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@EverfreeEmergencies  
They couldn’t help themselves. They couldn’t just keep their hands off of it.

I’m not sure how I feel about the changes to combat in Mass Effect 1 in the Legendary Edition. On one hand, the bloom and sniper scope sway was insane originally. On the other, it made weapon specialties more impactful and it wasn’t too hard to learn how to pace your shots regardless, and combat looks a little too easy in the remaster. Besides that, what’s the point of the accuracy rating now?

@Anonymous #3456  
If you dont mind playing a very old legacy version you might actually be able to run it  
the minimum system requirements for DCS World version 1.2 are pretty low
 

 
You can download version 1.2.16 through the Steam beta branch  
alternatively you can use the DCS updater tool to download whatever version you want from Eagle Dynamics servers.  
Since the core engine and SU-25T are free it wont cost you anything to try  
just keep in mind that if you do decide to buy a module you may not be able to use it with version 1.2  
since it may have a higher minimum version requirement
 
Also you dont really need an expensive flight stick to fly the SU-25T  
Some people even fly it using Xbox or PlayStation gamepads so a Sidewinder might work just fine

@Anonymous #3456  
What about Castle Crashers? Is a good game too. And Friday Night Funkin’ is an amazing game for those who love music.

@KillswitchEngageHyperFanatic  
It looks very educational.
 
There are less demanding flight sims. You can still find the 2.77 version of Warbirds available for download here and there. YS Flight is also very good, for free Windows flight sims.

@Anonymous #3456  
If you haven’t a good PC, you should play Baldi’s Basics. Is my favorite game.

I like flight sims and am currently very impressed by Digital Combat Simulator World from Eagle Dynamics, but it is sufficiently detailed and realistic to challenge real pilots, even real military pilots who live and breathe BFM and CAS because they do it for a living. It also requires a serious commitment in hardware. A fifteen-year-old desktop and Microsoft Sidewinder joystick that was bought on closeout at Circuit City in 2004 are absolutely, absolutely not going to cut it, not if it’s to be playable and not a slide show.
 
And I don’t have that kind of hardware right now, so I’ll just watch other people play it on Youtube.

@Sapphie  
I like to think I’m the same way. Some developers that do an extremely good job or treat their product and/or community well I’ll happily buy at full price and even buy cosmetic DLC to show support, examples being Dead Cells, CrossCode, and Deep Rock Galactic, or remasters that are fairly priced and properly built, such as the .hack//GU collection. Anything else, I try to wait for sales and avoid pre-orders, but sometimes my impulse buying gets the better of me.

@Sapphie  

@Terminal Red  
For me that depends on the game. There are some I wouldn’t wanna pay full price for, but there’s definitely some where I think “I’d like to see more from this studio, so I’d like to financially support them”
 
yes, I’m replying to a 10 month old post, sue me

@Officer Hotpants  
It’s definitely still bad.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Ah yes. The Paradox model: release DLC that requires other DLC to unlock 60% of its content and stick balance & bug fixes for other content into it. Though I don’t know if they’ve been as bad about that since CK2.

@Officer Hotpants  
Be reasonable. It’ll be at least another $60 for the updates that rebalance the game around the expectation you bought the latest DLC.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
I saw that. Buy now and it’ll only cost you $120 for one game!

@Azure Fang  
Paradox products are also on sale through the weekend, but the prices still aren’t great and personally I’d just wait until the next Humble Bundle.

@Azure Fang  
Ooh. Never heard of that one.

If anybody likes clunky oldies, for some reason Space Empires: Starfury is only $0.99 until the end of the month. Not the best game in the world, but definitely worth the price of seven packs of Top Ramen. Wouldn’t be shocked if this is some kind of farewell sale, but that’s just personal speculation.
 
EDIT: Turns out all of the Malfador Machinations games are on 75-90% sale until the end of the month.

@Officer Hotpants  
There apparently is another Mass Effect mainline game in active development. Too bad ME2 was already so divergent that I didn’t care to even look at 3, let alone Andromeda.

@Azure Fang  
I’m not surprised, honestly. Andromeda was a disaster for the franchise (one notably absent from the freshly released series collection). They’ve been talking about wanting to try another game for a while and I think they saw an advantage in tying themselves to another company who released a likewise widely trashed game but actually managed to turn it around.

@Officer Hotpants  
I know we already talked, but for the sake of the thread  
Yup, they did. Apparently, the Hello Games crew are former EA employees that worked on the Mass Effect franchise and the crossover was their idea. What’s surprising is that EA actually allowed it. It’s just a frigate, but still the entire expedition was pretty well set up and the scene where you see the Normandy for the first time was perfect. That, and I’m rather proud of that screenshot. Just enough of my traveler’s ass to piss off some EA exec somewhere.

CS:GO is the closest thing to a Counterstrike 3.

Fuck you all, I would totally play a Elite/No Man’s Sky clone in the Mass Effect Universe, that sounds fucking awesome. >:P
 
…too bad the one time that was attempted they took it another galaxy. And then they threw out the entire game and rushed together a cheap Made-in-China Quality bootleg Mass Effect 3. >.<

@Azure Fang  
They didn’t…

@Azure Fang  
Hey! If you wanna talk about crossovers that we didn’t wanted, we can start to the GEARS & Halo crossover.

Welp, the crossover nobody asked for happened. NMS x Mass Effect.