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Other Games / Re: So OpenX-Com...
« on: May 16, 2023, 02:13:22 pm »
Rosigma 2.2 is now available for OXCE 7.9 + 40k 035
Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

edit 40K mod updated to 0.35.1 to fix a few bugs

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Other Games / Re: Free Game List
« on: May 16, 2023, 01:59:47 pm »
On gog and steam there's a (permanently) short freebie you can get named "Bloody Hell"
https://www.gog.com/en/game/bloody_hell
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2056220/Bloody_Hell/

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I often read people mentionning "Beyond all Reason" and "Zero-K" as the best Spring-based games to follow on Total Annihilation
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
https://zero-k.info/

Still i find the original TA (with mods like Escalation) truly great

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Went on a Total Annihilation AI skirmish fun after reinstalling it.

- was quickly reminded how bad the default AI was unfortunately, basically the AI can't maintain a basic economy and stall a lot due to it, leading the AI to be unable to build an actual threatening army, so even if it had been a while and i am very likely rusty i simply played on the Metal Heck map and walked all over the hardest AI without any trouble. There's an article that points several of the default AI problems here : https://www.tauniverse.com/articles/tutorials/ai.html

- went to download a custom non-cheating AI as i remembered there was some very good stuff for skirmish there
https://aicentral.tauniverse.com/
I had a lot of positive memories of MostlyHarmless and Queller, went to use MostlyHarmless as it was the AI i used the most last time i played.

Started a skirmish on same map and same conditions and wow, it was a true battle and quickly on both my side and the AI side it was a slaughter, managed to win by the skin of my teeth thanks to lots of guardians turrets to support my troops, but still if i would have been slower on the start things could have easily gone the AI way.

- decided to give a try to Escalation, it's been a very long time since i last played it, but from what i read since that time they re-added the T4 tier (last time i played they had retired that tier of units because they were rebalancing the whole mod and T4 required more attention) with their huge units and even better they made an improved AI (though it is a cheating one from what i read) as in the old Escalation it was nearly as easy to beat as the default AI.

Started a skirmish in same conditions again.
... and double-wow the AI destroyed me, i was happy to manage to put some good fight in the early game thanks to tons of light artillery vehicles (they're rather amazing), but the AI started to outnumber my troops and artillery fielding better units at some point and by midgame it managed to break my last defensive lines and properly razed my many production buildings to end the game.
And that without even reaching those T4 tier units i wanted to see.

Will have to lower the difficulty settings or give me some AI ally, the AI definitively is way too strong at max difficulty for me in Escalation but that was such a fantastic battle that challenged me from start to end so it didn't matter it was plenty of fun :D

Note : after installing Total Annihilation, make sure to install this unofficial patch :
https://www.tauniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46765
It fixes bugs, add some very good QoL features (like the Supreme Commander-like satellite view map) and more importantly makes TA perfectly compatible with modern OS without any more tweaking, just had to drop that in my TA directory and played without any bug or crashes.

Note 2 : said unofficial patch also contains updated compatibility with modern OS and fixes for the Total Annihilation big mods (like Escalation) in case you crash with them if you install those mods on a TA with the unofficial patch installed.

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Other Games / Re: So OpenX-Com...
« on: May 13, 2023, 08:07:08 am »
Noticed the mod 40K got updated to version 0.35 with a whole new playable faction
Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

Rosigma is not yet updated for this version, it's still requiring 0.34
But you can get the rolling development release ( https://github.com/BeatAroundTheBuscher/ROSIGMA/archive/refs/heads/main.zip )  while waiting for the stable release, this one requires the new 0.35 version of the 40k mod
And additionally requires the new OXCE 7.9 too
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5258.0.html


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General Discussion / Re: The Big Random Questions Thread
« on: May 12, 2023, 05:52:17 pm »
I’d like a sky burial. Leave me on a mountaintop for the birds to eat me.

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Let me fly far away from here
Fun fun fun, in the sun sun sun
I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice
Gold fish shoals nibbling at my toes
Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun

Not a bad exit

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Other Games / Re: Epic Free Game of the Week
« on: May 12, 2023, 05:36:16 pm »
There's this short "slot machine" video on twitter supposed to give some clue to next week "mystery" game :
https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1656676173198524425

Lots of people are saying it's going to be Death Stranding again (that was already given away a few months ago) due to several of the symbols appearing during the slot machine rolling are linked to some Death Stranding features apparently, but no idea what the symbols that actually stopped on the slots are refering to.

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Other Games / Re: Free Game List
« on: May 11, 2023, 10:09:32 am »
While this week the freebie on the epic store is not a game unfortunately but only a bundle of a few dlc for the game "Sims 4" , starting next week there will be a "mystery" game (or two according to some reports) every week until June 15, so hopefully some good games coming.

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There's a couple of characters from the movie you'll see in some of the ports, and there's the cursed version of the Black Pearl with the skeletons crew that you'll randomly run into (and will have to defeat in the endgame by using one of the mcguffin you'll find in a quest just before).

New Horizon as a mod for it was totally worth trying (and this Beyond New Horizon standalone is too), so much better than the base game in every ways and add a lot more things to do than only getting your ass handed to you :D
 

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Remember the 20 years old game that originally was called Sea Dogs 2 but was rebranded Pirates of the Caribbean when they got a license to the movie ?
It had an acclaimed mod that vastly improved and expanded it with new features, new ships, new storylines, new quests, etc ... that was called New Horizons

That mod never ceased development, and recently the devs managed to make it fully standalone with a new engine and renamed it Beyond New Horizons, you can download it and its current development patch from this thread :
https://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/beyond-new-horizons-alpha-release.34218/

It's very janky (like the original game was) in term of character controls, but if you can get through the jank, it's a really good piracy game with lots of things to do.

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WotR improved mostly everything over Kingmaker as i guess the devs learned what worked and what didn't, so WotR gameplay and mechanics should be superior, making it harder to get into Kingmaker if you start with WotR unfortunately.

But the story and atmosphere are very different, so maybe it could be worth it if you still want more pathfinder after completing WotR as it does not feel like a repeat.

Kingmaker is about basic adventurers/mercenaries getting an opportunity of seizing a territory for themselves, then developping it into an actual player in the political games of the neighbouring kingdoms, while learning the hard way why none managed to rule that territory for long, and fighting to overcome that fate leading the game from throwing a lot of "classic" adventures (most are unrelated to each other and unrelated to the main story) and enemies to then progressively saga of epic proportions against extremely powerful foes from a forgotten world as the story progress.
 

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Its predecessor ( Kingmaker ) was truly great too.
Its only problem was on the technical/optimisation aspect (that Wrath of the Righteous improved from what i read) but gameplay and amount of content were top notch

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Give Scythe (the first one as there are a Scythe 2 and 3 ) a try, that's a truly excellent megawad with small maps very well designed and some interesting challenge variety, there's even a very good slaughterfest near the end (map 26) .

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some ai chat implementation on skyrim :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6sVWEu9HWU

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Other Games / Re: Free Game List
« on: May 04, 2023, 01:25:49 pm »
From what i remember, they made the base game free on every platform, but isn't origin required like in nearly all EA recent games ?
I mean last time epic store gave away an EA game (Star Wars Squadron) in order to play it you had to install the EA origin thingy.

Can't say more as i'm neither interested in sims 4 and not willing to get origin on my system

edit : from https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Sims_4
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All versions require Origin DRM.

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