With the release of version 3.0.0 (now up to 3.2.0), I've tumbled back down the Aurora rabbit hole.
Enjoy the weekend, fellas.
I'm beside you in the trenches - coming to the end of my first year
I'm also play testing Masada - a continual universe Homeworkd 3 beater and it looks glorious - nebula, detailed asteroids - I'm only 30 mins in but it's very nice
Maybe I'm slow (okay, I admit I'm slow :grin: ) but I never understood Bowie's "Space Oddity". I remember at the time everyone was crazy about space exploration, but I never understood that song. What is it about? And why am I still bothered by it 55+ years later? :hair:
With that out of the way, gaming this week will be War Footing. And TFA playtesting. Have a good one, y'all !
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 06, 2026, 03:36:42 PMI'm beside you in the trenches - coming to the end of my first year
I'm also play testing Masada - a continual universe Homeworkd 3 beater and it looks glorious - nebula, detailed asteroids - I'm only 30 mins in but it's very nice
I'm playtesting it too. It is VERY close to Homeworld in terms of look and feel. Maybe too close for their own good?
I'd love to see your Steam library, we play all the same $hit.
Quote from: Tripoli on November 06, 2026, 03:53:17 PMMaybe I'm slow (okay, I admit I'm slow :grin: ) but I never understood Bowie's "Space Oddity". I remember at the time everyone was crazy about space exploration, but I never understood that song. What is it about? And why am I still bothered by it 55+ years later? :hair:
With that out of the way, gaming this week will be War Footing. And TFA playtesting. Have a good one, y'all !
Here:
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/david-bowie-space-oddity-song-history/ (https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/david-bowie-space-oddity-song-history/)
I bought both IL-2 Korea and Seapower Missile Age. Let's so which one happens.
Hope you guys are having a better week than me. Long story short, my idiot coworker made a colossal f*ckup, pissed off the client, and got the whole team fired.
On the bright side, all these games in my backlog are looking a lot more finishable now.
Quote from: al_infierno on November 06, 2026, 09:32:18 PMHope you guys are having a better week than me. Long story short, my idiot coworker made a colossal f*ckup, pissed off the client, and got the whole team fired.
On the bright side, all these games in my backlog are looking a lot more finishable now.
I am really sorry to hear that Al. I hate to say it, but from the stories you have been telling it might be for the best. These things happen, I mean people screwing up AND whole departments getting fired. I hope you guys are all ok.
Reminds me of this scene from the I.T. team where they want to tell on Jen for having no idea about I.T. and are in the Boss's office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRPUoz1TYro
There is a tonne of stuff now happening because it's getting towards christmas. Star Citizen 5.0 is in wave one so I will anticipate that one while playing other games.
Age of Empires IV - I have the vikings and scottish and am really enjoying it
Company of Heroes 3 - Anniversay patch 3.0 is out as of last night which has snow and fog and all sorts of other new things like sounds.
Chivalry 2 - Medieval FPS - Am enjoying a bit of a swing and giggle with the lads in this one again.
Nothing really groggy atm except the occasional jaunt in
Strategos, which is a superb game.
I am also pressing refresh on the
project 1815 demo page regularly :bagpipes:
Looking at a gase called
Iron Ranks as well that will be listed on steam soon. Legionaries in a total war like battle setting.
Every now and then I get the urge to play DCS and then go to star citizen instead for my cockpit fix.
Iron Ranks reminds me of centurion defender of rome
I'm stuck in the world of the Witcher 3 and I like it.
Quote from: al_infierno on November 06, 2026, 09:32:18 PMHope you guys are having a better week than me. Long story short, my idiot coworker made a colossal f*ckup, pissed off the client, and got the whole team fired.
On the bright side, all these games in my backlog are looking a lot more finishable now.
I'm sorry, Al.
You probably can't disclose, but what are you playtesting for TFA, Trip?
I was up in north Jersey last weekend at a big used bookstore (among other things) and scored the entire 15-volume Morison history of the US Navy in WW2 series for $100...with dust jackets. I'm pretty stoked on that, although I know that some of his assertions are biased or have been proven wrong (eg. ADM Fletcher).
Gaming - I'm dabbling with Seapower, and the whole carry-over campaign element.
Toonces-I've been involved with TFA on and off since it was originally announced, mostly doing historical research. Similarly, most of my playtesting is revolving around identifying minor historical inaccuracies, making it a good fit for my OCD. :grin: My most recent find was getting the animated yellow shirts to not direct the tail draggers from directly in front of the aircraft, but to move a little to the right where the pixel pilots could see them. :Nerd:
Nice score on the Morrison's history! I'm finally getting around to reading Lundstrom's book on Fletcher. He makes a good case that Fletcher got a bad rap. Certainly, history should be no less kind to him than to Halsey, and there is a good argument that Halsey, for all his merits during the Guadalcanal campaign, damn near suffered a catastrophic defeat at Santa Cruz. I don't think Fletcher would have made the same mistake. With that said, strategically, Halsey may have been what the USMC needed from the USN at the time.