just discovered that you can have it/its pronouns in fields of mistria, don't think i ever played a game where i could do that 
Gunboat God. Its a sidescrolling shooter where the gimmick is that you're in a boat. Its got movement mechanics based on diving and breaching that remind me of Pepper Grinder. Visually it has a strong style of silhouette characters against bright backgrounds, with everything always bobbing up and down, that sounds like the confused child of Limbo and Cuphead but actually works really well. The different weapons feel good, the sound design on the grenade launcher and the railgun are both nice and thumpy. Firm recommend.
Also the upgrade system is well thought out. Im making interesting strategic choices but also I don't feel like I need to worry about missing out on something important by investing wrong.
Started a new kenshi play through with a focus on hiver only and destroying slavery as far as possible.
Had a few hours each in Esoteric Ebb and Jump Soace. Esoteric Ebb is a great RPG. Haven't finished it once yet, but already want to play it at least two more times to explore other parts of the story. Jump Space is a very fun arcady game. I've explained it as a combination of Valorant and Star Citizen. Fun alone, fantastic with friends.
I've been playing Windrose and having a lot of fun with it. Always love a survivalcraft and this one's got pirates and ship combat.
Also I'm way, way better at the ship combat than the melee.
Almost 100 hours into Pathfinder Kingmaker since my last post . Most of things will be spoilers.
spoiler
Cascadia is now an officially recognized kingdom by the leaders of the neighboring countries. I have been crowned King and promised to rule for the benefit of the people. We are a thriving utopia compared to everywhere else. I have largely adopted the China policy of "trade with anyone, ignore what they do in their own lands, react harshly if they enter mine".
I am a mediating force between two rival countries that have now chosen to enter into a three way alliance with me. I saved them both from a barbarian horde (literal barbarians, the class) led by the proclaimed reincarnation of a great hero. He was defeated, and is now my sworn brother who wanders and defends my lands with his tribe, striking back at those that manipulated him.
Hellknights entered my land to interrogate my subjects, and I promptly told them to return home. They did not, so I killed them by punching through their helmets.
Our kingdom not only has schools and a militia, but multiple libraries, teleportation circles in every town, goblin and kobold sanctuaries to protect the races others call 'lesser'. We are lovers of art and culture, but reject the Shelyn cult so obsessed with beauty as to lay claim to one of mine own companions. They, the beast god Lamashtu, and all other cults have been banished from my realm. Only Erastil and the people's folk religions remain.
The people have dubbed me "The King from Santa Monica", as I am a holy Aasimar who roams shirtless, has a blonde manbun and goatee, and who is fond of stretching and practicing karate moves in front of my council.
My subjects are so in awe of me, they know not what to do but vibrate in place. I am literally the main character.
I'm nearing the end on my honor mode run in BG3, and for the most part I feel like I over-prepared for the big fights. Still had a close call with a certain boss that has massive Lightning AoE
Punching hard solves nearly all problems tho
I'm playing a monk in Pathfinder: Kingmaker and I love the convenience of not needing to swap weapons, but it's also lame sometimes that I get all these cool things I can't use. I feel like I should have at least gone monk weapons for kama, nunchucks, etc.
In BG3 you can actually equip weapons for their passive bonus and still fight unarmed, though it's a hassle since you have to use special attacks that aren't allowed under all circumstances.
It was a huge buff for my party when I realized you can equip shields on archers and bows on fighters just for the bonuses.
I get all these cool things I can't use
That happens a lot anyway in these games, as most campaigns will give players something for every class.
I learned about this late too, like there’s a bow in act 3 that gives +3 to initiative which is a nice bonus for any caster, I always thought you had to have it in hand for the bonuses to apply but it’s not always the case
I can confirm that it works. There are other things though, that sound like they'd be universal but they aren't.
also the tooltip situation in the game tells me they rushed the release towards the end of development because there are hidden bonuses not in tooltips like in wavemothers cloak or ring of feywild sparks, guess they figured doing a pass on this is low priority
It's weird though how they did so many patches after release yet there are still a bunch of obvious bugs.
Druids in starry form for example have various glitches, but worst is that they are invisible and silent in dialogue.
put the BG3 honor mode run on pause, just need to farm smokepowder bombs for the final boss (without access to the main merchant that stocks them) before entering to the last zone
started BG1 EE as a Druid caster (avenger), early encounters are tricky due to low hp and spell count but the party is starting to take shape at level 2, just missing Minsc’s quest partner to have the final ‘canon’ 6, having a mage in the party will help, in the meantime entangle has worked to slow down enemy groups, reviving fallen companions in a temple is expensive, ranged damage seems very strong in the early levels, you can bait melee enemies to follow always moving targets while others fire at them from bows, slings, and darts, no opportunity attacks so no penalty for moving away from close range
checked out Trails in the Sky 1st chapter, nice music in this game, sets up the mood well, I’ll probably keep coming back to it on and off, their region is called Liberl lol
also played Dark Queen of Mortholme, short and something different
Started playing metal gear rising lately although I am somewhat bored? Thinking of trying out sonic generations which I always wanted to play as a kid
Just played a little Warframe, finally got Protea and that's the last of the duplicates for subsuming. Now I'm on to getting every incarnon and getting every tauron strike, both of which are decently long grinds. Also trying to get one good build per frame, but that's going to get time-gated by forma and tauforged shards real quick.
I joined the Hexbear Stellaris ~~Anonymous~~ party. I :LIB:ed out started a United Nations campaign. It's not everybody's cup of tea, but I love the factions and the politicking. Its the spice that makes it different from the other 4x games. I'm playing it on 1x speed to savor the start of the game as I'm exploring the Galaxy. This game got me through the first 
term, so it's fitting I'm coming back to it now.
kinda loving the new Zero Parades game. Obviously not as good as Disco. Will likely finish it on Monday and have more thoughts then.
Please make a thread.
I would love a mostly spoiler free impression
Same. Despite all the stuff that happened with the company, people are saying it's a good RPG. I don't expect it to be Disco in that it's a deep introspection on socialism, but it might still be interesting.
Playing CIV 7 with the Test of Time update. I need to play it more but I like it so far, I can see the vision. Currently playing as Napoleon and going for a military victory.
Downloaded some arcade roms, was playing MK 1 yesterday. The difficulty in that game is a breeze compared to the ball crushing ai in MK 2.
I saw some high-level MK2 tournament streams recently, after not having played or thought about the game since I was a kid (and was just button-mashing and losing to my friends). My jaw was on the floor watching the Jaxes and Mileenas successfully blocking so many sneaky and counterintuitive combos, pulling off wild upsets with just a chip of life left.
meditative minesweeper/picross hybrid that goes pretty hard if i'm honest. dumped 7.3 hours in and i'm only 16% done!!
Tried a little bit of Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era. I was never big into the lore of Might and Magic so I'm not gonna question why the devils are bugs and there's a chtulhuoid elf faction in what is a prequel.
I don't really get the gimmick of the Schism (The aforementioned squiddy elves), they build up some kind of resource each time they win but I genuinely don't notice it doing anything. Their units don't really have anything going for them.
I get the gimmick of The Hive (The bug devils) though. Have a bunch of fast bugs, build up momentum, spend that momentum summoning more bugs. But I haven't played enough to really know if it's any fun.
PlanetSide 2. Crashes have been patched and there's a double exp event going on.
I've been playing a bunch of Timberorn this week. It's got its hooks in me for sure
Playing Subnautica 2 and it immediately recaptures the magic and mystery of the original. Below Zero faltered quite a bit trying to add above-ground content and going in a rather unsatisfying direction with the story (too direct, not enough mystery, AL-AN being in your head cut all the tension), though it was beautiful and added some excellent lore and quality of life improvements that have carried over to the new game.
What impresses me the most so far is the writing, suprisingly. The simple act of integrating respawning (reprinting!) into the actual lore and making it a big part of the story is a massive improvement over the bland handwave respawning in the first game, and the writers are actually grappling with the existential nightmare baggage that comes with it. They actually make use of all the Architect tech they reverse-engineered Below Zero and it paints a pretty bleak picture of the universe and your character's place in it. Humanity might be extinct from the Kharaa, which was not just a bacterium but an intelligent being that manipulates entire ecosystems to spread itself between worlds to the point that it might have wiped out every civilization that's ever reached the stars. Surprise! Subnauitica was actually a Natural Selection 2 prequel.
And holy fuck is the game tense. The only leviathan I've encountered so far is the one you've seen all over the place, the big squid. He grabs your Tadpole if you're in it and tosses you around a bit, but straight-up eats you if you're swimming. You have to dodge under cramped overhangs to keep away until it loses interest.
It's so fucking good.
First real summer weekend of the year. I'm busy skin carcinoma maxing (going outside).
My PC's firmware, GPU and Wine are talking properly now, so it is time to play Freelancer again.
It's got a forgettable plot and stock scifi action-thriller cast, but I keep coming back for the very pretty nebulae and the enjoyable piracy. Zero attempt is made to make the star systems to scale. Also, it has incongruently historically materialist worldbuilding? Descriptions of every pirate/"terrorist" faction explain the historical circumstances and contradictions that gave rise to them, and it boils down to capital abandoning or squeezing workers in like every case. Unfortunately, the story is not about overthrowing the decrepit empires and bringing socialism to the Sirius Sector.
Has any kind of Space GTA that chooses intuitive fun over realistic portrayals of space physics been made since? It would be nice to haul highly illegal space drugs through an ASMR thunderstorm nebula I haven't been to before.
Has any kind of Space GTA that chooses intuitive fun over realistic portrayals of space physics been made since? It would be nice to haul highly illegal space drugs through an ASMR thunderstorm nebula I haven’t been to before.
closest to freelancer that i've played is Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Thank you for the recommend 
GOG finally got ahold of Freelancer and are working on a modern port. It's been top of the community vote for years. I had trouble getting it work with needing old no cd cracks and such. It'll be great if it has all the server stuff built in and easier to use.
Good news!
Oh man I miss Freelancer.
It's not 3D, but it's open source: Endless Sky
It's been a while since I've played one, but the X series (like X4 Foundations) might scratch the 3D itch. It lets you even build whole space stations iirc.
Appreciate the recommend 
Edit: Oh hey, this looks a lot like Escape Velocity!
It is 
inspired by Escape Velocity!
I've been playing Encased recently. It's a decent CRPG in the vein of Wasteland or Fallout with some not too subtle nods to Roadside Picnic (the devs are Russian, like most CRPG devs these days). Some time in an alt-history 1970s, humanity finds some mysterious invisible dome. Many nations make a joint effort studying the dome and, among other things, find out that people cannot leave or give birth inside the dome, and it's teeming with powerful relics. Some horrific psychic tornado forms and never goes away, leading to the society in the dome collapsing and reforming.
It's got some funny moments, like a corpo manager with a foot in his mouth giving a terrible attempt at a speech and a funny joke about livestreamers. Unfortunately they also had a transphobic joke about trans people competing in sports.
picked up Pseudoregalia on sale. It's a 3d platformer with interesting movement mechanics, kinda reminds me of Celeste. It's fun going back to previous areas after discovering new movement abilities and completing them in a different way. I like it a lot
also my RTT obsession continues. Decided to replay Men of War: Red Tide, god help me
Still on my Steallaris Workers Coop run and on BG3. I just reached the goblin camp, I want to do the thing where I knock down Minthara so I can both have her on the party later on and save the grove right now.
I'm also back into Warframe and fuck how have I missed it! I got overwhelmed when I got back a few days ago, there's a shit ton of new content, systems and stuff to do that I almost quit just from that, but I got a friend to start playing and it's been a blast to do the early game with him while I slowly start understanding the new stuff. Right now I need to get a bit of standing with all the factions, specially the ones on Cetus, Fortuna and the Deimos one I forgot the name (the Son and the Daughter are too pretty, my bi-ass can't 
) so I can have access to a few of their stuff. I also just started the Railjack Journey, got the first part built, but I need to farm Orokin Cells for the second one. And I have to yet to build the Necramech and then need to level up both so I can do The New War since I saw a video saying it's best to have them both at least leveled up a bit to not get stuck in the quest.
Heads up for the open worlds, I feel like you can't really complete them when you first unlock them because the higher-level bounties are a bit too tough, especially for Plains and Cambion Drift. IIRC enemies in Cambion Drift are also entirely immune to Viral damage so you have to be careful to mod for something else.
For The New War, you definitely don't need a necramech anymore (I did it without one, it was fine), so if the heciphron grind gets to you feel free to walk away and go back later. Don't think I'd levelled my railjack much either, but you do still need one to even start the quest so may as well play around with the new toy a bit.
Heads up for the open worlds, I feel like you can't really complete them when you first unlock them because the higher-level bounties are a bit too tough, especially for Plains and Cambion Drift. IIRC enemies in Cambion Drift are also entirely immune to Viral damage so you have to be careful to mod for something else.
Thanks for the heads up! I do have a couple frames and weapons well-modded enough to take on the higher leve bounties, but I'm not gonna do them right now because I'm focusing on other stuff like getting minerals, fishing, etc. I want to do a few other stuff first too, but I'll probably run the lower level ones with frames and weapons I'm still leveling so I get some XP while doing it. I still gotta learn proper modding tho, I'm MR12 yet I still don't really know enough about what mods to use where outside a few stuff like paying attention to a weapon's base stats to determine if I should build crit or status for example.
For The New War, you definitely don't need a necramech anymore (I did it without one, it was fine), so if the heciphron grind gets to you feel free to walk away and go back later. Don't think I'd levelled my railjack much either, but you do still need one to even start the quest so may as well play around with the new toy a bit.
I see, cool to know. I finished building the Railjack yesterday already, the only thing I was missing was the Orokin Cell, every other resource I had a bunch of so I didn't have to worry about it, but I failed the very first mission lol. Don't know if I should just join a crew before doing it on my own since solo seems very hard at the beginning.
For modding, I typically just go default damage mod, multishot, 60/60s for cold, toxin, and heat (to have viral + heat) and that's usually about all you can get away with before being out of points without a catalyst/forma. If you want an easy build without having to do a ton of testing, you can always go to overframe.gg and see what people are suggesting. Most builds people post will be using fully-ranked primed mods and a bunch of forma but you can see what works and pare it down to something you can use.
Yeah, Railjack is really weird to level because weapon and hull strength (mostly) come from enemy drops in missions (there are also a few clan unlocks for the alt-fire IIRC), and actually modding the railjack itself does relatively little. This means that if you can get taxi'd by someone on a later railjack mission you'll unlock a bunch of tier 3 parts and be set, but if you do it entirely on your own it's a fairly miserable and prolonged grind. AI crew are great once you get them because they can just stay on the ship and repair it, but they're locked behind some intrinsics IIRC so you have to suffer for a while. Generally I'd say corpus missions are easier than grineer, but I'm not sure if you start with them unlocked.
I learned how good viral was the other day but didn't know that you usually pair it with heat, good to know, thanks! I just watched some videos on modding and searched a bit and I feel I have a much better grasp now, at least for weapon modding.
you can always go to overframe.gg and see what people are suggesting
Yeah found out about this site a couple days ago, have been using it as a general guide for my frame builds. I saw a bunch of people saying the builds from ninjase are considered very good, so that's what I've been looking at. I mostly lack frame specific mods.
This means that if you can get taxi'd by someone on a later railjack mission you'll unlock a bunch of tier 3 parts and be set, but if you do it entirely on your own it's a fairly miserable and prolonged grind.
I see, I'll probably just ask my friend to do a few Railjack missions with me or I'll just use the matchmaking to join a crew.
Finally got around to playing Zeroranger. I finished White Vanilla on my second attempt though it was pretty close on my second to last life on my last continue.
My friend's coming over today after awhile (busy-nesses, sicknesses, etc.). Might get back to playing Metal Gear Solid 1 today, not sure. I need to tackle my in-progress backlog before I start anything new. Thankfully they're all pretty short games other than LOZ:TOTK: Scorn, Knuckles' Chaotix, Silent Hill Origins.
Update: Played MGS1 some more. We're just after Sniper Wolf and a couple cutscenes. Made good progress. Didn't think this game would be so heavy in cutscenes, it's like 1/2 of the gameplay.
Didn't think this game would be so heavy in cutscenes, it's like 1/2 of the gameplay.
When it first came out everybody joked that it was their favorite movie to play.
Just started playing No Parades, so far seems to still carry quite a bit of the Disco Elysium vibes though different to make itself not just a simple DE2
Not sure! I've been trying to tackle my backlog by not playing Space Station.
I finished my Graveyard Keeper playthrough with the DLC since I saw the announcement of the sequel. It was fine. Probably a 7/10. It still has some lingering jank and felt like it leaned into quantity over quality of things to do, but if they can expand and improve on the sequel, I'd enjoy it.
I took a leap and played through Metro 2033 Redux this week. Again, the Metro 2039 trailer got me interested. Overall, a bit jank as I expected, but the game excels at atmosphere and sound design. I'd recommend playing with headphones. I'm not sure about jumping right into Last Light. I might need a pallette cleanser first.
I'm looking at Subnautica, The Alters, Cyberpunk, or giving Kingdom Come a go. Or maybe something like Chained Echoes or Sea of Stars. I don't know!
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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