Currently playing iRacing on the PC. I used up a few years of good luck when I managed to secure a Ferrari Challenge WIN at Le Mans Circuit de la Sarthe. I was running in 3rd position about 8 seconds behind 1st and 2nd. Those two went at it at the Porsche Curve and took each other out! So I managed to be so fortunate to cruise to the win.

On the boardgame front I have been solo playing RAF - The Battle of Britain 1940 and Nightfighter Ace when time allows.

So many good games, so little time!

Has anyone here played Deathloop? I just bought it today since it was on sale.

The best way I can describe it is a cross between No One Lives Forever and Inception.

So at level 225 and over 500 hours into the game I finally beat Radagon/Elden Beast to finish the main storyline. This gaming journey with Elden Ring was epic.

Alas, X4 went on sale on Steam a couple of weeks ago and it has... consumed me.

The game came out in 2018 and at the time I only had 16 gigs of RAM which wasn't enough--they were saying 32 was needed. I also figured I would wait until expansions came out and they improved the game, as Egosoft always does. I must say... wow. This is truly an improvement over X3 in many ways.

Ever want to experience one of those combat scenes from the Expanse, where ships are flying super fast and bullets and railguns and havoc is flying in all directions? Well, you can do that here. Some of my combats literally look like the TV show, which is wild.

X4 is complicated and deep. There is a full economic simulation running, where every ship/station/pilot/trader/faction matters. Everything you see has a purpose. There aren't cardboard cutouts. Every NPC trade ship is making a real run to fulfill a station or order request. Every patrol sent out is on their own mission to fix a problem or enhance a faction's goals. You can play this game literally however you want--empire builder, pirate, gun for hire, solution provider, terrorist, meddler in faction control--whatever you want.

Or you can follow the story and plot, which so far has been interesting and evolving.

This game is deep like Crusader Kings or Civilization, and not something learned overnight, and best played without reloading saves if you don't get an outcome you want. You are rewarded by pouring deep thought into problems and creatively coming up with solutions. I suppose this is what a true sandbox should be, minus every NPC having their own story--which would be impossible given the scope of this universe. That is, until someone creates an adaptive AI that can fill the role of every single NPC and imbue them their own personalities, identities, voices, faces, tendencies and goals. I'm sure that will happen, someday. It is far more economical in the long run to do so than to hire writers and actors to fill these worlds with limited, focused side quests. Not to mention more immersive.

I'm enjoying this far more than I thought I would, and I haven't even installed the Star Wars Interworlds total conversion yet. I have almost 300 employees, a diversified business model in ore and gas mining, a small trade fleet and I have begun to corner the energy cell station market by designing and building out my own space stations. I even have a capital ship now. Lots of fun.

Playing more than one -- off and on. But, today I got started with "Pathfinder - Kingmaker".

Whenever possible in games, my Wife is the Heroine and I am the "god" watching over her. So, "step one" is to Modify the Heroine images (as used in-game) and her statistics (cheat). I'm on "step one" as shown in the attached images. I used a picture of her and other art.

Currently playing:


Elden Ring - Finished the main storyline but I still have some optional bosses to kill and a couple of catacombs to clear out.

Dying Light 2 - Fantastically fun Coop game.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - Same as Dying Light 2

Fallout 76 - The game that keeps on giving. I bought this on sale for 17 bucks and I've put in over 2,000 hours into it. Now THAT is value!

IL-2 BOS - Currently have 3 pilot careers going. 2 German and one Soviet.

Deathloop - A VERY unique single player experience for sure.

This https://www.moddb.com/mods/janes-ww...ir-combat/images/europe-spring2#imagebox

Not easy. Just learning to fly it's hard. My first mission was dropping bombs on ground target and I was getting the sight line up that I didn't see two Spitfires behind me.

What’s it like for SP that’s what I usually play mate? Or is it mostly MP, or CO-OP thanks.

X4 is brill.

1500 hours in on steam and thats just with vanilla,

With mods the game will give any1 a good run for their money.

I love the way it has an amazing dynamic engine like bms and every entity counts,

Great value and very captivating,

I chose the terran start and the destroyers are awesome when you manage to build up a fleet,

Good post Blastman, I wish we had a lot more of this around here.

Another month has passed and here's what has been on rotation for me

Rome 2 -- Finished up a campaign I started months ago

Three Kingdoms - completed three different campaigns. In the case of both this and Rome 2 I waited years after release to purchase, and glad I did. Both are fine additions to the franchise and I was especially impressed by Three Kingdoms.

Fallout 4 -- After a year away I gave it another go to check out the Nuka World DLC which I had mostly ignored before. Fallout 4 is one of my top gaming experiences in the past few years. Survival mode makes it for me, and elevates it to one of my all time favorites.

I'm boring

DCS / IL2

Still

DBond if you want to upgrade your Fallout 4 experience might I suggest Fallout 4 Enhanced Edition mod compilation:

https://www.wabbajack.org/modlist/wj-featured/fallout_4_enhanced_edition


Over 200 mods that will be auto installed.

Yep. Star Wars Interworlds is an amazing total conversion, too. I've been playing the Argon start in the regular game + expansions(and a half dozen mods including the ship variation expansion which I highly recommend.

View from the bridge of my first destroyer:



Folks might think the ships can't be big in X4, but... they are HUGE. Looking down from the bridge onto that same destroyer reveals how massive it is:



And here's the bridge aboard one of my frigates:

Nice,

looks like a split raptor if im not mistaken?

A Beast of a ship.

I use split Rattlesnakes for boarding ops.

Highly effective...

First two are a Rattlesnake and the second is a Caiman, which I use for fleet defense.

It's all of those things! There is a full story-driven single player game that you can play but at the same time there are these Cooperative "Events" that spring up across the map periodically. You can choose to either participate in them or not. There is also an adversarial mode but that only works if both players involved have that option enabled in their settings. For the most part, the MP in Fallout 76 is cooperative.

I play those as well and what's great about flight sims is that you never really "finish" them. You just play them until you get bored and move on.

Thanks for the Heads-up PM .much appreciated

Time for second run through RDR2.
Also playing IL2 BAT and WOTR.

Great choices mate.