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I got in trouble as a kid for playing the Jagged Alliance 2 demo because there was a porno mag item. That's all I remember about the game besides one of the npcs shouting "S.O.B.!!!" while shooting someone to death. They weren't bothered by that at all.
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Anno posted:For some reason I thought they wanted to do something other than Stronghold. But I’m at least mildly interested in this. This makes me happy because the 2D strongholds were the best, the 3d ones made weird choices and were often buggy as heck Mordja posted:I've never really played a Stronghold game, but isn't Crusader the one everybody likes? Crusader is probably better for the more stuff they put into it, but the first one was perfectly good and playable. It has been a long time but I remember a lot of the Crusader maps had some annoyances like small build areas
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deep dish peat moss posted:I'm interested in Mechabellum but also one of my all-time favorite games is LegionTD2, which is a similar concept (highly strategic multiplayer pvp autobattler) executed to near-perfection. Any chance anyone here has played both and can speak for how Mechabellum stacks up to LegionTD2? this is from a while ago and I don't think anyone answered, so as someone who played the original LegionTD as a custom map for a looooong time, the main differences are: tldr: mechabellum is a direct autobattle between player armies focused on unit positioning and tech choices, whereas legion TD is more autobattler-via-tower-defense (i.e. in mechabellum, the two armies engage directly, there's no sending creeps at one another) - there is no real "econ" in mechabellum; everyone gets the same number of unit deployments and credits every turn, with some exceptions/depending on the specific choices they make - everyone shares the same unit pool in mechabellum, *but* every unit can slot up to four different tech upgrades which each player can customize before games and which still have to be actually unlocked during a given round (and the enemy can see what you've slotted) - generally speaking, every round you and your opponent will know what the other *can* do, but you won't know for sure until the next round; as mentioned everyone has the same unit pool, and between rounds each player sees the same 4 random upgrade cards, so if you see say +1 deployments / napalm bomb / better shields / faster units, you know the enemy *might* take napalm and have to decide if you want to protect against that, risk it, or do the same thing back, and you won't know till the next round (only exception is round 1 starting units and specializations which are randomized and each player sees 4 options that the other player DOESN'T see, but the units are still unlockable in the round) imo mechabellum is the perfect evolution of autobattlers that removes the vast majority of RNG, because even the RNG of round cards is mitigated by the fact that you can prepare
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I'm very close to grabbing JA3. If nothing else, I can nab it for the pre-purchase price and refund it once it hits public in case it's actually poo poo.
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It’s very cheap on CDKeys if you’re up for that: https://www.cdkeys.com/jagged-alliance-3-pc-steam
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I almost missed buying the forza bundle at like 2 minutes before the sale ended final purchases: ghost recon breakpoint ultimate edition disco elysium power wash sim forza horizon 4/5
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Illwinter announced Dominions 6 for the end of this year. Anyone else ready to bounce off of Dominions again?
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Assepoester posted:Oh wow it's even more noticeable in action someone remind me to wishlist this when it gets a steam page
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Anno posted:For some reason I thought they wanted to do something other than Stronghold. But I’m at least mildly interested in this. Nice trailer, and I don't say that often! I liked the original Stronghold because it had nice crunchy construction, interesting buildings and was novel in its focus on building and defending the titular castle.
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I think Starcraft and Warcraft are the only other RTS games I played other than Stronghold, and yea I liked that I had to make food and recreational things for town happiness and stuff like that; it wasn't explicitly producing Troops and Weapons.
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Anno posted:It’s very cheap on CDKeys if you’re up for that: https://www.cdkeys.com/jagged-alliance-3-pc-steam Appreciated. Your suggestion is a dud because the original cdkeys price is like twenty dollars more expensive than the Norwegian steam price, but it did remind me to check isthereanydeal and that gave me a better price.
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Anno posted:Illwinter announced Dominions 6 for the end of this year. Anyone else ready to bounce off of Dominions again? I wasn't able to get into 4 or 5 but I'm sure I will still buy this one at some point because I think the concept is so cool.
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Anno posted:Illwinter announced Dominions 6 for the end of this year. Anyone else ready to bounce off of Dominions again? I played a good amount of 4, and liked it a lot. Kept meaning to buy 5 at some point but never did. I guess now I'll wait for 6!
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Anno posted:Against all odds, Jagged Alliance 3 is apparently a good game. “A good blend of old and new” seems like a common take, along with “except the humor which just hasn’t aged properly at all”. Hoping it turns out good as well: after playing Satellite Reign, people were recommending Jagged Alliance and Silent Storm as follow-ups but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to cope with their oldness, but a new sequel might be just what I need. I'll wait for the reviews as for now I'm going through XCOM Chimera Squad (and enjoying myself).
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Anno posted:For some reason I thought they wanted to do something other than Stronghold. But I’m at least mildly interested in this. can't wait to gently caress up that stupid pig knight rear end in a top hat again
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Anno posted:Illwinter announced Dominions 6 for the end of this year. Anyone else ready to bounce off of Dominions again? Welp, I guess Perun is going to take a break from analysing the Ukrainian War sometime around November.
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How does the auto supply exactly work in Dave the Diver? The game doesn't give me much information and even looking online is kind of confusing. When I'm choosing the menu, do I just wing it to figure out how many items of each kind would be good to put on the menu? And how does the auto supply figure into all this? Otherwise it's been fun now that I finally managed to start it out, but the menucrafting at the restaurant seems kinda confusing.
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Anno posted:It’s very cheap on CDKeys if you’re up for that: https://www.cdkeys.com/jagged-alliance-3-pc-steam It's about the same price on this site (at least for me in the US) listed on isthereanydeal.com which usually means it's a proper site and not a dodgy reseller.
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TeaJay posted:How does the auto supply exactly work in Dave the Diver? The game doesn't give me much information and even looking online is kind of confusing. When I'm choosing the menu, do I just wing it to figure out how many items of each kind would be good to put on the menu? And how does the auto supply figure into all this? You can set one of each item you want to sell on your menu and enable auto supply and it'll pull fish as needed to make the next one if it's ordered, instead of winging it and guessing how many you need. I opted to ignore the auto supply and just estimated how many dishes I'd need to make it through a service based on how the previous night's service ended and went with that. If some got thrown out so be it but I was usually never putting more than 8-10 of a single item on the menu so there wasn't all that much going to waste. Auto supply is probably the most efficient and easiest option though. The menu setup is pretty simple if you just enhance what you can while leaving some for service so you're not completely out of ingredients, then when adding dishes, sort the list by price and work your way from the top down for max payout.
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TeaJay posted:How does the auto supply exactly work in Dave the Diver? The game doesn't give me much information and even looking online is kind of confusing. When I'm choosing the menu, do I just wing it to figure out how many items of each kind would be good to put on the menu? And how does the auto supply figure into all this? It's kinda like an accessibility feature? It makes dish servings restock automatically if you run out during the night, so long as you have the ingredients. That way you don't have to plan your menu/waste food calculating how many servings you'll sell. I THINK the only downside is that some dishes are cooked in batches of 5 so you want to keep an eye on those manually? There's no cost for it or reward for not using it so it's kind of weird.
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Diephoon posted:I got in trouble as a kid for playing the Jagged Alliance 2 demo because there was a porno mag item. That's all I remember about the game besides one of the npcs shouting "S.O.B.!!!" while shooting someone to death. They weren't bothered by that at all. JA1 had quote:"Unusually Ruthless" Reuban is best described by his nickname. He's called "Ruthless", because he wiped out his entire family with a cordless hedge trimmer, and "Unusually Ruthless" because he recharged the appliance twice before he was finished!" JA2, aside from all manners of grisly deaths and birds pecking away at dead bodies, and a porno store, had a usable brothel, which an underaged girl was kidnapped and forced to work at. A game for children it was not. Anno posted:Against all odds, Jagged Alliance 3 is apparently a good game. “A good blend of old and new” seems like a common take, along with “except the humor which just hasn’t aged properly at all”. I'd say this is a good month to be unemployed, but realistically I'll wait until there's atleast a 50% sale. I've got enough stuff in my to-play queue.
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JA2 just really lent into the 'simulation' part of a guerilla warfare campaign, as much as a video game in the 90's was able to do. Nowadays we have stuff like This War of Mine which is able to fully embrace its message, instead of having to sit alongside the wacky stuff JA2 had in it to keep it all light hearted. But yea, the 90's where pretty edgy. FutureCop posted:Hoping it turns out good as well: after playing Satellite Reign, people were recommending Jagged Alliance and Silent Storm as follow-ups but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to cope with their oldness, but a new sequel might be just what I need. I'll wait for the reviews as for now I'm going through XCOM Chimera Squad (and enjoying myself). ---- If JA3 is good, start liquidating your funds boys as the rapture as arrived.
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I hope the Ratchet port is good. As a big fan of Sunset Overdrive, I'm looking forward to playing one of those games.
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Mordja posted:I hope the Ratchet port is good. As a big fan of Sunset Overdrive, I'm looking forward to playing one of those games.
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I like how there are a bunch of weirdos on Steam that buy a game, play 40 mins, refund it and give it a negative review on day one. Very cool people with healthy brains.
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WarEternal posted:I like how there are a bunch of weirdos on Steam that buy a game, play 40 mins, refund it and give it a negative review on day one. Very cool people with healthy brains. ...isn't that exactly what the refund system is there for??
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The Joe Man posted:...isn't that exactly what the refund system is there for?? I'm talking about people with the express intent of leaving a negative review. Not people that simply didn't like a game.
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WarEternal posted:I'm talking about people with the express intent of leaving a negative review. Not people that simply didn't like a game. Some games are really really shite though
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Some games are really really shite though You really think someone would do that? Just go and upload a bad game onto Steam?
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Diephoon posted:I got in trouble as a kid for playing the Jagged Alliance 2 demo because there was a porno mag item. That's all I remember about the game besides one of the npcs shouting "S.O.B.!!!" while shooting someone to death. They weren't bothered by that at all. My friend would not shut up about how there was a lady named Brenda and you can find her bra and it says it has DD cups and you can use it to make a molotov cocktail. At the time I didn't understand how much that ruled.
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$60 for Exoprimal? Yikes. I was gonna go sign up for GamePass to check it out there, but uhhhh apparently I never cancelled my subscription after playing Atomic Fart earlier this year 😫 edit; also lol $60 worth of DLC on launch Sab669 fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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WarEternal posted:I like how there are a bunch of weirdos on Steam that buy a game, play 40 mins, refund it and give it a negative review on day one. Very cool people with healthy brains. I'm one of these people. If I buy a game for $40+ from a major studio and it's missing features I'm slamming that thumbs down and refunding the two hours. Don't over promise and underdeliver and then tell everyone it'll come in a future patch.
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WarEternal posted:I like how there are a bunch of weirdos on Steam that buy a game, play 40 mins, refund it and give it a negative review on day one. Very cool people with healthy brains. Hot take: bad games should be getting bad reviews so that I'm less likely to have to be the one wasting my time doing the refunding.
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Sab669 posted:$60 for Exoprimal? Yikes. And it'll get way worse. Capcom are honorary members of Japans whale hunting industry.
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Donnerberg posted:And it'll get way worse. Capcom are honorary members of Japans whale hunting industry. That's a shame because the tutorial seemed at least potentially fun. Have my stupid work zoom meeting in 10 minutes though so I can't keep playing 
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I watched a bit of Cohh playing it and it looked decently fun, but it's going to flop hard because they're treating it like a AAA title, when it's more AA.
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Sab669 posted:That's a shame because the tutorial seemed at least potentially fun. Have my stupid work zoom meeting in 10 minutes though so I can't keep playing I tried one of the betas and I did not like Exoprimal. I thought it was going to be "Earth Defense Force but with dinosaurs and a higher budget because Capcom." Instead what you get is "You have a mission to shoot dinosaurs and you're racing another team for some reason, oh and now you're directly fighting the other team instead of the dinosaur threat because ???  "I bitched about this heavily during the post beta survey. They added a "PVE" mode in response to beta feedback, but based on the reviews it's just switching out the final mission segment with a PVE encounter instead of directly fighting the other team. You're still racing another team during the initial mission phases and the enemy can control a dinosaur and fight you during the match, which is still PVP. I understand the game isn't what I want it to be, but I also have a hard time getting over thinking that if they just made EDF but with dinosaurs they would have a cool and fun game.
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