Friday Foxer #130
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
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Type:Rider – fontastic and (almost) free
Unsurprisingly, Steam’s sub-50p bargain basement is awash with concentrated effluent. Without a robust hazmat suit and prodigious patience, you’ve zero chance of unearthing marvels like the (currently) 39p Type:Rider.
Combat Pilot – a promising speck on the horizon
I’d argue the natural skull slot for ‘Combat Pilot excitement’ is one adjacent to ‘Task Force Admiral excitement’. Whereas Drydock Dreams are intent on creating the most realistic/ravishing WW2 Pacific carrier ops wargame ever made, Entropy.Aero, a subsidiary of Barbedwire Studios, are determined to bring us the PC’s most realistic/ravishing PTO flight sim.
Dusty But Trusty: Panzer Elite Special Edition
Grappling with unanticipated pathfinding and optimisation challenges, the makers of Tank Squad have decided to delay a demo originally intended for release this week. One possible way to assuage disappointment is to fire up Panzer Elite Special Edition, an aged classic that is a trifling $1.50 at the moment at GOG.
Deft Dane sweeps the board in IL-2 air races
On Saturday accomplished Danish aerobat CSW_Tommy544 snatched victory in both finals of the demanding Virpil WarBRD Race Tournament. The standard of airmanship in the competition was staggeringly high and the racing nailbitingly close as the video embedded below the jump illustrates.
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Just Xiangqi (chess for wargamers)
Xiangqi, the Chinese form of chess, has more WA (wargamer appeal) than the western variety. Its combat might be just as deterministic, but a board that boasts actual topography, and armies that include artillery units capable of stylised indirect fire, makes it feel groggier.
M2T
M is for Master of Chess. The fact that the demo for Master of Chess, an intriguing Football Manager-style chess sim, refuses to run on both my laptop and desktop PC, probably says more about my fondness for outdated operating systems than BRANE’s professionalism or coding prowess. In Master of Chess the cultivatable character you Svengali provides insightful feedback on the moves you’re contemplating.