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Steam Summer Sale

I saw the Final Fantasy sale, I've thrown FF III and FF VII into my cart. Wish they had I and II, but I didn't see them.
 
I bought all the add-ons to Fallout New Vegas, didn't realize they were there, dirt cheap too.
 
https://steamdb.info/sales/

There's a lot listed there though, so it can be hard to track down.

What I did see, though, was like Half Life 2 for under a buck!
 
Ikari said:
https://steamdb.info/sales/

There's a lot listed there though, so it can be hard to track down.

What I did see, though, was like Half Life 2 for under a buck!
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I found it easier to just put a ****load of stuff on my wishlist with steam, and check there for what is on sale.
 
Has anyone played Planet Coaster? If so, any good? On sale for 20 and thinking about it.
 
Here's one for you. Try "West of Loathing". It's a B&W, stick figure RPG that can be played casually but, so far, has a solid (and hilarious) story. Also, at $13.50 you can't go wrong.
 
So far:

Final Fantasy XV
Endless Space 2
Stellaris
Witcher 3. (I now own all three titles and have never played them, my backlog is getting ridiculous)
 
Deuce said:
So far:

Final Fantasy XV
Endless Space 2
Stellaris
Witcher 3. (I now own all three titles and have never played them, my backlog is getting ridiculous)
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Stellaris is godly. Endless Space 2 is ok, but it does not compare well to Stellaris.
 
This weeks haul:

Divinity: Original Sin
Xenonauts(original X-com clone)
Planet Coaster
Planetbase
 
Redress said:
This weeks haul:

Divinity: Original Sin
Xenonauts(original X-com clone)
Planet Coaster
Planetbase
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Spent like a hundred bucks on games this week. GTX 1080ti. 100hz ultrawide 1440p monitor. What am I playing?

Baldur's ****in Gate.

I am so bad at this.
 
Hmmm... Might have to get this "Stellaris".

I ended up getting

Total War: Warhammer, paid a little more than I wanted to and I really don't know how well my PC will actually handle it but I've wanted to try it for awhile, big total war fan and looking forward to trying out a setting thats a bit more fantastical.

Rise of Nations Extended Edition: An old but very good RTS that kind of mixes elements of age of empire and Civ together.

And just for ****s and giggles as it was so cheap and one of my favorite youtubers was playing it:

 
Deuce said:
Spent like a hundred bucks on games this week. GTX 1080ti. 100hz ultrawide 1440p monitor. What am I playing?

Baldur's ****in Gate.

I am so bad at this.
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Don't feel bad. AS pumped as I am for the summer sale, and as much as I dropped on new games, it is a game I got before the swale that I am going to be playing tonight. Empyrion: Galactic Survival is like No Man's Sky, but smaller and so much better. Tonight's goal: getting farms up and running, and go to the moon and start mining there. Must get a capital vessel soon, so I can make it to new worlds. Great vessel progression though, from a motorcycle, to hover vessels, to "small vessels"(think aircraft that can make it to the moon), to heap big motherships that smaller craft can dock to and travel between worlds.
 
My wife would like to tell you all to go **** yourselves as because of you I bought Stellaris and was up til 2am playing it last night disturbing her sleep.
 
I purchased Divinity original sin last week, and will probably also get Frost punk soon.
 
Deuce said:
So far:

Final Fantasy XV
Endless Space 2
Stellaris
Witcher 3. (I now own all three titles and have never played them, my backlog is getting ridiculous)
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I really like both Stellaris and Endless Space 2. I was playing ES a few weeks ago and was going to stop at 10 and go to bed. Next thing I knew it was 1:30.
 
Moon said:
I really like both Stellaris and Endless Space 2. I was playing ES a few weeks ago and was going to stop at 10 and go to bed. Next thing I knew it was 1:30.
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Just One More Turn games can be rough...
 
Allright. I jumped on the Stellaris bandwagon just now. Haven't opened it. Have some work to get back to first....
 
Stellaris ate my Fourth.
 
Mr Person said:
Stellaris ate my Fourth.
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It does that. Wait till the next big patch completely changes gameplay and you forget to sleep a couple days learning and loving the new way to play.
 
This years summer sale was slim pickings for me, I already own a lot of the games they had to offer. But I did pick up South Park The Fractured Butt Hole. Still haven't played it. Waiting for the kid to go visit Grandma's.

She notices the games I play.
 
Ah....ouch? Either I did something massively wrong by accepting the suggested starter galaxy and following the tutorial (which was way slower than it should have been; found myself ahead of it in little time), or this is a pretty tricky game

I don't recall ever losing a game on the easiest settings since there were such things as difficulty settings. Civ 5? Hadn't played it since a little of 2. Overwhelmed the AIs on the easiest setting without bothering to even check the controls. Etc. I am pretty sure that I took way too long to start doing the right things.

I had a good sized area under control, about comparable to other races. I had no problem dealing with any threat except this one time early on in the game when one group of marauders that showed up with about 9k of power when my total fleet was around 1k. So I paid them a little excess energy and they buggered off. Eventually the other horde united instead of infighting. I thought everything was going fine anyway. But eventually they started taking over systems of other races a ways away, so I started building up my fleets. Didn't matter. By the time I had about 10-12k in estimated power built up, even concentrated in one system they were heading for, they showed up with 80-90k in a series of fleets and steamrolled me. I didn't stick around to see if I could rebuild everything after they'd left because there was no way I could catch up if they kept at it.


If the game I just lost conclusively is any indicator, I should've been on a war footing from the get-go with the sole focus being victory (or at least survival) through power. But even then I don't know how I could have amassed quite so many forces. That, or I did a terrible job of diplomacy and while I had plenty of friendly races who would trade just about at will, etc., did not have serious defensive arrangements. Perhaps the idea is to make absolutely sure marauders don't unite. I guess I'll see in time...

Think I'll set it up the next map in light of all this. But ...ow. What a beat-down.
 
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Mr Person said:
Ah....ouch? Either I did something massively wrong by accepting the suggested starter galaxy and following the tutorial (which was way slower than it should have been; found myself ahead of it in little time), or this is a pretty tricky game

I don't recall ever losing a game on the easiest settings since there were such things as difficulty settings. Civ 5? Hadn't played it since a little of 2. Overwhelmed the AIs on the easiest setting without bothering to even check the controls. Etc. I am pretty sure that I took way too long to start doing the right things.

I had a good sized area under control, about comparable to other races. I had no problem dealing with any threat except this one time early on in the game when one group of marauders that showed up with about 9k of power when my total fleet was around 1k. So I paid them a little excess energy and they buggered off. Eventually the other horde united instead of infighting. I thought everything was going fine anyway. But eventually they started taking over systems of other races a ways away, so I started building up my fleets. Didn't matter. By the time I had about 10-12k in estimated power built up, even concentrated in one system they were heading for, they showed up with 80-90k in a series of fleets and steamrolled me. I didn't stick around to see if I could rebuild everything after they'd left because there was no way I could catch up if they kept at it.


If the game I just lost conclusively is any indicator, I should've been on a war footing from the get-go with the sole focus being victory (or at least survival) through power. But even then I don't know how I could have amassed quite so many forces. That, or I did a terrible job of diplomacy and while I had plenty of friendly races who would trade just about at will, etc., did not have serious defensive arrangements. Perhaps the idea is to make absolutely sure marauders don't unite. I guess I'll see in time...

Think I'll set it up the next map in light of all this. But ...ow. What a beat-down.
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Not sure how much this will help, but my go to starter race(with explanations of why):

They are the Hani, home system of Anuurn. They are lion people.

Traits:
Slow Learner(leaders will still reach level cap)
Sedentary(For a penalty, this ain't bad)
Adaptive(more planets to inhabit)
Industrious(minerals are life)

Ethics:
Xenophobe(for the starbase influence cost reduction, the sooner you can have multiple constructors out taking systems the better)
Egalitarian(more influence, for more starbases, plus consumer goods really cost alot mid to late game, so reducing those is good)
Pacifist(more resources, more core systems, both will help alot)

Oligarchic government(elections 20 years, so don't have to deal with it too often, and you can pick who you want to win...note, democratic has nice bonuses, so really good too)

Civics:
Mining guilds: more minerals
Functional architecture: Cheaper buildings makes minerals go further

There are alot of other ways you can go, some probably better(try the inward perfection civic, very interesting, very powerful depending on playstyle), but this will give you a good start. Get a second science ship going as soon as you can afford the new leader. As soon as you have a good pool of influence, get a second constructor going and expand like mad. Try to colonize one or two more large planets as soon as you can, then slow down colonizing a bit and let those colonies grow(every new planet colonized raises research cost and unity cost). First tradition should be Discovery(I think always). Then Adaptability, then Expansion. I like Interstellar Dominion as my first ascension ability, as it reduces influence cost of starbases again. Reddit is a good source on advice to fit your ships the best way.

Hopefully that is at least a little helpful.
 
Redress said:
Stellaris is godly. Endless Space 2 is ok, but it does not compare well to Stellaris.
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I've been playing Stellaris quite a bit lately. Quickly becoming one of my favorites.

This year I ended up getting:

Don't Starve
Worm Armageddon
Mark of the Ninja
State of Decay
Project Zomboid
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Stellaris: Leviathans
 
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