I played through the tutorial of Warhammer 40k Mechanicus. I think it’s intriguing but don’t the devs have mice with right buttons? The default controls don’t use it at all.
Anyone else messed with this so far? It was one of last month’s Humble Monthly revealed games.
robc04
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I played it back in January and liked it quite a bit. Details leak out of my head shortly after I stop playing a game, so I don’t recall anything about the use of the right mouse button.
Scuzz
4779
Nice, prepare to be invaded upon leaving the back door of the Pontiff’s room. :)
So many signs down “Sadness ahead” etc.
And yes, I didn’t get far. Nearly got the guy, but a little too laggy to really connect properly.
Scuzz
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That is an area where the invaders, and those in the local covenant, are truly built to kick ass. There are hours and hours of video on youtube of people fighting in that area.
Whoever invaded me wasn’t god-tier level*, fortunately. We had a decent scrap, got pretty good at rolling past a fairly predictable attack pattern, got a couple of solid hits in, but then it got laggy. I seriously doubt I’d have won anyway, don’t want to break my no win streak!
*Those seem to be the ones that wear the silliest hats.
Scuzz
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Actually except for some guys in the Crucifiction Woods area I don’t think I have run into anyone who was over buffed this time. That area and the area behind the Pontiff are used for fight clubs, something having never done I don’t really understand. But because of that there are lots of invasions and lots of fancy builds.
I ended up playing some DOOM (2016) on Sunday, a bit more Astrox Imperium, and some more WH40k Mechanicus. In the process I discovered that I’d inadvertently set my G-Sync monitor to non-turbo mode sometime recently, because no matter what I did my frame rate in games would never top 60.
Lots of class prep to do as the semester approaches, but…
…is an easy game to pop in and out of, and damn satisfying to boot.
I’m also trying to install and try out…
…but at 112 GB it’s liable to take a day just to download. How oddly nostalgic in the worst possible way.
Time for games this weekend! Finally!
Fantasy Strike and other fighting games like Soul Calibur VI or UNIST, since it’s the EVO weekend. Not sure what else… probably Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Oxygen Not Included, and Thea 2: The Shattering if I find the time.
Fire Emblem, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, and Stars in Shadow, a game I missed from a while back. Really impressed with it after digging in a bit.
I am really curious to hear your impressions: on paper, it could be the RTS I had been waiting for since Art of Fighting, but it is really hard to get a good picture of it.
Monster Generations Ultimate here. All by myself, snif.
I’m hyped for Rebel Galaxy Outlaw so in the meantime I’ve gone back to Rebel Galaxy. Making enough money is rather difficult for me but I’m starting to get the hang of it.
First impressions are really good. It seems to fulfill its main promise: a streamlined fighting game with the depth of a normal fighting game, but without the difficult in executing moves, combos, etc. But the fundaments are all there - neutral, zoning, poking, grappling, the works.
I need more time with it, but, as I said, first impressions are very positive.
Alstein
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I messed around with Fantasy Strike, and know the creator a bit, as our unis had a bit of a fighting game rivalry back in the day.
The game does a lot of things right and intelligently, but no one plays it. A fighter without any single player content or playerbase just isn’t that good of a game no matter how intelligently it’s designed.
Also, Art of Fighting is very very different. (and hearing fighting games described as an RTS is something I’ve never heard of before) There’s nothing like AOF being made these days- maybe Ultra Fight Da Kyanta 2 on Steam. (That’s a free game and worth a try)
schurem
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I flew the living daylights out of the DCS F/A-18C now that it’s gotten a lightning pod. This neat bit of kit allows the pilot to pick out things on the ground from way up high and point a laser at them. That laser then guides bombs for beautiful and if done correctly very accurate effect. Fun times.
I upgraded the analog ministick on my HOTAS with the sort of stick found on a gamepad. This is vastly more accurate and quick than the old nub, that was more like the controller found on IBM laptops. Slinging LGB’s is a perfect use case for this enhanced target designation control.
Next weekend Rebel Galaxy, right?
This really isn’t accurate. I’ve already played a lot of fantasy strike during early access, although it was sometimes hard to get a game, there’s a discord server. But since launch, I haven’t had to wait at all, there’s a lot of new players in both casual and ranked.
On steamcharts right now there are 14 people playing, but the game is also cross platform with the Switch so I assume there are some more players over there.
So yeah, not a huge playerbase, and definitely at risk of dying out, but you can’t say ‘no one’ plays it, especially currently.
