The 'Best Gaming Intentions' Friday gaming thread

[Huw the Poo]

Thanks a lot, guys!

Congratz on the job, Huw. I recently rejoined the ranks of the steady paycheck -- it's a nice feeling, innit? I can see a path of game titles stretched out the horizon. . .

Heh, it is indeed.  My list is 39 titles long, and that's just the solid, will-definitely-buy list, never mind all the other games I'm investigating!  I had to miss out on all the sales last Christmas...that hurt.

[undercovergeek]

Thanks a lot, guys!

Congratz on the job, Huw. I recently rejoined the ranks of the steady paycheck -- it's a nice feeling, innit? I can see a path of game titles stretched out the horizon. . .

Heh, it is indeed.  My list is 39 titles long, and that's just the solid, will-definitely-buy list, never mind all the other games I'm investigating!  I had to miss out on all the sales last Christmas...that hurt.

yup well done Huw - you now get to call in sick so you can finish that turn youve been planning all night!

[bob48]

Got sucked into Warlock, as usual these days, although I have been doing some play testing on NaW scenario's that some of you guys may be lucky enough to play at the WBC event.

A wee bit far for me to get to, but I shall be there in spirit.

[Toonces]

I spent most of last night playing Audiosurf with my daughter, but I did manage to play the Shiloh scenario in AACW after reading Spelk's walkthrough on Sugarfreegamer.  I still don't quite get what's going on though, but it's a start and at least I played something I said I would play!

I'm going surfing all day so I don't know how much gaming I'll get in today and tonight.

[Nefaro]

WazHack
UnReal World  - Since it's Free to d/l today!

I still have the good 'ole faithful Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and TOME on backup, since this is another Roguelike weekend.

I've also dabbled in Project Zomboid but mostly been impatient about a sizable update to it that's supposed to be out any day now.   Damn, the development is slow on that one.  :-\


Edit:  Oh crap!  I just checked for the Project Zomboid patch, after mentioning it here, and it was released yesterday afternoon!   

Time to survive some Zombie Apocolyptes this weekend!  8)

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Supposed to be working but I'm coughing up lung butter so I'm just festering in my pit.

I fired up Silent Hunter IV and was having a lot of fun with it until I started getting weird graphical corruption and CTDs.  Nothing like spending an hour manoeuvring into position for a kill shot, taking out a pesky destroyer and then losing all that effort.

If you ever get the chance to get an AMD 7970 card, don't!  Mine's given me nothing but trouble since I got it.  Shogun 2 hard locks the PC.  If I have an HDMI cable plugged into the card, Sniper Elite hard locks the PC.

Adobe Flash 11.3 screws up certain webpages and makes it impossible to shut the PC down.

Now I'm getting issues with SHIV as well.

[Huw the Poo]

Gah!  Sorry to hear about your GPU woes, SDR.  That card sounds awful. :(

[TheCommandTent]

Supposed to be working but I'm coughing up lung butter so I'm just festering in my pit.

I fired up Silent Hunter IV and was having a lot of fun with it until I started getting weird graphical corruption and CTDs.  Nothing like spending an hour manoeuvring into position for a kill shot, taking out a pesky destroyer and then losing all that effort.

If you ever get the chance to get an AMD 7970 card, don't!  Mine's given me nothing but trouble since I got it.  Shogun 2 hard locks the PC.  If I have an HDMI cable plugged into the card, Sniper Elite hard locks the PC.

Adobe Flash 11.3 screws up certain webpages and makes it impossible to shut the PC down.

Now I'm getting issues with SHIV as well.

Dude that is rough.  I hope you can get some of that fixed.  I've actually been having problems with Adobe Flash  11.3 as well.

[Nefaro]

Dude that is rough.  I hope you can get some of that fixed.  I've actually been having problems with Adobe Flash  11.3 as well.

So have I.

Adobe has been increasingly releasing sh*t updates.  Before, they were mostly F'ing up Acrobat reader, because I was regularly getting buggy behavior from it for a long time and after they didn't fix one of them for a long time, I sad F-it and found a freebie that works with far less bugs.

I can only assume that Adobe is now performing just as poorly with Flash player.   ::)

[Grim.Reaper]

I decided to take a break from wargaming and try a different type of "battle"....hockey:)  Love this game by ActionPC, to me the best hockey text sim out there.  I decided to have my Penguins take revenge on the Flyers!  A couple of nice fights included.

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October 31 2009                  Consol Energy Center               06-30-2012

                                     1   2   3     F
2010-11 Philadelphia                 1   0   0     1
2010-11 Pittsburgh                   1   1   2     4

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1  1:16  EV  Pit Dupuis(1), assisted by Malkin(1) and Michalek(1)
1  1:58  EV  Phi Lilja(1), assisted by Talbot(1) and Read(1)
2 16:34  PP  Pit Kennedy(1), assisted by Staal(1) and Neal(1)
3 15:06  EV  Pit Asham(1), assisted by Sullivan(1) and Lovejoy(1)
3 18:48  EN  Pit Neal(1), assisted by Dupuis(1) and Letang(1)

Penalty Summary
Per Time Team
1  4:32 Pit Crosby(5), 5:00 - slashing
1 13:04 Phi Pronger(5), 5:00 - fighting
1 13:04 Pit Cooke(5), 5:00 - fighting
2   :38 Phi Jagr(2), 2:00 - holding
2  1:59 Phi Giroux(2), 2:00 - hooking
2  7:30 Phi Meszaros(2), 2:00 - roughing
2 14:04 Phi Shelley(4), 4:00 - elbowing
2 19:21 Phi Hartnell(5), 5:00 - fighting
2 19:21 Pit Staal(5), 5:00 - fighting
3  1:47 Phi Simmonds(2), 2:00 - hooking
3  6:10 Phi Coburn(2), 2:00 - hooking
3 11:21 Pit Neal(2), 2:00 - cross checking
3 19:44 Phi Simmonds(4), 2:00 - tripping

                SOG 1  SOG 2  SOG 3 
Philadelphia     17      4      8 
Pittsburgh        7     23      9 

                Phi        Pit
SOG              29         39
FOW              31         30
FO%            50.8       49.2
Hits             18         28
Blocks           18          9
Missed Net        8         18
Shot Attempts    46         75
Scoring Chances   3         14
PIM              26         17
PP              0-2        1-8
TOA            3:47       6:24


Star 1: Pit Dupuis 1 G, 2 Pts
Star 2: Pit Neal 1 G, 2 Pts
Star 3: Pit Fleury 28 saves

GWG: Tyler Kennedy

Notables: Phi Bryzgalov 35 saves
          Pit None


  Philadelphia   GA SV  Save%    TOI    W  L OL   Rate
G Bryzgalov       3 35   .921  59:45    0  0  0    7.2 (-0.4)

  Pittsburgh     GA SV  Save%    TOI    W  L OL   Rate
G Fleury          1 28   .966  59:43    0  0  0    6.5 (-0.5)

         Philadelphia   G A P +/-  PIM P#   S Ms Hit Gv Tk Bs  FW FL    F%    TOI Shft   Ave     PP    SH     EV
D        Carle          - - -   0    -  -   1  -   1  2  -  1   -  -     -  29:31   32  0:55   2:46  7:04  19:41
D        Timonen        - - -  -3    -  -   1  -   -  1  -  1   -  -     -  27:43   30  0:55   4:14  5:17  18:12
D        Meszaros       - - -  -2    2  1   2  1   4  -  -  2   -  -     -  25:21   34  0:45   4:14  5:06  16:01
C RW     Giroux         - - -   0    2  1   2  -   2  -  -  1  11  7  61.1  20:12   19  1:04   2:52  2:06  15:14
D        Coburn         - - -   0    2  1   1  1   2  1  -  2   -  -     -  19:47   22  0:54   0:27  3:14  16:06

RW       Jagr           - - -   0    2  1   1  1   1  1  -  1   -  1   0.0  19:21   18  1:05   4:08     -  15:13
LW       van Riemsdyk   - - -   0    -  -   3  -   1  1  -  -   -  -     -  19:21   18  1:05   4:08     -  15:13
LW C RW  Talbot         - 1 1  -1    -  -   -  -   -  -  3  -   6 11  35.3  16:14   17  0:57      -  6:11  10:03
D        Pronger        - - -   0    5  1   1  -   1  -  -  3   -  -     -  15:42   17  0:55   2:19  3:33   9:50
C RW     Briere         - - -  -2    -  -   3  -   2  -  -  1   8  3  72.7  15:37   16  0:59   4:08  0:54  10:35

RW       Simmonds       - - -   0    4  2   1  -   1  2  -  1   -  -     -  14:53   15  1:00      -  5:05   9:48
RW       Voracek        - - -  -2    -  -   2  1   1  -  -  -   -  1   0.0  14:21   18  0:48   2:52  2:42   8:47
LW       Hartnell       - - -  -2    5  1   6  2   -  -  -  1   -  -     -  12:23   15  0:50   2:52  0:52   8:39
C        Couturier      - - -   0    -  -   2  -   -  -  -  3   6  7  46.2  10:01   12  0:50      -  2:56   7:05
RW       Nodl           - - -   0    -  -   1  1   1  -  -  1   -  -     -   9:54   12  0:50      -  2:49   7:05

LW RW    Read           - 1 1   0    -  -   -  -   -  1  -  -   -  -     -   7:59   10  0:48      -     -   7:59
LW       Shelley        - - -   0    4  1   1  -   1  -  -  -   -  -     -   6:58    8  0:52      -     -   6:58
D        Lilja          1 - 1  +1    -  -   1  1   -  -  -  -   -  -     -   2:11    3  0:44      -     -   2:11

         Pittsburgh     G A P +/-  PIM P#   S Ms Hit Gv Tk Bs  FW FL    F%    TOI Shft   Ave     PP    SH     EV
D        Letang         - 1 1  +1    -  -   2  2   2  1  1  1   -  -     -  25:50   21  1:14   7:31  2:41  15:38
C        Crosby         - - -   0    5  1   6  5   1  -  -  -  14  9  60.9  23:35   19  1:14   7:01  0:42  15:52
D        Michalek       - 1 1  +1    -  -   1  -   -  -  -  1   -  -     -  22:39   23  0:59   4:36  2:54  15:09
D        Martin,P       - - -  +1    -  -   2  1   3  -  -  1   -  -     -  22:07   23  0:58   4:36  2:54  14:37
D        Lovejoy        - 1 1   0    -  -   5  1   1  -  -  1   -  -     -  20:17   20  1:01   7:31  1:25  11:21

C RW     Malkin         - 1 1  +2    -  -   6  3   -  2  -  -   5  7  41.7  19:59   16  1:15   7:01  0:24  12:34
LW       Kunitz         - - -   0    -  -   -  -   4  1  -  1   -  -     -  19:36   15  1:18   7:01     -  12:35
D        Orpik          - - -  +1    -  -   1  -   2  -  -  1   -  -     -  17:36   19  0:56      -  2:41  14:55
LW RW    Neal,J         1 1 2  +2    2  1   4  -   4  -  2  -   1  - 100.0  17:26   17  1:02   5:06  0:24  11:56
RW       Kennedy,T      1 - 1   0    -  -   6  1   1  -  -  -   -  -     -  17:21   16  1:05   5:06     -  12:15

LW RW    Dupuis         1 1 2  +2    -  -   1  -   2  -  -  1   -  2   0.0  14:02   14  1:00      -  2:21  11:41
C RW     Adams,C        - - -  -1    -  -   -  1   6  -  2  1   -  -     -  12:08   11  1:06      -  3:49   8:19
LW C RW  Park           - - -  +1    -  -   1  1   1  -  -  -   7  4  63.6  12:06    9  1:21   2:00  1:02   9:04
D        Niskanen       - - -   0    -  -   1  -   -  -  -  1   -  -     -  11:31   12  0:58      -  1:25  10:06
C        J.Staal        - 1 1  -1    5  1   1  -   -  -  -  -   3  9  25.0  10:32   11  0:57   3:06  2:31   4:55

LW       Sullivan       - 1 1  +1    -  -   1  1   1  -  -  -   -  -     -   9:58    8  1:15      -  1:02   8:56
RW       Asham          1 - 1  +1    -  -   1  1   -  -  -  -   -  -     -   8:56    6  1:29      -     -   8:56
LW       Cooke          - - -  -1    5  1   -  1   -  -  1  -   -  -     -   7:38    9  0:51      -  1:45   5:53