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Arda Xi

21:01

If you want to keep zombies out:

Lazers

Q: Can you pause Terraria?

I can't find a pause button in Terraria, is there one? If I press the escape key, it just brings up my inventory - I tried pressing different keys but none of them seem to do anything.

pc terraria

sjohnston

@ArdaXi The crafting aspect is very similar, but Terraria seems much more focused on combat. Doesn't seem like playing "peaceful" is an option.

and there are more interesting and varied monsters. And bosses.

Arda Xi

It's not hard to do Minecraft better.

sjohnston

tell us how you really feel

Arda Xi

@Mana Seems like I'm not the only one to star this.

I feel loved.

Interesting feeling. How do I get rid of it?

sjohnston

21:09

Kick a puppy in a public place. You'll get more than enough hate to cancel out the love.

Fabian

I think the Witcher 2 quicksaves don't overwrite each other, else I can't explain why I would have 3 gigabytes of saves ;-)

sjohnston

those must be efficient save files

Michael Myers

How big is one save? As a general rule, I start to complain when a game's save is over 25 MB.

Fabian

@MichaelMyers Between 2-20 megabytes

Michael Myers

does math

Fabian

21:13

I had more than 200 saves

Michael Myers

How long is this game?

Fabian

I'm not finished yet

Powerlord

@MichaelMyers He played it for about 5 minutes. ;)

Michael Myers

A true engineer, then.

Powerlord

@MichaelMyers Sentry going up!

er... nm.

Michael Myers

21:16

No. Real engineers capture buildings single-handedly.

Ninja engineers, presumably.

Powerlord

@MichaelMyers Been playing Command & Conquer have we? :P

Michael Myers

There is only one true game. And Red Alert is its prophet.

Actually, I played through C&C again a couple of years ago, and golly are the controls primitive.

Powerlord

Last time I played any C&C game (this was years ago, btw) I was annoyed at how my troops just ignored the Engineer running into my base, despite me trying to get them to attack it.

sjohnston

The original C&C was one of the games that hooked me on gaming

Powerlord

@sjohnston It's too bad it took them until Generals to adapt the Warcraft 2 "right-click does the default action" instead of deselect.

sjohnston

21:25

Yeah, they didn't really keep up with RTS innovations.

Michael Myers

I know. I kept getting into fierce battles and then accidentally deselecting my army just when I wanted them to all MOVE BEFORE THEY DIE.

sjohnston

Although when I first started playing Starcraft, I was absolutely flabbergasted that it limited the number of units in a group

Powerlord

Warcraft 1, on the other hand, was just a terrible clone of either C&C or Dune 2... not sure which.

Warcraft 1... the only Blizzard RTS that required you to build roads.

sjohnston

@MichaelMyers I loved single tank vs. infantry fights in C&C. Just keep pressing 'Z' to disperse, and hope they don't all get run over.

Powerlord

As I recall, you couldn't build a building if it didn't touch a road.

Michael Myers

21:28

@sjohnston Yeah... and then in Red Alert the AI would use the same trick against you.

Powerlord

It's 5:30pm on a Friday, and I'm still at work.

sjohnston

Nothing like 2 men with sidearms taking out a tank for realism.

Powerlord

Clearly I need to fix this.

Michael Myers

The Allies seemed severely underpowered, but I couldn't bring myself to play the Soviet campaign.

sjohnston

The whole allies vs. soviets theme always seemed kind of boring to me. I really wish more game developers could come up with an enemy other than WW2 Germans, Cold War Soviets, and planet-ravaging aliens.

Michael Myers

21:31

Well, what else is there?

Besides zombies, of course.

But those are effectively aliens anyway.

sjohnston

Although I guess these days you get the occasional Generic Middle Eastern option as well.

Powerlord

@sjohnston Age of Empires ftw! :P

sjohnston

@Powerlord Sure. Or Civ. Really, with so many past wars, there are lots of options to choose from.

Aliens could provide a lot of options too, if they actually had some believable premise. But apparently every race in the universe is cruel and indifferent and desperate for our planetary resources.

Michael Myers

Except when it's inverted, like in Avatar.

Past wars mean no modern weaponry unless you're doing Gettysburg: Armored Warfare or something like that.

sjohnston

Well, you could draw on the dozens of wars that have been fought around the world just in the past couple decades. But if one side has to be America, then yes, your options are somewhat limited.

Powerlord

21:38

@sjohnston Well, in StarCraft (the original), you had the Zerg trying to absorb everything (er... like Star Trek's Borg), and the Protoss trying to stop the Zerg. When the game started, the Zerg were attacking the Terrans, but the plot quickly turns out to be way more complicated than that.

Michael Myers

@sjohnston Oh, sorry, when I hear "past wars" I'm thinking more than 30 years. Of course you're right.

sjohnston

@Powerlord Yeah, I enjoyed the SC story.

Powerlord

Then everyone started fighting over bacon.

Anyway, I'm outta here.

Michael Myers

Can't believe Gettysburg: Armored Warfare has no Wikipedia page.

Maybe because it's completely daft.

sjohnston

I'm sure there are counter-examples to everything I've said. I just feel like when a dev starts thinking about yet another WW2 game, they should really think twice

@MichaelMyers I would play the hell out of that game

Michael Myers

21:43

It's not out yet, I think. paradoxplaza.com/games/gettysburg-armored-warfare

sjohnston

ah. Steampunky

Michael Myers

Naturally. It's the wave of the future. Or the past. Or something.

sjohnston

I often wonder why steampunk inherited the "punk" portion of its name from cyberpunk. "Punk" doesn't really seem to fit with Victorian sensibilities

Lazers

Q: change league of legends server

I've started to play league of legends (american server) but my latecy is usualy around 300 and there is alot of lag/delay experience when i'm trying to play, then I just find out there is a europian server so my question is if there is any what I could change the game I've downloaded to work wit...

league-of-legends

badp

22:07

I hope I haven't offended too many of you by the lack of anymooted lazers

In exchange, however, those lazers are red, like mother nature made them.

@ThomasMcDonald what about rapture?

Lazers

Q: Why is Carl Gustav banned on some Battlefield servers?

Subj says it. Battlefield in question is Bad Company 2.

bad-company-2

Ronan Forman

22:27

Well I'm back everybody did anything interesting happen?

Mana

22:38

HEY RONAN, HEY TOM

Tom Wijsman

I hear my name?

Lazers

Q: I want to remind me the tittle of a PS1 game..(car & weapons)

It was a game with cars..and other vehicles that they have weapons...(IT IS NOT THE TWISTED METALS..)...I remember few things..I remember a bus that used smoke for weapon...and a map with snow..Your aim was to kill the other cars..Plz help!!

weapons ps1

Tom Wijsman

This article really applies to my earlier meta questions.

Mana

Which meta questions are those?

user30

23:02

@badp oh right

user30

Yeah, just Google it or something. It starts tomorrow, gl&hf.

Lazers

23:16

Q: Can I save King Foltest?

I had grown quite attached to King Foltest in our brief time spent together. Sure, he had his weak points, as a man and especially as a father, but he seemed to be honorable enough and was grateful when I saved his life. THEN HE DIED. Well, that sucks. I just feel like a lousy king protector at...