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General Gaming / X-Com: Enemy Unknown

« on: January 16, 2012, 11:25:02 AM »

As you know it was recently revealed that as well as the X-Com shooter in development by 2K that Firaxis were working on a "true to roots" reboot of the strategy title.

Game informer are posting info as they receive it

http://www.gameinformer.com/p/xcom.aspx

I personally will keep an eye on this one i love X-Com titles and only fix in recent years of this type has been the UFO titles.

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The Dog & Duck / Hppy New Year

« on: December 30, 2011, 11:49:11 AM »

No one says it better than the bard.

Traditional Auld Lang Syne - Spirit of the Glen - Journey - The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne* ?

    CHORUS:
    For auld lang syne, my jo (or my dear),
    for auld lang syne,
    we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
    for auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp !
and surely I’ll be mine !
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

    CHORUS

We twa hae run about the braes,
and pu’d the gowans fine ;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin auld lang syne.

    CHORUS

We twa hae paidl’d i' the burn,
frae morning sun till dine ;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin auld lang syne.

    CHORUS

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere !
and gie's a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught,
for auld lang syne.

    CHORUS

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Star Wars: The Old Republic / Some flashpoint fun

« on: December 16, 2011, 01:52:13 PM »

Lets get some people together on whatever flashpoints we get a group for.

from 7pm GMT until whenever

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General Gaming / VGA 2011

« on: December 11, 2011, 11:35:06 AM »

Fall of Cybertron

VGA 2011: Transformers Fall of Cybertron Exclusive Trailer

Diablo 3 intro

VGA 2011: Diablo 3 Exclusive Intro Cinematic

Mass Effect 3 (yummy)

VGA 2011: Mass Effect 3 Exclusive Trailer

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Star Wars: The Old Republic / Companion gifts

« on: December 04, 2011, 12:46:30 PM »

What do each companion like? if you find out reply and ill update. Only going to list best results

Trooper

Aric Jorgan :- Weapons, Military gear

Elara :- Luxuries, Imperial Memorabilia

M1-4X :- Technology, Republic Memorabilia

Tanno :- Weapons, Underworld Goods

Yuun :- Technology, Cultural Artifacts, Trophies


Smuggler

Corso Riggs :-    Weapons, military gear

Bowdaar :- Cultural Artifacts, Luxuries, weapons

Risha :- Underworld goods, Luxuries, technology, Cultural Artifacts

Akavi :- Weapons, Military Gear, Trophies

Guss Tuno :- Luxuries, Technologies, Underworld Goods


Jedi Knight

T7-01 :- Technology, Republic Memorabilia, Cultural Artifact

Kira :- Luxuries, Technology

Doc :- Luxuries

Sergeant Resk :- Weapons, Military Gear, Republic Memorabilia

Lord Scourge :- Technology, Imperial Memorabilia, Trophies

Jedi Consular

Qyzen Fess :- Weapons

Theran :- Luxuries, Technology

Zenith :- Weapons

Iresso :- Republic Memorabilia, Trophies

Nadia :- Republic Memorabilia, Cultural Artifacts

Bounty Hunter

Mako :- Technology, Underworld goods,

Sith Warrior

Vette :-  Luxuries, Cultural Artifacts


Imperial Agent

Sith Inquisitor

Khem Val :- Weapons, Cultural Artifacts

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General Gaming / South Park teh game (RPG)

« on: December 03, 2011, 01:49:23 PM »

Next month’s cover of GameInformer features the lovable fourth graders from the “hick ass, white bread mountain town” of South Park. Yes, South Park: The Game is an actual thing, and will be headed by publisher THQ and Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian. Why Obsidian, you ask? Well, because South Park: The Game will be an RPG, of course!

Not much is known about the game now (that will be revealed in the mag), but THQ stated the game will hit Xbox 360, PS3 ,and PC sometime in the latter part of next year. You play as the new kid in town attempting to make friends while defending the town from a wide range of threats.

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General Gaming / Stardock games coming to steam

« on: November 17, 2011, 12:37:12 AM »

As stardock sold its Impulse download service to Gamestop its finally releasing its titles on steam

so keep you eyes out for Galactic Civilizations 2 (hopefully cheap)

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Star Wars: The Old Republic / Micro transactions

« on: November 12, 2011, 11:55:45 AM »

upon reviewing test agreement this caught my eye

(H) You acknowledge and agree that all points acquired during the Game Program are non-refundable and have no monetary value.

(I) You acknowledge and agree that all items acquired for points during the Game Program are non-refundable and non-tradable.

(J) You acknowledge and agree that BWA reserves the right to add or remove points to your account at any time and without warning.

(K) You acknowledge and agree that BWA reserves the right to change/add/remove points rewarded in the Game store at any time and without warning.

(L) You acknowledge and agree that BWA reserves the right to change/add/remove items collected or updated, modify or remove any items in the Game at any time and without warning.

(M) You acknowledge and agree that points acquired during the Game Program cannot be saved up for or used in the commercial version of the Game.

(N) You acknowledge and agree that all points will be removed from your account before going into the next test phase (if applicable).

(O) You acknowledge and agree that points acquired during the Game Program do not entitle you to any points during any other test stages (if applicable) or for the commercial release of the Game.

so from that i would assume MTs are in.

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General Gaming / Steam Forums Hacked

« on: November 10, 2011, 09:36:31 AM »

Seems Steam Forums have been down for a few days having been hacked by a group linked to  a game hacking site.

If you receive spam from steampowered promoting said site, its probably best not ot open it.

Steam have not made comment yet about this.

Just another security fuck up from a game related company.

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The Dog & Duck / No more cheap cds/dvds from Channel Islands

« on: November 09, 2011, 07:50:11 PM »

Loophole being used is closing

Low Value Consignment Relief is a measure that has allowed supermarkets and online stores to purposely avoid paying VAT on items such as CDs, DVDs, computer games and beauty products by routing them through the Channel Islands.

The Relief was originally designed to speed up the transit of low value perishable goods through the postal system, but was hijacked by large retailers to slash their online prices, effectively allowing them to significantly undercut smaller, independent retailers.

It will be ditched by the government as of April 1 2012.

Yet they still let 98% of FTSE 100 companies awasy with paying less than their share of tax, this government have holes for brains.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic / Crafting

« on: November 09, 2011, 07:53:07 AM »

Having been thinking about crafting recently, ive realised that we may need some planning as a guild to help supply each other craftables.

MAIN INFO

so 3 skills per character from

Gathers (for collecting stuffs):

Archaeology – the ability to seek out imbued items like Lightsaber crystals and ancient artifacts

Bioanalysis – the practice of collecting genetic material from creatures and plants

Scavenging – the art of recovering useful materials and parts from old or damaged technology

Slicing – a skill in accessing secured computer systems and lockboxes to acquire valuable data and rare schematics

Crafts (for making stuff):

Armormech – the ability to work with hard metals and electronic shielding to construct all types of personal armor

Armstech – the skill of constructing blasters, blaster rifles and upgrades

Artifice – the delicate work of constructing Jedi and Sith artifacts

Biochem –the engineering of performance-enhancing chemical serums and biological implants

Cybertech – the technical expertise to construct gadgets and components for Droids and high-tech armors

Synthweaving – the art of creating lighter outfits and armors that are imbued with supernatural qualities


Mission skills (send those pesky crew members out to get stuffs)

Diplomacy – the art of conducting and managing negotiations

Investigation – the skill of examining evidence and following clues to discover valuable secrets

Treasure Hunting – the ability to track down and recover valuable items by investigating a series of clues

Underworld Trading – expertise in the trading of illegal goods and services


So selecting 3 of those for your team may be hard, so heres more info.

Interdependence

Armormech uses materials from Scavenging, Investigation, and Underworld Trading.

Armstech uses materials from Scavenging and Treasure Hunting.

Artifice uses materials from Archaeology, Treasure Hunting, and Underworld Trading.

Biochem uses materials from Bioanalysis and Underworld Trading.

Cybertech uses materials from Scavenging, Slicing, Treasure Hunting, and Underworld Trading.

Synthweaving uses materials from Archaeology, Diplomacy, Investigation, and Underworld Trading.

SO from that you can tell that 1 crafting skill per toon is all youll reasonably be able to do well. (and underworld trading seems to be the daddy of mission skills)


What can i craft?

Cybertech - This skill specializes in Droid upgrades, but can also craft earpieces. They also make modifications for certain items: Harnesses, Overlays, Underlays, Circuitry, Gadgets and Generators.

Armstech - This skill specializes in creating weapons like the Assault Cannon, Blaster Pistol, Blaster Rifle and Sniper Rifle. It also allows a player to craft weapon modifications: Barrels, Scopes and Triggers.

Synthweaving - This skill specializes in creating armor, allowing a player to craft light, medium and heavy variations. There were no other item categories listed, so you can probably assume that the skill will not be able to craft modifications, instead leaving that to other skills like Cybertech.

Artifice - This skill specializes in creating modifications for items, including lightsabers - something Jedi will covet during their journeys. The item categories the Artifice skill can craft are: Circuitry, Emitter Matrix, Focus Crystal, Focus Lens, Gadget, Harness, Overlay, Underlay and Resonance Crystal.

Biochem - Allows the creation of performance-enhancing serums and various implants. You can consider this the 'potion maker' of The Old Republic.

crits? and rarity?

Yes, both are affected by the "affection" level with your companions.
This can change based on action during dialogues, interactions with them, and the giving of gifts (vendored)

Higher affection gives better chance at finding rarer schematics/materials on mission.

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General Gaming / Dark Souls

« on: October 22, 2011, 04:56:49 PM »

if you like RPGs and you liek HARD and you dont mind dying truckloads, get it its frikkin awesome

nothing feels better than finally getting past "that mob" that was making things impossible, its like electronic crack man.

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The Dog & Duck / The Avengers

« on: October 16, 2011, 11:01:45 AM »

fapp fapp fapp fapp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatgnqdIefs

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General Gaming / COH is ftp

« on: October 13, 2011, 10:40:44 AM »

title says it all

as of today COH has gone ftp

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General Gaming / Tribes beta

« on: September 14, 2011, 03:50:55 PM »

would have posted this in Tribes topic but its gone? did saffy delete it due to us all not being nice?

Hi-Rez Studios today announced that the first phase of Tribes: Ascend closed beta will begin within the next few weeks. Players can apply for this initial phase at the game’s website as Hi-Rez Studios will be granting access to thousands of “hand-selected” players worldwide.

During this initial beta phase, players will experience 4 multiplayer maps, 2 game-modes and 3 vehicles as they progress thru 12 playable classes in the game’s fast-paced, high-flying online multiplayermatches of up to 32 people.

The studio will continue to increase the number of beta participants through the end of this year in preparation for a general game release in Q1 of 2012.