Shiny, some friends and I picked up Ark on the Epic store for free recently and have been playing that. It's good stuff, actually. Lots of RPG stuff like levelling, building a base, as well as taming dinosaurs. We've had some server issues... started trying to play on official servers, but they tend to be full all the time. One of the guys I play with rented a server, but it's got serious performance problems... lag, rubber banging, and regular crashes that end with lost progress... so, not the best experience. However, the game itself (outside of bugs) is pretty good.

Otherwise, Fallout 4 and World of Warships. I'm really digging fallout 4. Totally bedded the Irish companion and am now working on another companion. So much to do and the lore is great. I forgot how much I really enjoy Fallout. Exploring all the locations doesn't feel like a chore, it's really interesting.

Jade alert!

I couldn't get into FO4. The settlements mechanic seemed pointless crafting for the sake of it, and i didn't particularly like how within the first hour or so you find power armour. I mean like, in FO1/2 it took a lot of effort to find one, and in FO4 they lead your straight to one. Ok, it's not like you can use it straight away, but the mystery and struggle is non existant (as well as the reward).

Anyway, played a bit of Civ 6 and i've just put it down. I saw it was on sale for £15 so I grabbed it. The AI is weak and the game turns out to be very grindy, so ... *uninstalls*.

O'Cram convinced me to buy Darkwood (indie top-down survival-crafting). Unfortunately too indie for my liking. Very unintuitive for a decision-based survival game, e.g. a million crafting options but no idea whatsoever WHY i need to craft them.

Sorry to hear none of those games are meeting your high jade standards Derf. Anything else you're playing then?

Satis, you make me want to play FO4 now...but that won't run for shit on my laptop. /sad Do you think Ark would do well on crappy PCs? I think I picked it up for free on the Epic store as well.

I've finished the campaigns of Tiberian Sun and Red Alert in the C&C remaster - great fun. Now i'm just casually playing some of the expansion pack missions when I'm bored.

Also playing the Outlast DLC Whistleblower and started playing Ion Fury, a 'modern' shooter in the Build engine (of Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior fame). It's a really fun ride.

Didn't have a lot of playtime the last couple of weeks, yesterday i got a good dose of Terraria again. I was preparing to fight Wall of Flesh, but then i got sidetracked too often.

Playing Journey mode btw, it's more casual/less grindy in the sense that you can "research" materials you find. If you do this often enough, you can reproduce the items whenever you want. Say you researched 100 gold ore, you can make all the gold ore you want. So it's easier to progress.

And you don't end up with a gazillion of (unlabelled) chests where you have to keep all your stuff.

I've finally started GTA V. Having fun causing chaos. Made the stupidest car I could: https://www.facebook.com/10000452395870 ... 200697864/ sound on for the awesome horn!

In playing Fallout 4, I never wear the power armor. I'll collector parts and upgrades for it in case I ever run into something that's too difficult, but that hasn't happened yet. As for the settlements, they're pretty much pointless. You could probably ignore them... I get a bit of a kick out of building them, but it's obviously not well thought out. I'll build little shacks and throw down 20 sleeping bags right next to each other so I can host as many colonists as possible. Anyway, though I do indulge in it, it's mostly for a change in pace and definitely not important to the game.

Regarding Ark, with all the graphics turned up, you'll need a decent box to play it. I play at 1440p with everything maxed and have no issues (using a 6th gen core i7 and a gtx 1080). If you dial the settings way down you might be able to play it. For Fallout 4 I downloaded the free/optional texture upgrade pack... 50GB! It does look pretty nice, though. Unfortunatelly my m.2 SSD is only 500GB, so between that and Windows and the other games I have installed, I damn near ran out of space. I may need to splurge on a 2TB m.2.

Speaking of PCs, my company is moving offices (Yay! I get to more crap in the middle of Covid!) and they're ditching all kinds of hardware. I snagged two decent computers...4th gen core i7 with 16GB of RAM and a discrete (non-gaming) graphics card. Swap in a real graphics card and an SSD and it'd probably make a pretty good gaming PC. I think they use registered RAM though, so upgrading the RAM to the max 32GB may be a little more expensive as a result. I'm probably going to turn it into a dedicated server for Plex, games, and probably VMs for work.

This is what i've dug out so far. As usual i always end up with a crappy house, i should just tear it down and rebuild it from scratch, and proper this time. But getting sidetracked all the time.
I also didn't remember how huge the Dungeon is. And that there are fake walls i tend to miss a lot.

Note to Satis: i get a "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached" error message. I post a picture once. ONCE! Lol.
So no picture yet.

I'll fix my link at some point. Probably got my privacy settings up high, I'll upload it elsewhere but not tonight, I'm a very sleepy Pev and off to bed now.

Nice, free computer stuff is always good Satis!

Just completed it. Was pretty fun. Mission success.

I opted for a random starting location, and it ended up being Bleak Inlet :S Which was kind of appreciated because i'd never visited that region before. I had no clue about the timberworld mechanic, so that caught me out. I got attacked twice before i managed to escape that region before looting it fairly well. Fuckers destroyed by shitty coat and scaft. With no decent equipment, i knew i would have to travel to fresh pastures and keep moving for food and essentials. I exited Bleak Inlet, only to find myself in ... Forlorn Muskeg :S I thought to myself, jesus, ok, so this is a challenge! My aim was simply to get the fuck out of Muskeg ASAP as I knew the weather could easily screw me. I never liked that region. I almost didn't make it out! The escale from Bleak Inlet wasn't well timed, so it was late by the time I was in Muskeg. I had to stop a few times and light a campfire to resolve the hypothermia the cold was eating away at my HP. I got lost at night, but luckily had just enough sticks to keep a fire going all night until morning, where I was able to see where the fuck i was going. A blizzard overnight would have finished me, but my luck turned from this point on. Very low on health, i could see where to go (ran into a bear on the way, but he got bored of chasing me). I just about made it to Mystery Lake.

I must have gotten there on day 15 (you have to complete 25 days to finish the challenge) and it was in this region that I finished. Trappers Lodge was an amazing place to stay. The bad luck I had at the start balanced itself off in the 2nd half of the game, because I had truly excellent luck. I had by now found a revolver and rifle along the way. Whilst collecting supplies around the lodge, i turned and to my surprise saw a moose 50 metres away. So rare, because in previous games I would try to spend days finding one, and there is was! Only one thing to do, whipped out the rifle, shot it, but it ran off. Had to go back in house to warm up overnight. My intention was to go and track it and finish it off, even if it means travelling out in the cold. I stepped outside for the hunt, but the fucker was right outside again! I counted my blessings, got the rifle out again and dropped the bastard.

Easy from then on. A metric fuckton of meat which i cooked and saw me through for 10 days straight. The last 5 days I spent rabbit hunting. Even managed to craft the moose satchel, but it served no purpose. Mission complete. Chopper landed. GTFO. (last bit my imagination).

@J... I don't think I have any special attachment limitations set up for Belgians, though you never know. :p Try resizing the image to something like 1920x1080 or smaller... I know this forum software has a really hard time with high-resolution images, like anything coming off a cell phone is pretty much not uploadable. Sorry, about the only idea I have. I wouldn't mind upgrading this thing, but to be honest, at this point I'd probably have to trash the existing db and start from scratch because it's so outdated.

@Ox... yea, the PCs were free. They're not super-amazing, but they're also not bad. I just ordered 16GB of RAM and two SSDs off Amazon... a 2TB one and a 500GB one. I'll turn one box into a server with 32GB of RAM and the 2TB SSD and the other will just be a spare or something. Regarding my main machine's wimpy 500GB SSD, it's an m.2 SSD with a 2GB/s read/write... and it's also like 3 years old I think? I dunno.. I definitely need to upgrade it, but at the time it was pretty nice (and probably like $500). Besides, I have a secondary SSD (not m.2, just SATA) that's 1TB. Still not amazing by modern standards. *shrug* My laptop only has a 256GB m.2 SSD... still really fast throughput, but the size is stupidly small. I really need to pick up 2x 2TB m.2 SSDs and do an upgrade on both... but damn that's a bit expensive.