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[DoctorQuest]

I am volunteering at this event Saturday. My son is a robotics coach at the school where he teaches. I am doing camera operator duty. Should be fun.

http://create-found.org/RoboticChampionship.php

Road trip to see my bro in Minneapolis on Sunday for a few days. Probably not a lot of gaming this weekend.

[Arctic Blast]

D&D tomorrow night. Board game unboxing/punching/trying will take up most of the remaining weekend.

[Sir Slash]

PoE certainly makes it easy to come back after a week or so and jump back in where you left off. Just check your Journal (J key) and scroll until you see whatever quest/ task you were doing when you left, click on it and you'll get everything you know about the quest/task right there including clues and where to go and who to talk to next. Makes it easy to do multiple quests at the same time. Finishing them is something else entirely.

[Gusington]

^Thank you sir. I love Dragon Age: Inquisition but after being away from it for a long time it is not so easy jumping back in and know wtf is going on.

[PanzersEast]

Playing some:

EU IV - Holland
Combat Mission BfN Demo
AOW III

Maybe a little CK2 and Unreal World.


Uninstall XCom 2!!!!

Cheers,
PE

[Huw the Poo]

Hmm, Victor Vran (in the current Humble bundle) is much better than I was expecting!  Very satisfying combat and generally enjoyable gameplay.

[Nefaro]

Been playing this week:



Spartan + Gates Of Troy

Been awhile but installed it, added the missing dll file, and began an Achaean campaign.

I really wish we had a more modern sequel to this old Slitherine series.  Even if it was still all 2D, which is just fine with me for turn-based games. I may have to install Chariots too.  :)

I tried running Troy on my new system, but the screen is all stretched out.
I tried running it in a window, but its about 6 x 8 inches in the upper right hand corner.

What resolution are you using, and how did you get there?

Thanks!

I set my video card software to maintain it's Scaling ratio.  So it doesn't artificially stretch 4:3 games out to the widescreen HD ratios (16:9 or 16:10 depending on monitor).

It now runs at it's originally intended & un-stretched 4:3 ratio with black bands down the side.




It's in a different place in the video card software, depending on make.  There is two different kinds of special scaling retention.  One completely keeps the original resolution while the other just keeps the ratio (stretching it but not disproportionately).

-Nvidia is easiest as it's a simple drop-down or checkbox option. 

-AMD software isn't so easy; you have to jump through a couple more hoops because the option is blacked out by default (last I checked a couple years ago).  IIRC, you have to reduce your desktop resolution below your monitor's native (max) one.  Then you open the AMD software and hopefully the box is not grayed out after doing so.  Then you check your option, apply & close, and raise your desktop resolution back up.  It may work now, even though if you check the AMD software after raising res back up, the option will still be grayed out and show the original default.  Dunno if AMD ever bothered fixing this but they didn't do so for years .. so *shrug*.  It will still work though, despite their software interface being screwed up for doing so.

-If you have a notebook PC that has both onboard Intel graphics plus an Nvidia card, you have to set it in the Intel software which sometimes requires you check the hotkey combo there and use it while running a program with lower res than your desktop (or lower your desktop res below your monitor's native max).  Mine is something nutty like Alt+Ctrl+F10.  There is a hotkey screen in the Intel software so just look it up in there.

[Nefaro]

Uninstall XCom 2!!!!

:o


Running that poorly?

[Anguille]

Hmm, Victor Vran (in the current Humble bundle) is much better than I was expecting!  Very satisfying combat and generally enjoyable gameplay.

Yes it is  ;)

It's a pet project from Haemimont...

[Huw the Poo]

Hmm, Victor Vran (in the current Humble bundle) is much better than I was expecting!  Very satisfying combat and generally enjoyable gameplay.

Yes it is  ;)

It's a pet project from Haemimont...

I never really looked into it before; I just assumed it was a "me too".  But it's sufficiently distinctive in the Diablo-like genre to stand on its own feet, and I'm genuinely surprised.  Looking forward to playing some more. :)

[PanzersEast]

Uninstall XCom 2!!!!

:o


Running that poorly?

Yes, but that is just partially my problem with it.  It just does not live up to what I expected and I found it lacking.  I would rather play the Long War mod as opposed to it.  Was very disappointed and thought they dropped the ball on it.


PE

[Nefaro]

Uninstall XCom 2!!!!

:o


Running that poorly?

Yes, but that is just partially my problem with it.  It just does not live up to what I expected and I found it lacking.  I would rather play the Long War mod as opposed to it.  Was very disappointed and thought they dropped the ball on it.


PE

Good to know. 

I've seen mixed impressions about it.   Didn't bother picking it up because 1) I still have much play-time left in the previous one, and 2) It was fookeen expensive for a sequel so similar to the one I already own.


Finally realizing that waiting quite awhile to purchase new titles is the way to go.  As long as my willpower holds!  They usually need so much patching after release that I just end up waiting months until that has settled down anyway.

[Nefaro]

Regarding games this weekend:

My grand campaign as Carthage, in mostly vanilla R2TW, has finally resulted in my banishment of those accursed Romans on Turn 55.  I'm now the proud owner of half of Italia.  But the Iberians and Africans have completely overrun my African client states & allies so .... the war never ends.  But I desperately need to upgrade so many buildings for wealth and public order purposes after spending so long dumping most of my funds into armies. 




As for the TW series, I recently picked up the whole Medieval 2 TW: Kingdoms Steam pack for some ridiculous price ($2 iirc).   Haven't played that in a very long time and my other copy has that damn limited install online activation bullshit.

So I've just started downloading the Stainless Steel mod for it.  I recall loving that thing for expanding the GC so well without trying to reinvent the wheel. 

I'll probably do a Stainless Steel campaign, while on my notebook, since I can crank the gfx all the way up on it with M2TW (unlike Attila or Rome 2).   Will use my desktop for R2/Attila eye candy cranking.

[bruce205]

Just purchased Combat Mission Battle for Normandy everything edition !!!  This thing is awesome !!  Have lots and lots to learn though. Any quick tips from the grogs ?

Bruce

[Sir Slash]

Do the tutorials and begin at an 'Easy' setting. The battles whether small of large can be very tough. The AI in this series has always been very good on defensive but less so on the attack. Correct use of your arty usually is the difference in winning or losing and can be hard to get just right (I suck at it). And take your time. Most fights I've lost are because I get in too big a hurry and then get sloppy. Lots of good videos on youtube that can help. Keep your armored vehicles 'Closed' around enemies, they always seem to be able to pick-off my exposed crews.