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MarcusSA posted:Well we can’t really say how true this is because YouTube removed the dislikes number from videos. Dislike data is apparently still accessible from YT API until 13th.
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Sininu posted:Dislike data is apparently still accessible from YT API until 13th. Interesting! Didn’t realize that. Also Elex is giving me strong Outriders vibes. Yeah I know Elex came first but I’m playing it after I’ve played outriders. 
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I am so damned stoked to get down on some monster rancher, surprised they released a pc port of the game. Just want to get my monster brawling and exploration on. Curious to see how to new system to get monsters works, considering they removed the optical drive need.
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Looking in my library I see I already have Gears Tactics and X Com2. 1. What kind of guide should I look for for X-com 2 and what DLC should I get 2. what order should I play them in
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Feels Villeneuve posted:it's absolutely going to happen with gacha poo poo. they already more or less ruined FIFA with that kind of thing and i fully expect that to be the next step I don't understand the difference between having NFTs and the way things are now, for the end user. At the end of the day you're paying money to them to get some bits flipped somewhere. When the game goes away you have nothing.
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Mozi posted:I don't understand the difference between having NFTs and the way things are now, for the end user. At the end of the day you're paying money to them to get some bits flipped somewhere. When the game goes away you have nothing. "It can't possibly be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."
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zoux posted:Looking in my library I see I already have Gears Tactics and X Com2. I have no experience with Gears so just an XCOM2 answer: it depends on if you are the type of person who is likely to play through it more than once. If you don't think you will, go straight for War of the Chosen. It's much more like a sequel than just a couple additions. It makes for a very compelling and very different game than vanilla, but vanilla is still really fun and good. If you're going to play twice, play vanilla and then WotC, but if you are only going to play once, play WotC. For the rest of the DLC, it is all okay and not very impactful but if it is your first time through maybe don't run Alien Hunters, they're sort of like randomly spawning superbosses.
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Mozi posted:I don't understand the difference between having NFTs and the way things are now, for the end user. At the end of the day you're paying money to them to get some bits flipped somewhere. When the game goes away you have nothing. No you understand it perfectly
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Mozi posted:I don't understand the difference between having NFTs and the way things are now, for the end user. At the end of the day you're paying money to them to get some bits flipped somewhere. When the game goes away you have nothing. It's less functionality and more mentality. If Ubisoft puts up a store with limited-edition skins selling for 10k a piece, people will riot. If they put up 1,000 units of an NFT skin and they auction for 10k per unit, Ubisoft still gets about the same money and no one complains. And then they can tack on more layers of exploitation like celebrity signings, "exclusive" "art", cross-game portability where your Siege weapon bauble NFT can be used in other games too, etc. In reality NFTs offer no functionality to control-freak publishers, they just make being even more manipulative and abusive to your customers seem more acceptable to people. To them, that's worth giving up direct control of the secondary marketplace.
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So in their recent giftstravaganza, Feliday gave me Death's Door , which ended up being a really pleasing little experience. It is a horrible day in the afterlife, and you are a nice soul-reaping crow. Nothing revolutionary, but a charming little game that's on the easier side of the souls-lite / metroidvania type. It's got fun combat, an interesting cast of characters, and lots of secrets to find. It took me around maybe 18 hours to effectively 100% the game (not including the one achievement that requires you to use nothing but a joke weapon for the entire game, I ain't doing that), and there was little to no grind. The metroidvania aspect has you backtracking a bit, and in a game with no map that can be a bit iffy, but the music and visual design are charming enough it didn't feel like a drag. It's like if Ghibli made their own Dark Souls. Being an indie, there's limits on enemy variety, & controls are serviceable, but nothing that is detrimental to the overall experience. The puzzles are fairly straightforward, the difficulty curve is pretty kind, and the game is short enough that no aspect really wears out its welcome. I feel like I've undersold it with faint praise here, but I would definitely recommend it.
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Mozi posted:I don't understand the difference between having NFTs and the way things are now, for the end user. At the end of the day you're paying money to them to get some bits flipped somewhere. When the game goes away you have nothing. One big difference for the end user is that you can resell an NFT to someone else. A lot of people buying NFTs don't even care about the thing that the NFT gets them; they just think they're going to be able to flip it to some other sucker for a profit.
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Triarii posted:One big difference for the end user is that you can resell an NFT to someone else. A lot of people buying NFTs don't even care about the thing that the NFT gets them; they just think they're going to be able to flip it to some other sucker for a profit. This was already true of marketplaces for games with item trading without NFTs. Recently Path of Exile had a bug where using a specific combination of items allowed you to run infinite aura skills, limited only by your skill sockets. A bunch of people bought up those items to try to resell to people looking to make a build based on that only for GGG to patch out the bug, sending prices crashing down
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nvm this post was unnecessary
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Tarezax posted:This was already true of marketplaces for games with item trading without NFTs. Recently Path of Exile had a bug where using a specific combination of items allowed you to run infinite aura skills, limited only by your skill sockets. A bunch of people bought up those items to try to resell to people looking to make a build based on that only for GGG to patch out the bug, sending prices crashing down See, that's the problem - items in game economies are subject to the whims of the developers as they patch and rebalance things. NFTs, as everyone knows, only ever go up in value, so you're guaranteed to make money buying them without even needing to know anything about how the game works.
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I think I can finally lay a finger on why Fights in Tight Spaces works for me as well as it does: more than any other game I've played since it released, FiTs captures the magic of Invisible Inc. Not perfectly - what could? - but close enough to that dynamic of puzzling out each tactical move, using undos, and hoping the rng can be massaged just so that it encourages multiple runs and all kinds of silliness. This game lacks - mm. Something about balance or variety or something, that I struggle to put a finger on. The closest I can think of is how most of the bonus objectives are unfun or punishingly tight (especially the time limited ones) and there's no real other way to get currency (although currency isn't as important as it feels, as upgrading cards is nice but not crucial - card gain + improvements are far more important) But overall I'm pouring hours into and loving love it and highly recommend it if it sounds like your jam. Put it next to Invisible Inc and Into the Breach as good tactical positioning games. Thank you.
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Triarii posted:One big difference for the end user is that you can resell an NFT to someone else. A lot of people buying NFTs don't even care about the thing that the NFT gets them; they just think they're going to be able to flip it to some other sucker for a profit. Also true of cryptocurrency in general for basically everyone who doesn't think it's THE CURRENCY OF THE FUTURE.
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zoux posted:Looking in my library I see I already have Gears Tactics and X Com2. Xcom2: Vanilla first, no DLCs. Then if you like it, second playthrough with everything and the kitchen sink. That's not since the DLC is bad, but because it adds a LOT of front-loaded stuff that's really overwhelming with all the new systems and such. Fanboy talking: The DLC model was mostly 'throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks' and so you see a very strong iterative progression.
So yea, if you have XCOM2 just fire it up and play it, and if you love it and want to do a second playthrough grab the "everything" edition and shove it all on at once. Tip: Don't "intergrate DLC", it hides the cool special missions in an attempt to reduce the mission overload. Boo!
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Is there an XCOM 1 mod for XCOM 2? I think 2 is a better game in a lot of ways, but I liked the more (kinda) grounded sci-fi of 1 than I did the superhero/goony-villain vibe of 2.
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Lt. Lizard posted:I had a bit of time and I really like the game so I did a small effort post/sales pitch for it. I'll quote this in its entirety since it's v helpful and any page of this thread is easy to miss. Thanks for the thoughtful writeup, I think I will get it! Troubleshooter also sounded great, I'll probably get that one later. With the prices/sale Age of Wonder is the better choice just now.
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) Heroes of Might and Magic and many other turn-based titles. The game has equal focus on ranged and melee combat, with cover, overwatch and ranged AoE attacks being vital part of the game, while also offering a lot of advantages to melee, with various movement abilities, generally higher damage and ways to shut-down ranged units to maintain a solid balance between the two . You can also use tactical operation, which are basically spells from Heroes of Might and Magic, to further affect battlefield and units on it, by, say, dropping a nuke on enemy army.
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Does anyone have two Xbox wireless controllers laying around and know if it's possible to connect both at the same time to your computer (Windows 10) and use them simultaneously? My 5 year old son and I are playing some LEGO games co-op. He's got the current Xbox wireless controller, I'm using a wired Logitech F310. There have been a few accidents where he's snagged the cord and it's fallen on the ground and I'm trying to avoid that, or the worse outcome, it tips my tower over/rips the USB cord out of the back/something else fucky happens. I was considering getting another Xbox controller to use with my computer but the quick Googling I've found online seems like it's not possible, but they're all old posts. I've got the Xbox PC dongle thingy, and can always get a Bluetooth adapter with the controller if needed. Just wondering if anyone has done this before and how it worked in co-op. Thanks!
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americanzero4128 posted:Does anyone have two Xbox wireless controllers laying around and know if it's possible to connect both at the same time to your computer (Windows 10) and use them simultaneously? My 5 year old son and I are playing some LEGO games co-op. He's got the current Xbox wireless controller, I'm using a wired Logitech F310. There have been a few accidents where he's snagged the cord and it's fallen on the ground and I'm trying to avoid that, or the worse outcome, it tips my tower over/rips the USB cord out of the back/something else fucky happens. I was considering getting another Xbox controller to use with my computer but the quick Googling I've found online seems like it's not possible, but they're all old posts. I've got the Xbox PC dongle thingy, and can always get a Bluetooth adapter with the controller if needed. Just wondering if anyone has done this before and how it worked in co-op. Thanks! Yes, you can use two simultaneously. It works just the same as it does with an xbox.
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got my new super premium hyper intelligent gaming rig today, so far it runs barotrauma like a dream
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lmao https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti..._source=twitter
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So someone stop me if I'm missing something, because even after reading about blockchains and cryptocurrencies many times over I still feel like I've missed something. The big feature of blockchains is that, rather than storing data in, you know, a database, you store it with every single user of the system, who each have to perform a variety of complex calculations just to validate that it's not fraud (and it can still be fraud). So Kickstarter "moving to the blockchain" is, if not just an utterly meaningless buzzword meant to con gullible investors, a statement that they will be storing their data on a highly redundant, highly inefficient system whose main claim to fame is that it claims it's less likely to be hacked or defrauded, even though the most successful frauds are things like Phishing and Vishing anyway, not hackerman cracking the password to your NFT. Do I have that right?
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somehow this more than anything else sells how goddamn stupid this fuckass shithole of a technological future is knew there was a reason i had that cloud yellers tag, i mean good god
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Xanderkish posted:So someone stop me if I'm missing something, because even after reading about blockchains and cryptocurrencies many times over I still feel like I've missed something.
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I bought Teardown when it was on sale and its pretty fun. Their voxel engine is impressive as I've never had it slowdown on me even on epic explosions (2080, 4 year old intel cpu). I am a bit disappointed how inflexible the alarms are in the missions lately. The game is full of anarchic fun and creative solutions but the limitations imposed by the alarms starts to feel a little repetitive. When I first encountered them I was thinking there would be ways in the map to cut the power or maybe be able to ease them off their attach point to move them around or something. I'm still having fun setting up my destruction paths but I hope the game throws some variety at me eventually.
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There’s normally a couple objectives that can be moved or cleared entirely without setting off their alarm, but for the most part the inflexibility of the alarms is necessary to make the game a cool heist simulator and not just minecraft.
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There are a bunch of really bad missions in Teardown, where you're really just doing things the way the developer intended or you aren't doing them at all. The missions that aren't just "do a speedrun" are loving great. The alarm speedrun missions are mostly boring and extremely repetitive. A few have enough gimmicks or viable alternative routes to keep things interesting, but most of the mid/late game missions with are just "gently caress you, do exactly it this way". It's not that time pressure is bad. It's that in many of Teardown's missions, it makes it so that there are maybe a couple options to complete the mission at all and only one way to actually do all the objectives. The feeling of creativity and experimentation from the non-speedrun missions just vanishes and you sigh and ask yourself how the developer intended you to complete the mission. I haven't played the additional campaign yet. I'm hoping it's more of the good poo poo and less of the garbage filler. K8.0 fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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The 7th Guest posted:check your PMs, you get it gratis drat you made my day, thanks so much!
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The new campagin has three new levels, and does have a bit more variety in the missions. There are still a few «gone in 60 seconds» missions, though.
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Serephina posted:Xcom2: Vanilla first, no DLCs. Then if you like it, second playthrough with everything and the kitchen sink. That's not since the DLC is bad, but because it adds a LOT of front-loaded stuff that's really overwhelming with all the new systems and such. i bought the everything bundle during the steam sale, but it could be a long time before i want to play it second time. do you think it's okay to play with WotC out of the gate?
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I mean possibly? You can dive in with everyone on at once, more power to you.
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Well my adventure in Conan Exiles was short, as the game decided it wanted to do an update which made my mods break and nuked my save. I pray to Crom that things will be fixed soon. And if he does not listen, then to hell with him.
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Rinkles posted:i bought the everything bundle during the steam sale, but it could be a long time before i want to play it second time. do you think it's okay to play with WotC out of the gate? It'll have some confusing moments but I think like a third of all the people that have played XCOM 2 have experienced it that way so 
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Rinkles posted:i bought the everything bundle during the steam sale, but it could be a long time before i want to play it second time. do you think it's okay to play with WotC out of the gate? I hated XCOM2 vanilla, I think it’s a bad game that is miraculously turned into a great game by War of the Chosen. Just play that straight off, the learning curve isn’t a big deal. Just stay away from the “mysterious alien weapons” mission, that kicks off the alien lords DLC which sucks poo poo.
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Anonymous Robot posted:I hated XCOM2 vanilla, I think it’s a bad game that is miraculously turned into a great game by War of the Chosen. Just play that straight off, the learning curve isn’t a big deal. Just stay away from the “mysterious alien weapons” mission, that kicks off the alien lords DLC which sucks poo poo. Agreed with all of this, just play it all at once. I don't go back to games generally, and it was perfectly fine.
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While we are on the topic: If I were to re-re-re-re-replay XCOM2, should I play with Long War or does that become tedious?
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In regard to the vanila xcom debate, I agree it’s better to have wotc on and startover from failure than as new game+. It is an addition, not extra. I did my new game+ with mod class and have more fun over it. Antigravitas posted:While we are on the topic: If I were to re-re-re-re-replay XCOM2, should I play with Long War or does that become tedious? If you really want to do it anyway, download some custom OP class mod to even the tedious playing field.
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