What are you playing?

[Capitan Harlock]

Played Trine 3 in 13 houres with a friend and 100% complete very short i hope they made some dlcs for continue the story XD

 

[FordGT90Concept]

The computer upgrade fixed Pixel Piracy! I'm going to finish that before starting anything else.

I feel more like Bridge Constructor Playground than Shadow of Mordor right now... after the stress of getting two computers going, I want to play something casual.

 

[rtwjunkie]

The computer upgrade fixed Pixel Piracy! I'm going to finish that before starting anything else.

I feel more like Bridge Constructor Playground than Shadow of Mordor right now... after the stress of getting two computers going, I want to play something casual.

Good move there! Shadow of Mordor is anything BUT relaxing.

 

[GreiverBlade]

insane and experimenting ...

insane... (seriously ... even if that MMO has a PS3/4 version ... playing it with a game-pad is a REVERSE LOGIC! i have respect for those who play, and are good at it, on a game-pad ... )
well ... FFXIVHW on a X360 game-pad was ... a trauma ... interesting nonetheless ... but only flying (specially while in 1st person camera) was worth it


Experiment ... well creating some shorcut in steam (HWINFO64, Afterburner, My.com) enabled the monitoring and OC even on Alpha UI and i can finaly launch Skyforge with it ... (and as a bonus up the settings a notch)
in FFXIV:
FPS limiter unlocked GPU 1232/3599.4 most of the time and 82° max, CPU 65° (max fps 79 average 54)
FPS Limiter hardlock GPU 1199/3599.4 most of the time and 71° max CPU 60° (hardlock 30)

i finally sorted out 4 of the 16 steam keys i got with the bundles i took ...that mean 12 games that weren't at my taste on 16 (well 10 might be technically correct, some key were DLC)... quite a shame? tho 5.2€ for 4 games that would cost me 77.92€ in total is what i call a bargain ...
maybe i will do a giveaway ... dunno some title can be worth it (if some of my steam friends don't want any of them

 

[RCoon]

Any Warframe players?

I'll be relinquishing most of my life to Mad Max until publishing day on Thursday, but I may get a spot of free time some evening's this week (Thursday for sure). I hit Mastery Rank 12 last night on Warframe, and managed to get myself the Mesa frame.

Needless to say, it's OP as balls, and I can comfortably solo most XP farm missions (ODD, Sechura etc). Basically I'll be spending the next few days farming weapons to level 30 by entering a mission, pressing '4' and then sitting back while everything dies. If you're after a quick way to earn some credits and XP to get up your MR this week, poke me on steam and I'll invite you to my farming runs.

I've also got all drop rate boosters on until the end of tonight, so if I'm online, you're liable to get triple credit and material drops while you're with me. That means many Neurodes (ODD), and many Morphics (Sechura). Depends on where you want to farm really. Europa - Baal is good for Oxium if you need it. Friend of mine hosts a TS on his server so you can poke me on there too.

(reviews come first and take up a lot of time, so I'll probably be online for just an hour or less each night)

 

[rtwjunkie]

Playing nothing for all weekend. My Steam games are on a separate HDD from other games, and I outgrew the drive, so I spent most of the weekend re-downloading all games from Steam to a 2TB drive. I got as far as the "R's". Wonder how long before THAT one becomes obsolete.

I hope to get back to Satellite Reign, Wasteland 2 (finally), and try out Mad Max by tomorrow.

 

[Ahhzz]

Any Warframe players?

I'll be relinquishing most of my life to Mad Max until publishing day on Thursday, but I may get a spot of free time some evening's this week (Thursday for sure). I hit Mastery Rank 12 last night on Warframe, and managed to get myself the Mesa frame.

Needless to say, it's OP as balls, and I can comfortably solo most XP farm missions (ODD, Sechura etc). Basically I'll be spending the next few days farming weapons to level 30 by entering a mission, pressing '4' and then sitting back while everything dies. If you're after a quick way to earn some credits and XP to get up your MR this week, poke me on steam and I'll invite you to my farming runs.

I've also got all drop rate boosters on until the end of tonight, so if I'm online, you're liable to get triple credit and material drops while you're with me. That means many Neurodes (ODD), and many Morphics (Sechura). Depends on where you want to farm really. Europa - Baal is good for Oxium if you need it. Friend of mine hosts a TS on his server so you can poke me on there too.

(reviews come first and take up a lot of time, so I'll probably be online for just an hour or less each night)

Been doing Defiance for the Event the last couple of weeks. Jumped into WF a few weeks ago, and they've changed/added several physical moves, definitely took a bit to try to get used to those. I may try to wind that up a little soon, and will chase you down

 

[RCoon]

Been doing Defiance for the Event the last couple of weeks. Jumped into WF a few weeks ago, and they've changed/added several physical moves, definitely took a bit to try to get used to those. I may try to wind that up a little soon, and will chase you down

Moving through levels is way more fun/interesting/intuitive now. Archwing sucks major balls though. Nobody seems to be playing Archwing due to its sucky nature, which is a pain, because it's how you unlock the Limbo warframe. Got the Odonata Prime wing's and everything, but it takes so long to level them up.

I actually liked the Defiance TV show. Never got into the game though.

EDIT: Also, I accidentally had a lot of fun last night with the Attica (semi-auto crossbow). I've been levelling up weapons at random to increase MR, and ended up trying out a crazy build with the Attica just for fun. Basically I've turned it into an autamatic assault crossbow that shoots two explosive bolts at once, and it can empty its entire 16-bolt clip in about two seconds. Tonnes of fun, it's a shame its a slightly crappy weapon. I'll try and upload a video, cause it's hilarious to watch. I'll throw up the mod build for it once I'm done tinkering. I even spent an Orokin Catalyst to make it work, just cause it's nice to have fun outside of the meta.

 

[RejZoR]

Damn, finished CoD:GHOSTS yesterday and now I want to see what happens next. That ending totally left me with a hard on

In other news, I'm saving people from zombies in Killing Floor 2 as the best medic in the world

 

[Valeriant]

Phantom Pain this week, postponing everything else lol. Time really flies playing this game, I swear I was in this one mission and I was surprised looking at my watch when I nailed it. What a fun, immersing game! I really like the game design, it's a well-made simulation game; so many ways to do a mission, so many things affecting your "way" (is it true that more headshots mean more soldiers wearing helmet??). And I think it's nice how it rolls credits for each mission, makes me appreciate the designer whom I probably will never know. Some people say it's annoying but IMHO it's okay, i think it's how Kojima wanted to show that each mission is uniquely made by many talents. Anyway, it's skip-able.


Hey, how about we all play any of the Mario game for his 30th birthday (or maybe just watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLoRd6_a1CI). Thanks guys, that's fun, let's do this again in 2025. ;D

 

[Ahhzz]

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Hey, how about we all play any of the Mario game for his 30th birthday (or maybe just watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLoRd6_a1CI). Thanks guys, that's fun, let's do this again in 2025. ;D

no.

 

[Drone]

Got to chapter 7 in Last Story. Pretty beautiful scene on Stargazers' Tower

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Over half way through Shadow of Mordor. I'm finding it more relaxing than Bridge Constructor Playground because there's some pretty frustrating maps on that game. I'm getting the impression Shadow of Mordor is shorter than I though. I already had all of the skill tree available before leaving the first map. I was lead to believe Bridge Constructor Playground was ridiculously easy.

 

[Taz100420]

Online game really only anymore, Wartune. Great game IMHO. If anyone's interested, Im on US East Server 116.

 

[Kvsmms]

I got really into the new Mad Max. Cool open world. But the engine sounds are unreal. They should put a little more effort into making V6 sound different than V8 and stuff like that.

 

[RCoon]

I got really into the new Mad Max. Cool open world. But the engine sounds are unreal. They should put a little more effort into making V6 sound different than V8 and stuff like that.

Buggy too

 

[torgoth]

the secret world, some gta and gonna try the new metal gear that came with the 960 ))

 

[rtwjunkie]

Buggy too

That's some Fallout 3/Skyrim bugginess goin on! Did they borrow a team from Bethesda?

 

[Ahhzz]

@RCoon , did you ever get a preview of Rebel Galaxy? Am curious to get your thoughts...

 

[GreiverBlade]

That's some Fallout 3/Skyrim bugginess goin on! Did they borrow a team from Bethesda?

i thought buggy because of the dune buggy ... in the pics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_buggy learn the difference between writing buggy and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug

NITPICKING! and (mostly) totally joking ...

and @rtwjunkie you made my day with that post

weeeeeheeee .... lucky that test was done on a 32" screen ...

 

[RCoon]

@RCoon , did you ever get a preview of Rebel Galaxy? Am curious to get your thoughts...

Funny you mention it, got an email from their PR dept. yesterday about release dates. It's on my list for review, with it's release date approaching in a month's time.

I'll drop them a line to see if I can indeed score a press key. I've been looking forward to it though.

EDIT: Email sent. Even if we don't get a press copy, I'll get hold of a copy for an NPU review after release.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Speaking of bugs...I got stuck in a wall twice in Shadow of Mordor already: once with a Caragor and once without. Both times in a mission and I had to "leave mission" and do it over.

Playing the DLCs/add on stories to Shadow of Mordor now. Content wise, I'm kind of disappointed with the game. If you remove the Nemesis system and all of the time that consumes, there really isn't a whole lot of content outside of that. I'm not really complaining, just disappointed.

The Nemesis system also seems to be running out of gas after 30 hours of gameplay...which is also not much considering. I'm finding less and less that I even look at the weaknesses and strengths of enemies. It pretty much is just:
1. shoot everyone in the face with an arrow so they don't interrupt Captain/Warchief ass kickery.
2. shoot the captain/warchief in the face to check for invulnerability.
3. sprint/leap over captain/warchief to check for "can't be jumped over."
4. use stun to check for immunity to stun.
5. assault with sword to check for combat mastery.
6. if all else fails, use environment (explosives/bees) to check for/exploit weakness

I usually have them dominated by step 4. All of this happens in well under a minute, even if there are 20 Uruk defenders. What could they do differently? Not much I can think of without making the game ridiculously hard. Speaking of which, after I got through the first 2-3 hours of the game, I never died again until probably 30 hours in when I needed to for an achievement. I think this is because the bow is way overpowered against regular Uruk. Then again, I really don't like the melee combat because I miss so many of the counters or do the wrong attack to exploit a weakeness. I think it is because:
a) the view in combat is way too close (situational awareness is poor).
b) it seems like the Uruk crowd you instead of giving you space. The more Uruk, the worse the crowding.
c) there's not a large enough time frame for countering.

Assassin's Creed and Batman are both prime examples of how to fix these issues (move the view out, have a circle of those engaging you and a queue further out that replaces those, and provide very obvious animations that say "I'm gonna hurt you" before they carry it out).

The story really doesn't allow for a sequel (being a prequel to LotR) and that is disappointing for me. I hope to see the engine improved and reused for a new intellectual property (think sci-fi OR EVEN BATMAN!).

Edit: Those bolded letters. WB Games owns Batman too. I could totally see WB Games hiring Monolith to apply the Nemesis system to Arkham.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Oh, well that's lovely. I just took a trip to hell in Shadow of Mordor, literally. Just executed two Caragoths and was about to start killing a bunch of Uruks and claiming the last Caragoth for my self and the ground decided "NOPE" and I fell through. After falling for about a second, the game reacted to it like I had died (Captains updated). Ugh... ...I'm really losing interest in this game fast and I barely started the first of, what, four DLCs? Again, it isn't bad but... *sigh*

 

[Drone]

I usually don't mind bugs unless they're game breaking bugs. I never played Dead Space series (except for Dead Space Extraction on Wii which was fantastic btw) but I remember lots of people complained about game breaking bugs.

I've experienced bugs in 80% of games I played, not to mention all those FPS games with lame collision physics and moments where you fall through the floor lol. Some games even caused crashes. I had lots of crashes with Assassin's Creed 2 (even though Assassin's Creed 1 never crashed). I remember Torchlight crashed to the desktop too. I had really lots of crashes with Unreal 2.

Kingdom Hearts Re: coded had a couple of game breaking bugs.

I really hated annoying lags in Diablo 3, without those lags it'd be one of the best I've ever played. And that "always on" requirement sucks too.

And now I'd like to talk about games where I never ever experienced a single bug or glitch.


Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater

I played these three maybe 20-25 times (no kidding). I did all possible and impossible things in these games. Never had a single/bug or glitch lol.

Metroid Prime Trilogy
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep - Final Mix +
The Last Story
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

I've done all the craziest things in these games, with all characters on all difficulties and settings. They always worked perfectly, never had a single bug.

Doom 3 BFG edition

Solid gameplay, zero bugs/glitches/lags. Really enjoyed it. I hope Doom 4/Doom/whatever it called will be like this.

 

[Frick]

Early access since last week. I'm not having high hopes, but still!