Derelict factory environment? Check. Container-cluttered port? Check. ‘Woodpecker’ over-the-horizon-radar array? Check. Three of Early Access Acrodrift’s half-dozen drone playgrounds are a little hackneyed. Fortunately, a couple of the others are unforgettable.
I wish my two current squeezes, Dagger Directive and Infinite Orienteering: The Hiker’s Path, could get together and produce a kid. As gratifying as it is to round a boulder or barge into a clearing and find the orange-and-white control point I’ve been seeking for ages, I think deep down I’d prefer to be hunting for weapon caches, rendezvous points, and camouflaged OPs.
U is for Undeserved neglect. Sometimes I’m so busy searching out the obscure and quirky, I fail to give the megafauna of the sim and wargame fields the attention it deserves. SCS Software, the studio that almost singlehandedly created the truck sim genre, is in the process of sidestepping into two adjacent genres. The following vids suggest both Road Trip – a new car-based exploration mode for American Truck Simulator unlocked through purchase of add-ons like this one– and Coaches – a self-explanatory ETS2 DLC – are going to be unmissable.
La Forge du Code doesn’t seem to have profited greatly from a week-long advertising stint on the Corner (After an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign the French dev behind the unusually foggy Kriegsspiel ~ 7 Years’ War is now considering his options). Hopefully, the site’s latest advertiser, Kudos Games, will see some benefits. The $20 Cold War Battles launches on Thursday, and, like Kriegsspiel, has numerous endearing qualities.
Yesterday evening command of the Sabre-rattling 12th FBS squadron passed to Major Furnace Amberwick after Major Terence Torrance, my alter aero for much of the past week, failed to return from a bomber interception mission near Old Baldy. The fact that Torrance wasn’t killed by MiGs or flak (he perished in a mid-air collision) is significant. Right now a number of factors conspire to make career-mode sorties in the eminently likeable, exceptionally handsome Korea IL-2 less dangerous and less exciting than they could be.
A unique sub-themed commenter tile to the Cornerite who has explored the most real, intact submarines (List the visited vessels in a comment, please). I’m ashamed to admit I’ve only ever roamed the compartments of one actual sub – HMS Alliance. I’m sure there are THC readers who have bagged many more.
I’ve enjoyed Arcane Alpacas’ £13 (until Aug 27) homage to Delta Force from the outset, but I’m enjoying it even more since leaving Alaska. The venues in the Nukes in the North campaign were often gloomy and grassy, making spotting foes surprisingly tricky. As vegetation tends to be sparse and skies cloudless in Drug Disruption’s Mexican levels, there’s less chance of blundering into trouble.
According to Steam I’ve spent sixteen hours with Korea IL-2 so far. During that time I believe I’ve downed just three swept-wing interceptors. This meagre tally of MiG-15s and F-86s is partly a consequence of play choices (Much of my time has been spent flying the history-smothered Mustang and Shooting Star-focused ‘Home by Christmas’ scripted campaign) and partly down to a lack of practice (it’s a while since I last combat flightsimmed in earnest), but it also reflects just how difficult it is to kill small, swift, nimble jets using nothing but nose-mounted MGs and autocannons.