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Kheldarn posted:Landscape rules, portrait drools. A avoid any game that requires landscape mode. Just not comfortable on a phone.
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I would love to reward Lucas Pope for going to the effort of making Papers Please work in portrait, but I also don't need that bummer in my life right now.
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I realize all card games are basically this but Marvel Snap feels like there's very little agency/strategy involved and the cards are just numbers with a random special gimmick assigned to them that makes the numbers on the field have huge swings back and forth. There probably is more strategy involved than I'm giving it credit for or willing to learn but I don't really find the playing matches aspect of the game to be all that engaging.
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explosivo posted:I realize all card games are basically this but Marvel Snap feels like there's very little agency/strategy involved and the cards are just numbers with a random special gimmick assigned to them that makes the numbers on the field have huge swings back and forth. There probably is more strategy involved than I'm giving it credit for or willing to learn but I don't really find the playing matches aspect of the game to be all that engaging. It really changes as you unlock new cards. Before you're out of pool 1 there's not much in the way of disrupting the other player and it's more about playing in the right order, but things change a lot later on.
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What are some games that can play between android and iOS? I'm on a work trip and the plan was play switch with my partner back in Ohio but the switch doesn't connect to the hotel wifi
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You tried just connecting the switch to a phone hotspot? online multiplayer doesn't take much data as long as you're not like downloading game updates or something. For phone games the big crossplatform ones I know are mostly big cash-cow competitive games like Mobile Legends and Wild Rift (MOBAs), PUBG mobile, Apex Mobile, Cod Mobile etc (fpses). I haven't played any of these. Also Genshin Impact which is the only co-opish game I know of? You can't actually do the main story quests but you can run around and explore the breath-of-the-wild-clone-ish open world. e: minecraft! I forgot that had a mobile port RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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Oct 21, 2022 00:34
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:You tried just connecting the switch to a phone hotspot? online multiplayer doesn't take much data as long as you're not like downloading game updates or something. How much is not much? The Verizon plan I'm on only allows for 5gb of high speed hotspot and i don't see an option to buy more and Google seems to think that with my plan I can't
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a lot less than 5gb usually multiplayer games are just sending lightweight stuff like positions or button inputs, nothing like audio/video/etc. it should be about as demanding as browsing SA (actually less since pokemans doesn't have embedded tweets) if your phone has a data usage monitor (android has this builtin, idk about ios), check it before and after a gameplay session and take screenshots each way and you'll be able to see how much data you go through RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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Oct 21, 2022 00:57
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explosivo posted:I realize all card games are basically this but Marvel Snap feels like there's very little agency/strategy involved and the cards are just numbers with a random special gimmick assigned to them that makes the numbers on the field have huge swings back and forth. There probably is more strategy involved than I'm giving it credit for or willing to learn but I don't really find the playing matches aspect of the game to be all that engaging. Honestly I was pretty harsh on the game but it really starts to pick up steam once you start getting some cards and ranks. The early game is full of people/bot that play basically randomly with the exact same cards as you. Just snap like crazy and blast through the brain dead ranks. honestly the snap mechanic might be the most interesting part of the game. Basically every match has gives the standard 1 victory/lose for the first 5 rounds. On the 6th round that doubles. At any time each player can "snap" double the amount of victory/lose and if the opposing player doesn't surrender then the stakes get higher. It is possible to get 8 victories or losses in a single match. There gives a whole meta game of trying to get as many victories points and mitigating the losses.
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Yea I felt like I was getting decent until the snap mindgames started coming in and then I realized I'm a huge pussy and am totally not sure if I can close out a match
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DrBox posted:A avoid any game that requires landscape mode. Just not comfortable on a phone. You are missing out on slice & dice tho
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norp posted:You are missing out on slice & dice tho First game to ever convince me to play landscape
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norp posted:You are missing out on slice & dice tho Yep. Sad but I will not yield!
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You can play slice and dice in portrait. All the words will be sideways but you can do it if you want.
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I feel like I'm the only shill for it here, but Polytopia plays great in portrait.
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Polytopia is great! Probably the best adaptation of a 4x on mobile, and the high score daily mode is fun. It also has offline hotseat multiplayer which can be great for plane flights, train rides, etc. Also seconding Solitairica, that game owns. Other portrait games I keep installed: 80 Days is an excellent narrative game, with a v well done CYOA- style narrative (although that kind of doesn't do it justice). Pocket City does what Polytopia did for 4x but for city builders, with maybe a bit less longevity. Holedown is the best mobile take on breakout (or peggle? Or something idk) imo, although it doesn't quite have the legs to play endlessly it's fun.
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DrBox posted:Yep. Sad but I will not yield! CainFortea posted:You can play slice and dice in portrait. Or get one of these glasses, but like tilted 90degrees the other way so that you can play it in portrait mode. 
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Has anyone played phobies? I've only been playing a little over a week but it's easily my favorite mobile game now.
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Mortimer Knag posted:Has anyone played phobies? I've only been playing a little over a week but it's easily my favorite mobile game now. PvP with units you level up is basically poison.
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yeah, the async pvp thing seemed quite neat to me (and being able to have multiple games on the go at once), but then i hit the point where the cards have upgrades and lost a lot of enthusiasm for it
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Since there's no Buriedbornes thread - I remembered Buriedbornes existed last night while nursing a nosebleed, and I still can't figure out what Proficiency is. The description says "Whenever your "Skill Boost" activates, increase the number of times your skill activates by 1." - Skill Boost is the item ability that repeats your skills, right? So Proficiency does nothing without having Skill Boost?
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Politely reminding everyone that Marvel Snap had its full launch last week. CCG Money doesn't affect outcomes Great gameplay Betting mechanic a la poker
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I have been enjoying marvel snap a bit but I feels like they're trying to pull some psychological trick? Tying unlocking cards to acquiring cosmetics so people will say it's not pay2win when you can still pay for new cards. FRAME-BREAK I like how short the games are, the betting mechanic is cool! Tann fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Tann posted:I have been enjoying marvel snap a bit but I feels like they're trying to pull some psychological trick? Tying unlocking cards to acquiring cosmetics so people will say it's not pay2win when you can still pay for new cards. Even if you buy all the cosmetics in the shop, it won't let you acquire new cards any faster. The real bottleneck is credits which you can use real money to buy and speed things up. Even if you do this, you still need to grind thousands of matches to unlock the cards. You can't really circumvent this.
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The Sean posted:Politely reminding everyone that Marvel Snap had its full launch last week. Money definitely affects outcomes. Lots of cards that are Just Better are locked behind pay gates or significant enough time gates that new paid content will significantly out shine them by the time a free player catches up.
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leper khan posted:Money definitely affects outcomes. Lots of cards that are Just Better are locked behind pay gates or significant enough time gates that new paid content will significantly out shine them by the time a free player catches up. No, they are not locked behind pay gates. I'm not sure what you're talking about. The game also generally keeps players in a pool based on how many cards they have unlocked so, again, not sure what you're talking about. The Sean fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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BoldFace posted:Even if you buy all the cosmetics in the shop, it won't let you acquire new cards any faster. The real bottleneck is credits which you can use real money to buy and speed things up. Even if you do this, you still need to grind thousands of matches to unlock the cards. You can't really circumvent this. that just makes it grindy and paytowin like if real money affects your account power or chance to win a match, it's absolutely 100% somewhere on the p2w spectrum. after that it's just a matter of degrees The Sean posted:No, they are not locked behind pay gates. I'm not sure what you're talking about. there were paygated cards in lootboxes in the "Nexus Event" thing they did in beta but the community outcry was so loud after the first one that they immediately removed the lootbox/nexus-event mechanic from the game and said they would just focus on cosmetics. which might be the first time in history a dev actually walked back lootbox poo poo? RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:that just makes it grindy and paytowin It's not that simple in this case. Money lets you speed up your grind and get the cards faster, sure. But the way matchmaking works is that people with similar progression are matched against each other. So, the more you pay to progress, the more difficult your opponents will be. Whales are going to be playing against other whales or people who have played since beta day one.
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It might surprise you, but this isn't people's first free-to-play CCG rodeo. We've seen these mechanics before, we can spot pay-to-unlock-things-in-a-reasonable-timeframe mechanics and know how they play out in practice.
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Jabor posted:It might surprise you, but this isn't people's first free-to-play CCG rodeo. We've seen these mechanics before, we can spot pay-to-unlock-things-in-a-reasonable-timeframe mechanics and know how they play out in practice. I've read enough gacha OPs to know that people fall for this every time.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:that just makes it grindy and paytowin Pretty sure that Warframe walked back some lootbox stuff, but yeah, it's super rare.
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Len posted:I've read enough gacha OPs to know that people fall for this every time. This time I know I'm gonna get rich and QUICK! Edit: Marvel snap does let you get 6x as many quest per day as many quest as f2p players. The battle pass is heavily incentive for paying. Variant skins are like $10-$20. Is Marvel snap more generous than most other TCG? I think so. But don't pretend it more generous than it is. Shwqa fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Oct 26, 2022 |
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Jabor posted:It might surprise you, but this isn't people's first free-to-play CCG rodeo. We've seen these mechanics before, we can spot pay-to-unlock-things-in-a-reasonable-timeframe mechanics and know how they play out in practice. Nate405 posted:I've been playing since the start of beta and just finished my collection today at level 2,650 after pretty much exactly 5 months. Never bought gold or spent the gold that I did get on progression, though I did buy 4 of the 5 season passes. I took a few weeks off and didn't really go out of my way to optimize so I'm sure other people will get there faster.
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Dang this was my best run in a very long time, best my previous best survival time on power plant by like 7 minutes. Don't think I've cracked 30 minutes on it since the big update way back
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Dang this was my best run in a very long time, best my previous best survival time on power plant by like 7 minutes. Don't think I've cracked 30 minutes on it since the big update way back Nice. I've been struggling to get past 30 minutes on anything since that update. I have everything mastered and i'm just playing to get research points now. I think I have 6 thing in the Experiments or whatever screen that are still not open but not even sure how you open those.
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Trastion posted:Nice. I've been struggling to get past 30 minutes on anything since that update. I have everything mastered and i'm just playing to get research points now. I think I have 6 thing in the Experiments or whatever screen that are still not open but not even sure how you open those. I'm pretty sure you need to get past 30 minutes on the corresponding levels. For whatever reason I've gotten past 30 on the last level a few times (and at least once on the first), but struggle to get past maybe 25 minutes on the other levels.
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hooah posted:I'm pretty sure you need to get past 30 minutes on the corresponding levels. For whatever reason I've gotten past 30 on the last level a few times (and at least once on the first), but struggle to get past maybe 25 minutes on the other levels. That makes sense. I have made it past 30 min on the first 2, i think both before the update. And I have the last 6 that I haven't gotten to. Though one is at 29:59 for my best... Might look into see if anyone has any best use research. I have 27 points currently and they probably aren't in the best bang for the buck type spots.
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Trastion posted:That makes sense. I have made it past 30 min on the first 2, i think both before the update. And I have the last 6 that I haven't gotten to. Though one is at 29:59 for my best... FWIW here's how I've allocated my 32 research points so far: 
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