Denied editionWhat the heck is this/indie/ is the general for all indie games, such as A Hat in Time, Animal Well, Baba Is You, Balatro, Battle Brothers, Cave Story, Celeste, CrossCode, Cultist Simulator, Darkest Dungeon, Darkwood, Dead Cells, Disco Elysium, Environmental Station Alpha, FTL, Hades, Hollow Knight, Hotline Miami, LISA, Lobotomy Corp, Loop Hero, Machinarium, Monster Train, Noita, Nuclear Throne, OFF, OneShot, Rain World, Shovel Knight, Slay the Spire, Starsector, Subnautica, Sunless Skies, The Witness, Void Stranger, etc., as well as other games that just don't fit in any other general such as Atelier, Pillars of Eternity, and Valkyria Chronicles. /jrpg/ is welcome. Idle, roguelite, shmup, 4x / RTS / city-builders, and RPGMaker games are cool too.Mobile or consoles, Flash or Unity, freeware or early access. This place is a home for the indie game community and indie and obscure games that don't have a home. So be free to talk and share all your hidden gems, forgotten games and starving devs here.>Can I talk about games that already have a general?We mostly discuss games that are not popular enough for their own threads, however, all indie games are allowed. So talk about them if you want, but don't overdo it since you already have other generals for that.>Recommendationshttps://pastebin.com/ZbG0JPSn>Booruhttps://indiegame.booru.org/>Steam Grouphttps://steamcommunity.com/groups/indiegamesgeneralThread Archives:https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/subject/%2Findie%2F/text/%2FIndie%2F%20/type/op/>Previous Thread>>535079695
The """fog""".
>normal threadthank god, I sat here for over an hour with my own OP ready to go, lazing away. Was terrified it'd be vandalized again. Coulda spent it playing vidya but I aimlessly scroll most days anyway.
>>536192205Speaking of normal, how fucked up is the steam group?
>>536192364Dead as a doornail.
>>536191668i am one of the first scavposters here, and i've been posting on /indie/ for the past 4 years or so, and i want to say that the is in a pit where any kind of normal discussion is it is nearly impossible because it's stuck between two polarized communities, and the closest i've got to a normal conversation about it was here. it absolutely deserves attention because it's genuinely a well made and innovative game, as long as you're willing to look deeper than the exterior, it could've been also easily sold on steam in EA with the current amount of content, and yet, it's free and is of higher quality than kusoges occasionally posted here.there's just no place to talk about it publicly, and it's saddening, because i can definitely see it carving out it's own niche on the market in the nearby future
>>536192950Furries get the rope.
You don't own your Steam games
>>536193089Worse, you don't own your bank account.
>>536193074well, the vandalized thread revealed that there are quite a few people willing to talk about them in this general, so remember that every time you reply to somebody there's a change they're a furry
>>536193181You don't even own your money as long as central banking is a thing.
It seems you need to unlock something called "trade deals" with the town's people. And as you sell more stuff you unlock more perks.>>536192950>furries are so destructive that they can't have civilized conversation about their own shitLol. If the vandalized thread proved something, is that furries are disruptive of the general's harmony and should be shunned. The last thing /indie/ needs is furry drama.
>>536193878Oops forgot picture of my blogpost.
>>536191668baba is noita?!?
>>536193878>>furries are so destructive that they can't have civilized conversation about their own shiti had decent dialogue both about the game and the niche it occupies, both out and in the vandalized thread, and more often than not - the least civilized part of the discussion was somebody telling me to kill myself because i discuss a game with anthropomorphic creatures.
Nine Sols never caused this
>>536195106Then fuck off to those places. We don't like you, specially after it was proven that you fucks can't even stop yourselves from vandalizing the general.
>>536195293I don't think the person who vandalized the thread actually likes video games at all anon. This who argument is likely the kind of thing they want.
>>536195293this place was this very general
>>536195478Well? Are the geese weapons any good?
>>536197216No, I believe it was a meme addition for a forum poster(Tallgeese) back when the game had like 5 players. They are trash, but if you sell them you'll get around 300K which is a lot in NG0, especially since you can go straight here as soon as you finish ch1 and have access to the whole game world.
I wish Demonschool and Hell is Us a very Silksong week.
>>536197716unrucky
>>536197716God Hell is Us is going to fucking flop so hard, regardless of Silksong really. If they're smart they'll delay it by two weeks.
>>536195293i post a lot of other vidya too, anon...
Well, at least you all know now. Perhaps you can quiet down.
>"No, I'm not a Human" is also coming out in Septembergive me a fuckign break
>>536204061>2026It's releasing in two weeks anon. Nice try though.
Okay I got a stupidly specific question about Starsector. A while back I encountered this fucking thing, poorly drawn because of course, in a bounty mission and I just grabbed it via console because it looked amusing. Recently though I realized that I have not seen that bounty in my mission lists anywhere, and also when I went to look at mods that add ships and whatnot in Starsector's mod page (which this fucking thing certainly must have come from, as far as I can remember that's the only place I use to get some mods to the game from) I could not find any mod with this specific fucking thing in it. To provide a bit more extra besides the poorly drawn design, it had like 2-3 built-in drones, built-in missile launchers and an omnidirectional weapon slot right in the middle of the ship. Anyone who could point me to the right direction where this fucking thing originates from would be much appreciated.
>>536195106Don't mind the shitstirrer, I enjoy your Scav posts. Said this before, the physics remind me heavily of Plazma Burst (1 & 2) games, a sequel for which (2.5/3) I've been waiting for since 2015. While I'm more interested in Gunsaw as it shares more similarities with PB (Eric Gurt, PB's creator, even recommended it), Scav looks like an interesting project to keep an eye on too. Like a procgen version of that with heavy survival elements. Reminds a bit of Noita as well.
>>536199418It's a shame, the demo was really promising (except for this fucking retarded combat system)
>>536208684you will probably have more luck asking around in the /vst/ starsector thread, much more mod autists there
>>536214348Well shit, I honestly did not see that before. Thanks.
How come human are persistence predators in the wild, but said persistence approach literally NEVER work in video games? Whether it's Valheim or Sengoku Dynasty, the animals can just keep running indefinitely 5ever.
>>536220410Probably because humans in real life aren't persistence predators.
>>536222164humans are very adaptable and our hunting strategies usually incorporate a number of different approaches, and persistence hunting is one of them
Ah, Earth Dancer! Your dance has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you this recipe.
>>536213078The combat killed my interest, it felt tacked on and tedious to get through
Why were all posts in the previous thread deleted?
>>536225642db glitch or a bug in the 4chan internal archiver
>>536223810And humans can survive on a vegan diet. Doesn't mean that humans are herbivores.Persistence hunting was only recorded to be somewhat successful on very specific climates and terrain. Notably not anywhere near where early humans settled and not in the type of woods that Valheim and Sengoku Dynasty have.
>>536220410because most gamedevs are hacksyou're not going to see animals with reasonable stamina/regen values unless it is a core gameplay feature
>>536229691I'm irked by how the game looks like a GBA game but the font is perfectly smooth. Dunno if it makes sense, sorry.
the camera NEVER points where you want it to
>>536230685Nope. Welcome to X Shooters. Zombie Shooter is the same, sadly.
>>536230685which alien shooter is this?
>>5362337912 Reloaded with a widescreen mod
>>536220410Because making hunting a walking simulator, while an efficient use of personal energy, would be dreadfully boring to play. Like you're effectively asking why more game dont have a hunting mechanic where you walk a path for hours, occasionally seeing animal tracks, until you reach thebutterly exhausted animal and kill it effortlessly as its too tired to run away once more. Doesnt take a genius to understand that wouldnt translate well into a format meant to be entertaining to the player, so in turn dev will almost always opt for a more proactive system as to expediate the process.But I do get your point, and prefer it when the enemy (wether it be an npc or animal) own stats and functions work on a level comparable to ours which even the field out, make the whole process fairer and more enjoyable. I mean getting your shit kicked in by an npc who can just swing a 20 pound club constantly without rest aint the same as getting your shit kicked by an npc who need to manage its own stamina so it doesnt find itself exhausted within arm reach of the opponent aka you. Same reason why I prefer fps where the enemy die easily but so do you.
what if they delay silksong again
>>536242046In 2 weeks before release?
Idk which one looks more unappealing between The Outer Worlds 2 and VTMB2
>>536247470VTMB2 completely dropped its RPG stuff to be a weird action game. At the end of the day Outer Worlds 2 is still an RPG, just probably not all that good of one.
Echo Point Nova got a large free DLChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HVhgC9k3c4
>>536249203Had it on my wishlist for ages, was waiting for this update to pick it up, now that it's on sale I'll grab it when I'm home from work.Will I actually play it? Ehhhh, eventually :/
>>536242046I would be in awe of the aussie shitposting spirit.
>>536230364Yeah, this sucks, and I've seen many indie developers go for a pixel art style while ignoring the font. I don't play games that do this. Though what anon posted is in fact a (modern) GBA game, it's just the modern hardware ports that have this problem.
>>536256089Ooh, that's why. Ports always suck, do they?
>>536249203wow, the it's greati'd say on the same level as the base game, but a little bit differentit's even more open, you can glide through a forest at 400kph and randomly stumble upon a platforming section, that then leads you to a skirmishi really dig the freedom
these last two before the final one are gonna be the end of me.I feel like i am missing some logical conclusions but i don't wanna do the old "just try shit until you run into a contradiction and then try the other option".
>>536258450post them
>>536258628this is the one in the bottom left corner.since it's already given that X = 1 and Y = 2 from how it starts and both rows and columns contain 2* A that makes both sums =18+2A so A doesn't matter and B has to be 0.and A should be 1,2 or 3. anything higher wouldn't work.But i don't know where to go from there.
>>536259303thats rough
>>536260347know what else is rough?
>>536260468Your mom?
>>536260547Stalin.
>>536260347thanks bud. turns out trying shit and see what works is the only strategy i have.i should probably take a break.
Any good demos or playtests?Any new games worth piratan?
>>536262928>Any new games worth piratan?Len's Island. Chinese Frontiers. Wandering Village.The Alters.Void War.
>>536208684The not-an-Arsenal-Bird? It's from Tahlan. Pretty meh ship, it often tends to facetank multiple caps, probably thinking having a fortress shield makes it a paragon. Pro-tip: it doesn't.
>>536264287nice
What will happen to the internet if skong turns out to be bad
Anyone know of any indie devs looking to hire an aspiring creative for a part time gig?
Oh shid I got him. John Rebellion himself.
>>536272109Skong?
>>536249203they added fag shit
Picked up this game because I wanted an anime slay the spire and it's been fun so far. Maybe a little too easy on normal mode though, feels like the game is completely trivialized if you aren't retarded.
>>536274990Reads that it's from a community member, maybe the dev just added it for good will Also this is exactly why people hate LGBT folks>want to be accepted >make the movement about pride and not acceptance>don't gatekeep away the crazies and instead abet them, not realizing it only results in a extremely negative image They're their own worst enemy
1 adventure to finish and i got 100% achievements.
>>536277410I haven't played in two years, what are adventures?
It took way too fucking long, but I finally managed to fill my massive grid with top quality modules.
>>536274990its so over, anon
>>536277898For anybody interested I did take it for a test drive of course. The shields don't regen fast enough to out-tank a huge nest of behemoth worms forever, but I did have to sit still here for about five seconds to drop to half health and I was able to move fast enough to escape with little to no trouble. The lasers aren't doing enough damage to reasonably kill them within a decent time frame, but it's killing stuff eventually with 30 of them working together.
I was checking steam new releases and i saw there is a release of black souls, does it have anything new?
Da Digital Exorcist Ludomatic Universe
>>536199583>Red ShieldI've played Nova Drift before and I've never seen the player ship in that color. Some new shield in the new versions?
>>536224621Ah, Wild Card! Your bond has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you the ultimate form of my Arcana.
>>536277701Self contained levels with some small story and limited weapons, items and characters.
>>536278212And finally for tonight, my nuclear power fuel problems solved until the literal fucking heat death of the universe.
Sseth made me do it.
>>536288045that's a big 9 year old
>>536288257for you
>>536285751>6 slots assembly 3>4 slots centrifuge>Rare+>Epic cross>Legendary crossWhat the fuck? Anyway, using legendary prod for Kovarex is a bit of a waste due to the way productivity works. It takes the result and removes the base cost from it. So for Kovarex you get 1 U235 and no U238 from productivity. It's pretty much the only case where that applies in vanilla.
>they offer you a free pet>one of the options is a Little GirlWell, never a choice was so easy to make.
>>536289569Your little girl is very likely older than you. That's what happened to me. Fun fact, little girls were objectively the best choice in Elona because speed was so broken and little girls were the speed pet.
First mission. Beat up a random dude already tied. I'm gonna let my Little Girl handle it.>>536289717She is. The Little Girl is 12yo and I'm 9yo.
I need more "replace monster with cute monster girl" mod.
Thiswill not be fun
The pinnacle of Federation military might, vs an ancient god of chaos made wholeThis is gonna suck.
>12 days for taxes>taxes are 500 orenGonna finish sowing this field for the blue haired dude and then go questing for money.
>>536299726a worm named... jack...
>>536298495>her
>>536303584She has a good fight theme tho
>>536191668I can't remember the last time indie recomended me a new game that didn't SUCK. The indie scene has been taken over by pretentious poseurs and sycophantic hanger ons. Its rock candy being sold at outrageous markup by glittergista, its a collective pot of syrupy goup propped up by self congratulatory masturbation.Your taste in games is absolutely horrible.Fuck Indie and Fuck You.
indie games don't fill the void no more
>>536315923Mod the fuck out of some garbage until you get so bored of it that even new updates/mods will never reignite the spark you once had for the game
>>536315923The solution is a PS2 or PSP emulator. Get out of the modern indie scene and play some of the cool games which inspired it. Maybe try Ace Combat X, or Motorstorm Arctic Edge.
>>536309948okay holden caulfield
>>536289242>What the fuck?I installed 3 mods:>Unlocks all crafting tiers early>10 levels of crafting (Normal + "+" versions of each) to make the entire system more complicated>Shattered PlanetOne of the three mods added a researchable upgrade for most machines at 2x the original research cost, which lets you build a +2 module slot upgrade of that machine but in exchange it runs slower. I'm guessing it was Shattered Planet Honestly I'm really liking how the three mesh together but that's probably just me.>Anyway, using legendary prod for Kovarex is a bit of a waste due to the way productivity works. It takes the result and removes the base cost from it. So for Kovarex you get 1 U235 and no U238 from productivity. It's pretty much the only case where that applies in vanilla.I'm not sure I understand, please explain it to me with clear language.
>>536324050>I'm not sure I understandprod bonus is applied to the net output from a given recipe, not the gross outputthe net output of kovarex enrichment is 1 u235 and -3 (functionally 0) u238, so that's the bonus output you get every time the prod bonus bar fills
>>536324050Alright so a little bit of history, when Kovarex processing was added to the game there was a major bug that caused it to duplicate EVERYTHING you get from it when paired with productivity. Basically with 20% prod you'd get 41 uranium 235 and 2 uranium 238 every 5 crafts. That was obviously not intended and way too powerful. Literally the next day Wube removed the ability to use productivity for Kovarex until they found a clever way around the issue. 2 years later, they changed productivity so that it wouldn't duplicate the catalyst. Basically if a recipe gives the same material as it uses, the game will take the product minus the cost to determine what you get from productivity. In that case it's 41-40=1.The FFF if you want more info: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-256
>>536274990i don't use stickers either way
Guys something's wrong with my F&H copy
>step through a translocator in VS>spawn inside a chest and have to wiggle around to get the right angle to break it>take a couple steps out>game absolutely shits itself>get killed by a single drifter because FPS can't go above 3 with constant freezes>still stuttering through the death animation as I type this
>>536275510It gets harder as you go on.
>>536325231nta, but if my math isn't off if you slap legendary productivlty into everything the entire fuel cell-> fuel cell recycling-> kovarex enrichment process is almost net zero but not quite?It's like they knew what they were doing and don't want you to have infinite energy for nothing...though it's like -3 u238 for 20 fuel cells in total so might as well be infinite if you have a decently sized uranium field.and if you remove the legendary prod from kovarex it's -4 u238 for 20 fuel cells? yeah. definitely not worth it. unless you are swimming in prod modules.
i like how you can just fly around the map, spot a blip on your radar, and then dig into a completely hidden skirmish spot with a few goodies
Getting kinda tired of having to do a montly trip to pay taxes. I get jumped and almost die all the time.
>>536333846get enough furniture tickets and just grab the tax box bro
https://x.com/lvl374/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3186120/NIDANA/This Japanese artist made a walking sim, it rapes your eyes and ears but I surprisingly liked it a lot. The game has some minor puzzle-solving/gimmicks
>>536335434The girl is cute though.
>recieve boxes with literal shit>free storage>>536334716>get enough furniture tickets and just grab the tax box broDidn't know it worked even for the tax box. Thanks anon!.Although a slight breeze still can kill me. I'm looking for ways to get armor and level up my wizard succubus.
I want to beat up the grey mourner.
The Little Girl is a killing machine. I picked Wizard and it is nerfed as fuck at the start of the game. If it wasn't for the Little Girl I would be dead like four times what I died now.
My worst nightmare has happened.My perfect beautiful robot wife... turned into flesh and blood.She run off before I could take a screenshot, so here's an image of her from the internet
Fucking hermit crabs made of adamantium reinforced orichalcum.
>Eterspire coming to PC later this year>Monster & Memories Stress Test in a weekIndieMMObros we eating good
Damn. Reading Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea really makes me want to dive back into Sunless Sea
>>536280414It's AMP - boosts damage when next to enemies, but has a huge hp penalty
>>536345242For me, it's the Mysterious Island. It's why I love survival games.
>>536211023well, bad newsgunsaw is on an "indefinite hiatus" and went open sourcei doubt scav will ever be finished too
>>536345868>Mysterious IslandI'll keep it in mind. I've never read Jules Verne before.And I'm still towards the beginning of the book where they just marvel at the wonders of the underwater world. Which draws me most towards Subnautica but after 2 playthroughs that game just doesn't have the same sense of wonder anymore and Below Zero kinda sucks
>>536293504Pretty sure that's already a thing actually. Couldn't tell you where to get it though.
>>536350349This was painful to watch.
Once more into the UnterzeeDidn't get a a victory last time just the weird northern space portal ending that let me headcanon import my character into Sunless Skies but still have plenty of shit from m previous captain thanks to playing on as his child so the beginning is a lot less grindy.Not sure yet if going for the Zee Story ending is a mistake since it does look like it requires a hell of a lot of items
>>536344174>early accessis it good?anything else like it?
>>536352984Never heard of Elona bro? It's a classic.
>>536353648n-no...
>>536340213Why?I remember failing repeatedly at the stupid flower quest until I did a little rerouting and succeeded on the second attempt
>>536352984>is it good?Yes.>anything else like it?Elona and its forks.
>>536346139Mysterious Island comes after yours.And yeah, Subnautice is fun, but only the first time.
>Join a rp vintage story server because im tired of playing alone and kind of spoiled myself by cheating a little (ironically for no real gain as I accidentally found what I was looking by randomly digging into a cave wall)>Server add a ton of mods im not used to>Die twice to my dumbass eating bitter nightshade and some poisonous mushroom a day or so from each otherThanks god there a 3 day grace period when first starting, because there is a 3 lives limit for rp purposes. So now that my grace period ended I gotta be way more careful, guess ill join the local kingdom hoping its not dead from inactivity as I havent seen anyone around.
>>536345242death to all sperm whales
>>536356764>Subnautice is fun, but only the first timeThat's why I'm extra upset about the clusterfuck regarding Subnautica 2. I've already been very skeptical of it and frankly some of the things they've showed so far (for instance the base building) I dislike quite a bit. But now I'm not even sure what to expect of it quite frankly.It almost makes me want to get into gamedev and make my own Subnautica knock off that I've been having some cool idea for for a while now. But I'm aware that I'm vastly underestimating how hard something like this is or how much time it would take to learn all the necessary skills especially alongside all the other things I'm currently learning in my free time>>536356879Ironically Moby Dick always made me want to play Vagrus for some reason. Probably because of how the Caravan management aspect that game has is similar to managing a crew of a ship. And it did make me yearn for a Vagrus-esque game but with a ship
As for me is >The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
>>536346139They really blew it with below zero, first by trying to make it into a narrative driven game (failing completely to understand the appeal of silent mc from the first game) which was so bad and hamfisted they retroactively changed it all during production hence why the story feel all over the place and certain voiceline between the MC and Al-an feel off or make no sense chronologically. At first it was all about the sister who was painted as muh victim, but what she did was literally industrial sabotage of planetside colonies and installation without proper evidence of ill intent from Alterra, so her redemption arc got canned and she is now just a comment when passing by some cavein where she died. What came afterward was a mishmash of plot points that never really went anywhere, many remnants of the previous storyline.It was basically a subnautica game seemingly made by peoples who never played the first and completely missed what made it beloved.
>>536357157>And it did make me yearn for a Vagrus-esque game but with a shipShortest Trip To Earth is close. You have to manage food and a bazillion resources while fighting FTL-like.
>>536357468>trying to make it into a narrative driven gameYes, I'm still in disbelief about this. The Sunbeam crash scene is probably one of my favorite moments in any video game I've every played because of the restraint it showed of not having your AI make a witty remark or some objective marker popping up. You just stand there in the deafening silence of the aftermath, left along with your own thought. It hit me hard even on the second and third time seeing it.Also the premise to Below Zero was kinda absurd. Stranding yourself on the planet semi intentionally is so much less interesting. >>536357538I'll put it on my wishlist, thanks
>>536357157>vagruslooks good, thanks for the rec. moby dick made me almost want to go to church, if only all preachers were cool like that one.
>>536329529Yeah, I was trying to fight the summer DLC boss girl with the red horns and that was pretty annoying. Managed to get it down after a few tries though.
>>536363871FINEWhat the fuck is this game and why are you sometimes just stopping in place, and sometimes flying off?
>>536354585Because we don't get to beat her ass.She's right there.Her nail is right there.Can I make it any more obvious?
>>536372297These are the four elements. It saysWATEREARTH (or DIRT)FIREAIR
>>536372412I made that back in 2005
>>536372412no way
>>536372769Thank you I hate this, it makes me very, very uneasy.
Oh no, cat girls!
>>536191668I haven't played ROR2 since the great gearboxeningis it good now after updates? I heard it was shit then I heard it got good again
Margaret has been defeated. Persona 4 has been completed. 10gb has been freed from my SSD.
Pretty in-depth hud customization.
>>536383658is that loss ;o
Holy shit why is Kingsvein so fugly???The color palette is by far the worst of any rad codex game.It's like the dev suddenly lost any sense for aesthetics he may have had.I'm starting to see pattern here.Voidspire Tactics - greatAlvora Tactics - mehHorizon's Gate - greatKingsvein - mehSoo the next game is gonna make rad codex great again.
>>536383658This is horrifying to look at yet perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the game.
alright. finished logic bombs. was fun. few too many puzzles where i couldn't find a way forward besides trying something until it reaches a contradiction. But that might just be me being a brainlet.any other good puzzle games? i should probably play baba at some point
>little girl>age 25I got scammed.
>>536384893Tametsi
>>536352065zee story is kind of just go play the game and get stuffit's better than the money one at least
>>536388809Yeah that does sound kinda lame. maybe I'll pivot towards the Kingdom ambition or I believe Zubmariner also introduces some sort of ending>>536375436When the most recent DLC came out it was absolute garbage. The items where bad the survivors ranged from underwhelming to almost unplayable and overall it was a bad time. They did a huge rework and I'd say the game is fun in its current state, but your mileage may vary
>>536389768Zubmariner does give an ending that'll reward with a minor legacy bonus for future captains.
Started a new playthroughgoing wind/holy, not sure about the rest of the party yet.
>>536357468Too many games create a "big bad authority" and then also make the people fighting that authority destructive, annoying, often-terroristic retards that they genuinely think are likable characters.
>>536390501I have never once picked holy and never will.
>>536392278Im told its OPAnd usually if an enemy has holy they just nuke you.
>>536375436Seekers of the Storm had a very messy release. It took some time, but things were fixed.For once, Gearbox learned from that mistake and there's another expansion in development, Alloyed Collective. They even brought back Ghor (one of the original Hopoo devs, who worked in both ROR games) to ensure things are right this time.I do worry about Gearbox's future if Borderlands 4's releases and is shit (there's been bad signs since it was announced). I worry that if shit goes wrong, it affects ROR2.
>>536393203the only bad thing I have seen about BL4 has been the performance they have basically not showed any bit of the story which worries me because despite BL3 being fucking amazing gameplay-wise, the story dragged it down into the mud
Should I finally play Hollow Knight? I'm not massively in the mood but Silksong is out soon and it's sat in my backlog too long. I was really considering some other games desu like Cuphead or Prince of Persia the lost corwn
>>536395005Why not, it's a good time
>>536395005it's a good video game
An energy crystal has been found!
>>536395368>>536395984Yeah u right I just wondered if I should play it now in the wake of Silksong or wait till I'm more in the moodFrom what I know it's a fairly big game and a timesink
>>536395005It's a fun game
>>536396903In my experience it's a fools errand to be "in the mood" for a game. More often than not I get into the mood by playing it instead of waiting for it to magically happen
>>536399265>More often than not I get into the mood by playing it instead of waiting for it to magically happenGood advice. I've been playing shorter games lately because I can't be bothered sinking into something, but you are right. If Holllow Knight wasn't too long I'd be up for it more but I'm a completionist fag too which doesn't helpI have been half in the mood for cuphead, which has also been in my backlog. Now I'm between the 2. I prob wouldn't play Silksong after release anyway, but it might be nice to finally understand the hype. I've always liked the aesthetic, it's just a shame it's been so aped over the years it probably won't feel as fresh as when it released. Thatt's the only drawback of being years behind on a backlog
These all have unique books you can read. If you take the time to read it all, you get a good idea of the big "twist". Its not that big, they just tell you a hour or two later.
>>536396992based
>>536385114Maybe it's in month?
Gave a free 3d platformer a steamie thumbs down and got 3 angry spergs on my review in 1 day.
>>536229691I heard this is the most mid shantae game yet because it is just a gba game.
>>536419703what platformer
What's your "I can't believe this game is free" game? If I exclude roguelikes, my game would be endless sky or holocure.I intentionally excluded f2p game that very heavily rely on a cash shop to survive like warframe as it's not the same experience as a complete game that is just free.
>>536424131Are romhacks and mods allowed? Because I'm sure I got a fat 3 digits hours out of a few them and it legitimately makes me think about how insane those people are for wasting so much time for no monetary compensation, just out of sheer personal satisfaction and deliver an insanely high quality product that pushes the base game to a whole new level. Aside from that, I quite enjoyed the Liquid Measures 2 and 3 flash games, their expansions Dark Fluid and Poison Pack included. Picross Touch on Steam is also a comfy game.I didn't vibe much with it, but I highly respect what it is going for (essentially an optimization / high efficiency simulator) and has about 80 hours of free content. The very definition of a game for autists, clinically diagnosed autists. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141290/Tactical_Nexus/
>>536424131Stalker Anomaly
>>536401812The existence of copycats are irrelevant if you've never played them before playing the original which set the trend, and realistically there aren't many HK inspired games out there, definitely no more than 5. Anyway, if you end up enjoying Cuphead, then check out Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy, which is pretty much a chinese version of it, great artstyle, great music and great bosses.
>>536427186I don't think they fit exactly since they're mostly based on a regular game already existing. It's a bit murky in my mind. Like, where do we draw the line? Thief campaigns that are longer than the actual game, do they count? What about The Dark Mod does that count? Nehrim and Enderal? Factorio overhauls that take 1k+ hours to complete?But excluding them would also be hypocritical since very few projects are made from purely open source tools. In fact holocure was made using gamemaker which is only free if your product is non-commercial and not on console.I guess I can add mindustry to the list since the game is FOSS and a complete product.
>>536424131Not the most mindblowing game ever and it runs like piss, but Voices of the Void has given me more worthwhile hours of it than many games I've paid for.
>>536429449>but Voices of the Void has given me more worthwhile hours of it than many games I've paid for.Voices of the Void is FREE!? I always ignored it because I didn't feel like paying 10 to 15 bucks for a game that is mostly "boring nothing happens" like signal simulator.
Sex with Sarah, Laura, and Erin
>>536429896Pretty sure it's a 'pay what you want' kind of deal.
>>536429129The thing that caught my attention the most in your post was>"I can't believe this game is free"I feel like that's a pretty high level of emotion to have, which is hard for free games to achieve, specially outside of roguelikes. But then again maybe you've just meant as a literal statement, rather than a expression of intense emotions, as in "why is this or these devs are not charging 10 or 5 bucks for this game?".
>Mindustry was popular among US federal prison inmates, where it was sold for $2 USD on the inmate app store, until it was banned in July 2023 because "it was found to jeopardize the safety, security and orderly operation" of federal prisons.The more I learn about this game, the funnier it gets. The dev wrote an extremely long blogpost about why Java is a terrible language and you shouldn't use it for game development.I just wish I didn't suck so bad at the defense part...
>>536431271I mean a complete game that feels high quality enough to be sold for actual money but just isn't for a reason or another, so basically discarding all the demos and small school project type games. Cave story is another one.Basically, a game that made you say "Yeah if that game was sold for $xx I still would have played it".
>>536424131Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony, a standalone doom mod that is of genuinely incredible quality, its like if someone remade medal of honor on the doom engine.
>>536430654Nta but huh, I was sure it was like 10 or 15 bucks, maybe im mixing it up with some similar game?
>>536439876It's free with optional donation.
>>536432046>it was found to jeopardize the safety, security and orderly operation" of federal prisons.I know literally nothing about Mindustry but how the fuck?
>>536445187Googled it real quick, it's a tower defense? Now I'm confused too.
>>536445187You see how factorio makes people play for 20 hours and not see the time pass? Well mindustry is also a factory game but with tower defense and mechs. There's multiplayer too, which means people inside the prison that can communicate with people outside the prison without supervision...Basically, it's an addicting game that can be used to communicate without the prison's knowledge. 2 things that you really don't want in your prison.
So it turns out in Vintage Story, if you're fast enough/the game is slow enough, you can hit and hurt yourself with your own thrown rocks.
>>536446463And arrows and spears too.Same with Minecraft.
i'm looking for indie games on steam to get smarteri played you see those games, now lets see you beat them, i played all 3, what else do you guys recommend?
>>536447840BABA IS YOU
>>536427918Thank you anonI've never heard of that at all.I get your point about not being relevant if you've not experienced them but desu for me it's a little different. If I see too much of a game I can get fed up of it without even playing it. Obviously not the case with Hollow Knight but similar sentimentsBut yeah I'm between Cuphead and Hollow Knight. Not sure which.
>>536249203>>536258024Just pirated it. Goddamn its fun, might buy if it goes on sale soon. Thanks anons
I dug a 200 block tunnel because I was tired of climbing a damn mountain every time I wanted to get to a mineshaft POI.
>>536447840Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
>>536449201I've done the exact same before as well. I've wanted to make a road system but I've never had to go too far other than for limestone/halite expeditions
It took kiting and ineffectually slapping a double-headed drifter for 5 minutes, but I found a real nice prize.God I need some fucking armor.
>wanted to do throwing weapons as a build in abiotic factor>trying to find rubber band ballsGod dammit
>>536450042I don't know why you go into drifter heavy areas without steel gear, Anon.I just beeline for it(3-4 days playing) and then tackle the story areas.
>>536447840Let's start with the obvious:No game makes you smarter. Some puzzle games and others like TBRPGs can be fun because they won't be an outright insult to their players' intelligence but they won't make you smarter, unless you are below normalfag tier 100 IQ retard. Games are casual entertainment for the masses.I don't think you can get smarter with a hobby like gaming, but if you were smart you'd get your kicks out of doing stuff like studying how the platforms your games run on work, examining how the games work, writing modding/other tools for games, reverse engineering or even porting games, writing guides, writing your own game engines (if you have time for bigger projects), etc. Not just playing the games, that's not stimulating enough for an analytical mind. Maybe this perspective can give you some ideas.t. 142 IQ
>>536448230the map is so huge, but you can go so fast360kph is your average traversal speedi really like the movement
>>536452000FtD taught me basics of vehicle engineering (weight distribution, complexity vs redundancy, basic aerodynamics and drag, layout planning), basics of microcontroller logic like gates and PIDs, and significantly improved my spacial awareness.It's good because it forces you to be practical, not just teaches you theory. Learning how those things work in a vacuum is one thing, tinkering with them yourself is another. Reverse-engineering builds of other players is very fun.
>>536394717Same thing happened with homeworld 3 unfortunately. They replaced the original writer with some bitch karen called Lin Joyce. May she burn like Kharak did one day.
>>536452635Games can be good tools for teaching the simplified basics of certain fields in a very intuitive and simple way. (The prime example is of course KSP and orbital mechanics.) Enough to form an intuitive grasp of the fundamentals that can aid in further learning of practical applicable knowledge. But you have to be acively wary of what you learn from games; understand which parts are valuable and which are downright misleading bs or white lies for children at best.But increasing one's knowledge is different from increasing one's intellect. Games don't make one smarter unless he already has a curious mind which applies to all of his pursuits.
>>536447840Kerbal Space ProgramWorkers and Resources: Soviet RepublicVintage Story
any good desert games?big fan of sand
>>536447840Factorio is unironically recommended for certain job types to teach you to be better and logistical management and throughput if that counts.
>>536455378Certain knowledge requires a specific level of intellect to be understood, and if you expand your mind to the point where you can interpret in a game by active learning, observation and experimentation, i can argue that you can grow intellectually
>>536461052MGSV
>>536461052Kenshi, it's better as a solo or duo character unless you boost the XP rates in the games modding kit, watch a few tutorials tooimo, not as good as everyone says but I still managed to get 200 hours out of it, has it's own general here thats somehow even slower then us
>>536461052Highfleet
>find a cool game, genuinely want to play>play it>insanely complicated and like nothing I've played beforeIs it even worth it learn something like this just for vidya? Feel as if it'd be better to focus on genres and themes I know, I know shooters, I know RPG's, I even know bit about strategy, each one is different but the general knowledge is transferrable making onboarding easy. This feels like it'd take too much time to learn and occupy too much space, but man the game looks so fucking tempting.Too embarrassed to say what game btw.
>>536277410Finished. Now need to buy all characters, finish the other adventures and get two forms for Diva. Will leave it for now.>>536383068Who is your waifu. Fav song?>>536384893>any other good puzzle games?Laser tank. Its free.>>536396295Praise Kane
>>536463734you're overthinking itjust try it and if its too hard to get into and you aren't having fun learning drop it
>>536463734why you don't enjoy challenge, anon...?
>>536403712Don't forget that reading all of them increases your hidden knowledge stat.
>>536464530>challengeholy fuck, how could I be so stupid? Love a good challenge, I never thought of it this way, too calculated and risk averse. but setting myself up to learn as a challenge sounds like an excellent motivator.
>>536463734Say what game faggot. Chances are someone else here has played it.
>>536449201>>536449337I'm planning to do something like this, but on water. I've been connecting large lakes with canals for sailing, but two of them are separated by a mountain. Mining a tunnel big enough for a boat is going to take forever, so I'm thinking of using bombs.Unfortunately I'm out of flax and it's already winter, so I'll have to postpone it until next year.
>>536194223babe is everything>>536191668why was the last the last thread nuked completely, all posts deleted?
>>536194223
>>536452000>Games are casual entertainment for the massesThis is a baffling thing to say in a general mostly dedicated to games that aren't even made with mass appeal as a design goal, plenty of video games aren't even made mainly for the purpose of entertainment.Video games can be no less intellectually stimulating than a complex documentary or novel.
>>536275510It has what is quite possibly one of the hardest final bosses of all time, at least out of games that I've ever played.
>>536450042What the shit.
>>536424131Cry of Fear and Fistful of Frags.
>>536424131Lily's Well.
i wish there was a way to browse the steam store page to look for interesting upcoming games withouth having to hover a game title and squint to see the screenshots
>>536424131But anon, all games are free.Archolos probably has the highest production values among free total conversion mods.
>>536424131Cursed Trilogy
>>536424131>endless sky Naev is better.
>>536478138What's the process for pirating world of warcraft like?
>>536478542Playing on private servers
>>536478375Cringe.
>>536478240https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJyUyF3ky90Probably for the best given how many songs it steals.
Heng.
Heck.
>>536461052Vagrus
>>536285751I may be the slowest man alive, but I am finally on my way to Fulgora, no more excuses.
>>536490450Hmmmm. I need to reduce my ship speed.
>>536490717Amplify FA, fuck off to >>>/egg/
>>536490840No, I don't think that I will. Ever. Indie games can be posted on /indie/, no matter how much you dislike them. I won't entertain you again on this.
>>536490840Factorio is an indie game.
Well just open the gates to the gacha gooners while you're at it
>>536191668That pastebin seems really limited.
>>536493978No it's not.
>>536464713Its not particularly hidden since you can check it in the warp room.
>>536497595How is it not?
>>536497595Have you got one of those flowcharts like /rlg/ always post, to illustrate your argument?
>>536502642Yes.
>>536504194Insufficient. Not nearly autistic enough, contains no logical reasoning. Do better.
>>536504194Factorio is an idle game
>>536504441Here.
>>536504656are you ok?
>>536504656It's funny, ever since being a teen I subconsciously assumed everyone on the internet is either about my age or older. And to this day I often forget that that is far from the true at this point
>>536504656You angered him. Hit too close to home, I guess.
I'm confused. I found a realm in Abiotic Factor, but there's nothing here.
>>536509667I think it's just a place to build a base if you're a weeb
>>536509667Its a bonus if you got the game in EA I think, its just a safe base location with some small secret.
>>536490840Calm down bwo.
>>536510257>>536511773I'm as much as a weeb as pic related, so...
>>536513620It isnt the only anteverse solely for base building, and many of them are suprisingly safe despite the denizens present.
Tch. I have the wrong sword. I need a katana.>>536516754What are the others like?
>>536424131Space Station 13 and 14Both have an extreme learning curve though, they may be free but you'll be paying for them with time instead of cash Still, great fun on both counts once you learn. Recommended 14 for a newbie but as it's """"simplified"""" but still crazy complex and there's a fair few woke things scattered about but nothing you can't ignore.
>>536519851I genuinely would never recommend ss13 to anyone these days. The servers are completely filled and run by troons/other mentally ill. ss14 is completely made and run by the fuckers
>>536519851I loved playing SS14 and being the janitor.I know the janny is a punishment class for MASSIVE LOSERS who do it FOR FREE, moderating the STATION like the KISSLESS VIRGINS they are, but I still have fun cleaning the place.Just a pain to refill on water.
>>536497595That's a weird hill to die on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzOUqOCRXOs
>>536519383>What are the others like?There is "The World in the Mirror" that is just an empty, "infinite" grass field with no enemies or resources to gather.I say "infinite" because the portal world actually teleports you back closer to the center when you approach the edge, giving the illusion of infinity.Flathill portal world is fairly safe with good amount of base spots away from the giants, if you can stomach the foggy enviroment.But you really shouldn't build any permament bases in the resource portal worlds like Flathill or the Train, because if you are inside the PW while portal reset happens, the world you are in won't reset and won't replenish the resources inside.You can build bases there, but you just shouldn't stay in them during reset nights.
>>536519383One is basically flatgrass from gmod, I dont remember all of them, but most hostile anteverse allow building in them and the player structure stay between resets iirc, so if you can guess where its safe then its free real estate.
>>536520028Based jani enjoyer, is always recommend to noobs, low responsibility, let's you learn the layout of the station, and watching people slip never gets old lol
>>536520824>empty, "infinite" grass fieldNO NO NO NO NO
>>536523260Touch grass, anon.
>>536490717Sometimes my genius, it scares me.
I'm playing Legend of Grimrock 2 again.Some of these modded campaigns are fun.
>>536526475It was fun until you revealed you were playing with cheat mods
>>536526590I specifically avoided any mods that felt cheaty, like the god module ones. I'm having to put in a ton of effort and getting similar results just with less RNG, about the only difference is that I'm having a lot more fun now that I'm going for the full monty.
>>536527086You have legendary buildings and you weren't even off of nauvis. You only unlock legendary quality near the end of the game, and epic quality after gleba. You are cheating.
>>536526513Define fun.>>536526590Amplify cheated?I'm disappointed.
>>536528910>Define fun.Exploration, combat, puzzle. If you liked that in vanilla, you'll love it some of the mods.
>>536528909Cheats make the game easier and / or faster. If it does neither, it's not a cheat.
>>536529539Legendary and epic quality items make the game easier. Everything of a quality higher than the base has increased stats, LITERALLY making buildings faster and requiring less of them to make the same output from any given input. Not only does every building he have craft multiple times faster for less resources, he also was showing off legendary armor that had more space in it for upgrades which he also made legendary. You cannot obtain any of the things he is posting until the endgame, and he has chosen to make getting these items significantly easier by using a mod that allows him to increase his odds by a significant amount which the devs specifically disallowed because it would too easy. This guy is a cheating faggot in denial and it's no wonder he doesn't post at /egg/, he'd be laughed out of the thread instantly
>>536530081>Legendary and epic quality items make the game easier.>More yapping that ignores time taken vs "benefits" gainedOnly if they take the same length of time to obtain and do, which they don't. That alone completely destroys your entire argument, if doing it the "non-cheating" way takes 100 hours, but doing it the "cheating" way takes 300, that's hardly a cheat that's modding the game to have a different experience.
You are not responding in good-faith and I refuse to continue. I am upset because you are blogposting a game I enjoy outside of the general in which primarily it is posted in, with cheats that ignore the progression of the game. I'm upset because you are giving a game which I associate with a lot of interesting and high effort posts a completely garbage reputation to anyone in this thread that even slightly cared to follow along with a few of your posts. You are blogposting a game that you aren't good at while using cheats and then loudly exclaiming, "I"m not cheating, and I'm not reading your post pointing out that I am cheating!"
Sportsball>>536461052Seconding highfleet. Good game, peak desert.
The irony is palpable. This is just your attempt to get me to go to /egg/ since I make you seethe for some reason, it won't work I'm going to continue to enjoy quality, even though it takes me literally 10x as long to make any progress compared to not using it.The main argument against quality from the start has been that the time you have to invest in it to get results is too long. I don't mind that and want to play with it anyway, despite how inefficient it is. It's fun for me, too bad for you.
>>536533095Without mods you cannot get legendary modules or anything legendary before beating all planets. Cheating like this kind defeats the whole point of the game.
Fuck me, it hasn't even been a year and I'm expected to pay almost 1k orens.
>>536533095>>536534607>two passive aggressive bitches Get a room already or least stay in your containment replychain
I'm not paying attention to the cheating accusations going on here, but let's take a step back and ask if cheating really ruins the experience? I'm firmly of the belief that, if done in moderation, it can improve one's experience instead.Played ARK in SP for 1k hours, and I used the console all the time, and boosted rates for gathering/leveling/breeding etc. Did I cheat away the gameplay loop of tame creatures, build a base, breed better creatures? Nope, I streamlined it, maybe something was taking too long so I used flight, maybe that perfect dino was taking too long to find, so I used a external program hooked to my save file that read off the best dinos and their locations, little things. Was it cheating? Yes, but I was still playing ARK and engaging with its mechanics and systems, and overall having a better time because of how I played? Abso-fucking-lutely. As long as you're engaging with the games systems, what does it matter if you cheat a little to speed things up if you're still playing the game?
>>536534607>Repeating the same debunked thing without addressing what's been said
Finally the Little Girl agrees to sleep beside me.
>>536535941Ark is intended to be like rust where you are supposed to play on a large server full of people with a group to progress. The game has singleplayer for some reason and it's a massive piece of shit where you are basically required to learn console commands to avoid bugs that can fuck up your save
>>536535616I stopped replying, someone else took my place or he setup an easy strawman for himself
Never played Factorio.>>536533095>>536535941Investing a lot of time and effort into getting endgame gear might not be convenient, but once you have it it will affect progression through the rest of the actual game. That's a cheat mod, would be considered such in any game with linear progression, you are not getting the intended experience. There is no reason to deny it, it's not like cheats make you a bad person.>>536532051Factorio is probably fine for this general, and a bit of blogposting keeps the thread going, its generally a good way to learn about new games. Don't see how posting modded gameplay would damage the reputation either, especially when the use of mods was mentioned so we know it's not necessarily an accurate representation of the actual game.>>536535616>both Anons try to get the last word without giving the other a (You)Pretty funny actually. >>536424131Star Fetchers is a demo I would have payed for. Thornz 4 life.
>>536539692>Investing a lot of time and effort into getting endgame gear might not be convenient, but once you have it it will affect progression through the rest of the actual game.It takes the entirety of the game. The way quality in Factorio works it's such a long an laborious process that I will be at the end game by the time all my quality shit is done and taken care of, the only differences being that getting to that endgame is going to take a hell of a lot longer (I'm currently running on about 0.8x miners, or 80% of one miner, because that's all I can afford, vs a normal player who'd be using 50 miners at this point.)It's not like everything is entirely unlocked, not by a long shot. I still have to go through the entire game to unlock T3 modules, Electromagnetic Plants, Foundries, Bio Labs, Stack Inserters, Cryo Plants, Fusion Power and more which would literally put me at the same point anyway and all are more useful and powerful than legendary quality basic type buildings. I'm literally just doing it because it's fun, not because it's powerful. Normally you never bother touching quality for more than maybe a few solar panels and bits of personal equipment, as you only unlock it fully at the end of the game and even then statistically it's inefficient compared to not using it. I like the mechanic though and want to force myself to be fully immersed in it.
wow this was disappointingi wanted a timesink to bridge the time until silksong but after 13 hours i'm completely done with everythingthe games main currency gets completely useless after like 6 hours, balance is wack, there's an elemental system that barely mattersobvious that ubisoft forced them to finally release the game but looking at the patchnotes the devs are kinda retardedi thought dead cells was supposed to be a good game how did they fuck up so much
>no updates for Nitro Express since June, still locked at 30fps
finished the excavation of hob's barrow. nice little game. i enjoyed the uncanny animations.
>>536539692>>536543927Oh, also one important piece of context I should have added:For the most part, legendary versions of buildings / whatever just make then do the same thing but faster. That's it. An Assembly Machine Mk3 which is unlockable around when you first get the chance to start doing quality simply makes things automatically when provided with materials, and a legendary version does the same thing but faster.Compare to an Electromagnetic Plant, which does the exact same thing but gives you +50% extra output on everything you make completely for free but it's unlocked in the late-mid game, and the only downside being it has a smaller pool of stuff it can make and you need to go get the Foundry to do the same thing but with other items. Either one completely mog a legendary Assembly Machine Mk3 without needing any quality at all.Quality's not even always a good thing, the entire reason I died earlier is because I put legendary engines on my spaceship and they turbo boosted me into a bunch of asteroids far faster than they could be shot down. Had to replace them with a single normal quality engine to go slow enough to stay alive.
>>536544442>Look it up>Ubisoft publisher, and Evil Empire is dev, whom mostly worked on dlc for dead cells and claim they did on the original>Look up dead cell dev>Its Motion TwinWhats up with that? Like ubisoft brought rights to dead cells dlc and got some sub studio to work on it? Its weird how they try to pass Evil Empire as the original devs, when in reality they're some shitty sub contractor hired or a part of ubisoft.
I say again, I hate prospecting in VS.
>>536550247Funny, that's one of the few things it does better than TFC. Maybe you'd like TFC better?
>>536550247I personally find it fine, its basically just triangulation with a twist, but I do wish it wasnt so vague, because I recall getting some 0.03% reading right next to a small vein of cassierite.
>>536550247Agreed. So annoying, gotta get through all this rock to get what you want.
GASP
>HEYAFucking jumpscare lady.
>>536557783First time I played 1.0 I nearly cloberred her because I didnt knew they had added travelling merchants.
>>536559562Same.Also, that cookbook? Just cosmetic.
>>536562141Actually it increases your cooking XP when near it.
>everything goes well>radioactive cloud says hiFUCK
IF YOU WANTED TO FUCK OFF AND LET ME CRAP IN PEACE
>>536563639Is Abiotic Factor good solo? Couldn't care less for survival games that aren't solo friendly, it's why I avoid most of them
After many expeditions and many sacrifices, I finally got the shower.>>536563940I'd say it is? It doesn't seem to suffer from the usual grinding issues that other survival/crafting games have, and you're still firmly on a leash with a clear objective so you're not lost like in Vintage Story or Palworld.
>>536563940NTA but I went through it fine solo. Have to tweak the enemy respawn rate, but it's absolutely playable.
>>536563940Some people say it's better solo and I would agree.Not that I have any friends to play with to do any comparisons.You might miss out on some unique interactions like Leyak appearing only to one player at at a time, remaining invisible to others so you'd see your friend freak out at nothing or even die on the spot.
>>536563940It entirely doable, as I've done such, but it can be a bit tedious at times so id recommend you lower the hunger and thirst rate a bit, it just going to make the experience better. Especially food, alone its annoying to make proper meals so you often end up eating some pest or so on the go which is quite inneficient.
>>536564335>Not that I have any friendsHAHAHAHAHAHA
I fucking love tesla coils.
HEYA
>>536565328>have a well fortified base>capable of repelling mutants, extradimensional invaders, and armed PMC troops>fucking darla from accounting just appears inside>talks like it's another day at the office>A-poses at youWhat do?
>>536566068Trade for her veggies.
>>536526513Just finished this campaign a little over a month ago. Top tier stuff, didn't think that it would be so much better than his previous work, which was also great.
Generals?Abiotic: >>>/vg//afg/Factorio: >>>/vg//egg/Scav: >>>/trash//scaly/VS: >>>/vm/Vintage
>>536569256>people have finally found a common topic to talk about! can't have that!
>>536570158You know me so well!I'm here to find new games, not discuss the same one ad-infinitum
>>536566068Panic. She's a WOMAN.
>>536544442Are you honestly surprised? Motion twin are anarcho syndicalist, it takes them literally years to start any project so they had to create a regular company (evil empire) to take over. The office drama is rather infamous. Evil empire and motion twin have had several conflict with the law over all kinds of things, including employment discrimination, harassment, etc. Motion twin has officially cut their link with evil empire as a PR move (it's still fully controlled by motion twin employees and owned by them so I'm not really sure how this qualifies as "cutting ties").>>536549078>Its weird how they try to pass Evil Empire as the original devsThey're the original devs more or less. Motion twin and evil empire are basically the same company. Motion twin can't handle having more than 10-ish employees without them fighting so they made a traditional studio with a top-down structure, fully controlled by... Motion twin employees. Basically "we're anarchist but we love wage slavery! Everyone is equal (but our wage slaves are less equal than us)". A kind of anarcho-aristocracy if you will...There is an absurdly large amount of misinformation and disinformation on them online, likely from mistranslation and the fact that employees constantly contradict each others constantly.
>>536570478>here to find new gamesSame. Discouraging people from posting what they are playing is not helpful. Not everyone is constantly refreshing the thread and browsing other places where those games are posted, doesn't mean everyone else is. Posts for games which could go elsewhere are not a problem unless they come at the expense of other posts. >discuss the same one ad-infinitumNew players pick up a game mentioned in previous posts, and the discussion continues. That's what the thread is for.
>>536532051Who cares that he's cheating in a single player game?>>536548158It's simply "assembling machine 3" it's not a mk3. The only things using the mark appellation are equipments.
>>536532051Just disregard the baiters, they'll just go for whatever stance is going the most (you)'s out of you. Note that this is applicable across the whole site.
>>536570478This guy thinks he's in /r9k/ lol
>>536462758>MGSV+ Infinite Heaven modFtfyBut for real, that mod added so much replayability and teased by autism just the right way. While in retrospective id recommend it only to people who played the base game, id go as far as to say its a requiremebt to make act 2 less of a tedious chore.
>>536574065Without any irony, who cares that he plays with a bunch of cheaty quality and modules mods? Customization is one of the core tenets of Factorio.
>>536469481>Fish is move>Fish is bombLel
>>536574552>Infinite Heaven mod?
>>536574732Its a mod for mgs5, available on moddb, which allow a ton of customization to the game setting from heli frequency, frequency of armored or better equipment, or better sight (ie last time I played I gave them "realistic" sight so I had to be very careful when sneaking toward a base because a guy with binoculars is going to see my sorry ass from over a km away if I aint careful. Genuinely improved the overall experience in my case.
>>536191668why are the gods an gay though?
>>536570478this is a videogame discussion general, not a release radar boardi would've agreed with you if not for two things:discussion variety about those games you've mentioned far surpasses the one you would usually find in stale generals with few exceptionsandthey don't take nearly as much space as you would like us to believe, with quite a lot of discussion of other games happening in parralelanother thing worth mentioning is impartiality and larger demographics variety. when you come to egg, you expect to see factorio autists with thousands of hours. when you are here, you can get opinion from somebody who doesn't even play the game
>>536575647They seen their stevari get wrecked by a phallic statue and got curious about the ordeal.
>>536575647RULES:WORM IS MOVE
finished echo point nova DLCit's more gimmicky, the map is larger and more open (original map was about 8km in diameter and was scattered on islands so picking up speed was more difficult, this one is about 20km but you can easily reach mach 1 pretty much anywhere right from the start if you're good enough, making traversal overall faster than in vanilla), but the start is much quicker. less scans and content (just 2 leviathan fights, but the ones that are in are great), but extra content is more gimmicky which keeps things fresh. level quality is on the same level as vanilla i'd say, with few exceptions that are a bit rough, but there's only like 2-3 scans like that out of 30.took me about 7 hours to complete, while the vanilla took about 10
Any other good DnD-esque roguelites like Kingmaker Tenebrous Depths mode?
>>536573504>It's simply "assembling machine 3" it's not a mk3. The only things using the mark appellation are equipments.I didn't have the game open to double check.>Who cares that he's cheating in a single player game?I mean, I still don't see it as cheating even 1% unless you can explain what advantages I'm gaining on one machine that somebody else can't beat by building four regular ones? Anybody not doing quality stuff can build a big factory that outperforms mine 20x over using the materials they've saved from not doing quality, while I've spent 100 hours gathering the materials and stuff to build only a handful of machines so even while each machine runs faster than a normal one, there's so few of them the bonus becomes irrelevant.Quality is better than normal only when space is concerned and the only time that matters is your personal armour as you can't wear multiple of those, and I did all of my combat without the help of any quality related mods so I didn't even get that advantage.
>>536586712>I'm gaining on one machine that somebody else can't beat by building four regular ones?they also produce 4 times the pollution having to deal with more biters.not to mention the bigger footprint needing to expand more having to deal with more biters.not to mention quality drills/pumpjacks having less resource drain making your fields last longer needing to expand less having to deal with less biters.legendary drills make your ore patches last SIX FUCKING TIMES as long. The bigger drills from vulcanus are gonna be even dumber than that.>Quality is better than normal only when space is concerned and the only time that matters is your personal armourand your space platformsand pretty much every planet after nauvis until you unlock the better foundation that lets you build over their bullshit.
>>536592123>they also produce 4 times the pollution having to deal with more biters.Walls with flamethrowers are 20 miles out from my base with full roboport coverage, I literally do not give a shit if I get attacked by two biters or two thousand.>not to mention the bigger footprint needing to expand more having to deal with more biters.I have an insane amount of unused space.>not to mention quality drills/pumpjacks having less resource drain making your fields last longer needing to expand less having to deal with less biters.I've 50m in claimed resource patches I'm not using.>legendary drills make your ore patches last SIX FUCKING TIMES as long. The bigger drills from vulcanus are gonna be even dumber than that.See above.>and your space platformsQuality got me killed on my space platform as I mentioned, until I re-revised the entire setup multiple times.So again, what advantage do I have in my current game that I couldn't have done while just using all normal quality shit?
>>536569256lol newfag
10 more days.
>>536592906anon you might have brain damage, and it's ok, but you don't need to jump through hoops to justify cheating in single player game
>>536599390>Repeating the same debunked thing without addressing what's been said
>>536599390Are you saying all mods cheating by default? Because that seems to be your argument.
>>536602263>that seems to be your argumentI presented no arguments (that was my first message), but to answer your question - if they let you unlock things faster than the default progression then yes
>>536603482Then it's not cheating by your own definition, as default progression would have finished the game ages ago and enemies evolve to be stronger over time, so all it's doing is making the game harder.
>>536604607Him being retarded and needing 100 hours to get off nauvis doesn't make those mods any less cheating.There's an big difference between stuff that adds new content and overhaul mods and>Unlock legendary this early>Give every building extra slots>Allow quality mods in beaconsAnd who knows what else this shit does under the hood I can't tell from screenshots.
>>536605070>Him being retarded and needing 100 hours to get off nauvisI could play normally and do it faster, but quality is fun even if it's worse>And who knows what else this shit does under the hood I can't tell from screenshots.There's big tradeoffs:>10 quality levels, effectively have to go up 9 tiers for legendary instead of 4 to get legendary>Quality has big effectiveness falloff past 100%, even 1000% quality is not as much as you'd think>The whole process in general takes forever and quality modules slow speeds down even further, hence why it's taken 100 hours to get just 5% of my base to legendary quality
>>536604607>Then it's not cheating by your own definitionbut I only said that ''bypassing default progression = cheating', and by that definition it obviously is cheating (not that you should care about it, it's a singleplayer game, so as long as it makes things more fun you should play like that. personally I dropped the game after vulcanus because of the quality autism)
>>536471962>Build a makeshift rope >20 achievements>30 minute animationCurious to see what happens.>>536478240How hard is this?
>>536606250I mean, I'm of the opinion that making the game longer and harder for yourself, even if it is technically "bypassing default progression", is not cheating. I think it's a reasonable description.
>>536582387Nethack
>>536597175Wait what?When I heard September I assumed it was way off...where did all the year go?
>>536606595NTA, I can see why you think it's reasonable but that does not account for the breadth of what people mean when they say 'cheating'. It is not necessarily the effect of "bypassing default progression" that counts as a cheat, but the act of doing so.For example, in Terraria there are dyes, which let you change the color of armor. Some of these dyes only become available after defeating late-game bosses (and doing a minor quest). I could mod the game, so that they can be bought at any time but for a ridiculously high price (like 10,000g). Thus, farming to get them early would take so much time and effort that it would actually be easier to proceed through the game as normal. And once obtained, the dyes are purely cosmetic, with no affect on gameplay. Plus, some of the basic early-game dyes look better anyway.But a mod to get the dyes early would still be a cheat mod, because they are a reward in and of themselves. Getting a reward without progressing through though the associated challenge is cheating. Even if we experience more of an early-game problem, which makes the game more arduous overall, it still means changing the game to receive reward without doing what is normally required to earn it. The value of the reward, or amount of effort involved in bypassing normal progress do not change the fact it is a cheat.>>536471962Looks interesting, how long is this game?
>>536622447Apparently just a few hours at worst.
>feel the urge to play paradox games againgod give me strength
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnJSM7w4TFk
>Daymare Town is also coming out in Septemberholy shit enough already
How do oven work? I can't seem to be able to craft any, and the only things I can repairs are for pots and plats, they aren't ovens.
>>536597175>>536597175I've been staying away from every silksongThe last trailer I've seen was the first one shown years ago.I'm hyped because I loved HK which I played before the craze but I'm I don't want anything spoiled and I specifically don't want to hear stupid dooming from attention seekers.
>>536630629>The last trailer I've seen was the first one shown years agoSame and even that one I skipped once it popped up in some game event or something.A very important part of Hollow Knight for me was entering a new area and being amazed by how cool it looks and a trailer can ruin that initial sense of wonder really quickly.I'm sure there will be plenty of people genuinely disappointed in the game, simply because of the unreasonable amount of hype and expectations around it. But honestly if they do Hollow Knight but again I'll be more than happy with it
>>536629669Daymare Town always spooked me...
>>536622447Well the people who think that a mod to unlock cosmetics early is cheating, are fucking retarded.
>>536592906Man, Personal Battery Mk3s require such an unreasonable amount of materials to make. Even with all my materials this shit is bankrupting me. It's not even like I will ever need it, the odds of this stuff ever repaying for itself is zero, I just want it for the bling.
>>536636894cringe
>>536636894> 20x22Jesus Christ, man.At least the TFL faggot was not pretending to have a normal playthrough.
>>536606047>>536636894>>10 quality levels, effectively have to go up 9 tiers for legendary instead of 4 to get legendaryIgnoring the fact your legendary level is absolutely retarded compared to vanilla, huh?legendary mech armor normally only has a grid of 15*17. yours is like 5 tiers above that. so not only did you unlock legendary early. you unlocked like legendary+++++ early.Show the stats of one of the buildings man, because they are also probably a shit ton stronger than vanilla legendary which makes your garbage even less comparable.if all your shit mods would add something of value that justify all this bloat but instead you sit here going "muh quality" and make a handfed base on fulgora.
>>536642323Unironically, makes no difference. It's way beyond what I need, Demolishers are 100% laser resistant and all I need for them is some speed. The armour's just for show, basically.>>536642678>Show the stats of one of the buildings man, because they are also probably a shit ton stronger than vanilla legendary which makes your garbage even less comparable.
>>536643697yep, very silly. basically rare+ is original legendary. and with that i lost all interest in your blog.
>>536644149Thankfully your interest isn't required, if the machine crafting speed being faster is enough to booty bother you, oh well.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2928770/Carnival/New point&click adventure that released today.
>>536617293Best way to play nethack? How would you compare it to dcss?
>>536632036>people who think thatI'm not passing judgement or making an accusation. I'm just telling you that that is the default, non autistic, normal consensus opinion. People create rules in their heads and if you go around The Rules™ that is considered cheating, the word 'cheat' exists to describe such cases.I did not understand this either until getting a friend to join my Terraria world in MP and gib some dyes which he called cheating. Turns out the word encompasses more than just making the main game easier for yourself.
Vintage Story update.https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/v1210-story-chapter-2-redux-stable-r420Something interesting?
>>536647967>non autisticHard disagree.
>>536649292MOAR BOATS
I found a weirdo in a coffin.
>>536645293DCSS is much more streamlined, for good and ill. Nethack is really complicated in ways that are honestly kind of silly. Like, you can dip a sack in a can of grease to get a greased sack, that will protect its contents from getting wet, which will ruin scrolls and spellbooks if they're just in your inventory when you fall into water. And if the grease is cursed, it has a 50% chance to fail, and gives you slippery fingers when it works. Reading about the weird interactions is fun, but I have no idea how I'm supposed to figure any of that shit out in game.On the other hand, Nethack has a much simpler dungeon layout, and smaller floors.I haven't played it nearly enough to say what the "best" version is. You can download the official build from https://www.nethack.org/v367/downloads.html. If you want to feel like a linux wizard, you can ssh to nethack.alt.org. There are tens of forks that add more stuff, but I haven't played any of them.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH LET ME PLAY THE FUCKING GAMEFUCK YOU SILKSONG
>>536653581One fork I remember having fun with was Slash'em Extended years ago, but it certainly had Too Much Stuff. Pretty sure you can't play it anymore though, dev went completely insane and took everything down.
I've been playing Goldenheart recentlyIt's awful how good games get buried by a literal tsunami of shovelwares on Steam
>>536636894You use them in vanilla space age because a legendary mech armor is 15x17 and since every equipment is even sized except for belts, you have 1 column and 1 line left. The line can be filled with belts which is the only odd sized equipment in the game (3x1) and the column can be filled with batteries.
>>536630097>How do oven work?you put in a heat source, whether that's convection through the exterior (fuel in a chamber below) or direct hot air (natural gas combustion or a vent)this creates a high temperature environment which heats the food you put in, making it tastier and more easily digested if you do it the right amounthow exactly the heating changes the food is pretty complex but not really important for the question of how ovens work
>>536663087I should've clarified.How do ovens work in the video game Abiotic Factor.
Kiln and smelter online. Now to see how the fuck do you make glass.
>>536662761looks neat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-VeOakGGPQ
This is what makes Swiss indie devs hard
>>536669059I'd play it.
>>536669059AwSW sequel looking good
>>536660882>such a big deal that other games are getting delayed just to avoid being released in the same quarter with itBrutal
~Wooaahh~ We're half way there...>>536384893Damn anon, you work quick. This game might be a new favorite, getting at least a 9/10 from me.
>>536671162my brain is too smooth
>>536660882>delay your release>it's gonna flop anyway looking at the steampagecan't blame silksong then lmao
>>536424131Ashes 2046
>>536673694Why do you play games in french? As a fellow frog I play all my games in english and it's just better.
>>536673828Parce que j'en ai plein le cul de l'Anglois fourbe qui vient jusque dans nos bras égorger nos filles et brûler nos vierges.Déjà que je me les tape au boulot, tous en mode "yes hello I ran away from home because fleeing dictatorship is easier than fighting it", je vais pas me les supporter dans mes jeux vidéos.
>>536662801There's also the shit that stops belts moving you which is 1x1, but yeah.
>>536674143lol why do you even post here then there's french subredd*ts and shit
>>536674643Because reddit sucks balls. It's the only website I can reach at work and I learned to hate it to peaks you cannot even fathom in your small two-dimensional brain.
>>536662761Oh yeah, you just reminded me I have it, but personally I wasnt that much of a fan of the fighting, but I do recall seeing a big patch so maybe they changed something about it.
>>536674143If those are your concerns then the english should be the least of your worries right now.
>fr*nch
>>536663161While I never used it, I believe you have to prepare a meal using the burchering table
After around 200 days I finally did the Puppy Cave.It turned out to be easier than I thought it would be. I guess I'm ready for level 2 difficulty dungeons.
Fuck me. I should have done the Puppy mission ages ago.
>>536676772Do you have to check a wiki/guide often or are you able to wing it?
>>536605070>I could play normally and do it faster, but quality is fun even if it's worseits not worse, you don't make the game harder by unlocking overpowered stuff
>>536676710Butchering table only let you turn fishes into filets.
https://gx.games/games/r5r8eb/pixurbia/I started a 2D crime sandbox open world project like 9 months ago and it's now finally a nice playable package. I even got it running smooth enough on browsers so basically anybody can try it for free. Go ahead and fuck around and explore the game! Hunting, fishing, taxi missions, trucking missions, assassination missions, robberies, dual wielding, a UFO easter egg and much more already featured.
>>536677161I'm winging it so far. Maybe I'm not the most efficient player but it works so far.
>>536673828Because he's a socially dead attention whore. >>536674143When are you killing yourself?
>>536679897After Trump is hanged for treason against the state.
>>536681653why would trump be hanged for that
>>536663517This game seems like it could be fun but I can't stomach the pseudo RPG make artstyle.
>>536683258it's treason then
>446 posts>3 and and a half days oldwe get any new people here or is the thread just more active then usual? It's good to see it active either way though
>>536677813There is two sides on the table, right side is butchering and left side is meal preparation iirc, I recall having to use it to make antesalad bowl
>>536688582you seem to assume he is from across the sea, but why would someone from across the sea want to "see trump hanged for treason"? I would love to see is some american president committing treason and destroying america.
>>536689607second frog here, you assume that trump being a complete retard has no impact on other countries which is unfortunately very wrongat best, the man should be doing stand up in a mental institution, as a patient
>>536689607Because he's a retard. He thinks only foreigners hate doritos man.
>>536692497maybe its worse in canada, I see some extent of concern over tariff war, but its in good part clear fearmongering and local parties trying to use it as ammo against local politicians, most people outside of some very particular industries don't give a shit, there are other diplomatic issues with certain authorities, but for the common person is entertaining even. Only the left really dislikes trump and even then, mostly because of ideological reasons and they are be happy to see any sign of trouble for america under trump.>>536692497>the man should be doing stand up in a mental institution, as a patienthe actually looks like a very smart man, I bet he and his cronnies are making a banking with inside trading, I believe the mistake is expecting that he will have anyone else best interests in mind.
I'll take furfag posting over frogs talking about shitty politics any day>>536694927>>536693070>>536692497>>>/pol/>>>/v/
>>536695704yiff in hell
lol
Zis kind of extremist political discussion is not conductive to maintaining ze price stabilité...>>536684013Anticipation for you know what.
>>536696929>you know whatI wanna know
>>536696929Weekends are always more active + we've got a few blogposters for different games nowSilksong is barely mentioned
I am surprised anyone still cares about silksong, HK was been released in 2017
>>536697598the story of the game never coming out is more interesting than hollow knight itself
>>536650214Are there even stuff to discover on the sea? Maybe I'll play it if there are.
>>536694927>I bet he and his cronnies are making a banking with inside trading, I believe the mistake is expecting that he will have anyone else best interests in mind.No, you're thinking of Nancy. Anyway can we all please stop paying attention to the fr*nch please? We already know they have absolutely zero clue of what they're talking about, this discussion wasn't needed to prove the bloody obvious.
>>536695704
https://progchad.itch.io/pixurbiahttps://gx.games/games/r5r8eb/pixurbia/I got my 2D crime sandbox Pixurbia running much smoother in browsers under all circumstances, and uploaded it to Itch in case people prefer that for whatever reason. Also fixed a funny glitch where cop cars would pull up to the player and spawn like 1000 police officers before the player got instantly overwhelmed and sent to prison. So far like 150 people or more have played apparently, which is really cool to me.
>>536674143Look at this fucking clown
>>536674143>shitposting frog is schizoNo surprise there.
>>536674143The post that angered a lot of Br*tish.
>>536676772Unless you completely ignored combat, you're probably overqualified for it.I did it sometime in the second week and the level 4 dungeon Ashland send you to around day 40.>View character sheet>Select new portraitI don't have those when talking to him. Is it an affinity thing?>>536677161You can wing it for the most part and there's an in-game help section, but the game can be pretty obtuse about information.Or even if it does give the info it's not where it should be. Like you can find what your attributes do in the help section, but it really should be apparent just by looking at them in your character screen.
Get yourself a glass, I'm gonna mix us up a drink.Finally got around to finishing Jazzpunk, and highly recommend it. Not many points of comparison because I don't know of any other comedy games which actually work. It is pretty short, one more level would have been cool, but it's still worth the asking price overall.
>>536726929>one more level would have been coolThere's a DLC that adds one more level (which was originally cut from the game but later reintroduced as DLC). Haven't seen you posting screenshots from it. And just an interesting bit, the airport you see in the beginning was planned to be a playable level, judging from the trailer where it's interactable and full of people.
>>536726929You could try replaying a couple of times, you probably missed a couple of stuff.>It is pretty short, one more level would have been coolThere's dlc that adds an extra level, but I honestly don't recommend it. It has way less content than even the embassy and most of the jokes are just lined up along the isles and very basic.
>>536726929>one more level would have been coolYeah but did you know there's a DLC with one more level? It was cut content and re-added to the game.
death is unacceptable on those terms
today's nova drift daily challenge is snake
>>536651457You're ruining his morality gains bro.
>>536674143Based french>t. italian
ACK
>>536674143French translation is dogshit most of the time, you can tell it's translated from english regardless of the original language.
>>536663517stuff sand in the kiln to get fragments, fragments into kiln to get glass. There's a beach to the right of the meadow, start digging.
>>536674643Nta. It's full of far left lunatics, the kind that support hamas and bend themselves 20 folds to justify antisemitic murders (and various other crimes) in our country. Any subreddit that isn't that is basically polluted with the other side of the political spectrum.It's basically impossible to have a non-political conversation with a French.At least here, we only have to deal with politics when a poltard comes crying because a game with literally 10 players is actually a gay black furry game or some shit.
>>536760724You can distil your entire comment down and have it remain true.>It's basically impossible to have a conversation with a French.
Nobody here talks about Siralim ultimate (finally) releasing 2.0 yesterday?
Nobody here talks about Riftbreaker (finally) releasing 2.0 yesterday?
>>536764339Anyone interested in the 2.0 could play it since july.
>being on sick leave>not in the mood to play gameswhat's even the point? I'd go outside but I feel too shitty to do that
>>536748931Good, fuck that guy.
>>536764339I have no idea what kind of game it is.
>>536779792>I have no idea what kind of game it is.Me neither. Is a mix between base building, turret defense, ARPG and action shooter.And somehow you are a soldier scientist operator that wants to protect nature while mowing down all native fauna and flora(everything has a chance to drop science so you are literallly encourage to destroy everything).
>>536781170>somehow you are a soldier scientist operator that wants to protect nature while mowing down all native fauna and flora(everything has a chance to drop science so you are literallly encourage to destroy everything).That's just monster hunter world with mecha!
>>536781427>That's just monster hunter world with mecha!There's also random drops of loot of different levels and a pletora of weapons with different elemental damages.I do dig the mecha combat thou. Haven't played lately because I'm running out of resources and dunno how to use the plant farming system to gain more.
>playing mgs3 remake Yep, I like it. Too bad I've played the original a billion times. Proper modern controls finally away from the pressure sensitive mapped to a button like the hd collection, man that shit sucks and ruins that version. Looks lovely, runs alright not great. It's literally an exact remake, no expanded areas or anything which is kinda sad but fair enough. The only thing I'm really disappointed about and it's mostly my own misunderstanding, I somehow got the impression from vaguely reading the prerelease stuff that you can use the radio while in-game, like the camouflage quick change. Nope, it's just a shortcut that takes you to the old radio screen, man I wanted to listen to the optional ones while I'm doing stuff but that's not a thing...
Is this what Kenshi is? I thought it was an RPG with heavy party management in postapocalyptic setting.
>>536789497It has "RPG elements" by which I mean it has a bunch of increase-by-use character stats and skills.It can be a solo character game, but you can also have as many people as you want. The only limit is how much you hate yourself and how much clunky micromanagement + grinding you are willing to suffer.Other than that it's just an empty survival sandbox (the world is not procgen slop though) with extremely sparse authored content like character dialogue or quests. No story/plot of any kind, not even deep procgen storytelling in the style of DF/RW.And it's good.Outward is a more traditional RPG... with backpacks.Rain World is a faggy art game / animation tech demo.I'm gonna say the closest thing to Kenshi is actually the original concept for STALKER's ALife before publisher demands messed it up. Just a sandbox with roughly a thousand independent actors constantly simulated and living their life, and you're one of them with no special powers. No scripted setpieces, no quests, no main plot to follow, just an endless sandbox with an "endpoint" (wish granter / cat-lon) that isn't really a finale.
>>536791894there's some story stuff about the first empire iirc but thats more lore than a plot yeah
>>536789497I tried it a week ago, wasted like 10 hours on this jank. stopped when I read that you can't kill unconscious enemies (and have to let them lay there, rest, get up and run away) because the dev is autistic and if player can do this, he'd have to program enemies to also do this (even though you can't enslave enemies or eat them like they can)to answer you question the picrel AI summary is as retarded as they and its users tend to be
>>536792474Yeah, there are scattered pieces of lore, worldbuilding, scarce information. Stuff that takes you through progressively harder areas and eventually leads to Cat-Lon's exile.Quite similar to the original STALKER concept, except you are the only actor chasing that information instead of every stalker trying his luck on the same task.
>>536793117this is the first I'm hearing of the stalker thing and it sounds like a shame it got cannedwas this going to be the idea for the newest one?
>>536792808Anon, be aware this is a solo dev 12 year project that came to fruition, and he started work on a kenshi prequel. So just go check the moddb for it, there are tons of genuinely good qol mods that add what you want.
>>536793564>the idea for the newest one?No, I mean the game concept as it was around 2003-2004 before THQ got interested and became the publisher. A few years before the first game's release in 2007.STALKER went through many iterations and ideas before release though, but that was the final concept at the time the game was pitched to publishers.At first the game didn't even have anything to do with Roadside Picnic / Stalker.And the first iteration of the Stalker idea was going to take place in Crimean NPP rather than Chernobyl NPP.
>>536792474The one detail in the world building and vague comment from skeletons that I liked the most is how its heavily implied the huge lasers in Venge are actually the second part of a planetary defense satellite system, and the fallen satellite nearby aka "the eye" is the aiming satellite that got sabotaged into a catastrophic reentry, but rather than destroying the system it bugged out and constantly fire at what it assume is the target the "eye" is looking at.But the world knowledge has devolved so much only skeletons remember. Neat world building imo.
>>536789497>like OutwardOutward is a completely different type of game, firstly it's an open ended ARPG with tons of build variety, then it comes with light survival mechanics. Excellent, excellent game that I would highly recommend, though there's a few mods I'd recommend even a first timer, let me know if you want my recs.Kenshi though is even more open ended, there's lore and characters, but no storyline. You have to make your own fun, no guidance by the game, Outward sets you along the right path, Kenshi plops you into the wasteland with nothing but some tutorial docs. It's gameplay reminds me of Total War but with characters instead, but you're not controlling hero units, just bums who need to be trained with the games insane grind. Seriously, you need to game the grind for Kenshi if you want to make meaningful progress, increasing the XP gain rate in the games modding tool isn't a bad idea either. I'd hesitantly recommend it, it's not as good as people say, endgame is lacking, squad play is a nightmarish grind, and it's even more of a wiki game than Outward is.
>>536794879I loved Outward, character building is very fun there, I tried so many builds. It really needs UI enhancing mod though.Hope we will get Outward2 soon.
steam is ded
>>536802346hooray
>>536802584i see
Trivia post:>listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln9Sq7IOP3o>a react to be honest>read comment>this guy ended up doing Cryptdancer and Shovel Knight ostCool
I want to play Battle Brothers, but I keep thinking about all the other weird and special origins than I do actually committing to any of them.
>>536750085Hi, cousin. One day I'll learn how to make good pizza, instead of the slop I cook myself that would likely give you a heart attack.
>>536713423>Nancyno, I am not thinking of nancy and I am not the only one to say this about trump. If I was thinking about nancy, I would have said nancy. This is disingenuous.
>>536576341
>>536716582Based.
>>536720471are you trying to recreate gta? only thing missing is being able to drive cars and do missions.
Red dead redemption 2 for 15 bucks, dickwarts legacy for 12 bucks, hollow knight for 7 bucks (2 years low), risk of rain 2 for 8 bucks, amogus for 2.69, celeste for 5, outer wilds for 14, shitting floor 2 for 3, torchlight 2 for 4, etc.Tons of games are on sale. Some are even good. Some are really bad. I literally only own killing floor 2 and torchlight 2 in that list and I really don't like either of them.
>buying gaems
>>536830013>having money in 2025
On the off chance that anyone has played the Trapped games (the escape room games, not the roblox games), does anyone know if it's possible to, in flashpoint, have the secret items in 1 and 2 carry over to 3 for the true ending?
Hardest game you've enjoyed playing? I got frustrated with Garlic a few times but could never stay mad because of how polished the game is, and how much personality it has.
>>536846257Rain World, I remember being stuck in Moon's underhang as Spearmaster for hours, but I didnt mind, it was still my favorite campaign.
>>536846257has to be cogmind core-only propulsion challengeforces you to think completely differently in how you approach situations - you're faster than average but slower than dedicated fast bots, you can't afford to wear any armor, you have practically 0 storage and power generation is extremely limitedended up winning by getting shitton of hackware, milking every single terminal for intel and winning by bolting straight into final area after i've got everything i neededtook me eight 3+ hour long attempts
>>536846257Boshy
I'm gonna say itThe level design for UT04 is a lot better than UT99, especially the team-based ones
>>536820626full campaign never ever
https://june-flower.itch.io/elbeNew june flower game. These always have such a cool exploration and discovery of alien worlds."This is an exploration game about a cool lizard man in a swamp."
>>536846257I did beat Viewtiful Joe on highest difficulty. I am proud of that one because I did hit a wall in normal at first, went to restart on easy to learn the game but easy clear can't be carried over into normal or hard so I restarted normal again and went from there.Other thing that comes to mind is doing score runs in CVS2EO so much that I learned how to beat the insane AI of Shin Akuma and U Rugal, add other KoF2000/1 bosses to that too lol.Also Sephonie is a 3D platformer that would have made me quit eventually but the checkpoint system and OST were so good that I just vibed through the retries.
>>536855998I beat Metroid Prime 1 and 2 on the secret Hard mode.
>>536856775MP2 had a really nasty spot. It was right after an early boss that unlocked the ball boost. The fight itself was kinda hard and you had no HP and upgrades that early. When the fight ended there was no light zone in the arena and the only healing was whatever the boss dropped. In that situation you had to figure out how to use the new ability on the area to escape with whatever health you had remaining.
Every moment I play Kingsvein I wish Rad Codex had made Horizon's Gate expansion pack instead. Or something for Voidspire.Graven is a depressing place. The color palette is ass. Diecast look like ass.
>>536846257Probably Timesplitters 2 on hard, specifically the PC port. Not having to fight with the aiming makes me not want to scratch my nose with a shotgun and can actually enjoy the game. Yes, even the robot factory level.High-tier challenge maps are still RNG bullshit though.
>>536859883>rufus scratched his nose>it angered a lot of people>you're alone against 20 people, get 40 kills, don't die once>have fun lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSmRxAhFWPY
I wonder if Silksong will be as cheap as Hollow Knight again.I personally wouldn't mind paying old full price for it
>>536815698Okay, you're free to think it about Trump, but I think you're an idiot. How well are Trump's stock options doing compared to people like Warren Buffet, and how is the % compared to Nancy? Let that be your homework for tonight.
>>536861797>compared to>X did Y thing>Z did much worse>therefore X didn't do Y
>>536861281Its probably going to be more expensive.
>picHonestly, who the fuck cares. HK is known for gameplay, not for plot twists. You physically can't get "spoiled" to the point of being unable to enjoy the game.
>>536866729>You physically can't get "spoiled" to the point of being unable to enjoy the game.I personally derived a lot of enjoyment of finding new areas with new aesthetics in HK.So if someone showed me a screenshot from the most interesting looking part of each area and some enemy designs that would have definitely reduced my enjoyment of the game and I'm assuming it would be the same for SilkSongBut I still think it's silly this video exists. I assume there is a market for it, hence why the guy made it, but if a person needs a video to explain to you on how to not click on shit related to a game and maybe reduce your exposure to online spaces where said game might be discussed they're a bit of an idiot.
Do you think it's better to wait a couple of years before playing Silksong, so that QoL features would be implemented in the free DLCs, or do you think devs learned their lesson and QoL features are there from the start?
>>536867686Just wait a few weeks for reviews if you're worried. I doubt anyone can answer that question for you convincingly.I think I personally will play it at release, just because I've waited so long, I'm not even sure I'd be interested in this game if I waited even longer.
>>536866729Ohhhh Zanzibug....forgiveth me...
>>536864030The point is I'm firstly questioning if he actually is doing it or if his numbers are in line with normal figures, and secondly questioning your motives if you see Nancy very blatantly and undeniably doing it but Trump is the only person you give a shit about.
>>536846257Brutal doom on one of the highest difficulty, some of the later room in base doom definitely werent balanced with being potentially killed so easily and at times I felt like ripping my air out, but the catharsis when finally beating a tough as hell room was worth the effort. Aint nothing like trying to clear a room full of mancubus and machinegunners when you die under a second of enemy fire, it has basically become a core memory.
>>536859883Wait a minute, there is a time splitter 2 pc port, since when!? Also please tell me it support split screen co-op, because if so I definitely know what im going to play with my nephew next time he comes around.
>>536873187>Its hidden within another game gamefiles as a easter eggKinda based by the homefront dev to include that in there, but it sound like a pain to setup, also no checkpoint and the likes? am I reading thst right?
>>536636894Glad to be getting off Fulgora, hopefully I've got everything I need because all I'm leaving behind here are scraps that aren't worth taking with me. I really don't like the planet's gimmick, it's not interesting and defending against lightning isn't the same as defending against the biters or anything like that.The stuff you unlock from there's just way too good to ignore though.
>>536855998>>536859883>>536872853>difficulty selectionsWhat is the /indie/ opinion on this as a concept?You see a lot of post about hard-modes and such, but I always prefer when there is just a standard difficulty. It removes any doubt as to the intended experience and makes things more rewarding.With multiple difficulties to chose from, one level is going to be the 'best' experience and all others will be inferior. So you have to guess, and face the chance that you get a less enjoyable first time with the game. Plus, the games without difficult selection are generally more polished and balanced.It is not so bad in cases where there is just one 'hard mode' explicitly intended for players who have mastered the game, because the overall experience can still be designed around 'normal'. Three difficulty levels muddy the waters, more than that is cancer.The ideal implementation is challenge modes like >>536846689 which introduce a specific twist to the standard gameplay and organically change the difficulty.
>>536883691> but I always prefer when there is just a standard difficulty. i second thisI would rather have a singular polished and balanced difficulty than half a dozen of poorly balanced choices. Time spent adjusting different difficulties is time not spent making the core of the game better.And i prefer when hardmode is completely optional and doesn't require you to start a new campaign or anything like that. You just switch it on in settings and there are no score/story/campaign differences - game is just harder.
>>536883691"intended experience" is always Normal Mode. "Easy" mode adds cheats to (You), and "Hard" mode adds cheats to (You)r enemies.
>>536889095The problem is that the modern normal mode is typically just an easy mode and the mode actually named easy is braindead retard mode.
>>536889840No, the problem is that Indie games nowadays don't have Easy mode, they have straight-up invulnerability mode instead. Which is fine, I'm okay with cheats (even if it's not fashionable to call them that), but I would prefer more fine grained control than all-or-nothing.
i'm ready to adventure
>>536895396so much for adventure
>>536897671>non-binary>diedlike pottery
>>536855793Man fuck me, I vibed with the setting and exploring and all but then I died of starvation. Instant turn off mechanic.
>>536883691There is no reason not to have a difficulty select or modifiers these days. I am just pissed that they never add those for aesthetic and gameplay ruining things like yellow paint and the like. Let me turn that shit off and enjoy a way better scenery. It's fine that mouthbreathers need them but don't force those on everyone.
>difficulty levels hardThey aren't. They're very simple, in fact.Assuming all difficulties are unlocked from the start, pick either hard (for 3+ difficulty levels) or the second hardest available (for over 7 difficulty levels). "Brutal", "nightmare", "omgwtfbbq" or any difficulty not available from the start is strictly for NG+, people who spent 350 hours on the game, masochists or luckgods.
>see an explosive barrel>"hold on, let me use my low-value ammo for this">shoot it. the enemy dies>explosion sends a steel crate sliding into another barrel like 5 meters away>the impact is so strong it causes another explosion>it doesn't break because it's made out of fucking steel>the crate flies into my face at mach 1 and finally falls apart>KOs me, kills 80% of my hp and sends me into the fire created by the first barrel>i die from burn damage
>>536900160How do you even navigate this. Everything is so dirty-looking that it blurs together like some kind of mottled kaleidoscope. Reminds me of Rain World, but in RW protagonist had a very high contrast against the background.
>>536904615it's just a warehouse section, game is usually not that dark
>>536873581There's a mod that unlocks the full game without needing to play Homefront proper (in fact, even optionally deletes the unrelated game files to save on drive space) and enables, somewhat clunky, profile saving.
Finally beat Cursed 3 goddamn what an ending
It's kinda strange how in Sunless Sea Zubmarines are supposed to be this super secret forbidden tech (unless I misunderstood something) but the admiral is totally cool with you having one and bringing him reports from underwater ports
>still no massive text based game that doesn't have the faggy energy system of fallen londongod I hate this timeline
>>536917720MUDs?
>>536877636Finally time for the planet I've been looking forward to the most.
>>536918050I checked a bunch but beyond the fact I'm not too keen on multiplayer, it seems it attracts some disgusting cliquish behaviors that remind me of some particularly bad SS13 servers. At this point I'm waiting for AI to be good enough to be fed an entire rule book and solo DM my ass with no hand holding beyond asking for my preferences as a player.
This goldenheart game is pretty cool lot of soul
>>536919935Anon, I think you want to read books.
>>536917720I bet there's a few porn games that fit the billI'd say I'm not too opposed to the Fallen London energy system in principle as something to prevent you from just rushing through the whole story in one go (similar to what Something Awaits You does in Sunless for example) but it would be a lot less annoying if the game didn't get to grindy at times. It sucks when you can only play once or twice a day and spend the whole day just grinding a skill or recourse.>>536919935I mean if you don't mind if there is some non-text gameplay I suppose something like Citizen Sleeper or Disco Elysium could be down your lane. Though they might not satisfy your requirement for "massive"
>>536917720What do you mean exactly by "text based"?
>Job Simulator I've been looking forward to got a "release date" of summer 2026https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhuSc6YMvucnice
>>536920752Lol, I am also doing that.>>536921039I do like Citizen Sleeper and Disco Elysium but yes, I crave something a lot bigger. >>536921306Like a CYOA, but with a lot more options. A relatively recent game called Roadwarden comes to mind. Really good but the scope is small.The craving comes from using AI for freeform RP and seeing how good it could potentially become for that use case. I don't want to RP as a social activity with other people, before you ask.
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>>536921306Probably not terminal/ascii roguelikes.They're not text games, they're graphical.
>>536924607>Like a CYOA, but with a lot more options. A relatively recent game called Roadwarden comes to mind. Really good but the scope is small.Uhhhhh, go to Kotaro Uchikoshi's list of games he's specifically been the writer + director for and just pick one of those to play, perhaps?
>>536846257Lobotomy Corporationnormally I don't like hard games, unfairness or games with jank, but this one got me
>>536933425Not into VNs at all and they really don't scratch the same itch even if I was. VNs railroad you even if you can have three or four endings at best.
>>536933604How is it? I remember seeing videos here and there, felt like a mishmash of No Oxygen Left and scp.
>Tfw join a vintage story rp server because I just want to mine and stuff in a fun context, and have my effort appreciated>Not even a week in and my efforts seen for naught as server start imploding due to drama over some bandit killing nobles left and right and total war is coming in a few daysGod damnit, I just yearned for the mines, not dieing from getting speared by some enemy levies.
>>536938306Just go to one of the /vm/ servers instead
>>536938306Born to mine, forced to conscript. Literally 1291.
>>536937653its unfair, sick (literally) and a slogits a managing game about a not-scp facility, you just send guys to work on the monsters (abnormalities) and send them to fight treats in the corridors, there are 4 types of work that your units can perform with the abnos and every single abno has its own lore and its own rules about how it behaves, these need to be learned by trial and error, observation and working with these abnos to unlock in-game info about them. Some abnos can escape from their rooms and your units need to fight them sometimes, playing around their gimmicks, besides this there are other monsters that spawn from time to time, that you also need to fight.getting distracted for a moment or making one wrong choice can result in a bunch of people dying, restarting the whole day and losing a lot of time and progress. it takes ages to finish if you care about unlocking all the info about all monsters and some of the late game challenges/bosses are brutal.
>>536942657What game?
>>536942657That better default to on.
>>536942884Quartet
>sounds of a scientist doing it for the good of mankind increasing
Finally, I have slain the most devious of foes just before Silksong...
I DON'T LIKE THISI was just trying to remember the way to the reactors, man!
>>536946841Is that....liminal space?!AYEEE, SAVE ME ANXIETY THERAPIST!
>>536946841You will live in gm_flatgrass and you will like it.
>>536947025I just don't like infinite, giant places. If you want to make me very, very uneasy, put me in a normal room, but make it 1000x bigger.Like in Thief.
Heavy, medium, or light ship in underspace?
I think I'm done building all the fire bases for the uranium outpost. Gonna build a few more mines and switch to titanium outpost. But maybe first go to HQ, upgrade some stuff and set up more water drinking stations for nuclear energy.
>>536949326Pirate light fighter unless you're gay.
>>536949469Not whatever "liminal" spaces are, just giant spaces.
>>536947279>>536946841If you want a more enclosed space, there is always the red chair, hell it even give you a neat speed buff.
>>536949796Already tried it. I managed to damage the monster but I couldn't kill it.
>>536949926Ill be fair with you its a bullshit meme area, the enemies are invincible, you gotta find some hidden buttons (3 iirc) to unlock the way out. The trick is to stay out of the water, any movement trigger inside water trigger them the fuck out and they're effectively invisible tarrasques.If you want a cheesy base enemies literally cant spawn into just set up in the small maintenance room behind the forgemaster, it is small but is super safe.
>>536951081Also forgot to add you could always add cubicle walls to gmod flat grass so it feel more enclosed.
>>536951081It's not a problem, I always have a teleporter to return home.
>>536951261Would you believe me if I told you I finished the whole game without knowing teleporter were a thing? Would have saved me so mcuh back trekking
>>536952956Good lord I can't imagine that. It saved me so often while fighting bosses unprepared, being overencumbered, hunger, thirst, fatigue, need to poo, uncomfortable social situation, being stuck in a backroom, getting lost...
>>536470541>>536329529Managed to get to the normal ending and was actually pretty fucking hard yeah. Thank god for the retries or I would have eaten shit.How do I get the golden friendship token to proceed with the story though? Is it only that for the true end or do I REALLY have to max out friendship with EVERYONE?
>>536958774no
>>536937461How much freedom of choice do you need exactly? Because you're asking for a lot. As you have more items and freedom of choice in a game, the number of possibilities that the game dev has to account for goes up exponentially.How close are things like the King's Quest games to what you're looking for, and other such text based adventure games?
>>536889095>>536889840>>536890107The real problem is that any of these could be true and you have no idea of knowing which it is. Depending on the game 'normal' can be for people new to the game, or new to the whole genre, or people who have never played a game in their life. And it doesn't help that sometimes thee 'intended' way is to replay the game on successively higher difficulties because the devs couldn't make an actual difficulty curve.>>536899080>no reason not to have a difficulty select or modifiersWas this close to replying with some with an autistic spiel about hw that doesn't apply to most games but you probably know that and are not talking about those. You might like the Ace Combat series. Clean aesthetic, sometimes criticized by retards for 'uncleer objectives' because you have to pay attention to the radio and look at the environment.
>>536937461>VNs railroad you even if you can have three or four endings at best.How many meaningful endings do you want exactly?
>>536917720You may want to try Free Cities.https://krekregames.neocities.org/
A few more hours and it’ll be exactly one week away.
Playing "Small Saga". The SJW level is off the charts, ugh. It was THIS close to a redwall-like tale, but they just couldn't help but scrawl all over it with their agenda and political commentary. You can't take two steps before you're broken out of immersion with twitter-tier talk. Sometimes I even think it's a parody game that makes fun of SJWs, but nope, they're serious.Honestly I would unironically take they/them character that chills in the background (like the one in Chicory: A Colorful Tale) over this "take that!" shit.
>>536986803>SJWNow that's a word I haven't heard in a looong timeCare to elaborate what you mean by>they just couldn't help but scrawl all over it with their agenda and political commentary
>>536943572looks good
This isn't even the first time it has happened. Am I supposed to iframe every move or something?
>>536979701I'm just glad it releases on a Thursday instead of a Monday, like so many games do.I'm fine with waiting a day and then having the whole weekend to play it. To bad I'm sick today instead of next week. Would have loved to binge through this game while having a fever
>>536986803The community page really makes it look like pure reddit, both in the surface level moment to moment comedy and the more in depth ideological messaging.Looks like it was made by someone that doesn't like their christian parents.
>>536989224>start using the shadow dash>fight becomes infinitely more bearableThese bosses make the bed of chaos look like absolute kino, I swear to God.
Why doesn't this reduce lifetime always affect the teleport bolt? Sometimes it fires a regular long distance teleport bolt
Anyone else here playing Inkshade? It came out recently and it's a shockingly good deal. Game is basically>what if Inscryption were only the first partAnd it's delivering on it really well so far.
>>536986803Gonna go off about how it's a SJW, DEI laden mess and not go into specifics? Pretty big accusations
>>536986803rat feet...
>>536986803What about In Stars and Time?
>>536990016What's up with the multicastsI'm not gonna even try to read how that wand is supposed to wrap
>>536999375I just had them there for no particular reason, I didn't think they made any difference if there's no additional spells
>>536987573The usual stuff: Fascism, Homophobia, ACAB (Written as AGAB, All Guards Are Busted), that gun squirrel fight that's either making fun of freedom of speech or is a deplatforming allegory (or both), and many other "I clapped" type of stuff. There's literally "Sky Garden got woke" written on one of the in-game papers.>>536996164>DEI I'm not sure what that is.
>>537001635>DEIDisco Elysium Inspired
>>536973106I imagine your pic has enough for my tastes but I can't into VNs because of the artstyle.>>536973292This rings a bell, I think I passed it over due to its unfinished state but it's probably the best I'll get. Thanks for the suggestion.
>>537000491They're the only reason that messed up wand works at all (assuming the chainsaw works)Chainsaw sets the wand's cast delay to 0 when it is cast, so it has to be the last spell.Do you remember seeing a "the gods are very impressed with you" message when messing with that wand?Anyways, you're just making accidental wisps (infinite lifetime spells) out of the teleport bolts.Reduce lifetime (-42 to lifetime) and teleport bolt (random 33-47 lifetime) sometimes results in -1 lifetime which makes the spell have infinite duration.
>>537002218>but I can't into VNs because of the artstyle.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRN00NYC5mUSuit yourself, here's an example but obviously I've no idea what aspect you dislike.
>>537001635Diversity Ethnic Inclusion or something.It's essentially an umbrella term for all kind of catering and waste of developping ressources.
>>537004438I don't think that applies to indie games. It's mainly for big studios looking to get better deals from Jewish banks or something.
>>537004586I dunno, some games can be obnoxious with that, like Celeste.
post /indie/s with friendly user interfaces
>>537004890DEI seems more like a specifically corporate thing, when it's an indie dev doing it it's just that indie devs personal mental illness behind it so even if I don't like it I respect it a lot more than anything corpo has to say on the matter.
>>537004438>>537004586 Both of these are right, its mainly a way to embezzle funds under the guide of social engineering (it aint race based nepotism if we be fightin race based nepotism yo), which is a nasty can of worms I wont get into right now, but small scale useful idiots do believe it is for a good cause and promote these concepts at their own detriment, mostly economically as peoples dont like playing games and getting peddled politics unless its an integral aspect of gameplay like in grand strategy.
>>536918074This may be a problem. I thought you always spawned with a Tungsten patch in your starting area, if only small. Also god this starting area looks like dogshit.I don't even remember if you can underground belt past lava flows. If you can no problem, but if I can't that's a gargantuan detour I'll have to take for this patch
>>536792808Murdering a helpless opponent is dishonorable. The only creatures in Kenshi that would stoop to that are>insane cannibals>insane man-eating bugmen>insane robots that will flay you and wear your skin as a human suit>wild animals, mostly spiders, that eat you>you, if you install a mod
>>536973292Heh, I was also going to suggest Free Cities.>>537002218Be sure to get the Pregmod fork, it's not really "finished" but it's a lot more complete than the base version.
>>537011682How's the moment-to-moment gameplay in this? Lewd text games are often lacking in content that isn't just porn but this looks like there's more to manage than sex slaves.
>>537008426>DEI seems more like a specifically corporate thing, when it's an indie dev doing it it's just that indie devs personal mental illness behind it Pretty much this.>so even if I don't like it I respect it a lot more than anything corpo has to say on the matter.no, still bad
>>537012306It's all management. You assign jobs to your slaves. You improve your slaves through training, drugs and surgery. You pick the most capable slaves for leadership roles. You spend money to upgrade your arcology, and amass reputation to unlock more upgrades.At some point you'll hopefully discover the rules manager and learn to automate rote tasks, like sending sick slaves to recover in the clinic, and putting fat slaves on a diet. Unless you're into that, in which case you can put thin slaves on a fattening diet.Once you're satisfied that all your slaves are set to do what they're supposed to, you end your turn and the game generates a massive report on everything that happens over the next week. You read or skim through it, and then you're given some random events like a slave got a nickname, or a slave has a bad dream, or some monarchy somewhere in the world has been overthrown and you have an opportunity to enslave princess.There's technically things to manage other than sex slaves, like you're paid rents on your arcology depending on how much of it you own, but it's really just background. The game revolves around the sex slaves. I'd recommend enabling the security expansion mod, it adds invading armies that sometimes attack your arcology. The battles aren't playable, you just gotta make sure your army numbers are bigger, but at least it's something to upgrade that isn't just another sex slave.
>>536946841>gm_flatgrass>ooooh im gonna cower in a corner
sp00py
>>536958774They have to get their real memories back.
>>537010865I'm sorry mifune-san, I no longer have any patience for anti-fun devs (I blame tynan)
>>536998656What about it? It mainly sticks to gender shit in terms of wokeness. It avoids getting too preachy about it too honestly. It was all tolerable to me.
nyo
>>537008761>I thought you always spawned with a Tungsten patch in your starting areanahyou get a calcite one plus sulfur ventstungsten you always gotta kill at least a small worm for
>>537014853At least when DEI is corporate you can chalk it up to some faceless board of directors making a decision based on sales, when it's indie, it's someone's unfiltered dogshit opinion. Gotta learn to bite your tongue and ignore it if you're into indie vidya, more often then not the dev is a nutter.And remember this whenever DEI/SJW's/Woke/LGBT comes up. These people are their own worst enemy, they abet the hate and scorn they receive by constantly making a fuss and acting like moral-less degenerates, think the insane discord profiles you see.Ever meet a trans person who's normal? Who you can't even tell they're trans? I have, good, normal people who just want to fit in, not make a scene. The moment this shit was made about pride and inclusion and not acceptance and fitting in is the moment it was doomed. Hate how it seeps into video games even if I'm able to ignore it without crashing out.
>>537037321When it comes to indie games, there are two types:1) Type 1: utopia. LGBTQIA+ is accepted by default in the game world. It's easy to tune it out as long as it does not include clunky "what are your pronouns" every time heroes meet someone new, and there's no lengthy expositions.2) Type 2: winning the conflict: LGBTQIA+ is not accepted, they are woobies against the evil bla-bla-bla-phobic strawmen villains. Villains are then defeated, lectured and then murdered. It's very obnoxious, and pretty much impossible to tune out. Even if you agree with the message, the way it's written is so insufferable that you want to argue by reflex.
>>537004438>waste of developping ressourcesPeople keep saying this and it will never stop being funny. How can real people unironically believe this?>>537004586>get better deals from Jewish bankslel
>>537040343In which context did they say that?"Female Models" where in the game since the very beginning but I'm assuming you're talking about something else?Also if they've changed their mind on that I would bet it's because they are a profit seeking company and they figured that the extra resources put into that would translate into more sales and be worth it. Not because the Jewish Lizard Elite told them to or whatever.
>fake culture war discussioncongrats, you've fallen for the psyop. You are aware that the only people who couldn't be happier that you waste your time and energy being upset about how many gay characters are in a game, or that the game dares to ask you for your pronouns during character creation are the "elites" you claim to dislike so much?Because while you think THOSE are real political issues they get away with shafting you left right and center.I remember someone on here once called me a lefty for not being outraged at a game having Bodytype 1/2 in its character creation, I can't fathom how far gone you'd have to think like that.
>>537041038IIRC when Unity released and its multiplayer mode was just clones of the MC, they claimed it would be too much work to make a female character model and animations to add more visual distinctiveness.They got clowned on because 3 Liberation had come out not too long ago and it had a female MC with a wealth of unique animations, while the Unity MC's animations were largely ported over from Black Flag/Rogue. And Syndicate, the next game in the series, had a male/female dual protag setup anyway.
>>537041937I guess it makes sense considering the multiplayer was such a minor part of the game Actually that just made me remember they had playable female characters as far back as the Multiplayer of Brotherhood>Unity MC's animations were largely ported over from Black Flag/RogueReally? I remember Unity's animations looking completely different/ having lots of new stuff compared to the previous games.But yeah, I have a hard time believing that a company like Ubisoft would lift a finger to do anything for any reason other than money or PR (which translates to money in the longer run)
>>537008512>peoples dont like playing games and getting peddled politicsI wish more people agreed with that. I'm sick to explain that I don't want politics in my game AT ALL and that no, I'm not saying that because I'm secretly fascist.
>>537023853Exactly. The pronouns things were still enough to annoy me, but otherwise, it was relatively light on the whole thing, and the genderfluid thing is an integral part of the lore, and is even highlighted by Odile as being unusual and specific to the country, with her explaining that in her country, bio-engineering would get you in jail.
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>>537043163Nah that's totally understandable, sometimes you want to play games for escapism and don't want to be reminded of real world issues.The funny thing is just that from what I've seen many people who say "I don't want politics in my game" actually mean "I don't want politics I disagree with in my games" and then also by "politics" they just mean that there is a black playable character or a pronoun option during character creation or some trivial shit like that. Since they'll be more than happy to play games with overt political messaging as long as it's not something they are offended by.
If I had a nickel for every planned 8-entry Flash game epic that got cut short at the 3rd one and left in indefinite limbo until Flash died and the dev vanished into the ether, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's really weird that it happened twice.Between this and MARDEK, I wonder who was the more delusional.
>>537046665I mean, I don't mind politics, but it has to be done in a subtle way. A game like Final Fantasy XIV makes it perfectly clear that diversity is strength but they never say it, they just have all kind of people pooling their strength together to defeat an Empire who looks down on magic, and there's an empire in the lore that is very fondely remembered for its approach of "everyone has a role and a thing they're good at", and the emperor is still almost worshipped.Then you have... the worst example I can think of is that tabletop game, Vampire the Requiem, who has pic related. This goes beyond "fascism doesn't work in-universe because yadda yadda", this is downright virtue-signalling.And I hate that whenever I complain about shit like this in my games, all the answers I get are "oh wow so you defend fascism hu???? well i'll doxx you and if i meet you irl i'll beat you up because being a fascist means you're no longer entitled to basic human rights".
>>537046665>I don't want politics I disagree with in my gamesIt's not about the message, it's about the attitude:>It's very obnoxious>Even if you agree with the message, the way it's written is so insufferable that you want to argue by reflex.
IYAARGH WHY IS KINGSVEIN SO MUCH WORSE THAN HORIZON'S GATE
>>537017784I see. It's not quite on Masters of Raana's level but there's a bit more game to it than just managing slaves.
>>537049036>picHoly cringe, batman.
>>537051509Yeah. I mean, for context, Vampire the Requiem is very, very, VERY roleplay-centric. Campaigns arepretty much just characters coming to term with the world. So something like this that takes you out of the world is just weird.
Twilight Epoch comes out tomorrow and this is going to be either pretty fun or a big pile of shit
>>536573504There's nothing wrong with cheating on a singleplayer game but it's retarded to deny that you are to random anons online.
>>537048630should've stuck to trilogies desu
Got completely lost, THRICE but I finally found my way back to the Reactor.
First expedition into another world.I had to cancel it early because I got tired, hungry, sleepy, had to shit, and got thirsty. And in the game too.
Because I had three entire pots of soups but still got a full fridge, I cooked me something.It turned out to be the breakthough I needed to FINALLY unlock the fucking oven. FINALLY!!
>>537058449You have tiny baby hand
Sir do you have a moment to talk about the importance of maize to the Aztec civilization? Sir? SIR??Oh man, I bore even unholy abomination from beyond our comprehension.
Mmm. Interesting.There's a "lodestone" that acts as some kind of... barrier battery. You end up breaking it in order to escape the world of Canaan, and you use its pieces to craft equipement, but the Order knows its existence and seeked it.I'm starting to think that breaking this lodestone was actually a fucking terrible idea.
FINALLYI HAVE UNLOCKED THE PINNACLE OF HUMAN TECHNOLOGYThe oven.
Returning to the world beyond the veil, I do a pacifist run by abusing the crystal armor invisibility.I find a lot of interesting creatures, like this "tained carbuncle".
Okay, this is worrying. I found some bodies earlier of two scientists, one of them murdered, the other have committed suicide by overloading a backpack and jumping in the water.Their notes said that they felt observed, and this bloke here confirmed it.The borderworlds, all these little island microworlds, are all populated by the same alien species, but there's something else in there, who is watching.This is a worrisome developement.
Oh.So that's why they evolve so easily, they aren't natives of these microworlds. They're invaders.And they're all over the facility.And even worse, I earlier found a mail confirming that despite cleaning methods put in place to deal with spores, there are still fungal growths all over Black Messa.Meaning that GATES's methods of cleaning expedition teams are NOT WORKING. The facility is already compromised.
Oh shit.He saw me.Double spoilered to preserve the surprise.
Inventory full. Pants also full.
>>537060973Sounds like you need toClear the Obstruction
>>537061176I did. And I regret doing it. I met my first hostile gatekeeper, and these guys are TOUGH.
>>537023479No, small ships don't work outside of bullying the watch and even they have things that can hit you.>>537048896He asked for something combat effective. Melee ships, especially small ones, are an absolute meme and speed/evasion become completely meaningless past the DWG and OW when everyone starts getting powerd weapons. Unless you're doing seafloor PAC/Missle cheese with submarines, spaced armor and a shit load of CIWS are mandatory if you want to be able to fight anything more threatening than easy craft
You lost. Now you're food and crafting material.
FIGHT MEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMJq_GdC0YY
I want to play everything itt god fucking dammiti hate getting old
>>537084376What about this?
>>537085403pls I already killed every godexcept the yellow king because he keeps getting killed to basic ass mobs
>>537084376Play Amazing Cultivation Simulator instead
>open /indie/>/v/Fuck off
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>have no idea how to even start this puzzle>? bombs could be anything>figure out one single point of contradiction and it all gracefully falls into place>best puzzle yet>completing it unlocks all the remaining puzzles until the endSo this is where the game begins for real. If it keeps up this might not just be this years puzzle game, it could be alongside the all-time greats.Anyway, what other brain-games is /indie/ playing at the moment, and are there any upcoming titles you have high hopes for?
>>537098843i think my entry point was bottom row only has one wall so all its dudes are either hit by the left or right bombso the bombs in row 8 can't hit any of the dudes in row 10so your two walls in row 9 are already setsame for the right column and top row. and left most column should fall into place too after this
>page 10
The great journey east. First thing I'll get from my next paycheck is a better engine.I'm mildly annoyed by how one of the first jobs you get from the Admiral is always going to the Khanate
>need lot of material to progress>no idea where to find themFuck me I guess.
>>537110629I wish Sunless Sea had an in-game note taking option. There's too much shit to keep track of and I don't like having to constantly alt-tab or have a bunch of paper on my desk
I beat Abiotic Factor.
>>537112865Does this have NG+? I'm still on my 1st playthrough, but I plan on doing a 2nd one afterwards and don't want to deal with all the cumbersome grinding again. Even just porting over the skills would be a godsend.
>>537114129I have no idea, sorry. I was saying that in jest because I just crafted a complicated item and I was overjoyed.
>>537114667Thanks anyway. I'll figure it out when I reach the ending then, since I'm pretty sure I'm still somewhere around the early midgame. Fuck the Symphonists btw. I take regular trips to Flathill and these tanky motherfuckers ALWAYS get in the way. I probably have to set up some traps to quickly take them out, but that also requires grinding in the fucking world to GET enough mats for it.
>>537116740Just make a crystal armor, and abuse invisibility.
the french have killed indie
>>537130664i remember playing this game a while back. are there new levels?
>>537130062the french have also killed /indie/
>>537131337And you're next.
>>537100236Nah, you are thinking of a different one, the starting point in this one is the two inner columns which only have 1 wall each, so there are only 2 ways to stop the inner bombs from hitting each other.
>>537141636probably also valid but i mean like this. which you can derive from the center bombs not being able to hit any of the outer bombs on the top, right and bottom. and from there the left 2 columns, then the top row, then the center columns and then pretty much the entire thing collapses. don't even need to look at the columns with 1s in the center.
>Game's release date is postponed to "Coming Soon" 4 hours before the fucking release
>>537116740Use the big ass laser, I hated them too until my friend made me realize they basically fold over if you use piercing damage.
>>537144504kek which game did that?
>>536597175replaying the og, bought a controller for the "intended experience"it feels so ass, do console freaks really live like this?I got used to it after a while and I have to admit it's relaxing to be able to sit back and not need a flat surface underneath your hands. But I still switch to the mouse and keyboard when the platforming challenges get hard.
>>537147552also why the fuck am I here, I was supposed to be on egg. motherfucker gave me the wrong directions.
>>537147552>it feels so ass, do console freaks really live like this?Really?I'm an MKB player who uses a controler for certain games and HK is definitely a controller game for me. Doing fine adjustments with a stick sounds a lot easier than by tapping a movement key, no?
>>537147882Most of the ass reaction was knee jerk because of the switch, I'm mostly ok with it now. But it's probably too late to ever really be comfortable with it, keyboard feels precise and controller feels floaty and that's probably just ingrained in me by now.
>>537147552I feel like my hands are too big for a controller, I tried to play sekiro with one and it was very uncomfortablekbd+mouse felt much better for that game, HK, super meat boy, anything really (except ryza, but I think the devs just gave up on kbd/mouse controls)
There are so many genshit inspired games in this mix all game show.This shit ain't obscure and weird enough for me.I need to go deeper.
>>537149471>I feel like my hands are too big for a controllerinb4 used a ps pad
>>537149471I got skinny hands that can reach the bottom of a Pringles can so luckily that's not a problem for me.Be happy for your big hands, at least you can play the piano properly. And apparently women like them.
Just finished watching a Blue Prince series, the ultimate puzzle is a worthy finale, 10/10 game probably the best puzzle game I've ever seen. Definitely not for absolute brainlets though, it's pretty tough and requires you be decent at just about every puzzle type.
No (You)s.
>>537152591xbox>>537153279I tried piano years ago and gave up I tried women and it seems I gave up too>>537165638
All me mes
>>537165935I went and learned guitarpiano should be real fucking easy with that linear scale of keys
>Silksong is 20 bucksI fucking kneel.https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/nintendo-switch/products/hollow-knight-silksong---nintendo-switch/20026861.html
>>537180941this game will sell 5 millions in a week
>>537181542c'mon the bugs can't be that popular
>>537181542It will make a silksongillion dollars.
>>537163812>Just finished watching a Blue Prince series>watching
>>537183392>pichuh and today i checked my torrents and I saw i a .hack season downloaded that I forgot to finishthe cosmos must be saying something
Checking out Chroma ZeroAnyone else played it?
>>537180941At least entitled fuckers won't complain about it being 40 or 60 then, which probably would be a very fair price still>>537182267Hollow Knight sold 15 Million copies, shit is insane
>>537185314No, but it looks fun.I’ll have to check it out eventually.
>>537182267Even if the game is absolute dogshit it'll sell at least that much, the hype is too high.
Played Chuchel and it was kinda annoying.I started in the middle for some reason and already had all achievements but I do not recall ever playing it myself, just watching someone play it long ago.
Looks like you can turn on and off the wireframe objects, but you need to allocate a point of the corresponding color.
>>537186195>I started in the middle for some reason and already had all achievementsYou downloaded someone's save
who's baking the next thread
>>537196303not me
>>537196434Sure would be a shame if it got vandalized again :^)
>>537196503I'm due for another hospital visit. I don't care about what some basement-dwelling furry does.
I'm on it.
the fucksince when do we have a steamgroupis it even active to justify having it?
>>537197191You have 130 seconds before I pull the trigger on mine.>>537197357>is it even active to justify having it?It's completly dead. From time to time an anon says something about it, but not even spiderfag is in it.
>>537197516>>537197516>>537197516MIGR8
>>537197592What videogame?
>>537189849Spooky but I take it. Not the devs greatest game. Feels more like a memoryholed rerun of mid cartoon episodes.
