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Hiveswap 2 is out now.
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Nov 25, 2020 18:05
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Is it? It isn't showing up on Steam for me.
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Nov 25, 2020 18:28
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Is it? It isn't showing up on Steam for me. did you back the kickstarter? And do you have the original email you used to do so? Because I just got a code from there.
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Nov 25, 2020 18:31
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Ah! No, I wasn't into Homestuck when the Kickstarter happened, and my kid who backed it has long lost access to that email account. e: My kid found her account (yay) and sent me the code. Now that I've installed the code it says "Coming Soon". So the codes are out, but they haven't pulled the switch yet. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Nov 25, 2020 18:34
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Ah! No, I wasn't into Homestuck when the Kickstarter happened, and my kid who backed it has long lost access to that email account. Sorry for getting your hopes up. Anyway, if it makes you feel any better, I can't play it yet either. The code just put it in my Steam library, I'm not allowed to download it yet.
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Nov 25, 2020 18:40
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Crosspost! We will both have to look balefully at that "Coming Soon".
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Nov 25, 2020 18:41
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Hiveswap Act 2 just disappeared from steam what
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Nov 25, 2020 19:00
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Nina posted:Hiveswap Act 2 just disappeared from steam what Autumn Sale has just started and steam servers are currently extremely making GBS threads themselves under the strain, might have something to do with that.
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Nov 25, 2020 19:08
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I've successfully installed and am about to play. Whee! e: I wish the recap had done a hasty overview of the controls. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Nov 25, 2020 19:32
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It's downloaded on my computer, but unfortunately for Hiveswap a new update for Crusader Kings 3 also came up.
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Nov 25, 2020 22:16
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Opting for DRM free again
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Nov 25, 2020 22:18
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I'd be curious to compare notes. I'm only up to the abandoned honey hive. It seems to me that there are multiple clickable objects in any scene, but most of them do nothing? Like, is there anything at all to do in the house full of rubbish and hand-sewn statues? I play point-and-click adventures a lot, but I'm used to having several puzzles to work on at once, not to one puzzle to get you forward.
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Nov 25, 2020 22:52
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What Pumpkin has set up an official Twitter account and official Curiouscat for fans to ask questions. https://twitter.com/homestuckteam/status/1329983002240139266 Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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Nov 26, 2020 00:44
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Just started playing Hiveswap act 2, but, uh... Is Zebede dead? - Xefros, who was pretty worried about taking stuff from the first trolls' hive, keeps making comments about how it's fine to take stuff from Z's hive. - He looks in the well and then tells Joey not to look in, and gives a bad excuse (you'll go blind) - If you make him look again, he doesn't go blind, but he says he doesn't want to 'deal' with what he sees. - Xefros also makes comments to the effect that he's sure Z's lusus hasn't been fed in a while.
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Nov 26, 2020 01:57
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Oh come on, you have a murder on a train and it doesn't have a Murder on the Orient Express style twist ending?! If you've seen or read Murder on the Orient Express you'll know what I'm pissed about, if not I'm going to avoid spoiling one of the greatest mystery stories of all time and just tell you to go watch the movie because it's fantastic. Also, lot more death in this than I expected.
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Nov 26, 2020 05:58
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Just finished Hiveswap 2 and I think it's pretty good except for the courtroom part which was unintuitive as hell and took forever to get through. Was not expecting a fairly nuanced Marxist analysis of class politics from my talking simulator about quirky troll people. I want to be friends with (almost) all of these weird aliens.
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Nov 27, 2020 23:56
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Enjoyed it pretty thoroughly. The overall concept and writing are surprisingly strong. It's the presentation that's sometimes real rough around the edges compared to Act 1 but I can live with that. I wonder what they're going to do with Charun and Zebede since they were seemingly cut from this Act. If they restructure them to be in a latter act they can't exactly reuse the dialogue they would've had or the Charun cutscenes from the first Act 2 trailer
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Nov 28, 2020 08:21
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I've only just begun Act 2, but I would have appreciated a way to get descriptions of my inventory items. The Act 1 save I imported (which is meaningless except for the Achievement, right?) was over three years old, I didn't know what most of my starting items were. I was lucky to figure out what the book did before leaving any lusii I couldn't get back to.
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Nov 28, 2020 09:36
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Yeah it’s very much worth playing through Act 1 again to refresh yourself on stuff (it’s not like it’s that long anyways). I’d totally forgotten that Xafros was a psychic jock for example or that his weapon was a sports ball stick and not a weird scythe of some kind.
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Nov 28, 2020 09:55
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A good poster posted:I've only just begun Act 2, but I would have appreciated a way to get descriptions of my inventory items. The Act 1 save I imported (which is meaningless except for the Achievement, right?) was over three years old, I didn't know what most of my starting items were. I was lucky to figure out what the book did before leaving any lusii I couldn't get back to. There's one puzzle outcome you can only get with an imported save and missable Act 1 items
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Nov 28, 2020 10:00
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Nina posted:There's one puzzle outcome you can only get with an imported save and missable Act 1 items I have something like four different saves. I never got a prompt to import them; does Act 2 import saves automatically, and if so does it pick which it chooses?
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Nov 28, 2020 18:02
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I have something like four different saves. I never got a prompt to import them; does Act 2 import saves automatically, and if so does it pick which it chooses? First time I played I was given the option to import a save from act 1, which then essentially gave me the load game screen from it. Incidentally I had uninstalled act 1 a while back; I guess it didn't delete the saves, or else it might be able to access the Steam cloud for them, not sure.
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Nov 28, 2020 18:14
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Tenebrais posted:First time I played I was given the option to import a save from act 1, which then essentially gave me the load game screen from it. Ignore. I transferred a zip file of my old save, but then forgot to unzip it.  I found an interesting feature because I played for awhile without my save files. If you get to the point where you need the bent spoon, the game railroads you through it by having you announce that you always carry a bent spoon in your pocket. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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Nov 28, 2020 18:16
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Can you highlight interactable objects in this game? I don't want to have to pixel-hunt...
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Nov 29, 2020 09:26
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You have to pixel-hunt, and yes, that annoys me, too.
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Nov 29, 2020 17:40
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What Pumpkin dropped an update today. They patched out the bee dance because people (rightly IMHO) complained that a point-and-click adventure shouldn't be gating on whether you're able to complete a rhythm game: accessibility plunges through the floor. They could have patched in a skip switch, but noooooo. The patch also includes credits, I assume in response to community anger. drat, I wish the game had some normal point-and-click/visual novel amenities like fast-forwarding or skipping dialogue, and target highlighting. Has anybody found anything useful you can do in the first cave, the one with the statue? I tried all my and Xefros's inventory and tools with no luck.
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Nov 29, 2020 20:46
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https://twitter.com/homestuck/status/1333169313860243459?s=19
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Nov 29, 2020 23:13
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Regular Calliope sucks.
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Nov 29, 2020 23:16
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Boldir talks about the forthcoming Convergence which reinforces my belief that Hiveswap, the dreaming dead from Pesterquest, and HS2 are going to recombine.
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Nov 30, 2020 00:42
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Wow! The most boring update yet! Incredible! Jade is happy though, so that's good. Wish she had gotten the chance to speak, guess I'll have to wait till next year for that to happen.
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Nov 30, 2020 01:12
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Didn't love this one. Dave felt on voice some of the time, at other times more like someone's manic Discord conversation pared down into a pesterlog. Which I guess is true to form? But him saying Voldemort a bunch of times like it's a punchline fell totally flat for me.
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Nov 30, 2020 01:13
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Can somebody explain to me what MSPA Reader immediately notices? That flew right over my head.
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Nov 30, 2020 01:19
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Probably that karkat is freaking out about people in vents leaving them poo poo around cause its similar to what gamzee did? I thought that was it. Also yeah, man, this last one is a stinker lol
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Nov 30, 2020 01:42
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I had completely forgotten that regular Calliope was on the ship too so I just assumed that was alt-Calliope being weird
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Nov 30, 2020 01:59
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Sailor Dave posted:I had completely forgotten that regular Calliope was on the ship too so I just assumed that was alt-Calliope being weird Whoops, completely same.
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Nov 30, 2020 03:14
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  Are we to believe this that this is some sort magic laundry room or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
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Nov 30, 2020 03:55
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The art feels worst this update. I dunno. Also, the stupid Futurama page is going to age like raw meat; you can just tell us you only got one update this month.
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Nov 30, 2020 07:23
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If it turns out Caliborn is the one who wrote this chapter and the reason the art looks different is because he's taking over this reality then everything about Homestuck^2 will have been justified forever, but the writers had better get to the reveal of that plot point quick.
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Nov 30, 2020 12:49
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The patch also includes credits, I assume in response to community anger. As in there are credits at all or as in people were added who were not in the credits before?
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Nov 30, 2020 19:24
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readingatwork posted:As in there are credits at all or as in people were added who were not in the credits before? I haven't completed the game, so I haven't seen them. There were no credits at all before, explained as being to protect the dev team from harassment. There are now credits, and I don't know if they include, say, the people who worked on the game and then were let go.
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Nov 30, 2020 20:00
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