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[Nighthawk]

I feel like I'm starting to hit my stride in Kenshi now. After mining copper for an extended period of time, my two-man, one-dog party is finally decently geared up. Er, well, the men are geared up. The dog is just bigger. And he's by far the most lethal member of the party, which is hilarious and kind of sad.

I can actually win fights against random bandits, up to roughly four or five at a time. Which isn't bad, because being outnumbered hurts (I installed Attack Slots x2 so numbers actually impact a fight more). If there's anything I learned, it's that getting your teeth kicked in is actually beneficial most of the time, provided your opponents don't outright kill you (rare) or eat your dog (less rare). Basically if the bandits are hungry, have doggo flee and let the humies get kicked around for maximum stat gains. Nothing to raise your Toughness like almost bleeding out in the dirt.

So, I'm on the up and up. I'm starting to wander the wastes looking for trouble, which let me tell you, is a lot more fun than hitting rocks. If the team gets buff enough from random scraps, I think I'll start taking on bounties.

[Dunamisdeos]

Norsegod's Third Door or whatever, it's some DnD game or other in early access.

[xaritscin]

mostly EVE Online, waiting for some stuff to sell on the market to see if can get some Omega Time.  was kind of getting ignited onto playing Distant Worlds Universe again, and was also playing modded X3 but stopped halfway when trying to change stuff on the mod.

also Crusader Kings II plus...

[AzyWng]

After some talking with folks on the FEF Discord, Epic Battle Fantasy 3.

It’s pretty good. And free, too.

[Sime]

Spent 3 hours downloading and installing Ark Evolved from my steam account,  followed by 10 minutes playing it,  followed by 3 minutes uninstalling it.

[AzyWng]

Was the game that bad?

Meanwhile, I'm back playing some Let It Die, and a bit of Fallout Tale of Two Wastelands (Mod that combines Fallout 3 and New Vegas) with a mod that's meant to make combat much more hazardous, adding bleeding wounds and other nasty things.

It also makes everyone die much faster in general.

It's pretty nice, even if I do have to do a lot of quicksaving and quickloading (I tend to be pretty reckless in combat).

[JimboM12]

while im still on a "high seas" trek with pirates and vikings, ive now incorporated space into it; basically any game with exploration and/or building a warband of trusted allies.

this now includes:

the x-series
evochron legacy
mechwarrior 4 mercenaries
mechwarrior 5 mercenaries (while i am disappointed by the watering down of the lore/systems (im talking about solaris here, i want to fight in the arena with duncan fisher reporting!), i still enjoy the combat; its so visceral and AC/10s feel like powerful cannons which is really nice)
battletech

while the randomization in battletech annoys me, i thoroughly enjoy it. with good tactics and combined warfare you can mitigate some of the randomness and its good fun. im playing the campaign now and i was given the random callsign of "Graceland" so i named my merc company "3000 Lightyears to Graceland" with a nice little picture of earth as our sigil.

Spoiler:  if i had more options i would have made my character look like elvis to finish it off (click to show/hide)

[Dunamisdeos]

FFXIV is having a content patch soon, and I've been playing bardic tunes for people in town while I get back up to speed.

I had a crowd of like 20 people last night it's so fun to just play things for people, even if it's just scripted music.

[Iceblaster]

Alpha Protocol because I got it years ago for 99 cents at a gamestop, no I don't have a receipt for proof you'll have to trust me.

It's... peak RPG I dislike, but I've sunk enough time into it at this point I kinda have to see it through.

Main issue that I have tho is that the menus are clunky af, it takes forever to do things like 'open the area map' bc I first have to hit select, then wait for the menu to load in, move to Intel and then get the area map. Versus being able to just call it up in any other game.

There's also the issue of 'I honestly don't have the time investment to sink into this to play every single path' that a lot of RPG's have, where I get really annoyed and try and brute force an 'everything in one playthrough' playthrough. Maybe I'm weird but honestly unless an RPG really hooks me or it is fun regardless of the story, I really hate playing it more than once bc of the stupid length some can be if you factor in grinding. At least Alpha Protocol -even on the Recruit starter character- doesn't make you grind and even with my relatively gung ho style I so far haven't missed any collectibles or whatever while moving through levels.

also the game is really finicky on what counts as detection, as i've had guards shoot a gun before they go down from tranqs without an alarm or enemies being alerted but then the same scenario later on in a different level it turns out different??

[Egan_BW]

Man, I love Alpha Protocol.

Why be so worried about "seeing everything"? Part of the magic of the one playthrough I have in that game is that I know for a fact that many things could have gone differently in the plot.

[Aoi]

That happened to me with Pillars of Eternity... I did every sidequest I possibly could for the first 3/4ths at default difficulty... and was so weary of it by then that I just dropped the difficulty to braindead, did the bare minimum in the last quest hub to advance, and savescummed my way through the last dungeon. That run overstayed its welcome by about 10 hours.

As for what I've been playing: Catherine. Totally did not expect the ending I got.

[Iceblaster]

Man, I love Alpha Protocol.

Why be so worried about "seeing everything"? Part of the magic of the one playthrough I have in that game is that I know for a fact that many things could have gone differently in the plot.

I'm not saying I'm not being fine with missing things, I just have this feeling in the back of my mind when I do play some of these types of games haha, not a knock on the game moreso than me I should clarify, I have been really bad recently about wanting to do everything in a game on my first playthrough.

[nenjin]

Restarted my campaign in Bannerlord for like...the 8th time since early access release.

Played about 4 or 5 hours, get the quest done so my brother can join my faction....and he doesn't show up in the inventory screen to actually be assigned gear. Can't be assigned roles or put in to his own party or anything.

Researching it sounds like yet another bug, where I have to finish the Dragon Banner quest before he'll join my faction in full.

I like the game but I am flat out sick of restarting my campaign to get new features and fix bugs only to have another one crop up that massively affects my enjoyment. Early access and all that, yadda yadda, but I think I'm going to shelve this game until full release. I just can't bear to go through the hours of building up again from nothing. I've gotten so good at using a bow I can solo packs of 15+ looters, because I've now spent close to 20 hours just doing that.

[LoSboccacc]

Just purchased children of s dead earth and I'm sinking hours into it building stupid shit like guns that shoots guns and the likes.

Too bad I'm late to the party and the community around it is mostly dead, but such is life for steam salers

[Sergius]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dagoth's strength was enough to kill me in two good hits - and could blast through my health regen. After I cheesed most of the enemies to fall off the edge by flying around them and after I hit the Heart, I drank all my strength potions and shattered my sword on Dagoth Ur killing him in one shot. Boy, what a great game Morrowind is.

That reminds me, when I beat Morrowind, I never got the chance to fight the BBEG, as he ran towards me and then somehow jumped into the lava.