Lexx

11 hours later, I've triggered a.. uh.. main event. And now crap hits the fan, like literally. I'm completely outgunned, getting f'd on all sides. Spend the last 2 hours on trying to win a fight against 10 enemy dudes, and I'm getting wrecked. Had to retreat a couple times, while picking off a few hostiles here and there, to try to weaken the next wave... I didn't realize what wimps the legion is... now I'm wishing them back. Jeez. Makes me wonder if I jumped ahead in the story a little too fast, or if it's intended like that. The enemies are rolling over my militia as if it doesn't even exist. Just by pure miracle (probably the god of random) I was able to keep one of my mines. Luckily I'm swimming in cash with half a million ... Decided to set up a 2nd team now, so brought back a few of my old pals. Shadow, Reaper, Scope, and as new addition, Fauda. Will see how that works out.. have to escape from starter island now, which has been completely overrun as well.

So I've tried using a machinegun, and I think now I get why some folks have issues with ammo. That thing is blasting inside the view cone like there is no tomorrow. It's pretty easy to use up 100 rounds of 7.62 in a single battle. But on the other hand, I'm cutting down enemies so fast... it's highly effective.

Are you people playing in a higher difficulty setting? I've read of you guys money troubles and how hard it was to capture certain sectors. So the thing is ... Finally yesterday I had time to actually dig into the game and by the end of the middle of the night, I had both mines, the one in the top, and the one at the bottom of the coast. I have 6 mercs now - me, Ice, Hitman, MD, Igor, and lately I've hired Livewire, because I thought it useful to have an actual mechanic and hacker. I have something around 40k in money. I'm playing on the difficulty setting that is not the super hard one (forgot what it was called). I had been in the one or the other pickle, but all in all I've managed fairly well so far. The game has some really cool moment, and I love it when the music sets in every once in a while. That whole african flair is just great. As I had expected before the release, the maps are all pretty small and often feel like just a set combat arena. Still, the maps look great. Just wish there would be a few more opportunities. Oh, and man, I quickly found out how useful sniper rifles are. Since the very first time I found a fat rifle, I'm kicking ass. And since I have found an M14 with mods from a weapon smuggler, Hitman hits 90% of his shots.. to the head. He is cleaning up the field almost on his own. I gave Igor the golden rifle that was mentioned further above and jeez, that thing hits like an elephant. Oh² one more thing... In the starting area I got a Famas with mods... but I have never used it so far, since I actually don't have *any* 5.56mm ammunition. And I have absolutely no idea where I can find some. Is there a weapons shop again like in Ja2? The interface is kinda annoying to use, and I couldn't find anything via the web browser. What's the point of giving me a cool rifle if I don't have any ammo for it. It's crazy how good this game feels. After so many failed attempts to make a new JA game, it feels extremely weird to suddenly have one that ... doesn't suck. It's almost like you expect a new JA game to suck, because "that's just how it is." And when you play this game, it's like it was actually really easy to make a good sequel. Like.. what's the big deal? Here you see exactly how to do it ... why have all those other studios not been able to do this? Is it really actually Ian Currie who is the only one who understood the game and was now able to make another good one? I just don't understand. Granted, the game also has its fair share of issues, but it's nothing I can't look past for the moment.

Actually that was a serious question, since it was all I remembered about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You wanna be blocked again? Saves me the trouble to scroll over the posts, I guess.

Wait, but didn't someone in here just recently said that the whole grain thing only matters to europe and nobody else?

I still didn't had much time to play But there is another thing that keeps bugging me.... am I stupid or is there no way to quickselect a single merc? Can I only ever select all and blob them around the map? Also, sorry, but I hate the claustrophobic camera zoom.

I started playing a little bit yesterday. Sadly I don't have much time, so I didn't even left the starting zone. But one thing I noticed... why are there so few character portraits for my custom character?! This is a real terribly small selection.

This looks nice. Just a shame I'm not at all interested in this game.

edit: doubled it

Ok yeah, but I thought SA already kinda said they won't do it. Damn, "Principal facts and complaints" reads like a Bully blaming you for him bullying you.

Why do they think that Putin will be arrested in SA. Did I miss something?

Yay!! Noooo.

Problem with cluster munition is that not all of the pieces explode. They leave a quite high percentage of duds behind, which are dangerous and can still explode at any time, same way as other explosives.

Still gonna watch, tho.

S3 is better than s2 so far in the way that it's less boring, because every episode has at least one bigger fight scene to show for. Other than that, I really don't know... there are so many little things that just feel jarring to me. But maybe it's also because I can't just forget about all the behind the scenes drama, with Gerald being recast, etc... it's like I don't even want to connect to the show anymore.

I've read the books a million years ago, and played the games but every single episode of s3 so far confused the hell out of me. I honestly have no idea what the hell is actually going on most of the time. Maybe I just stopped paying attention or whatever, no clue. Considering they are creeping in story from the Witcher 3 now, I'm wondering if they will end s3 with Gerald and Yen dying, like in the books, and then in s4 they get revived, but now Gerald looks different. Would be hilariously cheesy I guess.

Why do you torture my eyes with this.

Best FF game is FFXIV.

Oh, I thought it was moved into the future. Welp, guess that bridge will stay broken then. 0/10, not gonna play.

I bet they are fixing the bridge where the boat didn't fit through.

Watched Tear Along the Dotted Line and This World Can't Tear Me Down, both 6-part mini series. Honestly it was pretty great. Probably will rewatch it, though, because some parts were so fast, I had troubles following.

There were rumors that he stole some nuclear weapons a few days ago, which I kinda doubt, but who knows. In any case, it reminded me so much of Metal Gear Solid, it's almost funny. Looks like I wasn't the only one.

Even Gazprom has their own PMC group since a while. It's a bunch of neo-feudal lords now.

Maybe they are scared this showed how weak russia actually is and that Belarus could fall into disarray soon, so now they are moving more soldiers over?