Now We Are FRIDAY

[Gusington]

^Which faction are you playing in 1100AD?

[Father Ted]

Enemy Coast Ahead - game about dam-busters raid - (Am reading book of same name by Guy Gibson so seemed appropriate) and probably a little ActionPC Football as well.

Read that book when I was a very wee Tedlet and was mad about all things Lancaster for quite some time.

[solops]

Shadow Empire!

[MengJiao]

^Which faction are you playing in 1100AD?

   I was Normandy and got crushed.  I'm currently Byzantium and still a little empire of sorts.

[Gusington]

^I almost got crushed as Kiev (was down to one province) but hung on and am slowly starting to kick ass. Putting it aside for now for more modern pursuits but will be back in not too much time.

[MengJiao]

^I almost got crushed as Kiev (was down to one province) but hung on and am slowly starting to kick ass. Putting it aside for now for more modern pursuits but will be back in not too much time.

  I built up some tough armies as the Byzantines.  Here we see some mercenary spearmen becoming worried as they start to get some serious encounters with some veteran Byzantine troops (with shields and iconic banner heading into the camera):

[Toonces]

Ultima IX

Man, that's seriously old-skool. 

I have a bunch of the Ultima games on GoG, but I've never played any of them....as usual.

[Gusington]

Meng the detail in that one Byzantine shield is awesome. And there's that banner again! Great little tidbits.

[MengJiao]

Meng the detail in that one Byzantine shield is awesome. And there's that banner again! Great little tidbits.

  Yep.  The mod has some good points.

[Blucher]

Ultima IX

Man, that's seriously old-skool. 

I have a bunch of the Ultima games on GoG, but I've never played any of them....as usual.

I got it in the recent gog sale for a couple of bucks. Added some fan patches and it is a rather enjoyable game despite the lame ass story. Dungeons are very complex but fun full of puzzles. Also playing without a walkthrough and doing ok so far.

[Anguille]

Great piece!

Just had some moments to play Sid Meier's Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies to relax

[spelk]

Played me some Stellaris (console version), some Battlefield 1 and tiddly bit of Rainbow Siege Extraction.

[Gusington]

I very much enjoyed playing the Ace Patrol games while drinking a beer.

[W8taminute]

Played me some Stellaris (console version), some Battlefield 1 and tiddly bit of Rainbow Siege Extraction.

What's your take on Rainbow Six: Extraction? 

[spelk]

What's your take on Rainbow Six: Extraction?

Enjoying it, its basically a 3 player coop PvE version of Siege, but with some feistier enemy mechanics. It gets very frantic very quick.. it can go from a cool stealth tactical sweep to an eye blistering adrenalin soaked wipeout in seconds.

The price you pay for failure is that your operators health or lack of it, is persistant between missions.. so if you take a lot of damage to your actual health (rather than just whittling away your shielded mitigating temporary health) the you need to use your other ops to gain experience that pays for trickle healing of your injured ops. If they go down to like 30% health, they're out of action till they trickle heal up, if they are killed outright, the aliens will have them cocooned away and the MIA rescue becomes a part of your next runs mission.

A coordinated team ~should~ have enough tactical options to cover unforseen eventualities.

To be honest, I didn't go into it with high expectations, I suspected it was a IP asset fluff of Siege. There was a monster/horde mode timed event in Siege a while back, that IMHO just didn't sit right on the more planned controlled tacops of Siege itself. However, I've been pleasantly surprised with the amount of enviromental and enemy threats overlapping to make picking your way through a mission always a layered problem that needs coordinated solutions. So for coop its good tucker.

if you want to see it in action, by a team who know how to play it, this is a good watch:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lLEOniZxkT0