Going, going, gone....

End of the first month, where did that time go!

 

 

 

Cyberpunk may have received a lot of updates, changes, patches to patches and an expansion since it's release, but it never had hype for me, let alone see me "into it". Once it came out and opinions were in I'm glad I wasn't. If a player is into it then good. It's just not for me. All that waffle said I did come across a promo video of a mod to give the game an 8k makeover. A very watchable video:

NextGen Dreams

 

 

Speaking of games I wasn't hyped for and not into, Starfield. I found TheYamiks

 latest video on the game an interesting watch.

 

 

 

  

Euro Truck Sim 2 has released news of another upcoming DLC(Nordic Horizons), another one for the wish-list.

 

SCS Software

 

I've not been playing much of the game. Incredibly the 'Winter' Christmas event is still ongoing and has into next month before finishing. As much of the that has been completed, I thought more would show the full 5 star completed blue snowflakes. I know I didn't hang on doing deliveries much after getting what I needed done; I guess no amount of time would now see it bee 100 completed.

 

 

 

 

A lot more time has been given to Darkest Dungeon. The urge to get back into it has grown. Getting plenty of standard dungeon runs and in turn getting a lot of the Crimson Court invites; As well as a lot more infected heroes. The blood flows indeed. In the first(real) Crimson Court map I'm almost to the end; One more crew into it should get to the Baron fight.   

 

Eve Online is seeing a large uptake in my game-time. Between planetary iteration, BPO research, mining, manufacturing, marketeering with healthy doses of level 4 mission running. It's all happening, almost like I'm back to playing Eve wholeheartedly. Which is a surprise. Of course the usual asset management, ship shuffling and theory crafting goes on regardless. I'm not in any way shape or form min/maxing what I do. Besides research there's no overarching plan beyond 'I feel like it'. Each to their own indeed. 

Take mining, both my main paid accounts will be in mining barges, when they're nearing capacity I use an alpha alt to get near them in a Miasmos and jet-can ore to him. Not that I'm aiming for ore for any specific reason. Usually get the rarest ores/most minerals after refinement and then move down the list as asteroids run out(or interest fades).

 

 

Maybe with the end of a certain trade tower it seem like the markets are being more 'monitored' and managed; Or should that be more long-term manipulated. Just my over-healthy Eve Veteran paranoia overload. Just putting that out there.... Yea I'm wafflin.

 

 

 

Despite the items offered I had no motivation to try out the recent Vanguard test. Early states as it may be there's no gameplay draw for me in it. I did watch markeedragon's stream but in seeing the game it

kind of makes me glad I'd not spent time in it. 

 

 

What it has done is made me want to check out Planetside 2 again; And get back into Battlefield 1(least there I can play it as I have on PC or Xbox).

On a whim I took an Alpha alt on a trip Wormholing, an idea of parking him in Thera didn't pan out. A trip all of 20 seconds. A case of that one time I go and there's a camp on the other side. Still no great loss, T1 and a clean clone. I should have checked Zkillboards to see what was happening. Easy to see when there's a camp, a clump of kills by the same group about the same time. Then again jump in at any time and there's still a chance to be the first kill of a new camp; Them's the risks. Besides what's are expendable alts for if not to 'try'.

 

Ever since Vanguard has come and the 'new' launcher was updated I've been having random issues with the game client..

Game crashes randomly, random is random but very annoying. 

Or the equally annoying Eve freezing and needs a hard reboot.

Getting my alt tabbed account hung/disconnected for no reason needing to process kill it in windows.

As well as getting 'stuck' in the jump loading screen. One time saw me in a warp tunnel, get launched out of that tunnel into the black void as I saw the tunnel disappear sideways; Then reverse itself bringing me back to the tunnel with a ship that wasn't what I was flying and a message saying something about unable to ship as it already had a pod. So obviously another players ship.... Then it went to black, stalled in the warp animation and then to black again.... paused, then I was at the gate I wanted to jump. 

A RL friend, that one I've mentioned before on the other side of the world hasn't been able to log into the game in nearly a week. Despite all the usual support todo's from me; Not a peep out of the official support(yes I've asked him to do more and e-mail/tweet etc etc), CCP gonna CCP(he's already paid after all). 

 

So fun times all over the place.

 

 

 

 

 

Star Trek Online has seen a lot of gameplay done as well. The Anniversary event is ongoing and will finish on the 21st of Feb. So it's only really started. Looking forward to claiming the reward ship not to mention a good bit of Dil in the process as well.

 

This is the first event where I felt like I needed to get the party 'popper' on more than one character. Given the Borg theme I really like the silver foil-esq balloons. If you see them flooding an area and I'm about, well guilty as charged.

 

 

The latest update seems, at least from what I've seen, to have 'fixed' the warp-out animation breaks/delays. It's all flowing as it should. No more ship in space and only the warp animation etc.

I'm really liking and happy with the latest expansion/release. Not that I'm super interested in the Borg, Wolf359 or any particular changes; Just the overall feel, improvements etc. It all feels like the game has developed, rather than getting wallpapered over.

Star Trek Online

The only gripe I have is in the new loading screen art. I'm a big fan of the Kuumaarke character and the story lines she's been in. STO has done a great job of creating a truly Star Trek character and story-lines. My 'gripe' is with the gritty realistic art style. Which looks good for Dax and Kim but Kuumaarke just looks wrong. Such a change from the way she's been shown before. Like the art of the previous expansion.

New loading screen

Old loading screen

 

As for technical problems there was only one case of the walking in space with a character rather than in a ship. Which I've seen reported but never seen myself, till now. Hilarious.

 

With the Anniversary event comes the usual Q shenanigans; And with my wanting a popper on all(yea all) my characters I got to do a lot of the particle mini-game

 

 

 

 

While playing it I noticed something I'd not seen before; The 'glitch' that makes the mini-game 'skip' is not a real game 'issue' it's actually Q!! He admits it! 

Of course, of course, who'd have thought otherwise?!

 

 

Overall I've been pottering with characters(as if I needed an excuse); Doing the party 'popper' on each gave an opportunity for some housekeeping on them. Lots done more to do.

 

 On PC the last of the anniversary gifts was a free T6 ship token.

 

 

 

Which I had already kind of picked out. It's a god ship but the console is hilarious in it's OP, kill everything in range, kind of way. Great ship to add to the collection; But one where I'll need to do some homework on it and the console to integrate both into what I've already got setup on characters.

 

 

 

There was a freebie pack via Alienware Areana; Free is always good! 

 

 

 

After much mulling I eventually did open the T6 pack from the free anniversary boxes on my main KDF recruit. The new happy owner of the D7

 

 

  

 

 

 

A great ship to fly, really loving it.

 

Overall I thought there would have been more episodes to the story arc, but it's been folded up for whatever is next.

 

 

 

Seeing the Mirror Borg  UI overlay, it was familiar to me. I knew I'd seen it before.

 

 

 

 

For the likes of gaining the 'Resistance is Futile' accolade, where the get assimilated effect was very different; But I do remember it from a previous Star Trek Game. The 1996 title Star Trek: Borg. A blast from the past. An epic FMV game. I still think I have the cd's somewhere! Q of Borg or should that be Borg of Q, either way, whats not to like.

 

 

I found this old playthrough on the you tubez, John de Lancie steals the show:

 

Idrona