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  1. They all connect to the same Farcry arcade system. Basically it's user-created levels that you can play. There are something like 4 or 5 different game types, and each map will be a specific type. There's escape, bounty hunt, a few others that are single player or co-op. I've played maybe 3 or 4 maps, so I can't say too much about it. Then, there are also deathmatch maps, both solo deathmatch and team deathmatch. I haven't played any of those yet, so I can't say how they are. My general impression is that it's as you'd expect with user-generated content, there's some shit, some gold and a lot of in between. There are maps made by UbiSoft, so those are probably pretty good. Kind of like they embedded a LittleBigPlanet type experience inside of Farcry. Something really nice about it is that you can get perk points for leveling up in the arcade (I think it's just basically like an XP type thing, kills/points/objectives go towards leveling up), and those perk points are the same as the ones from the main game- so you can get extra perks unlocked from the arcade. It also gives you cash, same deal- you can use arcade cash to buy stuff in the game. Maybe I haven't been paying attention to the press for the game, but I feel like this part has some pretty good potential and was actually kind of undersold.
  2. I played a bit in each of the three territories (played enough in each territory to get a feel for it and unlock the companions), and just finished the first one. I went with Jacob’s territory first, it required the fewest points to finish, plus I wasn’t crazy about the mechanic of the forced missions that they throw in there. Won’t say too much else because I don’t see a spoiler tag option in the editor here. Anyway, I unlocked the parachute, wingsuit and air drop perks, and they’re great. AirDrop gives you the option to drop from high in the sky over your target whenever you fast travel. Then you can cover a lot of ground from there with the wingsuit, so if you pick a fast travel point near an objective you haven’t visited yet, you can sometimes fly all the way there using the wingsuit. It’s great in the mountains. all in all, still a pretty good time. The companions are great, the two companion perk is a must-have for me. Also shovels (and melee weapons in general, but especially shovels) are amazingly overpowered. I didn’t realize you could throw them like spears, they one shot basically everyone, and you can retrieve them after kills. And there’s a perk that lets you carry 9 of them at a time that I think only costs 1 perk point. I took down an outpost using the dog (to tag enemies) and just the melee takedowns and thrown shovels without being detected. It’s great, I highly recommend the shovel life.
  3. yeah, in my experience so far, you can buy everything with the in game currency- to clarify, when you're looking in a shop's inventory, for the item's cost it will say something like "$1000 or 25 silver bars", so anything that can be purchased with the silver bars (microtransaction currency) can also be purchased with in-game dollars. And as people have said here, there are also have plenty of silver bars available to find in the game, so they're not even really a microtransaction only currency, more like an alternative in-game currency that you can purchase more of using real world money. People seem to be reporting that EVERY outpost you liberate has a stash of silver bars hidden somewhere inside- there's a little disagreement over this on reddit, but I have found silver bars in every outpost I've liberated when I actually looked for them. On top of that, there are ways to make in game dollars super quickly by hunting animals and selling skins (stack up the perk that gives you double animal skins with the backpack perk to let you carry more skins, and use the bow to kill the animals, and you get 4 skins per kill, and can carry something like 10 skins of each animal in your inventory). So even if you don't want to spend time looking through bases for silver bars, you can still make enough money to buy everything if you never find a single silver bar. But even though it's easy to grind in game money, I actually haven't needed to do it at all yet, I've been able to buy stuff I wanted just from the money I've acquired by playing the game normally. Although to be fair, I haven't bought any vehicles yet, just scopes and suppressors for weapons, so you'll probably need to grind if you want to buy everything. All in all, a pretty painless and unobtrusive way to include microtransactions.
  4. Got the game yesterday, played through the intro section and did some co-op. It’s been a blast so far. Found a bow and liberated a camp completely undetected by sneaking around and taking everyone out quietly. Swapped it for a machine gun and went in to the next one guns blazing. Rescued a cougar and got it to join our party, that thing is deadly. Then we jumped into a seaplane and flew around the area. We saw some bad guys in a boat, so we just came in low and smashed their boat with our plane then took off again. Stole a car and one of us stood on the hood while the other drove us into a group of bad guys as a rolling death machine. Unfortunately the cougar didn’t jump into the car with us, but it followed us and was around when we got out. I’ve only played maybe 2 hours and as you can tell I haven’t focused on progressing the story at all, so I can’t say much about whether it’s good or bad. But the go anywhere from the start, do whatever you can think of gameplay is definitely here and feels great. I did quickly learn to change the radio off of the cultists radio station whenever I take one of their vehicles.
  5. I thought STP was there, maybe not. It was a while ago. I do remember that Body Count was also there, right around the "Cop Killer" time, and I think they had people from other bands come on stage with them and play drums or something like that. I remember during Ice Cube's set he was pissed that everyone that was there for all the grunge bands decided to use his set as bathroom break/beer time and at some point had the crowd chanting "Party over here (to everyone still up at the stage), fuck you over there (to everyone over at all the food/bathroom areas)"
  6. Haha, that was great guys. Thanks for whoever posted the streaming link, gotta go back and +rep or trophy or whatever Nice job, blacklab.
  7. Do the Preacherboy story! COME ON
  8. Also I would LOVE for them to tackle the Preacherboy story, come on guys, DO IT
  9. This is a great interview, guys now transition from the Ketchup thread to asking about the "emails I get" thread about all the bullshit lawyer emails
  10. Jeff ketchup hahaha
  11. "took a dump" is definitely an appropriate term for what Kevin Morgan did
  12. hahaha pee in her butt became "U in her B"
  13. treeeeeeeeeee fiddy
  14. Can't believe we lost Shaggy over fucking drillmap. Reddit AMA thread time! haha
  15. Yeah Louisville Cheerleader line of inquiry will go places
  16. Hahaha fuck your commercials guys
  17. Charlie Weiss FUPA appearance
  18. Story of his demise oh wait story of shaggy's demise
  19. just opened the player. Is it in commercials, or are these just commercials that play when you start the player? Vistaprint Chris with Cashcall home refi loans I got my bingo card all ready but there's no spots for commercials
  20. don't worry, I'm sure someone will wander in there and tip them off. It'd be a lot cooler if they didn't, though.
  21. Definitely hard to answer- single shows vs. multi band festival type things are hard to compare. Mr. Bungle at Fitzgerald's in 1999- such a great band, too bad they never recorded anything after California. Ween at Stubb's in 2000 was pretty memorable including closing with a version of LMLYP that felt like it went on for 30 minutes and had some girls get up on stage and start stripping. Some outdoor concert festival thing at Randall's Island in NYC in 2007 that had Blonde Redhead, Les Savy Fav, LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire that was pretty great. Every Radiohead show I've been to has been amazing. Lollapalooza 1992 was memorable, both for the lineup (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Stone Temple Pilots) and for the fact that my car got towed and I was stranded in Rosenberg afterwards.
  22. Jebus

    Nintendo Switch

    Agreed, golf story was great. I picked up Skyrim when it was on sale at Amazon recently, playing through that again on switch with the DLC is pretty cool. It runs very well. Steamworld Dig 2 was good, if you like Metroidvania style games. Axiom Verge and Cave Story+ are also good games along these lines, but the originals have been out for a while so if you've played them elsewhere, I don't think there's anything new in the switch versions. Blaster Master was a nice remake of the old school NES game. Dragon Quest Builders was actually pretty fun too, kind of a Minecraft with an actual story and direction. It has a free demo so you can check it out before buying. The combat is super easy so it would be fine for kids too. I'm interested in binding of Isaac too, but haven't picked that one up yet.
  23. can we hire sister jean?
  24. Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
  25. Jebus

    Destiny

    Yeah, I haven’t played since just after masterwork weapons came out. I might play some 6v6 banner this week but I just haven’t felt like playing at all. Never even did the raid lair. I figure maybe I’ll be back when the next dlc drops, that way all of these incremental changes that should have been in the game from the start will be incorporated, and there will be some new content too.
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