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Haha now that has me kind of interested just to see. I think the one I made most romance progress on is the trying to run the museum and arcade stuff. She barely had time for the PC which is perfect, because, same. You don't get to number one workshop by double the points of even cheating Yan by going on play dates that I can't figure how to make work. You do it by having so much of everything you can complete commissions and story quests before noon, most of that time chasing down someone who teleported to church.
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Khanstant posted:Haha now that has me kind of interested just to see. I think the one I made most romance progress on is the trying to run the museum and arcade stuff. She barely had time for the PC which is perfect, because, same. You don't get to number one workshop by double the points of even cheating Yan by going on play dates that I can't figure how to make work. You do it by having so much of everything you can complete commissions and story quests before noon, most of that time chasing down someone who teleported to church. Yeah on Portia I was way too busy fighting robots to do any of the romance stuff at all
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Jun 7, 2023 23:35
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The actual romance elements is very take or leave but strategically befriending the townsfolk to get discounts at their shops and extra friendship points with their friends and family to get discounts at their shops is an important part of the game imo.
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Sydin posted:Eh, the release date's still 3+ months off, they've got time to hammer out the multiplayer stuff. That trailer specifically says multiplayer will come later.
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Jun 8, 2023 02:15
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Oh lol my bad, didn't see that.
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TurnipFritter posted:The actual romance elements is very take or leave but strategically befriending the townsfolk to get discounts at their shops and extra friendship points with their friends and family to get discounts at their shops is an important part of the game imo. By far the best part of the friendship system and one more games need to steal.
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TurnipFritter posted:The actual romance elements is very take or leave but strategically befriending the townsfolk to get discounts at their shops and extra friendship points with their friends and family to get discounts at their shops is an important part of the game imo. Getting relationships up is definitely part of my gameplay flow. When I restart I'll definitely work some better generic gifts into the mix because since I started paying attention my friendships went up a ton. It's cool there's cascading effects too, friend of a friend likes you more. Plus donating to the church, which isn't that bad for a church.
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Jun 8, 2023 04:45
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One of my gripes was that in Portia they gave bonuses for marrying a particular townsperson but they were inconsistent and even the "best" ones were still "meh". I really wish these harvest moon games created bigger changes to the gameplay loop depending on who you married so that the decision felt more significant. They "help out" a bit around your house but I want to be able to give specific Honey-Dos to help me focus on other things at a time.
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It's especially weird when those characters have their own ambitions or jobs and just become a daily bonus hanging around your house. Ideally you would need both incomes to be able to support the kid, who after enough years can start doing chores around the farm until kid gets old enough to move away or slack on farmwork to go sneak drinks at Marnie's or whatever. You and the spouse should get to drift apart over time no matter what you seem to try, somehow handing over even the highest quality food or craft items just isn't enough anymore. Endgame is collecting alimony since the corporate city job was always really bailing the farm out of debt.
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"I saw you feeding Abigail an Amethyst again, Roger. Is something going on?" "No, no honey, it's all a big misunderstanding here..." "YOU PUT YOUR FINGER IN HER MOUTH, ROBERT. THE JUNIMOS TOLD ME EVERYTHING"
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I’ve spent the last few weeks binging My Time At Sandrock, and it’s definitely solid. Still has your standard indie jank of characters walking into walls or facing the wrong way in conversations but the gameplay loop is fun and they’ve clearly improved from Portia. The voice acting is… interesting. Some kind of weird line readings and some characters that clearly had different actors (or the same actor forgetting exactly how they did the voice) for cutscenes and for conversations, which seems to be a normal problem for indie games that are writing as they go. But I’ve found a lot of the character dialogue clever and enjoyable. I was going to complain about the guy reading for Unsuur because the initial conversations with him came across as amateur and wooden readings, and I assumed the actor was due to some sort of kickstarter thing and then the game went on and I realized that no, Unsuur is just an incredibly boring person, and talking with little to no inflection is just what he does. And the actor actually does a good job with making it sound reasonable.
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Originally from Atara, Catori divorced her unsupportive husband and left her son with her Ma before coming to Sandrock in the hopes of creating a world-renown entertainment complex. The gently caress?
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Slay queen, slaaaaaaay
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Portia is 6 bucks on the steam sale, which is an incredible deal for the value you would get out of it. You don't need any DLC. It's just some meaningless cosmetics.
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skeleton warrior posted:I’ve spent the last few weeks binging My Time At Sandrock, and it’s definitely solid. Still has your standard indie jank of characters walking into walls or facing the wrong way in conversations but the gameplay loop is fun and they’ve clearly improved from Portia. I think it's sometimes a case of the VA forgetting their accent. Amirah's Brother in particular has this totally made up accent that's even harder to peg than usual because the VA seems to shift it so often. I think there's at least another character or two who have made up accents as well? And I had the same ride with Unsurr, he sounds appropriate for the boring goober he is.
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Finally started a Sandrock save and I'm finding it a lot easier to get into and enjoy than Portia. It just feels more manageable somehow. In Portia I felt as if I constantly hit my head into walls, but here I have an idea of what to do and I can make progress pretty easily. The art style is a lot better to my eyes, too.
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They learned a lot from Portia and applied it all to Sandrock, it’s a way smoother and better experience overall. Has there been any word on the multiplayer recently? I keep seeing mentions of a sandbox mode which isn’t what I’m looking for. Hoping there’s plans to put in a co-op storymode or something.
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Last I saw, they're putting in multiplayer, but it it won't be there for launch.
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I have not started Sandrock yet since I figure there will be more patches to come. But I wanted to make sure I bought it since I'm definitely down for another game like Portia.
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Bussamove posted:Has there been any word on the multiplayer recently? I keep seeing mentions of a sandbox mode which isn’t what I’m looking for. Hoping there’s plans to put in a co-op storymode or something. they posted this video a month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn9Ykt1az0M the bad news: they had originally planned a separate storyline for multiplayer mode, but they thought it wasn't good enough and also due to having limited resources they're scrapping the storyline entirely and it's just going to be a sandbox thing.
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That video is so bad. So much assumed animosity for friends and loved ones. Really disappointed by the lack of story in the multiplayer.
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I will miss my house when it launches, except for the fact that it's arrangement means I can't actually use any of the extra stories because there's no place to place stairs and such. 
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I played the first week of Sandrock. Game is doing a whole lot of things really well. Optimistic.
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Zesty posted:I played the first week of Sandrock. Game is doing a whole lot of things really well. Optimistic. It's real good so far and was legitimately hard to put down to wait for release.
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Yeah, I ended up playing the whole first season but think I'll take a break until it's in 1.0 just so I can get the complete game. It's kind of disappointing to know I'm missing out on things when it explicitly tells you on villager's info pages how much of their content is available. I don't want to make decisions based on where the content is, but on wherever things end up taking me on a full playthrough. Game is looking and playing really well though. Couple bugs here and there, but they still have a couple months before 1.0
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Dang 1.0 got pushed back to November. AC6 and BG3 are going to have to tide me over for longer than I thought. Oh well props to the studio for actually acknowledging they needed more time and pushing the release date back instead of kicking an unfinished product out the door and fixing it later like most would.
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Like they did with Portia.... Anyway kinda sad this is hitting the same day as Star Ocean 2 R now
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Shame I was looking forward to 1.0 but the timeframe seemed rough.
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It's cool. I'd rather this than trying to force incomplete games to 1.0
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Better to take the time to do it right than release early. I've been holding off starting my playthrough until release because I thought I remembered them saying they were updating NPCs as part of it?
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They'll be adding stuff but there's already a ton to do and I would say go ahead and start if you're itchy for some workshoppin'. I'm at the end of the game and content they have in so far and seems like I still have plenty of friendship events and things to go through if I wanted to just grind up days of building friendship only but I kinda like when there's story pressure ot build more than just doing my own pace.
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Act 3 and main story finale update just dropped, even though the official 1.0 launch is November 2 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1084600/view/3748740074327462625
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GotLag posted:Act 3 and main story finale update just dropped, even though the official 1.0 launch is November 2 Goddamn. The story is 3x the length of Portia? Not that I'm complaining. Portia's story was already super long though (again, not a bad thing). This game is going to take 2 years for me to get through the story.
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I took a peak since my save was right at the end of the last story update, and I'd recommend that anybody who wants to jump in still wait for the full 1.0 release in November or, at a minimum, start a new save fresh. As it is my current character got all their perks reset, there's some new materials that suddenly everybody wants that I have none of because it's expecting you to have been grabbing them way earlier in the game, and I'm now getting bombarded by everybody's new time-sensitive personal quests, some of which are bugged like Amirah's which was titled *NOTUSE* and had no description attached. 
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Don't tempt me with a good time. Love getting a huge batch of new tasks and then finishing them that day lol
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I've been participating in the final beta tests and the game is absolutely huge and they keep on wanting to add more content for characters and stuff. I'd estimate a playthrough of the story will take 100-150 hours depending on your pace. My savegame was 128 hours when I saw credits roll. There's still some nasty bugs left right now but I hope the game will have a great launch cause it deserves the success.
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https://steamcommunity.com/app/1084600/discussions/0/3883851232914867252/ Some stuff about the console releases: PS5, Xbox, and Switch releases are on November 2, but won't be fully updated to where the PC release is until around Christmas. The PS4 version will be released at a later date. Console multiplayer won't drop until Summer 2024. Some gameplay limitations in the Xbox One and Switch versions, which I imagine will also apply to the PS4 version if it ever releases: 
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I kind of understand that decision. The PC version received its last content patch (in beta) just last week and console versions usually have to be finished weeks before release. The Console versions should have the september build that has the complete main story but is missing some extra content.
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I get why they have to do it, but unless they add a backup system to non-visually place decorations, it's technically a slight nerf to your stats. To be fair, I don't know how important the stats are WRT to combat since it's all pretty non-threatening but extra stamina was always appreciated. My workshops out edge is a wall of artifacts and decorations. Seems to get people to admire them for passive friendship gain more often that way.
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