Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

* Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

I think I've played that but not for long. I got stuck in some cave and
there was no fast travel back to you ship and really, it just didn't
grab me.

What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?

Mostly just your favorite, Star Wars Outlaws. I think I had over 60
hours by end of April and I've been distracted with various things,
mostly upgrades. Or just digging up random loot which seems to pop up
everywhere. Reminds me of my visit to Rome, our tour guide said you'll
find artifacts or some ancient junk pretty much anywhere you dig in
Rome, for the simple reason that there's just so much of it.

Anyways, I think I've done enough upgrading my skills, blaster and
spaceship and whatnot and now want to finish the main plot thingy. Which
I think amounts to getting a band together and doing a robbery of some
kind, get rich and live happily ever after, except lose it all for the
sequel, if any. I think the game already advertised its main plot twist
(and maybe right from the beginning) but I'll see. As usual, not
expecting much from the writing.

I still enjoy the sneaking around in this, even if the ubiquitous
unlocked vents are a little too convenient. Your little pet is a pretty
useful companion and eventually it can sneak up and arm grenades in
enemy pockets. Tittering fun, that :)

Climbing and jumping puzzles I could do a lot less with. And often
what's called "treasure" by the game is just some worthless
trinket. It's even called that. Trinkets to put on something, I'm not
even sure what. Different from charms which give minor buffs.

The gunplay, I don't know. Kinda OK but it's really ranged only and you
don't have a scope or can't use it even if you pick up a rifle, some of
which seem to have a scope. The sniper rifle seems to be the only
exception. Grenade launcher seems to be the best short range weapon,
mostly because you can't hit from further out but it does a lot of
damage. Unfortunately these are pickup weapons that corpses drop
randomly and have limited ammo.

The space combat is meh. I remember I really liked the murderously
effective automatic turrets in X-Wing Alliance but this isn't the case
here. Turret fires for a bit and scores hits but then inevitably goes
off-line for a bit. Weird. So you're left dog-fighting *in your clunky
freighter* which any enemy fighter should be able to out turn easily and
end up in your six. Oh well. At least that isn't a major part of the
game.

So, I've definitely enjoyed the game and whatever silly tropes it has
aren't too annoying and bugs have been rare, although for sure that's
not everyone's experience. I think I've had all of one CTD now and
little issues happen now and again. Enemies clipping through terrain or
treasure markers that stay on the map, even if I've already looted them
sort of things.