So, what're you playing?

[apocrypha]

That kind of crazy shit is exactly why they've reined Tinker's Construct in massively in 1.10 

[Sky]

To be fair, that's a named weapon from a loot bag, not an actual constructed item. I couldn't make one in creative using TiC, even giving myself the materials.

And it goes with the OP crazy theme of Project Ozone.

[Ard]

My project ozone 2 map ended abruptly a few hours in due to a chance cube turning into a nuke that leveled our whole island.   Fun times.

[Rendakor]

I've never played Project Ozone; what launcher does it use?

[Sky]

Yeah...I don't open the chance cubes this time around. You get pendants that improve the results....best to wait for those... I also added aroma backup this time...

Ren, it's on the Curse launcher.

[Bann]

The winning move with chance cubes is not opening them in PO2. I saw a post on the FTB subreddit that seemed to indicate the PO2 devs had strongly weighted the results towards negative and/or catastrophic outcomes. The next best option is probably to open them in the nether.

Been working my way through something called Pickle Pack 3 for the last few weeks. Its got all the magic mods that I enjoy and enough tech ones for my wife in a decent HQM book. It also has Thaumcraft research set to easy mode by default (just buy the research nodes with aspects rather than solving the puzzles all over again.) Looking forward to making some Thaumic Horizions animals this weekend along with self mutations/enchants.

[Ard]

Yeah...I don't open the chance cubes this time around. You get pendants that improve the results....best to wait for those... I also added aroma backup this time...

Ren, it's on the Curse launcher.

I had one of the pendants.  Still got nuked.  Fun times.

[Sky]

You gotta stack those bonuses. Or not open them.

Also, mega xbow is less fun when a mob reflects the bolt back at you...

[apocrypha]

Also, mega xbow is less fun when a mob reflects the bolt back at you...

Classy!

Been trying to get shaders playable but can't get better than 30-40 fps. How times change, back when I played QuakeWorld I'd've considered that amazing, now it feels unbearably chuggy.

[koro]

Finally have had some time off, so I've been alternating between FFXIV again, Fallout 4, and Tyranny. Pokemon will likely replace Fallout in the rotation.

Tyranny has been a mixed bag for many, but I love it. Leagues better than Pillars of Eternity in my mind.

[Sky]

Been trying to get shaders playable but can't get better than 30-40 fps. How times change, back when I played QuakeWorld I'd've considered that amazing, now it feels unbearably chuggy.

I don't mind giving up a little bit of framerate, but I'm less aware of it than most. My main issue with shaders has been a persistent issue with vanilla chest graphics doing some weird inverting flip thing, and some flickering. Should probably give them another shot, I love em.

[apocrypha]

The chest screw up and flickering textures are both fixed for me with the 1.10 Optifine, and also the light level overlay works now that it's built into Forge! I just can't handle the FPS hit :(

[Sky]

That's the first thing I've heard that makes me inclined to try 1.10 

[apocrypha]

Chisels & Bits. Dude. Chisels & Bits. 

[Sky]

You know I'm all about the dumpster base.

[Kail]

Still the plot wasn't all terrible, and, despite outward appearances, [Metal Gear Solid 5] did a really good job with the characters introduced.

I... think I'm at the end?  Maybe?  I still have a few side missions to clear, but otherwise, unless there's some super bullshit hidden ending once you've snuck in to OKB-0 to do the thirtieth goddamn "extract the idiot" mission, then I'm done, I think.  Overall, I really liked the story, the tone and style was a lot darker and more realistic than other games, and there were some cool head games in this one.  I REALLY wish they would have either dropped that last cutscene with Eli or that they would have resolved that plotline in the game, it feels extremely odd and out of step with the rest of the series if this was them trying to bring things full-circle.  It felt like the story was fairly complete at the end of chapter one, so the rest of the missions seem weirdly like they had too much story and not enough story at the same time.  I'm hesitant to complain, because there were some neat parts in chapter two, but that one plot point really left a bad taste in my mouth.

It feels weird to be banging on a Metal Gear Solid game for it's story and praising it for it's gameplay, but regardless of the story, I really do think this is one of the most fun games I've seen.  Running around Africa with D-Walker firing missiles at goats while "She Blinded Me With Science" plays is just stupidly entertaining.

[Sky]

You know I'm all about the dumpster base.

Last night I finally got tired of the labyrinth of machines and conduits I had created and unpuckered it. I was actually laughing because I was spending so much time working on the routing and optimizing the energy flows and buffers, it took less time to redesign the entire thing :)

[Yegolev]

Played a lot of PSVR shit over the weekend.  The Batman VR was surprisingly not a pile of shit, but as usual I had pretty low expectations.  The Nintendo-ish Playroom crap was entertaining on the level that you'd expect, and was fine since we had several people in the room at the time (I heard them but I didn't see them).  I don't know if the tech is really going to take off, but it definitely works on a technical level.  That alone exceeded my expectations a little.  I was also somewhat surprised at the amount of work that went into some of the software.

Back in the real world, I played some AC Syndicate.

Son spent the weekend playing Pokemon Moon.  Due to a middle-school communications error, everyone at his lunch table also got Moon.  WOMP WOMP.

My wife gave up on ACIII.  Camera, map, and a dozen other things fail just enough to turn the whole thing into a lumpy turd of a game.

[jakonovski]

I got the first season of Hitman. It's like a collectible mix of sadism and slapstick.

[Signe]

It would be easier and faster to tell you what I'm not playing.

Everything.

[apocrypha]

Last night I finally got tired of the labyrinth of machines and conduits I had created and unpuckered it. I was actually laughing because I was spending so much time working on the routing and optimizing the energy flows and buffers, it took less time to redesign the entire thing :)
[/quote]

My plan usually is "temp" base that's a hole in the ground then when things start getting complicated & busy in that I relocate to a new, swanky base with everything redesigned. Or, you know, spend 3 weeks in the "temp" base and just keep digging more holes. 

I'm playing Modpack Tweaking Redux atm. Start with a modpack. Tweak it a bit. Play for a bit. Tweak some more. Decide you've made too many changes for the worldgen to be consistent and restart the world. Repeat 3 or 4 times. I've just started Mekanism in my current AllTheMods world and have decided that I don't like having Pam's Harvestcraft and TechReborn in the pack and want to restart again.

[Sky]

I liked Pam's in exactly one modpack: Blightfall. Also the only one I liked Spice of Life.

[apocrypha]

Yeah, there they had a purpose. In all other packs Pam's is just terrain clutter and cheap string (replaced with Flax by Actually Additions) and SoL is just a PITA.

[Sky]

Silkworms!

[satael]

Finally finished a full playthru of EU4 (1444-1821) as France. Now to see if HOI4 comes on sale or whether to jump to Stellaris once again (or just play another nation on EU4). 

[HaemishM]

I actually tried to play HOI3 (haven't bought 4 yet) and just immediately felt overwhelmed by the walls of numbers and stats thrown at one. It was everything I had a problem with in EU3 and EU4 only magnified about a billion times. My brain just may not be cut out for that much spreadsheet granularity. Which is funny because I absolutely love CK2 and don't really feel that overwhelmed by it.

EDIT: I've tried a few games in between matches of LOL these days. Cricket Captain 2015 is ok - I mainly bought it on sale because I'm curious to understand the sport of cricket even if I'm not entirely sure I can follow it as a fan. It's a very passive, drawn out game (the sport not the video game version of it) that even in the shorter versions is a hard watch. It's like Baseball took Quaaludes. The game itself is a decent version of the sport though it feels a little lightweight in the managerial part compared to something like Football Manager.

I also bought The Seven Years War on sale - it's a one-man indie wargame like Total War based in the 7 Years War (my favorite war for strategy games). It runs like total monkey shit but for a 1-man team, it's really pretty good. Animations and graphics are crude but it seems to have the strategy part down.

[apocrypha]

Silkworms!

Huh, what? They a Pam's thing?

[Sky]

Silkworms!

Huh, what? They a Pam's thing?

Ex Nihilo

[pants]

Tyranny has been a mixed bag for many, but I love it. Leagues better than Pillars of Eternity in my mind.

Yup, agree.  Having just finished Pillars of Eternity, which I thought was ok but not brilliant, Tyranny is much better.  Just finished Act 1, and I have a real Black Company feel about it.

[apocrypha]

Ex Nihilo

Ahh, never played with that. Not really a huge fan of skyblock, I miss the landscapes :)

[Sky]

There are a couple new options in Ozone 2, flying islands and an arctic wasteland. Still very limited compared to a normal map, of course. But that's why rf tools is in....

[Druzil]

Finished the Gear of War 4 campaign. It was a really good Gears campaign, if you like those.  If you didn't like the others there's not enough different to rope you in though.  I liked the new characters quite a bit, the humor was also pretty good throughout with some great one-liners.  May do a little hoard mode but I'm probably about done with it.

Started Furi, think I'm on the 5th boss.  Pretty cool game but I hope the later bosses have some new tricks as they are starting to get a bit repetitive.  This feels like it could be a foundation for an amazing sequel if they ever decided to really go nuts and build a full game around the mechanics and ditch the walking sequences for something more interesting.

Played some Poly Bridge which is good but also exactly what I expected.   There certainly are a ton of levels so it will take a good while to get through.  Also, it's another game that needs to add more mechanics as it goes.  Unless I'm missing something in the how to play section I think you see everything there is to see in the first 2 areas.  Hopefully the later areas are more than just scenery changes.

[Rendakor]

I've been playing Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel; it's a pretty good old-school RPG. It feels like a mix of FFVII/VIII and Persona. Some days you're clearing dungeons, others you're doing more mundane tasks and choosing which of your various party members to socialize with (and I'm assuming, eventually romance). The social stuff isn't as in-depth as in Persona but it's still pretty cool. I'm playing it on Vita, but it's also on PC and PS3. It's part one of a trilogy; part 2 is also out now for the same systems.

[Rasix]

I've been playing Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel; it's a pretty good old-school RPG. It feels like a mix of FFVII/VIII and Persona. Some days you're clearing dungeons, others you're doing more mundane tasks and choosing which of your various party members to socialize with (and I'm assuming, eventually romance). The social stuff isn't as in-depth as in Persona but it's still pretty cool. I'm playing it on Vita, but it's also on PC and PS3. It's part one of a trilogy; part 2 is also out now for the same systems.

Google says it's Vita/PS3 only.

[MrHat]

I bought 3 new games on the Steam sale.

So I'm playing Rocket League.