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Belated happy new year everyone, onwards and upwards 🖤❤️

If you want to check out old PC games - type playclassic.games into any browser.  It has a ton of 80s and 90s PC games.  All the Sierra On-Line stuff like
QFG/KQ/SQ/LSL etc.  Point and click is my jam

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope everyone's had a super day and enjoying the Xmas break!
 
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Ah thats so disappointing that it backdates your collector level! No idea why they didn't make a collector level to match the total amount of cars in the game from Day one 🙈
 
I'm going to give the tracks a go at some point this week. Hopefully they're nice to drive.

Playing lady gaga through your mic in the proximity chat makes everyone happy 

Did a few rounds with Cripspeee and Cal last night. Fucking disaster. Lost so much of my stash it's unreal. Cal's constantly trying to kill anything that moves whilst Crispy's trying to do quests and I'm just along trying not to get killed. Of course logging in today following last night meant that I went straight in to the murder lobbies and lost even more of my stuff, reminding me why I don't play with squads. Such a pity, as it could be quite fun. 

Benches all maxed out, just need one more mushroom for the rooster. My mentality has changed big time over the last week, I just burn through resources like there's no tomorrow and it's made the game so much more fun. Instead of cowering in a building and shooting down a rocketeer because I don't wanna waste resources, I just hammer it with a couple of wolfpacks and job jobbed. I've been a triggernade factory for a while now too, as they're hilariously good at shredding shredders, and I need their gyros for the project thingy. 
 
Still loving this game. 

I've tried to start the 4th series a month back as I wasn't letting Henry Cavill departing get to me that much. Its been okay so far. The first few episodes have some decent fights in them. I think you do feel the difference between Henry Cavill and Liam Hemsworth though and I'm trying hard to ignore it but its definitely difficult to do so.
 
I'll watch a few more episodes and hopefully the desire sticks with me.

If they do, they'll probably demand £39.99 for it! 

Jokers. Its been 14 years now since the last Elder Scrolls and at this point I wouldn't trust Bethesda with boiling an egg 🙈

Just when you thought Bethesda couldn't sink any further, they've just released Fallout 4 Anniversary for £53/$60 and in the process broken the majority of established mods. They are also now offering 'their' own paid mods for an extra £20. So basically they have repackaged something you could've bought for £14.99 a month ago, butchered every mod in the process - some of which had 6+ years of work on them so they can reintroduce their paid mod fetish which has failed 3 times already. 
 
This company is beyond being creatively and morally bankrupt. I can't see how they will survive beyond 2030 even with a new Elder Scrolls game. Microsoft also need to shoulder a huge portion of the blame as they've done nothing for the studio who still rely on outdated tech and concepts. 

I finally managed to get in, so here's a last look at my character before I wipe him. I'm actually Level 43 but today's update to the game has put me down to 36 for some glitchy reason.
 
485 hours since 6 June and this will all be re-set to zero once I nuke the character to enjoy the new content.
 
I'd almost finished building my Hideout, but it's all going back to square one and I'm looking forward to playing with an actual storyline finally : )
 

The maps are largely (excuse the pun) bad Battlefield maps but I don't think they are all atrocious MP maps in general. These are what COD maps used to be 15 years ago. After 75 or so hours, here's my final thoughts on them:-
 
Blackwell Fields - now this map is an atrocity. Terrible visibility, way too open, aesthetically nasty and just a hideous layout. 
 
Cairo - decent map and plenty of destruction. Drone glitchers galore though. Works well in several modes.
 
Manhattan Bridge - good layout and decent size. C flag is well-positioned for a good battle. Action on and off the ground and it works well in all modes. 
 
Empire State - really small and frantic. There's very little room for any tactics and squad play is irrelevant. Decent MP map but not a good Battlefield experience.
 
New Sobek City - one of the bigger maps but still really small. Pretty fun in Breakthrough but lacks any scale or complexity like the Gulf of Oman map.
 
Mirak Valley - tries to be a BF1 map but feels mostly like a barren land. Big but not huge. Still fun in breakthrough but hardly feels like a traditional map from this series. 
 
Iberian Offensive - not a very good looking map. It's really basic but has a decent enough flow. Doesn't feel like a Battlefield map.
 
Operation Firestorm - 30% smaller than the older variants and it feels really watered-down. The inflated colours make it look really off too. A horrible remake. 
 
Liberation Peak - A good size and finally a map where vehicles can utilise the landscape. Still feels a bit compact on how the action flows but a good all-rounder. 
 
 
No naval maps in inexcusable and it's clear the developers don't like water because it fragments the action and they are probably worried people will get bored if they don't have a gun fight every 10-15 seconds. I think there is probably only one half-decent Battlefield map in this game and the rest are detrimental to the series although they aren't terrible in MP terms and how the game is designed. One map per season is not good enough either especially if it is as bad as the Blackwell Fields. 
 
Considering how bad the maps were in 2042, there really hasn't been many good maps out of this franchise for a very long time. Most of the maps also negate squad play that made the series so special. You can literally ignore your squad the whole game and still end up top with 45-60 kills and 20 captures. In older BF titles, squads were imperative especially for maintaining territory and pushing objectives. In this game flags change hands so often, if you ain't got double figures of captures come the end of the game, you've barely played the objective. 

I've been lost in this game since early access, but it's finally gone to 1.0, and it's friggin amazing!!  Everthing Supergiant Games did with Hades has been expanded, Improved, and made grander with Hades 2!!  If you like the first, the second is even better! 
 
This is my GoTY for 2025
 
 

On my list as a would like to get, I played the original back when it came out 20 odd years ago (does not seem that long ago) but yeah that's where the simplicity probably stems from. Dragon Quest XI would be a great choice if you are after something true JRPG / old school combat. That game was brilliant.
 
 

So I watched the latest season, I appreciate they have deviated from the books and all that but as someone who really enjoys the Witcher universe I still found some enjoyment in the series. I appreciate the need to be true to source material and all that but sometimes you can still enjoy something, a new take or perspective of something if you view it as something new or different.
 
It will be a similar conversation happening with the Harry Potter series when it comes out, when you do enjoy something then watching someone change or alter it can be difficult. It is the same at work, I produce a design and if someone then tries to do something different from it or someone asks me to change it to accomodate them I can get a little precious of it.
 
But yeah just wanted to say the latest series was alright, not dreadful and not world shattering but I did think they did a decent job of the battle on the Yaruga bridge.

I agree, I would have snapped up the dlc had it been of a more reasonable price. My collector lever went straight to the max 70 the first time I played the update so noting much for me to chase there. I'm also at the max credits of £100 million. But yes the new tracks were sorely needed and I'm glad not gated off by the dlc...

The first person to ever Escape From Tarkov finally happened.
 
I'm loving the story and associated missions but its quite a grind so it'll be ages before I'm in this position myself.
 
 

Hell yeah, I know a few people who had to change their pants after finding out about this 😅

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023 | PC Gamer
WWW.PCGAMER.COM This year's Game Awards GOTY (and almost everything else) is the popular French RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.  

If you want a great game akin to this, the other one I would also recommend is Yakuza Like a dragon, the side quests are great fun, the map isn't too large and there is a lot to do across it. The characters are wacky and memorable and the combat is great. 

Had a chance to play a demo/alpha of this over the weekend but after watching a few people play it, I didn't bother.
 
Lots of reasons but the biggest I could see was the gunplay was horrible with ridiculous recoil. And also it was quite obvious thete was rampant cheating, right from the start. Watching Kotton play it on Twitch was eye opening.
 
This chap sums it all up quite well.
 
 

Here's a interview and info with Larian devs which may clear some of that up for you 😘