I got Krita on Steam, am drawing
I have rebounded in No Man’s Sky again. I have speedrun the expedition 20 event and holy all these new features are so cooooooool.
I never got to finish FFX and lost my PS2 memory card, but recently got another copy and played a little bit of it earlier this week. So I am excited to some day get back to where I was. I basically got to the level up map thing before turning off for the night.
I am also excited because I’m waiting until I have time this weekend to experience Viva Piñata basically as blind as I can on 360 this weekend since I think the last time I played was a demo from around the time the first version of the 360 came about.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Assetto Corsa
Been driving various racecars on Tail of the Dragon. Good fun.
Some WoW, some Zero-K.
Which version of WoW?
Cult of the Lamb, it’s well suited to Steam Deck gaming and my desktop is currently in the back of a moving truck
Good luck with your move! We moved, one year, from Vancouver to Ottawa, and for 6 weeks the movers had No Idea where the truck was. It was so stressful!
Broke out the GameCube. SSX3 and Double Dash.
Ssx3 is so good, I think it might be a perfect game.
Witcher 3. Only 15 minutes in and I want to stop playing it already, which is a new record for how quickly I’ve got bored of this game in the half a dozen times I’ve tried to stick with it in the past.
I need to stop listening to people who tell me to give it one more try. I just don’t like this game.
Same. The gameplay is so bad, also the world is just depressing and has annoying monsters everywhere.
There’s gotta be some trick that makes the fighting fun right? I can’t figure this game out either.
Gwent
I don’t know how you would know that after 15 minutes, buy ok…
Why does combat feel so bad in this game at the start?
the half a dozen times I’ve tried to stick with it in the past
Lollipop Chainsaw Repop. It’s very silly and mostly fun, but very button-mashy, I can’t reliably trigger the more lengthy combos, and the cut scenes go on way too long.
Still playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance but it’s becoming a bit of a chore now so Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on PS1 also gets a shout out.
Getting back into overwatch 2 cos they brought back 6v6 open que.
And it’s free, works on Linux without anti-cheat hassles.
Still dividing my time between trudging through the Chernobyl exclusion zone in STALKER: Anomaly and perusing scripts and configs to resolve conflicts and crashes as I either discover them or provoke them by continuing to either tweak existing mods on my list or add more to the pile.
I get like this frequently with modding, I don’t know if it’s a latent perfectionist streak or just your garden variety hyperfixation but I tend to lose myself in the desire to make everything just right and get stuck on that over actually playing. But I think I’m having fun with it as I’m hacking my way through making compatibility patches so maybe it doesn’t matter?
It would be fun to actually finish the Mercenary storyline though. I haven’t even progress past the starting areas of Cordon/Meadow/Garbage yet…
There’s a reason why heavily moddable games tend to bring comments like “yeah, so I played the game for 3 hours and spent 20 modding it” - the latter can be just as fun as the game itself.
I’d be curious about more of your thoughts about Anomaly as you continue your playthrough. While I’m not planning to jump back into Stalker any time soon, I’m always on the lookout for what to do when I do so more info could be useful. No pressure though!
This is far from my first time in Anomaly, so I think that’s a reason my posts have been a bit briefer than my usual rambling. But I can try to be a bit more elaborate going forward. What to do in Anomaly is so heavily dependent on what modpack (or custom modlist) you’re running though. They can play out completely differently and sometimes have entirely different approaches. Like, playing GAMMA and playing EFP are entirely different animals.
How much have you played before?
Anomaly? Never tried it. The only big Stalker mod I played was Call of Chernobyl, other than that I dabbed with small balancing mods, gear additions etc.
Besides, all of my Stalker modding experience happened 5 or so years ago, I’m sure things changed quite a bit since then.
Best way to think of Anomaly is as the successor to Call of Chernobyl. It’s really an incredibly impressive project. As I’m sure you know from your time modding the landscape used to be a complete clusterfuck with CoC and Misery and hundreds of forks and submods and what have you. Anomaly basically collected and unified everything into a single stable common platform to work from.
At this point the modding scene of STALKER is probably on the level of non-Skyrim Bethesda games and there are not only thousands of mods but dozens of high quality precompiled modpacks that let you plug-and-play modlists with hundreds of mods without issue. Or you can be a deranged nutter like me and setup your own modpack.
If you used to play close to vanilla CoC back in the day you’ll be amazed what the community have been able to wring out of this old ass engine.
I only heard a little bit of Anomaly in the past but I’m glad it got to such point now. Looks like I’ll have plenty to play with once I get back to it.
Does Anomaly use the updated open source version of the engine or is it running on the game one?
Yep, Anomaly is built on the 64-bit Xray-Monolith engine, which is derived from GSC open sourcing the X-ray Engine back in the day. Though a lot of work has been done on it over the years at this point. Hell, there are two recent further engine forks being worked on right now that will hopefully be merged into main one day: one implementing dual-render PiP scopes in a very smart way with negligible performance loss and one implementing rudimentary multithreading that can give particularly weaker systems a huge performance boost.
The engine guys working on Anomaly are wizards. Those and the guys making custom shaders. The game looks absolutely fantastic these days, almost as good as STALKER 2 - and that is UE5.
Sounds exciting, especially the multithreading part since CPU has always been my main bottleneck. Hopefully it’ll make it in by the time I decide to give it a shot. Not gonna lie, while I was hopeful about Stalker modding in the early days I didn’t expect it to go this far. It’s a nice surprise.
The recent bloodletting of New World and release of its expansions for free drew me back to check things out a bit.
How is it? I might need to find some sort of social game to play soon and I already own it, I think.
Currently pulling my hair out with Tactics Ogre: Reborn. Got kind of fed up with the changes from the older games so halfway through I decided to blitz through the game and avoid anything optional; currently at the last few fights before the final boss and am feeling very afraid I’m going to get stuck at the end…
