The Bell Tolls for Friday

[Pete Dero]

I've been looking for something to motivate me to learn this game for ages.

While you wait you could take a look at these let's play/tutorials  :

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs3acGYgI1-sRFRB4BPB-FbmVuvwIKH92

Part 1 of 25 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWln8Ne1RA&index=1&list=PLs3acGYgI1-sRFRB4BPB-FbmVuvwIKH92

Part 1 of 8 :

[undercovergeek]

oh balls. id forgotten about this and the quill tutorials are awesome - must stay strong

[Gusington]

Feel better Nef.

[Martok]

I ended up playing BOTF and the original Shogun TW -- on Steam.  I'm so happy the original STW and MTW were finally made available for DD.  :) 

[Cougar_DK]

How do you reconfigure your devices with directX?

The specific CH program provides the option for their HOTAS stuff.

I had to combine the separate CH throttle & stick on Wings Over Flanders Fields too. 

Not sure if the Saitek program allows you to choose & combine different button assignments.  The reason for doing it with some of the older & indie engines is because they don't support multiple different devices, each with so many buttons, unless it's a single device.   

Doesn't the Saitek X-series HOTAS show up as a single device already?  I thought they chained through to a single USB plug?

What he said  ;)

[Bison]

I've been addicted to Ratchet and Clank (I'm pretty close to finishing it, but can only play when the oldest can watch.  She enjoys the story.) and Far Cry 3.  I've been playing it with the Xbox 360 controller even though it's on pc and have been thoroughly enjoying the game. 

[airboy]

I played Knights of Pen & Paper 2 - which was surprisingly fun.

[BanzaiCat]

I played Knights of Pen & Paper 2 - which was surprisingly fun.

Did you play the first one, airboy? It's pretty good. There's an expansion for it (Halloween-themed) that I didn't pick up, but I bought KOP&P2 when it was on super sale on Steam recently. Good game, too.

[Kushan]

Spent most of my weekend looking at houses so didn't get as much gaming in as I had intended. Spent most of my time playing Aurora, with a couple of hours in Elite and Prepar3D. Recorded two episodes of my Aurora Let's Play before I realized I had the in game sound settings messed up.

Finally got a chance to take my Carenado Phenom 300 out for a test flight. Got it started from a cold start and airborne. Encountered some issues while flying that resulted in my aircraft ending up in an uncontrolled death spiral. Today's lesson, don't adjust hotkeys/controls while your plane is airborne.

Sorry to hear about the aurora lets play debacle. That is really frustrating when you make a great video and then go back to check it and realize it didn't record properly. Do you have any aurora lets play videos up already or were these your first two? I've been looking for something to motivate me to learn this game for ages.

They where the first two. I had played Aurora on my twitch stream a few weeks ago. Was my first time playing it in several years and made a number of mistakes that while recoverable in the long run probably where not going to be that enjoyable to watch so I decided to restart.

If you can get over the lack of graphics and a UI that can sometimes hate the player, it can be one of the most rewarding gaming experiences out there. I don't think there's anything on the strategy front that come close to the depth and complexity of Aurora. Reading some of the Steves's AAR's, especially the NATO vs Soviet Union Campaign, really helped me learn the game. Doesn't really help get over the UI hurdle but it gave me something to base some of my own designs off of.