The pace, weapon handling and atmosphere all felt very good. As with any beta, there were some noticeable imbalances. If you have great tank drivers they basically wipe out the whole enemy team. I found that the best way to counter the snipers on the hills was to use an RPG, as it’s a one-shot kill on the body and if not, still great suppression to send the second rocket for the kill.
Will play again on the 14th.
A very Sheldon way of putting things, me gusta
I did!
It’s not perfect but i had way more fun on BF6 beta than on BF2042, i’ll play it this weekend too.
Keeping things civil, not using profanity, or only using suggestive, archaic profanity!
And after many years I started the good old linux emilia pinball. Still got it, more than 13 million in first ball with extra ball and two balls reserve at the right side:
I love pinball…
And just passed 20 millions… gets boring.
BTW passed 40 millions, but then one of the balls got stuck in the right hole. Probably a software error. Was getting bored anyhow, but that way my new record was not stored… 
I played 5h during the two beta weekends. It’s visually appealing but I didn’t enjoy it as much - the aim assist (on by default, reduces your mouse sensitivity while you’re crosshair is over an enemy) was off-putting for me and the pace seems to try and cater to kids raised with TikTok that have an attention span of 8 seconds. Maybe it will be better at launch with more maps etc. but until then I’m the old man yelling at clouds.
Didn’t play video games for a while before the beta and have played some BF4, BF3 and BF2 since. As someone who doesn’t spend much time gaming those games are still fun and with the anticipation of the BF6 launch there’s a few full servers going. 
I wondered to take up EU IV again, and stumbled across this comic online (not mine). Is a new EU coming out? And why does the blue-shirt guy has a sad face in the last picture?
Had too google, so no idea!
Been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 and now 2 for the last few months. It can be described as "“historically very accurate rags to riches story” or “medieval peasant sim”. Can’t write much about it, just that I need to go play more because this game is a jewel.
I am playing anno 1800 since few weeks. 60h already ! I enjoy a lot.
Now wouldn’t that make some great articles for a FIRE blog?
I read about it, might want to give it a try. I’ve only got limited play time (totally not during home office when I finished my work), but sometimes you find something that you spend much more on then you should.
I like that kind of game, although I’m getting confused with all the DLCs. Steam says some 200 hours played, but that must include a lot of idle time
I dare say start with 2, 1 is great but not very polished, 2 smoothens out a lot of minor issues 1 had, and expanded in every good aspect of it.
Be prepared that it’s going to be rough at the start - they are games akin to Dark Souls in the sense that they are specifically tailored to someone who’ll get immersed and spend the time in them. Unlike Dark Souls the combat is not the focal point of the game, many encounters/quests/tasks can be solved by talking it out and/or sneaking however the key point is that player skill is capped by character skill, meaning that no matter how skilled YOU are in the game as a person, if YOUR CHARACTER is not skilled then you’ll lose. Think about it: peasant boy who never held a sword in their lives and is dressed in rags comes up against a battle-hardened knight, wearing plate armour costing as much as a small house…the boy will be cut to ribbons. In Dark Souls it’s all about player skill, hence naked level 1 no damage runs.
By the end of the game you’ve grown to be Aragorn, petty thieves stand no chance but if you charge and try to take on 5 knights simultaneously you’ll be cut to shreds, again, like it’d happen in real life.
The story and lore are also very interesting, it’s the player getting mixed up in 15th century succession and Bohemian politics, the people shown are real historical people, the cities and villages have been exquisitely modelled to their real-life selves. In 1 there’s a substantial section of the game taking part in a monastery, this monastery exists today, if you go to a specific spot in the game and look at a mural, then find the same spot on google maps you see the same mural. That’s attention to detail!
I am playing with no dlc since 60h and have no idle time. My game is not over yet (still some goods and stuff to unlock).
Btw, as a mustachian, I don’t like DLC.
Oh I might get into that, thanks for the mention. Part 1 is some 7 bucks on Steam right now.
I’m not too much in the combat stuff or difficult fights, I spent half of the time in that kind of game sorting my inventory or building an empire.
Fair enough, the base game is perfectly fine.
If you pause a game but keep it open in the background, that’s counted as play time, right? I did spent a good amount of active time in Anno, and then some outside the game, going down the rabbit hole about game mechanics and historic context, just wondered about the 200 hours. 
I’ve never played Anno or Europa Universalis games before. What I’ve played countless hours though is games like Civilization, Sim City and Age of Empires. Are Anno and EU comparable to those, or a mix of some of those concepts?
EU is a completely different beast than CIV or AoE. Much more mechanics, complexity involved. The type of game is also really different (start on a coherent world map, no balancing, just create your alternate history.
Anno is more like a city builder.
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