It's very weird. Apparently there were some shenanigans whereby Nintendo/MS didn't know that both were planning to release it, or something
It's very weird. Apparently there were some shenanigans whereby Nintendo/MS didn't know that both were planning to release it, or something
I don't believe that for a second.
Been thinking about giving F1 Manager a go, but I fear they've gone too fan into the modern day FM deep end and made it hideously complicated and with far too much micro management...
That’s the very reason I’ve not got it. I enjoyed the really old one loads, at the time I watched a bit of F1 too so had some understanding. I’ve not watched any for years and would have no clue on anything.
Our first points finally, all hail King Piastri
Qualified in 15th but I felt we had a lot of speed in Spain and Piastri (as well as Doohan) performed really well. Before the first round of pits Piastri was looking good in 6th. I changed the strategy (originally Soft, Medium, Soft) to a hard tyre hoping I could nurse through to the end but it wasn't going to happen. So I went back to the 2 stop strategy and despite getting held up a little in the pit Piastri came out and I was able to hammer his tyres.
He quickly got back into points contention and kept pushing. I thought we'd have to settle for 7th as I didn't think we'd have enough time to take Russell.
Thankfully we got him on the last lap. I skipped the video a bit more than I'd have liked on that last lap but I got the pit sound glitch.
It only took a season and a bit but we've done it.
GTA 6 leak of a bunch of WIP video and images:
Looks like it's back to Vice City
Matches up to the early August leaks.
Latina type female lead character, set in Vice City etc. The thing that wasn't leaked at the time was when it was set. Looks from the "WhatUp!" messages being received, like at least 2010+
I'd also say the game looks quite far along in terms of build.
I assumed it was going to be bollocks but there's apparently too much of it in the leak for it to be fake.
It's going to be interesting to see what they do without the Housers at the helm.
First time we've had both drivers score points. I thought Piastri could really do something big as he was in 4th (fighting with Perez) but he locked up bad in the rain and dropped to 7th.
These are Doohan's first points but Piastri has now got 25 points having finished 6th in Spain, 10th in Canada (fastest lap too), 6th in Silverstone and now 7th in Austria.
Feels like the car is really getting there now and both drivers are getting the best out of it.
Man, I was really hoping (though not expecting) it be based in somewhere much more interesting, such as Rio, Bogota or Bangkok.Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
If they still want to go for parody, they don't know those other locations well enough. Part of me wants the nuclear option of it turning out as misguided as the Saints Row reboot.
Our first podium
Piastri qualified in 4th with Doohan in 3rd but a grid penalty meant we were 2nd and 3rd and I knew we could do well here as our cars our very fast right now and well suited to Monza.
Sadly Doohan went wide on an early-ish corner and when he came back onto the track got hit by Leclerc. Changed his tyres and hoped he'd have enough pace to finish in points but it wasn't to be.
Piastri was in a constant battle with Max, Sainz and Perez but locked up whilst he was in second and ended up dropping to fourth. |Thankfully he still had loads of pace and was able to overtake and hold Perez off.
Piastri is currently 10th in the drivers championship (4 off 9th placed Ocon) and we've moved ahead of McLaren into 6th for the constructors. Not a chance we catch the 5th place Alfa but I do think we'll have enough to hold off McLaren.
Never even heard of that game. Is it fun? Is there a lot of micromanaging or you just hire drivers and engineers and get on with it?
I enjoy it.
Ultimately you can put in quite a lot or scale back and do very little.
Currently I sim practices (but I use a tool to ensure I get perfect setups), I sim qualifying and I speed up the races quite a bit but I'm fiddling with the ERS, fuel usage and tyre usage quite a bit.
I was doing shit in season 1 (nil points) but I've really hit my stride as I'm constantly designing new parts for the car and we're currently the second fastest cars on the grid (by top speed and acceleration) but we're really shit at low speed corners.
Game of the year…
Finally looks like I'm getting into Breath of the Wild. I feel like I'll spend the next 20 hours looking for shrines but it does have the good open world thing of making you check out odd-looking landmarks. Shame none of the weapons matter, at least at the moment.
Our first win and it just happens to be a 1-2
Race seemed to fall perfectly in our lap. Piastri went off fast and was battling with Sainz early for first. Rain started falling heavy and I new the track would be wet but it wasn't meant to be for that long and then it was meant to dry out. Thus I decided to put both drivers on inters a touch early and we were able to pull away from the rest of the pack.
A few (including Sainz) went onto Inters not long after but when the track turned to wet they changed to wets whilst we stayed out. Piastri and Doohan were far ahead but with the wet weather and being on inters they were slowly getting caught. The track started drying and I undercut onto dry tyres, I put Piastri on softs stupidly as I thought they'd last (they weren't going to so I let Doohan move ahead) and Doohan went on to mediums.
This allowed them to build up a lead which wasn't going to be caught.
Piastri up into 9th with 69 points (nice) with Doohan on 32 in 12th. We're still in 6th in the constructors on 101 and now have a chance at catching 5th placed Alfa on 136.
Went from 6-10 to 11-12 in Starcraft 2.
Personal highlight: https://streamable.com/eqzv85
Expeditions Rome has taken me to Gaul and I have the Asterix reference I was waiting for.
Can't remember who the other Asterix fan on here is. @wullie ?
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Oh yes. Only just got the latest book in the week too, haven't started it yet
The whole exchange goes on a bit from there and it's quite funny.
What book is that?
The newer ones have been ok but patchy, hopefully this will be good
Wow, I forgot how hard it is to tell between player colours.
Hate to break it to you, you're red/blue colour blind.
Nah it is pretty bad. The bits of distinguishing colour on the units are really small.
Gloomhaven is free on the Epic Store this week for anyone into that kinda thing.
Nice.
I had been wanting to get that at some point because fuck paying three figures for a board game.
And with that the season is done. We had a difficult end to the season (other than this race) as Doohan crashed out 2/3 times and Piastri had a few wobbles.
This final race was mental, we looked ok but the track didn't favour our car. Thankfully Piastri was in 7th and a safety car came out as Zhou crashed, he was off the top 6 but obviously when it came in he was right there.
Then Kevin Magnussen got torpedoed by his teammate Mick Schumacher which brought out another safety car. Quite a few cars jumped into the pit lane including 4 in front of Piastri which moved him up to third. Tyres and fuel were in a good spot due to the dual safety cars so I went hard after Verstappen and Sainz. We overtook Verstappen and we were getting close to Sainz but Ocon then smashed into a wall and a third safety car came out which took us to the flag.
Piastri finished in 9th on 117 points and Doohan came in 13th with 36 points. In the constructors we finished 6th just 5 points behind Alfa.
I'm now being matched with platinum players and winning. I cannot be stopped. (Except against literally any zerg or a competent protoss)
I lost 7 games in a row after the above post.
Just finished albeit it only took a few hours to complete, Artful Escape it's free if you have the middle playstion plus tier.
A great little indie title, gameplay is a little simple but the music, visuals and voice acting is great.
Total War Warhammer 2 and Fallout 76 free on Prime Gaming at the moment.
Been replaying the original Dishonored as I couldn't be bothered engaging my brain with something new and I'd been pondering redoing it for a while. It's still great, and Blink still feels very satisfying to use.
Hit diamond. Puts me in the top 12% of the world. Got to find me a Korean lady to exclaim how good I am to.
Jimmy might know one.
Spunked out silly money for the new PGA 2k23 on PS5.
It's so so fucking good.
Oh shit I had no idea it was out, I'm going to have to pick it up.
Early access right now for silly editions, think it launches proper Friday. Has like 40 courses on launch and a new designer for all the mentals to make courses.
Downloading now.
Absolute legend.
I had forgotten just how gimpy my swing accuracy and speed was.
Sliced shots all over the shop
Think my best round so far is like -6 on Pro settings.
Fucking love the glof me
I've just bought a Switch. Work gave us a voucher thing for certain shops and I've been toying with getting one and decided after the shitter of a year so far to go FUCK IT and put the voucher toward a Switch.
Full review in time please, Ian. I'm tempted to secure one for FM23 Touch and would no doubt get involved in Super Mario & Pokemon for nostalgia purposes.
The joy of the Switch is in its "pick up and play." If you've a spare 30 mins and want to play something, you're unlikely to be going off to the room you've set your Xbox or PlayStation up in, but you can just take the Switch out of your bag and off you go. Then when you do have time for a longer session, you can dock it and get it on the TV. You can get a decent more conventional controller for £20 easy too.
Besides if you want Mario and Pokemon you aren't getting them anywhere else(easily). You're not going to ever really get anything other than what it says on the tin with Nintendos top games either.
They're a great bit of kit and if you aren't bothered about the OLED screen you can get one for £250 now. You can also get the Lite version for sub £200, but that's if it's purely going to be portable for you. You can't remove the controllers or dock it to a TV if you get that one.
I would say if you're thinking of getting one, sooner may be better than later. With Xboxes and PS5s still difficult to stock, parents are going to be snapping Switches up soon.
Zelda, Odyssey, and Fire Emblem make it worth it. Otherwise, a whole lot of meh, imo.
Metroid Dread as well. And Bayonetta 3's coming out.
If you have even a half decent PC just emulate and save yourself 300 quid. BotW in ultrawide at 120fps with graphical improvements, draw distance and AA is a thing of beauty.
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