Posts made by Jaded

@wahoo
I mean, hi Kate. Although if you have a reputation that is supposed to precede you I am unaware of it.

Who?

@tinuviel
Well fuck.

@arkandel
I really thought Entertainment Weekly's remarks were pretty amusing. They said, "Affleck looks like the highest-paid captive in a hostage video."

Everyone I've listened to doing a review of the movie tend to agree that Jason Momoa as Aquaman did very well with a B list DC character. And they all seemed to agree there was not enough of the Flash.

Endless Space 2 is having a free weekend on Steam and is 50% off. That gives it a price tag of $20 for the game making it well worth it if you like 4x space games.

Also, Star Control: Origins, the new Star Control game is up for pre-order. I did not get a review copy so I can not say one way or another how the game turned out. But like all pre-orders, buyer beware.

@insomnia Meryl Strife

She was very prolific as a voice actress. Will be missed.

@arkandel said in Cheap or Free Games!:

@jaded I will do, thanks for the heads up.

As a minor correction, it's apparently the desktop version of battle.net that lets you do this (which I can't check until I'm home):

"For a limited time, players who already own Wings of Liberty (as of October 31, 2017) but have not yet purchased Heart of the Swarm will be able to get the latter campaign free by logging in to the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app and claiming their free Heart of the Swarm gift between November 8 and December 8, 2017."

More specifically once you log in. Go to the upper right where your name is and click on the drop down and click My Gifts and you should get a new screen that displays Heart of the Swarm and you just click the Claim button.

@arkandel
Well if you purchased the game before October 31, 2017, then log into your Battle.net account before December 8 to get Heart of the Swarm for free. That's the second expansion to the game.

@faceless Yeah. They gave one of the expansions to people who already owned Wings of Liberty, for free. I think I would have preferred my money back on the CE I purchased.

I am not sure if someone recommended it already, but:

The Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey. It is a Dresden-style supernatural noir series that was far more interesting and entertaining than I thought it would be.

Humble Bundle has a good deal going right now for $10.00 if you like simulator games.

https://www.humblebundle.com/strategy-sim-bundle?linkID=&mcID=102:5a011da0f0c360df115777a8:ot:56e85086733462ca899ba5fd:1&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017_11_07_strategysim_bundle&linkID=&utm_content=hero_image

@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:

BF1 was, by far, the biggest regret I have ever had in terms of a video game purchase.

EA/DICE has some serious design and development issues when the game from 12 years before is better than the one that you're remaking based on that game.

I suspect that DICE will follow all of the other EA casualties into the ditch in the next couple of years.

@sg

I forgot to add that your in game date also gates some of the harder aliens. They will not show up until after specific benchmarks. And you have to keep an eye on your zones. Those zones with Advent security ratings 4+ also default to higher grade troopers, the Mk IIs. So be prepared for that.

@sg
The mod determines its levels of difficulty differently than the base game. Light resistance does not mean less enemies to fight. It means less difficult enemies to fight.

So you will still encounter 12-15 enemies split up in 3-4 pods but instead of some of them having Berserker Mutons they might have regular Mutons instead. Snakes will turn into Sectoids or the Flank Snakes and the Advent Commanders and Sergeants will be replaced with lesser quality troopers like scouts and sentries. But be wary of rainbow pods those are a possibility too - a rainbow pod being a pod of 8 and has 1 of every type of trooper that is available in the Long War 2 mod.

@lithium
I've been keeping an eye on this and there seems to be a lot of love and heart going into it with a desire to make this good.

Stardock is a good company to get behind on something like this.

A few of my gamers use this style of backpack, there are a few available:

https://www.amazon.com/original-Anti-theft-backpack-XD-Design/dp/B01IBGAWWA

I do not have a problem with Microtransactions so long as the game is either free or relatively cheap and it is clear at the outset that the means of money making for that particular game is the Microtransactions.

But if someone tries telling me that selling a $60 game requires Microtransactions to make it profitable, then that tells me that their game is probably not very good.

But then I remember EA considered the outstanding sales on games like Dead Space 1 and 2 to be failures because they did not make the amount of sales they felt they should have generated, which reveals what they think of their role in the gaming industry.

Fuck I have so many of these stories:

One of my favorites was a continued session in our Shadowrun game. My friend John was GMing for myself, my friend Phil and their cousin Tommy; Phil and I were playing some pretty standard characters. And Tommy was that one guy who always takes as many of the flaws as he can to get the biggest jump on characters stats that he can right out the door. One of these flaws was an extreme sense of paranoia with no trigger on his wireless reflexes. In this case we are talking about an Ork with the street name of Nemesis, a psychotic street samurai with the people skills of a wood chipper.

Anyway. Having grown tired of Nemesis over a few sessions of half-botched runs due to him being quite dumb, Phil and I spend some of the session convincing him that Ares is going to send their elite assassins after us...and they often disguise themselves as grandmothers or old people because that is so unexpected.

So after dicking around for awhile in which Nemesis goes out of his way to buy a few new guns and a big knife, we go down to meet with Mr. Johnson at a steakhouse in the Renraku Arcology where Nemesis proceeds to try to subtlety threaten Mr. J into giving us more money but cutting his cuticles with his new very large knife.

Further annoyed after a nearly botched negotiation and job interview, and ready to see this character gone, I decide to see if we can get Nemesis killed. So we walk out of the steakhouse I say my character wants to hit up a small shop to check out some of the new legal decking gear that is available and I purposefully begin to scan the crowd. It is at this time, with a glance to our GM, that I mention to Preacher, the other runner, that there is an old woman with a young man walking behind us. So we start acting more alert and ready like this might be an attack incoming. And then Preacher quietly tells Nemesis about the old woman and her companion.

It is at this point Tommy as Nemesis utters "Oh yeah? We'll see about that." and he proceeds to pull out his ork sized Ares Predator and shoots the young kid for his surprise action. Having wired reflexes he is naturally faster than grandma whom he picks up and repeatedly swings like a rag doll into a security window to see which one breaks first.

Naturally this creates a lot of shock and awe with people screaming and running for their lives because some large ass ork is rampaging and murdering people. In the end, Nemesis was gunned down by about 15 Renraku SecGuards in a pitiless attempt to go out in a blaze of glory once he got surrounded, with neither of us getting a second look as we bailed as soon as there was enough panicked people to blend in and get away.

Another Shadowrun game, same people, same GM. Reprising my own character and Phil on Preacher, Tommy has decided to make Toughness...a Troll Mercenary with a take no prisoners attitude who would threaten everyone he disliked with anal fist disemboweling.

The job was supposed to be very simple. Sneak into a small Fuchi subsidiary and steal some paydata and a prototype. Since Toughness was a huge hulking troll that walked around in light security armor, we decided that his job was to sit in in his armored van outside and provide us with overwatch and if necessary a distraction - if we set off an alarm.

The infiltration was easy enough and while we got into a few mild scuffles inside the job was relatively silent and body count free. We had just gotten into the labs and I was getting the data while Preacher recovered the prototype. Things were smooth. It was at this time that the GM informed Toughness that a large UPS truck had arrived out in front of the subsidiary building blocking his view.

Instead of doing something reasonable, like moving the van to a different spot. Toughness instead gets out of his van and gets out the belt-fed Panther Rotary-Assault Cannon, that only the GM knew he had, from the hidden compartment. It is at this time he proceeds to shell the UPS truck. The front of the building. And any pedestrians unlucky enough to be on the sidewalks.

He spent 5 rounds burst fire shelling the landscape and then he got in his van and drove off. Naturally, Preacher and my character barely escaped with the goods. So to lay low Toughness retreated to his low lifestyle hideaway thinking he could go unseen until the matter blew over and he could get his cut. He did not count on us selling him out to Lonestar for a hefty bounty. Toughness died to a mage dumping a world of hurt into him from astral space.

@lithium Yeah I know. That is why I was not highlighting the stun spells. But more the personal buff spells and healing that can be had. On the other hand, taking AP away from the enemy does mean less shooting so that would still be helpful if @SG wants to run a build where he rushes them and beats them with a stunbaton.

@sg It might be easier if your companions that you took were mostly mages. You might be able to use more supportive/healing magic since you will probably take a lot of damage charging in to melee.