The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Syt]

I recall that it was weird to play without end dates. And that it had books as resource.

[Tamas]

I recall that it was weird to play without end dates. And that it had books as resource.

Those things are unchanged. There are no dates in the game apparently. I also remember the books thing feeling weird in KoH1.

[Syt]

But still, didn't characters age up and die? Or do I misremember?

[Tamas]

But still, didn't characters age up and die? Or do I misremember?

I am sure they did and do in KoH2 as well since you are supposed to care about marriage and heirs and such.

[Tamas]

Just spotted this game releasing in an hour, seems like it wants to be a Frostpunk-FTL mix. I am: intrigued, but the fact that it managed to get in under my radar isn't encouraging.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113120/IXION/

[Syt]

Have it on my wishlist, but it's very much a "let's wait and see how it turns out" title.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Just spotted this game releasing in an hour, seems like it wants to be a Frostpunk-FTL mix. I am: intrigued, but the fact that it managed to get in under my radar isn't encouraging.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113120/IXION/

there was a demo a few months back, it's been on my wishlist since. Greenman has a 28% off.

[Tamas]

Isonzo is pretty fun by the way. But brutal.

[FunkMonk]

Isonzo is pretty fun by the way. But brutal.

I'll wait until the 11th or 12th sequel before I give it a try.

[Tonitrus]

The Master of Magic upgrade/remake is set to come out next week...any decent scuttlebutt?

My feels are it might be something like "yeah, that game was awesome, I'll get it!.....oh, yeah, pretty much operates the same but now looks pretty...meh, ok".

[Syt]

Bunch of trailers from the Game Awards: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/every-new-pc-trailer-from-the-game-awards-2022


Hades II is coming, apparently. FromSoftware's Armored Core 6 will come it next year. Cyberpunk's DLC will feature Idris Elba.

Speaking of famous names. Remember when GTA: Vice City had a weirdly eclectic cast of known actors: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/

Seems this game is trying to capture some of that feel (though it's 90s not-Miami instead of 80s not-Miami):

Ken Levine has finally shown what he's been working on:

I know it looks a bit like Bioshock, but it's totally different, because it seems to be in space? I like the grimy version of the shanty Leave Her, Johnny as soundtrack, though.


And FF16 seems to go all in on the spectacle action combat (but still party based?):

Music is nice, though.

More trailers at the link above, but nothing to really blow me away, tbh.

[Syt]

Oh and "console exclusive" seems to have a new meaning these days:

[Solmyr]

It means "fuck our competitors".

[FunkMonk]

Isn't "exclusivity" the reason why the Biden administration is suing to stop the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard?

[Syt]

Probably of little interest to anyone but me and Tamas, I think?

WDS have released a new Panzer Campaigns title, Rumyantsev '43. It's their first PzC title to have the new 4.01 interface (mostly just updated menu buttons, some engine upgrades), but it introduces a QoL feature I've long wished for in their games.

Usually they have a "Fast AI" mode, where the enemy AI's turn is run at max speed to keep waiting time between turns down. However, during a player's turn, that speed was not available. What that meant was that turns could be excruciatingly slow, because every time you move a unit in the vicinity of enemies there's a chance of reaction fire to whatever you do. And in some cases that can be 3, 4, 5, 6 different units attacking the one you just moved, all resolving at default speed. If you do any kind of scenario that has a larger number of units in contact with each other ... you spend a lot of time watching this kind reaction fire.

The new updates FINALLY make it so you can run your own turns at faster speeds (can speed up in increments or fastest), meaning it cuts down tremendously on the time needed to play scenarios if you wish The update will be rolled out for all PzC titles in December.

They also released a new demo for Modern Air War, and a free Little Big Horn game, run on the Early American Wars engine.

You can find all their current demos here:

https://wargameds.com/collections/game-demos-wds

The first few Panzer Campaign patches are now out, plus patches for the WW1 Campaigns games. Speeding up the return fire is such a huge change. (Can't wait for it to come to Modern Campaigns, or the Napoleon ones.)

https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/winter-sale-announced-updates-released
https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/southern-front-updates