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Tips for Risk of Rain? I'm going to primarily be playing 2 player so preferably geared towards that.
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Dec 29, 2015 23:49
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Ainsley McTree posted:I'm pretty sure that you can counter water hags too and cut off their tongues. The big caveat to blocking monsters are canines. They can attack/recover so fast that on Death March they're the most dangerous monsters until you pump up igni enough to one-shot them. But they can't break your block ever so if you're surrounded by wolves block away. The game's dodge frames are wonky so here's my general rule: enemies with two-handed weapons or monsters that charge you like drowners should be dodged laterally. They have slow recovery so you can get a few hits on their flank. Enemies with one-handed weapons or quick attacks can be avoided by dodging backwards. They have quick recovery which lets them turn to attack you again. Never dodge when an enemy is attacking you from behind, they will close whatever distance during their windup and hit you in the back regardless. Either dodge laterally or roll away to put distance between you. Playing on harder difficulties is just straight crowd control. Draw monsters away from their groups, pick off ranged attackers, and separate the heavy hitters with yrden. You want to fight dudes one on one. But be careful with your finisher on an enemy downed with aard. You're invincible for the duration but enemies can still attack you. If you finish while they're mid-swing you'll get hit.
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Dec 30, 2015 00:05
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Also, is there anything in particular I need to know before heading into Hotline Miami 2 if I've already completed the first one? The cut off point for refunds on Steam is 2 hours.
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Dec 30, 2015 00:06
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PantsBandit posted:Tips for Risk of Rain? I'm going to primarily be playing 2 player so preferably geared towards that. The characters play really differently. Don't expect to master them in one playthrough. The key is in learning how to balance exploration and the timer. There really aren't any good guidelines for that besides "do what you feel is right". The first level is usually worth spending some time on if you have the money to open some chests. edit: Off! Off, I say! anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 11:51
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A good starting point for time management in Risk of Rain is to focus on hitting the boss teleporter as quickly as possible. Once you've survived the wave event, do a sweep of the level and use the money generated from that to grab any chests before you book it. It's sometimes worthwhile to stick around and grind a little before triggering an event, but that's something you'll have to feel out as you play more of the game. For multiplayer, keep in mind that some items are more useful on certain characters. Commando is amazing with chance on hit items like missiles on account of the sheer number of attacks he pumps out. Melee guys like the Miner get a lot more mileage out of touch items like barbed wire and the Tesla coil. You'll get a feel for specific items as you play more, but that's a good starting guideline.
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Dec 30, 2015 12:22
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anilEhilated posted:Don't get turned on by dying a lot early on. 
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Dec 30, 2015 13:49
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Anything for Don't Starve and Sleeping Dogs? I played Don't Starve for about half an hour and it's a charming little game although I feel it tells you NOTHING Sleeping Dogs I'm not expecting anything major I should know but hey might as well ask?
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Dec 30, 2015 14:15
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Doesn't seem to be anything for Pikmin 3 'round these parts. Anything one needs to know?
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Dec 30, 2015 15:52
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Well, he said don't! Ramagamma posted:Anything for Don't Starve and Sleeping Dogs? Sleeping Dogs is pretty straightforward, just have fun. The only thing I remember wishing I knew from the start was that you shouldn't worry about going out of your way to find the Jade Statues, which you use to unlock new abilities at the dojo. IIRC, you will come across every single one of them throughout the course of the story, and in fact at least one of them is positioned such that you can see it if you try to get to it early, but you can't actually reach it until you do one of the story missions. So don't worry about it, just play through the story, and pick up the statues as you see them. Also, make sure you do the dating missions as soon as you get them, because they unlock the ability to find collectibles on your minimap, which is really nice. You will get more than enough cop points to unlock all the upgrades by the end of the game. Triad points are a little harder to come by; I've played through Sleeping Dogs at least 3 times and I don't think I ever maxed out the Triad tree. Nothing in there is too essential, but it's worth it to look ahead and see if there's anything deep in the tree that you really want before you start spending points.
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Dec 30, 2015 15:54
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Ramagamma posted:Sleeping Dogs I'm not expecting anything major I should know but hey might as well ask? If you want to get a lot of Triad score without having to resort to wearing certain outfits or the DLC, you're going to have to mix up your moves, avoid getting hit as much as you can (not that hard once you get the hang of things), and to save the environmental hazards for when your intended target is at 1/4 or less HP left. That way, you can milk out some more points and get your Triad experience. If you want to milk it further, avoid getting damage upgrades for as long as possible. On the flip side, you really don't need to care that much about Cop score because the game throws out a lot of tasks for you to earn that. If you handle your missions perfectly (that is, avoid any clumsy mistakes and avoid harming innocents or causing property damage), you'll get your points easy. Races in cars are really easy if you use the dedicated ram button to total the competition. On bikes, you'll just have to nudge them into stuff carefully. Either way, you can outrace them if you're able. Food gives buffs, like increased attack, defense, and regen. Eat pork buns, or else you're not a whole man. Cops aren't that threatening and are really easy to lose. The ram button while in a car totals pursuers in about two attempts.
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Dec 30, 2015 15:56
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Ramagamma posted:
The dating side missions are a little lame but do them and collectibles will appear on your map, which is handy. You don't have to pick one girl, you date them all. I would try to get some of the new attacks as quickly as possible until you get the leg break, then whatever. All the races have one car in their class that is by far the best. If you are having a lot of trouble with a race, you probably don't have the good car yet. Police XP points are a lot easier to get than Triad XP points so if you're going to worry about maxing out either, worry about Triad. There is a cheat DLC that can help with this if you want.
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Dec 30, 2015 16:01
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Ramagamma posted:Anything for Don't Starve and Sleeping Dogs? - Your first order of business should be wandering around and picking up sticks, rocks, and grass while looking for a good place to set up your first base. Somewhere near rabbit holes is never a bad choice, as they're a consistent, combat-free source of food. - Food is almost universally better cooked than raw. The only exception, IIRC, is carrots. - If you're starving to death and you have to eat Monster Meat, cook it first. - When deciding where to settle, keep in mind that while trees can be transplanted easily, but transplanting grass or twigs takes fertilizer. - Farms stop growing new plants in winter, but plants that have already sprouted can stay there indefinitely without rotting. - Make a science machine and a crockpot ASAP. You can get coal for it by starting a forest fire. Stuffing it full of meat and plants will make Meatballs, which will be your staple food for a good while. - If you put more than one Monster Meat and/or Durian in a crockpot, you'll get Monster Lasagna no matter what. - Make some drying racks, too. Jerky can hang there indefinitely and even once you remove it, it takes forever to spoil. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 16:02
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Ramagamma posted:Sleeping Dogs?
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Dec 30, 2015 16:49
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Ramagamma posted:Sleeping Dogs?
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Dec 30, 2015 16:57
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Fat Samurai posted:There is a DLC which has a beat cop uniform. Buy it and wear it to all your secret triad meetings. I love that DLC because whenever you commandeer a car with the cop uniform on, it sounds like Wei says "Honk honk police!"
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Dec 30, 2015 17:01
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Nate RFB posted:Doesn't seem to be anything for Pikmin 3 'round these parts. Anything one needs to know? Nah its pretty user friendly and approachable. If anything just be aware that while Pikmin 1 had a time limit and Pikmin 2 didn't, Pikmin 3 goes back to the time limit but not really. Its very loose and you can effectively stall for a really long time if you want to, so don't feel too stressed out about rushing or anything. Just make sure you get lots of juice every day, juice is your lifeblood.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:09
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Zaphod42 posted:Nah its pretty user friendly and approachable. If anything just be aware that while Pikmin 1 had a time limit and Pikmin 2 didn't, Pikmin 3 goes back to the time limit but not really. Its very loose and you can effectively stall for a really long time if you want to, so don't feel too stressed out about rushing or anything. Just make sure you get lots of juice every day, juice is your lifeblood.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:25
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Ramagamma posted:Sleeping Dogs? Unlike most open world games, collectibles are worth pursuing. If you see the health shrine "glimmer" hop out of your car and hit it up, for every 10 you visit you get +10% max health and it adds up by the end of the game. By fighting without getting hit, you can fill your face meter. When it's full you gain a ton of in-combat health regen for awhile, which helps a lot in tougher fights. Later you can unlock a bunch of additional bonuses for filling the meter as will, like the ability to disarm people at will. For the races, this isn't GTA so you can cheat all you want to win. Get used to using the ram ability, but later on you get (gameplay, but not story spoilers)some ridiculous spy car with gatling cannons and a literal EMP built into it so you can use that to cheat your way through. Always have the food health regen buff active. The other buffs are useful too(remember to always grab an energy drink from the fridge before leaving your apartment), but the food buff is available from food stands all over so you never really need to go out of your way to get it, and it makes things a lot easier for you overall.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:42
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I just bought Dragon Age: Inquisition and after spending a few hours I'm not very impressed. Still in the first area (hinterlands), and the game seems like a single player MMO. I mean, fetch quests for 10 pieces of ram meat?. Does it get any better or should I just cut my losses here already?
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Dec 30, 2015 18:01
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Skilleddk posted:I just bought Dragon Age: Inquisition and after spending a few hours I'm not very impressed. Still in the first area (hinterlands), and the game seems like a single player MMO. I mean, fetch quests for 10 pieces of ram meat?. Does it get any better or should I just cut my losses here already? Leave the Hinterlands and go advance the plot. This goes for any of the open world areas in the game.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:03
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exquisite tea posted:Leave the Hinterlands and go advance the plot. This goes for any of the open world areas in the game. Seriously. This game can somehow become far more boring than grinding in your average MMO if you let it so make sure you are advancing the plot. Doing some side stuff for companions is nice (and anything that sounds fun or interesting), but don't get bogged down in all of the 'go kill 12 deer' kind of stuff.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:13
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Skilleddk posted:I just bought Dragon Age: Inquisition and after spending a few hours I'm not very impressed. Still in the first area (hinterlands), and the game seems like a single player MMO. I mean, fetch quests for 10 pieces of ram meat?. Does it get any better or should I just cut my losses here already? Dragon Age Inquisition IS designed like a single player MMO, but the way all MMOs have been going the last several years is to provide waaaay more quests than the player needs to advance, so you can pick and choose which ones sound like fun. So pick and choose not to do the 10 pieces of ram meet and leave the loving hinterlands instead.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:24
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i was shocked how short the campaign is once you get passed all the waiting. its like 12 missions iirc.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:14
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Skilleddk posted:I just bought Dragon Age: Inquisition and after spending a few hours I'm not very impressed. Still in the first area (hinterlands), and the game seems like a single player MMO. I mean, fetch quests for 10 pieces of ram meat?. Does it get any better or should I just cut my losses here already? Inquisition's thread here on SA literally has "LEAVE THE HINTERLANDS" in its OP so yeah. You're not supposed to do all the quests in one playthrough unless you want to be seriously overleveled. Just do whichever ones sound fun, or come back to grind if you're stuck in a hard zone.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:17
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Sleeping Dogs - environmental moves take enemies out of the fight immediately and you don't need to soften them up before you do one.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:45
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Anything for Talos Principle? I'm mostly worried about if there's missable things.
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Dec 30, 2015 20:30
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thanks, didn't know there was an active DA:I thread!
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Dec 30, 2015 20:35
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Selane posted:For the races, this isn't GTA so you can cheat all you want to win. Get used to using the ram ability, but later on you get (gameplay, but not story spoilers)some ridiculous spy car with gatling cannons and a literal EMP built into it so you can use that to cheat your way through. That spoiler involves a piece of DLC, the Wheels of Fury pack. I'm not sure if you can play these DLC missions from the start of the game, but they start in the south-west section of the map and are worth doing ASAP. That car is really awesome.
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Dec 30, 2015 20:49
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Poison Mushroom posted:Anything for Talos Principle? I'm mostly worried about if there's missable things. Nothing's missable, once you've unlocked an area you can go back to it whenever you want. This is good because if you're like me, you'll read a guide for the later puzzles and then find out there were puzzles in the early stages you didn't even know existed. Otherwise, read the terminals, find the audio logs, and take some time out to explore. The story is fairly straight-forward but the terminals/logs provide a lot of good backstory. You can also access the logs whenever you want after you've found them if you want to go over them again. Also, you'll blow up a few times, I guarantee it.
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Dec 30, 2015 20:51
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Poison Mushroom posted:Anything for Talos Principle? I'm mostly worried about if there's missable things. the game makes you think at first that only the green puzzles are necessary for progress but that becomes untrue quickly. the yellow ones unlock items that are necessary for progress and red ones eventually show up once you clear the tutorial area and realize the scope of the game. the only things that are truly unnecessary are the stars. nothing is missable because its all clearly labeled for you
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Dec 30, 2015 21:50
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Deltasquid posted:Inquisition's thread here on SA literally has "LEAVE THE HINTERLANDS" in its OP so yeah. Also, do The Inquisition Needs BEEEEEEES once it comes up, then bench Sera forever.
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Dec 30, 2015 22:02
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Sleeping Dogs - You're Chinese Batman. Counterpunch everyone. Oh, and if you get ahold of a pistol semi-early, it can hilariously short-circuit some of the sidequest events. Don't be afraid to use it from time to time.
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Dec 30, 2015 22:03
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Ramagamma posted:Sleeping Dogs I'm not expecting anything major I should know but hey might as well ask? To add to what the other person said about collectibles: if you get a girl's number, call them and set up a date. They'll put collectibles on your map.
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Dec 30, 2015 22:19
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Is Wasteland 2 (directors cut) basically just like Fallout 2 or am I going in with the wrong expectations?
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Dec 30, 2015 22:25
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Is Wasteland 2 (directors cut) basically just like Fallout 2 or am I going in with the wrong expectations? Not exactly. Its more like Baldur's Gate mixed with... Oregon Trail? 
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Dec 30, 2015 22:34
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Is Wasteland 2 (directors cut) basically just like Fallout 2 or am I going in with the wrong expectations? Wasteland and Fallout both kind of do their own thing, but the original Wasteland is what inspired the original Fallout so they definitely have their similarities. If you know your way around and have an appreciation for old-school RPGs from the Fallout 2 era then you should probably be fine either way.
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Dec 30, 2015 22:34
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Kanfy covered the fundamentals. The difference between the game focusing on a person in Fallout 2 versus a squad in Wasteland 2 is fairly significant, from the way conversations feel to the kind of combat tactics expected of you, but there is definitely a good amount of overlap.
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Dec 30, 2015 23:24
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Dr. Quarex posted:Kanfy covered the fundamentals. The difference between the game focusing on a person in Fallout 2 versus a squad in Wasteland 2 is fairly significant, from the way conversations feel to the kind of combat tactics expected of you, but there is definitely a good amount of overlap. The most important thing about wasteland 2 i feel is that you have just enough slots (6x4 people) to take 1 of every non combat skill, and 1 combat skill per person, provided you pick only 1 conversational skill out of the 3 that exist. Also, especially if you're playing on harder difficulties, the game plays like xcom basically where you're moving each person into cover advancing forward, until you either start combat by shooting something or something sees you first, at which point you go into turn based combat mode. You can greatly influence the entire battle if your guys are set up and spread out and not clumped together when an enemy sees you.
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Dec 30, 2015 23:47
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Man. I'm bad at not spending money. Anything for Eldritch or Titan Souls?
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Dec 31, 2015 19:46
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Poison Mushroom posted:Man. I'm bad at not spending money. Anything for Eldritch or Titan Souls? Titan Souls: Don't worry about trying to kill a boss as soon as you walk in a room. You will die multiple times on pretty much every boss, so don't waste your time trying to hit them until you have a sense of their movement patterns. Just dodge their attacks until that's the case, then try for attacking them. Some bosses are significantly easier if you start the fight off right, so if it feels like you've lost control of the flow of the battle, it may be worth dying to start over. Most bosses only take two or three hits though, IIRC. Don't forget that you can hit an enemy two ways: when you actually fire your arrow, and when you draw it back to yourself. You will need to use the latter method in clever ways at times. In classic adventure game fashion, your arrow will start on fire if you shoot it through a flame. This is probably obvious, but you'll end up doing it quite a bit.
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