I've been waiting to pull the trigger on Dragon Commander the past few days. I just can't decide. I've read that it gets too easy and if that's true it will turn me off from the game in a major way.
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I've been waiting to pull the trigger on Dragon Commander the past few days. I just can't decide. I've read that it gets too easy and if that's true it will turn me off from the game in a major way.
corrosivefrost
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I want Transistor to blow me away like Bastion did -- I have a few reservations about the combat, but am going to give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
Stump, do you have a source for the Warhammer 40K Dawn of War II games? I thought they would let those languish since Retribution exists on Steamworks.
HP_Wuvcraft
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I just want it now.
There was something about Relic/SEGA fixing them, wasn't there?
Atraveller
Banned
Too easy? Even normal difficulty has been very challenging for me.
That'd be neat. I guess there's precedence for it, too, due to their work with the new Steam version of Company of Heroes.
http://steamcommunity.com/stats/20570/achievements/
Chaos Rising had achievements started popping up couple of days ago, pretty sure it's getting GFWL removed.
Chaos Rising had achievements started popping up couple of days ago, pretty sure it's getting GFWL removed.
That's good to hear. I've just read elsewhere the game gets very easy as you progress. Looks like I'll buy and dice in tomorrow, thanks for your input.
Yeah, noticed that, means that it's a total given they're removing GFWL.
Terra_Ex
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This was my experience, there were two difficulty spikes iirc and I ended up decreasing the difficulty at one point iirc. At the very end of the game, there's not much challenge, but that's because you've already taken control of the map.
HP_Wuvcraft
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So, like with all my financial decisions, I was afraid to buy Dragon Commander and now I'm buying the entire Larian Pack.
jaundicejuice
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So close to a Better Red Than Dead Conquest victory in Civ V with the Zulus but I ran out of turns I only had two capitols left to take and probably could've nabbed them if I moved faster but it would've meant turning on Egypt and we were Order buddies. I've never had an A.I. civ pick the same ideology as me and gotten along with them so well in any game before. The Impi units are amazing, they're the Zulu's replacement for the Pike unit. They have a double attack, a cost free ranged attack and then a melee charge. They also can move one more tile and have a lot of nifty unit-specific upgrades that make them deadly early-to-mid game and then makes them really awesome rifleman on up. Such a good unit if you plan on being a massive war monger.
I was gonna ask what this Larian pack is and where I could buy it but then I looked and it turns out I now own all of their games on Steam.
I only had two capitols left to take and probably could've nabbed them if I moved faster but it would've meant turning on Egypt and we were Order buddies. I've never had an A.I. civ pick the same ideology as me and gotten along with them so well in any game before. The Impi units are amazing, they're the Zulu's replacement for the Pike unit. They have a double attack, a cost free ranged attack and then a melee charge. They also can move one more tile and have a lot of nifty unit-specific upgrades that make them deadly early-to-mid game and then makes them really awesome rifleman on up. Such a good unit if you plan on being a massive war monger.I was gonna ask what this Larian pack is and where I could buy it but then I looked and it turns out I now own all of their games on Steam.
Nabs
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I regret not backing Distance. He says Beta is coming soon, and that they may go with Early Access.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMgsiI3W_6M
Finished the Lords of Shadow 2 DLC today.
It's okay. It's more like the first game. No stealth, only castle-ornate looking bits. The "story" is contrived so it doesn't add anything there. Only two encounters though that aren't just regular goons. The last one especially is really nice. Some interesting puzzles that actually required a little bit of cleverness. Very little, but some, backtracking to find upgrades.
Fun to spend an evening on.
It's okay. It's more like the first game. No stealth, only castle-ornate looking bits. The "story" is contrived so it doesn't add anything there. Only two encounters though that aren't just regular goons. The last one especially is really nice. Some interesting puzzles that actually required a little bit of cleverness. Very little, but some, backtracking to find upgrades.
Fun to spend an evening on.
jaundicejuice
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The properties of the installed games main file? Just navigate to the directory where it's installed and view the file's properties.
Chance Hale
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Windirstat helps you see everything on your hard drive as proportionate blocks. Very useful.
I regret not backing Distance. He says Beta is coming soon, and that they may go with Early Access.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMgsiI3W_6M
That gif reminds me that y'all should be buying T.E.C 3001 (4$)
Last Baron
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I was gonna say, I don't remember Nitronic Rush handling like that. The dev sounds like a super young Brian Regan.
Oh, I'm aware of that. Should have worded it better lol: I have 111 games currently installed and it would help to see all the respective install sizes in sortable a table or something. Just to know what I should uninstall if I want to clear up some space.
Now that's more along the lines of what I was thinking about. Actually, I just found out what that was: an Enhanced Steam feature I thought was in the Steam client itself. You can sort by size and everything, very cool stuff.
EDIT:
It's a bit off though, shows completely wrong numbers for some games. For example, Bastion is 863 Mb and Enhanced Steam shows just 2.9 Mb.
corrosivefrost
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I regret not backing Distance. He says Beta is coming soon, and that they may go with Early Access.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMgsiI3W_6M
That looks kind of rad.
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What's the deal with Divinity Dragon Commander Beta? I installed it, but I'm not sure if I should've even bothered.
That gif reminds me that y'all should be buying T.E.C 3001 (4$)
Have you played Cloudbuilt and if so how do you think TEC 3001 compares?
I was really burned by Cloudbuilt. I really wanted to like it but I just found it really frustrating.
jaundicejuice
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That gif reminds me that y'all should be buying T.E.C 3001 (4$)
Is the music in-game dubstep-ish like that trailer? I don't mind electronic music but the way the trailer was edited to the music is kind of obnoxious. I didn't like the jump cuts and those rewind/fast-forward segments to the drops were kind of off-putting.
I regret not backing Distance. He says Beta is coming soon, and that they may go with Early Access.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMgsiI3W_6M
wow that does look very improved from the kickstarter footage
good work
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
Is it an Enhanced Steam feature? I thought it was a native one; you click on list view and there's a "Size on Disk" column.
derExperte
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In the Steam library right click on the row with the colum headers or the + on the right and look for 'Size on disk'.
Chance Hale
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Went over and checked this and realized Bioshock Infinite is 41 GBs. Damn!
HP_Wuvcraft
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Hm.
People are saying the political aspect of Dragon Commander is shit.
Hm.
People are saying the political aspect of Dragon Commander is shit.
Hm.
Nice, I wouldn't figure this out myself. What Enhanced Steam does is letting you see it via your community profile, which is a bit more handy (because that way you see a sortable a list of you all your games without categories; the native feature works only in list view and it sorts games within individual categories only). If only it would work right. Still, my life has now become positively better, thanks derExperte.
It's unbalanced, so as long as you make all your decisions with the intent to maintain approval, you will never have an issue. The only way you will run into problems with the races is if you do something stupid like having and following a set of ideals.
So, similar to real life.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
derExperte
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And done, 30hrs since Friday after not touching it for 1.5 years. I need sleep.
And SD2.
Atraveller
Banned
Oh yeah, it snowballs, and it works both ways, sometimes reloading the latest autosave won't be enough.
Dimitri2401
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That gif reminds me that y'all should be buying T.E.C 3001 (4$)
From what I heard, the game is not so good.
Who? The political stuff is the best part of the game. The RTS and actioney bits are the stuff that stinks.
Granted the game is crap, but it is one of those games that you can immediately get into and show friends and family the pure craziness and action from the get go. No boring menus or talking.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I was looking at YouTubes and it seems like the choices presented only have see-saw consequences?
Atraveller
Banned
If it looks the E3 2012 reveal, then I'm fine with it.
makes me sad. hopefully it'll run well regardless.
No. For the political decisions with the ambassadors, there is generally a good reason to choose either side. In addition to manipulating the favor of both sides, the 'evil' decisions usually result in a stronger military and or more resources. But it's not really needed as the game is too easy after the initial turns.
There are two other type of decisions that can be made, one type involves the personal story of the Queen, and the other involves the side-missions of the named generals. The Queen based decisions are generally distinct from the normal balance of politics, but in some cases they can influence approval or disapproval from the Queen's race. The side-missions of the generals don't really matter outside of the generals personal development.
Winning the game is all about resource management. This is the flaw with the game as it is too easy to gather and produce enough resources to overrun the enemy without having to resort to the actual RTS battles. That is why after the first few turns, the game becomes a cakewalk. Not only because you can simply out produce your enemies, but it becomes more efficient to do so then actually taking the time to personally engage them on the battlefield as a Dragon. So maybe you could reorganize your production lines and see if that helps with the difficulty.
Jawmuncher
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Think i'll just settle for High.
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