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Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (2 Viewers)

Ghost Recon - I've played every Ghost Recon there has been.   And I'm freaking confused on whats going on :lol:      I think I like it, I definitely need to bump up the difficulty.

It might be me, but the menus are confusing and so are the mission, menus, imo.    I didn't realize it was this much open world.  Graphics are great but I'm still not sure how to do the spotting and stealh kills.   I like that my team will provide fire but sometimes I feel like I don't do anything :lol:   I read the tutorials but I'm still not sure how the sync shot works and I'm still not sure if I really need to driect my guys currently.

I played for a couple hours last night so I was into it but not going to lie it was more game than I expected.   

 
Bucky86 said:
Same. I'm still in the first area trying to get all the weapons attachments. The sync shot is pretty simple, but don't forget that you have to upgrade it to have more than 1 or 2 sync shots at a time.
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Are you Beandawg ?

I think so but I forget who is whom lol

 
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Cool. I saw you online, thought about popping in but was not familiar enough with what is happening.

Early rumors are PvP will realease in a couple months

 
ConnSKINS26 said:
That's a legit criticism of D:OS. I played about 6 hours, did lots of stuff in the starting town/area, and then restarted with all my new knowledge with a better party and understanding of how to play/build my characters/exploit the elemental weaknesses, etc. Much of the crafting info you'll just have to straight look up on the internet because there's no way you'd have guessed the combos, or it would have taken you hours of trial and error.

But with the knowledge I gained in my first 6 hours, my second play-through went smoothly and had some of the most rewarding turn-based strategic RPG combat I can remember since the early Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale/KOTOR days. 
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The key in Divinity is balance, and in this game, teamwork and buffs truly matter. And yes, the combat is glorious. Once you get going, it's immensely fun to take your party into battle and methodically use your learned tactics to decimate the enemy. 

Some tips:

Having a melee warrior, an archer, and two mages (each specializing in two different schools) is probably the most desirable. Although that's somewhat flexible. A full warrior and a backup warrior/mage, plus an archer and full mage is a good party too.

You also want to actually use your stuff - hoarding supplies doesn't work in this game. If you're an archer, use those special arrows early and often - they can be game-changers. 

Get your starting warrior the "Zombie" trait/talent right at the start. There's so much poison in this game that it will save your life time and time again. Need a heal? Hit him with a poison dart.

Summoning stuff (like a spider) is very powerful - summoned creatures deal damage, but more importantly, they are damage sponges, and keep enemies occupied.
 
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Has anyone noticed the machines in Horizon getting harder to kill? For example, the first time I encountered snapmaws, I was able to shoot the blaze canisters on their heads with a fire arrow, the canisters would start spewing fire for a few seconds, and then explode. Now when I try the same thing, the fire arrow just burns for a while and then stops. No spewing, explosion, nor accompanying massive damage.

I'm not sure if this is a result of the designers making snapmaws tougher in the patch that was recently released or something that happened because of the level I'm at now (I think I started to notice this around level 20-25).

 
bcdjr1 said:
Has anyone noticed the machines in Horizon getting harder to kill? For example, the first time I encountered snapmaws, I was able to shoot the blaze canisters on their heads with a fire arrow, the canisters would start spewing fire for a few seconds, and then explode. Now when I try the same thing, the fire arrow just burns for a while and then stops. No spewing, explosion, nor accompanying massive damage.

I'm not sure if this is a result of the designers making snapmaws tougher in the patch that was recently released or something that happened because of the level I'm at now (I think I started to notice this around level 20-25).
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I've noticed it as the mobs level higher.  I'd been above the mob level for most of the game and they've recently caught/outpaced me.  Got a lot of quest cleanup to finish!

 
I am not far enough along yet in Horizon to say. Maybe as you get deeper in the game, you are supposed to encounter "upgraded" techs? I don't know what makes the machines yet. But whatever it is, if it can create new types, I would think it could upgrade existing types, just like we do with weaponry now. Look at the B-52!

As for me, I am back to where I was. What took 10 hours or more before only took maybe three the second time around. But I was a little peeved with myself. I have been getting cocky. Walking around, not crouching. Running. Taking on bigger machines without any real planning. But tonight:

I went in to total stealth mode in the first story mission where you join Sona to take out the war party camp. I went in and was stealthing everything! I had the entire camp down to two corrupted Watchers when I was spotted, which was total BS to begin with. But despite that, I just stood up firing fire arrows thinking "Pfffft, two Watchers, can't touch me!" Next thing I know, not watching my health, I died. I was SO pissed. 20 minutes or so of beautiful stealthy death dealing, totally blown because I got cocky! Good wake up call I guess.
 
Bucky86 said:
Rolled with some dudes last night in the Wildlands. Got some badass guns. Definitely going with the overwatch sniper style. Upgrading my drones....cant wait to put some weapons on them. @belljr How far along are you?
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@Bucky86  honestly have no idea.   I only played for about 2 hours the first night.   I stopped a convoy (one of the side missions for the rebels). Interrogated 1 guy, rescued the other guy and choppered out.  I am currently looking for the couple.   

 
Bucky86 said:
We didn't do a ton of the story missions. They were more advanced, so we just choppered around gathering Intel and weapon pieces. Tonight I'm going to focus more on the story missions with my new weapons.
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cool/  If i'm on maybe i'll pop in.  Yeah I did I think 2 or 3 side missions.  But I did just start getting the intel and popped random bad dudes for weapons and stuff

 
belljr said:
Can someone recommend an external HDD drive, maybe 1TB to install games on
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I have two of these and have had good luck with them.  Note I purchased these for PC so make sure they work if you are using with console before buying. 

They use a USB interface. They come in 1, 2 and 3TB sizes, very small and portable.

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBUZG0010BBK-WESN/dp/B00CRZ2PRM/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1489105680&sr=8-7&keywords=wd+passport

 
Buddy Ball 2K3 said:
Just looked at this. Its a farming game??
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Yes.  Huge variety of stuff to do and I'm always cursing myself for forgetting stuff.   Days go by very quickly and your endurance bar goes down just as quick. 

The mechanics are superb and though I am typically drawn to very complex games this one has more than enough to keep me interested.   This is the first game in years to really inflict me with "one more turn"  syndrome. 

Only gotten to summer - this thing is a time suck. 

You have to be extremely impressed that one guy made the entire thing. 

 
@Bucky86 and @belljr I'm downloading Wildlands now and have the weekend off starting tomorrow. I heard in a review that once you add in even one other person it drops the AI teammates. So, if you guys play tomorrow let me know. Hopefully, I will have enough time in to be good enough that I'm not a complete burden. 

PSN: Bordman

 
bigmarc27 said:
I watched a few minutes of a twitch stream and the guy said it was basically 3rd person Farcry 3/4.  That sound about right?
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pretty much... zero wildlife though... ironic, because it's called Wildlands.   Will be interesting to see how long guys can play it before it gets too repetitive. 

 
NewlyRetired said:
I have two of these and have had good luck with them.  Note I purchased these for PC so make sure they work if you are using with console before buying. 

They use a USB interface. They come in 1, 2 and 3TB sizes, very small and portable.

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBUZG0010BBK-WESN/dp/B00CRZ2PRM/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1489105680&sr=8-7&keywords=wd+passport
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I wound up finding this in the 3TB for around $90 during the holidays.  Works great and I've not had space issues since.  

 
bigmarc27 said:
I watched a few minutes of a twitch stream and the guy said it was basically 3rd person Farcry 3/4.  That sound about right?
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Yeah, in the best way. 

Co-op runs extremely smooth too.

Really enjoying it.

 
Playing GR:Wildlands and man is the Sync Shot fun. 4 man group I had to take out, two out guys used the Sync on and I shot through the 3rd to kill the 4th. Took less than two seconds and didn't even alert the perimeter guard. 

 
Borden said:
Playing GR:Wildlands and man is the Sync Shot fun. 4 man group I had to take out, two out guys used the Sync on and I shot through the 3rd to kill the 4th. Took less than two seconds and didn't even alert the perimeter guard. 
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When you fire does the sync shot fire?

I've been having to hold the engage button

 
This Nier Automata game looks awesome too. So many games I wanna play. Target has a buy 2 get 1 sale ending today. I might just buy HZD, nier, and re7 although I won't be able to play any of them for awhile as I'm balls deep into zelda right now. 

 
Finally beat Nioh.  That was a seriously hard game.  There's a NG+ feature that opens up an addition tier of weapon/equipment while further ratcheting up the difficulty, but I am done.  Having played around with it a bit, it looks like Diablo-style loot farming at this point.  Good game and I definitely got my money's worth out of it.

 
IvanKaramazov said:
Finally beat Nioh.  That was a seriously hard game.  There's a NG+ feature that opens up an addition tier of weapon/equipment while further ratcheting up the difficulty, but I am done.  Having played around with it a bit, it looks like Diablo-style loot farming at this point.  Good game and I definitely got my money's worth out of it.
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how many hours did you get out of first run?

 
IvanKaramazov said:
Finally beat Nioh.  That was a seriously hard game.  There's a NG+ feature that opens up an addition tier of weapon/equipment while further ratcheting up the difficulty, but I am done.  Having played around with it a bit, it looks like Diablo-style loot farming at this point.  Good game and I definitely got my money's worth out of it.
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I keep a list of ps exclusive to get once I but the system.  Nioh and Bloodbourne are basically the two I really care about at the moment.  Maybe Horizon. 

 
NewlyRetired said:
how many hours did you get out of first run?
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I was curious about this myself.  How can you look up your playtime in a game?  

It's definitely a lengthy game.  I did a little coop, but I did not do much farming at all, and it still seemed quite long.  

 
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NewlyRetired said:
I think when watching on Twitch, when players choose Load Game, it lists hours played I believe.
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Okay, I'll try to check later on.

While I didn't farm, I did do almost all of the side missions.  To be fair, many of those are sort of padding.  They basically take a level you've already done and have you replay part of it with different enemies/placement, sometimes running it backwards, etc.  Most of the time, there's no boss in those.  The melee combat is fun enough that those were enjoyable all the way through the game for me, but I could see somebody choosing to skip most of them.

 
IvanKaramazov said:
It ended up being about 85 hours.  I'm sure a person could steamroll it in about half that time if they were so inclined.  
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that is excellent amount of entertainment for a single run, much longer than my first run of Dark Souls 3.   And end game sounds really fun too as you described it, I can't wait to play this.

I enjoy watching speed runs on Twitch.  World Record for completing main story of Nioh is 1 hour 52 minutes.

 
Scoresman said:
The new Path of Exile league is the best ever.  It's a league you want toplay if you're interested in the game.  
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I don't play leagues as I am just a standard player but the reviews for the new league are off the charts.  To pull that off just before the massive game expansion and Xbox release is pretty amazing.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I don't play leagues as I am just a standard player but the reviews for the new league are off the charts.  To pull that off just before the massive game expansion and Xbox release is pretty amazing.
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I'm a standard player too and will continue to be, but one thing they are doing with this league is bringing back legacy uniques like the 1000 HP Kaom;s chest.  Have to play the league to get them.  There's also talk that the leaguestone mechanic may end up in standard which would be amazing.  

 
As much as I am enjoying Ghost Recon I feel like it's going to take forever to actually finish the game because I'm doing all the side stuff and so the main missions

 
NewlyRetired said:
that is excellent amount of entertainment for a single run, much longer than my first run of Dark Souls 3.   And end game sounds really fun too as you described it, I can't wait to play this.

I enjoy watching speed runs on Twitch.  World Record for completing main story of Nioh is 1 hour 52 minutes.
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Just a quick update for folks who have Nioh on their agenda as one that they want to get around to at some point.  When I played through the main mission, I mostly ignored magic except for one spell that slows enemies down.  Otherwise I focused entirely on melee and ninjutsu.  Well, playing around in NG+, I realize now that there are certain spells in the magic skill tree that turn on Easy Mode, and they're not difficult to acquire.  Basically you cast the spell that slows down enemies (makes what you're about to do slightly easier), cast a debuff on them that cuts their defenses about in half, and cast a buff on yourself that roughly doubles your own damage.  Those stack, along with any other bonuses you might be getting from your weapons and armor.  I can kill bosses in NG+ with literally about 5 seconds of button-mashing once I apply this spell combo.  It is kind of game-breaking, but I am not a fan of the boss design in this game, so I am going to exploit it for a NG+ run and see how it goes.  

Honestly, I feel kind of silly that I beat my head against a wall on so many bosses and relied on summoning to get by many of them, when this cheese approach was sitting there the whole time and I never bothered to look.

 
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Just had an awesome ghost mission.

Had to kidnap a guy. Base was crawling with bad guys.  I cut the power.  Killed only the minimum. Extracted the guy and left.

Was awesome.  Did not wipe out the whole camp.  I have to go back for other goodies but I'm concentrating on the main missions now

 
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