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tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


mrkillboy posted:

Just Cause developers Avalanche have put out their first mobile game, a tactics game called Rumble City. Their PR describes it as "biker chess".

It looks like its buggy as poo poo.
Edit: based on reviews

tater_salad fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jul 9, 2015

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Cryohazard
Feb 5, 2010

delfin posted:

Character cards with their info are here.

Of the Epics you can acquire via clearing map locations, I'd rank them roughly like this:

Best tier:
Atlanta - 13 Purple/Yellow, 6 damage to all foes when maxed, 9 base damage. I'd take that over some Legendaries.
Raven - 10 Red/Blue, 10 damage to a foe when maxed, regen 9 of that mana if it kills, 8 base damage. A nice unit for cleanup work.
Keghammer - 12 Brown/Yellow, 10 damage and drain 3 Magic to a foe when maxed, 8 base damage. Good for neutering some annoying enemy skills and doing substantial damage.
Lady Sapphira - 13 Brown/Yellow, 6 True Damage and gain 4 Life / 2 Attack when maxed, 8 base damage. True Damage bypasses armor and thus has obvious uses, and once she hits her skill once she's got great melee damage.
Tau - 11 Blue/Yellow, (5 + Red Gems) Attack to self when maxed, 8 base damage. Revenant too fragile? Try this guy.
Tyri - 8 Green/Purple, Remove all gems of a selected color, gain (10 + Gems/3) gold when maxed, 10 base damage. Great base damage, a cheap skill, and never mind the gold -- "kill any color I want" can set up creative combos when used properly. On the fragile side though.

Good but niche:
Avina - 13 Red/Purple, 11 damage to a foe when maxed and gain 1 soul, 8 base damage. Pretty good directable spike damage, but the soul thing is negligible.
Scarlett - 14 Red/Green, 10 damage to a foe when maxed, double if foe is a beast, 7 base damage. Fighting beasts? She's a killer. But which units count as beasts? Against others, still a good spike but an expensive one.
Luther - 13 Blue/Brown, 5 Attack to all allies when maxed, 7 base damage. The attack boost is nice, but the drawback is that only one unit attacks via skulls at a time so the bonus is just sitting there on the other three until someone dies.
Alastair - 14 Blue/Purple, (5 + Purple Gems/4) Armor to all allies when maxed, 8 base damage. Lets everyone absorb an extra hit from most foes, and there are certain units (Paladin coming immediately to mind) that benefit greatly from that.
Rowanne - 12 Blue/Green, (7 + Armor) damage spread randomly when maxed, 8 base damage. Damage revolves around her Armor stat; keep it high or boost it with Alastair / Templar and she can be brutal. Take an early hit and she's gimped.
Ferit - 10 Purple/Brown, 9 damage and mana drain to the last foe when maxed, 9 base damage. Good melee, useful skill, but the "last foe" clause means half the time you'll be wishing he was hitting someone different.

Mediocre:
Brian the Lucky - 12 Green/Brown, 5 (random attribute) to all allies when maxed, 6 base damage. The key word is "random."
Sparkgrinder - 12 Red/Yellow, 5 Attack and 5 Armor to one ally when maxed, 6 base damage. A nice boost, though obviously more narrow than Luther's.
Elwyn - 12 Green/Yellow, destroy a row and column, do 1 damage per yellow gem destroyed to a random enemy, 7 base damage. He has no Magic boosts at all. If the board is full of yellow he MIGHT do more than a handful of damage. Killing a row is always good but I need to check whether his Destroy gives mana or not.
Emperina - 14 Red/Brown, give ally 3 Life + 3 Attack + Cleanse + Heal when maxed, 7 base damage. Useful if you have some huge unit you need to keep on the board at all costs.
Finley - 12 Red/Green, change all skulls to selected color, gain 7 gold when maxed, 6 base damage. Maybe useful for getting out of a pinch or setting up an occasional combo.

Finley is better than you give him credit for. He removes skulls and replaces them with whatever colour you want, so he not only neuters buff teams but is an easy 4th man for any wombo combo, plus his red/green type has potentially nothing to do with the colour you want him to propagate.

For example, Lich and Finley cover red/green/blue/purple, and combined can spam brown gems everywhere, charging Golgotha's Doomstones (brown/yellow) super fast, clearing the board and recharging them... There's also a killer yellow combo that I can't remember right now.

By contrast, Tyri's skill is much weaker offensively because it only eliminates a mana type from the board instead of converting it. You're not stacking the board in your favour, just slightly annoying the enemy team. Not to mention the fact she's made of tissue paper and wishes...

Avina and Scarlett are both not so good cards. Avina's skill is ok damage for lots of mana, Scarlett's is a gamble on a team you can't see until you fight it (for PvP) or very situational.

Brian the Lucky is in Brian tier because he's awesome and bad

delfin
Dec 5, 2003

SNATTER'S ALIVE?!?!

Cryohazard posted:

Finley is better than you give him credit for. He removes skulls and replaces them with whatever colour you want, so he not only neuters buff teams but is an easy 4th man for any wombo combo, plus his red/green type has potentially nothing to do with the colour you want him to propagate.

For example, Lich and Finley cover red/green/blue/purple, and combined can spam brown gems everywhere, charging Golgotha's Doomstones (brown/yellow) super fast, clearing the board and recharging them... There's also a killer yellow combo that I can't remember right now.

By contrast, Tyri's skill is much weaker offensively because it only eliminates a mana type from the board instead of converting it. You're not stacking the board in your favour, just slightly annoying the enemy team. Not to mention the fact she's made of tissue paper and wishes...

Point taken on Finley -- I'll have to experiment with him more. Tyri hits like a truck, though -- my top Legendaries have 10 attack like hers, and she has the shortest charge time of all the Epics so she can make easy combos more often. I'm not trying to stack the board so much as I am trying to drop out n pieces and have 4s and 5s and skulls fall into place.

One nice thing about this game is that there isn't a clear best strategy. I've seen creative builds revolving around poison, around stacking armor, around creating skulls, around denying skulls, around color changes feeding a specific unit, around balanced attacks and around buffing one unit to the moon.

My current PvP team is Kerberos (Brown/Purple, hits like truck, active hits like truck and has 25% chance of instakill), Druid (Green/Blue, nice spread-out damage), Barbearius (Red/Green, JUST LOOK AT HIM HE'S A BEAR WITH A HUGE loving CLUB) and either Moloch (Red/Yellow, True Damage + drain mana), Cockatrice (Brown/Yellow, drain mana, entangle, gets the Woods bonus like my other three on that banner) or Atlanta (Purple/Yellow, cleanup work), but I have a handful of teams in progress. Arena is good practice for trying out and being the recipient of different strategies.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
I just fought the biggest whale I've ever encountered in Gems.. 2 Oranges and 2 Purples in their team, all buffed to hell. Didn't realize when I went in to fight since they were still rank 15. Broke my streak. :(

waffles beyond waffles
Jun 22, 2008

Oh, what a day...
What a lovely day!

delfin posted:

Point taken on Finley -- I'll have to experiment with him more. Tyri hits like a truck, though -- my top Legendaries have 10 attack like hers, and she has the shortest charge time of all the Epics so she can make easy combos more often. I'm not trying to stack the board so much as I am trying to drop out n pieces and have 4s and 5s and skulls fall into place.

One nice thing about this game is that there isn't a clear best strategy. I've seen creative builds revolving around poison, around stacking armor, around creating skulls, around denying skulls, around color changes feeding a specific unit, around balanced attacks and around buffing one unit to the moon.

My current PvP team is Kerberos (Brown/Purple, hits like truck, active hits like truck and has 25% chance of instakill), Druid (Green/Blue, nice spread-out damage), Barbearius (Red/Green, JUST LOOK AT HIM HE'S A BEAR WITH A HUGE loving CLUB) and either Moloch (Red/Yellow, True Damage + drain mana), Cockatrice (Brown/Yellow, drain mana, entangle, gets the Woods bonus like my other three on that banner) or Atlanta (Purple/Yellow, cleanup work), but I have a handful of teams in progress. Arena is good practice for trying out and being the recipient of different strategies.

So you stopped using your hero? Or do you rotate between three different troops?

I currently use:
    Lady Sapphira - Her ability generate a lot of damage and health, great for matching skulls.
    Hero with a blue weapon
    Barbearius
    War Sphinx or Atlanta

Gem boys appears to have a couple spots open too. Post your invite codes!

the littlest prince
Sep 23, 2006


I've been playing this new game lately, you goons want in on it? It's called Gems of Duty Callings: The Need for Real Speed Asphalt Wars.

Shwqa
Feb 13, 2012

gromdul posted:

So you stopped using your hero? Or do you rotate between three different troops?

I currently use:
    Lady Sapphira - Her ability generate a lot of damage and health, great for matching skulls.
    Hero with a blue weapon
    Barbearius
    War Sphinx or Atlanta

Gem boys appears to have a couple spots open too. Post your invite codes!

Invite code: shwqa

Do i need to leave my current pubby guild before you can invite me?

Shwqa fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Jul 9, 2015

Tagichatn
Jun 7, 2009

Time to update the OP! There's a new city builder game called Theotown . It's very clearly alpha quality but it's free with no bullshit timers or IAP.

Anfauglir
Jun 8, 2007

gromdul posted:

So you stopped using your hero? Or do you rotate between three different troops?

I currently use:
    Lady Sapphira - Her ability generate a lot of damage and health, great for matching skulls.
    Hero with a blue weapon
    Barbearius
    War Sphinx or Atlanta

Gem boys appears to have a couple spots open too. Post your invite codes!

If there is still room I would love an invite, invite code is ANFAUGLIR

Discorporation
Oct 11, 2004

I'd love an invite too! Code is DISCORPORATION.

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


Guys I dont think anne feraud exists.. so heads up on that for your survey.

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

Anfauglir posted:

If there is still room I would love an invite, invite code is ANFAUGLIR

Discorporation posted:

I'd love an invite too! Code is DISCORPORATION.

Check your... thing. Game, I suppose.

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."
Google Play's free family game thing for this week is Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake. Its a pretty great puzzle/adventure game regardless of your age.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
This game is fun and adorable and addicting: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spryfox.alphabear&hl=en

It's called Alphabear. It's a word game- you have these bears and they grow if you use a letter adjacent to them. You're trying to get the biggest bears you can. Then you collect bears to use in new maps to give you bonus points.

Xile77
Sep 18, 2003
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/customtitles/title-xile77.jpg" /><br />I love my fellow semen
With Merchant, I'm running into a bug where any blood moss I collect is disappearing. The roots show up in my inventory, but the moss doesn't, so I can't make the highest level healing potions.

Dr.Caligari
May 5, 2005

"Here's a big, beautiful avatar for someone"
Is Cactus Canyon eternally the 'free table of the month' in Pinball Arcade?

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

gromdul posted:


Gem boys appears to have a couple spots open too. Post your invite codes!

Invite code is tits because I am a child. Would love an invite please.

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin

tater_salad posted:

Guys I dont think anne feraud exists.. so heads up on that for your survey.

Is that the place across from Kelp's Wild Water Slides?

Trastion
Jul 24, 2003
The one and only.

tater_salad posted:

Guys I dont think anne feraud exists.. so heads up on that for your survey.

Is this a new trap question? I got one the other day asking me about shopping at some designer store or something. I answered no and it asked a couple more questions one of which was something like if I cared about wearing designer clothes or something. I chose the option that said no, I don't care about that stuff.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

I got a survey about the app itself! Got me 63 cents! :toot: When asked how they could make the app better, I put in that they should offer more frequent surveys for Canadian users.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

If there's anyone here playing Lifeline who hasn't played 80 Days, fix that, the game is brilliant.

Thanks for this reco. I've been loving Lifeline and came in here looking for anything similar, and this seems even better.

mrkillboy posted:

Google Play's free family game thing for this week is Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake. Its a pretty great puzzle/adventure game regardless of your age.

Also thanks so much for this, we have a drive to the cottage coming up this weekend and my daughter goes batshit for anything Fiete.

bgreman
Oct 8, 2005

ASK ME ABOUT STICKING WITH A YEARS-LONG LETS PLAY OF THE MOST COMPLICATED SPACE SIMULATION GAME INVENTED, PLAYING BOTH SIDES, AND SPENDING HOURS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO ENSURE INTERNET STRANGERS ENJOY THEMSELVES
This was the best question yet for Google Rewards.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


mrkillboy posted:

Google Play's free family game thing for this week is Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake. Its a pretty great puzzle/adventure game regardless of your age.

I'm getting a Thomas the Tank Engine app :(

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."

Len posted:

I'm getting a Thomas the Tank Engine app :(

That's last week's app. You might need to refresh the store or wait until it rolls out everywhere.

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

bgreman posted:

This was the best question yet for Google Rewards.



No, but I am a pig, so reasonable suspicion, Google.

Alphabear crashes my Republic Moto X v.1 every time I try to install it. Shame, looks fun. I'll send them a bug report.

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin

bgreman posted:

This was the best question yet for Google Rewards.



Somewhere out there, there's a professional truffle hunter who loves Android apps and was like "Oh gently caress, this is my day!"

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

bgreman posted:

This was the best question yet for Google Rewards.



I had to visit urban dictionary to check if truffle was slang for something else to make sense of this question.

Now I know the meaning of truffle butter.

delfin
Dec 5, 2003

SNATTER'S ALIVE?!?!

gromdul posted:

So you stopped using your hero? Or do you rotate between three different troops?

For now, yes, I stopped using him in PvP. My three main hitters leave yellow as the only untouched color, yellow is my weakest suit in terms of weapons, and Moloch is a better yellow unit than what I can equip my hero with.

BobTheJanitor
Jun 28, 2003

New Leaf posted:

This game is fun and adorable and addicting: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spryfox.alphabear&hl=en

It's called Alphabear. It's a word game- you have these bears and they grow if you use a letter adjacent to them. You're trying to get the biggest bears you can. Then you collect bears to use in new maps to give you bonus points.

Oh nice, a new app from the triple town devs. I look forward to it eating my life.

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


bgreman posted:

This was the best question yet for Google Rewards.



Stop living in backwater redneck land.

tater_salad fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Jul 9, 2015

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


^SHTPSTS

Gary’s Answer

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

I had to visit urban dictionary to check if truffle was slang for something else to make sense of this question.

Now I know the meaning of truffle butter.

Do you just not know how truffles work? They can't be farmed, you have to forage for wild ones. That's why they're so expensive, because people with highly trained special truffle-sniffing pigs have to forage for them. The question makes perfect sense, it's just strange to ask.

bgreman
Oct 8, 2005

ASK ME ABOUT STICKING WITH A YEARS-LONG LETS PLAY OF THE MOST COMPLICATED SPACE SIMULATION GAME INVENTED, PLAYING BOTH SIDES, AND SPENDING HOURS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO ENSURE INTERNET STRANGERS ENJOY THEMSELVES

tater_salad posted:

Stop living in backwater redneck land.

I live in a pretty urban area! I usually get the normal "When's the last time you were near a Home Depot?"

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


Whatever hillbilly reality crap show that they had on HistCoveryLC always had them figbting over truffle spots... so glad I stopped giving money to cable companies

tater_salad fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Jul 9, 2015

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
LifeLine notifications need some work. I love the game, but it will notify me that she's waiting for me when she's "Busy". My latest notification was "Restart the story?" when she's just sleeping through the night.. presumably unharmed since all seemed well when she went to bed.

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

It got all personal with me and tried to ask about feminine hygiene products.

gently caress off Google, that's none of your business.

alansmithee
Jan 25, 2007

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!


gromdul posted:

So you stopped using your hero? Or do you rotate between three different troops?

I currently use:
    Lady Sapphira - Her ability generate a lot of damage and health, great for matching skulls.
    Hero with a blue weapon
    Barbearius
    War Sphinx or Atlanta

Gem boys appears to have a couple spots open too. Post your invite codes!

Invite code alansmithee if there's still spots.

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

The question makes perfect sense, it's just strange to ask.

Well I meant making sense in a google survey

1337kutkufan6969
Feb 13, 2010

Oh, Yian Kut Ku!
Where have you been all my life?
Let me break your head.


Grimey Drawer
How the gently caress did I come back to 38 new posts, one of them is about a city builder, and no one is talking about it?!?

Vykk.Draygo
Jan 17, 2004

I say salesmen and women of the world unite!

1337kutkufan6969 posted:

How the gently caress did I come back to 38 new posts, one of them is about a city builder, and no one is talking about it?!?

because we have to talk about how completely normal wacky our Google surveys are.

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ModeSix
Mar 14, 2009

1337kutkufan6969 posted:

How the gently caress did I come back to 38 new posts, one of them is about a city builder, and no one is talking about it?!?

Because google surveys and gems of war

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