Not even close to this band's best song, but with me obscessing over DCS, this song and video really hits me in the feels...would love to someday be able to capture some in flight footage and edit it to this song in the background.
Anyway, I'll be mostly flying this weekend, with some HOI IV, Division 2 and maybe some Battlestar Galactica Deadlock....oh and if Star Citizen alpha 3.5 hits, I'll load that up too. Everyone have a good weekend!
Have been ninja'd. Wanted to start the thread this week....
I will mostly be playing a campaign of Genghis Khan in Oriental Empires. Goal is to win that scenario (though it's hard).
Also just started a new campaign in Civilization VI with Korea (i have yet to win my first game :-[).
Enjoy the weekend.
Sorry bro...my daughter is running a high fever so I was up at ungodly hours. What song were you going to do?
Daughter got me these DLC's for birthday this week so guess I will be trying them out :)
Battle Brothers - Beasts & Exploration
Field of Glory II: Rise of Persia
Quote from: FlickJax on March 22, 2019, 04:25:05 AM
Daughter got me these DLC's for birthday this week so guess I will be trying them out :)
Battle Brothers - Beasts & Exploration
Field of Glory II: Rise of Persia
Wow! That's awesome! Happy belated.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 22, 2019, 04:23:17 AM
Sorry bro...my daughter is running a high fever so I was up at ungodly hours. What song were you going to do?
No worries ;)
Hope you're daughter is doing better....
Was going to load this:
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 22, 2019, 04:26:44 AM
Quote from: FlickJax on March 22, 2019, 04:25:05 AM
Daughter got me these DLC's for birthday this week so guess I will be trying them out :)
Battle Brothers - Beasts & Exploration
Field of Glory II: Rise of Persia
Wow! That's awesome! Happy belated.
Thanks m8, and also hope your daughter gets well soon... kids are there to torment us :) and make us proud
Birfday wednesday, didnt really do much for it. BF is getting me the halo pack when it releases.
Don't have much planned for the weekend, I have a four hour shift at work in media. Probably just gonna play apex and chill since next week is 10-6pm days. Ugh. Might do another Graviteam vid
Answering PBEM files and doing some playtesting and maybe some more time for my Stellaris game I started. Determined to play this all the way through.
Got today off, so i'll take care of a few things then hit the gaming. Probably some 7 Days to Die and more Killing Floor 2 trying out some more workshop maps. Going to have a look at the GOG spring sale but haven't been in much of a game buying mood lately, although i did pick up the last DLC that i didn't have for Tank Warfare Tunisia for $.49 on Steam.
Aside from my usual ongoing things, I'm also trying to figure out how to stat-conquer Ultimate General: Civil War.
Originally my plan was to try, as a joke, to reach an "artillery only" campaign, though since I can't control production I now doubt it's even organizationally possible to ever get there (completely aside from whether I can be victorious or even survive the battles, which are suuuuper crazy even on normal). There just aren't enough guns available to make the effort feasible.
Now having played a few missions beyond the first one (the Potomac fort capture and defense, for the Confederacy), I know there's a hard limit on the number of.... let's call them groups (some are batteries, some are regiments, some are brigades, some are short brigades which might as well be regiments and don't even amount to battalions...) I can bring to any fight. Doesn't matter how many groups my corps already has: I have eight groups in two divisions? Nope, I can only bring three of those groups. Well, the others arrive later right? Nope, other people arrive later, not my guys.
Maybe that changes later in the game, but for now if a mission says only three slots, or only four, can be deployed, I have no reason to even be creating, much less building up, other slots!
This makes a huge difference to how I should (or even can) spend my money between missions.
So I'll have to go back and replot things from my game-save after the first mission.
(I don't feel bad about going back and redesigning my deployments, because I consider this to be things-I-really-would-have-already-known... ;) )
Happy b-day to Flick, and hope that JH's daughter gets over the fever.
I finally, FINALLY beat the ungodly Jack in the chainsaw duel in Resident Evil 7. It took me several hours spread over the last week or so to finally gut his ass.
It is probably the most difficult boss battle that I have played and this one took me at least 100 tries.
Last night around ten I actually went around the house and woke The Wife and Daughters up to tell them I finally killed Jack, that bastard.
The dog was also impressed. I can barely express the feeling of liberation I got from this victory!
Lol Gus, I bet the dog was the only impressed one :)
Hurray! Jack the ungodly chainsaw bastard is dead-- lets hope he's NOT twins. :hide: On a retro-kick so I been treading the well worn paths of Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir. It's old I know but it is AD&D so... sometimes I just gotta have it. :hug:
I'm currently on a "To End All Wars" kick. Got a PBEM rematch going against a chap who beat me quite handily in our first game. Recently rediscovered the Ultimate Enhancement mod for this game as well and I'm playing that hotseat against myself.
Other than that I'll probably play some shooter or another.
Quote from: W8taminute on March 22, 2019, 11:43:30 AM
Recently rediscovered the Ultimate Enhancement mod for this game [To End All Wars] as well and I'm playing that hotseat against myself.
Oh? What is this module of which you speak? :coolsmiley:
This meanwhile reminds me that Silent Hunters 2 thru 5 (and DLC) are for sale in this weekend's Ubisoft Steam sale.
I'm pretty sure I have them in my cart somewhere, but I got distracted trying to decide if I should rebuy (once again!?) the Prince of Persia "Sands" quadrilogy. (Short answer, the games are too buggy on PC to be worth the effort; I'll be happier continuing to replay them every once in a while on my PS3.)
Sorry about your daughter JH hope she gets well :)
Happy B-Day Flick. Get you some cake!
As for me having endured the craziness of this morning, I am off as of now.
Spring Clean 19 is the plan for the weekend.
Also Diablo - Have to see how Roisin the Rogue and Prospero the Warrior do - I'm also trying out different rogue-likes too.
Field of Glory II /Pike and Shot.
I might grab Objects in Space since it is payday or something I dunno. We'll see.
I've played a Prince of Persia port or two, years ago - don't remember which one.
Flick you might be right - The Wife was definitely unimpressed other than stating 'I hate that game...it looks so disturbing' to which I answered 'that's why I like it!'
My daughters were actually impressed because the little they have seen of it terrifies them (it's in no way suitable for kids) and they know it's been tough for me to beat damned Jack. They like games too - so I had their support 😎
I'm missing The Witcher so I may try Thronebreaker, the upcoming vampire themed expansion for Gwent and perhaps jump back in to the Blood and Wine dlc...it's been a while for that.
But for now, Jack the Mofo is dead, cut in two by my chainsaw, and on the harder difficulty no less!
I AM KING OF ALL I SURVEY.
Until Jack comes back to life, as he does, at really bad times.
Warframe with my gaming group as usual
Rusted Warfare - since we've all got a bit disenchanted with Warframe we've been playing this again, just like old times. Such a cracking game, and ridiculous value for money
The Division 2 - going to unlock the Dark Zone this weekend. I basically fell in love with this game the moment I started playing it
Quote from: Anguille on March 22, 2019, 03:14:20 AM
I will mostly be playing a campaign of Genghis Khan in Oriental Empires. Goal is to win that scenario (though it's hard).
I bought this recently but haven't given it a fair shake yet. Any quick tips for a first-timer?
I'll be continuing my x-country trek in a PT-17 Stearman (formerly a Piper Cub, until FSX-SE died on me) https://mutleyshangar.com/forum/index.php?/topic/24789-virtual-grand-tour-of-the-continental-usa-in-a-piper-cub/page/3/. And some playtesting. Will also get my head handed to me in the current FoGII tournament.....
Quote from: Gusington on March 22, 2019, 12:13:27 PM
I AM KING OF ALL I SURVEY.
Then this is the perfect time to give you the name I saw in the crew credits of Game of Thrones:
FeargusGo get'm, killer.
Quote from: JasonPratt on March 22, 2019, 12:04:28 PM
This meanwhile reminds me that Silent Hunters 2 thru 5 (and DLC) are for sale in this weekend's Ubisoft Steam sale.
Cool, tried to buy #4 for $1 at Ubi recently, but their website wouldn't work without me letting them keep my credit card on file permanently so...
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=silent+hunter (https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=silent+hunter)
Quote from: JasonPratt on March 22, 2019, 12:01:08 PM
Quote from: W8taminute on March 22, 2019, 11:43:30 AM
Recently rediscovered the Ultimate Enhancement mod for this game [To End All Wars] as well and I'm playing that hotseat against myself.
Oh? What is this module of which you speak? :coolsmiley:
It's a pretty cool mod which breaks down the sides into individual countries. So you could theoretically have up to 8 human players in a single PBEM. The mod also tries to incorporate a lot of economic ideas from Pride of Nations. There are new resources to use to create your armies.
More info can be seen here:
http://www.ageod-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=389&t=39807
Sorry 'bout the youngun' JH.
My schedule looks to be marginally "openish," starting today, so let's finally send some tonnage to the virtual bottom in Silent Hunter!
Angreifen! Ran! Versenken!
Quote from: Gusington on March 22, 2019, 12:13:27 PM
I've played a Prince of Persia port or two, years ago - don't remember which one.
ALLOW ME TO HELP WITH THAT!! :D
...um, trying to think of easily memorable details to distinguish the games...
Did the girl occasionally spawn patches of grass and balls of light by orgasming to your button clicks? That's the PoP reboot (from 2008 iirc). Also the prince dresses in swirly ragged patches and wears a metal claw glove. It's very anime-ish.
Was the Prince trying to save his brother all the time? That's PoP Forgotten Sands. (Takes place between Sands 1 and 2, explains why and how the Prince gets a sand-artifact between 1 and 2.)
Was the Prince coming home to Babylon with a hot time-queen on a boat and defending his city from invasion while going insane from an evil Mr. Hyde scorched version of himself? That's PoP Two Thrones (aka Sands 3. The Sands of Time trilogy has different names on different platforms sometimes.)
Was the Prince acting all growly because he's being chased by a black tentacle monster, and got his ship rammed and boarded by a two-sword fighting hot babe with black sexy not-all-there armor? That's PoP Warrior Within (aka Sands 2.)
By deduction anything else would be PoP Sands of Time, the first Sands game. The Prince starts the game creeping on a sleeping princess in her bedroom during a rain shower, loots her city with his father, kidnaps her for slavery, steals a magic dagger, he and the princess Farah team up, she shoots arrows. It's very sad and romantic except for the creepy parts. (She's in Sands 3, too, after the hot time-queen gets sacrificed and dies. The hot time-queen is in Sands 2, too, but dresses in red strips of silk, and is voiced by guest star Monica Bellucci.)
Sands of Time, that was it Pratt!
Feargus thanks you 😎
Ah, the one with the wonkiest combat system! And most schizophrenic ambient music and sfx system!
An elegant looking game, however, compared to the kludge of Sands 2, or the somewhat hastily built Sands 3. (Sands 2 particularly was released as a buggy mess, and still has a couple of fatal bugs for the unprepared. But then originally the game wasn't meant to be a sequel to Sands of Time, and got verrrry quickly retooled as well as rushed.)
It's hard now to believe that after the runaway success of Sands 1, the sequels managed to get released each year thereafter, and a Disney film (very loosely telling the first game's story) was in theaters on the 7th year! (Along with Forgotten Sands in stores, and I think the reboot attempt somewhere before.) Seems like the whole production cycle took a lot longer than that.
Despite my glinty-eyed critique, the games actually did pretty well on story arcs for the Prince, and even for the two love interests.
Also, the forum's composition window recognizes "kludge" as a word but not "glinty" -- when the former is just a made-up word!
("All words are made-up." Yes, thank you Thor. :p )
You are in rare form tonight!
Quote from: Huw the Poo on March 22, 2019, 12:42:55 PM
Quote from: Anguille on March 22, 2019, 03:14:20 AM
I will mostly be playing a campaign of Genghis Khan in Oriental Empires. Goal is to win that scenario (though it's hard).
I bought this recently but haven't given it a fair shake yet. Any quick tips for a first-timer?
Oriental Empires is more complex than one might think.
Here are my quick tips:
- Start one game with a small map as the normal maps are huge. Imho, it will help you understand the mechanics of the game faster.
- Ressources. Some ressources give you cash without any buildings (rhinos etc). Others requires some mining facilities.
- Don't build everything. Buildings can be very very expensive. At the beginning of the game focus buildings in you main city and only key buildings (archery for example).
I recommend to read the guide by Sanvone. It's a must if you want to master the game:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/357310/discussions/0/1488861734124212832/ (https://steamcommunity.com/app/357310/discussions/0/1488861734124212832/)
This is also nice
Nice! Thanks Anguille!
A bit of DCS. Planetary Annihilation Titans surprisingly. Hoping to try the Post Scriptum update.
Steel Division of course in anticipation of the first BETA 48hrs coming around thursday for me in Australia.
So, last night on Cyrano's Saturday Night Fights, I continued running Captain Funn. The one caught on the run by some guns? It was fun! And we're not done!
I made a pun!
I REGRET NOTHING! :D
The Division 2 all night Friday and all day yesterday. Going to have to tear myself away today for a Command: Desert Storm preview stream. After that i'd like to think I'll be jumping into the F-14B in DCS or the just updated with PBR QualityWings 787 in P3D but I'm probably just going to end up back in The Division 2.
What a cool video. I think a ride-a-long may cure my fear of heights. Or kill me. One of the two.
Down at the cabin hotspotting. Was barely on the computer this weekend. Fished yesterday most of the day and bbq'd last night after which me and the wife had a wonderful night playing some board games. She really enjoys a game of Clank! and last night we played the Sunken Treasures add on for the first time. Clank! offers plenty of play options and good strategy decisions coupled with a card building element that is deep enough to not get boring while not being so heavy to bog things down. One of my favorites to play with the missus.
If it kills you, you won't have to worry about the fear anymore.
I like how you always look at the brighter side of things. :2funny:
This weekend when we got to our cabin my wife noticed a couple shingles were missing on the ridge vent so I got out the hammer and put them back down and then I cleaned out the gutters while I was there. Even though it's just a single story with a 6/12 pitch roof, you would have thought I was on the tallest precipice ever. I. Hate. Heights. My feet start to tingle. It's funny because there isn't much in this world that scares me. I barely dick with amusement rides anymore.
When I was more of A Man[tm] I cleaned out our gutters. Because my house is built in to the side of a hill, the highest gutter was 70-80 feet off the ground. Once our kids arrived The Wife mandated that I no longer cleaned out the gutters myself and hired a guy with a cherry picker truck to do it so 'the kids don't lost their father.' The Wife is a thoughtful one.
I still clean off our porch roof though, as our dryer vent empties lint on to it.
Fascinating, eh?
When I was 16 I was a painter one summer and found myself 3 rungs from the top of a 40' ladder holding an extension pole up 12' in the air when I had an epiphany. It was the only job I quit mid day. That was when I became a floor layer.
Not higher than a tomato, not lower than a potato. That's my creed.
I'm with you on that heights crap. Nothing higher off the floor than on top.
I agree. My rule is, 'Work and sex, one foot on the ground at all times'. :coolsmiley:
Anguille how high off the ground are you?
Quote from: Gusington on March 25, 2019, 08:37:42 AM
Anguille how high off the ground are you?
Don't understand. What do you mean?
Ladders Kill!!! You might as well be climbing up a crocodile with C4 strapped to it. :hide:
Ladders don't kill people.
Sufficiently high impact vectors kill people.
My work is done here.
*falls off ladder*
I ended up spending a GENUINELY STUPID amount of time playing Ultimate General Civil War yesterday, messing with various campaign builds. I was able to win victories at the first Grand Battle, 1st Bull Run (aka 1st Manassas), with each of my three builds.
The first build is a joke: how close can I get to developing an "artillery only" group in the campaign game? (Of course, setups for custom battles can be arty-only easily.) This turns out to be strictly limited by the number of available cannons in various types -- completely aside from the feasibility of doing so! -- and there just aren't enough guns in during the 'first' campaign to make even a technical stab at it. Nevertheless, I endeavored to persevere, and despite losing most of my guns during the second fight, I was able to bring one full 24 gun battery and something like a 12-gun battery (of better guns) to 1st Bull Run, where sitting on the ridge off to the flank of the breastworks guarding the exit of the notorious stone bridge, they just MELTED Unionists trying to cross the bridge or setting up to take shots at my short-brigade (good veterans and tricked out with Miss-41 rifles). The computer at one point got desperate and ran a cav brigade across the bridge in front of my defensive line in order to charge my guns -- which worked! The good howitzers got annihilated. (I restarted the fight several times testing various theories. ;) But I kept that in mind for later in case I ever needed some work done by guest cav.)
Going into the setup fights for Shiloh (aka the 1842 Western Campaign), I'm bringing a whole "division" of four gun batteries (not really a division of course), none of them full up I think, some at the minimum of 4 (but that 4-gun battery uses the best in the game by my stat calcs), plus two batteries topped off in my first division; and then 3 pumped up infantry brigades (two with Lorenzes, the other with Miss-41s), plus if I recall correctly a full skirmisher regiment of 500 with the best skirm guns (stat-wise) in the game. (Which also happen to be the second cheapest skirmish guns! But their damage-output-on-target is the most cost effective; and there aren't enough more costly guns with the better damfirhit stats to decently flesh out a skirmisher unit.) They're bringing a freakishly silly amount of supplies, so I'll probably never come close to needing an ammo cart nearby!
Second are the Mass Volunteers, based on the idea of getting as many troops as possible to the fight with the best equipment, leaders, supplies, and as many vets, as I feasibly can -- but numbers take precedence. For the 1st Bull Run fight I had to borrow some artillery, but we still came through okay, thanks to good defensive play: rotating out brigades on the wall, and keeping the others ready to run down the hill to help concentrate fire defense when necessary. Going into the Western Campaign, I'm able to bring all 10 allowed brigades (across three divisions) topped off with 1500 men (mostly, one brigade is a little short, but not much and I gave them Lorenzes), with mostly decent commanders, and with mostly good equipment (though I've got two trash brigades as my 3rd Division, using Springfield 41s, about the 3rd worst gun in the game.)
Third are the Volunteer vets, based on the idea of bringing as many quality troops as possible: the best weapons available, the most veterans possible, the best leaders, and decent supply (I try to keep $1000 per group for supplies, at least). Numbers of troops on the field are still important, although spread out in groups (up to 10 theoretically for the Western Campaign), so I don't just made a short company carrying 40 buffalo rifles as one of my groups! This crew did the most damage in my 1st Bull Run fight (albeit borrowing arty and cavalry again from reinforcements), actually assaulting BACK ACROSS THE STONE BRIDGE toward the end of the fight, running the remnants of the Union off the map! To be fair, this meant they took more casualties than the other two builds, and had I played more conservatively I still would have won without that happening -- possibly saving enough replacement cash, relatively, to afford another group or two for the Western.
Going into the Western Campaign, I'm bringing 8 of my theoretical 10 maximum -- six infantry brigades and two skirmish regiments -- but they're all topped off at full strength (aside from the second skirmisher) with the best commanders and the most cost-effective available gear. (I could only find enough good skirmish guns for a half-strength second skirmisher, more or less.)
I have to admit, I'm not good at using skirmishers, whether dedicated regiments or spawned off as part of a brigade (mainly to guard my rear or flanks of course). They require a lot of micro, which I'm usually too busy to bother with. (And the computer seems to know when I'm off looking over the map somewhere else...! -- which of course it does, and might be passing information back to the AI forces!) Cav is the same way, but at least they're faster for getting out of trouble: I can run a cav company or two all around the map screwing with the enemy. >:D
But I figure if I can practice with them, I'll learn better; and I just didn't have the cash remaining to kit out another full brigade with good weapons compared to using mostly captured ones for this purpose. :arr:
Update on my Diablo game - Roisin The Rogue.
Yesterday after getting my ass handed to me and (after multiple reloads) I took a more cautious hit, run, hit, and then back to town for more potions - I managed to clear level 15. So I thought, "Why not take on the Archbishop Lazarus? The Unholy Altar is opened." So I decided to give it a shot.
After three attempts. The Archbishop Lazarus is dead. Lord Diablo awaits.
Sounds like fun Reich. Get that bad boy! Diablo's no match for a Grog.
Not comparable to setting up on Diablo, but all three of my Confederate Corps-builds are proceeding on in the 1862 Western Campaign -- and the Arty Corps build has already won pretty handily at defending the Corinth supply junction!
Not that I have a dedicated artillery-only corps yet, but that could be easily coming soon (and is probably the best I'll be able to manage for my 'artillery only campaign' challenge). Next up will be Shiloh (only an hour and a half drive south from where I'm sitting), and the game is opening up a quantum leap from 10 groups (for the first two 1862 fights) to 20 groups. I'll need that second Corps (which means I'll properly have an Army, too).
The Mass Vols and the Vet Vols are doing okay, too, although I'm worried that I'm hitting a limit to what I can do with the Veteran (high quality) build. Still, I expected that build to get this far. I'm surprised the Arty Vols have gotten to Shiloh.
I had to stop playing Resident Evil 7 for now...it got too gross and disturbing. Not sure what to play next...need a breather for a few days, I think.
Spring Break! :D
You are Florida Man, aren't you...
THE SABOTEUR!
It's like going on spring break in Paris, except you're also dynamiting Nazis.
Not ready for that yet. Still coming off a winter full of WWII gaming.
Well there's always that creepy, 'showering with Daddy' game or, for a reset, how about growing some corn in Farm Simulator? :dreamer: Mmmm.... corn.
My recent trip to the past with Neverwinter Nights 2 was a great way to pass some time while re-tooling my brain to jump back to today's titles. So, maybe something retro?
I may try Vampyr again. It was a damned near impossible boss battle that stopped me the first time, but since emerging from that really tough Resident Evil 7 chainsaw duel victorious, I may be ready to rip Vampyr a new one too. Typical Guslike behavior though to finally beat a boss in a game and then grow exhausted with it, unwilling to go on :/
Maybe Vampyr, a bit of Hellblade and a dash of TW Warhammer II and I'll be ready to go whole hog into Thrones of Britannia.