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No.177298Sticky[Reply]

The big announcement is coming in the next few days for Xbox. There will also be a few big announcements for various games.

Based on what the PS4 brought to the table, what are you expecting from the new Xbox, /v/ikings?

Reveal Article:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/24/4261518/next-xbox-will-be-revealed-on-may-21st

Speculation Article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/04/06/always-online-always-connected-would-be-a-terrible-business-decision-for-microsofts-next-generation-xbox/

Me personally, I'm hoping for limited social integration (though I'm sure there will be too much), a nice music app like last.fm or similar, Netflix integration, better communication features, better profile options/features, updated operating system/style, replace or greatly upgrade the avatar system, and allow for previous generations' games to be played on this console… preferably by disc, but if only by download, that would be okay too.
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No.177863

>>177845

>muh titan



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No.177772[Reply]

beta open-source game: "Sub Rosa"
http://www.crypticsea.com/subrosa/
(linux/mac/win)

it's like Interstate '76 meets GTA 3 meets Virtua Cop 2
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No.177800

how is this new

No.177801

I fucking love that game

they fucked it up a bit with updates, made it railroaded and tedious

wonder what it's like now

No.177859

a bunch of dumb niggers flash mobbed the atlanta server playing as OSX
they had names like "worldsstar" and "best don't snitch nigga"
they ended up losing tons of money due to tking and because they were shooting during a race. at me no less
i pretty much won it anyway though

No.177865

It's like boxheads.

No.177868

Is it still a laggy piece of shit with horrible hitboxes or has it improved substantially to actually be playable now?



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No.177219[Reply]

Have you guys gotten in on this yet?
https://www.humblebundle.com/

I think it's a pretty good deal that they've got going on and a good idea to give to some of it to charity.
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No.177831

>>177827
That's a really good deal.
I'd buy Alan Wake again that's so good. But Remedy isn't making Alan Wake 2 next and is making that Quantum break game/tv show tie in for Xbox1. And that reveal didn't even show gameplay, it was some actors and just… an embarrassment (well that whole Xbox1 reveal was shameful).

No.177834

>>177828
This, it's been ruined like Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, and Cowadoody.
Idiots.
It loses novelty when you offer just any shitty indie game for a dollar.
When that game by 2DBoy or whatever came out, Land of Goo (I think? Maybe World)? it was fucking awesome I could get it for a dollar. That game was the shit.
What's happening with them by the way? Are they a one hit wonder?

No.177856

>>177828
Yeah it does get a bit annoying. There's like 4 or 5 different groups now doing these indie bundles, but some are different (Indie Gala seems to offer full retail games in their bundles).

>>177831
I fast fowarded past that bit, but wasn't aware that Rememdy was working on some bad project. What a waste of time for them.

>>177834
>When that game by 2DBoy or whatever came out, Land of Goo (I think? Maybe World)? it was fucking awesome I could get it for a dollar. That game was the shit.
>What's happening with them by the way? Are they a one hit wonder?

Looks like they haven't done anything since then or they have a project that they haven't announced.

No.177858

>>177856

I can't keep em straight anymore. I got an email today about this humble bundle with alan wake or whatever and it was like HEY ONE PER WEEK STILL WANT THE EMAILS???

I don't think ill miss much. at least they did that and didnt pester me by default

I havent even heard of half of these games.

No.177867

>>177856
It seems this is all they're doing unfortunately, milking World of Goo.
http://2dboy.com/
They're already rich I guess, but somewhat disappointed.
This IMO, was the first real modern indie game to make it big, and was worth supporting.



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No.175597[Reply]

I'll just make a new thread since the old one is bugged. We started settling in the new location today, pic related is the progress we made in 1.5 hours. If you want to join us please state your username in the thread and we will invite you to our team; 1488. After you have accepted the invite you will be able to teleport to the base with /team home. You can join the team chat with /. join (do not forget the space).

Previous thread: >>>/v/172631
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No.177851

>>177846
There is no protection. Everything you said this server has. (Hint: don't xray like a retard, they will catch you)

No.177855

>>177851
Sweet. I don't do that anyway, so that's not a problem. I'll work on getting in the base alive.
Oh and my username was minecraft, not teamspeak3.

No.177861

Let me get an invite.

No.177864

>>177861
I'll get on sometime tomorrow, gotta do stuff atm.

No.177866

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We got a visitor.



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No.177773[Reply]

Does anyone here have a beginner's guide for the new Tekkit that came out a while ago?

It has no IndustryCraft or Redpower2 (not that I am gifted with them anyway) so I am literally lost as to what my goals should be.

I do not know what exactly powers a Pulverizer or a Powered Furnace with BuildCraft OR Thermal Expanse.

http://www.technicpack.net/tekkit/

No.177809

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I am familiar with much of the mods but I use Feed The Beast instead. I would switch to FTB since the mods are much more up to date.

Anyway, If you start or join a FTB server and post the details in >>175597, I could join and help you out.

No.177862

You're probably better off playing around with 1 mod at a time and exploring each one separately.

http://www.youtube.com/user/direwolf20
This guy's channel does mod spotlights and he seems to tell you everything you need to know about each Forge compatible mod minus spoilers.

BTW Thermal Expansion machines like the pulverizer and powered furnace run on Buildcraft power. That means you use any of the engines and transmit the energy through power pipes/conduits.

Industrial Craft uses a different power system and Red Power has its own system too.



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No.177849[Reply]

>start la mulana
>holy shit this is fun as fuck
>WHIPPIN, ADVENTURING, WOO
>get to tomb of giants or whatever they call it
>read a tablet
>do not read it twice or pay the price
>yeah, bullshit, I know your tricks
>read it again, suddenly EIGHT MILLION ENEMIES FUCKING EVERYWHERE
>look it up after going through two more dungeons wondering what the FUCK is up with the difficulty spike
>I ACTIVATED HARD MODE IN A GAME THAT WAS ALREADY CONSIDERED BY MOST TO BE DIFFICULT

THIS GAME IS FUCKING AWESOME.

No.177852

You're paying the price!

No.177860

>>177852

Yeah. Have to admit that I am enjoying the challenge.

Except for those spitting floating heads. Fuck those guys.



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No.177277[Reply]

Favorite mods for Mount & Blade: Warband?
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No.177639

>>177277
Hey Steadman, I know you were looking forward to Darkfall Unholy Wars. How was that game?

No.177659

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>>177636

You're telling ME about WarRider?

No.177698

>>177659
Was it originally going to have dungeons? Looks pretty cool.

No.177837

>>177612
Day Z - Even worse.
Speaking of, how's that doing? Is there any endgame yet?

No.177857

>>177837
>Day Z - Even worse.

Heh true. The zombies just run at you and you're suppose to defend yourself with your team mates. I say that because it's impossible to solo and since the servers are dead it doesn't help.



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No.177638[Reply]

i had some first-world problems with my internet last night, the isp going down all over Belfast - and i thought, no worries, i'll just fire up Steam and play a game

thing is, even though i wanted to use the offline mode, steam said no because it couldn't sign in to the network to initialise offline - something about not having sign-in details stored on my PC

i thought this was pretty silly, but it made me think about all those games which require one to be online to play…and i think that's the most poop-headed move any company has ever implemented

but anyways; i was okay so don't worry - i just had a nice quiet evening instead
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No.177743

>>177717
The vanilla game is amusing, but like all Elder Scrolls since Morrowind, it shines in its mods. I have played it much longer than any game deserves to be played. I just keep starting new and varied characters.

No.177746

>>177705
Not OP, but while Ulfric is a shithead, and I have always been a diehard Imperialist…THEY are the traitors. They have not just sided with filthy murderous Thalmor, they have given them full reign over the empire. It won't destroy the Empire, but it is enough to kick it hard in the teeth until the Thalmor slip up and show their true face to the Empire once more, so Humanity and Beastfolk can finally unite and rise against the Mer (Dark Elves and Orks are aiight).

It is a double insult to Tiber Septims' legacy, regardless of his divinity (hey, his shrine cures and blesses me…sounds like a deity to me.)

No.177788

>>177731
You too? I'm on Virgin and my butts are awful. The DL rates are solid but the bandwidth capping, poor uptime and shitty routers is a pain

No.177789

>>177746

Dark Elves are the sycophantic cousins of the Altmer, and their lore is the niggest of them all.

No.177853

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>>177746

You do realize that the Empire only agreed to the White-Gold Concordat as a temporary reprieve to rebuild forces before going back to war? Even Ulfric comes to figure this out and regret his rebellion when you kill him.

> tfw You realize instead of training able soldiers to use the voice to win a war with the Thalmor Ulfric rebelled against the Empire and weakened both it and Skyrim



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No.177741[Reply]

This game is pretty shit.

The AI is nothing special. Typical "Hurr was that a gunshot? oh i guess it was just my imagination" nonsense. "I guess I'll just run out in the open and let the player shoot me." You can literally stand right in front of people and they won't see you just because it's slightly dark.

The "survival horror elements" described on wikipedia are pretty weaksauce. Your flashlight rarely runs out of battery and when it does it takes mere seconds to charge it back up to full capacity with your scientifically implausible "hand pump." I just left it on the whole time even when I didn't need it. Your gas mask filter needs to be replaced often but that doesn't matter because you find filters just laying around everywhere. There's no worries about survival. Not that survival even matters because the entire game moves in a straight line. They might as well have just made it an on rails shooter. (Actually some areas you literally are on rails)

The combat is shit. Typical call of duty flashy explosions and annoying integrated cutscenes. "Hurr tap E really fast not to die!" bullshit. The weapons are boring. Ammo is so abundant, you never run out and if you do you can just buy it back because it's so cheap (great survival elements am i right?). Also when you go to the communist station you still have to spend money on ammo. Anyone else see a problem with that?

The story is pure ass. Nazis and Commies? It's like they didn't even try. I pity those that actually tried to read the book this is based on.

tl;dr boring hollow empty piece of shit game marketed towards children. If you are older than 13 you will not enjoy this shitty game.
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No.177821

>>177819
Stalker had true darkness, and I guess there are other horror games like Miasmata. But it sucks how most games just tint everything.

No.177829

>>177813

Like the first game, there's actions that earn you points indicated by the screen flashing. Like donating ammo when people ask. Saving people that are imprisoned. You also get points for watching visions or interacting with stuff. I think a bad action the flash is slightly different and/or makes a different noise but I am not sure. I tried to avoid doing anything bad and only do good actions and still got the bad end in Last Light. I don't think there is a clear action like the first game where you had to actively stop the missile strike at the end, you either get the good end movie or the bad one after the final chapter depending on points.

No.177830

>>177829
>I don't think there is a clear action like the first game where you had to actively stop the missile strike at the end, you either get the good end movie or the bad one after the final chapter depending on points.
That's pretty lame.

The good/bad actions can be incredibly difficult to spot at times, and the ones that take away points even more so

No.177833

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>>177830
Ah fuck

I'll get the bad ending because I stole that ammo from the guy's boat in Venice

Ah fuck I knew I shouldn't have taken the ammo

Fuck

Why didn't I give that beggar a coin

No.177843

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>>177833
Don't be afraid.
There's nothing to be afraid of now.



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No.177545[Reply]

You know why I can't get into many RTS games, /v/?

Because this was my first RTS game. War Wind came out in 1996 and it was hard as balls. You start off with limited units and mined for resources and such like typical RTS games, but if you wanted a better unit you had to TRAIN your previous units and slowly build up a decent army all while being assaulted nearly constantly from enemy attacks that only got more and more deadly as time went on. It seems pretty standard fare, but there were times when there was one and ONLY one correct way to win a map (and most were puzzle like in their creation) which meant you could spend hours implementing the wrong strategy to get utterly destroyed because you have focused on a few elite forces to get an early strike at the other side of the map.

All other RTS games were for scrubs to me.

What game did you play that soured your taste for other games in the same genre because others simply couldn't compare?
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No.177602

>>177599
>Warcraft 3

It's a shame half the players on Battle.net were/are autists that only play Dota

No.177691

Red
Alert
2
still have it installed and play it ocasionally, prism tanks OP AS SHIT though

No.177840

>>177691
It is the most fun RTS there is.
Hands down.
Not the most skill dependent, or complicated, just the most fun.
I find it more fun to turtle and make fuckawesome bases and patrol routes personally, but that's just me.
Any RTS that rewards turtling and having intriquite basebuilding? I really liked making units patrol an area in a good group, or having walls surrounding my bases with the entry being guarded by a pillbox or a pair of deployed GIs.

No.177841

>>177840
I like turtling and sending enemy after enemy into the meat grinder in Yuri's revenge.
hilarious to watch an entire army turn on itself, and then walk willingly into death

No.177842

>>177841
Allies have the most satisfying bases for me, but Yuri is a close second. If they had a more diverse building selection they would be #1.
I tried playing Epsilon Omega or whatever but I couldn't get it to work on W7.



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No.177394[Reply]

So I want to get into Victoria and Hearts of Iron but I've only really played Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings.

I know Vicky and HoI are more complicated than CK and EU, but is it really that much harder? It took me 10~ hours to really get the hang of EU, how long for these two titles?
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No.177448

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>>177440
Ooh neat. Thanks

No.177508

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>that feel when German Empire in 1852

No.177822

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this is what happens when you war the united kingdom as USA

No.177823

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i'm better off than russia though

No.177832

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So how would you compare this game to EU3?

Similarities/differences? I haven't played any HOE game, only CK2 and EU3. But vicky2 seems interesting.



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No.175611[Reply]

Other thread keeps breaking and I think I'll stop bothering the guys in #helpdesk to fix it. Here's a new thread.

Freefalling edition

INSTRUCTIONS

1. go to investopedia.com
2. create an account (from memory, I think there's an optional tutorial at the start)
3. once on the main investopedia page after you've signed in, click the simulator button
4. click on add/edit game
5. search for "newsman" without the quotation marks (it should be the only game there)
6. join it
7. invest away

Everyone starts off with 100k to invest as they see fit. Click the trade button to order or sell stock, and use the portfolio button to view your assets.

I've also enabled the ladder so you can see how you compare to other newsman in the game.

Extra game

Game name: the happy merchants
Pass: bankrupt



Link to previous thread >>>/v/172521
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No.177785

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>tfw recovering in the Newsman game

No.177791

Can anyone into options? Everything here is still listed for expiring on the 18th, no new ones.

No.177805

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>That glorious feel when you lose 5 million but its no big deal because you still have 26+ million left.
>That good feel when #1 in both games now.
>That great feel when Newsman is officially the pleb game.
>That lovely feel when options god.

No.177806

>>177805
>21st century
A. Wyatt Mann cartoons are from the 1990's.

No.177820

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>>177791
Uhh did you try changing the month?



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No.176445[Reply]

Anyone else psyched about the new update?
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No.177135

>>177131
It would be pretty awesome if it was like the ivy whip but a lot faster, has the range of the dual hook and it grapples automatically. So you can sort of glide through chasms with WSAD without having to aim and grapple everywhere.

Grappling enemies could be pretty cool too. Either pulling them in to hazards or getting a free ride from flying mobs.

No.177136

>>177135
>and it grapples automatically
What do you mean by this?

You kinda need the accuracy of clicking to be able to glide through chasms without falling down the holes or hitting the floating ebonstone.

No.177139

>>177136
Like when you press to go in a certain direction, it intelligently chooses a block in that general direction to grapple onto, it detaches a hook from the opposite direction so it can relaunch it forward.

No.177142

>>177139
oh, that would be pretty neat.

No.177811

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NEW PREVIEW VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0DkbaytG0A

Let me see:
* half slabs
* slopes
* better block blending
* new music
* new trees
* eater of souls pet
* waterfalls
* painting wood different colours
* rainbow brick that cycles through RGB and affects water
* water fountains change water colour to specific biome
* rocket launcher breaking blocks



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No.177490[Reply]

I am downloading this now.

Is there a server that /v/ frequently uses?
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No.177761

>>177755
Indeed it is. That, and the fact that Steadman's guild needs to be so close in level to each other at all times is why I dropped out early.

No.177766

>>177755
You can earn Turbine points through grinding about in the free to play dungeons.
It's ridiculous the amount you need to do to earn just one dungeon though.

No.177779

>>177758

I tried making pretty good shit like 'Shadow Fisher', 'Tinker Tailor', and about 20 others but the names were taken, so I just put in some bullshit and it went through.

No.177787

>>177779
Both of those examples of good names are actually pretty bad. Stop with horribly stereotypical shit and go low-fantasy for naming conventions.

No.177810

>>177779
shit names



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No.177644[Reply]

are there any good mmorpgs left?
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No.177701

>>177644
Do you like Sandbox Survival RPG's?

Try Wurm Online, it's one of the best. It's what Minecraft was supposed to be and is the original game Notch was working on until he ditched it and made the dumbed down version you see today.

You might remember the game as having bad graphics but they recently re-did a ton of models, added new animations, and have been refining the graphics over the course of years. On maximum settings it's one of the best looking PC games around. It would be number one if the textures were higher-res.

No.177756

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Not really since DFO shut down in the states. Tera was fun for a few months, but I eventually cooled off on it because there wasn't enough variation in the fighting.

>friends keep trying to get me into DnD online and Star Trek

>absolutely nothing depends on the skill of the player, and instead rests entirely on how leveled your character is

No.177793

Dofus is f-n!
It's top-down tactical (like Final Fantasy Tactics)
The starting world is pretty good to get you addicted.
Also Wakfu might still be good (it was godlike in the beta) Player elected officials and stuff.

No.177794


No.177796

>>177794
What's wrong with D:UW?



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