The Screenshot Thread

Yeah, there are definitely some issues with how they designed the RPG systems. Still, I enjoyed Origins on the whole, it was Odyssey that broke me to the point I stopped playing (though I will probably try it again at some point because I really liked Kassandra as a character). The discovery tour is pretty neat and can be done in an afternoon.

A few more AC:O, mostly from the second DLC.

Thebes

Siwa, Temple of Amun

Isu vaults. I've played three of these games now and still have no idea what the hell the framing sci-fi story is about.

Some of the "afterlives" from the second DLC, themed around different pharaohs around the Amarna period.

Nefertiti's afterlife is all about fertility.

Akhenaten. What shall we do for the guy who was all about worshipping the sun? Make it really sunny!

Rameses II, war.

Star Trek Online (Episode: Scorpions' Abyss)

You'd think that an RTS that exclusively takes place in a desert would be plain and boring and not offer interesting terrain, but DoK manages it.

Deployed turret (probably) guarding some ressource extraction site.

Support cruisers can repair and ressources can be loaded off there instead of at the carrier. The base runner (on the dune) puts down defense turrets and such.

The debris left behind after battle, damage models and such are pretty decent as well and contribute to a good feel of combat.

Going purely with air didn't always work out, but could develop into fun slugging matches as the wreckage on the approach to my ally attests to in this case.

The AI usually did send over a swarm of these fast attack vehicles right at the beginning. The carrier defenses aren't powerful enough to deal with them quickly.

They are fragile, but very fast and ideal to hunt down railguns. In this case it's LAVs - the equivalent vehicle of the other faction.

A few of these AAVs were a nice counter for the fast vehicles early on, but the AI usually did start sending over lots of railguns after the first attack and AAVs don't have the speed or range to deal with them.

Assault Cruisers do have the range and power though.

But for Cruisers they are pretty fragile.

Things weren't exactly going well, but I think my AI ally eventually sent over some reinforcements and saved me.

Two AAVs standing guard early on on some nightly map.

Massed AAVs moving forward with repair support in the back.

A 1vs1 match: I was caught off-guard as the AI rarely goes for massed air.

So I sent forward my unexpectedly useless army to attack across the very small map, while trying to tech to air defense vehicles.

I did do quite a bit of damage and was eventually able to stabilize back home with some air defense, but otherwise it was a hard-fought back-and-forth with a lot of casualties.

These artillery cruisers aren't usually meant for the frontline either... The small hovercraft were providing a good screen, but kept dying off quickly.

But it did eventually work out nevertheless.

Space Hulk - Ascension:

It's all very dark and it's often hard to even see if a corridor is a dead-end. I have overlooked ventilation shafts - which enemies love to use as shortcuts - more than once. Mostly it's very tight corridors, but there are also bigger rooms and hallways like in this case. It's nice to be able to deploy more firepower, but the Genestealers have enough room to attack en masse as well.

A survival mission, where the squad gets split: Brother Clovis had died for the Emperor and Sergeant Warin did find himself surrounded.

Trying to leg it wasn't overly successful...

The next try went much better. Felt a bit like that one scene from Aliens and the Tarantula turret does also eventually run out of ammo. To the top right the camera view of Brother Hellico can be seen. He was covering one of the approaches to the room where the other half of the squad was sitting.

Well, you can never see everything all that well. Only the more obvious stuff like corridors and room layouts become clear, but there is no indication of ventilation shafts (which seems very much intentional) and there is often no clear sense of where I can actually move to before I'm close enough to actually go there. Spawnpoints are indicated once you get close enough. It's a bit inconsistent though since blocked doors are indicated and you can mouse over the environment to light up other doors as well, no matter where they are on the map. Genestealers attacking doors can be seen as well.

The Terminators have headlamps and there are some environmental lights as well, but it's still always kind of murky.

I don't think that there is an overall map screen.

Edit: MercytheMad has done some Livestreams pretty recently.

But yeah, looking at your link, they really look quite different, especially considering that they are by the same developer.

If you already have it I'd say it's worth a go even if it's just to explore the city for a bit. I liked it on the whole, but it's very uneven. Some bugs and glitches - not terrible but I had to restart missions a couple of times.

They couldn't make it work with the mechanics of the carriages in Syndicate, and every AC game since then has been set in era where that population level wouldn't have seemed as realistic.

I imagine someone could mod that level of crowd density into something like Cyberpunk 2077 where it would thematically suit it, but it would probably require beastly hardware to run without tanking framerates.