Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!
Please don’t forget to use the spoiler tag as soon as you start talking about a storyline.
We’re late but excited to roll out our dedicated Ark server! The wife and I are enjoying taming dinos and making thatch huts.
Ark is so good! Do you have any adjusted collection rates or mods? I have been looking for another friendly community server to get back into the game. I have about 2k hours on steam in Ark, but I only play on chill servers with nice people, and usually we have to form those ourselves
We’re definitely enjoying it!
We’re also barely digging into any wiki or walkthrough to keep experience super green and just learning on the fly. I’m sure we’ll start looking stuff up soon enough but for now we are woefully ignorant. No mods yet.
I’m certainly considering opening up ports if the kids start playing with us (while they’re at the other parents house), but for now I’m only running the server while we’re playing.
Any tips or tricks for the early game?
I’d be happy to provide any advice or assistance if you want to start hosting! In terms of gameplay, get some good collection Dinos! Collecting by hand is designed to be too slow. Get a nice trike for thatch and berry collection. Get a beaver for wood, and an armadillo guy for stone and flint. Then you can go out and do massive collection runs in just a few minutes to restock all your basic resources. Getting a bronto is awesome for berries but a bit overkill. Trikes do great for swiping berries up in mass quantities! Then you can get enough narco berries to tame more. It’s all about taming! Get a slingshot and shoot some low level pterosaurs for a nice quick flyer.
Honestly, there’s way too much in this game to go without the wiki IMO. Not that you can’t have a good time without it, but it definitely opens up so much in the game.
Stuff like which dinos are good at gathering which resources, some have weight reductions for some materials, etc. Some dinos have passive abilities that are nice to know about.
If you’re all about the grind and randomly discovering things, that’s definitely an option, but there’s stuff that you’re likely to never find accidentally, like boss battles and the means to unlock them.
Dirt 5, dirt rally 2.0. I must hate myself because it’s snowing and I drive a forklift outside
(With Factorio in the background) I’m having a lot of fun with Against the Storm. Excited to play the 1.1 update that arrived today!
I am still getting through Red Dead 2, just got back into it recently. Playing some Red Dead Online with a buddy too. Roleplaying an outlaw is loads of fun!
Across The Obelisk, love me a roguelike deck builder
That’s been sitting on my wishlist a while. It caught my attention when I saw RTGames playing with his friends; but I’ve been hesitant to pull the trigger because I’m worried it’ll be one of those games that’s only fun with friends.
I haven’t played with friends and am quite enjoying it!
lots of pokemon here! I’ve got a randomized version of Black on my phone, trying to shiny dex Moon and am slowly going thru the story of Violet
Have you played Pokemon Unbound? Always hearing good things about that one but never tried myself
I’ve been playing some Terraria recently with friends. I still don’t really have too much of an idea what I am doing to be honest. Seems like a game that would be hard to beat without the wiki. It is fun though since I have some help, hope I can continue learning.
God of War: Ragnarok. I’m loving it, about 35 hours in so far and I think I’m getting near the end? But I’ve also skipped a lot of side quests. I’m playing on the second hardest difficulty, but I have had to lower it twice for (optional) boss fights. Some of the optional bosses are ridiculously challenging, which is the point, but after 30 deaths I usually decide I’d have more fun just lowering the difficulty and getting it over with.
Guitar and a bit of ukulele since a few months
Way too much World of Warships
Black Ops III Zombies, Jedi Fallen Order, Spiral Knights.
I‘m having trouble remembering all the convoluted stuff in zombies to be able to progress through the maps, but it‘s fun af!
Football Manager 2024
I wouldn’t even call myself a football fan but the management part if very fun. Currently in the 6th tier and working on promotion.
Circuit Superstars
I bought the Switch Version so I can just pick up and play whenever and so far it is very good. It’s a nice mix of arcade racing with some realistic parts like pit stops and tyre wear. Hopefully online racing is still populated so I can give that a go.
Enderal. Went in blind. So far, lots of screaming and running from spiders when my mana runs out. Story and dialog actually has some meat, so am enjoying.
Baldurs Gate 3 with two other buddies. So many memories. Looking forward to another play through so I can see all of the things the we didn’t get to. And then go again but evil.
Play a few turns off Age of Wonders 4 while working.
And when I’m in the mood and have the patience, Pathfinder wrath of the righteous and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
I have trouble focusing.
Been playing Sons of the Forest. Visually stunning, this is good looking game. I like how it can be played as a shooter or an adventure or base building or combination of all three. The map is huge, backstory mysterious and the atmosphere is incredibly immersive, particularly in the caves which are creepy AF.
How does it compare with the original Forest? I liked that game, but after you explore all of the caves there’s not much to do. Building is fun, but I think some stronger enemies were needed.
It’s an improvement. The enemies continually increase in strength and number. More weapons and the map is bigger. I’m avoiding using the cheat maps for the most part and it feels like it would take a very long time to complete. I’m playing it on normal difficulty.
The game is still in beta for another month and building options are somewhat limited, which I assume will be expanded. If you liked the original, this one makes a lot of sense.
Great, thanks for the info. I’ll give it a go at some point :)
