The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

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Ok, yeah, I will wishlist this.

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Oh, and Diablo II is on Steam, adding a new class:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2536520/Diablo_II_Resurrected__Infernal_Edition/

I loved D1 and played that tons, but I never got into D2 at the time. I kinda liked the simple dungeon delve of the first game much better.

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Been playing some American Truck Sim and Euro Truck Sim on the weekend. In US, I took quick jobs, driving from Hutchinson KS, to McAlester OK, to Council Bluffs IA, Cape Giraredeau MO, Jonesboro AR, and Columbia MO. (I usually take the next quick job from where I ended the previous one.)

Lots of green. St. Louis outskirts a bit dilapidated along the I-70. Missed an exit near Oklahoma City on an interchange and had to go a silly detour. Admittedly, driving around those states was a bit less exciting than driving along the highway on the California coast or taking a prefab home through Rocky Mountain passes.

In ETS2 I downgraded the version to 1.57 to download the latest Promods map overhaul. I kept it close to home. Starting in Vienna and going Graz - Amstetten - Ostrava (CZ) - Krakow (PL) - Banska Bystrica (SK). A lot more diverse driving, more curves , and the European trucks feel a lot more nimble (and the roads narrower). And driving into Vienna coming from Amstetten was uncanny. On the autobahn I recognized some spots and it feels very familiar. Driving into Vienna, where you enter along the Wien river also felt familiar, as well as passing Schönbrunn Castle. But then you're a few streets later at the Urania on the Danube canal, skipping half the town (and Ringstraße/Schwedenplatz nowhere to be seen ). It feels familiar but also wrong, more like a dreamscape, fast forwarding between familiar spots connected by less descript roads (which I assume all cities in these games will feel like if you know them - more trying to evoke the feel of a place rather than recreating it accurately (a one to one scale would probably not feel fun if you want to do a 500km drive The game time moves faster outside cities when driving overland and slows down to realistic levels in towns; I think it's a 1/17 or 1/15 scale). And I think Vienna was also reworked (i.e. improved) by the ProMods team (who also added e.g. Amstetten and tons other small cities).