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Sunday, 21 April 2013

Stronghold 3; Positive stats gives you negative happiness


http://store.steampowered.com/app/47400/

How to Reproduce
- Start Stronghold3
- Play 4th mission of Economic Campaign
- Place flowers around the area to give yourself more happiness
Description

In the screen shot you will notice that a plague of rats is giving me happiness

negative stats comes up as positive

Personal Notes

I have been unable to recreate this bug. If I do while playing I will update it further. However when something else came along like another plague or something the stats would then right itself. However it would then go back to being broken again after the event.

I've played all the previous Stronghold and like them. Not for the story, oh god not the story, but for the game mechanics and how it works and plays. Every building is needed and does something and works along side another building. Put a couple of buildings too far apart, the supply and demand is skewed. Your granary is too far from your farms? Then you will run out of food before it can be restocked. It is quite a simple yet complex and interesting game. Ahhh Steam how I love/hate you for the ease it is for me to get cheap good games. Seriously if more companies make it this easy (and cheap) to be legit, I'm sure more people would.

Saturday, 20 April 2013

BioShock Infinite; Elizabeth gets stuck on a Sky Rail


http://store.steampowered.com/app/8870/

How to Reproduce

- Start BioShock Infinite
- Load a level where there are ride-able Skyrails
- Ride a Skyrail all the way to the end of one (ensure Elizabeth is following you)
- When you reach the end and stopped moving. Jump off
Description
Elizabeth gets stuck on the Skyrail.

This hasn't happened to me all the time, and most of the time the AI for her is great and it works fine. However in the midst of battle where you are jumping from 1 rail to another. She sometimes gets lost.

bioshock infinite eli stuckbioshock infinite eli stuck2

Personal Notes

So I really liked Bioshock Infinite. The scenes were beautiful, the story was compelling and complex, and Elizabeth is awesome. I have played quite a few games, and some of them where you go around with an AI companion. They usually get lost, or stuck against some environmental object. But not Elizabeth. She follows you easily (until she gets stuck on a Skyrail) but most of the time she follows you easily enough. Throws ammo, health, salts, money at you. What more could a gamer want in an AI Companion! She even brings you back from the death which the animation for is also amazing. It really makes you feel for Her. In one part of the game where you lost her. I went crazy, must get her back as quickly as possible and I died so often. I do have 1 problem though.

So I bought this game on Steam in Australia. It cost me AU$80. However the same game in America is only USD$60. Please explain? Am I getting some kind of AU only version of Bioshock? or does it cost more to send the game via the tubes. Please explain? I know this is also an issue with other things apart from games. But come on!

Minecraft; Shadows are incorrect when placing half blocks on ceiling.



How to Reproduce

  • Start Minecraft

  • Using half blocks build a ceiling


Description

When you build the ceiling notice that the shadows on the corner blocks, even though they are half blocks, are full block shadows

minecraft shadow pt1minecraft shadow pt2

Personal Notes

So me and my partner have been playing a lot of Minecraft. I still remember the day I first heard about this game and was not sure what the hype was all about.
Its a game about building blocks and stuff? Why is it so popular

Anyways after a couple of years this game has grown a lot. There is now so much more you can do. Me and my friends found a village and then We were like "Lets make it into a city!" .. So we did.. There have been a couple of other similar games (Terrira) which I have also played and are also quite popular. However they have all come and gone. Only Minecraft have stayed. I think it was the creepers .... scary little green things ....