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#21

Computer Gaming / Re: Star Citizen

Last post by Skoop - Yesterday at 07:28:24 PM

The master modes is pretty hotly contested in the community. It was an attempt to mold combat into something beyond everyone jousting back n forth at high speed.

All it's done is flip the meta. Now everyone looks for the fastest ships, which are really lite weight fighters, and run everyone down before they can switch to the mode to quantum away.

I haven't spent any time with it really, just watched a bunch of streamers take on it.  Could be not a big deal. 

Tbh I thought combat was fine the way it was.  They spent so much time on the master modes, it looks like a reinventing the wheel situation here.  I'd rather they invested the time into AI crewman. 

Before 3.23, I played a bunch, figured out how to capture AI ships with the AI still in the turrets.  It was a small taste of how fun large ships will be with all your turrets manned with AI.

#22

Military (and other) History / Remember the original Hornet f...

Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 05:36:31 PM

So what did WW2's Mosquito's son do with his life and heritage?

Become THE GREEN HORNET!

(I am assuming the color was green due to the jungle setting.)

#23

Tabletop AARs / Re: Black Flag Again

Last post by MengJiao - Yesterday at 04:57:09 PM

So...trying the Black Flag Fleet against slightly less powerful French Ships

  Things aren't quite so bad.  The minutes into the battle and Black Flag Ship 2 (the lead ship) has an engine hit and is going 9 knots instead of 14, but is still in the fight:

Half an hour into the battle -- three ships have steering and engine hits, Joan heads in to ram to cover Thetis, P3 passes the two diabled Black Flag Fleet ships (one of which, p1, has some bad fires):

#24

Computer Gaming / Re: Next three rumoured Total ...

Last post by Gusington - Yesterday at 03:59:14 PM

I don't know how I feel about a Star Wars: Total War...

#25

Computer Gaming / Re: Assassins Creed Shadows

Last post by Gusington - Yesterday at 03:58:23 PM

^Yeah that was China. Russia and India too.

Origins is such a great game in every way. I think I put 125+ hours into it before finishing it unexpectedly, which made me sad.

#26

Computer Gaming / Re: FREE --> Endless Legend @ ...

Last post by Gusington - Yesterday at 03:56:05 PM

^Dude even I played it...for a few hours. Years ago 

#27

Computer Gaming / Re: Next three rumoured Total ...

Last post by Jarhead0331 - Yesterday at 02:31:37 PM

Wow. 

#28

Computer Gaming / Re: Assassins Creed Shadows

Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 01:56:13 PM

Considering the concept of the game (although they may have 'finished' that plot several entries ago), the 'black' samurai might be perfectly fine because a descendent is 'playing' his ancestor's memories. Ditto the female ninja although really that's quite standard in the genre for longer than I've been alive! -- and the AssCreed stories have never been about historical accuracy in that sense anyway. (e.g. their version of George Washington)

Mainly, from the second game onward, their accuracy has aimed at good representations of the physical play areas along with some event-accuracy-flavor (so to speak). Relatedly, I wouldn't mind tourism versions of Odyssey and some earlier games, the way they did Origins.

I did think they had done Japan already in one of the console trilogy (for PSP?), but I guess that was China.

#29

Computer Gaming / Re: FREE --> Endless Legend @ ...

Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 01:39:03 PM

A game I've had for a long time and respect a lot, but not enough to have played it yet!   

#30

Computer Gaming / Re: Next three rumoured Total ...

Last post by Gusington - Yesterday at 01:32:43 PM

WHATWHATWHAT