Finally getting gud at Beyond All Reason again and wondering if I dip my toes in multiplayer. For an Open Source Total Annihilation it plays extremely well and stable. I’m already at the limit of the AI opponents without learning some bad habits. The main problem is the AI fighting is good, but fights like a blob for both allies and enemies which is much different from how real players operate. AI also do not do common team meta strategies, like a player rushing t2 and letting other players “buy” a t2 worker.

I’m also getting back into Timberborn, because I’m married to city builders / colony sims. It’s getting close to 1.0 and out of early access so I’m running the experimental build to see all the features it’ll bring. I’m most excited to have my beavers play with ziplines because I am 5 years old. Badwater/Badtide are terrible, but I’m learning to manage irrigation and contamination mitigation.

My BG3 and ME1 saves look at me accusingly as I neglected them for another week :oh-shit:

In other news, I once again held my annual Thanksgiving Kids Gaming Extravaganza where I set up all my old consoles and TVs and the kids can be loud without bothering the adults. This time I had my Wii with Wii Sports (Boxing and Bowling were the most popular) and my PS4 running the perennial favorite SW:Battlefront 1. I tried to get my Raspberry Pi to run emulated Goldeneye 007 but I couldn’t get it working correctly (aka, stubborn) before the night was over. I’ll tinker with it in the meantime and see if I can get it up and running for Christmas.