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Horses in particular took 3 hours. Otherwise, I was on AL last week (still have a few days to spend until 2026) and Black Geyser was of reasonable length (~35h for the first playthrough, 8h? for the second) to play. I also WFH 3 days per week and it is glorious as it cuts down ~130 minutes of commute per day. I would not try to play anything Ubisoft-like and currently just listening to the other gamer in the household playing Rogue Trader. I like Owlcat, but the turn-based combat and their density of encounters fill me with dread. So, might try in a year.

Nvidia dropped driver support for the 9xx and 10xx series with the latest branch of drivers.

How in hell do you guys finish playing games so quickly?! Do you just not go to work, don't eat, don't sleep, just play, play ,play?! It takes me many months to get through modest sized game.

The less militant alternative to these types of ship attacks would be to force the ship to halt, then board, search for drugs, and question the crew for more information. That way there's at least physical evidence, although it's unclear whether that action is legal either. But at least it isn't murderous. Imagine the uproar if North Korea was engaged on these types of ship attacks on the open ocean. What would happen if every country with a navy started following the Trump doctrine? This has to stop.

"New weapon type" Any chance for Blunderbuss? Other question. Any DLC planned? I would pay AAA retail price for a Cipher DLC.

I have finished Horses. The only reason for the Steam ban I could see is that Valve really dislikes non-gratifying sexual violence (1 scene). Otherwise, it is a short walking simulator. The controls are unrebindable, the game saves every ~5 minutes, the scenes can be replayed after completing the game. It does not say anything new nor is particularly enjoyable to play (seems to be linear), so, unless one wants to support the developers, it is safe to skip. I have also played Atlas Fallen and so far it feels good. It also does not use UE5 (may it be sunsetted soon), so the performance is stable. The most memorable moment so far is the battle against a mini-boss and most of it I was able to spend mid-air ascending higher and higher along with the boss and it was not a scripted scene. In terms of story, it articulates more persuasively "theocracies and authoritarianism are bad" than Horses. A slightly longer review for Horses:

At this point I'm pretty sure this version of windows has some additional security I can't figure out that is blocking apps from changing files. Running the app as an admin resolves it for most, but for an example edge and Anno 117 don't work (can't update edge, can't save games for Anno) even when I run them as admin. The strange thing here is that I'm pretty sure this started happening recently and was not the case when I initially installed this version of windows (Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC). @Bartimaeus did you run in to this by any chance?

I was expecting a lot more LOL corny sounds. There is a bit of that (mostly the dialogue bits) but the sound effects are pretty fun and nifty. Every time the engine duh-duh-doo-doo-doodoooo-wherrrr types went off I both laughed and admired. They broke it up into four short parts, this is the first one.

Just a bit more info. Firstly I've tried most of the easy fixes, restarting the game, verifying the game files, reloading both manual and auto saves from throughout my current play through ect. Second is that this issue only emerged after level 4, before level 4 I was able to put all of my skill points into guns.

I have had a pretty odd issue with spending my skill points. This is my second play-through and I am unable to spend both of my skills points on a single skill. I do not have any traits or flaws that effect where I can spend skill points except for dumb, but the skills I can't put points into aren't the ones I've locked. Every time I put 1 skill point into my guns skill which is my highest, the game acts like I just maxxed out my guns skills, with the stripped red background and all that. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? I wasn't able to find any preexisting forum posts or reddit posts complaining about this issue. For a bit more information my guns skill is specialized, but observation is also specialized and I can put both of my points into observation no problem.

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Xbox series X Grounded2 crashes every time I go to my base. I can play anywhere on the map but anytime I return to my base area, the game will crash and go back to the start screen. Any help would be great.

Hello, I am very conflicted on weather to go base monk or nelpazca monk because of not being able to respec subclass and am worried about being annoyed mid to late game by constant drug needing. How intrusive is it and is the subclass worth it? I am playing on potd/veteran depending on if I want to lower it.

Good lord vertical ziplines is such a good idea for this game.

Overall this game feels way clunkier and less intuitive to play that the original grounded. I think the biggest thing is not auto resuming sprint after stopping or melee. The sprint mechanics of Grounded 1 were some of the best mechanics in any game ever, please go back to that. Also, the omni tool should be an actual tool that can be equipped. When trying to chop down grass, weeds, or bust rocks, any bit of inaccuracy throws it off. Hitting things in grounded 1 with the appropriate tool was much smoother than this new system. An equippable omni-tool would solve this perfectly.

Same problem here. Very frustrating. Happened last night and wasn't able to save any progress since I have autosave off and then pressed Y XD

Finally a sequel to the best Total War game: I try to not get too excited. To be frank, most of the time I spent in Medieval II was with mods (mostly Stainless Steel), and no other Total War experience managed to scratch an itch that heavily modded Rome and Medieval II could. I was hyped for Shogun2, but never managed to get into it, and none of later TW caught my attention - I tried Warhammer for a bit, but felt rather simplistic (I mean to give it another go now when I have a PC that could enjoy the looks better). Anyway, classic Total Wars got GOG release. Picked up Medieval2 and might give it another go at some point. We will see if nostalgia googles hold up. edit. Oh, and Empire. I have a weak spot for it. Such a messy game, but also somewhat inspiring. I loved the setting, and innovation and I just wish it would be a more polished release.

Feels great in these Gothic-likes to finally become powerful and then revisit places on the map to clean house. But the most enjoyable is really to be able to pick up whatever you want without having to worry about getting encumbered.

Had to be careful to avoid spoilers, had some really nice screenshots from cutscenes, but alas, major spoilers in them. Starting the game off slowly... The environments are gorgeous Still does not do the location justice GOTY Cats, cats everywhere! The game sure has got the vibe down I'm sure she's angry for a reason Think I wandered into a Tomb Raider game Eeeeep Yeah...so I do happen to be colourblind Looks like I'm slightly more powerful than a single goose, go me!

Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men Nationwide, the number of women on campuses has surpassed the number of men for more than four decades, with nearly 40 percent more women than men enrolled in higher education, federal data shows. Efforts to admit applicants at higher rates based on gender are legal under a loophole in federal antidiscrimination law, one that’s used to keep the genders balanced on campuses. But the Trump administration has consistently included gender among the characteristics it says it does not want schools to consider for admissions or hiring, along with race, ethnicity, nationality, political views, sexual orientation, gender identity or religious associations. HA! Good Fun!

Yeah Same... Sometimes i write an e-mail to the Support but they still have no Releasedate for the next Patch. It really sucks.

If you are like myself you have scoured the yard, scanned everything, and otherwise hit a wall with raw science collection. It seems some folks end up with an over abundance and others ended up short usually from the pebbles foundation glitch (myself included) I propose a system that works alongside the ranger station where you can "trade" an amount of a resource in exchange for raw science. Put a daily/weekly limit (in game time) on the amount you can trade for. It could even be built into the existing resource analyzer stations in another tab as "Resource Analysis Deposit Station" or something similar that gives you a cool name like RAD.S. The system could be an invention by Ominent in the hopes of training their field staff using locally sourced material from the park to familiarize them with what they will be using to build in the field.

It is a bit like what you'd get if you described Gothic to an alien race and they decided to try their hand at it to replicate literally everything about it. Apart from everything else I also haven't met a single woman (one women, not a romantically unattached woman. It's Piranha Bytes like, not Bioware like. Sorry Bruce) in my brief sojourn. I did catch a fish, and squashed some bugs (hmm) for a quest, so there are some animals I'm a genuine threat to.

I guess SECREMF will survive, but this is comical from Cotton. Apparently bags of cocaine are like missiles

So now she talked to me on the ship and started Endpoint’s end. I’ve now completed that and Midpoint to the Endpoint is still stuck where it was