https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHxwFxdXXc
Well - I'm out celebrating a friends "moving on" tonight (new job) so no gaming, but over the weekend I plan to have a "sim" weekend.
Now I have got Australia out the way, I think it'll be more F1 3013. I'll also get going on more RRE DTM and some Assessto Corsa which I bought during the week.
Maybe some BF4 if I can be bothered. I tried last night and was killed within a minute of joining the server. That was after downloading another 2GB patch! I want to enjoy the game, but I get so frustrated and being killed all the time. I think if there were less emphasis on stats, I might enjoy it more...it's the "reading" how crap you are that makes me think the game isn't worth my time.
I'll be finishing my custom airport in X-Plane 10 and fly for my Virtual Airline as usual.
^I fired up FSX on Sunday to carry on my Air Hauler and it done the same thing it always does - crash out after a long period of flying. Just sits there saying FSX has stopped responding. So I've actually kind of given up on FSX. I'm way too pissed off spending hours flying over land and sea to deliver 500kg of goods for £3000 only for the damn thing to crash with the airport almost in sight.
I've spent a fair bit of cash on it...but I think it's time to concentrate my gaming time on something that doesn't infuriate me.
I have looked around for a fix before - and even recently - but I haven't found anything that makes it totally stable. So I have to bow out of it I think. :(
WoT's mainly and maybe some Sim City picked it up on cheap last week but waiting for offline patch. Might even pick up the Warlock 2 for the beta access.
Quote from: FlickJax on March 21, 2014, 04:37:47 AM
WoT's mainly and maybe some Sim City picked it up on cheap last week but waiting for offline patch. Might even pick up the Warlock 2 for the beta access.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on Sim City...particularly the online only mode, the city size limit and whether things work (like easing congestion and general path finding)
I will be playing Morrowind and Panzer Corps this weekend.
I plan to play the following games:
- Storm over the Pacific pbem....i am doing some nice progress in my China campaign. Malaysia should be mine too. However, i failed my Philippines landing...no progression.
- Armada 2526 Supernova pbem
- Botanicula
Judge, you may be getting out of memory issues. FSX can only utilize 4GB ram because it is 32bit. With all the very nice and memory hungry add-ons, a lot of people are getting this error more and more these days. FSX is showing its age.
X-Plane 10 is 64 bit so I can use all my 16GB of Ram. Setting up a flight is faster, frames are smoother. But the platform is pretty "bare bones". Not too many nice add-ons to make the experience super. Scenery is the biggest let down.
Metal Gear Solid V on ps4
Planet Explorers
Crysis 2
MoW: AS 2
Theatre of War 3
CLOD with TF 4.3 mod
Warlock 2: Exile
CK II - bought The Old Gods and Sons of Abraham - going to start as a count in England in 867 and see what happens
HoS extravaganza to finish review
Battle Academy mp game.
Vassal work.
Maybe give Sim City a shot with the off line patch. Been a long time since I fired it up and there have been a lot of patches so who knows....
Maybe try out World of Tanks on the Xbox.
Try to get HoS MP working on my home PC....
More Steel Beasts pro
Try and finish updating Rise of Flight (non Steam) 6th attempt and only at 76% after 12 hours... sigh
Quote from: Blucher on March 21, 2014, 04:41:26 AM
I will be playing Morrowind
Is it Vanilla? If not what mods do you play?
Regards
In honor of the birthday of our esteemed friend, mirth, I will be picking up some random barfly for a weekend of hot, sweaty...gaming! That's it, gaming! Ok, it'll probably only be one game, EUIV, but, I will be playing ;)
Empire Total War (still playing through the vanilla introductory campaign) and Shadowrun Returns (hopefully will finish the stock campaign, then move on to try some of the user-made campaigns). This should keep me busy. :)
South Park The Stick of Truth
Silent Storm
Hearts of Iron III - Their Finest Hour + BlackICE
Some Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches. Almost done there. Then its on to either a Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai campaign or a Rome 2 campaign as...Macedon, perhaps?
Recreating Roarke's Drift in WW1 Ethiopia, except Ethiopia is the fort, and the British are the Zulus, and I'm the one with what-might-as-well-be Zulu tech against their hundreds of artillery pieces, thousands of cav, and dozens or occasionally hundreds of armored cars. Plus hundreds of thousands of infantry with experienced generals, did I mention those? And at least one capital ship off the coast somewhere nuking me whenever it stops drinking tea long enough to care.
The British won Roarke's Drift, right...? ??? :P
Quote from: JasonPratt on March 21, 2014, 07:38:19 AM
Recreating Roarke's Drift in WW1 Ethiopia, except Ethiopia is the fort, and the British are the Zulus, and I'm the one with what-might-as-well-be Zulu tech against their hundreds of artillery pieces, thousands of cav, and dozens or occasionally hundreds of armored cars. Plus hundreds of thousands of infantry with experienced generals, did I mention those? And at least one capital ship off the coast somewhere nuking me whenever it stops drinking tea long enough to care.
The British won Roarke's Drift, right...? ??? :P
Looks like they might again.... ;)
Panzer Battles, WOFF and start sorting out some Maps for a game I'm testing.
Warlock 2 and only Warlock 2. ;D
Tonight if all goes well, I'll be assembling my new PC, installing and updating windows, transferring personal files, etc. Tomorrow and Sunday, I'll be playing Diablo 3, Xenonauts, EUIV MP, Distant Worlds, and Skyrim. I'm really curious to see how my new rig handles Skyrim. I've modded Skyrim well past what my current PC can handle.
Quote from: MetalDog on March 21, 2014, 06:08:10 AM
In honor of the birthday of our esteemed friend, mirth, I will be picking up some random barfly for a weekend of hot, sweaty...gaming! That's it, gaming! Ok, it'll probably only be one game, EUIV, but, I will be playing ;)
but will you still be hot and sweaty
I'm looking at spending most of the weekend with the newly patched Eador. Reports on the stability of the new version are mixed--I think it varies some by user, but so far my experiences have been relatively positive.
Decisive Campaigns WtP-- Case White. The Poles are poor soldiers but great magicians. They manage to make themselves disappear out of every encirclement I try to trap them in.
Diablo 3, in preparation of the expansion. I've already had quite a few usable drops. Probably more than all the many hours I played before. Also some Panzer Battles Kursk.
A mixed bag for me - Combat Mission, Dominions 3/4, Field of Glory (most likely multiplayer), Creeper World 2, and maybe some Medieval TW2 (or Empire/Napoleon TW) if I get around to it. Most likely it will end up just CM, and FoG, but you never know. 8) Now I'm thinking I should also start up Bionic Dues, AJE, and Warlock, but I know I'm overcommitting, and will just play one turn of each if I do! :o :-[
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 21, 2014, 05:18:50 AM
CK II - bought The Old Gods and Sons of Abraham - going to start as a count in England in 867 and see what happens
HoS extravaganza to finish review
I have a
CKII campaign going, too. Started as a Welsh Duke. Just created the "Kingdom of Wales" from most of that and Cornwall, in the early 867 start. Luckily the Vikings and the English have been too busy fighting each other to worry about me just yet. Maybe I can start taking Ireland for my own be opportunistic if one of the other two get weakened.
Will also be continuing my
TW Rome 2 campaign as Ptolemaic Egypt.
Gotta big tabletop wargame based on the War of the Roses to put together and learn this weekend, if it shows up today as it's supposed to. :)
Quote from: Nefaro on March 21, 2014, 11:31:37 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 21, 2014, 05:18:50 AM
CK II - bought The Old Gods and Sons of Abraham - going to start as a count in England in 867 and see what happens
HoS extravaganza to finish review
I have a CKII campaign going, too. Started as a Welsh Duke. Just created the "Kingdom of Wales" from most of that and Cornwall, in the early 867 start. Luckily the Vikings and the English have been too busy fighting each other to worry about me just yet. Maybe I can start taking Ireland for my own be opportunistic if one of the other two get weakened.
Will also be continuing my TW Rome 2 campaign as Ptolemaic Egypt.
Gotta big tabletop wargame based on the War of the Roses to put together and learn this weekend, if it shows up today as it's supposed to. :)
Sounds good. I've struggled to get into CK2. Perhaps a game to persevere with. Did you get the Saxon skin pack?
Quote from: Boggit on March 21, 2014, 11:46:09 AM
Quote from: Nefaro on March 21, 2014, 11:31:37 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 21, 2014, 05:18:50 AM
CK II - bought The Old Gods and Sons of Abraham - going to start as a count in England in 867 and see what happens
HoS extravaganza to finish review
I have a CKII campaign going, too. Started as a Welsh Duke. Just created the "Kingdom of Wales" from most of that and Cornwall, in the early 867 start. Luckily the Vikings and the English have been too busy fighting each other to worry about me just yet. Maybe I can start taking Ireland for my own be opportunistic if one of the other two get weakened.
Will also be continuing my TW Rome 2 campaign as Ptolemaic Egypt.
Gotta big tabletop wargame based on the War of the Roses to put together and learn this weekend, if it shows up today as it's supposed to. :)
Sounds good. I've struggled to get into CK2. Perhaps a game to persevere with. Did you get the Saxon skin pack?
Yep! I have had a difficult time resisting CK2 DLCs. Even the purely aesthetic ones that you may not even notice very often while playing, such as this.
Fortunately I can't easily tell if there is DLC I am missing. There are so damn many and no store indicators as to which you already own unless you put them
all in your shopping cart and go into the checkout process. It may have saved me from buying one or two more.
Also recently picked up the latest EU4 DLC so theyr'e both vying for my grand strategy time at the moment. I couldn't wait for a sale to check out the new randomized Americas.
Wow! It's been a week already and I'm still playing Hearthstone (http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/).
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 21, 2014, 05:09:44 AM
Metal Gear Solid V on ps4
Planet Explorers
Crysis 2
MoW: AS 2
Theatre of War 3
CLOD with TF 4.3 mod
Warlock 2: Exile
A CLOD resurgence here as well. And ARMAIII and Panzer Battles and Roads to Leningrad (boardgame).
Man, so many games are pulling at me right now. Here's my list, but there's no way I'll get to all of them this weekend:
Birth of the Federation (Balance of Power mod): I don't play as the Ferengi very often, but it's usually pretty funny when I do. They also tend to be something of a "Monty Haul" campaign. ;D
Commander The Great War: Which side to choose? Decisions, decisions...
Crusader Kings II: Would like to see what I might accomplish as an Irish count.
Fallen Enchantress Legendary Heroes: Jesus, there's spider armies everywhere!!!
Pandora First Contact: My scholars *will* unlock this planet's secrets!
Rome II: Now that patch 10 is out, I've started a new Athens campaign (still using the Four Seasons mod).
Quote from: Greybriar on March 21, 2014, 12:13:52 PM
Wow! It's been a week already and I'm still playing Hearthstone (http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/).
Yeah, my missus has been playing that quite a bit.
F1: 2013 continuing Toonces Cat's career. Monaco was a bit of a disaster so I'm hoping I can make up some points on the Canada track.
...until I start drinking. Then I don't know what. I just can't handle F1 after one or two beers. ::)
Rome 2 as....Rome!
Maybe mix it up with CK2 and some Command
Quote from: Toonces on March 21, 2014, 03:44:08 PM
F1: 2013 continuing Toonces Cat's career. Monaco was a bit of a disaster so I'm hoping I can make up some points on the Canada track.
...until I start drinking. Then I don't know what. I just can't handle F1 after one or two beers. ::)
Blame the cat. The cat who can drive an F1 car.
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 21, 2014, 08:14:07 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on March 21, 2014, 06:08:10 AM
In honor of the birthday of our esteemed friend, mirth, I will be picking up some random barfly for a weekend of hot, sweaty...gaming! That's it, gaming! Ok, it'll probably only be one game, EUIV, but, I will be playing ;)
but will you still be hot and sweaty
You are a naughty, and disturbed, boy ;)
Quote from: Martok on March 21, 2014, 01:45:47 PM
Man, so many games are pulling at me right now. Here's my list, but there's no way I'll get to all of them this weekend:
Crusader Kings II: Would like to see what I might accomplish as an Irish count.
Fallen Enchantress Legendary Heroes: Jesus, there's spider armies everywhere!!!
Ireland is a great place to start CKII and get your feet wet. Little known fact, along with no snakes, they have no spiders either ;) That's because they all migrated to Fallen Enchantress :)
Quote from: Nefaro on March 21, 2014, 11:50:00 AM
Quote from: Boggit on March 21, 2014, 11:46:09 AM
Quote from: Nefaro on March 21, 2014, 11:31:37 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 21, 2014, 05:18:50 AM
CK II - bought The Old Gods and Sons of Abraham - going to start as a count in England in 867 and see what happens
HoS extravaganza to finish review
I have a CKII campaign going, too. Started as a Welsh Duke. Just created the "Kingdom of Wales" from most of that and Cornwall, in the early 867 start. Luckily the Vikings and the English have been too busy fighting each other to worry about me just yet. Maybe I can start taking Ireland for my own be opportunistic if one of the other two get weakened.
Will also be continuing my TW Rome 2 campaign as Ptolemaic Egypt.
Gotta big tabletop wargame based on the War of the Roses to put together and learn this weekend, if it shows up today as it's supposed to. :)
Sounds good. I've struggled to get into CK2. Perhaps a game to persevere with. Did you get the Saxon skin pack?
Yep! I have had a difficult time resisting CK2 DLCs. Even the purely aesthetic ones that you may not even notice very often while playing, such as this.
Fortunately I can't easily tell if there is DLC I am missing. There are so damn many and no store indicators as to which you already own unless you put them all in your shopping cart and go into the checkout process. It may have saved me from buying one or two more.
Also recently picked up the latest EU4 DLC so theyr'e both vying for my grand strategy time at the moment. I couldn't wait for a sale to check out the new randomized Americas.
I bought some duplicate skins by accident at Gamersgate. Luckily they let me swap them for other stuff, but there is so many that - like you say - it is easy to lose track of it. I haven't got the Saxon skin, nor the Finno-Ugrian, but will probably get them in the next sale with blue coins. I haven't got the Sons of Abraham expansion - do you find it makes much difference?
havent had enough time with it yet, but i find all the CKII (well maybe not all ;)) updates add something to the game
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 21, 2014, 07:47:29 PM
havent had enough time with it yet, but i find all the CKII (well maybe not all ;)) updates add something to the game
I thought Pagan Gods was a good one. I have most of the dlc, just not the last expansion, and those dlc. I should get the Saxons though - playing an English Count in 1066, with an army dressed like one for 1266 just feels a little weird, especially when the Vikings (I have the norse dlc) attack. I guess this is what these splintered dlc packs were designed to achieve? ::)
yeah i need norse and saxon stuff too
probably try some more Qvadriga.......21 races...3 wins......6 DNF...2 dead drivers, I still got a chance. Some 7 days to die will make the playlist and maybe throw in some ultimate space commando, it just got updated.
World of Tanks.
Vassal game of Stalingrad Pocket II.
Groggy
Quote from: Boggit on March 21, 2014, 07:36:21 PMI haven't got the Sons of Abraham expansion - do you find it makes much difference?
I've noticed extra events. There is a college of cardinals now, although I've not been involved much with it yet. There is more options to spend your piety points on.
They're not as outwardly noticeable changes such as the Norse/pagan expansion, with it's much earlier start date, but it certainly adds value and extra options to the gameplay.
Holy gone gold day Batman! When did Warlock 2 come out and where was I?
Well you don't have to wait until next weeks episode for the answer because I was too busy playing Dark Souls 2 this week and probably all this weekend as well!
Btw Judge that is one great song you clicky linked to. 8)
Quote from: W8taminute on March 21, 2014, 11:34:04 PM
Btw Judge that is one great song you clicky linked to. 8)
Ugh, now you just made me watch a bunch of Bangle Videos!
Played some
CMBN PBEM turns with Con..
Lot's of
Rome IIand a
X-Plane flight from Lebanon NH to Portsmouth .. like x-plane more and more, may have to get some more add on planes..
Since Grim brought it up in another thread, I'm playing Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 3 by Wolverine Studios. It's great playing while the NCAA tournament is on in the background. It's a management sim and not a button mashing fest. There's even a demo and mods to make the game more immersive.
http://www.wolverinestudios.com/
I ended up doing some Great Battles of Alexander last night, but I may start up a Great Battles of Hannibal campaign soon, instead. Glad GOG hosted the Collection, even though there are still a couple minor OS issues that pop up. Some of my favorite turn-based wargaming. :D
Much props to Tuna for some impromptu Warlock: Master of the Arcane. And to W8taminute for hosting. And :P for Barthheart for bowing out. Hey Bart, Tuna is my closest neighbor ;)
Now a shout out to Kushan for some EUIV MP. It is 1509. He is France and I am Castile. I'm sure he's wondering a little why I haven't formed Spain yet. Really just following what interests me right now. Forming colonies. And seeing how to improve my income. And force limits. And naval morale. And so on.
What I really like about this game is there is almost always something to do. Yes, there are times where you just crank up the speed and let time pass, but I find that too often, I am doing or anticipating or fighting or sending diplomats and on and on and on. And, thanks to the nature of the game and the fine story AAR's that some of our fellow Grog's have put on this site, I can hear the story as it unfolds. Seriously want to AAR this myself, but I want to tell the story too and I am not sure I can do that. Plus, it's time consuming to write and that leaves less time to play ;)
Quote from: MetalDog on March 23, 2014, 12:37:07 AM
Now a shout out to Kushan for some EUIV MP. It is 1509. He is France and I am Castile. I'm sure he's wondering a little why I haven't formed Spain yet. Really just following what interests me right now. Forming colonies. And seeing how to improve my income. And force limits. And naval morale. And so on.
And stealing my cardinals.... :)
As MD said, where in 1509. I recently got done annexing Scotland, and have fought 2 more wars with England to break off all of its vassal/annexed countries. I then turned around and vassalized all 3 of them myself (Northumbria, Wales, and Cornwall). I'm currently fighting my 6 or 7th war against England (I didn't start this one). My allies in Ireland decided they wanted to invade England and I was all to willing to help out. By now I have occupied all of England, but England's allies Pomerania, Brandenburg, and Sweden have all landed troops in France, which is completely wide open as I have all 60,000 of my troops in England. I'm currently gathering my fleet in Brittany. Assuming the AI doesn't combine the fleets blockading France and Scotland into a death stack, should be able to overwhelm each enemy fleet individually.
Since the latest patch I have noticed that England under the AI seems to be a lot weaker. Conacht on Ireland has taken the whole island in every game I have played, and England itself seems to have trouble dealing with rebel armies spawning constantly.
Yeah, sorry about the Cardinal thing. He's the youngest one at the moment and I had all this Papal Influence to spend. :)
I always try and take the curia
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 23, 2014, 09:09:28 AM
I always try and take the curia
I am the Papal Controller in my single player game. I like the added benefits. It's just so hard to keep control when you have a limited amount of points to spend and the damn old men keep dying unexpectedly on you! I spent over 150 on one old coot only to have him die without even reaching the Curia!!@
Quote from: MetalDog on March 22, 2014, 10:26:16 PM
Much props to Tuna for some impromptu Warlock: Master of the Arcane. And to W8taminute for hosting. And :P for Barthheart for bowing out. Hey Bart, Tuna is my closest neighbor ;)
Yeah guys, as usual great fun was had last night! Looking forward to the next session. I seem to be on a large island small continent alone so watch out!
Quote from: Kushan on March 23, 2014, 01:58:49 AM
Since the latest patch I have noticed that England under the AI seems to be a lot weaker. Conacht on Ireland has taken the whole island in every game I have played, and England itself seems to have trouble dealing with rebel armies spawning constantly.
England can often have a spate of rebel problems form the start. They have numerous historical rebellion events that may fire in the early game so if they get hit with a few in a row, they tend to have problems for awhile.
Quote from: W8taminute on March 23, 2014, 10:17:19 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on March 22, 2014, 10:26:16 PM
Much props to Tuna for some impromptu Warlock: Master of the Arcane. And to W8taminute for hosting. And :P for Barthheart for bowing out. Hey Bart, Tuna is my closest neighbor ;)
Yeah guys, as usual great fun was had last night! Looking forward to the next session. I seem to be on a large island small continent alone so watch out!
Better to be alone, than to have MetalDog for your neighbor!!! :-\
Quote from: MengJiao on March 21, 2014, 12:46:24 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 21, 2014, 05:09:44 AM
Metal Gear Solid V on ps4
Planet Explorers
Crysis 2
MoW: AS 2
Theatre of War 3
CLOD with TF 4.3 mod
Warlock 2: Exile
A CLOD resurgence here as well. And ARMAIII and Panzer Battles and Roads to Leningrad (boardgame).
Things went roughly as expected. I played more CLOD than usual. In Fusion Mod 4.3 the de wilde (name kept to keep its true nature secret it seems) ammo should make little sparkles as it hits. I tried that, but there was so much smoke and debris coming off the stricken Stukas that I couldn't see any particular sparkles. I had better luck with the default loads for some reason.