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The latest release of OpenRA (open-source engine modernisation of the original Red Alert, Command and Conquer and Dune 2000 games) has added a bunch of action and idle animations to a variety of units. Destroyed tank husks now explode into nothingness instead of silently disappearing when they can no longer be hijacked, and idle troops now perform different animations like shadow boxing in between their regular rifle checks. Every release they improve the engine and add a bunch of graphical or performance tweaks but just seeing that during the menu screen was neat as all hell. Not only that but the entire game is a labour of love by unpaid devs working for nothing but bug bounties and the appreciation of a community based around a 20+ year old genre defining classic. If RA, C&C or Dune 2000 were ever a significant part of your life you should check them out. http://www.openra.net/
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Finally. It took me 20 minutes to find this stupid thing. 
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Sep 28, 2015 17:04
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 this is my logo also I'm low on plants so all the soldiers on my base keep bugging me that they want me to bring back more "medicinal plants". It owns.
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Sep 28, 2015 17:30
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I like all the character voices in Not a Hero, but especially Mike's. He's an alcoholic from St Helens and reminds me of a 90s style nutter from a pub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXF5KWAnetE
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Sep 28, 2015 18:15
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MGSV's Reflex mode can lead to some pretty fun shenanigans too. I was infiltrating a base, and one of those big delivery trucks was driving by. At the same time, a two-person patrol was approaching from the other side of the truck. The truck stops and the driver/passenger get out, so I sneak up and try to Fulton out the truck. This makes me visible to the driver and passenger of the truck as well as the approaching patrol (which is now right up against the truck), triggering Reflex mode. I tranq all four soldiers, they fall under the truck, and then a fifth solder I hadn't seen shoots the balloon off the truck, crushing the four people I just tranqed. Switching (metal) gears, the most recent episode of Tales from the Borderlands has an amazing sequence: To set it up, as you infiltrate various parts of the Hyperion base and talk to people/overhear conversations, there's a recurring motif of people doing the finger-gun/"Gotcha!"/act-like-you're-shot routine (you know, as corporate drones do). This culminates in the 'boss battle' of the episode: Rhys (one of the main characters, temporarily disguised as a particularly obnoxious executive voiced by Patrick Warburton) versus a group of accountants. The whole battle takes place with finger pistols, finger machine guns, and invisible grenades/throwing knives, complete with the corresponding mouth noises ("Pow pow!", "eh-eh-eh-eh-eh","Pfffffffffff", and "shink!"), with accountants dropping left and right as they get fake shot/blown up/impaled in the face. After Rhys wins and makes his escape, all of the accountants slowly get up and head back to their offices. Really, Tales from the Borderlands has a ton of great little things, and it's paced way better than the 'normal' Borderlands games.
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Sep 28, 2015 18:33
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Mine says "FAT GIRL. Also, I want you to know that one my favorite things in this little game I play with your AV is to try and "catch" the fatface pic when it flashes, with my mouse pointer. 
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Sep 28, 2015 22:59
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The posters and advertisements get a cool new feature in Arkham Knight once you pass a certain point in the story. As an example, if you look at a poster it might have an advertisement featuring a man putting a necklace on a woman. Look again and it's Bruce Wayne/Batman choking a lady dressed as Joker from behind with a wire.  Spoilered for people that haven't played the game, because it's not hard to figure out that plot twist.
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QuietLion posted:The posters and advertisements get a cool new feature in Arkham Knight once you pass a certain point in the story. As an example, if you look at a poster it might have an advertisement featuring a man putting a necklace on a woman. Look again and it's Bruce Wayne/Batman choking a lady dressed as Joker from behind with a wire. Yeah, that was a really cool effect. It happens to the stone faces as well!
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Inco posted:Yeah, that was a really cool effect. It happens to the stone faces as well!
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Inco posted:Yeah, that was a really cool effect. It happens to the stone faces as well! The best thing is how seamless and quick it is. The second you look away they change back to normal so it's difficult to tell if you actually saw anything. On top of that a lot of statues will change during flashes of lightning which is, what, half a second? It's brilliantly done.
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Sep 29, 2015 07:18
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poptart_fairy posted:The best thing is how seamless and quick it is. I especially love how as you go further in the game it happens more and more often and the effects last longer and longer to signify Batman's increasing craziness. Someone also mentioned that the Joker starts out looking diseased like he did in Arkham City, and as the game goes on he looks healthier to signify his increasing control over Batman.
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After it was mentioned in the other thread, I looked through my Steam library for fun 'stupid poo poo' achievements. And I've found out that Cities Skylines has achievements for being a lovely mayor. There's an achievement for tanking your city's happiness rating, and one for having an absurdly high crime rate. You could also arguably include the one to fill five landfills, but I could see a good city reaching that one. EDIT: Also one for taxing your residents way higher than you're taxing your businesses. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 16:22 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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Sep 29, 2015 16:10
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Probably mentioned but I just noticed that D-Dog whines sadly if you kill a dude but barks (or something can't remember right now) positively if you choke the dude. I also now have one FEMALE on my staff that's not Quiet. As a FEMALE I am pleased at this.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:21
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Thin Privilege posted:I also now have one FEMALE on my staff that's not Quiet. As a FEMALE I am pleased at this. My girlfriend noted that one of the women on my staff was "Sky Tigress" because they HAVE to gender her callsign.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:30
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Buzkashi posted:My girlfriend noted that one of the women on my staff was "Sky Tigress" because they HAVE to gender her callsign.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:34
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The first female recruit I got was in Lingua Franca, and I think that one's guaranteed because she had a bunch of mission specific dialogue.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:40
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Thin Privilege posted:Probably mentioned but I just noticed that D-Dog whines sadly if you kill a dude but barks (or something can't remember right now) positively if you choke the dude. Prisoner Extraction 2 is repeatable and the prisoner is a woman 90% of the time. A woman named Flaming Buffalo is the top of my combat unit.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:42
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Yeah I have a bunch of women on mine but sadly none that I can play as during deployment. When are you going allow women on the front lines, Big Boss?
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Sep 29, 2015 16:43
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BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:Yeah I have a bunch of women on mine but sadly none that I can play as during deployment. When are you going allow women on the front lines, Big Boss? As soon as you throw one in the Combat Unit. The only characters you can play as during deployment are in the combat unit.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:45
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BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:Yeah I have a bunch of women on mine but sadly none that I can play as during deployment. When are you going allow women on the front lines, Big Boss? Did you put them in the Combat division?
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I don't micromanage. I figure they'd get there themselves through auto-sort and gumption.
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BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:I don't micromanage. I figure they'd get there themselves through auto-sort and gumption. 
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:So you want women to overcome systematic oppression by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, huh Flaming Buffalo did it despite her crippling asthma.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:48
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:So you want women to overcome systematic oppression by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, huh I was looking through and apparently one did and I missed it.  Twilight Marlin is a shining example of Big Boss's Women in Combat program.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:58
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Literally like half my African soldiers have ape names. Slow it down there a bit, Miller. God drat.
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Thin Privilege posted:Probably mentioned but I just noticed that D-Dog whines sadly if you kill a dude but barks (or something can't remember right now) positively if you choke the dude.
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Sep 29, 2015 17:26
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Mokinokaro posted:A woman named Flaming Buffalo is the top of my combat unit. Used to be the case for me too. RIP Flaming Buffalo.  You got that dictator good.Grey Fox posted:He also howls if he gets the final takedown in an outpost (I only use him nonlethal; not sure if this makes a difference). He definitely howls after stabbing a dude or biting him too.
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Sep 29, 2015 18:27
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Do Mission 31 again and you'll get a new Flaming Buffalo Les Bufflesse Terribles
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I Fultoned a bunch of wild donkeys to take a video and make the terrible joke of "har har I need to stop Fultoning every random jackass I find". There's now a photo of a family of donkeys in my mobile command chopper. They knew I was gonna do that. 
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Fulton the prisoner in the White Mamba mission to get a woman without Asthma, and with decent combat abilities (She has been a++ or better with gunman every time for me).
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I haven't played it, but according to the Wikipedia page for Lego Dimensions every time you die as Doctor Who you respawn as the next Doctor.
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Grey Fox posted:He also howls if he gets the final takedown in an outpost (I only use him nonlethal; not sure if this makes a difference). The way he growls at an enemy when you hold them at gunpoint gets me every time. He's helping! 
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The problem with playing as a woman in MGS5 is they sound like they're legit dying every time they pant after sprinting.
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I love how the AI has a desire to not die. For example: truck with 2 dudes pull up to an outpost. If they see one knocked out guy they leave the truck to check it out, BUT if then I kill one of the truck dudes the other is like "gently caress that," gets back in the truck and drives away. I'm currently massacring a huge area and the regular supply truck came up. They saw there were no people to greet them so they got out to see what was going on, the warning music came on, the truck guys walked away from the truck and saw the dozens of dead bodies......... and got back in the truck and bye
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The Moon Monster posted:The problem with playing as a woman in MGS5 is they sound like they're legit dying every time they pant after sprinting. It's not all of them! It's just that Flaming Buffalo (the one everyone is guaranteed to get) is one of the ones that does that.
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Thin Privilege posted:I love how the AI has a desire to not die. For example: truck with 2 dudes pull up to an outpost. If they see one knocked out guy they leave the truck to check it out, BUT if then I kill one of the truck dudes the other is like "gently caress that," gets back in the truck and drives away.
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I set my controller down for 10+ minutes and the 'alert status over' sound went off, and no one came to retaliate. E:maybe the Russians are slow because they're drinking vodka. Thin Privilege has a new favorite as of 07:10 on Sep 30, 2015 |
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The music in Arkham Knight adapts as you stealth around Cobra tanks, based on proximity to and your line of sight to the tanks. The music gets noticeably more intense, with heavier beats the closer you are. It really makes up for the awkwardness of the radar, and makes it way easier to judge your proximity to a tank while simultaneously making you more anxious as you stalk it.
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So I learned a neat little trick that I like a lot for an annoying mission, thanks to a bug in MGSV. So at one point there's a mission where you have to escort some child soldiers out of a battle field, it's a pain in the rear end because if they die you get a game over and you have to carry one. Right at the end the AI messed up and they stopped moving so I tried to see what would happen if I shot them all with tranqs and carried them to the chopper. It was fine. There's also a base right next to where you find them, with a landing point. You could cut the mission time for this in half just by clearing that base and calling in the helicopter and shoving all those little soldiers on in like ten seconds and getting the hell out of there. Spectacular.
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QuietLion posted:The music in Arkham Knight adapts as you stealth around Cobra tanks, based on proximity to and your line of sight to the tanks. The music gets noticeably more intense, with heavier beats the closer you are. It really makes up for the awkwardness of the radar, and makes it way easier to judge your proximity to a tank while simultaneously making you more anxious as you stalk it. The music across the entire franchise does this for any stealth encounter, I think. As you start taking out more and more goons, extra instruments and lines of music will begin to swell to a peak. It's a neat way of getting the player excited in sections that can look fairly sedate next to combat areas.
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