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Fun Times! posted:Anyone have opinions about V Rising? Its good. More fleshed out than you would expect for an early access game. Though not very optimized so you will notice a slow down as your base starts getting bigger.
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The isometric camera in V Rising is not doing it for me at all. It's probably better when you're actually playing it but it has the look of a fairly unspectacular diablo clone even though it apparently plays nothing like Diablo.
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May 24, 2022 21:00
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Is PvZ Garden Warfare 2 supposed to be this brutal in the vanilla pvp? I think my record for staying alive is like 5 seconds. I spend more time running back from spawn, and generally don't even see what killed me until its too late.
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May 24, 2022 21:26
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MarcusSA posted:I’ve played a bit of it and it’s not bad? I don’t mind plopping down $10-15 for an EA game and giving it a shot. I think the implication is that it's a blatant copy of Rimworld made by a chinese dev.
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May 24, 2022 21:34
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I want to try out V Rising but I hear it is not solo friendly.
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May 24, 2022 21:34
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Unlucky7 posted:I want to try out V Rising but I hear it is not solo friendly. You have pretty robust game settings and it's getting a proper offline mode soon so you can tweak it fine for SP.
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May 24, 2022 21:43
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v rising is the first stick and rock survival crafting game i've played that has even remotely functional combat
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May 24, 2022 21:58
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pentyne posted:I think the implication is that it's a blatant copy of Rimworld made by a chinese dev. It doesn't seem to be at all. Looking at the page it looks like it's more about controlling a single character rather than a colony sim. I adore Rimworld but it doesn't even own that simplistic art style because didn't Prison Architect come out first? gently caress I actually do want lots of Rimworld clones because I want to see more takes on the concept.
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May 25, 2022 00:09
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Fun Times! posted:Anyone have opinions about V Rising? disclaimer: I am not a fan of survival games and I almost exclusively play games singleplayer. I tried it because of the devs. Fun combat mechanics. Bad AI - you can easily circlestrafe your way to victory against everything I faced in the refund period. It would probably be fun against players because BLC/Battlerite were fun pvp games and this is essentially the same combat, but it wasn't going to do it for me as a singleplayer game. Gameplay loop is centered around real-world waiting times - multiple hours to convert captured NPC followers and unlock various things. Always-dwindling power sources in your base that you have to log in with some regularity to refill, etc. That's the kind of stuff I particularly don't like in multiplayer Survival games. You can adjust the timers when playing singleplayer or hosting your own server, but for me that just feels empty in the way that playing an emulated MMO on a self-hosted private server does. Anyway my point is I wouldn't recommend it as a singleplayer experience for people who don't like this general formula of survival games but are tempted by the promise of good combat, but if the formula is your jam or if pvp is what you want people really seem to like it. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 00:42 on May 25, 2022 |
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May 25, 2022 00:34
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V Rising's use of monospaced font over interactables, yet proportional fonts for almost everything else is very off-putting from the footage I've seen It's like a Soldak game  https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Soldak%20Entertainment
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May 25, 2022 00:48
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zoux posted:I don't get why people are so into porn games. Just watch hentai or whatever, it's free and you don't have to do challenges to see the breasts. Being horny rules.
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May 25, 2022 00:58
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evilmiera posted:I just finished the Rana campaign. While it was quite hard, I eventually beat it handily enough. This sounds pretty cool. I have only played the first mission in Songs of Conquest, but I definitely felt the leader in that was a jerk. I'm glad to see the game is showing consequences for nobles being awful, now I'm much more motivated to keep playing. Ignoring the story, I absolutely love the aesthetic and basic gameplay so far. I hope the game keeps developing, apparently they are responding to fan feedback by toning down some of the difficulty on the very end of campaigns. They were used to beta testers who knew the system perfectly and scooped up every possible advantage in prior missions. There was some Craftopia talk earlier, apparently they dropped a big update just a few days ago with a whole new game mode. Looks like the devs are pretty passionate about the project, and they have been continually adding to it for quite a while. It's definitely a bit jank, but there's some really cool fun stuff in there too. I played it for a couple hours. Haven't gotten too far yet, but taking magic skills to blast golem boss weak spots from a safe distance was satisfying and the basic sword combat moves were also satisfying when I was fighting dungeon goblins.
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May 25, 2022 01:11
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I'm not sure what the patch history of Hardspace Shipbreaker is, but having come back to it today after about a year, I'm impressed. The storyline, new ships and variations, the hab sections, collectibles, and the personal ship stuff are all new to me. Finally being able to save progress on a large ship is also welcome. So far it seems like the physics jank and performance issues are gone, although I've not yet worked my way up to the largest classes of ships.
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May 25, 2022 06:04
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deep dish peat moss posted:disclaimer: I am not a fan of survival games and I almost exclusively play games singleplayer. I tried it because of the devs. A different perspective here: I started a solo game but I upped the sliders for stack size to max, resource droprate to 2x and crafting/refine timers to 5x. There is no problem at all with these things If you do this. Also the time on your castle heart does not decay at all while you don't play solo, thats only an issue for dedicated servers. It's also the only decaying resource. Enemies get a lot more challenging the deeper you get into it and you can't just circle strafe. I agree that the default 1x settings are mostly unplayable solo unless you grind extensively but they can be tweaked to whatever you please so go for it.
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FuzzySlippers posted:It doesn't seem to be at all. Looking at the page it looks like it's more about controlling a single character rather than a colony sim. I adore Rimworld but it doesn't even own that simplistic art style because didn't Prison Architect come out first? Tynan copied Prison Architect's style because he admitted to not being a good artist and he thought the style worked well for the type of the game. He later got blessing from the original artist, too. Source: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=23.0 That blog post linked in that thread is incidentally how I learned that Rimworld's original name was Starship Architect and it was supposed to be a mix of FTL and Dwarf Fortress  To also say something about Keplerth as someone who likes Rimworld a lot: I often wished I could have played a single person survival game in the Rimworld engine, and I'm sure I wasn't alone in that, so as long as Keplerth is a good game 
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lordfrikk posted:Tynan copied Prison Architect's style because he admitted to not being a good artist and he thought the style worked well for the type of the game. He later got blessing from the original artist, too. Source: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=23.0 I grabbed the game and played a bit. Seems pretty cool. Despite people rushing to get weird about it since it was made by Chinese devs it actually isn't that much like Rimworld. Art wise there are more animations and the spritework is more detailed when you can actually see it. That's actually my main problem with the game is that it has no zoom and on a higher resolution monitor it is all pretty tiny. It also has a light story/conversations, but the world is proc gen'd. Gameplay you are a single character you create rather than a colony manager. It actually seems more like an overhead Terraria with Rimworld elements. I haven't gotten far but it seems polished enough for the price and there are no translation issues. FuzzySlippers fucked around with this message at 08:46 on May 25, 2022 |
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May 25, 2022 08:36
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HopperUK posted:New Fanatical bundle has some good stuff, not sure if it's been posted. I'll throw my endorsement for Obsidian Prince as well, which just got it's 1.0 release alongside this bundle. Godstrike too, which probably gets my vote of 'Game I wouldn't pay full price for but I'd be extremely happy to scoop up in a bundle to fill my way to a price tier' of this lot. It's fun for what it is- if you've played a bossrush-style action game before, Godstrike is probably going to last 4-5 hours and only provide much resistance at the end since in it's a lot of ways Baby's First Bossrush Game, but then new people might get frustrated with the main concept of that the timer doubles as your health bar. Because of how that works, it makes it unclear sometimes when a fight is lost yet you can keep fighting for a while never knowing you don't have the time remaining to actually win. That said, it's also really good for having a chance to really work out a boss' patterns per run even if you are absolutely biffing it, so YMMV.
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lordfrikk posted:Tynan copied Prison Architect's style because he admitted to not being a good artist and he thought the style worked well for the type of the game. He later got blessing from the original artist, too. Source: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=23.0 I watched someone stream Keplerth for about two weeks. It's pretty much a Terraria / Starbound type of game with a very arcadey progression curve. It has nothing to do with Rimworld at all aside from the graphics looking similar.
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pentyne posted:The EA pipeline is like crack for some people who so desperately want a certain type of game. Before Subverse (current status: lol) took the crown as the massive crowdfunded porn game there was Breeding Season, a Harvest Moon type porn game, that raised a ton of money and it's Patreon was taking in $42k/mo then one of the devs just stole a bunch of it and went his own way. quote:while Breeding Season might finally be dead, they would still have a valid option for funding a game about banging monstergirls/boys and running a monster farm.” The future is real loving weird, I tell you hwat.
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Another friend of mine bought Evil Dead, bringing our group total to 3, and even going from 2 players to 3 the experience is so, so much better when people are willing to work together to accomplish the goals instead of run in 4 opposite directions at the start of every game. I'm actually really coming around to the gameplay now that we're working together and understanding how to utilize our abilities. I'm playing as, uh, Evil Dead 1 Ash, and his ability reduces the fear meter of teammates around him when he uses it which is 'uge because that's how they eventually can posess you and make you fight your teammates and stuff. He also heals with heavy melee attacks so I've found yet another game that I can heal teammates in and it's really helpful for keeping everyone topped off when we're fighting. Definitely one of the more frustrating parts of this game though are they don't really always clearly show where your teammates are and doesn't show people's names over their heads or anything. In a game where there's like 5 different versions of the same character that people can play as, it's definitely frustrating when you want someone to come to you because it's like "Oh I'm ash, but the young one. No not the one with the cape. the young one... with the bowl cut?". It's even harder when playing with someone like my friend who has never seen the movies. I was pretty annoyed with this game initially because you really need to coordinate with your teammates and that wasn't happening, but now that I've played a few more rounds and gotten some levels and have a third guy in our group we actually had a blast last night. I really don't know how much legs this game has tbh, thankfully there's crossplay with consoles because it has taken us a while to find matches and have never played with anyone else who wasn't on a console, but apparently the game sold 500k copies in a few days after launch which isn't bad. For $30 (on sale right now) it's far more palatable to me personally, if you have a group of friends looking to play something and are fans of the movie/genre you could probably do worse.
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I reinstalled Prey after the thread was talking about it last week or 2; if I GLOO up an enemy and smack 'em with my Wrench, would these count as Sneak Attacks if I were to spec into that talent?
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FrickenMoron posted:I watched someone stream Keplerth for about two weeks. It's pretty much a Terraria / Starbound type of game with a very arcadey progression curve. It has nothing to do with Rimworld at all aside from the graphics looking similar. That is a shame actually but it would be unrealistic to expect anyone to re-create Rimworld AND build a completely different game on top (unless it's a DLC for the actual Rimworld I suppose). I still plan to try Keplerth, though, because it sounds good.
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lordfrikk posted:Tynan copied Prison Architect's style because he admitted to not being a good artist and he thought the style worked well for the type of the game. He later got blessing from the original artist, too. Source: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=23.0 I'm surprised someone hasn't modded in a mode along the lines of Prison Architect's Prisoner mode. Would it make sense to control one person and do dull tasks about a colony, maybe get into some combat? No! But that doesn't stop modders 
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Because it made me laugh: apparently there is a Polish book series based on the premise "what would the medieval world look like if Jesus kicked rear end." And now that world is being brought to life in a video game! Well, it worked for The Witcher.quote:"I, the Inquisitor'' is a story-driven, dark fantasy adventure game with action elements and difficult moral choices. Based on the bestselling Inquisitor book series by Jacek Piekara, the game takes place in an alternative religious timeline. Once nailed to the cross and near death, Jesus becomes consumed by utter rage. He breaks free and unleashes violent vengeance on all the non-believers. Centuries pass and now an army of zealot Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith in this bloodsoaked Church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOID_7h-aZs
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Hitman 3 got a big update this week where they added RTX/DLSS (plus a bunch of other crap i don't really care about) and man this game looks loving good
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explosivo posted:Hitman 3 got a big update this week where they added RTX/DLSS (plus a bunch of other crap i don't really care about) and man this game looks loving good Oh yeah about that quote:Trip report: my frame rate in hitman 3 goes from 175 - 200+ fps without RT on down to 40 - 65 fps with it on lmao
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Rebel Blob posted:Because it made me laugh: apparently there is a Polish book series based on the premise "what would the medieval world look like if Jesus kicked rear end." And now that world is being brought to life in a video game! Well, it worked for The Witcher. That's a fun absurd bit of fan fiction but it's pretty lame kick rear end jesus changes the world so little. Righteous fury jesus is still signified with a cross? Considering the only time jc goes postal in the NT as an inquisitor you should be hunting down merchants and bankers.
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Rebel Blob posted:Because it made me laugh: apparently there is a Polish book series based on the premise "what would the medieval world look like if Jesus kicked rear end." And now that world is being brought to life in a video game! Well, it worked for The Witcher.
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It should be a little cross that's flexing
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This game seems questionable from a doctrinal standpoint.
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Not sure I'm going to be able to suspend disbelief in a setting where Christianity is portrayed to be a religion of control and violence
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MarcusSA posted:Oh yeah about that I ran the benchmark on Dubai with everything maxed out on DLSS Quality and got an average of 90, then jumped into Chongqing because that seemed like it'd be cool with it on. I had no discernible issues with fps, but you're right it can be kinda hard to tell exactly what it is that looks better and I would probably be like WHOA COOL even if it somehow turned itself off without my knowledge. That said, the underground lab area of Chongqing looked very nice with the reflections in all the glass windows and stuff. I'll have to try Sapienza and see if I have issues with that one. 5800X3D, 3080ti, 1440p Edit: not saying i don't believe you just telling you my experience. This new cpu has really been hard to beat.
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Sab669 posted:I reinstalled Prey after the thread was talking about it last week or 2; if I GLOO up an enemy and smack 'em with my Wrench, would these count as Sneak Attacks if I were to spec into that talent? I'm 99% sure that only an initial attack on an unaware enemy counts as sneak, gloo'd enemys that are frozen should still take 50% extra damage.
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FrickenMoron posted:I'm 99% sure that only an initial attack on an unaware enemy counts as sneak, gloo'd enemys that are frozen should still take 50% extra damage. Yea this was my guess too, but I wasn't sure if I could walk behind them and break line of sight maybe  I forgot this game had zero-gravity sections. Yea, sorry thread, Dishonored is superior
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Anyone else looking forward to Sniper Elite 5? Reviews have been decent for the most part. But I liked 4 and it is on Gamepass, so it's worth a swing. I did just read some weird article that accused the game of being sympathetic to Nazis because there are non-lethal options. Speaking as someone who loves killing video game Nazis as much as the next guy, that seems incredibly 
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Getting shot through the balls isn't necessarily a mortal wound.
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zoux posted:Getting shot through the balls isn't necessarily a mortal wound. 
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explosivo posted:Hitman 3 got a big update this week where they added RTX/DLSS (plus a bunch of other crap i don't really care about) and man this game looks loving good I'd like to try it, but RTX is supposedly disabled/locked out on my virtual pc, which I have admin control of. Any ideas getting around that?
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Unlucky7 posted:Anyone else looking forward to Sniper Elite 5? Reviews have been decent for the most part. But I liked 4 and it is on Gamepass, so it's worth a swing. It looks like they added the ability to invade someone else's game as an enemy sniper which could be fun
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Unlucky7 posted:Anyone else looking forward to Sniper Elite 5? Reviews have been decent for the most part. But I liked 4 and it is on Gamepass, so it's worth a swing. I am, pretty excited that it's on gamepass since I usually play these games for an hour or two before getting bored with it.
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