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The "What are you playing now?" Thread
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Jack Brickman
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Man, we got into a naval battle with four other galleons in Sea of Thieves tonight over a skull fort. It was fucking nuts. We outlasted something like twelve to fifteen ships when you count them sinking and returning for more. Our ship did eventually sink, but one of our guys survived on the island and we quickly made it back and finished the fort. By the time the battle was over, over an hour had passed and all but one other galleon had given up and gone to look for easier prey.
I sank three ships by myself using the tried and true explosive barrel attack. I've now found that, if you can get in the water in front of an enemy ship with a barrel, you can let it go and it will float to the surface. When the ship hits it, it will detonate and fuck up their hull. So instead of trying to sneak onto their ship with the explosive, I use the explosive first, then grab the ladder and wait a few seconds until the enemies are panicking and trying to bail out their ship before going up and feeding a few of them my shotgun.
We ended up completing the fort and getting out with almost all of the loot before the other galleon got back. We made a break for the nearest outpost and got there before they could catch us. This was our last run of the night, so we all went to the top of the mountain on that outpost to the pub and got shitfaced and threw buckets of vomit at each other.
In a brilliant twist, while we were screwing around, the other galleon had collected the two or three bits of cheap loot we had left behind at the skull fort and came to the same outpost to sell it. We ended up killing them all again, stealing that loot, selling it, and then sinking their ship for good measure.
Earlier in the night, we completed another skull fort only for an enemy galleon to show up right at the end. Rather than loot the fort, we ran with the key (keys stay active for something like two hours). They chased us for a good fifteen to twenty minutes in a wonderful cat and mouse game. We boarded their ship a couple of times, but they were constantly on watch and we only were able to drop their anchor once.
We came up with a new tactic on the fly. We had one of our guys grab the key and, as we rounded an island and got out of their view, he dove into the water and hid on the island. He was there for at least ten minutes while we led them away before eventually confronting them in an intentionally doomed effort. We let them sink us and, back at the outpost is spawned us to, we changed the paint job on our hull and then went back to pick our friend up.
We ended up getting all the loot in that skull fort, but even if we hadn't, just making sure those other assholes didn't get it was reward enough.
I sank three ships by myself using the tried and true explosive barrel attack. I've now found that, if you can get in the water in front of an enemy ship with a barrel, you can let it go and it will float to the surface. When the ship hits it, it will detonate and fuck up their hull. So instead of trying to sneak onto their ship with the explosive, I use the explosive first, then grab the ladder and wait a few seconds until the enemies are panicking and trying to bail out their ship before going up and feeding a few of them my shotgun.
We ended up completing the fort and getting out with almost all of the loot before the other galleon got back. We made a break for the nearest outpost and got there before they could catch us. This was our last run of the night, so we all went to the top of the mountain on that outpost to the pub and got shitfaced and threw buckets of vomit at each other.
In a brilliant twist, while we were screwing around, the other galleon had collected the two or three bits of cheap loot we had left behind at the skull fort and came to the same outpost to sell it. We ended up killing them all again, stealing that loot, selling it, and then sinking their ship for good measure.
Earlier in the night, we completed another skull fort only for an enemy galleon to show up right at the end. Rather than loot the fort, we ran with the key (keys stay active for something like two hours). They chased us for a good fifteen to twenty minutes in a wonderful cat and mouse game. We boarded their ship a couple of times, but they were constantly on watch and we only were able to drop their anchor once.
We came up with a new tactic on the fly. We had one of our guys grab the key and, as we rounded an island and got out of their view, he dove into the water and hid on the island. He was there for at least ten minutes while we led them away before eventually confronting them in an intentionally doomed effort. We let them sink us and, back at the outpost is spawned us to, we changed the paint job on our hull and then went back to pick our friend up.
We ended up getting all the loot in that skull fort, but even if we hadn't, just making sure those other assholes didn't get it was reward enough.
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Funny stuff Jack....enjoy reading your escapades, even though I don't game.
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Was playing more Sea of Thieves earlier tonight. We were doing a quest on an island and found a sloop parked on the other side of the island. The guy who owned the sloop wasn't on board, so one of our guys stole it and started sailing it away.
While this was happening, an enemy galleon started heading our way. I swam over to the sloop and took control of it, as we decided we might as well use it as a bait ship for the galleon. We had a lot of good loot aboard and didn't really want to get into a drawn out fight.
The sloop guy kept respawning on the ship and trying to kill me. No idea how he didn't. He spawned behind me while I was steering the ship at one point and should have had an easy one shot kill. Instead, he fucked it up somehow and I turned around and blasted him. Killed him two or three more times as he spawned.
I sailed right next to our ship for a bit. Then, as our ship turned, I got right behind the enemy galleon and rammed it. The front of my ship got wedged up against their ship, so I ran up the bowsprit and jumped onto the balcony outside of the captain's quarters on their ship. I heard them complaining about the idiot sloop pilot attacking their ship while they were attacking ours. I was cracking up because they had no idea that the guy piloting the sloop was part of the enemy galleon.
They had no idea I was on board and were occupied with engaging my ship, so I just walked up to them one by one and murdered them with my shotgun. Killed three of them on the top deck, then went below, found the fourth fixing and bailing their hold, and murdered him as well.
Stealing that enemy ship and using it as a ram was probably the most fun I've had playing this game so far. I was laughing the whole time. It was one of those times when everything played out perfectly. The two enemy ships ended up sinking and we looted them both.
While this was happening, an enemy galleon started heading our way. I swam over to the sloop and took control of it, as we decided we might as well use it as a bait ship for the galleon. We had a lot of good loot aboard and didn't really want to get into a drawn out fight.
The sloop guy kept respawning on the ship and trying to kill me. No idea how he didn't. He spawned behind me while I was steering the ship at one point and should have had an easy one shot kill. Instead, he fucked it up somehow and I turned around and blasted him. Killed him two or three more times as he spawned.
I sailed right next to our ship for a bit. Then, as our ship turned, I got right behind the enemy galleon and rammed it. The front of my ship got wedged up against their ship, so I ran up the bowsprit and jumped onto the balcony outside of the captain's quarters on their ship. I heard them complaining about the idiot sloop pilot attacking their ship while they were attacking ours. I was cracking up because they had no idea that the guy piloting the sloop was part of the enemy galleon.
They had no idea I was on board and were occupied with engaging my ship, so I just walked up to them one by one and murdered them with my shotgun. Killed three of them on the top deck, then went below, found the fourth fixing and bailing their hold, and murdered him as well.
Stealing that enemy ship and using it as a ram was probably the most fun I've had playing this game so far. I was laughing the whole time. It was one of those times when everything played out perfectly. The two enemy ships ended up sinking and we looted them both.
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I just gave Fortnite another try, and it was with 2 other friends on my squad....NOPE, this game is bad. The aiming is bad, the building stuff while you are in a firefight is bad, no vehicles available for use lowers the game's depth for me, etc...
All 3 of use decided to delete the game after we played for like 4hrs.
I will admit that the game was way more fun in a squad than solo, but it was still bad.
All 3 of use decided to delete the game after we played for like 4hrs.
I will admit that the game was way more fun in a squad than solo, but it was still bad.
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Love all the Far Cry games and this one is no different. Hour in and loving it.
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Yeah I'm a couple hours in. Gonna jam some more tonight. Loving it.
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Played fc5 Saturday from 10am till 2am Sunday. Loving it...
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My friend got me into the Division. Love the game. Very simple, but enjoyable.
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What are Far Cry games like? Meaning what separates those games from say...GTA? From an outsider, it seems like FC5 looks like a hillbilly rip off of GrandTheftAuto.
Or are there rpg elements to it?
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I'd say it's closer to a Red Dead than a GTA. Great graphics, great stories, and pretty cool locales (Tibet, Prehistoric era, etc...). It's a sandbox game so there are main missions and tons of side quests. In the past you had to take over radio towers in order to reveal more of the map, but they may be done with that concept.
Enemy outposts all over the map that you can take over to get reputation points and weapons/ammo. How you appraoch these depends on how you play. You can run and gun with launchers or machine guns, you can use hired guns to run in and help, or go stealth like I love to do when I play games. Bow and crossbows are my silent range weapons of choice. You can even find caged animals at some of these spots, shoot the lock off, then hide in the bushes watching tigers/bears go nuts on the enemy camp. Fun stuff.
There are RPG elements like building weapons and creating antidotes by collecting the right herbs. You also have skill nests, so when you get a couple of skill points you can decide what abilities you want to learn/upgrade (stealth, swimming faster, picking locks, carry more gear, etc...).
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I know its 4 years late, but Dragon Age Inquisition is really good. The side quests do not feel tedious and that's probably the first time since Skyrim I can say that. Sooo much better than the 2nd Dragon Age. So if you played the 2nd and were turned off by the franchise, this one is worth playing.
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Kosis covered this pretty well, but...it's really nothing like GTA unless you think GTA has a trademark on games where you can drive vehicles and play in an open sandbox.
The games generally follow a person thrust into role of unlikely hero/revolutionary/figure of interest in an exotic locale (the latest is set in Montana however, a departure). They're primarily first person. Again, really not like GTA at all. If you like FPS, check it out!