore ;)
I’ve gotten back with my toxic situationship (I’ve started playing eve online again)
In the deepest depths of my EVE addiction I had taken my computer to my living room and hooked it up to my big TV so I could multibox better
I did that playing Rimworld once. And then I got a mod to deal with the colonist bar issue that led to that choice.
I was playing a lot of Hades II, working on clearing the Night’s Champion challenge, but a new patch came out the other day that added new events leading up to and after the True Ending, and it kind of killed my motivation to keep playing tbh. I don’t really want to go back and redo the story for the stuff I missed, but I don’t want to just keep playing and never see it either… So I think I’m just gonna stop playing for a while and start over whenever I feel like it.
Otherwise I’ve been playing Wind Waker mostly. I also started Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman this morning, it’s a very silly Shiren the Wanderer style roguelike that’s inspired by tokusatsu. I’m enjoying it so far but I haven’t played much yet, I’m still in the tutorial dungeon.
Hades I is the only game I have had this experience (Devs adding more and well executed content) where it made me stop playing for about a year.
Yeah… Like I appreciate that they are willing to keep working on and improving their game, and I still enjoyed it plenty up to this point, but it is kinda frustrating to wait like a year and a half for the game’s 1.0 release only for them to change things a month after the fact. Kinda makes me wish they had just kept it in early access for longer.
Yeah, completely relatable. I put this one down while I was still excited about it just to not have this experience.
I had a lot of fun with Dragon’s Dogma 2 this weekend, and safe to say, I suck at it, but I’m enjoying the clunkiness the game has. Beautiful designs, overly chatty characters and boss fights with up to 5 healthbars so far have not deterred me. It’s hell but it’s fun
Gone back to tf2. I honestly have no idea why I didn’t play soldier more. Is demoknight based or cringe, I’m thinking about going back to stickies
Demoknight is incredibly more based than the fucking stickies. fuck the stickies and their 0,5s time to prime
demoknight tf2
I keep restarting in WR:SR. Trying a map of Cuba I grabbed from the Steam Workshop this time. Without the need to worry about heat plants, a lot of opportunities open up. I skipped the indoor pool to build a soccer field for once.
Accidentally had about 70 people move in early, but I was able to manage water/sewage by truck until the plumbing was finished.
what is wr:sr and how can i play cuba
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, the infamously difficult city builder themed after the eastern bloc countries.
There are a few maps on the steam workshop where you can build in a Cuban map instead of eastern europe, though you’d probably have to grab several dozen other mods to add more Cuba-specific assets.
still going through BG3 with my partner and brothers, but that’s been on hold for a week while a few of us are out of town. Jumped back into helldivers 2 for a bit, and having a ton of fun. performance is still janky, but better than it was, and i’m having more fun killing bots than I ever had before. aside from getting stunlocked into a ragdoll loop on occasion.
i tried bf6 “redsec” or whatever the fuck its called and really it just makes me want to play bf6 more, but i’m not at a point where i can drop $70 on a game that i won’t adore as much as i want to.
Also running through The Quarry for the first time with my partner. We finished chapter 1 and maybe even chapter 2? i’m digging it!
As an old, Jump Space really is like playing Deep Rock while lightly scratching the X-Wing itch. I need more.
rock and stone
rock and stone
wish more games had a dedicated catchphrase button like Deep Rock ⛏️🎅
I played a bit of the demo during the Steam Nextfest, it was really fun. I appreciate that it also has the run and gun segments alongside the ship combat, it makes it feel more well rounded compared to similar games like Void Crew
Fixed my linux partition for dual booting. Tried to start a few steam games, nothing worked.
What did you try?
I appreciate your willingness to help but currently I’m venting not looking for tech support.
Not at that stage of grief yet.
Whenever you do feel like messing with it, maybe try the steam flatpak if you’re using the main linux client. For some reason I had that same problem with native steam.
Also maybe just restart the PC, sometimes steam just straight up won’t launch any game and I restart and now it will.
Oof
And apparently I wrecked my Windows bootloader in the process.
I won’t give advice per your request but there are lots of troubleshooting guides when you’re ready to try them.
After some procrastination, I finally finished Death Stranding 2 over the weekend. My thoughts overall are complicated, but it’s Kojima at his most bombastic. It’s a unique piece; some of the ideas are so far out there, I can’t imagine anyone but him being given the budget and time necessary to see it through.
Overall, having played both back to back, I’d say the narrative is stronger in the first game. The sequel has higher highs than the first, but it’s more inconsistent. The gameplay in the second is best-in-class. It feels like the logical continuation of what was started in MGSV, which is why I’ve heard that it’s so MGS-like. You have a large sandbox of toys and you get to choose how you want to proceed. Also, DS2 took a good look at the UI in DS1 and corrected pretty much every issue I had with it.
All in all, I’d say DS1 is absolutely required reading before playing DS2. The games are waaay too interlinked to skip it. For the future, there is a very obvious thread to pull on for another game, but so much of what was built in the first two games is over that you’d really have to take things in a different direction. I’m curious about OD, but I’m more interested in seeing what PhysInt is going to be.
i can’t wait for DS2 to hit pc so i’m stuck here just avoiding spoilers for the next like, year
More KSP, always more KSP.
Running KSP through proton is not only more stable than native Linux KSP, it’s also more stable than native Windows KSP.
I also played a little FF7R, after struggling to get my 8bitdo controller to actually be recognized by the game. What eventually worked was pointing steam at the exe that I installed through Lutris so the steaminput could figure it out.
WoD as GM’d by one of my regular players. He did a damn sight better than I did when I tried running a WoD adventure but then again I had only been playing TTRPGs for a year at that point.
Otherwise I’ve been screwing around with Emulators
I finally beat Black Mesa. The Gonarch can throw
handseggsacks. Once out of that I breezed through the rest of Xen. The second half basically keeps your health, armor, and gluon gun constantly recharged. It reminds me of the final section of Half-Life 2 where you become death. I’m glad the final boss doesn’t do that teleportation nonsense.As a final note, I want to let the AI programmer for the headcrabs that my hatred comes from a deep place of respect. Not only do they do a significant fraction of damage, but are quick to re-engage. More than a few times I busted out the shotgun so I couldn’t miss.
