[Maark Abbott]

Mentalist, on 27 September 2022 - 01:49 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 27 September 2022 - 07:54 AM, said:

Playing through AOE2 campaigns at last and I'm finding the unit control... extremely finnicky to be honest. There doesn't seem to be a good way to stop them from rushing b and dying to defenses, they seem to get pulled all that way even in defensive stance and if I choose the other two then they just sit and watch their mates die for a laugh.

maybe I need to revisit this game when work isn't stressing me to the nines.

Real heroes spam the "pause" button to give orders to individual units,

Wait, there's a pause button?????

[Mentalist]

Maark Abbott, on 28 September 2022 - 11:43 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 27 September 2022 - 01:49 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 27 September 2022 - 07:54 AM, said:

Playing through AOE2 campaigns at last and I'm finding the unit control... extremely finnicky to be honest. There doesn't seem to be a good way to stop them from rushing b and dying to defenses, they seem to get pulled all that way even in defensive stance and if I choose the other two then they just sit and watch their mates die for a laugh.

maybe I need to revisit this game when work isn't stressing me to the nines.

Real heroes spam the "pause" button to give orders to individual units,

Wait, there's a pause button?????

It's next to the scroll lock key on most keyboards

[Maark Abbott]

Mentalist, on 05 October 2022 - 05:38 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 28 September 2022 - 11:43 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 27 September 2022 - 01:49 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 27 September 2022 - 07:54 AM, said:

Playing through AOE2 campaigns at last and I'm finding the unit control... extremely finnicky to be honest. There doesn't seem to be a good way to stop them from rushing b and dying to defenses, they seem to get pulled all that way even in defensive stance and if I choose the other two then they just sit and watch their mates die for a laugh.

maybe I need to revisit this game when work isn't stressing me to the nines.

Real heroes spam the "pause" button to give orders to individual units,

Wait, there's a pause button?????

It's next to the scroll lock key on most keyboards

You know I'd never even paid attention to that. I was assuming something like FTL's pause function.

Subject of FTL:

[Maark Abbott]

And then the game gives me an absolute fucking dick tickle:

Engi homeworlds asteroid belt - success

Zoltan homeworlds research station - success

Rock homeworlds quest marker LITERALLY next door to the entry point beacon

And yes I now have the secret ship.

[Mentalist]

Played the demo for "Scars Above". I'm a fan.

It's a souls-lite, because there's a dodge-roll that uses up limited stamina (you also use up stamina waving your space-cleaver around, or by sprinting), and you save and respawn at monoliths, which also respawn all enemies. But that's where similarities end, because you don't lose any resources on death, you respawn with full ammo in all weapons, and some of the experience cubes also respawn between deaths, so you get a chance to farm xp and collect extra juicy skill points.

The game's combat relies on alternating between guns with different elemental ammo types (electrical, fire, cryo) and hitting enemy weakpoints. Enemy design is decisively Zerg-y for the most part, though they start showing more variety later on.
The story is sci-fi horror as you're part of a science team exploring a big alien monolith hanging in space above earth, and things go very wrong. There's a timeskip, you forget stuff, and to spend most of the demo chasing your fellow crew member who's got a very "captain Diego from System Shock 2" thing going on.


The really cool thing about the elemental weapons is that it takes a page out of BioShock-so electrocuting enemies in water kills them in a few hits, but if there's a light drizzle, it's easier to apply freezing effect, and THEN electrocute them. It's pretty neat, and there's also supposed to be poison, and a few other "weapon groups" so there's definitely potential here.


Basically, you explore alien complex, solve occasional puzzles and shoot Zerg and rock-apes. It's a pretty good time, and the loading screens and Steam page screenshots hint at loads more biomes than the swampy mountain area I got to play in the demo. So far, this looks to be the best thing Prime Matter decided to publish.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 06 October 2022 - 05:42 AM

[Mentalist]

Instead of playing the timed demos from this NextFest, I finally started the (no longer available) demo for "The Last Oricru"- which is coming out next week.


My initial hunch was correct. It's basically a sci-fi Witcher 2. Only with more soulsy combat, because of course it is. Still, it's got difficulty settings, so it's not particularly difficult so far.

Also it's peak, glorious AA Eurojank.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 08 October 2022 - 02:19 PM

[Morgoth]

I'm running through Cyberpunk these days, on the PS5. Lots of weird bugs still, but nothing game breaking at least. It didn't start all that well, Night City is a dead, soulless place as far as open worlds go. However, the quests, main and side, are on average pretty great. I am enjoying those. Cool character arcs too.

Now if only the driving wasn't terrible.

[Aptorian]

I bought Cyberpunk last year on sale but I keep waiting for some kind of finished state, before playing it. Currently I'm aiming to play it a month after the Expansion releases next year.

[Maark Abbott]

Downloaded Dyson Sphere Program on XBGP. Gonna see if it's any good.

[Maark Abbott]

Playing DSP on the Twoosh later, let's see if it's any good.

Amnesia and SOMA just hit game pass so I have those downloading as well.

[Maark Abbott]

How the fuck is Dyson Sphere Program a pre-release / early access? IT'S SO GOOD holy fuck

[Aptorian]

Heard Dyson Sphere was pretty good when it launched in Early Access.

Hoping it comes to Series X eventually. If the control scheme makes sense.

[Aptorian]

Finally got around to doing a replay of God of War (2018). Hoping to get through it before Ragnarok releases.

It's still as good as I remember and it looks great. Love the rich detail and animations on the characters. Can't wait to see how good a PS5 sequel will look.

[Maark Abbott]

Aptorian, on 21 October 2022 - 03:18 PM, said:

Heard Dyson Sphere was pretty good when it launched in Early Access.

Hoping it comes to Series X eventually. If the control scheme makes sense.

It's still early access but it is REALLY good. Mostly intuitive, really colourful, movement feels good. The moment I fully automated a research station was a heck of a feeling.

Also picked up SOMA. That shit scary. Going to a shipwreck soon.

[Mentalist]

Needed somethign totally brainless to take my mind off the war, and all the problems that come with buying a new place.

So I started tbe Devil May Cry collection on Steam.

The original game's pretty tough on a keyboard, not gonna lie.

EDIT: beat it on Normal. That was pretty all right, though my rankings are pretty terrible.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 29 October 2022 - 07:02 AM

[Mentalist]

Spending next few days at the new house, with just my crappy work laptop.

Gonna use the opportunity to give Hollow Knight another try

Edit: doing better now. Got the wall-climb, and basically been doing a bunch of exploring, ignoring the bosses and the main line entirely.
took forever to kill the mini-boss in the Soul Sanctum, then got to the actual boss, died once and noted out of there.

I saved up enough Geo to buy the moth-lantern thing, so now I can also take a look at some dark caves, which is neat.


not sure if I need to go back and explore the cliffs some more. I got the skill from the weaponmaster there, but I feel like there's more to it,

And I also need to grind some Geo to unlock more charm slots, I think.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 07 November 2022 - 02:49 PM

[Mentalist]

lost 3k Geo in the Hive.

There is no emoticon for what I am feeling ©

Finally getting the double-jump was nice, though. But the Crossing went mental soon afterwards, and I do not like DeepNest

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 12 November 2022 - 06:29 PM

[Maark Abbott]

Picked up Slime Rancher 1 again.

[Mentalist]

Ooh, the Hive reward was worth it. Though the knight-bee was a PITA.

Being able to swim in acid is super-neat. No longer need to worry about those tricky jumps so much.

I caved and checked the walkthrough to figure out where i can get another piece of ore to upgrade my weapon. The 6 Knights in the city were draining my will to live. But hopefully now that I'm all upgraded things will go smoother.

[Mentalist]

Okay. Murdered the Watcher Knights.

Went back to the Lost Basin and picked up another ability there. Finally got a Fog Canyon map, and got into Queen's Gardens. Decent chunk of stuff to explore here.

Edit: Nosk sucks. That is all.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 17 November 2022 - 03:55 AM