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Other Games / Re: Epic Free Game of the Week
« on: January 26, 2024, 11:44:15 am »
Looks like the latest giveaway is the Zachtronics factory puzzler Infinifactory.

Great game. Tough. I've spent many hours on it in Steam and still haven't finished it (although I think I'm getting close to the end.)

What you need to do is usually pretty straight-forward. Actually doing it (and - importantly - having a factory that can do it repeatedly) is the hard part.

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Other Games / Re: Dominions 6: Rise of the Pantokrator Released
« on: January 19, 2024, 11:12:47 am »
It seems crazy that we're already up to 6 - I somehow managed to totally miss out on 5.

Hopeful to hear good things.

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I had the most head-desk experience with the game for, like, my first 15 minutes. I never uncovered the second mana stone to the north, and I was going mad trying to figure out how to get enough time/mana to mine even a single tile of gold and use the machine to turn the gold into mana.

I've since managed to fix that and proceed a little into zone 2, but, even so, can't seem to find the mana to both mine the iron and build the bridges to find out what's past the double pits in the left corner of zone 1.

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Other Games / Re: Aurora - The Dwarf Fortress of 4X Games
« on: January 10, 2024, 01:05:23 am »
We met our first Raider ship the other day, and it nearly kicked humanity back into the stone age.

Humanity's combat-capable ships were limited to their exploration ships (which were out-of-system at the time) and a single, brand-new destroyer - 6,000 tons of ion-powered lasers - four 10cm mounts (firing every 5 seconds) and two 12cm mounts (firing every 10 seconds). When the Raider showed up on Terra's deep space network, the destroyer was dispatched to intercept.

By sheer coincidence, the destroyer was marginally faster than the raider - by about 200 km/s - allowing it to close to engagement range. What followed was a bloody point-blank knife fight, as our destroyer's weapons repeatedly punched through the raider's hull - to absolutely no effect. Our ship had three layers of armor protecting it, which were enough to soften the mass driver blows coming in, but all too soon they buckled, and - unlike the raider - when they did, internal systems started failing.

The destroyer exploded, and the raider, despite taking upwards of a dozen penetrating hits, had not been reduced in either speed or rate of fire. It proceeded to waltz over to Terra and blow-up hundreds of thousands of tons of commercial shipping.

When it started taking pot shots at my shipyards, I had enough, and ruled that the second destroyer that was under construction was put into emergency service (read: I SM'd in a ship). That destroyer was able to take out the raider in just a couple volleys, suffering only minor armor damage in the exchange.

Terra now has a full flight of fighters as well as STO units guarding it, so hopefully will not see a repeat performance.

As a final FU from the Raiders, their shenanigans in Sol caused the automatic refueling / resupplying conditionals for all my exploration ships to freak out, so until the danger level clears itself, I need to manually guide them back, while they spam me with "unable to find a route" messages every couple days.

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Other Games / Re: Starsector [TopDown Sandbox RPG on Space]
« on: January 03, 2024, 12:00:05 am »
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Galatia Academy probe package retrieval mission:
Added description of where the probe will be found
Excluded certain terrain (system-wide nebula and very large ring systems) from list of possible locations
These were long overdue. I still have nightmares about that one probe from several runs back that was way in the boonies of a system-wide nebula.

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Black market trade can now fill demand
This seems interesting; not sure if I'm for or against it yet.

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Other Games / Re: XMAS 2023 GIVEAWAY
« on: December 26, 2023, 07:17:14 pm »
I have returned to raid the orphanage once more! If possible I'd like to rescue;
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrfice
PM with the key sent.

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Other Games / Re: Free Game List
« on: December 26, 2023, 12:23:44 pm »
edit : today's epic store freebie is "Human Resource Machine" , some kind of puzzle solving 2D game that reminds me a lot of some similar flash game
Less puzzle solving, more programming.

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Other Games / Re: XMAS 2023 GIVEAWAY
« on: December 20, 2023, 09:23:36 pm »
I'll rescue Shattered Planet from the orphanage
Looks like that's one of mine - PM sent!

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Other Games / Re: XMAS 2023 GIVEAWAY
« on: December 18, 2023, 09:07:52 pm »
(If you only feel comfortable giving me 1 of those games AlStar, I'd take Yoku's Island Express)
It's fine by me - everyone else had their chance to be entered for the drawing.

The following orphanage games have been gifted out:
Yoku's Island Express
SUPERHOT
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut



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Other Games / Re: XMAS 2023 GIVEAWAY
« on: December 18, 2023, 07:34:17 pm »
I'd like to sign up for:
Last Call BBS
Roadwarden

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Other Games / Re: XMAS 2023 GIVEAWAY
« on: December 18, 2023, 08:07:42 am »
Looks like it's my turn to shine:

Cities in Motion - Iris, by default.
Hacknet - Jerick, by default
Alan Wake's Collector's Edition - coinflip goes to dragdeler!
Tropico 5 - Flying Teasets, by default
Luck be a Landlord - n9103, by default
Dicey Dungeons - coinflip goes to Detros!

Orphaned:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Will be working on getting keys out ASAP.

Edit: Okay, that should be everyone - congrats, all!

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Other Games / Re: SALES Thread
« on: December 15, 2023, 04:09:33 pm »
Humble Bundle is doing a thing this holiday season where they're offering good deals on past bundles that went out previously this year - but they only last about 48 hours each.

A Very Humble Holiday

They've already cycled through a bunch of Bundles, but the ones currently going are:

Scary Games (21 hours left) - $18 gets you:
SCP: 5K
Labyrinthine
The Mortuary Assistant
Visage
Them and Us
The Blackout Club

HUMBLE HEROINES (1 day 21 hours left) - $15 gets you:
Control Ultimate Edition
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Syberia: The World Before
Praey for the Gods
Sable
Dreamscaper
Call of the Sea
Batora: Lost Haven

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Other Games / Re: XMAS 2023 GIVEAWAY
« on: December 14, 2023, 09:22:26 am »
Cheers delphonso - I can see the PM in my inbox, will confirm it's working when I get back home.

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Other Games / Re: XMAS 2023 GIVEAWAY
« on: December 12, 2023, 05:41:13 pm »
Ooh, I've had that one on my wishlist for years - please add me for Caves of Qud.

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I recently picked up Fights in Tight Spaces and have put a couple hours into it - it's an interesting mix of Slay the Spire and Into the Breach.


Overall, I'm enjoying it, but I'm glad I picked it up as part of a Bundle, as I don't know if it has the staying power of StS.

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