What game are you wasting time on?

[Turisas]

M&B Warband: PoP for now, Terran Conflict next (when I muster the willpower to go through all the mods and scripts I want to have).

 

[Cassidy]

Arcanum, Fallout 1, Hearts of Iron II, Crusader Kings, Thief II and Warzone 2100.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

Just finished BG 1, got to say the game gets better at the last third. 1/2 of the game is boring forest dwelling though with really retarded fedex quests. Now dicking around the expansion.

 

[Quilty]

ARMA 2. Skyway's been praising the game so much that I just had to try it when it was around 7.50 on Steam.

And once I tried it I realized I should not have waited so long. It's a complex simulator, a true successor to operation flashpoint. It's, it's....beautiful.

i'll go play some more now bye guise

 

[MetalCraze]

Much like with OFP the best part comes when you find some serious tactical clan (it isn't hard, there is quite a number of them around) that plays with ACE mod which makes the game even more complex - just to give an example - the healing system in ACE includes bandages to stop bleeding, morphine to tame the pain (when you are in pain the image on screen gets blurred), adrenaline to help your heart to beat after a heavy wound and a heart massage. You also need to use earplugs because you will become temporarily deaf in the vicinity of heavy MGs and high caliber weapons of tanks. There are also tactical goggles that you need to put on when you are boarding the chopper (or exiting it) because the dust will cause your eyes to tear and you will barely see anything - which in case of a landing on Hot LZ is the difference between life and death. A sweet mod, updated every week and is also a winner of BIS' community award for best mod every year.

Also did you get just AA2 or AA2 Combined Ops which includes Operation Arrowhead? OA just has way too many improvements to ignore (laser range finders, improved damage system in vehicles where parts get damaged separately, FLIR, new radar, the ability to use alternative optics on weapons, the ability to adjust ironsights and optics to a specific range etc)

 

[Quilty]

Much like with OFP the best part comes when you find some serious tactical clan (it isn't hard, there is quite a number of them around) that plays with ACE mod which makes the game even more complex - just to give an example - the healing system in ACE includes bandages to stop bleeding, morphine to tame the pain (when you are in pain the image on screen gets blurred), adrenaline to help your heart to beat after a heavy wound and a heart massage. You also need to use earplugs because you will become temporarily deaf in the vicinity of heavy MGs and high caliber weapons of tanks. There are also tactical goggles that you need to put on when you are boarding the chopper (or exiting it) because the dust will cause your eyes to tear and you will barely see anything - which in case of a landing on Hot LZ is the difference between life and death. A sweet mod, updated every week and is also a winner of BIS' community award for best mod every year.

You are shitting me. :shock: That sounds awesome. I'll definitely look into that, thanks for the tip. But first I have to figure out the vanilla game, I'm still awful at flying a chopper, and I sometimes get confused when it comes to using all the menus in the middle of an intense fight. Guess I'll replay some of the scenarios before jumping into multiplayer. The thing that surprised me were the graphics: the whole game looks amazing and runs pretty smoothly on my two year old rig. I thought I wouldn't be able to run three feet without the framerate plunging into the negative, but it seems the game is optimized pretty well. There are some glitches and bugs, but nothing gamebreaking so far.

EDIT: No, I just got the original game, didn't grab the expansion. I think it was still 20 euros or thereabouts, so I thought I should check out the game first before spending more. Hopefully there'll be another discount on operation arrowhead.

 

[Suchy]

Much like with OFP the best part comes when you find some serious tactical clan (it isn't hard, there is quite a number of them around) that plays with ACE mod which makes the game even more complex - just to give an example - the healing system in ACE includes bandages to stop bleeding, morphine to tame the pain (when you are in pain the image on screen gets blurred), adrenaline to help your heart to beat after a heavy wound and a heart massage. You also need to use earplugs because you will become temporarily deaf in the vicinity of heavy MGs and high caliber weapons of tanks. There are also tactical goggles that you need to put on when you are boarding the chopper (or exiting it) because the dust will cause your eyes to tear and you will barely see anything - which in case of a landing on Hot LZ is the difference between life and death. A sweet mod, updated every week and is also a winner of BIS' community award for best mod every year.

You are shitting me. :shock: That sounds awesome. I'll definitely look into that, thanks for the tip. But first I have to figure out the vanilla game, I'm still awful at flying a chopper, and I sometimes get confused when it comes to using all the menus in the middle of an intense fight. Guess I'll replay some of the scenarios before jumping into multiplayer. The thing that surprised me were the graphics: the whole game looks amazing and runs pretty smoothly on my two year old rig. I thought I wouldn't be able to run three feet without the framerate plunging into the negative, but it seems the game is optimized pretty well. There are some glitches and bugs, but nothing gamebreaking so far.

EDIT: No, I just got the original game, didn't grab the expansion. I think it was still 20 euros or thereabouts, so I thought I should check out the game first before spending more. Hopefully there'll be another discount on operation arrowhead.

Get yourself a speech recognition tool for commanding your AI team. It's really helpful and saves you from jumping through menus, especially in combat. I was using Pilfius, but I switched to Win7 and it only works on XP. There are other tools though (Shoot, VAC), I'll have to look one up soon.
Here's a vid I made with Piflius in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlzPuf4IIFw&hd=1 (kinda low fps due to video compression on the fly).
And once you're at it, you may want to get my mod to mute PC's voice, so he doesn't repeat every command you speak.
for Arma2: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=8325
for OA: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=11653
Also totally get OA, just skip the shit DLCs.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I thought about picking up OA when it was £10 on the Steam sale, but the varying performance reports put me off; I imagine a game like this running badly would be a bit of a killer. It's what made me stop playing OFP, I had this persistent stuttering bug that wouldn't go away and couldn't find any solution for. Any idea how well it's likely to run on a Core 2 Duo @ 3.3Ghz, 4GB RAM and an 8800GTX?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Etherlords 2 for, like, the 498756948756th time

 

[MetalCraze]

Performance is a bitch yes. The engine keeps track of everything on the map. Bots don't just spawn out of thin air when you come close and don't disappear anywhere when you leave their immediate vicinity (although it is possible to do that for mission makers to a degree).
Some AI tank blew up a wall of the building or put down a tree 3 kms away? The game will keep track of that until you'll leave the mission. You killed a squad of AIs and ran out of ammo 1 km further? You can go back and their bodies with weapons will still be there. And now imagine it does that to hundreds of AIs running around.

Now your CPU should be enough to play smaller scale missions. For larger combined ops I feel quad-core is a must (I have FPS drops to 25 in especially large combined ops). Download a demo, it should have benchmarks. I just don't know if they patch demos because OA had 6 patches since release and they did improve the performance.

Or if you are crazy and rich enough you can get yourself a Tesla - we have a guy in our clan who owns it. He's been saying his PC handles 1500+ AIs at once without a single FPS drop.

 

[Quilty]

I thought about picking up OA when it was £10 on the Steam sale, but the varying performance reports put me off; I imagine a game like this running badly would be a bit of a killer. It's what made me stop playing OFP, I had this persistent stuttering bug that wouldn't go away and couldn't find any solution for. Any idea how well it's likely to run on a Core 2 Duo @ 3.3Ghz, 4GB RAM and an 8800GTX?

I'm running the vanilla game on amd phenom 9550 quad-core 2,60, 4GB, geforce 9800 gt using Win7, and I haven't experienced any significant slow downs except for that time when my chopper went spinning and crashing into the ground, it spasmed out a little, but other than that it's running great.

EDIT: @Suchy thanks man, I'll give that a try, would probably make things easier than trying to scroll down a menu while under sniper fire. :D

 

[Suchy]

I thought about picking up OA when it was £10 on the Steam sale, but the varying performance reports put me off; I imagine a game like this running badly would be a bit of a killer. It's what made me stop playing OFP, I had this persistent stuttering bug that wouldn't go away and couldn't find any solution for. Any idea how well it's likely to run on a Core 2 Duo @ 3.3Ghz, 4GB RAM and an 8800GTX?

I didn't notice any performance difference between vanilla and OA (running on a quad core and gtx280). OA included a patch for proper use of multicore CPU's, so this was a bit of boost, especially in complicated missions with loads of AIs. All patches are available for vanilla too, so you don't really need to have OA. It's simply worth having for its content.

 

[BLOBERT]

PLAYING ARMA2 IS LIKE HAVING SEX WITHMEN IT MAKES YOU A FAG AND NORMAL PEOPLE DONT DO IT LOOLLOLLOL BROS DID YOU BUY ANAL BEADS FOR YOUR SESSIONS

I AM PLAYING MASTERS OF URQUAN SC2 MODERN WNDOWS THING

IT ISNT SOME POPAMOLE FAGGY MILIRARY SIM FOR LOW TESTOSTERONE COUNT MEN TO JERK OFF OVER

 

[MicoSelva]

on topic: Finished Baldur's Gate for LP purposes. Started Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
After one hour, I'm rather liking it..

 

[KalosKagathos]

Bayonetta

Go for the sword + ice skates combo ASAP.

 

[anus_pounder]

Bayonetta

Go for the sword + ice skates combo ASAP.

I'm still just getting the hang of Witch Time ffs and don't get me started on keeping the combo meter high.

 

[KalosKagathos]

I'm still just getting the hang of Witch Time ffs

Don't worry, you'll be triggering it non-stop by the end of your first playthrough. Just don't get too reliant on it: it's disabled on the highest difficulty. Parries and the Evil Harvest Rosary still work, though.

and don't get me started on keeping the combo meter high.

When you're baiting an attack for WT, don't just stand there, shoot pistols instead. Damage is non-existent, but it will prevent the combo counter from resetting, and you can cancel the firing animation with a dodge at any moment.

 

[anus_pounder]

Thanks for the tips. I guess I'll buy the rosary at some point. I'm trying to do a no-item 1st play-through.
Honestly, I'm surprised that I like this game. I never really liked DMC. Enough for one playthrough, sure, but nothing beyond that. I'm actually planning to play Bayonetta on hard, as soon as I'm done with normal.


Also, 'Fly me to the moon' ? Isn't that the end theme to Evangelion?

 

[KalosKagathos]

Among other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon

 

[ElectricOtter]

The fuck is that furry bullshit, Konjad?

Lugaru HD
It's a pretty cool game where you fight rabbits and wolfs after they have raped your wife and daughter and slain your village. It's just about kicking asses. I like the combat though and the general atmosphere is a bit psychedelic. There's a demo available (though I haven't played it because I didn't know about it, I just bought full version straight from the Steam) if you want to check it out. I think most of you will dislike that game but for me it was fun surprise. The campaign is short though, took me about 2.5 hours to finish it.

Downloaded the demo, the combat system is quite fun

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Goddammit Mount and Blade is sucking days of my life down the drain again

 

[ElectricOtter]

EDIT: nvm lol

 

[Damned Registrations]

Picked up Patrician 3 off steam yesterday, been enjoying it thoroughly. Reminds me of uncharted waters for the genesis, but instead of all the personal stuff like duels and plots and discoveries, you get to build up towns; everything from wells to mints.

 

[laclongquan]

Still Unreal World for me.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS I AM REALLY INTO THE MASTERS OF THE URQUAN NOW