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[Ai Shizuka]

After spending over 500 hours on Oxygen not Included I decided to try other Klei games and I'm currently playing Invisible Inc.

Almost completed my first campaign and it's been a great experience so far. Definitely going to try higher difficulty levels and different game modes.

[Yoink]

Company of Crime came out the other day and this evening I've finally started playing it.   
Digging it so far! It even seems to more-or-less run on my laptop on low settings. Hooray! There is the occasional, minor translation derp here and there in the text, but the voice acting so far has been superb, which is surprising really since I tend to grit my teeth at the dialogue in most games, especially when they try to do accents.   
I don't know, maybe British people seem so cartoonish to me that they can get away with going a bit over the top here.    

Haven't seen enough to comment on the combat and other mechanics, yet, though brawls seem bloody satisfying. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna close my browser before opening the game up again so that my computer doesn't chug too badly. I hope.   

[delphonso]

In the RPG The Last Remnant - if you grind at all before the first boss, the level-matching of the game will increase its difficulty to the point that you will not be able to beat it. (beating the boss unlocks multiple units, for which the game is balanced at higher levels, the boss gets a "disable unit" move.)

It's aggressive enough that wasting time to enjoy the areas open to you and avoiding the boss a bit can put you into this unwinnable condition.

I'm pretty sure there's a mod that makes the BR (Battle Rank) static instead of dynamic, but yeah, it's a really dumb system that probably should not have existed.

That's great - I really enjoyed the game as far as I played it, but had to restart after soft-locking up against the boss. I recommend people check it out, if they like JRPGs - but uh...maybe pick up that mod first.

[Telgin]

Picked up Dawn of War: Soulstorm last week and...

I can't remember the last time I've been so infuriated at a video game, as I am trying to beat the tau stronghold mission.  The unending stream of knarlocs + ranged attackers who can shoot me outside of vision range is impossible to deal with.

I've heard the IG stronghold mission is even worse somehow.

[Biowraith]

Company of Crime came out the other day and this evening I've finally started playing it.   
Digging it so far! It even seems to more-or-less run on my laptop on low settings. Hooray! There is the occasional, minor translation derp here and there in the text, but the voice acting so far has been superb, which is surprising really since I tend to grit my teeth at the dialogue in most games, especially when they try to do accents.   
I don't know, maybe British people seem so cartoonish to me that they can get away with going a bit over the top here.    

Haven't seen enough to comment on the combat and other mechanics, yet, though brawls seem bloody satisfying. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna close my browser before opening the game up again so that my computer doesn't chug too badly. I hope.   

I played about 6 or 7 hours of it and enjoyed it to start with, but saw more and more issues as I went on (skip this entire post if you don't want me bringing you down :p).

I really like the general aesthetic and stylistic choices, especially around the campaign map.  The music is great.  And as you say, brawls are very satisfying - I especially enjoy the Bouncer class with all the abilities to throw opponents around the room, and stuff like slamming heads into walls or tables is fun.

For downsides, in order of severity (least to worst), I found:

• As you say, minor grammatical issues - missing words, the wrong tense, plural when it should be singular, that kind of thing.  Not a big deal, but noticeable.
• Some apparent glitchiness or outright bugs - abilities that didn't appear to work, failing a mission that showed all objectives completed, failing the max heat 'emergency' when I'd brought heat to zero for several days before the deadline was up, that sort of thing.  In some cases I'm not sure whether it was a bug or I'd just misunderstood because...
• It needs more feedback on a lot of things - why things did or didn't work, that sort of thing.  That civilian ran off after I used the immobilise ability - did it fail, did I misuse it, or did was it just a bug?  One mission (apparently) forced me to autoresolve instead of playing it out, and it killed one of my characters in the process.  Don't know why I couldn't resolve manually or how to select autoresolve for other routine missions (not that I want to if it kills my gang).
• Some balance stuff - robbery missions I can apparently complete in a single turn with no opposition for example.
• AI is bad - the AI *really* values getting into flanking positions, way more than it values avoiding zones of control, so you get a lot of free hits and the AI loses a lot of action points unnecessarily.

So far these are things I can live with even if I'd prefer they were fixed and polished a bit. But these last couple of issues ultimately caused me to shelf the game for now:

• Although the brawling is fun, it felt like it takes a bit too long to get more interesting opponents to fight - there was the occasional 'story' mission against other gangs, but far too much beating up civilians where I know I'm going to win with almost zero chance of failure, even at higher heat levels.  Even assets held by enemy gangs, once you kick them out it switches to civilian control so you still have to do the basic civilian mission afterwards.  I'm concerned that the game will get too bogged down in running those same civilian brawls over and over as the meat of the game, since each new territory you'll have to take over or extort civilian businesses.
• Heat - heat went up *way* faster than it ever goes down, and there's no reliable way I can see to reduce it.  Bribing a journalist can bring it down by a big chunk, but there's only a chance of that result for every £100 you spend.  Passing time reduces it, but very very slowly.  And since passive income tends to be lower than gang costs, to do either of those options you have to run missions to get cash... which raises heat by more than the waiting reduces it.  You could maybe grind robberies and papers for an overall net heat loss, but that'd get old real fast.  Though I did read that if you upgrade Laundry businesses it lets you use them to reduce heat (at whatever level I have them at I can only remove heat from a specific gang member, but none of my gang members have heat, despite the gang as a whole being over level 4).

Hopefully these aren't a problem for you or others, but for me it got a bit too much to ignore.

[Mkok]

Just found out galactic civilizations 3 is still being developed to this day, and since I loved galactic civilizations 2 I decided to try it. Lets just say I cant even remember more broken game. Decided to do tourism run, that stuff is OP as hell, after just few turns I was swimming in so much cash I pretty much bought out the galactic mercenary bazaar as well as insta built everything while doing pretty much nothing but filling my planets with influence buildings and the space with influence starbases, while my taxes were maxed out and all production went towards research. Mercenary bazaar feels hella broken as well, as just 3 mercs are pretty much enough to defeat all other factions combined, and did I mention that at the end game my own most modern warship (okay, compared to other players even calling it outdated was a stretch...) cost me 30k to buy while a single merc who could single handily defeat a whole fleet of these flying metal cans cost only 10k... In the end I won by simply waiting for my influence to cover the whole galaxy, all cause it felt too bothersome to actually build invasion ships to conquer enemy planets. And if an AI actually bothered to declare war they would plead for peace before I would even see their ships, and I quite literately had a star base sitting right next to each of their planets...

The game has a bunch of improvements compared to galciv II, but it does not feel like a game that has been through 5+ years of development at all, unfortunately...

TL:DR won a game of galciv III by pretty much having everyone pay me money they didnt have as tourists which I used to buy all the stuff noone could produce.

[Yoink]

-Company of Crime stuff-

Yeah, I'm not very far into the game yet but I've already experienced a lot of the issues you mentioned.   
I think - and I'm not sure, since this has only happened once - the "being forced to auto-resolve" thing happens when you have a story mission in the pipeline at the same time. Like, when the first, non-story mission happens, the setup for a story mission is about to complete? Not sure, that's just my best guess for why it happened to me.   
I didn't actually use auto-resolve, though. Cancelled the mission, since if I'm gonna send my mooks to die or get knocked out I at least want to watch them get their arses kicked! Not that it makes much difference, since most of the missions you can do are, as you said, against a bunch of hapless civilians.   

I can understand going in and visiting extreme violence upon a place of business to begin with, to get them to start giving you money or sell up or whatever, but just why does the game give you messages like "oh no! [RIVAL GANG] is robbing people at [BUSINESS YOU OWN/EXTORT FROM]! You oughta do something about this!" but then when you click on said business and choose the "beat up" option, when you eventually show up the targets you're supposed to beat are just the same terrified civilians who pay you money every week.    

Definitely agree that it could use a fair bit of polish. That said, I haven't played enough to get bored of it yet. Haven't even encountered any weirdness with heat, since I've been playing pretty carefully in that regard. I saw something on the Steam discussions about better heat-reduction options unlocking later on, but who knows.   


Edit: I just realised it's page 69. Tee hee.   



Edit 2: Wait, so heat is just an outright "game over" screen after thirty days? Eurgh. I went and bought a laundromat and everything.   
Considering there are all of two or three ways to lower it in the early game (that the game does not tell you how to do) and each takes ten days at the least, this seems like a pretty poor design choice.   
Perhaps I'll try the fuzz side of the game, see if that's any more functional in the current version. I was a bit disappointed that you don't get to start your own gang in the main story, anyway - playing as a vaguely defined, partially genderflipped Kray twins analogue was not exactly what I'd hoped for, haha.   

Speaking of fuzz, prior to the heat thing my biggest gripe with the game was the way police officers can magically arrest you by simply throwing handcuffs at you. If the target character was grappled or stunned or something it'd make sense, but nope - suddenly a pair of handcuffs just appears on your wrists.   
I wonder if you can pull that sort of BS whilst playing as the coppers, or if only the AI gets to pull such a daft stunt... hmmm.   

[Biowraith]

I can understand going in and visiting extreme violence upon a place of business to begin with, to get them to start giving you money or sell up or whatever, but just why does the game give you messages like "oh no! [RIVAL GANG] is robbing people at [BUSINESS YOU OWN/EXTORT FROM]! You oughta do something about this!" but then when you click on said business and choose the "beat up" option, when you eventually show up the targets you're supposed to beat are just the same terrified civilians who pay you money every week.    

I thought it meant you could go and intercept them or something to prevent the attack, but apparently it actually means that a) you lose some respect because 'your' stuff got attacked and b) if you attack one of that gang's properties you'll get bonus respect because you dealt out justice/revenge.  Not that any of that's clear in the game - I found it on a dev post on the steam forum.

Edit 2: Wait, so heat is just an outright "game over" screen after thirty days? Eurgh. I went and bought a laundromat and everything.   
Considering there are all of two or three ways to lower it in the early game (that the game does not tell you how to do) and each takes ten days at the least, this seems like a pretty poor design choice.   

That thirty day emergency was a bit buggy for me, but I did get through it on the 2nd (savescumm) attempt - first try I got it down to the last 5% or so with several days to spare and just let it tick to zero via passive heat loss.  But the emergency didn't end when it hit zero and it sat at zero until time ran out and ended the game.  I reloaded and held off on the last of my journalist bribes until it was low enough for the bribe to take it to zero in one go, and that worked and the emergency ended without a game over (though I was still at about 4 heat afterwards).

[Yoink]

Welp, I tried having a go at the police campaign instead and my computer was so disgusted with me for abandoning my principles that the game promptly crashed the moment I finished the tutorial. And then Beholder froze the moment I started it, too. Whoa.
Clearly this has nothing to do with, say, performance issues or computer specs, no, it's my laptop voicing its displeasure at the kind of games I make it run.    

Now let's see if it can run The Dope Game. If worst comes to worst, I got the special edition on sale which includes an alternate version of the game in the style of an oldschool text adventure, so I guess that's always an option.   

[Iduno]

I just saw that they added a new unlockable outfit in Hitman 2, and it looks dumb as hell. Obviously a serious assassin can't complete jobs without being dressed like this.

So I'm doing the challenges now.

[nenjin]

Playing 7 Days To Die, Alpha 19, with the boyz. We've got 5 people up in the server now, including a few newbies, so it's been a nice relaxing bit of survival zombie apocalypse.

[IonMatrix]

Oh. I just got 7 dayys to die and while graphics are usually the last thing I judge a game on, the textures almost made my eyes bleed.

[nenjin]

AAA, it ain't.

[delphonso]

Nobunaga's Ambition - Sphere of Influence.

It's a lot like CK2, except I actually know what is happening most of the time. Definitely recommend.

[LoSboccacc]

while waiting for the last bug to iron out in aurora I booted up distant worlds universe again. and nothing I've done 20 hours in the last two days or something.

not gonna claim it's the universally best 4x but it has just the right mix of things to keep me entertained.