The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Josquius]

I've been playing a game of normal stellaris for the first time in a while.
Went quite well. Almost too easy despite picking the unplugged hard start.
Main challenges were early with consumer goods shortages. Even now late in the game automation doesn't seem to be working well. Not much being build on my planets. I wormer if I've missed turning something on somewhere.

Anyway.
Khan horde forms and goes on a rampage.
They're located in the galactic sw and I'm in the se so they screw over some neighbours letting me sneak steal a few systems.
They meet their end smashing into my citadel system on the border.

L gates open. This is new. And it's friendly nantes. Almost a shame.


Late game and the unbidden show up in a remote corner of my empire. In a completely random system rather than the one with lots of black holes. Hmm.


They look.... Scary. I thought I was strong. I am not. They've so much more fleet power than me.
I'm one or two advances short on the optimal weapons to kill them too.


But.... Rather than advance into my empire around them they head in one direction, take some of my useless border systems and then go straight into the empire next door.
That's good. Gives me time to try and prepare properly. Rebuild ships to kinetics and missiles. Get a titan up and running.

I make plans of where to make my stand. They will eat through this se empire to where on the other side of it I have some territories too. Or maybe loop up to my core worlds?

My star fortress systems connected by gateways should do it with my fleets. They beat the khan.
But.....
The unbidden just keep heading into this other empire.... They leave their portal bordering directly onto my systems and totally undefended.
With all their fleets several jumps away I send over my fleets and close the rift pretty sharpish.


I've still got to mop up those of them who are here.
But they make another unexpected move that makes this easier - they send a bunch of fleets through an l gate. Wipe out the gateway system there but lose their fleet in the process.

Eventually 2 of their fleets does hit one of my fortresses.... It's quite pyric. My star fortress is destroyed and my fleets take heavy casualties. But we win.

[Norgy]

Yeah, this fall is when I update from my 1660ti. I'll get a RX 9060 XT in the coming weeks.

The cheapest 16gb 9060 in the Canadian market came into stock at my local Canada Computers & I pulled the trigger.

Power Color Reaper @ 490. About 10$ more than MSRP.

I have an RTX 9070 XT from Asus, and I have to say, it is probably the best card I have had ever. It was obviously not cheap, but it is quiet and effortlessly puts out fluid UHD graphics except for one game: Oblivion Remastered. Then it runs a bit too hot. I believe I need to upgrade my CPU rather than the card.
It has a water cooling option, but I am not going there yet. Yet.

[Syt]

This looks cute. Run your own brewing monastery:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2789460/Ale_Abbey__Monastery_Brewery_Tycoon/

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

That is some gorgeous pixel art.