Darkpriest

Well, it seems Russians started to clean up ISIS as well. http://news.yahoo.com/air-strikes-convoy-syria-kill-40-monitor-191708956.html

yes, you can, but you need to save scum and hoard skill points and allocate them while you need them. Make sure you allocate them only for main line quests. And yes, merchant is the one with the easiest talky talky route.

I feel exactly the same way.

well, the game is still trash on balancing. you have to min max AND select certain weapons just to be combat viable... Decided to give it a go again and still the same problems occur. test character: Mercenary - default stats combat stat choices - axes, hammers, block, critical strike non-combat - streetwise, trade, persuasion it feels like there is not enough skill points to progress if you want to level the skills to a reasonable level that would allow you not to get rekt by enemies at a certain point (near the end of first city you see the problems as well as some optional encounters, which you can't deal with as heavy armor and shield guy. There is too much RNG reliance in combat, and again if you do not make a super human min maxed character with high dodge and AP, you need to save scum to allocate points that allow you to pass various checks to avoid all the combat.

It's not a time issue, it's conceptual. If you make battles reasonable for a balanced character, they become easy for a full combat build. Not an easy problem to solve. In other news, apparently AOD has been selling very well. They are now able to do the generational space ship RPG that they've been planning, which is excellent news! Yeah, well and here is where the game is becoming something I do not like... Forcing someone into min-maxing, just to have a shot at combat encounters IS a bad design... I am not sure if it is still the case, but if the default stats for given profession are unplayable, it means that the game is badly balanced.. There are no reasons in an RPG game to min max, other than break the RPG system... if min-maxing people want to play easy mode, let them, but do not force people with more balanced and realistic RP builds be completely useless... There used to be points in the game where you had to have perfect knowledge of how many levels and how many points you will need to have in non-combat skills to just pass it, because whenever you were forced into a combat situation, you were useless with a balanced build. And such situations being considered optional (because you had an option to complete it with dialog right?) is too punitive... You could not complete modules without metagaming knowledge and with fairly balanced stat builds (no min maxing, but still showing primary stats). The only exception seemed to be the Merchant's path, which was somewhat doable, but in the 2nd city you were forced back to metagaming.

So Hungary now closed its border with Croatia

No kidding. After my first playthrough using a sensible party on ranger difficulty, I wanted a challenge for my next playthrough, for ****s and giggles. I originally thought about supreme jerk difficulty and everybody pure melee, companions included. Then I thought about it and realized certain sections, Ag Center being only one of them, would be straight up impossible. So, I softened the parameters to only melee combat skills on the core 4, companions can use whatever weapon skills. This should still be a pretty brutal challenge, but I'm pretty sure it's possible. Good luck with robots...

I can't possibly see how you can do all melee... like... no chance

well it seems i won;t be affected. Those games are not on my list... if I buy those games it's a couple years later with all DLC on some summer or winter sale when I am done with my previous backlog of unplayed games

Because USA is basically a mash of various nationalities... i mean... they are what? less than 280 years old? that's like 8-9 full generations at most?

fixed. *shrug* is a ridiculous vanity product that attempts to sell crpg anachronisms as innovations. tactical sophistication takes a back seat to lucking or metagaming your way into a viable build? *snort* played the demo a while back and have little interest in slogging through full release. HA! Good Fun! I don't know, they never claimed the game to be innovative with its combat mechanics. They just said they want to stay off the beaten path and accepted status quo in roleplaying games, and that they did. With a vengeance. they claimed to be different than every other crpg. am recalling a claim by its that we had never played a game such as aod. *chuckle* is not different so much as anachronistic. there is a tendency for hardcore fans o' __________ to see comical reactionary as inherently praiseworthy. old movies. old music. old comics. old fashion. whatever. old is not intrinsic good or bad. aod look and plays... old... but worse. is old as imagined by a small group o' hardcore fans. HA! Good Fun! now... that sounds a lot like hipsters.... or Codex... hmmm perhaps Codex people are hipsters? ;P

Well for what's its worth we can check now if Volourn still does not buy anything on line :D

well VP has also second best CS:GO squad in the world IIRC, not sure how other e-sports divisions are standing, but it only proves that there is a lot of money to be made around this.

now this is interesting http://www.joindota.com/en/news/32711-russias-3rd-richest-man-and-oligarch-usmanov-invests-100-million-into-vp

I quit because the balancing of skills is ****e and it revolves around endless spam... near 0 skill game.

Do you still have to hoard skill points and metagame with saves in order to be able to complete the game? Do you still have to heavily min-max for combat otherwise?

Huh... I can't find recruits back in base... Usually before that, once I informed about recruiting them and dismissed temporarily (cause wanted some new recruit) I could get NPC followers back at base... now I cannot find them anywhere... neither at the base nor at the place where i left them... a bug?

Dresden, Germany - PEGIDA demonstration

I guess I will remain in the "undecided" camp then... I hope it's good, then I will be able to buy it once its done... but right now I just do not have enough confidence that it will be done well

It crashes a fair bit, but one thing i cannot find now in inventory is where is the radiation suit level? Also the snapshot feature in character creation is kind of meh now... can't adjust which part of the character the shot should take. Other than that I like the upgrade so far.

I have a feeling that some journalist would be really happy if WW3 broke out.... http://www.businessinsider.com/a-step-closer-to-war-uk-pilots-given-green-light-to-shoot-down-hostile-russian-jets-in-syria-2015-10 like seriously, how can you not check your information sources first before going public with stuff like that... On another note, CDU (?) in Bavaria, Germany is getting pissed off at Merkel's policy towards refugees... IIRC there was some talk among local authorities of refusing to allow more refugee entries into that particular "land" in Germany.

wow, now i am sad for all those wannabe celebs... now they are left only with "leaked sextapes" as means to get on the covers... Can't get some nice buck and media attention for getting nude anymore...

well they do it for a couple of reasons. 1) If you are rich and still have poor connections with governing party, the birth control is harsh and this is one of workarounds. 2) Not all the funds of these rich people are "clean" (if they were they would be in good standing with governing parties) and it is easier for those people to hide these funds in US and Canada (Vancouver is prime example of this) 3) For financial crimes like money laundering, in US you get fines and maybe some jail time (depending on the scope) in China, you get a death sentence.

Huh? If you want to use binary stick to 0s and 1s please... like 01110010 or some such

LOL http://news.yahoo.com/popularity-putin-shiite-sky-high-iraq-093642221.html