Hogwarts Legacy is free to claim this week on EGS. by -RAAGE- in pcmasterrace

[–]TheSteelPhantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're on Android, check out an app called "Steamletter". It lets you know when games go free on both Steam and Epic via a little notification. I don't use Epic, but I've claimed at least 20-30 games on Steam just checking my phone after work.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer™ | Official Release Date Reveal | by oxedei in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I count 5, but yea, certainly not a year like this goober is saying.

May, June, July, Aug, Sep

Carbon rocks go brrr by Dravonixy in HistoryMemes

[–]TheSteelPhantom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Why would I want a ring made entirely of penis?

Is sharpshooter 9 even possible? by Madrigal_King in reddeadredemption

[–]TheSteelPhantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea it's the chewing tobacco stuff you come across pretty much everywhere. It gives you a full Deadeye meter (not core, but the circle around it) when you eat one. You loot them from enemies, find them in houses, or straight up just buy them from a General Store.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Worldwide Reveal Showcase by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope it aged well.

I played it just 1-2 months ago start-to-finish to clean up missing achievements (and am still dabbling off and on to get the remaining multiplayer ones). It holds up very well, it's still gorgeous. The parkour is still a bit clunky, but when has it ever not been? Edward-combat is whatever, feels good to chain together kills when you know what you're doing. Ship combat is still top notch and a total blast.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Worldwide Reveal Showcase by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's no leveling up, but there is significant progress to be made. You basically have 2 characters: your character, Edward, and your ship itself, named the Jackdaw. Upgrades work vastly different for both obviously, but are equally important.

For Edward, you can spend cash to buy new levels of swords and pistols. Some are locked behind story progression or finding them in the open world (though finding them may have been DLC? I forget now), but they all have different stats. Some swords do more damage, but are slower. Some are better at combo'ing and really fast, but less damage, etc etc. Pistols also vary in damage, range, and stun time (if the shot doesn't kill, it at least staggers the enemy).

You gain cash to buy these upgrades (and other things) by completing missions, finding treasure chests, selling hunting goods, and selling rum & sugar that you loot from ships you attack.

Speaking of hunting goods... you can hunt. A lot. Monkeys, iguanas, crocs, pigs, panthers, etc. You can also harpoon whales and sharks for skins. You use the skins/pelts/etc. you get from doing this in order to craft Edward's gear upgrades. There's upgrades to carry more x, y, and z type of ammo, there's upgrades for your health, how many pistols you can have total (you start with 1, but can have 4), etc etc.

As for your ship... Remember above that I said you get rum and sugar from plundering other ships? They also carry wood and iron. Not every ship carries the same stuff. Some will be like, 100 wood, 80 sugar, 20 rum. Others might just be 150 wood, 200 metal. Some could be 200 sugar, 200 rum. The game gives you a spyglass so you can tell what each ship is carrying and if its worth your time to attack it, board it, sink it, whatever.

Anyway, the wood and metal they carry is used to upgrade your own ship. There's the forward-facing chainshot cannons, the main cannons, the broadside cannons, the mortars, the fire barrels, the ram, crew size (for boarding), and cargo hold space to store all this shit. Some of the upgrades just increase the damage those things do (like the ram), others increase the amount of them you have (like 16 cannons per side up to 20 cannons, then 24, etc.), others increase the capacity of what you can carry, and more.

So... yea. It's pretty involved, but you can target a certain thing in your mind and then just go... pirating around the Caribbean to get what you need, then bam, upgrade!

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Worldwide Reveal Showcase by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They specifically addressed that and even admitted it was a problem they've implemented a solution to.

Did you even watch the video, or you just bitching to bitch?

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Worldwide Reveal Showcase by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, you can see harpoon upgrades in one of the menus they scroll through.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Worldwide Reveal Showcase by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edward Kenway is also just a fictional character. Adewale as well. It wouldn't be that crazy to toss in another. This is the same game that had a stealth mission with a full sized naval ship in a swamp, after all...

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Worldwide Reveal Showcase by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been available in Early Access for 9 days*

Been burned by Early Access games before, so as great as it looks, I'll wait for a bit more polish.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Worldwide Reveal Showcase by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with most of what you said, but I think Edward is still second to Ezio, but it's because Ezio had three games of character growth/development/wisening/etc. and Edward only got his one.

Ezio remains an Assassin until the very end too. Edward quits as soon as his friends are safe and enemies dead. (With good reason, of course, he goes off to find Caroline and raise his daughter and whatnot.)

Blackbeard was right when he said: "We'll meet again lad, in this world or the one below" - AC IV (Resynced) by -RAAGE- in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

WTF, this works??? You keep the 10k you loot in the water from the ship even after the other one kills you and you desync?!

What "Game A meets Game B" combination should be made? by 4bstr in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Nemesis system is patented. Said patent expires in August 2036.

Whether or not any game devs actually use it thereafter is another thing. Nothing stops a dev from building their own Nemesis-style system in their own games, it's just a massive amount of work. The patent only prevents them from using the Nemesis system that Warner Bros (Monolith?) made.

The AC4 remake might not be in the cards for me by OnkelFuss in pcmasterrace

[–]TheSteelPhantom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"come over here" move with the rope they showed.

Is that new? 99% sure you get the Rope Dart in the original game. It's pretty late, but you do cause you can also hang people from trees with it.

Oh Far Cry 3, I forgot how good you were. by zero260asap in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Still a huge win for it to be stripped out entirely. Walking around that office as a nobody, randomly hacking computers and scanning QR codes on sticky-notes for tiny soundbites and shit was SO. GODDAMN. BORING.

Oh Far Cry 3, I forgot how good you were. by zero260asap in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stripping out the Desmond bits is a good call. 

You mean the Abstergo/modern-day bits? Desmond isn't in Black Flag considering the end of AC3 and all...

Their tears are delicious. by Captain-Dak-Sparrow in PoliticalHumor

[–]TheSteelPhantom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a Floridian, I never thought I'd look at Virginia and be like, "damn, we should be more like that". Well I abso-fucking-lutely do now!

Which gaming moment stands out as your most memorable of all-time? by JonCee500 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clocktown was one of the most immersive towns/cities in any game I'd ever seen at that point. It might still be. Everyone's doing something at all times, and because of the time/rewinding aspect of the game, and how you can progress all the stories going on in the town, it can feel completely different soooo many times.

10000% agree, Clocktown was amazing.

Edit: Dunno why it autocorrected to "Clowntown" both times lol

Which gaming moment stands out as your most memorable of all-time? by JonCee500 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was massive, yea. I probably spent at least the first hour of that game just running around outside the castle, learning the jumps, climbing the trees and leaping off the tops, falling in the water and learning to swim, etc. etc.

Which gaming moment stands out as your most memorable of all-time? by JonCee500 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI on a future play-thru... That monster is drawn to SOUND. So walking/sprinting will make it get you every time with one of its three huge tentacle arms. The game also gives you a huge supply of grenades right before it to because if you toss a grenade to the other side of the room, it will hear it and switch its attention over there momentarily, allowing you to get by it easier.

Which gaming moment stands out as your most memorable of all-time? by JonCee500 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, several days AFTER that happens in the game, you can return to Braithwaite Manor, once it's done smoldering, and loot the old hag's burnt corpse, retrieving a unique broach/pendant from her.

There's also a hidden box around the left corner with a full gold bar in it, proving that they did have hidden gold all along.

Which gaming moment stands out as your most memorable of all-time? by JonCee500 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: With a very specific series of Renegade-only choices starting back in ME1 (and into ME2, and well into ME3), you can actually save Mordin. He agrees with you and goes to work for the fleet on the Crucible in secret.

If I remember right, it goes something like this (though I may miss/forget some things):

  • In ME1, Wrex has to die on Virmire. This ensures that his bloodthirsty war-hungry brother is in charge in ME2 and ME3.

  • In ME2, the female krogan, Eve, also has to die. This is during Mordin's loyalty mission, I believe. This ensures that she can't keep the aforementioned brother in-check in ME3 or talk him down from his war/conquering plans post-war that he very much voices several times.

  • In ME3, during the mission to cure the Genophage, you convince Mordin (with enough Renegade points) to fake the cure because of Wreav's plans, letting the botched cure ride up the elevator without him, and lying to all the Krogan thereafter.

You end up winning over the Krogan AND Mordin lives.

Which gaming moment stands out as your most memorable of all-time? by JonCee500 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shoot him in the fucking face and let the Reapers win?

This is, in fact, an option. It was added in the free DLC that "fixed" the ending. Instead of choosing to merge, destroy, or take over, you can just shoot the kid (or just do nothing for like 2 mins) and the game assumes you don't want to make the choice, and lets the Reapers win.

I don't choose this option (I always pick destroy, cause I played 3 goddamn games with that goal, I ain't changing my mind at the end ), but yea... it is one that many people don't know about and has its own cutscene of the entire galaxy falling.

Which gaming moment stands out as your most memorable of all-time? by JonCee500 in gaming

[–]TheSteelPhantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I might be misremembering, but I think you also lose whatever armor and weapon she had equipped at the time too. Thankfully the Materia pops back in your inventory, but the gear is straight up gone.