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STALKER 2 delayed until December. Not wholly unexpected, given that it is GSC Gameworlds and STALKER we're talking about and that Ukraine faces the possibility of invasion.

Most interesting change is the ability to purchase settlements by way of diplomatic agreements or, presumably, purchasing them with currency. Can't tell you how many times in the previous game a playthrough was undone due to an ally taking over a settlement to complete a province.

Didn't seem like there was an appropriate place to put this in the Computer and Video Games board: Pretty much sums up all my playthroughs. Bear Flag Republic 4 Lyfe.

There were some complaints that Creative Assembly (and by extension Games Workshop given that they're writing new rules for the faction for the WHFB revival) leaned too heavily into that aspect of Kislev. These appears to be less to do with any perceived stereotyping (hell, there even is a new character that borrows some visual cues from Rasputin) and more that it made the faction feel a bit one-note (bear mounts for generals, cannons hauled into battle by bears, a Kaijiu-sized bear spirit). In contrast the brand new Cathayan faction looks to be a lot more well-thought out, drawing from a wider breadth of Chinese sources (Taoist sorcery, Terracotta warriors, sky-lantern hot-air balloons. I'd be very surprised if in future DLC for the faction they don't get one of those stone lions as a new unit). Come to think of it, Games Workshop would be leaving a load of money on the table if they didn't make a new model of an old lady riding into battle in her chicken hut.

Of which the 3rd installment will feature bears, Cenobites, anti-vaxxers, fat bastards, and more! Or, if you mainly play as the Wood Elves like me, the opportunity to meet interesting and stimulating peoples and creatures of far-off lands... and kill them.

From a lot of others' playthroughs I've seen they have armies re-named "Trash-1", "Trash-2" ad-infinitum to store un-wanted army units since army slots for generals are at a premium and they cannot be disposed of conveniently otherwise. The Crusade mode of the game could certainly use a "disband unit" option a la the Total War games so as to reduce the amount of busywork sorting through what armies need to be moved or not.

He also tried to have a little girl burned at the stake, but leaving him alive is one of only two ways (the other exclusive to Trickster only) to...

Hey, there's even a name for this effect. The few economies that were inoculated against it such as Norway were able to weather the shock in commodities prices due to pre-existing attitudes towards a storage economy, transparent financial disclosures, as well as diversified industries that were competitive with other developed-world economies where Soviet industries in areas like civil aircraft experienced wholesale collapse once exposed to foreign competition.

Hey thanks! And to you as well @KP on top of ZA WARUDO! Managed to win a key for the DLC season pass, but on and off whenever the inspiration hits me I'll do a quick cartoon and occasionally will get responses that say they managed to brighten someone's day, and given that most of the creative stuff I do for a living is largely soulless those are the greatest rewards. Have an idea for a strip featuring Aivu, so stay tuned. @ChairchuckerSame here. Did a restart for a playthrough that was going wonderfully because I had sold some of the buff books to a vendor I no longer had access to before I learned their significance, and even re-speccing a bad character build feels a bit... dirty, with all the weird bugs with the current implementation and how it effectively functions as a free Scroll of Atonement.

I enjoyed it well enough, enough so that I've decided to re-visit it a little over half a year after my last playthrough. I was looking forward to it less because I see the CDPR label as an assured sign of quality (even once you get past the bugs the game still has some gameplay balancing issues, many of them glaring) and more because I go gaga over anything set in a cyberpunk setting, so my character zipping all over Night City like Priss Asagiri and beating up people with cyborg arms under neon lights made it worth the price of admission.

Bought the hardcover Sky Doll collection. Sadly it was pouring all day on delivery day and the delivery guy in his infinite wisdom left the package out in the rain with no plastic covering (when it should have been apparent that the rain wasn't going to miraculously let up when he put it down). Pages were on matte pages (one of the nice things about European comics is they don't skimp on when actually putting things to print) so it's entirely readable but there's still significant waterlogging damage to the book.

I'm unsure as to whether or not the contributions of a contractor managed to make it into the game or were completely expunged (a cursory scan through Discord and the forums have not yielded an answer for me), but if it was the former and if all the companions were in a police line-up my choices for the one he had a hand in would have been either Regil or Ember. Ember in my mind shares some thematic similarities with Kreia, with dare I say shades of Ossie Davis as Da Mayor in the sense that she's a tramp that has to remind people to abide by really basic stuff, of which some of her pleas still falls on deaf ears ("Always do the right thing." "*Blinks* That's it?" "That's it." "I got it. I'm gone."). Earlier in the thread there was some discussion on some of what I call the really wonky pacing of difficulty in game, specifically the Chorussina/Blightmaw encounter. Lizard brain tells us upon seeing the summoning ritual that you kill the sacrifices as quickly as possible to interrupt the summoning of a TPK baddie. Ritual stopped. But instead the Wizard leading the ritual turns out to have been an even greater threat than the Demon himself with 15 attacks with stratospheric AB per round, and what's more allowing the ritual to be completed and killing Blightmaw yields the exact same material reward _AND_ nets you even more EXP. Wait, what?

Something I've been working on and Owlcat just opened up a WotR Meme contest, so it has become my entry. As one reviewer put it, Ember is the most powerful being in all Golarion after the Commander of the Fifth Crusade. A fact of which her archetype and build are only partly to do with it

New Immolation joint in February. With this, Total War: Warhammer III, and Elden Ring that month is going to be pretty exciting.

You really have a problem with Tim Bentinck's acting?

I do get some real Roy Batty at the end of <<Blade Runner>> vibes from Karan's narration. Bonus points that there is a location in the Homeworld galaxy that is called the "Tenhauser Gate".

And a Homeworld 3 trailer: What a time to be alive.

Five new screenshots of STALKER 2.

As Irabeth and Anevia were present in the original Adventure Path and their background has been imported into the CRPG unchanged it would seem to me that if you were a Pathfinder player who liked the fluff and were still onboard for the computer game Anevia's storyline either elicited a positive response from you or you've long since made your peace with it if not. And if the <<Kingmaker>> and <<Wrath of the Righteous>> CRPGs were your entry-points to the Pathfinder background and you complained about Paizo and Owlcat writers (even if, as some pointed out earlier, the latter somewhat bungled the approach to it) "cramming a wokish SJW agenda down the throats of the audience", well tough break pal, because where were you in 2013 when the Adventure Path was published?

@ComradeYellow You perhaps live in some alternate reality in which two members of the Democratic Caucus in the US Senate refused to toe the line on the initial $3.5 trillion bill and the Biden administration had to forlornly acquiesce to their demands for a severely cut down bill, rather than having them airbrushed from party photos and sending a bill for the bullet to their widows. Or maybe you missed all the Bernie Sanders "Hindsight 2020" shirts out there.

On that note, I will addend this with a quote from Hyman G. Rickover, which is displayed on a plaque in (funnily enough) Rickover Hall at Annapolis:

From the store page for the Season Pass one of the confirmed DLCs takes place after the main campaign featuring your MC so as to have an opportunity to have 7-8 more hours with your OP Mythic Rank 10 character. That does beg the question as to what challenge there is left for an MC that did the Ascension ending. Is your now Demi-god(dess) character going through Thanatotic Titans as if they were kobolds?