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Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread

Hello everyone. Hope all my fellow Americans are gonna have a good Thanksgiving next week. I had my birthday this past week which was fun and full of debauchery. Anyway I finished another playthrough of Disco Elysium, finally did 100% achievements after 5 playthroughs. I also played some Binding of Isaac, but I didn't play the new update. Have a good week everyone

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  • Been playing Cities: Skylines. Just got up to 40,000 population. Probably the largest city I've built without chronic issues. I didn't even put in a metro system until around 25k (and I still haven't used a single traffic circle!). Still has room to grow.

    • I see that fucking fart district you can't hide your shame from me

    • Why is there a massive freeway splitting the city in two? It looks to me like you are building Brasília.

      • Well, what I really wanted was for my city center to be located at the tip of the peninsula, but that required me to sprawl out and grow my population enough to purchase two tiles in that direction (plus one in the opposite direction for rail access). I was trying to plan several hours ahead while sticking to the vanilla rules, rather than doing infinite money / 81 tiles.

        At 79K population, it now looks like this:

        I guess it would be more ideal for the highway to run alongside the river, but the system interchange (the cloverleaf) and actual highway was outside my city limits for a while. Basically the highway runs through the center off the sprawl, then becomes a tunnel underneath the downtown residential area, connecting a couple blocks apart to the main avenue which borders the commercial zone. Normally a bad idea, but since it is a peninsula, there is nowhere else for traffic to go. The highway just terminates in the middle of town and it works. Anyone proceeding though the tunnel is trying to get downtown anyway. There is no thru traffic coming out getting stuck in commercial / residential neighborhoods.

        The amusement park is an absolute shit show, despite the fact that there are two separate metro lines, intercity rail, tram, and bus service within two blocks. The shitshow is very localized to the front gate though. Just hundreds of tourists pulling out their pocket cars. Doesn't really back anything up though, it is all traffic leaving the park, and it disperses without any issues.

        The city is beginning to suffer an economic crisis though. Everyone is too educated and a lot of factories are going out of business, leading to a demand for imports which is impossible to fulfill. The cargo harbor/train hub (put in after these screenshots) never stops pumping out delivery vehicles. These vehicles are perfectly capable of navigating the city and returning to the harbor without getting stuck, but it takes a tiny bit longer for the empty trucks to enter the cargo hub than it does for them to leave. This creates a queue which never stops growing until the garbage trucks get consumed by the blob, people get sick, the ambulances get consumed by the blob, people die, and then the hearses get consumed by the blob. This has forced me to turn off TM:PE's "hard mode" traffic, which prevents despawning, but I had it enabled up to this point.

        At this point I'm doing a lot of fiddling around and re-loading to see if I can come up with a solution which still works on hard mode and doesn't require using the bulldozer as an instrument of economic policy.

  • I've been playing Tactical Breach Wizards and Star Wars: Outlaws.

    TBW is great - super fun puzzley turn based tactical combat.

    Outlaws is an open world Ubisoft game, for better or worse. I haven't played one in years, so I'm enjoying this. Plus, I'm a big Glup Shitto fan

  • Just starting some Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Gives me some major nostalgia vibes for A Link to the Past... maybe I should replay that, it's been thirty years since I beat it.

  • Stalker 2 has been disappointing. Might end up somewhere good eventually, but until then I'm thinking about playing GAMMA again. Problem is that I updated it like an idiot and now all my hours of modding it last time are left as a broken mess of files to redownload. Think I'm gonna just have to start from a fresh install and rebuild my list. Gotta have my mags mod and my girl character to stalk the zone in search of artifacts. I guess I could put some more time into Zero Sievert for my fix instead, but it's not as immersive and that's what I like.

    Also rockin magic arena still, got a good monogreen hydra deck with an above-average win rate - though it's still not as good as my black-red bloomburrow lizard aggrocragro deck.

  • So I started playing Dyson Sphere Program again because my kiddo asked me so he could watch. Then he went and watched tv instead... I'm a little sad because he seemed actually interested in learning stuff this time but whatever. In any case I'm at yellow jello and working on automating logistics stuff. I need to bootstrap processors and I fucking hate those in early game. But yeah it's processors, manually carry them to my logistics factory until I get spinner hats and PLS/ILS set up. then after that is green and purple jello and start setting up fer end game mall and sphere. I want to make it a quick run so I'm not going for like a Terrawatt sphere this time or anything. Will probably keep it all in my local system too.

    I am also attempting to play Workers and Resources finally. And uh... it's not going great. I'm trying to follow along bballjo's beginner tutorial but I'm already having issues with heating, food, and clothing. I have a clothing factory set up but I need power and stuff to it. I set up a big farm and then got overwhelmed and just kind of quit last night. Anyone have any tips? I love the idea of a Soviet city builder but this thing is just way too serious lol.

  • Factorio. But I have decided to take a week break because it started to become a problem again.

    I've finished all of the new content and got the win screen, but I stil have so much more to do.

    Is anyone else playing the new dlc? I'm curious what other people think of it. I like it, but there are some silly arbitrary decisions which just limit how you can play it. Luckily there will be mods for that though.

    • Yeah! On my first world playing the expansion, currently have moderate factories on fulgora and vulcanus. Feels so much bigger than the original, even though I would guess I'm halfway-ish through the game.

      • Nice! Yeah, the new planets really extend the game. I've got all of the planets making stuff right now, but need to go back and expand. I'm at like 10k spm rn (including productivity), aiming for 100k. The new biolabs are so good. I think I only consume like 1.6k per minute.

  • Been traveling around and I've been using a mini PC to game. Integrated graphics have come a long way actually. I can run quite a few newer games on this little 400 dollar machine, but I save them for my real computer and only play older stuff that I can play at max settings- so I have been playing a lot of Oblivion.

    I didn't have the ability to play Oblivion when it was new, and plus I always wander around and fuck around forever in those games. A decade ago I probably put 100 hours into Oblivion but did almost none of the main story, and spent a lot of time modding and restarting.

    In the last year I decided to stick to near-vanilla on all Bethesda games so I can actually beat them. I only install UI stuff, bug fixes, and gameplay mods that fix REALLY dumb shit like merchants punching dragons in Skyrim, that sort of thing. I have also been using Alternate Start in Skyrim and Oblivion, which is just incredible. Can't believe I slept on that mod all this time, despite knowing it exists.

    Now by following that philosophy, I am actually starting to make it through Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout bit by bit.

  • I finally got around to playing Mario & Luigi Brothership. I haven't played much, but it's... decent. My only problem is that the story has clearly been padded to make it longer than it needs to be (problem with a lot of modern games tbh) , meaning that It's slow at times, but when it's good, it's very good. I just wish there was more cartoon hyjinks. Because when their are, it's amazing.

    It's nice to have a cozy RPG like this though, honestly. Outside of the Devs obviously being told to make the game long, It definitely gives that GameCube era vibe of Nintendo just letting Devs fuck around.

    It's hard for me to rate it, because when it's at it's best it's as good as TTYD, but when it's dragging it's as bad as Dream Team.

  • My buddy got me into PlanetSide 2 and that's been a lot of fun! Really cool to play a game I got hyped for over a decade ago and totally forgot about until just now. I have also been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat with the GUNSLINGER mod installed and the relatively small tweaks it makes to gunplay and survival make the game feel a lot more fresh.

  • Played a tiny bit of Monster Hunter: Rise, Risk of Rain 2, and Deep Rock Galactic earlier in the week. Now I'm trying to work through my backlog, will no doubt burn out and go back to games I already know I like at some point.

    • Guild of Dungeoneering: a relatively simple roguelike "deckbuilder" where you build a dungeon as you explore it and place monsters for yourself to fight. Didn't hold my attention. The one time I died was due to really bad RNG on a minor enemy that I'd already beaten like 3 times that run. Played until I got all the steam trading card drops, then dropped it.
    • Injustice: Gods Among Us (
      ): a fighting game by the Mortal Kombat devs, but this time set in a DC world where Superman goes EVIL. Based on the comic run of the same name, but it somehow does the already incredibly ridiculous story even worse because the game doesn't show us the inciting incident of (CW: violence against a pregnant woman) Superman killing a pregnant Lois Lane while being mind controlled by the Joker which sets off a nuke in Metropolis that was triggered by her heartbeat stopping. I've never really played fighting games, so I have no idea whether it's good or not, but I'm not getting stomped by the AI so I'll probably finish the campaign. The special move inputs are really simple so that's nice I guess. Unfortunately the character models are all pretty garbo, and the VA for The Joker is just awful. This is from 2013 or something too, so they absolutely could have just gotten Hamill to do it. Oh yeah, and in case you were wondering, they handwave away Joker and Green Arrow etc fighting Superman or Ares by saying that Lex Luthor developed a magic pill that could make a normal person super tough.

  • Armored core 3 and stalker trilogy on ps5. Wish gsc ported the fixes into PC stalker :( but playing with the controller took some getting used to

  • Been playing V Rising. Its got a really good difficulty curve. I always feel like I can barely make it past the next objective and you cant just grind your way past the difficulty. The castle relocation mechanic is genius. Letting you remodel your setup without making you carry everything back and forth is really well done.

  • Bit late to the parade but I wound up playing a bit of Divinity: Original Sin with a friend from the TTRPG group that usually runs on Sundays. We wound up doing a lot of save scumming after getting some outcomes we didn't like and some combats we were horribly under prepared for.

  • currently playing ys origin. it's pretty fun. almost near the end though lol

    really looking forward to getting ys x: nordics (along with other games) this autumn sale OwO7

    just 2.5 more days 😭😭

  • Apparently I bought Warhammer Boltgun like a year ago, so I've been doing that, StarCraft 2 co-op, and Balatro. New DLC for Songs of Conquest comes out soon and looks comfy, but I barely played Against the Storm's DLC so I should probably do that.

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