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It's not exactly a common genre, most horror being supernatural in nature, it makes for an odd fit with sci fi. Blindsight is the only one that sprang to mind immediately. There's a few others that could be argued such as: The Atrocity Archives, Charles Stross The Doomsday Book, Connie...

Shrug, if they do one season as good as heroes s1, then I will be happy regardless of what they do with it afterwards.

A Gen show is like a Fedor spoiler - kitten, kitten, hot chick, kitten, ohmygodwhatthefuckman. Heh, I like Chamber - 'yep, totally propaganda, don't believe that shit' ;p

Old, but I thought it was pretty funny :

Baaah. Took me another 20 drops, for a total of 54, to get valk done. At least I can declare poring tower conquered now ;p As for two valks - maybe. If you are doing a 9x healer team, the other healers have overwhelmingly shitty stats, particularly hp, so valk makes a good sub. I figure you...

After a five hour game, I can say no, they haven't fixed that problem. They also haven't fixed the problem where after playing for a while it becomes increasingly hard to target the right square in the tactical map, and the 'path' animation stops working. Juggernauts are still way...

Yeah, was a good run - the patent bit at the end was kind of cringe inducing though. You'd think they'd have at least *someone* on the staff who knew what a patent was.

Yes, I'd imagine they are pretty close once they have equipment, but - you can only equip maybe 3 cards out of your deck, and the kickstarters won't have the equipment for the random PVP cards to start with ( other than the dungeon crawler bonus items ).

Almost all the rewards that the higher tiers get are PVP cards. You can use them in PVE, but they are much weaker than real PVE cards, especially with no equipment. I don't think it will be a huge deal. Obviously this doesn't apply to the $5k+ deals that get a complete set of all cards, but I...

Yeah, this is some serious bullshit. Like 30+ stones to max an echidna bullshit.

I've only put in a couple of hours, but there are other fairly significant changes than hero levelling - one of the big ones is to the fundamental way combat works - in the newer version when you attack with a troop, all other troops adjacent to your target combo into the attack. It makes...

What's guaranteed to be in - an AH where you can buy/sell cards off/to other people with platinum, an in-game currency you buy with real money. What's currently engaged in legal wrangling - selling the platinum back to crypto for real money, i.e. 'cashing out'. This would make them a 'money...

Welp the "2x" skillup conversion got my poring hoard to: 25 marins = 3 skillups on Siegfried 8( 34 poporings = maxxed chuchu 35 drops = 5 skillups on valk 33 ghostrings = 2 max skill succubus Damn, I thought that volume of poring crap would be a lock for maxxing stuff. On the bright...

Yeah, DL is only partially useful as a leader because he is vulnerable to both dark and light bind, and you are going to get that from anything that needs either dark resist or light resist. DL is better as a sub for isis or horus teams though. ( Not so much mono dark and the like, as you want...

Just finished reading Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler. I picked it up partially as support for the webcomic ( a girl and her fed ) which I quite enjoyed - I was surprised though, the novel turned out to be an excellent book in it's own right. It's about one of the cyborg agents, who has been...

That's what they were aiming for yeah. WoM was rubbish. Fallen Enchantress made huge strides forward in playability/accessibility/non stupidity, but was still a bit rough around the edges. I will check out the new one, cause, hey, free stuff, and on steam.

Depends which 2/3rds it is and why the project was canned. If it was canned for being a pants on head retarded idea, for example, they might keep the developers building the engine and bring in a new bunch of idea people and artists. Another viable strategy would be to move off anyone who...

I had the same problem. Shiva/Ares doesn't have enough RCV and shiva/freyr doesn't have enough hp. I think I might give up on that one with adk team. I am up to 5 straight fails with dual anubis too - my alt accounts aren't having much luck ;p Main account has no problem though...

AI offload could have fantastic results for turn based strategy games, assuming there ever are any on the new xbox. It'd actually fit fairly well with a cloud concept too, where the decision making scales pretty well with available resources, the load is very intermittent and developers would...

I went in with dual anubis + shit on my loki team and made it to round 9 before failing to get a 10x and being 1shot by the angel. Probably doable if I didn't have such shitty colored subs ( I only had 9k hp total, but figured it was worth a try ;p ) Next try was mono red on adk team (...

Finished of Rithmatist - it started slow, but picked up a lot as it went along. It was definitely one of Sanderson's weakest books, but it was still pretty good. A heads up that it pretty much ends on a giant cliffhanger

Land fit for heroes.

Basically yes - if you are going to pre-calculate you may as well bake it into the map. It has some potential advantages though, in that it doesn't require the box you are playing on - you could, for example, start to pre-calculate stuff for the next level while they play the current one...

I went on full farm rampage. Overall results at the end were : 14 porings 25 marins 34 poprings 35 drops 33 ghostrings 0 angelings I alternated master and expert a bit to conserve stamina - as far as I can tell, if all you want are porings, then master is always better value than 2x...

You can skill it up with hobgoblins, so it's not really any worse than skilling up a siren.

Blindsight, Peter Watts.

I don't know - I thought the first one was excellent, but the second one seemed to do a sudden huge rewind and take 3/4 of the book getting back to where the first one ended.

From the video I quoted - after he finishes his game, he tools about in the deck builder for a bit, and each card has three equipment icons

Heh, should we be concerned that both the boss and the lead designer are terrible at their own game ? ;p Interesting that the interface shows 3 pieces of equipment per card, not 2. I wonder if it's going up and the cards are behind, or going down and the UI is behind.

Ouch harsh. His night angel books were pretty bad, although I don't regret reading them. I thought his current series, starting with Black Prism was heaps better though. Not really what the OP was after though I suspect.

Gritty, darker fantasy isn't as common as you would think. Heroes Die has already been mentioned a few times, and I'd definitely bump that up the list. Child of Fire ( Harry Connolly ) is also excellent and pretty damn grim. The Dagger and the Coin by Daniel Abraham probably also qualifies...

What non-kickstarter means are there for getting exclusive rewards ?

IIRC Commie switched to exclusively 10bit high ages ago. None of the hardware acceleration works on it, so it will run like shit on things with weak CPU. This is a problem that's spreading pretty fast though, the number of 8 bit releases is shrinking.

I'm pretty sure it does - balance and game changingness aside, there's not enough space to add another member slot without redoing all their artwork.

That's actually the most sensible stretch goal they have done from a practical point of view - a intro video is something you can farm wholesale to someone else for a chunk of cash. Too many of the other ones are going to need huge involvement from their existing developers. I agree it's not...

Agree on head games, that's the kind of card that would work well in face to face play, but not so much in online where you can't see the person. General's tent is funny, I like it.

Before she went looking for Gendry, Mel told him that making vagina demons sucked up his life force and making more could kill him. That's why she went looking for someone else with Baratheon blood and picked up Gendry.

Other people pretty much covered the pay to win part. As for how deep the gameplay is - Hex is built very much as a clone of magic the gathering, and the gameplay and strategy on that is *extremely* deep. For an example, Duels of the Planeswalkers is a 'dumbed down' version of MTG where the...

Sucks 8(. In contrast, my compo roll got me lucifer on my loki account, so I am willing to forgive this godfest's general shabbiness ;p They had damn well better extend 2x skillups to the 25th though, moving porings outside the 2x window is weaksauce x100.

Bah at your luck ;p My four refunds were cupid, cupid, dark knight, toytops