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But... but... X-Com: Apocalypse had a real time combat option, and it was significantly easier to win the game with it. Not to mention a truckload faster. Enemy amounts near the end really got ludicrous. Probably. I tried it for half an encounter and decided that rts mechanics does truly suck in tactical combat. Never touched it again

I know, there is an "official" happy holidays thread, but since I generally detest political correctness, let's call a spade a spade and call the holiday by its name. No, I don't really celebrate Christmas (that would make me a hypocrite in my own eyes), but I can appreciate it is a matter of importance for a lot of people. So, to all you out there who celebrate it and to whom it matters, I wish you Merry Christmas and all the best for you and your loved ones. PS: Happy New Year too to those who wont be around between the holidays.

Eric Musco on their ideas for changes to gearing More RNG Hey folks, There is some good conversation going on in this thread but I thought I would pop in and explain how it is currently planned to work in 5.1. The last boss of each Operation is guaranteed to drop unassembled pieces of a specific slot (we are still working out how many pieces drop). Each other boss in an Operation has an increasing chance (by boss) to drop any unassembled piece, not a specific slot. For the sake of the example I am about to make, I will use Karagga's Palace. Everything listed below is an example and not necessarily what will be in-game, these are just representative of the way the system will work. 1st boss (Bonethrasher) - 20% chance to drop any unassembled piece. 2nd boss (Jarg and Sorno) - 25% chance to drop any unassembled piece. 3rd boss (Foreman Crusher) - 30% chance to drop any unassembled piece. 4th boss (Fabricator) - 35% chance to drop any unassembled piece. Final boss (Jarg and Sorno) - 100% chance to drop unassembled head piece. Hopefully that clears up any confusion! -eric ...and this, is why I look forward to save *lots* of real world money 2017.

Didn't know you could get a degree in that... Me, I don't put much weight on formality, I just ask my gay friends (or a couple of family members) If I'm curious about something related to the subject. No better way to get straight (pun unintended) answers.

Ban Euro Truck Driving Simulator! Games like that lead our young astray and turn them into violent offenders. J/K of course, my condolences to the victims relatives. Sadly the latter will probably be reduced to fuel for the internal political squabbling in Germany.

My problem is, the few games I truly enjoyed in 2016 were most likely released 2015 or earlier Dishonoured (the first one) and Pillars of Eternity being the better known ones. Yes, I'm always a bit behind the curve when it comes to catching up on games. A Curious Expedition being the lesser known title I had fun playing.

Rogue has to be one of those English words that are just hard to get right. Up there with those sharp edged celestial beings (Angels -> Angles). The sheer number of Angles of Death and Rouge Traders you came across n Wh40k. Those make-up peddlers were all over the galaxy

Typical Queensland weather... did my laundry early Sunday afternoon and hung it out on the lines to dry. Late in the afternoon, I got a 5 minute warning, bright flash followed immediately by the boom knocking me backwards in my chair Sky turned pitch black in a matter of minutes and it was a mix of torrential rain, hail and thunder and lightning the following 30 minutes. Early evening and my poor clothes was soaking wet. As in way more wet than when I took it out of the washing machine At least the temperature dropped from 30c to 25c, but air humidity was through the roof.

Classless experience based. Assuming I can lump games like the Fallouts into that category? Not being much of a "power gamer" in general, I love creating outlandish, outrageous characters. A bit hit or miss if they perform well in a game, but more fun for me to play none the less.

I wish more games used the Jagged Alliance 2 / X-Com 3: Apocalypse approach... real time until combat is commenced, then turn based using an initiative system (with the hilarity that follows from bad/luck interrupt rolls)

Just go ahead and do that stuff now if you want, it's perfectly fine to do so. In my opinion, a certain dungeon beneath the hangman tree is more challenging early on, well with one clear exception, but I won't spoil anything for you. If it's the temple under the big tree, yeah, went there as one of the first things I did. Found it somewhat challenging (on default difficulty) I quite liked it though, gave me that "IWD Vibe". Off to visit the lordling it is then

Going to finish chapter 9 (last chapter) in the swtor expansion and in Pillars of Eternity, I'm going meet someone who wants to talk to me in the Ducal Palace. My expansions of the keep are coming along nicely too. Haven't seen too many of them, but some of those visitors you get were nice little distractions. Edit: Speaking of PoE I made my way to the home of that lordling that decided to hang people in the neighbourhood. Made some roads inwards in his castle, but not sure if I'm supposed to be doing that at this stage in the game or just leave it be until later.

Depending on the execution of it, they might have made it a more "credible" story by emphasizing your Mandalorian heritage rather than your bounty hunter heritage. There does seem to be some loose association between Mandalorian clans and the Empire. At least enough for them to have their own enclave in Dromund Kaas. I really resented Gault when playing my first character. Eventually he grew on me, but it did take 2-3 years of real time Edit: as for why I picked the bounty hunter for my first class, 2 reasons: Mako was cute and I loved the armour displayer on their website for the powertech class (which of course was no longer available ingame when I started playing)

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Dulfys short version of coming gearing changes *Facepalm!* Ok, who didn't see that one coming. I guess plummeting subscriber numbers must have sent them scrambling. Introducing unassembled gear token drops from ops bosses end of January.

Never underestimate the anger resulting from snowballs! Edit: Which gives 20 cxp btw when you score a snow covered parcel

The lack of any decent ending didn't ruin the game for me. Kai Leng did a much better job of that. To be fair, the ME3 had some pretty good bits of story in between the bad parts. Some of them I even found awesome.

Forgot to mention that I've been going through the Jedi Knight story with the DvL character I created for that event. I hit level 70 on Taris but my bonus series is all messed up. I was able to complete quests out of order and it seems to have broken the whole thing. I put in a ticket two days ago and still no response but I guess I shouldn't be surprised since I still have an active ticket from last week that hasn't been looked at either There is always so many bugs when they release major changes. I don't envy the CS people. Well, since Bioware doesn't seem to be happy that players don't play the game the way *they* want to, I took their not so subtle hints and went back a to my game of Pillars of Eternity. If they want me to play single player games, I'll stick with single player games that doesn't come with a monthly fee.

I stopped reading at this part 'Even without Iran’s direction and sponsorship of militias killing of thousands of American soldiers in Iraq'... Hands up anyone who believes the Sunni insurgents are supported and backed by Iran? Bonus points if anyone believes Trump is going to tell Boeing to drop the new deal for 80 airplanes destined for Iran.

Favorite Rodney Dangerfield quote: "I don't know if you are familiar with who runs that business but I assure you it is not the boy scouts." "Waste Management"... Just couldn't help reminding me of the Sopranos.

Yeah, works the same way as Bestia adds for levelling up. Kill the adds before first boss (gives 20 cxp each) and then leave and reset the instance. Rinse and repeat until bored to tears or weekly cap is hit. No, haven't done it. Levelling up a dozen alts via Bestia was more mind numbingly boring grind than any human player should ever have to suffer. Got lucky and found a group of Spaniards doing DF yesterday on Red Eclipse. Otherwise 95% of the chatter on fleet is looking for groups for grinding kp adds. Game is more dead than it has been for years. Did try two different pug groups for Ravagers with rather predictable results. One group couldn't beat sparky (no kidding), enraging first at 40% and in the best try got him to 25%. Second group was looking for a tank for master and blaster and onwards. Same result, got to burn phase a few times and couldn't beat the enrage timers. Yes, it was story mode. Sad state of affairs.

Tried a pair of hm (veteran?) uprisings yesterday. Not much to do on a lazy Sunday evening anyway. It was... Ok. At least a change from the same old flashpoints. None of us had really set foot in an uprising before, so didn't quite know what to expect. Also finished chapter 7 in the kofet story. Some gorgeous planet they constructed there. A shame it's likely to never be used for anything else.

for what it's worth, at least up to end of chapter 6, i find the story light years ahead of the first expansion. Figured i would finish it on at least one alt.

Been thinking about it a bit now that the debates seems to have quieted down a bit. Love him, hate him, I always try to think what would the alternative have been and asking myself the question, would Cuba have been better off with Castro and "communism" or Batista and low key US colonialism? I'm not convinced a continued military dictatorship would've been better.

Our raid boss thought it was a good time to prepare for NiM ops (not even level 70 yet, so we started out getting the team levelled up). As soon as the rest had hit 70, off to HM DP while being silly under geared (216/220/224 stuff). It was.... educational and you realised how much being way over geared helped you get away with a the end of 4.0. Not at least thanks to the idiocy that was dropping BiS gear from HM EV and KP. Got our work cut out for us as gearing up is not a priority until the cluster**** that is the command system gets fixed.