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Lol, can you clarify this statement a little?
And Rust, what do you think of it? I've been playin a bunch of ARK:SE which starts off with you in your undies, on a beach surrounded by dangerous animals, but you can move up to a relatively safe state after dozens (hundreds) of deaths. What is the goal in Rust? Is it just a continuous survival grind? I assume it's PVP and that's the main draw?
The Spreadsheets Online thing is kind of a joke about the game in the EVE community. One of the main ui windows when you are actually flying around in space is the overview and it is essentially laid out like a spread sheet. It tells you about the objects around you, what they are, how far away they are and so forth.
The other is the fact that just about every task done in game can be supported by out of game spreadsheets and tools. For instance if you are buying items off the market to flip in say a game like WoW you are pretty much just buying out about 20 items when the price low and relisting the next day at a higher price. However in Eve you have to take into account all the myriad of fees from player organizations, npc organizations, by the minute market shifts, fuel costs, transportation and tons of other aspects that will eat into your margins and decrease efficiency. For instance I like to "day trade" commodities in the game and tend to buy them low in one area, truck them to another and sell them higher at another trade hub because they are more rare there. So I made a sheet where i can input an item and it will tell me what margin i should expect from exporting it to each trade hub and which is more profitable. I go through all of this to pay for the ships i blow up against other players.
As for Rust, it is a continuous survival grind. However you can at some point amass enough materials and tools/weapons to become rather safe and setup. Most servers wipe the game world after 2 weeks, however crafting recipes you have learned stay with you. I've never played Ark as the whole dinosaur theme puts me off.
Been playing the game since it was in closed beta. It runs pretty well these days and the servers are probably more populated then they have ever been.
The Spreadsheets Online thing is kind of a joke about the game in the EVE community. One of the main ui windows when you are actually flying around in space is the overview and it is essentially laid out like a spread sheet. It tells you about the objects around you, what they are, how far away they are and so forth.
The other is the fact that just about every task done in game can be supported by out of game spreadsheets and tools. For instance if you are buying items off the market to flip in say a game like WoW you are pretty much just buying out about 20 items when the price low and relisting the next day at a higher price. However in Eve you have to take into account all the myriad of fees from player organizations, npc organizations, by the minute market shifts, fuel costs, transportation and tons of other aspects that will eat into your margins and decrease efficiency. For instance I like to "day trade" commodities in the game and tend to buy them low in one area, truck them to another and sell them higher at another trade hub because they are more rare there. So I made a sheet where i can input an item and it will tell me what margin i should expect from exporting it to each trade hub and which is more profitable. I go through all of this to pay for the ships i blow up against other players.
As for Rust, it is a continuous survival grind. However you can at some point amass enough materials and tools/weapons to become rather safe and setup. Most servers wipe the game world after 2 weeks, however crafting recipes you have learned stay with you. I've never played Ark as the whole dinosaur theme puts me off.
Been playing the game since it was in closed beta. It runs pretty well these days and the servers are probably more populated then they have ever been.
Seems like Elite Dangerous had something like this. As far as ARK, the dinos are outstanding!
A friend is playing and he likes it. If I remember correctly this would be the third iteration of the game? For some reason, I'm in BTDT mode. How different is it from it's predecessor?
It is actually the 4th but it is more a reboot of the 1st than a sequel. The 3rd wasn't well liked because it was overly complicated and the games were set lengths. It is fairly different from 1 and 2. Real time combat that plays a little more like an RTS and star lanes limit travel. The AI seems avlot better since you cannot trick it like you could in the previous ones by spamming the same deal over and over. The art style and voice overs are pretty well done. I'm enjoying it.
I am playing Pirate Legend. It is new and released in 2016. I am Manga fans and interested in One Piece. So, i can use my favorite character in One Piece to fight against others. It is crazy. (By the way, games of other manga is also interesting,you can search for Risengame)
Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm, Guild Wars 2 and Telltale games are the ones I've played lately.
June 2016
- The Forrest (steam)- Sandbox, airplane crash on a mysterious island, surviving and fighting off mutant cannibals. So far so good, but if I had to chose, I'd pick ARK. It's hard to beat wrangling, taming, running for your life, and being eaten by dinosaurs.
- Fallout 4 (steam)
- Smite (steam)
- World of Tanks
- ARK: Survival Evolved (steam)
- Cities: Skylines (steam)
Installed the Epic Games Installer...
So now playing Paragon (open Beta) and Unreal Tournament (open Alpha).
Paragon - not my type of game at all - way, way to much to keep track of.
Unreal Tournament - just go and shoot things - my type of game...
The graphics on Paragon are so, so lush, my RX 470 card struggles and is already out-dated...
Unreal Tournament will run on my old laptop on low res/low quality for just running around to shoot things - very, very gorgeous on a nice GPU...
So now playing Paragon (open Beta) and Unreal Tournament (open Alpha).
Paragon - not my type of game at all - way, way to much to keep track of.
Unreal Tournament - just go and shoot things - my type of game...
The graphics on Paragon are so, so lush, my RX 470 card struggles and is already out-dated...
Unreal Tournament will run on my old laptop on low res/low quality for just running around to shoot things - very, very gorgeous on a nice GPU...
Installed the Epic Games Installer...
So now playing Paragon (open Beta) and Unreal Tournament (open Alpha).
Paragon - not my type of game at all - way, way to much to keep track of.
Unreal Tournament - just go and shoot things - my type of game...
The graphics on Paragon are so, so lush, my RX 470 card struggles and is already out-dated...
Unreal Tournament will run on my old laptop on low res/low quality for just running around to shoot things - very, very gorgeous on a nice GPU...
How old is your laptop? Specs? Cuz UT runs like ass on my late 2012 21.5" iMac.
Sorry, you're right. I played it on iOS. Just assumed Aspyr ported the second one too.
iv been playing fallout 3, oblivion, skyrim, fallout 4, overwatch, star wa the old republic, and minecraft
Thinkpad X201 from 10/2009 (according to the label)...
Core i5 M 540 @ 2.53Ghz and Intel HD graphics, Window 10 Home 64-bi, 4Gigs RAM...
Now that Nixxes and/or Eidos Montreal fixed the crashes that were keeping me from playing, I'm back on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
In the interim, I was playing Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. It and its sequel, which has similar gameplay, came out on Steam earlier this year and are Mac OS-compatible. It's an anime-style visual novel with elements of Phoenix Wright and Battle Royale that was originally released in Japan on the PSP and ported to the Vita for North America. I'm normally not into these types of games, but there was something about the characters, art style, and music that I found weirdly compelling.
The game has an anime adaptation (which is pretty bad but that's a topic for another day). NBC-Universal Japan holds the rights to it and would copyright flag any Let's Play/video footage because one of the game's scenes is identical to one in the anime. As such, the game developers set up a Twitter account and asked anyone facing a content ID claim to contact them, and they would work to get those strikes removed and the videos restored. For that alone, it was worth spending money on the games.
In the interim, I was playing Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. It and its sequel, which has similar gameplay, came out on Steam earlier this year and are Mac OS-compatible. It's an anime-style visual novel with elements of Phoenix Wright and Battle Royale that was originally released in Japan on the PSP and ported to the Vita for North America. I'm normally not into these types of games, but there was something about the characters, art style, and music that I found weirdly compelling.
The game has an anime adaptation (which is pretty bad but that's a topic for another day). NBC-Universal Japan holds the rights to it and would copyright flag any Let's Play/video footage because one of the game's scenes is identical to one in the anime. As such, the game developers set up a Twitter account and asked anyone facing a content ID claim to contact them, and they would work to get those strikes removed and the videos restored. For that alone, it was worth spending money on the games.
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