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A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. At the bottom left closest to the camera are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour, at the far right are the very ancient Egyptian-looking space marines of the Warp Coven, and pretty much not visible at the top behind the walls are six Night Lords Chaos Space Marines, in fairly bright blue armour and with small red bat-looking wings as decorations in various places.

We had our first game of the new edition of Kill Team last night!

Only got through two rounds, and we played without equipment—apart from barricades, just to match it from the last edition—but I'm really liking how streamlined the rules are, the new rules for line of sight and cover are SO much clearer now. In terms of actually scoring anything it was a miserable failure on my part, I didn't get anything at all but that was mostly my fault for fucking up my deployment (and I now have a whole new set of chapter tactics I need to remember as well), but that's fine, this was just a "Get used to the rules" game anyway. I am disappointed at how much of a nerf plasma has had though... even when supercharged, my Assault Intercessor's plasma pistol is only 4/5 damage, Piercing 1.

Side note, the Nemesis Claw "You're obscured if you're within one inch of heavy terrain" rule is SO IRRITATING. 😛 At least they can be shot at now, but obscuring still means that you're very unlikely to deal any damage unless you roll really well AND the Nemesis Claw player rolls really poorly.

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Posted on 27 October 2024, 23:39

A screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox, it's very wide-angle view of a huge wall of futuristic buildings with neon lights on them, many of them with Japanese writing on them. It's late afternoon so everything is a bit more orange than usual, and you can just see the shadows from the buildings behind starting to encroach on the ones in the screenshot.

Another screenshot, this one is far smaller in scope, it's night time and you're looking down an alley in between two brick buildings, with pipes running along them, grafitti on the walls, and steam coming up from the ground. There are some puddles on the ground reflecting the light.

Another screenshot, back to the wide angle view looking up but this one is closer to night time and it's inside the city with neon-lit buildings towering all around. There's some steam coming up from a couple of places here too.

Cyberpunk 2077 update: still absolutely enjoying the hell out of the atmosphere in this game.

And no spoilers so this is a bit vague, but you go to the funeral of a character and man, I was not expecting to get hit right in the feels by a video game.

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Posted on 13 October 2024, 21:02

A screenshot taken in Cyberpunk 2077 on the Xbox. It's a city street at night at ground level, looking across a pedestrian crossing towards a bunch of tall buildings rising up in the background, high contrast and lots of neon signs everywhere, and it's pretty much what you think of when you hear the term "cyberpunk".

Another screenshot, similar aesthetic as the first with some tall buildings in the background, but this feels decidedly dingier and much lower-rent. It's looking down into a set of shops below street level, with a big blue neon "HOTEL" sign in the middle and a bunch of cables crisscrossing the space above it, and there are some red Chinese-style lanterns hanging from the eaves of a building at the right.

Man, they've certainly done a fantastic job with the art direction for Cyberpunk 2077! Absolutely top-notch cyberpunk aesthetic right here. I'm very early-on in the game so I imagine it gets even better.

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Posted on 2 October 2024, 21:28

A screenshot of my Cyberpunk 2077 character. She's a Black woman with purple hair pulled up behind her head and the sides shaved, a bunch of piercings, and she's standing there with her arms crossed and a slight smirk on her face. In the background is an empty street curving away to the left.

Having forgotten about Cyberpunk 2077, and also having forgotten how to play it, I decided to start a new character and maybe actually play more than a couple of hours this time.

Unfortunately the lack of being able to use a Southpaw control scheme means I'm absolutely ATROCIOUS at aiming at anything, so I'm playing on easy difficulty and will be primarily leaning on not actually shooting at stuff for this playthrough, hopefully it's not too frustrating — I have an extremely low tolerance for frustration at video games these days. (I can swap the control sticks around at the Xbox controller level, but that fucks things up in a bunch of other ways like navigating through menus, so I'm going to just have to see how it goes. For the love of $DEITY, game devs, JUST LET ME REMAP CONTROLS!)

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Posted on 30 September 2024, 21:54

A photo of our TV showing the end a game of Guitar Hero, with the song being Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

The seventeen year-old is staying over for the weekend again, and we played another good three hours of Guitar Hero! This time we did Warriors of Rock and I'd forgotten that they'd added the ability to import a bunch of songs from the other Guitar Hero games into it, so we had quite a variety.

They were very excited to see Queen, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi in the choices, and we played some Stevie Wonder and Creedence Clearwater Revival and they added those songs to their "To listen to" list. 😁

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Posted on 3 August 2024, 18:17

A close-up shot of a very cramped bit of hallway with three of the Night Lords miniatures all facing one hulking warrior in ornate golden armour wielding a massive spear.

We had our regular fortnightly Sunday night Kill Team tonight, same composition as before (my Intercession squad versus Night Lords versus Adeptus Custodes) but after the previous game we'd decided we'd see about tweaking the map a bit for this game. It's completely symmetrical now and had five objectives instead of three, with two objectives being in easy reach of the middle spot but being harder to defend.

The Custodes ended up in that centre deployment zone, and man it was a fun game! The Custodes all had shields so they were tough as nails (2+ save, 4+ invulnerable save), and two operatives each immediately moved on the middle points and it really felt like they were completely dug in so we had to play cagey and try to bait them out without being murderised in the process.

The funniest point was one of the Custodes charging into close combat with THREE of the Night Lords, unsurprisingly he ended up dying but he did a hell of a lot of damage. Between my Spaces Marines and the Nightlords, we ended up wiping out the Custodes, and it was 5-5-4 at the start of the final turn. I was SO CLOSE to pulling off a win, but the Night Lords ended up pipping me at the last minute with a combination of their special rule of not being able to be shot at if they're within 1" of heavy cover and are in conceal, and an ability that lets them force your one of your operatives to make a dash action. I had two operatives on the final objective, but he was able to push one of them off and because this same character was an icon bearer it meant he counted for more when calculating who controlled the objective, and so he was able to steal it. It was 100% luck because that character happened to be the who was in the right spot at the right time and was JUST able to make it onto the objective by the thinnest of margins. In retrospect I should have moved Sister Dominea up to just block the hallway because it wouldn't have mattered if she was killed in close combat or not and the Night Lords couldn't have gotten past her and stolen the objective!

The final score ended up being 8-7-4 Nightlords/Intercession/Custodes.

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Posted on 21 July 2024, 23:29

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There are four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (four three shambling zombies, four skeleton warriors, a vampire, and Radukar the Wolf himself who is a vampire and has two big wolf pelts including the heads draped over his shoulders).

A photo of three of the heroes standing in a group with a horde of monsters coming into the room from two of the doors: six zombies and Gorslav the Gravekeeper who is this freaky emaciated undead thing from one door, and three of the skeleton warriors followed by the Vargskyr (a massive demon/bat thing that is over twice the height of anything else) from the other door.

Another Warhammer Quest journey with @wobin today, and oh my GOD was it a shocker. 😫

We played a Scavenge journey where you go around searching for loot and fighting off hostiles, but Radukar the Wolf (the MAIN big bad of the whole game) made his first appearance, my character Cleona was so badly wounded she ended up out of action (thankfully she didn't end up dying), everyone was constantly failing attacks they should have easily made, and we rolled so poorly on the end of turn event table that we ended up at the "Nightfall" point (where all the monsters are much more powerful) FOUR turns earlier than we should have otherwise. 😬

It was an absolute rollercoaster, even outside of Cleona being taken out of action everyone else had multiple times where they'd taken so much damage they were only two short of being taken completely out of action, only to claw their way back and then get wounded all over again, then right at the end it was a mad scramble to get everyone to the exit point. As is frequently the case, hero of the match went to my dwarf Dagnai Holdenstock who was able to be inspired early and just slaughtered his way through everything. He got an upgrade in the post-game phase where damage from his weapons can't be ignored, which is going to be REALLY good because there are three or four types of hostiles that have some sort of "Roll the D12 and on a (certain number) or higher, damage is reduced by X amount" and it bit us so many times.

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Posted on 20 July 2024, 22:07

A screenshot from Dark Forces with the updated graphics, looking at a fairly stereotypical Imperial-looking room and control panel with lots knobs and blinkenlights. It's obviously not a current-gen game but the textures are crisp and sharp.

The exact same shot as before, but using the original software rendering. It's 4:3 ratio instead of 16:9, and the graphics are GLORIOUSLY pixellated.

Oh my god they remastered the original Dark Forces, AND it's available on Xbox!

I remember we got the demo of it on a disc full of demos that came with our Power Mac 6200/75 in 1995 (I was 12 at the time), I played the HELL out of that first level and I absolutely begged my parents to buy the full game for me for Christmas. I can still vividly remember sitting in my pyjamas at the computer first thing on Christmas morning after we'd opened our presents, full of excitement when I started the second level. Even now the music brings me back to that.

They've done an absolute bang-up job with the remaster, the controls are fully customisable (which is amazing for me because I can't play FPSes without the Southpaw control scheme, but then I need to remap other buttons to compensate and it's a whole thing), and my favourite part is they've done the same thing as Bungie did with the Halo 1 remaster: you can toggle between the new updated graphics and the original rendering!

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Posted on 6 July 2024, 20:48

We had our semi-regular game of Sunday night Kill Team tonight, my Intercession squad versus a four-man team of Adeptus Custodes versus the brand-new Night Lords squad!

The final score was 3-2-0 Night Lords/Intercession/Custodes, but we ended up calling shortly after the start of the third turn because there were only three objective markers and I couldn't physically move fast enough to contest the two that the Night Lords had. In retrospect we should have put some more objectives down, but the mission we chose had three objective markers on it but with different rules that we decided were too complicated, so we just did a standard "capture the point" type of thing.

Play of the match goes to my leader Sister Sarine, she fired a supercharged plasma pistol shot into one of the Custodes and rolled two 6s, a 2, and 1. I'd taken the strategic ploy that lets you reroll an attack dice if you're shooting at something within 6" so rerolled the 1 for that and scored another 6, then spent a command point and rerolled the 2 and got ANOTHER 6! That SHOULD have been game over for the enemy operative but annoyingly he'd taken a strategic ploy that takes crit damage down to normal damage, and so even though he was only rolling one defence dice because of the AP2 plasma pistol shot, it was still a 2+ save and so he survived on only 3 wounds. ::fistshake::

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Posted on 23 June 2024, 23:13

A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's played on three rectangular boards sitting together in a T-shape, there are tiles marked out with hexes, and the artwork looks like you're inside a cave. Closest to the camera are Lady Harrow's Mournflight, four swooping spirits in sickly green. To the right at The Dread Pagent, three humans in purple clothing and light armour and then a very large goat man holding a huge sword above his head. Lastly at the left are the six beastmen of Grashrak's Despoilers, all wearing raggy armour and clothing.

A photo of a grey staffie puppy with a white stripe down his chest, standing on the arm of a lounge and desperately looking like he wants to leap down. The photo is slightly blurry because he would not stay still!

We went over to @[email protected]'s for an excellent game of Warhammer Underworlds this afternoon. I decided to simplify things a bit and we just used the Beastgrave/Direchasm era warbands with their stock decks, me with Lady Harrow's Mournflight, @yayKM with Grashrak's Despoilers, and @[email protected] with the Slaanesh warband The Dread Pagent.

It was VERY tight at the end of the second round, with me and @[email protected] tied on 11 glory each, and @yayKM not far behind on 8, but I was able to score several objectives and make a couple of kills thanks to some crazy-good rolling, and the final score was me on 17, @[email protected] on 12, and @yayKM sadly still on 8.

Next time we're going to do an all-Chaos game with @[email protected] staying with the Dread Pagent, @yayKM using Khorne's Gorechosen of Dromm, and I'll probably use the Nurgle warband The Wurmspat (though now I think about it, maybe this might be a good reason for me to finally finish painting the Tzeentch warband Ephilim's Pandaemonium...).

In addition to Warhammer Underworlds, we met the most adorable staffie puppy named Hendrix, who is only 12 weeks old! 😍 He was SO excited to smell us, and he had his entire snout and part of his head fully inside my shoe after we arrived, haha.

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Posted on 22 June 2024, 18:52