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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:Is there a way to get more than 18 wood in one go because man that makes it drag Well yeah, you have "settlers" do it for you!
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:Is there a way to get more than 18 wood in one go because man that makes it drag Extra workers who aren't assigned to a specific task (hunter, trapper) gather wood every 10 ticks as well - one per worker. No spoilers because this literally happens like 5 minutes in
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Kaboobi posted:Oh goodie, a port of Bioshock for iOS, just what everyone wanted. Is this really the best graphical quality an iPad Air is capable of? Is the problem just a lack of GPU horsepower or is it Apple's app size restrictions necessitating radically downscaled textures? Infinity Blade 3 and other console-specific stuff manages to look far better. edit: Bioshock's system reqs for PCs calls for 8 gigs, Apple's got a 2 gig limit on app size. So there's that. The Insect Court fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Aug 5, 2014 05:49
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Starborn Anarkist is pretty awesome. My referral code is RZNHW, if anyone else is playing. I think it's free for another day, right?
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Aug 5, 2014 05:54
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Duranki posted:Starborn Anarkist is pretty awesome. My referral code is RZNHW, if anyone else is playing. I think it's free for another day, right? Entered. I was going to bug my wife with this but instead I can just begin the referral spam! NGUG6
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The Insect Court posted:Is this really the best graphical quality an iPad Air is capable of? Is the problem just a lack of GPU horsepower or is it Apple's app size restrictions necessitating radically downscaled textures? Infinity Blade 3 and other console-specific stuff manages to look far better. The Air can certainly do better, but they want it to run on as many devices as possible.
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Aug 5, 2014 07:31
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I want to buy a hero for Kingdom Rush 2. Any suggestions? Are the more expensive heroes really that much better than the cheaper ones?
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Aug 5, 2014 08:59
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I was on trains and buses all day so I played 80 Days. Nice game. I am a bad valet, though I have not managed to kill Fogg yet.
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Aug 5, 2014 10:54
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Not sure I'm going to get into Starborn Anarkist, but beating skyforce has left a void in my life so I must try. referral: E2MWU
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greasyhands posted:Not sure I'm going to get into Starborn Anarkist, but beating skyforce has left a void in my life so I must try. Do the wing guns ever angle outward any? Do you ever get to launch more than one missile at a time w/ upgrades?
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Aug 5, 2014 13:42
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Away all Goats posted:I want to buy a hero for Kingdom Rush 2. Any suggestions? Are the more expensive heroes really that much better than the cheaper ones? The wizard is probably the best from my experience.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:04
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In Starborn Anarkist, does anyone have some tips on how I can set up my ship to make it anything besides an absolute nightmare to control? By far the hardest part of the game is just the loose wiggly controls where I can't steer into the powerups (or out of the lasers) in time. Is it just how the game is and I have to deal w/it? If so, I may be done with it pretty quickly.
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Away all Goats posted:I want to buy a hero for Kingdom Rush 2. Any suggestions? Are the more expensive heroes really that much better than the cheaper ones? I bought the Protoss dude and he fuckin owns. Pros: Does a shitload of damage and ignores armor. Has a decent amount of hp and armor. Does a rather incredible amount of AOE damage due to his skills. This damage can hit air units (despite him being melee), and will easily deal with a "first air wave" scenario if you're unprepared. His best attribute is that he can OHKO up to three units at a time. This OHKO effect can hit units with 5000+ hp/huge armor and often lets you greed towards towers that are majority AOE (and lacking single target dps) cuz you can isolate the big dudes who need to die. Cons: Melee, I guess. He can die if you forget about him.
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The Insect Court posted:Is this really the best graphical quality an iPad Air is capable of? Is the problem just a lack of GPU horsepower or is it Apple's app size restrictions necessitating radically downscaled textures? Infinity Blade 3 and other console-specific stuff manages to look far better. Everything about Infinity Blade was custom made to be as optimized as possible for iOS devices where Bioshock is being crammed on there years after the fact. They're probably doing the minimum amount of work required that's not them rebuilding vast swatches of the game because it'd lost likely be a huge undertaking. Also Bioshock was built off of a highly customized version of Unreal Engine 2 which didn't have any mobile porting options. I know there was a Bioshock UE4 tech demo floating around a while back so I'm not sure if the mobile build was ported to a newer engine or what. But yeah, it's easier to make things look nicer if you know going in what platforms you're targeting. Porting years later to a platform that didn't exist when the game was originally made is probably a bitch.
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Yodzilla posted:Everything about Infinity Blade was custom made to be as optimized as possible for iOS devices where Bioshock is being crammed on there years after the fact. They're probably doing the minimum amount of work required that's not them rebuilding vast swatches of the game because it'd lost likely be a huge undertaking. Also to be fair, for as bad as Bioshock is it's still miles better than Infinity Blade 
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Aug 5, 2014 16:21
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Gegil posted:Do the wing guns ever angle outward any? Do you ever get to launch more than one missile at a time w/ upgrades? Nope! But your wing guns do hit targets not aligned with your hitbox so you can creep up to your targets. SweetJahasus posted:In Starborn Anarkist, does anyone have some tips on how I can set up my ship to make it anything besides an absolute nightmare to control? By far the hardest part of the game is just the loose wiggly controls where I can't steer into the powerups (or out of the lasers) in time. Is it just how the game is and I have to deal w/it? If so, I may be done with it pretty quickly. You'll get used to that. You have to get a good vector to properly collect things, you can't last minute steer into things unless you have a really light ship or really upgraded engines. Also have fun getting used to the pivot point on some ships. It gets pretty wild.
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Annoying thing about Starborn Anarkist is the power-up system. You have to collect a million of the drat things to make your pew-pew, missiles, or laser do decent damage. Oh, oops! You accidentally flew into a different weapon power-up? Start over with that weapon. Dammit. You do get used to the controls. Once you collect a few extra engines, slap em' on the sides of your ship to improve the turning radius. Protip that may be obvious to some but took me a minute to figure out: in instances where the garage undo button doesn't remove a part for you, you can touch the part and then touch the left side of the screen to put it back (not sure if dragging works).
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Aug 5, 2014 16:47
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Your thrust vector is always straight ahead, just having more engines increases thrust. Your ship rotates on a pivot. There is no turning radius, you just point and add thrust to change your course. You could have your engines pointing backwards in a gap in the middle of your ship and it'll still work.
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Aug 5, 2014 17:13
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Might as well join the anarkist referral thing: R57CD
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Just chiming in to say that 80 Days is great if you like "choose your own adventure" style games. I love the Tales of the Arabian Nights board game and this has that sort of feel. Anyone know how to find more information on the "status effects" you get?
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My Starborn Anarkist code is JQTWQ.
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I've been poking around this thread and the rest of the Games forum and have yet to see any talk of Cards & Castles. In my opinion it's probably the second best TCG/CCG available aside from Hearthstone (obviously). Does anyone else here play? Do we have a thread for it? It's like a combination of Hero Academy, and Card Hunter kind of, and the IAP is done right (a single purchase of any booster packs removes ads forever). http://www.cardsandcastles.com/main/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cards-and-castles/id674210616?mt=8
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Downloaded A Dark Room while it was free. Found it to be a ok time waster while I waited for poo poo, but then I got to what I assume is the end game: Grinding to upgrade the starship. Took off and got to what was pretty much a wall of asteroids, then I crashed. Having read the earlier spoiler message from the creator has COMPLETELY put me off playing it anymore... I assume that was pretty much it? Maybe you get a little farther in the slapped on bad controlling game, and it has a 'Fin'?
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Drowning Rabbit posted:Downloaded A Dark Room while it was free. I played the browser game. Can't imagine the end's any different. Basically, you crash on another planet and basically start over. It's an okay time-waster for a while, but don't expect any Bubsy 3-D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrel Retrospective level of deep philosophical thought.
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Craftics posted:I've been poking around this thread and the rest of the Games forum and have yet to see any talk of Cards & Castles. In my opinion it's probably the second best TCG/CCG available aside from Hearthstone (obviously). Does anyone else here play? Do we have a thread for it? Oh man, this game is a ton of fun. Thanks for letting me know about it. Edit: Whelp you lose all progress if you make an account. I only lost 3 single player battles, but I recommend you make an account before playing. Shwqa fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Notorious QIG posted:Also to be fair, for as bad as Bioshock is it's still miles better than Infinity Blade That's because literally every game where iOS is the lead platform is poo poo. Some are just less lovely than others. The best you can hope for is something that isn't outright offensive. Only games I can think of that were pretty good are Punch Quest and Slayin'. There's no can of worms here. edit:vvvvvvv I stand by what I said 
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:That's because literally every game where iOS is the lead platform is poo poo. Some are just less lovely than others. The best you can hope for is something that isn't outright offensive. Only games I can think of that were pretty good are Punch Quest and Slayin'. There's no can of worms here. This is a bad post. Learn from it, iOS thread.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:That's because literally every game where iOS is the lead platform is poo poo. Some are just less lovely than others. The best you can hope for is something that isn't outright offensive. Only games I can think of that were pretty good are Punch Quest and Slayin'. There's no can of worms here. 868 Hack was one of my fav games last year
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The iPad Air GPU is probably getting quite close in raw power to the computer GPUs we had when Bioshock 1 came out, for instance I played it on a Radeon X1600 Mobility on my RevA CrapBookPro. The main differences that come to mind are: -They want it to run acceptably on other lesser iPads -The iPad Air still has less RAM available to apps than computers of that era -BUT the iPad Air has a much much higher screen resolution which presumably they want to render to natively -The app size limit means they have to compress the hell out of all the textures
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Dragon Quest IV is coming out tonight. Maybe this means Dragon Quest V is coming out next. Man I hope so.
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theblackw0lf posted:Dragon Quest IV is coming out tonight. No, Dargon Quest IV is coming out.  
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theblackw0lf posted:Dragon Quest IV is coming out tonight.  Also, I just finished (and loved) A Dark Room. Does anyone have any recommendations for something similar? I particularly loved the sense of discovery. (Feel free to spoiler any recommendations if you'd rather not spoil those going into ADR blind) I'm checking out Candy Box right now, since the dev cited it as an inspiration. Tibeerius fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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theblackw0lf posted:Dragon Quest IV is coming out tonight. I hope so too since V blows IV out of the water imo. [e] If square wanted a day one buy from me they would port IX or the VII remake to the ios
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V has probably the best "personal" style JRPG story ever, but IV is still a total classic and one of the best in the series. I wonder if the iOS version is going to have the same "accents" thing going on as the DS version does.
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Accents are in but this port has Party Chat which was taken out of the localized DS versions.
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80 Days has pretty good replay value. I am interested what others have encountered. These really are spoilers, so if you have not played to a point of just being interested, be warned. I only have a few playthroughs. Here are some of the things from them: - Jesse James (mentioned up thread) - Boxing match (which I lost, but want to play again) - Drugged, kidnapped and joined circus as horse back riding fire eater (there are several circus options, equestrian fire eater being one) - Kidnapped by Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus - Guinea pig for untried teleportation device (Your relationship with Fogg deteriorates somewhat...) Any others that people have found?
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Dragon Quest IV already? It even seems to use the same awesome mobile controls that worked so well on the DQ8 port. Freaking awesome.
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Bogart posted:No, Dargon Quest IV is coming out. Yea just a warning you actually have to search for "Dargon Quest" for it to pop up, at least that's what people in NZ are reporting.
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Does nobody double-check anything at Square-Enix's mobile division
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Sogol posted:80 Days has pretty good replay value. I am interested what others have encountered. -Ran into a British military town where the captain dude wanted me to help him torture a dude -Beat up some chick's dad because he thought I was her lover from some serial she was writing -Escaped china after some dude I met along the way tried to slip opium in my pipe -Helped a pregnant captain deliver her baby in the middle of our boat ride from hawaii to main-land America -Fogg made me organize a mutiny on a giant ship (it failed) -Won the boxing match  -Won a bet with a casino ship captain that he couldn't get to our destination in two day because he blew up the ship, ruining his fortune 80 days was super fun and it feels like I haven't even seen half of it yet.
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