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NonzeroCircle posted:Splitgate is good fun, it's 50/50 Halo and Portal. I'm not high enough rank, nor have put enough (any) money into the game to know first hand, but I've been watching the occasional Splitgate Uber-player on Twitch/Youtube and I see skins fairly frequently that are not immediately clear as to which team they are on. I've seen enemy skins that read as 100% grayscale, and I've seen team mate skins look straight up like they are red. Additionally, it's pretty clear that the "pro players" mostly use the female model with the goggles as that's got the smallest visual profile, even if the hitboxes for all player models are identical. All of this could certainly be worse, however!
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at least it's not that loving war cow from UT99 where its 'head' was somewhere in the middle of its gun
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When I was a kid we did a lan party for my birthday at a commercial place that hosted them and played Quake 2 and their version had a bunch of custom models when this was a completely new concept for a game. I think the hit boxes were still universal, but we all quickly figured out that playing as the Tentacle from Day of the Tentacle made you much, much tinier, and thus harder to aim at.
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Coolguye posted:at least it's not that loving war cow from UT99 where its 'head' was somewhere in the middle of its gun I introduced a friend to UT99 for the first time two weeks ago and he immediately gravitated to the cow; I had to explain why it might not make him popular on the servers.
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Sep 9, 2021 02:26
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Anyone who picks a monkey in TimeSplitters is first against the wall
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why would you ever not choose Hans
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wow I might actually install Nioh, it's a red letter day for EGS
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bees x1000 posted:wow I might actually install Nioh, it's a red letter day for EGS Same here. Tyranny and Pillars of Eternity was impressive, but I already had those. However, I didn't have Nioh (either one) on any platform and was happy to see this.
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Has anyone played sheltered enough to give an opinion on it? It looks suspiciously like a pixel art rehash of that dumb grindy fallout shelter game on mobile.
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Breetai posted:Has anyone played sheltered enough to give an opinion on it? It looks suspiciously like a pixel art rehash of that dumb grindy fallout shelter game on mobile. Apparently it's exactly that but without the predatory IAP. Seems to be well liked for chilled and relaxed play.
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Bottom Liner posted:Apparently it's exactly that but without the predatory IAP. Seems to be well liked for chilled and relaxed play. That actually sounds pretty good....
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Bottom Liner posted:Apparently it's exactly that but without the predatory IAP. Seems to be well liked for chilled and relaxed play. having played it, i completely disagree. resource scarcity is extremely real and super, super arbitrary for the first about half of the game. it's extremely stressful and, worse, visibly and feelably unfair. the game keeps track of your current stockpiles and softcaps you to the point that it's basically a hard cap under a different name. you'll frequently come back with no food whatsoever from a grocery store just because the game decided in the background you had enough already (narrator: you didn't). there's also a lot of really ridiculous mechanics like answering expedition transmissions; you have to keep up with people who have gone to the field by answering their radio calls from time to time. if you do not, they will somehow lose all resources to be gained from the trip and return totally empty-handed (rather than, you know, returning with less or taking longer or some other sane penalty for failing to pick up the loving phone). if it's an early game expedition where you're constantly short on food might just flatly be a death sentence. on a related note to death sentences: because the game loves to impose arbitrary resource scarcity, recruiting any extra survivors before you can get away from the resource gathering loop's oppression will usually doom everyone in the shelter because the food expectations the game imposes don't update based on your headcount. even with the stupid gacha and clicker mechanics, fallout shelter is a better game. or, actual best option, just play This War Of Mine, which is a game with a similar shelter-building and resource-gathering feedback mechanism that allows you to solve the problems it presents you rather than rejecting your solutions for no good reason. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Sep 10, 2021 |
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I played through it and it was mostly my chill out game. There were times when I was low on supplies but I never thought it was brutal or unfair. Once I got the hang of it I was swimming in food and water. Just prioritize upgrades that either produce food/water (mostly water, iirc) or ones that make consumption more efficient.
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I haven't played Sheltered yet (just got it yesterday, not surprisingly), but I did try This War of Mine and it was brutal. I wasn't able to find a drat thing and I think that my character was shot dead on night 3 while looking for food.
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This War of Mine also trumps Sheltered in that its an accurate ‘turn a TV Chef into a knife wielding swirling dervish killing machine who only eats rats’ simulator.
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Yes but does This War Of Mine have a street fighter fight of Cynthia vs. Bear?
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Don't play Surviving Mars. There is currently a bug where your colonists get stuck on storage bins trying to get food (even if there are other sources). They spin in place until they starve and die. They also can get stuck on farms... Then you have to destroy the building to free them, but in the meantime your colony takes a hit for someone dying. Oh and once one dies from starvation, the others that are stuck will start to commit suicide. It's a downward spiral that I found after playing 8 hours of it. If they fix the bug though it seems pretty fun! You know, the parts without the mass mars suicide.
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I feel like that might be fairly realistic for a Mars colony
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An Ounce of Gold posted:Don't play Surviving Mars. There is currently a bug where your colonists get stuck on storage bins trying to get food (even if there are other sources). They spin in place until they starve and die. They also can get stuck on farms... Then you have to destroy the building to free them, but in the meantime your colony takes a hit for someone dying. Oh and once one dies from starvation, the others that are stuck will start to commit suicide. It's a downward spiral that I found after playing 8 hours of it. My favourite thing about this is that I played SM on launch a couple years ago, and the game was suffering the same bugs back then. Not the exact same bugs but every single one of my colonies ended because the colonists would find a new and exciting way to kill themselves, sending the colony into a death spiral. Agggh, I hate waiting five minutes for this train! I know, I should take a two-day walk to the next dome instead of waiting for the train! Oh nooo I only had six hours of oxygen agh agh I am dying help how could you fail me like this, administrator.
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that's far too realistic to be fun.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I feel like that might be fairly realistic for a Mars colony Yeah they’re just simulating the functional brain capacity of anyone who lives on Musk’s Mars.
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Huh? I don't think those mechanics exist in Surviving Mars right now, much less during launch. On release there was no way for colonist to travel to other dome outside of moving their residence. I also don't think oxygen level is tracked at an individual level. The only massed death I experience was late game population growth just goes up to insane level and you can no longer take care of everyone like it's early game with quaint custom designed dome and have to be building dome basically constantly to the point of tedium lest everyone just die or leave due to insanity from being homeless or waiting in line to the clinic for too long.
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An Ounce of Gold posted:Don't play Surviving Mars. There is currently a bug where your colonists get stuck on storage bins trying to get food (even if there are other sources). They spin in place until they starve and die. They also can get stuck on farms... Then you have to destroy the building to free them, but in the meantime your colony takes a hit for someone dying. Oh and once one dies from starvation, the others that are stuck will start to commit suicide. It's a downward spiral that I found after playing 8 hours of it. Apparently they're releasing a fix for the bugs the latest expansion introduced today. Hopefully it fixes all of them, because some of them are bad. Shuttle Hubs are unbuildable. Certain power buildings are unbuildable. The aforementioned thing with the colonists is also experienced by drones. Just an utter shitshow that's had the latest expansion get hit with an overwhelmingly negative rating on steam, that eventually settled out at mostly negative.
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pedro0930 posted:On release there was no way for colonist to travel to other dome outside of moving their residence. You can connect the domes with tubes they can walk through or if you have a shuttle hub near they can fly those once you research something. Archonex posted:Apparently they're releasing a fix for the bugs the latest expansion introduced today. That would be great because there is a fun/interesting game here. It's like sim city but everything constantly deteriorates. And luckily I didn't run into any build bugs. I can build shuttle hubs just fine. Though I did notice it takes a LONG time to get some buildings up. I think even though the priority is high on building, the drones will go use your resources for maintaining establishing buildings over building new ones. Also I noticed that if you place a universal depot near anything that needs to get built, then it gets done almost immediately once the shuttles deliver the goods.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/475150/Titan_Quest_Anniversary_Edition/ Titan Quest is free on Steam. Also Jagged Alliance 1.
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ilitarist posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/475150/Titan_Quest_Anniversary_Edition/ I just recently finished TQ and it still held up surprisingly well. Word of warning though; optimization in the Atlantis DLC is downright shoddy. If you decide to buy it and experience stuttering, try running the game in DX9 mode.
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Quill posted:I just recently finished TQ and it still held up surprisingly well. Word of warning though; optimization in the Atlantis DLC is downright shoddy. If you decide to buy it and experience stuttering, try running the game in DX9 mode. I think the giveaway doesn't include either DLC.
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Mordja posted:I think the giveaway doesn't include either DLC. No, but they are available on Steam at a discount and some people here might take advantage. To clarify, core game runs fine. Last DLC is a bit busted.
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Two Epic freebies today are Tharsis and Speed Brawl. I've never heard of either but Tharsis looks kinda cool.
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I've seen gameplay footage before and Tharsis looks miserable, everything is literally just a dice roll and none of your descisions really matter because it's all down to luck.
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Tombot posted:I've seen gameplay footage before and Tharsis looks miserable, everything is literally just a dice roll and none of your descisions really matter because it's all down to luck. Yeah it's downward spiral Yahtzee
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I really liked Tharsis. It's a game with dice but it's not any more brutally random than something like FTL. The game gives you lovely rolls, and you decide what to do with them; you have enough options for how you build your team and what you want to specialize in that you can make meaningful choices. It's not an easy game to win, but that feels kind of in keeping with both the desperate tone of the game and the roguelike gameplay loop.
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Tharsis is great. They really nailed what they were going for. It's an addictive little game of making the best choices in a bad situation, and cannibalism.
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Tharsis is kind of cool, and has some nice touches (like how the dice get bloody after you cannibalize someone), but yes, if you're someone who hates RNG in games, then this is your kryptonite. A lot of playthroughs are doomed right from the get-go no matter what you do, and you will often find yourself in a situation where you've seemingly done everything right and the dice have actually gone your way for once when one single event completely fucks you and that's that. It is soul-crushing in the extreme. Of course, fans of the game would probably argue that's the point of the experience, but in my case, after my 10th 'oh sorry your dice got lost to the void again gently caress you' I just wanted to complete the loving thing, dev's 'vision' be damned. Fortunately there is an easy mode (which was patched in later apparently because of the deluge of complaints about difficulty), which will give you a reasonable shot of experiencing the whole story. If you want to try it, my advice is to play it on normal or hard a few times to get that miserable failure experience of 'What if those Mars One chucklefucks actually did try sending a spaceship to Mars after all?' and then switch over to easy mode so you can actually complete it and then probably never touch it again.
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