Wafflin the waffle....

Bots. Bots everywhere! At least on Twitter. X eh?

But yea with bots comes a more locked version of my X profile.... I'd waited to see if the bots eased off but if anything it's gotten worse.....

 

Anyway....  Besides that real life is real life, the more things change the more they stay the same. In this blogging case, a delayed one.

Heading Out is a game I've been keeping an eye on for years. This last week or so it's gotten an update to it's Steam page which took my interest. with a "Planned Release Date: 7 May, 2024". Happy news, I'm still looking forward to it.

Saber Interactive

Just out of interest....

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While I've not jumped on Helldivers II(yet) a real life friend is gathering a cross platform group together and as soon as I get the nod I'll get the game and have a group to team up with.

PCGamer had an interesting article about the game.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-sales-curve-is-rare-and-amazing-says-gobsmacked-industry-analyst-i-feel-like-steve-irwin-sighting-a-rare-bird/

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Neebs Gaming has had good videos doing Helldivers content. Always fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WePzIZM0Q5g

Stardew Valley 1.6 is so close I can say I have some real hype for it's content.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/stardew-valley-16-adds-so-much-stuff-to-all-the-different-aspects-of-the-game-teases-creator/

While I usually watch The Chieftain for his real world tanking content(among other Militaria(stuff and stuff, with side of stuff)) he also does gaming. The Chieftain Gaming And I'm mentioning this due to his latest train content... Railroader; An interesting train game.

 

The Chieftain Gaming

Star Trek Online has been it's usual daily on-goings. PR for the game was good right up to the last PC patch when it wasn't. The patch borked a lot of stats across the board. Lots of high end players annoyed while the mid tier(where I consider myself) are feeling a mixed outcome. For the most part I've not been having anything happen that's halting progress or classed as game-breaking(again 'for me' for the most part).

 

 

Xbox still has it's Zoom issue so that's my most annoying for me; But with luck that should be fixed as I post(it is!). 

The Xbox version is currently going through the Anniversary gifts; Free is good but I'm more interested in doing the Q content(coming in a day or two). Mainly for the party popper on characters. Yea I really like it so I'll be doing that a lot today. That said there was no official word, promotion or information in any of the media's about the freebies, which is poor PR form. If your not in the know to expect them then you'd have missed out. At least with me blogging and if you read it in time you can still get the T6 coupon! 

 

Otherwise gameplay is gameplay. With the new KDF recruits I've been enjoying the leveling of lower end gameplay. On PC I've been intentionally using the new character on the free KDF ship with the intent to do endeavors more consistently. So far so good; It's it's own fun to be the underdog and punch above whats expected. Not that I have Endevor points I really need to spend on PC but at least collecting them is it's own reward(for now); On Xbox it's equally good but at least there I can do with earning a lot more perk points and apply them.

Doing anything on a 'low' character has a 'feel good' factor with all the 'popups'. I'm still a sucker for that.

 

 

 

World of Tanks was a game I've been into on and off again over the years. Very much off in the last few years. Back this time due to the games anniversary; Free items due to that are a draw but not a reason to stay. Of the few matches I've had none were great, 1 was ok and the rest (8 or 10) proved that the more a player spends the more they can pwn any player that moves. The game does look good, at least imo.

Planet Crafter game-play goes on despite the new portal content being 'done' for me; The act of it's portal doing's is addictive content in it's own right. I'm one to enjoyable it's loot, gather accomplishments. So that's what I've been doing. 

The more rare the portals with the 'easier' difficulty are preferable. It's true that a red light, green light, flare breadcrumb system works but so so easy to still get turned around. Some wrecks are a real maze. 

If things do go south, the challenge ends up being more hassle than it's really worth. Never mind the time sink. In the end there's only so much that can be gathered, stored or sold; All of which has increased my 'done, done' attitude with this new type of content. Time will tell when I've really 'done' with it.

Darkest Dungeon as ever is ongoing. A mixed bag this week, between some roster triage and dungeon clearing it's kind of worked out. Taking down the Viscount was a big help(once again clearing the roster of the crimson curse).

 

 

  

 

Clearing the tunnels and rooms of the Viscount map was harder than the actual Viscount fight itself. Which I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by. It's Radiant mode right. Again maybe the game now realizes that after all? I've waffled about all that before; That and the previous runs in various difficulties.... I'm very much in the mood to have 'this run done with'. Time again will tell if I push fast or am 'over cautious'.

 

Speaking of older well played games I've been back to both Battletech and Battlestar Galactica. Fun again in 'just' the doing of the end game content. Missions and fights with maximum setup's (fleets/lances). Another two games on the list that will be kept and returned to frequently enough. Two games well worth a revisit.

 

 

Eve Online; Eve is as Eve has been of late... Annoying non launching launcher for characters with random errors that are not true visually confirm'able....

Account already launching, no no it wasn't. Stalled for no reason. 'Running' but no game window actually running. Play Now, client is starting, client is already running, no, no it's not. Ctrl+Alt+Del.

It's a mess. Even running the game from Steam has it's own set of issues.

 

That was stopping for a 'while', reboot.

 

Both my main accounts are still active. When I did get to log in both my main accounts this last week there hasn't been much 'gameplay'. My R&D stint has finished on the BPO's I was working on. But with just over halfway through their paid sub time I'm questioning a break from paying again.

My RL friend who managed to get back into Eve has since had more issues with the game running so has canceled his sub and reclaimed the cash. Makes me wonder how many players have done that.

 

Yea Eve is a lot of things to a lot of people in game and out.