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Suzera posted:Empyrion v1.8 and new HWS+ is coming June 7. HWS is a large community Empyrion server with maybe a few hundred players that cycle in? Not entirely sure of the exact amount, but the official HWS discord gets a lot of traffic. At least several people on the Sandcastle Kicker discord are going to give it a shot starting launch day if anyone here wants to join in and have fun building or maybe be a menace for a while. Discord link: https://discord.gg/Y5JPZ2qKAw
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:I can't remember the last time i actually played a game with someone other than my wife and I've been looking at Emperyon for awhile now. I may have to give this a shot. Also, apparently 1.8 main branch release and subsequently the new HWS+ release got delayed a week to June 14. So a couple weeks out.
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Empyrion is great, but I always lose interest once I make it out of the starting solar system with a warp drive. There’s a lot of hours before that happens though, and I enjoy the early game survival and raiding npc bases immensely. Haven’t played since 1.5 though so maybe it’s time to try again.
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that was the one where you couldn't turn on a bike, right? and still makes you individually unlock blocks?
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Surprised I hadn't seen this yet. Necesse quote:Begin your adventure and explore the infinite procedurally generated world of Necesse. Mine, fight, craft, and gear up to conquer powerful enemies that drop unique items. Establish a settlement, travel to other islands with unique biomes, monsters, loot, and recruit settlers on your way. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1169040/Necesse/ It has heaps of glowing reviews and its only $6.69.
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drat, sounds awesome. I saw it on steam but never clicked on the page
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Necesse is fun. Terraria vibes but something about the top-down perspective makes it way more attractive to me and I don't feel as overwhelmed trying to fight all the time.
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VegasGoat posted:Empyrion is great, but I always lose interest once I make it out of the starting solar system with a warp drive. There’s a lot of hours before that happens though, and I enjoy the early game survival and raiding npc bases immensely. Haven’t played since 1.5 though so maybe it’s time to try again. HWS hasn't been updated in 1.5 years and we'll see if HWS+ in a couple weeks can regain it's popularity too, and it also has a lot more stuff over vanilla. It leans a bit more towards pvp, but it also has plenty of pve specific new content, an mmoish progression story and is generally designed around larger scale multiplayer. Suzera fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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Jun 1, 2022 18:50
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MarcusSA posted:Surprised I hadn't seen this yet. HopperUK posted:Necesse is fun. Terraria vibes but something about the top-down perspective makes it way more attractive to me and I don't feel as overwhelmed trying to fight all the time. ^^^ This is a totally accurate review of Necesse imo. I'd recommend it as well.
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I picked it up before I left the house and I can’t wait to dig in later Thanks for the information! It does look right up my alley.
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tildes posted:^^^ This is a totally accurate review of Necesse imo. I'd recommend it as well. Another recommendation here, played it all afternoon and it scratches the Terraria itch way better than Keplerth
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Theres a playtest for a new one where you play as one of Ponce de Leons guys stranded on an island looking for the fountain of youth. I clicked on playtest and got in immedietely. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1967630/Survival_Fountain_of_Youth/ "You are a member of Juan Ponce de Leon's expedition in search of the Fountain of Youth, based on an actual historic event of the Age of Discovery. After surviving a shipwreck, you need to learn to live on an uninhabited island: hunt, gather and manage resources, build shelters, discover new technologies, develop skills, resist diseases, cope with weather conditions, fight predators, and much more. Your main goal is to Survive. Your secondary goals are to figure out the fate of an extinct Indian civilization and to look for your shipwrecked crew, explore the islands, and maybe find the Fountain of Youth."   e: its very unforgiving. Crafting/harvesting takes time. Tools have low durability. I've been bitten by a snake and now some creature that looks like a large squirrel keeps chasing and biting me. Cant find a rock to make a new cutter. OgNar fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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OgNar posted:
I washed ashore and was torn apart by angry birds and rabid skunks almost immediately. The tiny inventory is also a real turn off. Seemed like you get to pick two survival items in the beginning, I suppose I could have grabbed the backpack.
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Finally the Aquirre:Wrath of god survival game i've been waiting for
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That game sure seems like “assets I bought for cheap slapped together to grab cash” but maybe I’m just cynical
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Honestly there's some cool ideas here. I wasn't expecting the closest game for comparison to be The Long Dark but the way it handles its flow of play is very similar. Tasks, from harvesting to crafting, take up the bulk of your day, as time sort of fast forwards while you perform long actions. You have to balance immediate needs with long term goals. There's a lot of status effects to consider, including minor ones like sun exposure and sunburn, as well as just having a somewhat upset stomach. Rest can be less restful depending on your condition. The granularity of tasks and statuses opens up the gamespace a bit too. As an example, heavy labor like felling a tree or using blade crafting can result in injury, but the chance is very low. However if you're working at night or in the dark, that chance can go up, so you'll want a light source even if the game itself is still bright enough to navigate the island, thus not relying on pitch black graphics to make night hazardous to your character. It needs a lot of balancing yet, though. Every resource seems to take 20 minutes per unit to complete, so grabbing 5 flowers off a bird of paradise with your bare hands will take you over an hour and a half. Enemy combat is weird but far from the worst I've played. I actually kind of like the power attack timing system, if I'm being honest. But the amount of stuff to do and craft is demo limited and it's hard to know how much more the full game will expand on it. Definitely grab the backpack at the start though. Backpack + knife seems like a solid combo.
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It is kind of an asset grab looking game atm, but yeah it does have potential. Its menus inv/craft really remind me of Mist Survival if anyone played that. Another survival game as yet unfinished. I grabbed the backpack and bag with gun/ammo, but didnt see a way to get the gun out. I was frustrated on the ship, you can grab 2 of these 8 things, and one is a backpack. Well, why not just let me put them all in the loving backpack? e: Here's some gameplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b_lLYcfzog OgNar fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Jun 3, 2022 |
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OgNar posted:I was frustrated on the ship, you can grab 2 of these 8 things, and one is a backpack.
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I also signed up for the search for the Fountain of youth. The times needed to make anything are completely ridiculous (in-game). 38 minutes to pick up a stone or a leaf from a tree, an hour to place five leaves on the ground. I understand it's all related to the length of the day, but still it just feels funny. The game is pretty laggy for me and open fields kill my FPS, but I guess that's to be expected from an early beta. e: How do you harvest meat from animal carcass? I've been hitting the bird for a while but no option to get raw meat, and there's no prompt AFAIK. 
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TeaJay posted:e: How do you harvest meat from animal carcass? I've been hitting the bird for a while but no option to get raw meat, and there's no prompt AFAIK.
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The Survival Simulation Megathread: I've been hitting the bird for a while
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I was mapping the island in a tree and an animal knocked me down and I died I don't suppose there's a way to get your stuff back if you die? I had like, everything on me. It effectively means a restart. Unlike Long Dark, the hardest thing has been to find enough sticks and stones. And like in many other survival games, you can't pick up a stone you see lying around, it has to be a particular one. e: Okay, apparently you are supposed to find your stuff when you faint, I just can't find it anywhere. Whenever I try to map the drat place something attacks me and I die ee: Don't go all the way up the tree to finish mapping safely (also your stuff will be in a small bag obscured by grass) eee: And apparently when you lose all your six "faints", that's it, permadeath, new game. Wow, that is unforgiving. I dunno how I feel about that. Aside from I have absolutely no desire to start a new game from scratch right now, even though I was having fun. TeaJay fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Jun 3, 2022 |
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Yeah I put in an hour or two, seems promising so far. Long Dark comparisons are pretty apt.
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After playing a bit more and watching a friend play I'm pleasantly surprised on how finished the game feels. Sure there are frustrating aspects: enemy aggro range, crafting / harvesting times, lack of basic materials... But it's been very fun to play. I've played plenty EA games that are way worse and had to pay money on Steam, and this was a free demo.
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Can't wait to find the Fountain of Youth so I can spend eternity running from squirrels and eating skunk meat
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TeaJay posted:After playing a bit more and watching a friend play I'm pleasantly surprised on how finished the game feels. Sure there are frustrating aspects: enemy aggro range, crafting / harvesting times, lack of basic materials... But it's been very fun to play. I've played plenty EA games that are way worse and had to pay money on Steam, and this was a free demo.
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Wrong thread.
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Incidentally, they just dropped a big patch for Fountain of Youth which adds many very useful QOL features. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1967630/view/3321980888435372612 quote:Hello, survivors! New patch is ready and it is all about the feedback you gave us. We want to thank each and everyone sending us tips and reports, together we are making our game better.
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I like the idea of, “becoming immortal” being a survival game’s win condition
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Tin Can is really fun but I have to say, the replay value is limited. It ends up being more of a Diner Dash style plate spinner rather than a fun problem-solving game. Once you've experienced an event and learned how it works, you just use the fastest and most reductive strategies to survive it, because it's all about time saving. I think the game would benefit from a slower-paced, less frenetic mode. Maybe trying to keep a trading ship running on a long journey where the risk is more about optimizing your time rather than avoiding instant death.
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MarcusSA posted:Surprised I hadn't seen this yet. Thanks for this! I spent almost the entire day yesterday playing Necesse after buying it on Friday (and playing most of the evening). It's a fun little game, and my survival/building game buddies are interested because it has multiplayer. I like the gauntlet-style combat, especially since I got the hammer that shoots rocks. Now spider nests are much less daunting. I still haven't entirely cleared out the starter dungeon, but I did start fixing up the rails because it saves so much time when you get further in. I just need to make the ladder more visible so I don't just zoom past it every time. edit: ha, as soon as I hit post, I thought of the solution: just take out a section of track so that I have to stop at the ladder, and put a couple mine carts on each side. It slows down quite a bit during raids, but that's probably just my computer. I've been using an old cpu while I wait for a new (used) one to show up, almost a month later than it was supposed to (don't ever buy anything from Key Components through Newegg), so I'm giving a pass to a lot of performance issues and long load times in games at the moment. Fifty Farts fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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JerikTelorian posted:Tin Can is really fun but I have to say, the replay value is limited. It ends up being more of a Diner Dash style plate spinner rather than a fun problem-solving game. Once you've experienced an event and learned how it works, you just use the fastest and most reductive strategies to survive it, because it's all about time saving.
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There’s a small game called Seed Ship that’s text based and rather short. You are the AI who chooses how to improve ship systems, which ones to sacrifice if needed (including sleeping colonists, cultural, or scientific databases), and eventually, which planet to try and colonize.
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Yeah I would have mentioned seed ship but I couldn't remember the name off the top of my head. I'd like something more pro-active and problem solvey. With shiny graphics. And a pony.
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I've been trying to get into Necesse after it was posted about a week or so ago and I get the Terraria comparison but it feels like they copied a lot wholesale from Terraria (like the UI and weapon animations) but didn't copy whatever it is that makes Terraria engaging and fun to play. I guess the actual overworld area is just a very small island and most of the game is played underground? I just can't gauge how much there is to see and do in this game and I think the comparisons to Terraria is sorta setting the bar extremely high.
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You can go to other lands overmap by swimming to the edges of the map. You can also bring up a map of these other places with N. I'm feeling a little more lost and listless than in Terraria but I vastly prefer topdown to sidescrolling so it's still fun for the moment. I haven't really dived into the settlement stuff or fought any bosses yet though.
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Phigs posted:You can go to other lands overmap by swimming to the edges of the map. You can also bring up a map of these other places with N. Oh, that's good to know. I just ran around the edges of the map and had kind of an "oh, that's it..?" moment so I'm glad to hear there's more to see. I just wasn't sure if the entire game was confined to that island and the dungeon directly underneath the little shack they start you in or if it spread out significantly once you started doing more cave exploration.
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Sounds like they changed a lot of the timers as expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89isznQXIoE
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Necesse: you can also make a little wooden boat. It's a lot faster than swimming. When you're exploring the cave under the starter island, you'll find Map Fragments. You can combine 2 of them to reveal a Dungeon or Village on the map, then travel to it with your boat. You may need to island-hop if things are too far away. Villages have a ladder leading to their local cave. You probably want to avoid Dungeons early on. The enemies are tougher than the ones in the Forest and the Snow biomes. You can make a ladder and use it on an uninhabited island to get to the cave system for that island. According to the wiki, the "intended" order for biomes is Forest > Snow > Dungeon with the Void Wizard > Swamp > Pirates. The pirate boss lets you get into deep caves, which scale the same way (forest to snow to swamp). Apparently you can't recruit Animal Handlers until after you beat the Pirate boss, so don't fret about that yet. It just means you have to manually gather wool and milk. Buy a rope from a wandering merchant, rope up a couple of sheep and cows, and put them in a fenced-in area (you'll have to manually open the door for the animal to get through, and then close it afterwards). If you have a feeding trough with wheat in it (not sure if other crops work, I just have a lot of excess wheat because I overproduced for flour), they'll reproduce. You also need a bucket for milk and shears for wool, which you can make at an anvil. I've gotten really into Necesse this weekend.  Phigs posted:You can go to other lands overmap by swimming to the edges of the map. You can also bring up a map of these other places with N. Beating the first boss unlocks the spider set of gear, which lets you summon spiders and shoot webs. Also the Demonic metal is a nice upgrade from gold stuff. Summons seem to be functionally immortal. I've never had one die on me, they only disappear when I die. Fifty Farts fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Necesse feels like a good baseline for a game, and one that after some more content will be a lot of fun. I love the fact that the villagers can automate a good chunk of consumable crafting, and even building crafting - you can get them to churn out a set quantity of furniture, floors, etc. so that you can come back, drop off resources, pick up what you need to expand the village, expand it, and move on with your life.
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