Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Game review: FTL (Faster Than Light) ($ = 10.00)


FTL (Faster Than Light)


-Setting

-FTL is a turn-based, space combat game

-Map

-When a game begins you can select a ship (More unlocked with certain encounters).
-The game is divided into sectors, which in turn have stars.
-Stars are points you can go to. After an encounter on a star you can go to the next one (In range).
-Encounters include. Battle, Trade for other items, Shop, Special, Nothing, Gift, Take item , Damage to ship.

-Money

-Money can be used to buy weapons, drone parts, rockets, fuel, and repair the ship.
-Almost all encounters have the ability to give you money. 

-Weapons


-Beams
-All beams either do no damage thru shields or reduced damage. 
-Normally take a long time to charge.
-Can hit multiple rooms.
-Fire once per charge

-Launchers
-Uses a rocket(s).
-Goes thru shields.
-Low hit chance.
-Some Launchers do no damage to a ship, but to systems or crew.
-Some Launchers heal.

-Guns
-Use no ammo.
-Normally fire multiple shots.
-Can reduce shield level.
-Can do many damage per shot or less damage.


-Power

-Power can be bought for in game money
-Is used for powering up utilities and weapons (Which you can have only 4 of)

-Systems

-Must buy more power bar options with in game money

-Shield
-You must buy 2 bars of shields to get 1 layer of shield (4 max).
-Guns can lower the level of shields for every shot (Shields regen over time)

-Engine
-Higher power into Engine gives your a higher chance to dodge a shot.

-Med-Bay
-Heals crew.

-Sensors
-Lowest level (1) shows you the ships Systems.
-Middle level (2) shows you the location of crew.
-Highest level (3) shows you the power usage of the enemy ship.

-Doors
-Higher level doors (1-3) make doors stronger.
-2nd level allows to lock doors from enemies.

-Piloting 
-Allows for higher dodge chance as well as auto pilot without crew.
-Auto pilot can only have a % of the dodge chance of non auto pilot.

-Cloaking
-Allows for cloaking.
-Recharges over time.
-When cloaked you can not be fired upon or be targeted by drones.

-Teleporter 
-Teleports crew to location on enemy ship (2 at a time).
-Recharge to bring crew back or send crew.

-Drone Control
-Drones are launched using power and 1 drone part.
-There are defence, gun, and beam drones.
-Higher level drones are stronger.

-Oxygen Control
-More power means faster O2 regen.
-No power means no O2. Leading to death of crew.
-No oxygen puts out fire (You can also open doors to space).

-Weapon Control
-More power means higher level (More power required) weapons.

-Crew

-Many different crew types with different abilities.
-Can be bought for in game money or found in encounters.

-Verdict

Very good game if not repetitive, worth the money.

9.2/10

(Go buy it NOW)

Game review: Realm of the Mad God ($ = 0.00) (Requires Steam)

Realm of the mad god.

-Combat
-Aiming is simple, use a mouse.
-Auto Fire is possible with hot keys
-Space bar activates "Class" ability

-Classes

Technical Details: These are max stats at level 20 (Max level) below. Notice some classes have specific "Buffs"
Hit Points
Magic Points
Attack
Defense
Speed
Dexterity
Vitality
Wisdom
Rogue
720
252
50
25
75
75
40
50
Archer
700
252
75
25
50
50
40
50
Wizard
670
385
75
25
50
75
40
60
Priest
670
385
50
25
50
50
40
75
Warrior
770
252
75
25
50
50
75
50
Knight
770
252
50
40
50
50
75
50
Paladin
770
252
50
25
50
50
40
75
Assassin
720
252
60
25
75
75
40
60
Necromancer
670
385
60
25
50
60
30
75
Huntress
700
252
75
25
50
50
40
50
Mystic
670
385
60
25
60
50
40
75
Trickster
720
252
65
25
75
75
40
60
Sorcerer
670
385
60
25
60
60
75
60
Ninja
720
252
70
25
60
70
40
70
-Art style
-Very pixel-y
-8 bit style with rotatable camera

-Inventory
-Weapon (Some classes share weapons, Rogue / Assassin. Etc)
-Armor (Either metal or skin)
-Space bar "Class ability" (Uses "Mana" a regenerating resource (MP). Regens faster with "Wisdom")
-Space to pick up extra items
-Potions (MP / HP) (Can be bought for gold which can be bought for IRL cash)

-Unlocking classes
-Some classes (Wizard, Priest, Archer, Rogue) require only LVL 5 to unlock next class
-Others require LVL 20 (Max level)
-You must unlock ALL classes before the chosen class to unlock it
-See chart below


-Gameplay
-Different quests showing direction to a "Boss" a specific high powered enemy
-As you "Level Up" you will be able to find and \ or defeat higher level Bosses
-You unlock higher level boss quests at LVL 5, 10, 15, and 20
-Different portals in the "Nexus" (Home world) allow you to go to different "Realms" or areas with limited player per area
-Gold can buy items and by bought for cash.
-Fame is the leader-board number. It can be gained by being defeated or playing after LVL 20

-Final verdict
A very grindy game, but otherwise fun. Is very "buy to play." Mostly worth it though. It's a free game, so you might as well pick it up.

7/10 (Meh, but fun)

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Diablo 3 Problems

Hello it's me, Ben.
Today is D3 day and there are A LOT of problems with D3.
(I won't be doing many D3 posts. Mostly on patch notes and issues with the game.)


DIABLO 3 CLASS ISSUES
-Barbarian
It's a very button mashy (Mashy?) class, just Wirl-Wind and and press Rend every once in a while to win. You don't even need to stay around to watch the things die (They die off screen due to bleed damage, which is overpowered). It is really, really easy to get 300-400k Dps. Wirl-Wind even allows you to go through enemies! Cancel Freeze, Wall, and Trap effect! Much like the Demon Hunters Vault only the Barbarian can keep this going for as long as there are enemies and Vault goes a certain distance and does no damage (OMIT trail of cinders rune).

-Demon Hunter
For being a glass cannon class it has no decent attack skills!  The so called "Glass Cannon" class has the best survival skill in the game! Shadow-Power with Gloom. 70%! You heard me 70% of Demon Hunters are gold farmers with %Gold gear and +Pickup Radius who haven't even finnish the game on inferno! Plus this class cannon class has very, very bad damage issues. It is harder than it should be to get 250k Dps or more, but Bizzard does not buff the attack skills to compensate.

-Witch doctor
There is no fun in this class. It is pretty much an AFK class. Just call the hounds then spam any one of the basic attack skills. All of which are stronger than the Demon Hunter's! The attack based class!

-Wizard
The Wizard. The famous "Critical Mass" face-roll class. Just bind all skills to right mouse button and move to the left one. All it does is, 1. Freeze everything, 2. Do damage, and with high enough attack speed every thing dies without doing any damage to the wizard. Fix this Blizzard! Now!

-Monk
The monk. It can teleport, like the Witch Doctor. It has a massive damage boost skill, like the Barbarian, it has the button spamming quality of a Wizard. It also has a survival skill almost as good as the Demon Hunters "Shadow Power." So there is no point in playing other classes (Unless farming for legendaries, Barbarian), because this has all the qualities of the other classes without the losses! Blizzard thinks this a balanced class. It is not. It is the most over powered class!

DIABLO 3 GOLD INFLATION PROBLEM
-Gold duping
Chinese gold farmers are bad enough, but to have a 70% of Demon Hunters being gold farmers! For 2 or so days after the 1.0.8 update you could bid on an item, cancel the bid and get double! This ruined the economy! Then they buy everything! A while back some koreans started duping. On the asian servers some gems that cost 16,000,000 gold cost 300 gold! No I did not miss any zeros. Now with these issues the 1.0.8 update brought around those same gems cost 25,000,000 and over! The Diablo 3 economy is broken, down right broken!


Those were my problems with Diablo 3. I still like the game, but it is kind of broken.
Nvm, keep gaming!
-Ben

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Good, The Bad, And the Zerg?



I've been watching some Sc2 on Twitch.Tv lately and for all those Zergs out there!



The Queen! Only 13.37! "Buy Yours now!"
0.000001 Movement Speed since WHO CARES!

And for the Terran


SCV: New "Nitro Packs, only 50 Minerals and Gas!"
SCV2: What is that?

SCV: You've never heard of it?
SCV2: No

SCV: Hi-Sec Auto Tracking?
SCV2: No.......

SCV: Weapon Refit?
SCV2: No.....

SCV: *Facepalm*
SCV2: *Leaves call*

And for the Protoss (ssssss?)

Zealot: My life for Ire! Iar? Iur? Aer? Eye-er?


Am I right?.... *No one laughs*... So alone.....
Anyways, in all sincerity, keep StarCraft 2-ing
Starcraft2ering?

Nvm. Keep gaming!
-Ben