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StrixNebulosa posted:I ignored all warnings and pulled out Valhalla anyways and an hour later it's exactly what I was expecting: pretty snowy map to explore, all the mechanics from Origins and Odyssey, and decent if not special writing. I expect this will keep me entertained for a while before I forget about it and wander off to other pastures, and honestly I'm okay with that, I just wanted something chill to bop to inbetween bouts of masterpieces like Dark Souls or Rimworld or whatever else I'm getting up to. thaaaaaats Ubisoft games
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Is it possible to disable the combat in Manor Lords? Combat is the absolute last thing I want in my city builders but a new Banished sounds cool e: I went ahead and bought it and to answer this question: yes you can Also I'm sure it's historically accurate or something but umm this is quite an auto-generated player character name 
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:okay but what makes that rice cooker particularly good, because i’m in the market for a new one and everything i’m googling sounds unimpressive The mentioned Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy (which gets bonus points for sounding like a chip you implant in your head to get an upgrade in a cyberpunk game) is pretty wild. You can try to intentionally gently caress your rice up, like go as far as adding double the amount of recommended water, and it will adjust temperatures and cooking times to compensate. Basically just a lot of sensors and some smart programming done by people who know how to cook rice really well, but it does the trick.
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Plus it plays a little tune when you start and finish cooking 😌 I love my zojirushi neuro fuzzy
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i marathoned another crab's treasure, though i used the assist mode cheats for a lot of it. it's charming enough but the lower budget and smaller dev time really shows in terms of balance, because it's kind of miserable as a soulslike - enemies are so loving tanky that it's like elden ring if 4/5's of it took place in the consecrated snowfields. after one monster at the end of a really grueling platforming section (with near hitscan-level archers everywhere) bashed me through the level geometry and caused me to lose a bunch of currency i started abusing the cheats and never looked back the environments do a great job of mimicking the souls aesthetic with a pg-rated underwater setting, though as for the story i'm really losing my taste for anti-capitalist plots that go "capitalism sucks and the world is probably doomed but gosh darn it we've just gotta Help One Another and Do Our Best." night in the woods and kentucky route zero own that whole subgenre, the others are so facile that they feel like they were scraped off an ursula k leguin mood board
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Tales of Vesperia is showing me Xbox glyphs despite having native DirectInput support (which switches the glyphs to PlayStation buttons). So I can turn on PS glyphs by turning off Steam Input, but I want to use Steam Input for all the other functionality. Wasn't the Steam Input update supposed to fix this? I've yet to see it consistently work how you'd want it to. And worse, you have no control over which controller type it choses, so you can't fix it manually (outside disabling Steam Input, like above).
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The entire Steamworld franchise is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/thunderfulpublishing/sale/SteamWorldFranchiseSale This is a really cool and kinda unique franchise, it's all robots in a variety of settings. The original and sequel are 2d platformers, there's a turn based tactics spacefaring game (with a sequel on the way this year), a city builder (dlc just came out), and a deckbuilder rpg. I've rarely seen a franchise jump settings so adroitly - the games aren't the absolute pinnacle of the industry, but they're good, and I enjoyed my time in the world. Check em out if you want something a bit lighthearted, there's probably a genre there for you.
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Picked up the original Steamworld Dig yesterday, pretty solid game for $0.89.
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They announced Steamworld Heist 2 not long ago, looking forward to it. I had a lot of fun in the original Heist and it looks like just a lot more of it.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Also I'm sure it's historically accurate or something but umm this is quite an auto-generated player character name They've outdone Final Fantasy V. Impressive!
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deep dish peat moss posted:Is it possible to disable the combat in Manor Lords? Combat is the absolute last thing I want in my city builders but a new Banished sounds cool Yeah you can just straight up turn off AI opponents and/or bandits.
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I've heard of names like Koontz, but never Cuntz. That sounds like someone passed through Ellis Island and either trolled or was trolled by the guy Anglifying his name. e: Kuntz does seem to exist.
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history has not been kind to pioneering French chemist, Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy
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my son's name also happens to be kuntz
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Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is a weird game. It's presented well but I think it's firmly in the "player's first platformer game" category of games, it's really barebones with its metroidvania parts and the only difficulty I had in the 5 hours I played was that a lot of the spikes are instant kills. But the penalty for dying is that you reset at the start of the encounter that killed you, so you're never losing progress. The instadeath spikes end up just being annoying in areas where you get locked into an arena with a bunch of enemies, where the combat is easy enough that it's really hard to die but you can instantly die to spikes and have to start over. I was around the second boss when I stopped playing and they were loading up every arena with spikes at that point and I wasn't enjoying it. If this was advertised for people with no experience with platformers or metroidvanias I'd have been happy to have not seen it. It's not a game for me but they've been pushing this wide with sponsored streamers in their videos saying it's doing things no other metroidvania has done and it's just not true, but it got to me looking like something every mv fan has to love. I couldn't recommend it to anyone that likes metroidvanias, but it's probably the most accessible one I've played in terms of difficulty and puzzles, and it feels like it'd be very hard to get lost exploring. edit: maybe it's not the most accessible, but it's definitely the most accessible on its default difficulty. The Lost Crown had a lot of accessibility features I didn't touch for comparison. The Gripper fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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Manor Lords put a lot of effort into being historically accurate. Here's a thread for those of you who still have Twitter: https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1783578093321384346
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Phlegmish posted:I've heard of names like Koontz, but never Cuntz. Kunz is a relatively common German surname. The spelling Kuntz isn't quite as common, but I've definitely seen it around as well.
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Manor Lords has made me want to jump into a city builder/colony sim again, but one that's a bit further along in development. What are the top tier in this genre that are somewhat recent? I have Dwarf Fortress, and for ones I don't have Against the Storm looks like the most appealing one on Steam that I've seen.
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I know people like Farthest Frontier, which is probably gonna exit EA soonish.
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Mustang posted:Manor Lords has made me want to jump into a city builder/colony sim again, but one that's a bit further along in development. I put 300 hours into Against the Storm so far but it's more a game where you have to go along with the punches, you build many smaller settlements in a row instead of one large map.
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Against the Storm was a pretty unsatisfying city builder for me. It feels more like a board game, honestly.
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Against the Storm is more of a puzzle game. I've heard it desribed as a game that ends when city builders become boring, which is an outrageously bizarre statement to me. City builders become interesting once you are over the opening moves and have to deal with the increasing complexity of the thing you've built and the way you've hosed yourself over. Still a good game, but not a city builder. Farthest Frontier is neat, but it feels like it runs out of tricks too soon.
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Mustang posted:Manor Lords has made me want to jump into a city builder/colony sim again, but one that's a bit further along in development. I don't play many city builders so I might not have much authority on this, but I loved the hell out of Frostpunk.
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Mustang posted:Manor Lords has made me want to jump into a city builder/colony sim again, but one that's a bit further along in development. songs of syx is pretty wild. i think it should hit 1.0 in not too long as well
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Frostpunk is more of a puzzle game too which has a few correct solutions.
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Songs of Syx definitely looks really good too, sort of reminds me of Dwarf Fortress. Guess I may as well grab Frostpunk since it's only $6 right now.
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Songs of Syx is very good. It's worth noting that the demo on steam is the full game, it's just perpetually two major updates behind the paid version.
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Phlegmish posted:I've heard of names like Koontz, but never Cuntz. There is a baseball coach, ex-player, called Rusty Kuntz e: my current favourite baseball name is Skye Bolt, I just think that's neat
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I know there is a re-release of Settlers 2, but the original game is the thing for me. I spent hundreds of hours on it as a kid. Guessing, since Steam wasn't around back then. Obviously that isn't recent, sorry about that  I like Timberborn, but it's more chaotic than traditional city builders.
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Rappaport posted:I know there is a re-release of Settlers 2, but the original game is the thing for me. I spent hundreds of hours on it as a kid. Guessing, since Steam wasn't around back then. iirc Settlers the entire series is on sale for like 10$ on ubisoft connect, if you can stomach it
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Please don't give Ubisoft any money. They'll just turn around and take your games away on a whim anyway. Regarding Settlers, this seems to be on the right track https://store.steampowered.com/app/2155180/Pioneers_of_Pagonia/
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:okay but what makes that rice cooker particularly good, because i’m in the market for a new one and everything i’m googling sounds unimpressive So an old school rice cooker typically operates on a binary for cooking and uses a pid controller for temperature. You put in the water and turn it on; when the weight of the bowl stops changing it shuts off the heating element. The pid controller will shut the heating element on and off to maintain the boiling point without scorching the rice. Fuzzy logic allows the cooker to consider more conditions in its operation by assigning weights to its evaluations of states so it can consider multiple aspects at the same time in the way a human would. For example, it’s hot today and the rice is being steamed but the temperature is increasing too quickly so the set point of the heating element needs to be reduced a little. One way this is really noticeable is in how it handles water. In a simple rice cooker if you put in too much water your rice will come out mushy. But when you wash your rice (you should wash your rice (if you eat rice often enough to warrant a rice cooker you should really wash your rice)) the amount of water retained can vary. Fuzzy logic can compensate for variations in water by monitoring the rate of cooking to ensure the rice cooks appropriately. This is most noticeable with the induction cookers, but any zojirushi is going to make much higher quality rice than a $20 pot from the local Asian market. My parents thought I was crazy for spending more than $50 on a rice cooker until they actually had rice at my place at which point they ordered an upgrade to wait for them at home so they could immediately toss the old one.
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Mustang posted:Manor Lords has made me want to jump into a city builder/colony sim again, but one that's a bit further along in development. recent Anno is good in principle, I disliked the switch of maps though. Kingdoms Reborn (EA), Settlement Survival and Timberborn are worth a look as well.
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haldolium posted:recent Anno is good in principle, I disliked the switch of maps though. Kingdoms Reborn (EA), Settlement Survival and Timberborn are worth a look as well. What do you mean by switch of maps?
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ultrafilter posted:Manor Lords put a lot of effort into being historically accurate. Here's a thread for those of you who still have Twitter: what happened to tweets being short?
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Jarvisi posted:what happened to tweets being short? 
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Tiramisu posted:So an old school rice cooker typically operates on a binary for cooking and uses a pid controller for temperature. You put in the water and turn it on; when the weight of the bowl stops changing it shuts off the heating element. The pid controller will shut the heating element on and off to maintain the boiling point without scorching the rice. Are those actually things you can't do with a classical control system or is it just a matter of it being much more complex/expensive?
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Phigs posted:What do you mean by switch of maps? prior Annos (1404) had all island types on one map. In 1800 you get 2 (at least? not sure if one of the addons added more) maps, old world and new world, separated in 2 different maps which you need to transport ressources in between and can only be actively in either one of them. It's not the worst but it can be a bit tedious both logistical as well as having to switch to see whats going on on the other map.
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