Pretty sure thats my fault somehow

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I'm not sure about the keycard - I got it from killing the scientist lady target via the journalist subquest which was another thing you would never, ever get on your own. You overhear a conversation in a hair salon (btw I hope the spoilers complaints aren't taking about Hitman because the game has no plot whatsoever and none of this means anything if you haven't played it) about the journalist and the person's like "yeah I last saw him sleeping on a park bench a couple streets over". Like Fly is talking about, the game designs these interactions around the assumption that you have their helpers on - there's no chance you find the guy sleeping on the park bench (he's, like, sitting with his head nodded so it's not even that obvious if you aren't up close) if you don't have the icon directing you straight to him, and once you get there it's not even clear how you interact with him (you get a helper suggesting you wake him up somehow, and even with that helper it took me a minute to figure out that I could toss a coin to do it after he didn't respond to any physical interaction short of punching him which is obv a bad idea).

I'll try turning them off, but it does seem like it resulted in a weaker game if that's what you have to do to have the most fun. For this game, they specifically chose making fewer missions with way more things happening inside of them, instead of having more missions (like previous games) that you can solve without so many gimmicks. So when you specifically choose to take those gimmicks away because they're dumb, you're left with a smaller game than what the developers thought they were giving you. Like, if the whole thing now is replaying for specific challenges/achievements/etc, lots of those challenges can't even be accomplished without following the scripted paths.

I give developers credit for telling me how to best enjoy the game they made, so if they have something like that on by default, as a default I'm going to leave it on unless they give me a reason (i.e. telling me it's for noobs or something) to turn it off. In this case, it's not even necessarily just a "noob" option - it's more of a "do you want to play with our silly sidequest system" option and how on earth would you know that it sucks until you try it a couple times?

I'm just not reading this crap anymore.

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Yeah, I was watching it on Squirrel's stream and it seemed kind of fun

I've been playing this and messing around with settings, but can't really come up with a way I want to play the game.

I was trying to put together a relegation league yesterday, and figured it out, but then after simming through a couple seasons, it wasn't as fun as I thought it would be.

Maybe because I was just simming the entire season. But...it worked like I wanted it to, which is pretty cool, since I like how the English Premier League promotes and relegates teams at the end the season.

The problem is that you can't take the MLB and relegate to AAA. It has to be to some small league like the Pioneer League, which only has a handful of teams. So, you're not getting a team capable of playing against the MLB talent. When the Royals and Marlins get relegated and two random teams get promoted, they just flip again the next season since the Royals and Marlins are so much better and the random teams are so much worse.

I tried an entirely fictional league, but it's just not real to me since it's all fictional.

So anyway, I'm not sure if I like the GM role or the Manager role the most right now. I ended up deleting all of my saves to start over.

This game is crazy good and if you are at all intrigued by this kind of game, you should absolutely buy it.

there are ways to do basically everything. you could set up the league as you want with real team names and use commissioner mode to assign all the players. but obviously if you have 30 teams of all the current MLB quality players then one season isn't going to cause the best of the rest to be better than the marlins or whoever.

maybe some set up with a 20 team MLB, 20 team MLB2 each with their own farm system would work if you distribute the talent initially and the finances make sense.

The only thing the game can't do is make the actual 2018 Pirates good

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There are a couple of things you might want to try. When you set up the secondary/tertiary leagues, make sure the league level is listed as Major League level for each league and then you can change the league reputation to lower ratings for each secondary league so that free agents will have the ability to sign with any league/team, but will prefer to sign with an MLB club.

In mine I have MLB with a reputation of 10 and 3 lower leagues, with reps 8,6,4.

You can also try removing all minor leagues and playing with a reserve roster system insead, this will limit the amount of players in the game universe.

As far as having some real feeling of attachment to the Pirates and still being competitive, I don't think there's much you can do with this year's Pirates, but maybe try putting the 79 Pirates into the bottom league and see how quickly you can get them to MLB.

Hitman was such a blast, I sank so many hours into it. Really surprised it never got much love.

Man, but it's such an intense feeling knowing you've only got one shot and so awesome when you pull of an elusive kill. I think I sank upwards of an hour just planning one assassination by tailing a target, finding the right sniper spot, rehearsing the route to a hiding spot and exit, etc.


Completely baffled at this idea that you can't make up your own plan in the game. There's like a million ways to pull off every job. You can make up your own contract with your own custom objectives!

Heh, I guess you need the "oh **** I punched the lawyer and now this mission is locked forever" moment to appreciate the "yesssss I planned this meticulously and finally did it" moment

Could be that mission was badly designed or did a bad job explaining the lawyer to the player.

My pro tip for the elusive targets is to always bring a sniper rifle as a backup if you can't work out any other way to do the job. And have a nearby hiding place bc guards will immediately swarm to your position.

Get to Steam and claim your free copy of CKII. Expires on the 7th or so.

Only thing it will cost you is all your free time.

awesome, that was the top game on my wishlist

Thanks for the heads up.

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What a sweet deal! Great price for Kerbal Space Program

I knew Mark would be the first one to respond. I'd love to buy it, but unfortunately I am sure I wouldn't enjoy it, would suck (as expected) and I'm bad at games with no clear goal. I appreciate this game nonetheless.

Where else can you pretend to be Elon Musk?

BTW, yes the game allows open ended play but it also provides missions for you to accomplish like rescuing stranded astronauts, landing rovers on the local moon or building space stations.

The missions start easy but get more difficult as you progress deeper in the game.

However, it does help being a science nerd to play KSP...

I am a science nerd actually. Will think about it.

I am trying to get into the Factorio demo, but it is not easy. UI feels clunky and not intuitive at all... I'm not even sure how to deselect something I was about to build, hitting escape brings you to main menu.

Any general controls/UI advice for Factorio to help me out?

build or place? there really is no "unbuild" button. but any thing you place on the map can be picked up simply by right clicking on it. to deselect something just either select the thing u actually want or place the unwanted thing into a blank space in your quickbar or inventory.