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I didn't play much of Sunless. Dredge does not have fuel or food, so you aren't going to start eating people. The focus is on fishing and salvaging. You can upgrade your ship with better fishing rods, nets, crab pots, engines etc. Different fish are in different waters and at different depths. Some you catch during the day, others at night. At night the sea becomes dangerous. You have to use your lamp even on familiar routes, as rocks appear where there were non during day. Sea monsters can attack you. There seem to be ghost ships - I have been avoiding the dark ships that roam at night. You have to sleep or you go crazy. The game has a set map with set locations. There are quests - probably one of them is the main quest, others are side quests. I got eaten once by the kraken.

I started Dredge. I guess it is aimed at people who played Sunless Sea.

I'll wait for when I have a new computer. By that time GOG will give it away for free. Or I'll be roaming a wasteland, fighting people for bottle caps and GOG will be a distant memory.

Conspiracy theory time: They set release price at $70 to drive people into subscribing to Gamepass.

I completed King Arthur: Legion IX, the stand alone expansion to King Arthur: Knight's Tale. Being a stand alone expansion it is mostly the same game with some quality of life improvements. Most important is removing perma death and injuries from your characters. Perma death was an idiotic aspect of the original game, seeing how the whole story was that people in Avalon could not die but would rise again and again. On the other hand, it is a very bare bones version of the game. The traditional two axis alignment system, with one morality and one religion axis has been reduced to a simple humanity-demonic axis. You get enough points to be able to make a couple of choices of the other alignment and still max your chosen alignment. The bonuses are boring. You only get 6 characters and each mission has fixed party composition (either everyone or one character will refuse to participate). You start with 3 of these and get the other three over the first few missions. The characters are interesting gameplaywise. I actually enjoyed the healer after a while, even though she doesn't heal, but transfer's the party's health around until everyone has the same percentage of missing health. With life drain on attacks though, everyone can heal up - it actually works. On hard the game is very easy. At least for someone who has finished the original. The story is ok. The nice touch though is that it follows up not just from Knight's Tale but also King Arthur II's prequel DLC, Dead Legion. Which I felt was a nice gift to fans of the whole franchise, such as myself. It seems quite obvious that they ran out of money. Halfway through the game, after defeating a boss, you are informed you finished the campaign. You get an ending cinematic and the credits roll. Then you are thrown back in the game and there is the post campaign endgame. This includes a dozen missions, 3 bosses, and the final boss of the game. After beating that, you get the achievement for completing the game. But, the level cap doesn't increase, so you play all these missions at max level. The missions all seem unfinished as well - the party no longer has dialogue during them. Enemies do things, but there seems to be something missing, as they do so in silence. It is a shame. Fun on sale. More so if you enjoyed the original. Bonus if you enjoyed Dead Legion in King Arthur II. Incomplete game presented as complete.

I just looked at my wishlist on GG deals and caught myself thinking: "Meh, I think I'll wait and see if it goes on sale for Christmas."

That is archeotech. The Mechanicus will have words with you for not immediately surrendering it to a tech priest.

Someone has been playing too much 40K.

I just had to replace my motherboard. As I am in changing situation regarding work, I am not going to get a good PC for a while, so in a way all these games (and the performance discussion) is probably something I'll be experiencing when it has become abandonware...

If you really want to sell me on wabbajack, you know what you have to do. Upload a soundfile of explaining it's merits to the tune of ABBA's Waterloo.

The Skyrim Alternate Start - Live Another Life mod ( @BruceVC do you use it?) is nice because it adds a rumour about Helgen into the list of rumours you hear from innkeepers. So when you get to Helgen, you arrive just after the dragon attack and see it flying away. You can find the two faction npcs dying in the cave and have enough time to heal one with a potion (if you want). That way you again are the person who informs the jarl of what happened and can trigger the main quest if you want. And the starts really are simple (unless you play something hooked into this mod from another mod like Death Alternative - Captured) so wouldn't really be all that hard for the devs to do. It actually could be less work than the one start they have.

I am bored, so I tried out different Alternate Start mods for Skyrim. They make the game so much better by cutting out that long intro. Mind, after a moment you are back in the game, so it gets boring again. But with the game's level scaling it can be interesting to see different regions as starting locations. One character's story started when they put on a ring and suddenly woke up from a haze and realized they were a necromancer's thrall - you start in a small cave, with a necromancer doing stuff over their alchemy station. You are wearing a ring of nullification that raises your magic resistance. Suddenly the first big town I went to was Riften, not Whiterun. Another character started in the underground Falmer city as a slave. Once the overseer relaxed, I could simply make a run for it. (apparently the mod is made as a death alternative, so you are high level and lead a slave revolt, but who has the patience to level up).

ROFL

It was just pointed out to me that the beginning of the new Year already spells: Wednesday Thursday Friday So not getting my hopes up

Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GC_Q2YKNR0

Why would you get banned here for typing Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? I mean, that is a word noone in your country cares about, no?

It's mostly a good game if you are into Darkest Dungeon clones.

I got close to the end of Vambrace and reached a point where I was just tired and couldn't be arsed to play on.

Underspace: cat billboards in space

I was going to spend christmas day painting. A friend asked yesterday what I was going to do, so I said I'd be painting. Another friend heard that and said she doesn't think I should spend Christmas alone. So now I'll be having family&friends lunch tomorrow. Other than that I really should be painting.

Aaaah, So THAT is why they labeled this a minefield.

I have picked up my Underspace play through once more. I had been put off by a certain storm event that kept triggering, which I couldn't survive, but now things are better. Pushed through the first part of the story and am now level 19 just before the warning that if I continue the story... You know, the usual "get your affairs in order before you do". Mind, level in this game is determined by how much cash you have made, since that reflects how good your equipment potentially is. Speaking of, I now upgraded to a tier 2 light fighter. The mobility is nice, but I need to check the energy output on a medium fighter. My current guns drain my energy meaning I dodge waiting to recharge. Also, I am not that great a shot, so my previous low energy loadout meant I could just keep my finger on the trigger and hope something hit. Going to sit back and do some exploring and storm chasing. Maybe check for some fancy equipment. See if I can rank up in some stormchaser chapters. I also need to see if I can buy some favour with the criminal factions, as I suspect my relationship with the union military may worsen in the course of the main story.

Which does make sense. If people who can play it for "free" as part of a subscription can't be bothered to download it, that is bad. So it can be a good indicator of failure. And they should have statistics of new subs who then proceed to download and play this.

Didn't I warn you? Sorry. Watched three episodes last year.