Covers tabletop games, solo and MMO computer games, and more. Includes some walk-throughs and guides, with a focus on fantasy RTS and RPGs.
Long version: this post: circa 4,550 words, estimated reading time, excluding videos: 23 minutes. Newbies guide to Stoneshard Intro With a mere sixty hours under the belt, I’m probably still a newbie myself, but I’m a fast study and I usually pay attention to things, so this guide will get you to get up and […]
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Stoneshard, the early days Intro updated December 2021 saw the release of the City of Gold patch. The game is still in early beta and I haven’t had the chance to play much into it, but I am pleased to note one or two of its most annoying quirks were fixed. Thirst doesn’t seem as
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Blizzard add Emanate to follower gear A look at the Diablo III revamps introduced in season 23, which add emanate to gear, making solo farming easier and better. Here’s the official bit first: Follower System Revamp: The Follower system for Diablo III has been revamped and will be made permanently available for Seasonal and Non-Seasonal
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This post: circa 9,500 words, estimated reading time: around 35 to 40 minutes Intro If you’ve not played this game, I thoroughly recommend it, it’s great fun. If you want to skip a lot of the reading, I’ve made added a Graveyard Keeper playlist to youtube, covering the first 19 days. I don’t talk,
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Mechanicus guide: intro If you are looking for a recommendation, it’s got over 4,000 positive feedbacks on Steam (92%); I, too, can give it a big thumbs up if you like the genre. A lot of the Warhammer games spewed out over the past decade or so are either garbage and or tainted by endless
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Guide to Warhammer 40K Mechanicus glyphs Glyphs: the good, the bad, and the ugly { Mechanicus glyphs screen } More accurately, they can be considered as desirable (Blackstone, CP, and gear), helpful (health or initiative), bad (take damage, lose CP, lose initiative) and really bad (awakening hastened). Note that some randomness is involved in some,
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Intro I recently played a ‘free to play, pay to win’ game, liked the PvE element, hated the PvP element and quit in part because of it. As far as I’m concerned the game (Chaos and Conquest) was practically a text book check list of every possible devious and unethical psychological and marketing trick you
A word on DLC and loot boxes. Acceptable, or not? Read More »
« « Back to the Chaos & Conquest menu page Broken – by design I won’t comment much on the PvP mechanics that aren’t simply unbalanced, they are clinically, certifiably, psychotically insane. A level 20 can crush a level 10 with less effort than stepping on an ant, a level 30 can crush an entire
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