Guild Wars 2. And likely some Minecraft. It’s very unoriginal of me, I know. But I’m hoping to get to level 40 in GW2 and check out the second dungeon – floundered my way through the first one earlier, and I would like more that. And I am not mentally prepared for Explorable (read: heroic) mode just yet, so no repeating.

I will likely do some Guild Wars and some Dark Souls, as time permits. We got a Game-o-logical guild started up, so if anyone would like to join, just reply with your character name and we can all bad-mouth the standard steam group members in guild chat!

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3. Mission accomplished.

Finally able to purchase Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker as an individual title on PSN, so I’ll be plowing through that mostly enjoyable game.

Also Walking Dead part 3 just hit, and that’s definitely worth the two-and-change hours.

I hear there’s a new episode of The Walking Dead out, so I’m debating whether or not I should buy that already or wait for them all to come out – I’ve played the first one and it was pretty good.

I’m also really into The Last Story right now, and I’m having a lot more fun with its gameplay than I thought was possible for a JRPG.

Finally, I’m still going through Dragon Age: Origins, which has become infinitely more fun since I created a mage character.

Assuming “Egyptian Rat Trap” is one of the cleaned-up names for “Egyptian Rat Fuck,” I absolutely dominated the local high school speech & debate circuit at that game (at all the tournaments, that’s what you played when you weren’t in a round).

I’ve put ME3 on hold for a bit, since I talked myself into getting Darksiders 2. I kind of liked the first, but the extrEEEM! God of War ripoff combat eventually pissed me off terminally. From the review and comments here, it sounded like I’d like the second one better, and that’s true so far, although the character design and story are still no great shakes.

I also have a rental copy of Crysis 2, which I keep rage quitting at the same point, where I get killed by a magic tank that can shoot through walls, or indeed, bend its turret 90 degrees and shoot me while I’m crouched at its own treads. More than that, it’s the checkpoint that kicks me back juuuust too far for me to want to bother redoing things when I get killed that way. Trying to decide if this bodes badly for the rest of the game, which is otherwise fairly decent.

Rock Band Blitz, Rock Band Blitz, and a little more Rock Band Blitz. Then when I’m feeling guilty for not playing it, MLB the Show, only 2 weeks left in my season and my Brew Crew finally pulled a game up in the wildcard over the Marlins and Phillies. 2 games back of the Reds for NL Central lead and still have a 3 game series at Cincinatti to play.

I’m gonna beat FFIV! Yeah, I’m doing that!

Failing that, I’ll just grind in it for a while and listen to the new Swans album.

I’ll put some Red Fang on my heaphones and slither my way through Guild Wars 2, dropping turrets where I can and boxing people backwards with a ram’s head beltbuckle (not a joke, real engineer skill).
The game plays like whipped butter compared to any other MMO I’ve ever played and I have played the lot. Everything I ever complained about is fixed and wonderful, and the fact that I don’t pay a subscription means I can relax without that dreadful feeling that I am not getting my money’s worth.
Maybe throw in another ArmA2 run, now that I nagged Sub to the point where he got rid of the Namalsk setting… I imagine it should be a lot more fun now that we decided on dialing down the difficulty a bit. Constantly blacking out was less than fun.

Still waiting for my 360-controller dongle in order to play Dark Souls, but that’s not running away, so whatever.

Hobbes got the Wolf Pack DLC for Payday, which lets him host the new heists for people who don’t have it, so we’ll probably give that a few runs. Good stuff so far, but Overkill seems to have fallen in love with the “they just turned off the power/water/whatever! get it back on!” mini-task. Definitely a fun break from ArmA modding.
And speaking of which, it’s time for the weekly mod report:I didn’t get quite as much done this week as last week, but it was mostly rebuilding a mission after I tried too much too quickly and something got broke.The one big breakthrough I had was figuring out publicVariables, sort of. I can give a satellite phone multiple actions, and have the 2nd one only become available after the first one (and a task being completed or something). This is done by giving each Action script a public variable to broadcast – this goes to all clients and the server in a multiplayer game, and I can have the “task started” trigger activate when the public variable is broadcast. It’s a bit complicated, and I’ve only just had the “ah-HA!” moment a couple days ago, so I’m still unsure of everything. But it seems like it might be pretty handy when I figure it out.The DAC is a little finicky, and the readme doesn’t always help – the Independent Guerrillas and OpFor Insurgents references in the readme are reversed, and using groups from one side (BluFor, Opfor, Indy, Civilian) with behaviors from another side “might cause uncontrollable (but funny) AI reactions.”I figured out my trigger issue – setting it to detect “opfor not present” isn’t enough, since it runs the check before DAC finishes creating units, so it comes back true. I tried adding a delay, but it just seemed to delay the activation effects, not the check. Solution: have the condition count “OpFor not present” AND time > 120 seconds. I was doing the time delay, and the Opfor not present, but the “this AND” is what makes it work properly. stupid little things that nobody else seems to ever have a problem with (yes, it’s confusing. I wouldn’t have known what most of that meant a few weeks ago). It seems to be working now, since I’m not getting “Island clear of hostiles!” popping up while there’s still a group of insurgents firing artillery at me. Yes, artillery. It’s looking like I made the right decision by starting the players at the lighthouse, with a handy sniper rifle nearby. I’m still a horrible shot, but at least the AI actually rearms themselves from the weapon box now. Well, everyone but the medic. I’m not really worried about that, because ideally it’ll be just players as survivors, but it’s good to know for NPC survivors that might be scattered around the islands. I can get them to join a group, follow the players around, then leave at a certain place/time/trigger activation.

Not using the ACE wounds module (but keeping pretty much everything else) has made things much less frustrating. yeah, you roll around on the ground for a while before bleeding out if you don’t get medical attention, but YOU CAN STILL USE CHAT WHILE DOING SO. and it’s not something ridiculous like ten goddamn minutes of black screen before you finally die. 
Oh, there’s a “respawn” button? I SHOULDN’T NEED TO DO THAT, ASSHOLES. I set the respawn timer for FIVE SECONDS because I DIDN’T want to wait around forever after dying.

Yeah, much less frustrating using the BIS First Aid modules. 

The AI still sees and engages from behind trees and stuff that I can’t see through, but they’re not perfect shots, so I’ve had a lot of tense run-between-cover situations, trying to find someone who’s somewhere in the woods in front of me. And I’ve had to get rid of the mounted guns at the Force Recon camp because they were engaging people on the other side of the island with them. Good for atmosphere (lots of gunfire) but not so much for gameplay when the AI that isn’t part of your squad can complete one of your objectives for you. Took out the guns and the wandering patrol, and dropped a couple guys from the squad. Now it’s just four marines in a camp with a field hospital, guns and ammo, some tents, and a couple vehicles.

Until I actually get some multiplayer testing in to make sure what I’ve done so far works, I’m going to try not to do too much more, because that’s what broke whatever it was that broke the last time (added too much stuff too quickly). Not burned out yet, but starting to get within sight of it.

Probably a lot of Guild Wars 2, finishing up Darksiders 2, then a dip into the cardboard and plastic with Descent 2nd Edition.

That’s… a lot of 2s.