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double nine
Aug 8, 2013

RandolphCarter posted:

managed to get vampire the masquerade bloodlines running on my steam deck :getin:

the way of kings beckons

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double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Halser posted:

I'd say the toxic blowdart snipers are actually difficult to deal with

imagine if they respawned

didn't they used to respawn or was that a fever dream of mine?

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

just do a file search for baldur's gate or larian folders and delete all bg3 saves or config files.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Srice posted:

because of the recent fuckup patreon did, this is praxis

did they try to do an onlyfans and ban adult content?

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

this might be petty of me, but why the hell is there a loading screen for level-ups in bg3. short-ish as it is, it's just annoying.
does the background really demand that much detail?

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Epic High Five posted:

Playing Starfield? Back in MY day we went to the playing FIELD to work hard to become a STAR!!!

pssht, we went to a field to save a king. self aggrandising assholes

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

I refuse to continue the main quest until I have finished the area's side quests.

which might be a problem in an open world, idk

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

there's a button to match speed with target lol

double nine
Aug 8, 2013


god I love emotional cord

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

ScootsMcSkirt posted:

i think some people are unable to conceptualize navigating in 3d space and i feel bad for them

every nerd should take a compulsory 10 hr kerbal space program course

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

it didn't come out in 2023 but I played it in 2023 - and Citizen Sleeper was a delightful warm and fuzzy narrative that warmed my cynical heart and it deserves all the praise it received.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

there is another option for sheriff.
talk to everyone in the casino about it.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Nix Panicus posted:

I don't want to spoil the next bit of ambient storytelling and design decision, but I also want to briefly mention it anyways, so Gradenkos don't look:

You can try just walking to New Vegas along the much shorter highway path from Good Springs, but its infested with high level enemies and it doesn't pull punches. Instead you're encouraged to go the long way around along the much safer road which takes you through Legion and NCR territory so you get a proper introduction to all the factions before you get to New Vegas. Its such a great use of map design and soft barriers

it rules puzzling out a path that gets past the enemies with no combat. new vegas lvl 1 baybeee

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

gradenko_2000 posted:

Another New Vegas sesh today:


regarding gunplay, some enemies have armor - there's an icon that pops up in the hud when your bullets are plinking off of their armor.
you need to use a lot of bullets or find/craft armor-piercing bullets for those.

I say this because I don't think the game explains this very well.

when in doubt, use a billion explosives

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

RandolphCarter posted:

all the dlc are worth doing once.

:indeed:

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

goth smoking cloves posted:

This,


Dead Money is the weakest one, the mechanics are kind of tedious and from what I remember you don't really walk away with anything particularly cool for all the effort even if the story is interesting, still worth playing IMO

(That being said, I do wish more developers would try something totally different from the main game with their dlc like they did with Dead Money.)

Old World Blues is probably the second worst (Even if I do really like it.), the story is good especially the NPCs but the gameplay reminds me a bit of the lazier side missions in Saint's Row.

the casino allows you to break the economy even more than the base game allows.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Hatebag posted:

energy weapons are underpowered for a lot of the game but become the best weapons at the end. definitely viable but you may want to minor in explosives. melee kind of sucks in nv so I'd recommend against that
the most important thing is ya gotta get the wild wasteland trait

seriously? wild wasteland felt wasteful last time I played. A couple of chuckles from cartoon humor and references to long-dead memes

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

in the complete edition of the game you can make these:

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Satchel_charge

which requires the bare minimum of explosives skill points and is comprised of parts you'll find everywhere and in vendors. the only possible reason they did this was to have a goofy incentive to buy the DLC

I'd completely forgotten how the ammo/weapon crafting system could have been so good if it wasn't married to bethesda's unsortable, limited by weight and frustrating inventory system.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

There is a gif of a DOS era video game where the player decides to nuke a country in the middle east and there follows a bunch of advisors (?) quit and the entire world unites against you?
asking for a friend.
it was a late 80s / early 90s video game that I don't know the name of

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Buck Wildman posted:

it was Israel lol


Buck Wildman posted:

the game was shadow president fyi

I knew it was israel, I was being coy. thank you I found it.


double nine
Aug 8, 2013

loquacius posted:

I used the voucher to buy this but still can't play it as per my wife's deal with our daughter RE potty-training

you're really not supposed to put too much pressure on your kid to potty-train because it'll give them a complex about all sorts of poo poo with their body but man I keep having to change a 3-year-old's rancid poops while thinking about how I could be playing Mario Wonder with her instead

tbh resident evil potty training sounds like a little too much, you know. Maybe try them on something lighter first

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

loquacius posted:

So my wife finally recovered enough from childbirth for us to finish It Takes Two :toot:

Any recommendations for another cute/colorful couch co-op game? The Trials of Mana remake was our plan (she liked the SoM remake when we played that) but it doesn't have co-op for some reason so that's out of the running.

Not Mario Wonder bc we've already earmarked that one for a family game to play with our daughter.

as always, magicka, though I don't know if it works well on controller.
otherwise Broforce or Monaco, what's yours is Mine

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

small team, big ambitions > time

e: like at this point if it was "out of early access" I don't think people'd feel features are missing.
it might need a balance pass or two for some stuff but it's got lots of stuff to play with.

e2:their roadmap agrees and they will probably go into "full release" sometime *reads tealeaves* ... next spring?
https://www.sovietrepublic.net/roadmap

double nine has issued a correction as of 15:14 on Oct 30, 2023

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Buck Wildman posted:

I don't think so. one of them is mario in a speedo and a gold chain

anti-italian hate, gotcha

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

uber_stoat posted:

i assume AW2 is never going on steam right?

Maybe if we're lucky there will be an 'ultimate' edition on a year or 2 but god knows what their contract with epic is

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

youtube keeps recommending My Dark Disquiet and tbh I can't fault it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRQGOtBVELo

poets of the fall make some bangers

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

ScootsMcSkirt posted:

too difficult for normies

ppl demand to have atmosphere-like flight in their space games and it sucks rear end cause newtonian models are so much more fun to fly around in

"what do you mean, accelerating towards my target makes me fly away from it???"

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Ben Nerevarine posted:

Patches wasn’t recognizing my Extreme Repentance, and I thought maybe I’d have to lower his health too for some reason, so I hit him just once when he had about half health, procced bleed and killed him unceremoniously :911:

restart the run

double nine
Aug 8, 2013


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m4aB1Dw7KY

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

https://twitter.com/KyleTrainEmoji/status/1774898539262586998

in china, mine crafts you

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

gradenko_2000 posted:

The modern interpretation I like to use for old-school D&D is "Target 20":

d20 + attack bonus + the target's AC = result

if the result is 20 or more, it's a hit

it maintains compatibility with the AD&D-style armor where Plate is AC 2 (which is good) versus Leather Armor being AC 8, while also keeping bonuses positive and penalties negative, and rolling high is good.

shouldn't that be a minus? the defense value of a target should be a penalty to the attacker's roll, no?

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

Been playing the old C&C games (not the remakes). I forgot how brutal the first C&C was, especially the Nod campaign with the constant airstrike that can one shot every building if they hit right.

the helldivers thread is that way

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Jazerus posted:

oblivion being bland wasn't all down to kirkbride leaving, it was a directive from todd to make everything as much like lord of the rings as possible to cash in on its popularity. that's why the guards all wear gondor armor

the only way I can make sense of the artstyle decisions of starfield is that management saw Interstellar & The Martian and decided to base their entire artstyle around those, quickly forgotten, movies

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double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Honest Thief posted:

they played you all like a fiddle

pretty ambitious to generate a ton of negative press on both sony & helldivers as some 3D chess move

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