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beep boop

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I’ll be scouring trade sites for a copy of that 4 days to survive game. Been meaning to try that. Apart from that, nothing’s really standing out. Pause for me.
 

xinek

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Learn how your units work and what abilities are good to upgrade
Try this for starters
1. Use green champ and get the rejuvenate power for it. Ally is red
2. Always stack heal on regens on it. Give multi strike to red ally units and put them on the other 2 floors woth green champ at front and center
3. For green champa gettone unit that sweeps and give it quick along woth + atk. The unit with 25 atk and quick but 3 hp is good to have too. Puy all 3 on bottom floor. I like to upgrade this 3rd unit with multistrike and an hp boost of 25 hp
4. red units should get 1 hp boost and 1 atk upgrade be it multi strike
5 for upgrasi g magic spells, decide what should get + 10 magic power. If u have Vent spell, it works perfect because you get a free 10 dmg spell for 0 ember. Furthermore Holdover used woth a simple heal+regen spell does wonders
6. NEVER BE AFRAID to try risky stuff or give up a unit or two. Note that during battle if u do 'quit to main menu', it restarts the battle! Rach battle has pre determined cards and how they are ordered ;3
7. If u unlocked umbra. put its champ at top floor and let him grow fat with Morsels. Have any ally units on lower floors and have them try to tank and whittle at enemy Hp
It may take time to fully learn patterns but eventually the first 3 battles become easier to understand and the next 3 up to Fel.

Some beginner tips~
I won!!! First try after using your tips. Defeated the final boss on the first floor, even. Using Awoken instead of the horn demon guy as champion made a HUGE difference -- it was amazing how much stacking regen and sweep helped. This is great, because I've read that covenant 1 is way more fun, because you have more cards. Yay! These tips did the job, thanks!
 

Aaron D.

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Command &Conquer is now discounted that's it's non-discount period is over.

Honestly this package would have been an absolute steal at twice the price.

I'm kinda gobsmacked at the sheer breadth of content and TLC that went into this production.

When they launch the followup Tiberian Sun/RA2 Remastered Collection I'm gonna camp outside of the dev studio days before release for my digital copy.
 

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I won!!! First try after using your tips. Defeated the final boss on the first floor, even. Using Awoken instead of the horn demon guy as champion made a HUGE difference -- it was amazing how much stacking regen and sweep helped. This is great, because I've read that covenant 1 is way more fun, because you have more cards. Yay! These tips did the job, thanks!
You are welcome :)
Good luck if you are doing Covenants, as I just made it to Cov 22 and am having a hard time getting to Seraph and beating him XP
 
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xinek

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You are welcome :)
Good luck if you are doing Covenants, as I just made it to Cov 22 and am having a hard time getting to Seraph and beating him XP
I figure it will end up like Slay the Spire, where I eventually got so bored of the early game/act 1 that I mostly just play the daily run. Which is fine, that can be a total riot. As for Monster Train, I tried Covenant 1, but it didn't go well. Not unexpected.
 
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I know many people think of it as a "meh" month, but Age of Wonders: Planetfall is a game I almost bought at full price / launch (and resisted because I knew I'd have no time to really play it), so it's nice for me.
Me too. Unfortunately, I didn't subscribe to Humble because these past months were a mess for my account. Apparently, changing my email address wiped out my entire library, so I just created a new account with my former email address to get them back which is dumb lmao, which further complicated that apparently I have a third account for some reason (probably because I am so used to Sign in with Google thing). Nevertheless, Humble support was super helpful and merged all three of them. The keys do not, I think, automatically transfer to the account when you change the email as it creates a new user without the same privileges and revokes the former, leaving the keys in limbo.

LESSON: Do not change your email address in Humble.
 

Tizoc

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I know many people think of it as a "meh" month, but Age of Wonders: Planetfall is a game I almost bought at full price / launch (and resisted because I knew I'd have no time to really play it), so it's nice for me.
I got base game for $15 in order to avail for the gog connect version xp
 

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Speaking from personal experience, that thing is really really really hard to place. Your mileage may vary though. Just make sure to place it before placing the motheboard into the case. Also make sure you have proper cooling, that case airflow is like breathing through mask.
 
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NarohDethan

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Speaking from personal experience, that thing is really really really hard to place. Your mileage may vary though. Just make sure to place it before placing the motheboard into the case. Also make sure you have proper cooling, that case airflow is like breathing through mask.
I’ve installed one before and didnt have much trouble from what I recall
 

Ascheroth

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Initial impression of the Choice was meh after looking at the headliners since I already have Void Bastards and Planetfall isn't really my genre.
There's a surprising amoung of stuff I want in the other games though, so ultimately it turned out to be pretty nice.
Amusingly enough, the one that I want most is probably the cheapest one, Metal Unit :D

That pixel art just speaks to me.
Also want Yuppie-Psycho, Earthlock and Beat Hazard 2, the rest looks interesting too.
 

Li Kao

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It took me like half an hour? Because I had never installed an aftermarket one. I read that since I’m not overclocking, the case and the 212 will be fine.
Tss, you should have done it like me, this case family, a Ryzen plus stock cooler and voila, you have a case and a toaster for the same price :coffee-blob:
 

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Even stock is fine if you don't overclock.
I gave my "old" 2700x cpu to my father and installed the stock cooler to it and that thing ran hot like hell. It kept underclocking constantly and I just couldn't handle that. 😱 I had to buy and install aftermarket cooler for my own peace of mind.
 
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Rosenkrantz

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Folks, I'm thinking about getting a new laptop since my current one is almost a decade old and I'm not sure when I will have enough coins to finally upgrade my desktop. Any thoughts on this build:


They don't have info on GPU for some reason, it's GTX 1660 TI 6gb max q.

Should I bite or better continue the quest to find more coins and wait for the new gen hardware?
 

beep boop

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I think I'd opt for an inexpensive laptop and continue to set money aside for a desktop.
But that's just me. My last experience playing hardware intensive games on a laptop is almost a decade ago.
 

Rosenkrantz

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I think I'd opt for an inexpensive laptop and continue to set money aside for a desktop.
But that's just me. My last experience playing hardware intensive games on a laptop is almost a decade ago.
Well, the problem is, that's an inexpensive laptop (relatively of course). Cheaper variants are basically either completely office stuff or dead on arrival with something like previous gen i3 and gtx 1050 3 gb on board.
 

ISee

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Well, the problem is, that's an inexpensive laptop (relatively of course). Cheaper variants are basically either completely office stuff or dead on arrival with something like previous gen i3 and gtx 1050 3 gb on board.
What's your budget? And what's a good Russian PC shop? Or can you order from Amazon.de?
 

texhnolyze

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My controller wouldn't work anymore on Gujian 3. The last time I played it was in late 2019.

It does actually work as the mouse pointer is working if I set it on the DS4 touchpad, but the game just won't detect the controller. I've tried various community configs too, but nothing works.
 

ISee

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I'd say 70-75k in rubles (about 1k euro). There are some local shops but as far federal chains go, probably DNS.
R5 3600 = 13.300
AS Rock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 = 10700
Phantek P400a = 7700
BeQuiet 500W PSU = 4300
480GB Crucial BX 500 SSD = 4400
16GB DDR4 3400 = 6700
RTX 2060 = 26500

=73.600 rubles

You can find a cheaper case, you maybe prefer a different storage solution, I'm not sure if there is a CPU cooler included here. But those are all fixable problems, and this is more of an orientation build.
This will easily outperform any laptop you can find in that price range. So, if you don't need a portable solution...
 

didamangi

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Speaking from personal experience, that thing is really really really hard to place. Your mileage may vary though. Just make sure to place it before placing the motheboard into the case. Also make sure you have proper cooling, that case airflow is like breathing through mask.
They've changed the mounting system on the newer 212, it's very easy now compared to the godawful x bracket of the original.

 

Rosenkrantz

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R5 3600 = 13.300
AS Rock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 = 10700
Phantek P400a = 7700
BeQuiet 500W PSU = 4300
480GB Crucial BX 500 SSD = 4400
16GB DDR4 3400 = 6700
RTX 2060 = 26500

=73.600 rubles

You can find a cheaper case, you maybe prefer a different storage solution, I'm not sure if there is a CPU cooler included here. But those are all fixable problems, and this is more of an orientation build.
This will easily outperform any laptop you can find in that price range. So, if you don't need a portable solution...
Thank you for your time! I definitely will look into desktop solution as well, might tone it down a bit to get a new display, but it's still should be a good built.
 
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Ascheroth

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My controller wouldn't work anymore on Gujian 3. The last time I played it was in late 2019.

It does actually work as the mouse pointer is working if I set it on the DS4 touchpad, but the game just won't detect the controller. I've tried various community configs too, but nothing works.
Have you checked the input device options?
If I remember it correctly, it doesn't automatically detect you using a controller, you have to explicitly tell the game you want to use a controller. Maybe the setting got reverted or something.
 

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So I have been playing the first mission of Wolfenstein Youngblood, and I'm kinda surprised why this game got such bad reviews? Were people expecting this to be Wolfenstein 3? Because, seen as a "side" game, the way Wolfenstein: Old Blood was, it seems pretty nice. I also like how it advances the plot from Wolfenstein 2, showing a liberated America, but how Europe (and the rest of the world, presumably) is still occupied by the Nazis. The co-op mechanic seems interesting too, though I'm playing it on my own.

Really liked the idea of the Nazi party zepellin, with its own 80 arcade game area, casino and "sauna-karaoke" bar. And the game feels quite a step up from Wolfenstein 2 visually, with DLSS and Raytracing.
 
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