I’m still disappointed CIG came up with a perfect reason to add medical missions for NPCs (event about respawn system failing) and used it to add a mining pew-pew mission. Not saying the latter is bad but really feels like a wasted potential. Maybe some day.
I do hope these new missions will be fun for the space combat fans though.

I wonder how different the UEE training will be to the old flight tutorial. Leaks seem to suggest they’ll include a character from back then so it would be cute if they added some references to the old version in dialogues or something.

My short time in game wasn’t bad either, it’s just forcing myself through the initial unwillingness to and anxiety of interacting with people in such environment is a bit too much for me (especially since there’s so many other titles I can use as an excuse to not do that). As I said, it’s a “me” problem.

I’m glad you’re having fun! Old BF games and Project Reality were always a fun niche compared to titles focused solely on infantry combat so having it continue outside of DICE’s attempts is great.

It’s simple but fun in all the ways that matter. Holds up pretty well too despite its age. While I don’t LOVE it, it did give me hope for an even better time with the sequel.

I love BF2. I love BF2142. I want to play Squad. I can’t play Squad. It’s a me issue, 100%, but having to do voice comms with randoms in a competitive environment is something I really don’t want to deal with anymore.

The little I did manage to play was fun so support your endorsement. Anyone looking for a combined arms squad based shooter should definitely check the game out.

Game list:

• Colin McRae Rally 04
• Spyro the Dragon
• Original VA-11 HALL-A prototype from 2014
• Amagami

I promise I won’t be spamming this every week but I’d like to once again link my Pixelfed account - it’s fully focused on game screenshots and might be of interest to someone. This week I posted some shots from Cyberpunk 2077.

I’m trying to play the PC version so no emulation here. As for the issue, the game simply freezes on launch (right after the EA Sports splash).

It seems to be a Linux (well, WINE) related issue since I was able to boot it up on Win10 a moment ago. It might be an problem with the graphics card detection tool failing during setup (it can’t load a dll for that) but I have no idea how to fix that.

I might have to spend some time looking into it now that I have a lead. Thanks for that.

I hope this doesn’t come off as whining but man did this event showed up at the worst possible time for this community.
The amount of news from CIG is extremely limited so unless one plays a lot and has something fun/annoying happen to them (which I’m unfortunately unable to do at the moment) there’s just not much to talk about.

I’ll just go search for some potential drama or hidden changes to report on when I have a moment, there might be something brewing on Spectrum at least.

I didn’t have “read a sports manga” in my bingo card for the year but since Captain Tsubasa is currently free on MANGA Plus I’ve decided to check it out. It’s fun change of pace, though I don’t think I’ll be sticking with it long term (it’s just not my type of story).

Secondly, Maid to Skate is back baby! I’ve been a fan of Suzushiro (the author) long before the series so the initial announcement had me unreasonably hyped. Seeing such long breaks between chapters afterwards was really depressing. I’m glad it was picked up again and hope this means change to the “one chapter a year” pattern we’ve had until now.

That’s a pretty difficult question without examples or some details on what you’re looking or.

Do song covers in non-music anime count as unique? Soundtrack for The Rolling Girls contains covers of The Blue Hearts (including Stones with a great Shamisen solo).

Girls Last Tour has Song of Raindrops as an ED to one of its episodes - it consists of vocals, soft beat and sounds of dropping water.

It’s here! I love the manga so seeing it animated is great.

It looks like they’re going with scattered approach (episode ended in the same place as volume 1) so I’m a bit worried about what this means for the adaptation as a whole. I hope they’ll go back to skipped chapters and just used episode one as a hook.

Other than that it’s a pretty promising start. Can’t wait for more.

Oh, all the food in this episode made me hungry and there’s no Chinese cuisine nearby. Curse you anime food!

Damn, that’s so old it still has the dreaded “use” prompt. So there are still things from that time I have never seen before, that’s neat.

I’ve been working on the patch list and remembered a photosensitivity mod for VA-11 HALL-A I’ve seen a few years back. While looking for it I stumbled upon the original VA-11 HALL-A prototype from 2014 and decided to check it out.

It’s pretty neat. While art style and gameplay differ slightly from the final game, writing itself is pretty close to what we got there. I was actually surprised some of the off-hand mentions in the release version were about this story.
The three characters we get to meet are also pretty close to their final designs - both in looks and in dialogues.

It’s a short but fun look into one of my favourites, I love stuff like this.

Edit: I also started playing Invidia, an upcoming indie VN about a criminal psychologist. There’s only a demo (I’m still in the middle of reading) but it seems interesting enough so far - story is about a juvenile psycho with various violent crimes to his name (check out the warning about themes on the game page if you’re worried about triggers) and MC is not a stereotypical warrior of justice but has her own less than stellar aspects. I’ll write a follow up after I’m done with the demo and try all the choices - it feels like they might be important in the future.

One small issue that’s apparent pretty much right away is localisation - game was not written in English and there are some small errors with wording in few places. Nothing game breaking but it’s definitely noticeable.

Edit 2: I was actually way closer to the end than expected so I didn’t get much more out of it. I’ll keep an eye on this title, it might end up pretty interesting after all.

I’m impressed with the amount of dice you have on hand, really nice variety.

Thanks for posting. I actually downloaded demo to check it out a day or two ago so it’s funny seeing it here already.

I heard good things about the game so I hope for a good time.

I think the main thing they could probably go with is Squadron 42, at least if they want to reassure the 2026 release window. That wouldn’t be enough for a whole show but wording in the post suggest it’ll be a smaller affair anyway.

One thing I’d like to see on the other hand would be their plans towards medical gameplay. It’s pretty much dead between the changes to the respawn system, recently released T0 of item recovery and removal of medical beacons. I have zero hope it’ll happen but boy I wish they threw a bone to us ambulance donkeys.

I’m not sure I’m ready for another piece of media focused on magical girls suffering but trailer is a bop.

Huh, never knew my approach to work had an actual name. That’s neat! Thanks for teaching me something new.

I mostly play according to the intended game design. The only exceptions that come to mind at the moment are:

• Open world games (GTA, Fallouts, Elder Scroll series etc) - I tend to act like a normal, civilian part of the world. I eat and drink, travel like a person rather than player (i.e. safely, without quick travel), avoid violence and do peaceful tasks when possible. I also go on trips and take screenshots of the scenery.
  Finally, if there’s an equipment system I limit myself to “reasonable” amount of baggage (both in terms of weight and volume).
• Mirror’s Edge and Portal - the only games I learned to the point of speedrunning. I’m nowhere near the level of being able to compete with professionals (nor am I interested in that) but I can get through both pretty quickly and without issues.

!lemmysilver

Oh, I meant user gifted silver specifically. Thanks for clearing that up.