What games have you been playing lately?

Shiminay wrote: »

Jaysus, good job it wasn't a big AAA game, I've gotten so used to cable that I wouldn't even flinch at a 30gb download. I expect that's probably my "privelige" talking

I was all excited about Rocket League too at first, but then I played a bit online and saw the skill curve and thought "naaa..." But it gets busted out for couch coop every now and then.

Yeah, 6GB isn't huge on my 30Mb connection, but it's enough of a deterrent for me to not bother on a game I was getting sick of

There's something about sinking a lot of time into MP games... I look at my backlog and think I'm wasting my time somehow.

Deleted User wrote: »

After reading some of The Witcher books, I've decided to start 3 again on death march and gonna try do everything this time. I've forgotten how good it is. Even the contracts have a bit of story to them. I didn't do any of them before.

When I started my current playthrough I tried Death March and enemy level scaling.

It's better except you become completely incapable of taking on packs of wild dogs, who become the most dangerous enemy in the game.
You can take on big enemies 15 levels higher than you by avoiding their attacks and wearing them down, but it's really difficult to avoid all damage from dogs and wolves.
Because of that I decided to turn it off.

Now I'm level 21 and after getting tired of massacring everything I turned it back on. Thankfully there's no dogs on Skellige. Again, the wolves are the most dangerous enemies around but I can take a few hits now and my potions are of a level now that I can beat them through attrition.

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't like the idea of level scaling tbh. I think I have it off. I rarely overpower myself though as I tend to rush through single player games. This time might be different though.

Can you go back to White Orchard after you meet the emperor?

I just had a gander. Yes. Youll be able to pick up any loot or visit any places of power (there's quite a few in White Orchard - as many as all of Skellige or the main area of Novigrad/Velen).

I don't know will you be able to finish all the quests though.
If you can't it'll probably have told you you failed them after you leave White Orchard.

Random pointer - something I noticed was that doing Triss's quest line in Novigrad prevents you completing a few quests - if you're looking to 100% it or near enough, don't do anything Triss related until you've finished all the quests for Radovid, Zoltan, Dandelion, Sigi Reuven, or pretty much any others.

On level scaling, one thing I would say where the Witcher fell short is in power creep and game balance as the game goes on.
It's hard in a game where your power level rises non-linearly.
Death March is tricky enough early doors even without level-scaling, but it becomes trivially easy from about level 20 onwards by which time it'll take lots of quick enemies 10 levels higher than you to pose any threat.
Level scaling alleviates some of that. It's still not terribly difficult mind you, but enough for combat to be satisfying.


Another thing might be to avoid Witcher gear for as long as possible. It's seriously overpowered. There's not a great selection of craftable loot after level 15 or so, so I've felt pressured into getting some rather fetching Ursine School gear.

Inviere wrote: »

An oldie for sure, but just finished Dead Space there (had finished it a good few years back, just decided to revisit in order to acquaint myself with a controller instead of kb/m for gaming these days). Thoroughly enjoyed it I have to say, am looking forward to the sequel which I've never played (though loses a lot of the horror elements I gather?)

It's very blue from what I recall. They geared towards creepier enemies rather than tense confrontations.

There's a lot more "jesus what the hell is that?" but less tension overall, very few of the areas are frightening, you're not as afraid to travel and explore.

Still recommend though.

The third one is when the horror goes off the rails, I can't recall a single new enemy, unless you count humans. Just bright and boring in comparison to the shadows of the first.

@eyerer

I still play DMC 3 & 4. I'll never touch DmC. Liked MGR but prob wouldn't go back to it anytime soon.

Keep talking and nobody explodes. I think this game may just end up teaching me morse code.
Great little coop game.

Ah I didn't realize the screenshot I saw was LDK mode, I was thinking the core gameplay was much different with so many enemies :O lol. The special edition looks pretty good

Dying Light: took me a good while to get into this game for some reason but almost complete. Have the Following DLC to playthrough as well but think I will take a break.

Wonderboy: The dragons trap. could not resist picking this up when it was released last week. Very nice remake

Think ill boot up the Dead Space games next, seem to remember starting the fist one and not getting very far. Have 2 and 3 in my library never installed.

awec wrote: »

Played a bit of FSX myself, it's pretty decent though I play with an xbox controller and it's not as good, if you really get into it I think having the flight controls would hugely improve the experience.

I also found I couldn't get the cockpit to look decent, the game doesn't really take advantage of higher resolutions (understandable given it's age).

The default aircraft cockpits aren't great, that's for sure. But you should see the virtual cockpits of some add-ons. Works of art in some cases.

Watch out for stuff by Carenado and Alabeo, though. They have a reputation for gorgeous-looking aircraft but with mediocre systems modelling and bugs that often don't get fixed.

awec wrote: »

What add-ons do you recommend storker? And where do you get them from?

Here are (what I consider to be) the best aircraft in my own virtual hangar, with links to their vendors:

Piper J-2 Cub and Cessna C172R Skyhawk. (A2A Simulations)
Beechcraft Baron B55 (Milviz)
Beechcraft Duke B60, Beechcraft Turbine Duke and Lancair Legacy (RealAir*)
Boeing 737-800 NGX (PMDG)
Antonov An-2 Colt (SibWings Labs)
Boeing 757-200, BAe 146/Avro RJ (Quality Wings)
Boeing 737-200, Boeing 737-500 (Captain Sim)
Beechcraft King Air B200, Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander (Flight1 Software)
de Havilland Chipmunk, Fokker F-27 (Just Flight)
Fairchild-Swearingen Metroliner III (RAZBAM Sims)
Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 (Majestic Software)
Piper PA-42 Cheyenne, PBY Catalina, de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, Airbus A318/19/20/21 (Aerosoft)

For scenery I use mostly Orbx. They have a global a texture replacement product that transforms default scenery, and also do their own specific scenery regions, mostly in the western US. I'm not mad about the company, but their products are superb, and they do generous discounts a couple of times a year. In the past I have also used Flight1 for scenery Europe, US, Canada, Alaska and had no complaints. Their product can also work in conjunction with Orbx, because of the way FSX scenery is layered. If photoscenery is your thing, I think MegaScenery Earth is the biggest player.

For weather, I use Active Sky Next. For me the killer features here are ridge lift/sink, thermals, microbursts and wake turbulence. And of course it's a great weather-generating engine.

The other must have for me is some kind of view-management system for looking round the cockpit. I've used Ez-Dok in the past, and am currently using Opus FSX. There's also a relatively new contender in ChasePlane, but I don't know much about it yet. If you already have it, FSX and P3D also support TrackIR.

*Regarding RealAir, their products are currently unavailable due to the retirement of the two developers, but there is a chance that their they will reappear some time in the future under another vendor.

Hope this helps. This is a big subject, and I've really only scraped the surface. If you need to know more, pop a question in the Virtual Flying forum , as I don't want to hijack this thread. Or else head over to Mutley's Hangar, Flightsim, or Avsim and search, browse or post a question on their forums. Mutley's Hangar is probably the most friendly but is also the smallest. AVSIM is the biggest, but can be a cranky place at times.

Happy flying!

I bought a G29 recently and bought a wheelstand pro deluxe to mount it on. Total cost was €320. Thats for wheel/pedals,gearstick and the stand. Very neat little setup that folds away neatly.

If you could buy that setup secondhand im sure you could get quite a reasonable price.

Not top end gear,you could spend as much as you like on the enthusiast racing gear,but nice setup for someone like me whos not a mad sim head and more casual.

I had my eye on a playseat challenge and a Logitech G29.
Sim gear is the same as audio equipment, some people have so much money to spend on hobbies they buy pro grade stuff and talk about decent stuff like it's crap. £200 is a lot of money to me