general gaming

[arctic fern]

its more like section on and two are 2/3rds of the game and three and four are 1/3rd

[river veldt]

i beat Jane Silksong in Hollow Knight ☃️

hard boss

[cerulean herald]

No way

[unreal idol]

Here we go

Timenfor Nintendo Direct

[sacred grove]

So what do you think? Is nintendo directing you?

[unreal idol]

Hnnnfnnfnfn nnnnnyyyeeensss

[green fulcrum]

The prices are terrible, but the games look goooooood.

We'll work on that first one together. <3

[bronze abyss]

i thought tekken couldnt get worse,i was proven so fucking wrong

apart from graphics tekken 7 is literally better in every way

[bronze abyss]

this sparks joy

kinda half meme but it just makes this a million times funnier and is relevant to the current state of the game

[forest shoal]

They had the China-exclusive iQue DS Lite

[cunning galleon]

Convinced some more friends to sell their souls

Mwahahahaha

[wintry canopy]

I decided to pickup a booster box of yu-gi-oh quarter century stampede.

[unreal idol]

Oooo what did you pull?

[wintry canopy]

It's coming sometime between the 22nd and the 28th, I'm going for the dragonmaid cards and the black rose dragon cards.

[visual hill]

that's quite the review bomb

[bitter stream]

what happened to make T8 get such bad reviews? I'm out of the loop

last i heard it was going ok

[visual hill]

its player count looks like this

I assume a new unpopular update

my prayers go to the 43 people who left a positive review in those trying times

[bitter stream]

oh dear lord

[visual hill]

most recent negative reviews are focused on the balance changes being not focused on improving defense enough, despite developers saying it was their focus

it also got a bunch of negative reviews last year related to its MTX policy

[bitter stream]

right right, that's a shame

[visual hill]

it seems like the balance team has a tendency to overtune characters to remove their weaknesses

I've seen this happen numerous times (even Project M did it back in the day), it makes sense to do it to keep player satisfaction up on a surface level, but it also makes the game less deep in the long run

regardless, it's a bit amusing to see people complaining about an offense-heavy game, considering overly defensive fighting games (or archetypes) is what I loathe

[bitter stream]

it's interesting, I remember seeing the pre-release streams where they mention the word, "Aggression" 15 times or whatever hahah

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/04/tekken-8-reveals-emergency-patches-as-player-backlash-spirals-out-of-control
This appears to have a summary

[visual hill]

I always find myself gravitating towards rushdown characters in fighting games

[bitter stream]

I tend to just pick someone who looks cool, but I'm not good enough to actually play fighting games so it's kinda a moot point

[graceful bridge]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-preorder-guide-mario-kart-world-bundle/1100-6530531/

Please keep Rule 2 in mind while discussing this.

[bronze abyss]

people have been waiting for changes for the fundamental systems of the game to reduce the amount of 50/50 situations and the sheer advantage you get from heat(meter) and stuff like chip damage,they did not deliver even after the game has been out for over a year now
every character being more unified in balance because of the games heavy focus on 50/50 instead of diversity in cast and characters actually having strengths and weaknesses,the whole cast feels near identical to eachother because of the games reliance of one aspect of combat,which,again,is 50/50s so in this case the game """"being balanced"""" is not a good thing its just a result of huge power creep and assimilation
now to explain why 50/50s being so prevelant is bad
tekken is a 3d fighter,you can move forward,backward and to either side,and thats usually a huge part of defensive play,unlike in other games you can choose which way to get out of a situation or which one is more optimal and that adds complexity to the game and its a major part of tekken's identity and if you remove that 1.you get much less skill expression and gameplay variety 2.you literally are not playing tekken anymore,youre playing a 2d fighter,and youre left with no way to get out of the situation,your only option is to either duck or standing block,which is a pure coin flip guess
people have been complaining about that since release so opinions of people have definitely been clear since the very beginning and loud,yet they doubled down,they released another 50/50 heavy character and added extra moves to existing characters that encourage even more 50/50 play,and to rub salt on the wound,the promised "defensive changes" for season 2 ended up actually encouraging aggressive play even more and thats on top of the game having nerfed defensive play since release compared to the previous entry(where people had next to no complaints in that aspect in tekken 7 btw)
another thing is their current monetization model,they charge for characters and stages seperately,and they also have paid cosmetics in a 70$ game

sorry if its difficult to read cuz im kinda ass at writing that kinda stuff and apart from in class,im punctuationally challenged

[bronze abyss]

only positive reviews made are either negative reviews jokingly marked as positive,or new players who have played <20h of the game

[bitter stream]

Thanks for the full explanation

[slim thorn]

what does "50/50" mean here?

[bitter stream]

That's really weird, how did they think this was a good direction lol

A mix up, so like, your first attack hits, and then you have two choices for second attack, which can go Low or High,

Each requires a different defencive choice

but it's 50/50

you have to guess which one your opponent is going for

[bronze abyss]

when you only have 2 defensive options and you cant in any reasonable way know which one to use in that situation,making it a pure forced coin flip guess

[visual hill]

fighting games typically work on a rock-paper-scissors basis

[slim thorn]

oh

yeah I guess this is a "you'd have to play these games to get it" because I was kinda under the impression the whole genre is based on guessing what the other guy is about to do to you

[visual hill]

Smash is the most obvious example (attack/shield/grab), you can look at it like Pokémon types with one being strong and one being weak against the others

[bronze abyss]

majority of it is gameknowledge,and tekken specifically gives you extra option to get out of situations usually if you know what youre doing,and since thats the point of tekken removing that ability is a huge deal

[visual hill]

50/50s are perfectly fine and expected, but if they are too common, it removes skill expression

[bitter stream]

Like, some 50/50s are nice, and if there's some work to do to get an advantageous 50/50 that's neat!
But if all interactions are 50/50 might as well be playing spin the wheel right?
It's good imo if you see your opponent go into a particular combo, and know to hold high, or have the knowledge that the 4th kick can be side stepped.

if all that legacy knowledge is useless because all the characters feel the same and everyone is doing 50/50 moves on offence then I imagine that feels pretty bad

[bronze abyss]

another thing that makes the 50/50s worse in tekken 8 specifically is that some attacks are huge and deal almost a full combo worth of damage

[tender ferry]

sorry i didn't see the message

annoying though

[bitter stream]

yeah for sure, people are gonna be annoyed

I wonder how logn the delay is

[tender ferry]

where are these manufactured

[arctic fern]

The switch 2?

[tender ferry]

yeah

[static bluff]

Japan.

[tender ferry]

like actually manufactured there?

not just developed

[arctic fern]

Some if the chips are made in Japan but it looks like most of the assembly is done in veitnam

Like with most things, thanks to globalisation, bits of their consoles are made everywhere

[tender ferry]

if they're assembled in vietnam they'd be charged with 46% on everything then right?

that makes me wonder if they're considering raising the price

[arctic fern]

Yep

I think they have plants in a few more places

But all of them just got hit with these tarrifs

[forest shoal]

It is very difficult to say something

[arctic fern]

Yep

[slim thorn]

[arctic fern]

This only affects Americans tho

[unreal idol]

Wait are we predicting a price increase after they just announced it

[forest shoal]

Factors outside their control

[slim thorn]

yeah, new tariffs just hit

[forest shoal]

It is very difficult to say something

[slim thorn]

iiuc all Nintendo announced so far is there will be a delay while they figure out wtf the tariffs mean for them

[unreal idol]

I thought we already had new tariffs hitting

There's more?

[slim thorn]

so did I!

[arctic fern]

I think it's the sane tarrifs

[young creek]

yeah its just denying the antecedent

[arctic fern]

The direct was ready to go and they didn't know it was happening

But yeah

[forest shoal]

Eventually we will defeat the final boss

[slim thorn]

well, if they are "the same" tariffs, then what happened last Wednesday is we finally got concrete numbers announced

[arctic fern]

Probably

[unreal idol]

I thought we went through this like 2 months ago and last month

[arctic fern]

Either way, blame the orange man

[forest shoal]

It is very difficult to keep my filter on

[unreal idol]

sighs

[tender ferry]

it will affect everyone that trades with the US though

[unreal idol]

I'm gonna go work I guess

[graceful bridge]

Without going rule 2, there's a certain tit-for-tat thing going on and more keep getting introduced/increased.

[arctic fern]

The switch delays only affect America

[tender ferry]

oh i thought you meant in general

[slim thorn]

I'm getting conflicting claims on whether the $449.99 figure for the Switch 2's US price is including their tariff expectations, or needs revision after these announcements

[arctic fern]

What you're talking about is a whole can of rule 2

[tender ferry]

it might have been what they expected at that time but now they have to go back

[tender ferry]

yeah i should probably leave it's too risky for me to stay in here lol

[arctic fern]

I don't blame you bud

Not at all

[slim thorn]

I think what's going on is the US price was based on US expected tariffs, and what's actually breaking news is concrete tariff numbers and a delay to the US Switch 2 pre-order date, so the pre-order delay is almost certainly a response to the new tariff details

however "The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."

[young creek]

I just preordered it for this

its rough out here

[forest shoal]

Resellers are eh, but that's a different thing

[river veldt]

oh christ

[wind stump]

welp the scalping is only going to get worse!

Good fucking luck!

[fickle garnet]

Wow, apparently I could buy a base model Steam Deck for $130 cheaper than a Switch 2

[forest shoal]

The Steam Deck is versatile

[fickle garnet]

Tbh I'd rather a Steam Deck

[visual hill]

refurb Steam Deck is a great option if money is tight

[light gate]

Also is more repair friendly as you can buy spare parts.

[wind stump]

one of these things it's not like the others...

[fickle garnet]

They're out of stock for refurbished currently

[river veldt]

so im wanting to play Kingdom Hearts, and 1.5 and 2.5 are on Steam, but i know KH is pretty complex and has it's story spread out through a ton of different games. does 1.5 and 2.5 have the relevant story beats so i wont be confused ?

[fresh bane]

1.5+2.5 have KH1 Final Mix, KH Re:Chain of Memories, KH2 Final Mix, 385/2 days in cutscenes instead of the full original game, Birth By Sleep Final Mix, and KH Re:Coded in cutscenes instead of either of the two original versions of the game.

The only things missing would be the ones from 2.8 collection which are Dream Drop Distance, the cinematic of Kingdom Hearts Cross Back Cover, and Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep 0.2 A Fragmentary Passage which is the prequel leading up and basically the prologue to KH3

[cunning galleon]

so cool!

[dense crypt]

odd tank

[worthy rose]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/subnautica-2/system-requirements

[cunning galleon]

St. Chamond

Been trying to replicate it

[gaunt marten]

I'm super happy to move away from having to use one single word processor

Might want to post it in #science-and-tech too

[slim thorn]

Yes, that collection has all you need for the first several games of the story. Just be sure to start with 1, CoM, and 2 in that order and you’re good. (it’s after 2 that they start doing prequels and side stories)

[graceful bridge]

oh right, I clicked the wrong channel.

[visual hill]

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/everything-to-grab-from-prime-gaming-april-4th-edition-for-steam-deck-linux/
just a reminder, if you have Prime Gaming, you can claim Mafia II and III on GOG right now. (The first game's definitive edition could also be claimed in the past, which means you could get the entire trilogy for free)

[wind stump]

I have been itching for some gang violence

[bitter stream]

amazing

[wind stump]

Trails has great chest gags

[pseudo oak]

Was looking for a livery for my R34 and saw this one

I had to get it

[bitter stream]

ooh nice

looks sweet

[pseudo oak]

Gonna make some better shots tomorrow

I think i have another Pinkie livery in my garage

[wind stump]

beta art is peak

[gaunt marten]

Why is this not a rare card?

[wind stump]

I can't remember how you get this card, but yeah, it should be rare.

[umbral zinc]

love it

i should return to StS but i've been tired of not winning a game regardless of my strategy

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, when I started playing Slay the Spire I was already pretty good at strategy games and I kept losing run after run

Eventually I did become more consistent

[cunning galleon]

I like how he looks less proud

The one where he's not scarred still has smugness

Head held up high, spine straight

[wind stump]

starts game callled MAFIA II
first mission is fucking call of duty

[cunning galleon]

Oh, the sicily prologue!

Fun history trivia:

The Mafia in Italy actually helped US Soldiers in the war efforts

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_between_the_United_States_government_and_Italian_Mafia

[wind stump]

[cunning galleon]

See: operation husky

[wind stump]

i was poking fun, the game seems fun so far but i can't true focus on it because i'm hanging with a friend

[cunning galleon]

Takes place in sicily, and that's were mafia ii first mission took place in.. Sicily

So it's 100% related

[wind stump]

plus like, nothing like a war thing to teach you how to commit crimes

[cunning galleon]

Have you played mafia I or is II your first?

[wind stump]

Mafia II is my first because of Amazon Gaming, is there anything from the first I need to know, or can i skip it?

[cunning galleon]

Just a major character death

That takes place in II

You won't be as sad as i was when said death happens

[wind stump]

Is Mafia III better than II?

[cunning galleon]

No

It's somehow worse

[wind stump]

oh...

[arctic fern]

i was gonna play some amogus or jackbox with some friends in another server if anyone is interested

[wind stump]

i just noticed in the prologue/first chapter of Mafia 2 you have M1 Garand

[arctic fern]

ping me if anyone is interested, ill need to invite you to another server

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/_PhJWhSd8wA

Very interesting how Mafia II has realistic car driving

[wind stump]

i am a mature adult

[tropic kindle]

YEAH YEAH YEAH!

I WON

[bitter stream]

congrats!

[tropic kindle]

New Orleans TAKE THE NIGHT!

[quiet swift]

FINALLY managed to kill the surface side boss of Hades 2!

[bitter stream]

Let's gooo, I've not played HADES 2 but any of the big bosses are tough cookies,

Nice work

[fresh bane]

||Hecate? ||

[bitter stream]

hey, no spoilers

[fresh bane]

I keep forgetting this game is technically not out

[bitter stream]

yeah, I'm waiting for it to be done before I pick it up. I don't want any big runs to be "meaningless" in the sense that the content isn't there for it

[bronze abyss]

"ill buy hades 2 when its out" 👶
"ill buy hades 2 when its out" 🧑‍🦰
"ill buy hades 2 when its out" 👴
"ill buy hades 2 when its out" 🪦

[fresh bane]

To be fair what I'm referring to is the very first boss of the game just because I don't know what 'surface side boss' means so not a big spoiler but I guess people would still consider the first boss to be a spoiler

I didn't finish the game either myself I got only ~5 hours on it

[bronze abyss]

gonna yoink it from solar's library when im back in lithuania probs,i only played it on like the first early access build

[quiet swift]

No, also she's not the first surface boss either

[quiet swift]

Nah, this ain't Silksong

[fresh bane]

I guess I don't know what surface means in this context but maybe I don't wanna know just yet

[bronze abyss]

nah its a universal highly regarded indie hit sequel classic

[quiet swift]

Hades 1 was in early access for 1, 1.5 years? I think it's been about 1.5 for hades 2

[bronze abyss]

slime rancher 2,deltarune,silksong,hades 2

[quiet swift]

Not really a big spoiler. In hades 1, you left the underworld to head to the surface. In hades 2, you start by heading towards the underworld (won't spoil why), and can unlock going to the surface as well

And they each have their own multiple zones and bosses

(currently surface side is SO GODDAMN HARD)

[bronze abyss]

really hoping they either rework some of the weapons or add ones from hades 1

[quiet swift]

When did you last play? I think in uuuh late Jan or Feb they added a new big patch that tweaked weapons and added the last part of the surface area

(and it's extremely unlikely they'll add hades 1 weapons)

[bronze abyss]

m-my shield though

[bronze abyss]

myself i played only earliest build but i have went over the patch with solar when it released,p sure the issues i have with the weapons are still there

they are pretty fundamental,general issues so i cant say im expecting for them to fix them but maybe some chance they might to some degree since it is still EA

[quiet swift]

I think the ||fist weapon omega attack|| might get some tweaks. I think they changed the Axe's omega special to the ||fist omega attack|| so there's been some individual hefty changes, but it does admittedly depend on what issues you have with some weapons

[fresh bane]

Oh I'm guessing that's the door that's always locked when I go to check it out at the main hub

[bronze abyss]

||my main issues are with twin blades and axe,both weapons i feel like lack variety and it feels forced to chase for specific things,for example backstabs on twin blades,both weapons in general lack flow and imo dont fit the gameplay style of hades very well||
im mostly speaking off of feel, its p hard to point out the specifics with words and narrow them down to specific aspects of the game,they just do not feel right

not sure bout other weapons since i havent really played them or had any interest in them

[quiet swift]

||I can see that with the axe - even with different boons or the different aspects of the axe, the variations don't really change too much. However with the twin blades, the aspects absolutely change things quite a bit. Aspect of artemis makes it more focused on specials (place the cast circle, and the specials/omega specials all home in on the enemies in the cast), and the third one has a parry gameplay aspect to it..||

The ||fist weapon is really damn fun||

[bronze abyss]

actually dont think ive tried it yet

[quiet swift]

They added ||ares|| in the last content patch if you missed and his boons are pretty good. I think it's worth trying it out again - but the surface is definitely significantly harder (especially zone 3 and 4) than underworld, so it might be good to try things out with underworld first

[light gate]

https://youtu.be/PZUv1-qR1Aw?

Gets weirder and weirder.

April 12th, 10 AM PT.

[rugged flax]

https://derpibooru.org/images/3580151

[toxic seal]

Nope nope nope nope

[fresh bane]

she don't bite too hard

[quiet swift]

DO NOT TRUST

[rugged flax]

She just wants a taco

[toxic seal]

It's all fun and games until you run into the Adagio Leviathan 1000m down

[uneven epoch]

im also waiting for full release for hades 2. so long as we get an option to go punchy punch ill be content

[river veldt]

yeah im waiting for the full release too

idk i might get Hades 1 for my Steam Deck and replay it

[green fulcrum]

Yup yup yup yup.

[river veldt]

i got Resident Evil 4 Remake ☃️

im going to bingo

[bitter stream]

ooh nice, enjoy the game Cap

why bingo?

[river veldt]

oh i was referencing a line Leon says at the beginning

https://youtu.be/zL1KmTyyKV4?feature=shared

man i want that jacket

[bitter stream]

ahhh i see haha

I've heard it referenced before

but now i know where its from

[visual hill]

better go bingo than go postal

[light gate]

https://www.theverge.com/news/644457/nintendo-switch-2-joy-con-controller-hall-effect-joystick-drift

Welp, I guess the drift might still remain.

[bitter stream]

hmm, I guess I'll have to wait and see, if we get drift again it should be fairly noticible like it was with switch 1

https://www.theverge.com/news/644516/legend-of-zelda-switch-2-upgrade-price

“For somebody who has bought Tears of the Kingdom or Breath of the Wild, the upgrade packs for those are $9.99. And if you happen to be a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack member, both of the Zelda upgrade packs are inclusive within that membership.”

I assume USD for this pricing

but that's a lot better than I was expecting

[static bluff]

Oh, nice! It's included with the membership. Yeah I expected to dish out $20usd. I figured I never really got in to TotK so now's a good time

[bitter stream]

of note, that's specifically the more pricy Expansion Pack membership

but yes

I've not gotten into TotK much either

so I might just play it now in the leadup to Switch 2 coming out, as I'm still unsure whether to Pick up the new console

[arctic fern]

id wait for a month or 5 tbh, the demand is gonna be high, driving the high price up farther

[bitter stream]

yeahh, that's probably wise, but I guess I'm worried about missing the boat on the online play window with friends hahah. Is it FOMO if the fear can be realised?

[gaunt marten]

Yes

Missing out on some things is fine

If you're worried, you can agree with your close friends on how long to delay

[slim thorn]

now that there are far more online multiplayer games than any single human could fully play, there's no point "fearing" it that much; "missing out" on something is guaranteed no matter what we do

the dimension we actually can optimize is how much of our free time is spent having fun

[bitter stream]

I don't quite follow, I can have fun on my own all I want, but there's usually fairly limited windows in which

a) a release is popular with my friend group, and thus
b) they are willing to schedule time to play together whether online or in person.

Flitters suggestion to work with my friends to delay our potential purchase is a sound one and I won't know till I try.

if that makes sense?

[wind stump]

LMAO
So in Mafia II you can actually rob the gun store if you kill the owner

I got $400 and I got away scot free

[slim thorn]

yeah when there's a specific group willing to coordinate this makes perfect sense

[bitter stream]

nods I'm hoping I can interest them in Kirby Airiders when it comes out, but that depends on it being good and interesting etc. I've no real info on it just yet.

in the mean time, I'll send out some messages about delaying a month or three and see what the response is and where people are at.

[river veldt]

im interested in the Switch 2 but due to how expensive it is (not even mentioning how it could get even more expensive due to rule 2 reasons) and i just got my steam deck, idk if im gonna get it immediately

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough

It is rather expensive, and my area doesn't even have those particular R2 reasons

How's the Steam Deck been to use Captain?

[river veldt]

great ! i love it very much

[bitter stream]

woo hoo!

What sort of titles have ya been playing on it?

[wind stump]

fuck you i'mma load ALL THE CRATES

[eager bane]

Heyyy a game I played

[wind stump]

HAHAHHAHA

I LOADED SIX BOXES AND HE'S LIKE "NAH"

which tbf
i did rob a gun store for over $400 like not ten minutes ago, so fair.

bro was literally trying to phase through the stairs.

"This one don't want to do manual labor."
"What the fuck!?!?"

[river veldt]

mostly New Vegas lately

[cerulean herald]

where ur at in the game

[river veldt]

uhhh right now im doing Old World Blues

[bitter stream]

nice nice, have fun Cap

and fair enough HC

[wind stump]

oh sick, new SSFF video became public, very good vidya on Faceball

[untold vigil]

New vegas mentioned

[river veldt]

i love New Vegas

[static bluff]

I'm really glad I read this title. I loved Faceball 2000. It was one of my favorite games. I look forward to watching this.

[wind stump]

the journey is insane

[visual hill]

when I realize I'll never have time to play Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing: 😢

[slim thorn]

that has multiplayer!?

[visual hill]

any game is multiplayer if you make it into a Twitch Plays ... 😛

[tawny jacinth]

Me watching a Balatro (unseeded!!) challenge run: ok how much do we need to beat this

[cerulean herald]

what the fuck

[tawny jacinth]

[jump cut]

Just playing the hand took 7 minutes

And that’s at 4x, if you had this on 1x this would take 28 fucking minutes to score holy

[cerulean herald]

where can i install cheats for balatro

[tawny jacinth]

That’s just called using jokers

If you want there’s the cryptid mod, where this guy is already at e on chips but somehow we haven’t gotten past the first card

[cerulean herald]

what is even happening anymore

[minor plover]

my son loves cryptid mod

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/OCZXvblpNSM?si=ZSgb9HoxYaY0g1T5

This is such a high quality specific joke targeted at such a small group of people, and I'm glad to be one of them

Kain : There's a third option, a monumental secret hidden in your very presence here. But it's a secret you have to discover for yourself. Unearth your destiny, Raziel. It's all laid out for you here.

Raziel : You said it yourself, Kain... there are only two recipes in your kitchen, pudding or pie.

Kain : Apparently so, but suppose you mix the bowl enough times... suppose one day, you bake a cake instead.

"I found your spoon in my baking pan, Kain, how could you profane a feast by sampling it before the meal transpires?!"

"How could I not? One must keep his guests' taste close, and his sous chef's, even closer."
these comments are just too funny

[slim thorn]

the best part is you don't even need to have played the games to get the joke here

if a non-player ever wonders why LoK dialogue has the particular reputation that it does, this video is a perfect answer

(admittedly these comments' follow-up jokes are a bit more specific)

[worldly summit]

if the switch 2 has joycon drift Nintendo is a complete failure

I expect any other part of the system to falter before those joysticks, that should have been their #1 priority once the class action lawsuits started coming in

[unreal idol]

I don't think I've ever had drift

[cerulean herald]

My pro controller has drift even tho I was told that pro controllers can't drift

[unreal idol]

That sucks

[cerulean herald]

Yeah, it's not severe, but still annoying

It's mild enough that it wasn't much of an issue when I used the pro controller to play Detroit Become Human

[gaunt marten]

If it has an analog stick it can drift

[cerulean herald]

Dumb question, can other controllers drift or is it just the switch ones

[gaunt marten]

If it has an analog stick it can drift

Doesn't even have to be a video game controller

[cerulean herald]

Damn

[gaunt marten]

Hall effect sticks can drift too

[arctic fern]

Multi stick drifting

[slim thorn]

I never experienced drift or other mechanical failures on my Switch, although I've probably only used it for a "mere" few hundred hours

[worthy rose]

Huh, there's a persona 3 reloaded demo now

[rancid herald]

I had it once

[gaunt marten]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI37sePZzhI

Someone post it in the Undertale thread or something

[bitter stream]

Done.

[visual hill]

same, mine had drift out of the box

also lots of snapback, but every controller has it... (why isn't snapback mitigation a standard feature at the firmware level?)

[bronze abyss]

theres only one controller i never had snapback issues with and that was the razer wolverine ultimate

still believe its the best controller of all time part from being wired only

best sticks,best face buttons,best triggers,best paddles

[wind stump]

@slim thorn are you ready to crab souls (again)?

based for making it a free content update tho

[cunning galleon]

Woah big respect to the thunder

https://youtu.be/FDWpx3n1gxQ?si=GCNboFb5sVOnJDxg

Means alot to me that my favourite game acknowledges the efforts of my nation

I may not be proud of what we do but I'm so proud to be born under this flag

[restive wind]

What are you guys most played games by hours? This is my steam round up

[bitter stream]

hmm, I'm not sure i want to look at my most played games by hours hahah

[gaunt marten]

Here's my list https://i.imgur.com/p7gBPQa.png

[slim thorn]

I've looked it up before, and aside from the games I mod and/or randomize enough to rack up hundreds of hours (Outer Wilds, Hollow Knight, Ender Lilies, Nine Sols, Tunic?), it's mostly ones that take a long time to do "one playthrough" of, like Witcher 2 & 3

[river veldt]

top 6
New Vegas: 135.9 hours
RDR2: 130.8 hours
Spider-Man: 43.5 hours
Control: 37.5 hours
Elden Ring: 31.2 hours
Doom Eternal: 29.7 hours

[bronze abyss]

finals and palworld based as hell options

this is my list

[river veldt]

what the fuck i havent played Doom Eternal since Feb 18

that's gotta be a record for me

[gaunt marten]

The world has many very good games, so it's nice that you haven't played the same one in a while even if it's great

[worldly summit]

in brawlhalla I have the Jack of All Trades achievement but not Welcome to Brawlhalla!

a lot of my gaming is outside of Steam. My most played games on the Switch are Tears of the Kingdom (320hr), Breath of the Wild (280hr), and Splatoon 2 (210hr). My most played game is Minecraft (8,700hr) which dwarfs everything

[fervent oar]

Fellow ToS enjoyer

[worldly summit]

if town of salem 1 had a playtime counter I'd be very scared to find out its value

[fervent oar]

It should have one?

[bronze abyss]

outside of steam i got like fortnite hours in the thousands and a lot more in apex,paladins,monster hunter rise,and terraria

[worldly summit]

I use the web browser version unfortunately

[fervent oar]

Aah that makes sense

[worldly summit]

oooh I'd love to see how many games that is worth

[fervent oar]

Didn't end up playing ToS2 as much so I only have 80 in it

[worldly summit]

just checked, I have 1496 games in ToS1 (no ranked, mainly all any)

[fervent oar]

Uuh does it show in-game? I can download it to tell you if it does

[worldly summit]

yeah

[fervent oar]

Aight I'll download it rq and I'll check

980 games for me

[worldly summit]

oh damnnnn :O

[fervent oar]

526 wins and most are also on all any

[worldly summit]

and you have all 361 achivements??!

[fervent oar]

..well...

Not really..

[worldly summit]

oh, through private games right

[fervent oar]

Have you ever heard of SaM?

[worldly summit]

don't think so

what does it stand for

[fervent oar]

Ah well it's "Steam achievement manager"

[gaunt marten]

Steam Achievement Manager. It allows you to pretend that you got the achievements

[fervent oar]

You can add achievements to games even if you haven't done them

[worldly summit]

ah lol

[gaunt marten]

Steam doesn't care if you got them legitimately, it just checks for the achievement signals

So you can add or remove achievements however you like

[fervent oar]

I did it way back for some steam sale where you got points if you did a lot of game achievements

[gaunt marten]

This is super convenient for speedrunners who want to do 100% achievement runs

Since you can reset after you end your run and do it again

[fervent oar]

I still have around half of them legit though

[worldly summit]

yeah I think I would rather my Perfect Games list be empty than these two

will look into it, thanks!

[gaunt marten]

Lmao

Just make these games private

[worldly summit]

I think I did make Changed private while I was playing it lmao

[gaunt marten]

If you're embarrassed for others to see that you own or have played a game, right click it in your library and hide it for good

[fervent oar]

Or just add awaria to them

[worldly summit]

awaria is in my playing category but I can't get past one of the levels on hardest difficulty

I refuse to even try a lower difficulty since hardest one is all I know

[fervent oar]

Yeah that's how I completed the game to begin with too

[worldly summit]

also thanks for checking your stats! if the amount of time per game were roughly the same for both of us then that means I'd have about 800 hours

[gaunt marten]

Seems right

[fervent oar]

Yeah I would imagine that is true

[worldly summit]

which is double any of my other games. Except for Minecraft which has 10x more than ToS

just makes me curious about all the other untrackable games

[cerulean herald]

how do you check how many hours you have in MC?

[worldly summit]

I've played a fair bit of Mario Kart Wii in my time

[worldly summit]

the hard way: github code to scan the log files that are recorded every time you open the game

[cerulean herald]

[worldly summit]

so if you played on a laptop and you don't have access to its files anymore then you can't track the hours on that

[cerulean herald]

best i can do is look at the ingame statistics and see how much ive spent on the ponycraft server

[worldly summit]

yeah for 99% of people it's not a feasible thing lol

[fervent oar]

Way too much for both of us

But I'd guess even more for you

[worldly summit]

I'm lucky that the three laptops I've played minecraft on since logging was added to the game in 1.7 are all functional enough to transfer files from

another thing you can do with log files is read old server chat logs!

[fervent oar]

I'm actually making a Changeling version of my oc for my mc skin

[worldly summit]

oooo

what tool is that?

[fervent oar]

http://ponyskincraft.com

[worldly summit]

nice nice, ty

[proud warren]

...I realize I only have 2 games I have over 1000 hours on

[worldly summit]

1000 hours is a HUGE amount do not worry

[fervent oar]

I have like 1.7k on tf2 but compared to others with 10k+ it's almost nothing

[proud warren]

one is a game I haven't played on over a year, and the other's a mobile game

[worldly summit]

I have played ~550 combined hours of the two zelda games on switch and I feel so familiar with the world and characters

oh nice, is the second one battle cats?

[proud warren]

ye

I've been playing that game for over 8 years now

[cerulean herald]

my most played on the Switch™ is Mario Maker 2 at around 480 hours

[worldly summit]

niiice

[proud warren]

oh I didn't even think about checking my switch, one sec

[worldly summit]

but consider that 10k hours is over a year of game time
that's a pretty ridiculous amount, so doesn't matter if 1.7k is nothing compared to it

[proud warren]

fuck it's dead

[cerulean herald]

F

[proud warren]

I'll harbor a guess that my most played switch game is smash bros ultimate, ranging anywhere from 800-900 hours

[worldly summit]

online matches I presume

[proud warren]

no

[wind stump]

Dang, this is an obscure reference.

[proud warren]

I like, never play online

[worldly summit]

oh dang

I didn't have anyone IRL to play with and the online connection sucked so I just did the story mode and mostly stopped

[proud warren]

I just labbed the shit outta characters when the pandemic hit

[restive wind]

So much Civ V but no Civ VI?

[worldly summit]

I used a couple text manipulation tools to put every log into a giant .txt file that I could search for keywords. Turns out I had already played some games of Capture the Flag with one of my online friends several years before we met

also for privacy enjoyers out there this means you shouldn't spill your darkest secrets to the minecraft server chat (obviously) because the messages will be forever stored on the PCs of everyone ingame

[hushed onyx]

My most played…actually Skyrim should be in number two, right ahead of Elite Dangerous, if you correctly add up the two versions. That would make Crusader Kings III visible.

It’s actually really funny because I haven’t actually played any of the games here except Imperator: Rome in ages

[green fulcrum]

Ooooooh this will be VERY helpful! Thanks!

[fervent oar]

No worries! I'm done changeling-fying my oc too

[visual hill]

some of my most played

I may be living in the past just a bit...

[slim thorn]

aren't we all?

[gaunt marten]

Not me

In two minutes it'll be April 10th 2025

[river veldt]

i never finished Black Mesa

i think i got to the dam

[cerulean herald]

what how are you in the future thats not fair

[visual hill]

I finished Black Mesa in 2020, restarted it last year with definitive edition but didn't finish it

[gaunt marten]

UTC+3

[visual hill]

I'm sad it lacks TAA, it's kind of a noisy mess even at 4K... you can force MSAA in the driver, but it's slow and can break things. It also doesn't work on everything anyway

original Half-Life is way less visually noisy, and you can force 16× MSAA and great a great image

[slim thorn]

I haven't felt like replaying any HLs, still haven't touched Black Mesa

[visual hill]

I played a bunch of multiplayer when the 25th anniversary update came out

it was great fun to play on 32-player servers with 3 teams and at least 15 players using the skeleton model

[bronze abyss]

soon youll be looking like this

[restive wind]

HA Hey I play PC games from the 90's I played as a kid all the time. I only ever owned an NES, then Sega CD before I juast did PC builds so I go back and play stuff from then pretty often

[quartz pawn]

Speaking of old pc games, I really wanna play Chip's Challenge again.

oh lmao it's free on steam

[visual hill]

all of Oddworld? I'd buy that for a dollar! https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/oddworld-complete-collection

(for context, https://www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/every-single-oddworld-game-is-available-right-now-for-a-single-solitary-dollar/)

[visual hill]

I have an extra key for Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, DM me if interested

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/_mghxAhTjVs?si=SW_elo-2hZ8KqsdV

I'm so happy that there's big nerds with a lot of time in their hands that can dump so much time into analyzing these types of things out there because when I was playing this game I thought they had just scaled the entire map a couple sizes and didn't even put together that roughly the entire map of ALTTP/ALBW including its previous borders is actually all still there, they just brought down the borders and walls and carved new paths to access areas of the kingdom that weren't accessible before

or that they even took into account the map of Zelda 1 to create the new area where the Zoras live in

makes me appreciate this game even more

[cunning galleon]

Uraaaa!

like

only died twice

[rare garden]

Yo what's that game??? Enlisted?

Oh it issss

Havent played in a while

I started playing after badger uploaded a vid about it

I LOVE MY PPSH-41!!!

Feels like the MG42 but just slightly weaker but more maneuverable

[cunning galleon]

I like the vg2 and mannlicher

For the soviet tt,,

Mosin carbine

I also have a favourite soldier...

Julius Ancans in a recon regiment

[rare garden]

Mines a guy called Fyodor Shapolav (if i remember correctly), he's the squad leader of the first infantry squad i got in the battle of moscow

[cunning galleon]

Look at him

Boys.. Prttery....

[rare garden]

Helmetless
Snipers get his ass

[cunning galleon]

But he is a sniper

Mind you, I'm very skilled

Also, contrary to popular belief, helmets were made for shrapnel during ww2, not head protection against bullet

They aren't bulletproof

[rare garden]

Yeah, i do remember the times when I crawled up 4 stories to the top of a cathedral to snipe people in their spawns
Helmets did not help em

[wind stump]

Ay fuckin' oh?

[gaunt marten]

It could go on a better discount than that

[wind stump]

Yeah and the DLC isn't discounted either

Dave the Diver is the NieR of indie games (it has crossovers with fucking everything)

actually wait
That's Dead Cells

[gaunt marten]

Isn't it made by Nexon?

[wind stump]

ah, it is owned by Nexon, you're right

fucking vertical corpo bullshit

Nestle moment

[smoky sonnet]

you mean the new dlc that's already dirt cheap 💀

[visual hill]

Dave the Diver is notable for looking indie, but not being indie

they are literally punching below their weight

[wind stump]

the DLC costs half as much as the full game

[cunning galleon]

Weak...

I frontline snipe

[umbral zinc]

which games does Dead Cells have a crossover with?

it's been a while since i played, i know they have a Castlevania DLC and a lot of references

[wind stump]

Skul, Curse of the Dead Gods, Hyper Light Drifter

some others

[cerulean herald]

What does this mean exactly, I don't know anything about Nexon

[wind stump]

Nexon are a big Korean MMO developer

Maplestory might be one you're familiar with

[cerulean herald]

I heard of that game, yeah

[visual hill]

they also made Counter-Strike Online, a F2P spin-off exclusively for the Korean market

they are pretty big on F2P with aggressive monetization, often being or bordering on pay-to-win

which is also why they're not well-liked in the western market

[fickle garnet]

I've been trying to play the DMC games, but they're so difficult and I'm not sure I'll be able to finish any of them. I really like them tho

It's frustrating cuz I really like them, and want to finish all of them, but I suck at the game

[slim thorn]

yep, that's me every time I play a spectacle fighter or soulslike or non-easy metroidvania

[fickle garnet]

I was able to get through Elden Ring, but DMC is just a different kind of difficult

I'm just not very good with chaining combos together

[wind stump]

if you didn't tell me Dave the Diver was a Korean developed game I would have gotten the idea from the opening credits

[wind stump]

[arctic fern]

oh yeah i had a lot fo fun with dave the diver
i should finish it tbh

it got me into balatro lol

[wind stump]

this plays exactly like it did in Nikke!

just with less busty women

[wind stump]

having done the first day, this is like Mystia's Izakaya!

but with less cute bird girls

• Deeper ingredient gathering, - for no birb waifus, 0/10

YOOO DOOMSCROLL FEATURE

oke this game is now peak again

thanks game, very cool

[proud warren]

20% of people either never let dave get that low, or always let him die I guess

[gaunt marten]

Or stop playing the game

[smoky sonnet]

the dlc is brand new? the game is not

the game is expected to go on sale, the dlc is like a third of the game's actual price

if you're going to complain about the dlc, complain about how it's limited time 💀

so there won't be a chance for sales probably

[fresh bane]

https://bsky.app/profile/askiisoft.bsky.social/post/3lmhxl4skck2p

Justin (@askiisoft.bsky.social)

Katana ZERO DLC

Still coming.
Still free.

Reposts

343

Likes

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Bluesky · Apr 10, 2025, 4:50 PM

It's been six years

[bitter stream]

wait what

That's cool, though Katana Zero is a game i never played because it's so hardcore in terms of topics it deals with

[fickle garnet]

I should just keep playing DMC till I (hopefully) eventually beat it

[bitter stream]

good luck! and there's probably guides out there if you want some extra tips?

[fresh bane]

I mean not if you're not enjoying it, I would never recommend someone play through DMC, or Dark Souls, or any other similar type of game known for its difficulty if they're hating the experience
It's just gonna be a miserable experience all the way and it's not really gonna make you appreciate the games properly

[fickle garnet]

I do enjoy the games, they're just difficult

[fresh bane]

speaking of DMC though I have gone back to it, for totally no reason in particular, and since I beat these games so many times already I thought I'd shake things up a bit and install the DDMK mod (basically a mod that adds various different options, tools and fixes to the games, as well as basically being a mod manager of sorts)
and I gotta say, it's not much, especially since DMC1 is the grandfather of the entire genre so it is pretty limited, but doing things like quick switching weapons and guns just breathes so much new life into this game

[slim thorn]

one of these days I should probably try DMC3 (3's supposed to the best one, right?) considering I bounced hard off 1, but loved other spectacle fighters like Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta

[fresh bane]

the only bad part is the gun switching is quite janky, if you switch guns in the middle of any firing animation while any gun particles are going off, the game WILL crash, and since animation cancelling is such a big part of DMC combat, it's very hard to train your muscle memory not to do it, and it does limit what you can do even more, but at least the weapons work really well, even if again they're quite limited

just for fun I also tried starting DMC3 even though my objective now is DMC1, and I gotta say even though all my weapons are not maxed out and I don't even have all my moves, it feels so good, I could never go back to playing this without style switching and only 2 weapons at all times, I just don't think I could

[fresh bane]

Ironically enough, DMC1 is the one that was made by the same dude who did Bayonetta, not Rising though, but Rising was his team so kind of, so you can think of DMC1 as early Bayonetta in a way
If we're talking purely gameplay, DMC5 is probably the peak of the franchise in my eyes and the peak of this genre in general, what this team achieved with DMC5 is just insane
DMC3 is 'the best one' in terms of a full package, it has great art direction, great levels, memorable cast of characters, great story, great soundtrack, great gameplay, loads of replayability, it just kinda has it all

[fickle garnet]

The level in this clip is where I'm at in DMC1

[fresh bane]

I mean that's kinda about halfway through the game and the game is at most like, 7 hours
But like I said, if you're just stressing through a game I don't recommend doing it, if it's just hard well then yeah, these games are hard, some people are into the challenge and push through and some people just get stressed and upset and for those people I don't recommend going through with a game because you're just having a bad time for no reason

[fickle garnet]

I do enjoy it, some of my problem with DMC1 is the controles tbh

[visual hill]

(repost) I have an extra key for Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, DM me if interested

[fickle garnet]

Ngl Nelo Angelo's second fight is kinda easy

[fresh bane]

|| just wait until the third round ||

https://tenor.com/view/getting-ready-sword-devil-may-cry-1-nelo-angelo-gif-8485843166023696912

I do like Nero Angelo 2's arena

[fickle garnet]

That underwater segment was dogshit

[fresh bane]

The underwater segment is indeed dogshit but it's only the one area and it's mostly just weird

DMC2 has entire water levels that are arguably worse even though they're in third person just because they make you fight more enemies and even bosses underwater and that just doesn't work

[fickle garnet]

Oh god

[fresh bane]

If you do decide to tackle DMC2 afterwards, although I wouldn't blame you if you didn't, I highly recommend installing the Definitive Edition modification

https://youtu.be/Y8iU5tw0V_U?si=F_-LaVgHOp1MVPqV

If you're playing on PC that is anyways

DMC2 vanilla is a very mind numbingly boring experience, this mod is more of a bandaid fix on a game that is quite simply put a complete mess, but it's a pretty good bandaid fix and it's a nice showcase of the passion and love people have for these games that they even attempted to fix this at all

[fickle garnet]

Unfortunately I am playing them on Xbox

[fresh bane]

That is very unfortunate

[fickle garnet]

I bought the game before i had a pc

[cunning galleon]

thing

he has seen some t hings

[rare garden]

Why does he look like human shrek

[cunning galleon]

Ivan Shrekivoc

yea no, bros gonna have a closed casket funeral

[rare garden]

Anti tank round to the head would make any funeral closed casket

Might as well cremate his ass he wouldnt look any worse

[bitter stream]

which game is this Neowemu?

[toxic seal]

In Girls und Panzer Miho just dodges shells casually

[cunning galleon]

Enlisted!

[toxic seal]

"Oops that one almost hit me teehee"

[cunning galleon]

the ptrd 41 gang

idk how the guy who brings the ptrd does parkour

i parkoured up a destroyed building to snipe tanks

[quiet swift]

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_831
A game called "star stable" about horses is being targetted by the European Commission for predatory microtransaction methods, since it's a game very much oriented towards a younger audience but is filled with FOMO and such.

Some pundits are saying that since it's the EU commission, this could have wide-ranging effects. (Such as how the EU enforced USB-C in EU and the rest of the world followed suit, this could slow down or potentially stop microtransactions in EU if they enforce it that way - which would have big repercussions industry-wide)

Horse armor introduced microtransactions, horse armor might take it out again

[bitter stream]

Interesting, one can only hope lol

[rancid herald]

probably be pretty damaging for a lot of the games industry

[quiet swift]

I'd link Bellular's video about it since it's the first I saw about it, but y'all fuckers complain every time I post a vid of his 😛

[rancid herald]

bellular? banned

BANNED

its fine

[bitter stream]

Are the complaints about the videos presentation or something?

[quiet swift]

Clickbait thumbnails, mostly. Which is true, but it's also the youtube 'meta' unfortunately, so the complaints get old. Valid complaints, but they were heard ten million times ago 😛

[rancid herald]

he is pretty clickbaity

[quiet swift]

I'm not disagreeing. But as I understand it from a bunch of youtubers who have talked about how youtube works, the clickbait works and since viewer numbers often translate pretty directly to monetary gain, I can't really blame them for doing it

Anyway, here's the vid, goes into more detail. Interesting watch, thumbnail aside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkUUm0zDLY

[rancid herald]

T2?

[bitter stream]

I guess you need to post context with videos like that, the title explains nothing lol

but i get why its meta

[cunning galleon]

T2 interactive? not surprised\

[quiet swift]

@rancid herald Take 2, GTA online's endless money

[rancid herald]

ah

[green fulcrum]

I really need to watch this show

[rare garden]

Give him callsign shrek

[cunning galleon]

too expensive

[rare garden]

😔

Any notable callsigns tho

[toxic seal]

One of my favorite parts about the show is the one-off lines answering questions the audience is bound to have.
"How does no one get hit?"
"You just dodge the shells."
"OK."

"Why don't shells actually penetrate the cabins and fuck people up?"
"Non-lethal shells that simulate penetration and carbon lining."
"OK."

There is no further expanding on this. That's the asnwer. Live with it.

[rare garden]

Also i LOVE radiomen
Got 24 kills once by calling in arty on a house

[cunning galleon]

Oh T-26 of the ditch, what is your wisdom?

[rare garden]

"Look where you're driving"

[toxic seal]

quack, comrade

[cunning galleon]

more like blub blub, blub

[plain harbor]

So I bought Stellar Blade. It's good stuff. Also Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness. Only a few hours in and better story than SO: The Divine Force.

[quiet swift]

free on prime (x are older ones, I just took PC versions and don't have xbox but they're still cluttering the page)

[plain harbor]

In other news, S+ rank cars in NFS Unbound are fucking rockets. They have brakes, but it's hard for even the AI to use it. I was in a race earlier, and the AI in first at the time somehow wall-runs like, three train cars (a train goes by in the beginning of the race that you have to either dodge around or jump over using a nearby ramp), then fucking launches right off the track off the train, then somehow disappears, even with everyone else still in the race. I just kept glancing up to see how far away the guy was and the last check before the race ended (I won) was 4,000+ yds.

[chilly mural]

Is this Nishizumi-Ryu?

[umbral zinc]

i'm a little bit late but i think DMC5 is the best DMC

in terms of movement, aesthetic, the kinds of weapons and just how cool it is to chain combos. it might be my favorite because it was the first DMC i tried but it was the first hack n slash that made me feel powerful and swag

also, V was a very cool character

[fresh bane]

Eh, aesthetics in DMC5 are kind of mid, it's the first time we get to explore an urban area since DMC2 but after the really cool city segments it's all Qliphoth and it's easily the game's biggest weakness

Every other game is vastly more varied in terms of aesthetics and areas compared to 5

That's why I said DMC5 is the best one purely talking about gameplay, but as a full package DMC3 is still considered the best one

[arctic fern]

6th balatro win!
i managed to get a bunch of jokers that buffed straights and the card that let me skip cards in straights
and i was playing the magic deck, and got the planet for straights early, fooled it and just had a bunch of great mults going

[tawny jacinth]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9lv0sPU8M5o

Man this video hurts to watch

You can hear the heartbreak in real time in Froxxy (the team captain)’s voice as he watches the PC checker go through Slash’s downloads history

They’re not native English speakers but you can tell the sense of betrayal as he finds out his friend and teammate of 4 years was cheating in a competitive league

Not only that but he’s just fucked over his entire team’s future

Imagine sticking your neck out to protect your friend and teammate only to find out they were lying to your face the entire time

Oh god I realized that the Slash guy had literally downloaded the cheats on the day of the tournament, which is why he was so sloppy

[wind stump]

new Summoning Salt vidya https://youtu.be/fygcK24ok4c

[wind stump]

high quality video making

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/v9DKDmjIqQo

[unreal idol]

Wtf lmao

[wind stump]

Sheet.

[arctic fern]

wow a whole 92 profit

[wind stump]

Shit this doin' numbers

[wind stump]

laughs in drowned Dave

[wind stump]

H Christ that will take a while

[tawny jacinth]

Help me

[wind stump]

[wind stump]

[rugged flax]

FYI AZHM is half off on Steam right now
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235440/My_Little_Pony_A_Zephyr_Heights_Mystery/

Steam

My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery

Strange Magic is turning the world upside down in Equestria and it is up to you to take the power of friendship to new heights and embark on a mystery adventure for one or two ponies.
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$19.99

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and ABMA is 60% off
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1600780/MY_LITTLE_PONY_A_Maretime_Bay_Adventure

Steam

MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure

Bring magic back to Equestria and play with the new generation of MY LITTLE PONY characters, in an adventure full of fun, fashion and good friends!

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$15.99

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[visual hill]

finally got around to replaying Sly Cooper 🙂

PCSX2 got a lot of niceties recently, including a "true 32-bit color" mode that increases color precision as much as possible, and of course HD texture packs. There are built-in widescreen/no-interlacing patches too, and the one for Sly Cooper also disables the built-in motion blur (which doesn't look great since it's just reusing old frames)

oh and...

[fickle garnet]

I want to play Sly Cooper eventually

[slim thorn]

I should replay the trilogy at some point

pretty sure I played 1 and 2 multiple times and 3 once when they were new

[visual hill]

same, I remember playing the multiplayer mode in 3 with my brother

RPCS3 can also run the PS3 ports, but the PS2 version seems to be a better bet for emulating it

[slim thorn]

yeah, I did that too

they didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did lol

[visual hill]

also, props to PCSX2 for having this in the options menu so I no longer need to edit configuration files to do it 😛

(I opened a PR for it last year, it was rejected, someone else did it a few months later and it was accepted)

[fresh bane]

I'm surprised that so many games I've tried on PCSX2 have mostly bug free widescreen and aspect ratio patches

almost always activated by default too

I tried Fatal Frame/Project Zero the other day just to check it out really quick and I'm pretty sure it was already activated, Silent Hill 4 too

Haunting Ground had one too, the biggest 'problem' with them is just stretched out menus but that's mostly fine, I haven't tried activating any achievements on any game I played though

[visual hill]

yeah, the cheat database got many updates over the years, no-interlace patches are fairly new

you can enable options in PCSX2 to enable widescreen/no-interlace patches by default and they're allowed in hardcore more

Dolphin also allows certain cheats to work with hardcore mode since the beginning of the year for similar reasons

I believe 60 FPS mods are still off-limits for hardcore mode though, at least currently

and yeah, most widescreen patches will have stretched UI as they don't squish UI elements to compensate. It's possible but pretty difficult and time-consuming to do

https://static.wikitide.net/slymodswiki/5/5a/Ultrawide_329_in_paris.png

Sly has a WIP cheat for widescreen with non-stretched UI, which makes ultrawide and even superwide more viable

[fresh bane]

Yeeeeeeah I would imagine doing something like actually messing around with any UI elements to make them fit widescreen would be just too complicated for any or most games to actually have, honestly I can handle a bit of an ugly slightly stretched UI, it's honestly not that bad or noticeable really

[visual hill]

at least PCSX2 has an option to force a different aspect ratio for FMVs, so it can switch back to 4:3 during prerecorded video playback. (DuckStation has a similar option)

[visual hill]

haha, I did it on the third try

[craggy vine]

Snowpity achievement

[wind stump]

TOUHOU 20 IS REAAAAAAAAAAL https://touhou-project.news/news/13976/

[dense crypt]

Dinosaur girls?

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3566610/Age_of_War/

Steam

Age of War

A recreation of the beloved flash game "Age of war".

This game is free and open source:

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I am not the creator of the sprites used in this game. The sprites were created by louissi
I am also legally required to say that "Age of War" belongs to MaxGames.

Do they even have the right license to put it on Steam?

[arctic fern]

if its free and open source?

[gaunt marten]

Not all open source license permit unfettered distribution

I can't find the source code of the original

[wind stump]

'tis a good day to be a 2hu fan https://youtu.be/AR1hQc5FKa4

more of a 12.3 fan than 15.5 but damn does it look smooth

[wind stump]

finally
freenium in my Spire

lmaoooo

[quiet swift]

Oh hey, deep rock galactic survivor finally has a 1.0 release date (september)

[green fulcrum]

Hmmm...does anybody know how to solve this?

Currently testing Minecraft on my new PC and this is what happens when I open it.

Sometimes the space is bigger

I also can't move it around.

[cerulean herald]

Can you click on video settings and screenshot what you see

[green fulcrum]

Everything is normal. Fullscreen is on borderless.

Hmmm...just tried it again and the issue fixed itself. Hopefully that was just a glitch since it's the first few times it's opened the game.

[cerulean herald]

Ah, well

[little badger]

Marathon reveal trailer, you can join the beta if you join their discord server https://youtu.be/uZRGDZCl9pg?si=oAwjDReWj-LSZykf

[cerulean herald]

Ok but who's best 2hu girl ??

[visual hill]

do you mean the window showing without a border?

it's strange, never seen it before

[green fulcrum]

I guess it was a graphical glitch that eventually fixed itself. Third time was the charm.

[cerulean herald]

I know that the UI can be large or small, like that screenshot showed
I forgot where exactly that setting can be adjusted at

[wind stump]

Mystia

[green fulcrum]

...I can run Minecraft at 120+ FPS with shaders. 300+ without.

That's 3 to 4 times the performance I was getting with my laptop.

Intel you beautiful bastards, the B580 is wonderful!

[wind stump]

"ERROR, I was not programmed to simp."

[green fulcrum]

...I don't remember this in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

[gaunt marten]

The computer is silly

[wind stump]

I can't tell if it's because the line was modified or it was that way in the original and frankly i want to keep the mystery alive

[gaunt marten]

I do think the peach scenes are all a net negative to the game

[arctic fern]

i think i prefered the peach scenes in he first game, but i enjyed them in ttyd

in ttyd she's really operating at the whim of a computer but original shes genuinely sneaking around and helping mario

[young creek]

they are too slow

[wind stump]

yeah especially with the remake slowing things down

[young creek]

I just want to go back to being Mario

[wind stump]

i like the bowser segments

[young creek]

Yeah cause they aren't slow

[wintry canopy]

The dragonmaid support coming to master duel has been teased on the official x account.

[quiet swift]

https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250410_classics_promo

[toxic seal]

BOTW for Switch 2 will cost $70 base and does not include previous DLC. It's $20 extra.
In slightly better news, if you already have BOTW for Switch 1 the upgrade to the Swtich 2 version is only $10... but you still need to pay for the DLC.

So $90 for people who want the full Switch 2 BOTW experience if you are not already an owner, $10-30 for existing BOTW owners depending on if you already have the DLC or not

[wind stump]

[bitter stream]

that's, really weird on the DLC front, but I guess at least the upgrade is 10$ and not a worse case

[wind stump]

at least the base game isn't $90?

hey at least this 8 year old game isn't $90

[cerulean herald]

The opposite of discounts

[bitter stream]

yeahh

[slim thorn]

#EnderMagnolia: @random steppe got 'im 3rd try

[random steppe]

Awesome

Lots of stuff opening up now

[light gate]

This looks really cool, a bit excited ngl.

[fickle garnet]

Is this going to be free to play, or will you have to buy it? Do we know yet?

[light gate]

I think its 40 dollars.

[bitter stream]

I've been hearing people say it'll be 40USD, but is there any source on that? I've not seen any announcement of price or something

Alas, the alpha access is limited to NA fans so there's little point in me signing up to their discord

[light gate]

It does kinda suck that while the game looks fun, a lot of people are trashing it because Concord.

And that its an extraction shooter.

[bitter stream]

I mean, I get the second half of that haha. A lot of folks liked the original marathon, seeing it's sequel become an extraction shooter must be strange

[smoky sonnet]

most i've seen is people saying bungie used the term "premium"

[light gate]

Sure, but Marathon has always been... strange.... heh

[bitter stream]

Aye, it's a different game and that's ok. Same thing that happend to PREY really

[smoky sonnet]

people have been speculating it's around the $40 point, anything more and it's guaranteed to flop, especially with bungie's reputation atm lol

[bitter stream]

yeahhh, and bungie does a pretty full on style of moneitsation

[smoky sonnet]

i feel like it kinda has to be free to succeed at this point

[bitter stream]

Battlepasses and MTX for weeks I'd bet.

How much is Hunt:Showdown?

That's a pretty well liked extraction shooter

though with very very different theming

[smoky sonnet]

$30

[bitter stream]

ahh ok. So around that price point would be competitive.
Though as some youtubers are pointing out, Idk if Destiny fans will like the Season Wipes and loot loss of Marathon

[fickle garnet]

If I have to buy it, then I might not play it tbh

Unless it's really good

[light gate]

I mean Destiny costed initially and folks bought it no issue, Destiny 2 also had similar thing and same thing occured. Not sure why Marathon is an exception.

[bitter stream]

nah, I don't mean the price being a detractor, i mean the gameplay loop

[light gate]

I mean as long as I'm not fighting bullet sponges, I think its gonna be good.

Destiny had a lot of that.

[bitter stream]

Aye, We'll just have to wait and see for like an Open Beta or something, if they do one

[smoky sonnet]

because it was a proper game at first, and then they loaded it with microtransactions and ruined the onboarding experience and took out half the game

it's only an exception in that bungie has ruined their reputation and people will be really hesitant to buy in

[fickle garnet]

It's more of i'd be wary to buy it because i'm not completely sure if I would enjoy the gameplay loop or not

[light gate]

Didn't it have no proper ending and teased the season pass?

[bitter stream]

That's a good point Nahvec haha

[light gate]

Welp, if folks are gonna be like this... then its a guarantee flop.

So many comments already trashing the game.

[fickle garnet]

Also this, yeah

[smoky sonnet]

destiny?

[light gate]

Yeah, the first one at least.

I remember the ending not really being anything good or worthwhile.

Destiny 2 was a bit of a shitshow (Blizzard, then Independent, then Sony)

[smoky sonnet]

d1 didn't have a season pass, it was just a nothingburger of a story because they were forced to rewrite it last minute

the expansions weren't that much better, but they improved greatly in places like writing

it definitely never hit the highs of halo during d1, but the campaign wasn't that big of a focus with the format of the game

d2 dropped, and they fumbled HARD that first year, in some weird balancing change for pvp they forced you to have two primary ammo weapons, and they made everything that was special ammo in d1(shotguns, snipers, etc) into HEAVY ammo weapons

[light gate]

I guess what I'm seeing is that the hardcore fans want just another single player story game with some optional multiplayer, yet I think that would die faster after people play it fairly quick.

Not that I support MTX hell, I just am more concern with how the fanbase and the company are orienting themselves. I just see lot of folks wanting a single player story game, while Bungie wants a service game. Feels like there won't be any compromises since both sides are literally opposites.

[smoky sonnet]

so you had shotguns competing with rocket launchers and stuff in the pve part of the game, just to balance the pvp

[light gate]

I mean, that's any online game. Even Fortnite has balancing issues.

[smoky sonnet]

and all the weapons were static rolls, so there was no loot chase

[light gate]

I do remember loot sucking in Destiny.

so yeah, probably the only thing I would get concerned.

But considering extraction shooters are all about finding loot and not buying it, I think the MTX will be more about revives and time consumables.

[river veldt]

what is an extraction shooter

[bitter stream]

Have you played Escape from Tarkov, or Hunt Showdown captain mario?

[river veldt]

no

[smoky sonnet]

it was worse before, if you got a weapon from the endgame raid, it would be the EXACT SAME as any other copy of that weapon, everyone had the same guns

[bitter stream]

I can explain it, but it'll be a bit wordy

In a extraction shooter, you and your team go into a map with other player teams also joining at the same time.
In the map are various kinds of NPC enemies, loot, and gear you can try to hunt, find, or steal off of other players by killing them.
You and your team try to get as much valuable stuff as you dare, then try to extract from the map without getting killed first.

It's a push your luck kind of game. "What gear do I bring in, how much loot do i try to scavenge, do i hunt other teams"

etc

[light gate]

Pretty much, Skill is still a huge factor in how you are gonna win... and AI bs.

AI is probably gonna be the thing players will complain, I know Tarkov players complain about Scavs.

[slim thorn]

well, certainly not from me lol

I've played all the Halo campaigns multiple times, but never tried either Destiny since I know I don't like any multiplayer stuff; even Bungie shooting can't change that

[light gate]

Good thing you can play Solo at least. phew.

[smoky sonnet]

also going into d2 they slowed down the ability regen a MASSIVE amount to put more focus on the guns(that they already screwed up) so it just didn't feel great to play, and there was very little reason to keep playing after a while

with forsaken, they fixed pretty much every remaining problem and put out like, an expansion and a half of content in one go, and then introduced the seasonal model (but at the time it was basically marketed as permanent content)

but then shadowkeep dropped with a TON of lazy reused d1 content, plus a lackluster season, and their new seasonal model had them delete all the content IMMEDIATELY after the season ended

[light gate]

I mean, that sucks to hear.

I am not a fan of it either.

[smoky sonnet]

later on with the beyond light year, they made it so seasons stick around until the next expansion drops, but at the same time they kinda removed the vast majority of the game's content, including every last trace of the seasonal stuff from forsaken

which included like, 5 raids

and multiple campaigns

[light gate]

Still, I'm willing to try this game since there is no extraction shooter I've been interested in besides Tarkov. But Tarkov is PC only so I can't really play on console.

[smoky sonnet]

im only going to try it if i get in the alpha or if its free on launch

[light gate]

The removal stuff does remind me a bit of how Valve removed TF2 'beta' space maps.

Although they only did that once... unsure about Dota or CS2 now that I think about it. Is Danger Zone playable in CS2 or is that gone?

[smoky sonnet]

not sure!

[light gate]

Lookin at Google shows that it was removed.

Fanbase seems cool about it because they never really cared to begin with, but its still content that got removed.

Freaking Fortnite does this and I don't like it. The FOMO aspect is terrible.

[smoky sonnet]

with destiny it hurt the game really deeply by taking out any proper starting point in the story, they just throw you in the deep end after the intro (nowadays there are at least two free campaigns at least, but they're in the middle of the whole storyline)

[light gate]

Yeah, Destiny 2 really throws you into a very random position.

Honestly I think Bungie just wants to shutdown Destiny and focus on Marathon.

[river veldt]

i see

[light gate]

Which is sad, like it shouldn't be like that.

Just release a proper update that restores all the content.

Maybe as a last patch idk.

[smoky sonnet]

which you might think, "well that's not a big deal!" but there's just too much going on, the game forces you into new seasonal missions out of order on startup even for new players, and people just can't get invested in the story

so they end up bouncing off of it

[light gate]

That is exactly what happened to me, so I know its a big deal.

You can't just shove a player into a story and expect them to follow through it.

[smoky sonnet]

that would be nice, but at this point they've added and removed so much seasonal content

[light gate]

They have it archived I'm sure of it.

[smoky sonnet]

sure, but they basically build modes as disposable

[light gate]

Well, lets hope Marathon doesn't exactly follow that trend.

[smoky sonnet]

it all feels the same every season, and there's too much of it to really make it work as one package

[light gate]

It wouldn't be my first rodeo into these kinds of blunders, I just hope it doesn't become another Concord.

(Not that I bought Concord)

[slim thorn]

the more I hear about these games the more baffled I am that anyone is still giving these things money

[light gate]

I mean TF2 is literally the definition of 'game that refuses to die' even though the studio tried killing it multiple times and gave up.

[smoky sonnet]

marathon's format as an extraction shooter should make it a little more streamlined, but it's almost certainly gonna have problems with the story/lore not all being available ingame for those that want it

[light gate]

I mean, I'm baffled we still are buying licenses instead of owning our games but what can you do other than complain and watch the industry never learn?

[river veldt]

i adore tf2 but i havent played it in a while

[light gate]

Like seriously, Sony wants all the live service games, Microsoft is trying to shove AI and Copilot on their games and who knows what other terrors, Nintendo is extremely greedy and abusive, and then you have Valve which moves at a turtle's pace.

Like, there is no choice other than to not buy or keep playing old games over and over.

There's indies for sure, but you also can't rely on that all the time for every genre.

[slim thorn]

I did kinda luck out in disliking basically all the genres that "indies can't do"

so in my case I actually can rely on that

does the "not owning our games" comment include most Steam games?

[light gate]

I mean, the ones that can't run without DRM.

There are obviously a few that are DRM free.

[slim thorn]

cool, then the ownership thing is another issue that doesn't personally bother me, partly because most people play most games once (and often not even that) so the harm is pretty low in practice, and partly because there's way worse stuff going on

like, if I ever somehow had the power to influence any of these issues, I'd probably focus on curtailing all the predatory monetization schemes

[light gate]

I'm more of a "games are art and therefore should be preserved" kind of thing, which is why I rarely play live service games. But on occassion if a game interests me, I do play it.

So even if I don't support the thing I hate, I know others will. I know that's a fallacy but its kinda hard seeing how the industry refuses to learn, so I just hope one day they realize it.

I guess I'm just more accepting since I just want to enjoy life.

[slim thorn]

yeah, preservation and live service is an interesting conundrum, but since there is a genuine fundamental conflict there I don't feel there's a big moral issue with it

for the most part I'm happy on the preservation front as long as emulation remains tacitly allowed for all de facto abandonware

[light gate]

Yeah, which is why Nintendo needs to take a backseat lmao.

I hope Switch emulation returns at full capacity soon...

[slim thorn]

well, in the specific case of Switch emulation, I think the blame for the current situation has more to do with the emulator developers who were flagrantly encouraging mass piracy of brand new games using their emulator

[light gate]

Yeah, and that is shitty.

I don't know why they thought it was a good idea.

[slim thorn]

though Nintendo certainly overextended in a few places

[light gate]

They absolutely ruined the entire scene because of their greed.

[visual hill]

it's gone

they removed remnants of it (like bump mines and the gamemode configuration itself) recently

our only chance to see it again is Classic Offensive, which was shown to have fully functional DZ

[light gate]

bad Valve

[random steppe]

interestingly enough, there are starting to be some fully PVE extraction games, the more notable is Witchfire which is in Early Access currently

Well it's not quite an extraction game since you don't lose the gear you are carrying if you die

Just the loot you would have gotten should you have extracted

But there is the element of having to reach the exit with your loot

Witchfire is pretty good BTW

[cunning galleon]

Finally, a good raid

AR30, tons of scopes and attachments too

[bitter stream]

Is this a recent call of duty game or something?
On the PvE only extraction shooters. Road to Vostok is another one that looks promising in development by 1 Lead dev with contracted work assisting it.

It is pretty generic mil-sim themed, but I'm hoping it's fun when it hits early access sometime

[cunning galleon]

Arena breakout!

[bitter stream]

Ah neat, I saw ads for it but never gave it a shot, good job gettin gout with a lot of stuff

I know Arena Breakout Infinite is coming to PC at some point, but Idk what it's quality will be like.

[cunning galleon]

ABI is vastly different from AB

With its controversy and all

[bitter stream]

wait, what controversy?

[cunning galleon]

Haven't tried, I like AB

[cunning galleon]

Stolen code

(they only look similar)

[bitter stream]

huh, isn't AB and ABI made by the same folks?

[cunning galleon]

Different devs same publisher

[bitter stream]

that's... so weird

[cunning galleon]

It isn't tbh

It's what Gaijin did with WTM and WT

WTM has different devs than WT

[bitter stream]

No no, I get that publishers do this

but from a consumer perspective, it's weird

[cunning galleon]

It's so much pressure to have to work on both a mobile game (with arguably low expectations because.. Mobile) and a pc game that is almost onpar with EFT

[bitter stream]

It's just the name attached, with no idea if the games will follow similar designs in the first

hey look, if ABI does a better sound system than EFT, that might get a lot of players

EFT is notorious for breaking their sound system

[cunning galleon]

ABI has better sound, funny enough

[cunning galleon]

cutie

[tawny jacinth]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2pQznnrzeBk

Apparently Misprint in Balatro actually shows you the top card in your deck and absolutely nobody noticed for a solid 7 months

That means the first card you draw will be a 9 of hearts

This is some evil shit

[rare garden]

Wait what game is that from

[craggy vine]

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/2561270/achievements

[rare garden]

Whuh

[cunning galleon]

Is it cheating if it's built in

[slim thorn]

#manechat brought up Nietzsche, so I was fact-checking myself on a few things before making further comments, and when I saw this passage:

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

I thought "Nietzsche would enjoy Soulslikes"

[gaunt marten]

We're so lucky he died before 4Chan

[random steppe]

The last bit for sure,

That said, soulslike do kind of like to put you in a state of weakness compared to what you fight against so maybe he'd be more into powerfantasies

[wind stump]

i'm so good at stelth

[random steppe]

That's a good game

[wind stump]

ye i never really played past the first few missions so i decided to start fresh

[wind stump]

Hmm. I dunno if I wanna go non-lethal or not.

[gaunt marten]

I cut the guy's head off... nonlethally

[slim thorn]

AFAIK the general consensus is that a "high chaos" playthrough is mostly easier but offers more variety, and there's no benefit to a "mixed" playthrough, so which is better for your first playthrough largely comes down to personal preference

[wind stump]

High chaos is wanton murder, right?

[slim thorn]

personally I did low chaos, since I like my stealth to be a bit challenging, and I don't have the kind of creativity that the lethal toolbox (and actual sandbox games like Minecraft) benefit from

mostly yes

[wind stump]

well, given i have the KKHTA-esque avatar...

[minor plover]

it was definitely known. My teenager told me about it a couple weeks after Balatro released.

[arctic fern]

this is one of the reasons i dont like dishonoured 1
the game expressly states that being a murderous psychopath is bad, yet you literally cant unequip your sword
ever
and the non-lethal options available to you is limited to the crossbow and walking up behind people

i hear 2 has more options but eh

[wind stump]

you know it's not just about killing people

it's about sending a message
throws corpse into sewer

[arctic fern]

[wind stump]

wow i never even got past the sewers

lmao
throws single canister of whale oil
YOU HAVE RUINED EVERYTHING

[gaunt marten]

Whale oil be fucked

[wind stump]

"Is he dangerous?"
"No, he's here to wo-"

okay so you can throw as many glasses as you want at people, but one crossbow bolt is an instatap

gotcha

[fresh bane]

Man, Dishonored
I was so obsessed with this game years ago, like proper obsessed with it, I never got around to playing the sequel because my computer couldn't handle it, I got it on sale with the dlc a while ago so it's sitting in my library now I'll get around to it at some point

The funny thing about Dishonored is the DLCs are almost always better than the main game gameplay wise

[visual hill]

I have yet to play Dishonored

same for Deathloop, Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah...

forgive me, Arkane Lyon 😢

[random steppe]

To be fair, there are a few more options than that, with certain powers, for full stealth I mean, and even in a low chaos playthrough you can kill quite a few people and still get the low chaos ending

It's not a Metal gear solid situation that if you get seen once by one guy you don't get the best rating

Making 95% of you arsenal completely useless if you are going full stealth

In my first playthgouh I probably did kill north of 50 people, maybe ever over 100, and still got the low chaos ending

[arctic fern]

you do have more stealth options, yeah, but nonlethal options is limited to some crossbow bolts and knocking people out with your hand
i know that stealth is supposed t be harder than murderhobo, but it just isnt very fun when, again, you literally cannot unequip your sword
its always there, giving you the option of murder, preventing you from using somehting esle instead

[random steppe]

Oh you mean in that hand, eh, I never really had that problem...probably because I played a hybrid style, I never felt like my sword was something I would have never used

[random steppe]

Also stealth options are nonlethal options in many cases.
Walking past enemies is surprisingly viable in Dishonored

(even tho, occasionally, you do have to hack a tesla coil and fry half a dozen dudes because it's funny)

[arctic fern]

still
ill stick with hitman:woa

[random steppe]

Not saying you are wrong, to be clear, the game is more restricitive if you want a low chaos ending, but it's not quite as restrictive as its reputation implies.

You can still use the lethal tools, you just have to use them a lot less

The best part of the game is still the world building and the lore.
Man I love Dunwall

[wind stump]

i think there's a bone charm nearby

oh this is DLC stuff

explains why i have 7 slots when the game said 3

[random steppe]

Is it?

[wind stump]

looked it up and one of them (Void Channel) is DLC

Void Channel is a bone charm which first appeared as part of the Arcane Assassin Pack DLC for Dishonored.

[random steppe]

Oh ok.
intersting, I forgot about those small content packages

In my mind I rolled them with the game

Since the game has proper expansions basically

With new areas and more story

[wind stump]

ahh, the extra bone charm slots were items i picked up, neato

I'm gonna save my runes for Shadow thingy so I don't have to worry about bodies

[random steppe]

Oh right, the ||heart|| is a neat thing.

||You can use it to get lore for people and places by poiting it at them and pressing the button||

[wind stump]

oh yeah the heart, i should use that more (i do not care about lore)

[slim thorn]

IIRC it was surprisingly worthwhile to check everything with it, especially people

[wind stump]

But that's not murder!

Oh she can defend herself?
saves game
Bet.

[slim thorn]

plus, a good litmus test for "did you get the lore" is ||if you ever realized who The Heart is ||

[wind stump]

oh ok then i'll just get that shadow perk now ig

i love P2W DLC

[wintry canopy]

The yu-gi-oh booster box I ordered will arrive tomorrow.

[wind stump]

HAHAHHAHA
I killed two birds with one stone by tossing a whale oil tank at some guards

Wall of Light gone
Two dead guards

[slim thorn]

yeah you might be a high chaos player

I'm the type who always wants to find the hidden alternate route around the wall

[fresh bane]

man this game's UI design is still so good

Dishonored 2 as well, they have such good art direction

I should probably replay Dishonored 1 if I ever wanna jump into 2 though... it's been so long since I played it and I remember vaguely what happens but, I'm sure I probably would need a refresher, I was super into this back in like... 2017

which 2 minutes ago, I would've said was like what, 4 years ago or something, but apparently that was almost a decade ago and I don't like the way that feels

[fresh bane]

Once again I have to say, playing through this game with DDMK is a treat, the ability to change weapons and guns on the fly is just so important for this series finally being able to do it in the first game just adds so much, even if again the options are still limited in comparison to what comes after

I have to say though after playing DMC5 on a completed savefile for so many years now I really forgot how late you get most of your arsenal in these games, I'm pretty much near the end and I barely have most of my moves, I don't even have air hike yet (double jump) although that one is famously the most expensive upgrade to get in all the games