Today in #F1Manager24 Lewis Hamilton was in 2nd behind his teammate Max Verstappen during the final lap of the Shanghai Sprint Race in China this weekend when he ran out of fuel and rolled to a standstill about fifty meters from the checkered flag for a DNF.
Lewis sure does know some colourful language.
Today in #Valheim I returned to Sky Harbour. @skyfire747 was there doing some housekeeping and cooking. I went to work on the tower behind the fortress which has been standing unfinished for many seasons. I finished building a roof on it, which was tricky because at that height, there wasn’t much building integrity left to play with. After the roof was on, I set about repairing the rain damage that had occurred to the interior stairs and floors. After Skyfire agreed to my suggestion of housing hens in the tower, I built a cage at the top for three chickens and hatched some eggs. While waiting for the hens to begin laying, I began working on a covered walkway around the top of the tower, a detail which really made it look like a part of the fortress build below it. The view from the top is really good too. You can see every other building in Sky Harbour from the lookout now. I snapped some pics when it was all done. We have many eggs now.
Today in #SnowRunner I drove up a mountain!
For those who are interested, I took some gameplay footage to give you an idea what the SnowRunner is like.
[14min YouTube video]
https://youtu.be/QYCIApYUxJ8
Today in #SnowRunner I found a new truck! It’s been very useful.
I bought SnowRunner earlier this week and I’ve been quietly impressed with how much game there is within this title.
For those who haven’t heard of this game, it’s an open world off roading truck simulator, which isn’t something I’d even give a second look normally. What caught my attention was the simulation of the mud and snow which gets carved out and chopped up when you drive over it. The physics simulation and the mesh deformation just impressed me, so for $22 I thought I’d check it out.
As far as driving games go, I’ve never played anything slower. I spent so much time with my truck bogged axle deep in mud moving at a crawl, or slower. This, again, doesn’t sound like something I’d be into, but weirdly, it turned into a really cool experience. The environment is very highly detailed and the open world nature of the game means that you can find yourself planning out some elaborate scheme involving multiple vehicles to complete your mission.
Oh yeah, the missions… As far as I can tell, the story is that the entire area has suffered from some kind of disaster, like a massive cyclone, or something like that. Everything is flooded, roads are washed out, bridges have collapsed, towns are cut off, and you’re there to help everyone out, with your trusty truck! So you have to carry wood and steel to construction sites, travel to and interact with civil infrastructure, carry supplies to local businesses and farms, rescue other vehicles that have gotten stuck, that sort of thing. There’s a whole campaign, because doing a mission like clearing a land slide will open up new areas and missions. There’s multiple maps and over a hundred vehicles. Also a ton of mods and a possibly unhealthy number of DLC.
SnowRunner was released in 2020 and it’s still very active with new DLC still being developed. It runs on Windiz, Mac, and most of the consoles, including Switch. It’s single player or co-op with up to three other players.
Yeah, it’s cathartically stressful to play, pretty to look at, dead boring to watch, it’s currently half price on Steam, and there’s a LOT of gameplay to be had.
This is a review, not a recommendation.
Dgar
