Happy Super Bowl weekend! The dust up between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots kicks off Sunday night. It's almost a national holiday here in the States. We'll have lots of victuals and libations, friends and family for the game.
The game I will be playing is Medieval 2 Total War as...well, I don't know who. Lost to the Holy Roman Empire last time. May play Hungary this time. I've been playing Warlock mp and will probably have some time on that, too.
GO PATS!!!
Go Pats O0
I'll be playing - not alot - the best rugby tournament outside of the Rugby World Cup is starting (6 Nations in case you don't know)
When I do get to play, it'll be my new, updated, beautiful, unified DCS and more AV8B Harrier love - in the Caucasus or Nevada - I don't know.
Enjoy the Bowl for people watching that, enjoy the rugby for people watching that and most of all, enjoy your gaming time.
Probably a lot of VTOL VR, DCS 2.5, Subnautica, Aurora 4x and maybe I'll check out Freeman: Guerrilla War?
Still boring here - WoT, Marvel Puzle Quest and maybe start either a CIV VI campaign or a TWWH1 campaign
Finally we got going on our PBEM Genesis board game. Should be interesting.
Not sure what else to ok=play on the PC... might do some more in Cities Skylines... had it for a while and just started to play with it.
On the table is Next War: Poland as I try to grok the rules. Game looks awesome but the rules look daunting....
Maybe get in some driving with DiRT Rally with my new wheel and pedals setup.
Lots of prep work for our up coming annual Winter Guys Weekend of Gaming at the end of the month. Going to run a refereed game of AH's Bismarck, 2 teams of 2 with me as ref, with the advanced combat system.
A very, very last minuite notice came down yesterday so it looks like I'll be out of town all next week. So, to celebrate, I'll shoot more people in The Division and haul my old laptop out to see if it still works - the Girl is using my replacement until her screen is fixed on the laptop she was using. If that one is still kicking, then at least I'll be able to play all the Matrix-bought games I've got on there to pass the time.
Think I'll just haul off and get a dedicated gaming laptop one of these days and be done with it.
Have a good 'un, folks, and stay safe!
Quote from: Dammit Carl! on February 02, 2018, 08:12:11 AM
A very, very last minuite notice came down yesterday so it looks like I'll be out of town all next week. So, to celebrate, I'll shoot more people in The Division....
You're really playing this one to death. I had put a few hours into it before deleting to free up space for Ghost Recon Wildlands...this was many patches and updates ago...perhaps its worth revisiting?
I used to love the Super Bowl. LOVE. Now I couldn't yawn more or care less about it. The only thing intriguing is the Eagles are in it, though I doubt they're going to win.
For me it'll be the Puppy Bowl, hopefully some gaming, but most likely the usual getting-drug-around-for-eight-hours-on-pointless-BS as it is every weekend.
DCS 2.5 (but it could be Sunday evening before my download finishes with a DL rate around 300KB/s)
After a lo0o0o0o0o0o0ong break from gaming, I'm full tilt:
- SubNautica
- Stellaris
- Dominions 5
- Elite (I have been away from the spaceship grind)
- TTS
- Scavenger SV-4
Continue looking at Space Empires 5 (and maybe 4). Not really playing so much but checking out everything that you can mod and map creation. Haven't found out if you can pre-set fleets or not.
Not sure what else. Maybe a board game.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on February 02, 2018, 08:19:30 AM
You're really playing this one to death. I had put a few hours into it before deleting to free up space for Ghost Recon Wildlands...this was many patches and updates ago...perhaps its worth revisiting?
I know. Don't think I've played anything this long or with this much attention since coming across World of Tanks in 20..11ish? Can't really explain the draw for me, to be honest - it's a grindy sumbitch, and one needs to buy the DLC to fully get the other places to play (Survival and the Underground) but danged if it don't push my fun buttons at this point in time.
I can't speak for how it used to be in prior versions but with the 1.8 patch as it has now, I think it is pretty sweet: my current thirll is encountering Hunters in the Underground (think meeting a boss/tank/ninja who'll wreck you in one hit in cramped, dark quarters and you get an idea the gameplay there) and making gun-runs through the Dark Zone to just shoot crap up.
Continuing my Norsca campaign in Warhammer TW - almost at turn 200 but still have much to learn. Beginning to align with my god of choice and have started recruiting some uber units like trolls and mammoths. Fun!
Also looking forward to the release of Kingdom Come (less than two weeks!), Vampyr (less than two months!) and just pre-ordered Thrones of Britannia from Green Man for 20% off, or about 30.00.
I hate both the Pats and the Eagles so I'll be watching curling in my ice shelter instead.
Quote from: Gusington on February 02, 2018, 09:25:13 AM
I hate both the Pats and the Eagles so I'll be watching curling in my ice shelter instead.
Good call
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Mirth knows.
Those girls are cold <:-)
Ice Queens
I love them.
me too
More than enough to go around.
i shall be unleashing Mirth of Maine on the Roman peoples while Gus the Small takes a rest in Domina then updating the AAR
there will be Winter Germans and Paratroopers to paint
Having picked it up cheap on Humble I'll be giving Civ VI a go, other than that with the Six Nations starting it will be mainly watching some rugby, Come on Ireland.
Is th Six Nations available to watch in the US?
From the official Six Nations website https://www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/matchcentre/fixtures_and_results.php it appears to be available on NBC
Picked up some more storage boxes this week so I will be using them to re-organize my TI4 game box contents.
Definitely will fit in some Heroes & Generals. Probably some COD: WW2. Continue my Game of Thrones: The Board Game solo playthrough.
Damn, is it Friday again already? Let me see, Tuesday I went to the store, Wednesday I went to the doctor, Thursday I put the garbage out so, yeah I guess it IS Friday. Taking a break from my Warhammer campaign to catch-up ACW 2 as the South if it's quiet around here and Pillars of Eternity if it's not quiet around here. And there's some kind of sporting event on Sunday I may try to catch a little of. Have a SUPER-bowl weekend Grogs.
Finished the last scenario in PanzerKreig.
Moved the Nephew to an apartment.
Going pheasant hunting tomorrow AM.
Going to Auburn-Vanderbilt game tomorrow PM.
Them Tigers is on a ROLL! Fantastic what they have been able to do since the Chuck Person incident robbed them of two of their best players. Only two losses to this point. One to Temple and one other which escapes me at the moment :-"
As noted in another thread, I finally broke down and bought the most recent iteration of Strategic Command WWII: Storm over Europe, now one hundred percent more Matrixlithery. At full price, too.
Now I'm wondering (1) whom should I try to get an mp game going with in the 1938 scenario?
And (2) how do "simultaneous" turns work in this game on pbem? (The '38 scenario seems to be the only one that features simul-turns.)
Pretty perfect Saturday.
Went on a pheasant shoot in the morning. Brisk, sunny, lots of Pheasants, lots of really happy hunting dogs.
Auburn won again at home and the wife and I went to the game.
UNC won, Dook lost to a team which had lost 11 straight.
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 03, 2018, 09:44:26 PM
As noted in another thread, I finally broke down and bought the most recent iteration of Strategic Command WWII: Storm over Europe, now one hundred percent more Matrixlithery. At full price, too.
Now I'm wondering... (2) how do "simultaneous" turns work in this game on pbem? (The '38 scenario seems to be the only one that features simul-turns.)
Okay, reading through the rules last night: what the devs mean by "simultaneous" turns in this game, is what all other turn based games mean by "alternate" turns. ;) What they mean by "alternate" turns, is that the players alternate playing on different turns. So Turn 1 the Axis plays, Turn 2 the Allies play, Turn 3 the Axis plays, etc., and each turn is a distinct period of time. So on the first week the Axis plays, on the second week the Allies plays, and so on into winter when it's more like this month the Axis plays, and the next month the Allies play.
Simultaneous turns mean that the Axis plays first this week then the Allies play this week, and so on. Effectively this means more turns per year; it also means more manufacture/political-points (or whatever MPP means) per year. So in that sense the game advances more quickly.
No campaigns in the vanilla game are simultaneous turns; and only one of the free fan-made campaigns available through Steam as free DLC count as simultaneous: namely the 1938 scenario. Which is what I want to play anyway, so... O0
Quote from: airboy on February 04, 2018, 01:25:57 AM
Pretty perfect Saturday.
Went on a pheasant shoot in the morning. Brisk, sunny, lots of Pheasants, lots of really happy hunting dogs.
Auburn won again at home and the wife and I went to the game.
UNC won, Dook lost to a team which had lost 11 straight.
I suppose all your stoplights were green, too?
:))
Happy Hunting Dogs are the best kind. They wag their tails while they're pointing out prey and don't laugh at you when you miss your target.
^ Cats, on the other hand, will criticize and mock you, before going about their own business until it's time for you to take them home. :smitten:
Okay, let's see... got another FIRE IN THE GROGS ep posted up over the weekend, and ep 9 started. Our new GENESIS OF THE GROGS game has started up and is already roaring out of the gate in our first Turn.
I messed around learning and trying out some things in the new version of the Strategic Command WW2 game.
In Subnautica I finally got around to building my first base, which is literally one room and a hatch. Safely on dry land because there are scary demon things in the waters nearby. :hide: :timeout: :wow: Even on dry land I still have plenty to explore, having been here already, and food won't be a problem (although I should start some planters soon to ensure the food stays handy to Dry Base Gun). I've already knifed most of the cyclops judgment-stare spiders in the area, and they evidently don't respawn so I shouldn't be bothered by those further. Next up: abandoning my original escape pod and migrating stuff to this base. Maybe also building a harvest base between those areas in shallower waters away from the demon shark dinosaur thing(s) and the teleporting aliens. (At some point I should start a video series on this, too; I've been keeping footage for that.)
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 05, 2018, 11:07:05 AM
In Subnautica I finally got around to building my first base, which is literally one room and a hatch. Safely on dry land because there are scary demon things in the waters nearby. :hide: :timeout: :wow: Even on dry land I still have plenty to explore, having been here already, and food won't be a problem (although I should start some planters soon to ensure the food stays handy to Dry Base Gun). I've already knifed most of the cyclops judgment-stare spiders in the area, and they evidently don't respawn so I shouldn't be bothered by those further. Next up: abandoning my original escape pod and migrating stuff to this base. Maybe also building a harvest base between those areas in shallower waters away from the demon shark dinosaur thing(s) and the teleporting aliens. (At some point I should start a video series on this, too; I've been keeping footage for that.)
I played a lot of this over the weekend. The problem with dry land is a complete lack of resources. I haven't been able to find any titanium, copper, quartz, etc. on the island. So if you want to build anything substantial, you'll have to bring all your building materials with you. I thought about setting up a little settlement there, but I've become quite comfortable in my base out at sea. I've got two large general purpose rooms on two levels, an observatory, a moon pool for docking my seamoth, a scanner room for recon, surveying and mapping, and lots of storage, lighting and power. I even have a nice place to sleep and a little study/office to maintain logs and records and to piece together and research all of the data logs I've discovered. I'm about to start building my first nuclear reactor so I no longer have to rely on solar panels...its then back into the deep in search of more wreckage sites. I still need to find prawn suit and cyclops fragments in order to complete the blue prints.
This is unquestionably one of the best, most polished sandbox survival games out there.
Well, I've long since found that the dry land with the big story-gun on it doesn't have a complete lack of resources:
[spoiler]the cave system has quite a bit in itself, and the undersea cliffs and shelfs I've harvested a ton of things from. Plus there are lots of "nodes" of resources on them, for when I get that tool eventually, which I provisionally guess to be the laser cutter. No quartz that I've been able to find admittedly; nor creepvines nearby. I have to go back in the direction of my landing pod to get those and a few other things like table coral and sulfur. The main problem is the damned reapers. :pullhair: :hide:
Plus the teleportation gate on the island sends me to the floating jellyfish island place, with another more extensive cave system and potatos and watermelons and things like that which I'll be able to bring back and start planting.
It's a handy area to strike out for the Aurora, too, just outside the radiation zone, though come to think of it it looks a bit farther away visually than my lifeboat.[/spoiler]
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 05, 2018, 11:34:07 AM
Well, I've long since found that the dry land with the big story-gun on it doesn't have a complete lack of resources:
[spoiler]the cave system has quite a bit in itself, and the undersea cliffs and shelfs I've harvested a ton of things from. Plus there are lots of "nodes" of resources on them, for when I get that tool eventually, which I provisionally guess to be the laser cutter. No quartz that I've been able to find admittedly; nor creepvines nearby. I have to go back in the direction of my landing pod to get those and a few other things like table coral and sulfur. The main problem is the damned reapers. :pullhair: :hide:
Plus the teleportation gate on the island sends me to the floating jellyfish island place, with another more extensive cave system and potatos and watermelons and things like that which I'll be able to bring back and start planting.
It's a handy area to strike out for the Aurora, too, just outside the radiation zone, though come to think of it it looks a bit farther away visually than my lifeboat.[/spoiler]
The laser cutter does not harvest nodes. It is used for cutting open locked doors and exploring wreckage of the Aurora. I believe there will be an attachment on the Prawn Suit that can harvest the resource nodes. I've unlocked all sorts of arm attachments for the prawn, but still don't have the blueprint for the actual suit!
I've been to the Aurora, but I haven't cut my way into it yet. I had other priorities at the time, but will return once I have a cyclops super submarine mobile base thing-a-majig.
Dangit, I was hoping the laser did that... >:( Oh well. I suppose it'll be too much to hope that they get some FortCraftEvo cutter assembly-line things going instead. :D
Speaking of the laser cutting doors (which I did guess right about but hadn't been able to test yet), one of the scattered "rooms" I found on the sea floor has a locked door on each end, only one of which returns a UI message saying something has to be used to cut it open. The other door is just "locked" (and the cuttable door looks a little damaged). Is the 'merely' locked door merely aesthetic?
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 05, 2018, 12:25:02 PM
Dangit, I was hoping the laser did that... >:( Oh well. I suppose it'll be too much to hope that they get some FortCraftEvo cutter assembly-line things going instead. :D
Speaking of the laser cutting doors (which I did guess right about but hadn't been able to test yet), one of the scattered "rooms" I found on the sea floor has a locked door on each end, only one of which returns a UI message saying something has to be used to cut it open. The other door is just "locked" (and the cuttable door looks a little damaged). Is the 'merely' locked door merely aesthetic?
Yes. There are some doors that are locked that you can do nothing with. Other doors can be cut open with the laser cutter and others have damaged wires that can be repaired with the repair tool. Once repaired, the door can be opened and closed normally. Gaining access to those pieces of wreckage is important. Its where you'll find a lot of blue prints, technology fragments and abandoned PDAs.
Good! -- I'd feel extra doofusy if I ended the game with some locked doors I could never open, thinking I had just failed the game somehow.
Also, I'll be glad when I finally get to use the repair tool again after its one (admittedly very important) usage so far. I keep dragging it around hoping for the best, or for the worst rather!
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 05, 2018, 03:06:26 PM
Good! -- I'd feel extra doofusy if I ended the game with some locked doors I could never open, thinking I had just failed the game somehow.
Also, I'll be glad when I finally get to use the repair tool again after its one (admittedly very important) usage so far. I keep dragging it around hoping for the best, or for the worst rather!
My repair tool is invaluable for making repairs to the seamoth. It gets banged up a lot from diving too deep, colliding with inattentive sea creatures and even from being chewed on by the larger, meaner denizens of the deep. Its also important to repair my base from time to time. How do you keep your seamoth in working order without it!?!
Also, make sure you get the blueprints for the battery and power cell rechargers. So critical for quality of life...
Easy. Out of all the blueprints I've discovered, I haven't discovered enough of the rig that makes the seamoth yet (I think I do have enough plans for the seamoth itself but not for what constructs it). So I have no seamoth. Only the thing that drags me through the water.
To paraphrase Peter Venkman: "If I don't have a Seamoth, then it can't be damaged; and if it can't be damaged then it isn't damaged; and if it isn't damaged, then it's a check!" O0
(Igon: "...I'm not going to talk to you for a least a week. It's bad for me." "Hey, this is how I got through college!")
So by now I've:
1.) Got my floating vehicle bay;
2.) Got my seamoth;
3.) Figured out how to place my scanner room (which is a finicky diva, though apparently less so than in past builds);
4.) Gotten through my first door requiring the repair tool;
5.) Finally found enough parts for my laser cutter;
6.) Gotten through my first doors requiring the laser cutter -- behind the first of which was nothing more than another pair of doors, one of which also required a laser cutter -- behind the second of which was a room filled with nothing but laser cutter parts. :pullhair: #:-) :crazy2: :uglystupid2: :buck2:
7.) Upgraded my scanner room with everything but the most important thing (the HUD transmitter);
8.) Gathered enough spare minerals and made enough electronics for a portable mini-base (even one with a biomass reactor, although that leaves me with barely one slot in my backpack, so it's mainly for going around to find technology scans);
9.) Built a second permanent base (main room, biomass energy, solar power, fabricator, lockers, and scanner room, plus a growbed although nothing to grow there yet) near the Aurora wreck;
10.) Annnnnnnnnd I finished last night with a battery recharger at last! :clap: :nerd: What I'm missing now is a power-cell recharger. And more than one power cell. That's next on my list of things to do, since my Seamoth is almost dry. No pun intended.
11.) Also, essayed my first scouting of the Aurora wreck, but forgot to bring a fire extinguisher so all I could do was clean out the infestation of spider-eye things (on the port-bow quarter anyway) via talon to knife combat.
So, significant progress since Monday night.