📚┃off-topic

[placid yarrow]

atleast they seem to care

just that it's slow progress

[stable shore]

yeah but as 1.0 gets closer i'm more and more worried

the progress is starting to be a bit too slow

[placid yarrow]

it's either progress is slow or they're hiding it

and honestly i think it's the latter, or atleast my copium tells me so

[stable shore]

idk i lost faith since 0.9.1

[placid yarrow]

that they're just focused on 1.0 and threw some stuff together for 0.9.2

[stable shore]

if they have bug fixes and improvement ready why holding them

[placid yarrow]

good point tbh

[stable shore]

no matter of much content they bring to 1.0, the game really need a performance and bug fix patch more than anything

i would have been hyped af if 0.9.2 brought zero content and instead just fixed shit

[placid yarrow]

yeah, my laptop can run most games at high if not ultra settings no problem but LE gives it a run for its money lol

[stable shore]

so i can at least believe full release will be fine

[placid yarrow]

true

i just want the game to have less rough edges

[stable shore]

if the game had most of the bugs fixed and good performance, it would feel like a full released game as is

[placid yarrow]

i feel like it's a pretty good experience overall gameplay and system wise, a bit lacking after you play a couple hundred plus hours but by that time you've already gotten your moneys worth

if they just fix the bugs and upgrade some of the older graphics and add the missing masteries by 1.0 i think they'll have a decent launch

[stable shore]

yep

[placid yarrow]

most people wouldn't get to the point where they've played like 200 hours and are tired of running monos anyway before they release anathor update a few months after 1.0

[stable shore]

yeah, and pushing with good perfomances alone would make me sink a few hundreds more hour

the idea the game crashes every 1h with memory leak is dreadfull when you want to push

[placid yarrow]

true, right now the fps dips and occasional server hiccup do make it a more bumpy ride for sure

[stable shore]

cool thing with this lab farming is i learn about some skill i didn't know existed

like, i didn't know lightning spire trap was even a thing

[placid yarrow]

i can play for like 8 hours straight with fairly consistent performance tbh but it def has more room to grow performance wise

like i should have 120 fps it feels

not to say i have the most beastly laptop to ever exist but it has a 2070 and its not like THAT much is happening

i get it if it was on the same scale as a deli beyond juiced ass map from poe

but it's not

wtf is lightning spire trap

[stable shore]

idk i just saw an enchant about it

if ggg doesn't want to touch low tier skill, they could at least delete them so i can find my enchant more easily

[placid yarrow]

lol

[stable shore]

wait no, if they do that then they'll also delete my main skill by definition

[placid yarrow]

what are you using to recover in lab even, aren't you leech based

[stable shore]

a life flask

[placid yarrow]

oh hell no wtf

either you're tanky af

or sadistic af

[stable shore]

nah i just run fast haha

best defensive layer in lab

[placid yarrow]

true lul

[stable shore]

also i got a little bit of regen going

[placid yarrow]

actually no, the best defensive layer is light radius

[stable shore]

i need regen to get good rage going, but kaom disable it

[placid yarrow]

because with no light radius trust me

you aint making it

i learned that the hard way

[placid yarrow]

i wish i still had the screenshot i took in lab

[stable shore]

this mastery allows you to have a form of life regeneration that isn't stopped by kaom's spirit

so you can kinda nullify the downside

[placid yarrow]

oh yeah ive seen that

[stable shore]

i wonder why ggg nerfed so much any form of abuse of chainbreaker keystone only to let kaom spirit be a thing

redblade banner, sure i understand it because it only works as berseker

but kaom spirit is a bit stupid

[placid yarrow]

look at this shit

[rugged island]

starfield is out sept 6, why is patch sept 7? I wanna play runemaster but theres a 0% chance im playing LE on patch day, no offense to EHG, I love LE, but timing is pretty weird

[stable shore]

lol

[placid yarrow]

mine was even worse somehow

because i swear i didnt even have the small amount of light around my dude

all i could see was the tempest shield

[stable shore]

where does light radius even comes from again

[placid yarrow]

life

as ci you're technically 100% life so it's fine

but if you reserve it all

you have to get a dumbass mastery that makes it based on your energy shield instead

that's why you just run delve where your light radius doesn't matter, ez

[stable shore]

oh, i reserve half of my life

with petrified blood

i wonder if i lose a lot or not

i never noticed

[placid yarrow]

i think it's more severe towards the bottom

like the first 25% barely makes a difference i think

atleast it doesn't feel like it

this is closer to how mine was

and notice how both these people posted this while in lab

because this shit makes it impossible i swear to god lol

[stable shore]

wtf it's ridiculous

how do you even play

[placid yarrow]

you can't

you go delve

or get the mastery

legit

[stable shore]

well at least the mastery is not too hard to get

1 pts for that sucks still

[placid yarrow]

yeah but it feels like such a kick in the nuts

to have to spend a point for fucking light radius

[stable shore]

one of those things that maybe was cool in poe alpha but really belong to the past haha

[placid yarrow]

Yeah for real, thankfully we have spirit In Poe 2 so I doubt it'll be a thing there

[tawny sand]

this remdinded me of someone defending light radius to me, and then went on to describe how a skill could use light radius to buff it

was the dumbest shit i heard

[opal flower]

Light radius should be important for everyone.

[daring shore]

1 point for being able to see

just remove light radius from the game

[daring shore]

also i cannot fucking believe

offical lore for dragunov in T8 is

"after T7 they gave me a big vacation so i am going to spend it on fighting devils and bears"

you cannot make this shit up

that is also the same reason why his outfit is pretty casual

[simple needle]

tbf theres no actual lore, hes always been a mysterious character

Tekken characters are in desperate need of personality and lore

outside of mishimas

[shut gale]

Remnant 2 is good mayne

What an underrated game

[weary yacht]

Is it underrated

That word is overused

[maiden crown]

Waaaan Punch!

[weary yacht]

Watching the leaked starfield gameplay I don't like what im seeing for some reason

[viral galleon]

Wow who could have guessed Bethesda would over hype and under deliver

Not like that's been their modus operandi for so long

[weary yacht]

Good thing i was skeptical this whole time

[tawny sand]

is it overhyped? I've seen the official bethesda videos and just thought "ah yeah that could be fun later on"

i guess ppl are overhyping it tho, i don't really keep up

[weary yacht]

I meant just going by the amount of time its gets mentioned here on an irrelevant discord i would say its plenty hyped

[tawny sand]

i haven't seen it mentioned in a while so idk, I've mentioned it a few times i think

but i don't think mentioning something is an indicator of overhype, i don't feel like it's cyberpunk 2077 levels or anything

also has there been any pc reviews of armored core 6 yet? i want to know what the performance is like

[weary yacht]

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/armored-core-6-review#:~:text=In my experience%2C the PC,with native ultrawide support!)

Seems okay

Due to the nature of the verical space mobility it is prolly gonna be more heavy then elden ring is my guess

[tawny sand]

https://www.pcgamer.com/armored-core-6-fires-of-rubicon-review/

found one by pcgamer too

"87" that's high for an armored core, i'm disappointed

where's my 7/10 mecha game i wanted

[weary yacht]

[simple spear]

Bro I'm so ready for Friday I got a collectors edition of Armored Cor VI I want to unbox it already!!!!

[rugged island]

I just watched the 40 min leaks

game looks great, I don't see the problem

the guy playing the leaks is a potato tho and takes way too long to do everything, and cannot even hold his phone in landscape mode to record

that might affect your perception a bit

link to it here:|| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhTpb-4iCE|| until YT removes it which might be soon

but game looks great and honestly runs WAY better than I thought it was going to

I expected it to be a 30fps or less mess, it's not

[tawny sand]

i can't stand watching other people play games a lot of the times

[simple needle]

70% chance it's gonna be another d4

[teal flame]

Hearing that guy's mouth noises makes me want to punch someone. That footage makes it look pretty mid, but maybe the dogfighting and stuff feelsgood to play

[eager ridge]

Is starfield just space fallout gameplay wise? Or outer worlds? Or no mans sky?

[maiden crown]

No Man's Skyrim

[lyric vault]

Already gone.

[teal flame]

I watched through it last night, it looked pretty mid, but the video/audio quality was terrible so it's tough to say.

I'm planning to wait for my friends who are mega hyped for it to get it and then see their reviews

[tawny sand]

space marine 2 looks quite good

really liked the first one

[teal flame]

Yeah, also 3P co-op will be awesome for it

[simple needle]

holy moly a small hotfix in baldur gate 3 is gigantic

[ember lake]

@simple needle The game is Garden Galaxy on Steam - kind of an idle game but no microtransactions, just gotta wait a very short amount of time to get stuff to spawn 🙂

[simple needle]

installing demo right away

[ember lake]

FYI - demo saves don't automatically carry over but I think there's a thread with instructions if the Steam discussions 🙂

[simple needle]

okay its already addicting

[ember lake]

Aren't the sprites adorable

[simple needle]

they are, and im trying to figure out all the secrets

you can plant plants in the soil

make coins into plant coins

you can water the plants with the fishy fountain

[ember lake]

This one took me so long to figure out lol

[simple needle]

Im gonna love clutter so much on my screen

[maiden widget]

just saw some indie games overview from gamescom and this looked neat https://store.steampowered.com/app/1386750/Spindle/

Steam

Spindle

What happens if nobody dies anymore? With that question, let us introduce you to the world of Spindle where indeed nobody dies anymore. And the answer to the question is rather simple: Chaos. Pure disorder. A mess that needs to be cleaned up. But to clean things up, Death first needs to figure out, what is going on and why it's going. Grab your ...

Release Date

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▶ Play video

[ember lake]

I want pictures when I'm back!

[simple needle]

how did i do

[simple needle]

my nest is getting bigger im addicted

[rugged island]

not bad

[simple needle]

Did you purchase the game

[rugged island]

no

[simple needle]

i have a problem

[simple needle]

i just realized how similar this game's world building is to animal crossing

and its simpler to do

[light cave]

@brittle veldt to avoid talking about it anymore in main

i'm always so happy when i see him as a teamate becuase its so rare you get a peel champion

but there's like a 25% chance they're just a idiot and try to engage with him

[brittle veldt]

Yeah true

There is always chance though someone will be not alright lol

Lower ELO just bugs me because people don’t know basics

[light cave]

yeah its just annoying when someones mechanically above their elo

[brittle veldt]

So when I get to Master and then skip 3 seasons and have to play Gold again, omg

[light cave]

but their strategy is garabage

[brittle veldt]

Yeah - in Plat now I can just swipe dragons solo because people don’t even care to ward

In Master I would have been killed 3 times if I tried this lol

[light cave]

I refuse to play yi even when its correct

because people wont ward jungle entrances

[brittle veldt]

I love Yi in opponent team

Free FB in many cases

[light cave]

@brittle veldt yeah hes very skill heavy now, but most people don't even know how his midscope works so you get a lot of people gettign absolutely slaughtered

if your alone and he qs you after pressing e

your insta dead

It's kind of funny since he went form having all his power in ult

to having quite possibly the weakest ult in the game 3 years later

[brittle veldt]

Just saw Aurelion Sol do penta lol

[modest sentinel]

Did they rework yi?

I stopped playing league for more than a year ago

[teal flame]

I don't think so. He's pretty much the same kit as he's been forever. If you play well and don't die for the first 20 minutes and they don't have 17 different CCs, you get an auto win.

But I only tune in to a content creater now and again since I used to work there. It's tough to play games you worked on but no longer do.

[ember lake]

@simple needle @rugged island Oh no, what have I started xD

[simple needle]

just finished this

@ember lake

[ember lake]

Woah! That's amazing! Still in demo mode?

[simple needle]

i bought the game now

its so much like animal crossing

[ember lake]

But without the 'I haven't played in 4 months' guilt xD

I'll dig out some of my screenshots

[simple needle]

you gotta show me

[ember lake]

So this is a long standing project I've been working on in small bursts since game launch and these are not up to date. I've built more of the river cliff up 😅

[simple needle]

i needa get on your level

[ember lake]

I've started another save too, but that's still in the gathering stages - floor tiles remain the bane of my existence lol

[simple needle]

gathering stages is easy to speedrun with duplicate bags and altars

for me its the clutter and cleaning up that are exhausting

i already have some ideas i wanna build

[ember lake]

Oh yeah, I think I have 40+ bags of duping just been lazy/focused on Rainbow coin manipulation 😅

[simple needle]

gotta up my dupes

[ember lake]

Wanna know a trick?

[simple needle]

yes pls

[ember lake]

||Put Bags of Duping on the Alters exclusively, then use them to dupe each other until satisfied. Then use these bags to dupe the cloud/invisible blocks and put them into the pot - they provide rainbow coins. You get a lot of these blocks back from the BoD.

Each rainbow coin should provide on average 1 bag of duping if most of the alters are pushing for them. Also put other rainbow coin items on the wooden alters to make BoD spawns more likely too.||

[simple needle]

thx for the tip ❤️

[ember lake]

No worries - my last achievement is completing the Rainbow set so I'm hyper farming those coins xD

[light cave]

Yeah they did he's got a bunch of new mechanics like he can choose where he teleports after q his q applies on hit and crit his w gives a massive amount of damage reduction and e has no passive component but active does a lot of damage.

Oh yeah his q also goes down with attacks but doesn't full reset.

Basically every time they've done one of these highlander gets nerfed

So it's now almost worse than a basic ability.

[simple needle]

@ember lake i made stone henge

[ember lake]

Holy s-! That's amazing!! I love the swamp too!

I need to start planning my new save build! So cool!

[simple needle]

im not done yet ,its a start . Thanks!

[tawny sand]

what's this game? looks comfy

[ember lake]

Garden Galaxy 🙂

[simple needle]

took forever to get my world tidy

[eager ridge]

careful ave, you might pickup the level designers attention for LE and they'll move you into the dev room

[ember lake]

Considering how much time I've spent with the Back-End team recently, there might be a fight 🤣

[simple needle]

Chrono Trigger End of Time ❤️

[ember lake]

Y'all are killing it - gonna have to make sure for each Garden Screenshot I get one showing a few more hours of LE playtime when 0.9.2 launches or I might be in trouble xD

[simple needle]

Theres no competition here XD

[rugged island]

So building your own cute voxel hideout gets added to what LE patch?

[simple needle]

imagine

would love hideout in LE

[ember lake]

I think I have 3 logs for Hideout requests atm 😅

[rugged island]

i dont think a new dedicated zone for hideout is the right way to do it for LE, but rather converting the private area you go to while doing monoliths into your base by customizing it, maybe adding extra space or whatnot

since its already your private instanced area to you andf your party

and you go there all the time with normal gameplay loop

[simple needle]

I need Barrel in Garden Galaxy

Grole is sad

[simple needle]

Scuffed LE end of time

[simple needle]

People still look forward to cod games huh

[rugged island]

not people older than 15

[simple needle]

Cod still big on consoles I guess

just like people looking forward to D4 for PC

But Activision Blizzard is Activision Blizzard

[simple needle]

Anyone Thoughts of starfield first look ?

[teal flame]

It looks alright

[simple needle]

I dont trust my own opinion, i have zoomer brain. Would love to know someone elses excitement for the game

cos the ship reminds me of CLEAN gunpla

it looks so good

[teal flame]

I haven't been that excited about it, been waiting to see what friends think of it before I worry too much about getting it

[simple needle]

yeah im cautiously looking at it

i dont care if i ended up liking it and spoiled the story for myself

I definitely see No mans sky inspiration for gameplay

not just becos its a "Space game"

[teal flame]

Yeah, I've mostly been in a multiplayer mode lately, so Armored Core is currently satisfying what little single player desire I have

[junior oyster]

When I realised (unless I'm wrong) you can't land wherever you want I lost interest

[simple needle]

pretty sure they make u go through the storyline first , and then allow u to free roam endgame. Could be wrong

[junior oyster]

Tbf I'm not bothered because it's essentially free for me on gamepass

But now that I think about it I don't I'll be able to run the game on my pc

Steamdeck maybe but not pc

[weary yacht]

7/10 from gamespot and ign

At least some media are being real

[simple needle]

They are the ones getting called "bad journalist"

[weary yacht]

[simple needle]

Take that how you will, Bethesda fanbois just like blizzard ones

[weary yacht]

Fanboyism very strong

[simple needle]

Ign gave d4 9/10

Icant

[weary yacht]

They prolly aint arpg players

Understandable

Also

A lot of conflict of interest anyways

Ziff davis owns ign

That being said MS is owned by the same company as well so

[simple needle]

Ngl Starfield looking boring. Hey maybe it's not for my zoomer brain

I hope alot of ppl enjoy it anyway

Copium

[weary yacht]

Its prolly not bad.

Just not anything spectacular

[rugged island]

starfield looks great

it's slower paced sure, but so is bg3

which imo is best game to be released this decade so far

got it all preloaded to play tomorrow, will see how it is very soon

[weary yacht]

Gl!

[teal flame]

I'm just going to wait and see what my excited friends think of it 🤷‍♀️ No reason to preorder games in the digital age, really.

Lots of sci-fi is about 'boring minutiae' which can be part of the charm. Like look at Elite Dangerous for a good example of that, but still a great game.

[weary yacht]

So someone just experienced a sequence in neon city

In a 10 min quest inside the city had to load 8 times

One time out of the bar, one time into downtown, one time into elevator, one time into warehouse, then repeat those backwards to turn in the quest

And people running into copy pasta map tiles of entire buildings with the exact same npc, enemy placement and chest content

In random generated planet and main quest

Not even hours apart

[teal flame]

Oof

[simple needle]

Bethesda is gonna hotfix that instantly right

Right

[weary yacht]

instantly in cosmic time scale

[copper pawn]

anyone watching starfield streaming now?

[junior oyster]

Nope.

[rugged island]

bootin up starfield. will it crash? lol

runs fantastic, at least in the intro section

where is this city that was causing crashes

the lighting and the fog look incredible holy cow

[rugged island]

lmao you can make your main character obese

what is this todd howard

[waxen sonnet]

They few star citizen streamers/YouTubers I trust are looking at Starfield ofc and very positive so far

[eager ridge]

playing starfield now

its literally just space skyrim

gameplay has mass effecty mechanics

[rugged island]

i like it a lot

havent experenced any bugs or choppy performance yet so it's already passed my expectations for a day 1 bethesda studios launch

[waxen sonnet]

Yeah I've seen a few classic beth bugs but small ones like ragdoll physics going wonky

[rugged island]

containers are really cool

theres no inventory UI menu when you interact with stuff like chests, cabinets

you actually open it, and theres stuff inside to grab

feels a lot more modern in that reGARD

I would agree it plays a lot like fallout/skyrim, just a lot more modern

taking advantage of that new rendering tech thats in everything now where polygons aren't drawn unless they are in-view and close to the player

so theres way more details and objects everywhere

how many hours until I'm inevitably playing stealth archer 😛

[waxen sonnet]

Lol probably not archer but I know that playstyle def exists 🙂

[rugged island]

yeah itll be stealth snipers

lol

or a pistol

im way more excited for ship combat than ground combat tho

[waxen sonnet]

Yup. I actually don't play stealth archer usually, and I've played a lot of Skyrim. I wonder if I can play a vanguard style, absolute favorite way to play mass effect

Eh ship combat looks to arcadey for me, but I fully acknowledge I want more than 99% of players do in that regard

[rugged island]

I like arcadey

flight sims are not my thing

not realistic ones

[waxen sonnet]

yup, why i acknowledge i am in the minority haha

[rugged island]

in true skyrim fashion\

ignore the manditory escort quest, walk off to the side areas, steal everything valuable

still in the tutorial zone

aha

[simple needle]

Its bit more empty than skyrim

but its expected

its in space

I do miss running into random shit like snow trolls

[daring shore]

do you think after the genius that is ES5:Skyrim, Todd howard would want to do anything other than Skyrim but with X flavor

[teal flame]

Nah, he's too afraid to do anything else at this point

You might even call him... Todd Coward

[daring shore]

well why try to change something that works

[junior oyster]

Would you say it's NMS but with a proper story?

[rugged island]

it doesn't play like NMS at all

the similaries start and end with being an open world space game

starfield feels more like a traditional rpg and bethesda rpg, NMS is like more of a sandbox feel

todd howard locking slides behind 4 skillpoints fml

like this is a very good game but there is most certainly some of that good ole bethesda jank

which modders will eventually fix

[waxen sonnet]

seamless planet take off and landing please

go modders

[junior oyster]

That's kinda what I meant

NMS doesn't exactly have a proper story

[rugged island]

starfield isn't seamless open world like NMS

but it has proper quests, missions, a whole world and story

it kinda plays like Mass Effect, mixed with bethesda stuff

not as linear as mass effect tho, mission wise its just like skyrim or fallout 4, you have your main story to follow but a million side things to go do whenever you want

I wouldn't agree that it's emptier than other games... if you go to populated areas theres just as much to do as any other game

if you derp around on lifeless moons then sure itll feel empty lol

[waxen sonnet]

Wait. Space is 99.9% empty? Whattttt

[rugged island]

they even added an option to get random pirate or merc attacks on your character as you play (optional setting in char creation) which can fill up some downtime in emptier areas

I have it on, its nice

and more xp 😄

I think if you held a gun to my head and made me pick starfield or bg3, I still think bg3 is the better game

off first impressions

[junior oyster]

Well bg3 is on another level but some would choose starfield because bg3 is turn based

[rugged island]

yeah there's personal prefrence. I like both genres of games. BG3 feels like a once-in-a-decade genre defining game, and starfield, while very good, just feels like an upgraded version of the same game everyone has played before

would recommend it but it isn't going to blow your mind

[eager ridge]

i derped around on a lifeless moon, and found like 8 different POI's

lmfao

even got a couple legendaries

[rugged island]

farther than me lol

i only played for a few hours was still doing all the side missions in the city

new atlantis reminds me a lot of citidal specifically in mass effect 1

@eager ridge you find any good ways to get an npc to turn around so you can steal something

todd howard not giving us enough bowls and buckets heh

[narrow token]

It's like 5 days till gamepass players can play right?

[eager ridge]

Yea, i kill them

I have like a 500k bounty on my head from multiple factions

[waxen sonnet]

Too real

[granite monolith]

yall enjoying starfield? I'm hearing mixed opinions

[simple needle]

well its a type of mixed opinion kinda game

so it wont be GOTY

goty for some ppl , but its not a majority

its a game though

for me, its below bethesda classics, but those games are high ceilings to reach

[granite monolith]

I see

[rugged island]

too many npcs are unkillable tho

they just get downed for a min and stand back up

I guess will just have to steal and eat the bounty lol

[eager ridge]

Yea i just sit in towns and spam kill guards

[rugged island]

Yes it's a good game. It plays like a mix between mass effect and a bethesda game, rather than a puirse bethesda game, I think some ppl are thrown off by the lack of a pure open-world and a bit of slower pacing (but slower pacing is largely based on what you choose to do in game)

[eager ridge]

Best levelup strat

[rugged island]

I'd rate it like a 7.5 or maybe 8/10

[eager ridge]

Every guards like 20 exp a pop

And they come to you

[rugged island]

but heres the thing, it's a Bethesda game. Once the modding scene starts going crazy it'll be way better

[eager ridge]

I hear difficulty you play on actually matters for gear drops, which i guess i can agree on

Ive been playing on hard and legendaries drop out the kazoo

So i imagine very hard is nuts legendaries

[rugged island]

also playing on hard, ya

[eager ridge]

I may swap to very hard since i have nuts weapons now

[rugged island]

talking to robot "Do you know a Human Joke?" "Yeah, I'm looking at one"

Shattering is a very nice mod

I found 1 legend so far but it seems to 1 shot any enemy that isn't 4 health bars

[eager ridge]

Dont let the legendaries get to ya too much, ive noticed they arent even the strongest most of the time

I found a blue maelstrom that just so happened to have whitehot rounds, and that alone carried me through a good couple hours

Shoot an enemy once and he lights on fire and panic's

Then burns alive

Its white phosphorus rounds lmfao

[rugged island]

where do you sell contraband

[eager ridge]

Honestly have no idea, ive never bothered with contraband, because of how much of a hassle it is unless you have the Deception perk
Im going to entirely guess here, but based on the faction based traits in character creation, Neon sounds like the hoodrat gangster faction and i bet would have fences for contraband

I also chose that neon trait as one of my traits

Introvert, that one, and wanted

[rugged island]

ah u take it to any trade authority

omg lol

I open follower inventory to dump resources and see they are holding a 110 damage gun, that I did not give it

11k value just sitting there for no clear reason

yoink!

[eager ridge]

Values in this game are so scuffed that i barely pay attention to them anymore lmao

You start rollin in dough REAL FAST

[rugged island]

15k contraband sells for 2k

fml

and thats with lvl1 sell perk too

[eager ridge]

maniacal laughter

[waxen sonnet]

the gun models look crisp AF, im impressed

[eager ridge]

cleared my other bounties, but i guess i cant clear this one

[waxen sonnet]

damn, galaxies most wanted mammal

[eager ridge]

stares

[rugged island]

only 875k?

thats like 15 murders

rookie numbers

elemental effects AND radiation? 😮

if only that robot damage was bleed

[eager ridge]

4 capital cities

Amd everyone inside

Luckily i found some random trader on an asteroid that let me reset all my bounties

[tame dome]

"Say sike right now."

[eager ridge]

Wait why

It cost me 3.5mill to reset all my bounties

Also if anyone heres played battlebit, and you get a Kodama in starfield, even a white, try it

Its a battlebit prenerf vector

And it bleeds

Little 30 mag smg pistol and empties the whole thing nearly instantly

@rugged island if you find a nice high level area full of enemies, i dont know the exact requirement for triggering it but unlike skyrim, enemies will respawn

Legendary farming heaven

Or you can just go to a random high level system, pick any planet, land whereever you want, find nearest deserted outpost and farm enemies

Varuun drop super sick shit, but my god they'll eat you alive

I wanna find a planet that has like 2-3 bandit camps all close together, then slap an outpost down between all 3 of em

[eager ridge]

https://twitter.com/Meelsie143/status/1697897567663583485

Elsie (@Meelsie143)

After 16 hours in character creation I think I’ve finally created my dream man

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[tawny sand]

that's really good haha

[rustic meteor]

That's me

Well except those silly hair

[rugged island]

mortar turret mod when

autofarm enemies

[eager ridge]

brrrrt

[rugged island]

nice find

[eager ridge]

an even nicer find

[final ice]

I didn't have any interest in this game until this exact image.

[eager ridge]

AH YES GIANT OCTOPUS SPIDERS

THANKS BETHESDA

[simple needle]

First thing that's intrigued me about the game

[eager ridge]

there was 16 of them, all extremely hostile, lvls 45-60 and im 32

[simple needle]

Calling it, starfield getting 5/10 or lower on metacritic for user reviews

[brittle veldt]

Lol this was epic

[rugged island]

I think it deserves like a 7 in current state, assuming you aren't encountering bad performace issues. its pretty taxing on your system to run well

the big gripe with loading screens I think is pretty unfair

but yeah its no GOTY

that belongs to BG3 or maybe LE 😛

[rugged island]

I found 10m long flying moth/snakes

absolutely terrifying

but they are peaceful lol

[eager ridge]

loading screens?

the 2s long loading screens? if even that?

[rugged island]

yeah thats what I mean

everywhere I read it's like "I hate starfield bc too many loading screens"

i dont think thats a reasonable take at all

[eager ridge]

i think people are just looking for a reason to hate on the game

it doesnt have all the major issues people would expect from a bethesda game

so they gotta pick out something else

even if its minor

[rugged island]

i expected more launch bugs than this

its pretty isssue-free, only performance is tough but that was expected

it's way more playable than bf2042 launch or CP2077 launch

i expect they'll optimize what they need to in future

release now fix it later seems to be the AAA mantra as of late

The lack of a ground vehicle to move around planets does kind of piss me off 😅

thats a complaint I can make

and colony building has no grid... I wish it had a grid...

[eager ridge]

im having boost sniper fun way up in the sky, poppin head

[rugged island]

doing except same at this moment lol

[eager ridge]

yea i had realized i never leveling my booster

so i just max ranked it from 0 off 1 lvl 8 spacer lol

[rugged island]

well THAT's a nice find

11 of them

[eager ridge]

maniacal laughter

[rugged island]

it's skyrim in space all right

[viral galleon]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2003593601834970996/BAD1F5986BA4B520F3EE4872A85F8FFAFD2CD0A4/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

how do you lose to stormcaller spam like this

all you need to do is missile interceptors and air and gg

2 boats would have wiped all of this

[junior oyster]

What even is that game

[viral galleon]

mechabellum

its a big mech auto battler

[rugged island]

ok the slayton mission is one of the most fun missions ever

in any rpg

[opal flower]

Since COVID it's been all or nothing for people that review. I ignore scores and just read what people say. Try to find something that actually makes me consider or reconsider. Lot of negativity towards Starfield, which I wasn't even planning to get, wasn't surprising. But one thing I did read made me actually consider getting it later in the future.

[opal flower]

CP2077 had no playability issues at launch. It was also the most optimized game I've seen in a decade, I played it on a 1650 on medium-high settings and it was smooth. Can't wait for the new patch any day now, whole reason I'm not getting Starfield.

[simple needle]

ngl, starfield made me reinstall No Man's Sky and appreciate it more

i know they both are different games

but exploration is where no man's sky is better at

and more freedom to f about and do whatever

[tawny sand]

cyberpunk is all set dressing, like a theme park facade, which most games are. Bethesda's games have tons of interactable and physics attached to them. I can't comment on the gameplay itself, but Bethesda's games have always been demanding as weird as that is for things that happen under the hood.

but that's why cyberpunk runs better, don't forget all the cut content too like the monorail(?) system. subway, whatever it was.

it's like comparing X4, a very simulation heavy game that's honestly very ugly, to a triple AAA ray traced to death game. they're different performance problems in line, X4 runs like absolute shit but it's simulating a ton. opening the menu and seeing all my ships fly around, dock, trade, mine, whatever, kills my framerate.

which was different to X3, which was script based

weirdly enough though i personally never cared about Bethesda's interactibility, it was the immersive sim that i always wanted. They kind of kept doing less of it than Daggerfall so I was always bummed out with each release

like morrowind was good, and i loved it, but i want more immersive sim than open world dungeon crawler

i don't really care about putting buckets on storekeep's heads or anything

[simple needle]

bad ai is charming for 2010s , now with new modern graphics , it just bring us out of the immersive experience

[rugged island]

cyberpunk didn't even achieve 20fps for people with 3080s

I don't think we are living in the same universe if that's your memory of their launch

people were buying GeForce Now just to be able to run it

[tawny sand]

i remember, i was a person thinking bout doing geforce now to play it. but i got a card eventually.

[rugged island]

I will say about playing BG3, and seeing how incredible all the characters and voice acting is, going right to Starfield, man. I don't care for ANY of the companions. They are soulless, have no personality, and are boring and same-like to each other.

[tawny sand]

but yeah, cyberpunk had TONS of promised stuff that isn't in the game. I still think it's a fun game, but i def remember them marketing it like it would be a Deus Ex 1 type of immersive sim. it ended up being just a fun, buggy, simple romp around. The new police systemt hey're doing sounds neat though

[rugged island]

I wish Starfield innovated more than they did. It's too similar to skyrim, and as a result, feels dated.

Modders will fix it. In time. >.>

[rugged island]

Yeah I was looking for the hacking and netrunning stuff. A lot of the promises were cut

[opal flower]

I was getting 50fps on a 1650 just fine. Now I get 60 fps, with path tracing. People are getting worse at 1080p, no ray tracing in Starfield lol

[opal flower]

The game uses fast travel, nobody wants to sit on a subway moving to another location

[rugged island]

You were in a minority of players then

[tawny sand]

i do.

[rugged island]

I firmly remember early steam reviews dipping into 'slightly negative' because of performance issues alone

I also remember it took them multiple major patches to finally address it. And the first 2 made FPS even lower

[opal flower]

The only performance issues I recall had to do with the PS4

[rugged island]

PC

[tawny sand]

oddly enough, i also remember people making fun of Oblivion for having fast travel (morrowind had silt striders to specific points), but funnily enough Daggerfall before it had fast travel

but i don't fast travel when i can help it, i like exploring

[opal flower]

BG3 had a lot more bugs and bigger patches already than Cyberpunk had

[rugged island]

CP2077 was also CPU bottlenecked with very bad GPU utilization

[opal flower]

I understand that in some games but for a long time people begged for fast travel options in games once it became a thing.

[rugged island]

Modders did add this in

[tawny sand]

fast travel has been a thing since 1996 at least so idk

[opal flower]

There are a lot of things that have been a thing since the 90's that game devs will often don't do

[tawny sand]

there are def mods that disable fast travel yeah

anyway this is a goofy line of thinking, idc about whether or not there's fast travel

[rugged island]

I mean they added a subway system that isn't FT

[opal flower]

I'm saying any time a game didn't have fast travel people complained

[rugged island]

WoW

[opal flower]

Getting away from a slow monorail to fast travel makes sense

[rugged island]

people happily paid for gryphon rides and waited 30 minutes

[tawny sand]

spider-man has fast travel, but people still swing around the majority of the time

depends on how much travelling is fun imo

[opal flower]

Elite Dangerous is the slowest game I can stand to play lol

[rugged island]

This is why I rarely if ever use absolutes, you use them and you're automatically wrong pretty much every time

[tawny sand]

elite dangerous has boring travelling, because of it's realism space ends up boring

[rugged island]

almost always exceptions to things

[tawny sand]

it's not like euro truck sim where you need to navigate roads/highways

[rugged island]

ED never appealed to me. It's slow and boring. Every part of it

[tawny sand]

it is, i mean i like it, but if you're wanting to do space trucker sim it's very boring tbh until you get to stations

[rugged island]

There hasen't been a really good space simulation since X3: Foundations, just my opinion

[tawny sand]

then you may or may not deply heatsinks depending on if you're smuggling, that's about it really

i like X4, but i know some people don't

[opal flower]

X3 is just small scale ED

[tawny sand]

i like x4 more than x3 though

[rugged island]

I haven't played it lately with all their bug fixes and expansions. X4 when it came out was awful

[opal flower]

Star Citizen is even small scale ED

[rugged island]

Maybe its better now

[opal flower]

but smaller scale isn't bad

[rugged island]

Star Citizen also may never be finished and if it is, might be in year 2045

and cost 5 billion dollars

[tawny sand]

x4 is still jank, but egosoft games are jank in general

[opal flower]

I've never watched a Star Citizen streamer that got me interested in the game, they don't do anything

[tawny sand]

mmm i wouldn't say x4 is like ED, x series is more like mount and blade in space really

[rugged island]

Egosoft games have the WORST ui I have ever seen, biggest issue with them by far. Their UI designer is definetly 60 year old, and is stuck mentally in 1990

[opal flower]

Everspace 2 wasn't terrible

but not a sim

[tawny sand]

everspace 2 is too arcadey rpg for my tastes, but i get why people like it

reminds me somewhat of starpoint gemini but with better ship combat

[opal flower]

It's just diablo in space

[rugged island]

Everspace 2 is a arcade shooter-looter. Not a sim. Different type of game entirely. I did enjoy it, but it feels too repetitive at times. Very fun combat imo

[opal flower]

I just looked, I haven't played ED since 2019... maybe this is the year

[tawny sand]

i think the last time i played ED i tried out the land stuff and i was really disappointed

[rugged island]

ED is a bad game

[tawny sand]

seems like frontier cares more about their planet / jurassic park games than ED, which is a shame

i just want EVE but where i can fly in the cockpit, is that too much to ask? lol

[opal flower]

Isn't that X4?

[tawny sand]

x4 doesn't have the player economy, that's the big part about EVE i want

[rugged island]

I think MMOs need to be brought back. Except their gameplay needs to resemble current single player games, not existing mmo formula

[opal flower]

I played EVE in the early years, have a 2003 account. I just can't be bothered to go back.

[tawny sand]

same

[rugged island]

EVE had crazy graphics back then

so pretty

esp when youre going against Runescape and EQ2 lol

[tawny sand]

lol

[opal flower]

reading reviews of Spacebourne 2 and it's all people saying it's better than Starfield lol

[simple needle]

why are there so many space games i never heard of

[tawny sand]

space is cool

[simple needle]

one i like most right now is astroneer

[tawny sand]

i never played that one

also, a game i felt people slept on but i really liked was the second rebel galaxy. Outlaw?

it felt like a small privateer clone

[rugged island]

never heard of this game

its out?

[opal flower]

No looks like early access and single dev, but looks good for a single dev

[rugged island]

It looks like a solo dev UE4 flip

[tawny sand]

there's also evochron

that's a one person made game

and starsector is really good if you don't mind a top down view, but it's not on steam

[rugged island]

I have played evo

I hate it

lol

Solo dev projects are a big hit or miss. Theres some amazing ones out there, but I haven't seen a space-sim one I liked yet

Nothing that compares with stardew valley, dinkam, type of polish and feel

vamp surv

etc

[tawny sand]

true, and space sims are a big undertaking

[opal flower]

Rebel Galaxy was super fun and was made by a 2 dev team, but tbh Everspace 2 showed that a bigger dev team will do more.

[rugged island]

Actually, wait

No

There's 1 solo dev space sim I liked a lot

Avorion

That game is really quite good

It also still holds a small but consistent playerbase even 3 years after it came out

[opal flower]

There's a decent FPS I play that averages maybe 120 players online and only ever peaked at 4k, but so long as a server has people I'll keep playing

[uncut tiger]

I bought it based on all the reviews claiming that it was the second coming of Freelancer but I DNFd it cause of the.. everything. A total tonal mismatch about sums it up I guess.

It wasn't terrible but Freelancer 2 it was not

And the sheer amount of variuos puzzles. Really now, am I a space cowboy or a warehouse worker stacking boxes?

[uncut tiger]

Take your filthy hands off EQ2, it had some very decent graphics for its day and age. Although I'll concede that it had aged quite poorly.

[rugged island]

lol it looked alright

EVE was just on its own level

for 2003

[teal flame]

Oh man, Freelancer takes me back. There was a worthy space game.

[tame dome]

NGL, I have Freespace 2 sitting in my library patiently waiting for me to play it.

I got confused for a second because I thought you were talking about Freespace 2, lol.

[rugged island]

starfield officially out tomorrow

place your bets on what the steam reviews are going to say

I'm guessing "mostly positive"

[waxen sonnet]

tbf I think its actually a mostly positive game

[rugged island]

I do too

I think it'll fairly be around 60-70% positive range

but it's no 95% with bg3

[waxen sonnet]

sure, from what I have seen that is right. the range i would say is more like 50-80% from what I ahve seen, depending on your proclivities and pet peeves

but BG3 is just...above

[rugged marsh]

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

[tawny sand]

lol starfield is at 88% very positive of 6000 reviews at typing

[simple needle]

Where from?

[tawny sand]

steam

[simple needle]

Let see how it holds up when the gates are open

[tawny sand]

idk lol

i don't own the game, i just find the conversation funny

might pick it up on sale when there's more mods

[simple needle]

I genuinely think d4 is more enjoyable than starfield and d4 is bad

[tawny sand]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

tbf tho most of the reviews are pre-release it looks like, i didn't know you could review pre-release

so maybe it'll take a dive in the next few days yeah

[rustic meteor]

uh that's a strong sentence

[eager ridge]

Fuck yea it is lmao

Starfields been great

If anyone wants to hate on bethesda just to hate on bethesda, i guess wait for elder scrolls 6, cause starfields actually solid

[rustic meteor]

I will play it 1 year from now , as usual .

[tender echo]

Yeah, I’ve been enjoying it so far. It’s certainly not perfect, but I think some people are definitely being a bit too hard on it.

[simple needle]

I'm so glad I'm out of touch and the minority not liking starfield cos it's not my kinda game, rather than it just not being a good game

I liked all other Bethesda games other than 76 and starfield

[rugged island]

I will say once you pass 15 - 20 hours or so you'll notice theres a lot of copy + paste in starfield, that part I don't like

I've raided 4 science facilities with the exact same layout, 2 bandits camps with same layout, another 3 banditr camps that shared the same layout, etc...

much rather if they have some procederal system rather than design one building and copy+paste it a bunch of times

which seems like what they did. >.>

[junior oyster]

Does the game have vaults? 👀 😂

[waxen sonnet]

yeah i expected a bit of copy paste or limits to procedural generation, that is a bit unfortunate its that much

[weary yacht]

Told you guys on the 1st

Actually i posted that in 31st

[waxen sonnet]

I just try and not doomsay before knowing. Also, it doesn't make the game crap on its own or anything

[rugged island]

finished the story, it's shorter than I thought

but it looks like theres a lot of new content in the postgame so maybe thats a lot longer, idk

[viral galleon]

woah bethesda just lazily copy and pasting content? nooooo

[cedar lily]

bethesda is more of engine designer, but the contents are probably better made by the modders

no, to clarify, modders make the better contents, bethesda make the engine/platform to make more contents

[narrow token]

Maybe more apt would be they're "System" designers. Because their engine doesn't run well, wholesale.

They make great gameplay systems though. I believe that.

[waxen sonnet]

apparently the updated creation engine in starfield is working pretty great though

and updated lighting and shader systems are quite pretty

[cedar lily]

oh ye I've heard of the term systems designer

[waxen sonnet]

still uses papyrus scripting though haha, which a beth dev hilariously apologized direcly to modders for

[narrow token]

Definitely not what I'm seeing from the benchmark channels. It looks less detailed than Cyberpunk, but runs a lot worse. As an example.

[waxen sonnet]

eh both sides are probably biased lol

haters hate and lovers love

i will decide when i play it

[narrow token]

Well, the objective markers regarding texture detail and other graphical implementations cannot be biased.

[waxen sonnet]

love space games on a 5120x1440 monitor 🙂

[waxen sonnet]

they totally can

[narrow token]

You can like the game and admit that it's not as detailed as other games.

[waxen sonnet]

it all depends on the definitions you use

[narrow token]

They really can't. Texture detail isn't subjective.

The texture detail in Diablo 4 is higher than Last Epoch, for example.

[opal flower]

It's 100% lower detail and it doesn't even have ray tracing because the engine they use sucks

[opal flower]

According to whom? Todd? All the people who test such things say otherwise.

[rugged island]

i'd argue it would look better and run better if it just ran unreal or something instead of whatever in-house engine they use

not hating starfield, its a good game, but I'm putting this on the shelf now for like a year and will try it again once theres a lot of mods

its a bethesda game and I kinda knew it was going to be like this before it was out

they are all like this

I just hope they dont do some bs and charge money for the best mods like some creation club garbage

elder scrolls 6 also needs to innovate a lot more to succeed, starfield feels too close to fallout 4 / skyrim and that charm isn't as charming 12 years later tbh. it's a bit dated

by the time its out it cannot feel like a 15 to 20 year old game, it just can't

[eager ridge]

yea shroud got it down to a science where he was completing the story in an hour, and it goes up to like new game +10

and hes like IMA TRY FOR NG+100

[tawny sand]

aren't bethesda main stories usually pretty short? I feel like skyrim's wasn't that long

i don't think fo3 was either

i don't remember fo4's

[junior oyster]

I don't even remember if F:NV had a main story. I just did whatever and somehow the game ended lol

[past breach]

I'm probably coming in at the middle of a discussion here but hte only Bethesda game I've played in detail is ESO, and it has quite the long main story, especially if you take into account all 3 factions. I played for a while at launch and haven't played much since I quit; it's very likely got even more than when I played before. Not ot mention all the DLC and stuff and side stories of course. I at one time made it a goal to experience ALL the side stories in just the base game and first expansion or two but....no...that's way too much even for me.

Full voice acted too, BTW.

I know you said main stories. But yeah, the main story is quite extensive IMO.

ESO gets hate from Skyrim players but it's actually a pretty good game and can be a great solo experience if that's what you're looking for.

[tawny sand]

eso isn't a bethesda studios game, it's zenimax

[past breach]

OH, ha, my bad

[tawny sand]

i like eso what little i played of it though

[past breach]

Same, it gets boring after a few hundred hours though, starts to feel very samey...very few classes and skills, side quests get boring, dungeons get boring after too many runs, etc. But it's good for a few hundred hours of fun. ^^

I mainly played a sorcerer healer...before they buffed twilight matriarch so sorcs weren't really good healers yet 😛 But I dance to the beat of my own drum and such

[narrow token]

Eso movement and combat feel too floaty for my tastes. I prefer something more snappy and tactile.

[simple needle]

Bdo combat is nice outside of everything else

[past breach]

I like being able to move while casting the dark bolt skill, whatever it's called, and the lightning bolt skill felt very satisfying to use, such a cool animation and often it got the kill even if I wasn't the DPS because it executes. 😄

Yeah I played BDO too and enjoyed the combat, the only class I played in BDO was the witch, I had a fire/lightning build. This was very early on in the game's life too just like most of my time in ESO

I played before awakenings lol

(I think that's what it's called?)

[simple needle]

Can't have a perfect mmo

[past breach]

nope XD

[simple needle]

I think ff14 and wow have traits I want from both

[past breach]

I've tried them both but didn't get into them much. I've also played ArcheAge, New World, Bless Unleashed, and others. 😛

[simple needle]

I think private servers saved my wow experience

[past breach]

My perfect MMO would have traits of ArcheAge (housing for sure), BDO (combat), ESO (world building, dungeons were really cool too), and Bless Unleashed (skill system, either when it first launched or its current one, both are cool IMO)

[simple needle]

This

Archeage housing was so fun to mess around with

[past breach]

The only MMO I've played private servers for is an old Korean MMO called Shaiya. But that's been a while.

[simple needle]

Idk what bless unleashed is tho

[past breach]

Now if only someone would make a private server for Hearthstone XD Go back to 2016 for real

Bless Unleashed is a very dead game, they shut down the console servers and PC will probably be next, it's the 2nd time they've done an MMO on PC, they shut down the first one. So I don't recommend getting into it XD But sadly...I find it fun 😛

The skill system is pretty in-depth now though, you can have up to 6 skills. 2 use a resource and the other 4 have a timer then there's also combos with attacks so you can do like AOE, stun, or just single-target damage. It's pretty cool. Some of the dungeons also had cool mechanics. I played as a priest and could solo world bosses and that was pretty fun 🙂

[simple needle]

Anyways, I guess starfield is growing on me as a sandbox and ignore its story, immersion, world building, if you ignore them and treat it as a Bethesda sandbox in space it's kinda fun and quirky

[past breach]

And also as far as the skills go, you can like upgrade them using currency and there are different things you can have I think called marks that like give them different passives or make them behave differently, and the marks themselves have passives you can get. It's pretty in-depth for an MMO I think ha

Ah ok Bethesda, we were talking about Starfield 😛 Sorry to derail. I haven't played Starfield, I dont' like shooter games and rarely play spacey-sci-fi games 😛 my loss probably

[simple needle]

Seeing how you describe it , it's sounds nice

[past breach]

Yeah I honestly don't know why Bless Unleashed isn't more popular. I think it's kinda p2w but I didn't get far enough for it to affect me, I guess

it's got forced open-world pvp..unless they changed it. Maybe people don't like that. It was fun though lol

I'm not the type to bully but if I'm farming and someoen tries to bully me it was fun to call in my guildies for backup haha

[simple needle]

I just think people don't have time for mmo's anymore, and young people don't have the attention span for mmos

[past breach]

yeah...I am 34 years old but every time I try to get into an MMO, I find it hard to find friends either outside the MMO to play with ,or from inside

Most people who play just seem to want to do their own thing so just whatever lol

[simple needle]

Arpg kinda have the grind but is way faster paced. I think that's why people are desperate for a good arpg

[past breach]

New World was the last MMO I played seriously but yeah just had to find parties solo, people gatekeep and won't let you do dungeons if you don't have perfect gear which is dumb because I've done them on the hardest difficulty. But it is what it is

[simple needle]

There's some great things about new world, sadly

[past breach]

Yeah, D4 and now looking like LE have a little but of some MMO elements to them which is a nice change of pace compared to PoE which pretty much everyone solos

Not that I like D4...not in-depth enough for me. But I like the social aspect

[simple needle]

The social aspect is nice if it's done right but d4 isn't doing it right

It's still a lonely "mmo"

[past breach]

Yeah I have a full set of 625 gs gear but people don't want me to do mutated 10 dungeons because I don't have resists in my gear because I opted for lame stuff like cooldown reduction 🙄

As long as I Don't die...what's the issue

[simple needle]

The way you find ppl to play with on d4 is discord or forums or whatever, not really in game

[past breach]

I only played d4 in the beta test weekends, and I had friends to play with. I Did interact with a few people in-game but not a lot, I guess

I couldn't even figure out how to talk in local chat for a while lol

I don't like the way ff14 does healing...or classes in genearl. And WoW is a bit dated to me as I don't have that nostalgia for it, other than seeing Hearthstone characters I recognize like Thalnos, Sylvanas, Alexstrasza, and Nozdormu 😛

OMG the first time I ran into Thalnos I nerded out for real

and then minions too like murlocs and Oasis Snapjaw

When I played LE before I was able to find people here in discord to party with in game and it was fun. It seems to have a good community! And people helping each other in chat in-game. I plan on coming back tomorrow but not sure if i'll play the rune mage

[ripe kraken]

take a break traveller, rate my terraria fishing houses I made sick in bed instead 🙂

[narrow token]

I would love for LE to take ideas from Lost Ark classes like the Soulfist, Wardancer, Deathblade, and Shadowhunter.

[past breach]

Rate my leisure room in Stranded: Alien Dawn! 😛

[past breach]

The middle one looks cool with the blue aesthetic. 😄

[ripe kraken]

are you riding a dog? leave him alone!!!!

[past breach]

No, just standing behind him lol

[simple needle]

y r u a dog

[past breach]

Don't judge 🐕

[simple needle]

josh strife truly is the guy I wanna be when i grow up from my childhood memory

how the hell does someone make a 2hours video of a Flash game ( Adventure Quest) from my childhood?

[modest sentinel]

bro, becoming same-y after a few hundred hours is like almost any game.

[simple needle]

I think Skill based games, you always strive to be better, and hence , with growth its no longer samey, until u hit a wall

Samey is subjective

some people hates fighting game, if all you see is 2 people punching and kicking each other for a period of time, then it becomes samey

but if you look at all the frames, the range, the hitbox, how you can react etc., it becomes not samey

same with moba or chess

number of possibility to get better becomes a reason to play more

however all games can become highly competitive, in terms of time trial for single player games. I think samey-ness depends on how bored you get to grind that same game

When you hit a wall it becomes samey

[eager ridge]

i didnt complete skyrims until 3000 hours in

seems pretty long to me

[eager ridge]

oh he covered adventure quest? pog

friend and i started playing Akumi Wars recently which is from the same creators

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1961970/Akumi_Wars/

Steam

Akumi Wars

Calling all Bounty Hunters!Akumi's putting together a crew for the biggest, riskiest, and most treasure-filled gig of her life. Want in?Akumi Wars is a turn-based RPG. Build your own party of irresponsible misfit heroes and delve into an epic world story with the ultimate goal of... avoiding needing to work retail. Armed with guns, magic, and a ...

Release Date

Coming soon

[simple needle]

can anyone join access

[eager ridge]

you can pay for access via the kickstarter still i think

thats what i did

[simple needle]

kickstarter link>

I got it

ohhh im too late

[eager ridge]

oh yea darn

https://miltoniusarts.itch.io/akumi-wars-demo
looks like there is a demo for it

[simple needle]

imma just wait to not spoil the story

I think the story is probably important

alr love the art style instantly

[past breach]

It mainly feels samey because every time I play I'm still just using the same 12 skills.

[winged kelp]

My dream is a dungeon crawler that focuses on traps, puzzles, and non-linear exploration--complete with secret and hidden, gated subbosses and sublevels.

Something a bit more active than click-click-click--a mixture of aRPG, Metroidvania, Zeldavania, Dungeon Crawling, and Soulslike.

With added replay!

[teal flame]

Have you tried Dark and Darker? It's a PvPvE extraction dungeon crawler that really scratches that itch.

Or the Darksiders trilogy is pretty good if you want a single player experience

[eternal sky]

darksiders 1 and 2

fuckin slap

[past breach]

I would like another game like Operencia. It was kinda perfect but waaaaaaay too short with virtually no replayability. 😦 Not really enough turn-based dungeon crawler games with a good battle system

Another game that seemed randomly perfect for me was Stranded: Alien Dawn, kinda a small-scale base builder/RTS where you control like 1~10+ people (generally 3-6) instead of like way too many (like They Are Billions for example) and it's not nearly as hard as TAB, but it's challenging. And beautiful. People call it a 3D Rimworld, but I've never played Rimworld, cuz the graphics are horrible af, sorry 😕

[past breach]

I that Dark and Darker looked good, if it wasn't for the pvp part of it

[teal flame]

Without the PvP it really wouldn't be that interesting of a game. The PvP keeps things fresh and different every game, and some of the tension it creates during runs is really awesome.

[modest sentinel]

Did you try darksiders genesis?

[eager ridge]

a game similar to Rimworld? interesting, should try out Keplerth

[past breach]

But Stranded: Alien Dawn is Rimworld...except with good graphics. Like..c'mon, that's awesome 😛

[teal flame]

Going Medieval is Rimworld but medieval (and better graphics)

It's still early acces, but it's excellent

[tawny sand]

i'm an oxygen not included kind of guy, not really rimworld but colony sim

and dwarf fortress is a classic

[past breach]

@teal flame I just wishlisted Going Medieval. Thanks for the suggestion. It doesn't look bad. I'll keep an eye on it!

Have you checked out or played Stranded: Alien Dawn?

[teal flame]

I haven't, it's been a while since I've been in the mood for a city builder game

it looks kinda neat though

[past breach]

I wouldn't call it a "city" builder...much smaller than a city

just a small base with a few people, that's all. Basically a house/ranch/estate type thing

[shut gale]

Ac6 dope mayne. Yall gotta try it

[viral galleon]

Yeah when it becomes affordable to me, I've never played ac but I've played all the souls games, bloodborne, sekiro, and elden ring

[covert portal]

the whole playing alone with a jumpin chat thing reminds me of hero siege. wish they work both more cooperative but check hero siege out also, a 2d diablo clone

[shut gale]

https://tenor.com/view/pirate-catjam-cat-pirate-catjam-pirate-cat-gif-21905878

[viral galleon]

Oh hot damn you're right I shouldn't care about supporting fromsoft

[stone arch]

pirates miss on certified banger of pvp,

[shut gale]

Ey man. I just thought you live in a 3rd world where you can barely afford rice and its justifiable. No need to go woke on me hahaha

I used to be poor af. I bought the game myself

[narrow token]

"woke" ho boy.

[viral galleon]

I live in the us, sorry that I have principals and think people deserve to be paid for their work

[shut gale]

Yeah. Youve already implied that with your condescending commentsb

Youre so cool

[viral galleon]

You're the one who posted the dancing cat gif

[shut gale]

Im glad I can put myself in other peoples perspective hahaha

[exotic wave]

AC isn't really like the sousborne games tbf

it's a third person shooter through and through

[viral galleon]

Oh I know, but I'm already so invested in fromsoft, plus I like mecha

[shut gale]

Yeh. Cant wait to get home to play it haha

Make sure you buy the game though because everyone in the world can afford it if they save enough

[exotic wave]

mm

They did just buff the MGs and Rifles too

so the design space to make good ACs increased

[junior oyster]

Assassins creed is from Ubisoft though 👀

[exotic wave]

No no we're talking Airfield Control

[junior oyster]

Heard the 6th one is the series runs quite ok on steam deck

[eager ridge]

i swear if thats the trash ass arpg i remember

it is that dogshit game

my review on hero siege ages ago

[covert portal]

😮

i enjoyed it more than d4 lol @eager ridge

[eager ridge]

everythings more enjoyable than D4

i could load up a barbie game and get more fun out of it than D4

[covert portal]

youre a hard critic homie

[teal flame]

I mean, outside of the story, D4 was pretty garbo

They missed by making it not fun to play

[covert portal]

i agree. it broke my heart really.. the campaign was cool the first playthrough. after that 👎

[narrow token]

Undecember was kinda fun. That female character model was gorgeous. Surprised the hell out of me tbh.

[rustic meteor]

What game you bashed here?

[eager ridge]

Hero Siege

[rustic meteor]

Ah yeah it's bad

[junior oyster]

I'd rather play D4 over hero siege

[simple needle]

I only play hero siege on wc3 customs

[eager ridge]

Thats the correct way to play hero siege

[rustic meteor]

I'd rather turn pc off and do something else lol

[opal flower]

nvidia dropped new driver that gives increased starfield experience for 30x and 40x cards if anyone cares

[eager ridge]

now when you say increased starfield experience

do you mean optimizations

or

1.5x exp boost

[maiden widget]

the first version of hero siege was super cool and a mix of arpg and roguelite

and it ended up being something super weird

[junior oyster]

One of the reasons I can't get into games like halls of torment or (vampire survivor-likes) is because of the roguelike mechanic.

[opal flower]

sorry I meant performance

[sturdy gyro]

https://youtu.be/tyta7Pp8iV8

[tawny sand]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/influencer-with-dwindling-charisma-respecs-into-bigotry/

what did they mean by this?

why did they put funny shungite man on there?

[desert jasper]

Isn't hard-drive satire like onion?

[tawny sand]

yeah, the onion of video games

[shut gale]

Lies of p lookin good

Ive mever liked elden ring coz it felt clunky. Maybe this is the polished version

[tawny sand]

probably a skill issue

[rugged island]

of course he did

he even knew his idea was worthless... did it anyway

[opal flower]

FYI I'm pretty sure people in his position have to note far in advance the sale of stock

[clever hollow]

yeah, iirc, CEO selling hefty amount of his stocks is not an overnight thing

[icy linden]

Adds bugs to give the true Bethesda experience

[eager ridge]

Ive actually very rarely ran into any bugs in starfield yet

And thats with 60 manually installed mods, which should make it unstable as fuck

[icy linden]

Did they subcontract the development?

😄

[eager ridge]

No from what i know

They had ALL of the QA of xbox play it before release

And thats why it isnt crazy bugged out the kazoo

[icy linden]

Maybe... QA can find a pile of bugs. You still only have so much time to fix things before you ship it.

Maybe the new engine is just less buggy

[copper pawn]

no need to worry about starfield, they have 1001 free dev out there working on various mods to add bug fixes, qol, content, whatsoever, just same as skyrim

[eager ridge]

StarUI is pog as fuck

I still need to dl it

[icy linden]

I imagine the console launch would have required better quality control outcomes than PC-only, but from Skyrim to Starfield... nutty

Imagine if TES6 is also relatively bug free

[eager ridge]

Fucking spreadsheets for your inventory

I hope tes6 gets made in unreal 5

[icy linden]

Pretty sure they already said Creation Engine 2 (same as Starfiedl)

[copper pawn]

don't think bethesda is small enough to have to use 3rd party engine

especially on AAA titles

[icy linden]

Indeed.

[junior oyster]

Lool https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/16ih8w8/unity_confirmed_that_developers_will_get_charged/

[sturdy gyro]

https://youtu.be/KhBpd2oQ-qA

[copper pawn]

wonder if there is I took a bullet in the knee in starfield

[opal flower]

CP2077 patch is the 21st.

[maiden widget]

thought i saw a guard saying he was an adventurer like you once but thats a long story or something

seemed to reference the thing

[sturdy gyro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHrABT0wvQI

Step aside blizzard, cdpr entered the chat

They really know how to hype with the trailers

[shut gale]

What is there to do in cyberpunk

Is it like gta

Is there coop missions

[narrow token]

The stories in it are top notch, the gameplay and combat are fun and engaging, the builds are getting better, etc...

[opal flower]

Imagine Skyrim, with way better graphics, way better story, way better voice acting, way smoother action. Open world RPG. Nothing like GTA.

[eager ridge]

its like destiny

Kidding. Im sorry. I hate it when everytime an rpg shooter comes out everyones first take is to compare it to destiny.

Remnant 2 comes out
destiny
Me: "i will shatter your fucking kneecaps"

[narrow token]

To be fair that game The First Descendant kinda LOOKS like a Destiny-type game.

[tawny sand]

i think of warframe over desitny usually

but i didn't play destiny, only warframe

[eager ridge]

Yea first descendant is 1000% more warframe than destiny

Ive played it

Super duper similar to warframe

Even the building of new classes to play is exactly like how warframe does it, but much cheaper and the time process is like a third of warframes time process

[narrow token]

Well I'm 100% playing that beta next week.

[eager ridge]

I might, im not sure, im still stuck on starfield

Nearly 200 hours in and i still havent gone past the 3rd main story quest

[narrow token]

I bounced off Starfield in about 25 minutes. I never last long in Bethesda games.

Lasted longer than Skyrim. That was closer to 18 minutes.

[eager ridge]

I have 3000 hours in skyrim

I didnt complete the main story till that mark too

Its VERY easy to sidetrack yourself in bethesda games

[narrow token]

Hm, I guess that's how it is for everyone else. I just wind up bored.

Didn't help that the game ran at basically 37fps.

[teal flame]

I'm with you, I find that with Bethesda games, I "beat" the game mechanics and the exploration and side stuff becomes really boring. I haven't finished a bethesda game since Morrowind

[opal flower]

I honestly don't think ever beat Skyrim either. I kinda lost interest when dragons weren't dangerous any more.

[teal flame]

Yep, who needs to crawl through a bunch of dweomer ruins to find the same artifacts all over the place with the occasional magic item that is worse than the ones you've already got.

[junior oyster]

If Fallout NV counts as as Bethesda game then that's the only one I ever beat (once). I don't even have any of the ES games lol.

[shut patrol]

skyrim werewolves were great, until the vampire/wolf bugged out endgame

[tender echo]

Wait, there’s a main story quest?

[modest sentinel]

For me in Skyrim, when I played for the first time
I finished the main quest first then I thought why the game was so short

At that time
I wanted to know more about the story while doing the main quest, and somehow it got over

[sturdy gyro]

https://youtube.com/shorts/TSuQTlDUznY?feature=share

[shut patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRDi6XHfcJ8&t=6s

[viral galleon]

synthetic man
naw

[narrow token]

Do his points have no merit, or...?

[teal flame]

You lost me at: you can't undress your enemies and there's no gore because 'woke leftists'

Maybe 10m into the video or so he goes off on that

[narrow token]

I don't care for the game either, but yeah I automatically dismiss anyone's opinion whenever they mention the term "woke" or denigrate anyone's political affiliation/leaning.

[teal flame]

Yeah, about 30 seconds in he was like "of course the random gay NPC is a key NPC that you can't kill" but I wanted to give it a chance.

Not only is it a braindead take in general, but there's a super obvious business reason they didn't have nudity or gore: they want to sell the game globally and a couple massive markets (China) won't sell your game if it has those.

There's nothing political about it, they didn't want to build their game twice.

[narrow token]

I gave it about 9 minutes, mostly following it, but I dropped off the video when he started attacking others on the youtube platform for liking games he doesn't (basically).

[teal flame]

Yeah, he's also pretty wrong that no one but him is bashing it. Lots of big named reviewers are giving it a solid "meh"

[narrow token]

It doesn't seem like you can kill many npcs in general. The guy has an agenda. Which is ironic because it's what he's largely complaining about.

[viral galleon]

https://youtu.be/3aRAxJuwmfA?si=dl2B2VhRErDErUOC

[teal flame]

...that's an 11 hour video

[viral galleon]

If you got time, synthetic man is completely culture war brained and called God of War ragnarok woke because "Kratos is the mother fucking God of War why does he want to be peaceful"

[narrow token]

11 hours is uh... wow. Mauler's vids have only gotten more chunky since he ripped TLJ 6 years ago.

[teal flame]

Yeah, I don't have time to watch about why that guy is wrong; it's pretty clear from watching like 10 minutes of his content

[narrow token]

I'll probably watch it though. Mauler's got some real insight sometimes.

[viral galleon]

Synthetic man was upset Kratos never hit atreus when they would have arguments in the game

[narrow token]

https://tenor.com/view/head-bang-pissed-stressed-upset-ugh-gif-16972393

[teal flame]

Sounds like a real winner

[viral galleon]

It gets worse

SO much worse

[teal flame]

Eh, sounds like he's an outrage capitalizer

Makes peoepl angry so they respond to him, which gives him press and makes him seem legitimate, even if his views are hot garbage

[narrow token]

I'm 35 and I should go back to school if that synthetic guy is what being uneducated looks like now. Good god.

[waxen sonnet]

Uneducated always looked like that. The main difference is that now it's celebrated and cheered on rabidly online

[eager ridge]

I was discussing with someone earlier something funny about starfield, everyone who dislikes it, hates it, everyone who likes it, absolutely loves it. The games hilarious

I just like casually mentioned how i havent been past the 3rd quest but have 200+ hours in it and hes just like oh yea all the youtube reviewers bomb it because they need the views for moneys and everyone else is bombin it too

But then ive seen youtube reviewers praise the absolute shit out of it so who knows really

Games just a one of its kind in that it sits nicely in the half n half margin of love/hate

[teal flame]

Yeah, I'm on the low dislike range, I generally don't enjoy bethesda games for too long so it just doesn't seem worth picking up

Youtubers gotta be on the extreme spectrums though, it ges them clicks

[modest sentinel]

Well, tbh it is just a bias
since those with extreme feelings makes the most noise, so they are well heard all over
for those it felt like alright or just meh, they won't really scream