Mamoulian War

It is two more days on sale, if you have not played it yet Anyway, just in case, I will post you one more game from my wishlist, which should be released soon , although it is Turn-based one, but I think, it might fulfill all of your other criteria. https://www.gog.com/en/game/realms_beyond_ashes_of_the_fallen

from my wishlist https://www.gog.com/en/game/black_geyser_couriers_of_darkness released in 2022 all of the others are turnbased, as this is my preferred style.

14 RU jets downed in 13 days. And the reasons behind it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/02/13-sukhois-in-13-days-the-ukrainians-are-shooting-down-more-russian-jets-because-the-russians-are-flying-and-bombing-more-often/

Looks like UA shell hunger will come to an end soon. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/01/with-a-million-shells-about-to-ship-ukraines-artillery-crisis-could-end-soon/

IMHO the best was Dragonfall. The best combination of combat and narrative. SR felt a little bit short, and HK a little bit long. The HK bonus campaign was a treat as well. Something in between SR and DF.

DLC to a free Nomads of Driftland is now on giveaway. You have to own both, to be able to play The Forgotten Passage. Base Game: https://www.gog.com/game/nomads_of_driftland Giveaway: https://www.gog.com/en/game/nomads_of_driftland_the_forgotten_passage There is also a cheap predecessor of this game currently on sale: https://www.gog.com/en/game/driftland_the_magic_revival

Well, it definitely did not in the short term, but in the long term, having very few big "focus-testing-driven" fishes in a pond, can hurt a lot the current diversity of produced games. Especially if other engines decide to pull another Unity-like "stunt" as well.

Goal nr.3/24 achieved February 28, 21:15 – I have completed very fast run for the last Trophy in New Game ++ of Dark Souls: Remastered on my PS4. Approximately three hours to clear my way to both Bells of Awakening, defeat Sif and another run to Anor Londo blacksmith. There I have ascended last two boss weapons from Sif’s and Gwyn’s souls, and with that, I have unlocked the Knight’s Honor and The Dark Soul Platinum Trophy.

You are not wrong about Transnistria. but in his other speech, he mentioned tax increase https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/29/7444363/

On the other hand, Some of the other leaders, thanked him, that he opened this question. He also stated in his latest interview, that he was very serious, when he spoken these words. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/29/7444383/

With a much higher interest rates, a lot of investors choose different way of investing, so game industry pretty much run out of “free” money, and has to adapt. Most of the time, it starts with layoffs

Goal nr. 02/2024 has been achieved few days ago February 25, 21:30 – New Game + of Dark Souls: Remastered on PS4 has been completed :). The second ending was of course To Link the Fire, which gave me another trophy in my Platinum run. During this run, the goal was all miracles trophy, and all missing weapon ascension trophies, with the exception of Knight's one, for which I need to defeat Sif one more time, and then run all the way to Anor Londo blacksmith. During NG+, I have found out, that this game started to feel much easier with melee character than with the sorcerer one. The only exception was Kalameet, which was destroying me for almost 3 hours and almost always around 10-20% HP mark. I am just happy, that I have learned how to control my rage, as few years ago, I would be most likely in need of a new controller

Macron is the first western leader, to speak about the possibility of deployment of western troops to Ukraine. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/27/7443873/ He also announced coalition for providing medium to long range ammunition to ukraine for deep strikes against Russia. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/27/7443877/ although Scholtz still refuses to provide Taurus missiles https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/26/7443813/

There are numerous claims, that UA is retrofitting all of their S-200s, with modern electronics, and that currently the only common thing it has with soviet S-200 is husk and explosives. And there are also rumours, that they can be launched from a specially jointly developed NATO-UA launcher, which can launch various ex-soviet and NATO standard missiles. Someone already talked about the name of this project, but, I can’t remember it. the first half is for me pretty plausible. More, than friendly fire. As A-50 airplane’s primary purpose was to scan sky for UA missiles and drones, and AD batteries. It is simply hard to believe, that they would allow their own AD, which they commanded, to shoot at themselves. the second half, it seems a little bit unrealistic at the moment? Unless someone knows, the exact name of this project, and can confirm/deny if it is real or not. Also, there have been first official talk about UA KIAs, since 2022. Zelenskyi has stated in interview, that number of UA KIAs is 31000, and number of RU KIAs is 180000. He did not specified number of WIAs nor MIAs on UA side. On the RU side, they are counting with 500000 WIA+MIA combined. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/25/7443637/

Kalameet is finally defeated on NG+. It was royal pain in the ass. It took me today 2 hours of attempts. Most of them under 20%. But then, I always got obliterated by two random attacks, which I was not able to properly block nor outroll. Rinse and repeat. Sigh. My first attempt was one of the best, but I choose the wrong weapon, and had to fight him almost 10 minutes. I got him down to 10 or so %, and the I did some stupid things and ran out of Estus. And I did not have Humanities on my fast access bar. Sigh. Reward for that was 2 more hours wiping the floor with myself I can say, that this fight was the only fight, which have been harder as melee, compared to my previous Platinum Runs with sorcerer build.

Well Kalameet is even bigger roadbloack than Manus. I was able to get his tail in few attempts, but I have very hard time to get him under 50% of HP in NG+. The armor upgrade, which I’ve done for Manus, does not help much. I think I will have to grind 2-4 more levels

The UA general staff announcement regarding the downed AWACS. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/23/7443425/ and another announcement, in which they claim, that the A-50 was downed by S-200 air defense system. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/23/7443442/

Today, I had a roadblock day in Dark Souls Remastered. With the defeat of Nito today, Ihave finished all base game bosses and moved to DLC again. This time, it was Manus time again. Aand I got owned badly… needed around 20 attempts to defeat him. It was my typical scenario. First attempt getting to 10%, and then doing something clumsy, and then getting asskicked next half hour… anyway. For some reason, Manus spammed a lot more spells than in NG (is that his typical NG+ behaviour?) so whenever I was cheering, that I will defeat him, he cast two or three spells in a row, and I got destroyed. So after a hour or so, I needed psycho hygiene, so I went for a few minutes to grind for souls at Painted World, until, I had enough for two more levels in Attunement, and then I have fully upgraded Paladin’s Armor, and finally replaced Ornstein’s one, which I have used for almost 100 hours. The Paladin one is a little bit heavier, but has much bigger Physical and Magical Resistances, which came in handy against Manus. And again. First try was almost perfect, but he cast two spells in a row again Then I had to die few more times in silly situations, before he went down. The only boss missing except Gwyn is Kalameet. Which I want to see without his tail again. I have never achieved this in NG+, so this is my ultimate goal I will be most likely stuck there for few days, because of that

It misses flying laser sharks and gatling dinosaurs though!

What the **** did I just see

Ukrainian army lost 18 Su bombers since the start of the war. Most of them before receiving StormShadow/SCALP missiles. Which is more, then they had in 2021. Despite that, they still have more of them than in 2021, as they have mastered the survivability of the equipment on ground, during the RU missile/drone barrages. The biggest issue is, slowly depleting pile of long range ammunition usable by them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/22/its-official-despite-losses-ukraines-sole-bomber-brigade-is-bigger-now-than-it-was-before-the-war/

One of the most prominent Russian war blogger, nationalist Murz, who have been organizing a lot of successful fundraisers for Russian army (especially drones), and probably the only Russian, who did not steel from the donations, has allegedly committed suicide, after reporting on his Telegram, that 16k Russian soldiers has fallen and 300 of their vehicles has been “dismantled” at Avdiivka. According to some Ukrainian sources, this is considered a crucial loss for fighting capabilities of several units on the frontline, especially the FPV operators, due to his well organized fundraising and supply of these units, which is now gone. Meanwhile, Solovyov is doing his best to smear as much dirt on this guy as possible.

Czech Republic found 800k - 1m combined NATO and Soviet shells, which can be transported right away. Canada already pledge to finance part of the transport.

I think F-16s have enough long range ammunition type, to be able to hit military structures around Rostov, without leaving the Ukrainian airspace. Although I bet, that the first targets would be in Bilhorod People’s Republic. in other news, German Bundestag has voted in favour of providing long range weaponry, to be able to hit targets deep behind the front line. Some people say, that the wording of the bill can be interpreted that even Taurus could be provided to Ukraine. But I bet SPD will find few more reasons, why not to https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/22/7443158/

@xzar_monty looks like first step to hit army infrastructure in Russian territory by western weapons has been approved. UA will be free to hit whatever they deem necessary with F16s. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/22/7443032/ first pilots should finish the complete training around summer.