u/Rodd-200

Hi all TfM players. I have a question.

After reading all the manual, solo modo, starting point and prelude corps/projects/cards, i would like to know if people common play solo mode + prelude corps and projects but without prelude cards?

Its because from what i´ve seen, prelude cards gives a great initial boost, but also takes from you 2 generations rounds (14 to 12).

How you guys often see this setup? Any advice is appreciate.

Pessoal, alguém saberia nos dizer quais são os principais lançamentos e reprints que teremos até o final do ano?

Fiquei sabendo de alguns, mas foi muito por cima. Se alguém tiver mais informações concretas, seria legal.

Alguns jogos previstos para este ano (vou editando conforme as respostas forem aparecendo):

1. Unstoppable
2. Spirit Island (reprint)
3. Root
4. Unmatched
5. Feed the Kraken
6. Kinfire Delve
7. Hegemony
8. Terrorscape
9. Old kings crown
10. The Thing

Que mais?

Hey guys, im new to the hobby after getting tired of videogames (CRPG/RPG I still play) and recently i bought Gloomhaven JotL as my first ever boardgame and im loving it so far playing solo, mastering all monsters moviments and attacks (melee/range) in different scenarios.

I have a big table for setup which i can leave it there when needed.

So, a friend of mine knowing im in the hobby told me hes moving to Japan (we are from Brazil) and want to sell almost all his collection. I bought a few of them already mostly for solo:

- Gloomhaven (new and sleeved)
- Spirit Island
- ISS Vanguard
- Harmonies (play with gf)

I want one more but cant decide between these and if they are good/great for solo:

- Mansions of Madness (2ed)
- Sleeping Gods
- Terraforming Mars
- Sycthe
- Descent Legends of the Dark
- LOTR Journey
- Arkahm Horror (edit: 3rd edition - 2018)
- Expeditions
- Pest

If you guys could chose 3 from the bottom list in ordem of preference, which one would you get?

I put a photo of my table for setup and space

Edit: Tnx for all the replies. I could only chose games from this list. I got a great discount.

At the end, he didnt have Spirit Island, so the final list is this:

- Gloomhaven (new and sleeved - not even played)
- ISS Vanguard (sealed)
- Harmonies
- Terraforming Mars (sealed)
- Mansions of Madness (board, not the card game)

Hi everyone, I’m new here and would love some help. I’ve always played video games, and RPGs are my favorite genre. I’ve achieved 100% completion in *BG3*, *Divinity 2*, *Rogue Trader*, and other CRPGs. Lately, though, I haven't felt the same urge to play other games as I used to. A friend recently reached out to play *Star Wars: Imperial Assault*, and it really made me want to get a game I could play mostly solo. Do you think any of these games would be a good choice to get started in the hobby?

- *Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion*
- *The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth*
- The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

I’m looking for something with a campaign/dungeon crawler focus

Feel free to suggest other

Hello all... Oblivion Remastered is on sale atm on ps store. I would like to know how the game is in terms of crashes, bugs and frame drops.

Also, there were any patches in the last 2-3 months? I heard the last patch was like a year ago? Sounds insane since the game dropped last year.

Guys, its summer sale on playstation store and both Age 2 and 4 are on sale right now.

I was a PC gamer in 90s and early 00, then stopped playing games a few years at college and a few more just after.

Since 2015 im on console (ps4/ps5/ps5 pro)

Which one of these 2 should i buy for my console experience? Which one have more players for MP?

It's impressive what Housemarque achieved with Saros. They managed to improve everything compared to Returnal, especially the sense of character progression. Until now, Returnal was my favorite game, but Saros managed to surpass it and i just finisehd act 1.

The weapons are extremely well designed, and the way the character attributes influence weapon performance and their different variations is all very well executed. Zero complaints about the game's quality, including the story. Its been really interesting to see how expeditions I, II, III, and IV failed while trying to extract lucenita. And even knowing some spoilers about the ending, I'm still curious to see how everything develops until it gets there and what the consequences will be.

Its a real shame that Saros is selling so poorly, largely because of price and difficulty level that many people consider very hard, when in reality, its much more manageable than Returnal.

10/10, and I don't need any more facts to convince me.

Initially, I only knew Marathon as an extraction shooter. It was my first game in the genre, and I had a lot of fun with it, I can’t deny that. As the weeks went by, I started noticing a growing wave of criticism surrounding the game, both constructive and unfounded, whether regarding the PvP/PvE balance or more technical issues. From that point on, I saw the debate between Arc and Marathon players only getting bigger, while the game I loved kept losing players and matchmaking times kept increasing.

My free time started becoming more limited, so I decided to give another multiplayer game a chance. Since Arc was at the center of the discussion I had been following, I decided to try another extraction shooter, even though it would mean leaving Marathon behind, which honestly wasn’t something I wanted to happen.

After playing 50 hours of each game, I came to the conclusion that Arc Raiders fits much better with what I’m looking for than Marathon,  not because Arc Raiders is more accessible, but because it has a much more solid foundation, fully embracing both the PvE and PvP aspects.

I started playing ARC with a PvP mindset. I wanted to encounter those players who criticized Marathon it PvP aspect.

In my first matches, I jumped in wanting to shoot and kill everyone. I had good PvP results, even with limited resources and gear. I knew my kills would be limited by my inexperience in ARC, but I was willing to take a game focused on PvE by the player base and turn it into a PvP experience.

However, what I actually found was a game that was EXTREMELY welcoming toward cooperation, with players genuinely engaged in communicating and helping each other for character progression. That’s when, very naturally, I became a 100% PvE player. I was really surprised by the quality of the ARC AI and by how satisfying it felt to dismantle each machine in a specific way. The more I played, the more I understood the strengths and weaknesses of every weapon and enemy.

To sum it up: after reaching 50 hours in Marathon and another 50 hours in ARC, I never went back to Marathon. Today, I have more than 130 hours in ARC after completing my first expedition, returning to level 1, and feeling genuinely excited to progress through everything all over again.

I absolutely do not want Marathon to fail, quite the opposite. But I think that for people who enjoy alternating between multiplayer games and singleplayer games, Arc Raiders becomes much more inviting, especially because it appeals both for those players looking for something casual, without mandatory wipes, and for those who want to keep playing consistently even after expeditions and their benefits for doing so.

What Marathon is missing imo are these important details that also give attention to the more casual audience (or someone who doesn’t want to feel like their progress will lost every three months)

If Marathon offers a longer reset cycle (maybe every 4–6 months) and focus more on cooperative content, I believe the game could survive with a healthy community. For now, i cant see SONY supporting this game for more than a year if the player base keep recording less than 8-9k a day. 

Right now, I can only think about playing Arc Raiders, even though I had already played twice as much Marathon.