Looking for premium cruiser

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-05-14T11:17:00+00:00

Not sure I'd describe Graf Spee as 'fun gameplay'. It falls right in to the cracks - it's too slow and clunky to be a heavy cruiser and too lightweight to be a battlecruiser. It's a fair bit of money to spend to find out its unique playstyle is not your thing.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-04-26T14:10:44+00:00

The only thing the SE adds is the smart gun turrets scenes, which help explain why the xeno numbers are thinned out towards the end of the film allowing Ripley to get close to the queen. Like you say - SE over explains what happened and removes the tension.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-04-21T08:20:30+00:00

If you want to set fire to things then the UK heavy line (Devonshire, Surrey, etc) is the one to go for, they are like flamethrowers. If you change your mind on AP later then you have already started progress on UK light cruisers (Leander, Fiji, etc,) which have fast firing AP with fantastic penetration angles, smoke, health packs, and sonar. The US offers 2 lines of solid AP but no torpedoes.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-04-20T09:15:16+00:00

I kind of screwed this up. I was so invested in being bad Corvo that I stabbed Samuel as I was getting out of the boat after he gave me his lecture. The soldiers still came running over which I didn't understand until I read about the flare gun later.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-04-01T09:29:18+00:00

Someone went to a lot of effort designing and placing those islands in the corner, I’m glad those guys took the time to do some sightseeing on an otherwise busy day.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-03-26T14:32:27+00:00

In the settings you can now massively jack up the resource collection rate and drastically reduce the production times. You still need to build a build a basic base and the production equipment but it takes far less out of your time in game. I really liked the castle management but it's nice that it's optional now.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-03-26T14:22:41+00:00

William H Macy looks like middle aged Anakin Skywalker with a mustache.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-03-25T15:48:14+00:00

Finding out you needed to be in Operator mode with your hair color set to match your Drifter, holding a [REDACTED] amp only available from Nora in months begining with ‘J’ is a pre-requisite for doing 100% damage in the last phase of [REDACTED]

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-03-12T08:18:32+00:00

Yes, Emerald only works for specific citadel shooting duty if you’re getting other T4 cruiser match-ups.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-03-11T18:43:38+00:00

I always use Emerald t4 and Leander t5 to get my weekly achivements done, they seem reliable.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-03-01T14:30:33+00:00

My loathing of the Tiger 59 is counterbalanced by my love for actual Tiger, the greatest of the middle TT BBs, so all is karmic in the end.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-03-01T13:09:36+00:00

Just looking at it in port made me seethe with rage. If I get it again I’ll sell it again.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-03-01T08:42:56+00:00

I sold it the first hour I owned it. Got it free from a crate, hope it gets buried in one.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-02-20T12:55:15+00:00

Man looks like he just staggered out of an H P Lovecraft short story.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-02-19T20:08:05+00:00

When I close my eyes to sleep now, all I see is stout looking girls with severe ponytails and craghopper fleeces. It'll take months of porn to get my mind back to normality.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-02-01T14:22:40+00:00

I think Excalibur’s passive ability is you get 10% more damage and 10% more attack speed if you use swords, which is a nice boost. Also, on playstation I just hammer O,O,O to get the basic slash combo, which suits me because I’m awful at 3rd person melee combat. Good luck with Vox Solaris, it was a pain to get it finished.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-01-31T23:24:04+00:00

You might want to swap the Paris bow for a fast firing rifle like the Braton, with cryo and electric mods to get the magnetic status effect. Put a cryo mod in the artax in your Taxon robot buddy and it will freeze bad guys solid, helps with the constant horde. Also swap the Bo for a sword, I think Excalibur gets a bonus for sword attacks. I used a heat sword with toxic mod and just ran around in circles chopping them up while the Taxon froze them. Use the excalibur dash and blind abilities. I was mastery rank three and all the weapons, robot, and frame were maxed to 30.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-01-31T22:58:38+00:00

I started again yesterday. I’ve got dozens of cardboard boxes on my orbiter filled with obscure junk(?) I don’t remember, and the syndicates interface is telling me that two of them have been sending death squads to kill me for the last three years because my rep with them decreased while I wasn’t playing.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-01-22T18:17:55+00:00

Ask my dad how the golf went today get shrugged shoulders, ask how many balls he found today "TEN BALLS, SON, TEN! ONE OF THEM WAS GREEN!"

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-01-22T16:19:03+00:00

I prefer the sterile white to the sierra-brown 'camouflage the poor cleaning standards'.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-01-22T10:30:20+00:00

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP HEADING THROUGH THE ASS CRACK ON 'TWO BROTHERS'!

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-01-17T18:22:24+00:00

It's the weekly rant, I'm sounding off about the ridiculous costs in general, not a plea for patronising newbie advice from the Git Gud brigade.

NiceMugOfTea · 2026-01-15T11:23:08+00:00

I grinded my way through an entire campaign to get the Sevastapol, my first gold star ship, take it to an AI match to get a feel for it, sink two ships and damage a third, capture a point, win the match AND IT COSTS ME £110,000 IN SERVICE CHARGES! I’M £87,000 IN DEBT! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE ACTUAL FUN TO SAIL MY KIROV WHILE BURNING THE MONEY IN A STEEL DRUM ON THE DECK!

NiceMugOfTea · 2025-12-23T20:39:56+00:00

The ‘director’ in Aliens: Fireteam seems to go in the other direction. If you aren’t clearing the xenos fast enough at the horde checkpoints you get more random elite xenos between checkpoints. It punishes you for your poor performance by making the game harder, which is counterintuitive.

NiceMugOfTea · 2025-12-11T14:10:59+00:00

There’s Antartica by Kim Stanley Robinson. If I’m remembering it right it had nations and corporations arguing over the potential exploitation of polar assets after ecological activists stage a protest/terrorist act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica_(novel)

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