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When you’re done the game, the Freedom Cry DLC is fantastic
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SuperflyTNT wrote: I’m an old slot car fiend and this may just scratch the itch.
On sale at Target for 20% off
I believe Anki actually sells direct for less than that, I got a lot of our stuff from them and the shipping was free. Could have been a Christmas sale though.
Actually, having some slot car experience pays off...understanding the importance of throttle control is really, really critical to keeping the cars on the track. But in this, you have two main differences aside from the weapons and equipment: 1) you can switch "slots" and 2) there isn't actually a "slot".
I would highly, highly recommend purchasing a third car AND a Supertruck even in the initial "check it out" stage. It really shines with a full field (only 4) and the Takeover mode is EXCELLENT. If you want to go all big ballin', I think that buying the base set and then the Fast and the Furious set is a good idea. You wind up with 4 cars (including the 2 F&F ones that are only available in that set) and a shitload of track for about $200. Cars are about $35-$50 a piece depending on what sale you get ahold of. The tracks are actually pretty cheap, under $20.
When I got it I actually had no idea that the cars had weapons. I thought it was just straight racing. Which is really fun. But then I saw that they had all of this crazy shit like doing 180s and blowing cars off the track, and that's when my $100 check it out buy turned into a $200 all in one.
I can't warn you enough though- be prepared for it to not be a full on 100% of the time thing. And be prepared that you may run into DOA cars like I have.
In terms of the buyer's guide...my favorite car actually comes with the starter, Skull. But I really like Big Bang (slower but with tons of armor and heavy weapons) and Nuke Phantom (balanced and looks awesome- better than the standard edition Nuke). Both trucks are about equivalent, but I'd go with Freewheel because I like the sleeker futuristic look of it. The Collison Pack is ESSENTIAL. That is the crossover piece. The Launch Pack is better than you'd think, and it adds some action with a jump. It also causes lots of accidents, as you might expect, and the Supertrucks can't use it. The risers are good and you really want a pack of them to go with the base game because there's not enough to do an extended raised portion- they're just like $7-$8. The rails, don't bother. They don't actually affix to the track pieces, so when a car hits them it just pushes the rail off and the car does what it was going to do anyway. I've thought about blue-tacking them on. You're also going to want to hit the Sterlite aile to get something to put it all in, I got a flat-ish bin for the tracks and a small one for the cars and charger.
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This whole don't buy a Paradox game until 5 DLCs in thing is my new go to. Everything pretty much works!
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I would caution that I think the whole thing is quite sensitive...I’m still not 100 percent sure how it all works but I think that you would not want a small child roughing up the tracks by pushing cars around on them or anything like that.
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I also re-bought Fez, which I played before on the Xbox and enjoyed, though I got frustrated with it at one point.
I need to finish Doom so I can get it off my PS4 hard drive, but I just haven't been in that place recently (as shown by the fact that I'm playing The Witness).
I also bought Horizon Zero Dawn and played some of it but again, that's not really where I am right now.
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Still PUBG, but its really best with a group that works well together.
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2. Chipping away at the 2012 Syndicate FPS. It's cool, but difficult and linear to a fault.
3. Also messing around with Mirror's Edge Catalyst. It's as stylish as the first game but so far I don't love it the way I loved the first game.
4. I couldn't resist starting Wolfenstein 2. I'm playing on easy, and that's working for me because the story is the real draw here. This game is amazing, plain and simple. When I saw the original Wolfenstein 3D, I was blown away. And this game blows me away all over again.
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It was humiliating in exactly the way I constantly humiliate and dismantle AIs in the game. I can't believe the English decided to intervene in Germany. And in this timeline, there was no Gustav II Adolf in Sweden to assist the Protestant states.
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