2 FREE Games at EG Valued at $19.99 on Steam February 6th + 2 FREE Games at EG Valued at $49.99 on Steam February 13th

[Paul Rudd]

FREE Game #1 for TODAY, February 6th at the Epic Games store.

Valued at $9.99 on Steam here... Link it has 330 Mostly Positive reviews.

 

FREE Game #2 for TODAY, February 6th at the Epic Games store.

Valued at $9.99 on Steam here... Link it has 1,101 Very Positive reviews.

 

FREE Game #1 for NEXT THURSDAY, February 13th at the Epic Games store.

Valued at $29.99 on Steam here... Link it has 37,385 Mostly Positive reviews.

 

FREE Game #2 for NEXT THURSDAY, February 13th at the Epic Games store.

Valued at $19.99 on Steam here... Link it has 101 Very Positive reviews.

[TVwazhere]

19 minutes ago, Polemical said:

Oh god, For Honor. I bought that game when it first came out, and it had so many connection issues at launch I refunded it. (Plus I was not a fan of the combat) Wonder if it's been fixed (side note, the steam link actually takes you to the steam page for Ticket to Ride instead)

[Cyberspirit]

14 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Oh god, For Honor. I bought that game when it first came out, and it had so many connection issues at launch I refunded it. (Plus I was not a fan of the combat) Wonder if it's been fixed

This isn't For Honor, it's Kingdom Come: Deliverance but the combat does seem similar. As for For Honor, I very rarely jump back into it but the queue times take way too long and most of the time you end up being attacked by multiple people where you have no chance to survive. The game was fun for a while but it quickly became frustrating when people abused op characters that you had to pay money for.

[Tristerin]

For Honor was free already on EG, have it cause of that

 

Thanks Paul Rudd!

[Paul Rudd]

5 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

side note, the steam link actually takes you to the steam page for Ticket to Ride instead

Thanks, fixed that. Yea, definitely not For Honor, it's KCD as @Cyberspirit pointed out.

[TVwazhere]

32 minutes ago, Polemical said:

Thanks, fixed that. Yea, definitely not For Honor, it's KCD as @Cyberspirit pointed out.

I just saw sword fighting with guard movements and was blinded by PTSD

[JZStudios]

2 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

I just saw sword fighting with guard movements and was blinded by PTSD

There's also Mount and blade, but the game looks terrible so you wouldn't mistake it. More recently there's also been Mordhau which seems decent.

 

In other news, I decided to try out Wasteland 2 as it went free on GOG and it seems like a steaming pile of horseshit for the sole reason that chance percentages are a lie. You can have a 70% chance of success for shooting, lockpicking, breaking doors (Which can somehow critical fail so you can't attempt it again?), using other skills etc. It is an outright lie. Every time I have a 70% chance of success it fails 6 out of 7 times, consistently. That means the 70% success chance is more actually like a 15%. I actually even started save scumming to retry skill interactions like lockpicking, because after 5 failed attempts you get a critical failure. On a 70% success chance. It is an outright lie.

 

It's infuriating that you have to scrounge around for ammo, and even though the game says you have a 75% chance of success, you miss every single shot in a gunfight and then run out of ammo. And anything your character isn't "proficient" in with a skill, you may as well just literally never use. So you run out of ammo, and the only backup you have is fists or melee weapons, but because they aren't "proficient" in melee, you have (Theoretically from what the game says) a base of 25% success rate to actually hit anything for exceptionally low damage.

 

The only way to improve your success percentage is to be in your weapons "sweet spot," which is a dumb mechanic. But then your success rate is still in the lying 70-80% range. Otherwise you can crouch for 2 action points, which is also dumb, for a 10% boost, or take cover behind objects. I don't know why that's a feature that exists because in the 4 or 5 hours I played there was only once when there was actual cover that could be used. Most of the fights are just out in open fields/rooms with no cover. that also means you don't have a good way to actually strategize and prepare for combat, in part also due to the way your group moves.

 

I'd like to compare it to Mutant Year Zero, also given out free by Epic, and when it said you had a 70% chance you actually had a 70% chance. If you had a 50% chance, you might miss one shot, but the follow up was fairly reliable like maybe about every other shot would hit. Y'know, like 50%. Not 0%. Mutant Year Zero also had plenty of cover so you could actually position your characters for tactics. There was also a better "stealth" mechanic in the real time portion, unlike Wasteland 2 which doesn't have it at all. So basically, Mutant Year Zero has an accurate chance percentage that isn't a lie and mechanics you can use. Every encounter so far in Wasteland 2 is just walking your entire group through an empty field directly towards the enemy, and then proceeding to miss 80% of your shots.

 

Oh, and I've fought 1 "boss" so far, and he just straight up shot like 9 times in a row. He literally just shot one character to death, and then started shooting another. The most one of my characters can shoot in one turn is twice. Even adding up for every character I have, with 2 being optional, that's only like 6 shots.

[Paul Rudd]

5 hours ago, JZStudios said:

In other news, I decided to try out Wasteland 2 as it went free on GOG and it seems like a steaming pile of horseshit for the sole reason that chance percentages are a lie.

Never have gotten much into those types of games but Mutant Year Zero seemed interesting enough to play for a little while.

 

I like when I get to control what I do live over watching it play out in turns.

 

Can you think of any games that maybe combine isometric with live action, but at the same time let you go into cover? And I mean not just hiding behind things, actually like, putting yourself up against a wall with the press of a button. And no turn-based aspect, with the exception of turn-based being very minimal I guess. That's the aspect of that type of game that I don't like(much).

 

I want live action, but I think going into cover with the touch of a button would give it the feel of turn-based because the live action is paused because you're patiently in cover and have to time when to come out of it. Not sure if this is an actual genre or not. Real time strategy maybe? Not sure.

 

The idea is to combine turn-based with real time, if that's a thing. Because there's some things about turn-based that I do like, just not sure what they are. I tried to explain them above. The game needs less emphasis on the turn-based aspect, as I said, I need live action going on. The "stop in time" needs to be up to the gamer, as I explained going into and out of cover.

[JZStudios]

16 hours ago, Polemical said:

Never have gotten much into those types of games but Mutant Year Zero seemed interesting enough to play for a little while.

 

I like when I get to control what I do live over watching it play out in turns.

 

Can you think of any games that maybe combine isometric with live action, but at the same time let you go into cover? And I mean not just hiding behind things, actually like, putting yourself up against a wall with the press of a button. And no turn-based aspect, with the exception of turn-based being very minimal I guess. That's the aspect of that type of game that I don't like(much).

 

I want live action, but I think going into cover with the touch of a button would give it the feel of turn-based because the live action is paused because you're patiently in cover and have to time when to come out of it. Not sure if this is an actual genre or not. Real time strategy maybe? Not sure.

 

The idea is to combine turn-based with real time, if that's a thing. Because there's some things about turn-based that I do like, just not sure what they are. I tried to explain them above. The game needs less emphasis on the turn-based aspect, as I said, I need live action going on. The "stop in time" needs to be up to the gamer, as I explained going into and out of cover.

I'm not typically super huge into turn based. Mutant Year Zero was pretty good about it though, you run around in real time and have a basic stealth system so you can position your characters and start combat with an ambush. The encounters went pretty smoothly too and they have some challenge modes where you race against the clock or get the most points. It also gives you enough action points per character turn to actually move around, take cover, and shoot. Wasteland 2 also starts in real time until combat begins, at a point that you frankly just can't judge. MYZ has visible enemy detection radius circles around them so you know how close you can get. And in Wasteland 2 as a result of that and the lack of cover, there's really frankly no strategy, just hoping that your suck ass characters and their terrible aim actually hits, because if they don't miss every single fucking shot the encounters aren't too bad and actually seem balanced.

 

Otherwise, I started playing Tower of Time yesterday, and that has real time combat, but you can hit spacebar to either slow down or stop time to give you more time to plan character movements or skills. Otherwise it plays kind of like a typical MOBA.

Torchlight was fun for a few hours too.

 

You might like Bastion or Transistor. Both are real time isometric games. Transistor has an interesting balance between real time and a sort of turn based deal.

But yeah, you're looking more at real time strategy games, the Shadow Tactics was real time. Depends on what other sub genres you want in it.

[Giorno Giovanna]

im going to snag kingdom come when its free.thx in advance,hoping i don't have to work that day

[weeblord]

 Are these deals only available for their respective days? I was planning to get Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but only after I build my PC.

[steelo]

Is 'Ticket to Ride' just a ripoff of Catan?

[JZStudios]

2 hours ago, Giorno Giovanna said:

im going to snag kingdom come when its free.thx in advance,hoping i don't have to work that day

 

1 hour ago, weeblord said:

 Are these deals only available for their respective days? I was planning to get Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but only after I build my PC.

It's free for a week until the next free deal. You might be able to snag it with a browser on mobile or a laptop or something. Once you claim it, you own it forever.

[Paul Rudd]

2 hours ago, weeblord said:

Are these deals only available for their respective days? I was planning to get Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but only after I build my PC.

If you currently do not have an Epic Games account, make one. Then just sign into that Epic Games account from the website and claim the free games. You can install them any time you wish in the future. Most free games start on a Thursday and you can only claim them until the next Thursday.

 

There were the 12 days of free daily games in which you had to claim each free game each of those 12 days. But like I said, outside of that Christmas promotion, most free games last from Thursday to Thursday.

 

Like right now, you can still claim the 2 free bored(yes bored) games and they will no longer be able to be claimed once Kingdom Come Deliverance is free starting tomorrow. Claim KCD on your Epic Games account tomorrow and you can install it any time you wish. The best way to know if you've claimed a game or not is right after you claim it, it is in your Epic library, waiting to be installed. You will also receive an emailed receipt for the game within a small amount of time, usually a day or two at most.

2 hours ago, steelo said:

Is 'Ticket to Ride' just a ripoff of Catan?

It doesn't look like it. Why do you ask?

[steelo]

31 minutes ago, Polemical said:

If you currently do not have an Epic Games account, make one. Then just sign into that Epic Games account from the website and claim the free games. You can install them any time you wish in the future. Most free games start on a Thursday and you can only claim them until the next Thursday.

 

There were the 12 days of free daily games in which you had to claim each free game each of those 12 days. But like I said, outside of that Christmas promotion, most free games last from Thursday to Thursday.

 

Like right now, you can still claim the 2 free bored(yes bored) games and they will no longer be able to be claimed once Kingdom Come Deliverance is free starting tomorrow. Claim KCD on your Epic Games account tomorrow and you can install it any time you wish. The best way to know if you've claimed a game or not is right after you claim it, it is in your Epic library, waiting to be installed. You will also receive an emailed receipt for the game within a small amount of time, usually a day or two at most.

It doesn't look like it. Why do you ask?

I noticed the picture, looked up the board game and the rules look eerily similar to Settlers of Catan.

[weeblord]

41 minutes ago, Polemical said:

3 hours ago, weeblord said:

Are these deals only available for their respective days? I was planning to get Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but only after I build my PC.

If you currently do not have an Epic Games account, make one. Then just sign into that Epic Games account from the website and claim the free games. You can install them any time you wish in the future. Most free games start on a Thursday and you can only claim them until the next Thursday.

Thank you so much!

[Paul Rudd]

3 hours ago, steelo said:

I noticed the picture, looked up the board game and the rules look eerily similar to Settlers of Catan.

Oh, the rules. I see. It might be possible. That's something you'd have to dig up.