What are you playing?

[BumbleBee]

oh and I tried the co-op too and wasn't impressed but it's not like they are going to start with a show stopper.

 

[okidna]

Starpoint Gemini 2. Last night I met Sheldon Cooper in the game

 

[CounterZeus]

Stopped putting all my time in Dota 2 (still play almost every day though) and grinded my way to all but the hardest difficulty achievements in Killing Floor 2 early access. Also played quite a few hours of Town of Salem.

 

[64K]

Fallout New Vegas. @rtwjunkie talked me into it. So far I'm having a lot of fun with it and regret putting it off for so long. It's a big game though and I don't expect I will finish the main story and a lot of the side quests in one stretch. I will play it for ~ 2 weeks and then set it aside and play a different kind of game and then come back to it. And I've got all of the DLC too.

 

[rtwjunkie]

@64K that's awesome!! If you haven't already, check out the number of mods on the Nexus for FNV. Only Skyrim has more.

I'm glad you've got the DLC's. Two of the best quest lines are DLC.

 

[Drone]

You're under arrest, Mr. Bond!

5 mins later ...

 

[RCoon]

You're under arrest, Mr. Bond!

5 mins later ...

God, I went back and started playing Goldeneye on the N64 this weekend. Enemies are about as accurate as Storm Troopers.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I'm pushing through Starpoint Gemini 2: Origins and the bug rate skyrocketed. I'm up to 37 and several of them required me to redo entire missions. One of them ("Bookworm" achievement not working) I found threads dating back to 2014. I don't know how Valve hasn't kicked them back to Early Access for not finishing the game.


I'm pretty miffed right now because I'm level 22 and I need to be level 27 to advance the story. SG2 was actually a lot better in this regard because you could go to a high-level area, start killing hostiles, and level up really fast. I think the entire world levels with you in SG1 and SG2: Origins. There are no hot spots for power leveling. And remember, levels don't really matter...

 

[RCoon]

Best. Transformer. Ever.

 

[Frick]

@64K that's awesome!! If you haven't already, check out the number of mods on the Nexus for FNV. Only Skyrim has more.

I'm glad you've got the DLC's. Two of the best quest lines are DLC.

Dunno I toyed around with mods a bit but generally they didn't feel worth the effort. Most of them is garbage or gives you more toys or weapons, but that is akin to cheating in my book. Survival mods could be nice, but they rarely do what I think they should do. Weather/realism mods could be nice, but the ones I tried were a bit buggy.

At a first playthough they're definitely not worth it IMO.

 

[BumbleBee]

Once you hit the massive cruisers you start to feel indestructible. I remember when I got the Paladin I charged into central space thinking I could endlessly destroy empire ships. I was wrong.

I think it's a shame you don't get carriers early in the game. That said having squadron wings to deploy does feel a bit OP.

controller support is BUNK

 

[FordGT90Concept]

What's OP is the Rift power with 27 RAD Field. Lay it down and literally everything dies...except you...because you are awesome. XD

I've killed Dreadnaughts and Carriers with a Frigate using it.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Dunno I toyed around with mods a bit but generally they didn't feel worth the effort. Most of them is garbage or gives you more toys or weapons, but that is akin to cheating in my book. Survival mods could be nice, but they rarely do what I think they should do. Weather/realism mods could be nice, but the ones I tried were a bit buggy.

At a first playthough they're definitely not worth it IMO.

Sir, you mentioned like two of the 70 or so categories. Pretty much anything you could imagine. From excellent house mods to texture mods to companion mods to quest mods, with many of the quest mods being top-notch.

At the top of the heap there is the 2 bounty hunter ones....the name escapes me. Anyway, they were just about the best old Western you can get.

It's that ability to add new adventures, new areas to explore, many of them as good or better than the game that makes mods to appealing.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Finally got a good picture of SG2 combat:

That's probably the 20th time I tried; never seem to get attacked from many sides simultaneously.

 

[RCoon]

Finally got a good picture of SG2 combat:

That's probably the 20th time I tried; never seem to get attacked from many sides simultaneously.

You use beam weapons? Always a railgunner myself. How do you deal with the energy use? (I haven't played since pre-release 1.0, so weapon energy costs may have changed)

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I was only using beam weapons to get the associated achievement. My set up is/was for plasma so I since changed back. Beam, I think, is best for capping ships because there is no leading required. The DPS is also more or less constant so you can (relatively) safely lower the target's health and keep it low as the boarding proceeds.

In terms of power draw, beams are the lowest and I think plasma is the highest. Plasma seems to miss the most but when it connects, it does a lot of damage.

I'm only up to Ensign (Cruisers) right now with plasma. I don't think I can decide between railguns and plasma until I get my Celestial back.

I'm beginning to think radiation damage is more important than type of weapons equipped. For example, the beam weapons should have had to chew through the shields before damaging the hull but I am very certain I saw a lot of hull damage and still having about 1/3 of shields remaining. It could be that it burns through one of the shields so fast that it reaches the hull before they maneuver or it could be radiation damage. I'm not really sure.


Funny thing about that pic: I think I got the achievement right after taking it and then I dropped the radiation rift. It killed all three of those battleships. XD

 

[RCoon]

I was only using beam weapons to get the associated achievement. My set up is/was for plasma so I since changed back. Beam, I think, is best for capping ships because there is no leading required. The DPS is also more or less constant so you can (relatively) safely lower the target's health and keep it low as the boarding proceeds.

In terms of power draw, beams are the lowest and I think plasma is the highest. Plasma seems to miss the most but when it connects, it does a lot of damage.

I'm only up to Ensign (Cruisers) right now with plasma. I don't think I can decide between railguns and plasma until I get my Celestial back.

I'm beginning to think radiation damage is more important than type of weapons equipped. For example, the beam weapons should have had to chew through the shields before damaging the hull but I am very certain I saw a lot of hull damage and still having about 1/3 of shields remaining. It could be that it burns through one of the shields so fast that it reaches the hull before they maneuver or it could be radiation damage. I'm not really sure.


Funny thing about that pic: I think I got the achievement right after taking it and then I dropped the radiation rift. It killed all three of those battleships. XD

By the sounds of all that a lot has changes since my last playthrough (I've done it twice before release and shortly after). I should probably pick it up again since I got the new DLC free as well as their new free bit of DLC too.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

My list of bugs has reached 41. About half of them are in Origins. All of the crashes were in the original campaign but all of the broken main story missions were in Origins; they both have major problems. I think it plays like an Early Access/beta title but they claim it isn't. If I write a review for it, I'd probably stamp it "not recommended."

The Secrets of Antherea was disappointing. The SG2 campaign was disappointing. SG1/SG2 Origins campaign is still the best but I still hate the "Level Up to ##" requirements. It's not as bad in SG2: Origins though because the random missions are pretty generous with XP.

I think SG1 with side missions/random missions/bounties would make for the best SG title. The 3D universe really doesn't suit the game in SG2.

 

[okidna]

I'm pushing through Starpoint Gemini 2: Origins and the bug rate skyrocketed. I'm up to 37 and several of them required me to redo entire missions. One of them ("Bookworm" achievement not working) I found threads dating back to 2014. I don't know how Valve hasn't kicked them back to Early Access for not finishing the game.

I got the "Bookworm" achievement yesterday just by reading all help/tutorial entries (click all the "Next" button) in the Starpoint Gemini 2 main campain, not the Original campaign.

 

[Drone]

God, I went back and started playing Goldeneye on the N64 this weekend. Enemies are about as accurate as Storm Troopers.

Haven't played that one on N64 for a while, even though I played Perfect Dark recently. Enemies in GoldenEye on Wii are extremely tough and smart. Especially Russian OMON troopers with AK-47 with reflect sight. In close range like the one below it's pretty much game over (even on normal)

Btw I forgot that tank levels are phenomenal. Everything in the city is breakable unfortunately James's tank too

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I got the "Bookworm" achievement yesterday just by reading all help/tutorial entries (click all the "Next" button) in the Starpoint Gemini 2 main campain, not the Original campaign.

Ah, that would do it. I'm in Origins campaign. Need to add an asterisk to that one...



Edit: I got my Celestial dreadnaught and I'm thinking plasma is pretty hopeless. It does a lot of damage but only on targets that aren't moving (which is rare). They also deplete battery energy really fast. With the railguns on the Celestial, I could keep going at full speed and rail guns would tear up anything that gets close. The range on the plasmas are about half and they're pretty poor at hitting anything at their maximum range. Add in the energy depletion rate, rail guns are overall better. IMO, if you want to tear shields down fast and capture, use lasers; if you want to tear down hulls fast for kills, use rail guns. Plasma? Fuggedaboutit!


Edit: I took my Warlock III (plasma) equipped Celestial against three Directorate cruisers and I wasn't impressed with its performance. The Celestial has the heaviest shields in the game so I was never at any risk of dying but it took a lot longer than I expected for the plasmas to kill the cruisers--even with power to weapons and flying in the middle of them. Maybe they're far more difficult which could explain it but...yeah...I'm thinking I should pick up Ripper IIIs (rail guns) or more Isis IIIs (beams).

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Finally done with Starpoint Gemini 2 and I took one last picture. This is what happens when you use a radiation rift on a whole lot of battleships/dreadnaughts (I literally didn't shoot at all and I count 14 ships killed in seconds):

By the way, I failed that mission and had to try again because I killed them too fast. OP. As. Hell.


And now to email my 905-line bug/crash/missing features list.

 

[yogurt_21]

On my 4th playthrough of Skyrim w/o expansions (don't have them yet). I've finished the brotherhood, thieves guild, and mages college quests, raided a good chunk of the map (though I'm saving the dwemer ruins mostly for later) sitting at level 52 and yet still haven't met parthunaax or started the civil war quest. It's like the best quest-lines have nothing to do with the main ones. Also sneak, bow, and magic level reallly fast when you do those 3 quest-lines.

 

[rtwjunkie]

The Paarthurnax quest is pretty good, bc there are a number of side quests associated with it.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

don't have them yet

For shame!