FRIDAYs falling all around, time, I was on my way

vyshka · January 31, 2015, 11:45:54 AM

Last I spent some time with Flashpoint Campaigns (love those bloody British infantry!). Since I've spent my fun budget for the next couple of months, I'm going to have to live vicariously through every one else playing CMBS, and settle for some CMBN with the v3.0 upgrade. I might find some time to play some War in the East as well, and finish off the weekend with a bit of OOTP.

MengJiao · February 02, 2015, 09:25:14 AM

Quote from: MengJiao on January 30, 2015, 11:13:09 AM
Quote from: Blucher on January 30, 2015, 07:19:43 AM
I keep rambling on War in the East and Icewind Dale II maybe some France '14

My Alienware monstrousity died weeping and beeping -- so I'm shifting to the backup system (its coming up from the basement and going back to the Manloft) and it has a nice installation of France '14 on it IIRC. So I may be playing some of that this weekend.

But what really happened? The back-up system worked okay so I played Train Simulator 2015 and To End all Wars.

to end all wars might be the prettiest game I've ever seen: dark blue oceans and seas, murky green forests, little airplanes and balloons and trains -- ah...So I'm starting as the Russians on the shorter East front campaign. It looks like with good reconnaissance I can ambush a few random Central Powers formations wandering into Russian territory. And I'm not marching into East Prussia to get beaten up by the 8th Army using its rail movement to mass against me.

JudgeDredd · February 02, 2015, 09:32:45 AM

Well, I did get Combat Mission:Black Sea and it's a great game. Most of my time was playing that.

I also played Fleet Commander:Nimitz and a touch of Shadow of Mordor. I also fired up DCS and loaded KA-50 Black Shark. I wasn't sure what module to try and learn, but I love helo's so the Shark it was. Unfortunately, that trim bollox threw me and as quick as I had fired it up, I left it. Maybe I have to wait on a Cobra or my number one Apache...or I could just grow some and get back in the Shark!! >:D

I gave up on Voice Attack. I went through the Windows "teaching" scenarios - several of them - and I faired no better...I'm afraid I just don't have the voice for it at the moment. I could see it being very frustrating trying to give it a command only for it to not recognise it - several times. So I doubt I'll be purchasing that piece of software. Shame...it had promise.

War in the West was fired up, I looked around, checked some things out in the manual and then exited :'(

And of course spent 5 hours watching American Football and Superbowl 49.

Gusington · February 02, 2015, 09:36:29 AM

Got smacked around a bit by Battle Academy 2 - Eastern Front. Having a hard time beating a raid mission.

Silent Disapproval Robot · February 02, 2015, 10:00:50 AM

Quote from: JudgeDredd on February 02, 2015, 09:32:45 AM

I gave up on Voice Attack. I went through the Windows "teaching" scenarios - several of them - and I faired no better...I'm afraid I just don't have the voice for it at the moment. I could see it being very frustrating trying to give it a command only for it to not recognise it - several times. So I doubt I'll be purchasing that piece of software. Shame...it had promise

A Jock trying to use English language voice recognition....
What were you thinking?

Shelldrake · February 02, 2015, 10:02:49 AM

I didn't find the time for any strategy gaming but did put some more time into The Witcher. The storyline is holding my interest and so far I have collected 4 of the "special" cards. >:D

Gusington · February 02, 2015, 10:38:40 AM

^Sexytime!

I would pay 5.00 to watch JD use voice recognition.

JudgeDredd · February 02, 2015, 10:57:46 AM

Quote from: Gusington on February 02, 2015, 10:38:40 AM
^Sexytime!

I would pay 5.00 to watch JD use voice recognition.

Maybe I'll do you a teaser trailer :D

JudgeDredd · February 02, 2015, 10:58:06 AM

Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on February 02, 2015, 10:00:50 AM
Quote from: JudgeDredd on February 02, 2015, 09:32:45 AM

I gave up on Voice Attack. I went through the Windows "teaching" scenarios - several of them - and I faired no better...I'm afraid I just don't have the voice for it at the moment. I could see it being very frustrating trying to give it a command only for it to not recognise it - several times. So I doubt I'll be purchasing that piece of software. Shame...it had promise

A Jock trying to use English language voice recognition....
What were you thinking?

And yeah - it didn't end well!

BanzaiCat · February 02, 2015, 10:59:08 AM

Quote from: Gusington on February 02, 2015, 10:38:40 AM
^Sexytime!

I would pay 5.00 to watch JD use voice recognition.

5.00 what? US, UK Monopoly money, or Canadiastan rubles? ;)

Gusington · February 02, 2015, 10:59:59 AM

^Need to look up the exchange rate for all three.

Did you bash something in with your head?

BanzaiCat · February 02, 2015, 11:01:39 AM

Quote from: Gusington on February 02, 2015, 10:59:59 AM
Did you bash something in with your head?

Which one?

Barthheart · February 02, 2015, 11:18:16 AM

Quote from: Banzai_Cat on February 02, 2015, 10:59:08 AM
Quote from: Gusington on February 02, 2015, 10:38:40 AM
^Sexytime!

I would pay 5.00 to watch JD use voice recognition.

5.00 what? US, UK Monopoly money, or Canadiastan rubles? ;)

JasonPratt · February 02, 2015, 11:21:03 AM

I made the mistake of trying to take a break for a few hours from sorting my Russian starting divisions in Darkest Hour (the AAR mod has over 150 divisions, and I got about half of them resorted into new corps and assigned their first marching orders), to play a first person shooter instead.

I then made the further mistake of trying to get two older titles in my library (The Wheel of Time and Far Cry 1, the former of which I had played through at least once before) to run on a modern graphics card at something more than minimum spec.

FOURTEEN HOURS LATER, I had not only given up on those projects, but had also finally figured out that Steam installs a broken UPlay client (for playing FC3). With that much frustration sunk in, I damn well was going to play FC3 for a few hours at least; which I did during the Super Bowl. :) So I never got back to finishing my initial DH assignments. This afternoon I guess.

I've also now played the iPhone version of Rivals of Catan (now bug free as far as I can tell, and not any real relation to Catan btw), enough to have formulated a winning strategy that I'm testing against several of the AI players: it's a fine non-combat strategy card game (3x you might say, no eXtermination), and the AI has been taught well, with different bots having different preferences on what they like to focus on. By next weekend I'll have probably played through them and will be moving on to learning (or becoming more proficient at) a different phone game.

So despite the frustrations, a good weekend of gaming. :)

MengJiao · February 02, 2015, 11:37:50 AM

Quote from: JasonPratt on February 02, 2015, 11:21:03 AM

FOURTEEN HOURS LATER, I had not only given up on those projects, but had also finally figured out that Steam installs a broken UPlay client (for playing FC3). With that much frustration sunk in, I damn well was going to play FC3 for a few hours at least; which I did during the Super Bowl. :) So I never got back to finishing my initial DH assignments. This afternoon I guess.

Uplay is a big problem. I've only experienced it while trying to play FarCry3, but that was enough. No FarCry4 for me and no more Uplay.