Gaming

Thanks,
I think I'll think on it. I know I have thunk on it before, but still... I have until the 22nd to make a decision.

The tedious parts of the Prequel story are related to challenges that have to be accomplished in order to progress. You are required to reach a certain level of friendship with each group of natives which requires completing certain challenges, these can get very repetitive and are not all that fun to begin with, and you have to do a lot of them. It may become less annoying if you built a base in the area and just did the challenges every so often as a side task, and treated the whole thing as a kind of sandbox style thing, but I was playing it the same way I played the main storyline which made it pretty frustrating at times as I couldn't go to certain areas until I had appeased the local natives and unlocked that pathway.

Havencraft, that I have been mentioning but not really playing as much as I should have (being a playtester and all...) now has a demo available on Steam if anyone is interested: 

store.steampowered.com/app/2481240/HavenCraft/  

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Edit: and I forgot about the 22nd deadline for Green Hell. I did put it on my wishlist, but didn't buy it - this time. 

So I'm doing my cowboy things, collecting debts, sucking snake venom in a way that men don't talk about, failing to hunt random deer, etc. and then I see a woman trapped under a fallen horse crying for help. I may as well help cos I'm trying my best to be a Good Guy. Trying.
I lift up the dead horse (pressA-pressA-pressA-pressA) and it seems like the woman is OK now. And Good Guy that I am, I ask her if I can take her where she was going.
So now I'm a cowboy taxi.
I take her to town while listening to her story but annoyingly the train has just arrived and is in my way. I try to circle back to go round but now the train is unexpectedly leaving again and hits my horse!
So now the woman is trapped under another dying horse. My horse!
Apparently I can heal it so I press that button to waste a "Horse Revive" thing (don't know how many of those I have/had) and up gets my Western Roach ... but now the woman runs off!

 

Come back! I'm the Good Guy. I was helping you.
I mean. it's understandable, I suppose. She was trapped under a horse and then I dump another horse on her.
But I'm the Good Guy and we're right here at the town you wanted to go to. Just stop running and come back.

Hmm, I wonder.
Do you think I could lasso her? You know, just to stop her running away for a moment.



 

Oh, stop complaining. You wanted to go to town and I'm taking you to town. Yes, it may be a bumpier ride than you expected but I made a promise and I'm keeping that promise. It's what the Good Guys do in the Wild West.
Once we get to town it'll all be OK and we'll laugh about it.


Oh, right. You try to help someone and it's apparently "Assault."

 



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Hello there, doggy. Do you want to come and watch me play Nine Men's Morris? Whatever the hell that is.

 

I think I'm gonna win.
It may be my fourth attempt and we're obviously not playing for money (inexperienced coward that I am) but ... I think I'm gonna win...

 

Hey, wait a minute- You can't move your piece there, can you?


*goes back to read the rules again*

..and I think Green Hell is cheap again for a few more days in the Steam Sale.

I'm sort of tempted to buy the olde game The Saboteur for a couple of coins.

I think Green Hell is on sale approximately every other day...  

Anyway, I've been trying to finish my Ivarstead mod today and for a while I thought it might be possible. But while I'm doing my own thing, obviously I have to try to fix some vanilla issues, right? Right... The guards have a few places they keep getting stuck and I've tried to line up the navmeshes and move triangles and make it impossible to get too close to the places they get caught but. Nope. They wanna stand there staring into walls. 

I also had an issue with an added area of mine, where they kept walking under it although there's no navmesh there. Finally I put a big collision marker in the ground  

I'm going to have to keep tweaking and checking and hopefully get some better screenshots tomorrow... 





PS: At least I seem to have understood how to use SPID
(I've used SPID to give AI packages to the villagers and the guards - unfortunately they just seem to work half way most of the time... Stoopid NPCs!)

They're just guarding that nice stonework.

Meanwhile back in ancient Egypt I successfully assassinated the coughing dog-man-priest but this seemed to attract the attention of the Phylakes as I heard the dreaded horn sounding soon after. Quick hide!
I got Senu to have a look around to see where he was and The Stranger was stood right on the other side of the wall behind me!
So I climbed up to have a little peek. 

 

"So have you seen Bayek round here? I heard he killed the coughing dog-man-priest."

It's OK, I don't think he can see me cos I'm out of focus.

Of course I couldn't resist trying to kill him and I lasted about seven seconds.