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I really want to get back into stationeers but the 'friends' I tried playing with couldn't get past the simplest of tasks and quit after an hour or 2
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Blue On Blue posted:I really want to get back into stationeers but the 'friends' I tried playing with couldn't get past the simplest of tasks and quit after an hour or 2 Can confirm. I heard they couldn't get a door to work after 2 hours and then quit.
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Feb 29, 2024 22:53
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tater_salad posted:Can confirm. yeah you mentioned your friends had issues with that thank god my friends are smarter and can figure out how to open a door sigh.
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Feb 29, 2024 23:03
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I think my main problem was waste building too fast and slowly strangling on it.
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Feb 29, 2024 23:13
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yeah well I'm too dumb for stationeers, not defensive about it, and persistent so I'm pretty excited for them to build more game on top of the base systems that are so fun to tinker with
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Feb 29, 2024 23:22
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My favorite part of that game is the tension between how games work and how real life works. Like oxygen tanks are a thing in game that you equip and your bar goes up and oxygen tanks in real life are dangerous things that need to be handled according to strict protocols. So having this game where you equip oxygen tanks to make bars go up and also they are liable to turn into bombs if you handle them incorrectly can be fun. Anyway half my gas tank building is gone now.
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Feb 29, 2024 23:28
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Could be worse, could be a N2O tank. You know, it's way more efficient to weld with N2O. What's that, "auto ignition temperature"? Don't be silly, I don't drive a car.
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Feb 29, 2024 23:46
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n2o tanks? suddenly that door opening problem is starting to make some sense
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Feb 29, 2024 23:57
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I read a story yesterday about a guy who ran out of fuel gas, hadn't done any work on gas mixing stuff or built an arc welder but he came up with a mcguyver solution: sealed himself in his airlock, made it a vacuum, repurposed the vent to fill a canister, and dropped a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen ice on the floor. Unfortunately it wasn't warm enough to melt the ice so without thinking he pulled out a flare to heat things up.
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Mar 1, 2024 00:09
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30.5 Days posted:I read a story yesterday about a guy who ran out of fuel gas, hadn't done any work on gas mixing stuff or built an arc welder but he came up with a mcguyver solution: sealed himself in his airlock, made it a vacuum, repurposed the vent to fill a canister, and dropped a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen ice on the floor. Unfortunately it wasn't warm enough to melt the ice so without thinking he pulled out a flare to heat things up. Problem solved!
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Mar 1, 2024 00:22
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My favorite complex coop hell is Barotrauma where everyone is desperately scrounging for welding fuel and hosing down opiates as the sub is flooding and the player who picked engineer is just like "I made the light in the hallway green"
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Or when you have psychosis and see fire and everyone wants to know why the gently caress you're using the extinguisher up.
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So previously in this thread I mentioned Flight of Nova: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069190/Flight_Of_Nova/ which is a game that involves shuttling cargo between ground stations and orbital stations around a completely simulated planet in tiny (relatively) shuttles and trying not to explode. Turns out it's absolutely rad. The current game offers a bunch of fixed scenarios to blow yourself up with but also an endless "Rogue" mode. While it lacks any real sense of progression (no money or such to speak of) it does have a rank that goes up and slowly gives you longer/more complex missions. I've seen it described as ETS2xKSP and I can sort of see the comparison. It's really tickling a space trucking/LEO logistics itch I need to scratch constantly and is filling my head with terrible ideas of starting a passion project of my own that's something more like Mudrunner crossed with KSP. It's really good. The demo is great and gives you a pretty good taste of what to expect but the full game has lots more things now. 2 different ships you can find in the world to swap to that have totally different handling characteristics and cargo configurations. It has indoor landing sites which are terrifying and great fun. One of the steam reviews describes it as the most boring game that they love and I would totally agree with that. It played great on deck too which is always a nice bonus. I have seen a lot of discussion around what controllers to use and I think it supports more intense flight sim setups well too. I recommend checking it out, honestly you'll know if its for you within the window given by steam.
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That sounds right up my alley, I will definitely check it out!
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LeFishy posted:One of the steam reviews describes it as the most boring game that they love and I would totally agree with that. This thread is always pushing the envelope of boring. It's like people challenging themselves to enjoy spicy foods, but the opposite.
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i bought mon bazou because i wanted a car restoration and driving simulator but mostly it’s turned into a maple syrup production simulator for me. i am a slave to the sizzurp, hungrily eyeing the many upgrades that will make syrup production even more lucrative. this game is the real deal
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Mar 9, 2024 20:47
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Weedle posted:i bought mon bazou because i wanted a car restoration and driving simulator but mostly it’s turned into a maple syrup production simulator for me. i am a slave to the sizzurp, hungrily eyeing the many upgrades that will make syrup production even more lucrative. this game is the real deal
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Mar 9, 2024 21:19
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How is Slaverian Trucker? Someone described it to me as "MSC meets STALKER", which sounds like my thing, but the art style looks so loving awful I'm really having trouble telling if it's intentional ugliness like Cruelty Squad, or a low-mid effort asset flip.
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Mar 18, 2024 00:45
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Nearly every review I'm seeing on this is either referencing what I assume to be a streamer or making jokes that would slay on 9gag ten years ago and I'm getting real crook vibes. Anyone actually tried it? https://store.steampowered.com/app/756800/Contraband_Police/
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Mar 23, 2024 13:17
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I remember watching a stream of it last year and it just looks like Papers Please but in janky 3D. I seem to remember something about the game also loving to dump ambushes on you when you're transporting prisoners to lock up and other weird things.
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I remember the demo playing OK if extremely “PlayWay” in vibes. The reviews have kept me from ever buying it though because it seems like it doubled down on “woah go shoot gun and drive car!” And that sounds like a poo poo part of the game.
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Mar 23, 2024 15:54
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have played it, its a fun game the papers please part while searching cars for contraband and checking documents is exactly that, but in first person. it's a solid time the driving / shooting parts are okish but they are spaced out enough so you don't have to really worry about them much
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Mar 23, 2024 16:03
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Blue On Blue posted:have played it, its a fun game Yup, agree, it's better than I was expecting. Especially since they added an endless mode in addition to the campaign. Anime Store Adventure posted:I remember the demo playing OK if extremely “PlayWay” in vibes. The reviews have kept me from ever buying it though because it seems like it doubled down on “woah go shoot gun and drive car!” And that sounds like a poo poo part of the game. I wouldn't say they doubled down on it. In particular, the endless mode lets you fast travel instead of driving and the combat sections are like optional ones you can go do for money. There is a little base defense combat section every so often, but I don't mind that since it gives a reason to keep upgrading your base and guards. StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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StarkRavingMad posted:Yup, agree, it's better than I was expecting. Especially since they added an endless mode in addition to the campaign. Maybe I read too much into some of those reviews, then. I'm half inclined to try it again.. I do think the 'PlayWay' vibe can work for something sort of rote like border inspection, I am just very sensitive to aspects like "appended lovely combat because games sell better if you can shoot someone" in my niche sims.
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Weedle posted:i bought mon bazou because i wanted a car restoration and driving simulator but mostly it’s turned into a maple syrup production simulator for me. i am a slave to the sizzurp, hungrily eyeing the many upgrades that will make syrup production even more lucrative. this game is the real deal update: i have been playing this game for 117 hours. i have fully automated my syrup production, built a secret underground weed-growing bunker, and completely torn down and rebuilt all of the customizable cars multiple times with the best possible parts. this dev has managed to dial in the precise level of complexity i want from a car mechanic sim/farming sim title and wrapped it all up into a supremely addictive stardew-esque cycle of daily tasks and a physics engine that no matter how long i play or how careful i am still has the potential to put me in a slapstick automotive disaster situation
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Weedle posted:update: i have been playing this game for 117 hours. i have fully automated my syrup production, built a secret underground weed-growing bunker, and completely torn down and rebuilt all of the customizable cars multiple times with the best possible parts. this dev has managed to dial in the precise level of complexity i want from a car mechanic sim/farming sim title and wrapped it all up into a supremely addictive stardew-esque cycle of daily tasks and a physics engine that no matter how long i play or how careful i am still has the potential to put me in a slapstick automotive disaster situation Mon Bazou is really good, yeah. I stopped playing when I had basically done everything there was to do at the time, and was just going through the motions with my syrup/weed production, but I put almost 100 hours into it and can see going back to it for a fresh run at some point. It's also a dangerous gateway into My Summer Car
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StarkRavingMad posted:It's also a dangerous gateway into My Summer Car lol yeah i decided to try mon bazou because my summer car looks interesting to me but i didn't know if i would vibe with how player-unfriendly it seems to be. but after playing this to death i'm back on the msc steam page going hmmm.... hmmmmmmmmm............
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This loving thread. I played Mon Bazou for 10 hours over the weekend because of you, Weedle. I redirected the MSC Steam page to 127.0.0.1 in hosts because the last time I waded into the water on a game in here I wound up with a $300 Run-8 spend. At least the worst I could do here is a $30 game, and it's not like this genre is large.
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I just cheat at MSC so I can focus on building the car. Then the car will be destroyed by a simple bump in the road, or just my not playing after its complete, and then I get to start it again. Just another day in samsara.
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Squiggle posted:This loving thread. I played Mon Bazou for 10 hours over the weekend because of you, Weedle. it really gets its hooks in huh. there's always more stuff to do tomorrow!
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Does Mon Bazou require you to do the syrup stuff? Looks like tons of fun but I just wanna do the car stuff in it.
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Kvlt! posted:Does Mon Bazou require you to do the syrup stuff? Looks like tons of fun but I just wanna do the car stuff in it.
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Keep talking to the guy at the gas station and eventually he'll let you into the junkyard where you can steal radios and sell them on the reg, it helps cut the syrup up a bit
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Kvlt! posted:Does Mon Bazou require you to do the syrup stuff? Looks like tons of fun but I just wanna do the car stuff in it. it’s not required but it is very lucrative. you can also make money through logging as well as growing and selling crops but logging doesn’t pay much and agriculture takes a long time to get going (plant your weed and taters asap after starting the game, don’t wait around like i did). you don’t have to constantly be doing syrup, your payouts are spread over six weekends so you can just drop off a few barrels’ worth every couple of days and maintain a healthy weekly income. you will be spending a lot of time planting and felling trees until you get hooked up to the power grid tho
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yeah the secret to enjoying MSC is to cheat JUST enough
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hailthefish posted:yeah the secret to enjoying MSC is to cheat JUST enough I enjoy doing the jobs... a few times, but not so much that I have to fund the repairs entirely that way, particularly after the septic tank nerf.
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hailthefish posted:yeah the secret to enjoying MSC is to cheat JUST enough I know the game pretty well at this point, but I still install a mod to show me whether the wrench I'm using is too big or too small, and something that lets me bring up a minimap if I need it. And I still look up a guide for the drat electrical wiring.
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I think my only hangup with MSC in its current form is that the very “end game” gets pretty grindy to get the cash for some of the high end upgrades. (But seconding that you should cheat just a little bit for big annoyances.)
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The main problem with the MSC end game is no one is on IRC anymore so you might as well get the NOS instead of the computer and go out in a blaze of glory.
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Is Railroaders any good? It looks right up my alley as someone who quite likes run8 and derail valley. Adding an actual game progression to the “play” of run8 sounds like it would tickle my fancy a whole lot. £25 isn’t a small outlay for me these days and feels like about the upper limit for an early access train game for me so I want to really know. All the positive reviews on steam really speak to me and people have like 100s of hours of playtime so I imagine it’s a safe bet but always good to get extra opinions.
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