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John Murdoch posted:Also DS3 inherited Bloodborne's pathological need to have More Detail everywhere. Sure, many areas in DS2 are noticeably stark and that's not necessarily ideal, but places in 3 like the Undead Settlement give me a bit of a headache because there's just so many layers of gribblies and whatsits everywhere. Makes for nice looking screenshots (the pre-poison swamp swamp is particularly pretty, imo) but while playing it gets to be a bit visually exhausting. Is there a word or term for this actually? It can absolutely be a deal in modern detailed games where it's hard to visually parse the important part of level geometry cause of the clutter and amount of details.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:How is it different to DSP? DSP is a factory/automation game. Riftbreaker is more of an action/combat game with tower defense elements. There's no real logistics to worry about and instead you only need to focus on shoring up your defenses while maintaining a resource income and further increasing your research and power. You will shoot a *lot* of alien beasts. Combat is also incredibly lopsided, I've finished the game twice now and the weapon balance is completely rear end. Melee is pretty much unuseable outside of very early game.
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No Wave posted:Revita is a pretty great roguelite. I have my complaints (too many unlocks, not enough bosses) but it's very fun and feels good to play and there's enough random fun going on with the power up system that you just want to keep playing even after you lose. Why is it so unpopular? It feels like it does most things right. No marketing, pretty much none of the youtubers I followed that play tons of these games ever touched it or know it exists apparently.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Thoughts on co-op in Returnal? Do you generally want to solo for some period of time or something? Does it work well? Any disadvantages? Items/Health/Powerups are not shared. You can revive each other but that's about it.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Epic exclusives occupy a bizarre attention void that doesn’t seem like should exist in the internet age They made a deal with the devil and are punished accordingly for it.
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Jack Trades posted:Exoprimal would be a great game if they didn't insist that it had to be PvP(vE) for some reason. PVP & Live service even. That killed all excitement I had for the game. If it was a PvE with coop game like EDF it would be great.
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Terra Nil seems overpriced for the gimmick game it was in the demo. Is the full game any better?
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FishMcCool posted:Would anyone here volunteer to sell me on Subnautica? I'm almost 6h in and pondering just calling it a day and uninstalling, which feels a bit mad considering I love underwater settings. Now, I didn't expect this to be the chill experience of Endless Ocean 1&2, but I have been taken aback at how much a modern survival game first and foremost. Food/Drink drain is ridiculous enough, but oxygen takes the cake. I only have the second kind of oxygen tanks, and that gives me 130s of breathing, 100s more with a second tank which I can carry and switch to. And effectively less since under 100m it drains faster (well I have a helmet to help with that, but if I switch to it I take radiation damage...). So so far, it has never been about taking in the surroundings and enjoying the atmosphere, it's always been racing against the clock. The worst was the first explorable wreck I found, which ended up being a stupid rush and mouselook as fast as possible to locate interactables rather than the slow/ominous exploration I'd have expected. You are not supposed to go past 100 meters without a rebreather, which is an available blueprint to make from the very start. Check equipment and what it does. There are other gadgets as well you missed for sure. I however agree, that the food/water consumption in this game are ridiculous. I'd advise to start on the mode where only O2 is your limit.
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lordfrikk posted:I've tried both Subnautica and Below Zero with the survival meters but ended up turning them off because it's literally pointless in both games. Having to manage oxygen is plenty, and much more interesting than food/water. It doesn't help that it's just a chore that is solved with the first 5 minutes of playing (bladderfish = unlimited water, All other fish = unlimited food)
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Which of the swappable special powers do people like for Everspace 2? I purchased the corrosion one but it never seems to charge up enough so I haven't bothered upgrading it. I've been kinda stingy with upgrading those in general. The offense ones all suck imo. The armor restore is great as is the emergency thrusters.
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My only issue with Everspace 2 is that the ships are too expensive to try out new ship types. I only stick with gunships because I know how they work the best.
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I can't understand anyone who likes Stardew but doesn't like Rune Factory since it does everything pretty much better. Also Everspace 2, don't ever take any station repair job, I just had to hunt down 21 leaks and they don't even highlight the last few ones remaining, it's terrible.
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My Everspace 2 game came to a crashing halt when the story progress forced me into an Ancient Rift at Ceto. I tried to complete this 5 times now and the game just locks up eventually randomly. Sometimes in Wave 1, sometimes Wave 2, sometimes Wave 3. But I can never finish it. No crash, just locked up with no response and I have to manually exit the game process. Big bummer since I wanted to finish it this week.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Does it crash when things are exploding or is just kinda random? I was getting a crash during a story mission where lots of okkar would spawn in and I would just make them all explode at once with the flak gun and it would cause my game to freeze. I think running on dx11 might have been the solution though. I turned off dlss and switched to exclusive Fullscreen which seems to have fixed it. And it happened when enemies exploded indeed
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Jarvisi posted:Recently been obsessed with star valor for some reason. If you want a simple and fun space shooter that runs on a potato feel free to try it out It's a fun little game but the ships are such an asset store collection with very little thematic consistency.
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I finished Everspace 2. It's a good game overall but the devs really turned a 10 hour game into a 30-40 hour one. Also the hide & seek gimmicks for the maps to explore never really change much, so if thats something you hate doing it's not the game for you.
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haldolium posted:My understanding of how it is with Steam or other digital stores like GoG is that unavailability is either a) for legacy games that had to went through age verification process prior (f.e. Quake or Unreal series) or b) free decision of the publisher/dev. There are hundreds or thousands of easily 18+ games on Steam which simply do not have an USK rating but are available. Steam was specifically threatened to be sued over the availability of pornographic content without a proper age check.
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I said come in! posted:Does the story require a lot of side questing, and padded content before you can move onto the next main quest? Theres a jump in level every mission, the final is level 26 so you need to keep up with the gear/ship pretty much.
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I still don't know why people even compare Everspace 2 to freelancer, they are nothing alike. The controls are even more arcadey and there's no real free exploration. Every area is a box with tons of hidden stuff in it you have to look for, the major areas are unlocked tied to story progress. There's no real exploration other than scouring the levels for hide & seek lootboxes. The fighting is more Descent than any real dogfighting space game. There's no real economics or anything, just selling loot you find and dont use. It's very pretty, shallow/arcade game.
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This is a rather generic question but what is up with games in Unity making my cpu/gpu sweat regardless on how graphically complex they are? For example Warhammer 40k Mechanicus, Against the Storm or even a super simple game like Planet Crafter. Or really any Unity game really. My PC can easily take it (3080 TI, i7 9700K, 32gb ram) but these games all make my gpu/cpu fans go apeshit and produce intense heat even if their graphical quality isn't that great. Meanwhile games like RE4 Remake (RE Engine) or even Unreal Engine games only go this hard if they actually display the kind of graphics that demand my PC going all out. So what's up with Unity just going apeshit regardless of whats required? And yes, FPS limits / vsync don't help with this.
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It just annoys me a bit that my computer doesn't have to put up that much effort actually to play the graphically impressive games but causes my entire room to heat up when I play some little game in Unity engine. And I tried framerate limiting the games ingame, via Nvidia control panel etc. Nothing solves the problem really.
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What nudie games have you been playing instead?
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The 7th Guest posted:i'm not a fan of roguelites for the most part, but I could always try a demo if it has one. Neither am I but the game owns. The short runtimes between cities keep things fresh and every map is a new kind of challenge.
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The simulated details in Mr. Suns Hatbox is insane. I fultoned a cooking pot hat and by accident jumped into it and was evacuated out of the mission immediately, failing it. It's really pretty much Spelunky with less tight platforming but even more dumb physics interactions that can go wrong.
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I finished Mr. Suns Hatbox after 10 hours. I'd highly recommend the game, it doesn't overstay its welcome and the gameplay itself is super addicting. I don't know how the dev managed to combine Spelunky/Heat Signature with Peace Walker/MGS5 but somehow he did. Its fun to unleash your inner loot goblin by fultoning everything you can see and the absolutely wild physics shenanigans happening with all the weapons/hats/traps is insane. The balance is a bit off (there are a few guns you always want to use and some you never will, same with quirks etc.) but overall I had a great time. Give it a chance!
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I played roughly 40 hours of Roots of Pacha, a very competent farming/Lifesim game with a tribal setting that tries some new things. It features farming, fishing, foraging, animal taming and social stuff but no combat. Instead of money you gain Tribe contribution for putting stuff in the sharing box. Progress is mainly done by developing new ideas by talking to other clan members and giving them the resources necessary to develop said idea. Material progress is done by exploring more and more of a huge cave that has more advanced materials the further in you get. My summary overall would be: Positives: - Good character art, especially the portraits. The style and pixel art is also good overall. - Progress is initially very fun - Your house/farm is part of the village and not separate/lonely. - Animal taming and breeding system is interesting, you can eventually max out stats for the animals so they are faster/produce more/ etc. The animals also help out by giving resources such as fur and feathers or milk/eggs - Unlocking buildings/tools/etc. via ideas is a novel concept. - The tribe also progresses over time and builds new things in the town which is neat.. - There's a decent amount of festivals, some even with competitions you can participate in Negatives: -...until you realize these are all just visual things that have no impact on gameplay at all - Walk speed is far too slow. Animal riding is necessary, this is a grievance I have with Stardew Valley as well. - There is an accessory system for wearing up to 3 rings with buffs, however almost none of these have any real impact other than fish rarity and friendship buffs. - Farming is incredibly limited for 90% of the game. There also is zero help/automation other than eventually not having to restock your animal barns anymore. You unlock an irrigation system at some point but you need to manually turn it on every day. Before that you maybe can take care of roughly 20 tiles of farmland max or you will completely run out of stamina for watering. The worst sadly is once again, the social side. Any characters that aren't part of Romances have maybe one event happening total. While there is often dialogue about said character events after they happen, these are mostly jokes too. There are never more than 10 lines said in any event, with your own character completely silent like in Stardew. Other than that you always get simple canned responses. I noticed this when going to festivals, at least half of the characters will always say something akin to "Hoo boy I sure love festivals" and that's it. There also no group talks or anything. I don't know why all these life sims drop the ball so hard with the social stuff personally. I can only get that fix from Rune Factory.
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The main downside of fanatical and gmg is you can't refund the key activation.
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I wonder if I'm the only person who hates the idea of running a sushi restaurant and noped out of Dave the Diver even before playing it. Now that I read that it has tons of button mashing minigames it was the right decision anyways.
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Jack Trades posted:You know it's a good video game review when it starts with That site still exists? lmao.
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Jack Trades posted:Current Bottom 10 games on Steam. I'd have purged spacebase DF9 from my account personally.
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If it doesn't impact 90%, why bother with even trying to do something like this that will piss off everyone?
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Dackel posted:Not sure if there's a thread for it but My Time at Sandrock just put out an update about their 1.0 price increase 3 days from now. It will be $40 (or I assume ~40EUR) but it is currently available at fanatical for around $15 or 18EUR. Is it worth grabbing it? I ... am kind of ambivalent about My time at Portia. It wasn't terrible, but it didn't wow me either. Absolutely get it if you like the genre. It's a 100 hour game for a steal.
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err posted:How do Steam accounts get compromised? Is it mostly because someone clicked a link and entered their stuff? Could it be from compromised Steam integration in websites? How it happened to me: friend had his account hijacked. Asked me to vote on a site for his team. The site mimiced a steam guard login overlay. I didn't pay enough attention and entered the details. They got access to my account via web interface only so they didn't actually have my login credentials or access to the client itself, just the web version. But they immediately started to use this to send more invites via the chat Interface on the steam web site which I could not notice from the client side. Someone on the forums sent me a dm which caught my attention that something was wrong and indeed I had an active client session from Russia. I revoked everything and updated my passwords etc. and it's been quiet since then.
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Squiggle posted:FrickenMoron I love you but I want to username/post combo you so badly and I'm afraid it won't seem good-natured It's fine, I was a dumbass and got lucky that my account wasn't fully compromised. I still don't quite understand what the goal of this kind of phishing was, because they things you can do from the steam website are quite limited. I had no funds in my account or saved payment details and also no tf2/CSGO items of value to hand out to someone else.
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Do these sensors have the Monty Hall problem?
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verbal enema posted:Idk what that is but they want a CD Key to check against my account but I dont have any of my old discs anymore and I dont have any cdkeys in my gmail invoices It's a tool to keep your rear end from getting into this situation again.
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Trip report on Little goody two shoes It's pretty much german horror fairy tale combined with a 1990s anime style.It's the surprise horror game of the year for me personally. Its mega niche but it hit me right in the feels. Feels like someone decided to make a Playstation 2 RPG style horror game in 2023 and I'm all for it. Wild that it's published by Square Enix too. Also incredibly gay so the lesbian horror game enjoyers with a german setting keep winning.
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After playing 250h of against the storm I'd say there's almost no bad buildings and there's no such things as polluting the pool.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Just wait til they come across the Pals who want to gently caress you. And then you go to prison in the UK?
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