Luseth

I've had this one on my backlog for a while now, and I have no idea why I haven't played it before now, because DAMN
 
Okay, so its a Zombie apocalypse/ City Builder type game. It takes Google Maps data to create your play area.....
 
I started a map, with my house as the HQ, and it has been amazing so far. You can create any location in the world. The game uses the map data to sort out how difficult of a time you will have. Cities obviously are the worst locations.  The maps are not perfect, in that it assumes the sizes of the houses based off of google footprint. So in my case it has my house slightly smaller than it actually is, because the google map image isn't current. (See the screenshots below)
 
You can dismantle houses for resources, and you find settlers all over the place. 
 
There is a story, that I won't spoil because I think I am about a third of the way through it, I could be wrong there though. I am way to busy farming resources to build a fortress to worry about other survivors in DC and Baltimore.
 
Two gripes people have about the game:
Zombies can cross any body of water, so can your squads. The Dev's did this for pathing reasons, as the game is still in Early Access, and I guess trying to differentiate water on a google map is hard when importing data. IDK, it doesn't' phase me, I just build more walls
 
Radio transmissions are frequent, and can't be ignored. You have to choose an option, but luckily it does pause the game for you. That being said if you don't choose an option quickly the npc's will get grumpy.
 
 
 
So the screenshots I am attaching are of my play area. The "Star" is my house, the HQ, the rest are shelters, and warehouses I am setting up, along with some build orders, etc. I zoomed really far out for these so you could see the street names and more of the play area.

This game has now come out of early access and 1.0 is live.
 
They have bicycles now too 🤪
 
 

Visually it looks brilliant, I just wonder how the series will cope moving onto a new protaginist. Though we know Ciri's story for some we have had 3 games of Geralt's character development and seeing a whole story arc go through it's motions. I think it will rest on the writer's somewhat who presumably have created a whole new story for the next chapter of the Witcher games.
 
That said I will be diving right into this as the third game is still my favourite to date despite the clunky combat.

So I had not planned to with selling the house currently but I generally can't resist a console launch. Got up launch day morning and thought I would have a look at the Argos near me, lo and behold they had some in stock so now I am a happy owner of a new console and the new mario kart.
 
I have only briefly played it thus far and will give it some more time the weekend but initial thoughts. So the biggest thing I have noticed so far really is the quality of life improvements, this console is very much an improvement on the original Switch which in itself was a great console. The larger screen, the HDR, the joycons feel better build quality and the device itself feels more premium. Then the eshop works immensely better than it does on the OG, it was always my biggest gripe with the OG console and the lending of virtual games, I intend to package up my OLED and give it to the kids for Christmas this year. Setting up the family and being able to lend them games will be great, it suddenly gives them quite a large library of games to play straight off without faffing about so much with primary and secondary consoles and such.
 
Mario Kart seemed fun as it always does, the open world aspect seems a bit of a bolt on rather than a key feature of the game which is surprising. I was expecting a more Forza type experience if I'm being honest. 
 
I have also continued my Pokemon playthrough on this and it is noticeably better in terms of performance and visuals. I think the big test for me is I am yet to play tears of the kingdom, I think I will pay the 7.99 upgrade and give that a go and see how it looks and how that performs over the weekend.

A huge congratulations to @GazzaGarratt and Coundon Court this week!
 
"Not only Club Development Club of the Year....but we're ALSO BCFA GRASSROOTS CLUB OF THE FUCKING YEAR!!!!!!!!!!❤️🖤" (Lee's words not mine 🤣) 
 
This man works his arse off day in and day out on all fronts and deserves every bit of good that comes his way! 
 
Congratulations Lee! You deserve it! 
 
Also a big shout out to @Findmartin who ran his first kids training sessions for comets last night, Comets is set up associated with Coundon Court that helps teach kids with disabilities how to play football, both lee and martin have had a huge role in helping comets get where it is today, however Martin ran his first session last night and it went incredibly well! Congratulations dude 💪❤️
 

So I had not planned to with selling the house currently but I generally can't resist a console launch. Got up launch day morning and thought I would have a look at the Argos near me, lo and behold they had some in stock so now I am a happy owner of a new console and the new mario kart.
 
I have only briefly played it thus far and will give it some more time the weekend but initial thoughts. So the biggest thing I have noticed so far really is the quality of life improvements, this console is very much an improvement on the original Switch which in itself was a great console. The larger screen, the HDR, the joycons feel better build quality and the device itself feels more premium. Then the eshop works immensely better than it does on the OG, it was always my biggest gripe with the OG console and the lending of virtual games, I intend to package up my OLED and give it to the kids for Christmas this year. Setting up the family and being able to lend them games will be great, it suddenly gives them quite a large library of games to play straight off without faffing about so much with primary and secondary consoles and such.
 
Mario Kart seemed fun as it always does, the open world aspect seems a bit of a bolt on rather than a key feature of the game which is surprising. I was expecting a more Forza type experience if I'm being honest. 
 
I have also continued my Pokemon playthrough on this and it is noticeably better in terms of performance and visuals. I think the big test for me is I am yet to play tears of the kingdom, I think I will pay the 7.99 upgrade and give that a go and see how it looks and how that performs over the weekend.

Visually it looks brilliant, I just wonder how the series will cope moving onto a new protaginist. Though we know Ciri's story for some we have had 3 games of Geralt's character development and seeing a whole story arc go through it's motions. I think it will rest on the writer's somewhat who presumably have created a whole new story for the next chapter of the Witcher games.
 
That said I will be diving right into this as the third game is still my favourite to date despite the clunky combat.

I think you'd be stupid not to pick up The Final Shape on D2 for free. Great story, possibly the best in the whole series of expansions they've released over the 10 years.

I would like to get it but I think my issue is time as well, my weeknights are mostly filled up with one thing or other at the moment gaming with various people and this is one of those I have a feeling I would be playing on my own and I only get a night or 2 for that sort of gaming ^_^ 
 
Maybe pick it up but I don't know when and I will wait for initial reviews on launch.

Unfortunately I had issues with my machine and lost the 2 weeks before this Monday just gone. I have updated with this week's stats though and just wanted to say well played all, there were some cracking results and 9-1 in a pro clubs match in Division 2 is not something we have done in a long while, well done on you all sitting forwards for that one!
 
 

There was a beta weekend nearly 2 weeks ago for console. I was away so couldn't try it out. Did anyone else try it at all?
 
It definitely looks like one of those games you could play for an hour just to pass the time. Similar to Rocket League feeling. Its not a game you'd play all night, but I think thats a good thing its not targeted to be anything that it isn't.

You are only allowed to play that class if you roleplay as such and create videos for all of FG to watch

I mean when you consider the reports of the RAGE engine it's meant to be better than Unreal 5 and Unreal 5 is pretty incredible so there is every possibility that yes it will ^_^
 
Even if it turn's out to be £100 I think I will be ok playing that pending reading a few reviews, when I consider how many hours I put into the last GTA and it would be a game I play for 5 years ish with online then it would still be fairly good value for money. I think that's how I need to start looking at games more to justify the price increases and actually think twice before buying games I'm not sure I will enjoy until they arrive on one of the subscription services or something.

Stats have been updated again, this includes stats from last week and the week a little while back that Ant noted down for me 🙂 
 

Definately a cash grab on people who have never bought into the Xbox ecosystem, can't see any other reason for it. The current remaster play's fairly well so I don't understand why you would pick this up unless you had just solely stayed on playstation. I do wonder if we may see this released on the Switch 2 as well?

You are only allowed to play that class if you roleplay as such and create videos for all of FG to watch

Those 8 months are to help people save up to pay £100 or whatever it's going to cost 🫠

Still end up being cheaper than the latest Assassin's Creed Deluxe Edition or the new FIFA Ultimate Edition🤣

Played this for about 7 or 8 hours last night on Ps5. I want my $40 back.
 
Minigames for everything? I get you can turn them off, but why?
 
The Data Spike minigame is the worst, the Coolant for your blaster is close though.
 
Kay randomly jumps on to every surface she can when I am playing. Which makes it being a cover shooter sort of tricky.
 
The speeder driving is garbage.
 
I am going to give it another go here today, but I am going to dig into the Accessibility options to see if there is something there that's turned on that shouldn't be for all this crap.

10 games, 10 wins. Stonking performances whilst having a right good laugh last night! GGFG!

Stats updated from last week, sorry for the delay guys!

They are a bit pointless aren't they?
 
Friday's for me are generally the day I have no meetings, get left alone all day and work from home with no one really knowing what I am doing. It tends to be the day I book my dentist appointments, doctors appointments and all the rest of it as I know few people will realy want me on a Friday.
 
What are your Friday's like?

I'm very happy with it so far, and I'm getting 80 fps on medium settings at 1440p.
I aside from a couple of niggles I think they have exceeded my expectations. I'm playing this on gamepass right now but as soon as I see it for 40 quid or less I'm picking up the Steam version.
 
 

And it's released 🙂
 
50 quid on Steam but I've got the PC GamePass so it's installing already.
 
I'll probably buy it on Steam if i like it...