What are you playing?

[Liquid Cool]

Trying out Total War: Warhammer, enjoying it so far...

This one was ported to linux by Feral Interactive and is on my wish list. Glad to hear you're liking it....I'm definitely looking forward to checking it out myself. I'll be watching the next Steam sale closely....

For those interested in linux gaming releases....this site is continuously updated.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php

Best,

Liquid Cool

 

[Frick]

I tried Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and I feel exactly like that. I found a car and all I could do was make it go in circles.

Ok. You all have to play this, right now. The first world I generated (it's one of them prodecurarly generated things, or whatever it's called) the starting point (a shelter) was surrounded by roughly nothing. The second world is filled with bile-spewing zombies and the starting point is surrounded by mutant ants and land mines. I've yet to survive a single day and I literally have no idea what to do. Oh, and the world is permanent, meaning that if you find a pair of nice boots in the starting shelter and take them with one character you can later find that characters corpse and loot them with a different character.

Imagine a mix of ZangbandTK and Neo Scavanger. Oh, and the download is 25MB.
This is the best thing I've played since I survived my first year in DF. I dunno if there's a new version somewhere. Might be. It's open source I think.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Skyrim XXXth replay .... 903hrs so far ....

now that childrens finally don't look like humanoid potatoes ... anymore (yep took me long enough to find the right mod for it ...)


the feature of Heartfire almost make sense (adoption) ... before ... well it was
intendant: "is there anything else you'd like to purchase?"
me: "heck i don't want a humanoid potato running in my house ... i take a alchemy bench instead!"

and with "wonder of weather" "heavy rain effect" a nice ENB and "wind effect" .... storm are a bit more lively ...

ok, hard to see on a screenshot ...

TES:V Skyrim : it's like a bottle of good wine, it gets better with the ages if given good cares!
and good cares is: feeding it mods from the community ... UNTIL IT CRASH! (tho i didn't had a crash since quite a while .... )

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Finished what should have been an A+ pursuit difficulty Into the Stars run only to have it lock up while "loading" the end. Try to load the save after restarting the game and it says no saves exist.

Edit: I think I might consider it "done." 10 hours in and I think I've seen everything worth seeing.

 

[StrayKAT]

Skyrim XXXth replay .... 903hrs so far ....

now that childrens finally don't look like humanoid potatoes ... anymore (yep took me long enough to find the right mod for it ...)
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the feature of Heartfire almost make sense (adoption) ... before ... well it was
intendant: "is there anything else you'd like to purchase?"
me: "heck i don't want a humanoid potato running in my house ... i take a alchemy bench instead!"

and with "wonder of weather" "heavy rain effect" a nice ENB and "wind effect" .... storm are a bit more lively ...
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ok, hard to see on a screenshot ...

TES:V Skyrim : it's like a bottle of good wine, it gets better with the ages if given good cares!
and good cares is: feeding it mods from the community ... UNTIL IT CRASH! (tho i didn't had a crash since quite a while .... )

I mod the hell out of Skyrim, but I still do not like ENBs. Either for LE or SE. I especially like LE's older blue-ish tint. Just wish I could get the shadows and godrays from ENB without altering the look of the whole game (even basic ENB settings still seem to do that). But yeah, I clocked about the same amount of time as you.

 

[Frick]

TES:V Skyrim : it's like a bottle of good wine, it gets better with the ages if given good cares!
and good cares is: feeding it mods from the community ... UNTIL IT CRASH! (tho i didn't had a crash since quite a while .... )

I tried the modding scene once, and honestly the majority of the mods are pretty crappy IMO. The graphical stuff could be nice sure, but in most mods people do things as they want them to be, not as they should be. And many mods are might have one thing you want but five things you absolutely do not want. In the end I just used a random start mod and a graphics mod, but I had already played the game quite a lot some years prior so I instantly got bored anyway.

Is there a decent hardcore mod?

 

[Cvrk]

Looks like the Bat Logo

OMG! It does......
that's crazy

Seriously tho

 

[StrayKAT]

I tried the modding scene once, and honestly the majority of the mods are pretty crappy IMO. The graphical stuff could be nice sure, but in most mods people do things as they want them to be, not as they should be. And many mods are might have one thing you want but five things you absolutely do not want. In the end I just used a random start mod and a graphics mod, but I had already played the game quite a lot some years prior so I instantly got bored anyway.

Is there a decent hardcore mod?

I know you didn't ask me, but hardcore.. you mean difficulty/combat?

Skyrim's combat is never gonna have clever enemy patterns like Dark Souls or Breath of the Wild, but there are plenty of decent difficulty boosters as far as tweaking stats go. Wildcat is probably the most popular. And Deadly Dragons is the best dragon mod.

This may not seem difficult, but a mod like Frostfall will make the "wandering" experience something that can kill you. It's a hypothermia monitor.. you can tweak the settings a lot, and find a sweet spot that isn't too tedious.

 

[Frick]

I know you didn't ask me, but hardcore.. you mean difficulty/combat?

As in "survival", ie a system where you need to eat, sleep, preferebly stay warm and so on. There were some almost decent ones, but they all had a few things that were really irritating.

 

[StrayKAT]

As in "survival", ie a system where you need to eat, sleep, preferebly stay warm and so on. There were some almost decent ones, but they all had a few things that were really irritating.

Oh, like hardcore in Fallout. Yeah, iNeed is probably the most popular.

The same maker of Frostfall is currently making his own too.. it might already be out. Haven't checked. It's called Last Seed. But I know he's starting with slim features at first. iNeed is pretty robust. It's got all the usual (eat, drink, sleep), but also has a cannibalism feature, vampiric blood drinking, deadly diseases (which makes curing more of a chore), and dirty water (which will also get you sick). It will also strip out the tons of vegetables you see lying around in crates, if you want.

 

[Caelestis]

After i have finished Mass Effect Andromeda, I started my second playthrough of Witcher 3. Looking forward to it since I haven't played Hearts of Stone / Blood and Wine yet.

 

[Drone]

Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode II

 

[GreiverBlade]

I tried the modding scene once, and honestly the majority of the mods are pretty crappy IMO. The graphical stuff could be nice sure, but in most mods people do things as they want them to be, not as they should be. And many mods are might have one thing you want but five things you absolutely do not want. In the end I just used a random start mod and a graphics mod, but I had already played the game quite a lot some years prior so I instantly got bored anyway.

uh? well .... vanilla Skyrim is garbage, specially for character modeling (hum garbage is a tad harsh ... but i can't find anything else ...)

i guess i have no issues because on "six things brought by a mod, six of them are what i want" .... otherwise i wouldn't search for mods that does what i need or want ... it's almost a full time job and the most fun part in Skyrim for me

Is there a decent hardcore mod?

hum .... they might bring more than five .... unwanted things by you but ... well in the past i used
Requiem
https://kotaku.com/5965301/this-insanely-intense-mod-makes-skyrim-denser-tougher-and-more-old-school : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19281/?
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10/22/skyrim-survival-mods/ good selection
and Filling food and Restful Sleep - Hardcore Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3135/?
and i had Kuertee's simple follower mod that bring "eat and sleep" for follower/companion

now i just play for fun and mod the hell out of it (specially extender, mods that bring more buildings, flora, animals or overhaul of a town , I.E.: Riverwood, Winterhold or Whiterun or various NPC's + behavior enhancer)

OK ... now that's too much ....
i do VMD files (dance for MMD for those who know) and i saw the Ani-Mei race .... for the laugh i tested it ....

result i did a Yowane Haku vocaloid .... http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Yowane_Haku

ABSOLUTELY NOT LORE FRIENDLY .... but fun nonetheless (gotta give credit to the mod'er who did a perfect work on getting the TDA vocaloid face and expression nailed) for a normal play-through i stick with my "lookalike avatar"

the only thing i do lately .... is playing without any HUD, really fun ... specially when using a bow and well that make nice screenshots too ....

Whiterun's Aurora


even my title screen has my favorite moto .... (bottom left)

 

[Liquid Cool]

After a few small problems we're solved(with linux what else is new.....), I was up and running with KONA last night. I'm about an hour in...so far...liking it quite a bit.

This morning.......I was reading a small thread on the GamingonLinux site that I mentioned the other day, and it was titled...What have you been playing? Got a chuckle out of that. Seems almost like our thread here..... At any rate...a cartoon game was suggested as something worth giving a go. So, after about a 30 second download....I just started playing that about an hour ago. I'm not too sure what to think. If you like creepy cartoon games, it might be worth a look. The First chapter is free..., but creepy and cartoon...I just don't know. Almost makes my skin crawl. I'm going to head back in and get another dose of the stuff their dispensing and just hope I make it back out alive.

Bendy and the Ink Machine

http://store.steampowered.com/app/622650/Bendy_and_the_Ink_Machine/



Wish me luck,

Liquid Cool

 

[Frick]

uh? well .... vanilla Skyrim is garbage, specially for character modeling (hum garbage is a tad harsh ... but i can't find anything else ...)

The way I figure, if Bethsoft - being a huge dev raking in money on their games -makes such terrible games, what horrors are their fans into?

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10/22/skyrim-survival-mods/ good selection

That's the way I tried it.

 

[StrayKAT]

I like some Vanilla skyrim characters, but it depends on the race.

FO4 was a big step up for them though. RPG wise, it's better than DAI and MEA at least..which is a superior engine, but worse designs (but then, even 2008 era ME looked better than that crap).


Honestly though, if you want a Skyrim type of experience, but with survival stuff, Breath of the Wild is better. It's like they were fans of Skyrim mods and integrated some of the better ideas...whilst retaining good ole Nintendo game design.

Where everyone lacks that Bethesda is so good at though is emergent play. All of the pieces come together in a random fashion that no one else pulls off as well.

 

[GreiverBlade]

I like some Vanilla skyrim characters, but it depends on the race..

aye some are nice .... (tho the hair are a bit .... )

buuuuuttttt, if a vanilla npc can look like that :

(i might have been modifying the facegen .... not sure ....)

then NPC's like that are not too "out of lore"

first one is a follower from Overknee and the second is the proprietress of the Old Hroldan Inn

ok maybe follower like Onean are a bit ... too much for Skyrim

but still excellent (fully voiced scripted and well ... the modders who worked on it are really excellent)

tho my Sylgja never looked so beautiful

still lore friendly

aherm i write "my" Sylgja .... because of that mod ....

 

[StrayKAT]

aye some are nice .... (tho the hair are a bit .... )

buuuuuttttt, if a vanilla npc can look like that :
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(i might have been modifying the facegen .... not sure ....)

then NPC's like that are not too "out of lore"
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first one is a follower from Overknee and the second is the proprietress of the Old Hroldan Inn

ok maybe follower like Onean are a bit ... too much for Skyrim
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but still excellent (fully voiced scripted and well ... the modders who worked on it are really excellent)

tho my Sylgja never looked so beautiful
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still lore friendly

aherm i write "my" Sylgja .... because of that mod ....
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I like your Sylgia.... Way too hot to be mining though. Then again, even the original looks good. And her mom even moreso

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

Going back & forth with Warframe, Ghost Recon Wildlands & Need For Speed (2016) while waiting for Plains of Eidolon update & the upcoming Need For Speed Payback.

 

[GreiverBlade]

I like your Sylgia.... Way too hot to be mining though. Then again, even the original looks good. And her mom even moreso

well .... she got sick working in the mine .... she's better off in my house in Solitude (i hate that town name .... but that's the house spot i prefer )

agreed, the original looked good, tho not enough for me and yep Annekke Crag-Jumper (really ... ) did look good as vanilla .... but modders can make wonder (oohhh a rhyme)


another one that looked good even in vanilla was Hroki tho ...

does not look too lore breaking like that

then Erdi or Gerdur ...(for Erdi it was slightly needed) well as long as i accord all npc's to one typical look (male include) the lore is not too much impaired


annnndddd that's it ... in what are you playing, for Skyrim, i should rather say on 910hrs ingame playtime, you add about the same amount for searching mods: new quest, land, buildings,follower (preferably voiced scripted or well designed), making them work together and also modifying the mods sometime (currently learning how to do a follower with a character preset i did, tho i could go the easy way and use "familiar faces" mod to use my past character as follower )

 

[StrayKAT]

Town mods are a must have imo. SE is a bit lacking in that dept last I checked. There were only a few ported and they were half-done.

Making a follower is fairly easy... so long it's just regular NPC voices. A lot more work if you want to do voiceovers yourself obviously.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Town mods are a must have imo. SE is a bit lacking in that dept last I checked. There were only a few ported and they were half-done.

good point i abhorre SE ... (even for 64bit, which is the only "improvement" by Bethsoft themselves ... the rest, is just implementation from what the modding community already did )
Riverwood looks awesome with : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/81360/? (Kato's Riverwood)
for Whiterun i can't remember the one i took, but it adds more trees and some minor tweak

also iirc some vanilla mods can work in SE without porting .... but i am not sure which one .... i didn't got into SE (specially now that my installation is stable no matter what change i throw at it, thanks SKSE no CTD script)

Making a follower is fairly easy... so long it's just regular NPC voices. A lot more work if you want to do voiceovers yourself obviously.

aye ... sure does, tho i use extra voices (not mine luckily .... tho some people said i had a nice voice on TeamSpeak )

 

[StrayKAT]

good point i abhorre SE ... (even for 64bit, which is the only "improvement" by Bethsoft themselves ... the rest, is just implementation from what the modding community already did )
Riverwood looks awesome with : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/81360/? (Kato's Riverwood)
for Whiterun i can't remember the one i took, but it adds more trees and some minor tweak

also iirc some vanilla mods can work in SE without porting .... but i am not sure which one .... i didn't got into SE (specially now that my installation is stable no matter what change i throw at it, thanks SKSE no CTD script)


aye ... sure does, tho i use extra voices (not mine luckily .... tho some people said i had a nice voice on TeamSpeak )

The best on SE is Holds... but it's only partly done. :\

I just end up using Open Cities myself. What really needs improvement is towns.. like the Enhanced Towns and Cities (ETaC) from LE.

 

[GreiverBlade]

re installing something from a DVD .... luckily i have an external unit ...


mmmmmhhhh.... souvenir souvenir .... now, i just have to find my Morrowind GOTY box ....

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

DVD... damn it's been some time since I last saw them. xD