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No Wave posted:Having beaten the final boss of synthetik once On what difficulty?
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 20:15 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 09:47 |
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Tea Party Crasher posted:Balatro is out today and I bought it instantly, I've been addicted to that demo. I only played a little of the demo because I knew after like two runs I'd be buying the full. I've played poker all my life and I also like weird card decks so this game is like crack for me. The full game seems to be everything I'd hoped.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 20:23 |
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i've beaten both synthetiks on the hardest difficulty a few times and I can pretty conclusively say that sniper is the easiest class and it really does boil down to simply shooting your enemies from far away while standing still. you even get a stun grenade to make sure enemies can't move so that it's even easier to point and click adventure your way through them. there are many classes that do not do this, however, and you will probably have more fun playing one of them.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 20:31 |
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StarkRavingMad posted:I only played a little of the demo because I knew after like two runs I'd be buying the full. I've played poker all my life and I also like weird card decks so this game is like crack for me. The full game seems to be everything I'd hoped. However after playing it a little I would recommend it to anyone who likes both slay the spire and luck be a landlord since it feels sort of half way in between
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 20:32 |
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Is the Switch port any good, or should I get it on PC instead?
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 20:36 |
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cock hero flux posted:i've beaten both synthetiks on the hardest difficulty a few times and I can pretty conclusively say that sniper is the easiest class and it really does boil down to simply shooting your enemies from far away while standing still. you even get a stun grenade to make sure enemies can't move so that it's even easier to point and click adventure your way through them.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 20:53 |
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No Wave posted:I liked sniper and I played it the most but it got too hosed over by the airplane so I just played raider eventually instead. The class you pick doesnt really change that you're turbo safe from 3/4 a screen away, even raider knife isnt really a mechanical incentive to get close it just makes it less stupid to do so. i mean if you can't stop yourself from taking a sniper rifle on breacher and playing Bad Sniper instead of engaging with the class's actual mechanics then maybe this is true. on higher difficulties of Synthetik 2 I think this runs into a brick wall when you get to that level where every enemy is a chrono trooper that teleports on top of you because if you're literally just a guy with a sniper rifle and zero synergy I think you just die
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 20:58 |
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cock hero flux posted:i mean if you can't stop yourself from taking a sniper rifle on breacher and playing Bad Sniper instead of engaging with the class's actual mechanics then maybe this is true. on higher difficulties of Synthetik 2 I think this runs into a brick wall when you get to that level where every enemy is a chrono trooper that teleports on top of you because if you're literally just a guy with a sniper rifle and zero synergy I think you just die
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 21:10 |
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One thing to note is that Raider and Assassin melee attacks can pass through walls and are very powerful with their cool down reset and damage bonus. They're good supplements especially if you build for dash or cloak cooldown and shouldn't be neglected. Breacher is probably my favorite for the run and gun play style. Just an exciting flow state of charging in and point blank blasting enemies. Synthetik's specialist classes were the last ones I dug into but they are also very satisfying and different to play. Demo bombarding enemies with a salvo of grenades and then daisy chaining a chain reaction of explosives everywhere on your screen is hilarious. I know using Engineer to gamble and roll for a god build is the funny meme meta, but just playing him as a summoner who rolls with a mob at his back is also cool. There's a lot of fun stuff to do in Synthetik and you kind of do yourself a disservice by just sticking to one play style.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 21:13 |
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moot the hopple posted:There's a lot of fun stuff to do in Synthetik and you kind of do yourself a disservice by just sticking to one play style. Obviously not everyone has this issue. Judging by synthetik in game chat some people are happy to make the game their lifestyle.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 21:24 |
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Pollyanna posted:Is the Switch port any good, or should I get it on PC instead? I'm getting both, but only because I don't have a Steam Deck and it's not on Android. The interface for the game is dead simple, I don't see how they could mess it up. Edit: It just occurred to me that the console versions might be slightly delayed at receiving patches and expansions, when that time comes.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 21:58 |
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mystes posted:I realize that it's nominally supposed to be poker-ish but the mechanics are so unlike poker that I find it weird that people even mention poker in relation to it. I don't even play poker and I was still initially confused by things not working like I expected based on it being supposed to be vaguely pokerlike Balatro is very poker, it has all the poker words in it.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 22:22 |
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Do the words even mean the same thing they mean in poker?
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 22:25 |
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Balatro definitely feels extremely 'vaguely pokerlike' to me. You're obviously not playing capital P Poker and there are differences between this videogame roguelike and poker but the entire premise of the game is about making poker hands.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 22:36 |
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Yeah and you are still weighing all those probabilities of those hands in similar ways you do with poker, compared to like a STS game or whatever. Overall I feel like I am playing something closer to Poker than Slay the Spire personally.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 22:45 |
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First impression is that Balatro has a dazzling number of possibilities. For example, in my first run I got the Half Joker, which gives a x20 score multiplier to hands of 3 or less cards. I was netting nearly 1k chips in a single play with pairs and three of a kind in low cards (enemies at that level only required 800 or so to win). You get a limited number of discards per blind (enemy), but you can also discard stuff by including non-scored cards in your hand (a 5th card appended to two pair etc). Coming from StS the potential for deck cycling alone is mind-blowing.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 22:53 |
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Balatro has nothing to do with actual poker. It uses the aesthetics and terminology of poker to make a excellent deck/engine builder to make number go up. It's really smart because it makes it fairly accessible and you have at least somewhat of an idea of what you are trying to do. The hand names are something a lot of people will be familiar with if they've had even a passing interest in poker or a plain deck of cards in general.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 23:10 |
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it has the opposite effect on me, it couldn't be less appealing
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 23:21 |
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Yeah, I'm passing hard on Balatro as well. Been watching some streams and it's not appealing to me at all. Great that people are having a good time with it though
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 23:24 |
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Balatro is specifically video poker, not table poker.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 23:39 |
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Tendales posted:Balatro is specifically video poker, not table poker. This. I'm of an age where I remember my parents/grandparents playing little hand held video poker machines to pass the time, and balatro is that but fun and interesting. Or at least attention grabbing and lizard brain numbers go up pleasing.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 23:46 |
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I am instantly hooked on Balatro. It's video poker with added complexity. Love it.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 23:46 |
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victrix posted:it has the opposite effect on me, it couldn't be less appealing Same here.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 23:54 |
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I think Balatro is going to find very few "middle of the road" folks. Either it's your jam or not, and that's fine but if it's not your jam there's nothing there to entice you to go for it anyway. It's a shame the demo seems to have disappeared,
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 00:04 |
Balatro. Fun game. Nice music. Lots of dopamine.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 00:29 |
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Bruceski posted:I think Balatro is going to find very few "middle of the road" folks. Either it's your jam or not, and that's fine but if it's not your jam there's nothing there to entice you to go for it anyway. It's a shame the demo seems to have disappeared, Demos disappearing is super common these days. I think the logic is that you don't want people to download the demo, play it, think "cool game, but I've had my fill, no need to buy it", and move on. These days, demos are strictly for building hype, not for letting people try before they buy.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 01:19 |
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Bruceski posted:I think Balatro is going to find very few "middle of the road" folks. Either it's your jam or not, and that's fine but if it's not your jam there's nothing there to entice you to go for it anyway. It's a shame the demo seems to have disappeared, Ciaphas posted:balatro exists to divide the world between people with Number-Go-Up Disorder (like me) and those without
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 01:31 |
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Balatro happened to be good but who am I kidding? I would have bought it because it's a game that's vaguely a deck builder and I need to chase the Slay the Spire dragon. Almost none of them are as interesting or as well balanced.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 02:09 |
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Tendales posted:Balatro is specifically video poker, not table poker. So it's actually running a bingo engine for tax reasons
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 02:11 |
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Ciaphas posted:balatro exists to divide the world between people with Number-Go-Up Disorder (like me) and those without Drone Incognito posted:Balatro happened to be good but who am I kidding? I would have bought it because it's a game that's vaguely a deck builder and I need to chase the Slay the Spire dragon. Almost none of them are as interesting or as well balanced.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 02:14 |
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I'm addicted to games that represent assets as cards whether they are deckbuilders or not and I think indie devs are finally figuring that out and are collaborating to take my money.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 02:17 |
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SettingSun posted:I'm addicted to games that represent assets as cards whether they are deckbuilders or not and I think indie devs are finally figuring that out and are collaborating to take my money. meanwhile, I have the opposite problem, where as soon as you mention that your game has cards, my brain and wallet become closed to what you have to say
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 02:31 |
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:meanwhile, I have the opposite problem, where as soon as you mention that your game has cards, my brain and wallet become closed to what you have to say Me, but the Survival genre
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 02:45 |
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No Wave posted:I definitely agree with this and this is an issue I've had with a lot of challenging action roguelikes since Dead Cells in 2017. If you play in the fun way and lose it's hard to draw a lesson from it besides "I shouldnt have played in the fun way", because you already know exactly how you could have gotten past that situation without getting hurt. The best way to make players play the fun way is by making the fun way do a lot more damage and add strict timers, but at the same time, this makes the game no longer at all chill. I like the "battle room" approach that games like Oblivion Override and Binding of Isaac have because it forces you out of safe tedious strategies. The most efficient way to get past a given situation is not always the most safe way in Synthetik imo, but yes to echo everyone else who's touched on it you are inflicting this on yourself and that's entirely fine to do if it's what you enjoy. Getting the hang of CQC takes some practice and eating poo poo till you recognize when it's fine to do and when you need to pick a few things off first before going in. You don't need to stand 3/4 of a screen away if everything dies in a 1.5 seconds or less in a series of explosions and shotgun fire though, Breacher is seriously some of the most fun the game has. Fwiw though, Synthetik 2 is much better about curtailing extreme sightlines and makes even the "sniper" class more of a flexible assassin class that is good at long range but also works well closer up. Highly recommend making the jump, I'd probably have sunk a lot more hours into it if there weren't so many good games out to play.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 03:31 |
Imp zone game club or whatever it’s called just announced a roguelike… festival? Party? Event? Idk, I only just discovered imp zone somehow so I don’t have a lot of the shared context that a forum builds up over time. But it looks neato
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 04:28 |
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Magitek posted:Me, but the Survival genre I thought I was this way but then I played Subnautica. And Pacific Drive in a day or two. So I think it's specifically 'survival without a main questline/purpose to the crafting poo poo' that I don't really care for one way or another Where's the survival roguelikes
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 05:00 |
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victrix posted:I thought I was this way but then I played Subnautica. And Pacific Drive in a day or two.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 05:01 |
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victrix posted:Where's the survival roguelikes UnReal World already exists. I also recall one that was pixel art and you were trying to survive on a tropical island or something.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 05:03 |
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madmatt112 posted:Imp zone game club or whatever it’s called just announced a roguelike… festival? Party? Event? Idk, I only just discovered imp zone somehow so I don’t have a lot of the shared context that a forum builds up over time. But it looks neato Yeah it's a great time to initiate, come on in. Quoting the post below. Sub-Actuality posted:SPECIAL EVENT FOR MARCH
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# ? May 27, 2024 09:47 |
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that cat ascension gif Torneko is quite something, I'm enjoying it. Except for all the random invisible floor traps
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