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Perched! I know he was working on it, but I had no idea it was coming out today.

I get the sneaking suspicion that you did not actually read what Blow wrote. Worth finding out. First thought is that there'd have to be a level of expertise and understanding of design for something like that to be useful. What I'd really like more than anything is, if next time they did this, they actually record some of the discussions going on. Having thoughtful, articulate people actually talk about real design issues for their games, dot dot dot.

I think I'm kind of done with the game. I really like what they did with the design (i.e. the skill system), but beyond that there doesn't seem to be a whole lot there for me. I honestly thought I was going to like it more than I did, but I'm right back to ambivalence. From what little I had seen, I honestly thought it'd be more skill based than it really is and that the higher difficulties would have added value with new content (beyond loot). Instead, it was the exact same thing, except this time monsters have more health and do more damage. Hoorah. And if you're not strong enough to take them on? Get better equipment! I guess I'm just kind of done with loot games. I get it; I understand the feedback loop and I seem to hit my saturation point quicker and quicker with these kinds of games. Story hooks would alleviate that for me, making me care about what is going on, but we know how that went. I couldn't care less and it's all so very irritating. All I can see is the grind, the minor increases and decreases in stat points and texture swaps. It makes me feel empty and disconnected. It makes me feel like a monkey pressing a button that may or may not give me a peanut at some point. NO THANKS.

So the new Game of Thrones episode, that was pretty intense! So many of these characters that I like on both sides. I don't want them to die, but a lot probably will.

So yea, mumble was down, it's proprietor nowhere to be found. Scratch, me, Pocket and Mike managed to get together on Skype and we played a few games. At the end there was an amazing thing where the ground beneath 2 constantly respawning little birds was messed up, and on respawn they'd flip up high in the air, fall down and then explode again.

1. What is a scrub? 2. Did you miss the point of DanJW's post? 3. Not trying to be a dick. That's all I have for now.

Right so, I can't add events myself, but we'll be playing tomorrow same time as we always do.

I put the IP and port in the original post. I've noticed that sometimes it can take a while before the server appears in the server list, so with that you should be able to just enter the IP and connect directly. Now that we played vanilla Arma 2 a bunch, I kind of forgot about about all the subtle differences with Arrowhead. When an enemy location gets shouted out, a little clockface appears so when someone says "enemy at 1 o'clock" or "enemy to our left" you'll actually know which direction that is. That and there is scope zeroing, so that'd make a spotter actually useful. That and even movement feels smoother. All in all, I'm looking forward to it.

A lot of it would be explained by the story stuff being added comparatively late in development, when they had mapped out most of the game already. I'll give it a shot! Agreed?

What's the point of a loot game if you can buy better gear on the AH constantly for super cheap? And if all a higher difficulty means is more monster HP and damage, which then in turn means you simply need better equipment to deal with it, then doesn't that devalue the game as a whole? It's nice for Blizzard that they're going to end up with a little fake economy using real money. They must be so excited.

Good to have you! Welcome!

Woop, just finished Nightmare with Cigol and 2 pubbies. Nice when you get actually get a group of 4 going. When it was just the 3 of us, we kept wiping, but with the 4th one there, Diablo was stunned so much of the time that it couldn't really get an attack in. It took a while but then Diablo finally went down and the loot, oh man, the loot. 3 blue items and some gold. THANKS, GAME. I guess I'll have to build a magic find set if I ever hope to find any decent weapons. On the plus side, I think I found a pretty good build for my Demon Hunter. I got rid of any mobility stuff, because I wasn't using it that much anymore + they're expensive to use. Caltrops with 2 sec immobility, Ice elemental arrow, long fuse bombs, that exploding arrow with the stun grenades and I haven't yet settled on the last skill, but another one that uses hatred. My main attack is the entangling arrow with the double hatred thing, so I generate enough to use all my skills regularly. The idea is that I don't need any defensive/maneuverability stuff because my other attacks slow/stun enemies enough for me to distance myself. So is there a reason why you shouldn't be able to access the AH when you're in a game?

Correct Skratche, but I guess it was more a matter of when. I'm going to to convert the server to a CO one, but I don't know if I'll be able to do that for coming sunday. I'll everyone updated. And folks, you don't have to apologize for not playing. Edit: Actually, that went better than expected. The new server will be up and running in a few hours. So for new players, that means from now on we'll be playing Arma 2: Combined Operations and the free version of Arma 2 will no longer work. Edit edit: Seems that everything is set up and I've uploaded some 20 new missions for us to try. Like always, if there are any missions you'd like to see added, just gimme a link and I'll put them on there. There's loads more stuff available too, so I think we'll be set for a while.

That's pretty amazing. That whole sentence is pretty good, but is the interesting theme of tonally being a rated M-for-mature action-sibling of WoW? Or maybe the visually interesting experience of of seeing all Diablo 2 enviroments realized in high-def? I'm also glad that this game has an advanced user interface.

Yea, and afterwards I noticed that there was no event planned either. It was a tiny group, so we could do some of the 4 player missions and some other stuff for which we often had too many people. Either way, I really think we should move to Combined Operations. There will be so much more content available, plus we can play the optional game of DayZ if we want. Win-win.

I keep meaning to post in this thread, but then I get distracted and go do something else, like play Diablo. I've sort of accepted that Blizzard's burning focus goes into phenomenal designs (and the polishing of these), everything else being subservient to that. I care enough that I find it disappointing, but the terrible writing and story and lore stuff doesn't bother me at all beyond that. It's not what I play their games for. So yea, I really like the skill system. Just enough abilities under my fingers to do fun things and few enough that there are tough choices as to what skills you want equipped. I do hope in the future that you'll be able to mod your skills in new ways. I'd love to be able to link skillstones together in a certain way, like just have that one extra effect or even a new one altogether. I do miss the set items. I know they're in the game, but there seem to be very, very few. I've never seen one in the 15+ hours I've played. So yes, I'm enjoying the game, more so playing it co-op. Playing with thumbs, finished normal mode with Wrestlevania (in my heart you were there too, dibs ), and Cigol too, but on a different occassion. I'm now working my way through nightmare and there's been some pretty fun mini-bosses. I've already died a whole bunch, mostly because the monsters hit so goddamn hard.

So hey, I noticed this thing. But then how will people know how important I am and also the size of my ePeen? A MYSTERY??

Thuuuunderpeel! Thunderpeel. It's Thunderpeel. Happy birthday!

My first impressions are that I love it! It's clean, it's functional and it looks spiffy!

Haha, Mr. Cocaine. I don't know who said that first, but it still cracks me up. Count me IN! Unless I'm not there on the day, but I do not yet see why not. DOODLY DOODLY DOODLY

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Hyllu#1549 Let us play!

Says in the launcher that the servers won't be up until 8 AM GMT.

Yes! And then they made a mock PSA for Bad Company: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K2Qpui1hYBw