Playdate: GBE Megadate (04/15/2016)

Whoooo!

Can't wait to watch this!

Thanks for making me want to jump back into The Witcher during the craziest month of games in some time.

Holy cow almost three and half hours! Thank you guys!

Vlodimir the smoothest operator.

So torn...I haven't played the Witcher 3 DLC yet but I really want to watch this!

Probably going to cave soon because "spoilers" at this point probably won't ruin much for me but...

No Austin? No thanks!

j/k, love you guys

Honestly, some great stuff in this. I really wish Vinny could have played the Witcher forever though... Vinny is just magic in any game with any sort of freedom.

I hope it won't be the last one of these.

Here's the chat archive, yall.

It warms my heart that Vinny is digging games right now.

i absolutely love watching GBeast playing these deep heady games like Factorio and Kerbal. I want to get a playthough of Civ 5 or Endless Legend or Crusader Kings 2. Some big 4X strategy game would be fun.

hearts of stone was really really great.. I liked it better than the Bloody Baron quests

GBeast warms my heart

Unprofessional Playdates?

Fuck yes, some Vinny Witcher action

This will be fun.

Looking forward to this

Theyd better agree witcher 3 greatest game of all time OR ELSE!

Hearts of Stone is goddamn amazing. It made me love a fantastic game even more.

I'm more excited for Blood & Wine than I am for most other game releases to be honest.

Man every time I see factorio I want to play it. But I really want to wait for it to come out fully before I dive in. Because I would hate to burn out on it while it's still in early access and never play it once it actually comes out.

That header's right, these were great times. Fun stream.

Although I liked Knack a heck of a lot.

three hours?! oh christ my body is not ready

Super fun stream, would be up for the GBeast crew doing somthing like this again.

Vinny you should take 5 minutes to learn Gwent because that game is extremely easy to beat everybody at. And there's also difficulty sliders for Gwent in the settings. @vinny

When will you teach Jeff B. to Mount his Friends?

To me, something like Factorio needs to have the potential for a perfect ratio. That state where, if you do it just right, all the plate spinning ceases to be plate spinning, and you can just sit back and watch it roll.

That was ultimately my issue with the Anon series. When the guides for the right ratio's of buildings to reasources and etc all have .535 for every 1.23..ugh.

I need to know my efforts can payoff. Plate spinning till you achieve perfection is glorious and satifying, plate spinning for eternity is the kind of things nightmares are made of.

This reminds me, I need to go back and play the Witchers DLC, I may wait for Blood and Wine and do both at the same time though now

I'm glad someone at GB is enjoying The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Had such an awesome time with the game. Waiting for blood and wine, so I can play both of the DLC in a go.

God damn the writing in The Witcher is so good. I need to go back and finish that game. Maybe when it gets cheap on the PC with a game of the year edition I'll pick it up and start again from the beginning.

I have never been so embarrassed at my skills of a human being at when playing Factorio ... I could not figure out like 10 items in how to get everything to merge together ... I would go insane trying 70 hours into this game.

This made me realize there is an expansion coming out for witcher 3 in a few months and my 92 hour save needs to be worked on since I got a loooong way to go (I consider this to be one of the greatest games of all time, seriously play it with e3fx reshade and be blown away)

Hearts of Stone rules.

Great stream! I'm so happy Vinny beat Witcher 3.

Sometimes you gotta summon that ghost. Assemble that line. Enter that Gungeon. Ratchet that Clank. Might as well be the GBeast crew!

@bladededge: The good news is, Factorio ratio solvers are a dime a dozen. The bad news is perfect ratioed lines are kind of resource and time sinks so by the time you want to do them, you are in bonus time trying to see what sort of megafactory you can create.

The mixed news is raw materials and production is cheap enough, assemblers smart enough, and storage plentiful enough, that nothing is wasted setting up a push situation. Push being where the intermediates are able to be produced faster than they can be consumed. Assemblers will ration their production to meet the production requirements, or if you have the storage set up, work on filling up a buffer. That's the case where you get the plate good and spinning, and you won't upset it till you start building new things.

Logistics being a real moving thing on conveyor belts helps make it so you aren't just ticking values on a spreadsheet to make the sums align like Anno. You're in a real production environment with logistic problems and solutions that mean the perfect ratio isn't always the perfect tool for the job.

@bladededge: I think Factorio mostly solves this problem with the smart inserters/chests/drones. You'll probably never hit a perfect equilibrium, but part of the fun is accounting for the surplus/deficit. The new Anno did simplify the production lines (and everything else) to the point that you can easily get perfect ratios, and that just ends up being real boring.

I have to agree with Vinny that the animation on A crack in time seemed better than this new R&C game. But maybe my glasses are just rose tinted...

There's not really a reason to have the camera on the guys is there?

It should probably be zoomed in more on their faces for it to be worth it.

@misantrope: Yah it looks like the game lets that perfect ratio stuff sit in the background a bit and let the other issues come to the forefront. I just happen to be the kind of numbers guy who, if a game like this hits my 'gotta play' itch, that's a feature it has to get right.

As for Anon, the newer one might well have fixed the issue. The one I mentioned was with the last release, not the current. I admit I didn't bother with the current one, not after the QL seemed to indicate there was no sandbox mode, and they seemed to be having the exact same issue I was dealing with.

Its kind of like, I don't like straight up city builders a lot, but I do like a game with more complexity, that can provide their end-result. I.E. you can sit back and look at what you've built, ruining smoothly without further input from you. that 'look what I made!' moment/victory. A weird dichotomy I admit, which is totally subjective/my own and, really there are very few games that click with it.

Thankfully its not something that I am drawn too so often.

Vinny, here's a video of someone going from the game start to launching the rocket in a bit over two hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7rREuSEc9E

Ratchet sounds like Todd Howard

I've had several Klipsch speakers from various lines they make. Very good stuff (especially when you can grab some B stock), however I did have their old 4.1 system for PCs. All their 'For PCs' speakers sounded great and were verrry delicate - not surprised that some of the components inside ate it after time. I think they cut some corners back then. No idea about their stuff now.

should be something more akin to UPF with them placed around the edges of the gameplay, so we see them and the gameplay isn't obscured.

i get they're trying to do something different here but probably shouldn't mess with what works.

e: obviously didn't take into account their camera situation, which may be a tad more meagre than what GBWest has going. sure they know more/better than me anyway.

I haven't played any witcher 3 but I like that this DLC is having a little fun with Geralt. If anything I wanted him to be even more animated and have even more of a change in voice (same actor still of course) just to really commit to it.

No Austin on this makes me sad :(

Really prefer GBE without austin, vinny representin

This was a great playdate (and even a real date in one of the games). Can't wait for Austin to return but great going Vinny and Alex with getting all this up and running. Cool to sample through several games for a change of pace.

I look at Factorio and just go "oh... *sigh* no". Far too intense for me, I'll stick to Dark Souls.

if i look at that crosseyed geralt really looks like brad.

As much as I loved Witcher 3 I thought that the leveling up and progression system was awful and one of the worst in any rpg I've played