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Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
Does anyone have an opinion on Wildermyth? It looks X-Com with weird abilities and "organic" character customization.

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Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
I'm in the mood for some mindless, grindy shooting fun. Warframe or Destiny 2?

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
Thanks for the opinions on Destiny and Warframe. I'll have a go at both and see what I like more, they seem pretty different.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Trickyblackjack posted:

But there is some guesswork right? I had to rely on the book's confirmation for a few cases, like to distinguish the 4 Chinese topmen or 2 russian seamen . I just plugged in one name after another until the book told me I got it right. Did I cheat?

Yes. (I did the same)

IIRC, the clues you’re missing are shoes and a pipe, respectively.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

The Joe Man posted:

If you dislike the mechanic, wouldn't it make sense to install a mod that removes oils entirely instead of permanently giving yourself a +50% damage cheat?

You're cheating yourself 10 seconds of life each time you'd use an oil. The extra damage is already in the game and you still have to meet the requirements to craft the oil.

Also, single player game, do what you want, etc...

Fat Samurai fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Feb 3, 2020

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
Navigating the UI is exactly the same as doing quests, and certainly the part of the Witcher everyone enjoyed, correct.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

sebmojo posted:

meticulous preparation is a part of the witcher that people enjoy

Then they can ignore the mod and enjoy the game the way they want and I'll certainly won't blame them for it.

Fat Samurai posted:

Also, single player game, do what you want, etc...

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
Speaking of oils, I have a Cook, Serve, Delicious question: You can't set your keybindings on a "per recipe" basis, right? For example, you can't make the Left key dump deep fried foods into a plate, because it's also the key to chop some fish head off.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

StrixNebulosa posted:

CSD1: I don't remember
CSD2: I believe you could rebind things by recipe.
CSD3: uhh... it looks like you can't, though it seems to indicate that you can? I suspect that this is something missing from the game and will be added in the future.

e: asking in the discord now hang on

"oh, this is CSD3? you go into practice for a food and then when you have the ingredients up, you can press F1 and click to rebind keys"

I meant in CSD 1. Yeah, I probably should have worded that better. Thanks for the answer.

Steam Forums say that you can only use letters to rebind, which is annoying. Oh, well, I bought the bundle just to make my way to 3, and I'm 5 hours in 1 and still having fun with it.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Kennel posted:

Help, I'm getting judged by a child after buying a porn mag for another kid.



The horrible stealth section was worth for the "sophisticated kid" joke.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Kennel posted:

This is actually Kiwami, so there's no stealth in this subquest and Kiryu just decides that it's a suitable birthday present for a boy he has never met.

Kiryu is the best dork.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

The Joe Man posted:

G2->G1->R1->Elex

It's enjoyable and scratches some of the same itches (varied quest outcomes, factions/armor, exploring where you shouldn't), but it can be pretty copy/paste and uninspired at times.

I have a soft spot for Elex because after a while I went to the first faction leader you find, asked to join and he enumerated all the quests I had done until that point, how many times I had helped/hindered them and went "gently caress you, you're an rear end in a top hat, go away."

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
Does anyone have problems with XBox controllers in Witcher 3? Tutorials not going away, weird mappings that make no sense, buttons just not working...

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
My (admittedly hazy) memory of Dungeon Siege is that it is a single linear path going from the farm you start with to the big bad lair, and that the party fights on its own and levels up on its own. The game basically plays itself.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:

Is the Gloomhaven PC game any good? It's on sale at Humble.

The boardgame is very, very good if you like tactical, thinky RPGs. I'm pretty sure the campaign (i.e. the meat of the game) isn't in yet, so you can only play random maps.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
I’m interested in Abandon Ship and I think the Fanatical bundle is the cheapest has ever been. What are some good games in that bundle? I’m not into racing and have Life is Strange already, so I’m looking at Lords of the Fallen, Omerta, and the new Outcast. Any suggestions?

Edit: Styx, maybe?

Fat Samurai fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Mar 27, 2020

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Fifteen of Many posted:

Opus ?agnum
BCW5Y-E?EYL-54JLN

Grabbed this one. Thanks!

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
The mission in Sleeping Dogs where the triads say that they can discover undercover cops because they can't kill people was fun. You actually DON'T kill the bad guy (for once) in that one.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
After all the chat in here I'm tempted by Troubleshooter.

One thing I'm not clear about it's whether you have a set number of missions (or something like XCOM where you have a counter that you can influence and progressively harder missions) or something with infinite sidemissions and grinding maps with a few hardcoded story missions, a la Battletech or Disgaea.

I'm not interested in very complex game that requires experimentation but where your options to power up are limited.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

Is there any way to turn off the creepy-rear end art in The Void Rains Upon Her Heart? I want to play it, but it's the first game I've ever felt the need to pre-warn my wife about so that she doesn't think I'm a pedophile.

There is a censorship option for the naughty bits but that's it, I think.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

I'm happy to see the cool birb.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Xaris posted:

The XGP app is certainly barebones and pretty terrible for anything of the sort, but it does install games and load it for the most part. If you can use Epic, you can use XGP. Both are equivalently terribly with same barebonesness, none worse than the other, but both bad.

I tried Ori (controller kept connecting and disconnecting, didn't register inputs properly and for some reason X+LT swapped between full and windowed mode), Frostpunk (in game cursor didn't work, only the Windows one, deleted my saves or didn't save properly), Metro (horrible slowdowns) and State of Decay 2 (which worked pretty well), so sometimes the app does makes the games unplayable. On the other hand I think I'm the only person who has complained on the forums of these kind of problems, so GamePass is probably still a good bet.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Anno 1800: 27$ for regular, 55$ for complete. What's the difference, and is it worth it?

Are we talking Epic? Check whether it's cheaper to chain together Season Passes, BTW. You get a new 10$ discount for each purchase. So Base+Season 1+Season 2

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

StrixNebulosa posted:

uplay! Epic soured me forever with their surprise exclusives and I will never install the client.

Also I think the 20% off coupon that uplay is offering stacks with the sale discounts so those prices can go lower

Hmn, didn't know, may check it. I've been going back and forth on it. Thanks!

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

GrandpaPants posted:

Like Motivation, I can see as a sort of system to discourage players from just using their favorite characters, but then you can just, like, wait in real time for Motivation to replenish? Like it's a mobile game or something?

Or just buy a glass of water for a completely irrelevant amount of money from the nearby bar and replenish it. No waiting required.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

The time limit really works for shipbreakers but I understand that for whatever reason time limits really fry people’s brains a lot of the time. I would suggest checking it out even if you’re not sure about stuff with time limits. You don’t have to 100 percent every ship! If you can pull that off it’s one of those things that’s satisfying because of the challenge from the time limit, IMO.

The time limit thing looks like something modders will remove in a week, to be honest. Three of the current top threads on Steam forums are complaining about this.

Also, going from "I did a great job this time" to "gently caress, after rent, refills, repairs and interest I barely made anything" is capitalism in a nutshell and is a great punch in the gut. I think the time limit is more about increasing costs and forcing you to cut corners and mess up more than anything else. There probably is a better system to do so, but I can't think of one.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Ciaphas posted:

Maybe if instead of a timer (or in addition to one for speedy bonus pay instead), maybe grappler/cutter fuel could be more limited or more costly to resupply mid-mission?
I feel that forcing more resupply trips is going to be as annoying as the time limit itself. Increasing tool/hab renting costs the longer you're in the field?

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Infinity Gaia posted:

I think I'm too old and slow for Cook Serve Delicious. I bought 3 on glowing recommendations from this thread and I can see how it's good, but as soon as I upgraded to having to try and use difficulty 2 dishes I just couldn't hack it anymore. My brain is too slow to process it or something.

Something that helped me a lot in CSD 1 was to change the keybinds so their position mattered more than the actual letters. For example, to prepare a fish you have to clean it's head (left arrow), body (down arrow), and tail (right arrow), but then the seasoning is on L(emon) and S(alt). You can change that to JKL UI, so you only need one hand and everything is close. Same with Lasagna. I have no idea what I'm putting in there, but one recipe for me is ASDF ASDF ASDF and another one is ASJDF ASJDF. K ended up being everything with a downward motion (pouring coffee, dunking fries into the fryer, tenderising meat with a hammer, etc...)

I assume you can do something similar in 3.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
News are a bummer.

I have been going through my backlock through the pandemic and, for the first time in yeas? months? I have finished a game. Chimera Squad was a very good buy for 10€ or whatever the launch price was, watered down as it was. I enjoyed the Saturday Morning cartoons style of dialogue, the new setting and the interwoven turns. Unlimited reinforcements, aliens as humans in an alien suit, not so much. The last 20% was pretty samey, too. All in all, a solid 7.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
The only thing I'm interested on this sale is CSD 3 and Amazing Cultivation Simulator. Am I finally old?

The other thing I'd like would be a game where as you become more powerful the variety of things you can do increases. I'm talking about things like The Guild or X3 with a shittons of mods where you build your own AI Merchant ship and factories that produce capital ships for you to add o your fleet. Just making more damage or painting the map faster doesn't cut it. Any suggestions?

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
Between Void Destroyers 2, X4: Foundation and say, Starsector, what is the best game if I want to start with a puny ship and end up with some kind of space 4x?

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
First 30 minutes of CSD 3 are as stressful as 6 hour mark CSD. Either the first game ramp up is slooooooow or I’ve become way clumsier in 6 months.

Either way, I’m afraid of CSD 3 end game now.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
Something I've just discovered: If anyone got Griftlands on Epic, Klei will give you a Steam Key. I think that's a first? Here's how to do it.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

ATOM RPG is better mechanically but the game has a huge problem with trash mobs (some areas have 30 or so rat enemies, which you have to kill one by one in a slow turn-based system), and also the devs suck pretty bad and you shouldn't support them financially.

That's just a homage to the starting cave of Fallout 1. You're obviously not knowledgeable about classic RPGs.

(I have never played ATOM and the starting cave of Fallout 1 sucks big time)

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
How is the learning curve is the new Football Manager? I tried to get into earlier instances and got overwhelmed, and I don't want to bounce off again. I'm afraid that it's a game tat takes time to "click", and I'm afraid that 2 hours isn't enough to grok it.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
What's the difference between Dark Soul 1: Prepare to DIE and the Remaster? I've got the stupid idea of playing the games in order (I've got 15 hours on 1, and completed 3), but paying 20 dollars for the slightly upgraded version is probably not worth it.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Cardiovorax posted:

It looks prettier and it has tweaked multiplayer matchmaking that takes soul level and weapon power into account in the way later games in the series do. You wouldn't go wrong playing the Remaster if you want the active multiplayer experience, but otherwise it makes very little difference.

Well, there are 4 times as many people playing remastered right now, and I want to do a bit of it, so remastered it is. Thanks.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Sininu posted:

Ask for games, more than one is fine. Give me your Steam profile if you don't have PM's.

Puss!
The Spiral Scouts
Fluffy Horde
Hacknet
Chasm
Tower of Guns
Think of the Children
Rising Dusk
Quest of Dungeons
Primal Carnage: Extinction
Paper Fire Rookie
Masquerade: The Baubles of Doom
Boundless

Desert Child
Horizon Chase Turbo
X-Morph: Defense
Aegis Defenders
Ancestors Legacy
Dead In Vinland
Dark Future: Blood Red States
Street Fighter V

I’ve been curious about Dead in Vinland for a while.

Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.

Sininu posted:

Sure, I'll give you both, you don't have PM's tho...
Add me so I can send them in chat https://steamcommunity.com/id/Sininini/

Thanks for Dead in Vinland!

Checking the options it seems that the game has either pure RNG or forced "average" luck for its rolls. That's nice.

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Fat Samurai
Feb 16, 2011

To go quickly is foolish. To go slowly is prudent. Not to go; that is wisdom.
Any games like Tale of Wuxia? Mostly I like the setting, but the wimp to overpowered badass is pretty integral to the setting as well, so I’m not as interested in the pre-sequel. Same for Amazing Cultivator Simulator

Decent translation a plus, but I understand that will be difficult.

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