What are you playing?

[robot zombie]

I like reading your posts sometimes mate, but I just don't have time to read mini-essays in every post, try to condense some? lol it's all good.

Ahhh, I hear you. It's why I always make it a point to never hold that against people and make sure they know. It can be a lot to try and get through, and I'm not the most organized.

It's something I want to work on more, but there are still times where I can't help it. So there will be a catch 22 where I've caught myself kind of going off AFTER I've written it. I then have to ask myself if I should just forget about it, or post it, since I've already lost that time to it. With a bit more time, I could trim it down, and I can probably manage that more than I do these days. There's a balancing act from a personal satisfaction point. Sometimes I just want to express myself, where there's some thing I just can't seem to get out of me and I really just don't want to curtail it, even if it costs me a larger audience. I just accept that it will be past the limits of some, and maybe there will be some other interaction we can connect on, where it is a little easier for me to be brief.

To me, the worst that can happen with a post like the one I made before, is nobody reads it. At best, somebody reads it and it really resonates. Better odds just posting it. But yeah, I'd like to be avoiding that dilemma a little more often myself - connect with people in a way that is easier for them when I post.

 

[robot zombie]

Wow man, I broke my FO4 quest list good today. Dumbass rescue quests... geez.

Naw, they're dumb as hell, I'm sorry. Who's idea was it to have settlers throw those at you like water balloons when you simply run by them? Listen... I was running past Greentop Nursery - I was on a mission to Parsons Asylum further north.

But goddamnit if I didn't get in the radius of a quest-giving NPC at Greentop. I straight up didn't interact with him, but I got a quest when he simply said the line "You've got to help me, they've got my wife!" as I SPRINTED past him. I heard it and was like "Aww hell NAW!" and just kept running. I literally did not stop sprinting for a moment.

I didn't know THAT gave me a timed kidnapping quest to do. HOW?! When did he tell me where to even go or... what the problem was? Settlers do that, but it's supposed to have a little dialog tree. Like, you can accept or decline it. I wanted to do it, just not yet! I shoulda grabbed the dialog and just declined it, I guess.

It of course timed-out while I was off and I failed. But you don't get to just move-on from that. You've got to tell Preston to clear out the quest. At the time, Preston was waiting to take The Castle. So after finishing other things, I went to do that, get the stupid thing off of my quest list. Easy enough. Fat Man for the Queen 'Lurk.

Problem... it was already bugged. You ARE supposed to talk to them to begin the quest. I failed it without ever saying anything, I guess they never expected the player would just ignore the settlers, ever? When I talked to Preston, I think it actually caused an overflow or some conflict on the quest stage variable. The quest now sits in my list, showing I've completed "Talk to Preston" but the very first task above that, "Talk to the settlers at..." is OPEN, as though I'm meant to go do that. Except I can't even make the quest active in my list. And the one settler now there (the one who gave me the quest) just tells me I suck and he knew I would fail.

It's actually pretty crazy! I don't know what happened. I have dug around in console. You can type "sqt" to see all of the quests you have, along with id's for them, and the locations they point to. It's just not there! It doesn't exist in the game's data, not even as a completed one. It is in some pocket dimension that I don't understand. The only way I could see fixing it is to actually edit the save... which is something only crazy people do. When they open their mouths, computer sounds come out.


So NOW, I'm just gonna load back to right before I talked to Preston, and give myself the win on the quest for the hardship it has now put me through. Fuck you, Bethesda. I tried to compliment you yesterday! I liked you better yesterday, when you had Jack Cabot spinning in place while he gave an inspiring speech about taking back Parsons, or that NPC you had stuck in her settlement's 12' x 12' gourd patch all night, just trying not to step on the gourds on the way to bed, I presume.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Wow man, I broke my FO4 quest list good today. Dumbass rescue quests... geez.

I'll have to remember this if they ever do FallOut4 on GOG.

 

[robot zombie]

I'll have to remember this if they ever do FallOut4 on GOG.

It's all fixable in console, though it's easier to make it fail than pass because that quest spawns an NPC and sets some script flags that won't clear until the quest finishes. You can roll back the quest, go to where they died, resurrect them with the console, and send them back, but it's still not having it. Best to stop and take the quest if a settler ever tries to 'grab' the camera and talk to you. I'm betting there are also simple mods that will just mute those quests. You can still get them from Preston, or by just talking to settlers when discovering settlements.

Hit me up if that ever happens to you though, haha.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hit me up if that ever happens to you though, haha.

Will do! They gotta bring FO4 to GOG first...

 

[SN2716057]

[Valheim] Finally build a boat so I can explore the unknown

If the wind favors me that is..

 

[Splinterdog]

Such a well written game, Deus EX and I love these little touches.

 

[Space Lynx]

[Valheim] Finally build a boat so I can explore the unknown
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If the wind favors me that is..

if you come across anything interesting be sure to post it here!

on topic: I am playing Sid Meier's Starships, and having way more fun than I ever thought I would.

 

[SN2716057]

if you come across anything interesting be sure to post it here!

on topic: I am playing Sid Meier's Starships, and having way more fun than I ever thought I would.

Can do!

 

[ne6togadno]

Can do!

make sure you've killed the tree boss.
he holds the key for interesting stuff

 

[Vayra86]

[Valheim] Finally build a boat so I can explore the unknown
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Don't be like me and die with all your crap in your backpack and no portal on the other coast.

I did that twice now, burned out from the game straight after. Mustering courage now for a third try Killer bees. Twice. They looked at me and that was that.
Its a real shame because I did love the whole experience, but man that is some hardcore stuff after spending days working your way through the early stage.

 

[robot zombie]

I'm actually playing a little Roller Coaster Tycoon for the nostalgia. There's a mod called OpenRCT2 for the second version that brings it to full w10 compatibility... it's almost a full re-code. The original 2 were mostly written in assembly, by an insane person named Chris Sawyer - see his thoughts come to him in the form of hexadecimal, so assembly is like HTML to him. Therefor he says to himself "I will code a fully-featured novel and deep theme park and roller-coaster simulation game from scratch in assembly today." And that is in fact, perfectly rational.

Obviously very efficient, but not without bugs and severe limitations to things like the ai for guest pathing. It actually has its fair share of bugs. It is quite stable, but not unbreakable. OpenRCT2 officially joins both versions - if you have them installed, you can link them in OpenRCT2 and run the scenarios from the OG game and expansions with RCT2 features. It used to be you had to get custom scenarios made for the originals. Has some nice cheats and QOL stuff built-in too. Advanced building options. Vari-speed. I'm also running it at 165fps through OpenGL - it even has scaling and filtering for 4k displays. For some reason, you can also... go online and build with a friend?

I dunno. I breezed through the first scenario, just trying to remember how the game works. I'm already fully invested

 

[lexluthermiester]

There's a mod called OpenRCT2 for the second version that brings it to full w10 compatibility... it's almost a full re-code.

That's what I've been using for years. Also works for RCT1 as well.

 

[Ruru]

Gambling doesn't always go well... opened few chests in CSGO and the results were kinda meh.... selling crap from my Steam inventory to get enough balance for one more key

 

[Vayra86]

Gambling doesn't always go well... opened few chests in CSGO and the results were kinda meh.... selling crap from my Steam inventory to get enough balance for one more key

It never goes well The house always wins, check Gabe's bank account for proof.

 

[GreiverBlade]

It never goes well The house always wins, check Gabe's bank account for proof.

i had to

 

[SN2716057]

Don't be like me and die with all your crap in your backpack and no portal on the other coast.

I did that twice now, burned out from the game straight after. Mustering courage now for a third try Killer bees. Twice. They looked at me and that was that.
Its a real shame because I did love the whole experience, but man that is some hardcore stuff after spending days working your way through the early stage.

My to go method is: any island is a B&B I've not yet found those B's but I've read about them. So I'll avoid them like the real ones, check.

It's most definitely not an easy game..also for my PC (it runs at 30fps ), which is weird considering how it looks.
I tried a few user generated maps & builds..but got only 10 fps..so..alas.

 

[Bomby569]

I started AC Valhalla, i really enjoyed the start in the nordic regions. Quickly lost interest in England, with the same repeat formula of Ubisoft. And England doesn't look like the best setting, there's a limit to how much hills and flowers i can take.

Fighting is amazing.

 

[Splinterdog]

Here's another game I never finished, System Shock 2, updated with some nice render mods through the mod manager. It's remarkable that even today, mods and tweaks are still being made for these games.

 

[Vayra86]

My to go method is: any island is a B&B I've not yet found those B's but I've read about them. So I'll avoid them like the real ones, check.

It's most definitely not an easy game..also for my PC (it runs at 30fps ), which is weird considering how it looks.
I tried a few user generated maps & builds..but got only 10 fps..so..alas.

30 FPS? Surely you can tweak that a little. I play 3440x1440 at 60-80 FPS on a 1080.

 

[Frick]

So in Ass'ss' Creed Valhalla, you play as a viking, right? Can you pick the gender at the start? Because I just realized the name you play is Eivor (I knew that) Varinsdottir (didn't know that), and that makes no sense at all when playing as a man, even in this day and age.

 

[the54thvoid]

Yeah, Eivor is the name and yeah, it's a girls name. But you know that.

Some say it should have been Ivar, or Eivor. Frankly, I don't mind. In the UK we have a few gender ambiguous names: Alex, Lindsay, Sandy, etc, not even considering our interpretations of foreign names (i.e., Michele <pr> Mee'shell, to me is female, but to an Italian it is male <pr> Mikalay).

What's in a name when your culture is rewritten by the Quebec gaming mafia?

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

Ghost Recon Wildlands. I always thought it was Ubisoft Far Cry copy-paste but third person. How wrong I was. I oughta kick myself for not playing it sooner. Bolivia is fucking beautiful. And that's high praise coming from me who still can't finish Shadow of the Tomb Raider because of the muddy poop-color aesthetic that most games based in South America are.

The game's perfect. It's like a devil's playground. Again I wanna kick myself for not playing it sooner.

 

[xu^]

currently playing and almost completed Grid 2019 ( not liked to much apparently)
But im just over 50 hrs in and to be honest ive loved it, 2 steam achievements to get, 1 is a laptime i just cant get, and 1 ridiculous 1 of driving 40k km (the circumference of the earth) after completing the main career and 99% of the dlc im on around 17k.... so maybe i wont get that 1.

Will deff be buying Grid Legends when ive finished with this.

 

[Frick]

Yeah, Eivor is the name and yeah, it's a girls name. But you know that.

Some say it should have been Ivar, or Eivor. Frankly, I don't mind. In the UK we have a few gender ambiguous names: Alex, Lindsay, Sandy, etc, not even considering our interpretations of foreign names (i.e., Michele <pr> Mee'shell, to me is female, but to an Italian it is male <pr> Mikalay).

What's in a name when your culture is rewritten by the Quebec gaming mafia?

It was the last name I was thinking about. An american version would be Elizabeth, Daughter of Vanir, because that's what Vanirsdottir mean. Literally.