What are you currently playing?

[Jackalope]

Fallout 4 / Survival difficulty.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not currently playing anything, but at the week-end, I'm playing in a poker tournament on Friday and a darts one on Saturday. I fully expect to win both, and I also expect that my prior expectation will not be realized.

Boru

[Expired]

Not currently playing anything, but at the week-end, I'm playing in a poker tournament on Friday and a darts one on Saturday.  I fully expect to win both, and I also expect that my prior expectation will not be realized.

Boru

501 or round the board?  I'm crap at trebles, so round the board suits me, double 4 double nine are my favourites.

[abaris]

Fallout 4 / Survival difficulty.

You said that before. But what's actually better than on normal difficulty? As I said before, the enemies are still stupid as a loaf of bread. They only seem to take more punch.

There are a few games I play on their highest difficulty such as Pillars of Eternity where the enemies actually wisen up. Or the trials in DA:I, since the enemies get more skilled and diversed, but I only upped the ante for a short while in FO4, since it was mainly the same experience with only the fights lasting longer because of more hitpoints.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not currently playing anything, but at the week-end, I'm playing in a poker tournament on Friday and a darts one on Saturday.  I fully expect to win both, and I also expect that my prior expectation will not be realized.

Boru

501 or round the board?  I'm crap at trebles, so round the board suits me, double 4 double nine are my favourites.

501, single elimination.

Boru

[Jackalope]

Fallout 4 / Survival difficulty.

You said that before. But what's actually better than on normal difficulty? As I said before, the enemies are still stupid as a loaf of bread. They only seem to take more punch.

Survival mode is almost entirely a new game. Every decision is a tactical one that has to have risk / reward evaluated. The difference isn't in how smart the enemies are, it's in how smart YOU need to be.

You can carry substantially less. Everything has weight, even ammo and stimpacks. You can't just load up a metric asston of stimpacks, ammo, and big guns with heavy armor.

You have to eat, sleep, and stay hydrated, meaning you have to secure food and water sources, and you need to know where usable beds are. You can get sick. You can't fast travel. You can't save except by sleeping. Everything hits harder.

It may not be to your liking but it is an entirely new experience, and it's hard - very hard if you set the difficulty before leaving Vault 111.

[Shell B]

Oh, god. Ammo weight. That would drive me fucking crazy.

[abaris]

Oh, god. Ammo weight. That would drive me fucking crazy.

Yeah, I like to micromanage my games to a certain extent. But that's the reason why I never used hardcore mode in FNV. Drinking, eating, drinking, sleeping, fine by me - although it stands to reason that you should carry your own sleeping bag in games like that instead of having to look for a stationary bed. But when it comes to ammo weight, I draw the line.

[Rhizomorph13]

I've been playing Don't Starve Together with my wife. It is a bastard of a game but we like it a lot because we can get a lot of action in without investing a lot of time. The hounds totally freak my wife out!

I played Sorry with my sons one 14 one 4 and it was fun seeing how balanced the game was.

[Edwardo Piet]

I've been playing AoE2: HD Edition, plus both of the newer expansions, and I've also been playing Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

Been playing both on Steam.

Oh I also play D&D with the TTA crowd on Sundays before the football games which I watch sometimes with an awesome friend or two [emoji106]