Never played a Wasteland game but I guess I’ll give this new one a shot.
It looks seriously fantastic. I hope it doesnt suck
Fallout 2 is one of my favorite games ever and Wasteland 2 felt like the spiritual successor to it, although not quite as quirky or charming. It was a bit on the simplistic side but I enjoyed playing through it and will probably check out 3 at some point.
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Pulling an 85 on Metacritic after 30 reviews
Control just came out on steam and I’m loving it 3 hours in, usually don’t go for these games but everything about it feels great.
The one big key I’d add that many new players miss is that in most cases, small decks are far better than big decks.
For instance, on a strength deck, once you upgrade your Limit Break (or ideally get two upgraded), if you have a small deck, you can quickly get absurd strength boosts as you’ll cycle back to your Limit Breaks pretty quick. Add in a few drawing cards and it’ll cycle even faster.
On the deck you described, the perfected strike are worthless as they are inferior in every way to heavy blade. Plus with the cost of 2, they scale worse with strength than even basic 1 cost attack. (I’d add that in general, Perfect Strike is usually a bad card as you’ll want to dump all your Strikes. It can be good early game, but by late game, it’s a bad card).
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Two Point Hospital is free to play for the weekend on Steam.
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Yeah remove a lot of cards, usually strikes first, although I will buy a useful relic of one is offered. Strikes are probably slightly less bad with ironclad since you can make them deal a million damage but the aim is usually to have an efficient deck that executes a plan. As you get to higher ascensions this will become more important.
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The first thing to do in regards to keeping the deck small is not pick a card every time you have the option. If you aren’t offered a card that improves your deck overall, skip it.
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Anybody got a hands on with Wasteland yet? I’m working and womt be able to play for a bit
Two main ways to keep deck small:
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Remove cards at every opportunity. As you mention this includes merchants, and also for ? you should prioritize removing cards over other options. I do typically prioritize card removal over buying relics - unless it’s a hugely important relic for the type of deck I’m building. Most relics the merchant sells aren’t that important.
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Don’t always take cards. When you start a run it’s fine to take a few mediocre cards as your starting deck is such crap, but once you’ve added a few of those, you should be passing unless it really helps your deck.
You’re right that with a big deck you’ll get the few bad cards less often, but in general the harm from a bad card is heavily outweighed by being able to draw your key cards more often. You’re not necessarily trying to build tiny decks (i.e. under 15), but you generally don’t want to end with a deck of 30+.
I’d also add that draw/deck control cards can be very important, especially if you don’t have a small deck. Headbutt is great for most decks as it allows you to redraw key cards.
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Yeah, after about ten runs I realized I didnt HAVE to take cards at the end of battles and that improved my decks immensely
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I’ve been on a bit of a Resident Evil binge this year. I played the ResE 2 and 3 remakes and liked them alot (especially 2) and then got ResE 7 and ResE4. All on PS4. The rest look like shit. Any of them worth playing?
Not really. 5 is ok, but mostly not worth your time. I’m excited to try 7. It hits game pass next week
I’m enjoying Cross Code, so thanks to whoever recommended it. The puzzles are pretty interesting most of the time and the fighting is actually challenging, and to top it off it slightly reminds me of Secret of Mana in some ways and that was one of my favorite games of all time.
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Whoever recommended it?
I’m hurt man
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RE5 while quite different from the earlier games is enjoyable as more of a shooter. RE2 remake was awesome, I’ve heard that 3 remake was really short and they cut out some parts from the original so I’ll probably wait until its super cheap.
I actually played Resident Evil 4 and remember enjoying it. I remember it actually scaring me a bit, but I was pretty young at the time (25).
Sorry, man.
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