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Deus Ex

never played | want to play | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

I started this back earlier this month, before the house’s AC broke and I moved into the guesthouse for the time being, and while I didn’t get terribly far (I got to the start of Hell’s Kitchen), it was very, very good. Big maps even for the tutorial, plenty of secrets and little things, lots of stuff to explore and discover. I’m really looking forward to getting back to it once I get home.

Human Revolution

never played | want to play | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

I bought this back around the time it first released (meaning my Steam copy is not the version with the tweaked boss battles, for better or worse), but I never got very far. I wasn’t used to cover shooters at that point in my life, so it was extremely difficult to get a grip on things (I died multiple times in the first tutorial fight, for instance), and it also seemed to play... oddly? Like, it felt like there was framedropping even though it also seemed like it was a constant framerate. It’s hard to describe, and my memories are fuzzy. I got to the first real gameplay segment, wandered around the city a little, and then stopped.

No Vale? (sad bird noises)

Heheh, I’m just messing. Here’s Bill’s listing!

Because I guess I should start actually using this tumblr for something.

Taking the official codex numbers for dreadnoughts, we can extrapolate that:

Turian shipbuilding capacity is quite good. Even though they took the brunt of the damage in the citadel battle, they still managed to replace all their losses, and then build two more dreads.

Salarian shipbuilding capacity is either focused on modernizing and upgrading current ships, replacing obsolete ships or just not great in general. No Salarian ships were seen in the Battle of Citadel cutscene so we're presuming they lost quite few ships and no dreadnoughts, and in the two years between no new dreadnoughts were constructed.

I could probably say the same about Asari shipbuilding capacity that I said about the Salarians. We know that the Asari fleet was present in the battle of the citadel, and even if was just the Destiny Ascension that was lost, they still haven't fully replaced losses, and are still down a dread.

Vasudan shipbuilding capacity is the best in the galaxy, but heavily inclined towards civilian over military. Their economy didn't stagnate after Capella, though they did shift the focus heavily to the civilian sector rather than military under the final few years of Khonsu’s reign, and only post-contact under Mihos did they re-invest into the military.

I sure hope so too!

It looks like the liberals are going to win at this point but it’s still not for certain.