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  3. Posted

    I think I'm enjoying the game so far, but I'm finding that my general lack of experience with non-Civ 4X games is really holding me back. I'm trying to get through the tutorial and it's not going great. I just can't seem to get my resource production under way. I have to spend energy to get minerals, which puts me under the limits to complete the mission, so it never seems like I'm building a sustainable foundation. Any advice? Feel free to suggest super basic stuff as I am pretty new to these kinds of games.

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    http://www.destructoid.com/review-stellaris-358688.phtml

     

    "As for Stellaris, the complexity falls somewhere in between Civilization and Crusader Kings. Luckily, it has a brilliant tutorial approach that is sure to help newbies and veterans alike get acclimated to the various systems at play. Rather than have a dedicated tutorial option, where players go through a stilted and guided version of the game, Paradox has integrated the tutorial into the main game."

     

    Awesome. That and the Quick Look pretty much have me sold.

  6. Posted

    For those who have been following this game, how does it look in terms of accessibility for people who are terrible at learning strategy games? I've been interested in getting into games like Crusader Kings since hearing the Thumbs talk about the adventures of Ragnar a few years ago, but when I tried to play myself, I just struggled to get started. Does Stellaris seem any better at teaching new players how to play it? 

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    I played with friends last night and solo tonight. All day I was thinking about how fun it was and couldn't wait to play when I got home, then I got home and played some solo games and felt a tad underwhelmed. You really need to have some sense of teamwork to feel like you're making progress, you can't really do little things on your own to help take objectives. Lots of times the fights end up happening away from capture points because one team or the other will chase someone across the map. Playing with buddies really alleviates that though, and you can even pull off some fun combos with just one person if you're on the same page. It's fun in a way I've not really had with a blizzard game recently though. I'll probably end up buying it on release.

     

    Cooperation really does make it better. When my friends aren't online, I've been mostly playing support. That way I can just find a tank or attacking hero and hang with them for the most part. It's like teamwork without requiring any actual communication with other people.

  10. Posted

    …rat poisoning the bolognese… …rat poisoned the golf coach… …poisoned the rats…

    Good

     

     

    I'm having a tough time finding rat poison in the town. It used to be everywhere!

     

    Apparently Nappi took it all for themselves.

  13. Posted

    The Open Beta is on, and I'm really enjoying the game so far. A lot of it probably has to do with the fact that my game playing friend group all jumped in at the same time and have been cooperating pretty well. Still, this feels like early days of TF2 for me. It's a colorful team based shooter that has enough variations in play style to keep things interesting. Are other thumbs giving it a shot?

  14. Posted

    Paris

    Lured a guard into a bathroom with an overflowing sink. Stumbled upon the Sheik's room and got that disguise. Went to the basement got the waiter disguise and drink recipe. Poisoned and fiber wired the guy. Then got the Sheik costume again and went to the top floor. Couldn't figure out how to get the woman alone so I stood against a wall behind where she takes a drink and shot her out in the open. Then sprinted like a fool to the front entrance.

     

    Sapienza

    After wandering around a lot. I got a guard outfit. Found a lab entrance and sabotaged a circuit box to get a scientist outfit. Moved quickly into the isolation unit. Incapacitated two scientists in there, overheated the sample. Then subdued a third scientist on my way out. Changed into the guard costume but was seen leaving the lab area. Ran around for a bit, found the explosive golf ball and my remote explosive. Then found a gardener outfit somewhere. entered the grounds and got the golf ball into the guys bucket. Got a housekeeping outfit, lured a guard with an overflowing sink. (see a pattern?) to get to the top floor. Saw that the woman went to a specific filing cabinet, so after she left placed my remote bomb there and blew her up when she returned. Ran to the VW beetle and sped off.

     

    I appreciate your occasionally non-stealthy approach. I want to start intentionally using some of the "loud" items rather than just pulling them out in a desperate attempt to salvage a run gone bad.

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    My first solution for Paris

    Stealing Helmut Kruger's clothes and dumping him into the Seine, putting some makeup on, walking the catwalk, poisoning the lady target with her own cyanide, triggering the fireworks as the man target was on stage, dropping the chandelier on his head as he runs outside, and stealing the helicopter.

     

    and for Sapienza

    Ringing the doorbell of the new kitchen hand, punching him in the face and stealing his clothes, walking to the kitchen and rat poisoning the bolognese, waiting for the target to eat the spaghetti, then killing him with the circumcision knife in the plague doctor disguise as he is vomiting. After that I rat poisoned the golf coach, stole his clothes and phone, called the lady target and waited in her room, then killed her. Finally, I went through a series of disguises to get into the lab, poisoned the rats to distract one of the scientist checking on the virus, distracted the other scientist with a coin, increased the temperature of the sample, distracted the scientist again with another coin (I was really happy this worked), and once the sample was destroyd, stole the sea plane and escaped.

     

    I've definitely been enjoying it too, and I really like reading the methods you used which were pretty different from mine.

     

    For Paris (which went pretty well):

    I grabbed a stylist outfit and used that to get into the basement where I found the recipe for the first target's favorite drink. I got a waiter's outfit, mixed the drink and added a little rat poison to get him to run to the nearest bathroom where I conveniently was waiting for him. One target down. Then I took Helmut Krueger's outfit (never did find where to get the makeup) and wandered upstairs. I used the second target's laptop to disrupt the auction. While the system was down she wandered off by herself and I was able to take her out. Then I took a guard's outfit and wandered out through the front door.

     

    For Sapienza (which was a bungling shitty hitman misadventure, but super fun in its own way):

    I found the flower delivery van crashed to the left of the mansion. I grabbed some flower and a costume which got me inside. I set the flowers on the target's mother's grave and hid behind it while I waited for him to show up. He did, and sent his bodyguard away, making it pretty easy to take him out. Then I grabbed a guard outfit, found a keycard and a scientist outfit and from there it was pretty easy to get into the lab. I destroyed the virus using the rats and the computer as distractions and prepared to make my escape. Only then did I realize that I had forgotten about the second target. I started heading upstairs to find her, only to realize that she had just walked right by me. There wasn't anyone around so I grabbed her, didn't bother to hide the body, and ran like hell for the sea plane.

  16. Posted

    I don't generally mind always online games, but apparently my game had a problem connecting to their servers. My connection to the internet was fine as I had just been playing Overwatch and I'm able to write this now. Anyway, I played through Sapienza. I had a pretty good run, only to finish it and be told that I wouldn't get a score or any unlocks because I was offline. That's kind of not great. I don't mind playing it again, but I'm not sure why the online requirement is there in the first place.

  17. Posted

    This isn't really a giveaway since it is a free thing and mostly meaningless, but if anyone wants a code to play the Overwatch open beta a couple days early (on Tuesday rather than Thursday), I'll PM it to you.

     

    EDIT: Gone!

  19. Posted

    I really wish I could try Bloodborne, but I don't have a PS4 and I'm not in a financial position where buying a console for one game is a real possibility. But I'll probably end up giving Demons' Souls a shot. It sounds interesting in its differences from Dark Souls. It might even help me understand Dark Souls 2, and possibly change my mind on it.

  22. Posted

    Can we just finally squash the idea that summoning is somehow cheating or playing the game "wrong?" If you want to push through the game by yourself, more power to you, but summoning was put in the Souls games deliberately to allow people struggling with their experience to get a bit of help. Hell, the Warriors of Sunlight are just that concept brought into the setting and incorporated into the lore. Summon some help! Get through a tough battle! And maybe stick around for a bit afterwards and help out the next few players who need it!

     

    I didn't mean to say that I think it's cheating or anything. I've just really enjoyed the breakthrough moments that happen when I finally get through a bad boss battle solo. Taking down the Abyss Watchers by myself after failing a bunch of times felt really really good. Then when I helped someone finish it in co-op, it just felt anticlimactic. My post was meant to be about balancing my desire for challenge with frustration, that's all.

  23. Posted

    I've gotten through all the bosses solo so far, but the Nameless King, as everybody else has said, is a huge asshole. I'm debating just summoning someone for help just to check that box off, but I don't know if I will feel like I'm cheating myself out of something in the process. Since its an optional boss, I don't really feel bad about it. I guess I'm torn. 

  25. Posted

    The smouldering lake is utterly fucking brutal, I think I'll go beyond the skull cup room instead.

    What kind of magic/infusion/whatever works on the glowy enemies under the lake? I've got a super fire sword which has made mincemeat of everything up until here

     

    By the glowy enemies do you mean 

     

    the demon shaman guys who throw fire and are surrounded by the floating fireball things? Once I figured out their patterns I was able to handle them pretty easily just with my heavy sword. But then again, I've basically put all my points into STR, so anything with decent scaling hits really, really hard.