[QUOTE=The bird Man;50584993][T]http://i.imgur.com/u7tZJC3.png[/T][/QUOTE]
Oh gosh, not this again.
[QUOTE=Blade Rx69;50584368]You're only vulnerable if you're using a public number from services like Skype. If the number you have with your mobile carrier can be accessed by someone else, then that's a really shitty carrier and you should get a new one pronto.[/QUOTE]
You'd be surprised how fast your private mobilephone number gets passed around from one marketing agency to another until they more or less accidently land in the hands of criminals and fraudster.
No matter if you gave your phone number DHL, Adobe, Autodesk - with every security breach, your personal info, including your phone number lands SOMEWHERE on the internet.
All all 3 of those were hacked in the past and personal information entrusted to them was viewable by other people and it returned back to you as spam or unwanted marketing calls.
That's why I'm either getting a seperate phone number for my Steam acc or just ignore the feature forever until they revoke the VAC connectivity.
I don't want some random dude who got a list of phone numbers to VAC ban Steam accounts for the giggles, because this shit seems very abuseable.
[url]https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/30/valve-anti-cheat-phone-number-ban/[/url]
Finally get to try out the aoe 2 remaster + DLC (which I've never played before) woop
[vid]http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/clusters/sale_summer2016_daily/4a5b3d6db89c97f9dce517bd/video_webm_english.webm?t=1466723751[/vid]
new video
Picked up Hyper light drifter yesterday, all I can say so far is that I'm enjoying the hell out of the art style and music!
[QUOTE=Greetings;50579279]Shadow of Mordor worth buying if I enjoy Lord of the Rings?
This is all I know about it:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AV9W2ZdmjU[/media][/QUOTE]
This is a no brainer, Mordor was one of the best games that came out that year bar none
Get it. The combat is fine?? Idk what that video was rambling on about
Thoughts on Rise of the tomb raider for 39 dollaroos?
Those who have been watching the sale... is it worth to pick up KSP for $24 and CSGO for $7.5
Also GTA:V is on sale for $35 which is a fair price I think
[QUOTE=Code3Response;50587451]Those who have been watching the sale... is it worth to pick up KSP for $24 and CSGO for $7.5
Also GTA:V is on sale for $35 which is a fair price I think[/QUOTE]
I've seen GTAV go lower, so maybe put that on a backburner for a day or two.
KSP is VERY worth it if you're into physics, simulation, spaceflight, construction, that kind of stuff, it's brilliant.
Alien Isolation and/or XCOM 2?
I've been getting more into stealth games after playing through the MGS franchise (I've picked up DX:HR again as well) and I really love the first two [I]Alien[/I] movies. However I've never been much for horror in movies or games and am pretty jumpy and skittish, I generally like stealth games where there's still an option to fight back or to replan if things go haywire plus I get annoyed if I have to just hide and wait for longer periods of time.
I haven't yet beat the first XCOM (I've made it to the final area but not completed the game) but I've dumped many enjoyable hours into it. The higher fidelity, new enemies and areas, much greater customization, and easy moddability of XCOM 2 make it appealing, but mentions of bugs and frustrating time limits (in a game where I like to plan and take my time) are putting me off of it.
Xcom 2 is a great game. The time limits you're hearing about are in missions, where the nature of your objective means you have so many turns to accomplish it rather than the unlimited turns of Enemy Unknown/Within.
Alien Isolation is a great game, but if you don't like hiding under desks or not being able to fight back when the jig is up, it's not a game for you. Even if it basically is Alien, the game.
I've just picked up Dragons Dogma in the sale, and it's janky and I feel like its ambition outscales its means, but damn if I'm not enjoying launching goblins into the sky.
[QUOTE=DMGaina;50585383]That's why I'm either getting a seperate phone number for my Steam acc or just ignore the feature forever until they revoke the VAC connectivity.
I don't want some random dude who got a list of phone numbers to VAC ban Steam accounts for the giggles, because this shit seems very abuseable.
[url]https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/30/valve-anti-cheat-phone-number-ban/[/url][/QUOTE]
Question: How is this person with access to the phone numbers going to actually verify the phone number on their account? Is there some easy way to get access to text messages from other people's phones, because that seems like a far more serious and far reaching issue if that is the case.
To be clear, this isn't sarcasm, I don't know all that much about how the mobile phone systems work.
[QUOTE=DaMastez;50587714]Question: How is this person with access to the phone numbers going to actually verify the phone number on their account? Is there some easy way to get access to text messages from other people's phones, because that seems like a far more serious and far reaching issue if that is the case.
To be clear, this isn't sarcasm, I don't know all that much about how the mobile phone systems work.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps they can phish for an account activation code from the actual owner of the number by sending them a text message? Hopefully nobody is that stupid to fall for it.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;50587781]If you like DLC its a great game[/QUOTE]
Could you explain what you mean by that?
[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;50582293]Dishonored is a definite yes if you like stealth games.[/QUOTE]
One of the few triple-A titles from recent years that I always recommend. Had the same art director as Half-Life 2.
Only real complaint is that they give you a lot of cool ways to kill people but there's moral choice.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;50581043]I recommend Undertale if you want a comedic and emotional game
Firewatch is like a novel was made into a video game, and it is also fantastic. Also comedic and emotional![/QUOTE]
Earthbound is my favorite SNES game, so I know it would be interesting. And I loved Dear Esther and Silent Hill Shattered Memories, so experiential story games are up my alley too. But also love me some turok and the n64 game has such hard controls these days
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;50586141]Can anyone comment about Darkest Dungeon?
I love turn-based strategy, is it good in that regard?[/QUOTE]
its positive in ranking solely because before it was seen as a fun game for early players. once you get past that intro area, you will get your ass slammed constantly, shit get really expensive to progress, and the game has such bad RNG that even xcom looks more predictable than it. I love the game's setting, monsters, and general gameplay is fun. but it will soon start throwing completely unfair odds at you to just artificially extend the game by an assload by demolishing hours of progress with the terrible RNG.
[QUOTE=codemaster85;50588905]its positive in ranking solely because before it was seen as a fun game for early players. once you get past that intro area, you will get your ass slammed constantly, shit get really expensive to progress, and the game has such bad RNG that even xcom looks more predictable than it. I love the game's setting, monsters, and general gameplay is fun. but it will soon start throwing completely unfair odds at you to just artificially extend the game by an assload by demolishing hours of progress with the terrible RNG.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget that the Darkest Dungeon is designed to waste many, many hours of your time (the dungeon that is, but the game too). It makes sense for characters to never want to go back in after successfully completing a mission there, but from a gameplay perspective its complete horsehit. Seeing as you have to level up at least four unique parties (minus any and all deaths you might incur, which will likely be a ton), the grind alone will be huge. The Darkest Dungeon really is awful.
If you get Dishonored, don't give a shit about the consequences. Killing a lot of people gives you a bad ending and makes more enemies spawn but even if you don't kill people, the ending you get is still pretty much an animal house type "X went on to become..." type of ending.
It's still a really fun game and even the DLC is great and it changes your perspective on the base game.
Shadow of Mordor is like the batman: arkham series but with swords and orcs. It's nothing special but it is a really solid game. The DLC is decent too but I would wait a while before playing them because Lords of the Hunt or whatever it's called just adds orcs that ride beasts and a new type of graug. The Bright Lord is more of the same but now you can use the ring to go into a super mode where nothing can see you and you can do unlimited finishers for the time limit turning every fight against orc captains into easy mode
[QUOTE=codemaster85;50588905]its positive in ranking solely because before it was seen as a fun game for early players. once you get past that intro area, you will get your ass slammed constantly, shit get really expensive to progress, and the game has such bad RNG that even xcom looks more predictable than it. I love the game's setting, monsters, and general gameplay is fun. but it will soon start throwing completely unfair odds at you to just artificially extend the game by an assload by demolishing hours of progress with the terrible RNG.[/QUOTE]
Its easily more predictable than xcom, and unless you are doing dark runs its very easy when you are playing it safe and know what team compositions to use where and to know your limits. You have to be very unlucky to actually lose everything ever in one fight, one person isnt that big of a deal. I love the game a whole lot, my only problem is it does become grindly later in the game to gear and level up new troops, earn money etc. but its great all the way through.
If you have problems with the difficulty you can also turn some stuff off in the options that generally make it easier.
[QUOTE=Fremontsmith;50589714]Its easily more predictable than xcom, and unless you are doing dark runs its very easy when you are playing it safe and know what team compositions to use where and to know your limits. You have to be very unlucky to actually lose everything ever in one fight, one person isnt that big of a deal. I love the game a whole lot, my only problem is it does become grindly later in the game to gear and level up new troops, earn money etc. but its great all the way through.
If you have problems with the difficulty you can also turn some stuff off in the options that generally make it easier.[/QUOTE]
are you forgetting later on monsters become just straight up buffed nonstop till the end, or the total coinflip that is the RNG 90% of the time, or how about your adventurers refusing to go to lower dungeons because "thats below me" and makes it 10x harder to grind rookies up for a B squad.
I really recommend playing XCOM: EU and EW before XCOM2.
Not because of the story or anything, but because XCOM 2 is a MUCH harder game than XCOM and you NEED the training and experience to combat this new threat. It makes sense too since you're supposed to be an experienced commander in XCOM2 and all the battles require special tactics the game doesn't tell you about that you're supposed to have learned from playing the game yourself and watching Beaglerush videos
[QUOTE=codemaster85;50590239]are you forgetting later on monsters become just straight up buffed nonstop till the end, or the total coinflip that is the RNG 90% of the time, or how about your adventurers refusing to go to lower dungeons because "thats below me" and makes it 10x harder to grind rookies up for a B squad.[/QUOTE]
There are only 3 levels of dungeons, so once you are used to whats in the dungeon and what they do it doesn't change, they don't continually get harder as time goes on. Also if you have lower level characters a lower level dungeon will always spawn. I've never had a case where i couldn't send a lower level team on a mission because there wasn't one available, it just might not be one i want to send that group in. Its really painful the first few dungeons every time you breach a new level because your group is undergeared and untrained, but once you have the money rolling to actually keep them caught up they don't really go below 90-80% accuracy unless the ability has low accuracy to begin with. The only dungeon that is absolute bullshit is the actual darkest dungeon which i love because its the end of the game, its SUPPOSED to kick your ass.
Over all i feel the game is a lot fairer than people give it credit for, and it is supposed to be brutal and painful and take a long time to get a knack for whats going on. I really like this honestly, it is a feature to me. The game isn't there to be beaten, it feels like its fighting back as hard as it can most of the time. Sometimes it pulls bullshit on you but you get the same shit with any rng game and i've had much worse experiences with xcom. Once you eventually get to the part where the game becomes an uninteresting grind (my least favorite part) You really never lose someone unless you put together a bad team and pushed too hard, worst case is you wasted a mission.
TLDR: Darkest Dungeon will kick your ass, if you like harder games that reward persistence and don't mind rng bullshit its great otherwise you won't last long past the start
[QUOTE=DMGaina;50585383]You'd be surprised how fast your private mobilephone number gets passed around from one marketing agency to another until they more or less accidently land in the hands of criminals and fraudster.
No matter if you gave your phone number DHL, Adobe, Autodesk - with every security breach, your personal info, including your phone number lands SOMEWHERE on the internet.
All all 3 of those were hacked in the past and personal information entrusted to them was viewable by other people and it returned back to you as spam or unwanted marketing calls.
That's why I'm either getting a seperate phone number for my Steam acc or just ignore the feature forever until they revoke the VAC connectivity.
I don't want some random dude who got a list of phone numbers to VAC ban Steam accounts for the giggles, because this shit seems very abuseable.
[url]https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/30/valve-anti-cheat-phone-number-ban/[/url][/QUOTE]
[media]https://youtu.be/65kvimoefQ4[/media]
This is what you're fearing. The only reason this person is able to accomplish this is because people are using a public number which anyone can receive texts from.
You can't just associate a number with your account without being able to receive texts via that number. So I'm not sure how exactly your private number being known compromises your account.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;50586141]Can anyone comment about Darkest Dungeon?
I love turn-based strategy, is it good in that regard?[/QUOTE]
early game is great, fun, and interesting
once you've dropped about 5-7 hours into it you'll realize that it just gets more and more bullshit from there. your people take too long to train (and are literally barred from joining an excursion that's too high level, and too high characters are prevented from lower level ones), the odds are just ridiculous. it is an exercise in misery, and it succeeds in doing so. i wouldn't recommend it to be honest unless you really, really like to be annoyed / upset / flat out pissed.
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