goferchan posted:

Finally checking out Shadows of Doubt and man, this feels extremely fresh. I'm not sure I've even found any crimes yet, just been climbing through air vents and reading people's emails and digging in their garbage, and being generally antisocial. Basically feels like a Rorschach from Watchmen simulator.

goferchan posted:

Finally checking out Shadows of Doubt and man, this feels extremely fresh. I'm not sure I've even found any crimes yet, just been climbing through air vents and reading people's emails and digging in their garbage, and being generally antisocial. Basically feels like a Rorschach from Watchmen simulator.

ImpAtom posted:

That looks fun as hell but it is also the exact kind of game I want to hit 1.0 before I play.

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Phoenix Point fan mod Terror from the Void 1.0 has been released!

Complete overhaul with new characters, story, events, redesigned classes, DLC reworks, better AI, UI changes and QOL improvements, bugfixes, and more.
We at Snapshot Games are honored that the PHOENIX RISING team has dedicated so much time and effort into customizing our game Phoenix Point. We believe that they have achieved an amazing re-imagining of our campaign, and we want the result of their hard work to be noticed and enjoyed by as many players as possible. Phoenix Point is also currently on sale to mark the release of the incredible mod - enjoy their great work! Now, let's give them some space to present their mod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4zXqvap21U


Mod Features
A complete reworking of the Phoenix Point campaign, with new characters, story, events and reports, and integrated and rationalised in-game lore, including a revamped Oneiric Delirium from the original release. Written by and for sci-fi horror fans!

Completely redesigned classes, focusing on sharply defined fighting roles and strong class identities, and on removing and rebalancing overpowered synergies from the vanilla classes.

Fight the nightmarish doubles and replicas of your deceased comrades! Revenants are special Pandoran combat forms invested with the mutilated consciousness of your fallen heroes – they will hunt you relentlessly over the course of your campaign!

Modular campaign settings, with both very easy and nightmarishly difficult settings, and more than 20 toggles that allow you to fine tune your playthrough to your liking.

Total rework of Legacy of the Ancients; redesigned missions, automata, and ancient weapons, with unique mechanics and reworked lore integration.
Total rework of Kaos Engines; massively expanded marketplace that will now sell you faction research, rebalanced Kaos weaponry, and mercenary soldiers with unique gear and abilities! Vehicles and modules have undergone an extensive redesign, with a focus on expanding and specialising their roles over the course of a campaign.

All other DLCs have been rebalanced or reintegrated

A series of UI changes and QOL improvements - loadable soldier loadouts, helmet visibility toggles, and more!

AI fixes, a stealth overhaul, over 50 vanilla bug fixes, and many, many more features. Terror from the Void is a true reimagining of the vanilla experience from the ground up, made by fans who love Phoenix Point.

Mod Vision
Phoenix Point was a visionary game from an acknowledged master in the genre. Terror from the Void takes that vision and runs with it, asking the question: what more could be done in terms of balancing and harmonizing the base game and the DLC content? How could the systems be adjusted with reference to experienced TBT players who value interesting tactical decision-making, while also making the game even more enjoyable for novice players? If the original horror setting was pushed into and explored more fully?

This is a total conversion, created by fans for fans, that seeks to realise the untapped potential in the original product, and elevate one of the hidden gems of the genre by polishing, streamlining, and, where necessary, re-imagining the original. The scope of the work cannot be overstated, and the points above are only a rough guide to the changes. Almost every system has been touched, chopped, and changed, with an insistence on maintaining the original feeling and identity of the product.

Terror from the Void has been built in the grand tradition of fan reworks in the TBT space. Our community response during the open beta has been overwhelmingly positive, and we are enormously proud of our product. We invite you to once again pick up your Ares AR-1, stare into the abyss, and embrace entropy and madness in Terror from the Void, available now on Steam Workshop, and on GitHub for the Epic Games Store and GOG editions.

Soul-rending truths and black, indifferent cosmic vistas await you… Director.

Links
Steam Workshop: Terror from the Void (TFTV) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2872311902&snr=2_groups_partnerevents_

GitHub: Terror from the Void mod for Phoenix Point https://github.com/Voland163/TFTV

Jack Trades posted:

The part where you go "I'm getting paid to break into this apartment and look through this guy's trash for information, so I might as well eat this half-eaten candy bar and take a shower." AND all of it actually having meaningful effects on the gameplay, is loving incredible.

Wolfsheim posted:

ok i don't know what i toggled or if this is a new update but why does my steam library on PC now list a million dedicated servers for games i've never played or even owned

claw game handjob posted:

If it is a toggle, make sure you don't have "Tools" checked from the dropdown above the library list, I think that's what those are usually under.

Wolfsheim posted:

this was it! thank you! I didn't want to live in a world where i have to see America's Army 3 in my library

Jack Trades posted:

It helps that the combat system is actually fairly well designed and not another horrible D&D derivative.

DeadFatDuckFat posted:

So... is Manor lords good? Was thinking I might just pick it up with the discount now, even if its not very complete, and just play it later

sebmojo posted:

rogue trader (at least when i played it, about 30 hours worth of the beta) turned into picking a feat every five minutes out of a list of literal dozens of complicated if-then use cases. It's maybe better than the pathfinder games but that's a very low bar. It was still fun but I don't think that's because of the system

Runa posted:

I'm a lot more forgiving of XCOM-style tactical combat over D&D-style, but Owlcat are absolutely huge complexity grognards and their custom system for Rogue Trader is much more fiddly than the tabletop system it was based on. They mostly moved on from Pathfinder because Paizo asked them to make a game in Pathfinder 2E, which is a marked improvement on 1E in a number of ways (implementing concepts from D&D 4E, even), and Owlcat balked because, well, they're Pathfinder 1E grogs.

Barreft posted:

Off the wall question, but I'm reinstalling nvidia drivers and you can make your own custom ai bot? Why the hell would anyone want that? I know AI is a scam I'm just really curious who needs to spend time training their own ai bot when they can just google and get a million results from bots.

It's a sex thing right? It's always a sex thing

Barreft posted:

Off the wall question, but I'm reinstalling nvidia drivers and you can make your own custom ai bot? Why the hell would anyone want that? I know AI is a scam I'm just really curious who needs to spend time training their own ai bot when they can just google and get a million results from bots.

It's a sex thing right? It's always a sex thing

sebmojo posted:

i think all these giant companies are scrabbling around throwing poo poo at the wall to find a way of making any kind of money out of AI, an AI toaster can't be far away

DeadFatDuckFat posted:

So... is Manor lords good? Was thinking I might just pick it up with the discount now, even if its not very complete, and just play it later

Pwnstar posted:

Even if AI worked perfectly like in the movies and had no ethical issues, my computer doing things I did not ask it to do is one of the main things I try to avoid computer-wise.

Barreft posted:

It's literally just an AI chatbot. It's not advertised as an AI bot. Both are dumb as hell but advertising a hardware accelerated chatbot... lol

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/solutions/conversational-ai/

so depressing, once the internet's fully closed the new generation (alpha? or we at beta now?) will only know this, smart on the owners i guess

e: yep sex thing lol

The Benefits of Conversational AI:

Agent Efficiency
Digital Accessibility
24/7 Availability
Engaging Experiences

sebmojo posted:

i think all these giant companies are scrabbling around throwing poo poo at the wall to find a way of making any kind of money out of AI, an AI toaster can't be far away

Barreft posted:

yeah.. i cant see any use case for custom ai bots, let alone hardware accelerated ones. technology sucks so bad now

e: steam deck oled for the fuckin win though

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

they're all hardware accelerated, you can't run an LLM without a gpu.

DeadFatDuckFat posted:

So... is Manor lords good? Was thinking I might just pick it up with the discount now, even if its not very complete, and just play it later

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

DeadFatDuckFat posted:

So... is Manor lords good? Was thinking I might just pick it up with the discount now, even if its not very complete, and just play it later

shrike82 posted:

japanese rice cookers have been sold with "fuzzy logic" (actually a thing and an ancestor of modern AI) as a bullet point for decades at this point

kazil posted:

New Humble Bundle is automation games:

The Colonists
Astro Colony
Cardboard Town
Mob Factory
Factory Town
Buggos
Recipe for Disaster

Haven't heard of any of these, are they any good?