Jack Trades posted:

I just saw something incredibly weird but not unwelcome.

I bought a Ubisoft game, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, because I wanted something brainless to play and it was like 85% off or something, and it has the most bizarre gameplay option I've ever seen.
Upon starting a new game it asks you "Would you like to turn off the Gear Score loot treadmill?" and if you pick yes then they just completely remove the modern Gear Score bullshit from the game. It's just an option that's part of the difficulty customization.

I was really baffled by it but I do like not having to deal with constant loot sifting.

ShadowMar posted:

breakpoint was a complete disaster at launch and terrible as a sequel to Surprisingly Decent Video Game That Pissed Off The Bolivian Government, Ghost Recon Wildlands, so they had to basically redo a ton of the game because of it, including adding AI teammates which were not in the game at launch

the most baffling thing is that the game has raids that still require you to re-enable gear score and have 3 real players to do them with lol

ShadowMar posted:

i love the story of Wildlands/Breakpoint's existences just because i find it incredible that Ubisoft, in all their genius, determined that the best way to do a sequel to a tactical stealth shooter was to turn it into a looter shooter

ShadowMar posted:

i love the story of Wildlands/Breakpoint's existences just because i find it incredible that Ubisoft, in all their genius, determined that the best way to do a sequel to a tactical stealth shooter was to turn it into a looter shooter

Jack Trades posted:

Ubisoft just doesn't know how to make anything other than the "Ubisoft game".

ymgve posted:

also "only the first install" means they are either bullshitting or use extra data (hi EU!) to track users across OS reinstalls

ultrafilter posted:

https://twitter.com/writnelson/status/1701720278189937099

Saoshyant posted:

So, how's the Halo Collection holding up these days? Which of those games still hold up and are a good starting point if you never touched anything Halo? Also, anyone tried them on the Deck?

Mierenneuker posted:

Logiart Grimoire launched in early access yesterday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2492390/Logiart_Grimoire/

It's a new picross/nonogram game by the studio that has been making them for Nintendo devices for more than 2 decades. You unlock new puzzles by ranking up (= completing X amount of puzzles) and by "fusion". That basically involves combining the pictures of earlier puzzles to create new ones. The hints for these fusion puzzles have been pretty easy thus far. There are also a handful of puzzles that are created if you happen to mess up a fusion (they look like simple doodles).

Mierenneuker posted:

Logiart Grimoire launched in early access yesterday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2492390/Logiart_Grimoire/

It's a new picross/nonogram game by the studio that has been making them for Nintendo devices for more than 2 decades. You unlock new puzzles by ranking up (= completing X amount of puzzles) and by "fusion". That basically involves combining the pictures of earlier puzzles to create new ones. The hints for these fusion puzzles have been pretty easy thus far. There are also a handful of puzzles that are created if you happen to mess up a fusion (they look like simple doodles).


Monkee + brain = human, me smart!

Right now it just has mouse controls and so it's not ready for the Steam Deck yet. They are working on it though, alongside interface improvements (first patch added a quit to desktop button, progress!). I don't know how I feel about them asking the community to point out spelling mistakes and such. There is the occasional bit of grammar that makes me think they are better off just hiring an editor to review all the descriptions and rewrite them where needed.

Outside of a single 20x15 puzzle, I haven't unlocked anything bigger than 15x15 yet, but I imagine I've seen 1/5 of its puzzles at best. If you're not that familiar with picross there are 2 tutorials and 3 assist options: one that auto-corrects boxes you filled incorrectly, a "roulette" that reveals a single row and column of boxes at the beginning, and the blue highlight that shows you which rows and columns have boxes you could figure out. The game keeps track of which ones you used to solve a puzzle or if there was no assist.


The latter assist is nice if you want to knock out a puzzle in a couple of minutes without getting those situations where you're kinda stuck for a while.

RBA Starblade posted:

If you've never played Halo at all, Halo 1 or Reach are still very good and fun jumping in points. Halo 3 is amazing too. All of them but 4 really play very well but the plot won't make sense if you care. Play them co-op if you can.

4 still sucks a good bit but multi's alright.

Jack Trades posted:

Sininu posted:

These games are pretty awful to play in co-op due to their rather unique netcode that they have for co-op. Very laggy experience, had to give up after a level when I tried it with a friend.

Jack Trades posted:

GhostDog posted:

So, if Unity goes through with this, that means every game that sold a lot but isn't selling any more is a financial liability. Resurgence of your game in public discourse leading to a lot of reinstalls? Suddenly a huge bill comes in. Which raises the question: Can devs pull their game from Steam&Co. completely, not only for sale but also from access/reinstall?

GhostDog posted:

So, if Unity goes through with this, that means every game that sold a lot but isn't selling any more is a financial liability. Resurgence of your game in public discourse leading to a lot of reinstalls? Suddenly a huge bill comes in. Which raises the question: Can devs pull their game from Steam&Co. completely, not only for sale but also from access/reinstall?

Kennel posted:

Every time someone mentions Deus Ex, Embracer has to close one studio.

GhostDog posted:

So, if Unity goes through with this, that means every game that sold a lot but isn't selling any more is a financial liability. Resurgence of your game in public discourse leading to a lot of reinstalls? Suddenly a huge bill comes in. Which raises the question: Can devs pull their game from Steam&Co. completely, not only for sale but also from access/reinstall?

No Wave posted:

If this actually goes live in its stated form steam will have to give the option to perma pull stuff. But it going live like this is so cataclysmic that its hard to imagine.

Volte posted:

They can't just allow devs to delete games from peoples' libraries that they already paid for. I'm almost certain that would be illegal in a lot of places.

Sab669 posted:

They've already started to work back on it as seen in the Tweet I posted ITT a few hours ago. Supposedly the fee will only be once on the initial installation.

But, again, what if I change my hardware? If I install it on my laptop & my desktop?
Still doesn't address malicious actors installing f2p games repeatedly either.

King Vidiot posted:

On the subject of f2p, it'd be hilarious if Unity makes an exemption for f2p, and then developers respond by making their singleplayer game "f2p" but you have to pay the actual price of the game to unlock it. Unity gets nothing since the game was already installed.