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.

 

[neogunhero]

I've put 11 hours in Arc Raiders since Thursday night. You can say I'm a bit addicted.

This game is awesome. Majority of players I run into are friendly and really nice, sometimes they give free items or help fight arcs with you. Every now and then you get attacked out of nowhere and have to fight back, but that's just the nature of the game. I'm glad that most people are friendly though, I don't feel so paranoid trying to watch my back everywhere I go. I can ease up a bit and just enjoy looting and fighting arcs.

I'm starting to learn a bit more about what to get and what to leave. I've unlocked all the workshops and now trying to level them up. The perks are nice but I do wish for a respec feature, it's hard to figure out which upgrade path you should take.

I encountered my first leaper arc yesterday, and those things are insane. The leaper is so cool because it's not forced to perform pre-made animations, instead its body is physics based so it looks so much more natural. It leaps at you, hurling itself hundreds of feet up in the air, and it's legs naturally land on any surface it touches. If they weren't so damn deadly I'd have fun just watching them jump around.

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/twdbHKhRF4Y

 

[Zloth]

Gonna have to call you out there. SteamOS is just Linux and pretty much any game that works on Windows will work on Linux, the big exceptions being AAA games that require Anticheat stuff.

I was surprised to hear Elden Ring is popular on the Steam Deck! Not only does it have anti-cheat software, which is liable to get all "kernally" and not translate, but the game isn't very pause-friendly. You CAN pause the game, but it's more of a side-effect and not widely known. I would think hand-helds would be better for the kind of game that's easy to pause anytime.

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.

That's for sure. Gideon's staff has an attack that makes you and the enemies semi-close to you more susceptible to magic attacks. That should work great against melee users that are going to stay close. Against another mage, it's just going take up animation time IF the enemy is in range. Gideon died fast last night.

Afterward, I popped nearly all my golden runes. +7 levels, so I'm now at 149.

 

[Pifanjr]

I played a bit more of Cyberpunk 2077 today during my break. I don't know which quest lines actually have an impact on the ending, so I've just been picking up some of the easier ones to cross off. The only one I definitely want to finish is to kill Adam Smasher, but that one seemed like it might take a while so I've saved it for later.

 

[Frindis]

I've put 11 hours in Arc Raiders since Thursday night. You can say I'm a bit addicted.

This game is awesome. Majority of players I run into are friendly and really nice, sometimes they give free items or help fight arcs with you. Every now and then you get attacked out of nowhere and have to fight back, but that's just the nature of the game. I'm glad that most people are friendly though, I don't feel so paranoid trying to watch my back everywhere I go. I can ease up a bit and just enjoy looting and fighting arcs.

I'm usually a nice guy, though I am not nice to people trying to sneak up on me. Here you can see two rats, one dead from the other guy and one soon to be. He asks me not to shoot him, so I don't; I just punch him to death instead.

View: https://youtu.be/XertvEeIJBM

 

[dxchase]

Should a separate thread on Arc Raiders be started? haha, I love this game too. Arc was also nominated for best MP game of 2025 and it absolutely will be my pic, even over battlefield 6.

Im currently teaching a friend how to play the game so it was nice that Embark added a duos-only lobby last week.

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/twdbHKhRF4Y

Bro, i know the feeling!

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7571248493231230222

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@0follows0followers0likes/video/7571248493231230222?lang=en





Other than spending most of my available game time in Arc Raiders. I have also been playing Sacred 2 Remaster. Im having fun with it even if some of the old systems in it are annoying to use (camera controls) but the team has been really good about updating it releasing around 3 patches so far, nothing too significant but it tackled the biggest issues like crashing. Idk if its 100% since i never had a problem with that, but its the fact they are releasing patches so im lookin forward to the state itll be in a couple months from now.

 

[BeardyHat]

I was surprised to hear Elden Ring is popular on the Steam Deck! Not only does it have anti-cheat software, which is liable to get all "kernally" and not translate, but the game isn't very pause-friendly. You CAN pause the game, but it's more of a side-effect and not widely known. I would think hand-helds would be better for the kind of game that's easy to pause anytime.

That is one that works well. I mostly meant stuff like Battlefield and I think Arc Raiders, etc.

Elden Ring is actually a pleasure to play on Deck. Locked 30FPS and yeah you can pause anytime; it will disconnect you from the servers, but you can still pick up where you left off when you turn it back on.

 

[neogunhero]

I'm usually a nice guy, though I am not nice to people trying to sneak up on me. Here you can see two rats, one dead from the other guy and one soon to be. He asks me not to shoot him, so I don't; I just punch him to death instead.

View: https://youtu.be/XertvEeIJBM

Video is privated for me!

Sometimes I get the urge to completely flip and turn against a friendly, but I know that's a pretty jerk move to pull. I actually gave into the urge once last night and I died miserably. I then managed to kill a raider who shot at me first though so I finally got some PVP action in. You've always gotta to watch your back, but generally compared to other PVP games this one is less tense. Even the dude that I start shooting at knew I was being a jerk and called me some not so pretty names for it lol.

Should a separate thread on Arc Raiders be started? haha, I love this game too. Arc was also nominated for best MP game of 2025 and it absolutely will be my pic, even over battlefield 6.

I think so, this is a game that creates stories as you play, so it would be best to separate our constant posting about it lol.

BTW I don't think your guy is going to recover from that rope burn on his hands.

That is one that works well. I mostly meant stuff like Battlefield and I think Arc Raiders, etc.

Elden Ring is actually a pleasure to play on Deck. Locked 30FPS and yeah you can pause anytime; it will disconnect you from the servers, but you can still pick up where you left off when you turn it back on.

Games like BF6 and the new COD are using techniques not normally used before for their anti-cheat. These AAA games are becoming increasingly complex with their anti-cheat tools, requiring deeper access to your system. PCG had a good article on it yesterday, and from what I gather the remote attestation is basically a verification system for your PC to the games servers. Games like this, I wonder if they will ever work on Linux. They almost seem like Windows-specific features in some cases.

 

[Frindis]

Should a separate thread on Arc Raiders be started?

Done: https://forums.pcgamer.com/threads/arc-raiders-discussion.149615/

Video is privated for me!

Should be fixed now, sry about that