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Choice of Games . Story-driven adventure-ish game with "light RPG" elements with multiple endings that incidentally manages to have killing, only if you really push the game in that direction. If it's on Rock, Paper, Shotgun it must be a game, right? Or are you looking for Triple-A games ...

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This looks really interesting. Pity I'm poor and it costs money (how does a paid game get away with allowing you to see the source code and cutting out the lock that makes you pay). It's indie enough that it was partially/completely funded through art grants, possibly with certain restrictions, who...

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Rest assured, it will probably be a TLA and whoever comes up with the name will certainly consider the abbreviation before settling on it, so "single-hero interactive tactics" is very unlikely. Unless Activision publishes one first, at which point we'll end up with a SNAFU on the order of...

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For those that know MOBA, they probably know AoS, know MOBA and not AoS I could do my little spiel on the history of the game. To be completely honest, this is probably why I don't like the AoS name - I never played it and actually had to look up the acronym, though as soon as I saw "Aeon of S...

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Since there seems to be no relevant discussion to the actual topic, and no one seems to be bothered by this, let's have a go: I prefer AoS because it tells me exactly what I want to know, at the cost of limiting the audience of people that'll understand instantly - it's a small team based game where...

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Using AoS might open up some legal/licensing issues, which is why the dev teams probably call it MOBA. After spending time on forums and hearing kids say they played a really cool map on this old game Starcraft called "Aoen of Strife" and wondering if Guinsoo/IceFrog could implement it in ...

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1) What is HoL? 2) I am giong to start playing one of these, which one is more like dota<---Im pro!, 3) Which one is more fun? 1.) HoL doesn't exist - it's either HoN (Heroes of Newerth) or LoL. 2.) HoN is part 1:1 of DotA, part new heroes/maps, LoL is a new take on the genre. Or HoN is DotA HD wit...

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I play both this and HoN. Everybody compares them, but I don't see why. They're ridiculously different -- HoN is a DotA clone with better polish and a couple of new heroes. It's slower-paced, and primarily based on technical skill, phased gameplay (laning->ganking->pushing) and is a commercial ente...

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Minions, or "creeps" first, they give you gold and exp. To compare it to WoW(some thing I've only observed, not played): -Everyone is shit at level one. Gotta level up first, get some gear. -At level 6 it's time to party, be prepared for enemy players ganging up on you in formerly safe spa...

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The L4D2 is (mostly) claimed, but I still have three copies of Shattered Horizon - PM me if you're interested, it won't hurt!

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I have one copy of the L4D2 four-pack left if anyone wants it, as well as copies of Shattered Horizon - PM me if you want one of them.

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It's probably easier to go from LAN center to brick and mortar than it is to go the other way - you've got a core business that isn't in too much danger of dying out. There is a local record store chain that hosts table-tops and TCG, although I doubt they have comics, cards, figurines for sale, but ...

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As much as I love stomping around in mechs my favorite at the moment is the Battle Armor (infantry), I load-out according to what weapons I want and then buy the best mech/vehicle available. Also, they're working on documentation as we go (released it before the end of the year without documentation...

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What about going to some small Pacific islands, or that set of islands north of the UK (I think Orkin?) that they found some ruins on? As much as I hate entering this thread it has to be done once a year: It's entirely improbable people would be able to make it to small islands in the Pacific that ...

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Resurrect for great justice.

Mod is out in open beta with a hotfix, although the website is currently down due to bandwidth issues - grab from ModDB or torrent.

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That'd be the straight forward move, yes. How well do you know these people, any insight into what else is going on, etc. I'm assuming black circles are production areas, and the circles with white inside are cities iirc. There's not really a way for blue to bump you out, so as blue I'd march the ar...

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Yeah - he's doing this all in Macromedia Director, and said he isn't changing until he gets more experience under his belt so he can pump out games quickly. One of the big drawbacks - but it works perfectly through Wine, apparently? Because it's in Director, direct connections are almost impossible ...

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It's possible to get by on 2 + high rank, then demand tribute and never look back. Takes a bit more luck than I like, same with Looting the Vaults, but it's possible - it's so much easier to have the flexibility of 3 charisma though. Martial Skill does need a buff badly in my opinion, but you do get...

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You're talking about kids who play a game their parents picked up for $10 on sale on their family's P3 that no one touches because it's "so slow." These kids have no concept of etiquette, no idea on how to actually be good at a game beyond reaction time and are looking for the next high, 4...

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Lie 1: There are "NOOBS ONLY" games in DotA, HoN, LoL - it's a sign for slighly skilled players to jump in and pubstomp everyone to pieces. In fact, everyone joins "NOOBS ONLY" games to pubstomp, which is why you don't join those games and instead aim for a "PRO" game, ...

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You ever looking for a PBEM, PM me or go look over at the cypticcomet.com forums, they've got a small space for PBEM. Did I mention we're number crunching calculating freaks? We'll calculate anything to win, including combination of perks and Cha to start off pulling in more than anyone else. And we...

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Solium Infernum is a board game that sets you as a lord of Hell against other lords of Hell vying to rule it all, since the job has opened up somehow. (Who knows?) Described by the developer as "an eclectic cross between Diplomacy, Dune, A Game of Thrones and Ticket To Ride", you customiz...

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There was a ledge I used to snipe the queen above and to the right, easy enough to clear out everything before hand. If you want to do it head to head, good luck - even a decent SMG might be helpful here because it's easier to hit some of the bullets on the critical area by spray and pray than to ac...

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DotA is it's own genre, but that's a discussion for another time. It takes a lot of learning and single player to get into it up-to-par (especially since most of the heroes are directly ported from DotA Allstars), it takes a bit of skin to get used to the trash-talking that's almost required in game...

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I roll with Roland (hah, shoot me now) on a turret focused build. Max Impact, Sentry, Refire, Defense, Barrage, Deploy, Aid Station, couple of points in whatever else is useful at the time. I'm currently working towards 50 Prof. on every weapon, so it's mostly me solo running for now - the turret al...

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Some people enjoy co-op, some people enjoy min-maxing, and the world goes on. The post is to let people know that there are builds that can down everything (mostly for Mordecai and Lilith) and people have already been complaining to on high for some changes in the DLC.

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tzvibish wrote:kick anyone who you suspect is using mods (kinda easy to recognize, once enemies start dropping like flies at lvl 51).

15k DPS Mordecai? Not saying that they're cheating or not, just that there are builds that'll break anything in the game.

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Seeing as how they have been handing out keys like candy and everyone with the game has extra keys to hand out, it's just pure spam.

But if you want a key, PM me.

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Give Sick should spread Corrosive to others, didn't buy it when I had the chance. Fire : Most common element, DoT, best against fleshy creatures aka non-shielded/armored. Cons: Most common element, weak against shields/armor. Shock : Super-effective versus shields, can do DoT. Cons: Not really effe...

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Red chests are also the only chests that work for the chest challenge, but ancedotally I've usually found higher rarity loot at chests at the end of areas. Of course, the amount of people you're playing with may affect chest rates as well (not including class mods).

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One must grind forever to get decent loot. I've stopped picking up anything with resale of under 100k simply because it fills up my inventory (although I lost 8MM clean after fire burned down bandits before I completely transitioned to "On Ground" animation), but it takes a lot of chests t...

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Yeah, the actual formula that's being used is quotable at many places for Deploy, but it's probably the best example of badly written descriptions out there which is why I used it. As to Bloodwing, people get bored two-manning things, arguments occur as to which paint scheme is best on a runner, and...

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You need at least one point in the skill to gain any benefit from the boost in the mod, otherwise it continuously stacks according to fuzzy logic. For example, Deploy - lowers turret cooldown by 20%. After 5 points (bringing the cooldown to 50 sec) it suddenly changes the amount reduced, unknown how...

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I guess we could talk about any zombie mod in here, really. Weapon choice is all down to preference in the end - but you should have at least one shotgun in your group. Why a shotgun? It has the highest DPS and it's the only weapon that can oneshot a Witch, so when you encounter a Witch that you can...

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I have the achievment as well. Tag: Tzvibish. Look me up. I just attempted mothrakk at lvl 45 (2nd playthorugh) with one other person, and we were thoroughly destroyed (mothrakk was also at lvl 45). I managed to get into a pattern where I could hit him with my whitting elephent gun (1150 dmg!) whil...

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Another note on Boomer bile is that it'll only target the one that got Boomered, which was probably meant but might not be clear. If you've got your team, they can easily take care of all of the zombies since the zombies only target you, not the rest of them - so fall behind them and let them kill w...

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Due to all the hype from the sequel coming out, I bought the first left4dead. I'd rather not go to the rabid fanboy masses that are the Steam forums, so I'm asking you guys instead. I played through the first campaign (No Mercy) and just kinda winged it, and would probably fail if I played on any h...

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Dead Before Dawn, otherwise known as the Crossroads Mall campaign has finally been released, although as a torrent for now - the host site is down due some problems on the back end. It takes 1.1GB to download it and then it decompresses to 2-3GB, go get it now!

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You can play Borderlands as a straight up FPS RPG by yourself, although it's not too hard there. It's designed around multiplayer and it's pretty good at it - you can run four of the same class and still be different because you're specced into different trees, a la Diablo 2. You can see that it's G...

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No, there's no stash to store items in, only inventory expansion sets. (42 slots max, iirc)

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