What are you playing?

[kamikazekeeg]

Was looking forward to STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, been such a long wait for it, but unfortunately it released in not the best state.  It runs well enough for me, but there's some definite areas of improvement I'm seeing and I think I'd rather come back to it next year after some patches to clean things up, maybe even add some things like deeper survival mechanics perhaps if possible as I think it has a real solid base to build off of.

[kamikazekeeg]

Decided to poke around Dead Island 2 again, maybe pick up the DLC I never got to later as going through Dying Light 2 and kinda not loving the game, I was sorta trying to remember back to this game, thinking I liked the general action more.  It's also abit stiff, heavy attacks do like this lock on animation strike depending on what weapon you have, but the action feels more visceral and violent here.  Also, super fast instant looting, I wanted that so bad in Dying Light 2, it feels so nice to just quick loot places and not have animation with everything lol  Game is dumb fun, might go through the whole game again, not sure yet as I need to finish 2 other games before the year is out.

[kamikazekeeg]

For how many free games I get a year from different services, it's rare that I get one I actually want to play, but Dredge was one of them thanks to Twitch.  Been meaning to get it for awhile as it looked neat and it is! Put a bunch of time into it and it gives me very familiar vibes to what Dave the Diver was like when I played that.  Very casual game, nothing too challenging, mildly creepy, some okay story going on.  Something about these sorta games can get very addictive though  I think I'm most of the way through the game, it seems quite short, but that's good, I wasn't wanting another big 30+ hour game as I plan to try and spend this month mostly finishing up some other games as I'm close to beating Astro Bot and then can go try to finish FF7 Rebirth.

[kamikazekeeg]

Played a couple matches of the Steel Hunters beta, was shown off at the Game Awards, it's a new F2P Wargaming venture, but I wasn't too impressed with it, it's really basic, kinda slow, which I wouldn't be against normally, but I don't know, I've played other mech games with more going on.  It's a very lighter Extraction/BR type of game, about 12 players, 6 teams of 2, but I think the problem is that combat with players isn't very exciting, and the PVE is really bad, just running to capture points and fighting really boring floating drones, and nothing else. 

Honestly, Mecha Break has more potential, that was also shown off at the game awards, it's way more hectic and fast paced, I played the beta, it's like if Armored Core was more of a hero shooter and I might keep an eye out for that instead.