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I liked that one, it looks like some sort of Loreal product placement ad in game :pQuote:
Originally Posted by eldargal
I had the opposite problem, my Jackdaw sank to the bottom of the harbour and everybody carried on as normal...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrendian
they are straight out of a horror filmQuote:
Originally Posted by Erik Setzer
woohoo, finished Dragon Age 2, so I have completed both of them in two weeks. that means I have the weekend to play the new Mario Kart dlc, and play some Bayonetta 2, before Farcry 4 on Tuesday, and Dragon Age Inquisition on Friday.
You want pooter game? Go try warlords of Quenor! Wows latest expansion is an epic tale of crashing,server shrinking and fail!
What's new about that, WoW often has terrible queues and server issues after expansions, it's one reason why I wait for a while for things to settle down before buying and playing them.
so, This War of Mine dropped yesterday... anyone else got it?
basically, you play a couple of people during a war - but not the elite soldiers of say a CoD, nor even rank-and-file dudes: you play as a group of civilians trying to survive in a city torn apart by civil war, scavenging for supplies at night (daytime is Sniper time, and thus going out is a baaad idea) and using said supplies to try and make a living during the day. There's choices to be made - do we risk helping our neighbour who needs us to protect her and her teen daughter from looters, or is our own life more important? Do we intervene when we find a soldier assaulting a girl during one of our nighttime excursions? Do we take in another survivor who will need to be fed, but might have useful skills? Works kinda rogue-like, so no save-s******* those decisions - if and when something goes wrong, you'll have to deal with the consequences, be they desperately trying to find bandages for your wounded comrade, seeing your people fall ever deeper into depression because you robbed an elderly couple of their possessions, or dealing with the loss of a valued friend who got shot by a sniper that happened to have night-vision goggles...
Does a pretty great job of transporting the horrors a war brings to the populace... really great setting and atmosphere, and gameplay isn't half bad either! Much recommended!
There was a nice site showing web attacks live (or as live as they got the reports), and it was amazing to see how much of a concerted effort there was to just wreck Blizzard's servers. Yeah, Blizzard had a few things to clean up still (hey, we beta testers can only spot so many issues), but most of the problem was due to a combination of a lot of people returning and a massive concerted effort to shut them down. They did what they could, kept guys in late, and finally blew a load of money on upgrading hardware to help, and when they brought things back up, even though you could still see some attacks heading at them, things were a LOT smoother.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Tiger88
High Pop servers still have queues at times, but you get that with a lot of games. Hey, you want the high pop, you get to deal with it.
Since the hardware upgrade on their end, I've been able to play a lot, and spent pretty much all day yesterday playing, without trouble. No lag, no crashes, none of the madness from Thursday and Friday. So yeah, it was rough at first, but they took the time and spent the money to fix it, they didn't just sit on their hands. Only fair to give them kudos for that.
Now, that out of the way, I'll take this moment to give my impressions of it.
I am loving the expansion so far. End game will be a real test, see if the stuff there can hold my interest, but I'm only at level 99. The stories for the zones are interesting enough that I wanted to make sure to complete them even if I'd hit the level for the next zone. And the main reason I was getting much into the level "past" what a zone was is that there's a lot to do. It tends to slow you down at times if you're just wanting to quest, but it's fun. Trying to figure out how to navigate the terrain to get to a "treasure," tracking down special mobs to fill, doing bonus objectives around the map, working with the garrison, etc.
The garrison was better than I thought, and I'll already tempered my expectations so I was happy with what I expected. But it's really nice to come back to it to set up more work orders or send more followers on missions, and as you walk around the garrison you'll see NPCs that you helped out around the world while questing, sticking around your garrison to help you. There was a large tree I helped to fulfill his duty in Gorgrond, he now walks around and acts as a vendor for natural foods (which provide some buffs). There was a ghostly Gnome bartender in an area I helped (can't say where or how, that'd be a spoiler), he now walks around my garrison selling his drinks still (I should probably try them, I think they have special effects). And you can log out anywhere in the base and gain rest XP, so I walked around it, found an NPC I'd helped out in the world, and clicked on a seat to sit at a table and imagine my character talking to them as I logged out.
There's plenty of fun toys and stuff, too. And as an Alchemist, I can make plenty of useful potions again, so I'm happy. But one that's really fun is called something like "Transmorphic Tincture," which changes your gender for five minutes.
It's not all rainbows and sunshine... I've enjoyed the dungeons I've done so far, but I've only gotten one piece of gear thanks to the personal loot rolls, while watching everyone around me getting useful pieces. Ironically, that one piece was quickly replaced by a piece I got while questing (but then, you also have a chance for quest gear or drops from special mobs to be better quality, and this one ended up being top-quality). That's just leveling, though. We'll see how the top-level dungeons go, and the raids (likely will do some LFR runs while waiting for the guild to reform a raid team).
Oh, and the music is absolutely great, at least in my opinion (others might not prefer the style).
I'm glad it's holding my interest, because I don't think I'll have DA:I for a while, as much as I absolutely love the Dragon Age games. It's $60, and I already am trying to figure out how I can work a $75 book and a $66 (likely) book into my budget from GW, with it looking like I'll get the $66 book, wait for a cheaper version of the $75 book, and wait to get DA:I until after the holiday season. If not for needing to buy gifts for people, I'd be good to go, but, well... Christmas beckons.
Is is true it only takes about ten hours to get ot 100? That's one major criticism I've seen in reviews a few times, but other people have been disputing it so...
I've played casually for around 5 hours and I'm only just 93, but I've been messing about with missions and Garrisons, hunting out the Rare Elites, which are plentiful and often drop cool loot (I killed a giant Ancient that drops a toy that turns you into a grumpy immobile little treant) and reading all the quest logs and generally enjoying myself, I think if you power through quests, skip the ones you don't need to do and do a lot of random dungeons you can level quickly, but taking my time and really loving it so far, even little things like more "swarms" of enemies, 3 or 4 weaker Mobs that attack as one, meaning you have to switch things up, and more Mobs are like those in Timeless Isle where you have to move about a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by eldargal
It's likely possible, if you have higher end raiding gear that's fully upgraded (+16 item levels) from MoP, and you skip quest text, and you just blaze through.Quote:
Originally Posted by eldargal
For those of us who are going around messing with the fun stuff and all? Nope.
I just turned 99 last night. On Thursday I was able to play an hour or so, maybe longer, in between all the mess. About 3-4 hours Friday night, I think (it's hard to tell with all the mess with the queue and all). Saturday night, played a couple hours after getting home from the game store. And then yesterday I played for about 12-13 hours, with some breaks here and there. (Hey, it was really fun, and I didn't have an NFL game to watch as it's my team's bye week.)
So yeah, you can speed rush to the top level with good enough gear. But then you'll miss the story, and have to skip a lot of stuff, to do so. If that's what someone enjoys, okay.
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