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so, i jumped in to NMS again last night for about an hour and a half. am i the only one doing the whole ‘hey, i just drop down to this planet to scout a few resources, then jump back out and piss off to the next star system’ only to get down there, scan the shit out of everything, go on a massive mining quest, run 5 to 10 minutes away from your ship just to chase down one more word of the native language, to then see another one after a scan, and another and another. and before you know it, you’ve spent about 5 or 6 hours on a planet that you only meant to spend about 20 minutes on?
That’s pretty much how I’ve been playing it so far, yeah. Although it’s not so much an intention to only spend 20 minutes there yet, moreso the thought that maybe I should try and only spend 20 minutes there this time.
ha ha, yeah. thats what i said on my last two planets. (im only on my 5 or 6th planet)
When you realize you’ve scanned 10/12 animals in the first five minutes of exploring then spend the next four hours trying to find the last 2. 😛
yeah, this has been me on 2 planets now (im only on my fifth planet) ive got my scanning up to about 87% and then cant find anything new after an hour or 2. i suauly go about exploring and mining and then scan around when im at these destinations, looking for the elusive red dots on my scanner.
And yet people are moaning about how it’s not as advertised and trying to return it after playing it for 30-40 hours.
Personally the only thing keeping me from playing it is that it would be slightly inconvenient with it being on PS4. Since it may potentially release on Xbox One, I’m happy to wait.
Oh, God. I haven’t been on one of these in a long time. Er…… Hi?
Hello!
*waves*
*waves back*
What about this weather, hey?
What have you been playing recently?
Dead Rising 3 DLC, waiting for Mafia 3.
What about you?
Our main current game at the moment is Oceanhorn which is basically a PC version of wind waker.
Interspersed in that with fallout 4, borderlands 2 DLC and an attempt to 100% hand of fate
I attempted to play through Fallout 4’s endgame missions, but I got bored and, with no guarantee of closure, I gave up.
Hand of Fate looks interesting, though. Worth playing?
GOTY 2015 for me
I love everything about it, the multiple runs to unlock more cards, the boardgame feel and atheistic. The shuffling card which is the ‘random’ selection is something my wife can help with so she is engaged as well.
Oh hai
Mornin’ TAYters!
Spent the weekend in Toowoomba for a very nice wedding between some friends. Ended up driving home last night at 11, and in to work at 7 today.
Am tired.
Won’t be having my wedding on a Sunday.
You’re welcome.
Hey! I was from Toowoomba originally. Now I live between tassie & Melb. Which is why I usually miss out on cool video game stuff in the city unless I spend some bucks to fly over. I wanna go see Kingsglaive : (
Good man.
The other thing people love doing for their weddings is having them at idyllic, serene, gorgeously scenic, MIDDLE OF FUCKING NOWHERE locations designed explicitly to host weddings and nothing else, meaning every guest has to drive six fucking hours to stay in shitty B’n’Bs with no one-night-only vacancies, that gouge you more than a penthouse at the Marriott, and are surrounded purely by little boutique antique-shop cafes that charge eight bucks for a coffee.
So… don’t forget to do that. Your guests will love it.
I like your curmudgeoness!
Yeah. That’s why we did ours at a pub right in the centre of Melbourne on a Saturday afternoon (when there was no footie on because we’re NICE).
Morning all. The SO fell into Super Mario Maker quite hard this weekend. It was fun to see, and she’s actually pretty good at level design.
Otherwise we went to see Kingsglaive at Dendy in Canberra, but they showed it at the wrong aspect ratio, so half the movie was cut off and faces were squished. Many people complained but they didn’t fix it. Some of you might have been there too? Thankfully they refunded our tickets and gave us complimentary tickets on top of that.
On the one hand: Yay! Free tickets!
On the other hand… I’m guessing they were only for Dendy. So, boo.
We were kind of lucky. They had our showing booked in to one of the smaller Event Cinemas theatres, but ‘due to demand and community feedback’ they upgraded it to a vmax showing.
I say ‘kind of lucky’, because while this meant that the film came out gorgeous, it also meant that there were no couples’ seats for us to share. Which bummed me out a little. But the movie was pretty and more involved than I expected, so I guess it was a net win.
Finished Deus Ex Mankind Divided.
It’s incredibly good. Gameplay reminded the most of the original Deus Ex (98), Level design is as good if not better in most places, and there’s a lot of cameos and references to that game. Bob Page! Manderly! Mentions of Morpheus! Silhouette! The original game music playing over the radio, and the original logo on mouse pads. It feels like they’re getting ready to re-introduce the world of the original game.
I got the Pacifist trophy, but for those trying to get the “no alarms” trophy. I finished the boss battle without having seen the “alarm” tutorial. This does not seem to be the condition of the trophy. Possibly “alarm” refers to the “searching” state.
I’m hoping to get the pacifist trophy…The no Alarms trophy ship has well and truly sailed
What sucks is that there’s a few places where the game glitched out and people were turning on the alarm.
During the GARM mission, when you cross the halfway point and get a call from your pilot, the alarm goes off for no reason. I found out how to avoid it though, at the start of the mission you should contact Vega instead of Miller.
But there was also a point later on where the police were just looking for me for no reason.
Yeah, I encountered that too.
I don’t think that’s a glitch or anything. What it suggests to me is
Miller is the leak or has a leak. When you go on that mission, they’re waiting in ambush for you already. If you contact vega, no alarm sounds, but if you contact Miller, the alarms do. This suggests pretty strongly information is being provided to Marachenko through Miller or his organisation.Don’t know about about the police thing, but during curfew was probably where I lost my alarm trophy. It’s really hard to sneak past and knock out those cops without them at least getting startled occasionally.
I was going pacifist to start with, but then – in typical Deus Ex fashion – I saw some behaviour which caused me to take on the role of judge, jury and executioner.
I’m really looking forward to this, I plan to buy it as soon as I have cleared off some of my pile of shame (finally finished Doom yesterday!). I’ve been hyped for ages as I loved Human Revolution so much, and I’m hearing very few complaints.
The only complaint – reviews said it was a little short or more charitably “compact”.
As far as how I feel about it, I feel It’s a decent length, it’s just it has a very weird balance. Prague is an amazing hubcity, and there’s a bunch of main and side missions you do there, buuut there are only three or four external locations that you travel to, which is knd of a shame. The result is, Prague feels kinda bloated in comparison to off-site locations.
It all feels pretty good to play, though, and the Breach mode isn’t that bad for a challenge mode.
Yeah I saw one pre-release comment that it was weird there was only one hub city because the person (whoever it was who tweeted this, I don’t recall) thinks of Deus Ex as a “globetrotting” game.
I think Human Revolution switched between Detroit and Hong Kong?
I don’t really recall. and I kinda wish they’d remaster it so I can play it again. I think it just feels a little inconsistent, especially since the game kind of ends. I’m fully expecting a third game followed by a trilogy boxset.
It’s not that I think Deus Ex is a globetrotting game, it’s more, I dunno, a certain unevenness. It’s not a strong criticism by any means.
Morning TAY
Last song played time?
Part 1, Chapter 6 – Sylvia – Alice isn’t Dead (Podcast)
How was everyones weekends?
Did you all finish and then new game plus Mankind divided like me?
Dark Necessities – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Weekend was okay, worked however D=
Island in the Sun – Weezer.
Still working my way through MD, as I keep forgetting I can see through walls, and they keep hiding the important grates behind boxes… I don’t think I’ve killed anyone (there was that one shopkeep who got gunned down by police when he told them I was raiding his storage room… but that wasn’t my fault :P). Just got back to Prague, no idea how far through I am.
Extinguished Light by Ulcerate.
New track off forthcoming album, delicious metal. https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/track/extinguished-light
Started getting back into Skyrim, took a bit to figure out what was going on in my 4 year old save file.
Thanks to new work and personal commitments, the game that I bought on console so that I could play it a few hours earlier than on PC I have now spent roughly… an hour with. Total.
Bomfunk MCs – Rockin’ Tha Spot.
Grace ft. G-Eazy – You Don’t Own Me
My wife, who really enjoyed Suicide Squad, picked up the soundtrack and it’s been playing on loop in the car. It’s grown on me, but I still think the best songs on there are Eminem’s Without Me and the PATD cover of Bohemian Rhapsody, with Skylar Grey’s Wreak Havoc coming third.
Hello TAY! Long time no see! I’ve been away so long that I recognise almost none of the people who have posted above me xD
So I figure re-introductions are necessary.
Hi, my name is lambomang, or just lambo. I’m a 21 year old VR dev from queensland. Love to play PC and Xbox, and especially love retro games. And I have most certainly put my TAY breaking days behind me >_>
your tay breakingdaysOH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
Long time. How’s it been?
Pretty good. Had my downs, which was why I stopped popping on here as much, but things have gone up now, and now I’m running my own little one man VR game studio and generally enjoying life 😀
How about you?
Oh that’s awesome! What sort of VR games you looking to make?
Yeah not bad, finally got a job end of last year after looking for ages. So basically just working these days lol.
Since Lambo hasn’t worked out the whole self promotion thing yet this is he debut game now out on steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/496230/
I hate self promotion so, so much xD
Get used to it and get better at it my friend.
Sadly if you are planning on running a sole person studio it is going to be a key to your success
Haha, there’s that joke game I made that Tigs posted.
Currently working on a locomotion solution that doesn’t make people sick so I can make traditional FPSes. Think Halo on a lower budget, with a bit of Tomb Raider platforming thrown in 😉
How are you so babby 😛
You’ll always be sweet 16 to me!
So I got over my bitterness about the ticket prices for the Australian tour of Richie Sambora & Orianthi. And I am pretty sure i’ll nab a meet & greet too, $300 isn’t exactly expensive for a meet & greet, especially when it’s 2 pretty awesome guitarists.
Morning all. Hope everybody had a good weekend. I didn’t get to play any games over the weekend. It was a sad sad weekend.
My copy of Deus Ex still hasn’t arrived so I’m trying to be on media black out around the game.
@jocon The hype is real…. Man I can’t wait to get stuck into Legion >.< All this work and finally close to seeing some of it go into fruition =D
Unrelated topic @scree sorry I missed your invite in Overwatch last night! Was juggling chats with raiders and being generally bad at the game 😛 By the time I saw it the invite expired and I jumped off after the next game! Its nice to see that the stupid defensive strategy of stacking Torbjorns and Bastions is still alive and well in Quick match mode.
Yeah, pretty keen. Be cool to see what this team can pull off. You’ve managed to fill it with a lot of good players from what i can see. Kinda intimidating for a noob like me tbh.
Yeah its kind of crazy we pulled this kind of talent in with the hours we’re looking to do. But it just reinforces that work smarter not harder mentality I’ve been trying to go for from the start. And also shows how many ex-hardcore players quit the game because they didn’t want to go casual but at the same time couldn’t commit to a hardcore raiding schedule.
If you need some practice healing let me know, I’ll happily go stand in fire during Mythics 😀 Somehow managed to pull 40k HPS on that second bossfight (the council) in Everbloom with the ridiculous AoE and DoT effects.
Noice. I assume. Don’t know what’s good at this stage 😛
I know none of my toons are really up to scratch at the moment, which is why I’ve been hesitant to join the Mythic runs. Once we get into the Legion content then I’ll really be able to see where I’m at.
Just go for it, most Mythics have been tuned down since pre-patch so as long as you’re with a competent group you should be fine. If you’re really nervous get Krieg to tank for you, dude takes like 0 damage. I usually ignore healing him and DPS or get involved in mechanics lol.
I re-subbed for the Demon Hunters, but ended up not getting any further along than I did in beta, and haven’t touched the pre-launch invasions at all. Which seems like a shame, since apparently that was supposed to be a really good way to level all your alts to 100 within a few hours.
It’s starting to seem very unlikely that I will be playing much in the next couple weeks at all!
You didn’t miss too much with the invasions, they were time effective to level alts on for the first week but blizz subsequently nerfed their xp rewards in the second week when they went on a faster timer. That said one of our raiders did all invasions back to back in the last 3 days and levelled his shammy from 1-100 and had about 2k nethershards stockpiled lol.
So I finally got around to seeing Ender’s Game… really should’ve remembered to turn off my long-term memory for that one.
I’ll admit, I got bored of the books halfway through Xenocide, but I don’t recall Rackham ever having Maori facial tattoos – he was in his sixties with white whiskers. I don’t recall Ender towering over Bonzo… and I’m still trying to figure out how mankind discovered philotic physics and created the ansible without knowing the basics of how the Formics communicated with each other. And I don’t recall Ender finding the queen egg in that manner…Played a bunch of Deus Ex MD – spent a bunch of time wandering about reading people’s emails, unlocking and stealing everything I could carry. Thinking about maybe attempting a bank robbery. 😛
Do the bank robbery, so fun
I kinda want to finish it this week, tho… I’m getting very conscious of Rise of Iron being three weeks away and likely to occupy most of my time until December, and of the three RPGs I planned to get finished this year – SWTOR, PoE and Witcher 3 – I’ve not played much of any of them since March.
Might mainline the main story missions of MD, and come back for a more comprehensive replay next year when I’ve got more time and it’s got DX12 support and maybe a few performance patches – need to tweak a couple of settings, but it looks nowhere near as impressive as I’d expect given how hard it’s pushing my system.
Heh, I finally got around to watching Ender’s Game on Saturday night. I only spent a bit of time playing Deus Ex though so I didn’t completely steal your idea.
TAY RPG Pathfinder on tonight at 7:30pm ACST and 8pm AEST. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
After spending the night relaxing in the city of Vinks, what will become of our heroes? Do more adventures on the high seas beckon or perhaps something else takes their fancy?
Programmery weekend! Was kinda running behind on what I was supposed to do, but managed to cram and get it all done, thanks to the guy I’m working with taking some time to help me figure some things out. Yay! It’s slowly starting to make more and more sense now.
Totally forgot to call up the place I bought my piano on Friday from though, so will just need to head in on the way to climbing this afternoon and get things sorted out with that. Hopefully can get the pedal I need, and maybe a more suitable stand too. Then I need to get cracking learning pieces for singer lady.
I swear I had a pile of other things that had to be done too but I can’t think of any of them. I need to start writing them down.
Finished Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Such an awesome game, loved the commentary and mechanics. Although, one problem I had from Human Revolution was still prevalent, I had too many praxis points and was just upgrading abilities I wasn’t using. I think I even fully upgraded the dash but never used it.
I was really disappointed to discover that there was only one boss fight for the whole game, right at the very end.Another problem I had is that a very difficult choice appears near the end of the game, which I discovered to be irrelevant. You do both regardless.
Now I’m trying to figure out what game to play now. I have several games I want to play, but they’re all RPGs. They usually require a lot of time and I’m kinda getting burnt out.
Can you spoiler text like half of this post? Especially end game stuff? Thanks.
What about a small puff piece kinda game in between. We just did Trine 3 which was quick and easy. Big fan of puzzle platformers which can be great for a break
Heh, Telstra techie came out to install some gear they’d sent us. Told us that it was basically just crap they’d tried to upsell us on which wouldn’t do anything to fix the problems we’ve been having, and wouldn’t offer any benefit til later down the line once the NBN gets installed. Mum was none to pleased 😛
Then he went up the street and fixed the problem with the cables that had been making the net drop out during the rain. What a guy.
Woo fibre is being installed around the corner from my place \o/
Question: got Diablo 3 on PS4 cheap and wanted to play it with my wife. She loses interest quickly if things are too difficult or the controls are too complicated. Which female character should i promote to her? And which character should i play to complement that character?
Barbarian is always a bit easier to play in Diablo 3, esp if you’re not a particularly skilled player (ahem) and just want to mash things to death. Alternatively, if you play barbarian and she plays rogue, she can hang back and do ranged attacks with less risk of being attacked by things.
I know she will gravitate towards a female character. She tries her hardest but the most complicated game shop far for her has been Lego Dimensions.
You realise in Diablo 3 that all the character classes are available in both genders? She can play any class she likes as a female, so it’s just about picking a class that suits your play style – I’ve played as both the Crusader and the Demon Hunter (which is the closest equivalent to the Rogue) and both are fun.
Really? Sorry, i feel like a noob because I actually didn’t know that!!! I’ll let her pick what she wants then and I’ll just match her.
One of the many improvements they made in Diablo 3 🙂
Wizard can be easy or complicated depending on how you build it.
Laser beam style is easy to use, quite effective and very satisfying. And you don’t have to worry about getting into melee range or chance to hit. If you then go as a tank like Barb or Monk you can then be the one to line them up so she can knock them down.
As a bonus the voice actor for the female wizard is the voice of Azula in The Last Airbender.
Haha she will totally get into that! She loves Airbender.
I’m a diablo no00b and I went Demon Hunter. Once I had her double shurikens unlocked it was, as they say, a faceroll.
I was gonna suggest Witch Doctor for easy mode – summon pets, let pets kill things, profit… but I agree with Jo, Wizard would be a better choice – more mobility, better defensive capabilities, and generally more fun than watching your pets do all the work.
Can you be a button masher wizard?
In combination with a tanky aggro-holding class (barbarian or crusader), sure – especially for levelling. A wizard only really needs 1-2 buttons during combat – have a shield/armour spell on circle, press that whenever it runs out (every ten minutes or so), and put a generator on X and a couple of fun destructive spells on square and triangle. Choose skills with low cooldowns and mana costs, and you can mash away to your heart’s content.
The pets are definitely a lot of fun. I love all the smiting you get to do as a Crusader though.
Evening TAY.
Successfully dual0booted windows 7 alongside windows 10, so now I should be able to play Mechwarrior 4 with a joystick. \o/
A very underrated Mechwarrior title. Especially Mercenaries. I liked that Mercs tried to mimic some of what made MW2:Mercs the best title the franchise has ever had.
My PSP analogue caps finally arrived from China, and once installed it entirely transforms the slippery c-stick on the 3ds!
http://thinkcubits.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/new-3ds-c-stick-mod-only-way-to-play.html
It’s a two minute fix, is reversible, and is an absolute must if you play Monster Hunter! The camera is SO much more responsive.
Iiiinteresting… though not sure how game I am to take my n3DS apart just yet 😛
It’s hardly taking the thing apart, you just pull the rubber cap out. If you can hold a teaspoon, you can do this.
And I wouldn’t worry about the old cap, it can go back in and will be fine, but you’ll never want to. The difference is night and day.
You’re a Brisbane dude or something aren’t you?
I wouldn’t mind giving it a try first if you were in Sydney 😛
Well… you need to take it apart if you want to keep the nub in one piece – it has little silicon tabs on the sides that hold it secure, but they can easily be ripped if you don’t care, and the nub can be put back in pretty securely, even without those tabs.
That said, I had an old PSP lying around, and gave it a shot this morning – don’t really care about onselling the 3DS, so just tore the tabs on the base of the nub – the difference was immediately obvious. So much better. Need to clean the PSP stick, tho – it’s absolutely filthy after nearly a decade of disuse.
@jocon Stayed up till midnight last night with a last minute recruitment drive, 6 back to back apps and we’re now at a 19 man team with multiple back up healers and tanks.
Damn. They solid or just reserves? What classes?
Warock, Pally and DK. Solid apps, went over our entire guild doc while we spoke and learnt it inside out in under and hour. Warlock seems very solid (actually poached this one from another guild, however to be fair he sought me out), the other two are good apps but not a 100% (As a reference I’m not a 100% sold on half our raid team).
So, can any Deus Ex players confirm how many/if there are any major time-critical missions I need to get my ass into gear to avoid missing/fucking up horribly?
I’m having real trouble googling for a list of time-sensitive fail states for missions/side-missions.
I keenly remember going through HR’s Sarif Industries office building the first time, thoroughly exploring every intricate facet of this rich and detailed world they’d built… then getting rewarded for that by losing all the hostages and having to reload and start again.
Now I’m sort of gun-shy about stopping to smell the beautifully-programmed roses in MD, because there are people nagging at Jensen to move his ass, and I’m not sure if I’m going to be punished for stopping to appreciate this lovingly-rendered world they’ve built. 😛
I have seen no repercussions except for the final mission and that’s all I will say)
Ta. I’ll keep exploring Prague then, Miller’s whining be damned.
Last song played time
Relaxation Cassette #1 – Within The Wires (Podcast)
How is everyone?
I’m fine, but I answered my last played song on yesterday’s post. 😛
How’re you?
I did that, too!
I’m ok
Work is annoying, hoping this restructure hurries up and finishes.
We’re undergoing integration at the moment, after our company got bought out last year. It’s meant improved career opportunities but there’s a lot of annoying changes to deal with as well.
Iggy Thump – White Stripes.
Pretty tired – spent a bunch of last night struggling to replicate Sony’s authentication form; got to the point that I have a pretty good idea of why the authentication’s not working, but no idea what I need to do to fix it.
On the upside, after I gave up on that, I found the CPU-bound graphics setting that was killing my performance in Deus Ex last night – dropped LoD to medium and cranked everything else back up. So pretty…
Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
This is more for the movie bluffs here.
In case you have missed the news, Gene Wilder has died. Yet another talent that will be missed.
Might watch some Willy Wonka or Blazing Saddles as a little tribute to him.
I just realised I’ve never seen the original The Producers. I’m going to see if I can find it and watch in tribute.
And I’m just going to leave this here, get the tissues:
It’s really good, but I’ll be watching blazing saddles.
That’s a good call.
Welp, couldn’t get my joystick working with Mechwarrior 4. 🙁
At least it’s playable with Keyboard and Mouse. 🙂
SPACE!!!
NO MAN’S SKY.
I don’t get the vitriol. The game I’m playing looks like the one in the trailers, and I’ve had a lot of fun wandering around and discovering stuff, learning languages. Sure, it’s not THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME but all this stuff about “Sean Murray is a lying liar” is really pissing me off. The dude’s not even Peter Molyneux levels of overhype, let alone actively malicious. He’s produced a damn good game – not a great game but a damn good one – that’s not to everyone’s taste. The levels of manbaby crying are astonishing. I’ve been sent that “Sean Murray lied” youtube clip a bunch of times, and I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m just too old to give a fuck?
ELITE: DANGEROUS
Holy shit what a weekend and I was nowhere near the action. Codes being cracked, clues being solves, short-term community goals giving out mega-credits…
…and one of Frontier’s staff members who was supposed to be giving out a clue was repeatedly ganked as soon as he launched so they had to release the clue to the forums. NOW maybe they understand what it’s like not having hi-sec systems and a universal security rep…
Anyway, I’m out at Jaques Station 22,000ly from Sol. running exploration. I’m 60% Pioneer now, maybe 40 million in data from reaching Elite. It’s pretty out here. 🙂
I’m enjoying No Man’s Sky, though it’s on a break for Deus Ex atm. I think that the game the internet thought it was getting and the game that was actually advertised are two unrelated things.
Yes, exactly that.
Woo, just called the piano place and the lady’s gonna send out the replacement pedal for me. No more trips out to Chatswood, no more money to be paid 😛
Do feel kinda bad for her though.
@jocon Is anyone playing Highway to Hell on discord yet??!?! We need it for the Legion countdown :O
Oh.
I managed to download Gazillionaire 3 today.
Only downside is that you can’t disable the character animations, but it plays just as well as I remember.
Today has been such a grind, really plodding along.
Coding when you are not feeling it is such hard work. I feel I should have been far more productive today. Oh well, at least this beer is helping me feel better.
Hopefully tomorrow I’ll increase my output
Woo! bungleatk cookie detected, private endpoint authentication achieved! I can finally go home. 😛
ELITE!!!!
@os42 Tag everyone!!! Important happenings!!!
ALIEN SCOUT LOCATED!!!! 😮https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189512082482266112/220158370001190922/90d30e3736c03230679235a7ad164be5.png
Spoilers!
I haven’t caught up on the reddit goings-on for the past three days or so 😛
SORRY WAS VERY EXCITED.
waves hands You will forget the last 24 hours…
Haha, didn’t mean real spoilers :p
It’ll sure bring a change from all the debate about instant ship transport.
I’ve given up on that debate.
Which side are you on? 😛
OK, I’ll bite, but because I think that we’ll have a reasonable exchange of views and I respect you to argue the point without toy-chucking or tantrums! 🙂
I don’t think ship transport should be *instantaneous*, I think it should be a function of the jump range of the ship, the value of the ship and the distance, and whether it had a fuel scoop. So moving a big ship or a bunch of little ships a few ly should be very fast and very cheap, but it should go up progressively with the distance, and moving a ‘conda or cutter across the bubble or to Jaques should cost a fair bit and take some time.
My view is that instant ship transit would break the whole point of different stations having different availability of stock, and the different builds. At the moment, you need to really think about moving a corvette or FDL to a conflict zone more than a few jumps away as it takes time. And buying a ship, and hunting around for the right upgrades and modules is part of the game. If everyone just runs a Tier 5 fsd hauler taxi to zoom wherever and buys a ship, then zoom to the best outfitter, transfer ship and fit it out, zoom to conflict zone and magically bring the corvette in, it takes away some of the vastness of the galaxy.
Whereas being able to pay someone else to fly a ship somewhere, but it taking a similar time to if you flew it in that ship, that allows you to move your fleet to a new base system, or plan ahead a bit and send a ship somewhere to save time-poor players time, but doesn’t really open up the exploit. And I think it would be cool to see your ships moving from system to system and eventually getting a notice “Your Cobra has arrived at Cubeo” or whatever.
So… what do you think?
I think I’ll chuck as many toys as I damn well please!
But we are in total agreeance anyway 😛 It bugs me too, because it just circumvents the whole idea of space being big and it taking time to get things from one place to the other, and there’s no real way of explaining it away without pushing far too much handwavium to be believable even in the context of the rest of the game fiction. Plus still manages to contradict a bunch of other things anyway.
It just seemed like such an obvious answer, and then they took a hard left into wtf town.
@mrtaco
I’m also not sure that they weren’t demonstrating it as instantaneous for the benefit of the con presentation. I’d be very surprised if when the beta release comes out that there aren’t some extra mechanics.
One of the counters is “well outfitting and ship repairs are instant!”. Well yes, but there’s no reason to make them take time the way the game’s designed. They could easily add that as a mechanic though – Anaconda is at 24% hull, it’s going to take a few hours to fix, go play in a Sidewinder until it’s done… but there’s no need for it.
Exactly, all the counters are “this other unrelated element is unrealistic too!”, but the argument isn’t that it’s unrealistic. It’s that it’s inconsistent. The instant teleport at death is excusable because, well, you’re overcoming death. It’s already an exceptional circumstance. And you can’t make a player unable to play the game because they’re waiting for their escape pod to be picked up and carted off to a station for revival. Whereas this is just a convenience feature – you don’t want to spend a whole bunch of time running back and forth between stations playing Towers Of Hanoi to move you ships around? Don’t, pay someone else to bring them over for you and go do something else in the meantime. Nothing stopping you from playing the game.
And then if they “balance out” the instantaneousness of it by making it prohibitively expensive, then it’s not a convenience feature at all and only benefits those for whom money is now worthlessly plentiful.
Also, might I say that getting a PSN message after 11pm saying simply “They’re here…” may have creeped me out a little more than you were intending… ;_;
😛Howzit?
My kind sugardaddy @greenius gifted me the Deus Ex Human Revolution on the steams.
Off to a terrible start because I can’t shoot straight. Well, I sorta can, mouse is ok, but my legs seem to be broken because if my amateur keyboard use. Also I jumped from the first floor & died.
Red was saying u can get an augment to survive trivial falls.
Any idea if there’s augments to save me from myself? Like, I can’t shoot or stealth for shit.
And before anyone asks, yes I’ve tried getting good. It’s been almost 30 years of gaming, I need a new tactic.
Bump the difficulty right down if you haven’t already and just play it for the story.
I am already 🙁
I think I’ll get my head around the cover shooting, I did it for mass effect trilogy after all.
I just had more fun in 1&3 where I could charge in like I was playing DOOM, rather than 2 which actually made me hide.
Imnjust hoping there’s some augs that make hiding every firefight a necessity.
Maybe I’ll figure out stealth & possibly even get my DS4 working with it.
*not a necessity
np bae
I don’t speak Youth
The aug you need for falling help is the icarus landing one which I think is a back augment. You can improve accuracy & such through arm augs but I can’t testify to the effectiveness since I never get into a fight. I’m a sneaky bastard who either avoids or KOs everyone I come across so the actual weapon handing is more or less a mystery to me.
If you’re struggling with stealth, probably the best thing to buy aug wise is the radar upgrades & whatever it is that shows enemy vision cones. Couple that with staying still a lot & always looking for a vent you can hide in or a scaffold you can get onto so you can avoid sight entirely and plan your movements. Also, it doesn’t seem to happen often but the enemy can hear you if you don’t go into walk mode when sneaking.
Ooooh radar
Lots of people gushing over Sierra games released on Steam yesterday, anyone that was interested should check out today’s Humble Bundle, you can get quite a few of them in the $1 tier.
Pretty sure the reason I signed up to GOG years ago was to buy all these Sierra titles.
Dammit, knew there was a reason that meeting was so early.
Ultimatum (kinda): get to work by 9:30. Time for a tough decision – accept sardine travel every morning and get increasingly stressed, buy a new set of headphones to distract myself from the crowds, or completely rewrite my sleep schedule (get to bed by 10, try to beat the morning rush and get in by 8) – effectively eliminating any chance of week-time raiding after RoI comes out. Or find a new job, I suppose. Gah. I hate extroverts in power.Are you in sydney? And don’t travel by trains or buses? :O Man that would take some doing.Yep, in Sydney. Can’t stand the busses here – never had a bus trip in Sydney I didn’t get queasy on – so I use trains. Hence “sardine travel,” as my train not only goes past a major centre before Central, but feeds into the City Circle after Central – between 8 and 9, there’s barely standing room – personal space is nonexistent.I’m in Sydney too, depending on what line you’re on, we may well have inadvertantly run into each other!
I’m down near Cronulla, and catch the Illawara line to work.
Inner west line, myself. Peak times are hell, but I count myself lucky that it’s not a long trip.
Ah, see, I’ve got a fairly long trip, but I get on early down the line so I always get a seat.
I’ve always been able to find a seat on any train after 9:15 – it’s a ten minute ride to Central, usually prefer to stand anyway, as I’m sitting most of the day at work. It’s just the crowds during rush hour that bother me – I’m not a social person, and I value my personal space.
My wife is exactly the same, she’d go nuts in peak hour public transport.
And you work in the city! Yeah it would be travel outside peak hours or just squeeze right in =P. Good times. I miss the entirety of rush hour 90% of the time as I catch a train just after peak hour finishes and usually finish work late. Have you looked at starting a car pool with work? If you get 3-4 people a parking spot + fuel works out to the same as a train ticket.I’ve been working here quite happily 10-6 the past six years – trains have never been an issue because I just missed the peak times. Not sure car-pool’s really an option – not all that sociable at work, and I don’t drive, myself. Think I might just have to find a[nother] good pair of headphones and experiment with trains to find a minimally populated time.See, you mock my early starts but I dont have to deal with peak hour.
Or do what I do and pay $3k a month in rent to live in Glebe…
*runs into corner, curls into a ball and starts weeping uncontrollably*
Yeesh!! We’re paying $350 a week, but we’re in a flat above two shops (a cafe and a Thai restaurant), we have no parking space, no balcony, and no separate laundry so the washing machine is in the bathroom 🙁
We’re looking at moving to Melbourne early next year though, so we can tough it out till then.
To be fair, we’re in a nice like 2-bedroom terrace, so we’re actually getting a pretty good deal for the area… but Sydney is bloody expensive!
When I was living in Brissy before moving down to NSW I was living in New Farm, which is pretty close to the CBD. I was on an iconic street (Abbott St. for anyone in the know) – it’s got massive trees lining the street, and there were always people outside doing wedding photo shoots. We had a MASSIVE 4 bedroom house, huge living area downstairs plus a bar, master bedroom with an ensuite and big walk-in, huge new kitchen upstairs, massive balcony, 2-car garage, garden with a freaking hot tub. It was pretty luxurious…
… and we paid the same rent for that entire house as we paid for a 2-bedroom apartment in Pyrmont when we moved to Sydney.
Talk to HR, and your direct manager. Negotiate and formalise the working hours that work for you. Be willing to compromise and do some earlies, some lates, but make it clear that you have no other way to get to work than train, and your mental health will suffer if you are overcrowded.I was about to suggest a bicycle but then I remembered you are living in the single most anti-cycling regime since the Nazis occupied the Netherlands and introduced bike registration…I think cycling in Australia in general is horrible, my younger brother got into cycling heavily for about three months until some ass tried to speed ahead to cut him off on the upcoming left turn, spent a month in the hospital and another month in rehab and still has leg problems these days, the driver? since he couldn’t prove it wasn’t an accident nothing except an insurance excess.It’s not as bad as people think. But you do need to be aware. If you have nice offroad paths that actually go where you want, that’s obviously the best option. Except Duncan fucking Gay ripped up the best ones.My old manager quit a couple of weeks ago, so current DM is his boss, who is the one instigating this, and he’s pretty uncompromising. Starting at 10 doesn’t “present a corporate image” or some such. Hell, I’d me more accommodating if he just out and said it was to stop client-facing people from complaining of double-standards. Old boss’ replacement doesn’t start until October… Gonna go shopping for headphones today or tomorrow, I guess, and do some experimentation to find a slightly-less-packed train earlier.Time to find a new job methinks… Failing that, I’d be getting a letter from a doctor/counsellor/therapist advising your bosses to allow you the alternate hours.
If it was an arrangement with your previous manager, then he can’t just change it without a discussion. If it’s a biggish company go talk to HR, explain the situation, explain your previous manager approved your hours and that you do work the required hours per week, and this arrangement was to accommodate your stress management/mental health/work-life balance/whatever, and that this change seems to be arbritrary. If you’re being forced into doing something that’s unreasonable for purely “image” reasons, then this could constitute unconscious bias, or even bullying behaviour, especially if you do keep reasonably tight 9:45-6pm or whatever hours. Or start looking for a new job… 🙂Tried the train near the turn of the hour, hoping (but not actually expecting) that most people want to get to work before 9 – still gets me to work by 9:20, and it’s not too bad – a few available seats, and (more importantly) I could see the platform – the 8:20 train I had to get yesterday had so many people waiting you could barely see the concrete. This… this is manageable, and only requires getting up half an hour earlier than my norm.Well hopefully that can be an acceptable compromise. Good luck.So i’m only level 101 on Rogue so far in WoW, but I am really digging Legion. It seems to be a good expansion. I really like my class hall, it’s a secret underground HQ under Dalaran with secret entrances all over the place. It’s neat.
@zetrox2k apparently you replied to a comment of mine in an old TAY but I can’t see it D=
ah never mind it was on the page over wasn’t taking me to the comment 😛
RIP bank account, I hardly knew thee… AKA I should not be allowed on Amazon late at night AKA oops, I just bought an almost-thousand-dollar graphics card last night…
Now I have to wait until the middle of september for delivery! 🙁
1080?
Yup, I’ve been looking out for an EVGA FTW 1080 for a while, and they’re either 1250-1300 here, or US sellers were out of stock.
Found them in stock at Amazon last night and pounced on it.
i know the feeling… i forked out $1259 for the Gigabyte 1080 Xtreme OC Edition…
on the plus side it is incredible,
Buying locally I take it? You can get them a fair bit cheaper if you buy from the US and get it shipped over.
Just have to make sure you get it from EVGA, as that’s the only intl. warranty.
yeah thatss why i didnt want to risk it…
Very nice. Have a Gigabyte 1080 FE. It’s very good indeed.
@jocon Just doing up the guide for the DPS Demon Hunter spec… and christ Blizz designed this spec for someone who’s had 6 cups of coffee in 10minutes. The whole rotation is based on jumping around the battlefield even if you don’t need to. I can already see our Demon Hunter repeatedly jumping into Hazards…. Have to seriously consider benching the class all together for this xpac after this review tbh. They seems as untenable/unwieldy as Disc priests.
i was healing one of our players on a dh in mythic dungeons a couple times and yeah – hewas just constantly getting into damage. spent more heals on him tjan tje tank easy.
speaking of players, got some hardcore peeps around – at 6am tol is already 110 and several others over 105.
Lol Jo I’m willing to bet 90% of our raid group could be classified as hardcore, bear in mind I make them read a 15 page guild document just before I consider their application. I’ll probably pull an all nighter this Friday and crash saturday. Got two more decent apps I have to get done tonight. At the rate I’m going I don’t think I’ll ever actually get to play the game =,=
Edit: Forgive the disjointed reply, I’m working in short bursts to get as much done at work and WoW guides atm. Aka I’m working like a human telegraph machine. If the information gets delivered job done.
Just dont burn yourself out man. Game hasnt even been up for a day yet.
I’ll probably be 110 by the end of sunday, not gonna power it -i want to enjoy this part of the game too.
Lol quite a few people have asked me not to burn out, don’t worry I know when to take it slow. I think I spent 2 hours in the game yday just fine tuning my professions, my ui and hunting for treasures in the southern most region of val’sharah.
I just need to smash out these guild docs which to be fair I kind of enjoy researching. Its more of a time constraint that I’m feeling worked up about and less of an effort one. Hopefully hit 110 this weekend too so that we have 2 weeks of lockouts to farm heroics/mythics and get raid ready.
Nice walk in the sunshine and knocked a level off the stupid Valor gyms around here
Now time for a coffee and some code
Boo, Valor rules, Mystic drools.
Instinct… er. Leave them alone, they’ve had a hard time of it.
There is a bunch of Valor players around here that are either cheating or far too invested in this game. Individual players having Multiple 2500+ CP Dragonites so the 4 closest gyms to me are all max at level 10 with the lowest defender 2100 CP vaporeon
Hello all!
It’s been a while, how all you crazy cats doin’?
Me? Oh, thanks for asking! Really digging Underlord in Dota, he’s ridiculously OP at the moment because no one knows how to counter him yet. I had a game last night where I picked him up first and the enemy team picked both Drow and Slark into him – needless to say, we won.
Also, is anyone playing Overwatch on PC? I have been playing it on-again/off-again, and would love some friendly peeps to stomp faces with!
I’m a bit consumed with WoW at the moment but i occasionally jump on with a few taybies.
Jocon89
@scree is a our Overwatch champion I think half my friends in Bnet are from playing with scree and the various TAYbies she plays with 🙂
Hey-O!
I usually play a game or two with @scree and another friend every night (around 8pm-ish) My battlenet SerNobulus#11417 and @scree’s is Scree#1257
Oh man, so a game called ‘Strike Vector EX’ from 2 years ago was just released onto PS4. This game is so sick! High flying combat action! It’s basically a faster version of Star Fox. The campaign is kinda meh, but the controls and combat is so awesome!
Woo! NBN Co are putting a fibre cabinet in less than 100 metres from my front door, i’m now kinda pissed I just re-contracted my ADSL >=[
But i’m gonna guess there will be a way to get out of it.. I hope.
If your current provider will be offering NBN plans, then you should be able to transfer across with them.
That would be Telstra who are. I’m sure my mate at my local Telstra store will help me out when the time comes!
🙂
In just realised that Alter Bridge & Green Day’s new albums come out on the same day next month \o/
and Airbourne’s new album comes out in a few weeks, that one really slipped under my radar! I’m also hopefully seeing them in January, they always seemed like an awesome live band.
Saw that Dot and the Kangaroo is available to watch in its entirety on YouTube. So obviously I did that yesterday.
There were some little gems tucked away in that script, though.
It has changed so much since Dot’s hair has fallen over, and I’m sure that @quizb will agree
Is Go To Hell on there? That’s Yoram Gross’s best work.
@jocon Going through unholy death knights now and blizz seriously don’t take any of their own crap seriously. I was annoyed with DH’s getting X-men powers but apparently DK’s can use the force… to quote one of their talents “Lift the enemy target off the ground crushing their throat with dark energy for 5 seconds”.
Also this spec is the most convoluted thing I’ve seen. Going to have to keep an eye on our Unholy DK’s numbers to see how he manages to keep it up in a raid.
I find your lack of faith in DKs disturbing…
I have a few people coming over this weekend for board games and party Wii U gaming. Problem is i feel the games we have are starting to get a bit stale. We have Mario Kart, Mario Party and Nintendoland .
Anybody know if any other games that are worth it so i can change things up a bit?
Splatoon? Splatoon’s a Nintendo thing right?
Can you play Splatoon offline spilt screen?
Only two player I think.
Completely forgot about Smash Bros!! 8 player would be pretty crazy and wild!!
Was just thinking that, and wondering how that wasn’t mentioned 😛
Also I believe Wonderful 101 is up to five players, though no idea how that actually plays in multiplayer.
I have been meaning to give Wonderful 101 a try at some point.
Also i think I’m getting old because everytime i play Smash Bros now i feel tired and have a headache…fun though
Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Affordable space adventures, Mario Tennis (N64 eShop version).
8 player smash is always fun.
Helped out with a normal raid last night. Four rusty veterans and two who’d never raided before, but they picked it up pretty quickly, and the light level bump made things easier. Got the whole thing done in just under two and a half hours, and even managed to kill Golgoroth on the first attempt (though it was a close thing – he was enraged for a good 10-15 seconds). Spent about 20 minutes in the dick-wall getting them the calcified fragments and exotic chest – watching people get abruptly launched into the far wall never gets old. 😛 Daughters and Oryx took a little longer – so many moving parts that it took a few tries of each to get everything explained, and we had plenty of deaths on our successful runs, but we got them through. It’s always the most fun when you can screw up like that and still finish the encounter.
Very satisfying.
Actually considering blowing my Titan away for RoI. Happy to take my Warlock and Hunter (who have both had a reset since early days) through as they are.
Just received my copy of Secret Hitler… pretty keen to give it a whirl, but the couple we normally play board games with are off in the desert doing Burning Man stuff =(
Also got the Fascism pack for Cards Against Humanity. It’s in clear plastic, so I can only see the last card in the pile, which is ‘An orgasm so powerful you travel back in time and jizz in Hitler’s face’. I think I’m going to enjoy this booster.
Now I just need my collectors edition of the Evil Dead boardgame to hurry up and get here!
Getting right near the end of Twilight Princess. A game I hated & which I still have mixed feelings about.
I hope that the new Zelda throws out the constant mid-dungeon fetch quests in favour of something more interesting.
What was Skyward Sword like in this regard?
The dungeon design & music is killer in TP.
Aw yis, got my fancy, free pedal. Potentially had my cover blown though, being delivered while I was asleep 😛 Oh well.
Mr 5 has to do his weekly “news” (show and tell) about a 3D shape.
He’s taking in a d20. 😀
Word of the day: “icosahedron”
Not to be confused with
Corioliscuboctahedron.So I haven’t been posting in TAY much recently, so what’s new in Numbers-ville?
– Job search is looking good, big ups to @sernobulus for reccomending a job with Aus Post
– I’ve been speedrunning again, my time for Disney’s Atlantis is down to 1:20, though twitch did the dumb and didn’t save the footage (follow on twitch.tv/lucifer9783 for more)
– I’m having lots of fun playing overwatch, @scree and Nob make for a very chill play group.
In the end not much has changed, but I’m lookinh forward to what the near future brings
Are you PAXing this year?
Also, are you still in Whyalla?
In order, hopefully and yes, those both might be changing if I get this job, to definitely and no
Not sure how I feel about that Direct. More amiibo, whole bunch of 3DS ports of Wii U games, some kind of weird 2D Pikmin. Also Rhythm Heaven being given some other non-Rhythm Heaven name over here.
There was a Nintendo direct!!?!?
Made me realize I haven’t visited Vooks in a long time.
I’m semi in favour of ports of Wii games. Xenoblade on the 3DS has been… a little mixed, but not bad.
Slightly more in favour of ports of older titles that aren’t available any more than ones that are current like that. Though still would prefer stuff that I don’t already have 😛
Skyward Sword is on the Wii U shop!
I’d get it if I didn’t already have a physical copy.
Wow the notation on this sheet music is screwed up. Feels like they’ve tried to emulate what would basically be a line of swung quaver-crotchet-quaver but with dotted quavers-semiquaver tied to dotted quaver-semiquaver instead. Sounds way more natural in midi when done with the former. Stiff, robotic and awkward with the latter.
Just wish I’d realised this *before* I’d copied out the retarded version already…
Surprised you don’t use the NA/fractional terminology? The only time I ever see those get used is in notation reference books.
…people actually use those?
Edit: *non-American
Suppose it must depend on who your music teacher/school teacher was or how you learned it, not that important I guess.
I’ve only ever come across it on the internet, don’t think I’ve ever actually heard the words spoken before. Though it’s not like I talk music that much at all, and has been… geez, probably a good decade and a half since my last lesson 😛
Also I feel in hindsight like I came across pretty abrupt or whatever. I feel like I took more emphasis on the “you” and was taken aback a bit, trying to think what I could have done to give off the impression that I was American at some point. Get a little too stuck in my own perspective sometimes 😛
Fractional terminology is quite american. When I used to play music, I never got quoted anything in fractions other than a whole note from time to time.
Besides, Crotchet and Quaver are much more fun to say
Yeah, that’s weird, I have no idea why you’d use that tied dotted quaver.
@pupp3tmast3r
Considering my previous post on the matter I’m about to make a huge liar of myself but all it took was a couple hours of curiosity before I was totally hooked again.. this stuff is like crack cocaine.
So if a spot for mdps/heals/tank opens up in the guild I’d be willing to come along once again, however if you’re still sceptical of me from breaking prior commitments than that’s fine as well. I’m sorry I know drama/complication isn’t what you want right now.
Apart from that I’m extremely impressed, going to be interesting regardless.
FED FORCE
So having done both I can now tell you guys that PAX Australia is really not that far removed from PAX West/Prime in quality. There’s a few more high-profile exhibitors here but PAX AU seems to get about 80-90% of the same sort of content nowadays. Also Jeff’s Shed is by far a better venue. The Washington Convention Center is about a third the size and divided into six tiny floors and an Annex and PAX takes over basically the whole thing, but there’s no big theater large enough and PAX has spilled over into about four of the nearby hotels and two nearby theaters. I think they could fit all of Prime into just the Melbourne Convention Center. The expo hall itself is probably a bit bigger but it comes at the expense of dividing tabletop up into two floors of tiny meeting rooms stuffed with tables.
Plan for tomorrow is to go to the Westin hotel where most of the VR stuff was moved to in the morning and hopefully hit the Giant Bomb & Cards Against Humanity panel at 4pm, then hoping to get in on one of the two-hour D&D sessions.