[Deleted User] wrote:

Fallout 3's a broken pile of fuck, so go Dark Souls and play it throughout the summer months on your glass fronted plasma TV where all you can see is your own and your living rooms reflection.

Tempy wrote:

I have been playing a bunch of Escape from Tarkov, which seems like the Ultimate GMAN and Crew game. It's a dodgy Russian thing that has been in development since 2012, heavily based on STALKER but it's multiplayer. It's a lot like Hunt: Showdown (which I am sure was heavily inspired by this game) in that it is a battle royal style affair, but with the option of just... leaving when you want. The map is populated by lots of AI (Scavs) and a few boss enemies (BOSS SCAVS) who shout at you in Russian and shoot you a lot.  Regular players enter a map called a "Raid" at random points to loot, fight Scavs, loot scavs, fight players, loot players, and extract. If you die, you lose all your gear. Every gun, health kit, any battery or CPU part you have on your person is gone for good. You are also then wounded, and needed to heal over time or by using health kits from your perpetual inventory stash back home. If you don't want to do that, you can do a Scav run, which is where you enter a Raid as a pre-generated Scav character with a mission to extract yourself. Other AI Scavs are neutral to you like this, but players are still hostile. Not that you can tell the difference - there is nothing like healthbars, hit detectors or floating name tags in Tarkov. Your ammo count is something you have to track manually, you can look at your gun with a dedicated button to have a guess at roughly much ammo is in your clip, or check your inventory for an accurate number. If you reload after a firefight, you actually swap magazines. Magazines stay in your inventory even if they're half full. Want to fill up a magazine? You need to fill it with bullets manually. You also need to know what calibre bullets your magazine and gun take, make sure you get it right or else you're sat in a firefight trying to load a clip your gun can't use, sorry! If you get shot you take location specific damage. Certain bullets will tear through your armour anyway, so if you take a torso shot or two you're dead. Arms and legs break and you have to heal them with splints and pain killers.  It's a fucking ridiculous game, the devs are misogynistic weirdos who won't put women in their game for weird reasons, but it's also incredibly moreish. You can trade with AI traders at your hideout! Some of them will give you a bitcoin for a handheld Tetriz game. You can trade painkillers for guns! They give you missions to do shit like collect cigarettes and healthkits for them. You can build a toilet in your base! Fucking hell, it's a nonsense. An absurd sim game that has your adrenaline running from the word go as you alt-tab to check a poorly made map of the area you're in to try and figure out if you;re going the right away based on the vague landmarkrs you can make out like "UN truck" or "railway bridge" all the while bullets are echoing around the abandoned factories and shoppingmalls that make up Tarkov. Proper batshit PC gaming.

stonechalice wrote:

Tempy wrote:

You mainly just gotta go real fast

Not strictly true. Take your time and try to clear everything in every level when you're first starting out. Know that you will die often. Know that seeing all the levels in this game isn't what it's about really. Know that it's easily the best rogue like game out there.

stonechalice wrote:

Tempy wrote:

You mainly just gotta go real fast

Not strictly true. Take your time and try to clear everything in every level when you're first starting out. Know that you will die often. Know that seeing all the levels in this game isn't what it's about really. Know that it's easily the best rogue like game out there.