Hello everyone. Hope everyone had a good week and weekend. I got my PC set up again after moving so I’ve been back on the Balatro grind, and also continued to dabble in Rome Total War: Barbarian invasion.
Just some Super Mario World here and there.
“The Bazaar is a crazy place”
Did they ever revert all their anti consumer changes? I was very into this game until the CEO idiot lost his damn mind
they reverted the most insane ones, everything can be obtained without spending money but it takes longer
Hell yeah. I keep forcing Mak satchel builds. I just tried oil lantern with apothecary, but I feel like that one would’ve been a lot better without the satchel and just using pure board disruption instead.
I’ve been hunting the Exodia of Adrenal Converter and Rapid Injection System with the Earrings. It often needs other stuff for 10 wins but just that alone is incredibly satisfying. Also I found Peacewrought is excellent for making money, just need two or three catalyst generators and you have chunks of lead/gold for days.
I’ve heard good things about the satchel gotta get a run with it soon.
I’m playing through cowboy game (RDR2) again for the what, 6th?, time, because I got the remaster of the first one on sale. I’ve been a total piece of shit this time around, murdering random people on the roads, stealing from beggars, etc. but I can’t get max dishonor because I can’t resist throwing dynamite into every klan rally I run across.
Warframe. I did it. I finally did it. I got every single warframe. Now, I can finally play the game.
By which I mean, start grinding out every OTHER thing!
X4: Foundations! Currently trying to build a scrap processing factory while also raiding VIG Ice Miners.
Taking some time for the Cassette Beasts DLC. The new quest actually had me running back to lick my wounds at a couple points. That’s more time to adjust my team and aim for bootlegs.
New character in Monstroscopy. Might hold off on playing that, since it’s more of a music day for me.
im playing torrent BattleTech and play that again for the 3rd time
Still playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
Thinking about killing Lae’zel
You monster!
She’s a space fash
The spoiler free version is she’s… (and all of the new party members, really) complicated lol
Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3
You can find documents that prove to her that the entire way her society is structured is based on a lie and convince her to oppose the Githyankkki status quo.
Sadly, it’s some great man “the good king was usurped and slandered and now the evil queen is in control” type shit instead of something based and communist, but what can you expect from most mainstream writers?
Dwarf Fortress. Recruiting large, tall women into my fort and having them take over all the official positions. Mods are great ^^
Been playing a bit of super mario 64 on the ds, it’s alright for killing time wish the controls were better. Also been doing some kiwami 2
but my ps4 keeps overheating. Might boot some romhacks in a bit an just enjoy the rest of my sunday though daggerfall isn’t off the table.I’m also a Total War head and have played just about all of them for at least 100 hours. I usually play on something like Hard Campaign/Very Hard battles.
Tried playing Civilization 6 today and have only barely played some of 4 a decade ago. I feel like I’m really straining my brain with stuff like that and Paradox games. People bounce off Total War for sure, but at least stuff like “surround the enemy” and a lot of what goes on in battle is intuitive. Cities have significantly fewer resources or decisions to make.
I got owned by a flood during the first era that took out one of my fighters and builders and that let barbarians overwhelm me. It’s so embarrassing how little game knowledge transfers with genres like this.
Keep at it. I believe you can do it
Trying to play the early game like Total War was not the way to go, I think.
I declared war on my first neighbor reasoning I could farm their units for XP and come out ahead. But with barbarians and other stuff going on, it just meant that I stopped them from doing anything, but also stopped myself.
I’m gonna try to be more defensive and focus on taking out barb scouts since I learned how they report the location of your city back home to their camp.
If I recall correctly, here are some vague tips for Civ 6 (I’m not great at the game, but I have won a few matches):
Conquest and warfare are legit tools but you need to know what you are doing. (Which you dont so you will probably fuck it up) Try to get a second city out very early, around turn 20 to 30, not later. You probably should get a 3rd and even more cities over time ( I usually go for 5-6 in my games throughout the game) Try to settle next to new ressources you dont control at the start of the game. Oh and settle next to rivers or next to the ocean.
It might take a few games to get the hang of it, but barbarians aren’t that hard to deal with. Try to stop barbarian scouts from reporting your position to their camps that helps a lot. Honestly, I’d just recommend fucking around and getting a feel for the game.
Rome with Trajan is a decent beginner CIV.
Even if you dont wage offensive wars you want a small military or the AI will declare war on you . Different civs have different weighted AIs I think so - some leaders will be more likley to be aggressive etc.
I would recommend making a beginner thread in the Hexbear gaming comm. Im sure there are CIV6 players that are much better than me that can give you advice.
I might have time to teach you the game if you are really interested send me a dm if thats the case
Civ6 is great, and this is a good time to get into it because it’s now a more “finished” game with a lot of the weird early issues ironed out. But it definitely takes a lot of noodling around to figure out how all the gears mesh together - it’s almost like you have to try out just a certain aspect of the game during each of your early play-throughs just to understand how certain mechanics work.
Balatro. My life is over
Mostly been playing some a Pokémon ROM hack called Scorched Silver, which is basically set in Johto 20 years after the original GSC games. It’s been fun. I beat the Elite 4 and moved on to…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
This game has been a blast. A fantastic prologue coupled with a great Act 1 has made the game really fun.
I’m playing on the base difficulty and have had to spend some time practicing against bosses to win. The music - is also incredible. I would not be surprised if this game won an award for its music at the very least.
It’s a turned based game that relies on parrying and dodging. Similar to Paper Mario. I’ve also heard people compare it to Persona mixed Final Fantasy but have never played Persona and only have played some of FF7 and FFX.
Highly recommend: it’s also on Gamepass for anyone who has that.
Xbox Gampass is a priority target in the BDS boycott, btw.
Cool. I don’t have Gamepass but was just passing on the info.
Rouge Trader (and when i’m too sleepy resuming my half assed Total War campaign)
Ive been playing stellaris for the new expansion but stopped cause the performance is bad.
Im gonna play Suzerain, the Rizia expansion. If yoy guy dont know I recomend taking a look at Suzerain, its a political sim, you play as the president in the main game and as a king in the DLC, you can choose how to run the country.
My first game I got assasinated by the capitalist because I nationalized their industries.
