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What was the final verdict on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus? I've been having a poo poo time lately and I could do with a game that straight-up glorifies killing fascists. I enjoyed the new order/the old blood back when they came out, if that means anything.
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AfricanBootyShine posted:What was the final verdict on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus? I've been having a poo poo time lately and I could do with a game that straight-up glorifies killing fascists. I enjoyed the new order/the old blood back when they came out, if that means anything. It's good but not as good as those two. A little overtuned in parts and BJ dies probably a bit too easy from enemies you hadn't seen yet.
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explosivo posted:Yeah as someone who has never played the original, Desktop Dungeons Rewind seems really good so far. Probably going to buy one of the DLC's since I got it for free after buying the original on a deep sale.  I bought the EE version on Steam a few days ago ($3.74), and Rewind is on my Steam app on my phone in my Steam Library rn.
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I should mention that on the title screen of Desktop Dungeons Rewind there was a very scary sounding whining noise I don't usually hear from my computer happening and it only stopped after I enabled VSync, probably due to that frame limit issue some games have that was talked about a couple of pages ago.
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I think my only real complain digging back into it more is it's a lot harder at a glance to see the state of the map than in the original with the fancy new graphics. It's a little too dark or something.
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AfricanBootyShine posted:What was the final verdict on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus? I've been having a poo poo time lately and I could do with a game that straight-up glorifies killing fascists. I enjoyed the new order/the old blood back when they came out, if that means anything. It's fine. The story is extremely dumb and schlocky, but the shooting is fun enough and the achievements/collectables deliver enough replayability if you're interested in those. If you enjoyed TNO and want more then you really can't go wrong, but TNC has been on sale for prices as low as $6 so you may want to wait for a sale https://isthereanydeal.com/game/wolfensteiniinewcolossus/info/ GameBillet has it for $15, though. No spoilers, but there were two scenes in TNC that made the purchase worthwhile for me. Just so, so stupid and hilarious
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Mr. Sun's Hatbox came out of nowhere for me but I'm very charmed by the demo and definitely will pick the game up when it comes out in 2 days. It's a sidescrolling heist game (almost like a less-simmy Heat Signature?) but you have base-building that's sort of a basic riff on X-COM and there are a bunch of hats you collect that give you different abilities and also you can just literally straight up Fulton enemies and items like in MGSV to send them back to your base and add them to your roster of playable characters or equippable gear. Very cute and weird.  
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Tinytopia was pleasantly nice. I think I generally like the idea of a city builder but don't get too interested in all the systems heavy stuff, and I prefer campaigns. And I liked that Tinytopia's campaign levels were all relatively short affairs (the longest no longer than maybe 45 minutes, but on average usually 20-30 minutes). I'll have to be on the lookout for other city games in this vein. Concrete Jungle I'm worming my way through but it is still pretty brutal on the difficulty, specifically the AI in the Versus levels of the campaign. they just always seem to have the better cards in their deck no matter what you buy or what skills you activate to try and outbuild them.
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goferchan posted:Mr. Sun's Hatbox came out of nowhere for me but I'm very charmed by the demo and definitely will pick the game up when it comes out in 2 days. It's a sidescrolling heist game (almost like a less-simmy Heat Signature?) but you have base-building that's sort of a basic riff on X-COM and there are a bunch of hats you collect that give you different abilities and also you can just literally straight up Fulton enemies and items like in MGSV to send them back to your base and add them to your roster of playable characters or equippable gear. Very cute and weird. Oh this is really cute, I'm gonna wishlist this for sure.
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The 7th Guest posted:Tinytopia was pleasantly nice. I think I generally like the idea of a city builder but don't get too interested in all the systems heavy stuff, and I prefer campaigns. And I liked that Tinytopia's campaign levels were all relatively short affairs (the longest no longer than maybe 45 minutes, but on average usually 20-30 minutes). I'll have to be on the lookout for other city games in this vein. Have you tried Against the Storm? Forgive if you already posted about it or something, my brain is fried. But it's a sort of roguelite city builder where you move on quickly so you can't get too bogged down.
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anilEhilated posted:A bit late to the party, but what's y'all's preferred method of controlling Everspace 2? I find the gamepad turning really sluggish and the mouse doesn't really turn when I want it to.
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HopperUK posted:Have you tried Against the Storm? Forgive if you already posted about it or something, my brain is fried. But it's a sort of roguelite city builder where you move on quickly so you can't get too bogged down.
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I never thought I actually needed one of those smart uninstallers you'd see on store shelves and in magazine ads, you know, they type that claim to go through your drives and seek out the remnants of stuff you uninstalled years ago - but then I needed to go diving into the original Steam folder (Amnesia's .exe needed some tweaking) and holy poo poo, what's America's Army doing in there when I uninstalled it years ago having never actually fired it up? AND despite being undetectable by Steam and Windows' App uninstaller it's not only still there but also taking up 17 GB?!?! Further scrolling yielded other discoveries folders from long-uninstalled games and demos. And this was the drive from when I first built my rig so after all these years of digital hording...yeah. I'd hate to see what my largest drive looks like! But I'd love to get all that wasted space back. So...any recommendations? Or is this something best done manually?
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Eason the Fifth posted:I bought this a while ago but was waiting for full release. Hope it grabs me the way battle Brothers did Update: it did.
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tried windirstat before? that would at least keep you from losing track of anything that size.
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Agent Escalus posted:I never thought I actually needed one of those smart uninstallers you'd see on store shelves and in magazine ads, you know, they type that claim to go through your drives and seek out the remnants of stuff you uninstalled years ago - but then I needed to go diving into the original Steam folder (Amnesia's .exe needed some tweaking) and holy poo poo, what's America's Army doing in there when I uninstalled it years ago having never actually fired it up? AND despite being undetectable by Steam and Windows' App uninstaller it's not only still there but also taking up 17 GB?!?! Further scrolling yielded other discoveries folders from long-uninstalled games and demos. And this was the drive from when I first built my rig so after all these years of digital hording...yeah. I'd hate to see what my largest drive looks like! But I'd love to get all that wasted space back. I also recently (a week ago maybe) ran into an issue where my entire HD was full and the culprit was a Steam folder full of games I could have sworn were deleted and uninstalled ages ago and that weren't displayed as installed in Steam  I deleted the files and they haven't come back, though. I assumed I was just losing my mind  But checking my recent data usage in Windows now and yeah, Steam definitely did some random downloading in the past 30 days: e: Can confirm windirstat is great for figuring out what's taking up the most space and quickly getting rid of it deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Steam only uninstalls the files it had installed. Not the whole folder. It's actually very useful for when you mod/fix your game by dropping extra files into the game's folder because if you uninstall and then reinstall the game later those mods will still be there, but on the flip side some games download large chunks of itself on their own and take up space when you thought you uninstalled them. I swear I saw some kind of tool at one point that cleaned up Steam directories for you but I can't find it.
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Steam Cleaner I think? It would take out duplicate files and stuff.
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I had the xbox app forget where i told it to install games and start putting them on my superfast OS drive
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HopperUK posted:Steam Cleaner I think? It would take out duplicate files and stuff. Yeah that zots all the identical dx installers
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sebmojo posted:Yeah that zots all the identical dx installers I pretty sure Steam already solved that problem themselves though.
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Agent Escalus posted:I never thought I actually needed one of those smart uninstallers you'd see on store shelves and in magazine ads, you know, they type that claim to go through your drives and seek out the remnants of stuff you uninstalled years ago - but then I needed to go diving into the original Steam folder (Amnesia's .exe needed some tweaking) and holy poo poo, what's America's Army doing in there when I uninstalled it years ago having never actually fired it up? AND despite being undetectable by Steam and Windows' App uninstaller it's not only still there but also taking up 17 GB?!?! Further scrolling yielded other discoveries folders from long-uninstalled games and demos. And this was the drive from when I first built my rig so after all these years of digital hording...yeah. I'd hate to see what my largest drive looks like! But I'd love to get all that wasted space back. I just point WizTree at my Steam/steamapps/common folder and see what shows up that I forgot about and don't need installed
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Owl Inspector posted:I just point WizTree at my Steam/steamapps/common folder and see what shows up that I forgot about and don't need installed Yeah Wiztree is free and lightweight and only takes a few seconds to run a scan and identify what's taking up a bunch of space on your drive. Definitely recommend.
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if the things aren't installed in the first place then you can just delete the directories yourself. without the hooks of installation they're just folders of loose and unimportant files.
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The 7th Guest posted:
The 7th Guest posted:Concrete Jungle I'm worming my way through but it is still pretty brutal on the difficulty, specifically the AI in the Versus levels of the campaign. they just always seem to have the better cards in their deck no matter what you buy or what skills you activate to try and outbuild them. I wanted to effortpost the other day but was busy so glad this came back up. To me, Concrete Jungle is an amazing evergreen game, one of those I come back to like Monaco; it may not be the best game ever but it is really really perfect distillation of a game idea that I will always have installed and play every couple months or so. As mentioned, it is a cutthroat puzzle deckbuilding game, the citybuilding is just a visual and mechanical theme. There's a few broad card categories: Commercial cards tend to manipulate the grid, making a space worth more or less points. Residential cards collect the points on their space. Industrial cards give you economy, and also a fair number of them subtract points from neighboring spaces. Those broad categories are universal, and there's a few more smaller ones that tend to show up more occasionally or with a character that focuses on that card type. There's an endless solo mode of just trying to max out points as you progress, but to me the meat of the game is the versus mode/campaign because that's where some really cool mechanics come into play. Base play is to play a card to increase the points of surrounding spaces on it, plonk down a house, collect points and win. There's a lot more subtlety though; as 7th guest mentioned, they had a lot of buildings that generate negative points, but those cards tend to increase your economy, which does two things: buy new cards, or buy character perks, which also lets you increase your tech level. Tech level is incredibly important, as it doesn't just give you access to better perks, it also unlocks a better tier of cards that will show up in the shop; instead of houses, you get estates, which collect points while also adding points to surrounding spaces, meaning you can just chain them for a big score. The character perks are important too, as they tend to add, remove, or replace a card in your deck. Each character has a focus; the first character loves park buildings, so has a lot of things that increase point value; there's a military character, that focuses on aggro play with junking the opponent deck and negative buildings (and has stuff that scores in reverse); there's a tech character, which focuses on clean industry cards to tech way ahead of the competition while avoiding pollution (comes with certain cards, makes it harder to clear a row through score). That last part leads into what makes the vs/campaign mode amazing: there's a lot of great interplay against an opponent. When a row hits the bottom, if it is full or a player has hit their point threshold, it evaporates and points are scored. If only one player is at the threshold, that player scores BOTH players points. Which is annoying if you've gone pollution heavy and your threshold is 6 while your opponent is 3; they can collect your 5 points with only 3 of theirs. But later on, you start to realize that the winner collects all points, so you realize some rows are a lost cause... and a great place to dump your pollution and then put a house on it so the opponent is forced to collect your 8 negative points with their 3 positive. Unless they're smart and hit their own house with a negative point to put it under the threshold, and now they score their points and you score yours (oops). As you can see, there's a lot of subtlety and ways to set yourself up ahead of time, or wait til an opponent is committed and can't manipulate the points on something. Anyways, I highly suggest it if you like puzzle/board games. The solo mode is great, I think vs/campaign is even better. 7th guest, to your specific issues, I think from the issues in both posts it sounds like you're not teching up enough. I'll buy new cards if they look ok, but like most deckbuilders if you can work towards higher quality cards without bloating your deck too much it makes it a lot easier to find that consistency. The AI does follow the same rules you do, so their deck superiority is likely from upgrading/swapping out cards while you are staying at tier 1, which absolutely can't compete with itself or any other deck as a character gets up to tier 3-4. The AI is also really good at the higher difficulties, which is really fun, I learned a lot by getting destroyed by the military character and the commercial lady. The different unlockable starter cards are not really metaprogression (thank god) they are more of a way to tweak a deck's starting focus. All of the power is in reaching higher tiers within a game session. threelemmings fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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threelemmings posted:I wanted to effortpost the other day but was busy so glad this came back up. Thanks actually. I also found it nice but very hard but still wanted to give it another shot eventually. explosivo posted:Limit your max FPS to your monitor refresh rate in your GPU control panel, folks! doesn't matter too much if a game is that bad designed that it will use full GPU power at 144Hz that will still have your GPU heat up to max in no time to render all the beautiful 2D elements of the main menu. Only hard limits on the FPS in the 2digit space may calm it down a little.
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AfricanBootyShine posted:What was the final verdict on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus? I've been having a poo poo time lately and I could do with a game that straight-up glorifies killing fascists. I enjoyed the new order/the old blood back when they came out, if that means anything. It's not as good as the first game and mostly feels like it's setting up the pieces for a sequel that has yet to manifest even though it's been almost 6 years now. It's not bad either, it has its moments but it just doesn't have the same magic as the previous games.
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I’ve used Bulk Crap Uninstaller and been happy with it. Seconding both WizTree and WinDirStat, though, both of which I’ve used to clean up big file disks in the past. BCU has worked great at getting little things like registry and old “gone but left fragments” digital detritus away after manual deletion.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Has Steam been a flaming wreck for anyone else in the past few months? Store pages frequently fail to load and purchases frequently fail to go through. It seems to play nicer in the browser than the app now. Yeah Steam has been on a long but persistent decline for years. Some downloads languishing at 50-70% of max speed, weird UI bugs with every update, unnecessarily huge patches, downtime/login issues/slow overloaded servers.
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Mescal posted:oh, does anybody know a windirstat for linux that has boxes, not circles GD map has basically the same visualization style as windirstat. So does KDirStat
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Oh Baobob also has a treemap mode which may be similar to windirstat, so maybe try it after all
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 Teslagrad 2 is shadowdropping today Little to the Left DLC in June  Mineko's Night Market: September 26th  Crime o Clock June 30th  Animal Well targeting early 2024 Blasphemous 2 announced, coming this summer  Oxenfree 2 July 12th  Paper Trail in August  Chants of Senaar in September  Bomb Rush Cyberfunk August 18th The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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explosivo posted:Yeah as someone who has never played the original, Desktop Dungeons Rewind seems really good so far. Probably going to buy one of the DLC's since I got it for free after buying the original on a deep sale. went to look at the steam page and it said i already own it. cool. fun surprise.
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