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[Dark Reaper]

^Your mount is currently on fire. Also, yeah, mostly cosmetics but that's how they hook ya.

My other mount is a giant spider .

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Currently playing BATTLETECH and Khajiit is finding it very enjoyable. It’s a turn based tactical strategy game set in, yep you guessed it, the BATTLETECH universe. You create a Mechwarrior (via background choices which reflect the experience you’ve had, and a simple portrait editor where you can pick a first and last name, call sign, and define what your Mechwarrior looks like), and after a couple of introductory missions, you take full command of your very own mech mercenary company (it does start off with a preset name which you can keep or completely rename and choose new unit insignias and colors). Being in full command means you get to call the shots on how your mechs are outfitted and how your Mechwarriors progress skill wise. This also means that you are responsible for financial decisions for your company (such as paying and hiring your Mechwarriors and paying for repairs and refits for mechs) as well as choosing what contracts to take and deciding the cash to salvage ratio for your payment from said contracts. This one is not many contracts into the game but Khajiit can already tell that it’s going to be a game he plays for years to come. Definitely worth a try for anyone who likes extremely detail oriented strategy video games.

Some screens:

My Mechwarrior, Djinn “Red Crow” Kormac

Her company’s dropship (which is fully upgradable), with company name and insignia in the upper left of the pic.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Apr 27 2018, 04:33 AM

[Dark Reaper]

Bought a space flight sim on the Switch called Manticore. So far I like it.

[SubRosa]

Currently playing BATTLETECH and Khajiit is finding it very enjoyable. It’s a turn based tactical strategy game set in, yep you guessed it, the BATTLETECH universe. You create a Mechwarrior (via background choices which reflect the experience you’ve had, and a simple portrait editor where you can pick a first and last name, call sign, and define what your Mechwarrior looks like), and after a couple of introductory missions, you take full command of your very own mech mercenary company (it does start off with a preset name which you can keep or completely rename and choose new unit insignias and colors). Being in full command means you get to call the shots on how your mechs are outfitted and how your Mechwarriors progress skill wise. This also means that you are responsible for financial decisions for your company (such as paying and hiring your Mechwarriors and paying for repairs and refits for mechs) as well as choosing what contracts to take and deciding the cash to salvage ratio for your payment from said contracts. This one is not many contracts into the game but Khajiit can already tell that it’s going to be a game he plays for years to come. Definitely worth a try for anyone who likes extremely detail oriented strategy video games.

Some screens:

My Mechwarrior, Djinn “Red Crow” Kormac

Her company’s dropship (which is fully upgradable), with company name and insignia in the upper left of the pic.

Great company name!

It sounds a lot like Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. Can you salvage enemy mechs?

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Great company name!

It sounds a lot like Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. Can you salvage enemy mechs?

Thanks! Since BATTLETECH shares our real world history (to a point), the old mythologies are often referenced in the cultures of the Inner Sphere, and by extension, the Clans. So Khajiit felt safe using this name for Djinn’s merc co.

On salvaged mechs, well, Khajiit hasn’t been able to salvage a *whole* mech yet, honestly not sure that is possible, but this one has put a couple of chassis together from salvaged parts from defeated mechs. See, at the end of a mission, you get a screen listing every piece of salvage the outcome of the mission created. Mech parts, weapons and components. You get some of it (unless you opted to take no salvage and more cash), but your employer gets the rest. Now, you get first pick of the loot and can pick one item of the salvage that you really want (I pick from any mech parts here; it also tells you if you already have some matching parts for a piece of mech salvage in your ship’s storage hold), and then you are automatically assigned a certain number of random goodies from the list (maybe even more mech parts). When you collect 3 units of salvaged mech parts that belong to the same chassis variant, your mechtech will put them together into a whole mech for you and you can then fit it with weapons and field it or sell it off. You can also buy salvaged mech parts from “the store” (market).

You also have to pay attention to mech variants because different variants use different hardpoints which allow for diffrent weapon loadouts (so they aren’t interchangeable with other salvaged parts from a mech’s other variants). You can freely change the weapons on any mech variant as long as the hardpoints (and of course, current weight) allow for it. For example, you can’t put missle weapons on a mech that only has beam and ballistic weapon hardpoints, but you may find a variant of that mech that carries missle hardpoints (Omni hardpoints which allow for any type of weapon to be put there were invented by the Clans which haven’t revealed themselves to the Inner Sphere by the point in the BATTLETECH timeline that this game takes place).

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Apr 28 2018, 02:29 AM

[Decrepit]

In Transport Fever, what had been my favorite locomotive reached its obsolescence date some time ago. No more can be purchased. All of those in my fleet eventually wore out and had to be replaced, the last during this morning's session. Thankfully, I'm very fond of a number of the newer steam locos. Gads to I love steam locos!!!!!

I installed Time Warp, set to 1932, so that vehicles (and a few other things) do not progress beyond that date. I'm still a game year shy of that date, so we'll see how it goes. Also added a mod that brings back old road types. Have something like 115 mods installed, most of which are steam locos and passenger railcars.

The game has a performance patch due out fairly soon. Perfect timing. Just today I noticed my first stutters and non-game-save pauses.

A know enough now to realize how bad some of my track laying was/is. Some of that will be corrected. Some I don't dare tinker with for fear of messing up my train routing beyond repair.

I keep getting warnings that my Construction Material industrial site needs to ship out more goods. Problem is, the tracks between between the site and three of my major towns are already so congested I don't know that I dare put more trains on 'em. Spent hours trying to come up with a workable solution. Not giving up yet, but it's looking bleak. When I start a new map, I now know to "think big" and allow room for multi-track lines from the get-go.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Apr 30 2018, 12:47 AM

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Khajiit is about to be on strategy game overload. This one forgot that Total War: Thrones of Britannia drops this week.

[Dark Reaper]

Total War: Thrones of Britannia

Rule Britannia...Britannia rule the waves! Britons never-never will be slaves....

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Total War: Thrones of Britannia

Rule Britannia...Britannia rule the waves! Britons never-never will be slaves....

Yeah, exactly. The idea is that you take control of either an Anglo-Saxon faction, Vikings, or a Gaelic Clan (supposedly there are options within these groups) and lead them on the warpath to conquest, eventually taking over all of Britannia.

In today’s BATTLETECH session, Khajiit spent the last 2 hrs of play time cruising the stars and taking relatively easy contracts, trying to build up The Spears of Cernunnos’s warchest and salvage inventory. The story missions (we are currently facing only the second one of these) take a sharp curve upwards in difficulty so this one is making sure Djinn and co are as ready as they can be.

[Dark Reaper]

I'm playing Manticore: Galaxy on Fire for the Switch and its a fun space shooter and the graphics are quite nice.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

I'm playing Manticore: Galaxy on Fire for the Switch and its a fun space shooter and the graphics are quite nice.

Like star fighters?

[Dark Reaper]

Like star fighters?

I'd say more like Colony Wars on the PS1.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Like star fighters?

I'd say more like Colony Wars on the PS1.

Ok yeah Khajiit remembers that game. This one only ever played a demo of it though. PlayStation Underground \m/

[Dark Reaper]

Ok yeah Khajiit remembers that game. This one only ever played a demo of it though. PlayStation Underground \m/

I had all three Colony Wars games and beaten them though the first game is still my favorite.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia dropped today. It’s taking some getting accustomed to. It’s very familiar but also strange at the same time. The map is so dense with settlements and there are so many factions at the start of the game. It plays good though. Some of the functions have been streamlined, and this is also taking some getting used to. The battles are as engaging as ever.

[Dark Reaper]

I'm playing Shantae on the 3DS and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse on the Switch.

[mirocu]

I'm playing Shantae on the 3DS and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse on the Switch.

While holding your new AR-15. Loaded

[Dark Reaper]

While holding your new AR-15. Loaded

You know me too well .

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

Was about to play Fallout 4, but for whatever reason my last save is nowhere to be found. The latest save that shows isn't too far back, but it is just annoying. Don't know how it isn't showing up. And the time stamps on the last 10 or so saves are jumbled up. In hindsight I guess I should've known something was wrong, because the last couple sessions of playing the game the length of time between time stamps was way longer than what I had made it before. No idea what is going on.

Anyway, I decided to help out the Railroad. Annoying that I have to do some Institute quests for them to stay undercover, but I guess it makes sense. Piper is not going to like some of the choices I have to make, but she'll be fine. I've maxed out the affinity anyway. Still, I wish the game's programming would acknowledge this has to be done for the Railroad, and thus not affect affinity with Piper at all.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Was about to play Fallout 4, but for whatever reason my last save is nowhere to be found. The latest save that shows isn't too far back, but it is just annoying. Don't know how it isn't showing up. And the time stamps on the last 10 or so saves are jumbled up. In hindsight I guess I should've known something was wrong, because the last couple sessions of playing the game the length of time between time stamps was way longer than what I had made it before. No idea what is going on.

Anyway, I decided to help out the Railroad. Annoying that I have to do some Institute quests for them to stay undercover, but I guess it makes sense. Piper is not going to like some of the choices I have to make, but she'll be fine. I've maxed out the affinity anyway. Still, I wish the game's programming would acknowledge this has to be done for the Railroad, and thus not affect affinity with Piper at all.

Couldn’t you just leave her at home while on Institute business?