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If you pre-registered for the Octopath Traveler: Champions Of The Continent Closed Beta, it's now available to download. Servers won't open until 3/23/22 at 01:00 UTC (tonight at 9:00/8:00/7:00/6:00 PM E/C/M/P timezones)
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Mar 22, 2022 22:57
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Is it just me or did they drastically reduce the output of those Google Rewards weekly bonus points? I just got +2. I've gotten+200 before.
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Mar 23, 2022 18:07
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New Leaf posted:Is it just me or did they drastically reduce the output of those Google Rewards weekly bonus points? I just got +2. I've gotten+200 before. I've only ever gotten between 3 and 5.
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Mar 23, 2022 18:08
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I just discovered yesterday that those can be traded in for credit and not just lovely f2p game extras. I feel like I've bought a lot of games since they introduced that system but had exactly 400 points saved up which equates to $4. I guess it's something!
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Mar 23, 2022 18:14
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Did they change something with Google Survey Rewards bucks? Or are you talking about something different?
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Mar 23, 2022 19:46
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Trastion posted:Did they change something with Google Survey Rewards bucks? Or are you talking about something different? Something different, you get google play points or something when you buy stuff on the store that you can exchange for stuff. If you click your profile picture in the play store then open the play points thing on that menu you should be able to see what you have and can exchange for 
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Mar 23, 2022 20:02
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Kheldarn posted:If you pre-registered for the Octopath Traveler: Champions Of The Continent Closed Beta, it's now available to download. Figures this comes out and I don't have an Android device available. 
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Mar 23, 2022 23:45
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is the octopath game a gacha or what
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Mar 24, 2022 03:09
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Go RV! posted:is the octopath game a gacha or what Search your heart
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Mar 24, 2022 05:26
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Picked up "Technopoly – Industrial Empire" recently and am enjoying it? I say with a confused tone. It's a fine number go up and resource balancing game, with the very important bridges being the once or twice a day login reward. Very planned around feeding you as many ads as possible, and my pihole means I can't get any of the boosts from ads which is more than a bit annoying.
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Mar 24, 2022 09:22
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So after spending a good chunk of time playing the Octopath Traveler Champions Of The Continent Beta, there was something very familiar about it. It's Another Eden themed to Octopath. It's not 100% the same, but it's very clear that they took the engine for Another Eden and modified it. It feels very Octopath Traveler, and I enjoy it. I plan to play it when it launches in a few months.
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Mar 24, 2022 17:01
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Kheldarn posted:So after spending a good chunk of time playing the Octopath Traveler Champions Of The Continent Beta, there was something very familiar about it. Please tell me this doesn't include the 5m mandatory data checking at every start up
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Mar 24, 2022 17:26
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Cerepol posted:Please tell me this doesn't include the 5m mandatory data checking at every start up What you don't love taking an hour or more for AE to check and then download a <100MB update? 
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Mar 24, 2022 20:49
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tater_salad posted:I'll fire this up, I liked it over trains since it's not as line based etc. Sure. I'm 21WWK.
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Mar 24, 2022 21:17
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Cerepol posted:Please tell me this doesn't include the 5m mandatory data checking at every start up It says Downloading when I start the app, but it doesn't seem to take much longer to do that and then load into gameplay than other games I've played. I don't know if it's just downloading stuff because of the beta (there have been some issues and fixes), or if it's doing like Another Eden did, but for now, I find it tolerable. Edit Just launched it, and timed things. Here's the results I got: Launch > Squeenix Logo: 21 seconds Squeenix Logo > Tap To Start: 15 seconds Tapping To Start > Now Loading: 31 seconds Now Loading > Loaded and ready to play: 16 seconds Total time from Launch to Play: 1:23 Kheldarn fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Mar 24, 2022 22:07
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Can anyone recommend a good android emulator? I basically just want to listen to audio books on my computer, but the app I use only has a mobile app, so I figured I could just emulate android on my computer and run it from there. I'd rather do something simpler than using a virtual machine I make myself, but the ones out there like Nox and Bluestacks give big "will install bloatware on my computer" vibes.
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Mar 24, 2022 22:17
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tildes posted:Can anyone recommend a good android emulator? I basically just want to listen to audio books on my computer, but the app I use only has a mobile app, so I figured I could just emulate android on my computer and run it from there. I'd rather do something simpler than using a virtual machine I make myself, but the ones out there like Nox and Bluestacks give big "will install bloatware on my computer" vibes. If you have Windows 11, you can use the Windows Subsystem for Android. I have not tried it myself but I think you gotta sideload apks as you can't run the Play Store. (wouldn't' be surprised if someone eventually makes that work though)
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Mar 24, 2022 22:35
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tildes posted:Can anyone recommend a good android emulator? I basically just want to listen to audio books on my computer, but the app I use only has a mobile app, so I figured I could just emulate android on my computer and run it from there. I'd rather do something simpler than using a virtual machine I make myself, but the ones out there like Nox and Bluestacks give big "will install bloatware on my computer" vibes. Bluestacks has big sleazy marketing-guy vibes but it doesn't do any malware stuff or touch the rest of your computer. It just makes money by advertising lots of predatory pay-to-win mobile games on your "phone's" home screen inside the emulator.
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Mar 24, 2022 22:40
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Bluestacks has big sleazy marketing-guy vibes but it doesn't do any malware stuff or touch the rest of your computer. It just makes money by advertising lots of predatory pay-to-win mobile games on your "phone's" home screen inside the emulator. There's a way to disable the auto-installation of apps but yeah Bluestacks and Nox are the shadiest feeling things I've ever willingly installed on a computer.
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Mar 24, 2022 22:50
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What about LDPlayer?
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Mar 24, 2022 23:27
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Unperson_47 posted:There's a way to disable the auto-installation of apps but yeah Bluestacks and Nox are the shadiest feeling things I've ever willingly installed on a computer. It's never autoinstalled anything for me, it just has a bunch of ad icons on the home screen. If you click these it'll take you to the play store to download them the normal way:  e: speaking about Bluestacks, I haven't tried Nox Kheldarn posted:What about LDPlayer? Pretty sure all of the android emulators on pc are very corporate ad-riddled things. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Mar 24, 2022 23:38
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If you're on Windows 11, there's native Android emulation built in now
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Mar 24, 2022 23:53
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:It's never autoinstalled anything for me, it just has a bunch of ad icons on the home screen. If you click these it'll take you to the play store to download them the normal way: I mainly used Nox and I remember it auto-installing apps. Maybe I'm misremembering but I'm pretty sure. I have not used it in about a year. edit: Read up on it and looks you were right and I was wrong. They only ever added shortcuts to install the apps as you stated. That's more restraint than I was expecting or assumed. Even Microsoft had auto-installing Solitaire and Candy Crush and other poo poo in Windows 10. Unperson_47 fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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Mar 24, 2022 23:55
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Does BlueStacks (or any of the other emulators marketed at gaming) do anything more than "package up the android dev emulator to make it idiot-proof then add a bunch of ads"?
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Mar 25, 2022 00:13
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Jabor posted:Does BlueStacks (or any of the other emulators marketed at gaming) do anything more than "package up the android dev emulator to make it idiot-proof then add a bunch of ads"? They can map gamepad or mouse and keyboards to touch inputs. I played PUBG using PhoenixOS for a little while this way.
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Mar 25, 2022 03:01
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Jabor posted:Does BlueStacks (or any of the other emulators marketed at gaming) do anything more than "package up the android dev emulator to make it idiot-proof then add a bunch of ads"? Well for one the android dev emulator runs like rear end for various reasons. BlueStacks and co actually run modified VirtualBox instances. And like Unperson said there's control mapping, plus integration with the host system (a shared folder usually), multi-instance stuff, macros, etc.
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Mar 25, 2022 04:25
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eeenmachine posted:It was originally published on Android through a publisher (mobage) who removed it off the store after a few years. We also had to stop updating our iOS version because the code base was so old and couldn't support 64 bit without a ton of work so we ported the game to Unity to bring it back to Android and be able to update it again on iOS. Thanks for putting this out again, this was one of my favorite android games. Been playing it for a bit now and I don't think it's just rose colored glasses. It fills the same niche as an idle game, but I much prefer this. I feel relaxed playing it without trying to find the mathematically "correct" way to play.
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Mar 25, 2022 07:15
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Started to play Dicey Elementalist that I found through an ad on another game. Seems to be fun so far and I haven't gotten a single ad or anything yet in 20 minutes or so of playing. There is a tutorial to walk you through some of the basics but the gameplay is pretty easy. It is Randomness via Dice but you can lock/unlock dice for each roll and you get better spells and stuff to help you fight better. edit: Ok there are ads but so far ONLY when you fail a fight and want to try again. You can always choose to not try again but it ends the adventure. Trastion fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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Mar 25, 2022 17:17
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I think this came up a while ago ITT I think but I'm only now getting around to trying CLICKPOCALYPSE 2, which is an ironic name because while it is an idle game there's not much clicking involved as far as I can tell! Anyway this game's pretty fun. I'm not sure how much "depth" there is to it but I've been enjoying watching my dudes clearing dungeons while occasionally equipping upgrades. I wish there wasn't an entire menu for ad supported boosts you can apply though. Feels like I'm hamstringing myself by not going for those buffs but I don't want to watch like 8 ads in a row every now and then. Edit: This game's got a weird/nice? feature where if you take too long to clear a room a button appears that says 'pity' which basically acts like a free super powerful spell you can spam to clear the room out. I think it's only in situations where there's essentially a stalemate because as far as I can tell there's no way to tell your party to go grind and come back, but it's just weird to get a button to spam that appears relatively quickly and instakills everything with no downside. explosivo fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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Mar 25, 2022 18:14
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If the game gave me 3 extra gold each round I still don't think I could get 10 wins in the expansion pack side of Super Auto Pets. I think I'm doing good the first four rounds and then run into full melon armor giant pets, or even worse lose by exactly 1 HP.
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Mar 25, 2022 18:18
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Jabor posted:Does BlueStacks (or any of the other emulators marketed at gaming) do anything more than "package up the android dev emulator to make it idiot-proof then add a bunch of ads"? Nox also sends a bunch of usage data to some server it has in Russia(?) or did when I last used it, if that counts. Bluestacks always ran terribly for me but if it works better now and doesn't have a bunch of trackers and bloatware in it that's good to hear.
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Mar 25, 2022 21:25
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I can't guarantee it to be absolutely safe, but last time I needed an Android emulator, I used Mumu and it worked quite well. It's Chinese, but at least it's from a big company (Netease), so the likelihood of it being pure malware is perhaps lower. https://www.mumuglobal.com/
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Mar 25, 2022 22:18
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Thank you for tips! Didn’t realize windows 11 had a built in way to do android, I’ll try that and if not maybe blue stacks next!
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Mar 26, 2022 08:05
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Trastion posted:Started to play Dicey Elementalist that I found through an ad on another game. This is quite charming, thanks for the tip!
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Mar 26, 2022 09:53
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Is there a good match 3 game that's like... not freemium? the closest i can think of is you must build a boat which is excellent but there's only so many times i can play it
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Mar 27, 2022 13:45
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I would pay full price for Bejeweled 3, the exact PC version, to be on mobile. To me, that's the pinnacle of match 3 that doesn't involve some overarching fantasy story or plot. It's got amazingly addictive modes that mix stuff up enough and I wish that Popcap would surprise us all with, like, Bejeweled 4 or something that has all that and more.
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Mar 27, 2022 15:09
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Honestly authentic remakes to all the old popcap stuff would be gold. Id love a new PvZ and Peggle.
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Mar 27, 2022 15:29
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I would pay full price for Bejeweled 3, the exact PC version, to be on mobile. Isn't Bejeweled Classic pretty close? 
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BoldFace posted:Isn't Bejeweled Classic pretty close? Oh my. I wasn't aware of this. Is it f2p bullshit?
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Apparently dicey dungeons is in beta. Looks like it's full but hopefully that means we'll see a release soon!
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