Well I'm actually going out for a round of 18 tomorrow morning with the guys and then some time with the family. However after the kids are in bed for the night it's game freaking on!
Diablo 3
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The only pc game that exists in my gaming universe right now.
Well, I'm getting slightly bored with Torchlight now so I'm not sure I'll play it. I need to play at a higher difficulty level, but the thought of starting all over just to change that puts me right off. :(
I might have another crack at King's Bounty: The Legend and probably some more Disciples 3. I've also discovered an addictive little gem called Lunar Flight which is a lunar module simulator. Great fun!
Stronghold Kingdoms as always, although I might (finally) be getting bored of it, too.
I have family in town but I wake early so I might get in some Grimrock or CoH.
Finally, finally finishing the AI routines for a CMBN scenario and posting it on the Repository - its so hard to test your own scenario when you know where the forces are going! I had a blast last night annihalating the Germans as they ran and wheeled past 2 fireflys hiding behing tall bocage - they killed 80 and took out a Panther and a JagdPanther - the problem is the AI is programmed at the start it cant and wont think - i must not run past these tanks.
Will fire up Endless Space and do the tutorial and hopefully get immersed in that.
I have paper all over the desk for my trade routes in PR3 - might fire this up, enjoying it, but its hard work.
When i get home i think ill get Ghost Warrior - its enough of an endorsement for 2 guys on here to say 'fkng awesome' for me!
MIGHT get Warlock
Is anyone going to give Iron Front a bash?
Continuing my Race into Space campaign (although after my last disasterous launch I expect to be fired) and Patrician IV
I am working most of this weekend so Im not sure how much time I'll actually have. :'(
However, I will try to fit in Warlock, Arma II and maybe some Tropico 4.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on May 25, 2012, 06:28:08 AM
I am working most of this weekend so Im not sure how much time I'll actually have. :'(
However, I will try to fit in Warlock, Arma II and maybe some Tropico 4.
vanilla arma II - do you play single player or are you in a group?
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 25, 2012, 06:30:49 AM
Quote from: TheCommandTent on May 25, 2012, 06:28:08 AM
I am working most of this weekend so Im not sure how much time I'll actually have. :'(
However, I will try to fit in Warlock, Arma II and maybe some Tropico 4.
vanilla arma II - do you play single player or are you in a group?
I just picked it up so I am playing through the single player campaign right now.
It's going to be:
- Celtic Kings: Rage of War (started the campaign anew)
- Time of Wrath (starting in 1939 as France)
- Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar...the siege of Alesia!
- Armada 2526 Supernova pbem
Cheers
Is Armada good then? I remember it being regard as very "meh" on release by most people. Is the expansion a requirement?
I bought it mind, but I haven't really played it.
I like it very much. The expansion adds a lot to the game. So yes, i recommend to play it with Supernova.
Cheers
Well, I really have is tonight for gaming. Going upstate for the long weekend. But, in my precious gaming time tonight, it will definitely be Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Iron Front Liberation 1944.
Here's my plan for the extended weekend:
- Armada 2526: Supernova pbem
- Ghost Recon Future Soldier going to attempt MP tonight or tomorrow
- Civilization Revolutionstrying to get two more chievos
- Battlestations Pacific
If time permits I'll try to fit in a few more.
Well, since Sword of the Stars 2 is basically up to normal post release quality, I am going to fire up a serious game with the slow combat mod.
May also play a few Antietam scenarios in Scourge of War : Antietam
Diablo III and maybe start a new campaign of Warlock.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 25, 2012, 08:05:37 AM
Well, I really have is tonight for gaming. Going upstate for the long weekend. But, in my precious gaming time tonight, it will definitely be Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Iron Front Liberation 1944.
Big weekend. Fixing up the board game loft so Roads to Leningrad is coming down just before Manstein clobbers the 34th army.
But on the computer -- hopefully -- Iron Front all weekend long.
^Where did you end up getting it from? I was trying to hold out for steam release, but just couldn't wait and bought it on gamersgate. Then, I also figured the gamersgate version would be more mod friendly.
Well I've finally got a solid four-day weekend with little in the way of a scheduled itinerary or responsibilities (huzzah!), so I'm definitely going to be putting some time in front of my computer screen.
Games I'm playing for sure this weekend:
1.)
Armada 2526 Supernova, both singleplayer and PBEM campaigns.
2.) Gonna see if I can get the
Warlock demo to run.
3.) I'm (finally!) resuming my Romulan AAR campaign in
Birth of the Federation.
Games I'm thinking about/hoping to play:
1.)
Baldur's Gate2.)
Star Trek Online3.)
Pride of Nations (yes really!)
Quote from: Huw the Poo on May 25, 2012, 07:44:35 AM
Is Armada good then? I remember it being regard as very "meh" on release by most people. Is the expansion a requirement?
I bought it mind, but I haven't really played it.
I too wasn't impressed with
Armada at release, despite my having looked forward to it. However, it improved a great deal in subsequent patches/updates, and I now find it to be a very enjoyable 4x experience. It's perhaps not a brilliant game per se, but it *is* a very solid one, and well polished.
I wouldn't say the
Supernova expansion is a requirement (unless you want to get into MP matches). However, it does greatly increase the game's "fun factor" and replayability IMHO. And given how cheap it generally is nowadays, I'm willing to bet you can purchase the expansion somewhere for £5-10 (if not less), which would definitely be worth the price!
Quote from: Martok on May 25, 2012, 09:21:06 AM
3.) Pride of Nations (yes really!)
good man - feeling the itch myself - tutorialed myself last week.
Good luck to the Iron Front players, it looks great, i would imagine its awesome when youre in one of the groups Chelco is always blogging about - i really really need to get a desk top!
^Martok, you were having problems with the Warlock demo?
I seem to have bought a lot of games in the past 10 days. Shame I'm taking a guy's shift and going in to work tonight. Oh well, tomorrow and Sunday will see me flipping between
Iron Front 1944
Red Orchestra 2
Dead Island
PT Boats
Assassin's Creed II
Shogun 2 with Darthmod and Skyrim with Lydia.
^Which Shogun 2?
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 25, 2012, 09:19:38 AM
^Where did you end up getting it from? I was trying to hold out for steam release, but just couldn't wait and bought it on gamersgate. Then, I also figured the gamersgate version would be more mod friendly.
I'm planning on getting it from steam....hopefuly that will work out.
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 25, 2012, 09:29:43 AM
Quote from: Martok on May 25, 2012, 09:21:06 AM
3.) Pride of Nations (yes really!)
good man - feeling the itch myself - tutorialed myself last week.
Good luck to the Iron Front players, it looks great, i would imagine its awesome when youre in one of the groups Chelco is always blogging about - i really really need to get a desk top!
My online days are over for a while. I'll be using the editor to come up with relatively tame battles late at night.
As for groups. One of the best moments in gaming, I think, comes when a game first goes online and nobody quite
knows who is who or what is what. When Arrowhead came out in the summer of 2010 was the last time I did much online
and then it was as a lone wolf with a rag-tag army of assorted AI scum. These days I solemnly relish small firefights carefully
constructed for minimum difficulty on the editor.
Well, I should be able to get in a substantial amount of gaming this weekend. We've got a pretty good swell going on the windward side right now so I'll be hitting that today and tomorrow during the afternoon, but the evenings are looking fairly free. So for sure I'll be playing:
Red Orchestra 2: I really didn't play too much of this before, and last night really ignited my interest in the game again.
Medieval 2: Total War: I think my son is old enough to try some multiplayer hotseat campaign. I never even realized that option existed in this game!
Keeping with the whole multiplayer vibe, I'm strongly considering starting up Madden '08 to play with my son.
King Arthur 1 and 2: I really want to finish KA1 before I start KA2, but I'm having serious analysis paralysis with KA1 whereas I hear KA2 is more linear and that might be what I need right now.
Rise of Flight: Plenty of gaming left in this sim!
Well - I haven't had much time to fit iRacing in...so hopefully a race or two of that this weekend. On top of that, some Armada 2626 Gold (Amazon £10), more OOTP 13 whilst watching something that doesn't need all my attention
On top of that, I'll be doing my model Mosquito
Quote from: Gusington on May 25, 2012, 10:39:07 AM
^Which Shogun 2?
All 3 Gus. Right now I'm into the original game, just past Realm Divide seeing how much different Darth's version is. And in FOTS, my soldiers got bayonets now, and they use them in battle. Must be that fancy-pants British officer I recruited.
WINSPMBT, WINSPWW2, FSX, Strike Fighters 2, Mount & Blade Warband: Europa 1200 Mod. Maybe also some Red Orchestra: Darkesthour mod and Swat 4 online coop.
I already got in a game of Madden, and just finished installing ARMA II so I can play the Day Z mod, so add that to the ever-growing list!
I just picked up the new, single-player Ticket to Ride from Steam, since I'm a sucker for board game conversions. Add that one to my list.
Well I don't have the expansion, but I guess I'll give Armada another go this weekend then. Thanks for the input chaps.
I have Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne for the iPad, but haven't played them too much.
Just played two lovely CMBB scenarios the last two nights; both defensive. That's refreshing, since most scenarios are played as the attacker.
Both played as the Axis.
Last night's was the defense of a ridge line with one lone Panther, infantry, and HMGs. The Soviets advanced with infantry and T-34s. I used the HMGs from the flanks to slow down the infantry coming up the ridge. Also, used them to button the T-34s. My infantry I mainly had placed in a reverse slope position (as I expected the enemy to have tanks and the ridge to get overrun). I managed to get the Panther some nice firing positions from the crest of the ridge by shooting and then rapidly displacing behind the ridge. It was a good fight.
Tonight's fight was more of a close quarters brawl. Again holding a line, but this time along a road. (all infantry) Although I had three wooden HMG pill boxes and barbed wire, the defenses were for the most part deployed too forward. Thus, they fail to create any real kill sacks. Still I used my initial infantry to prevent flanking of the pill boxes. They held on long enough that the arriving reinforcements could advance while taking minimal fire. After a few minutes of fire exchanged back and forth, I was able to counter-attack and the Russians surrendered.
Well, time to go practice some Mandarin.
I never could seem to get the original CM to run very well on Win7.
Quote from: Gusington on May 25, 2012, 09:30:20 AM
^Martok, you were having problems with the Warlock demo?
I don't know yet. However, given I've had issues with Steam in the past, I'm prepared to run into difficulties. Just downloading the damn thing gave me fits, as I had to jump through a ridiculous number of hoops to do so.
Quote from: Huw the Poo on May 25, 2012, 05:53:01 PM
Well I don't have the expansion, but I guess I'll give Armada another go this weekend then. Thanks for the input chaps.
Good luck
Huw. I hope you enjoy it!
Diablo 3 will feature prominently again this weekend. I'll probably get in something else as well, but currently have no idea what that might end up being.
Quote from: Bison on May 25, 2012, 11:08:30 PM
I never could seem to get the original CM to run very well on Win7.
Well, I am still running WinXP Pro SP3 32bit. So, I am enjoying CMBB/CMAK while they last. In 2013, I will get a new gaming PC and maybe also replace other PCs (or, at least, upgrade to Win7). For now, I don't even have to bother with eNuisance and the Vista patch. :)
Quote from: Bison on May 25, 2012, 11:08:30 PM
I never could seem to get the original CM to run very well on Win7.
You can pay Battlefront for Win7/Vista compatibility patches for CMBB & CMAK for like $5 each. They also require you use their limited online activation system with those paid updates, too. :-\
I heard that you lose fog effects with NVidia cards under DX10. True?
Funny thing- I just ran a quick 14 turns of CMAK w/out any issue under Win7... and with no stinkin' patches!
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 26, 2012, 06:20:39 PM
Funny thing- I just ran a quick 14 turns of CMAK w/out any issue under Win7... and with no stinkin' patches!
That can be done if you're using an AMD/ATI video card.
I recall you couldn't do it with Nvidias in the past.
Quote from: Nefaro on May 26, 2012, 06:47:18 PM
That can be done if you're using an AMD/ATI video card.
I recall you couldn't do it with Nvidias in the past.
Nvidia Geforce GT430 is how I roll...
Mayhaps it doth occur only in the presence of Nvidia cards yet even older and grayer of beard than that which currently slumbers within mine own humble 'puter. ???
Staggerwing is having Pendragon withdrawal....hopefully Barthheart returns from the lost world soon...LOL.
哈哈哈！(Chinese for ha ha ha)
I think I know what you mean. It was really weird. Yesterday, I sent someone an email (in English, but forwarding a story I wrote in Chinese), and reread it later. Now, I didn't proof read it, but the English had some decidedly Chinese broken grammar feel to it ... beyond my usual careless writing without proof reading. Truly scary. (maybe my brain is being rewired)
It should be quite an experience getting a new PC 2013. I think 6 years is the longest I've ever gone between new systems. I'll have to compile a list of games worthy of it. Despite not playing flight/racing sims anymore, I'll have to buy at least one game which is a complete graphics extravaganza to really indulged myself.
Quote from: MarkShot on May 26, 2012, 08:30:16 PM
It should be quite an experience getting a new PC 2013. I think 6 years is the longest I've ever gone between new systems. I'll have to compile a list of games worthy of it. Despite not playing flight/racing sims anymore, I'll have to buy at least one game which is a complete graphics extravaganza to really indulged myself.
It's always exciting to get a new rig. I personally find the months of research and system planning to be quite fun plus you get up to speed on all the latest and upcoming tech. If you can accept the e-liscense the new CM is pretty awesome and the mods that the community is developing really adds to the graphic love. Not going to blow away a new system, but it at least would be a game you might enjoy for the life of the rig.
I used to get a new top of the line system every two years. (easier to do when finances were good) However, once I switched from flight sims to strategy/war gaming, the need for computer upgrades became less pressing. However, I do believe you should upgrade your system before it appears in the Smithsonian as an exhibit. :)
It will be interesting to see where I get it. For the last 10 years, I have been buying from Falcon Northwest. But I don't think that makes any sense when in Taiwan. Shipping charges on parts and, the fact, that 80% of the parts they use are made in the ROC/PRC. Perhaps, I'll find a local shop to assemble me a hot gaming rig. I once did that in early 90s and got badly burned ... after which my systems were from DELL, Micron, and then Falcon. (DELL and Micron were very different companies in the 90s than they are now ... they were geek oriented.)
Mark,
Skyrim looks pretty amazing with the graphics cranked up, if you're into RPGs.
I'll be firing up Strategic Command World War I tonight. I've been playing Diablo 3 nearly non-stop since it was released. Pretty sure I've got about 90 hours in game already. It's been a long time since a game has hooked me like D3 has. But I've been having the itch for a strategic game and all of my other games are in a box somewhere and after digging for hours I gave up my search for Forge of Freedom or Crown of Glory:EE and decided to visit the Great War.
I played a lot of D3 Friday and Saturday. Got my barbarian to hell mode, and realized the game is kinda broke for melee at the higher difficulties at the moment. I then switched to playing the WoW Mist of Pandera beta for the rest of the weekend.
Quote from: Kushan on May 28, 2012, 09:03:05 PM
Got my barbarian to hell mode, and realized the game is kinda broke for melee at the higher difficulties at the moment
I'm afraid that this is very much true. When you cannot stand next to blue/yellow mobs and not die in 3 secs not from hits, but from effect damage the game mechanics need to be revisited. I've attempted to max out my resists as high as I can and it just doesn't really seem to help a whole lot. Kinda disappointing really.
^Glad I chose the demon hunter, then :)
That said D3 has not grabbed me the way I was hoping it would. It's 'kewl' in the traditional ways but I can't help feeling like it's stuck in 1998. I also really hate the checkpoint system and lack of a save anywhere function.
Obviously this gets more noticeable as I progress and begin to get smacked around.
Quote from: Gusington on May 29, 2012, 09:33:05 AM
That said D3 has not grabbed me the way I was hoping it would. It's 'kewl' in the traditional ways but I can't help feeling like it's stuck in 1998. I also really hate the checkpoint system and lack of a save anywhere function.
That has been my take and I never played the first ones. It's addictive enough, but seems...stagnate.
^Yes, I agree there. As far as the total experience it does not hold a candle to Skyrim. Now it may be unfair to compare the too, but at least they are both billed as RPGs. It's hard to believe that they were both released within 6 months of each other.
If I have about ~65 hours invested in Skyrim I doubt I will clock in at 1/3 of that for D3 because of repetitiveness and niggling annoyances like the checkpoint system.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 25, 2012, 09:19:38 AM
^Where did you end up getting it from? I was trying to hold out for steam release, but just couldn't wait and bought it on gamersgate. Then, I also figured the gamersgate version would be more mod friendly.
Steam worked out very well. Apparently on steam you already get the 1.01 patch. I'm not worried about mods since I'm planning on moving on from Arma 2 pretty soon and leaving this machine as a kind of time capsule of 2012 (Just as my previous machine encapsulated 2009 and the next one maybe 2014).
Quote from: Gusington on May 29, 2012, 09:52:42 AM
^Yes, I agree there. As far as the total experience it does not hold a candle to Skyrim. Now it may be unfair to compare the too, but at least they are both billed as RPGs. It's hard to believe that they were both released within 6 months of each other.
If I have about ~65 hours invested in Skyrim I doubt I will clock in at 1/3 of that for D3 because of repetitiveness and niggling annoyances like the checkpoint system.
I've already logged a sickening amount of time on D3. D3 is about farming and a save and move from where you were system would not work.
Why not?
The biggest "draw" of Diablo is the loot. If you do not re-run areas your gear stagnates and it requires farming. The checkpoint system is tied to farming parts of the quest arc. So if you are struggling with an end boss, you farm the proceeding map boards and the check points put you in the arc where in theory farming will equip your character with the gear you need. Now this being said. Farming is not a critical aspect of the game on normal and only slightly more for most of nightmare. It's Hell and above where farming becomes more important to progression.
^When you describe it like that it sounds like chemistry class.
I try to keep it real man.
I love you for it. I feel like I've let the Diablo cabal here down a bit by not liking it more.
If it makes you feel any better I stopped enjoying Skyrim after about 10-15 hours.
^Inconceivable!!!
It's true. I found the world got "lifeless". I kept thinking where the f are all the people in this MMO?
Quote from: Gusington on May 29, 2012, 01:45:43 PM
^When you describe it like that it sounds like chemistry class.
I think Bison has a phd in Diablo III. Half the time I don't know what he and Nefaro are talking about - and I've been playing the game!
I'm ashamed to admit but I've logged nearly 100 hours since release. My sleep has been severly impacted.
Quote from: Bison on May 29, 2012, 01:58:07 PM
I'm ashamed to admit but I've logged nearly 100 hours since release. My sleep has been severly impacted.
I know I'm not playing as much as you, but I feel I'm dropping a fair investment in time on the game. Yet, I haven't made it past the default difficulty level.
Fair enough. I do spend hours compairing the cost benefit of one piece of gear compaired to another on my two main characters.
Different strokes for different blokes. Skyrim is a game I keep returning too...had that certain something for me. D3 doesn't. I still love you.
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