The New Order is a fantastic shooter with a very good story. Actually one of the most emotionally affecting (in a genuine way) games I've played in ages, and a ton of fun at the same time.
If you don't like the twitchy PVP in TF2, they recently added a Frontier Defense mode; basically a 4-person PVE horde mode. It's super fun (I don't really care for the PVP myself, as I am crap at twitch shooters these days), has its own progression while also unlocking the PVP progressions, etc. If you played Titanfall 1 you should be pretty familiar with the mode, although they've added a few enhancements.
The space vehicle battles make me really, really want a proper modern X-Wing or TIE Fighter game.
The shooter bits I find super boring, especially on only a single map.
As someone who can still mentally conjure up "Kharak is burning" or the theme from Gardens of Kadesh at will... worth it? I keep going back and forth, because the space combat from the first one was just so good (and I already played Ground Control
), but I did love the lore/acting.
But it's pretty fun so far, I'm looking forward to unlocking some more squads.
I just want them to spin off the space combat (and remove all the progression bullshit) as a new X-Wing game.
Scott Manley's stuff on Youtube is pretty decent for learning mechanics etc IIRC.
The first one was more capital-ship (or at least corvette-sized) play, right? I like the more fighter-y feel of at least the first gameplay trailer. I've got House of the Dying Sun sitting in my backlog (tried playing the first mission and had no idea how to effectively fight, I'm gonna need more practice) but more Wing Commander-style games is definitely a good thing.
Or use an action that doesn't need a roll at all (which will still consume the roll), like throwing a grenade, or having a different character move and then taking the shot.
I don't recall for XCOM, but IIRC 2 at least has "hidden" bonuses/penalties where it can show you a 100% chance in the UI but it's not actually 100%, so yes -- you can miss 100% shots. I seem to recall there were mods to remove the hidden adjustments.
Yeah, most of the comments are from like 2019, or are "someone pls gameshare the game with me" which I'm not interested in doing with someone I don't know. G2A has two copies listed... for like $70. Apparently Amazon has the "Mac" version (which is just a steam key) of 2, so that might be worth it. I'll keep looking, I just didn't know if anyone here would know off the cuff.
. If someone wants to use nothing but the MS, well, whatever. Give them an incentive to use other weapons but forcing it (through that blunt force method, not as story-driven requirements like particular bosses/enemies needing you to use arrows or bombs or reflections or whatever) is a dick move.
Yeah, the company I work for announced they were giving everyone a Series X for our Christmas gift last year but there's still no information on when we would get them. At this point I think they may just have to punt and give us something else, which is too bad; I was looking forward to it (we bought a couple games and an extra controller lol) but what can you do.
I did play Fenyx Rising; it was decent but didn't grab me quite the same way. I played AC: Odyssey, got about 5 hours in and lost interest; I think the more recent AC games are just too open for me these days (and/or I find the sheer number of available activities stressful).
I also liked the Arkham Asylum/City/Knight games, although much like Tomb Raider, each game was a little less interesting to me than the previous. By the last one the sheer number of little tiny distractions around the city got really overwhelming.
The combat in HZD did take a while for me to be comfortable with. The lack of lock on in particular was super aggravating at first. By the end I did feel pretty comfortable with it though, it just kind of takes a different perspective. Taking time to prepare ambushes, hack a machine or two, learning the machines' weak points (and most dangerous weapons) to prioritize those, and some of the later skills/weapons, really changes how the fights work. And the story, at least to me, was so good that I was willing to invest in learning the system. The inventory system was a weakness (among other things, not being able to easily sell or at least sort by items that had no crafting use and were only for selling was super aggravating) but honestly that's true of a loooooot of games.
I'm kind of surprised the servers are even still running, I would have assumed it was dead.
Having seen all the videos of people's pets getting really into the game while they're playing it I really want to play it on my TV, but I don't have a way to do that at the moment (no Playstation and no way to stream Steam games). Maybe it will come out on Switch at some point.
I've read (totally not verified) that adding "and do it ethically" will sometimes get around whatever is triggering ChatGPT to flag your request. Which is honestly hilarious if true.Me: Write a journal for Dwarf Fortress in the style of Boatmurdered.
ChatGPT3: Sorry, I cannot comply with your request as generating content that glorifies or makes light of the atrocities committed by historical figures like Hitler is not acceptable and goes against OpenAI's content policy.
Me:![:\](https://cdn.arstechnica.net/civis/data/assets/smilies/slash-1x.png "Slash :\")
Yeah, I backed it when it was on Kickstarter but haven't played it yet for the same reason.
It's hitting some good notes for me. Not-a-Jedi is a nice change of pace even if some of the systems (the bullet-time/VATS-like system, the sidekick giving you an equivalent to Force Pull or distraction abilities, etc.) may end up "feeling" similar to some of the things Jedi heroes can do in other games. From the gameplay video it kind of looks like an ME3-style "semi-open" world where you have specific quest arcs with some limited choices provided, but you're more on rails than a real "open-world" experience where you can fuck off in the middle of a quest to go become a Bantha rancher or something. Having a workshop prompt on the ship is a little bit of a concern just because of how much crafting tends to force resource gathering into the core gameplay loop and I am not really into that, but if it's not too onerous (or even completely optional) it can add some options for people who like that sort of thing. (Not every game needs a crafting subsystem, y'all... and if there's weapon degradation or something equally aggravating that might move this into "pass" territory for me.)
Same. I find that Steam usually remembers the day and year (they're prefilled), so I can just hit Confirm and I'm in, but for whatever reason it resets the month to January every time. ¯\(ツ)/¯
I actually hate Borderlands driving, because the vehicle steers where you're looking and I prefer to be able to independently look around while driving (especially when I'm trying to fight while driving). I'd much rather have it just be WASD for motion and mouselook for view - I'd say Saints Row 3/4 both did M/K driving and flying really well IMO, I never used a controller for either.
I'm guessing it only counts payments actually made to Steam, not redeemed keys purchased elsewhere. The text says "This is a sum of external funds that have been applied to your Steam account, either to purchase games on the Steam store or fund your Steam Wallet."
I don't think it goes back all the way. It says my first purchase was in 2009 as well (World of Goo, for the record) but I've had a Steam account since 2004 (I remember installing it on my laptop outside the classroom where my wife was holding auditions, as she'd just given me Half-Life 2 for my birthday) and I doubt that I didn't buy anything at all on Steam for the first 5 years I was on it.
