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Friday Fun Thread for June 19, 2026

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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have thought in advance about the angle and altitude I want to approach from, and my map knowledge is several minutes out of date, my targets have gone up in flames before my arrival (an especially egregious problem in multiplayer!)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.

I've had it on a my wishlist for ages and I recently bought it and I agree it's fun. I've only played arcade flight games like Ace Combat and Project Wingman, and I really like the more in-depth targeting and radar, and how the missiles are just better than something like Ace Combat.

If you have a spare webcam, even a shitty one. I recommend getting OpenTrack with NeutralNet Tracker for Input which you can then use so that if you move your head around, like even turning to the side, it'll move the camera around, so you don't have to do it with your controller or mouse. It's super easy to install, and really immersive.

Works on a bunch of other games too, like Freespace 2 for example.

How I wish Project Wingman were opened up so the community could make maps and missions! It's basically the only game I use VR for.

I tried different tracking software, but liked none of them. Too inaccurate, too laggy, too sensitive to exact head position. Maybe my cheap made in china webcam wasn't up to the task.

I ended up just using the FOV controls to zoom in and out in first person as needed. Put that on my coolie hat. It's not quite as good as freelook, bit it works.

KBM has a much better time with freelook, IMO, where you can just use the mouse for it.

Have you tried like this one specifically? Usually most of these rely on some some kind of IR sensor or a hat or something, but NeuralNet doesn't need anything else. I'm using like a cheapo logitech webcam that I doubt is much better than yours.

It's really nice being able to look around while turning for example, since usually both hands are busy during that.

No, I tried two others, one open-source and the other proprietary, but I recall the names of neither.

But yes, both used a webcam.

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