Diamond Spear

Thanks Tom!

Is there an Apple version of Hero Designer and of so does it run on the latest OS?

Can you tell me more about Pillars of Eternity? It vaguely rings a bell.  

I never really played many of the old D&D computer games but I’ve heard good things about both Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale. Are they worth picking up for Mac? Anything I should know about them? Any feedback would be great. Thanks. 

1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

I get the impression Americans have become quite disillusioned and cynical when it comes to their politicians. They no longer expect any better conduct from them.

Which deductions got screwed up for you?

13 hours ago, Chris Goodwin said:

You should also get Tabletop Simulator, so that you can play Hero online...  

It’s finding and keeping a consistent group that always seems to be the problem... but maybe. 

1 hour ago, Pattern Ghost said:

 

 

It's the wife's fault.

 

Of course, he could run Windows either by buying a copy and dual booting it with Bootcamp or by other means, but he didn't mention if he wanted to fiddle with any of that. So, maybe not a deal-breaker, but I assumed he was looking for games that can run on OS X natively.

 

The reason I mentioned it is because if you search for "Mac MMORPGs" or "OS X MMORPGs," Google will return all of the Cryptic games, but they dropped their support a while back.

Yup not interested in dual-booting at the moment. And it really is the wife’s fault; she’s been after me for a decade to get an Apple and I finally got tired enough of Windows being stupidly finicky and unstable if you looked at it wrong to give in. Also: Hoo boy! are Apple computers expensive!  

10 hours ago, Shoug said:

Prey is one of the best science fiction shooters I've ever played. It's single player and story driven.

Mordhau is basically a Medeival FPS. It's a first person melee fighting system and it's incredibly fun, but with a steep learning curve and a high skill ceiling. 

 

If you like team shooters, I have to suggest my all time favorite one: Natural Selection 2. It's an asymmetrical team shooter built with the skeleton of an RTS. The map is riddled with resource nodes and base locations, just like your basic RTS like Starcraft, and teams wrestle for control of the map. It's a massive bout of minmaxing: You want to minimize your opponent's information, control of tactical positions, and resource income, all whilst maximizing your own. Then it has fairly tradition RTS tech trees, but the difference is that you actually get to play with the tech that your team researches as one of the units. You see, 1 player on either team has stepped into the Command Chair. They get a top down overlook on the map, and their vision is limited to what can be seen by their units, most of which are controlled by actual players.
 

The Marine team plays much like counter strike. Tradition shooter controls, you start with an assault rifle and tech into things like shotguns (which offer the best burst damage but are difficult to hit with), flamethrowers (which disable structures and are easy to aim), and eventually massive railgun wielding exosuits. The other team, the *aliens*, are almost entirely melee. They have extreme mobility options and can deal massive amounts of damage at close range.

It's really hard to get the whole concept across in a single post, I highly recommend giving it a try. It's by far my favorite game in existence, I consider it a masterpiece. 

Disclaimer: NS2 is also a brutally difficult game with one of the steepest learning curves and highest skill caps I've ever seen in any game before. The community is very active, but it's a lot of diehard fans who haven't stopped playing since 2013, and they can be so extremely skilled that new players have virtually 0 chance of ever killing them. They can also at times be quit toxic, because they have settled into their smaller end-of-life community for the game, and so frequently expect excellence. If they say "concede, people" probably concede (at least early on before you've got a sense of the game and can see the hail marry plays that might be possible, then play to the bitter end all you want).
 

I’ve heard good things about Prey.
 

Natural Selection 2 sounds like an awesome game that I will never play. 😀. I don’t have time like I used to (so steep learning curves suck) and I no longer have the patience to deal with experienced players who think newbies should just go away so they can get back to playing “real” players. 

14 minutes ago, death tribble said:

World of Warships

Has it improved in the last couple of years? I played around with it some a few years ago but between terrible teammates and invisible destroyers I got frustrated with it. 

17 minutes ago, ScottishFox said:

I would recommend more RAM (16GB), but if you're talking games:

 

Witcher 3,

Pillars of Eternity 1,

Divinity Original Sin 2,

 

If you get through those:

Divinity Original Sin 1 is pretty good.

Pillars of Eternity 2 is not bad.

 

Elder Scrolls Online has released a ton of content recently.

More RAM shouldn’t be a problem since I can  (and most likely will) configure it up to 64GB. 

So my wife convinced my to buy our first Apple computer and now I need some suggestions for games. I like FPS, MMO (as long as they have a good PvE component), RPG and Action/Adventure as well as things like World of Tanks. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. 
 

System Specs: 

3.7 GHz 6-core 9th generation Intel Core i5 processor. 
 

Turbo Boost up to 4.6 GHz. 
 

8GB 2666Mhz DDR4 memory, configurable up to 64GB. 

Radeon Pro Vega 48 with 8GB of HBM2 memory. 
 

Retina 5k 5120-by-2880 P3 display. 
 

Not to mention that since Steve is only one person the rest of us might be able to give our opinions before he even sees the post. Then again, not everyone reads the official rules questions forum. 

Ok

Still looking for players?

On 3/17/2020 at 9:36 PM, Duke Bushido said:

 

 

That's pretty much how it goes in the south, too-- at least, outside the Yankified zones such as Atlanta, Savannah, and other large concentrations of carpetbaggers.

 

"Oh!  I hate it up here!  Look how wonderful it is in the south!  let's leave the north / west coast and head south!"

 

Then as soon as they get here:  "Quick!  We have to recreate everything we hated so much that we ran away from it!"

 

 

ugh.

 

 

Hey! Quit picking on us Savannhins. Generally we’re so drunk we miss anyway. 😀

I find the controls very intuitive on the Xbox. 

Yes. I’m playing on xbox

I’d poster elsewhere on the site about playing Elder Scrolls Online but I didn’t care for it. Downloaded Neverwinter and a couple hours in I’m really enjoying myself. Does anyone else here play? Any advice for a newbie?

One more question: How viable is solo play?

So one of the reasons, the major one actually, that I plan on going with a Khajit is their Night Eye ability. Did they carry that over into the MMO?

My current thought is to go with a stealth/ranged Kajhit. Is that a viable build?

I downloaded it through Game Pass so its not like I’m out anything if I hate it

Getting ready to dive into this (thanks game pass!) and was wondering if anyone else here plays. If so do you have any suggestions for a newbie? Is the a Hero group/clan to join?

So I’ve downloaded the Bard’s Tale games from XBox game pass and I’ll be diving into them tomorrow. It’s been forever since I’ve played Bard’s Tale one so I’d like to ask for any advice on party design that will hold up through all three games. In addition I was wondering if there would be any interest in my posting a “Where I Play” of my games. What day you Herodom?

True but I think those products need to follow the streamlined “introductory” rule-set I was talking about. I know I started the thread talking about a signifier setting but the more I think about it the more I believe we first need to get people willing to try the game and I think a basic rule set is the best way to go about it.