Best Of
Re: 50 Different Game Nights 'Til EpIC23
Overcooked 2 was free on Epic for a while. Several people have DRG. Raft. Halo Infinite. Gunfire Reborn. Some DOOM game or UT2k4. Battlefront II. Vermintide 2. Torchlight 1/2. Overwatch
Re: Expo Icrontic 2022 Pre-Announcement
@Kwitko said:
Is there a list of recommended hotels? I'm planning to come with Dagmara and Ethan.
There are 5 hotels listed on the ticket sales page.
Expo 2022 — Tickets are now on sale
Hey if you're out here in the forum wilderness, the tickets for Expo 2022 are on sale here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expo-icrontic-2022-tickets-326722755557
They're available until June 3.
If you need an invite to Discord, hit me up.
Calling Icrontic's Entrepreneurs
So. The wife and I are going into Copywriting on a freelance basis! We've studied up, got a shmancy new Outlook E-Mail, working on socials and a website, and even have a designer on call. Almost ready to start pitching clients. We just have one question, taxation.
The course we took suggested forming a Sole Proprietorship or perhaps an LLC. We are going to contact my Step Sister-in-law, whom is a CPA. However, I seem to remember a few folks on here work for themselvs. So what do you reccommend, Sole Proprietorship, LLC, or us it even worth it at this stage so long as we put back the right amount for taxes? We hope to market as Neverland Copywriting.
Re: I buy games I already own == Free games
I also purchased the Support Ukraine bundle, although I didn't have most of the games. I still have the following items left:
- PGA Tour 2K21
- SUPERHOT
- SYSTEM SHOCK: ENHANCED EDITION
- Slinger VR
- Telefrag VR
- Liberated
- Wanderlust: Travel Stories
- Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook and Starfinder Core Rulebook
- Polygon Farm, Polygon City, and Polygon Prototype
- PDF-Suite
- Max Payne 3
- All of the 3D-printable items
Re: _K's krazy krash kourse of KATastrophe
Orbital Racer(1.72 hours): Won a few races and picked up a few sponsors but not going to play it to much since it is a bit annoying/cheap. Flying around makes me think they simply ripped their environments from Shattered Horizon because the Venus space station and Asteroid race field looks A LOT like several things from that game and it is super weird to catch a shape and immediately think of Shattered Horizon. The game itself is a checkpoint space flying game with dmg and weapons. Using mouse and keyboard you can just point the ship and press W, Pyros dream. Since it does take into account energy you have sharp turns and some curving you need to do to be efficient but by the 7th race I was going against hard CPUs and the only thing screwing me over were EMP missiles. This is the real reason I am not going to try all of the courses, the freaking EMP mines and missiles. Mines you can fly around but for missiles you have to launch flares and the flares have a 25% success rate. You can either wait for an incoming missile message or just hold down the flare button and fly the entire race. The issue is when you are racing and close to each other missiles will have a 100% hit chance so flares are not very useful. Just getting out in front and laying on the speed is the only thing that seems to be very useful in the game. Visuals are pretty good for a small release as you get particle effects, light changes, reflections, and some interesting HUD and course markers. If you bought the Ukraine pack you should have a key for this and I think it is worth 45 minutes of play just to see what it looks like. Wish there was LAN or multiplayer built in because it would be a fun party style game for an hour with friends as you play bumper cars on a track.
Games Completed: 180
Time: 12 weeks 78.42 hours
Expo Icrontic 2022 Pre-Announcement
This year's event will be June 22-26, which is a Wed-Sun as usual. Events begin Wed evening and culminate late Saturday night, typically past midnight.
No events are scheduled for Sunday. Please plan to depart no later than Monday unless you've made other arrangements with Linc.
Costs
Tickets go on sale May 8 and will remain on sale until June 3.
The requested chip-in this year is $145. First-timer / discount chip-in is $55. We'll also have $25 sponsorships for the website's annual costs available for non-attendees.
If you will take longer than June 3 to chip in, please contact Linc directly to make arrangements. Theme and other program details will be provided then. Some events will include additional costs to participate. Your chip-in only covers the general event setup.
Expenses
Attendees get an official event badge and t-shirt, plus maybe some other surprise swag. Chip-in also goes toward cleaning, consumables, venue maintenance, infrastructure upgrades, and the annual upkeep of this website. Multiple costs have increased this year, including EventBright's fee and badges, and we're purchasing large HEPA filters for the basement to keep everyone as safe as we know how.
Rules & Safety
Event rules and code of conduct will be included in the official announcement when tickets go on sale. COVID vaccination required. We currently do not plan to enforce a masking rule (the house lacks HVAC and is open-air aside from the basement) but this may change with little warning. Pack your masks and be prepared.
Got questions? This is where they go.
Re: _K's krazy krash kourse of KATastrophe
Back 4 Blood(52.3 hours): This game was meant to be a spiritual successor to L4D as the company who made it is the one behind the L4D series. The zombies are a generic virus based 'ridden' creature and the survivors are immune from infection. All of the elements are there: survivors that are stereotypes, safe rooms, minimal plot, melee and shootie weapons, special infected, and 4 acts with segments to break it up. A new component are cards. This is for the ridden and the players so you get variation on the obstacles you have to face every play through but your cards are from a 15 card deck you build after unlocking cards. Here is where things go off for me because there are about 5 cards you have to have in your deck to be effective and survive in the game so quickly you feel handicapped as you can only pick a new card after getting to a new safe room and you spend half an act getting your base cards. Now to continue on the theme of variation weapons have attachments you get randomly and weapons are random drops but attachments are not transferable so if you get a gold early on but the base gun is white you will lose that gold component when you finally find a blue or purple gun and seems stupid. The computer appears to always have an advantage in regards to the variation. Aiming is very tight and things play well enough but it just doesn't feel great and at only 50 hours the game seems played out to me.
Games Completed: 179
Time: 12 weeks 77.7 hours
Re: _K's krazy krash kourse of KATastrophe
ROARR!!(72 minutes): Calling this one short because it doesn't appear you can beat the final level in this game solo and I don't have 4 friends just hiding in my closet ready to play. Simple beat 'em up where you are a sleepy T-Rex that gets woken up and decides to kick everyone's ass so you can get some gosh darn peace and quiet. There are different costumes and for some reason you can double jump.
Games Completed: 178
Time: 12 weeks 25.4 hours