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Diabetic posted:So jumping into EDF4.1 would turn me off compared to QoL of EDF5? Hi I found EDF 4.1 to be my favorite even compared to EDF5. It's janky but has a TON of spirit and a better EDF song than 5. Make sure you try all of the different classes as they're very different.
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Diabetic posted:So jumping into EDF4.1 would turn me off compared to QoL of EDF5? The difference between 4.1 and 5 is pretty much this: In EDF, there are four or five classes. You level up a class’ max HP by picking up boxes that drop during gameplay. You unlock new gear and weapons by picking up item boxes that drop. In 4.1, you only level the class you’re actively playing. Also, if the item you pick up is one you already own, you get nothing. If you die, you get nothing. In 5, every fourth box you pick up levels one of your off-classes, and off-classes get 25% of the HP increases that your main class gets. If you pick up a duplicate item, it improves that item’s stats. If you die, you still get a portion of what you picked up, so you make a little progress.
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Mar 13, 2021 15:22
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There are also class improvements in 5. Wing Divers get a really fun air dash, Air Raiders get to throw out their limpet guns and become air strike wizards, etc. And you know, new enemies and stages and guns. I like the giant aliens who look just like us in 5 a lot more than the Hectors in 4. Course for variety it would've been best to just have both.
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Mar 13, 2021 15:46
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How is the black sheep Iron Rain?
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AfricanBootyShine posted:Are any of these Pillars of Eternity-type games where they lean into adding QoL improvements that a filthy casual like me would find frustrating? Try Legend of Grimrock, The Quest, Demon Gaze, or Ray Gigant. Of those, the latter is considered so easy people dock points on it just because of that. Demon Gaze is Wizardry with all the bullshit streamlined, but it's apparently not available on Steam. The Quest has a ridiculous amount of content and having started as a mobile game it's also very streamlined. Legend of Grimrock is a modern take on the classic Eye of the Beholder. None of them are what I'd call frustrating in that you need guides to do anything. Demon Gaze has optional endgame bosses that do need you to break the combat system, but by then you are either all in or have dropped it at some time way before that.
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Mar 13, 2021 15:48
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Diabetic posted:D3 Publishing has a sale on Steam right now including EDF/ Earth Defense Force. EDF is the greatest, most wonderful crap ever
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BexGu posted:How is the black sheep Iron Rain? It’s fine, but there’s really no compelling reason to play it when the main series exists.
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Mar 13, 2021 16:25
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BexGu posted:How is the black sheep Iron Rain? The new classes, character customization, and getting to play dress up are great. It's a little prettier and some of the new enemies are neat. Everything else is a huge step backwards. Way fewer enemies on maps, weapons, armor, and dumb t-shirts all compete for your precious money, which comes in at a miserable trickle. You can't try out weapons before you buy them, hope that gun you spent 3 stages saving up for isn't total garbage! The netcode, at least on console, was just historically awful. It would constantly snap your aim back to where the host thought you were looking, however many ms ago they received an update, so you were fighting to point your gun in the direction you wanted at all times. Maybe it's better on PC, I've never seen anyone ever talk about it.
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Mar 13, 2021 16:28
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 My patience bears fruit. 
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Mar 13, 2021 16:33
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Diabetic posted:So jumping into EDF4.1 would turn me off compared to QoL of EDF5? You'll appreciate the differences more if you play 4.1 first. That does not mean 4.1 is just plain worse, it's just different. Some QoL things are better in 5, but don't let it dissuade you from trying out 4.1.
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Mar 13, 2021 16:47
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Hwurmp posted:EDF is the greatest, most wonderful crap ever
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Mar 13, 2021 17:02
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Oneechanbara is a game that I always found weirdly hilarious. It's a completely unashamed throwback to exploitation splatter movies: scantily clad girls with giant chainsaws ripping zombies apart and getting absolutely drenched in blood. There's something almost charming about it because it doesn't pretend to be anything that it isn't.Peewi posted:I thought it made sense. It's a big spinning spiral and there had previously been spinning spiral obstacles that you have to use time powers to get past. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Mar 13, 2021 |
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Hogama posted:It's the biggest success story of the line that spawned it, I think? In that it literally started in a deliberate "budget game" line (that wasn't just EDF, The OneeChanbara series also debuted there.) Yeah, the Simple2000 series was a cool idea. Some of the games were fun, there was a tank one I quite liked.
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Mar 13, 2021 17:54
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There needs to be an update to Simple 2000 Ultimate Series Vol. 95: The Zombie vs. Ambulance
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Mar 13, 2021 18:05
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the biggest upgrade from edf 4.1 to 5 is the pickup all drops cheat. grabbing boxes was always my biggest problem with edf games, and now you can just skip that poo poo.
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Mar 13, 2021 18:08
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Diabetic posted:D3 Publishing has a sale on Steam right now including EDF/ Earth Defense Force.
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Mar 13, 2021 18:18
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Scalding Coffee posted:You really can't go wrong with EDF5 if you want endless explosions, dismemberment, and blood covering entire buildings and streets. I recommend the decoy DLC packs as well (Not the Wing Diver one). You can attach dancing/singing animes to people or monsters and see them break AI and start attacking each other.
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Mar 13, 2021 18:22
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:the biggest upgrade from edf 4.1 to 5 is the pickup all drops cheat. grabbing boxes was always my biggest problem with edf games, and now you can just skip that poo poo. I should really go back and play more of that using this cheat. Game's great but it is a pain in the rear end to constantly be worrying about grabbing all the drops.
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Mar 13, 2021 18:26
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EDF5 is an amazing game, except the song in it sucks compared to 4.1 The story and character moments go places e: At least one mission was once by Independence Day-ing a UFO and ending the mission with zero survivors
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Mar 13, 2021 18:27
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Siralim Ultimate is out, I wishlisted it because it looked genuinely odd and it turns out it's not bad, there's a lot of content but I can't say for how long the formula will hold up.... but I kinda like grinding in a weird chill way so YMMV https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289810/Siralim_Ultimate/
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Mar 13, 2021 18:34
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EDF 4.1 is glorious, EDF 5 is glorious+1
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perc2 posted:Siralim Ultimate is out, I wishlisted it because it looked genuinely odd and it turns out it's not bad, there's a lot of content but I can't say for how long the formula will hold up....
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perc2 posted:Siralim Ultimate is out, I wishlisted it because it looked genuinely odd and it turns out it's not bad, there's a lot of content but I can't say for how long the formula will hold up.... but I kinda like grinding in a weird chill way so YMMV It's a game designed to be a timewaster. If you like to endlessly theorycraft various builds based on a million different creatures, classes, items and various other modifiers, this is the game for you. The combat itself is a blur, but the real meat of the game is in preparing and putting together teams. Edit: You can literally create macros for each of your monsters, and set it up so you can do all fighting by holding down one button. There are also classes based around doing this. Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Mar 13, 2021 |
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Mar 13, 2021 18:39
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The best thing about EDF 5 is that air raiders get strikes that are timer based rather than credits based, so you don't have to deal with the lovely limpet guns.
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Mar 13, 2021 18:45
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Cardiovorax posted:...did we play the same game? Because, I mean, the bugs fall apart pretty easily when you shoot them, but the blood literally goes away as soon as it appears. It's as cartoonish as Starship Trooper style hyperviolence can get. Leal posted:The best thing about EDF 5 is that air raiders get strikes that are timer based rather than credits based, so you don't have to deal with the lovely limpet guns.
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Mar 13, 2021 18:59
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I keep bashing my head against Loop Hero. I keep fighting 5-enemy clusters. I keep not getting orbs. My last run, I got to loop 4, plenty of skeletons, vampires, chests, etc. without a single sword or shield drop. I'm beginning to think the RNG just hates my loving guts.
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Mar 13, 2021 21:01
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Scalding Coffee posted:I play the Steam version, so the blood stays for a while and there are always several painters to explode and cover their landscape canvas.
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Mar 13, 2021 21:02
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MonkeyforaHead posted:I keep bashing my head against Loop Hero. I keep fighting 5-enemy clusters. I keep not getting orbs. My last run, I got to loop 4, plenty of skeletons, vampires, chests, etc. without a single sword or shield drop. I'm beginning to think the RNG just hates my loving guts. Without accumulating passive bonuses the RNG can be insanely brutal. People who have had good luck will tell you it's not that bad, but it really loving is at certain points in the game. My biggest tip for you for mitigating this is to not focus on skeletons, but on spiders and possibly rats. Spiders are incredibly weak and spawn very quickly, it's easy to have setups where you get back to back fights of 4 spiders plus a vampire every single loop, and that's good for loot generation. Also, I'm not certain if it's even possible for the rarest resources to drop on act 1. Orbs of expansion definitely can, but they seem more common on higher acts.
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When did Steam stop letting you email gifts? Is there any way I can buy a steam gift to put in my inventory and email it out that way?
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treat posted:When did Steam stop letting you email gifts? Is there any way I can buy a steam gift to put in my inventory and email it out that way? Isn’t that a publisher thing? Like some don’t allow it or whatever. You’d probably be better off buying the key from fanatical or something and emailing it that way.
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Putting games into your inventory is a thing of the past. I think it’s through Steam or nothing.
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Nyaa posted:
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Scalding Coffee posted:I play the Steam version, so the blood stays for a while and there are always several painters to explode and cover their landscape canvas
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Mar 13, 2021 23:09
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Commander Keene posted:Game idea: Splatoon, but you just have normal guns and there are enemies you can kill to paint the stage.
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Mar 13, 2021 23:12
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Commander Keene posted:Game idea: Splatoon, but you just have normal guns and there are enemies you can kill to paint the stage. I think I played an old flash game like that at some point.
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Mar 13, 2021 23:13
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Armor-Piercing posted:Where is it this cheap? I'm not seeing WotC below $10 anywhere right now, unless there's a coupon that isn't getting caught on the tracker. The full bundle, with adaptive pricing.
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Mar 13, 2021 23:16
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MonkeyforaHead posted:I keep bashing my head against Loop Hero. I keep fighting 5-enemy clusters. I keep not getting orbs. My last run, I got to loop 4, plenty of skeletons, vampires, chests, etc. without a single sword or shield drop. I'm beginning to think the RNG just hates my loving guts.
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Scalding Coffee posted:If the game is being unfair, you can manually increase the drop rates of enemies, which I think are low for a single-player game.
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Cardiovorax posted:How do you do that? I have only been playing the game for an hour or two yet, but I've heard about how everything massively slows down pretty much right after the point where I'm at. I know that the file you're looking for is Loop Hero\game\assets\variables.ini but 90% of the inline commenting is in Russian so I haven't gone looking for what I want to change. Except game_speed which I set to 90. Makes things much less tedious to sit through.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:I know that the file you're looking for is Loop Hero\game\assets\variables.ini but 90% of the inline commenting is in Russian so I haven't gone looking for what I want to change. Except game_speed which I set to 90. Makes things much less tedious to sit through.
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