November 2025 General Games Discussion Thread

[Kaamos_Llama]

Yep. Against the Godskins, I was able to summon Dung Eater and recusant Bernahl, so the brothers took on the boss pair, which worked out great after two or three tries.

Spoiler: same quest spoiler

Alexander put a scare into me! I always use black flame on pots but, when I tried it on him, it barely scratched him! I guess that's why he was hanging out in the lava pools earlier in the game. After he left me hanging against the Fire Giant, though, I didn't feel quite so bad for him. And then that crock pot went and blew his guts all over my outfit!!

Malekith's fight (big spoiler at the end) was... ugh. It didn't take long to get good enough to win, but there was a sequence of attacks he would do that I could only partially dodge - and that wasn't enough to survive all the attacks, even from full health. If I only did a few attacks and let Dung Eater tank, he wouldn't survive long enough to whittle that monster down, so I had to draw some agro. It just became a matter of whether I could get a pillar between me and the rest of the attack, which took quite a few tries before it happened to work out. (I think Dung Eater might have gotten some fancy dodges done, too - he should have be destroyed while I was behind that pillar, chugging down potions.)

I think how a fight goes depends a lot on how youre playing and your build, figuring out how to avoid the attacks with timing is fun to me, most of the time. OTOH I really struggled with the Duo, took me a long time because I kept getting blind sided. I hate that flabby wheely move, haunts me to this day.

 

[Pifanjr]

I played a bit more of my Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord game. I'm not sure what I'm doing right, but for some reason my party absolutely obliterates every enemy party I encounter. I can now lead up to 188 men and whenever I fight enemies of comparable size I typically lose single-digit numbers. I stumbled upon a friendly siege being attacked by an enemy army, which resulted in about 700 of our units fighting against 600 enemies and when we won I had lost about 30 men and the rest of the army was pretty much obliterated, though because we won about half the units were merely wounded.

Even so, when I accidentally got too close to an enemy army of about 500 units I decided to buy my way out of it. It cost me most of my money, but since I'm playing on ironman mode I didn't want to risk losing my entire army.

The kingdom I've joined is still winning every war it starts, but expansion is slow and we occasionally lose a castle as well. From what I understand it's possible to convince other clans to switch sides, so maybe I should try convincing some of them to join my faction so we have more troops to defend our lands.

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I also played a bit more of Heat Signature. I have liberated one of the four strongholds necessary to win the game, sadly sacrificing the character I was playing at that moment. It was a pretty rough mission because all of the enemies had armour and my only useful weapon was a grenade launcher with 5 grenades. I got shot twice before I somehow managed to make it to the pilot chair and put the ship on a collision course with the stronghold. I dodged my way around the remaining guards back to my ship, but I hadn't been paying attention to the timer. I had just entered my ship and was a second away from launching when we crashed into the stronghold.