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@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
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@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
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Played some of the Dawn Of War Beta this weekend - really like the game, going back to its roots (yet to play the campaign) but the Orks were so overpowered it ruined it a tad...
Does it go back to traditional RTS roots? Or is it the silly squad based system that was in DoW2?
The squad based stuff is still there but there is no retreat so the likelihood of you losing a squad is high. Everything feels weak except elites.
What??? It wasn't squad-based? It was RTS...
He means you dont lose a single unit and its dead. He doesn't like reinforcing squads. It's def squad based.
But DoW I was the same as that...DoW II was squad based in that it was turn based rounds, like XCOM...
RTS = Real Time Strategy, which means free-play surely?
@coliver - which do you mean?
DoW II was real-time squad based combat. You had a small number of units that were designed/supposed to level up as you moved through the game. Similar to XCOM but not turn based.
It was also extremely rock paper scissors
By design. Unless you were extremely tactical minded (like Company of Heroes) you could get wrecked by bringing the wrong assortment or squad members. Which is nice for multiplayer but shitty for singleplayer and campaign. Especially since you wanted to hear all the Space Marines' stories.
It makes it extremely boring in multiplayer. You built devastators? Oh, I'm going to retreat and lose very little units then build assault marines because they counter devastators. Etc. Retreat ruined the game. The only thing that really happened was you put your opponent at a disadvantage and he retreated his forces just to come back right after. This was especially true in 1v1 where the maps could be extremely small.
Yep... again this was completely by design.
It's a terrible design
No argument there. I think most squad based games are pretty terrible by design. But I'm not the type of person they are trying to attract.
After playing the open beta I really wonder who they are actually trying to attract. No one I know personally liked it. 99% of the forums were complaint posts, not that it wasn't going to be anyway but still.
yeah, far from what anyone wanted...but a step back in the right direction...
I don't know man. I love the 40k universe and the only positive thing I can say about it is the scale of the battles feels very 40k. One of the main factors of me disliking DOW 2 (there were many) was everything felt like a small skirmish instead of a giant war. It didn't feel 40k at all.
That's what was great about the original. The Imperial Guard expansion felt like you were part of this massive war.
Completely agree
Yeah that's what I meant - it's moving back to what made DoW so great, and away from the shitty excuse that was DoW II
Which expansion was it that had the different planets you could take over to get different bonuses etc?
To be fair I really enjoyed the PvE survival expansion the DoW II had. It just wasn't enough to carry the entire game.
I don't think I even got that far...bought the base and retribution, played 30 mins and was so disheartened the disks went into the drawer and have stayed there since :') Didn't even get round to installing retribution!
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Ran across the Long War mod for Xcom. This thing is brutally hard, but has some interesting changes/additions. I'm only about 5 missions in, and I've already had an entire team (of noobs) wiped out, lost one country from the coalition, and I'm not out of money.
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I really need to get into XCOM. I have it but haven't really been able to play it.
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@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I really need to get into XCOM. I have it but haven't really been able to play it.
I'm on the first one and I really like it.
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I've heard mixed things about the second. I'll probably get it on a steam sale at some point. The first is very good if you like turn-based, tactical, third person combat mechanics.
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@scottalanmiller always been meaning to get into XCOM. I hear it's an extremely solid game series. Then again, I feel I just end up loading up good old mount and blade or LoL.
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@QuixoticJeremy said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller always been meaning to get into XCOM. I hear it's an extremely solid game series. Then again, I feel I just end up loading up good old mount and blade or LoL.
It's really good. And the FBI Declassified looks like a really neat extra component of the story telling, too.
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For those of you who haven't played the Witcher, GOG and Ars Technica are brining it to you for free for the next day or so!
You do have to provide an email address. I just thought I'd pass this along though...
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/
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@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
For those of you who haven't played the Witcher, GOG and Ars Technica are brining it to you for free for the next day or so!
You do have to provide an email address. I just thought I'd pass this along though...
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/
Good stuff!
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Enjoying some No Man's Sky. It's not often I have time to play games, and this one is very enjoyable.
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@Tim_G said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Enjoying some No Man's Sky. It's not often I have time to play games, and this one is very enjoyable.
I know the feeling. I go for months at a time without being able to even fire up a game
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Love most of the XCOM stuff.
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@hobbit666 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Love most of the XCOM stuff.
I'm still playing the "original" (original remake that is) and I love it. I get so little time to devote to it but I'm loving the story and pacing.
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Fired up Medieval Total War II over the weekend. I still prefer the first one, but it is still good.
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Fallout 4 over the weekend... I installed a stupid number of mods and this is my first run through.
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Mad Max (just like the batman/mordor games) Bastion and Transistor (still havent played either of these excellent games though to the end). Mass Effect:Andromeda.
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I heard Little Nightmares is good. I don't get my internet setup until Wednesday so It's just local games I already own for now.
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I spent a little more than 2 hours last night in Ark trying (and succeeding) to get 2 L shaped sections of a structure to have ramps lead down with a proper concave vertex. Ark doesn't have a great building system and the way it handles clipping is to not, so the vertex, even with the mod, was very trying on my patience.
Tonight, I'm going to work on filling in some gaps around the rest of my area, and maybe rebuild some walls so that they line up evenly.
Sure would be nice if someone like Kelly logged in and helped me to end the boredom by letting me help them to get started, or something. It's boring being alone.
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@Grey I've pretty much sworn off MMOs or anything that smells of them because of how my life looks after I start to get in to them.
