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Haiku time!
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Just wanna reiterate this because, dawwwwwwww.
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I'm going to make a cat stew.
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It's funny - my wife is a teacher, she teaches K-12 in a psych hospital, and I was on a slight rant (that annoyed her) about why do we teach kids poetry and haiku when all it does is make kids write annoying poetry and haiku. I might have made some comments about how poetry in high school helps create things like Taylor Swift as well...
Now I guess I have an answer from many of the contests run here, poetry and haiku are useful because they can help win you games.
Do people let their soldiers get killed in XCom? I always feel bad and reload if someone gets killed.
Some people play on Ironman mode.
As someone who is just starting, would the thread collective recommend playing XCOM in Ironman mode right from the start?
I'm not against permadeath, but I'm not sure if the new XCOM is one of those games where you need to figure out the right tech/science before an ironman game becomes more than just frustrating.
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You can watch them in-client by installing the Dota 2 game you have in your library. If you are interested in learning it and want to know more feel free to friend me and ask whats up, I'm more than happy to explain stuff. Also! If you are interested in playing and not just watching I have a shitton of Dota 2 invites left!
DOTA 2 SO HYPE. Woo.
Also you can watch it here http://www.twitch.tv/thegdstudio/popout if you don't want to download/run the client.
I always play Ironman (I sort of figure most people do) so reloading isn't really an option.
Some of my early games resulted in quite a wall full of casualties. Even with the losses, I would think reloading would feel "wrong" to me. I kind of prefer the sense of feeling like the victory at the end was hard fought and paid for in blood. And there's a certain sense of loss when looking at the memorial wall near the end of a particularly tough game.
I did get through an entire Ironman Classic game once with one only casualty, though. I basically consider that the highlight of my XCOM career.
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I'd say it's more that second one. There's a definite tension in creeping your squad up into hostile territory, knowing that if you mess it up, you can't just reload. But I'd only recommend it if you're already most of the way up the learning curve. If you've not played X-Com before, your meat shields rookies are going to be dying enough to be frustrating anyway,
I'd only really suggest Ironman once you know what you're getting into and what your comfort level is.
Iron Man feels like the default mode of playing, it feels right.
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Thanks for the entries everyone!
Incidentally, no one wanted Serious Sam.
Sooo do I make another contest? Do I steam gift it? Do I just throw at the first person I find who has it on their wishlist?
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(If we're being honest, I think it's always okay to play without ironman mode. But don't tell anyone, okay? I don't want them to laugh at my eensy epeen.)
And unlike the rest of my untouched library, I actually plan on playing this one! Maybe even tonight! With People! Zooom!
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Your first XCOM run should and will be a harsh lesson about death. Use it, learn from it, don't expect to get anywhere near end game. Then, after the world has burned, start again. Eventually you will learn enough to stave off the alien apocalypse.
Then you bump up to Classic.
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As the only DotA-like game I've ever played is LoL, explain to me why DotA2 is interesting. I'm watching that stream, and the very first thing I'm noting is that the art style makes it very hard to watch; everything is blending together, be it background, creeps, or champs; even at 720p.
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But one thing has to happen first.
Does anyone know any good mods on the Steam Workshop?
It connects to the PC without hassle if you have the wireless adapter (you used to be able to buy these separately but I think they're a little pricey now apart from Chinese knockoffs...mine came with my wireless 360 controller for Windows). It came out after Shift 2 was released (I think) and it's not one of the default control configurations the game recognizes so I had to set it up as a "custom wheel." I was zig-zagging all over the place and could barely stay on the track at first, but after a couple hours of practice and a lot of fiddling with the settings I'm really starting to enjoy myself. I have it set with 0% deadzone and 100% steering sensitivity and to be honest I still feel like I have to turn the wheel a little more than I should but I'm getting used to it. My biggest gripe with it is the total lack of anything like the regular 360 controller's bumpers, which means you have to assign gear changes somewhere on the D-pad or ABXY buttons, and also (less importantly) makes navigating menus annoying.
I don't have the patience or the touch I did during my hardcore racing sim days so I have the game set on the "normal" handling model, with stuff like traction control on but with no steering or brake assists. This is a really fun game and I regret not picking it up sooner, it's a great "semi-lite" sim experience with an excellent, diverse selection of cars (especially since the PC version gets all of the DLC for free). It's a big step up from the original NFS Shift just in the sense that the cars are actually drivable out of the box, whereas physics in Shift 1 seemed to be completely fucked and pretty much required a fan patch to make them sensible.
I will say that I could really do without the commentary from Vaughn Gittin et al, though. Drift events are only a small part of the gameplay and apart from the general 'Shut up, I'm driving here bro' annoyance factor it feels really odd to have all of the quotes and stuff come from drift guys. There are plenty of actual legitimate sports car racing series drivers they could have used and you can't make me believe the fees would have been too prohibitive considering sports car/GT racing's relatively nonexistent level of popularity. I'd even rather have the generic British accented voice guy from the first Shift back. Oh well.
Haven't tried the Speed Wheel with any other games yet. Hot Pursuit's arcade-style, drifty handling I don't think would be very well suited, I'll probably stay with a regular gamepad for that. I may reinstall Dirt 3 and see how that feels, though.
Anyway, since I had asked if anybody had any experience with the Wireless Speed Wheel on PC before (even though apparently nobody did since there were no responses), I wanted to make this post to give it my endorsement in case anybody else was curious. It's not a substitute for a full wheel-and-pedals setup of course, but if you don't have the space or patience for that sort of thing the Speed Wheel is a surprisingly fun and useful alternative, especially considering you can pick one up for $20-30.
Honestly, if you don't understand DOTA or play it I wouldn't watch the stream without someone there to chat with who does. It's just one of those games that doesn't make much sense to a non-player. It's not like Starcraft where 'oh that dude just lost his army' is a fairly easy read on it. In DOTA people can lose towers or die and it can still be a positive over all for their team.
Though if you don't have DOTA, I have roughly a bajjillion copies here to send you.
Mods? Right this way!
Seriously, depends on what you're looking for. SkyUI is pretty crucial, but it requires non-workshop components be installed (Skyrim Script Extender, I think). What kinds of things do you want to add?
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So... it's like an inaccessable LoL?
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Just not easily so
It's an inaccessible LoL.
It is for "teh hardcorez." Sort of.
My main beef with it compared with LoL is the existence of hard counters rather than soft counters, a design decision that I think LoL really got right. (Soft counters mean that while some champs still handily beat other champs if counter-picked, a player with sufficient skill can overcome being counter-picked.)
Guess I should try playing some with PA types to get a crash course.
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Lets uh... lets side-step this comparison. :P
But LoL has the same problem as an e-sports honestly in that it's really hard to watch as a non-player.
I'll happily give you a crash course though.
The commentary in LoL I think is better in providing an idea of what the fuck is going on
But not much better
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"Best" Skyrim Mods
Really, you can spend more time looking for mods than playing the game. I tried to avoid adding much beyond UI/Graphic tweaks and some convenience mods. I try to stick as close as possible to the general style the developers set forth, so no new armour/weapons/spells/etc. Though, once the first playthrough is complete...look out!
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(Needless to say, I'm happy as a pig in shit to see SS2 available again though. It's been too long.)
They got the rights to it and teamed up with GoG to get a modern-PC compatible release out. The GoG version came out a couple months ago and it just now made its way to Steam.
And it's awesome. Widescreen support! 1920x1200 resolution! Add a handful of mods to update the textures, models, and some other stuff and bam, you're good to go.
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I have DOTA2 in my library?
When the fuck did this happen?
The XCOM Thread (which I wish I had more time to stay active on) has a great group of guys/gals. Specifically, @jdarksun put together a list of recruit names for XCOM which use PA Forumers (Many from this very thread). Check it out if you are interested!
It's only superficially linked to Steam, so I hope Geth forgives me. He seems to be watching me a lot lately!
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This is why I despise cyclists
I put shup and rebirth and some of the high res packs in my modstemp directory, booted it up, and crashed a few seconds into the game. Removed everything and just put shup/rebirth2 in the directories, made it to the ship, game crashed a few minutes later. (application crash with sshock2).
Will have to try it on my laptop to see if something changes.
Last year, its a free client so you can watch any of the free broadcast International games. If you don't have it automatically in your library you can get it from the dota 2 page.
Though, having a 'The' on my name might make the name a bit awkward.
I may have also gone a bit overboard with the Skyrim Steam Workshop. By... a little bit.
Edit: Oh good, I only installed... 41 mods. Pfft. Nothing bad can come of this.
For the record, I'm not trying to start any fights about the "better" game; LoL is just the most familiar reference point for me. Someone recommended watching the stream, so I am. So far, it all seems pretty arbitrary (much like LoL), but with a harder to spectate visual style.
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