Aw, I've missed the game nights. I'll try joining the one next week then. ^^
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STEAM | September 2015 - The Phantom Pre-Load or: AAA Movies Are Just +1s To Us
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Aw, I've missed the game nights. I'll try joining the one next week then. ^^
Widdly Scuds
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i tweeted sekai project and asked, they said they find greenlight a good PR/marketing tool.
so it's just something they choose to do for winged clouds vn's for reasons.
Kurt Russell
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It's shill time!
Buy Contradiction if you like/liked FMV adventure games.
The actors are pretty charming (especially the protagonist, Detective Inspector Jenks)
If you are a person who likes 100%ing games, playing the game without asking for hints will net you 100% achievements very easily.
Buy Contradiction if you like/liked FMV adventure games.
The actors are pretty charming (especially the protagonist, Detective Inspector Jenks)
If you are a person who likes 100%ing games, playing the game without asking for hints will net you 100% achievements very easily.
Because they only publish trash. Or atleast all that Sakura shit is.
Chairmanchuck
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They might produce trash, but they publish a lot of great VNs.
Just did my first siege in Rome 2. It went... poorly.
Load last save. Auto-resolve battle. Yay, that's better.
That was the first battle I've had trouble with. I just couldn't get my soldiers to mount the wall and take people out like I wanted to. They kept getting bottlenecked and it was 10 minutes of everyone slowly killing each other.
Load last save. Auto-resolve battle. Yay, that's better.
That was the first battle I've had trouble with. I just couldn't get my soldiers to mount the wall and take people out like I wanted to. They kept getting bottlenecked and it was 10 minutes of everyone slowly killing each other.
Build more ladders, basically. Unless you extremely outnumber the enemy you probably want at least 4 of those basic light ladders so you can grab a bunch of segments, and try to run troops into the capture zones for the gates to take them for you. Also sword infantry are the ones that win battles on walls.
Atraveller
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Nope, there's barely any real choice in the game, you can play the entire game in silence with similar outcome.
Most gates in the early game can be burned down. Just light the gate up with torches then pull back and watch it burn. You get the option to build siege engines later in the game, though I never bothered with the ram, I just smash down the walls with boulders and rush in.
They nerfed gate burning or something in Rome 2 last I checked. Either you don't toss torches or something and it's more that units actually attack gates and how they do depends on their weapon type now.
Also it's suicide to do that basically because of gate defenses (boiling oil, etc), it being a chokepoint and towers at the gatehouse.
Get men on the walls, try to kill them, flank with some other ladders, run them towards gatehouses and capture them so they open for you.
Also it's suicide to do that basically because of gate defenses (boiling oil, etc), it being a chokepoint and towers at the gatehouse.
Get men on the walls, try to kill them, flank with some other ladders, run them towards gatehouses and capture them so they open for you.
Ohhhhh, okay. Now that you both are saying these things, I know what went wrong. I think I had too few ladders, too many ranged units, and I spread forces too thin. Hopefully that knowledge will help for the next time. I'm at war with Carthage, so it should be soon.
I actually did try to burn one at one point. The unit ran up to it, dropped some torches, stepped back a bit... and nothing happened. I just figured I needed a different unit or something.
Nevermind, gate attacking is for Attila. But torch throwing is still pretty crappy in Rome 2 vs every other option. Plus with how the torch projectile works you have to sorta throw a ton before they start working.
You might want to google and see some players playing R2 campaigns but basically what I noticed is assaulting a city you should do something like:
setup:
-line up ladders to where you think are the best points, try not to concentrate too much on one facing, but keep these ladder attacks close to reinforce easily. gates are gamble because of nearby towers at the gate but helps get your men in faster vs. regular wall segments that have very few points of entry/exit
-try to put your better general troops on the ladders, maybe another unit in reserve to back them up
-keep some skirmisher/missile troops with the ladders
-line up siege artillery if you have any
start battle, then:
-run missile troops up, have them in loose and fire at the men in the ramparts. prioritize other melee infantry. it won't usually kill a lot of them esp. if they are heavy armoured or shielded, but it will soften them up a bit. just expect to loose missile troops here, whatever
-run ladders up as you skirmish against men on the walls, skirmishers will screen missiles so your ladder troops don't get shot up or the ladders get fired/focused on by fire missiles
-let your troops duke it out on the walls; this is a grind so the better quality troop will win out usually. swords are better than spears on walls short of vast unit quality differences. you might have to reposition missile troops, get them firing at exposed flanks
-flank on the walls, which is why you want more ladders, so you can either sandwich defending troops on the walls to make them rout or you can use another unit or two to run around, capture the gate or towers to make life easier for you
-remember you can get off the walls at certain points of the wall in case you need to get down onto city level to maneuver/intercept
-when you have the gates or a breach in the walls, you can get the rest of the people in easier
You will still lose a considerable amount of men if you assault a city manually. Autoresolve is okay if you end up hating it after time. You really need to overwhelm the enemy or bring artillery if they have a big stack. That or sit there and lay siege and force them out into the field.
You might want to google and see some players playing R2 campaigns but basically what I noticed is assaulting a city you should do something like:
setup:
-line up ladders to where you think are the best points, try not to concentrate too much on one facing, but keep these ladder attacks close to reinforce easily. gates are gamble because of nearby towers at the gate but helps get your men in faster vs. regular wall segments that have very few points of entry/exit
-try to put your better general troops on the ladders, maybe another unit in reserve to back them up
-keep some skirmisher/missile troops with the ladders
-line up siege artillery if you have any
start battle, then:
-run missile troops up, have them in loose and fire at the men in the ramparts. prioritize other melee infantry. it won't usually kill a lot of them esp. if they are heavy armoured or shielded, but it will soften them up a bit. just expect to loose missile troops here, whatever
-run ladders up as you skirmish against men on the walls, skirmishers will screen missiles so your ladder troops don't get shot up or the ladders get fired/focused on by fire missiles
-let your troops duke it out on the walls; this is a grind so the better quality troop will win out usually. swords are better than spears on walls short of vast unit quality differences. you might have to reposition missile troops, get them firing at exposed flanks
-flank on the walls, which is why you want more ladders, so you can either sandwich defending troops on the walls to make them rout or you can use another unit or two to run around, capture the gate or towers to make life easier for you
-remember you can get off the walls at certain points of the wall in case you need to get down onto city level to maneuver/intercept
-when you have the gates or a breach in the walls, you can get the rest of the people in easier
You will still lose a considerable amount of men if you assault a city manually. Autoresolve is okay if you end up hating it after time. You really need to overwhelm the enemy or bring artillery if they have a big stack. That or sit there and lay siege and force them out into the field.
Dsyndrome
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I haven't seen anyone around here that's played it that's disliked it, can't wait for them to do another one!
Approval of it and when you'll receive it are so different. Usually gets approved within the day of ticket, but it'll be within a week after approval for the refund to actually be given.
Are most of them "fucking", "shit" or "garbage"?
jaundicejuice
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I look forward to reading the continuing, iconic adventures of Aiden "Jar of Mayonnaise" Pearce.
Thanks for the information!
That's offensive to jars of mayonnaise.
So how would this work if I bought something and then it went on sale the next day, or would they process those quicker?
Atraveller
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Several days, my experience is just about the exact wait time the refund email said.
jaundicejuice
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I know it's kind of shit, but Watch_Dawgz is like my favourite version of Ubisoft The Game. That's not saying much since I tend to tap out on an Assassin's Creed about 8 hours in.
The Dear Leader
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I really liked Watch Dogs.
Hero Prinny
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played watch dogs at my friend's house once, thought it was a poor man's GTA.
Atraveller
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The way it was priced...poor men don't even buy it!
jaundicejuice
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The core idea of Watch_Dogs is interesting, it's just sort of bogged down by Ubisoft's formula for an openworld game.
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The problem is just that its still "just" a game and the hype-culture made the expectations so high and (naive) people thought "they could do anything".
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what's wrong?
jaundicejuice
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Well, that and there are several other games by Ubisoft with the same basic template. Ubisoft put their games in these incredibly unique settings--medieval Middle East, Renaissance-era Italy, colonial America--and then completely under-cut this with their now bog standard openworld design and gameplay mechanics.
Speaking of:
Says a lot, right? I'm sure they are not the only ones guilty of it, but still...
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Yeah, but people should have been used to it by now. But they arent. Before the Division downgrade this year, a lot of people were still "shilling"/hyping that game to be a game that cant even work how they think it would work.
Its similar to this Pokemon Go Hype right now. People dont actually realize the limitations a game has.
Hero Prinny
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Yea, the idea is really neat, would love to see a competent developer try to make something similar. I still havent played deus ex but i guess it would be similar to that
It was really smart of ubi to release it when they did, i honestly believe that if that launched this holiday it wouldve bombed, i think that game did so well is cause ppl were desperate for games on their next gen consoles
I'll try this on my next seige. Thanks so much for the help!
Ubitower open world minimap vomit formula was the least of its problems IMO. Mechanically I didn't really enjoy much of the gameplay fundamental tenets, those weren't helped by the fact the controls were meh.
Also to me, felt like there was absolutely almost no thematic and mechanical connection in the game, so it just felt completely disconnected all the time. Not to mention the writing is really bad. Like AC3 is better written overall than WD. WD writing is probably tied for FC3 bad if we're comparing open world games. That's mostly what my LTTP is about, really. I could not care less about mechanical purity or the ubiworld formula nowadays.
LurkerPrime
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This Ubitalk just reminded me that even the all-driving driving game the Crew had the Ubitower stuff in it. Because it's an open world game and they need that stuff. 'Course.
Ubisoft's audacity is unmatched.
Ubisoft's audacity is unmatched.
Atraveller
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They are trying to create a gaming singularity.
Haunted
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I see it as a social experiment. One day, Ubisoft will be in school books, right next to Square-Enix (for their "will people buy any garbage as long as it's called Final Fantasy?" experiment).
LurkerPrime
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I bought Advent Children and I liked it.
Your move, Square-Enix.
Your move, Square-Enix.
As it should be.
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But what about Spirits Within?
I watched Spirits Within in the theatre way back when. I seen some shit, yo.
While we're still talking about anti-virus solutions, I gave the free editions of Panda and Bitdefender a whirl last week.
I wouldn't recommend Panda for a gaming PC - not sure what they are doing but the realtime shield has a severe performance loss while scanning any executable (.exe, .dll).
Like, when moving a directory containing an Unity game (which has 10+ dlls) the transfer speed from a SSD to another SSD would hover at 100 kB/s
Free Bitdefender has no exclusion options, so if it erroneously marks your game as a trojan, you will have no way to play it short of uninstalling the antivirus.
MSE+Common Sense all the way.
I wouldn't recommend Panda for a gaming PC - not sure what they are doing but the realtime shield has a severe performance loss while scanning any executable (.exe, .dll).
Like, when moving a directory containing an Unity game (which has 10+ dlls) the transfer speed from a SSD to another SSD would hover at 100 kB/s
Free Bitdefender has no exclusion options, so if it erroneously marks your game as a trojan, you will have no way to play it short of uninstalling the antivirus.
MSE+Common Sense all the way.
By the way, y'all should read this thread, watch the damn video:
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