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What Are You Playing? - Oozy October 2026

Whoa, Flux making a monthly playing thread? Hell yeah!

Let us know what you're playing this month and how your gaming journey goes by swinging back and providing updates on crushing that back catalog.

  • What are you playing today?

  • What are your plans for the weekend?

  • Are there any new games you are looking forward to this month?

Don't forget to play Sidequest here on Out of Games! We have bosses now.

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  • Staff Pro

    I'll join in first!

    I played WARDOGS last month. That's where pretty much all my gaming time went. I did dig a tiny but into WoW Forever specifically to try out the controller support and I gotta say, it works well! If this game isn't on XBOX in like 6 months, idk wtf Blizzard is doing. I would plug my XBOX back in if it means I could sit on the couch and play WoW for an hour a night just to get away from my computer. I'm on my computer all day, I don't like always being on it all night too.

    This month I expect more WARDOGS action. I'll also be playing Clickbait Tycoon and of course, Sidequest right here on Out of Games because those bosses aren't going to kill themselves - am I supposed to make an Epstein joke here?

    I'm saving my WoW playing for next month when Forever actually drops. I would love to pickup Dragonwilds again but my buddy I play that with has been quite busy this past month so that's on hold until we can both jump back in together. With WoW: Forever and GTA 6 coming though... yikes. I don't know when the time will exist.

    Oh, me and @Glorlix played a round of WarCraft III the other night against computers. That was hilarious because our first game we got absolutely stomped. The graphical improvements they dropped are so damn good. No longer does WC3 feel like it was designed in someone's stinky basement.

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    It seems that there are so many indie racing games coming out, and it's hard to keep up with all of them. Here's a free one that just released a few days ago, with a Burnout-esque takedown system... and only one track... and every racer is some variation of the girl on the cover with different colored clothes... and some really buggy achievements. But hey, it was fun while it lasted.

    My current grind right now is to go through all of the MotoGP games, and also Railway Empire, and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. Actually trying to fully complete that game will be a nightmare, but I'm fully determined at the moment.

    Of course, there's also the Autumn Fest starting today that will put a wrench through those plans when I inevitably buy even more games, and make everything take even longer to do. At least I know I won't have "nothing to do" for a really long time.

    • Staff Pro

      That font color and design are certainly a choice. I can barely read it lol.

  • Staff Pro

    I've been all over the place with my gaming, putting more hours into Cassette Beasts, Elden Ring, and Monster Hunter Wilds. I installed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered to give that a go on Steam, but I haven't started it yet.

    I've been having trouble keeping my attention and motivation for gaming again. I might need to take a break and read a book or something.

    • Staff Pro

      Read a book!

      HERESY!!! GET THOSE WORDS OUTTA HERE!!! (jk, jk)

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        Hearthstone just added books to the game, so, checkmate.

  • Staff Pro

    I'm going to bump this thread since it's been swallowed by all of the Oozefest NPC threads.

    Have you got anything from the Steam sale? I got something called Circuit Superstars, and grabbed this screenshot from it.

    That said, I'm not looking forward to this one at all. There's already an achievement that I've been trying to grind in another game that requires only 5000km. When I looked up guides for the achievement, I found out that the requirement is actually only 25,000km instead of 50,000km, but still... I hate it when games have achievements that are grinds that are 20 times longer than the actual game itself.

    • Staff Pro

      I kinda dig the graphics! That is a damn absurd achievement though like damn guys, have a bit of respect for people's time.

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    I got a game of WARDOGS in tonight. Gold Bars went from costing 1.6 million down to 166k so I had to go and get my exchange on. I sadly didn't have enough for more than 1, but knowing it hit an all-time low price, had to get it done.

    Gold Bars for the record are how you unlock skins for guns and vehicles and they were just so absurdly expensive. Like a gun skin could cost 5 gold bars or 10 gold bars and I'd say on average I can do around 150k profit in a single game if I play well or decide to just be a logistics specialist. With games taking around 90 minutes, that's 15 hours playing super well to earn a single gold bar. Yeah... I'm really glad the price tanked. Not entirely sure how the gold bar economy works but I have a feeling yesterday's patch changed the logic since it dipped so hard.

    • Staff Pro

      Played a game last night again and wow, Gold Bars shot up to almost 500k lol. Glad I got one!

      The game is getting more difficult to play though now that the season is getting close to over. A lot of people with some very serious loadouts and people are getting damn good at the mortars. Me and a friend were building a FOB and before we even had some basic stuff up, we had a little bird swoop on in with someone and a grenade launcher taking us out. When we got back, enemies were mortaring us down.

      War is tough!

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    Not ready to drop $70 on Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, so I'm replaying Three Houses to beat all the routes on Hard difficulty (don't think I'll ever try Maddening).

  • Pro

    Well I have been spending time on Oozefest and I have tried out Clickbait Tycoon. I saw someone play Binding of Isaac and saw all the expansion stuff was on sale so thought I would go back to the basement and cry at some new monsters.

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      Oh and a friend has a birthday coming soon so I was searching to see if there were good ideas here to send as a gaming gift 😀

  • Staff Pro

    So I have figured out a farm for that 50,000KM achievement (that may or may not actually be 25,000KM), which is that this track is an oval surrounded entirely by guard rails. I map accelerating to the spacebar, and keep it held down continuously with a heavy object, on a 99-lap qualifier.

    Why do the 99 laps matter? Because this game has a very odd mechanic. Every 7 laps you complete in the wrong direction, the game will reward you with a lap anyway. I have no idea why this mechanic exists, but it means I can't go full AFK as I grind. So that's 693 laps that take roughly 15.5 or 16 seconds to run, which totals to slightly over 3 hours per run, so I can generally get two runs done while I'm sleeping and I have the game on.

    Why do I not just put the game in practice mode to not worry about laps? Because I've read that apparently distance driven in practice mode doesn't count since the only end to it is one you have to force.

    It seems that they added this achievement, and then took every step they could to make farming for it a little bit more inconvenient. Still, there's a farming options, which is more than I can say about some other driving games that ask you to drive absurd lengths.

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    One of my happiest gaming achievements. I have finally 100%-ed Rayman 1 for the very first time in my life. I played the game for the first time when I was 7 years old I think, so this is an achievement I've been waiting for literally 20 years for.

    I wanted to do it without using rewinds, save states, or cheats of any type. I've done it completely legitimately.

    Apparently I got super-cracked at this game along the way because I somehow managed to beat it without using a single continue (if I was a kid or even a teenager, I would've used all 5 of them before I got out of Band Land). I died a lot to the final boss (I had 15 lives going into the final boss I believe) because it was my first time ever actually fighting it (or playing the level), but I've scraped before needing to use the first one. Never thought it my life that I would ever be good enough at the game to beat it this comfortably.

    I'm still feeling the happy brain chemicals from finally closing out this 20-year long journey.

    Now Ubisoft. Please do the same thing for Rayman 2 and 3.

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      Your images are broken for me :(

      • Staff Pro

        That's been happening so much lately.

  • Staff Pro

    Achievement-junkie that I am, completionist though I be, I find it difficult sometimes to play games I've already 100%'d because there's nothing left to "do". Play just for play's sake is like walking for the sake of walking: I need an objective, so doing it "just because" is hard for me.

    That being said, my current three games I'm rotating through are all complete: Elden Ring, Cassette Beasts, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. People complain (a LOT) about the latter, but I really enjoyed it and just let the awkward dialogue moments roll off me. Currently playing a Spellblade - I started a Spellblade playthrough shortly after beating the game originally, but I burnt out. I'm back to finish the job, but I didn't remember where I was in the story so I started over.

    I've also found new life with Cassette Beasts by playing a randomizer with permadeath, and Elden Ring always sucks me back in now and again. Beyond that, I'm playing Monster Hunter Wilds with a friend (a game I have also completed the achievements for), and we might be on the verge of playing Roboquest together, which excites me: I loved Roboquest, but I didn't feel compelled to keep playing by myself. With a "bro-bot", I can put more hours into the game and feel great about it.

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    WARDOGS Season 2 has been weird. I haven't gotten to play much but wow did they speed up progression too much. Devs apparently are thinking about starting Season 3 early due to the mistake? LOL. They have a lot to figure out because it's a bit missed up missing out on a single day of progress and you're walking into tanks and grenade launchers immediately.

    Sidequest has been fun! A bit less fun because I know all the little secrets and such about it so I don't want to go too hard, but I do enjoy being a part of something larger scale than a single player game. There is still a ton of work to do on Sidequest but it's been a very enjoyable experience collecting all the feedback from everyone as the game grows. Keep it up!

    Really just counting the days down now until the launch of Ocarina of Time and Grand Theft Auto VI. I'm super pumped for both games and its just gonna be super awesome to get to explore both of those worlds. Ocarina of Time is a favourite, of course, and then Vice City Miami vibes coming at us in 4K is gonna be sweet. A bit disappointed still I won't be able to play it on PC, but rumor is that is early next year so fingers crossed we aren't too far away from it for the potential for GTA6 Online.

  • Staff Pro

    Steam Next Fest starts today, so we know what that means: time to uninstall a game or two to make room for demos lol

  • Staff Pro

    Played a couple of hours of Captain of Industry last night. Such a damn good game! I hadn't played in a couple of years and they have just added so many new things to it with bridges and trains and a bunch of UI updates. Really solid feeling and oh boy is it more complicated than Factorio right off the bat. A very different kind of game than Factorio too but it scratches that same itch. Now I want to play Factorio.