We have 6x taming on ours. I tamed an Argentavis in a little over 20 min the other night because we also ain’t go time for that. I’m pleased with the acquisition. It’s got way more range and stamina than my Pteranodon. The latter is a bit faster but the trade off is worth it.
We tamed a Quetzal a couple weeks ago. That’s a two person job. We put a platform saddle on it and now we have a mobile resource platform. Gathering goes a lot quicker when you can just fly out to where a resource is, unload your dinos, mine said resource, load the dinos back up, and fly home. We’ll load up a couple of Ankylos and come back with an ungodly amount of metal. The industrial forge is a godsend here.
I’ve also been building up the base a lot. It’s oddly relaxing. Like Minecraft with better graphics. I had to mine so much stone.
One of our peeps is currently playing Destiny 2 so there’s only the two of us but we’re still making progress, even if we have to keep Eric’s dinos fed.
I finally got one to ‘activate’ and it really does mess with things. I think the Mysteries are broadly similar in ‘goal’ to the ‘End Game Crisis’ that come up in Stellaris: They’re an external chaos that forces players out of neat, clean boxes or stasis. In Stellaris, for example, some of them are galaxy-wide threats: the stereotypical robot invasion, or extra-dimensional beasties. They can and do wreck major parts of your game world and throw it into disarray.
Similar in Mars: The one I saw went from “Oh, I found a cool thing. Let’s poke it.” to “These things are destroying my colony by freezing it to death.” It turned into a surprisingly fun struggle to complete several research goals and built the counter-measures while dealing with my colony dying by inches.
The main thing is ‘winning’ felt like an accomplishment, albeit a small one. I am, in general, currently considering the value to me of ‘endless’ games and I’m finding they’re unsatisfactory as I need a feeling of accomplishment.
I don’t have a very powerful computer system, so I’m not able to play any of the newer games. I installed something called Frostpunk, but had to get my money refunded because I couldn’t get it to work.
I guess I’ll just start replaying Portal, Portal II, HalfLife 2 and all the expansions, etc. My girlfriend is getting frustrated with me watching YouTube videos all the time. She actually enjoys watching me play these games.
OO! Maybe I can get that newer laptop I put downstairs to run a new game. I guess I’ll find out later today. HOORAY! Something new to try!
If you keep an eye out, you can get a couple versions of Xbox for crazy cheap, especially the one that doesn’t come with an optical drive. AFAIK, you can still plug in a USB BluRay drive, though.
Those games are some of my favourites anyway. I have replayed them many times over. I bought the Oculus Quest at least partly because HalfLife Alyx will be a VR only game when it comes out in about 5 days time.
It is indeed, and it was glorious. I ripped and tore my way through the campaign on the normal difficulty last weekend, and I may do another run through on Ultra Violence or Nightmare just because I can, and also to hunt down the rest of the secrets I missed.
For the record, I am totally garbage at X-Wing but have some questions:
How many keys do you really need to ‘know’? After playing a few hours, I got the hang of the basics: Switching weapons (and modes), changing targeting, some energy reallocation. But I haven’t touched a bunch of oddball keys for comms and such.
Is this totally worthless, or at least better than a mouse for flight sims?
I got the GoG.com edition because, hey, it was $3. On Mac, this gets me three downloads: The original '93 release, the '94 CD-Rom release, and a '98 Edition which looks to have upgraded the graphics quite a bit. The Steam release is only the Special Edition: Any idea if this will get the better graphics on Mac?
Any other tips?
It’s still a fun game even if the graphics are kind of garbage. Putting on my big over-the-ear headset to zone out for a bit really helps de-stress and not feel like I’m doing work if I happen to be at my desk.
And wow auto correct. Thrustmaster, not christmases.
I’ve had three, with the first being about $100, in 1994 money and chunky as hell. Bought for this game, along with a 345 mb hard drive for 340 dollars.
My Pathfinder group had its first Roll20 session last Saturday, the first one in well over a year due to scheduling conflicts. It was awesome!!! In some ways, it actually worked better than a F2F gaming session. We used Discord for the audio. It took us about half an hour to get up to speed - fortunately we have some veteran Roll20 players, and they were able to help us newbies - and we played for about five hours. Worked so well that, as we’re all housebound for the foreseeable future, we’re planning to play every two weeks.
, even on the easiest difficulty level it’s way harder than DOOM 2016.