General Video Game Thread

[Arkandel]

@Testament said in General Video Game Thread:

@Arkandel I'm not telling anyone to not play it, though? I was just detailing my impressions from playing the game for about 30 hours or so and I felt like I was able to give a somewhat coherent quick review of what I thought.

Sure, and either way it's perfectly fine to give a bad review of anything. "Hey, I tried $game and it sucks, you guys" is a-okay.

But to go to a thread someone is asking a question about $game - which implies they happen to like or at the very least they're still interested in it - to shit all over the whole thing is just plain ignorant. It's basically screaming "Stop LIKING this thing I don't like!" at someone.

[Testament]

But that wasn't what I was trying to do? The topic was being talked about, I had just finished playing it this weekend and while I was thinking about it, gave my opinions on it. There was no intention to shit on something others liked or that they were having 'wrongfun' because they enjoy it.

I apologize if someone had the impression that I was trying to rain on someone's parade. I wasn't. I was just saying what I thought since it was being talked about.

[Doozer]

Damn i had high hopes for anthem. Baaah.

Back to red dead.

[Jaded]

@Ganymede
Gany have you checked out the RogueTech mod for Battletech yet? If not, I recommend it, you might enjoy how it plays.

[Killer Klown]

@Doozer It is rather disappointing - it's not that anything is bad, per se; it's just that it's wholly unremarkable and, beyond the few moments-at-a-time of flying around, nothing really stands out.
Except for one thing. Something I discovered last night and I encourage anyone who has the game installed to try out.
1> Get a Colossus
2> Activate Shield
3> Charge anything and everything in front of you.
Seriously. I play solo on normal difficulty; there's a mod that boosts your charge damage by 300 percent or something like that; and you literally steamroll through groups of Dominion troops/buggy footsoldiers/resource nodes. Don't even need to use the 'bash' key - just freight train your way across the battlefield back and forth. Forget Storm lighting bolts. Forget Interceptor acrobatics. This is where it's at.

[Arkandel]

Catch-22s are an unfortunate consequence of optimization in multiplayer games.

Case in point, metrics like item level (which indicates how good your gear is) and raider IO (an addon/site for WoW that keeps track of your in-game achievements so it's a combination of your gear and skill).

On their own they fair ways to know how 'good' a player is; the idea is if your gear is crap maybe you're not ready for the highest level of content, since it'd require others to carry you.

The way it's quite often done - almost typically - instead is that people want content to be trivialized.

So for example even though a decent player with level 375 gear should be able to easily handle a Mythic 5 difficulty dungeon people will demand 390 instead; it's supply and demand, which cuts new alts from the progression chain unless they bring their own support network.

Which is pretty annoying for me right now as my new alt needs more gear and my guildmates (who're a blast to raid with, so I don't want to change guilds) don't really do Mythic+ at any level. So I have to rely on the raids to gear up, hoping things drop and basically having to be carried until they do, which I despise doing.

[Ganymede]

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

Gany have you checked out the RogueTech mod for Battletech yet? If not, I recommend it, you might enjoy how it plays.

Why would I enjoy it? I like the game as it is.

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

Gany have you checked out the RogueTech mod for Battletech yet? If not, I recommend it, you might enjoy how it plays.

Why would I enjoy it? I like the game as it is.

I got bored grinding for cash and parts.

I got confused why I can't do missions in the area of my strongest ally.

Am I supposed to be a lot more aggressive?

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain

Does your experience have anything to do with Jaded's suggestion that I look into the RogueTech mod? Did it solve your problems?

Because I'm fine grinding. I like blowing the heads off of Thunderbolts and punching other Battlemechs with my BEEFCAKE Dragon Variant.

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede

My main problem is that I'm lost in a sea of not knowing when I'm supposed to move forward, and the missions get very repetitive very quick.

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

My main problem is that I'm lost in a sea of not knowing when I'm supposed to move forward, and the missions get very repetitive very quick.

It's like our entire debate on Dragon Age 2 all over again.

It doesn't look like you have many problems playing the missions, but it shouldn't matter how aggressively you move forward; you engage in combat once a threat is detected, and you enjoy your Evasion bonus from sprinting in the event that your opponents go first. Lead in with a fast, heavily-armored scout, and withdraw behind your skirmishers while hammering with LRMs.

I'm still wondering why I should look into the RogueTech mod.

[Jaded]

@Ganymede
The Roguetech mod pretty much changes the gameplay. You get jumped to 3040 and it unlocks a lot of tech from that timeline era and opens up some of the early clantech options. In addition it has a lot more mech variants that are available for play.

It opens up the equipment lists to include Ferro Fibrous, Endosteel armor, and a host of other options for cockpits and fire control systems and other interesting pieces of equipment - including melee weapons.

The weapon lists include the Ultra versions of the Autocannons for that era, Streaks, you can get Guardian ECM and the Beagle Active Probe. Now the newest release actually includes Rotary ACs and some other 3060 era tech if you set your timeline to that era. But I'm not sure how that is done since I still have the version that are two versions past from the current version.

Lastly it opens up all the factions on the map and adds more worlds. Like a ton more worlds, more mission options, and gives you more of the merc experience for doing jobs, fighting for salvage, and supporting your favorite faction. It also includes a system that lets you flip planets to other factions if a planet is being contested and you do enough jobs in one system supporting one faction type.

[Ganymede]

@Jaded

That sounds pretty boss. How do you get the mod?

[Jaded]

@Ganymede
You use Nexus Mods to load it. Here's the link:

https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/79

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

It's like our entire debate on Dragon Age 2 all over again.

Less so, because DA2 sucks.

For Battletech, I just don't click with it.

That is, I can recognize when a game is Not For Me(tm), vs. one that betrays expectations by being a completely different game between iterations. I have spent so much time in DA:O and DA:I that DA2 was a console game in an RPG series. While DA:A also felt a bit this way, it was far more RPG than DA2.

It also had more than one dungeon and more than three environments.

[Insomnia]

Just going to leave this here. @Ganymede because you had that Spice cat avatar forever.

[Killer Klown]

@Insomnia On the plus side, it's Dune. On the minus? It's Funcom. I'm pretty sure they've rewritten the nomenclature so that 'com' is now some kind of Boolean value that equates to a prefixed !

[RnMissionRun]

Funcom, they put the "fu" in "fun".

[Insomnia]

Oh yeah, not really a fan of Funcom anymore, but they do okay with properties they don't own... eventually. Even if they completely mess it up, I'll at least check it out, because Dune. But I'm not going to pre-order it or anything like that.

[Thenomain]

@Insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:

Just going to leave this here.

Aggressive "subscribe to us!" popup. This is bad enough when I go to computer store websites.