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Intel Dump / Re: TES IV: Oblivion Remaster Rumor and Confirmation Carnival
« Last post by Staggerwing on Today at 06:38:34 AM »Anybody have a link to this news?
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Sci-fi & Fantasy Warfare / Re: Baldur's Gate 3
« Last post by bob48 on Today at 03:40:07 AM »My missus was gifted it for Christmas and has a lot of hours logged. She thinks its a great game.
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Sci-fi & Fantasy Warfare / Re: Baldur's Gate 3
« Last post by Grim.Reaper on Today at 02:57:57 AM »I too need to try this again. I played for about 30 hours but got bitch slapped and destroyed.
I originally bought this in early access and really never played it....have a total of 66 minutes:) Add me to the list of having to try this again.
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Intel Dump / Re: TES IV: Oblivion Remaster Rumor and Confirmation Carnival
« Last post by Grim.Reaper on Today at 02:43:04 AM »^Yeah just saw that too. If this sells well would love to see Daggerfall and Morrowind remasters too since I never had a chance to play those either.
yeah, I have mixed feelings about the trend with remasters. Although I appreciate it gives people the opportunity to play good games from the past if they missed them, it also seems to hold back the developers from focusing on new games/content. With the limited time and money nowadays, I suspect the developers don't have the ability to do both so not going to please everyone. Often when I have played the remasters, although graphics and controls have been modernized, they seem to often seem limited compared to what is included in modern games from what I remembered.
Regardless, now that is is coming to Gamepass, no reason for me not to at least try it so glad they are making this an option. Still very strange on their marketing plan of still saying nothing, hopefully doesn't turn out not to be true:)
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Sci-fi & Fantasy Warfare / Re: Warhammer 3!
« Last post by Undercovergeek on Today at 02:20:21 AM »Back up question
3 - comes with its default races and the rest are available thru dlc or if you owned them for 1 and 2
I own a couple thru 1 and 2 - do I need 1 and 2 installed for 3 to recognise I have them or does 3 look at steam to simply verify I own 1 and 2 and the dlc?
3 - comes with its default races and the rest are available thru dlc or if you owned them for 1 and 2
I own a couple thru 1 and 2 - do I need 1 and 2 installed for 3 to recognise I have them or does 3 look at steam to simply verify I own 1 and 2 and the dlc?
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4X Gaming / Re: Age of Wonders 4
« Last post by Undercovergeek on Today at 12:38:48 AM »It definitely has that warlocky feel
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4X Gaming / Re: Galactic Civilizations IV
« Last post by Martok on Today at 12:12:44 AM »Not strictly related to the game, but Stardock was hit with a massive service outage that took them down for a solid month. 
Brad talks a little bit about it here:
https://www.galciv4.com/article/535264/were-back-what-happened
He can't say exactly what transpired due to legal reasons, but it's pretty obvious that whatever hit them had to have been more than "just" a DoS attack. Whatever it was wiped out everything at their data center, including the onsite backups, so they lost over 30 years of data in a single blow.
Everything from Stardock's websites, to forums, to software databases -- including games they were working on -- was simply gone. They run nightly offsite backups, thankfully, but it still meant they've spent these past several weeks restoring 34 terabytes worth of data, a task that even my troglodyte brain quails at the thought of.
Things have finally only started getting up & running again over the last several days. Some stuff isn't back yet, and a few things are unrecoverable. All of their work on the AlienGPT feature for GalCiv4 was lost entirely, for example, and has to be remade from scratch.
It's just mind-blowing to me that this happened. I hope we get the full story someday.
Brad talks a little bit about it here: https://www.galciv4.com/article/535264/were-back-what-happened
He can't say exactly what transpired due to legal reasons, but it's pretty obvious that whatever hit them had to have been more than "just" a DoS attack. Whatever it was wiped out everything at their data center, including the onsite backups, so they lost over 30 years of data in a single blow.
Everything from Stardock's websites, to forums, to software databases -- including games they were working on -- was simply gone. They run nightly offsite backups, thankfully, but it still meant they've spent these past several weeks restoring 34 terabytes worth of data, a task that even my troglodyte brain quails at the thought of.
Things have finally only started getting up & running again over the last several days. Some stuff isn't back yet, and a few things are unrecoverable. All of their work on the AlienGPT feature for GalCiv4 was lost entirely, for example, and has to be remade from scratch.
It's just mind-blowing to me that this happened. I hope we get the full story someday.
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4X Gaming / Re: Age of Wonders 4
« Last post by Martok on Yesterday at 11:42:26 PM »Glad you guys are likewise enjoying the game! You understand now why I've been gung-ho about it. 
New (minor) patch dropped yesterday, by the way:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/age-of-wonders-4-ogre-1-2-update.1735549/
Honestly, you should. By all means, wait for a sale, but given your fondness for fantasy 4x games, I think AoW4 is going to be right up your alley.
New (minor) patch dropped yesterday, by the way:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/age-of-wonders-4-ogre-1-2-update.1735549/
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The Ogre 1.2 Update brings adjustments to AI Behaviour during Siege Battles, Crystal Dwelling Rewards and the Giant Kings. It also includes improvements for the Paradox Launcher, the Story Region Editor and several mitigations for performance issues. All in all it’s a pretty packed patch.
May your Pantheon Thrive!
One day, i might get this game.
Honestly, you should. By all means, wait for a sale, but given your fondness for fantasy 4x games, I think AoW4 is going to be right up your alley.
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Sci-fi & Fantasy Warfare / Re: Baldur's Gate 3
« Last post by Gusington on Yesterday at 09:28:26 PM »I too need to try this again. I played for about 30 hours but got bitch slapped and destroyed.
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Intel Dump / Re: TES IV: Oblivion Remaster Rumor and Confirmation Carnival
« Last post by Gusington on Yesterday at 09:26:40 PM »^Yeah just saw that too. If this sells well would love to see Daggerfall and Morrowind remasters too since I never had a chance to play those either.