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[Sinistar]

There's Elder Scrolls weekend, Square Enix weekend, Deep Silver week, and Team 17 weekend on GamersGate. Not bad.

Also, Painkiller franchise on sale for only 2 more hours.

[Graknorke]

So since there is a Team 17 sale (I love them despite having little reason to. Though they did publish, uh... some indie thing recently), which of the newer worms games is like Worms?

[Sinistar]

You know, I'd like to get an answer to this too. I've read one review of Worms Revolutions and it said it's completely decent, but no revolution. What then, Clan Wars?

Then again, there is also the good old Armageddon on sale...

[scrdest]

You know, I'd like to get an answer to this too. I've read one review of Worms Revolutions and it said it's completely decent, but no revolution. What then, Clan Wars?

Then again, there is also the good old Armageddon on sale...

If you like Armageddon, Reloaded is basically Armageddon with updated graphics and some new weapons but no changes in gameplay in the vein of Revolutions' classes.

[Malus]

According to the few negative reviews of this on Steam, though, you also have to have a spare account with its own copy to run the server... Not sure how that's going to work. We'll see.

No worries, the reviews are just plain wrong. You can run multiple instances of Artemis on the same account with no issues (just launch the .exe from its install folder). I'll usually have the main screen and server on one monitor and manage a station on a different monitor.

[Sappho]

According to the few negative reviews of this on Steam, though, you also have to have a spare account with its own copy to run the server... Not sure how that's going to work. We'll see.

No worries, the reviews are just plain wrong. You can run multiple instances of Artemis on the same account with no issues (just launch the .exe from its install folder). I'll usually have the main screen and server on one monitor and manage a station on a different monitor.

That is excellent news.

Actually, a friend of mine runs a tea room of the "awesome place to hang out" variety. They have game night on Sunday evenings, and I know he has a projector set up and ready to go. If I can persuade a few other people to bring their computers and get a copy of the game, we could actually have a proper game of this... I must try to make this happen.

Meanwhile, we have to get a Bay12 game going.

[Toaster]

Be sure to have this on loop the whole time the party is going.

[Sirus]

So show of hands, who would be interested in playing Artemis with other Bay Watchers? I'll buy the bundle and give folks the extra copies if I know they'll be put to good use.

[Gentlefish]

I dunno maybe. What even -is- Artemis?

[Darkmere]

I dunno maybe. What even -is- Artemis?

From what I can tell it's a must-be-played-networked game that's run like the bridge of the Enterprise. One person sits at a "viewscreen" (which has no controls and does nothing) while giving orders to the other crew members, each of which is sitting at a "bridge console" so one person is on weapons, one is on engineering, one is on communications, and so on.

It sounds like FTL except you're one of the redshirts manning a console.

[BigD145]

No, redshirts are expendable. The crew on Artemis are not. Everyone needs to be working together and communicating and one person needs to be making decisions. Any death is a great loss.

[Scripten]

Wait, does Artemis actually have a game associated with it, now? Last I heard it was a single test mission that was fun once or twice, but not so great after you knew what to expect.

[Shooer]

Wait, does Artemis actually have a game associated with it, now? Last I heard it was a single test mission that was fun once or twice, but not so great after you knew what to expect.

That would have been the demo, around 2 years ago.  Even then the game had a few different adjustable missions, and allowed multiple bridge crews to play together/against each other.

[Scripten]

Oh, my bad. I might get this bundle. Can it be played with less than the max competently, or is it a significantly lesser experience?

[Sirus]

According to reviews, it can be played with a smaller team (or even solo!), but that both makes the game more difficult and subtracts from the overall experience.

So, is no-one interested? I'm not going to spend $20 on six copies of Artemis if I'm the only one who wants to play, and the other titles in the bundle do not really interest me enough to get the bundle on their own.