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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:The Long War is technically interesting but the game design is really modders.txt where features are added without care of interaction between systems. Aside from Exalt being a bit on the tough side right now (and they're getting a bit of a nerf next update), they've managed to get things down to a pretty nice balance, even down to the air war. The addition of combat stances makes a ton of difference in the early game where UFOs are squirrely and frail. On the whole, it's a better balanced game than Enemy Within, which got kinda awesome for a while and then you rolled over the aliens for the entire second half of the campaign because you had an army of psychic super-mutants and cyborg giants. Making big changes, playtesting (which has to be done by players, because modders don't have a team of 50+ interns to do that), adjusting and finding what needs changing/cutting/altering is pretty standard game development. The next beta update is almost all fine-tuning and bugfixes. They've not added any major features for a while, and almost every single veteran player in the XCom thread swears by the mod now, even over Xenonauts. They've done drat good. Edit: And if there's any part of Long War you don't like, they've externalized a ton of gameplay variables into an INI file, so you can adjust almost anything to personal taste. Dominic White fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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PantsBandit posted:Skywind is looking really cool, just watched the new teaser video for it where they showed off some various locales. It's really cool that people put together such massive content mods for nothing more than something to put on their resume. There are a ton of quests to script, and I can see it taking quite a while to be released. It does look great, though. The FAQ lists Tribunal and Bloodmoon as a requirement, but doesn't indicate whether the expansions will be included.
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Turtlicious posted:I'm surprised there isn't a good program that's like Pandora for video games, where you punch in games you like, and get a list of mechanically similar ones. Steams tags are a step in the right direction, but at the moment it's no more useful for determining if something's worth playing than the Dewey Decimal system is for determining if a book's worth reading.
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Invisible Inc. is now on Steam and the Humble Store for early access. gently caress my money it's gone already.
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:That mechanic exists in vanilla but is disabled by default although you can enable it through an ini edit. XCOM's design team would have tested air combat at that scale and saw it heavily influenced a disproportionate amount of the game's difficulty. The Long War is technically interesting but the game design is really modders.txt where features are added without care of interaction between systems. The XCOM thread is mostly TLW chat as XCOM has been talked to death and there isn't another place to speak about specific total conversion mods. To that end it'd be nice if a subforum existed to cover large mods. I'm not sure why it matters that the mechanic exists but is unused in vanilla, it's a feature that LW uses that I like. I doubt it was left off for reason of balance either, XCOM went through a ton of iterations before it settled into the released form, it seems more like they just settled on a boardgame like mechanic because that's the type of game Firaxis and Sid Meier like to make. I don't feel like any of their systems stand out as not working well together either, do you have any examples? Panzeh posted:Yeah the problem you hit is basically that air combat becomes way more important and air combat is literally a roll of the dice. Literally every shot you take in XCOM is a roll of the dice, the whole game is built around getting the best possible dice rolls and minimising the consequences if your rolls fail. If you keep up with air tech you should be happily shooting down all small-medium UFOs by the midgame, and for large UFOs you can either handle them on the ground or burn consumables to shoot them down and hope for luck.
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Weekend Deals are the Metro and Portal games. Daily is Bully. Bully is one of Rockstar's best games, though you need a controller to play it.
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Sober posted:Invisible Inc. is now on Steam and the Humble Store for early access. gently caress my money it's gone already. I got in at the ground floor last year at PAX when they were selling two keys for $15, and while it's been interesting to see how they have been iterating, it still needs a bit more time in the oven. It has all the promise of being amazing, but they're still hammering out how exactly they want the game to work. In other words, Early Access or something.
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Accordion Man posted:Weekend Deals are the Metro and Portal games. I just bought 2033 despite owning it on the 360 so I can get 25 bucks off the Redux package for owning both. 
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Hogo Fogo posted:Groupees' Be Mine 14 is coming soon. Live now
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Betrayer and Consortium are easily worth $2.50 each, and the Eschalon series have been solid RPG romps, so it's a pretty good deal. e: Holy poo poo that Legacy game though, it looks like a janky ARPG Quest 64. rargphlam fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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Darkrenown posted:I'm not sure why it matters that the mechanic exists but is unused in vanilla, it's a feature that LW uses that I like. I doubt it was left off for reason of balance either, XCOM went through a ton of iterations before it settled into the released form, it seems more like they just settled on a boardgame like mechanic because that's the type of game Firaxis and Sid Meier like to make. I don't feel like any of their systems stand out as not working well together either, do you have any examples? The Long War also doesn't like risk-minimisation strategies that come from vanilla, such as grenades, and has gone overboard in making the RNG control the game instead of the player.
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drat, why so many new posts in this thread, I'm out of the loop. Also I'm buying that BeMine, looks neat.
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:The Long War also doesn't like risk-minimisation strategies that come from vanilla, such as grenades, and has gone overboard in making the RNG control the game instead of the player. Really? Grenades are the ultimate go-to 'get out of trouble free' card more than ever, as you start the game with both antipersonnel and high-explosive variants, and the former tends to one-shot aliens if you land it close enough. This is doubly true if you've got Red Fog enabled, as aliens tend to retreat and hide if you just busted them all down to 1-2hp with a frag grenade.
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Dominic White posted:Really? Grenades are the ultimate go-to 'get out of trouble free' card more than ever, as you start the game with both antipersonnel and high-explosive variants, and the former tends to one-shot aliens if you land it close enough. Didn't I hear LW grenades have a miss chance, or am I misremembering?
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New BundleStars bundle: $4.99 Murder Miners 4 Pack Guacamelee Gold Puddle Wooden SenSey Super Lemonade Factory Space Farmers 2 Pack Terrorhedron Kill Fun Yeah Project Root Spy Chameleon http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/titanium-bundle/
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Kragger99 posted:New BundleStars bundle: Haven't played any of these except for Guacamelee which I played through recently on PS4. That alone is easily worth the price, it was an excellent game.
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Male Man posted:Didn't I hear LW grenades have a miss chance, or am I misremembering? I am not sure about that but they do less damage the further away you are from the point of explosion. Is that a vanilla thing too?
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Super Lemonade Factory's not too bad. It's a bit like Lost Vikings, except with just two people.
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Accordion Man posted:Bully is one of Rockstar's best games, though you need a controller to play it. Does it have native 360 controller support?
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Stan Taylor posted:Does it have native 360 controller support?
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Yeah, it does. It's also Rockstar's best GTA game and everyone should play it if they haven't. \/\/\/ no
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ovaries posted:Yeah, it does. It's also Rockstar's best GTA game and everyone should play it if they haven't.
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Drifter posted:I am not sure about that but they do less damage the further away you are from the point of explosion. Is that a vanilla thing too? No miss chance in either. In vanilla they did equal damage across the entire blast radius. LW changes explosions so that they do maximum damage at point of blast, decreasing over range. Anti-personnel grenades can kill a sectoid in one shot at center point and cripple a few others.
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Accordion Man posted:Nah its second best, because RDR exists. Not on PC it doesn't.
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PantsBandit posted:Haven't played any of these except for Guacamelee which I played through recently on PS4. That alone is easily worth the price, it was an excellent game. Steam is finally getting the ultimate edition of Guacamelee, so you might wanna hold off for that one.
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Humble Jumbo Bundle 2 $1+ Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Complete Deadlight Galactic Civilizations 2 BTA: Terraria KING OF FIGHTERS XIII Crusader Kings 2 just the base game + three unit dlcs. ¨ $15+ Age of Empires Legacy Bundle
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Stan Taylor posted:Not on PC it doesn't. lordfrikk posted:Steam is finally getting the ultimate edition of Guacamelee, so you might wanna hold off for that one.
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Hogo Fogo posted:Crusader Kings 2 just the base game + three unit dlcs.
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Dominic White posted:Really? Grenades are the ultimate go-to 'get out of trouble free' card more than ever, as you start the game with both antipersonnel and high-explosive variants, and the former tends to one-shot aliens if you land it close enough. There's also infinite Flashbangs from the start in LW, you had to research and build them in EW. Plus you get Chem and Psi grenades later, as well as more sources of suppression. I feel like I have more failsafes in LW, not less.
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Speaking of Galactic Civilizations, has anyone tried out GalCiv3 yet? Being that it's Stardock and also still in EA I'm hoping the answer is 'no', but if not, anyone know how good/bad it's looking?
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Hogo Fogo posted:Humble Jumbo Bundle 2 These are individual Steam keys, just FYI.
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SelenicMartian posted:Ah, The Most Useless DLC Edition. To be fair, the base game of Crusader Kings 2 will get your thousands of hours if you find you like that sort of thing. Gwyrgyn Blood posted:Speaking of Galactic Civilizations, has anyone tried out GalCiv3 yet? Being that it's Stardock and also still in EA I'm hoping the answer is 'no', but if not, anyone know how good/bad it's looking? It's me, I am the dumb retard. At this point it's GalCiv 2, but missing diplomacy and a bunch of other features. The beta patch did roll out some functional changes that make it not just Literally 64bit GalCiv 2, but really just wait until it's done.
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Hogo Fogo posted:Humble Jumbo Bundle 2 Ugh, gently caress me I have everything already except for KING OF FIGHTERS XIII, anyone down for splitting this bundle? I only want KFXIII. Im_Special fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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Accordion Man posted:Daily is Bully. Benny posted:I really like this game, when I was was a kid I was bullied at school by some big dumb doofus heads, and I would come home and play this game to take out my aggression. It felt REALLY good beating up some fat nerds, and even better beating up some dumb jocks, like the ones that beat me up. they only beat my up because they were jealous of me and my SMOKING hot GF who had big boobies (she weighed 450 pounds, mostly because of boobage) and they would call me stuff like "Gay", "Weak", "Pony loving ♥♥♥♥♥♥" because sometimes I wore my super cool 20% cooler rainbow dash T. they also called me a dumb gay ♥♥♥♥ because I would wear super-awesome-supreme-ultimate-ninja shirts like Naruto or some super-cool-awesome-beat-em-up Attack on Titan T shirts. one day I went home, asked miku what I should do, she said I should challange them to a dance off, long story short, I won. the dumb jocks cheated and tried to beat me up instead of dancing because of their super inferior dance move, and their inability to pull off a fedora.
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