It's pretty good but it's so rough/frustrating in so a lot of ways (which can generally be looked past but will be weak points when arguing) and I can't see most of the staff putting enough time into it to feel like fighting for it. I guess we'll know through podcasts whether anyone's started it beyond Dan though.
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It's pretty good but it's so rough/frustrating in so a lot of ways (which can generally be looked past but will be weak points when arguing) and I can't see most of the staff putting enough time into it to feel like fighting for it. I guess we'll know through podcasts whether anyone's started it beyond Dan though.
My pro-tip is to play a little safer than you may have in previous tournaments.
I have a feeling they may never get to that point.
They still haven't captured the second alien they need to advance the main plot. Without that they won't come across the psychic grays. Hell, they've yet to even see a Berserker.
Jeff seemed to sour on rabbids. Hopefully everyone else tells him no, its great
Twin Tails
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its been real fun to watch them suffer
Piston Hyundai
Member
As long as you improve your gear at a steady pace you can take more time with the critpath stuff than you think. It'll probably be the fact that they're not doing that (in part due to the money situation) that'll get them.
This is why we watch.
Yeah, I wiped real early on the alien base with a team that wasn't ready. Going back with a better team and much better gear made it much easier. XCOM will still XCOM though at the least opportune times if you aren't careful.
Probably closer to 7pm EST.
Piston Hyundai
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I generally go real ballsy early on with equipment and neglect most of it until I have enough satellites to be loaded. Most of the time I can skip laser weaponry entirely.
Death Metalist
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Hopefully they don't take long or else I'll pass out 2-3 hours in and I will have to catch the archive by then.
I focused defense first with and then offense while base building. I think I went a bit overboard there as I'm near maxed out on spots at base and am waiting for the next crit path facility to be build. I basically have nothing to research and money coming out the eyeballs. At least I have
my own psionic soldiers now.
Hopefully they don't take long or else I'll pass out 2-3 hours in and I will have to catch the archive by then.
These late streams must be killer on viewers outside the USA.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It's like perfect for me.
Work hours just got better.
I'm usually sleeping during gb streams.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
That's perfect! Gives me plenty of time to get home. Guess I won't be watching a spooky movie tonight after all.
I fell asleep during the last one and that one wasn't even late. That's how captivating it was.
Death Metalist
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Well, on the plus side I'll have something to watch when I wake up tomorrow before visiting this thread. Here's hoping they'll finish it quick but we'll see.
I wish them all the best in finishing the raid. It'll be rough but it will be best for them to learn how to efficiently kill and deal with adds. Hopefully their throne team is on point cause honestly that's the only "hard" part of the fight.
I felt the opposite. XCOM 2's meta game layer just felt very... stripped down? Maybe I haven't played vanilla recently enough though. Long War makes that metagame hell. I kinda hate how RNG heavy the air game fighter combat is. I just end up save scumming that stuff a lot even when I have "good" set ups cause it just feels so much ... well, random.
I felt the opposite. XCOM 2's meta game layer just felt very... stripped down? Maybe I haven't played vanilla recently enough though. Long War makes that metagame hell. I kinda hate how RNG heavy the air game fighter combat is. I just end up save scumming that stuff a lot even when I have "good" set ups cause it just feels so much ... well, random.
I'm in Brazil and It's on at actually the best time for me to watch (8:30pm).
You watch during work? That's awesome I am envious.
I usually can't watch weekday streams that they do in the early afternoons. I try to catch snippets on my phone sometimes but that's it until I'm done.
edit:
okay it seems from the responses that this time spot actually works out better for a lot of people. Great! Let's break out the beers and pizza and wings.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Not all of it, but the great thing about YouTube streaming is that I can just put it on the background and listen to it like a podcast.
That's actually how I consume the pubg streams archives like 99% of the time. Most of its just looting anyway so I don't feel like I'm missing much.
Depending on the job, it's pretty nice. I stream most of the stuff on the site at work while waiting for scripts run or testing/creating new data sets. Gives me lots of downtime.
Do you watch their stuff on your phone/device or on company computers?
promise I won't tell nobody 
A mix. I'll avoid stuff like Yakuza on the company pc. Same with play dates. TLC I avoided watching at work altogether.
TLC is the most risque thing I think they've ever done on stream.
Basileus777
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XCOM 1's metagame was pretty awful on higher difficulties. It led to boring streamlined optimized strategies as the game lacked flexibility when it came to the strategy layer. XCOM 2 fixed a lot of that even if I find NuXCOM's boardgame to still be the weak link in its design.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Did you ever get to see who's under the mask?
petethepanda
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(Oh my god, Blade Runner 2049 is almost 2h40m? I am going to watch the hell out of that. Hnnnngh.)
I'll set aside specific videos to sit down and watch at home, but I probably consume the majority of GB video content as background noise at work. The amount I can actually listen to varies wildly, but I at least usually have something queued up and ready to go. I'm not the biggest fan of my current job but this is one of the nicer perks.
I'll set aside specific videos to sit down and watch at home, but I probably consume the majority of GB video content as background noise at work. The amount I can actually listen to varies wildly, but I at least usually have something queued up and ready to go. I'm not the biggest fan of my current job but this is one of the nicer perks.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Then how do you know Jeff hasn't uploaded himself into the game.
Good point
Okay, so, this never happened to me the first time I played Nier:A and I hadn't considered the consequences til now, but if you die again before regaining your chipset that shit is just gone forever, right?
Cuz I'm coming back to the game after not touching it in a few days and realizing I'm missing my key chips.
Cuz I'm coming back to the game after not touching it in a few days and realizing I'm missing my key chips.
I'm surprised at the very positive response to 2049. When I saw the trailer while at the theatres, it didn't strike me as anything more than nice-looking yet nonetheless generic action movie cash-grab sequel. Glad to be proven wrong? I'll have to watch it myself until I decide if I like it or not though.
Death Metalist
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I guess now is a good time to revisit Random PC Game: Blade Runner
Sleeping Lesson
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It's always as good time to revisit that video! Unfortunately the feature, like many on the site, died before its time.