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After a period of not gaming, I finally started with Q.U.B.E. 2 and I must say I really like these kind of portal puzzle games.
Also been playing TW3:B&W again. Feels good to game again.
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And I also bought the books of the Witcher, which is an interesting read. Like the history of Ciri..
 
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Hooked on Tomb Raider 3 again and how Lara loves those magazine-sized access cards.
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And I love how the prisoners in the High Security Compound level come to Lara's aid when she's being bludgeoned by a prison warder. That's a really cool game mechanic because she has to get to the switch for the cell doors to open before she cops it. The prisoners then make light work of the warden, which is very gratifying.
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You found a bug/glitch in the game?

Yep... no sorcery or console involved... I genuinely wanted to drink a tankard of mead and read my novel, damn it.
 
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Do any developers still include disc in the cases, instead of a key with a link to the client you need?
 
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This acid build is next level shit baby

Amarasta's Blade Burst craziness at 26/16, the Crusher you see makes it a spammable with a pretty minor downside (-70% weapon damage, but you can stack flat damage easy and gain +18% Crit) and my main hand is a Mythical venomlash that adds flat acid damage to Burst... as does the helmet... definitely my smoothest ultimate char yet. I just walk around left mouse button held down and rape it all, 5.5m radius on Burst at over 3 attacks per second, on top of 120k poison dot. Oh, and 25% lifesteal. :p

And on top of that half my gear is blue still...

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Playing the new Street FIghter V Champion Edition and man is that a good beat em up game. I love this genre, recently played Mortal Kombat XL and Tekken 7 as well but Street Fighter is the current king of the genre for sure. The game is pretty much as it always has been with 2 new characters (if I'm correct). Reviewers seem to think the new content is essential while it really is not. What makes this game great is the fighting mechanics. They are by far the best in the industry and feel better than ever somehow. Try this new game out everybody!

Also Playing Dirt Rally2 and WRC 8. Absoluty great games that both make me pull weird faces from excitement . A little bit COD Infinite Warfare (2016) and COD WWII (2017). Great thrillrides. I also played a little AO Tennis. It's a great tennis game which is also worth checking for the Tennis fan for sure.

I also play Hearthstone a lot....a little bit too much maybe. Play that game if you like to be taken to a different world never to really return to reality any more. Its impossible to be good at this game without playing too much...:D

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Well I'm kinda always playing ED most of the time and most of the time I'm just Space Trucking in my Type 9 named Immense Sorrows, wallowing back and forth between stations making money. But yesterday I decided I was gonna do something different and accomplish something. I checked out my Imperial Rank and saw I was near the next one thinking I would get to unlock something big, NOPE one more rank, and so it began, jumping all over the place and back again doing little deliveries here and there and grabbing more deliveries on the way in my little Krait with just a fraction of the cargo space of my T9 "Space Cow. earning another 3% every time I accomplished another delivery or courier mission. So something early this morning when I truly had run out of drive and ambition I finally hit 100% and thankfully my Rank Up mission was just one last simple delivery. Then it was off to Jameson Memorial for my well earned prize.

Meet Catharthis my new way to haul stuff back and forth in true style, speed and comfort. I've been playing this game since day one so 5 years now and never thought I'd do the grind to get it, now I can't believe I don't have a couple of them. It's like the Maybach of space ships, hauling cargo is gotten exciting again and owning one of the biggest ships in the game finally feels great.

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Went from KOTOR, still need to finish, to The Witcher 3, still need to finish, then during the last Steam sale I finally bought Resident Evil 2 and then played it a lot, just finished replaying F.E.A.R., now I'm going to play Extraction Point and then maybe F.E.A.R. 2, I've also played a little FO76, then probably back to the Witcher 3.
 
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Rimworld got a surprise expansion a few days ago! Just bought it, excited as whatevs. Have played this game *extensively*, and have even played with some mods, but my relationship to mods in general is complicated. They are very rarely actually worth it, so it's nice to get some new stuff without bothering with them. The bullet points are basically The Empire and nobles (the title of the expansion being Royalty) and royal titles, psychic powers for the nobles, quests, tech, mech clusters (bases for mechs I guess) and some more. Looks very promising.
 
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Holy shit! Witcher 3 is such a chore. Is this what souls-like games feel like? I feel like I'm spending more time loading last game rather than fight enemies. And xp gain is so little for these fights. 45xp for fighting a werewolf? I mean what dafuq. I wasted at least half an hour fighting that regening piece of shit. And that is after I spent an hour dropping its hp bar to regen threshold.
 
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Holy shit! Witcher 3 is such a chore. Is this what souls-like games feel like? I feel like I'm spending more time loading last game rather than fight enemies. And xp gain is so little for these fights. 45xp for fighting a werewolf? I mean what dafuq. I wasted at least half an hour fighting that regening piece of shit. And that is after I spent an hour dropping its hp bar to regen threshold.
I don't remember the game ever feeling like a chore.. It was more of a sense of wonder and discovery, traveling all over the map and doing quests. But I didn't play them all back to back either. Maybe you're experiencing Witcher fatigue?

I've been playing AC Syndicate and it's been pretty great. I think it's my favorite AC so far, finally the AC2 trilogy.

Also some Forza Horizon 4 on the side. I have collected almost all cars. Gotta catch 'em all.
 
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Holy shit! Witcher 3 is such a chore. Is this what souls-like games feel like? I feel like I'm spending more time loading last game rather than fight enemies. And xp gain is so little for these fights. 45xp for fighting a werewolf? I mean what dafuq. I wasted at least half an hour fighting that regening piece of shit. And that is after I spent an hour dropping its hp bar to regen threshold.

I only felt that at the very beginning of the game but once I reached Novigrad and started working on my gear it was fairly comfortable till the end on Death March. 'enemy upscaling is disabled cause it can break the game at some points'

I went with the Feline armor set 'light' and mainly using sword attacks and IGNI as secondary/sometimes QUEN if its a hard hitting boss,oils can also help later on.

I did not play Witcher 1/2 so I can't compare.
 
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This acid build is next level shit baby

Amarasta's Blade Burst craziness at 26/16, the Crusher you see makes it a spammable with a pretty minor downside (-70% weapon damage, but you can stack flat damage easy and gain +18% Crit) and my main hand is a Mythical venomlash that adds flat acid damage to Burst... as does the helmet... definitely my smoothest ultimate char yet. I just walk around left mouse button held down and rape it all, 5.5m radius on Burst at over 3 attacks per second, on top of 120k poison dot. Oh, and 25% lifesteal. :p

And on top of that half my gear is blue still...

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Looks interesting, put the build on the GD topic, I wanna take a look, I think I have a Dervish at a low level.
 

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Holy shit! Witcher 3 is such a chore. Is this what souls-like games feel like? I feel like I'm spending more time loading last game rather than fight enemies. And xp gain is so little for these fights. 45xp for fighting a werewolf? I mean what dafuq. I wasted at least half an hour fighting that regening piece of shit. And that is after I spent an hour dropping its hp bar to regen threshold.
No it’s not what souls-like games are like. I also didn’t think it was a chore either time. Be advised that your real XP come from completing quests and jobs for people, not from combat itself. Combat CAN be a means to achieving quest completion, but not always.
 
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Holy shit! Witcher 3 is such a chore. Is this what souls-like games feel like? I feel like I'm spending more time loading last game rather than fight enemies. And xp gain is so little for these fights. 45xp for fighting a werewolf? I mean what dafuq. I wasted at least half an hour fighting that regening piece of shit. And that is after I spent an hour dropping its hp bar to regen threshold.

You are doing it wrong. Witcher combat is either easy or stupidly hard and if its the latter, you are missing something. Being either some sort of potion or poison, or the wrong weapon, or the wrong signs...

Also, you don't farm/level enemies in the game. You do quests to progress. Levelling without questing will bite you in the ass because enemies scale but the better gear is gained from questing. Most notably the Witcher set piece questlines.
 
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Sounds like you're struggling with the difficulty - turn it down?
 
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I don't remember the game ever feeling like a chore.. It was more of a sense of wonder and discovery, traveling all over the map and doing quests. But I didn't play them all back to back either. Maybe you're experiencing Witcher fatigue?
I'm not fatigued per se. Just struggling to learn the mechanics I think.

No it’s not what souls-like games are like. I also didn’t think it was a chore either time. Be advised that your real XP come from completing quests and jobs for people, not from combat itself. Combat CAN be a means to achieving quest completion, but not always.

You are doing it wrong. Witcher combat is either easy or stupidly hard and if its the latter, you are missing something. Being either some sort of potion or poison, or the wrong weapon, or the wrong signs...

Also, you don't farm/level enemies in the game. You do quests to progress. Levelling without questing will bite you in the ass because enemies scale but the better gear is gained from questing. Most notably the Witcher set piece questlines.

Since most of the side quests, witcher contracts and even random encounters are high level, I was thinking of farming xp to level up. But if it’s so pitiful like you say it is, maybe I'll just do the main quest lines first.

But I love that npc baiting is back from the first game. Bait one group of enemy npcs to another group and let them fight. I missed that in Witcher 2 iibh.

Sounds like you're struggling with the difficulty - turn it down?
It’s a thing of principle of mine. I never turn down difficulty after starting a game. I think I chose the third highest one.

I only felt that at the very beginning of the game but once I reached Novigrad and started working on my gear it was fairly comfortable till the end on Death March. 'enemy upscaling is disabled cause it can break the game at some points'

I went with the Feline armor set 'light' and mainly using sword attacks and IGNI as secondary/sometimes QUEN if its a hard hitting boss,oils can also help later on.

I did not play Witcher 1/2 so I can't compare.
Gotta trudge along I guess.
 

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Since most of the side quests, witcher contracts and even random encounters are high level, I was thinking of farming xp to level up. But if it’s so pitiful like you say it is, maybe I'll just do the main quest lines first.
One of the nice things is you can go back to all areas you were in before and go do side quests and contracts. It’s amazing how many people you talk to that have work or make mention of a quest.

Once you get about halfway through Novigrad you can start comfortably leaving the main quest set aside for awhile. The narrative tells you everything is a rush, but really it’s not. After I got to Skellige (which has as much to do as Velen and Novigrad), I would find myself fast traveling back to Velen to explore that huge, huge expanse of land with tons of things to find and do.
 
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One of the nice things is you can go back to all areas you were in before and go do side quests and contracts. It’s amazing how many people you talk to that have work or make mention of a quest.

Once you get about halfway through Novigrad you can start comfortably leaving the main quest set aside for awhile. The narrative tells you everything is a rush, but really it’s not. After I got to Skellige (which has as much to do as Velen and Novigrad), I would find myself fast traveling back to Velen to explore that huge, huge expanse of land with tons of things to find and do.
I think I got some hang of the swordplay. Fought the Nithrol or sth (the wild hunt elf knight). Had no swallow left nor Ingredients to make one. Had to hone dodge, strike, dodge technique.

Also got a cheat to clear out bandit camps. Sword strike from horseback. Holy shit it’s so awesome to drop their 90% hp in a single strike.
 
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