What games are you playing?

[MrTea_32]

I've just started playing Total War Rome 2 with a Rome campaign and a couple of minor mods.
I know alot of people didn't like the game but I'm loving it at the moment.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I've just started playing Total War Rome 2 with a Rome campaign and a couple of minor mods.
I know alot of people didn't like the game but I'm loving it at the moment.

What mods you using? I couldn't play vanilla Rome 2 and just ended up back on stainless steel.

 

[MrTea_32]

I'm using 4 turns per year, major factions guaranteed, better ai recruitment, minor factions are minor, talent traits and toadies, and a couple of unit mods for minor factions recommended by a guy called Darren Totalwar they don't effect the vanilla game balancing.
I started a campaign using the "grand campaign on imperator Augustus map" but wanted to play as Rome and you start it with to many regions, will probably use that mod on a different campaign though it looked great.
Never played on Medieval 2, is Stainless Steel any good

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I'm using 4 turns per year, major factions guaranteed, better ai recruitment, minor factions are minor, talent traits and toadies, and a couple of unit mods for minor factions recommended by a guy called Darren Totalwar they don't effect the vanilla game balancing.
I started a campaign using the "grand campaign on imperator Augustus map" but wanted to play as Rome and you start it with to many regions, will probably use that mod on a different campaign though it looked great.
Never played on Medieval 2, is Stainless Steel any good

I'm going to say this, total war medieval 2 stainless steel mod is the best game I've ever played ever. I guess I've always been a more medieval person rather than Rome but the mod is fantastic. They are making a new one called 1212 or 1210 for total war Attila. That's going to be epic!

 

[MrTea_32]

I've heard of the 1212 mod, is it a campaign?
I've got medieval 2 so I take I shouldn't bother with it and just get Stainless Steel

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I've heard of the 1212 mod, is it a campaign?
I've got medieval 2 so I take I shouldn't bother with it and just get Stainless Steel

The 1212 mod was just battles but they are turning it into a campaign, not sure when it's likely to be ready though.

As for vanilla medieval 2, I really enjoyed it for years but stainless steel just makes things so real it's epic.

You played Atilla at all?

 

[MrTea_32]

No not yet I bought rome 2, shogun 2, Medieval 2 and Atilla all in a sega sale on steam but only played Rome so far

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

I've just got Warhammer total war. I feel it will be a very love or hate game but I'm quite impressed. One of their most stable games on release, combat engine has been redone to get rid of the constant 1 on 1 combat, heavy cav charges are a delight, sieges actually work...

Personally I think this will be one of the best vanilla total wars and mods will make it surpass Stainless Steel.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I've just got Warhammer total war. I feel it will be a very love or hate game but I'm quite impressed. One of their most stable games on release, combat engine has been redone to get rid of the constant 1 on 1 combat, heavy cav charges are a delight, sieges actually work...

Personally I think this will be one of the best vanilla total wars and mods will make it surpass Stainless Steel.

Cheers for the review, I was waiting until I see it on steam sale but defiantly want to pick it up.

You played much of the campaign yet?

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Cheers for the review, I was waiting until I see it on steam sale but defiantly want to pick it up.

You played much of the campaign yet?

Playing an empire campaign and started a chaos one. More than any other total war the factions are VERY different. As a summary:

Good
- Stable
- Large variety in play styles between races. Factions within a race are similar but there is always the "dominant" faction (the one you can play as) and sub-factions of the race.
- Good graphics
- Suprisingly well optimised considering it is early days
- Clear interface
- Nice variety of extra gameplay mechanics
- Flying units
- Large forces possible (introduced in Shogun 2 I believe so only new if you haven't had any recent total wars)
- Back to the old combat style of multiple units being able to attack 1 rather than 1 vs 1 that has been in since Empire
- Heavy Cav charges, my god the charges!
- Agent units can be integrated into armies and fight on the battlefield
- Commanders are single, immensely powerful units
- Wargear and followers for commanders and agents to affect their stats and abilities
- Good, simple ability tree split into combat stat upgrades, battlefield support stats and campaign stats and abilities.
- Magic
- Combat AI tries things like cav flanking

Bad:

- Only 4 factions with 5 if you have the DLC
- Blatant DLC farming planned
- Can make the GPU run quite hot but nothing terrible
- Memory hog both GPU and RAM
- Long load times if not on an SSD
- AI still doesn't know how to deal with being flanked and keeps repositioning the entire army if you start to encircle it.
- Assassination is messed up, AI succeeds way too regularly and the player fails them WAY more than the % says you should. EG it took me 12 turns to simply injure a character when each one had a 30-40% success chance. In that time the AI killed and injured 2 of my units, both on the first attempt.

 

[Rich Taff]

Anyone else playing 'Neverwinter' on x-box? Totally addicted to it.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Anyone else playing 'Neverwinter' on x-box? Totally addicted to it.

I got it the other day and considering it's free it's not bad. I'll probably delete it though TBH, it got boring after the first 30 mins.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Feking Steam servers.

Quick look might get
Age of Empires 2, £2.24 (haven't played it for so long and broke my disc).
Bad company 2 £3.37 (saw some people play on it not long ago still holds up on PC, and i miss it should be a good buildup to BF1)
But now can't find anything else due to heavy load.

Hoping for a few more games to tickle my fancy.

 

[Hulkster]

Lego Dimensions.

This is the best single game in history.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

The Crew is free to download this month on XBox so I've been playing that. As far as being a driving game goes, it's pretty poor, graphics and physics are poor, but it's a good bit of fun. Like Need For Speed. And it's free, so I can't complain.

 

[comprar]

I can't stop playing Bad Company 2. It's fine.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Picked up Parappa the Rapper 2 on the PS Store for £4, bloody love it. The first one was one of my favourite games as a kid, never played the sequel before though.

Also finally activated my free week of PS Now, so I'm gonna get started on the Uncharted games.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Pokemon go

So far have
Lvl 10 Piggy
Lvl 12 Charmander
Lvl 15 Weedle

 

[unrated]

Pokemon go

So far have
Lvl 10 Piggy
Lvl 12 Charmander
Lvl 15 Weedle

I started playing this but here you are limited to a few suburbs to explore. Even then you have to be vigilant. Theres only so many pidgeys in my neighbourhood.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

TBH being in rural England I didn't expect many Pokemon TBH but quite surprised.