What games are you playing 2: The revenge

Argosh

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Yeah, I always seem to get stuck on oil, everything goes smoothly until then. Finding good blueprints helps though.
 

chronodekar

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Yeah, I always seem to get stuck on oil, everything goes smoothly until then. Finding good blueprints helps though.
One of the challenges with oil in factorio, is that it is the first (and possibly, ONLY) resource which produces multiple items. i.e. IIRC you put water and raw oil into a refinery to get light oil, heavy oil (and possibly one more thing). The problem is that you likely only need one thing. But if you do not drain out ALL the other created resources, the refinery won't work.

One very, *very* early-game cheesy idea, is to pump all the extra material into a liquid storage tank. When its full, just pick it up into your inventory. Place it back down again, but the contents will be empty! Sure, you lose all that material, and I won't recommend this long-term. But its a useful stop-gap measure.

-chronodekar
 

Argosh

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Yeah, helps you learn ratios but really annoying when you forget one small thing and after working for 10 minutes, it suddenly stops.
I usually convert them to solid fuel cubes but at some point I still have too many of those. And then the fun part of the game, when you figure out how to balance them and things work :D
 

chronodekar

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Yeah, helps you learn ratios but really annoying when you forget one small thing and after working for 10 minutes, it suddenly stops.
I usually convert them to solid fuel cubes but at some point I still have too many of those. And then the fun part of the game, when you figure out how to balance them and things work :D
That reminds me! Those solid cubes? You can use them as furnace fuel. It's one way to get rid of them.

-chronodekar
 

seitora

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Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster

After Yoyogi Park, I got through the Amala Temple sequence as well. I really love the scenery in this area :). Not too much to say about that. Then I tackled some more of the optional bosses, before going to do the 3rd Kalpa. This was...a little bit annoying, with the whole Raidou chase sequences, but it's not too difficult once you cotton on to using the split paths to lure him down one side and run down the other.

Demi-Fiend at Level 70. Compendium at 50%.
 
Started playing FFXIV yesterday, and have gotten my Gladiator up to level 22 so far.

Also, I really want to punch whoever thought it was a good idea to charge for Fast Travel.
 
That ... is horrible. Cash gouging. Yuck.

-chronodekar
It's just in-game currency, but given how little you get from early quests, it means a lot of running from one city to another if you don't want to bankrupt yourself.
 

seitora

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Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster

After a period of overtime hell (thank goodness it is paid OT), I got back into the game. Made my way up to the Diet building and cleared out the Fourth Kalpa as well. I'm aware I'm close to the end game, so I will focus on clearing the Fifth Kalpa as well and trying to increase my Compendium percentage before I move towards finishing up the end game.

Demi-Fiend at Level 75. Compendium up to 59% now.
 

LORD_ARM

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Started playing FFXIV yesterday, and have gotten my Gladiator up to level 22 so far.

Also, I really want to punch whoever thought it was a good idea to charge for Fast Travel.
A bit of a tip, don't go into crafting/gathering until you hit Level 80. It's a time/money/bag space sink.
 
A bit of a tip, don't go into crafting/gathering until you hit Level 80. It's a time/money/bag space sink.
I wasn't planning to. I want to try and beat Ultimate Weapon in time for the FFXV event re-run, so I don't really have time for that.

Gladiator is up to level 26 now though.
 

Zetas

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@MastaofBitches If your trying to go for the Regalia mount during the event which is like 200k gsp, you can kinda get like 60k gsp a week from doing the fashion report for pretty cheap usually.
 
@MastaofBitches If your trying to go for the Regalia mount during the event which is like 200k gsp, you can kinda get like 60k gsp a week from doing the fashion report for pretty cheap usually.
I'm aiming for the outfits mainly, and I only just hit level 27 last night and did the Ifrit fight. I'm not sure I've enough time to hit 50 and beat Ultimate Weapon.

What is the Fashion report though? I did only unlock the Golden Saucer last night as well.
 

Zetas

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Fashion report is basically themed dress-up in Gold Saucer using gear from all over the game, usually theres a easier solution to get an 80% score which is usually all you really need to get the 60k mgp a week from it. I know the Reddit usually has the solutions out on friday, although you might have to dig through the comments for a solution that you can work with at your level.

As for Ultima, he's part of the Praetorium story dungeon, so when you hit 50 you'll be basically there after a bit of questing and dungeons.
 
Fashion report is basically themed dress-up in Gold Saucer using gear from all over the game, usually theres a easier solution to get an 80% score which is usually all you really need to get the 60k mgp a week from it. I know the Reddit usually has the solutions out on friday, although you might have to dig through the comments for a solution that you can work with at your level.

As for Ultima, he's part of the Praetorium story dungeon, so when you hit 50 you'll be basically there after a bit of questing and dungeons.
I only started playing 4 days ago, I'm only level 28 how would I get the gear for something like Fashion report? Especially since I only just joined a Grand Company, and can't figure out how to get passes to buy Chocobo Insurance.
 

Zetas

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I only started playing 4 days ago, I'm only level 28 how would I get the gear for something like Fashion report? Especially since I only just joined a Grand Company, and can't figure out how to get passes to buy Chocobo Insurance.
Usually when its a Sprout friendly week, most of the gear is vendor crap, dyes on the other hand are either crafted or bought on the AH. As for the Chocobo insurance, you need to buy it from the GC vendor for 1k seals in the materials tab, so that means doing a few Fates out and about in the world.
 
Insurance was only 200 Seals, and I got them from just speaking with Minfilia and formally completing the quest.

Now I just need to do the Sylph quest, and I can Class-Up into Paladin, after which I will see about the Golden Saucer, and the currently ongoing event.
 
Level 42 Paladin, and I'm doing the stupid feast quest before the Titan fight. Really need to sort my hotbar out, but I don't actually know what skills I need immediate access to.
 

Jimbobob5536

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Started playing Demon Souls on PS5.
Never played the original version.
Currently about to head into the Tower of Latria.
 

Zetas

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I don't know what the hell this healer in FF14 was doing in this dungeon i just finished tanking was doing. Literally the first pull of the damn dungeon i get killed by like 6 mobs since this idiot is just running around spasmodically. The rest of the damn dungeon this guy is either pulling mobs like hes a hunter in WoW thinking that he can misdirect or healing so poorly i have to pop cooldowns like crazy to not eat linoleum.
 
I don't know what the hell this healer in FF14 was doing in this dungeon i just finished tanking was doing. Literally the first pull of the damn dungeon i get killed by like 6 mobs since this idiot is just running around spasmodically. The rest of the damn dungeon this guy is either pulling mobs like hes a hunter in WoW thinking that he can misdirect or healing so poorly i have to pop cooldowns like crazy to not eat linoleum.
I mean, he probably was a Hunter in WoW and just thought he could play FFXIV the same way.
 

seitora

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Parascientific Escape: Cruise in the Distant Seas

Playing this game, which is a 3DS eShop only game. The basic game is a point-and-click that's a little bit of a low-budget version of 999 (How Long to Beat has it at 9 hours). Through the Prologue and part of the 1st chapter. Moderately fun and an alright time to pass on the night shift. The basic story is a girl searching for information about her adoptive father and sister, and getting invited to a cruise on a new cruise ship on its maiden voyage, only to get stuck on the ship after a manmade bomb goes off. In the setting, a small minority of the population has psychic powers, including the protagonist Hitomi herself. Music so far is...a little meh with the soundtracks. I also feel like the backgrounds are a little too crowded, since when I attempt to look at one object in the background, I'm often accidentally pressing another object instead.
 

chronodekar

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I bought "Twelve Minutes" on steam;
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097200/Twelve_Minutes/

The premise is about a guy stuck in a time-loop. There is a story in here, but will not speak of it to avoid spoilers.

The core concept of time-looping intrigued me. This is published by the folks who made the *very* excellent "Outer Wilds" game and I had good expectations ... which fell flat. In Outer Wilds, there is an in-universe explanation for the time-looping. With 12 minutes? It's some kind of a gameplay mechanic. I got 3 or 4 "true endings" or achievements, but each time the loop would just restart.

The "story" in here is, IMO, poorly executed - especially the dialog choices. SOMEone screwed that up. Without mentioning spoilers, let me say that we can talk about events A, B and C in that order. The problem is that after you talk about C, the rest of the dialog seems to indicate that we never spoke of event A. It reminds me of a badly written visual novel, where you are on a dialog tree, but accidently jump into a totally separate dialog branch.

It spoils the mood.

For better or worse, most of the endings are just sad/bittersweet. Depending on how you play the game - some of the puzzles are just ... baffling. You keep wondering what you are supposed to do (I got by with an online walkthrough after a certain point).

Price of the game is CAD $30. That's waay too over-priced and I feel like a sucker for grabbing this one within a week of launch. Forget sale events - I say to skip this game altogether. It was just disappointing.

-chronodekar
 
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seitora

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I played Fault Milestone One

It is a VN. I got it from a Humble Bundle a few years ago. The dialogue and characters and music and backgrounds are all passable, if nothing special. The narrative, however, is a hot mess. The first 45 minutes or so are a princess and her attendant/bodyguard escaping from their kingdom after it's overthrown by invaders. They run to a backwards, podunk country that uses science instead of magic for its technology. Then it suddenly goes into a 3-hour long plot about the background history of the local new money-cum-industrialists family, with a little bit of steampunk and androids and 'what is a human' philosophy thrown into the mix. Then in the last 5 minutes of the game, the script suddenly remembers it had a war in there, and hightails the plot back in that direction. The end.

There is a sequel, which was also apparently included in that Humble Bundle since I have it in my Steam library too. I may as well play it for completion's sake, assuming it actually completes the story and isn't episode two of a now-cancelled series.
 
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