Hey everyone. Hope the weekend has been kind to you all. This week I chugged along with my playthrough of the Persona 3 remake, I am in the final month if the game. I am still having a great time with it but the dungeon crawling has become very tedious. Hope everybody has a good week ahead!
I played through a few demos and bought Dome Keeper. It reminds me of the Motherload flash game.
I also played part of the Eternal Strands demo. The telekinesis is fun. Making ice walls and freezing parts of enemies is cool. It has all the hallmarks of a game I would have loved 10 years ago. I still think it’s cool but I am terrible at finishing story games.
The rest of the time was spent troubleshooting my Steam Link setup with my desktop and TV. Idk if it was the demos, pop-os, or a hardware issue, but my PC froze several times. I’m going to hopefully fix the network with some MOCA adapters today.
Pirated Tomadachi.
Works pretty well minus some graphical issues. And some crashes.
I currently have a isle of Locked Tomb 9th and 6th house. Columbo, the cast of Frasier. Geralt and Ciri. A OC. And Grace from Project Hail Mary.
I made a newspaper called good news where if was reporting the death of America. And one of them had a dream where 4 of them danced around it saying “praise the good news”
Ah well it’s Monday for me.
I’m not good enough to complete Disco Elysium! I will hand in my bearsite membership card.
I used one of the presets this time (fourth attempt or so) and I’m now in a situation where I need to ESTABLISH AUTHORITY over the big guy in the Whirling but I have like -5 Authority from various Mazovian Economics related thoughts. I’m so good at this
You’re still good, there’s only a single check that’s mandatory in the game and that’s not it (and the “mandatory” one just lets you keep rerolling by doing side content until you get it, more or less).
I don’t think there’s any way to soft lock yourself outside the situations I believe were fixed where you can have nowhere to sleep in the first day or two. There’s probably an alternative to that situation, or failure just lets you move forward anyway and you do something that makes you look like a goofball.
I now realise what my real roadblock is, which is that I don’t want to get judged by Kim.
<- Me when I get scolded for fumbling the Joyce Messier interview
Farting around with classic ultima online and universal century gundam online (which is like uo but with gundams)
universal century gundam online (which is like uo but with gundams)
my ears perk up and rotate forward
private server?
It’s totally dead but it’s called ucgohost https://wiki.ucgohost.com/index.php/Main_Page but if you want to play and fight npc mobile suits you can!
oh hell yeah! definitely gonna check that out when i get home
DM me if you want to ever play when you get situated, I got a character I’m working on a character now. I’m zeon side, or if you want to go eff and attack me.
I kinda randomly got hooked on Armed Police Batrider. Super fun and stylish game, I like Battle Garegga too but never gave this one a try and I think it is more my type of thing. It’s still got a lot of the same complex systems as Garegga but feels just a little smoother and more forgiving. There’s also a ton of hidden bosses which I think is really cool, I’ve been trying to hit as many as I can on my attempts even though I’m not nearly good enough at the game to clear that way.
I’m also playing Deltarune Ch. 5, I thought I’d be finished with it by now but I haven’t really felt the desire to play much. It’s tough because I don’t want to rush it but also I’m 100% going to get spoiled on everything if I don’t hurry up. I’ll probably try and finish it tonight, I don’t have that much more to go.
Been watching Evo so I haven’t played much this weekend, but before that the usual Warframe, Deltarune Ch5 and Street Fighter 6. But today I’m bummed out and pissed off because I just logged in Warframe to find out I have been banned from the clan I was in, I asked a player that added me if they could ask in chat and know the reason and the cland just didn’t gave any. I barely interact there and yesterday all I did was help another user counter the bullshit eugenics that were being spread there, later some other player started saying a bunch of conspiracy theory bullshit about how the “jews did 9/11” (this “reveal” by them was gradual, so there was no way of knowing it would go straight to that) and stuff like that was trying to make me believe them and watch some conspiracy theory channel but me not buying it was apparently enough to get me banned there. The fucker also got banned but still.
The fact the clan didn’t have a explicit political leaning yet no usual rules “against politics” made me weary, but this sucks man, there was at least another leftist there that was very vocal and that I saw chatting a lot about all sorts of stuff. Kind of makes me wanna create an actual leftist clan, but the amount of resources needed makes this impractical
The resources you need aren’t that bad, I think it’s like 10-15 forma for mandatory rooms and then some invasion materials grinding for research. Plus the hema, I guess, but the less said about that the better.
If you want you can join my completed clan (except for pigments) but it’s just me (and some IRL friends that don’t play anymore).
I see, thanks for the offer comrade, but I think I’ll stop playing till Tennocon in a couple of weeks, this bummed me out quite a bit. I also have yet to talk about this with my friend I’m playing with, so I don’t know what he will do for now. Good thing is that I can dedicate more time to SF6 since I wanted to properly learn fighting games for years now.
Played the new Deltarune chapter. Luckily I have a fairly similar appreciation for JRPGs/Touhou/dumb jokes as Toby Fox, so it was a good time. The actual gameplay was better this time as well, kinda impressive what they’re managing to pull off in gamemaker. Also, getting one of the Void Stranger devs as a guest programmer is super cool.
Modded Minecraft (Stoneblock 3)
I’ve been rewatching some Threefold modpack let’s plays and trying to take his advice to always craft/gather more than you need at that moment in time, and it’s working out REALLY well. Yeah, I’ll make 64 pistons at a time—I need them for compacting drawers now, and I’m sure I’ll need them for various machines later. Saves so much time and mental energy in the long run to have batches on hand!
played through Ultrakill last week and now i’m going back through looking for secrets and getting P ranks and shit
it’s not often a game is so fucking over the top that multiple times i had to stop and walk around after beating a level
Factorio!
I was playing my “spaghetti and make everything a mess” save (that has ‘fun’ mods like Scrappy Industry (where almost every recipe has a low chance to produce different types of scrap instead of the intended product) and Renai’s Transportation (why build a belt around your factory when you can throw the iron plates halfway across it?)). I’m planning on updating the base to use “dropoff” trains, where the locomotives literally decouple cargo wagons to let them load/unload while moving around to deliver other wagon sets, at the cost of complexity in knowing when a set of cargo wagons is ready to be moved to the next stop. But hey, isn’t that the fun of playing an engineering game?
Been playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but I bumped the difficulty to Core after playing Kingmaker on Normal. I just finished Chapter 2 where you have to choose more concretely which story path you want to go down.
story spoilers
I chose Aeon because it sounded interesting and I haven’t been spoiled on what happens in any of the paths except Lich, where I know you can kill and revive Staunton and the Queen. I was tempted to go Swarm just because the game is honestly kind of pissing me off at times and it sounded the most like giving a middle finger to the entire thing.
The Aeon stuff kind of comes out of nowhere though? Like there were hints of the Angel and Demon powers prior, even meeting the Azata once, and the only Aeon thing happens when you touch the shard in the square near the start of the game. I don’t think I really understood what I was getting into being like a cosmic inquisitor who is now responsible for judging people’s souls, so we’ll see where it goes. My character is kind of incoherent up to this point and I think it’s dampening my enjoyment a little bit. I’m a tiefling vivisectionist/alchemist cosmos cop who is generally good with the occasional ‘evil’ choice like mocking demons before I kill them.
Anyway, I hate tabletop rule systems. The game is less overwhelming to me now having played Kingmaker, but there’s still a lot of things that are annoying like 75% of the Feats being worthless/traps, some of them being basically required.
There are still really obvious bugs they couldn’t be bothered to fix, like if you go to cast a healing spell in turn-based mode, that character will not move into range to cast it and just tries to cast it from a distance and fails it/wastes the spell. Charging pathing is broken and does not work half the time. The menus hidden behind arrows are kind of ass and if you need to click them, it’s really easy to accidentally misclick to get to a less used spell and accidentally click the environment and move for no reason. Clicking anywhere with even a single mounted character is very obnoxious because their hitbox is so huge. When you are and aren’t using 5-step rule is not at all clear because the UI says that’s what you’re doing, but after you move your spells are still highlighted until you try to actually use one and it says you’re out of actions.
A lot of this could be because they designed the game for real-time with pause first, but I think that control scheme is an abomination that turns battles from interesting tactical experiences into pure chaos because there is such little support for actually telling your party what to prioritize that you have to babysit them by pausing all the time anyway. Not like Final Fantasy 12 or Dragon Age or even Tyranny, which are technically the same, but way better implementations than any Baldur’s Gate-like game has ever been. There are no AI scripts for you to set priority, which even some of those way older games had. I only use it when I am fighting pure trash and swap back when the bosses come out.
You might think I hate the game based on all this and I have thought about dropping it once or twice, or at least dropping the difficulty back down, but I am somehow still having fun after 60~ hours. But I do need to take breaks and can’t really have long comfy play sessions, especially because there is significantly more combat in this than Kingmaker. So far, there’s been very few times where I can stop to just explore, talk to companions (they barely ever have anything to say in your base), etc. Kingmaker at least had managing your country to break things up. Wrath is just huge hours long battle sequences over and over thus far.
I downloaded Escape from Duckov on my Mac mini. Gonna give it a whirl.
put fallout new vegas on a new computer, it runs quite nice from the various optimizations even though the machine can’t render it as pretty as ive gotten it on other computers.
one new mod i installed kinda rules, its this collection of ‘cowboy’ guns and includes, unbelievably, muzzle loaders (animated!). most importantly though it has a sharp’s rifle, the premier John Brown larp weapon. shooting slavers has never been so fun, or inefficient
A bit of Dungeon Clawler after the Play Store deal BountifulEggnog dug up.
