I have the whole Easter off but nothing to play. Any game recommendations for somebody who likes turn-based tactics, all sorts of RPGs and looter shooters? I've pretty much played (or tried) all the usual suspects, except things like BG3 since I don't want to play big story-based RPGs before they are done.
This would be so much easier if I was iolo, I could just start another Battletech career run. But 500 hours of that has been enough for me for now at least.
Have you tried Fae Tactics? It's a fun little FFT-style game, I had some fun with it.
Not yet - it's on my wishlist. Might be an option.
A tip: do NOT play on Hard Mode. Unless you're a masochist.
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My b. I can't get the code things to work no matter what I do. Followed the guide in OP, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Out of frustration, I just posted them so hopefully someone real grabs them.
My b. I can't get the code things to work no matter what I do. Followed the guide in OP, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Out of frustration, I just posted them so hopefully someone real grabs them.
I felt like dusting off PUBG again. That was a mistake.
In twenty minutes I had multiple crashes, a hard lock necessitating a forced reboot, and two "out of video memory" errors (one after the fresh boot with nothing else running; I have an 8GB GTX 1080). Guess we're done here. Uninstalled.
At least that'll mean fewer random 7+GB updates for no apparent reason every couple of days now.
I'm not sure when it originally aired but I'm watching US v GER men's curling. I still don't like Haymaker Curling (my term) because ends are either blanks or 3-4 points for one team.
I *think* this is the World Championship 2021? The Olympic channel will sometimes air events that are old just to fill air time.
Yes but it's been ruined... It's been abandoned (no bug fixes, no expansions, etc), graphically downgraded (seriously - the DX10 version was removed), and it's the Korean MMO version, gutted to be single player only. Basically a Steam port of an MMO port of the original game.
Game mechanics can't be copyrighted, nor can style. Unless that's literally a ship out of FTL, and that's more rooms than I remember any of them having.
Game mechanics can't be copyrighted, nor can style. Unless that's literally a ship out of FTL, and that's more rooms than I remember any of them having.
Yeah lmao I thought it was a mod for FTL the whole aesthetic down to the UI look reallllly similar.
If that is allowed I’m gonna go start on my game prodéguy.
Did a few minutes digging, and the dude was over on the Subset forums back in 2015 saying he was going to make a multiplayer version of their game, and that if they were concerned about his using their assets, not to worry, it was temporary.
Don’t get me wrong, I am *here* for multiplayer FTL. I’m just hoping this person got the green light from the people whose work he’s inspired by, before that goes up on Steam for sale...
ETA: to @Hevach ’s point, game mechanics aren’t copyrightable, but they *are* patentable in their specifics. Just hoping this has the appropriate legitimacy/due diligence behind it, so I can get excited.
I don't think I've seen any actual assets from FTL save for some icons, and the game mechanics aren't identical. Like, the main thing is of course that you control your one dude instead of controlling a ship, and so the way you interact with stuff is pretty different. In FTL you have instant control over any ship system at a time, but in Tachyon you can only control systems you're currently manning. There's no pause either. I think that's a pretty transformative change on its own.
While most of the gameplay mechanics are definitely like "FTL, but you're a crewmember," there are some things that are different from FTL. For example, you can fight multiple enemy ships at once. We ran into a couple encounters where two pirate ships were fighting eachother, and when you show up it turns into a 1v1v1. Also, ships have a position on a square plane instead of just existing in their box on the display. This lets you dodge shots by making in-system jumps, board enemy ships via EVA, and affects how long it takes shots to reach their target.
You can also change where ship systems are placed, unlike in FTL where ship systems go in a specific, unchangeable slot. Also, every installed weapon is a system, with its own location on the ship and health pool and such. You can control them all at once from main fire control, but individual ones can be controlled from their subsystem.
There's a litany of other small differences, like everyone having a personal O2 supply that keeps you from taking suffocation damage until it runs out, or the battery system that charges whenever you're not using your reactor's full load and lets you go over your normal reactor max load until its charge is depleted.
Like the ship-to-ship mechanics are definitely mostly FTL, like I target a room on the enemy ship with a three-burst laser, the first takes down its one pip of shields and the next two damage the system I targeted as well as the ship's hull. But it all seems to be made from scratch, and there are mechanical differences big and small.
I'm not sure where the line is on this sort of thing, and I'm not gonna try to make a definitive statement on the matter. But what I played felt pretty different from FTL.
Also suicide boarding runs where we boarded their ship after blasting the doors with rifles, get on board and they jump away. I was panicking and laughing the first time.
Goddamnit got an email from steam saying someone tried to login from like Vietnam and used my correct username and password. I don’t know if they actually did or whatever hack they’re using just triggers steam to say that, but I guess I’ll have to change my password, and my password on my email, and then relogin to every damn thing that’s connected to that email.
It could be anything. Was it a spearfishing attempt? Did it include the "click here to change your password" or was in an authentic email from Steam.
I'm sure everyone knows that even with an official email, you should always just go directly to any site to change or update password, and not follow a link.
But I'm also noticing that it seems like hackers have started using all this ridiculous amount of data that the interwebs are collecting and re-selling to advertisers to better engineer attacks. It's getting even more sophisticated out there.
Tachyon is definitely janky and buggy, as you might expect from a free fangame. Like sometimes the respawn timer doesn't count down. You'll still respawn, but you just won't know when, and the first time it happens you'll probably assume you're softlocked.
Also like, if you find yourself in that situation, and you pull up the pause menu figuring you'll need to disconnect and reconnect, and you see a "reset server" button, and you figure that since you're the client player, there's no way that you can actually reset the server, so this is probably a "reset my connection to the server" button, and you click it, it will reset the server.
It could be anything. Was it a spearfishing attempt? Did it include the "click here to change your password" or was in an authentic email from Steam.
I'm sure everyone knows that even with an official email, you should always just go directly to any site to change or update password, and not follow a link.
But I'm also noticing that it seems like hackers have started using all this ridiculous amount of data that the interwebs are collecting and re-selling to advertisers to better engineer attacks. It's getting even more sophisticated out there.
Scams in every arena seem to be stepping up their games instead of using the stupid filter.
Had one at work that was interesting. Call appeared to come from a US Marshal office in state, knew the full names and phone numbers of management including myself, and also used calls appearing to come from the owner (signal wouldn't connect though call just dropped, that's ok because he's there with the officer). Officer's name and badge number checked out when we filed a police report, but everything was accurate, regardless of how hard to find or verify.
What didn't check out was how he wanted me to empty the safe and spend it all on $20 prepaid cards each at a different store and give him all the numbers before destroying all the paperwork, and how if I did that they'd drop the billion dollar counterfeiting case against my manager.
I don't like my manager anyway, and if Im going to empty the safe I'm going to pay off my car because I'm ass over teakettle on that fucker.
It could be anything. Was it a spearfishing attempt? Did it include the "click here to change your password" or was in an authentic email from Steam.
I'm sure everyone knows that even with an official email, you should always just go directly to any site to change or update password, and not follow a link.
But I'm also noticing that it seems like hackers have started using all this ridiculous amount of data that the interwebs are collecting and re-selling to advertisers to better engineer attacks. It's getting even more sophisticated out there.
It wasn’t spear fishing, only link was one to check the IP location of the attempt, which I didn’t click and just checked via steam independently and someone had tried from Hanoi. Changed all my passwords on my email and steam and shit just to be safe, made them completely new, different from each other and ridiculously long and complicated
I have a sneaking suspicion maybe my steam password was the same as my facebook, and facebook had a breach recently
And yeah spearfishing is getting crazy good, I don’t know how people in like my parents age bracket survive on the net without help from younger relatives
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Yes but it's been ruined... It's been abandoned (no bug fixes, no expansions, etc), graphically downgraded (seriously - the DX10 version was removed), and it's the Korean MMO version, gutted to be single player only. Basically a Steam port of an MMO port of the original game.
Tried it. It's not the HGL I loved.
That's a shame.
(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
For anyone else that had Overfall removed from their library:
I couldn't remember where I got my code for Overfall but I filled out the form. After submitting the form, I realized that I got it in a bundle on Fanatical.com (formerly Bundlestars)
I just got an email from Fanatical saying "Your new Overfall Steam key is in your Fanatical account" which I was just able to redeem. I'm not sure if all the replacement codes are going to come from Fanatical or if they were able to match my email address or something but I figured I would let people know that the replacement codes are going out.
I also had an email from Fanatical. But I don't remember anything about this game so it must have been a bundle.
Fanatical: "bro you bought it in 2018"
Yeah, still not helping
if you're curious, you can go to your Fanatical orders and search for the game in the text field at the top. When I do it, it shows the Origins Bundle which I apparently bought on October 17, 2018.
F1 is gonna be a perennial for Humble Choice now, isn't it - 2019 was in it about this time last year. You should all (well, all of you who get HC) get F1 2020, it's super great.
Nice to see Shenmue III in there too, that's absolutely an HC kind of game... for better and worse.
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A tip: do NOT play on Hard Mode. Unless you're a masochist.
Each unique code has to been in a different post.
It's 'codes' with no spaces.
I have found a FTL Multiplayer game and tried it out with @cB557 and its pretty dang cool.
It is coming to steam and if you donate 5, you get a steam key when it arrives.
It is called Tachyon.
https://spektor.itch.io/tachyon
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I had bought the day 1 LE.
Mistakes were made.
In twenty minutes I had multiple crashes, a hard lock necessitating a forced reboot, and two "out of video memory" errors (one after the fresh boot with nothing else running; I have an 8GB GTX 1080). Guess we're done here. Uninstalled.
At least that'll mean fewer random 7+GB updates for no apparent reason every couple of days now.
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I *think* this is the World Championship 2021? The Olympic channel will sometimes air events that are old just to fill air time.
Yes but it's been ruined... It's been abandoned (no bug fixes, no expansions, etc), graphically downgraded (seriously - the DX10 version was removed), and it's the Korean MMO version, gutted to be single player only. Basically a Steam port of an MMO port of the original game.
Tried it. It's not the HGL I loved.
Not to be That Guy, but isn’t this likely to be in breach of Subset’s copyright-ish stuff on FTL? I can’t see that ending well.
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It's not the exact layout of the Kestral...
Nice. Thanks for that, looks cool
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If that is allowed I’m gonna go start on my game prodéguy.
Did a few minutes digging, and the dude was over on the Subset forums back in 2015 saying he was going to make a multiplayer version of their game, and that if they were concerned about his using their assets, not to worry, it was temporary.
Don’t get me wrong, I am *here* for multiplayer FTL. I’m just hoping this person got the green light from the people whose work he’s inspired by, before that goes up on Steam for sale...
ETA: to @Hevach ’s point, game mechanics aren’t copyrightable, but they *are* patentable in their specifics. Just hoping this has the appropriate legitimacy/due diligence behind it, so I can get excited.
Goodreads
SF&F Reviews blog
While most of the gameplay mechanics are definitely like "FTL, but you're a crewmember," there are some things that are different from FTL. For example, you can fight multiple enemy ships at once. We ran into a couple encounters where two pirate ships were fighting eachother, and when you show up it turns into a 1v1v1. Also, ships have a position on a square plane instead of just existing in their box on the display. This lets you dodge shots by making in-system jumps, board enemy ships via EVA, and affects how long it takes shots to reach their target.
You can also change where ship systems are placed, unlike in FTL where ship systems go in a specific, unchangeable slot. Also, every installed weapon is a system, with its own location on the ship and health pool and such. You can control them all at once from main fire control, but individual ones can be controlled from their subsystem.
There's a litany of other small differences, like everyone having a personal O2 supply that keeps you from taking suffocation damage until it runs out, or the battery system that charges whenever you're not using your reactor's full load and lets you go over your normal reactor max load until its charge is depleted.
Like the ship-to-ship mechanics are definitely mostly FTL, like I target a room on the enemy ship with a three-burst laser, the first takes down its one pip of shields and the next two damage the system I targeted as well as the ship's hull. But it all seems to be made from scratch, and there are mechanical differences big and small.
I'm not sure where the line is on this sort of thing, and I'm not gonna try to make a definitive statement on the matter. But what I played felt pretty different from FTL.
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http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
The translation is charmingly awful, but some of the boss fights are a blast. Very Ys-like. You could play worse.
Did you get all three endings?
Yep.
Just microchip me already please
I'm sure everyone knows that even with an official email, you should always just go directly to any site to change or update password, and not follow a link.
But I'm also noticing that it seems like hackers have started using all this ridiculous amount of data that the interwebs are collecting and re-selling to advertisers to better engineer attacks. It's getting even more sophisticated out there.
Also like, if you find yourself in that situation, and you pull up the pause menu figuring you'll need to disconnect and reconnect, and you see a "reset server" button, and you figure that since you're the client player, there's no way that you can actually reset the server, so this is probably a "reset my connection to the server" button, and you click it, it will reset the server.
Scams in every arena seem to be stepping up their games instead of using the stupid filter.
Had one at work that was interesting. Call appeared to come from a US Marshal office in state, knew the full names and phone numbers of management including myself, and also used calls appearing to come from the owner (signal wouldn't connect though call just dropped, that's ok because he's there with the officer). Officer's name and badge number checked out when we filed a police report, but everything was accurate, regardless of how hard to find or verify.
What didn't check out was how he wanted me to empty the safe and spend it all on $20 prepaid cards each at a different store and give him all the numbers before destroying all the paperwork, and how if I did that they'd drop the billion dollar counterfeiting case against my manager.
I don't like my manager anyway, and if Im going to empty the safe I'm going to pay off my car because I'm ass over teakettle on that fucker.
It wasn’t spear fishing, only link was one to check the IP location of the attempt, which I didn’t click and just checked via steam independently and someone had tried from Hanoi. Changed all my passwords on my email and steam and shit just to be safe, made them completely new, different from each other and ridiculously long and complicated
I have a sneaking suspicion maybe my steam password was the same as my facebook, and facebook had a breach recently
And yeah spearfishing is getting crazy good, I don’t know how people in like my parents age bracket survive on the net without help from younger relatives
That's a shame.
Anyway, I got an email from Fanatical with a new Overfall key! The circle is now complete.
I couldn't remember where I got my code for Overfall but I filled out the form. After submitting the form, I realized that I got it in a bundle on Fanatical.com (formerly Bundlestars)
I just got an email from Fanatical saying "Your new Overfall Steam key is in your Fanatical account" which I was just able to redeem. I'm not sure if all the replacement codes are going to come from Fanatical or if they were able to match my email address or something but I figured I would let people know that the replacement codes are going out.
SteamID: edgruberman GOG Galaxy: EdGruberman
Fanatical: "bro you bought it in 2018"
Yeah, still not helping
Thank you, you beautiful human being
Ocean, tears and heartbreak soup
Half alive in a whitecap foam
Half in love with a white half moon
if you're curious, you can go to your Fanatical orders and search for the game in the text field at the top. When I do it, it shows the Origins Bundle which I apparently bought on October 17, 2018.
SteamID: edgruberman GOG Galaxy: EdGruberman
Really nails that post apocalyptic misery porn I love in my post apocalyptic games with the world, story and characters.
And the protagonist is so so tired of this shit. Its great.
Nice to see Shenmue III in there too, that's absolutely an HC kind of game... for better and worse.
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