The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Kirsten]

pretty much, the ball cannot be played forward to you if there is only one opposing player between you and the opposing goal. so that usually means there has to be at least the goalkeeper and one defender otherwise you can't be passed to, you have to run back to be level with the defender.

[Mr Mystery]

pretty much, the ball cannot be played forward to you if there is only one opposing player between you and the opposing goal. so that usually means there has to be at least the goalkeeper and one defender otherwise you can't be passed to, you have to run back to be level with the defender.

This has always bugged me.

Let's say I'm a footie manager, and my lads/lasses bag an early goal. My tactic from there would be 'right, everyone up the other end of the pitch, very quickly....NOW' Oh dear other team! Yous is all off-side!

[Kirsten]

the problem there is that you cannot be offside in your own half, and you cannot be offside from a goal kick or throw in. so if you send all your players up field to catch everyone out, they can goal kick past you. or of course counter attack in the usual way.

[Psychosplodge]

yeah I downloaded Fractured Space, it was free one weekend on Steam. not tried it yet though.

I did try the Elite demo on Xbox One, and the tutorial was pointless. tells you to destroy some barrels, but gives you no clue as to the buttons. that in itself was ok, I looked them up and started firing, but after burning through five magazines of ammo against the first barrel, and it still not breaking, I stopped.

Get closer.

I've obviously "leveled up" too much in WarThunder, as it's chucking me into battles with tier 2 tanks when I'm still riding around in tier 1 tanks, and I'm getting my arse handed to me. Had to start playing "realistic" battles to get rid of the name markers etc to give me a chance to ambush as head to head I might as well not bother.

[Kirsten]

I tried getting closer. even where I started off the rounds were clearly hitting the target, and doing nothing. it didn't bother giving any kind of guidance at all either, no controls of any kind. literally just 'shoot these barrels'. if they aren't going to make an effort, then neither am I.

[Psychosplodge]

I sold my guns anyway so I could jump further. The ones you start with are so underpowered they're just dead weight.

[Kirsten]

I never played the first Elite anyway I don't think. I did pay a lot of Freelancer back in the day though, and a bit of X. I like the genre.

[Psychosplodge]

I didn't play the original. I did play a lot of X2, a good chunk of freelancer, and a bit of X3.

[Kirsten]

I played some X2 and bought X3 but it would never work, despite being way over the recommended specs. I had the most badass flight stick too, Saitek Cyborg Evo, great quality, really cheap. something like 14 buttons, throttle lever, and amazing force feedback options, including a load of pre-programmed ones that you could apply to anything you wanted, and included things like 'godzilla approaching'.

[Psychosplodge]

lols. I never had any real problems beyond it crashing every couple of hours. Which meant I couldn't leave the AI exploring overnight for me.

That sounds an awesome stick.