What Game Are You Currently Playing?

Sub Nautica; an excellent undersea exploration game on an alien planet. It's really sucked my son and I in, but we are close to finishing it after almost 4 months.
 
What is XCOM? I’ve seen it mentioned a lot, both on and off these forums. Is it an RTS?
 
It's a strategy game. You play the head of an organisation fighting off an alien invasion, and you build a base, research equipment and train troops to fight the aliens. When the aliens attack, you send your squad of soldiers in and play a turn-based game against them, rather like chess or a skirmish wargame. It's really good.
 
Rodders said:
Thanks Tony. Sounds like something I’d enjoy.
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Plenty of Let's plays on Youtube if you want to check out the gameplay, graphics etc. However, I can't tell you what is the best or most up todate version as I don't play the game and there's a number of them.
 
apologies. That was supposed to be thanks Toby. Poxy spell check.
 
Not actually playing it yet - it’s a game by ageod, which means you have to learn it first. It’s called Field Of Glory: Empires. It looks a bit like Rome:Total War with less ornate graphics. The focus is on the cyclical nature of empires with culture, legacy and decadence being deciding factors.
Hopefully it will be interesting.
 
Foxbat said:
It’s called Field Of Glory: Empires.
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I've had that on and off my wishlist since it came out. On the one hand wooo, on the other the ridiculous tie-in with their other game which apparently makes it a giant pain of saving exporting quitting loading importing saving exporting loading importing...

I know you don't need the other game but that game looks fun and it feels like you'd be missing out without it :)
 
.matthew. said:
I've had that on and off my wishlist since it came out. On the one hand wooo, on the other the ridiculous tie-in with their other game which apparently makes it a giant pain of saving exporting quitting loading importing saving exporting loading importing...

I know you don't need the other game but that game looks fun and it feels like you'd be missing out without it :)
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They’ve recently released a new standalone Field Of Glory covering medieval battles. I think I might buy this soon as well. It won’t tie in with Empires because that time period isn’t covered (unless, of course, they release a dlc taking empires beyond the ancient and into the medieval).
 
XCOM 2 is great. On missing: I both agree and disagree. I like that 95% isn't guaranteed (the flip side works too). What annoys me a bit is you can be right next to a guy and miss, I think for the next game they should rework that a bit.
 
thaddeus6th said:
What annoys me a bit is you can be right next to a guy and miss, I think for the next game they should rework that a bit.
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I think if I owned this, my PC would have been chucked out the window.

Although I do remember many many moons ago when I used to play Counterstrike on line (Crazed Loner was my name). In one match, I was an anti-terrorist(GSG9) and there was only me and one terrorist left. The match dragged on as I methodically hunted him down. Eventually, I climbed some ladders to see him (his back to me). He was pointing his rifle outa window hoping to ambush me. I got extremely excited and pulled the trigger, emptying my whole magazine (forgetting about the simulated recoil). When the dust settled, there he stood looking at me with a ring of bullet holes in the wall around his body. Not a scratch on him. As I tried to reload, he just stepped forward and gave me one shot to the head. I got dogs abuse from the rest of the team that day:(
 
Foxbat said:
They’ve recently released a new standalone Field Of Glory covering medieval battles. I think I might buy this soon as well.
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I saw that and it looks pretty good. I'd have to wait until a sale though - buying games at full price when I have hundreds I haven't played is too much shame :(

thaddeus6th said:
XCOM 2 is great. On missing: I both agree and disagree. I like that 95% isn't guaranteed (the flip side works too). What annoys me a bit is you can be right next to a guy and miss, I think for the next game they should rework that a bit.
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True, and it may be observational bias but it feels like you miss a lot more of those than you really should. Part of it as well is that I just don't trust a random number generator - or even the % that is actually shown. They should sell a game with a little Bluetooth dice and just tell you on screen the number you need to roll :)

There is also your point there where they make it possible to miss shots that just shouldn't. Maybe with your fresh recruits, but after a while, you've got the elite of the elite and all the best gear and you still struggle to hit the side of a barn with a bazooka :eek:
 
GOG has a sale on Fields of Glory II (not the medieval one) and now you’ve got me thinking maybe I should buy this to incorporate into the Empires battles.
 
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