What are you playing right now?

[Akamia]

I now have a new PC; that means I can play more games!

And these days, I'm mostly playing MechWarrior Online and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. I've been itching to get back into the MechWarrior games since 2014.

 

[BoganUSAFFLClerk]

I play MW5:Mercs as well. The lack of variation in game modes makes it difficult to play more than 1 game of it in one sitting though - same for MWO. I have been playing Escape From Tarkov for a bit but now I have to upgrade my CPU in order to run the new map. EFT ballistics make no sense also.

 

[Akamia]

That's entirely fair. I like to think Faction Play in MWO has more variety simply by virtue of respawns being a thing in that specific mode, meaning the objectives, whatever they may be, matter more than in Quick Play, which tends to devolve into every gametype becoming Skirmish in all but name eventually because everyone gets only one "life" in that mode. Of course, part of the problem here is that there's not a lot of players playing Faction Play, from what I've seen...

As for me, in addition to MechWarrior, I've recently started playing Satisfactory. I like it so far! I like it a lot!

 

[BoganUSAFFLClerk]

I could never get into faction play because majority of the time just like Quick Play you just get loser teams with no interest in clearing objectives or doing dumb time wasting things like running away and shutting down or having dumb meta sniper lights that get picked with by light hunters.

 

[Akamia]

I haven’t actually played FP yet. As I mentioned before, the low player pop there interferes with getting matches. So I don’t know how bad things are right now aside from people just kind of not playing that. Solaris 7 has a similar issue; at least I was able to match a couple of times, there.

Hoping to gather enough friends together to form a unit of sorts that can play with me semi-reliably. Maybe things will be better in that case. lol

 

[BoganUSAFFLClerk]

For both you have a longer Q. Unless you enter the Q with a team already selected.

 

[BoganUSAFFLClerk]

Also DayZ is a big piece of poo. Only play it if you have a high tolerance for weird and irritating game breaking bugs.

 

[Akamia]

Well, I didn’t see sniper lights in MWO Faction Play, but I did see some highly optimized assault ‘Mechs whose pilots were exceptionally good at hitting my Incubus. lol

Got some new ‘Mechs, though. The Summoner M is particularly awkward to play, but I like it. Very punchy.

 

[*SD*]

Anyone here like to play chess? I like to. I suck at it, but I like to play it.

 

[Akamia]

Yeah, I like to play chess. I tend to play correspondence on Chess.com or lichess, depending on my opponent’s preference.

 

[Akamia]

Spent some time with a partner in Raft. The game was not at all what I was expecting; for some reason, I wasn’t expecting survival on a raft to be basically the entire game. lol

Hoping to get into Elite: Dangerous in the near future. I need a new spaceship MMO to replace Star Trek Online, and one of my other partners was intimidated by the “spreadsheets in space” reputation of EVE Online, which I’ll certainly be spending time on as well, but probably not as much. Heh.

 

[Akamia]

Been playing Elite: Dangerous as well as MechWarrior Online lately. Doing pretty well for myself in the former.

My partner likes ED well enough, but her first time in a combat scenario didn’t go over so well; some NPCs killed her bounty before she even got to shoot it, costing her the reward. She wasn’t happy. She likes mining and trading, though, so fortunately for her, combat is mostly optional. We’re going for some Wing trading this Friday.

 

[Akamia]

Got Supreme Commander 2 on sale on Steam a few days ago. It’s my all-time favorite RTS game, though I last played it on consoles, which I swore off for that genre in particular ever since I played Red Alert 3 on PC. Now I can play SupCom 2 on PC as well!

While I was an Illuminate player on Xbox years ago, I’ve decided I’d rather play Cybran. I played a best of 3 against my brother after doing a couple of rounds of comp-stomping, intent to at last put our playstyles to the test against one another; something we could not do in the past because we had to share the Xbox 360. My brother has consistently chosen to play UEF regardless of platform, and I respect that.

I won our best of 3. First game was a disaster, though; I lost on account of some rather embarrassingly bad macro on my part. My build order was probably the worst ever, and I couldn’t even defend against my brother’s first Rock Head tank push. The next two games were much better quality. Took him out with a surprise nuke, then tech-rushed long range artillery. Good times!

 

[Akamia]

Started a Hardcore world on Minecraft Java Edition. Building a subterranean fortress for maximum survivability. I was reminded why most people don't build those; they're expensive and time-consuming. lol

But y'know, I play the long game. My goal is to slay at least one Wither and the Ender Dragon; then the game will be complete.

 

[Akamia]

Cleared the Supreme Commander 2 campaign on Hard difficulty.

Now I have only five achievements left.

 

[*SD*]

I'm about to start playing an old DOS game I had as a kid, Realms Of The Haunting. I used to love it and recently watched a playthrough on YouTube - couldn't resist!