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Bill Decker posted:Yep, I know how it's meant to work I have the same issue, every now and then Steam decides to download my Fallout 4 saves to my potato laptop which couldn't even run F4. It doesn't seem to break anything to just delete them, but it's annoying.
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But it's now syncing saves to a PC that has never had the corresponding game installed, which I don't think it's supposed to do and I've never seen before today. I can literally quit a game on PC 1 and watch the saves files appear on PC 2 where the game has never been installed. Not really a problem but pretty odd.
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are fallout 4 saves particularly huge or the remaining space on your laptop very small because it seems like that's just a lot of wasted effort on your part instead of just leaving them there anyway someone said Syves posted:Can shut it off globally in settings>cloud.
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Cowcaster posted:are fallout 4 saves particularly huge or the remaining space on your laptop very small because it seems like that's just a lot of wasted effort on your part instead of just leaving them there It's about a gig on a 100-something GB drive, so roughly a small footprint game's worth?  I said it's a potato. And if I turn off cloud saves, then it doesn't copy them to the cloud, when I would prefer it did back them up in case an F4 capable computer decided to poo poo the bed for some reason. That's the reason for the cloud, I always assumed.
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assuming you meant you had 100 gigs free i definitely feel like getting rid of one gigs worth of files is you being way too precious about your hard drive space, but since you said a 100GB drive i imagine you meant that a lot of it is filled up already
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Cowcaster posted:assuming you meant you had 100 gigs free i definitely feel like getting rid of one gigs worth of files is you being way too precious about your hard drive space, but since you said a 100GB drive i imagine you meant that a lot of it is filled up already Yes, a 100 GB drive, and the OS and programs eat up a lot of it already. A weird situation these days I suppose, but it's not meant to be a gaming PC anyway.
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I succumbed and bought vampire survivors before the price increase, but I doubt I'll like it once I play it.
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Flimf posted:Alina of the Arena https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668690/Alina_of_the_Arena/ can you tell me anything about this one? what do you like about it? i added ghost train and inscryption to my wishlist, thx
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I succumbed and bought vampire survivors before the price increase, but I doubt I'll like it once I play it. Nah, you will. It's just fun. Nothing to dislike.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I succumbed and bought vampire survivors before the price increase, but I doubt I'll like it once I play it. Vampire Survivors is like freebasing video games. One of the best $3 I ever spent.
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Oxxidation posted:me: kills a bat
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idk how I manage to be bad at a game that literally plays itself but I have never come even close to beating a stage of VS; I genuinely thought it was an endless mode with a pretty hard cap based on DPS checks until I saw a friend stream it. It's pretty hard to dislike but even considering all the "grind for the sake of grind" games I've been suckered into this one apparently does not whatsoever produce the serotonin for me that it does for everyone else.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:idk how I manage to be bad at a game that literally plays itself but I have never come even close to beating a stage of VS; I genuinely thought it was an endless mode with a pretty hard cap based on DPS checks until I saw a friend stream it. It's pretty hard to dislike but even considering all the "grind for the sake of grind" games I've been suckered into this one apparently does not whatsoever produce the serotonin for me that it does for everyone else. edit: vvv Cowcaster posted:having never bothered to look at a gameplay video of it, it’s always sounded like an new form of cookie clicker to me for better or for worse Volte fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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having never bothered to look at a gameplay video of it, it’s always sounded like an new form of cookie clicker to me for better or for worse
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MonkeyforaHead posted:idk how I manage to be bad at a game that literally plays itself but I have never come even close to beating a stage of VS; I genuinely thought it was an endless mode with a pretty hard cap based on DPS checks until I saw a friend stream it. It's pretty hard to dislike but even considering all the "grind for the sake of grind" games I've been suckered into this one apparently does not whatsoever produce the serotonin for me that it does for everyone else. You start out relatively weak, it takes a while of unlocking new passives/weapons/arcanas before you get to the point where you kill everything just by existing. Knowing which weapon/passive combos you need for evolutions is also extremely important and most new players won't even know about it at all.
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I mean it's easy enough to tell which things are more effective after using them once or twice but I never get the chance to focus in on the good stuff because I unilaterally get poo poo rolls for upgrade options and just have to kind of make do. I literally think I've gotten the chance to upgrade the starting weapon of any given character, like, twice. Ever. If I get one character's weapon on another character, sure, THEN it'll let me upgrade it on a character who can't use it as effectively and inevitably gets wiped out when the DPS checks invariably outpace my upgrades 
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i'd consider VS a successor to geometry wars and stuff like that when "indie games" came of age in the mid-late 00's its visuals doesn't do it any favors in making people assume it's not a cookie clicker kind of thing (not to impugn the way it looks, but yeah i thought that too at first) skeezx fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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MonkeyforaHead posted:I mean it's easy enough to tell which things are more effective after using them once or twice but I never get the chance to focus in on the good stuff because I unilaterally get poo poo rolls for upgrade options and just have to kind of make do. I literally think I've gotten the chance to upgrade the starting weapon of any given character, like, twice. Ever. If I get one character's weapon on another character, sure, THEN it'll let me upgrade it on a character who can't use it as effectively and inevitably gets wiped out when the DPS checks invariably outpace my upgrades I've rarely ever had it give me only choices that I don't want when I'm holding out for an upgrade for something in the early game, so if you prioritize upgrading stuff you already have over taking a weapon or passive you don't really want, you should eventually be able to largely get the build you want. Also, once you run out of room for new stuff, you'll only get upgrades for the stuff you already have, so as long as you have something, you will definitely be able to upgrade it eventually, if you live long enough.
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Cowcaster posted:having never bothered to look at a gameplay video of it, it’s always sounded like an new form of cookie clicker to me for better or for worse There are no vampires and you can't survive. It's basically false advertising.
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My favourite part of Vampire Survivors is I didn't play it for like two months until picking it back up a few days ago and I immediately triggered some event that teleported me away from the stage I was on, forced me to run rather than fight, then when I beat it the game restarted upside down and unlocked even more poo poo to make me so absurdly unstoppable that I could finally kill death.
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skeezx posted:i'd consider VS a successor to geometry wars and stuff like that when "indie games" came of age in the mid-late 00's I was really bad at geometry wars
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I was really bad at geometry wars keep your eye on your "guy" and move counter clockwise been playing it every day since i got my steam deck but yeah i'm not particularly good at it either. made the top 10 or 20 leaderboards in my heyday though skeezx fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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Volte posted:It doesn't exactly play itself, you still have to go for a "build". Several pairs of powers synergize together into a mega power if you get them both to max level (I haven't played in awhile but it used to be something you had to just look up in a chart online), so picking out an ideal build early on and laser-focusing on getting to it usually worked for me. Some skills are less good early on but become great later, especially upgraded, so make sure to try everything to get a feel for what works. Yeah there are some neat paradigm shifts. At first it feels like an action game/arena shooter, then you get to the point where a lot of the gameplay is deciding what abilities to draft in what order to create your build, then you get The Map and realize there are set powerups in each level that let you exceed the number you can normally have in a build, so it becomes important to manage your time economy and traverse the map to collect those before enemy waves ramp up too much And eventually it just paradigm shifts its way into "how hard can I break this game" and it feels well deserved at that point
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Tiny Timbs posted:I fell off the game because it felt like I had to have my nose glued to a super-detailed build guide instead of experimenting. The game gives you respec items but not really enough to feel like you have the freedom to learn on your own as you level. Some people love the game and some people hate it, but does anyone really enjoy having to spend a currency to respec? I can't think of any reason why making respecs completely free wouldn't just outright be a case of "well the game is more fun now", and as far as I can tell it's just a player retention mechanic that people for some reason praise.
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K8.0 posted:There are no vampires and you can't survive. It's basically false advertising. I'm pretty sure the characters *are* vampires. Some of them anyway. Honestly I am bad at games and I've beaten VS a fair bit. These days the game tells you which weapons will synergise with each other. Just kite em round in circles. Take garlic at the start but don't rely on it later. Concentrate on levelling up a weapon rather than just going broad. It's doable.
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The Gripper posted:Also the respec items are technically currency, so even if they're not ~absurdly~ difficult to get you're losing out elsewhere by putting yourself in a situation where you need to respec in general. The solution is to follow a guide, but if you just want to sit down and play without alt-tabbing to a website to check your passive skills PoE just gives you no leash. It's very possible to create a character that sucks so hard that by the midpoint of the game you're too weak to progress and that was exactly how my first 10-12 hours of the game went. because it creates some level of stakes and investment in your character. its fun to play a game thaht doesnt have barriers to prevent you completley loving up. also the first time i played and bounced off i made it thru mid game w my own build looking up nothing without any issue, its really just arpg standard stuff w a handful of eccentricities. as long as youre reading what youre putting points into and having some level of forethought wrt where you are trying to get to and what the character is doing its fine. its the same reason smoothing out anything gets push back, bcos the end result is games like diablo 3 where every inch of soul has been sucked out of it, all the edges are sanded off and it makes everything completely boring. theres plenty of games out there that do that already w/o having to push for the ones that dont to dumb themselves down as well.
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The Gripper posted:Some people love the game and some people hate it, but does anyone really enjoy having to spend a currency to respec? I can't think of any reason why making respecs completely free wouldn't just outright be a case of "well the game is more fun now", and as far as I can tell it's just a player retention mechanic that people for some reason praise.
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Stux posted:you will find more than six chaos orbs an hour just lying on the floor. it is not possible to be finding so little that it would be quicker to level a new character. i am brand new to the game and ucrrently if i cleared out all my easily sellable stuff, not including the gear tab ive never put up for trade bcos i havnt need the extra cash, i could fully respec 70 times and have a little bit of change left over lol If you want to wipe the slate clean on your character, you probably aren't clearing maps at a rate that'll give you six chaos orbs an hour 
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Volte posted:Yeah maybe it would more fun right now but it would rapidly become boring as you mindlessly cycle through all the possible choices and have no motivation to stick with any particular one. edit; and in that case they're smart to do it the way they did. I still don't like it! The Gripper fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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Vampire Survivors gives me a lot of the vibes I got from the original Risk of Rain, with hordes of enemies building up faster/stronger over time and stupidly stacking powerups, along to cool music. It's top-down and not side-on you aren't as tiny in the environment as in RoR, and RoR has you actively use a set of 4 skills instead of auto-firing, but the core vibe is there. And on that note, anyone who hasn't played the original RoR should absolutely get it (RoR2 is cool too, but it's different, not a straight upgrade making the og obsolete).
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A paper mario style game came out yesterday called The Outbound Ghost. If anyone decides to try it out please post a trip report. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1276810/The_Outbound_Ghost/  quote:The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. The town of Outbound is, quite literally, a ghost town – a home to troubled spooks with unresolved earthly issues, condemning them to an eternity haunting their old *ahem* haunts.
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I don't know if this has been posted earlier, but I feel it should be brought to everyone's attention: https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1572372646012260353
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Samovar posted:I don't know if this has been posted earlier, but I feel it should be brought to everyone's attention:
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The Gripper posted:Also the respec items are technically currency, so even if they're not ~absurdly~ difficult to get you're losing out elsewhere by putting yourself in a situation where you need to respec in general. The solution is to follow a guide, but if you just want to sit down and play without alt-tabbing to a website to check your passive skills PoE just gives you no leash. It's very possible to create a character that sucks so hard that by the midpoint of the game you're too weak to progress and that was exactly how my first 10-12 hours of the game went. what's the point of diablo-type games if not to make cool builds? and what's the point of cool builds if they require no investment. idm D3 as much as other people but it's like a cake made entirely out of glazing. poe is a cake that looks like poo poo but mmmm what rounded flavours and what a satisfying crunch.
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Being easier to get into doesn't mean there's zero complexity. If Diablo 3 were really as simple as people claimed then everyone would be effortlessly solo clearing GR150s with perfectly optimized builds each season, but the fact that the vast, vast majority of players don't come even close to this either with or without mass paragon kind of indicates to me that many people don't really understand the game as well as they think. I could randomly browse anyone's armory on bnet and find lots of opportunities for improvement, or a better understanding of skill/gear choices even within a super prescriptive endgame build. There are a ton of unintuitive crunchy RPG mechanics under the hood that are still being solved in D3, so I'm never all that convinced by easy to learn = no depth arguments.
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The Gripper posted:Trombone Champ is fantastic. I've played as much as I think I can handle, my wrists aren't as young as they used to be and getting S rank is hard. My recommendation is to put your mouse sensitivity as high as you can. I had a bit of a lull for a while after finishing up Like a Dragon, but I started playing Return to Monkey Island and looks like I have another game lined up now
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exquisite tea posted:Being easier to get into doesn't mean there's zero complexity. If Diablo 3 were really as simple as people claimed then everyone would be effortlessly solo clearing GR150s with perfectly optimized builds each season, but the fact that the vast, vast majority of players don't come even close to this either with or without mass paragon kind of indicates to me that many people don't really understand the game as well as they think. I could randomly browse anyone's armory on bnet and find lots of opportunities for improvement, or a better understanding of skill/gear choices even within a super prescriptive endgame build. There are a ton of unintuitive crunchy RPG mechanics under the hood that are still being solved in D3, so I'm never all that convinced by easy to learn = no depth arguments. You can get invested in min-maxing if you want, but it doesn't force that investment on you nor does it care if you change your mind. I completely understand the people who like the investment PoE requires but I don't think it's at all necessary and it could stand on its own without it. I'd definitely get back into the game if it loosened up on the grind. The Gripper fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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I also fell off of D3 hard because of how sanded down it is. Same things happens to me with WoW now, too. Sure there’s some end game where it theoretically gets interesting again but it sucks that the other 97% of the game is so uninteresting.
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I tried Card Survival for about an hour (while taking a break from Monkey Island) after hearing about it in the new releases thread. It seems like a really good, addictive game. It reminds me of UnReal World, but hopefully without the RSI (I love the aesthetic of roguelikes, but they're too much for my weak hands).
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Stux posted:because it creates some level of stakes and investment in your character. its fun to play a game thaht doesnt have barriers to prevent you completley loving up. also the first time i played and bounced off i made it thru mid game w my own build looking up nothing without any issue, its really just arpg standard stuff w a handful of eccentricities. as long as youre reading what youre putting points into and having some level of forethought wrt where you are trying to get to and what the character is doing its fine. It is hard to respec in Path of Exile if you don't know what you're doing because you're expecting to be able to go back to a clean slate but the game is designed around the idea that you will be iterating on what you already have, moving a few points at a time, because for most archetypes outside of niche builds the skeleton of your tree will be largely similar. You start as a Duelist and want to use Axes, you make your way to the Axe nodes through the HP and Accuracy, then you decide you want to be Swords so you refund the Axes and branch out to Swords - you don't regret all the way back to start because you still need those HP and Accuracy nodes, and the tree is designed to have all these specialty nodes in clusters for this reason. At a push you can change your class specialisation, but it's very rare you'd ever want to do this because the game is also built around the idea that you'll play it for a while then lose interest and come back in the next expansion to either try a new character or improve on your previous one. Like, yeah, it's gonna be expensive if you rolled a Ball Lightning character and at level 40 decide you want to do Skeleton Mages instead, but also that kind of change just flat-out isn't possible in Diablo 3 for however free the respecs are because the minion character has the minions and the mage character has the lightning.
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