other-games

[bright knot]

I am whatever I want to be

[sleek cloud]

vrchat

[bright knot]

I was a lizard at one point

[glass plinth]

Oh dumdum chat as I call it

Ok

[bright knot]

Real sized lizard

[sleek cloud]

basically, jahnri 😄

[raven frost]

or that one time I went to court and got sentenced to life in prison because I went to bumblebee's instead of applebees

[daring spear]

I would probably play it if I had vr

[glass plinth]

I never much had a desire to hang out in those venues, to much derp for me to process

[coarse swift]

I would probably play it if I was 10 years younger

And single

[sleek cloud]

it can be fun if you find the right people

[coarse swift]

But I'm nowhere near as social as I was then

[bright knot]

VR is a great way to stay social

[daring spear]

I just have a childish sense of humor

[sleek cloud]

and there's always that awkward one stood in a corner watching everyoe

[bright knot]

Same, cause I am a child

[raven frost]

look my mental age is like 7 years younger than my actual age so it works

[bright knot]

My mental age is 13 years younger than my actual age

[daring spear]

I have no idea what my mental age is

[raven frost]

binch

[bright knot]

That was my skin!!

THat was the lizard!

Except yellow

[sleek cloud]

hah

less than a foot tall?

[bright knot]

I tried favoriting it, but my favorites keep deleting themselves

tiny

[raven frost]

that fucker got convicted to life in jail

[sleek cloud]

looking up girls skirts was he ?

[raven frost]

no

[raven frost]

^

[sleek cloud]

ah

[glass plinth]

As far as chats are concerned, I always enjoyed Warframe

Met some wonderful people in random missions

Hrmm, everquest 2 as well, swtor

[coarse swift]

I only stick to council chat in Warframe

Region Prime

[sleek cloud]

had some good chats on eve online

[glass plinth]

Eh, I have so many friends there from trade, if I go online, Im swarmed

I love it though

[sleek cloud]

and cs back in the day

[raven frost]

I just like the scaling thing vrchat does with smaller avatars, it's fun to be small when you have a headset on

makes everything feel giant

[sleek cloud]

i might have to give vrchat another try when i'm off, been a while since i played it last

and complete half life alyx

[dry copper]

I am the very model of a modern Major-General

[daring spear]

Subnautica time

Well. Time to load it
I have 60 hours into this profile so with One S load times I'll eventually be able to play

[dry copper]

Subnautica 1 or 2?

[daring spear]

1

2 isnt on console yet

[winter yew]

fishies

[bright knot]

2 is still very much in beta

[daring spear]

Yeah

[bright knot]

I bought it on release day

Oh they're increasing the price for the game

for both of them

to $29.99

[daring spear]

Okay

[dry copper]

I hope console doesn't take 2 until the story is at least done.

That whole release before the story is done in a game thats only redeeming quality is the story...

fking remind me of the long dark all over

PTSD 2.0

[daring spear]

They aren't releasing it on console until it's finished so

Console won't "take it" early

Game finally loads and the damn Xbox won't work ahah

There we go. Oh yeah the warped camping outside my base. That was why I didnt do much lol

Got stuck in a lagged wreck lol

[wide kestrel]

Subnautica moment

[daring spear]

R.I.P. Seamoth 3

The Cyclops is ominous if you forget where you parked it and see it from a distance

[dry copper]

Is there a subnautica mode that doesn't include murdery things?

Just underwater chill

[winter yew]

Hahaha

[daring spear]

Creative

[winter yew]

I forgot about creative modes. I always ignore them unless Arc wants to utilize them.

So the giant sea serpent won't attack me in creative?

[daring spear]

Nope

Apparently that was only my second seamoth

[winter yew]

Are you able to do the story in creative?

[daring spear]

As far as I know, yeah

[winter yew]

Hmm. Now I have options. Be terrified in normal gameplay. Or be a little baby and be comfortable in creative. My stubbornness will probably place me in normal, my anxiety underwater might change that.

[daring spear]

I'm seeing if I can salvage the depth module from my stuck 'moth

[winter yew]

Also getting stuck in a lagged wreck is terrifying. The one other thing that freaks me out when gaming is clipping issues or when structures and areas don't generate.

[daring spear]

Well this was spooky

[coarse swift]

94

[daring spear]

I almost got stuck again but I was just outside the wreck hah

[winter yew]

Pretty scary number.

[daring spear]

Floating boxes

[winter yew]

Spoopy box

Does the game typically behave this way? Structures not spawning?

I've watched playthroughs but never saw anyone encounter that problem, but I was also watching tubers that own super high end PCs

[wide kestrel]

I think it’s a drive speed thing

I don’t have that issue when I’m on a SSD

[winter yew]

I'll probably being playing on console

[daring spear]

I cant get to the old seamoth at all

[winter yew]

seamoth

[silver sparrow]

Rip tiny moth

[wide kestrel]

real legends use air pipes

[daring spear]

My 900m depth module

[silver sparrow]

Real legends ride reapers

[wide kestrel]

air pipes are the only way 😤

no depth limit on those suckers B)

[silver sparrow]

Giant sea bong

[daring spear]

But can you outswim a Reaper
Cuz I can

It wasn't fun to find out though

[wide kestrel]

that was a low blow tbh

[daring spear]

All you need is ultra glide fins
So... The modification station

[winter yew]

I'm gonna remember this.

I want to be prepared.

[dry copper]

I love these old school music videos. We need some ingenuity in artistic expression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q

[daring spear]

It's an experience to do it
Not necessarily a nice one

Playing in this file ruins my caution for other files lmao

Fast swimming, 225 seconds of air...

[coarse swift]

Ah yes

Classic music vids

To what you call artistic expression, I raise you this: https://youtu.be/mfI1S0PKJR8

[dry copper]

Valhalla shitting the bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nx8c4ARjK4

[keen dome]

Did the game flop?

[dry copper]

Come this tuesday they'll have more armor sets for sale in the item shop than you can get naturally in the game

[keen dome]

wat

that is stupid

[dry copper]

I was considering Valhalla as my next purchase, but this news really is disheartening

[coarse swift]

Man does that sound familiar

A game where there's more cosmetics in the MTX store than obtainable in game

[keen dome]

mtx?

[coarse swift]

At least, I hope they're purely cosmetic for AC

mtx = microtransaction

[dry copper]

microtransaction

[keen dome]

ah

[sleek cloud]

i've been enjoying Valhalla personally but i feel the series has strayed too far away from being an 'Assassin'

[dry copper]

Costumin Creed

[austere lance]

Valhalla is damn good, besides the godawful sound quality

It barely runs on my sad old One S tho, so I'm waiting to finish it til I get a Series X

[sleek cloud]

ye did noticed the sound being all over the place

[cinder vessel]

I think it was here that someone pointed out apparently the last few AC games have had weird audio mixing issues?

[sleek cloud]

ye exactly that

[dry copper]

haha, cyberpunk the puzzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaEo_NuH1_M

Note the font on the word "puzzle"

[daring spear]

@winter yew Creative says the story is disabled. I apologize for misinformation

[winter yew]

Its all good. It just means I'll need to toughen up

[balmy plaza]

Apparently ubisoft compresses the audio to shit because of the space it'd take up otherwise

[austere lance]

Morons

Idk why they do that with AC games, they don't with Far Cry

[cinder vessel]

far cry is extra thicc and deluxe

[sleek cloud]

they are good except 5

[austere lance]

Far Cry sound slaps, it's dumb that they compress AC audio

[dry copper]

Death Stranding is at the top of my consider for purchase list atm

[sleek cloud]

i purchased Black Mesa during the Steam sales

and Snowrunner

[austere lance]

5's sound is fucking weird and tries to auto-control itself so everything sounds even. It doesn't even have standard sound settings like Stereo, Headphones, 5.1, etc

[sleek cloud]

ye i didn't like Farcry 5 much, couldn't even be arsed to finish it

[austere lance]

Understandable, I chose the worst area to go to first and it's boring af

[sleek cloud]

i liked having the companions that was about it

[austere lance]

It has the same "story progression" as Rage 2: Go to area, fill the story bar for that area by doing glorified side missions story missions.

I haven't beaten an area yet so idk what happens when I fill the progression bar

[sleek cloud]

get kidnapped and do it all again

[austere lance]

Honestly I'd like it for the gameplay if the fucking skill tree system wasn't actual garbage. Whoever designed the "do challenges to get perk points for your skill trees" needs fired.

Like, just let me level up like in the old games

Ffs

[dry copper]

The only redeeming quality of Far Cry 5 was the driving

I really enjoyed just driving around

[sleek cloud]

for me it was just far to repetitive

[dry copper]

Chilling

I like first person driving tho

Its mah jam

[austere lance]

FC 4 and 3 are my favorites, 5 is ass in comparison

[dry copper]

It's why the driving in CP pisses me off so much

Controls are shit. Camera angles are shit...

It's just shit in a shitty raincoat being rained on with shit

[sleek cloud]

3 was probably my favourite too and it looks like 6 will tie into the 3's story

[cinder vessel]

vehicle handling is a weird tough problem for some reason, lol

[austere lance]

I just wanted 4 to have the option to join Pagan Min and play through the campaign with him 😔

[dry copper]

Yeah the only option you get to join Pagan, you have 3 mins of game with and none of it play

[austere lance]

Cuz god damn both rebel leaders were impressive pieces of shit that I wanted to kill

[sleek cloud]

would be to cool to see the first FC get the remastered treatment

[austere lance]

Pagan is by far the only sane option to join in that game

[dry copper]

That jungle to desert scenario was awesome

The first time I played Far Cry, I was blown away

First person driving in a jungle

[austere lance]

I only played Instincts, lol. It's somehow a different version of the first game

[dry copper]

Is that new crysis game a remake or a new story?

[austere lance]

I liked being a mutant

[sleek cloud]

Farcry was like Crysis for benchmarking and testing out your new rig

[austere lance]

@dry copper Remake. Very very VERY bad remake

[dry copper]

I get the distinct impression that you did not enjoy it.

[sleek cloud]

i believe Farcry was one of the first games to introduce HDR lighting as well as 64 bit support

[austere lance]

Well, remaster. Whatever. It's fancy graphics slapped on an old game. But not even the good version of the old game, they fuckin remastered the XBOX 360 VERSION!

Like, imagine actually having the big-brain idea to remaster Xbox 360 Crysis instead of PC Crysis

[sleek cloud]

imagine if graphics continued to evolve from Crysis and not be limited by consoles

[austere lance]

Uh, they're not really limited anymore

[dry copper]

Imagine if game companies spent less time on making more graphics and more time on making current graphics technology look and work better

There's no fucking excuse for making Cyberpunk dx12

[cinder vessel]

or imagine if they just made more interesting interactions

[dry copper]

dx12 has always been a shit show

[austere lance]

I'd rather have actual good art-styles instead of 4K bullshit and realistic textures

[cinder vessel]

strong art direction, deep interactions, 😍

I think that's why I appreciate Dishonored so much

[sleek cloud]

ye Dishonored is an amazing game

[dry copper]

You could make a cyberpunk game with Zelda graphics and it would be amazing.

and work better

[cinder vessel]

Tbh the Dishonored games are a near perfect marriage of what you can do well with graphics tech, art direction, writing, and gameplay

[austere lance]

I don't give a flying fuck if I can count pores in Call of Duty 37 or whatever they're on now, I'll take a good art-style over that any day

[dry copper]

Probably look better

[austere lance]

Arkane making CP2077 woulda been lit, lol

[cinder vessel]

'cause Dishonored games aren't a graphical slouch, in any respect, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that with the art style employed

[sleek cloud]

rockstar just need to come out with a cyberpunk style GTA game now

[dry copper]

There is of course that fantasy single player rogue RPG anime game that's free...that I can't remember the name of...looks beautiful, but is aimless with a lame story and beeeeeeautiful music

[cinder vessel]

Arkane made Prey so we're pretty good on that front 😏

[austere lance]

If Arkane made Cyberpunk it woulda had actually good stealth

[cinder vessel]

rockstar is garbo

[dry copper]

Imagine Prey open world 😛

[austere lance]

Did you finish Prey 2017 👀

[cinder vessel]

Rockstar wants to make movie games more than games

[austere lance]

Cuz uh, if there's a sequel it's gonna ||be on Earth||

[austere lance]

No that's Kojima 🤣

[cinder vessel]

It's also Rockstar

and Quantic Dream

[dry copper]

Im trying to think of a game I saw of a rooftop chase scene during an E3....It was futuristic. You could teleport and use magic and shit....I thought it was supposed to be the new Prey game

[cinder vessel]

At least in Kojima's case it's relatively easy to skip clunky dialogue repeated ad infinitum. In Rockstar's case it's lengthy animations that you have to deal with a fuckton of times

[austere lance]

I feel like in his head Kojima makes movies then adds the game stuff afterwards, lol

[cinder vessel]

Nah

[dry copper]

Oh

It was cancelled :((((

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZh6vTxRDnw

[cinder vessel]

There's a weird level of gameplay detail that I suspect Kojima has a hand in

Horses shitting to mess with patrols, using your waste byproducts in Death Stranding to mix special ammo to fend off BTs

[dry copper]

I'm sad now. Prey 2 cancelled

[cinder vessel]

To be fair it led to Prey 2017 which is good

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/jfHCZAK7p-s

I remember seeing that the day it came out 😭

Then a while later it got canceled and I wanted to die

[cinder vessel]

man, cinematic trailers, what a weird thing

[silver sparrow]

I didn’t know a prey sequel was planned

What is a cinema

Regards, 2021

[austere lance]

My friends and I were so hyped for that after E3, then it got canceled after being mostly finished because Bethesda was having some kind of internal shit-fest

I guarantee you it's sitting on a hard drive somewhere

[sleek cloud]

i really hope they don't fuck up ES6

[silver sparrow]

Younger papyruses

[cinder vessel]

eh

[austere lance]

Why would you be worried, it totally hasn't been a fucking decade since they last made a good game

[cinder vessel]

Elder Scrolls would be better off spun off by fans

Not a singular work but a series of works by fans set in that world

Sorta like Star Wars' main series is inconsistent and whatever, but a lot of the spinoffs are more interesting

[dry copper]

I have no hope for Elder Scrolls 6, after hearing they're using the same engine

I hate that engine

[sleek cloud]

speaking of Elder Scrolls, gotta check out that Skyblivion which looks phenomenal

[dry copper]

but then I had alot of hope for CP77 on a new redengine and that turned to shit

So....Who knows

[austere lance]

God I hope CDPR doesn't fuck up the next gen update for Witcher 3. They're redoing everything so it'll have better graphics and whatnot, including ray-tracing

[sleek cloud]

ye been thinking of doing a 2nd playthrough of TW3

[austere lance]

I'm gonna do another if the upgrade ain't shit

I've only put like 300 hours into it, nothing fancy

[sleek cloud]

i still haven't played the dlcs for it

[austere lance]

WHAT

YOU'VE ONLY PLAYED THE SHIT MAIN STORY

Bruh you're doing yourself a disservice, the main story is by far the worst. The DLC's are godly

[dry copper]

The DLC doubles the game length and improves on it ten fold

[austere lance]

Right???

[coarse swift]

TW huh? Yea I'm a fan of Telder Wscrolls myself

[dry copper]

I'd argue the DLC for TW3 is better than the games main story

It has intrigue, it has naked people in lakes and it has unicorns

[austere lance]

The DLC's for Witcher making the game 3x better is the only reason Cyberpunk players should have a tiny bit of hope for the game getting redeemed. If they can pull that off again it might actually be worth playing

[raven frost]

ngl I'm kinda afraid that people are gonna be all like "well NMS failed at launch then got better" like please don't compare cyberpunk to nms

[dry copper]

I don;t think CDPR are nearly as hungry as HG were

HG had a fuckload more to lose for NMS

[sleek cloud]

i know, i will definitely play them at some point

like how i haven't finished HL: Alyx yet

[austere lance]

I'm happy I got the Complete Edition for $15, lol

[dry copper]

i'm saving my experience with Alyx for when I one day get an index

[austere lance]

I knew literally nothing about Witcher besides that it was supposedly good, so I got 3 Complete Edition on sale for $15 a couple years ago and was quite happy with the result 😆

[sleek cloud]

only thing i wish they added with HLA was being able to melee, use random objects as a weapon like what Boneworks does

[dry copper]

You can use random objects as weapons. You just can't succeed at it

[keen dome]

Yeah the witcher 3 is pretty fun

[sleek cloud]

i was lucky enough to get TW3 about half price of gog not long after it was released

[cinder vessel]

but HG had a massive success beforehand that ensured they should have definitely made another masterpie-

wait

[raven frost]

that's kind of what I'm saying, CDPR had no excuse

[cinder vessel]

for sure, i'm just bein' silly

[raven frost]

of course, neither did HG really but CDPR had absolutely no excuse

[austere lance]

People seem to forget that out of the 4 games they made before Cyberpunk only one of them turned out good, and only after a broken launch

......I guess Thronebreaker technically released ok, it's just boring af

[cinder vessel]

was that a gwent thing?

[dry copper]

Decided to get back into watching The Witcher show

[austere lance]

It's their brilliant Witcher spin-off where battles in the story are fought through Gwent 🤣 @cinder vessel

[dry copper]

It's not half bad once you get over superman playing as the witcher

[cinder vessel]

i can't not just see cavill in a bad wig so i can't watch the witcher show, lmao

[sleek cloud]

did you know there's also a Witcher series from about 2002

[austere lance]

To be fair, his wig is a lot better than it originally was during the film tests 😆

[cinder vessel]

did not know that Stef, live action as well?

[austere lance]

We don't talk about the funky foreign Witcher show, lol

[sleek cloud]

yes

haven't seen it myself, a Polish friend told me about it

[austere lance]

It's uh.......something

[dry copper]

Nice graphics, too

[austere lance]

The special effects are amazing tho, you should watch some clips from it

[dry copper]

In the witcher show, the witcher isn't even the main character

The world is

Superman in medieval fantasy land is kind of the only after thought

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/jg6bz4x8Rvo

The Hexer was a trip, lol

[austere lance]

That's how the books are too

LMFAOOOOOO
https://youtu.be/BN-3MqK9aLA

[sleek cloud]

i can't watch it yet with work banning youtube during nights

[raven frost]

so uh

about that HDTF banner I posted a while back

that's official.

like I'm not even upset, I'm impressed.

[winter yew]

hdwhat

[raven frost]

Hunt down the Freeman

@winter yew scroll down a bit to get the context

[winter yew]

down?? lol

[wide kestrel]

I watched a review of that once

who the FUCK gave it 4/5

[daring spear]

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

[dry copper]

How girls zoom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=397rJDcCGoM

How guys zoom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkadLcqX9E

Early morning chuckle

[thorn dawn]

https://twitter.com/manfightdragon/status/1345615588106780672

Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon)

I found a cheat code in NieR Automata that allows you to skip to the last ending immediately after killing the first boss and unlock the bonus modes. I'll do a full video soon. It's not a glitch, it's an actual cheat code hard-coded into the engine. @yokotaro https://t.co/FtuNPovq6F

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[austere lance]

Boooooo, git gud and beat all the endings 😤

[winter yew]

Yeah no thank you. That game is an experience.....that I need to get back to.

[austere lance]

Absolutely phenomenal game, and this is coming from someone who hates 99% of Japanese games

[winter yew]

Yeah, I was really enjoying it on the Ps4. Wish I had more space on the Ps5 gotta remove something so I can install it again.

I went in knowing nothing about it, made it that much better 😊

[austere lance]

I've played at least one game in any popular Japanese franchise you can think of and didn't like almost all of em. Silent Hill, Bayonetta, Resident Evil, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Dark Souls......none of em. The only Japanese games I've liked were MGS V and Nier Automata 😆

[coarse swift]

I'd kinda like to play Replicant before Automata

[austere lance]

I'm hyped for the remake 😍

[sleek cloud]

i'd love to see the Delta Force games make a return

[winter yew]

ehh

Automata has nearly zero to do with Replicant

considering how far apart they take place from each other in their timelines.

so you can play Automata without feeling like you're missing out any backstory

there is like, one character in Automata that's a call-back to the older Nier stuff but pretty much a lot of the lore you'll learn about them is found in logs or whatever.

[willow crypt]

decided to finally give Fallout 76 a try for $16. already have put around 10 hours into it and i’m enjoying it. the storyline is fine but not amazing. npcs definitely help. it’s kinda neat seeing other players occasionally wander by, and thankfully, they don’t mess with me too much as i like to be a ‘single player’. all in all, well designed and pretty open world with quite a bit to see so far

[austere lance]

I'd try F76 if it didn't require internet, I can play it free on Game Pass 😆

[coarse swift]

Just leaves a sour taste in my mouth tbh

I do want to play it

But I also dont

Having pre-ordered it and experiencing the no-npc world, paired with Fallout 1st locking everything that was originally promised to be included with the game at launch behind a sub paywall

If any of that has changed, I'd love to know.

[austere lance]

I'm waiting to try Fallout 4 again til it comes back to Game Pass, lol. Wasn't a fan of it last time I tried but maybe I'll like it more the second time around

[willow crypt]

love Fallout 4

and yeah Arc, i avoided playing 76 for so long so they could further flesh it out, and i think it’s in a good place now

[winter yew]

Fallout 4 was fun

[austere lance]

The only Fallout I've liked is 3 😆

[willow crypt]

you didn’t like NV?

[winter yew]

I'm obsessed with the Fallout franchise. Not 76 tho 🙁

[willow crypt]

mhm

[austere lance]

Too big and empty

[willow crypt]

huh

Sometimes even though I think there’s plenty to see an explore in the fallout games, I like bigger more open emptier areas for me to just wander and not have to worry about side quests

Maybe with the possibility of running into NPC’s and such

i need to collect some wood to cook some mirelurk stew brb

[raven frost]

I couldn't get into F4 so I was pretty much doomed from the start trying to play 76

[willow crypt]

the one thing 76 does that improves upon 4 is no player voiceacting

main issue is the server disconnects a lot

lost progress on a mission or two

[sleek cloud]

servers still crash after a mini nuke explodes?

[willow crypt]

idk if that’s the reason why

[winter yew]

That's a beautiful minecraft shaders pack, it almost looks real!

[willow crypt]

thank you

[dry copper]

Bastards!

[austere lance]

Such a fun game 😍

I'm close to 200 hours in it iirc, I more or less played it nonstop for like a month straight 😆

[dry copper]

I have a coupon for $14 off if the game costs $20 or more

Fuckers!

[austere lance]

Lol

[dry copper]

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

Reminds me of that song about date rape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU

[weak thunder]

The most underrated game franchise.
So happy to find it on switch

[austere lance]

Wot

[austere lance]

Oh god I didn't even recognize that as Munch, I thought it was a Pokémon 😆

[somber viper]

new one comes out this year doesnt it?

[weak thunder]

I hope so.

Oddworld would be a fun pokemon mox

Mod*

[austere lance]

Tfw you moderate the official Oddworld Discord and didn't recognize Munch 🤣

[weak thunder]

Strangers Wrath is definitely my faaaDM ME THE GROUP OMG

[austere lance]

Yes, btw. Soulstorm comes out this Spring iirc

[somber viper]

awesome

[weak thunder]

Strangers wrath is def my fav but Munch was my first

[austere lance]

Same

[weak thunder]

Please tell me I wasn't just hearing thungs but there was an enemy with a blue vest and everyone screamed "THE WALMARTS ARE COMING!"

[austere lance]

Fun fact: SW is the only one Lorne Lanning has played all the way through 😆

[weak thunder]

Strangers Wrath

[austere lance]

Wolvarks, lol

[weak thunder]

OOOOOOOH

[austere lance]

Soulstorm looks 👌

[weak thunder]

Daaaamn... woulda been funny tho for the longest time we thought it was walmarts and the blue vest didn't help with that assumption

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/2NCQS7hSUBE

The latest Soulstorm trailer, btw

Also, I invited you to the server 😆 @weak thunder

[weak thunder]

Yay!

[somber viper]

man thats just reminding me of how good the remake looked

[austere lance]

New N Tasty?

[somber viper]

yeah

I'd only played the first 2 on ps1 before playing new and tasty so it was nice to see

[austere lance]

Soulstorm is a remake of the next game, lol

[somber viper]

ooh haha didn't know that

thought it was an all new game

[austere lance]

Yep, sequel to New N Tasty

I mean, it basically is a new game. Completely remade in every way, with new game mechanics too. And a new story 👀

[somber viper]

a real remake, minus the new story I guess

[austere lance]

Soulstorm is basically the version that Lorne saw in his head 20+ years ago

[somber viper]

ff7r style then haha

[austere lance]

But now he has the tech to finally make it 😆

[somber viper]

the ultimate side scroller

maybe I don't know enough about side scrollers but its surprising that more people make the 16/32 bit style side scroller over a 3d one

[dry copper]

Isn't there a new oddworld coming out ?

[somber viper]

ye we were just talking about it lol

[dry copper]

It's funny. My cartoon voice sounds like Abe

[austere lance]

Remake of the second game, lol

[dry copper]

You know how everyone has that character they do that they don't feel strained doing

Abe's grumpy grampa is mine

So I watched The Witcher episode (I think 3)...last night. Kinda graphic...

I feel like I'm getting old and crotchety, for finding gratuitous sex not entertaining.

[austere lance]

Lol

[dry copper]

That dragon show with the dragons and thrones and shit...did it

[somber viper]

game of dungeons and dragons or something

[weak thunder]

Nah Game of Thrones was the amount of lust of a teenager just discovering puberty. As someone who went through that phase yeah. Too much.

[austere lance]

Witcher books are not as gratuitous. It's a lot more traumatizing in the books tho, medieval times weren't nice to women in the middle of war zones

[somber viper]

i got the books for christmas, had no idea there was books

like now idk where all the story comes from lol thought it was just based on polish lore

[austere lance]

Lol. The games continue the story of the books

How many of the books did you get

[somber viper]

never played them but now i know. it was 3 books that the show is based on

that's what the box says anyways, I'm assuming it's fairly similar?

[austere lance]

You uh, got 3/8 books and not even the first 3 😆

[somber viper]

Oh dear god

[austere lance]

I'm assuming you got the standard box set trilogy that's sold everywhere. Which is a dirty lie cuz the box set doesn't even have the first two books in it

[somber viper]

Yeah probably lol well I guess if I like the three I can get the rest, though missing the first two will be weird

[austere lance]

You're gonna be big confused without the first two

[austere lance]

Idk why they even bother selling that box set, it's stupid. It's books 3, 4, and 5 in an 8 book series

[somber viper]

Glad I don't also need to play 3 games on top of the 8 books

Is it because the show starts there?

[austere lance]

You do tho, lol. The games take place after the books

[somber viper]

That's what I mean, they're after the books do I don't really need to

[austere lance]

And no, right now the show covers the first two books that you don't have 😆

[somber viper]

Looool amazing

Good thing I got a gift card to a book store I guess, but I wanted the latest colossal sized attack on titan

[austere lance]

The games continue the story of the books. The 7th book isn't the end.

[somber viper]

It's not a cliff hanger is it

[austere lance]

Uh. It's something 😬

[somber viper]

Damn lol I'll have no way to play the games 😭

Well 3 I could I guess

[austere lance]

Honestly the first two games are shit and you might as well just watch a video covering them

Especially the first game, literally some of the worst gameplay I've ever seen

[somber viper]

Lol bet the monster hunter crossover was better then

[austere lance]

Monster Hunter crossover is just goofy, lol

[somber viper]

Idk why I even played those missions, I was just angry the whole time

[austere lance]

LMAO

Yeah you're missing out on a lot of the fun if you haven't played Witcher 3 and don't know anything about Geralt or the Leshen

[somber viper]

Yeah, it came out at time when I had no way to play it so I missed it

So the first book isn't called blood of elves?

[austere lance]

No. It's The Last Wish

[somber viper]

Amazing 😂 they even numbered it as 1

[austere lance]

Idk why that's so big but whatever, lol

[somber viper]

gunna be a while before I even get to reading these, already have 3 other books to read 😭

[dry copper]

Lady of the lake ftw

She's IN A LAKE

(with a sword)

A SWORD

THE S-WORD

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx2a-BYBetc

They're sometimes funny, sometimes infuriating

Mostly infuriating

[somber viper]

second hand cringe is almost a guarantee while watching them

[dry copper]

Why do people wear shoes with laces when there is a shoes without laces option?

[somber viper]

the amount I got mocked for having velcro shoes as an adult 😞

[dry copper]

I would wear velcro before laces any day.

I wear boots that zipper up

[somber viper]

i got boots now with a zipper down the side so I don't have to tie anything even though it has laces

[sleek cloud]

Laces give a more secure and tighter feel I would imagine

And they just look better imo

[somber viper]

I hate having the loops out lol

[dry copper]

My favorite shoe securing mechanism is the boa fit system.

It looks futuristic, is easy to adjust, tighten, losen

People are always looking at me when I have my boa snow shoes on

Asking what are those

https://www.boafit.com/en-us/

[somber viper]

practical

[sleek cloud]

Ye

[dry copper]

Best part is they don't go loose after a while. Once you turn the knob and push down, they're locked at a specific tightness

Great for in the winter

You wanna keep the snow out

Now if they only made an urban dress shoe with boa fit

[somber viper]

urban dress shoe?

[dry copper]

Yes. A dress shoe with grip and comfort combined, but a nice finish so it looks like it belongs in an office environment.

and boa system

[somber viper]

ohhh i had to google examples, definitely seen those around the office minus the boa system

[winter yew]

Yeah it's like "haha you use a more convenient and easy method of securing your footware to your feet, what an immature person!"

Because using the harder and less practical method of laces is somehow more normal lol

[dry copper]

These look sick...but hella expensive

https://www.adidas.com/us/terrex-agravic-tech-pro-trail-running-shoes/FU7634.html

[somber viper]

dO yOu NoT kNoW hOw To TiE yOuR sHoEs

[dry copper]

"Hello, don't you know how to write in hiroglyphs? Peasant..."

[winter yew]

dO yOu nOt kNoW hOw tO uSe A gRaMaPHoNe

Really though why is it that velcro is seen as being for kids

Military uses it for their best and stuff

[somber viper]

because kids are dumb

[winter yew]

But on shoes it's immature

Real talk can we appreciate the invention of velcro for a second

Like someone thought to themselves "hey what if I made tiny tiny hooks for tiny tiny loops so you can stick stuff together"

(I know it wasn't like that but still)

[dry copper]

Which will go the way of the dodo bird once maglocks are cheap enough 😛

[sleek cloud]

Had a teacher that hated the sound of velcro with a passion

[somber viper]

I hope it was invented just to make the velcro wall

[dry copper]

mmm

What I think is great about velcro

It's not just sticky

It's LOUD AS FUCK

So your shit isn't going anywhere subtly

Someone wanna steal your equipment off you...you'll hear it

[sleek cloud]

Not good to take on a stealth mission

[dry copper]

Can just see the RCMP under cover, trying to make moose calls to hide the sound of their velcro gun holsters.

[cinder vessel]

i would honestly dig more reviews like this compared to reviews of, "THING JUST RELEASED HERE'S OUR [way too brief time] REVIEW"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3NQptr7CEk

Especially with hardware

[somber viper]

day 1 reviews are so bad, even if they get the thing early

[dry copper]

Would happen more if more reviewers had the money to buy that kind of shit

[cinder vessel]

Like great you tested [hardware] over the course of [week/month], get back to me after a year

[somber viper]

reminds me of people instantly shitting on the apple m1 chip when it hadn't been out a week (or at all)

[cinder vessel]

Most of the time if hardware's gonna break or fuck up, it's gonna be within a year or so, but definitely not within a week/month (if it's worth a damn)

[dry copper]

I shit on Apple by default. Not because "it's for rich people", but because it's not better than its competition and is priced to exploit customers by a company that punishes independent repairmen and sues as a default...Apple lost my support at almost it's inception with predatory anti consumer practices

I'm looking at inside out tracking for the index myself

[somber viper]

haven't looked back after switching to a macbook, windows machines always gave me some kind of issue, only issue with a macbook i've had is burning out the gpu by rendering shit it couldn't handle for too long lol

but its the only apple product I use

[dry copper]

@cinder vessel I love that sense of value he gives on the purchase..."This purchase feels like a different kind of purchase. This feels .....baaaad"

[cinder vessel]

the thing with Windows machines is it's less often a Windows-specific issue so much as the openness of the hardware market leading to inconsistencies & issues.

Not to say it's never Windows software at fault, but in my experience it's often been related to other issues, the amalgam of hardware slapped into a build, specific non-Windows software, etc.

[somber viper]

no doubt, its part of why i didn't want to work with windows anymore, other side is mac is industry standard too. It does feel like Im just paying for an OS in the end though

[dry copper]

That was a funny review. I enjoyed the detail he went into and he didn't pull any punches without sensationalizing the issues.

[cinder vessel]

Apple does have a certain advantage in controlling the production chain in minimizing some of those issues, but it's just not worth the tradeoff imo, like what Mumbles mentioned

Like the wildest understated benefit Windows has is the immense, bizarre level of legacy support it offers

[dry copper]

Most of my issue with Apple is the company. The products are probably great, but on principle I won't buy in.

[cinder vessel]

MacOS just fuckin' torches its history to the best of my knowledge

[somber viper]

man the total removal of 32bit support was pretty annoying

[cinder vessel]

Mac be like, "the past? what's that?"

[dry copper]

MacOS is not the same as iOS?

[somber viper]

setting the standard is how they word it 🙄

no

iOS is a separate operating system

ipads are soon getting their own too

[cinder vessel]

Speaking of iPads, whatever happened to tablets

[wide kestrel]

Mac be like “The present? What’s that?”

[dry copper]

I feel like an alien deciding not to buy into apple, watching everyone just eating shit commercially and then complaining that their breath stinks.

[cinder vessel]

mfw everyone talks AAA games for a week or so

[somber viper]

kills me seeing iphones with every app icon ever on every screen

[cinder vessel]

Not that I'm an exception to that, I definitely let myself get suckered in too occasionally, hi death stranding & control

[somber viper]

what did you mean by this?

[cinder vessel]

lol smartphones where folks don't know about folders

Oh, just that I hardly notice as much marketing for tablets of any sort

I'm pretty sure Google just flat out dropped out of the market altogether as they tend to do

[dry copper]

I like Death Stranding but I'm not buying it for more than $15 at this point. It's been out so long and the market is so saturated, I see no benefit to buying it for more. If I cared about the story I could watch it on youtube. I just want a walking simulator.

[cinder vessel]

I guess Samsung and some others are still producing their own?

[somber viper]

ah, yeah I haven't seen any now that you mention it, but lots of people promote ipads for procreate (in art/design circles)

[cinder vessel]

Oh wait, I keep forgetting about the overpriced Microsoft Surfaces

[dry copper]

Procreate is the only thing I see good for ipad.

[somber viper]

I waited until it was half price recently because I had no idea if I would like it, turns out its pretty fun

[dry copper]

Instead, I got Parblo

Parblo is a tablet for your PC that turns your monitor into a drawing pad.

[cinder vessel]

Saturated, as in with open world games, I take it? 'cause it's def. not saturated with games like Death Stranding, lol

[somber viper]

tablets will probably change once apple release it's separate os, i think the plan is a real hybrid between laptop and tablet instead of having it as a giant phone

[cinder vessel]

That reminds me of Windows 8/RT all over again, lol

If they can sort it out, more power to them, I guess

[somber viper]

are there any games similar to death stranding? it's felt pretty unique since I started playing

[cinder vessel]

In terms of navigation, balancing, & asynchronous multiplayer, I really don't think so.

In terms of talking to strange goofballs & delivering stuff, absolutely. For a more relaxed version I'd definitely recommend Thousand Threads from last year (2020).

[somber viper]

that does look good, laughing at the steam description Deliver the mail. Open letters to discover more about the people you meet. Some folks are easier to find than others. my first thought was, opening other peoples mail is illegal

[cinder vessel]

Right? It feels weird, and you can technically not do it, but you learn much more by doing so

[cinder vessel]

Remember when everyone was really enamored with touch-based controls/devices and made all sorts of funky little games with touch?

That was only 10 years ago

uhh, so apparently cp2077 may be burning out some folks' computers...?

@dry copper i know you were already put off by the CP2077 crashes, but i'd more strongly recommend leaving the game be till further patches considering this:
https://twitter.com/LackingSaint/status/1345880775581970438

Jack Saint (@LackingSaint)

after a full day stripping down my pc, buying new components, conducting various reboots and reconfigurations, I can now state conclusively that @CyberpunkGame has bricked my power supply and motherboard. thank you @CDPROJEKTRED for showing us what it truly means to be punk

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[somber viper]

I find it weird a game can do that

[austere lance]

Apparently I've died 116x in the four hours I've played Ori, lol

[thorn dawn]

More likely explanation: they've been running their tiny 650w PSU at 150% capacity with that rig and it's finally popped

650w is no way near enough for that GPU

at full whack, that GPU can draw 325W

[tiny otter]

Very interesting lecture https://youtu.be/zSLsTf2TH-Y

[cinder vessel]

🤷‍♀️ others pointed that out and then others pointed out GPUs are better about power draw so it shouldn't matter as much

Also just beat my first high score in Mixolumia, finally having the game kinda click in my head a bit more

Still not sure how I managed 500k+ in my first session, lmao

[dry copper]

@cinder vessel I believe it. My thermals were off the charts even at min settings.

I have a 1000watt psu on a rx 5700 xt

Shadow rendering in the game is absolute horse shit.

While it looks pretty, it's about as optimized as a litter box of congealed blastoma

[cinder vessel]

this game has...an aesthetic...Is this glitch art? i don't even know:
https://vectorhat.itch.io/sradsol

[dry copper]

I'm not in the right mindset to judge games that scream seizure.

[somber viper]

cyber punk is just super meta in it's dystopian capitalist theme

[dry copper]

Cyberpunk wouldn't been a commentary on the world stage, were it not a poe. It's so horribly built, it becomes a commentary on itself.

It's so badly designed you can't even tell if it wasn't intentional.

Like scientology

[somber viper]

lmfao

the game is actually a meme

[dry copper]

"What does it take to be a criminal in 2077? Getting cock"

[weak thunder]

"Well cum"

https://youtu.be/r9JzxXIFmww

[dry copper]

I'm honestly surprised that the game's memes have not yet infected Keanu's other films

I'm sure they could transcend.

[somber viper]

easily

maybe people are waiting for the next matrix movie before unleashing that beast

[weak thunder]

John Wick is a meme of its own

[dry copper]

"What does it take to become a criminal in Night City?"

"Guns. Lots of guns"

[glass plinth]

its interesting

I have a 5700xt with a 700 watt, never had any power draw issues

[dry copper]

"In night city, you can become anyone. Any thing if your body can pay the price."

"I totally possess my dad"

[glass plinth]

Mind you I also have monitoring software with saftey protocols

[weak thunder]

https://youtu.be/-yR1F79v3BY

[dry copper]

I use Hardware monitor and run cpu z. I am not comfortable running my hardware at the hottest temperatures it can run safely

[glass plinth]

Well im not running it at high resolutions so that helps

hehehe

I see people runnig it at 4 k on a 5700xt and wonder why it burns up a psu

Yeah, power draw go brrrrroooom with higher res

[austere lance]

Currently at 157 deaths in 4 hours 43 minutes of Ori and the Blind Forest 🤣

[dry copper]

I use HD. 1920X1080

I wouldn't be playing a game I died that much on unless it was super fun to die in.

I enjoyed dying in tomb raider because of the ragdoll physics

Then they added quicktime events and ruined the fun of dying in tomb raider

Oh shit I forgot I have division 2...I don't have to gripe about cp.

I can play in a dystopian America

[weak thunder]

Okay. I want to know

[dry copper]

What it would really be like

[weak thunder]

Anyone who has played until dawn

Did anyone survive that last part

[dry copper]

Is that on PC now?

[weak thunder]

It got me SO angry...
Imagine being unable to breathe to win

I don't have stable hands. I felt my chest bursting. I lost by moving a hair

[dry copper]

Gotta love games that punish you for playing them

[austere lance]

It's a beautiful platformer, it's also hard af 😭

[dry copper]

It's also a fuck sad face?

Oh

That makes more sense.

[dry copper]

Confused.

You held your breath irl?

[weak thunder]

Okay so there's monsters that you weren't allowed to move

I was using ps4 which reads your motions

[dry copper]

All games read your motions....

[weak thunder]

But yeah this game was SO HAIRTHREAD PRECISE

[dry copper]

You mean you win if you put down the controller and push the buttons on a table?

[weak thunder]

Okay but like I wouldn't do that.
But it was so precise the movement of my chest fucked me other

Over

Big girl problems amirite

[dry copper]

I didn't even know you were a girl....

[weak thunder]

Aaaay good to knoa

[dry copper]

I assume everyone on the internet is a guy.

Girls aren't real.

[weak thunder]

Usually if I admit I'm a girl people treat me soooo differently and it's gross

Agreed

[dry copper]

I think spirit is a girl too. Spirit or soul. I can never remember which...One likes Poets of the fall and the other not so much

[weak thunder]

Like plz see me as one of the dudes. Don't go soft on me or call me dear because I have confirmed I am female. It hurtsssss

[dry copper]

I don't call anyone dear.

[weak thunder]

People have before

[dry copper]

That's just weird.

[somber viper]

people saying dear are the same people saying female instead of woman

[weak thunder]

And it's just so hnnnnnnn

Or femoid

[dry copper]

Hello Dear. Can I wear your skin?

I want to see more movies with William Sadler.

[weak thunder]

Sure thing I need a bath anyway so peeling it off makes it faster 🙃

Sorry that was gross

[dry copper]

William Sadler is not gross.

He plays Death in bill and ted

He's....weird

[weak thunder]

No I mean what I said lol

[dry copper]

It does not matter what movie he is in, he's always the grim reaper to me

haha, he did the voice of Jeff Sessions and McConnell in Our Cartoon President

Also, if you can peel your skin off because you need a bath so badly, you need more then a bath.

[weak thunder]

Oh I know I wanna get one of those chemical peels

[dry copper]

I hate soaking in the tub.

I turn into a prune.

It hurts my skin when it gets super wrinkly

[weak thunder]

Epson salt baths are religion now.

Did you know pruned skin is actually vestigial?

[dry copper]

Confused

How is the product of saturation vestigial?

[weak thunder]

Back when there was the sea people n shit.
Skin would prune and wrinkle to latch onto underwater surfaces better.

[dry copper]

.....sea people?

[weak thunder]

Yeah it's been scientifically proven

[dry copper]

By who?

[weak thunder]

History Channel is crazy man

[dry copper]

Yeah....It is. It's the same channel with "Aliens" as a frontliner 😛

[somber viper]

sea people lived in/on/by the water more than the rest?

[weak thunder]

Enough time to develop such a feature

Anyone here have the rock climbing vestigial bone in their wrists?

Vestigial shit is so cool

[dry copper]

Interesting

[somber viper]

oh have the wrist tendon

weird

[dry copper]

So I did my own research because I don't like the history channel. Turns out, you're right.

Though I got it from the BBC

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160607-why-your-skin-goes-wrinkly-in-the-bath

[somber viper]

history channel isn't totally bat shit all the time lol

[dry copper]

I question everything 😛

[weak thunder]

Even the alien stuff kinda makes sense

[dry copper]

https://tenor.com/view/aliens-giorgio-conspiracion-memealiens-aliens-history-historychannel-gif-9621737

[weak thunder]

I wouldn't exactly put it completely out of theory

[somber viper]

pretty sure the aliens thing is just a marketing ploy

[dry copper]

I wouldn't put conspiracy theories on a channel called history

...but apparently

There isn't enough history

[somber viper]

some how 😆

[weak thunder]

Enough UNCOVERED history

We find new things almost every day

[cinder vessel]

playing super radical solitaire didn't help me understand anything about solitaire but i think i know now more than ever that pachinko would drive me nuts

[dry copper]

There's plenty of uncovered history

[somber viper]

could start doing the history of each individual on the planet, thats a lot of content

[dry copper]

The history of history as told by history...Narrated by David Attenborough

[weak thunder]

I'd binge

I thirst knowledge

[dry copper]

Then there would be the American version...narrated by Hosea Jan Frank aka (Zefrank).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjuVq9BRNAI

[weak thunder]

YES TRUE FACTS

I need to sleep before I get too big brain

Sleepy time

[austere lance]

THE GAME FUCKING CRASHED DURING THE FINAL FUCKING CUTSCENE

[dry copper]

Guess you'll have to START OVER

[raven frost]

what game

[austere lance]

Ori and the Blind Forest

[raven frost]

o

[willow crypt]

r

[wide kestrel]

g

[somber viper]

y

[charred badge]

rgbiv

[somber viper]

red, green, blue, indigo, violet

[charred badge]

pemdas

[cinder vessel]

lmfao solitaire on microsoft now wants you to subscribe to remove ads

[somber viper]

no way

[charred badge]

yup

[somber viper]

what AAA studio bought it?

[charred badge]

and it adds its icon again if you uninstall it, lol.
It isn't installed, but takes up visual space

same with the other games

[austere lance]

I beat it, fml

Yes, that's 178 deaths in 5 hours 17 minutes

On Easy difficulty

[somber viper]

is it easy because you can die your way to victory?

[austere lance]

LOL

I wish

[cinder vessel]

so somehow i never bothered to learn how to play solitaire (klondike/canfield/patience/whatever) until now, and it's apparently Sequential Sorting: The Card Game?

[charred badge]

It's a very simple game

with a bad habit of no-win shuffles

[cinder vessel]

lol

[charred badge]

Playing it analog is an exercise in frustration

[cinder vessel]

yeah i can't really imagine playing it analog, seems way too annoying

[charred badge]

most digital versions have options that remove unwinnable setups, now

[cinder vessel]

was gonna say, i've won all the rounds i've played digitally so far

would definitely rather play chess solo than solitaire

[charred badge]

There's a reason that space cadet pinball was the go-to default game, and not solitaire

Of course, I always had telnet and MUDs

Which aggravated my teachers in grade school, because telnet can't be removed

[cinder vessel]

lol

Does the win condition in checkers/draughts have a name?

[charred badge]

Probably, but most people use "I win"

[wide kestrel]

me and the boys when

when the

[cinder vessel]

and then the

[daring spear]

marm falls from high places a lot

[cinder vessel]

happens when you're high & clumsy

[wide kestrel]

im not high

just clumsy

[fleet moat]

Relatable. NMS Title: The Unfortunate is there for a reason. The clumsy ones

[fervent fog]

how do you die to a berry bush.

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_JlkXTdFD4

[winter yew]

A huge loss in the metal community. https://twitter.com/metalhammer/status/1346040415468793857?s=21

metalhammer (@MetalHammer)

Ex-Children Of Bodom singer and guitarist Alexi Laiho has died following “long term health issues” at the age of 41 https://t.co/vS6fnEazVU

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[prisma geyser]

OH FUCK

Well I don't think I can make fun of his accent for a while :c shred in peace

[winter yew]

he had that California surfer 'youknow' thing going on with his speech, which was strange as hell considering he wasn't even from there

I wonder how the remaining members will approach releasing the recorded material.

post-mortem music releases have always been a little strange, to say the least. like when Wayne Static died it was years before the remaining members decided to even take on 'finishing' the demo material.

stuff that had been recorded way back in like 2005, they recorded and added to in 2020

in Bodom's case, they broke up in like... 2019? and Alexi reformed a band under the name Bodom After Midnight, they were working on new stuff, far as I know there was one music video shot, and three songs recorded.

[dry copper]

Do you need to have access to a server to play Firefall? I still see the option to install it on steam

[winter yew]

pretty sure that the servers were shut down in 2017

@dry copper https://www.em8er.com/

this is what they are working on now

still looks like its still in early dev though

https://youtu.be/5vLZAtlXcys

[heavy zenith]

https://github.com/themeldingwars/Arcporter does exist for curiosity's sake

[dry copper]

That looks like a firefall clone

and makes me angry

For all the shit they did for that they could've just made it into firefall.

[winter yew]

lol.

[dry copper]

They even got the perspectives wrong

[winter yew]

I peeked into it but all I kept seeing was concept art for sexy anime girls that you could pay for or something

[dry copper]

You are riding a huge mech, but your character is the size of an ant

Look at the grass

[winter yew]

yea lol

[dry copper]

If they were thinking proper about making it a mech game, they would've made the grass much much smaller and the mech less maneuverable but more impactful. That....Why did you show me this...Cruelty

[winter yew]

hey you brought up Firefall lol

[dry copper]

lol@ the two avatars on each others heads...When I played firefall, we'd gather the entire server to make giant towers of people ontop of each others heads

[winter yew]

https://youtu.be/CTn1FfAZIbM?t=643

[dry copper]

It was a giant vertical worm

[winter yew]

this is another video from like 2 years ago

is that Firefall?

I never actually saw the game in action

[dry copper]

Yes

[winter yew]

ehhh

time to forget this game lol

if I wanna be a small soldier shooting giant enemies I'll just load up any of the EDF games

which I highly recommend

https://youtu.be/hK2Sfiw3bfI

[dry copper]

EDF?

oh

[winter yew]

probably the best video to explain the game

Just bought elite dangerous

enjoy

[dry copper]

Oh wait that's not free on EPG anymore is it

[winter yew]

nah

[dry copper]

I've decided to buy odyssey when it releases

[winter yew]

Twas 8 dollars

wait lemme look

[dry copper]

I am hoping to burn Star Citizen

Because fuck those guys

[winter yew]

burn lol

we already did with NMS 😉

[dry copper]

When Star Citizen is finished, it's going to already be a waste of money

Technology will have passed beyond that engine and game

[winter yew]

ok yeah

Elite is back to full price on EGS

[dry copper]

Weren't they allegedly building new technology for star citizen?

Like pipeline tech for rendering etc

[winter yew]

I thought it was using Unreal?

or am I mistaken

[dry copper]

Is Crysis unreal?

[winter yew]

Cryengine

or whatever

[dry copper]

I remember them suing Star Citizen for not honoring their contract for their engine

[winter yew]

ohhh

apparently they are using Amazon Lumberyard or something

[dry copper]

hahahaha

That's hilarious

[heavy zenith]

wait, what?

No kidding.

[dry copper]

Previously, Cloud Imperium Games indicated it was using the CryEngine, from Crytek. But Crytek has been having financial troubles, and the Lumberyard engine is a derivative of the CryEngine, as Amazon paid $50 million to license it so that the company could modify and build Lumberyard.

[heavy zenith]

"Lumberyard is heavily based on CryEngine, with additional technology integrated alongside it."

[dry copper]

https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/23/star-citizen-and-squadron-42-are-using-amazons-lumberyard-game-engine/

[winter yew]

wont delay the game

AHAH

[dry copper]

Won't delay the game they have no launch date for

It's all investor blurps

[meager panther]

the game does look good now

has a lot of detail and content too

[dry copper]

I miss co-op mmorpg

I miss wandering around and saving people having a hard time learning the ropes, or meeting people way OP, who do the same for me.

[meager panther]

i like star citizen, i just dont like the persistent universe thing

just waiting for single player thing

like i tried the free fly weekend but its got so steep learning curve

took an hour to even fly the damn ship

[heavy zenith]

the thing i never understood about SC was about rebuys — is it still "once your $$$-paid ship explodes, it's gone for good"?

[charred badge]

Not right now 🤷

[heavy zenith]

huh.

[meager panther]

you can get it back

[heavy zenith]

ah, found https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000093467-Ship-Insurance-FAQs

[meager panther]

also now they made it so that you can purchase it ingame itself afaik

[charred badge]

It's a free timed respawn, with ingame currency to expedite

[heavy zenith]

but after launch, they're going to activate the time limits on the insurance

[charred badge]

But it respawns the ship as stock

[meager panther]

after launch if you get offline saves you can easily get back your ship

[heavy zenith]

"Once the game has released, the plan is for insurance policies to be purchased on an individual basis for each ship using UEC."

Okay, UEC is in-game credits, which enforces a "play often enough to rebuy your insurance" cycle upon players. Not the worst idea ever, I suppose.

[charred badge]

Depends how much it costs, yesh

But that's assuming the game ever launches

[heavy zenith]

Oh, no, I'm wrong, you can only get UEC from real money trx?

[charred badge]

What? It's the ingame currency

Pledges give a (negligible) starting amount

[heavy zenith]

Oh. Okay. Their support FAQs are extremely vague about this.

Correction appreciated 🙂

[charred badge]

Yeah the documentation sucks

But then, why make thorough documentation on an eternal alpha?

I swear the dev cycle will outlast Ark

[thorn dawn]

it's now been 13 days since CP2077 was last patched

[full pivot]

so also since i played it :S

[thorn dawn]

Christmas and new year given, but they should be working a bit harder than that IMO

the time to back off the throttle is not after you've taken people's money, if you want to keep good will

[heavy zenith]

There were, I believe, a total of five business days in the past two weeks for the United States at Sony and Microsoft.

They could work 14 of 14 calendar days and still run into "We're not doing release QA during this two week interval" obstacles upstream.

[thorn dawn]

steam says hi

they were doing near daily releases

[heavy zenith]

I remember they had pre-announced two major serious releases for bigger problems than post-launch patches could fix for this and next month.

I suppose they could introduce a Beta branch on steam and post nightlies there, but .. not a lot of game companies are used to the NMS-and-others "we decided to burn your save file for you, sorry glhf" beta approach

Especially if the save-game importer for whatever "significant changes" are requires parallel development in realtime to the work in progress to stabilize the game.

[thorn dawn]

they did that on stable

8mb hard limit

[heavy zenith]

LOL

Well, I'm glad they changed approaches, then 🙂

[thorn dawn]

anyone that did even a moderate amount of crafting with any version up to 1.05 would get their game irrevocably corrupted

I don't begrudge them a holiday but they need to show activity

they can't pull the 'small indie developer' card like HG and go to ground for 6 months

[heavy zenith]

If you're extrapolating that they might be silent for 6 months after a Christmas break, I would suggest reevaluating your prediction algorithms.

[thorn dawn]

not extrapolating, but frustrating that after daily updates they've gone completely silent - no social media posts or anything

[urban portal]

Anyone on here play BOTW

[silver sparrow]

did y'all know there was a sequel to The Forest in the works?

[silver sparrow]

i played botw a few years ago

[full pivot]

aye

[silver sparrow]

i just found out 🙂

never played the first one 😮

[urban portal]

I havent either

Not a fan of horror games

[silver sparrow]

oh also i had to give up on tlou2

i haven't asked for a refund because i am waiting for some kind of miracle that will make it run

[thorn dawn]

that's console isn't it?

[urban portal]

Ps4 exlcusive i think

Exclusive*

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVNN1Rpm2Ek

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/DoubleFine/status/1346117080878297095?s=19

Double Fine (@DoubleFine)

The new year has arrived and we are back to work! Excited to bring you more updates, silliness, and more as we work towards the release of Psychonauts 2!

We can't wait until you can enjoy the game! Just a little longer! https://t.co/utf2xisF12

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Twitter · Jan 4, 2021, 3:31 PM

[dry copper]

This is impressive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVyZFJ2SSg

Im not sure if he's speaking from memory, but I'd fall asleep after an hour.

This shit is not entertaining

He does not say which medical dictionary he's using

I'm looking at the mosbys and the oxford and it's neither of those

He's doing alpha chain disease at 4 mins in and he hasn't even touched the acute conditions (which would be before alpha)

[winter yew]

Thing is they already overwork their employees to rush the game

There's something else that needs to go on, not more overworked employees tbh

[dry copper]

Like watching Chubbyemu because damn that shit is impressive 😛

If you've ever wanted to watch someone recite random shit from a dictionary from their memory

Prepare your toes!

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/IdleSloth84/status/1345747334743941132

Idle Sloth 🙅🏻‍♂️1️⃣2️⃣❎ (@IdleSloth84)

(Rumor) Alleged CDPR dev talks about the state of Cyberpunk 2077 and future plans 🧂

Source:
https://t.co/xEk05SB0mD

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Twitter · Jan 3, 2021, 3:02 PM

[fleet moat]

Very insightful. Not at all surprised. June sounds a lot more reasonable based on the size / severity of some of the issues reported (in addition to performance).

[dry copper]

@sleek cloud Any idea if Elite Dangerous is going to have a story for Odyssey? The advertisement trailer suggested "an epic journey" but that could be just advertising fluff

@austere lance Fuckin love Cillian Murphy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruyl8_PT_y8

[austere lance]

Someday I'll watch that show, lol

[willow crypt]

PEAKY FOOKIN BLOINDAS

[dry copper]

Cillian is an amazing method actor

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

[austere lance]

He's always gonna be Scarecrow to me, lol

[willow crypt]

i thought that was the new season damnit

he's always gonna be that one guy in 28 days later to me

[dry copper]

@austere lance First time I saw Cillian was in a zombie movie in 2002 called 28 Days Later.

[glass plinth]

On mumble

No storyline to speak of with the Odyseey update on ED

[willow crypt]

i just said that Mumbles

good movie

[glass plinth]

More or less just a new way to interact with the world and standard new content from the basic storyline.

He is a amazing actor

[fleet moat]

Btw this is an take from someone's reaction to the rumor: https://twitter.com/selnor1983/status/1345813153821687809?s=21

Richard Loveridge (@selnor1983)

@IdleSloth84 I put this under fake. No way PS5 version is outperforming Cyberpink 2077 on a 3090 PC with full raytracing. That part right there straight up told me it's some mad Sony fan that wrote it.

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Twitter · Jan 3, 2021, 7:23 PM

[austere lance]

@dry copper I didn't watch Days Later, I watched Weeks Later tho 😆

I liked him in that Sunshine movie too

[raven frost]

I can almost guarantee you that's marketing fluff - E:D has never really had any big story content unless you get involved in stuff like power play or thaargoids

[willow crypt]

you have to see the first one soul

i feel like you only play/watch the sequels to things haha

Sunshine is great

[austere lance]

Shush, I only did the sequel thing with Ori and Weeks Later 🤣

[fleet moat]

Re: Peaky Blinders: Beware of Season 3: Really questionable wig / costume work. Season 3 is when my interest in the series started diminishing. Gave it a try through Season 4 but I lost all interest. Seasons 1-2 superb.

[willow crypt]

bioshock

[austere lance]

Oof, you got me with Bioshock

[willow crypt]

lol

[glass plinth]

Frankly the content they add in ED is just to give you the ability to be in the places you see and interact, but very little actual game consequences.

[austere lance]

In my defense, I just didn't wanna go to not being able to dual wield Plasmids and guns 😆

[glass plinth]

That unfortunately is not something they excel at. Despite the fact I imagine powerplay will take some impact as base turnovers will likely have some impact on scores

Otherall, Im not complaining

I love the changes, Itll be nice to get out on foot

But rather pointless besides visual exploration

[austere lance]

I like how you can basically ignore ships now and taxi places, lol

[dry copper]

Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy...Epic scene

[glass plinth]

Thats true

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk78O1YMJlc

[glass plinth]

I mean from a RP standpoint, its fantastic

[willow crypt]

season 6 when

[glass plinth]

I can sorta see Self rping being a merc on foot

[austere lance]

The first-person shooting looks solid, I'm gonna raid a lot of bases 😆

[glass plinth]

I wont be

But I will be hiking on one of my homesystems moons

Fantastic terrains

[austere lance]

I hate ship combat in the game so I'm just gonna do on foot combat instead, lol

[glass plinth]

Whereas , I love it

Then again, I am rather good in space combat

I can visualize it in terms of a fluid spacial environment

Out of curiosity, did you fly with a joystick Soul?

[raven frost]

I really hope we'll be able to visit more inhabited planets at some point, maybe not like SC's ArCorp but you get what I mean

[austere lance]

I feel like Squadrons does the same combat but much less annoying cuz it has better flight controls

And no, I played with a controller

[glass plinth]

Ah

Yeah, one is striving for realistic mechanics which for a sim flyer and pilot IRL is prefered

its just more... visceral

You cant really do much in Squadrons

its limited in several degrees of freedom

Whereas ED you can do soooooo many things

Its just not approachable

[dry copper]

I wanna explore space stations

[glass plinth]

Hrmm, that wont be around for years I suspect

Most stations are cookie cutter

[austere lance]

They already showed the inside of space stations in a recent video

[glass plinth]

Oh they have it prepped

but to make the assets more random on a large scale is a huge project