Happy New Year! General Game Discussion--January 2026

[dxchase]

Been kinda low key since the new year. I play all the time but its mostly just PVP Raider on Raider Arc Raiders action mixed with some Diablo 4.

Had to completely change my schedule through work to work the exact opposite times i was working (overnights at the beginning to days at the end of the week), so its thrown a wrench into my gaming/streaming plans amongst other events...

I also had to replace my sennheiser headphones because one of my cats got to the chord which is weird because they never have in the past done this, and mustve cut the sound to the one speaker. I tried fixing it but i just had them swapped out through the warranty. It took over a week for them to get here because of all the snowstorms.

The mrs. is going in for surgery next week (nothing too serious) and will be on bedrest for about 2 weeks after that, so im going to be able to ramp up gaming/streaming then since i already got approved for FMLA (Family Paid leave from work for emergencies and stuff) and i have a backlog of newer games ive wanted to play.

Hope yall are doing well, i havent really kept up on the convo in this thread so hopefully your rigs and new gpus and stuff are running fine!

 

[Pifanjr]

My Sniper died in FrogComposband. I decided to go back to the (almost) bottom of the dungeon to see if I could nab some good gear. A unique enemy saw me so I teleported away and before I could do anything else I was dead. Apparently teleporting away is ill advised at the lower depths because there are too many enemies that can instakill you at that point.

I still learned a lot and decided to start a new character, this time playing as a ring again. After a couple false starts I got some good luck at the start of the game, then mixed up my dungeons and accidentally wandered into a high level area, where I got killed in a single hit again.

Maybe I should switch to one of the many, many games on my backlog instead...

 

[Johnway]

So i've gotten around to sinking a good amount of time playing Ghost recon wildlands. I've completed the first area (eliminated the HVTs, collected all the upgrades and done some of the side content) and i'm moving onto my next area.

So initlal thoughts? its very meh. The problem is that its very much a sandbox and its clearly made for Online Coop as playing it in SP is pretty mediocre. Its not badly made, just not very inspiring and very repetitive. i think the problem is that there is very few (if at all) orchestrated set pieces like some missions in Far cry or the division. here it feels very cut and paste job. its also somewhat slower especially as i have to set up engagements and plan ahead. Small traffic stop? get out car, recon area, mark targets hit targets. Search bodies and drive onto my destination.

I'll still play the game just to see the end of it, but it looks like PCG was on the ball when it came to the score as i would be giving it somewhere along the 60%-69% mark atm. Not horrible to play, technically well made but really uninspiring in SP.