It's Friday bitches! Time for gaming.

[Keunert]

i gave Combat Mission Fortress Italy Demo a try. and i felt a lot more at home with this demo than with Normandy for some reasons unknown to me. it felt again like i was directing the efforts and not like watching a replay. nice graphics and sound. maybe i have to buy it.

also kudos to Battlefront to release such a big demo, with three different missions, one of them being really a big one.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Been at the parents' house all week cleaning out eaves troughs, sanding and staining the deck, and going stir crazy.  8 hour drive back to Van tomorrow and then maybe some War Thunder or CKII.

[Huw the Poo]

Wonder if I can go to another races zones and do their quests.

Yes, you can do this.  Go via Lion's Arch, I think (although, annoyingly, the portals there aren't labelled so it will be trial and error and a lot of loading screens).  There's lots of XP to be had in the various PvP modes as well, along with crafting.  It's crazy how much XP crafting gets you, especially when you "discover" new recipes.

My own guardian is also plateaued for the time being, so I'll be following my own advice soon until I'm high enough level to go to the next Norn area.  It doesn't feel like a grind to me, at least not yet.  I still love the game. :)

[Oche]

It's been a Mount & Blade: Warband Native Expansion Mod, WINSPMBT & WINSPWW2 so far. Would like to play as well this weekend any of the following: FSX, Strike Fighters 2 with Nato Fighters Mod, SHIV, Medieval II Total War: Stainless Steel Mod, RTW: Roma Surrectum Mod, Swat 4.

[Nefaro]

My Guardian is a little over level 16. I've done all the quests i can find up to level 18. and level 19+20 mobs pound me into the dirt so I'm trying to avoid those quests at the moment. I'm not exactly sure on how I'm supposed to gain those 2-3 levels back to even me out with the quests I have available. Running around zones looking for random events get a little boring when your doing it 3-4 times in one night. Wonder if I can go to another races zones and do their quests.

Hell... I started getting behind at around level 12 or so.  I'll get sick of wandering, and doing the same group quests soon enough, then it'll probably be a marathon of PvP matches.  Having more weapon skills to unlock via using them on mobs is what keeps me grinding before then.

[eyebiter]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (third game in the series).  Modern graphics, control scheme similar to Half-Life, and a excellent selection of weapons and augments. 

[Kushan]

Hell... I started getting behind at around level 12 or so.  I'll get sick of wandering, and doing the same group quests soon enough, then it'll probably be a marathon of PvP matches.  Having more weapon skills to unlock via using them on mobs is what keeps me grinding before then.

Yea, I started noticing it around levels 12 or 13.

I did do a WvW PvP match last night. I generally don't like anything but open world PvP in MMO's. I really suck at the battleground/arena matches that most MMO's focus on. I however love GW2's World vs World PvP. It plays like open world PvP but with objectives to work for. In the match I played, we defended one of out keeps twice, then moved to take an enemy tower. I have to minor gripes about it however. I was in que for a good 30-45 minutes. I qued up around midnight so it wasn't peak time. Be curisous to see what que times are like during the day when there are more people quing up. My second gripe is that when I died I couldn't find a quick way back to the front lines. Given the size of the map you fight on, its about the size of one of the normal game zones, maybe a little bigger. When you die you could end up having to run all the way across the map in order to reach the front again, which i more annoying then anything else. Nothing game breaking like WoW's PvP that I could see. I may put normal questing on hold to focus on World vs World, and that a huge change for me.

[Huw the Poo]

I generally only play at peak times, and I very rarely manage to get into WvW.  I start queuing as soon as I'm in the game but never get in by the time I'm finished one or two hours later. :(

[Staggerwing]

I played a few rounds of WW2OL last night. Not sure what I'll do today. I'm not used to having a whole two days off in a row- I could get to like this :)

[Tuna]

Got in some Napoleon Total War yesterday!.. Downloaded CMFI Demo yesterday but haven't installed and tried yet (lot of 'work' going on this weekend  :()

[bob48]

I managed to squeeze in a couple of Cobra scenario's from LnL's WSR/NaW. The 'Mont Ormel Ridge' scenario is awesome.
Currently have 'Mortain' set-up and ready to go for later. This is a great game system - I'm so looking forwards to Desert Heat being published.

[MetalDog]

Finally got some CKII in last night.  I was on my third try to unite Ireland.  My current character had everything, good looks, three sons, peace in his realm and the favor of all.  He also had powerful and unscrupulous neighbors.  Leinster took me for County Desmon.  Then Wales declared on me and besieged both of my home counties, Connacht and Breifne.  I resigned.  I scored of 5,000 points.  I was deemed better at this than the de Montforts.  Thought that was amusing :-)

I started a fourth time as Count Breifne.  Knowing about upgrading your county, a better understanding of how to build my Court and the patience to take all my neighbors, I am hoping that the fourth time is the charm :-)

[Kushan]

Most of my weekend has been spent playing CK2. As things stand for my Dukes/Duchesses of Tuscany in 1107. I or my family control most of central Italy. The yellow in the screen shot beow is what I control directly and the light green is controlled by my heir, the recently crowned Duke of Ferrara. I gained a strong claim to the Duchy of Ferrara through a plot. I also have a strong claim to the Duchy of Lombardy, also gained through a plot, but am not going to press that one for the moment since they are an Allie of mine. My oldest daughter is married to the current Duke of Lombardy and the second eldest to the Emperor of the HRE. Things are shaping up quite nicely for House di Canossa. The only two low points at the moment is the impending succession of Parma and Corsica out of my realm. The current count of Parma had two daughters, and one of them died. When the count dies the lands are going to pass to the second daughters husband. The second low point will be the succession of the Duchy of Spoleto to my second oldest son when my duchess dies. I think I've secured myself against losing to much by granting Brescia to my heirs son. Modena and Ferrara were supposed to succeed as well, but I granted those to my heir shortly before I went to was to claim the whole Duchy of Ferrara.





Loving this game. Its been a long time since a strategy game has been able to hold my attention. I've been in an RPG mood for the last 6-8 months, so maybe its CK2's RPG elements are getting to me. Depending on how this game ends, I may try and import it into EU3. I was never able to get into it when I first purchased it, maybe continuing my campaign will help.

[undercovergeek]

good skills! shes my nemesis in the front page AAR - good to see shes still knocking about so far in the future!

[MengJiao]

Probably Star Wars Rebellion!

Continue Grand tactical stuff and go ahead with WWII ONLINE.

My only excuse for the WWIIONLINE thing is that some old friends of mine decided to get back into it.
Now that we all know that as French infantry we are doomed, doomed doomed doomed, we can finally
have some mild amusement.

It's kind of like hunting alien vampires.  Even when you catch those ancient
German jerries who are thousands of years old in terms of spacey bullet avoidance from behind and start shooting them in the
back at a range of 3 meters, half the time they still get up -- empowered by their dial-up connection so that they
are not there at the same time your bullets "go" "through them" -- and shoot you.  Since you have a normal world
internet connection (assuming you are not an alien vampire etc. etc.) you are actually in the game space most of the time
and sure enough the alien vampire bullet (which somehow doesn't have the same spacey nature as its millions-of-years-old progenetor)
kills you instantly -- though you still have to watch yourself do the ragdoll physics thing and go flopping dead, dead downt he stairs or
whatever -- or go skidding across the super slick cobblestones for half a block -- anyway you are dead and the alien vampires go on
to win as always.

But one in 5 bullets fired by a normal person has a 10% chance of actually intersecting with the alien vampire's spacey space so you kill jerry about half the time.  And heaven help those alien allies that are in tanks or planes.

Well, this didn't happen.  I got a kill in a H-39 (light tank) on a PZIIIH and decided to take a break while I was doing well and I played Civ V all week-end.