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[InspectorG]

Cant remember the last time i was bored...

Morrowind. Skyrim. Neverwinter Nights. Windwaker.
D&D.
Reading/youtube vids about fitness/sociology/global politics/mythology/religion/martial arts.
Doing my workouts - big ones for November
Play with my cats
Ride my spin bike in my living room
Practice some Yoga
practice some drawing - gotta get my skills back

[Mystere]

MischiefSC, on 01 November 2017 - 08:17 AM, said:

Conan Exiles is surprisingly entertaining.

How good and brutal is it?
How does it compare to Age of Conan?
How can a solo player thrive?

Edited by Mystere, 02 November 2017 - 08:45 AM.

[JediPanther]

When I get bored of mwo I play other games and when I think of buying a mech pack I look at other games on my list on steam. For fun in mwo I just run a lrm boat or go stealth raven with 2/2 heat so it never builds up heat unless I shoot some thing. It's the closest thing mwo has to a spectator mode when you'd rather watch people play rather than resort to a stream or video.

I've been playing swtor with the new revan expansion for free using my jedi a lot and slowly learning to draw care bears as my girl friend challenged me to draw her as the most pg thing I could think of. Sure they are simple shapes but part of the challenge was not to trace stock images I could print off.

[MischiefSC]

Mystere, on 02 November 2017 - 08:43 AM, said:

How good and brutal is it?
How does it compare to Age of Conan?
How can a solo player thrive?

Yes to all of it.

It's incredibly brutal and you can play it solo just fine or solo on a map with groups - there are so many resource nodes nobody can camp them all. The map is so big and varied it's really, really not hard to get somewhere tucked away. There's no big dinos or high power weapons to let people just destroy someones place in passing; it's a huge amount of work and base raids are resource expensive and difficult.

Combat has some skill to it but like most games in the same engine it's mostly just a slugging match. I strongly recommend playing it a ton single player first. Unlike ARK it's getting developed incredibly fast and will be in a finished/release state by Q2 of next year. Complex, a lot of diversity, think of it like ARK Primative + but actually finished and complete and with no dinos, just lots of hostile, deadly monsters.

[knight-of-ni]

When I get bored of MWO, I go design a new Raspberry Pi and/or Arduino project.
I'm currently using super capacitors and small solar panels to (indefinitely) power 900 mhz wireless sensors.

When I get bored of that, then I go back to MWO.

[Tordin]

Juodas Varnas, on 01 November 2017 - 05:23 AM, said:

Play something else.

Like Divinity Original Sin 2 (which is a really awesome game)

You just spoke my mind!

I just bought the original Enhanced edition and the second. I'll actually buy nr 2 to my sisters aswell. C'mon 4 player adventure with people. Yeah good old D&D vibe, pen and paper style.
About to talk to the Red Prince. What a lovable snobb

[Juodas Varnas]

Tordin, on 02 November 2017 - 09:27 AM, said:

You just spoke my mind!

I just bought the original Enhanced edition and the second. I'll actually buy nr 2 to my sisters aswell. C'mon 4 player adventure with people. Yeah good old D&D vibe, pen and paper style.
About to talk to the Red Prince. What a lovable snobb

Oh man, i HATED that guy at the start, but he really grows on you.

Lohse is the best though

[MechaBattler]

I've been playing a lot of Stellaris. Pretty fun space civ strategy game. Very simple resource and research systems. So you don't feel overwhelmed. Even though there are subtle nuisances that you have to learn the hard way. A lot of common scifi weapons and systems. As well interesting events and crisis that can happen. And there is a lot of mods for it on the Steam workshop. The Star Trek continuum mod rework the map to be based on the actual lore.

[Koniving]

eyeballs, on 01 November 2017 - 12:28 PM, said:

MekHQ. Currently running Operation Rogue Wave, an Ice Hellion invasion of the Inner Sphere in 2990. I've taken most of the Chainelaine Isles as of Sept 2991, now have my sights set on the Lyran frontier. I would stream this instead of MWO but MekHQ/MegaMek and OBS hate each other.

The other thing is if playing solo, all you really have is reading the stuff to the viewer and general commentary. With other players you can at least have conversations as well as narrate the scene. Megamek is incredibly fun to play alongside MekHQ and actual campaigns. It isn't as fun to watch, unfortunately.

Otherwise I'd be putting up a youtube series on it and some of the campaigns I did.

I mean I'm especially proud... I've got a workable set of AI tweaks and units to populate small towns and cities with denizens and traffic that can be interrupted with the sudden appearance of combat from mechs, vehicles and infantry. Cross the street suddenly and cars start swirving and crashing. Crowds of pedestrians flee and run into buildings for cover and safety (or flood out of buildings that are being damaged). Imagine how cool this is to play with...

But then you watch it and you end up with something that varies in quality from this..

to this..

Yes, that is old River City.

And this if you put a LOT of effort into every mission's preproduction.


Even so, combat looks like this (usually with better mech colors)

I just want to mention that Atlas obliterates the Commando in a single volley. The Tank annihilates the Atlas in this next round alongside either destroying or effectively crippling an additional 4 Enforcers in just 10 seconds, and by the end of it all, the Tank will have 8 effective kills (either straight destruction or crippled into non-functional status) out of 9 enemies before it dies, and does all of this after being tracked (aka rendered immobile). Now. That. Is. A. Tank.
And its only 12 meters long, 4 meters tall, and has more armor than a 100 ton mech can carry, and it itself is only 100 tons and armed with twin AC/10s and 4 LRM-5s.

and the details look like this.


Doesn't make a grand visual spectacle. Sadly. But god, the imagination with a great narrator (so totally not me if I'm narrating with my voice) is just...just amazing.

Edited by Koniving, 02 November 2017 - 09:58 AM.

[Battlemaster56]

When I'm bored I bring out my Timberwolf and have myself a nice easy mode for a couple of games, either that or constantly experimenting with build ideas for both my IS and Clan mechs and theorycrafting to exact role I want them to be.

[Bigbacon]

you build the "NARClas" and you make an assault worse than a LRM assault.

[Cabusha]

When I'm bored I take out my Pheonix BLR and try to high-score it (top match or damage). Stamdard400, 6xsmalls,1 flamer, and 2MG. Max armor and a couple of heatsinks. It's a stupid, stupi build, but amusing.

Otherwise it's PUBG, World of Warships, or some single player game. Going to the gym is good too.

[HenryFA]

LOL /GTA/PUBG/RB6...

oh god...

[Harlock69]

Stf Sgt Marblez, on 01 November 2017 - 08:31 AM, said:

Grab another beer, and hop into a lolcust. Even the bad games are entertaining when your drunk driving.

Sounds like a normal Friday night MWO session for me....

[Gas Guzzler]

InspectorG, on 02 November 2017 - 06:14 AM, said:

Neverwinter Nights

Come play on Neversummer 3.5 East

[Stf Sgt Marblez]

Harlock69, on 02 November 2017 - 01:47 PM, said:

Sounds like a normal Friday night MWO session for me....

Yup lol, only thats my normal weeknight MWO session....

Which might explain my 0.70 kd

[Kalimaster]

I find someone to pick on....using LRM's.

[Trenchbird]

Felbombling, on 01 November 2017 - 11:23 AM, said:

Tweet Russ and remind him that the new map is fourteen days out, as promised, and we still haven't seen a screen shot of work in progress. I'm starting to get a little worried.

Boy, have I got news for you...

[Valdarion Silarius]

If I absolutely have to have my mech fix, MechCommander Omnitech, Daktek in Gmod, Mechwarrior Living Legends, and sometimes a revisit to Mechwarrior 2/Ghost Bear's Legacy.

For casual games Fallout 4 (with a ton of mods since the vanilla weapons are f*ck ugly), Skyrim (with more mods), Insurgency, Diablo 3, and classic DooM multiplayer on Zandronum (I occasionally lurk on Complex DooM and AoW when it's populated).

My main game that I have been spending alot of time on is For Honor. I really love the competitive scene and I'm super thankful that dedicated servers are finally on the horizon in Season 4. Really looking forward to the new gear that my rep 19 Lawbringer main is gonna get from the season as well.

Edited by Arnold The Governator, 02 November 2017 - 05:29 PM.

[The Cyberserker]

Build and play anything from The B33f's Youtube channel.

Edited by The Cyberserker, 02 November 2017 - 05:27 PM.