OT: Video Game Thread Part VIII

[Striiker]

I got Olise from 10. What did you get?

Oh hell yeah, that’s awesome. Like $1m, I think? I remember almost every pro was using his Thunderstruck card during the Pro Open and I’ve tried him on my brothers account. I assume the GG is even more nuts, especially if you’re good at outside the box finesses. His L1 speed boost is also crazy.

I lucked out and got Drogba. Kinda funny that his two playstyle+’s are what EA nerfed into the ground (headers and power shots) but he’s still absolutely insane. Way better than his stats make it look. I understand the hype from the past 18 months now.

Also, in case you didnt know, if you do an evo that gives a player the Grassroots Great card background then that player also gives +2 chem to club/country/league like the normal GG players. Including evos like the tikitaka+ or +1* weak foot, I believe.

 

[trostol]

i was unaware Rogue Trader was coming to Game Pass..i am excited

 

[DancingPanther]

80 hrs sunk into Baldurs Gate and I just started act 3. Help

 

[flyersnorth]

i was unaware Rogue Trader was coming to Game Pass..i am excited

Ooh nice. I have only briefly played a Warhammer 40K game before - Mechanicus, I think? Didn't really enjoy it and abandoned it after half a dozen hours.

But I do like Owlcat's Pathfinder games, and Rogue Trader is turn-based too so definitely excited to give this a try!

 

[TB87]

What are people’s thoughts on AC Shadows?

I know it’s very popular to hate on Ubisoft (some of its definitely deserved) but I’ve had a bunch of mindless fun with AC games recently (Origins & Odyssey).

 

[trostol]

What are people’s thoughts on AC Shadows?

I know it’s very popular to hate on Ubisoft (some of its definitely deserved) but I’ve had a bunch of mindless fun with AC games recently (Origins & Odyssey).

depends on if they went back and tightened it up like the early entries or if it is the huge open world of the later entries...origins, odyssey and valhalla were too big for me

 

[flyersnorth]

80 hrs sunk into Baldurs Gate and I just started act 3. Help

What class is your Tav? Or did you go with an origin character?

 

[trostol]

80 hrs sunk into Baldurs Gate and I just started act 3. Help

lol that's what i got in before my old pc couldnt handle act 3 ..haven't gotten back to it sinnce i got my new pc

 

[flyersnorth]

What are people’s thoughts on AC Shadows?

I know it’s very popular to hate on Ubisoft (some of its definitely deserved) but I’ve had a bunch of mindless fun with AC games recently (Origins & Odyssey).

I've also had a lot of fun with some Ubisoft games, mainly the Far Cry series (co-op with a buddy), which is all meant to be ridiculous anyway, so causing havoc together is great.

I liked the first 3-4 AC games, then like @trostol , I kinda burned out on the series. Valhalla started off ok, but I remember at one point just feeling like Ubisoft games are now just all the same with a different skin on top. Locked regions you have to "liberate" in some way, and the sheer number of regions with repetitive game mechanics just got to me and I gave up on Valhalla. Way too big and too little variety.

I may try Shadows if it goes on sale at some point, because I heard it's going back to its roots as sealth / assassin focused, which would be great. That's what got me into the series in the first place.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Ooh nice. I have only briefly played a Warhammer 40K game before - Mechanicus, I think? Didn't really enjoy it and abandoned it after half a dozen hours.

But I do like Owlcat's Pathfinder games, and Rogue Trader is turn-based too so definitely excited to give this a try!

Rogue Trader is great. It does a very good job of going over lore, so it's very approachable even if you aren't super into 40k. Once you get a hang of the system you can really burn through encounters. I haven't finished my first play through, but it really seems like you can have a wildly different experience based on the choices you make.

 

[DancingPanther]

What class is your Tav? Or did you go with an origin character?

Urdo is a Drow cleric.

My main squad is Shart, Minthara, and Laezel. I've been running Jeheira lately though instead of Minthara here and there. Halsin is in my camp but I don't usually use him. I know a lot of people use Kagha or whatever their name is but I didn't do that quest lol

 

[TB87]

depends on if they went back and tightened it up like the early entries or if it is the huge open world of the later entries...origins, odyssey and valhalla were too big for me

Gotcha. I never played the early games. I’ve heard Valhalla in particular is way, way too big of a beast.

 

[TB87]

I've also had a lot of fun with some Ubisoft games, mainly the Far Cry series (co-op with a buddy), which is all meant to be ridiculous anyway, so causing havoc together is great.

I liked the first 3-4 AC games, then like @trostol , I kinda burned out on the series. Valhalla started off ok, but I remember at one point just feeling like Ubisoft games are now just all the same with a different skin on top. Locked regions you have to "liberate" in some way, and the sheer number of regions with repetitive game mechanics just got to me and I gave up on Valhalla. Way too big and too little variety.

I may try Shadows if it goes on sale at some point, because I heard it's going back to its roots as sealth / assassin focused, which would be great. That's what got me into the series in the first place.

I did hear that Valhalla is just too big…

I didn’t play any of the earlier games so I don’t have a frame of reference for how they played. Being able to play (in Shadows) a stealth focused character or a Samurai is pretty cool. The former could be lots of fun.

 

[trostol]

I just looked it up..I did not think Valhalla was the biggest lol

 

[flyersnorth]

Rogue Trader is great. It does a very good job of going over lore, so it's very approachable even if you aren't super into 40k. Once you get a hang of the system you can really burn through encounters. I haven't finished my first play through, but it really seems like you can have a wildly different experience based on the choices you make.

I just saw it show up on Game Pass, but so did Avowed! Decisions, decisions

 

[flyersnorth]

Urdo is a Drow cleric.

My main squad is Shart, Minthara, and Laezel. I've been running Jeheira lately though instead of Minthara here and there. Halsin is in my camp but I don't usually use him. I know a lot of people use Kagha or whatever their name is but I didn't do that quest lol

Are you running Shart as a cleric too? Curious how it is going with two clerics.

My main was a tiefling oathbreaker paladin. Mostly did the campaign with Shart, Astarion, and Gale. Used Laezel for all the Creche stuff, but generally stuck with the other 3.

I'd like to do another run through with 3 completely different ones. Maybe now is a good time with Patch 8 and the new subclasses.

 

[DancingPanther]

Are you running Shart as a cleric too? Curious how it is going with two clerics.

My main was a tiefling oathbreaker paladin. Mostly did the campaign with Shart, Astarion, and Gale. Used Laezel for all the Creche stuff, but generally stuck with the other 3.

I'd like to do another run through with 3 completely different ones. Maybe now is a good time with Patch 8 and the new subclasses.

I ran Laezel because she was strong melee early which I needed as a "I watch my fav content creator play a few campaigns but never played DnD myself" type of player. Honestly, as I figured out what was going on, she turned into a BEAST. I gave her great weapons master after I speedran 20 STR and she just clobbers people.

2 clerics is fine. I didn't subclass this run because like I said, I'm not very experienced. But even without subclassing it works. Having so much heal is nice first off, but I also have radiant maxxed her, which is now pretty f***ing hilarious after I strung her along her entire Dark Justiciar path until the very end where I passed a check and convinced her not to do the thing that could turn her into that lol

But she melts people with guiding bolt and I use spiritual guardians a lot too. And the weapon she has a radiant 1d8 bonus so if she hits with divine strike it just smokes.

I stay back as more true support with bless and bane and warding etc etc. So definitely plays different

 

[flyersnorth]

I ran Laezel because she was strong melee early which I needed as a "I watch my fav content creator play a few campaigns but never played DnD myself" type of player. Honestly, as I figured out what was going on, she turned into a BEAST. I gave her great weapons master after I speedran 20 STR and she just clobbers people.

2 clerics is fine. I didn't subclass this run because like I said, I'm not very experienced. But even without subclassing it works. Having so much heal is nice first off, but I also have radiant maxxed her, which is now pretty f***ing hilarious after I strung her along her entire Dark Judiciar path until the very end where I passed a check and convinced her not to do the thing that could turn her into that lol

But she melts people with guiding bolt and I use spiritual guardians a lot too. And the weapon she has a radiant 1d8 bonus so if she hits with divine strike it just smokes.

I stay back as more true support with bless and bane and warding etc etc. So definitely plays different

Yeah, Fighters can be damage-dealing machines! If I didn't have my Paladin (which is also a ridiculously strong class) I would have stuck with Laezel as the front line tanker / damage dealer.

Spirit Guardians is so great! Radiant damage is one of the least resisted damages in BG3, from what I remember, so it's great to cast that and have a few of your companions stand inside the circle with her, especially when you're swarmed with lower-level melee type enemies. Really useful in the Shadow-cursed lands... and in that room with all the rats!

 

[DancingPanther]

Yeah, Fighters can be damage-dealing machines! If I didn't have my Paladin (which is also a ridiculously strong class) I would have stuck with Laezel as the front line tanker / damage dealer.

Spirit Guardians is so great! Radiant damage is one of the least resisted damages in BG3, from what I remember, so it's great to cast that and have a few of your companions stand inside the circle with her, especially when you're swarmed with lower-level melee type enemies. Really useful in the Shadow-cursed lands... and in that room with all the rats!

Just melted in the underdark and shadows. It totally chunks even without your enemy being weak to it too. Couple it with misty step and suddenly you have half your enemies hit without even using your action for the turn, let alone bonus action

 

[flyersnorth]

Just melted in the underdark and shadows. It totally chunks even without your enemy being weak to it too. Couple it with misty step and suddenly you have half your enemies hit without even using your action for the turn, let alone bonus action

Underdark and Shadow-cursed were my two favourite areas. They felt more fantastical. Underdark in particular - probably because I discovered it early by accident and was severely underleveled. The fights were more epic.

I saw a huge chasm with fog coming out, and had just gotten the boots of feather fall recently, and thought, hmm, what happens if I jump in? And of course BG3 was happy to oblige

 

[TB87]

The Marguerite boss fight from RE7 was so f***ing cool man. Definitely yelped from fear a few times lol. This game has some of the best scares and/or jump scares in the whole RE series.

 

[FLYguy3911]

@Striiker this was my 7-3 game. Game bugged out and when it finally stopped stuttering I came back controlling my opps team. Scored a couple own goals and the game counted as an L for me lol. Finished with 10 wins and the rewards were trash.

You do any of these SBCs? I'm stacked with fodder and nothing to put it into. I feel like doing Felix would be a waste. Milan is ass right now.

 

[Striiker]

@Striiker this was my 7-3 game. Game bugged out and when it finally stopped stuttering I came back controlling my opps team. Scored a couple own goals and the game counted as an L for me lol. Finished with 10 wins and the rewards were trash.

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You do any of these SBCs? I'm stacked with fodder and nothing to put it into. I feel like doing Felix would be a waste. Milan is ass right now.

What the hell is that?? I’ve seen all kinds of crazy glitches but I’ve never even heard of anyone experiencing that one. Both the stuttering and switching teams… I assume they’re linked but that doesn’t even make sense. Sucks that happened in champs especially.

I had a kinda weird one yesterday where a game was ending and it got stuck on the loading icon until I closed the game. When I came back every single setting was reset and it was acting like I’d opened the game for the first time.

Only SBC I’ve done lately is Kante, plus the various upgrades. Nothing else has been interesting enough to me. Considered Felix for a second but that price is stupid. Tried GG Mendy on someone else’s acc and I didn’t like him at all. Theo>

Also, not sure about you but I’ve never lagged as hard as I have been the last few days. The delay and heaviness is unbearable. I’m getting destroyed this weekend because I can’t move the ball at all.

 

[Appleyard]

I bought FC25 a week ago.

I regret it.

Last FIFA I played properly was maybe Fifa 12? Me and my two housemates at Uni had a Leicester City career where got them promoted to Prem and then were trying to get to Champions League...

and back then it was playable. On max difficulty it was actually intense and had to focus constantly to beat a CPU (especially if using multi-player)

On the new game I dont even know the controls fully because you just dont have to learn them aside from pass, shoot, through ball, cross and the two tackles and sprint lmao. That is enough to win every game. Highest difficulty, sliders messed with and it is basically impossible not to win vs CPU. Playing with Bradford City in League 2 and drew Fulham in FA Cup 2nd round and smashed them 5-1... made some nice FA signings but still my team average is around 67!

I don't know how the game is worse than the games from 20 years ago. Actually booted up FIFA 2005 on PC to check to see if memory is not deceiving me... and yeh... FIFA 2005 is a superior game. The CPU can actually play football and the dynamics are pretty similar lmao.

I mean, I guess online is better as vs other people. But like... FFS what on earth.


I had the same with this years MotoGP game... had not played one in ten years and it is far worse and far glitchier...

 

[Lord Defect]

Anyone play Undecember? Seems like a pretty decent ARPG that apparently can be played on the pc or the Phone. I’ve been playing it on my phone for an hour or so, not bad so far. I’m not sure how the in app purchases will affect things though.