Went back to Fallout: New Vegas today. I completed the Old World Blues DLC last week and just today started Dead Money, the last DLC I have left to play.

When I played the end of the game prior to starting the DLCs, I decided to help the NCR. But I think when I finish Dead Money and any other loose ends in the main game, I'm going to go the Independent route. I believe it is in the best interest of both the Mojave Wasteland and the NCR. The Mojave shouldn't be forced to be part of the NCR and the NCR is spreading itself too thin. I guess the way my character is going to think of it is, basically, "I want to help the NCR to show I have no animosity toward them and so we can annihilate the Legion, but the NCR is also unfairly taking over the Mojave and I am going to make that known as well. The Mojave is better off determining its own fate, and the NCR is spreading itself out too fast and too thin to effectively hold onto the Mojave."

Still playing world of warcraft. Almost exclusively actually. Leveled my shadow priest and working on gearing her.

I'm an insufferable altaholic.

Playing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands for the Xbox One S. I'm so glad I decided to switch to to the Xbox side, but now I need to get a rechargeable battery pack for the controller, right now its wired but I like having a wireless controller.

Just managed to clear 26 flags in Survival Endless in Plants vs Zombies. Previous record 22 flags.

A couple days ago, on Dec. 29th, I decided to fire up Oblivion. I hadn't played the game since Dec. 29th of last year, apparently. I certainly was rusty, but my character is plenty powerful so it wasn't a big deal (although enemies like goblin warlords take FOREVER to kill because of the trash level scaling system). I was searching for that Shadowbanish Wine, but after only getting a couple bottles and coming up empty-handed on the next 2 forts, I decided "screw it" and just consoled in 4 more bottles. Still had fun, though. Wanted to be able to say I had played it at some point in 2018.

For a similar reason, I played Morrowind this morning as well. That took some getting used to again too. Came across the trader Tinos Drothan on one of those islands near Vivec, and killed his guards that stole his raw glass and then I returned the glass to him. Where did I start from in the play session? I had just killed Vivec. Totally forgot about that. Steam didn't have the date that I last played the game, so I assumed that I had not played it at all in 2018 (although I think I had way back in the beginning of the year).

It's been much longer since I played Arena or Daggerfall, and certainly much longer since I played Redguard. I last played Skyrim back in June, so I left that alone. Online was last played in January.

Which reminds me: I still have yet to go back to Battlespire. Only have one hour in it and it has been a long time, so I will just restart it. I'm sure it will be a trip, but it's the only non-mobile TES game that I have yet to conquer.

This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: Dec 31 2018, 10:28 PM

My Sith Inquisitor is all caught up with SWTOR now, done all the expansions and up to date with the new story stuff - this prequel to the next expansion is looking really good, finally going back to some classic Empire vs Republic from the looks of things.

Today's game time was devoted to Transport Fever. A goodly portion of my several sessions was spent riding the rails on various trains. I also rebuilt track at several locales to remove pronounced dips and bumps, with varying degrees of success. I did not, however, work on my current TpF YouTube video project. Totally forgot about that until now.

Completed the Dead Money DLC for Fallout: New Vegas. Now it is time to tie up loose ends in the main game and then to finish the Second Battle for Hoover Dam for the independent ending.

As threatened, I uploaded a new Transport Fever Ride-Along episode to YouTube this morning. It is now processed and ready for view.

There's not much to this one. It's a simple, short train ride between two Railway Passenger Stations. Scenery is pretty basic, little more than wooodlands bordering tracks on either side. It was filmed utilizing the recently released mod Camera Views Add-On. I confine myself to only one of its camera positions, side-views, as that's the one I like best.

For me YouTube playback looks relatively decent at 1080p in either "default" or "theater" mode. Going full-screen results in too much blurriness to suit me. You are of course welcome to try full-screen at your own risk. Who knows, your results may differ from mine.

I already discovered two spelling errors. The first was an honest typo in the video title I was able to correct after the fact. The second is a brain-fart error in a text blurb, Dunwick rather than the correct Dunwich, that alas can not be fixed without re-uploading the video.

Thursday Morning Addendum:
Doh! Discovered another non removable brain-fart text mistake. At this rate I might need to seriously consider deleting and re-upload.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jan 3 2019, 03:19 PM

Playing some Rainbow Six Siege on the Xbox.

A bit of Assassin's Creed: Origins, which I test-drove from Redbox a year ago. I will return to it sooner, I am sure.

Slightly more Far Cry: Primal... of the several FC games I have played, I find this one the most clunky, a lot of the adaptation of the Dunia Engine feels like it was just sort of tossed in there with no real creativity (and there is the whole deal that the world map was a straight port of the map from FC 4... which doesn't bother me except as an indication of a lack of interest by the game developers).

On deck is Red Dead Redemption 2, which I am hoping will live up to (at least some of) the hype...

You're good at this

Also, seen full-screen your video at 720p looks better than mine ,which are filmed and uploaded at 1080p. What's the secret of your file uploads? Bit Rate? Frame Rate? And so on.

Aaaah, this footage reminds me both of when playing Rainbow Six at a friend's house all night and when playing Deus Ex where you board the plane

Thanks though I've had training on the PS4 version; however, I'm suspecting there's been a well needed update that tinkered with the enemy's aim as there's times being shot at I would have either been dropped to critical health or killed specially with Maverick. He's the game's Glass Canon as his weapon is extremely powerful but he can't take much punishment.

As for my recording, its straight from the game console itself. I can record up to 10 min of gameplay on the Xbox One, wait for it to upload to cloud then with the Xbox app on my laptop I can pluck the files from that cloud and edit it and upload from there.

As for my play style...I've had experience playing stealthy thanks to games like the Metal Gear series and Splinter Cell. I also play similar to games like Battlefield 5 where I'll try to sneak on an enemy rather then go all Rambo and hopes of killing the target .

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Jan 2 2019, 10:33 PM

Getting my face wrecked in PvP, courtesy of my guild YouTube channel. Survival Instincts, Caelestrasz server.

https://youtu.be/TuQVrMMbfLQ

For a couple years now I've felt more and more compelled to get Doom 2016. However, as I'm someone who likes stealth a bit too much and a slow approach in general I don't think I will. Also I'm not skilled enough to play how I'd like to

But I wanna ask a couple of things. Has anyone here played it and if so, what did you think? I'm also curious to know if enemies in a map respawns constantly like in Bioshock 1 and 2 or not.

Khajiit has not played it. Will not play it.

I've played it (got it on the Switch) and quite enjoyed it. Fairly basic linear shooter, great action, superb soundtrack, decent story. Enemies don't respawn, and the way it usually works is that a large number will spawn when you enter a new area so you fight several waves before moving on.

<sighs> Spent part of the afternoon and evening attempting to create a random TpF map of sufficient interest to warrant use in a future play-through. Following a number of less than stellar results I elected to use the name of an actress I was in lust with (from afar of course) a good many years ago as "seed." The resultant map was very promising. The more I studied it the better I liked. It would be my next play-through's map.

Here I made my fatal mistake.

So long as the same creation parameters are set, generating a map using the same seed should always provide identical results. That being the case I decided to forgo saving the map and regenerate it after researching several mods. That done, I launched TpF and attempted to create a new copy of the map. It looked nothing like what I generated earlier. Thinking I must have typed the name wrong I tried again. Nope. Tried a number of spelling variants. Never generated the good map. No idea what might have changed. Whatever it is I'll never figure it out. I'm such a doofus.

Thanks! Yeah it looks kinda fun being that kind of badass, especially after having played Doom 3 where you're basically a slug with a bunch of BB guns


@Decrepit - Man, that sounds rough