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Started a new run of Exogate, now that it has officially released. They toned down the squib invasions, which was the main change I had been hoping for. Third invasion put almost all my soldiers in the infirmary, but I healed up and had time to do missions before they returned. Before, in early access, I'd heal up just in time for the next invasion. Of course one of the major factions has declared war; they want to steal one of my mining operations. I have pushed them back one planet into their territory. So the priority now is to get more resources and kit out all medics with body armour - they love targeting my medics

No, not yet I went to the Athens Fashion Trade Show with forkcat accessories. The fair was dead. No attendance. So 0 sales. But I'm working on the billions.

It isn't easy to see your creation earn more success and reach a larger audience only when you give it to someone else.

Completed Dredge, both endings. So I installed that Moria dwarf simulator. Lasted up to the moment I had to construct the first wooden platform. Absolutely hated building even that, so uninstalled.

I am at 146/151 types of fish caught in Dredge. It feels wrong to give up on catching those last few.

Since when is consistency a bad thing? 😛

Maybe they'll follow the Warhammer Total War model, bring out a different Civ game for each era and then have a patch each time to combine it with the previous ones.

Hogwarts Legacy 😛 edit: ah, it isn't party based. In the FF-Tactics pixel turn based style: Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark I expect you played Tyranny and just didn't list it.

Best adventure game ever. And it is on GOG. Eric the Unready If you haven't played it, why are we even friends?

So you are all caught up on the story and ready for Avowed?

More likely it is because you didn't pay attention to the giant tentacles because you thought it was daytime and you are safe.

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