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Putting this in place of @[email protected] 's weekly thread since it's Wednesday so it's late! Title, what are you playing this week?
Made a 3x3 of what I'm currently messing around with to make it easier.
Started my yearly Halloween VTMB playthrough the other day. Still an amazing fucking game.
Canceled the WoW sub after 2 months. Really put into focus that the part of WoW I enjoyed was playing with my friends, and they don't play anymore. Anyway, maybe I'll dip back in in 15 years again.
Since then I've been playing Pacific Drive with all the fiddly crafting systems turned way down thanks to the recent update they put out. I've got to say, though, as someone who has been to the Olympic Peninsula, they kind of did a really bad job of capturing what it looks like. It's not nearly wet enough. There's no moss. There are no rivers. No waterfalls. Idk. In execution, it's not as cool as the concept, and I think at least some of that can be laid at the feet of the art direction.
And I've done a few runs in the new Hades 2 update, but haven't managed to stay alive long enough to see the new content because I got rusty.
yeah i only played a little of Pacific drive but it didn't seem as cool as it might have been. I found the voice acting lacking too and not in a charming kind of way
I started playing the new factorio dlc and then I remembered I suck at factorio. So I started playing viccy 3 and I remembered I suck at that too.
So now I am planning on playing some openttd after work because somehow I am good at that game
I started playing the new DBZ Sparking! Zero after I broke down and bought it out of nostalgia for Tenkaichi 3 only to find I was seriously bad at it and forgot all my skills. But through a few helpful tutorials on youtube, some time beating the shit out of a practice dummy to relearn how to combo, and then slowly relearning the defensive game by just getting my ass handed to me over and over, I feel like I am actually getting decent again. Nowhere near as good as early twenties sweaty nerd me, but I feel less like I am flailing around mashing buttons now and more like the all powerful gods the characters are in the shows. It's been a fun time.
I've been playing the occasional Balatro run. I've gotten to that point of my life where I appreciate the consistency of the high card build more than the power of the usual flush spam. Also I had a successful Obelisk run, one of those jokers that's very good in theory but you need to have the right setup to successfully pivot using it.
Huh, how'd you do the Obelisk run? Pivot into high card or pair or something?
I had played around 10 flushes. I basically had to get a bunch of copies of a single rank of card, then I played every hand type I could. The secret is to always avoid playing pairs and high cards, because if you play those too often you'll max out on the hands you want to use as discards. Eventually, I had several copies of an 8 card so I was consistently drawing 3oak, 4oak, 5oak and flush of a kind, which allowed me to play each of those in moderation so I simply kept powering up the obelisk across the course of the run.
I'm almost gold on all decks. Been wanting to do more edits to the images, though. It's really simple modding and gives me a reason to draw/edit stuff.
Battletech (2018) - it came out when I was totally burnt out on tactics RPGs, but I'm totally enjoying it right now
Not much else - I've played a little of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, but it's not quite grabbing me
Final dlc for Alan Wake 2 is out so I'm going to give that a try and hope it is full of tasty lore nuggets that crave for the control universe.
And next week we get the monster hunter wilds bets so that will be consuming my time for a week.
Tried kof15. Game is like skullgirls levels of horny. Not really a fan of having to play 3 characters, but if fatal fury plays like this i might get it
Been playing Satisfactory for a bit and it's clicking with me in a way that Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program never did. I think verticality is just a lot more fun for me, and lets me feel a little more architectural.
Foolin' around with Qausimorph some too - pretty good roguelike, don't know if it really goes anywhere yet, but it's enjoyable enough to do a run or two. A little more tonally edgy than my preference.
I have Banquet for Fools installed, but apparently it only has a few hours of content? It has a really interesting style and the qausi-turn-based ARPG system looks interesting, but I'm not sure if I should crack into it or wait.
After Portal 2 I started up Quantum Conundrum and remembered real quick that the game can be annoying. A lot of the puzzles feel like chores and aren't really fun.
I'm in shutdown/waiting mode so Instead of being functional, I hopped back on X4 and let it idle a bit to work on my substrate factory and then did some stuff on the PHQ. Got attacked by a pirate and he nuked my shields before I realized what was going on since I was tabbed out browsing Hexbear. My pilot flew to an adjacent sector before I could get blow it up so that was cool. 60k in repairs.
Play Portal: Reloaded if you're looking for more fun puzzle games
That's actually what got me on this kick. That is a very well made mod.
While not as good as reloaded, Portal Revolution is still worth playing if you haven't.
There are also some phenomenal (extremely difficult) portal 2 co-op workshop level series that I had a great time playing through with a friend. I can dig those up if you're intetested
Wait, I got the two mixed up. I played Revolution recently. Reloaded is the green time travel portal one. Sorry about that.
I have Reloaded, Aperture Tag, Mel, and Thinking with Time Machine lined up for when I finish Quantum Conundrum. I also have Rexaura which is a Portal 1 mod but I can't get into it.
My current Portal co-op partner is 7 and it was a test of my patience playing the original campaign with him. I think we need to wait a bit for the harder workshop levels lol.
Add Qube and Qube 2 if you're looking for more. They're about QC quality for comparison.
Also yes I would not head the workshop with a 7 year old but I hope he he's able to carry you in the future!
You keep this up and you are gonna be my new best friend. I have Qube 1 but haven't gotten around to buying 2 yet.
Co-op was mostly frustrating because he was goofing around but also he was using a PS5 controller and kept hitting the touchpad. I donno why but since it was set as mouse, it was acting as movement on my screen and not his. I tried to disable it but couldn't figure it out. It was still fun though and we got through the main original content(not the new Course 6) and had some bonding time.
I have hit the object limit in satisfactory and I'm not even at tier 9 yet. I think my partner and I just like to build too big
F A C T O R I O I N S P A C E
Got back into FFXIV to finally play dawntrail the big catgirl princess is a good kid
Nothing 
But I wish I could say Fire Emblem: The Morrow's Golden Country
I've been playing minecraft, some bedwars and trying to learn the 1.16.1 speedrun. Right now I need to practice my bastions and learn how to 1 cycle the dragon.
Ashamed to say I'm quite hooked to War Thunder... Playing soviet tanks hits the spot.
I really wanna do another Baldur's run and the Elden Ring DLC but I've decided I'm not doing those until I'm done with my thesis
UFO50 and Diceomancer, both are fantastic! Also some lethal company, plateup and remnant 2 with my friends. Want to try out the new factorio dlc but not sure if I want to sink the time it demands.
I got halfway through Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and now the game just won't get past the loading screen anymore so I can't finish it. 
I was having fun too. The game is pretty easy and not at all like a Souls game mechanically even though that's a common comparison, unlike the Pinocchio game I still haven't played yet. Fitting with the theme, the first difficult boss was Lu Bu where the game really expects you to know how to parry. I'll try booting it up again in a few weeks and hopefully it randomly fixes itself after a Proton update or something.
Debating going to my fighting game local again this week because I've been practicing a lot of SF6 but I have very minor symptoms (slightly sore throat, very lightly runny nose) and I know I really shouldn't go but I barely ever have the actual free time to attend, and first time I managed to go I somehow went undefeated and everyone was super cool and nice.
Man...
Played a variety of things.
Two more were random picks from my backlog:
Prepping for a few shot in Savage Worlds I'll be DMing, and porting my homebrew I did for 5e to Savage Worlds. Just a better system, really.
Apart from that, some CK3, Rimworld, Rogue Trader, and Squad.
It's been another vanilla week for me. Team Fortress 2, Monster Hunter Frontier, and Dragon's Dogma Online