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Im_Special posted:And no regrets either. Oh and look! A Goon without a neckbeard! Rare. Quick, add it to the SAclopedia entry! 
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Count Uvula posted:I'd recommend Call of Pripyat over Shadow of Chernobyl. A lot of it comes down to personal taste but I like CoP better and it has the advantage of working out of the box instead of requiring some hefty bug-fix mods. Call of Pripyat is technically improved (basically competent), but really sterile as far as the actual story and gameplay are concerned.
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Baller Time posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/232810/Godus/ This was literally the game that ruined video games for me. Watching it transform from extremely cool early-days-of-EA god game prototype into a lovely mobile game into a cancelled product with a lovely mobile game sequel that also got cancelled made me realize video games will never be good again. Every update for it removed features and actively made it worse, it's not even possible to play the cool version of it that made everyone get excited in the first place anymore deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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From the stuff posted in this thread, sounds like it might be good a few patches down the road, but is currently plagued by some really weird design decisions around questlines taking you places you aren't prepared for, and sidequests only working at certain points in the game, to the point you can unlock doors for a sidequest you've been given but then not walk through the door. Also there's apparently a weird fixed FOV problem where even with ultrawide monitors you end up getting attacked from off-screen by enemies you literally can't see to target and shoot back at. Game is supposedly gorgeous though. I really wanted to give it a try but the feedback convinced me to hold off awhile.
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The Xbox Series X controller I ordered back in June has now stopped working; although the unit rumbles when plugged into my PC, the guide button light fails to illuminate, and Windows immediately pops a 'the last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it' error. I've tried multiple USB-C cables with the same result, so I'm certain it's the controller that's faulty and not the cable. Amazon are refusing to allow a returns request, as the window on this apparently closed a week and a half ago. Lesson learned, I suppose. Any suggestions for PC controllers that aren't garbage?
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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There's a demo available for the System Shock remake now https://store.steampowered.com/app/482400/System_Shock/ Where do all these demos keep coming from  No fanfare then I randomly run across it in the store. Same with Xenonauts 2 and some other games.deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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Aug 1, 2021 12:13
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The Ascent is free on the Game Pass and I can cofirm that it's gorgeous, it's just dripping with detail in every corner, it's kinda ridiculous tbh. I can't give my opinion about the aformentioned problems because I'm a bit too early yet.
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spincube posted:The Xbox Series X controller I ordered back in June has now stopped working; although the unit rumbles when plugged into my PC, the guide button light fails to illuminate, and Windows immediately pops a 'the last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it' error. I've tried multiple USB-C cables with the same result, so I'm certain it's the controller that's faulty and not the cable. Amazon are refusing to allow a returns request, as the window on this apparently closed a week and a half ago. What you describe could be the USB port in the controller becoming loose. That's been a problem with all my wireless controllers for Playstations and Xboxes. I'm currently using a PS5 controller where that hasn't happened yet, but the port looks and feels almost as flimsy as the PS4 one, and I'm not confident recommending it. Thirdparty wired controllers might be the way to go.
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The Ascent feels really weird, lots of things are absolutely knocked out of the park and some fairly basic things are entirely whack. The levels look amazing and vibrant and rich and populated with all kinds of interesting, unique poo poo. The sound for most of the guns is really punchy and satisfying, explosions look and sound impressively impactful, the voice work is pretty good, etc. But at the same time you spend a LOT of time just slogging around on foot not doing much, the quest compass sometimes decides to straight up aim in the wrong direction, getting caught on geometry is real easy in addition to a lot of the early quests being just barfed onto you without any indication that you can't actually access areas they lead to yet. No crashes, but some real violent frame hiccups when some certain effects occur and there is a lot of awkward camera fuckery with getting shot from off-screen. enemies getting hidden in the environment, etc. In my opinion it is totally worth playing for the experience, but it's definitely AAA in some departments and eurojank in others.
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Okay the System Shock demo owns bones I really like the art style except for the creatures/humans  The bug-eyed mutants in particular look a little saturday morning cartoon The environments 100000% nail the "retro 80s future" in a way no other game or throwback media ever has, it's such a cool way to show love for where the game came from while still updating it to a fresh modern aesthetic  There's a heavy use of square motifs and right angles everywhere which looks very good in action, it helps hide the fact that the textures are all fairly low-res and pixelated (which is a strength here, imo). The whole vibe is like a late-80s neon-and-CRTs everywhere stylized look. It's probably not for everyone but it's really, really good and looks fresh and unique. The technology looks mashed up between Star Wars original triology and Bladerunner Everything feels right so far, the pipe melee is meaty, it's very atmospheric I don't know how this demo came out in february and I just now found it e: vvv I think it's the same old one? I didn't know it was out before but System Shock came up in my new releases queue on Steam and I saw the demo for the first time deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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deep dish peat moss posted:There's a demo available for the System Shock remake now Is it a new demo? They've dropped the same ancient build a few times before
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deep dish peat moss posted:This was literally the game that ruined video games for me. Watching it transform from extremely cool early-days-of-EA god game prototype into a lovely mobile game into a cancelled product with a lovely mobile game sequel that also got cancelled made me realize video games will never be good again. Every update for it removed features and actively made it worse, it's not even possible to play the cool version of it that made everyone get excited in the first place anymore
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Ghostlight posted:Molyneux always delivered underbaked games with interesting ideas and I took a punt on him for that, but Godus really was him trying something new by not delivering an unbaked game without any ideas. which was also tied in with the massively multiplayer online cube
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spincube posted:The Xbox Series X controller I ordered back in June has now stopped working; although the unit rumbles when plugged into my PC, the guide button light fails to illuminate, and Windows immediately pops a 'the last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it' error. I've tried multiple USB-C cables with the same result, so I'm certain it's the controller that's faulty and not the cable. Amazon are refusing to allow a returns request, as the window on this apparently closed a week and a half ago.
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Games are good but Black and White was one of two games that made me distrust hype around games. The other was Master of Orion 3, which was way worse. It wasn't a comparable release, but imagine if Cyberpunk came out and it got good to great reviews that either left out or severely underplayed any criticism of all the bugs. I just looked and IGN gave MoO3 a 9.2, lol. I don't mean this in a drag them out in public and demand answers kind of way, but I'd be genuinely interested to read an article that went back and talked to some of the reviewers from back then and asked what the deal was with some of the crazier reviews/what kinds of pressures they might have felt to give mediocre to bad games ratings they didn't deserve. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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Aug 1, 2021 13:36
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Donnerberg posted:What you describe could be the USB port in the controller becoming loose. That's been a problem with all my wireless controllers for Playstations and Xboxes. I'm currently using a PS5 controller where that hasn't happened yet, but the port looks and feels almost as flimsy as the PS4 one, and I'm not confident recommending it. For sure. My logic to begin with was that I'd spend a little extra getting something official and, hopefully, high quality - my previous controller being an official wired Xbox 360 pad, which was roughly thirteen years old ... I'd still be using the thing if the left stick hadn't begun to drift. zedprime posted:Have you checked the warranty on it? Even if you just sell it when you get it back. I'm currently stuck in the Amazon customer service hellscape:   ...I've messaged the seller just in case, but I'm almost positive they'll also hide behind a one-month return window.
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Mescal posted:If you also slept on streets of rogue, don't ignore it due to the very generic look. If you liked the way difficulty was tuned in spelunky, you'll be down. I bought it and I loved the premise but didn't love how everything killed me and I could never do anything cool.
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Streets of Rogue is fun as gently caress, but they really ought to have made an option to turn off friendly fire, or maybe made that a default trait of classes that specialize in recruiting followers. Far too easy to clip your followers and make them go hostile.
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spincube posted:The Xbox Series X controller I ordered back in June has now stopped working; although the unit rumbles when plugged into my PC, the guide button light fails to illuminate, and Windows immediately pops a 'the last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it' error. I've tried multiple USB-C cables with the same result, so I'm certain it's the controller that's faulty and not the cable. Amazon are refusing to allow a returns request, as the window on this apparently closed a week and a half ago. It's also got back paddle buttons and optional turbo/macro bindings. All for cheaper than a first-party controller from one of the big three companies.
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spincube posted:For sure. My logic to begin with was that I'd spend a little extra getting something official and, hopefully, high quality - my previous controller being an official wired Xbox 360 pad, which was roughly thirteen years old ... I'd still be using the thing if the left stick hadn't begun to drift. Just some random googling and your MS warranty on a controller is probably good for a few months? Was hard to tell because I don't have one or the SKU and it will depend on what market you are in.
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i once tried to warranty an Xbox controller through Microsoft and it was a complete nightmare. It may have changed, but since it wasn't tied to a console I couldn't find anyone willing to help me and was transferred to numerous departments. I was out of warranty at Best Buy, but I went and plead my case and they replaced it for me. The thing that broke it was I wanted to see the battery percentage, and the app that does that needed to update the controller firmware which bricked it. I still do not like the XB1 controller I have and keep thinking about replacing it with a PS5 one.
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The Ascent is very good, with notable caveats. One that I'm playing it multiplayer and it feels like the combat was made for multiplayer. Two that it has substantial performance and other jank. Otherwise though, it's a competent aRPG (emphasis on the rpg part, you basically just get stronger and everything gets easier, it's not a Diablo looter), with stunning environmental design and visuals. Just amazing to look at, especially if you're running it on a high end PC. Tribes of Midgard is good solid fun, great in a group of friends and absolutely horrible on public servers. I would not recommend this unless you are going to play it with 4+ friends. If you are, it's a good time, with constant time pressure forcing you to focus on collaborative goals to succeed. I was going to post about Anno 1800 but it's not on Steam  (great fun in coop)To summarize: play games with friends 
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Aug 1, 2021 16:23
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Gort posted:How's The Ascent for two players? How does the multiplayer work anyway, are you able to bring in your own character from your own game into someone elses, or do you basically need to start over if you wanna join theirs
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Does State of Decay 2 do that thing 1 did, where your dumbass villagers constantly get in trouble and spawn missions you need to divert and handle ASAP if you don't want your guys dying?
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victrix posted:The Ascent is very good, with notable caveats. One that I'm playing it multiplayer and it feels like the combat was made for multiplayer. Two that it has substantial performance and other jank. Yeah, I'm noticing this one as well. There doesn't seem to be a way to heal yourself aside from random medpacks dropped by enemies. In MP that's no trouble since you can just be revived if you go down, but in singleplayer you're just plain dead and have to reload. It's very easy to get attrited to death if you run into an unlucky stretch with no medpack drops.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, I'm noticing this one as well. There doesn't seem to be a way to heal yourself aside from random medpacks dropped by enemies. In MP that's no trouble since you can just be revived if you go down, but in singleplayer you're just plain dead and have to reload. It's very easy to get attrited to death if you run into an unlucky stretch with no medpack drops. I feel like that's a trend I've seen recently, where there's a comeback mechanic for MP but not SP. Especially strange when some games actually give you a limited self-revive only if you're playing with other people and gently caress all if you're on your own.
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Call of Pripyat is already loads better than Clear Sky, lol how it just chucks you in the deep end though. "Here's the base, here's some stalkers who will 100% stab you in the back, here's some bandits, here's ten thousand quests. Go to it" The last few hours of CS were a nightmare though, jesus christ RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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Omi no Kami posted:Does State of Decay 2 do that thing 1 did, where your dumbass villagers constantly get in trouble and spawn missions you need to divert and handle ASAP if you don't want your guys dying? Your own villagers don't get in trouble, but enclaves and lone survivors spawn those missions. Enclaves abandon the zone sometimes if you start missing missions.
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Sokani posted:Your own villagers don't get in trouble, but enclaves and lone survivors spawn those missions. Enclaves abandon the zone sometimes if you start missing missions. Which is fine as new enclaves move in to replace ‘em.
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Omi no Kami posted:Does State of Decay 2 do that thing 1 did, where your dumbass villagers constantly get in trouble and spawn missions you need to divert and handle ASAP if you don't want your guys dying? It's already been said but they significantly improved this pain point with the second game as well as just about everything else in the game.
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Stalker CoP Trip Report: Walked for a few through an empty wilderness trying to find a crashed helicopter and then got chased by a pack of dogs into a dangerous cave where a scary guy said something I couldn't understand and then got an instant game over. GOTY
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Gort posted:How's The Ascent for two players? It's great, bought it yesterday and played a bunch coop with a friend of mine. It's way easier to overlook the little bits of jank here and there when there's two of you running around being idiots.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Stalker CoP Trip Report: SoC and CoP have this for the new player: memorable first encounters with some of the tougher enemies. SoC's is just as good, coming as it does at the end of a great sequence that is also your first encounter with a bloodsucker. E: The OGSE mod doubling down and adding one more in that final tunnel was a rude, rude shock when you'd got down the way to nail the first one like it was nothing. The infamous turret it added right after you climbed out we also a rude shock ... of the unwelcome kind - modded that poo poo right back out. v1ld fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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spincube posted:The Xbox Series X controller I ordered back in June has now stopped working; although the unit rumbles when plugged into my PC, the guide button light fails to illuminate, and Windows immediately pops a 'the last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it' error. I've tried multiple USB-C cables with the same result, so I'm certain it's the controller that's faulty and not the cable. Amazon are refusing to allow a returns request, as the window on this apparently closed a week and a half ago. 8bitdo pro controller is great imo. The pro 2 is fairly out of stock, so if you want paddles wait for that, but I’ve been a fan of the old version. E: beaten! I guess the only other thing to mention is that the sticks are side by side PS controller style, not offset like an Xbox controller. I got used to it pretty quickly but ymmv.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Stalker CoP Trip Report: I got someone too loaded on vodka to do their jobs, got hired by bandits to kill some guys, immediately told someone that and shot them in the back instead, and got all my gear nice and shiny and upgraded lol I like the health and item changes so that you don't need tens of thousands of bandages per fight again too, jesus christ. Got through Clear Sky running from bandage to bandage after Pripyat, every shot I took added bleed through all the impact and kevlar upgrades anyway
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Eason the Fifth posted:Stalker CoP Trip Report: If I'm remembering right you stumbled into a cave with a controller, who are absolute assholes. The first one in ShoC confused the hell out of me, I kept wondering why my view got screwy and I was suddenly dead. Honestly thought it was a glitch Edit: Also if that is the cave I'm thinking of I somehow missed that for several playthroughs 
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:If I'm remembering right you stumbled into a cave with a controller, who are absolute assholes. The first one in ShoC confused the hell out of me, I kept wondering why my view got screwy and I was suddenly dead. Honestly thought it was a glitch That dude owns, it's a good way to show that you're getting hosed up psychically
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