I find it weird that a game that's marketed as being "mature" and "dealing with mature content" talks about rape a lot, but never allows the player character to partake in it?

A lot of people are also bothered by how many women warriors & leaders there are and are blaming SJW. :)

Finished my first playthrough in 27 hours. Following the Disfavored questline because at first glance it was the most "orderly" thing to do.
I never got to visit the burning library (I did set it ablaze during conquest, but I had hoped to visit it later). Maybe I missed something like having to fire off a counter Edict to be able to visit the place? Or maybe it's just due to my Conquest choices.

I got Tunon and Ashe to bend the knee to me. Had to kill the Archon of Shadows sadly...
Killed Nerrat (or well, is he really dead?).
Was disappointed that I had to level an Edict against Kyros' capital. I kinda figured I'd just put an Edict on the borderlands to keep Kyros' troops at bay?

I wonder, if you go for the independent path, are you spared from having to pick a side initially (for taking the first Spire under Kyros' Edict of mutually assured destruction)? Or can you only go independent afterwards?

>>58767
>A lot of people are also bothered by how many women warriors & leaders there are and are blaming SJW. :)
IIRC in this game world women are the ones who can own land, and men are the ones who can own ships/the sea.

As such owning land will lead to having power. Having power means being in positions of power. Hence, tons of women in power in the game.

As for the rest, im not too far into it. I barely have the will to play it after I get done spending 10 hours dealing with complete retards at work. Also old people.

>>58770

In the north, ruled by Kyros the Overlord, everyone is equal (except the Archons, which are more equal than others ;)). In the "barbaric south" (a tiny outcrop of land compared to Kyros' lands), women enherit the land ownership while men enherit the sea related property. This doesn't mean men can't be kings (here "Regent") or that women can't captain a ship.
It's a kinda matriarchal society mostly, but this is not true in all southern countries. Stalwart has male Regents who govern the land.

>Hence, tons of women in power in the game.

The main objection I hear is that women here are not exceptions in heavy combat roles. You'd expect women in magical, support, ranged (javelin & bow) or lance related roles mostly. Not shock troops in heavy armor. Nor would you expect a woman as the second in command for Graven Ashe.
The scarlet furies make sense, since they gracefully slaughter with dexterity, not necessarily brute force.

Much can be explained away, but there seems to be a disproportionate number of lesbians in the south and they do rub your nose in it sometimes. You get the feeling they genderswapped people at the end of development. There's even people who refer to themselves as male in conversation, but have female character models... Sloppy.

They also try to explain that female soldiers are "welcome" to get pregnant. Yeah... Being out of the fight for 6 months to a few years. I guess that's a great strategy to lose wars.

>>58770
>>58773
>women in any sort of position of power

still enough to cause fedora combustion

>>58737
First, http://www.operatorchan.org/arch/res/5635.html#i5635

I leave the audio discussion to people who care more about it than I do. For a headphones I've got a set of AudioTechnica M50, and they're awesome. For a microphone I've got some $2 boom mic that I just put the head band around the back of my neck.

For the house I've got a Yamaha RX-V379 receiver and, I forget the brand of speakers now, but they're fucking nice. Home theater speakers that my buddy hooked me up with.

For keyboards, find a store, go there, type on some of the keyboards they have. I'm currently using this Best Buy house brand keyboard, and it works great for me.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-usb-keyboard-black/3489041.p?skuId=3489041

"Mechanical" keyboards are bullshit. They're noisy as fuck, expensive, and offer no benefit. I've tried my buddys' Razor and Logitech keyboards and they are a complete waste of money.

>>58739
>"Mechanical" keyboards are bullshit. They're noisy as fuck, expensive, and offer no benefit.

There's a distinct difference between the tactile feedback from a mechanical/bucking spring keyboard, and the cheaper rubber dome or scissor-switch ones.

>>58740
I've never seen the benefit. I type around 65 WPM and play plenty of online FPSes and the occasional MMO. Now, when we made the switch from PS2/AT keyboards to USB, and you could press more than 3 buttons at time, that was good shit.

Mice, on the other hand, I have no problem spending money on.

>>58739
As I said, not really looking to replace my headset. And if I did I'd probably just get a USB version of the same one I have.

As for mechanical keyboards, its a pretty broad category and there are a lot of switches to choose from with different resistances, sound levels, and tactile feedback levels. And its all highly subjective.

I'm mainly trying to figure out a good way to have both speakers and headset be useful at the same time with minimal to no fuss switching between them.

Played Technoir once or twice, but we never really got far into it. Not that there was anything bad with it, but we went back to Shadowrun as usual.

I do remember Technoir being an interesting system. Shame we never went further with it.

If you want a diceroller for IRC, then consider Servator bot. Mostly made for Derp Heresy, but it has other useful functions.

I put a lot of hours into RSR back in the day. I didn't really know what I was doing in the campaign mode, but I sure loved the single missions.

Will def keep an eye on this.

  >>58662
>The guys from STATIS jumped in and will be spicing up the graphics.

And their moms said they would never get anywhere with those games.

  >>58666
I remember that commercial!

>screenshots
>mfw

Got funded, now going for stretch goals.

>>58670

Well, they're "touched up" obviously. Let's hope the real deal is half as nice & that their interface design doesn't make things ugly as fuck.

>Insurgency made harder for Blueforce for (I think) the 5th content patch in a row despite a "majority" of Blue losses according to one of the devs a few weeks ago.

Good to know game balance continues to be a low priority. Why can't they drag this shit out behind the woodshed and shoot it. There's an open grave next to Extraction.

Of course, why would they care? People only play Muttrah or that Kashan replacement anymore.

>>54785

To be fair, Insurgency has always been a shit game mode that is impossible to balance.

The problem is that, primarily because of the spawn mechanics, squad coordination isn't a high priority. Spawn on a cache, camp a window and mow down some imperialists, and as long as the blufor team isn't working like a well-oiled machine then you're probably set.

A better insurgency mode would just be regular AAS with weapon cache side objectives to drain tickets faster, but not required. But having weapon caches as the primary objective is just fucking dumb, you'd never throw away hundreds of lives just to brute force your way inside some house to knock out a fucking RPG crate. It allows the Ins team to play completely defensively, so it's like playing Counter-Strike or some BS, with an arbitrary objective and a boring offense/defense team setup.

Which is why I'm scared for Squad or whatever that successor game is, because it looks like they're just going full-steam-ahead in the Ins department which has always been PRs weakest offering by a long shot.

>>54788
Right. What this team fails to grasp time and again is to be a "game", any sort of game, be it a sport, boardgame, pnp, etc. there has to be a rule set that makes sense and you have to streamline realism and challenge with gameplay.

When you ramp up the complexity, you also ramp up the tediousness of gameplay and the learning curve. Essentially these guys have worked themselves into a corner, and are trying to sell Axis and Allies to RISK players, or Settlers of Catan is to Monopoly players(ie the CoD and Battlefield crowd).

Add in their limited abilities of the team and their refusal to address core brainstorming problems with the game and rules, like Insurgency mode, the game gets in the way of the game itself.

It's like when I would try and play Axis and Allies with my old group of friends and stuff; everyone would be on their cellphone and not paying attention, some guys would take forever and so on, insist they knew the rules then tried to do things that were against the rules, and after 3 hours we'd made one complete round of turns.

Any of you fucks still playing this?

>>58668
I still have it installed and play infrequently. Mostly a factor of time and a faulty microphone.

>>58652
yeah I've never backed a kickstarter before, tried to buy the digital download package but my card wouldn't work so guess i'll wait and see

>>58653
Ive backed two. One turned out to be massively successful and some of you have probably played the end product (Path of Exile).

The other was massively successful by kickstarter standards and is current nearing beta I think. (Camelot Unchained)

  Advance Wars for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance was a good turn-based strategy game for that old handheld. Played it a lot on the flip-screen GBA-SP (a new one sells for around $500 on Amazon!).

Too bad they did not have anything really comparable for the Sony PSP, aside from Field Commander, Metal Gear Acid, Final Fantasy Tactics and a whole lot of turn-based RPGs.
http://www.neoseeker.com/psp/strategy/turn-based/

CGRundertow ADVANCE WARS for Game Boy Advance Video Game Review https://youtu.be/_Io-sVIviO8
Advance Wars Review. Classic Game Room presents a CGRUndertow review of Advance Wars, developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. Addicting, cute, and compelling, Advance Wars is a bite-sized tactical warfare adventure that provides for hours and hours of replay value and a tremendous fun factor. Take control of the Orange Star Army and attack and defend against the archnemesis Blue Moon Army with the help of various commanding officers through over 100 battle maps. This video review features video gameplay footage of Advance Wars and audio commentary from Classic Game Room's Eric.

Their team doesn't list any programmers, just a couple story people and a bunch of artists, and nobody on it has worked on the previous Advance Wars games.

>>58656
they have a playable demo on their kickstarter page, and from what I've played, it's pretty solid