What are you playing nowadays? Share yo' thoughts.

[GodisanAtheist]

Wait, wha

-He said he's driving Greg Abbott voters from.San Antonio to El Paso.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Wait, wha

One of my favorite Jerky Boys calls

This game is so much fun to drive like a bastard in though. Love to pass cars or other trucks and then switch lanes in front of them to smack them with the trailer at 90 mph.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

With how accurate Texas looked in American Truck Simulator I couldn't believe how crap LA was. Figured I'd see Palm Springs, all the wind turbines, and Mt San Jacinto coming into LA from the east along the 10, stuff like that, but the drive into LA was pretty generic and when I didn't recognize any landmarks and at first thought maybe I had accidentally switched onto 8 in Arizona and come into San Diego instead, but nope. Guess you can really see the difference with California being their original map while Texas is one of the more recent DLC so the quality is much higher.

 

[Stg-Flame]

With how accurate Texas looked in American Truck Simulator I couldn't believe how crap LA was. Figured I'd see Palm Springs, all the wind turbines, and Mt San Jacinto coming into LA from the east along the 10, stuff like that, but the drive into LA was pretty generic and when I didn't recognize any landmarks and at first thought maybe I had accidentally switched onto 8 in Arizona and come into San Diego instead, but nope. Guess you can really see the difference with California being their original map while Texas is one of the more recent DLC so the quality is much higher.

My buddy played that game just to see if New Mexico looked the same and they got a lot of stuff accurate, but most of it was condensed (for obvious reasons). It was kinda fun to go through my home town on that game and see the same buildings in low resolution.

 

[Ajay]

Trying Fallout 4 after update. Crashing. Used a command line tool to revert to last version. Now I'll see if I can get some basic mods up and running.

 

[JEDIYoda]

I am Beta testing Quake666 Armageddon!!.......so far so cool!!

 

[igor_kavinski]

I am Beta testing Quake666 Armageddon!!.......so far so cool!!

What?? Who?? Where????

Is it a AAA title or a mod? Specifics/URL please.

 

[Zeze]

I'm finally getting into Hades 1. I played it few years before and it didn't click for me. This time it is.

It's very similar to The Binding of Isaac. I think Hades isn't as good. Isaac has just insane permutations of upgrades, and they're insanely fun and complex.

I'm totally done with Isaac though. Man, that game goes back to late Flash days of 2010~.

 

[Stg-Flame]

I'm finally getting into Hades 1. I played it few years before and it didn't click for me. This time it is.

It's very similar to The Binding of Isaac. I think Hades isn't as good. Isaac has just insane permutations of upgrades, and they're insanely fun and complex.

I'm totally done with Isaac though. Man, that game goes back to late Flash days of 2010~.

Hades is far more story-driven than Issac and is beautifully told through your deaths and subsequent meetings with everyone. I've been itching to play it again since Hades 2 is in early access but I'm still bogged down with other games at the moment.

Still, the story and voice acting for Hades was top notch and deserved all the praise it received. I'm honestly more curious how SuperGiant will handle a sequel since they've only done original games in the past and I'm still holding out hope for a Bastion 2.

 

[Zeze]

Anyone played Skul? Absolutely amazing. The combat is very very satisfying.

In terms of pure combat, this beats Hades & Isaac hands down. And I love both.

You got 20+ classes with unique cool downs and ultimates
Then you got hundreds of items and artifacts that further suits your playstyle
Then you got tons of upgrades on top which further alters gameplay.
It's a rogue-like perfection.

My favorite build is collecting all the dragons - Ice, fire, lightning, shadow, light, etc.. These are perma-summons that deal their respective elemental damage. Once you get 5, you get a GIGA summon that just wipes screens with multiple ultimate spells.

You just walk around barely doing anything while the dragons completely tear everything.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Anyone played Skul? Absolutely amazing. The combat is very very satisfying.

In terms of pure combat, this beats Hades & Isaac hands down. And I love both.

You got 20+ classes with unique cool downs and ultimates
Then you got hundreds of items and artifacts that further suits your playstyle
Then you got tons of upgrades on top which further alters gameplay.
It's a rogue-like perfection.

I played it and did a review during the 2020 and 2021 backlog threads. Fun little game but when I played it, there wasn't much variety outside of the different skulls you can pick up. I'm guessing they've added a lot of content since I played because it was pretty barebones. Fun, but missing on content.

 

[Zeze]

I played it and did a review during the 2020 and 2021 backlog threads. Fun little game but when I played it, there wasn't much variety outside of the different skulls you can pick up. I'm guessing they've added a lot of content since I played because it was pretty barebones. Fun, but missing on content.

Ohh it's fully fleshed out now. It has shadow worlds, and New Game+ mode that goes up to 9 difficulty which is cracked insane. Also it has a giga boss with multiple phases.

You should go back. I think you played long long ago. The skulls themselves can be upgraded 3x into a giga-chad form with crazy spells. The artifact system also adds crazy skills. Same goes for items with awesome uniques / legendary weapons. You also get a special skill slot, etc... So on and so on.

 

[Zeze]

I made a cool play of the game on a 5v5 match yesterday. This hero has a high skill ceiling that swaps between first-person and third-person view. The hero free-roams like a ball in the full 3D physics. We were able to team dive together and I was able to melee-finish 3 enemies, thus securing a team wipe at the first chokepoint.

https://packaged-media.redd.it/1qbvvo7tdmzc1/pb/m2-res_1080p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1715371200&s=6e67fbf659f7874e5ed00dcb7a2916ffafb5e98f#t=0

I'm about Gold 1 / Plat 5 which is about barely above average vs all the young kiddos.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Still playing Hogwarts. The Batman influence on the game design emerged once I was properly into the game. At least the Arkham series are the games I think of for certain mechanics this and other games like Spiderman use.

It's fun, and the combat is proving way more interesting than I anticipated. It is a fantastic looking game with everything maxed but RT shadows. The soundtrack is well done, and is a callback to the movies.

I keep a BR burner in one of my systems for backing up my movies. I need to dig up my copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and do a playthrough. It has been a long time. Game has an interesting history behind its development and release. If you forgot all about it, here is some recent gameplay -

 

[Ajay]

New Fallout Patch is nice, and terrible. Reverted to old version or not - mods seem to be very difficult to use. Sad face. Apparently, many mods are being updated, with the help of new utilities to work with the new version, but it's slow going (even with the bump from the recent Primes Video series).


PS - my current hardware crushes the game compared to years ago. Very nice.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

My only question about the new FO patch is whether or not it fixes high refresh gaming or not (Desynced voices, unable to jump as far, some broken scripting, etc).

Seen a lot of patch notes but none of them explicitly call that out.

 

[Ajay]

My only question about the new FO patch is whether or not it fixes high refresh gaming or not (Desynced voices, unable to jump as far, some broken scripting, etc).

Seen a lot of patch notes but none of them explicitly call that out.

High refresh rates and wide screen monitors seem well supported (well, up to the 165 Hz mine can do). Lots of scripts are broken by the new patch, but that’s a different matter. Haven’t noticed desynced voices or jump problems.

 

[Shmee]

I just played some Quake Champions, did they remove the voip? My PTT wasn't working and I couldn't find where to rebind it. I am a bit concerned/dissapointed in this.

 

[Fenixgoon]

back into For Honor. there are some new classes, but the game is just...beautiful and brilliant, even when i hate it because people are better than me and skill diffs are super punishing.

 

[KMFJD]

Path of Achra on Steam

Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...

store.steampowered.com

this one is fairly addicting simple time waster

 

[BurnItDwn]

I have been rerererererererererererererererererererereplaying Kenshi again. My squad is fully equiped in samurai or crab armor with either dark leather shirts or chain shirts.

8 squad members decked out with high quality falling suns (Shek squad)
6 with with bows (humans and beep)
3 with heavy Polearms (skeletons)
3 with long cleavers (more humans)
1 unarmed martial artist (hive soldier)
1 katana swordsman (human)
1 Saber swordsman (shek, masterwork armor, with taunt enabled, essentially maximizing defensive buffs and tanking)

I'm using a bunch of different mods, including the squad size mod as otherwise i'd be capped at 20 characters. the Ultimate Wasteland Expansion is kinda fun, but, I do seem to get more crashes with it.

 

[Stg-Flame]

I was switching between Hades and Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC when I got the itch to try out Phantom Liberty for Cyberpunk and I'm guessing the DLC changed the graphics a bit because all my old settings were still the same from when I beat the game last year, but my FPS went from 120+ down to 11 and I have no idea why. Got it stable around 80 but I'm running through a Nomad campaign now since I did a Corpo start on my first play-through and I didn't want to try and play where I left off before.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Shadow of War and more Shadow of War.

Kids are getting pissed "wait so you're playing a LOTR game, but we can't watch because it's too violent? That's not fair..."

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Shadow of War and more Shadow of War.

Kids are getting pissed "wait so you're playing a LOTR game, but we can't watch because it's too violent? That's not fair..."

Gollum is spot on in that game, unlike the hot mess they released last year.

I always get sucked in for few hours minimum if I fire up either of the Shadow games.

Still playing Jedi Survivor. Next up maybe I'll finally try Metro Exodus EE

 

[sdifox]

Shadow of War and more Shadow of War.

Kids are getting pissed "wait so you're playing a LOTR game, but we can't watch because it's too violent? That's not fair..."

I guess they'll have to settle for playing Chivalry 2 on their own pc.