What a week, right?
So we had the GTA 6 announcement for an announcement, BG3 had another massive patch (so much for a finished game on release lol) that addresses issues in the endgame and finally fixes the epilogue, elden ring had leaks or something for a new DLC, there's peter griffin in fortnite and cs2 had a patch that made the game go from a 3/10 to a 3.5/10 and Faker got the title for the best esport player of the year. Also, World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery released which added tons of new content (LOL) for a 20 year old game. If you find Retail too mechanically taxing but at the same time too easy, and you're desperate to relive the glory days of 2012 when you first played Vanilla on shitty private servers, or if you're just looking for an excuse to play the same game again and again, this is the best time to jump in. I heard SoD was the baby mode of an already easy game, but you have to keep everything in perspective as Classic Andys are a sensitive bunch and 2004-2006 was a different time. Please do not cope in the replies.
What are you playing currently? !g*mers
Previous Iterations:
I'm aware there are previous weekly or so megathreads and I'll eventually add them ( green = official, red = fake, yellow = misc, blue = losercel)
#0 - [22 Jan 2023] - some1 should make weekly vidya threads marseytf2spy
#1 - [28 Jan 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" Thread #1
#2 - [4 Feb 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" thread #2
#3 - [11 Feb 2023] - Weekly Gaming Thread #3
#3.5 - [13 Feb 2023] - [Weekly Gaming Thread 2] You will own no NFTs of video game microtransactions and you will be happy edition-- dramamine
#4 - [18 Feb 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing?' thread #4
#4.5 - [20 Feb 2023] - Welcome to the new weekly vidya thread! Week 1 - 2/20/23 -- robotron2084
#5 - [25 Feb 2023] - Weekly “What're You Playing” Community Thread #5
#5.5 - [2 Mar 2023] - So, what do you dipshits play all day? -- horned waifu shill
#6 - [4 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing' Thread #6
#7 - [11 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' thread #7
#8 - [18 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #8
#9 - [25 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing?' thread #9
#10 - [1 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What are you playing?' Thread: #10: Whooaaaa Those are some HILARIOUS patch notes edition
#11 - [8 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing' Thread #11
#12 - [15 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What are you playing' thread #12
#13 - [23 Apr 2023] - What're you playing thread #idk
#14 - [29 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What Are You Playing' thread #14
#15(1) - [6 May 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' thread #15
#15(1).5 - [10 May 2023] - marseyg*mer Gaming Thread - What are you playing this week? -- cynic
#15(2) - [13 May 2023] - Weekend ‘What've you been playing?' Thread #15 -- he fricked up the ordering here I'll just go with it
#16 - [20 May 2023] - Weekly "What Are You Playing?" Thread #16
#16.5 - [28 May 2023] - Weekly “What are you playing” thread -- carp
#17 - [3 Jun 2023] - Weekly “What have you been playing?” Thread #new one
#18 - [10 Jun 2023] - Weekly “What are you playing” thread #18
#19 - [17 Jun 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing' thread #19!
#20(1) - [24 Jun 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are you Playing?' Thread #20: Modern Warfare III
#20(2) - [1 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #20: Summer Salestice -- same reason as above
#21 - [10 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #21: loli_esports forgot got chudded edition -- basad
#23 - [15 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #I think it's actually 23 -- should be 22 but I'll go with his ordering
#24 - [22 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing?' thread #24: Lot of stuff coming out all of a sudden, feels like
#25 - [29 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What games have you been playing' thread #25
#26 - [5 Aug 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #26
#27 - [12 Aug 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #27
#28 - [19 Aug 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #28
#29 - [26 Aug 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #29
#30 - [2 Sep 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #30
#31 - [9 Sep 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #31
#32 - [16 Sep 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #32
#33 - [23 Sep 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #33
#34 - [30 Sep 2023] - Weekly “What games are you playing” thread # 34
#35 - [7 Oct 2023] - Weekly “What games are you playing” thread #35
#36 - [27 Oct 2023] - Weekly “What games are you playing” thread #36 -- tulpa
#37 - [26 Nov 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #37 -- losercel
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Last week's game: Hades
- Final Score: (55+44+35+02+1*1)/(5+4+5+1)= 3.8 (not bad considering I fuecked up the survey
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Game of the Week to discuss:
Honestly I wanted to pick another comment but in the previos thread the user @Bum wrote a heartful essay about what he and his friends played and it convinced me to change the game. Much more important, however, is the fact that these few sentences radiate something that doesn't really exist on rdrama, sincerity and joy. I think it was
@Impassionata who once said that genuineness on the internet is the best compliment you can receive and we should all say thank you to
@Bum. That's why I picked Rimworld for today's discussion. Anyway, here's his text:
Yay! These threads are back.
I'm still playing RimWorld! I'm starting to consider the endgame since I have all of the spaceship parts researched now, but my colony is massive. So far I've got 70+ colonists and about 400 animals. Food is getting a bit tricky to balance at this stage; I'm having to put my colonists on vegan diets because the majority of my meat production is going towards feeding my carnivorous animals. I have 20 cougars, 50 wargs, 50 wolves and 30 cats, so it doesn't leave much room - especially since my chickens were almost wiped out by a brutal cold snap with temperatures reaching like -30 centigrade.
Other than that, I'm still playing Grounded with my friend. I kinda just want it to be over, despite how good the game is compared to other entries in the genre.
We also played Crab Champions recently - very fun game, but I feel like we basically saw all it had to offer in a single session.
I also played a little of The Binding of Isaac after getting whatever the most recent DLC was, but bounced off it quickly. I'm too rusty to handle the difficulty level of the save I have and couldn't get past the second set of levels after like 4 attempts.
Been playing SimCity 4 and Star Valor on my laptop. SimCity 4 continues to be a masterpiece and I've been experimenting with weird city layouts, with some degree of success. I'm unsure about Star Valor. I played a few hours and it felt like I'd already seen everything. It seemed like a less interesting Starsector, and if I just wanted a space-themed ARPG I'd play Drox Operative.
I also need to go finish the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. I'm up to the last boss in the last game so really just need to bang that out. I cannot recommend this collection enough. The visuals, audio and just the vibes in general are impeccable.
I also bought Forza Horizon 5 and Anno 1800 in the Steam sale. Excited to play these with my friend. Does anybody have some co-op tips for either of those?
Thinking about buying Songs of Syx, Dwarf Fortress, Kenshin and maybe also SimCity 3000 soon. I also recently uncovered my trove of Skyrim mods and save files, so I might get back into a run I've been playing since 2018.
This week's entry will be Rimworld
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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NO MAN'S SKY
Permadeath file is only about 77 hours old but I trivialized the entire game around the 60-hour mark and already have a god tier maxed out ship and multitool (a staff) and near-perfect X-class tech modules for most of the shit that matters. Collecting a frigate armada of 100% organics, the Normandy and a raider which is very time consuming but I'm enjoying it.
Will begin ship hunting later so I have something to spend my money on + I want a full fleet of maxed interceptors and squids like on my main.
I didn't expect PD to be fun but apparently more than half a decade of NMS autism means that instead of it being a tedious struggle it's actually a fricking cakewalk and I'm having a great time speedrunning an absurd perfect file in less time than the main content alone takes disgusting casuals.
I've also decided that the worm lord cape looks cooler than the Aeron jetpack and I've spent probably going on three hours over the space of this file just admiring the cape physics and walk animation while I hold the joystick slightly tilted to pace around the Anomaly and tall grasses
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No Man's Sky is so neat, but they keep adding so much to it that every time I come back to it I have to learn everything again. :P As far as criticisms go, not a bad one!
What's the fastest way to get around planet surfaces these days? I never bothered much with vehicles because of the ol' melee attack + jetpack combo.
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I had to relearn beginner shit I haven't needed since 2017 when I started the permadeath file lol, it's an absurdly meaty game and forever-neurodivergent lifers take the thousands of hours of experience for granted and you forget all the early game stuff because you're used to having unlimited and maxed out everything. It's been a lot of fun and I really wish I could come into the game now knowing nothing and experience all this shit for the first time. It blew me away years ago when it was a fraction of this.
Planetary traversal depends! You can install rocket boots now which make the melee boost utterly worthless and they're far and away the best for local traversal and completely change the way you'll move on foot once you get a feel for maximizing their potential. Rocket boots everywhere.
You can mount almost any tamed fauna/pet now and that is sometimes the easiest way to get around. It's the most fun in some situations, especially flying shit. Rocket boots are gonna be faster in most terrain but sometimes you just want to fly around on a giant dragonfly or a sandworm or a disembodied autophage head you know?
Exocraft have been a viable short/mid-range traversal method for awhile now! You can research and build an exocraft summoning station in your freighter (the freighter overhaul last summer is my favorite update of all time besides NEXT) and just summon your freighter into any system, either while in space or on any planet, and then you have all your exocraft available immediately at all times. Supercharged tech slots have made exocraft really viable and fun too. Plus the mech can now have an AI pilot installed and explore with you and he goes ham in combat. And the mech no longer handles like a drunk tank and is great for longer distances than a ship would needed for but are too far to traverse on foot without a headache. The jetpack on it, when modified decently, recharges in a fraction of a second and each jump will cover a few hundred meters.
Ships are, of course, still the go-to for any sppreciable distance.
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Jesse what the frick are you talking about??
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Yes! You get very overpowered in that game but to begin with everything is super dangerous. I remember in my main playthrough it mostly involved a lot of hiding in a hole to avoid the dangerous weather until I could cobble enough resources together to get my ship running.
Have you been playing since it launched? I remember the resource nodes being big ol' phallic shaped things jutting out of the landscape. Also wasn't there a soundtrack by a relatively well known musician? I'm not sure what happened to that.
I think animal taming was in the game when I last played, but I never really engaged with it. Rocket boots sound cool though!
Do you happen to know if there's a way you can transfer the layout of your freighter to another one? I always wanted to upgrade from what I had but in the end, it was my main base and rebuilding it from scratch sounded unpleasant. I wish I could change the race of my deck crew as well to the adorable little Gek dudes.
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You've convinced me, not particularly from this post, but from all your recent NMS evangelism in general. When my vacation starts in a couple weeks I am going to get this game.
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Heck yeah motherlover
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I've got about 18 hours on my save so far and my only death
was to some rolling sphere enemy that had a 0 second cooldown between hits. 
I got demolished by a fricking bubble.
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