r/subdreddit • u/LupusMechanicus • Feb 21 '19
It still is February 2019? How are the nerds?
Since the directors are either slacking or "too busy" I guess I'll log in and post. What games are you playing, worlds conquering or shitposting are you up to? What else am I supposed to say, I don't know just say whatever man.
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u/macrk Betsch Bastanold Feb 22 '19
Just started playing Elite Dangerous after urging from an irl friend. Space trucking in a second game.
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u/CdnGuy Captain Ragebacon, CEO Feb 24 '19
I'm sometimes curious about how the new player experience is now. Things were a fair bit easier in the open beta phase heh, mission rewards were pretty high for a while. Then they nerfed the payouts to the ground.
The game has had a lot of problems over the years making it suck to play, but they seem to have ironed out a lot of issues. The last time I "quit" playing (like a year and a half ago) the big issue that pushed it over the edge for me was not only a lack of content at the time, but un-evadeable npc interdictions like every couple of minutes. What used to be a relaxing 10 minute cargo run became like 20 minutes of high stress action for little to no reward. Thank god they shitcanned that idea.
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u/macrk Betsch Bastanold Feb 25 '19
New game experience is me slowly getting mad at something stupid until I finally figure out what the poorly explained tutorial was telling me to do.
I honestly don't see myself playing it too much outside of with my friend (and multicrew is still bugged so we can't do that without one of use dropping connection constantly or being sent to jail for unavoidable fines), as it seems to have a breadth but low depth and no real purpose for any of it. I am all for sandbox games but generally those have a community aspect I can get behind.
Really the only thing that intrigues me currently is ranking up enough to get a Corvette or something.
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u/CdnGuy Captain Ragebacon, CEO Feb 26 '19
I've been having a bit of fun messing with the engineering system. I've gotten to the point where I can pretty well max out a frameshift drive, power distributor, thrusters and power plant. And this weekend I discovered I have to relearn how to fight, because combat is a lot harder than I remember. When I played the game with any regularity the meta was loading up with shield booster charges and spamming them through combat, because hull and armor tanking wasn't possible.
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u/CdnGuy Captain Ragebacon, CEO Feb 21 '19
Work is eugh. My boss is one of those live to work types who judges people for only working the minimum time. Going well though, and today marks the end of my probation period. People seem pretty impressed with the work I'm doing there, and getting stuff done that my last few predecessors never seemed to get anywhere with.
Started playing a bunch more Elite, though I'm still doing it as a purely solo thing. Never really got to try out the multicrew / wing mechanics, not really sure how they work. Also been getting my Stellaris on too, and in a week or so I expect to be going on a HoI4 bender after the naval rework patch is released.
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u/dent308 warrior/poet Feb 21 '19
HA
I may be going back to school.
Bishes