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Post by mln59 on Apr 2, 2020 16:30:38 GMT -5
one thing i dislike about borderlands 3 is the sheer amount of options for guns. my backpack is full and, when i encounter a new gun, i spend time comparing its stats to see if it is worth my time. this gets wearisome. Wait...it's like that in all the Borderlands games! LOL! That was the appeal for me. i know. it makes me appreciate games like doom in which you get the guns you get and that's it. no picking and choosing
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 2, 2020 18:16:42 GMT -5
You are making me think of the original Halo (the only one of those I ever played). You could carry two guns at a time. That was it. And some of the alien weapons you couldn't reload. You ended up looting enemies a lot. Sometimes you had to decide whether to swap an almost empty alien weapon for one you didn't like as much but had a full charge.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 4, 2020 17:02:32 GMT -5
Finished off another game of Civ VI.
They eventually tweaked this game into something pretty good. Like many 4X games, the ending is generally the weak bit, but they threw enough complications into it (diplomacy, climate change, military options, a re-imagined space victory) to make the endgame decently interesting.
I won with a diplomacy victory, but only maybe a turn or so before I would have won anyway with a tourism victory. Diplomacy victory is an easy win if you are generating lots of cash, because you can just buy your way to wins in the "aid another civ after a natural disaster" competitions.
I got coal power plants first, was the biggest polluter, filled the air with CO2, but put up flood barriers and protected myself from the sea level rise. So the damage mostly hit the poor countries despite that the rich countries caused most of the problem. Just like in real life....
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Post by bbg95 on Apr 4, 2020 17:45:57 GMT -5
Finished off another game of Civ VI. They eventually tweaked this game into something pretty good. Like many 4X games, the ending is generally the weak bit, but they threw enough complications into it (diplomacy, climate change, military options, a re-imagined space victory) to make the endgame decently interesting. I won with a diplomacy victory, but only maybe a turn or so before I would have won anyway with a tourism victory. Diplomacy victory is an easy win if you are generating lots of cash, because you can just buy your way to wins in the "aid another civ after a natural disaster" competitions. I got coal power plants first, was the biggest polluter, filled the air with CO2, but put up flood barriers and protected myself from the sea level rise. So the damage mostly hit the poor countries despite that the rich countries caused most of the problem. Just like in real life.... I haven't played a complete game of Civilization in a very long time, even though I think I've bought every Civilization game when it went on sale. In high school, I used to play Civilization II a lot. Generally, I would try to focus on getting ahead in the research race, switching to monarchy as soon as I could and then eventually to communism, which was an amazing wartime government (democracy is great during peacetime but sucks during war). I would then conquer every civilization, except I would leave the last one a single landlocked city (so they can't expand via sea), and I would surround that city with tanks on every tile bordering it. At that point, I would switch to democracy, spreading out the deployed tanks' support across my cities so as to keep civil unrest to a minimum. I would then focus on development and research as much as I could and time the spaceship to arrive at Alpha Centauri in the very last turn of the game. I would also put all of my economic resources into luxuries at the end so I could have as many happy citizens as possible and jack up my final score.
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Post by bbg95 on Apr 4, 2020 21:51:04 GMT -5
I'm playing through one of the Borderlands 3 DLCs. After you beat the game, you can turn on "Mayhem Mode," which has four levels. Each increase both makes the enemies harder and increases rewards. I decided Mayhem 2 was the best balance of rewards and difficulty, and then I encountered one of the cheapest, most difficult boss fights in any Borderlands game. He has several immune phases, and during each one, he generates several shards that heal him or add shields or armor. You have to destroy those shards to get that to stop. The first time isn't that bad, but in the second and third, you have to jump on floating rocks that rotate around to get to them, and if you miss your jump or fall, you die. I got destroyed so decisively that I decided to go back to Sanctuary so that I could disable Mayhem Mode entirely and just fight the boss on normal difficulty. I did manage to beat him on my next try, but it was way more difficult than it should have been on normal difficulty. I had to swap out my gear in the middle of the fight for maximum health regeneration. I then went on Reddit and YouTube to see what other people thought, and the reaction was near universal in how much people despise this fight. Glad it wasn't just me.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 5, 2020 13:27:16 GMT -5
went back and tried killavolt again. i'm level 28 and i have better shields and better weapons. i just destroyed him.
i still deeply dislike the way the developers decided to create him.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 5, 2020 13:43:57 GMT -5
i would like to reiterate my desire to kill claptrap
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2020 15:01:46 GMT -5
I am playing Life Is Strange.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2020 15:37:49 GMT -5
I am playing Life Is Strange. What an odd pick-up. I never took you for a Life is Strange kind of gamer.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2020 15:39:35 GMT -5
I am playing Life Is Strange. What an odd pick-up. I never took you for a Life is Strange kind of gamer. That's a type?
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2020 15:42:36 GMT -5
What an odd pick-up. I never took you for a Life is Strange kind of gamer. That's a type? A teeny-bopper girl with curls. LOL! Honestly, that's how I picture Life is Strange gamers even though I've never played the game in my life and had, at one point, considered getting the game.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 6, 2020 20:27:40 GMT -5
hit level 30 on BL3. just met up with clay to re-take the town of reliance.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 7, 2020 22:30:35 GMT -5
made it to the voracious canopy. i have some nice weapons and got rid of a bunch i wasn't using. using 14 of 31 slots in my backpack.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 7, 2020 23:23:26 GMT -5
The voracious canapé? No, you're doing it wrong. You eat the canapé, not the other way around.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 8, 2020 8:59:14 GMT -5
i dreamed about BL3 last night. i was spending time trying to find a sniper rifle that had high shock elemental damage
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