So, what're you playing?

[Zetor]

The Master Below is just utter, utter bullshit. Most of my party killed by a one shot.

Is that the boss at the bottom of the endless paths? Yea, that one is pretty much bullshit.


e: ... and yeah, even if you do it "right", it's still an RNGfest that can wipe your party just 'cuz. Encounter design!

[Ironwood]

There weren't even any adds for me.  Just boom, you're dead.

I'm almost max level too, so what the fuck.

[koro]

That fight is idiotic and literally designed as a boss you're meant to use cheese tactics in order to beat. To the point that I think one of the designers even admitted as much. I gave it a few attempts just to see it, and promptly skipped it.

You're missing pretty much nothing.

[Sky]

To the point that I think one of the designers even admitted as much.

Blacklist that asshole.

[PalmTrees]

Yeah, that fight was pure cheese. Sneak along the bottom past him and kill the kobolds before he and the two dryad things come. There is friendly fire among the enemies, so he might kill them for you. Whoever has agro kites the dragon while the rest shoot with ranged and aoe spells. His one shot ability has a windup and is medium range. I had to repsec and it took me a few tries.

[apocrypha]

This is a dangerous time for me. In the "imminent release of a much anticipated game" (Fallout 4) phase. Turned to KSP, like an old friend, installed some mods I'd not played with before (Interstellar Extended and Outer Planets Mod), should keep me occupied for some time.

Also picked up South Park: Stick of Truth on sale, thinking it'd be a good couch game. Sound won't work through streaming though, so that's gone on the queue.

And just got 7 Days To Die on sale too so I'll be giving that a go today

[Malakili]

This is a dangerous time for me. In the "imminent release of a much anticipated game" (Fallout 4) phase.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who experiences this.

[apocrypha]

It's nice to still, at the age of 46 - after over 35 years of playing video games - get excited about game releases sometimes.

But I do get impatient and start scratching around looking for something to keep me occupied, like a dog who's chewed his old bone to nothing 

[Malakili]

All the Tribes games are currently free to download.

http://www.tribesuniverse.com/

[Sky]

Also picked up South Park: Stick of Truth on sale, thinking it'd be a good couch game. Sound won't work through streaming though, so that's gone on the queue.

And just got 7 Days To Die on sale too so I'll be giving that a go today

Living room PC ftw!

7 Days to Die is really a decent game. I need to go revisit it at some point, I had begun a pretty cool stronghold a couple alphas back. I do pull the rules back a bit, as I'm more of a Romero zed guy vs 28 Days Later.

I'm not quite in that phase for Fallout 4, but I was for GTA V last year. Luckily TOR did the revamp and I've begun rebuilding my Blightfall base. Though trying to recreate my Rube Goldbergian power setup is interesting...luckily I took pics!

[apocrypha]

Living room PC ftw!

7 Days to Die is really a decent game. I need to go revisit it at some point, I had begun a pretty cool stronghold a couple alphas back. I do pull the rules back a bit, as I'm more of a Romero zed guy vs 28 Days Later.

I'm not quite in that phase for Fallout 4, but I was for GTA V last year. Luckily TOR did the revamp and I've begun rebuilding my Blightfall base. Though trying to recreate my Rube Goldbergian power setup is interesting...luckily I took pics!

I've got a living room PC, I was just being lazy and streaming it rather than re-downloading/installing on the media box

I might dial the z's back a bit too once I get a feel for 7D2D, I'll mess around in default/default/default for a bit first.. then go hunting mods 

GTA V is on my "when it's less than £20" list, along with Witcher 3. Both currently on about 33% off so I reckon Christmas will be my chance.

[Kail]

All the Tribes games are currently free to download.

http://www.tribesuniverse.com/

Woah, that's pretty sweet.  Not just Tribes, but Earthsiege, too.  No Starsiege (or Cyberstorm) though, for some reason.  Though I suppose probably nobody plays Tribes 2 much these days.

edit: oops, I guess Starsiege is in there (bundled in with Tribes 1 apparently)

[Samprimary]

any of you mofos got into overwatch or

[MisterNoisy]

Mostly Rebel Galaxy and GTA V still.  Between those and a bit of BroForce and Duck Game when company is over, I'm good to go until Fallout 4 wrecks my gaming time good and proper.

[MrHat]

any of you mofos got into overwatch or

Or?

[Samprimary]

or are we all equally unlucky on the beta pull.

i'm watching some streams and the game seems legit but i just want more hands on opinions!

[Nebu]

or are we all equally unlucky on the beta pull.

Luck seems to have little to do with beta access at this point.  If you're someone that streams a Blizzard game, you're in the beta. 

[Malakili]

Usually their first wave goes to the streamers/casters, etc.

[Ironwood]

Stay away from Factorio.  Lost my whole weekend to building stuff.

Sam, this means YOU.  STAY AWAY.

[Jeff Kelly]

Still playing Dark Souls. I've now reached Anor Londo.

Blighttown was probably one of the more unpleasant experiences I've ever had in a game. Especially since I had to do it twice. Missed Queelag and only realized it five hours later when I had given up on finding the bell and had already gone back to firelink shrine. Well at least the second time was easier since all of the toxic blowdart guys are gone now.

I lost count of the number of times I fell to my death because an enemy knocked me from a ledge or because the camera decided to fuck with me and changed perspective mid walk (usually while I was balancing on a narrow walkway) or because a jump turned into a roll or vice versa. I was very glad when I beat Queelag and thought that I never had to do that kind of stuff again and then I went to Sen's Fortress which is basically the same bullshit just with swinging pendulums and rolling metal balls of death. Seeing the light of day after having been stuck in that dark poisonous hellhole for hours was exhilarating.

This game is exhausting and yet I somehow can't stop playing it.

As with all third person games though, the camera is still the biggest and worst enemy in the game.

[apocrypha]

Stay away from Factorio.  Lost my whole weekend to building stuff.

Sam, this means YOU.  STAY AWAY.

I totally have my eye on this game. Waiting for the Steam release.

[Falconeer]

Blighttown was probably one of the more unpleasant experiences I've ever had in a game. Especially since I had to do it twice.

Blighttown is the most intense experience I've ever had in a videogame. Unpleasant in a wonderful way. By the time you finally get out of it, hours and hours later, you feel like you've gone to hell and survived. It's legendary, in the best way possible. Like the archers in Anor Londo, but tenfold. I can see why we felt differently about it, but you still got that thrill of getting out of it and I think the whole concept of being exhausted but completely enthralled is a good synthesis of what the whole *Souls experience is.

[Jeff Kelly]

I get where you're coming from because I felt similar, otherwise I wouldn't have continued and I'm now 45 hours in. Blightown is also gllitchy and buggy as fuck though. You clip through terain and fall to your death, you fall through the floor and to your death, the frame rate drops to sub 10 fps in spots even on PC etc. Enemies get stuck on ladders because their AI routines crashed making it so you can't continue.

[Yegolev]

the frame rate drops to sub 10 fps in spots even on PC

That's a funny comment to me since I didn't have very much chop on the console.  Anyway, I was later looking back on my time in Blighttown with fond remembrance: "Remember when I just had to worry about darkness and poison?  Good times.".

Disgaea 5 is not quite so funny and ridiculous as 3, but it does get right to the point, for the most part.  Also looks great.

There was a patch 1.03 to The Handsome Collection on PS4 but apparently that wasn't the one which fixed the freeze bug.

I believe I'm in the Battleborn test but so far I haven't had the time to obtain the key.

[Druzil]

I didn't have any issues with frame rate or clipping issues in Blight town.   I was using the high rez fix though (I forget what it's called now).

I didn't mind Blight town too much overall but Smough and Ornstein in Anor Londo really tested my patience.  Especially the walk back every time you die and constantly getting invaded on the way.  It was pretty satisfying when I finally beat them though.

Edit - I'm now remembering that that waterwheel place was in Blight town and UGGH to that part.  So yeah, guess it was worse that I remember 

[jakonovski]

Welp, time to gird one's loins, I bought Pillars of Eternity from the Halloween sale.

[Khaldun]

Got fairly into Planetbase last night. Has some good one-more-turn feeling to it.

[Khaldun]

Though I should add, the AI is fucking retarded and the inability to give colonists and bots direct orders when necessary tends to make it more frustrating than fun when you hit the midgame. You can get into situations where the colonists won't finish work ever because they've claimed a bed on the other side of the base from where their workstation is and they take the better part of a day to get over there, and even if you build another workstation closer to them, they won't use it for some reason. Ultimately this is not going to be a keeper of a game.

[Engels]

Welp, time to gird one's loins, I bought Pillars of Eternity from the Halloween sale.

Me too. Love the story writing. I mean even the newb dungeon at the first village has a fully fleshed out story, told in a remarkable way. The combat mechanics are kinda clunky, tbh, but I will probably get the hang of it.

[Bunk]

MGS V is still keeping me busy, checked out the SWToR update (since I've been pointlessly paying for a sub for months), should be a new PoE league starting today I think. Yea, whatever occupies me until Fallout.

Tuesday and Wednesday booked off next week.

[jakonovski]

Man, Axiom Verge is starting to fall apart for me. The controls just aren't up to what the game asks of you. Also right at the end they start putting several screens of enemies between checkpoints and boss rooms. Just to annoy you I guess, because some old Nintendo games had bad design too.

[brellium]

KSP here with a ton of mods and Prison Architect, executing prisoners because I'm not some whiny eurotrash.

[Sky]

I'll probably be cleared for work a couple days after Fallout 4 comes out, so blaaah.

[brellium]

I'll probably be cleared for work a couple days after Fallout 4 comes out, so blaaah.

WOOT! WOOT!
I'm off that that day!
WOOT! WOOT!

[apocrypha]

On a strange whim (and a reasonable discount) I picked up CODBLOPS3 the other day. The last COD game I played was set in WW2 and it started with a harrowing recreation of Omaha Beach. Now I'm a cybernetic super soldier hacking drones and doing parkour.

My, how old do I feel?