Billion Dollar FRIDAY

Sir Slash · October 03, 2015, 11:06:32 AM

And POE thoughts. No, Heritage Hill is in the game's big city of Defiance Bay which is quite a ways away from where you start. If you stay with it, you can make it for Halloween though. ;D

Gusington · October 03, 2015, 01:15:56 PM

Sounds great...how are the cities in PoE? I am sick of RPG cities that really aren't cities.

Sir Slash · October 03, 2015, 10:33:58 PM

Very similar to BG's cities actually but look prettier. But no Minsc and Boo :'( If you're new to the game Gus, I'll give you only 2 pieces of advice. 1: Save often. Especially early on. 2. Use the Tab key often as some containers are very small and easy to miss with the mouse.

Bison · October 03, 2015, 10:54:28 PM

I got thoroughly thrashed in Readac's castle tonight in the last battle. I'm going to need to return to town to buy some camping materials and rethink my strategy. Brutal fight.

Anguille · October 04, 2015, 03:06:15 AM

Back from one week in Italy with my Stepparents, my wife and the 3 kids...Parma, Rome and Pisa. Managed to play a full game of CIV 4 and a good part of an Armada 2526 campaign on my netbook. I want to continue Grand Ages Medieval (even though i might have to restart the campaign because of my huge debts (in the game)....

Huw the Poo · October 04, 2015, 07:30:41 AM

Well! It's an embarrassment of riches this weekend!

Borderlands 2 - I had Borderlands on the xbox but didn't get on with it, but loved the idea. So when I saw Borderlands 2 Goatee edition for sale this week I couldn't resist. They claim not to support AMD but it runs smooth as a baby's arse on my PC. It's a fantastic Linux port courtesy of Aspyr software. Really enjoying it so far.

Wasteland 2 - this has been on my wishlist for ages and a friend of mine generously gifted it to me a few days ago. I'm not a huge fan of post-apoc but I'm a massive sucker for turn-based tactical, and it's an extremely well crafted game to boot. I've played an hour or so but I might stop, because the director's cut is coming very soon and will render saves useless.

From the Depths - I can't really get my head around how this game works yet but I'm trying! I've managed to make a boat that moves, at least. When I say boat I really mean plank of wood with an engine.

Shroud of the Avatar - another game in which I have no idea what I'm doing, so I tend to spend my time hanging around one of the city centres making fun of the players who happen by. Most of them ignore me but I get the occasional hilarious reaction.

Europa Universalis 4 - yeah, I finally bought it. This is despite the fact that I have put many hours into CK2 and still have no idea how it works; apparently some part of me thinks I will, nevertheless, magically happen not to have any problem with EU4. I got through the camera control tutorial OK!

Sins of a Solar Empire - I just keep coming back to this (thank christ it works flawlessly in WINE). In terms of sheer playtime this has to be my top game of all time. It's as perfect a game as I'll ever see.

Bison · October 04, 2015, 11:21:21 AM

I love SoSE too. I really need to revisit it at some point, but I picked up Sword of the Stars for $2 on Steam. So I need to play a campaign or three of that before I move onto another 4X space game.

Nefaro · October 04, 2015, 04:01:00 PM

Quote from: Huw the Poo on October 04, 2015, 07:30:41 AM

Wasteland 2 - this has been on my wishlist for ages and a friend of mine generously gifted it to me a few days ago. I'm not a huge fan of post-apoc but I'm a massive sucker for turn-based tactical, and it's an extremely well crafted game to boot. I've played an hour or so but I might stop, because the director's cut is coming very soon and will render saves useless.

Dammit!

I was going to continue my Wastelands 2 campaign this week. But if there's more content and/or upgrades coming soon, I'm not so sure now.

Huw the Poo · October 04, 2015, 05:40:20 PM

Quote from: Nefaro on October 04, 2015, 04:01:00 PM
Dammit!

I was going to continue my Wastelands 2 campaign this week. But if there's more content and/or upgrades coming soon, I'm not so sure now.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Nef! Either disable updates for the game or start again when it hits - due October 13th and free for all current owners of the game.

QuoteWill save files or characters transfer over from the original game?
No. The number of changes to the game in the Director's Cut means it's more or less impossible for us to guarantee compatibility. Save file formats have changed on a technical level and old saves may not be read correctly in the Director's Cut, and the gameplay changes mean that characters made on the old version of the game would not play well in the Director's Cut.

I'm not going to play until then, I think. From the FAQ it sounds like they've made shitloads of changes which I'd rather experience new than have to get used to.

Kushan · October 04, 2015, 06:00:45 PM

Tonight I'm playing reinstall windows because microsoft hates me. PC was running fine when I left on vacation but since I got back I started getting some invalid registry errors with some of the windows apps. Started with the photo app then started to get random windows lockups. Did some google searching and the only answer I could find other then some the usual windows error fixes was to reinstall...

Rayfer · October 04, 2015, 06:48:24 PM

Quote from: Huw the Poo on October 04, 2015, 05:40:20 PM
Quote from: Nefaro on October 04, 2015, 04:01:00 PM
Dammit!

I was going to continue my Wastelands 2 campaign this week. But if there's more content and/or upgrades coming soon, I'm not so sure now.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Nef! Either disable updates for the game or start again when it hits - due October 13th and free for all current owners of the game.

QuoteWill save files or characters transfer over from the original game?
No. The number of changes to the game in the Director's Cut means it's more or less impossible for us to guarantee compatibility. Save file formats have changed on a technical level and old saves may not be read correctly in the Director's Cut, and the gameplay changes mean that characters made on the old version of the game would not play well in the Director's Cut.

I'm not going to play until then, I think. From the FAQ it sounds like they've made shitloads of changes which I'd rather experience new than have to get used to.

Glad this got posted. I was thinking of starting a new game as I never got all that deep into it the first time. I'll wait for the update before starting. Thanks...!

Toonces · October 04, 2015, 08:32:49 PM

I didn't get in very much gaming. Of note, though, was that I finally got around to playing some Frozen Cortex, which one of you Grogheads gifted me quite a while back.

Pretty fun game, and very short matches. The music is pretty killer. Definitely just what I was looking for tonight! O0

It's hard, though. I guess I do need to watch the tutorials because the AI is spanking me like I owe it money.

jamus34 · October 04, 2015, 08:35:41 PM

Got some PoE in Friday (Got the Stronghold - Woot)

Besides that not much - Binding of Issac run that ended in death much as it usually does.

Jarhead0331 · October 05, 2015, 05:47:24 AM

Totally not what I expected, although I did play a good amount of DCS v1.5, testing out my modules. I'm definitely looking forward to 2.0 and the Nevada map.

Otherwise, I played some elite dangerous and dragon age inquisition. I had put DA away long ago because it just didn't grab me. I had only played for about an hour total. However, it seems like I stopped moments before the inquisition was formed which is really where the game begins. Within minutes of picking it back up, I was off on my first mission and enjoying the game world. I can't say I love the combat, but I'll stick with it for awhile and see where it goes.

In ED, I had my most lucrative mission ever. A single delivery mission netted me 645,000 credits! A few more missions like that and a fancy ship won't be out of the question.

GJK · October 05, 2015, 07:02:29 AM

Quote from: Kushan on October 04, 2015, 06:00:45 PM
Tonight I'm playing reinstall windows because microsoft hates me. PC was running fine when I left on vacation but since I got back I started getting some invalid registry errors with some of the windows apps. Started with the photo app then started to get random windows lockups. Did some google searching and the only answer I could find other then some the usual windows error fixes was to reinstall...

If it's not too late, I'd check the event viewer to see if the HDD is reporting any issues. Sudden "Microsoft moments" that start happening when nothing else has changed (hardware/software additions) could indicate that Windows has some key files in a sector that is no longer stable. Hate to see you go through a full reinstall only to find that the drive is about to fail.