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What are you playing this week?
I uninstalled Slay the Spire 1 and 2. I realized that the games (mainly sts2) took up a lot of time and capacity due to my need to play optimally, without giving me much joy in return.
Started and finished a Civ V game instead. I got around 30 wonders, because I was playing on a more relaxed difficulty than usual.
Tried out The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (demo) briefly. Dismayed to find it has no ultrawide support. And they call it HD-2D yet all the characters are pixel art style. Might play it in 16:9 on my TV at some polnt. They've priced it very highly, and it has denuvo, so I might wait for a deep discount further down the road.
Played some more Nuclear Option. It's very nice. Went so far as to dig out my old Logitech Extreme 3D Pro for it, and it even still works! It's meditative sort of game. Check the map, see what needs doing in the current situation, buy a plane you can afford, take the right munitions for the job, wait a few seconds for the engine to spin up, taxi to the runway, open up the throttle and take off, and then make your leisurely way to the frontlines. Where I then usually realize that I should have thought in advance about the angle and altitude I want to approach from, and my map knowledge is several minutes out of date, my targets have gone up in flames before my arrival (an especially egregious problem in multiplayer!) and there are all kinds of planes or ground vehicles around that can hurt me while I either brought the wrong weapons to deal with them, or I brought a multirole loadout and I'm frantically fumbling to get the right weapons on the right targets, and then my wings are gone and my engine is on fire, and I vow that this time I shall learn from my mistakes, only to repeat them the next time.
It's fun.
Sounds like War Thunder, but better, which I had a lot of fun with about a decade ago.
Barely similar. You fly somewhat realistic combat planes in both, and there the commonalities stop, as far as I know.
War Thunder is some kind of life service MMO monstrosity with all manners of pay-to-win, a very long metaprogression, complex matchmaking and a fairly unhealthy-looking developer and community, and it tries to jam every vehicle in the history of motorized warfare into its lineup, while farcically pretending that it can also offer fair matchups.
Nuclear Option is a classic self-hosted multiplayer and singleplayer game with no metaprogression, no microtransactions, a near-future setting with a small number of vehicles that each fill a unique niche, with no attempt to balance them against each other. Instead, each faction generates vehicles over time (in factories that can actually be destroyed by enemy action), and pilots can then buy them with bounties they have earned. Or requisition them, if they have reached a high enough rank within the match. But either of them only if enough of the specific airframe remain available! Matches typically last around 1-2 hours, on the larger maps, and players can drop in and out as they like with no penalty other than starting at rank 1 on joining. As the match goes on, as vehicles, factories, ships, defences and airfields are destroyed and possibly rebuilt, both sides slowly escalate into tactical and then strategic nuclear warfare. This escalation is accompanied by a suitable musical score. Also, each plane has its own instrumental track. The music is just generally very fun, in my opinion: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_DsG9JoXUIA63yjzxhE1qoiuVjhGWhfq .The game runs on a potato, is barely over 2 GB in size, has excellent performance. Few bells and whistles, mostly just rock solid core gameplay and atmosphere. The devs are chewing through their roadmap as planned. The community is a hive of degeneracy, but at least they have none of WT's constant drama.
War Thunder is a game that I tried exactly once, and thought it wholly miserable. Nuclear Option has absolutely no barriers to entry and brings joy.
I was never any good at War Thunder, and I got tired of doing bombing runs to get fake money to get not shitty airplanes, but I liked the missions, I liked flying bombers, because I was dogshit at dogfights, so I'll have to keep Nuclear Option on my radar.
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