Baldur’s Gate 3. Great game but I wish it had more options as to races and subclasses. I get they can’t put everything in though.
New SSD is installed, and Fallout 4 is back up and running - woot!
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Started playing an indie title called Starsector. The learning curve leaves much to be desired (kinda frustrating to learn, in my opinion), but wow, it’s amazingly fun and surprisingly complex for such a small game. It’s basically 2D top-down Freelancer, minus the campaign. Exploration and combat is where the fun’s at, along with how many mods the game has.
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It looks a lot like Galactic Civilizations, which is up to version 4 now I think, with a shittonne of DLC and extras.
Helldivers 2 has taken over my life.
Man GC, last played GC2, fun game but I wasn’t as into ship decorating as the game seemed to want me to be.
I just beat Dead Space (2008) and damn that was a fun 11 hours.
Then tried to do my part and squash bugs in helldivers2 but couldn’t get in.
So i played Halo Infinite. Good game. Amazing on the steam deck. I love the portability.
I need to figure out a way to get WoW and FF14 to run on the deck as i don’t think they have native Linux support.
Yeah, the servers are trying their best to keep managed democracy in danger.
Apparently they can’t just add servers like Palworld, the back server code isn’t scalable. They seem to have had no idea that this shit would sell.
Triangle Strategy. It’s on my list and lucky for me our library has a copy pretty much always available. So I can play and not have to buy!
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The original was a super small indie game that was free on PS plus for a loooooong time.
I don’t think anyone at that team had any idea how much people want to kill bugs and borgs.
We are thinking about going the SteamDeck route for Siglet Primus (now 15), as his budget gaming desktop of 2018 is getting a little long in the tooth, but still perfectly serviceable except for keeping up with gaming. He’s not as serious a gamer as Siglet Secundus (13), who has a current budget gaming build.
If I were deploying again, I would immediately buy one, but those days are thankfully over.
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I’ve not been playing games as much lately, but when I do it’s Wildermyth. I love the combat interface, which feels like a love letter to classic TTRPG combat.
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Love Wildermyth
It has been worth every penny i have spent. I just picked up Elden Ring for it and god it looks better than it ever did on my ps4.
Best thing about Helldivers II is the community. People are really getting into the battles for planets and randoms will show up talking about serving managed democracy one cluster bomb at a time. Intentional team killing is rare, and often funny. Accidental team killing is frequent and part of the lore, and even funnier.
People being assholes are kicked as communists or bug/bot sympathizers.
I love that the hyper-democracy is a clear joke. Everything about the game is such fun tongue in cheek, with out being anoying
So I was surprised to find out Managed Democracy is a real thing. It’s Poland between WW I and II, and Russia today. You can vote for whoever you want, and not a thing will change. {You can make an argument most representative forms of government are like this, but this is by design}
But apparently in the game world you take a silly internet test and it determines your vote. Like the what kind of power tool tests or whatever. Seems legit to me.
Oh that is interesting, I had thought it was just a silly game term, but cool info!
Helldivers II is one of the best games I have ever played, if you get decent players with you. Not even great, just decent works.
They are releasing more stuff seems like every day, and even if there isn’t something new in the game there often seems to be something new to do.
And I was messing with the game settings the other day and the volumes all go to 11.
MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries downloaded an update recently and it added an unexpected benefit: cheat codes. I only stumbled upon it because I had mapped the tilde key to be the toggle chain fire key and that’s what activates the command console. Wasn’t expecting it to show up in the middle of a battle, though.
This makes me happy. MechWarrior 2 was a blast when you used cheat codes. Take a heavy 'Mech, strip away all armor and heat sinks, turn on invulnerability and unlimited jump jets, turn off heat, and cram in as many pulse lasers as you can. There was one mission where jets flew overhead at the start but you could never get them. Not a problem when you can fly to the point where they finally stop.
I don’t know if the MW5:Mercs cheat codes will allow me to change my 'Mechs into omnimechs, where you can put any weapon on the 'Mech like you could in MW2. The “GiveAllWeapons” and “GiveCBills” commands are coming in handy. It takes 15 seconds to increase the quantity by 1 on that many weapons. Lots of goodies to try out now.
Methinks I’m gonna spend about a half hour building up the armory and get busy with “Tier 5 all the things” upgrades. The console allows you to paste in text with CTRL-V, which cuts down on the typing.
Gonna be fun.
Update: When you’re putting weapons on the 'Mechs, the game calculates total damage solely by what each individual shot can deliver. It does not factor in how many times the weapon can be fired each minute.
Example: If you change the ER Large Laser with a value of 13.0 to an ER Large Laser Short Burst that can do 9.1, the damage rating goes down by 3.9.
If you factor in damage per minute, it’s this:
ER Large Laser: 13.0 x 10.884 = 141.492
ER Large Laser - SB: 9.1 x 17.279 = 157.239
The Short Burst uses about 30% less heat during that time, so it’s a better overall weapon.
Is it worth spending $40 on for my kiddo? He would probably be playing on Steam. Idk if any of the other platforms appeal to him.