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So do we know when System Shock is supposed to have its big rebalance update patch? I got it during the sale and I assumed it was coming when the console release happened but I still can't find any news on it.
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Jerusalem posted:Miyazaki reading posts from players: Shortly before Elden Ring released I ran through DS3 again, and just as I finished Untended Graves I said aloud “Thank God we’re done with those annoying loving dogs forever.” Hahahaha. HAHAHAHA.
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Mar 31, 2024 05:25
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Unlucky7 posted:So do we know when System Shock is supposed to have its big rebalance update patch? I got it during the sale and I assumed it was coming when the console release happened but I still can't find any news on it. Huh, did it need one?
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Mar 31, 2024 05:35
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sebmojo posted:Huh, did it need one? Dunno, but that is what I thought I heard. Or maybe I am confusing it with another game 
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Mar 31, 2024 05:36
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Phlegmish posted:furry 2 HITLER HITLER 2 FURRY
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Phlegmish posted:furry 2 HITLER 2Furry 2Hitler Edit: Hwurmp posted:2 Furst 2 Führious Much better 
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Mar 31, 2024 06:48
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Unlucky7 posted:Dunno, but that is what I thought I heard. Or maybe I am confusing it with another game No, you're right, patch 1.2 is what the consoles are getting. Gosh there are a lot of angry people on the Kickstarter site, which... I can understand why but imo they've ended up with a triumph so I can't share their ire. Looks like 1.2 changes a few things, the main tweak is to the ending. Female Hacker added as a playable character — Select the Hacker’s appearance from the New Game Configuration screen. Reworked the entire final fight with new mechanics and a unique flow Major optimizations across the entire game — Steam Deck users rejoice! Alpha Strain enemies have a new attack Avian Mutant enemies have a new attack Cyborg Diego has new movement options Some first person Hacker animations have been corrected Continued refining enemy AI and behaviors General combat and speed balance adjustments across enemies and weapons Credits added to the Title Screen Better Gamepad handling and implementation Achievements are properly awarded when completing the requirements Minor ============ Easier to see total counts of collected Media items Added a button to the entrance of the Security level to ensure you can backtrack to the rest of the Station General FX improvements and tweaks New artwork on monitors across Citadel Station Enemy callouts and vocals are less frequent now Better text sizing for all languages Jump Jet behavior improved The color of some projectiles were tweaked Sped up animations of using Dermal Patches Enemies who are near Restoration Bays will be teleported to their spawn location to ensure the Hacker doesn’t get softlocked by being killed repeatedly. Save files are now counted incrementally. Fix ups of various Cyberspace levels and enemy placements within Better handling of Hacker death in unlikely scenarios Tons of other smaller bug fixes.
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Mar 31, 2024 07:13
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sebmojo posted:No, you're right, patch 1.2 is what the consoles are getting. Gosh there are a lot of angry people on the Kickstarter site, which... I can understand why but imo they've ended up with a triumph so I can't share their ire. Looks like 1.2 changes a few things, the main tweak is to the ending.
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Mar 31, 2024 07:35
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:Does the Jaws of the Lion DLC have the early missions where everything is simplified? Or did they retool them so they wouldn't be piss-easy for people already familiar with the game? They're still easy but you can do whatever instead of being purposefully limited in what actions you have available to you - it's mostly Vermling Raiders with their very simple deck. They're MUCH better starter missions than the Black Barrow series of missions.
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Mar 31, 2024 07:40
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Mordja posted:What are they angry about? Not being Kickstarter rewards, not getting a patch sooner, not getting a Linux or Mac version... Actually, all reasonable stuff, and the development was p protracted and tangled so i guess they have a right to have views. To answer the original question it looks like the patch is coming some time after May 21.
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Mar 31, 2024 09:44
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Orv posted:Someone should make an unholy amalgam of Gloomhaven, Axis and Allies and Arkham Horror that takes a whole day to set up and I will never forget the time we played Arkham Horror to an apparently successful conclusion only to realize that because of our failure to pay back bank loans we technically lost anyway.
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Mar 31, 2024 11:23
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Akratic Method posted:I will never forget the time we played Arkham Horror to an apparently successful conclusion only to realize that because of our failure to pay back bank loans we technically lost anyway. as always, capitalism is the real horror
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Mar 31, 2024 11:35
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Orv posted:Someone should make an unholy amalgam of Gloomhaven, Axis and Allies and Arkham Horror that takes a whole day to set up and This exists, it's called Kingdom Death Monster
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Mar 31, 2024 12:06
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i replayed dark souls (luck build, i got the black knight sword AND halberd, first time any black knight weapon ever dropped) and i have the same cycle every time: the first half: i have underrated this game. maybe it's actually better than dark souls 2 if we don't count the DLCs. the second half: this game loving sucks. it sucks worse than twelve shrine of amanas in a row. it's all so loving ugly and janky and bland and clearly unfinished. everything after anor londo ranges from bad (catacombs, tombs, demon ruins, new londo) to the worst content across the whole franchise (lost izalith and crystal cave, and their respective bosses). duke's archives is pretty cool but it's very short. the DLC: okay the game's kinda good actually. gwyn is also a cool fight if you don't parry him. he gets a bad rap but i'd put him somewhere in the middle of final bosses, way ahead of nashandra/aldia, ahead of fake alonne/garl (the real last boss fights of DeS). a far cry from radagon but much better than elden beast so that's kind of a wash. behind soul of cinder and WAY behind isshin and gehrmann. i feel like the moon presence doesn't really count as a final boss. the DLC is the best part of the game, aside from the very beginning in undead burg/parish, but i think comparatively it's probably the weakest in the franchise. which is not to say that it's bad - it's really good - but the DLCs for the other games are just out of this world amazing.
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Mar 31, 2024 13:46
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sebmojo posted:not getting a Linux or Mac version... As a Linux enjoyer, I kinda prefer just running things through Proton. A bit blasphemous, I know, but it "just werks" more than native linux ports do, especially after having aged a bit. Some Linux ports of games just don't work any more and the windows version via proton is pretty rock solid for the most part now.
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Mar 31, 2024 14:18
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As a Linux enjoyer, getting some things to work under WINE/proton is always a crapshoot, although I do admit native ports have a tendency to get abandoned. SS2remake in particular needs me to drop the resolution down to historically accurate levels, which while amusing I'd still prefer the real thing.
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Serephina posted:As a Linux enjoyer, getting some things to work under WINE/proton is always a crapshoot, although I do admit native ports have a tendency to get abandoned. SS2remake in particular needs me to drop the resolution down to historically accurate levels, which while amusing I'd still prefer the real thing. Have you got an all-AMD setup? Pretty much everything works through proton, with the occasional game needing a specific proton version to be set. The only problematic titles being those with anti-cheat.
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Absolutely my next build will be exactly that, to move away from proprietary binary blobs with inscrutable bugs. It's a money issue in the meantime.
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Booted up Gloomhaven, started the regular mode (i.e. it's just the boardgame, not the tutorial/guildmaster mode) and HERE we go, this is the game proper, I'm having fun and trying to optimize my turns and it's kicking my rear end but I'm enjoying it. God, it's like fantasy Into the Breach and it's so cool
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Mar 31, 2024 14:35
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I strongly recommend getting some friends to play Gloomhaven with. I found it to be pretty slow playing alone, but it's a blast with others.
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Mar 31, 2024 14:37
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We had a lot of fun with MP Gloomhaven, it is great. Then our host lost our save and I lost my ability to feel joy.
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Mar 31, 2024 14:41
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socialsecurity posted:This exists, it's called Kingdom Death Monster Oh yeah I forgot about that thing. Is there an actual game there beyond the extra horny monster and player minis?
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Mar 31, 2024 15:17
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Foul Fowl posted:i replayed dark souls (luck build, i got the black knight sword AND halberd, first time any black knight weapon ever dropped) and i have the same cycle every time: I agree with most of this but also I'm not sure dark souls would be a better game with 3 extra years and an unlimited budget. It's kinda funny to think they must have been getting worryingly close to needing to finish and went "sod it just copy paste some dragon haunches"
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Mar 31, 2024 15:19
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I agree with most of this but also I'm not sure dark souls would be a better game with 3 extra years and an unlimited budget. They made this game, it’s about rings
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Mar 31, 2024 15:20
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Orv posted:Oh yeah I forgot about that thing. Is there an actual game there beyond the extra horny monster and player minis? It's decidedly Fine as a game, definitely not worth the sticker price but back when it came out basically every nerd group had someone who went all in on the KS so it wasn't too hard to get to play for free if you wanted.
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Tiny Timbs posted:They made this game, it’s about rings Sonic?
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Tiny Timbs posted:They made this game, it’s about rings Halo?
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The Dark Brotherhood really DID switch up the formula, I agree.
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Tiny Timbs posted:They made this game, it’s about rings Good game but a 7/10 compared to the og Dark Souls 10
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I agree with most of this but also I'm not sure dark souls would be a better game with 3 extra years and an unlimited budget. i think they just can’t help themselves, if they had 3 more years maybe all that stuff would have been finished but there would have been 8 new areas slapped together and filled with copypasted asses. every souls game feels unfinished to one degree or another
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Izalith is the only area that really feels unfinished to me. Even then I think the simple act of deleting the dragon asses there would have made it feel more complete. Big and empty yes, but that's not necessarily a sign of incompleteness. It's just the lazy spamming of obviously reappropriated enemy assets that makes it seem like a last minute rush job to me. In fact I think huge, relatively empty foreboding areas are something that the later games are missing and only Elden Ring to some extent really brought back. Dark Souls 2 kind of did it but also couldn't resist the urge to fill every area with swarms of enemies.
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Foul Fowl posted:i think they just can’t help themselves, if they had 3 more years maybe all that stuff would have been finished but there would have been 8 new areas slapped together and filled with copypasted asses. every souls game feels unfinished to one degree or another tell me more about these asses
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They're fractured
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turns out they just never had the time to put the dino butts everywhere
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I recently posted about it in the Strategy games thread , but I picked up Dune: Spice Wars in the recent sale and I am really enjoying it. It's totally scratching that 4x itch except that you can finish up an entire skirmish against the computers in probably 2-4 hours (depends on how often you pause since the game runs in real-time). The factions are all really deep and interesting with fun asymmetry to them so much that the moment I am done with a game I immediately want to fire up and try a different faction. The base game has 6 factions (House Atriedes, House Harkonnen, House Corrino, House Ecaz, the Smugglers, and the Fremen) and there is one DLC faction for a total of 7 (the seventh faction, House Vernius, can be in your game but you can't play as it without owning the DLC) and each skirmish has 4 factions so the game can change dramatically depending on who you are up against. I really like the art and graphics, the music and sound are great, and everything about the game seems polished and fun. Big recommendation from me, especially if you are a fan of the books/movies (I never read the books).
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going through Sanabi and it really is a lot like Katana Zero - the gameplay's very good, the story is mediocre, and the game's much more interested in the latter
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MTG Arena is doing April Fool's a day early and.... okay lmao 
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Volte posted:Izalith is the only area that really feels unfinished to me. Even then I think the simple act of deleting the dragon asses there would have made it feel more complete. Big and empty yes, but that's not necessarily a sign of incompleteness. It's just the lazy spamming of obviously reappropriated enemy assets that makes it seem like a last minute rush job to me. i don't disagree - i like open areas and i don't think the player needs to be around led by the nose ala god of war. my problem with everything after anor londo is that all the interesting encounters disappear. burg, parish, sen's, anor londo, even bits of the darkroot garden and blight town have these really cool, bespoke encounters with a variety of enemies and placements that make use of the level. you have a lot of different avenues to solve all of the encounters depending on your build and your tolerance for playing carefully vs. recklessly. then the game degenerates. all of the above is replaced either by a series of 1v1s against the same enemy (golem, big skeletor, big demon) or against a squad of grunt enemies (regular skeletors, ghosts). sometimes it's a 1v2 but that just means you bait one of their slow attacks and kill the other one. same strategy every time. there's slight variations with e.g. the big skeletor dogs but even those are basically the same fights except they have a 12 hit combo. sometimes you will get a gank squad of like 3 golems or 5 taurus demons but these are always seem designed to be circumvented and not fought. lost izalith doesn't have a single enemy worth fighting - it seems like they knew it was a dogshit area so they just breadcrumbed the player to the boss and made all the enemies useless or near-sighted as hell. the level geometry mattering also disappears except in the case of, like, crystal cave where it's awful. new londo has all the enemies just noclip through the walls. catacombs is corridor city but while the skeletors are funny with their psycho crushers and cartwheels, they're just fodder except if you get caught in overlapping hitboxes. duke's archives is the exception to the above. anyway it's a great game lol, i probably sound salty as hell but i'm grading it on a curve. i had lots of fun on this replay.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Booted up Gloomhaven, started the regular mode (i.e. it's just the boardgame, not the tutorial/guildmaster mode) and HERE we go, this is the game proper, I'm having fun and trying to optimize my turns and it's kicking my rear end but I'm enjoying it. God, it's like fantasy Into the Breach and it's so cool Broken Cog posted:I strongly recommend getting some friends to play Gloomhaven with. I found it to be pretty slow playing alone, but it's a blast with others.
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I have never seen a single game that wasn't slower with other people than playing alone. Gloomhaven is no exception in my experience.
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