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I fancy giving Civ 6 a bash but I was burnt by Beyond Earth

Never played Beyond Earth, but there's a lot to like with 6. The AI models and animations in particular are stunningly good.

They also shamelessly nicked a few ideas from the great Endless Legend, like city governors and districts.

The base game also came pretty much feature-complete in that it incorporated all of the features that 5 had after being expanded.

Interface is a bit gash mind you.

I hear the Dutch are a faction in Civ6 now. Who's their leader? Willem van Oranje?

Wilhelmina.

For a change. Every Civ had Willem van Oranje as their Dutch leader. Especially in Civ4 which had multiple leaders per Civ the Dutch were shafted with just one.

ps Wilhelmina was a badass.

Lucky for me Civ VI is free on Steam this weekend

MKJ wrote:ps Wilhelmina was a badass.

I honestly know nothing about her, but I'm sure Civ will pique my interest at some point and get me to at least read her Wiki page.

I understand she had an "I don't give a crap about protocol" attitude

since the PoE season ended, decided to give SotA a try, from Lord British himself.

started and finished Inside yesterday. Basically another LIMBO game, yet is able to surprise once more.

Starts out as a puzzle platformer, ends in wtf is that shit

Brilliant game. Loved it. And yes...WTF indeed.

Also that sonic boom level is exceptional

Just got my first chicken dinner.

Don Carlos wrote:Brilliant game. Loved it. And yes...WTF indeed.

Also that sonic boom level is exceptional

I watched a Let's Play of it to see what it was about. This guy playing was so amusing that I was totally engrossed with it and ended up watching the whole thing from start to finish.

It looks amazing. The atmosphere is so good and many of the game play ideas are really original. I do think, however, that if I had bought the game and played it on my own I would've found it greatly frustrating. I'm terrible at figuring out puzzles like what this game throws at you.

Doombrain wrote:Just got my first chicken dinner.

Nice man, I've been on a slump. lots of 2nd and 3rd places but that elusive 1st has been hiding well.

I've been playing the new portal bridge builder game... so much fun.

my heart was about to fail. I find the trick that really helps in the last circle is stripping your kit off and going prone.

Yeah... it's a bit of a gamble at the end I find. That's one option, I have definitely made others that do that in the end game pay but I know I've definitely been had by people laying down too.

Nowadays, I try to find a building and go for it no matter who's inside. If I'm outside, I'm usually doing the dance so I don't stop moving. Laying down is something I do extremely rarely these days and even then, I've been shot a few times doing it.

You have to keep in mind that people far enough away from you will not see the grass and will just see you laying down. It's very obvious and an easy shot.

Cover is always king like rocks, tree's and buildings mainly. If the final circle has a beach/ocean on one side of it I'll always try to approach from that area as there's less chance of people sneaking up behind me and I almost always try to keep moving and never stop. My final circle wins usually come from having taken and controlling a house.

Oh also I've been playing Sea of Thieves. That game is freaking awesome, best water physics I've ever seen.

Doombrain wrote:Just got my first chicken dinner.

Drop school 24/7 1 man squad go go go

Going through a bit of a Minecraft phase again. Colleague is running his private server and we're playing on it with a bunch of colleagues. Noting nearly as impressive as the q3w server was, but it's a pretty much vanilla survival server, so building is a bit of a slow and tedious process.

Gotten a bit bored of Kingdom Come, so am flitting between Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, Hellblade and more.
Would also be playing Civ VI if it weren't for the annoying sound bug.

Tried going back to Mankind Divided over the weekend too, but that's a hard game to like when compared to its contemporaries such as Dishonored 2 and Hitman. There's just something... rough about it. And for the performance hit, the graphics aren't that great either.

Eraser wrote:Going through a bit of a Minecraft phase again. Colleague is running his private server and we're playing on it with a bunch of colleagues. Noting nearly as impressive as the q3w server was, but it's a pretty much vanilla survival server, so building is a bit of a slow and tedious process.

I had the itch to play this again over the weekend too. Survival is where it's at.

This talk about INSIDE reminded me I have LIMBO in my Steam list. Unplayed and unloved. Decided to give that one a whirl.

Lieutenant Dan wrote:

Eraser wrote:Going through a bit of a Minecraft phase again. Colleague is running his private server and we're playing on it with a bunch of colleagues. Noting nearly as impressive as the q3w server was, but it's a pretty much vanilla survival server, so building is a bit of a slow and tedious process.

I had the itch to play this again over the weekend too. Survival is where it's at.

Wow, the Q3W minecraft map viewer is still a thing:
http://mc.ciole.net/

awesome

Hell yeah, babel map.

The days before creative mode. It got a little crazy after people got bored and some block editing tools were installed. There is still a ton of legit minecrafting on that map though.

Obsidian has a Frank Lloyd Wright in there somewhere.

Whoa, what tool was used to create the world viewer like that? I have a few old worlds from years ago made with a few friends that I'd love to be able to view like that.