Thread 715372251

Are you enjoying the latest friendslop game with your buddies?

wtf is "friendslop"? are we just making up words now?

>>715373490
We've been doing this, making up words, since the creation of language. You might be too young to understand that language is alive. It is a dumb fucking word though.

>>715373717
What exactly is the point of this post?

>>715372251 (OP)
Friendslop isn't real, retard.

>>715373848
Pedantry is almost as popular as pederasty here on 4chan.
What he meant was:
>I agree with you in this particular case, but saying that the word is stupid because it's "made up" is also stupid because all words are "made up."

>>715373848
What is the point of anything we do? Why are we here?

>>715373490
Yes, friendless losers keep making posts trying to degrade loads of games, just because they have no friends

>>715372251 (OP)
Yes actually
It unironically is a damn good game

I started playing with a friend, lost half my hp because I got stuck on a poisoned bush and pressed alt f4

>>715374015
Thank you, Anon. As an ESL, I sometimes find it difficult to convey what I mean in a simple and straightforward manner. Enjoy your day.

>>715374015
>here on 4chan
Not just here, tardy. I know you're desperate to feel superior, but its like that everywhere on the internet now. I've been here longer than you btw

No I'll wait for Aggro Crab to make another SP game.

>>715372251 (OP)
>friendslop
It's called streamerbait, new fag. Of course an election tourist wouldn't know that.

>>715374203
>die
>do literally nothing for 15 minutes while another guy slowly climbs
No. At least lethal company/content warning has the added stress of not knowing if your friends are actually dead or not (if they just disappear), giving the game some sense of tense atmosphere

>>715374290
That's quite the crashout

>>715374203
This. I got promoted to Goat yesterday, EZ Kiln. Good shit.

>>715374557
1. The game isn't meant to be scary. Lethal Company and Content Warning are, to differing extents.
2. >He doesn't annoy his friends as a ghost while they climb
What are you even doing?

>>715374557
youre supposed to stay together and help eachother
there is a reason mountaineering is a overwhelmingly white hobby

>>715374038
To shitpost, obviously.

>>715373490
friendslop is similar to streamerbait
they're the type of game that is shit and only enjoyable if you have friends to play it with

I liked watching Saba play it

>>715372251 (OP)
my friend are fucking faggots refusing to buy an $8 game

>>715375170
is this game not enjoyable solo?

>>715374926
I don't want it to be "scary" per se, I just want dying to be interesting. And it's not. The only way I'm annoying my friends is by contant complaints about spectating horribly slow mountain climbing.
>>715374949
If you fail at teamwork, should you not be punished with isolation? Quiet contemplation of what you did wrong, how you could have saved them?

>>715375612
Not much. The runs take 1h+ and you have just 1 map to repeat per day. Lots of walking and opening boxes hoping you roll something useful. Sections where you have to wait, rain/cold/fire. Debuffs that you have to wait. Limited inventory space.

>>715376000
I'm >>715374736 and I've only ever played solo, the game is a blast in trying to make it up there and survive. You do need a bit of luck on 5+ because Alpine will kill you otherwise, but if you can pass that you're practicality home free.

>>715376251
>I'm having a blast
yea that's all I needed to hear

Pandora's Lunchbox is the worst mystic item, I hate getting it.

The kiln is the best map
I hate the ice and tropical gimminicks of le wind le rain

I don't know if "friendslop" is it, but the genre of co-op multiplayer games that usually involve up to 4 players trying to explore and/or escape a dangerous and occasionally spooky environment with limited resources (e.g. Escape the Backrooms Together, REPO, Content Warning, Lethal Company, etc.) needs a name. What with how popular it's been lately and all.

So what's it the word "peak" where I see so much in these recent years?

>>715372251 (OP)
its pretty good it reminds of playing giants citizen kabuto as a kid and seeing the island for the first time

>>715372251 (OP)
Played it, almost finished in 2nd try, spent less than 2h, refunded.

>>715378519
peak as in the peak of a mountain

>>715372251 (OP)
I have no friends....

>>715374557
Then don't die
Retard

>>715372251 (OP)
Bought it for 5$ on sale and got my money out of it. Expected it to be a lot more jank for a physics-based movement system.
It's probably the most fun co-op game i've played in a while - a shame that there are so few multiplayer exploration games, it feels like the co-op genre consists out of either "multiplayer was an afterthought" or "partner therapy" games

>>715383731
Dang, what happened at the halfway point?

>>715372251 (OP)
PEAK is absolutely, unequivocally, indisputably _mid_
Fine game, worth the $8, but you basically get a feel for the entire game within the first 10 minutes.

>>715375170
>"Today at school we played this friendslop called duck duck goose!"

Could you imagine talking like this

How long will it be before this game gets forgotten? I predict 3 weeks tops.

>>715375741
You're supposed to goon while dead and softly moan in your friend's ears as a ghost while doing it

>>715384940
Had to use a path along a series of these carabiner anchors, didn't realize that i had much less stamina than him due to carrying too much
Also there wasn't a single death in this game so far that wasn't stupid

The term friendslop does well to describe the latest genre of "4 dudes in a situation". I play a lot of them with my group but we've only stuck with REPO and Peak longer than a week.

>>715375741
>dying to be interesting
Name 1 game where dying is rewarding and fun.

>>715375170
"guys, tag is such friendslop, amirite?"
-anon, who never got invited to play tag when he was a kid

>>715386408
Rogue, ADOM, NetHack. basically any traditional roguelike, since dying means you're learning.

>multiplayer is friend invite only
I honestly hate that shit. Give me fucking lobbies or servers

>>715373717
we dont invent language, we find it

Words like "friendslop" exist because we never learned to talk about systems.

>>715386619
The same applies to Peak, you died and now you learned your limits better.

>>715386408
>Name 1 game where dying is rewarding and fun.
Dwarf Fortress

>>715372251 (OP)
No because I dont have friends, I talk to some dude on discord sometimes but he is addicted to the horse game

>>715373490
Friendslop describes a game that is unplayable trash without jobless retards at your side 24/7

>>715377040
Co op roguelike already describes them

>>715378519
Kinda another way of saying GOAT or it's the "peak" of it

>>715387827
Peak does have a goat rank

>>715372251 (OP)
It's okay, pretty underwhelming

>>715387637
Friendslop works better

Quite a few, actually. We like the new ones but we're still trying to get through our Terraria world.
>>715373490
It's 4chan leaking into twitter leaking into 4chan. It's ironic to them there, but bait here.

Did they upgrade some of the buddy moves? The boost jump was near worthless on release.

>>715389086
They seem to work okay for me.

>>715374203
What's so fun about it? I was bored af.

>>715387269
But now you sit for 15 minutes doing nothing

>>715390304
>He doesn't like climbing

>>715372251 (OP)
>it's another "/v/fags get mad at fun social games because they're lonely virgins who have no friends" episode

Is walking up to a wall and pressing a button to climb it supposed to be fun? There are barely any mechanics, and besides holding out a hand there's not much you can do to help your friends.

>>715390701
Not me, I only died once and it was moments before we had a total party wipe.

>>715391770
Anon, these games are designed for people that literally never play actual games, they're supposed to be extremely simple. The "fun" in this one is supposed to be laughing at your friends falling off.

>>715392608
The fun is climbing a mountain you fucking retard.

>>715391770
>>715392608
>y do yt ppl climb mtns there ain't even nthin there istg

>>715372251 (OP)
No, i avoid any and all friendslop

>>715374290
Thickest skinned /v/tard

>>715372251 (OP)
I'm happy for the devs but it still bums me out that I actually really loved Another Crab's Treasure just to see it infinitely outsold by a much lower-effort rock climbing sim.

>>715392712
It isn't, you dipshit. There's barely anything to the gameplay.
>>715392807
Climbing a mountain in real life is a physical challenge. This is just a stupid video game.

>>715393173
Holy shit you're fucking retarded.

>>715393310
>no argument

>>715393443
>He thinks I'm arguing
See >>715393310

>>715393479
>Doesn't have the intelligence to even begin to argue
lel

>>715393594
Why would I entertain a retard with an argument?
I'd much rather be having fun climbing the mountain. Which you seem incapable of.

>>715393143
i mean what sells better?
single player boss battle roguelike
or a co-op game where every copy sold is basically*4 AND the gameplay is pretty original and easy to get into

>>715393694
>won't take 5 seconds to write one argument but will keep replying
Ok buddy

>>715393783
They actually didn't expect this one to blow up as much as it did and went back to the development stage for it because of it.

>>715393810
That's right. You dance on my tune.
Why don't you climb the mountain if you're such hot shit?

>>715393935
i heard it was made for some game jam or something like that, wasnt it?

>>715394059
The company came together for a one month jam for funsies and ended up with a hit.

>>715372251 (OP)
Looks very boring from all the videos I've seen. Don't really get the appeal. I imagine it'll be forgotten after the fotm wears off.

>>715372251 (OP)
I can only enjoy this game solo

>>715394109
a true gamer dev moment

>>715394059
how many major multi-year projects have been outdone by this one month game jam

>>715394714
I think it's funny how a AAA studio can spend years clinically designing the most top-of-the-line game possible and it gets outstaged by a month-long low-budget game jam project. Money can't buy you success in this industry, your game actually has to be fun.

>>715393173
The gameplay is plotting a course accounting for your current situation and items and executing it.

>>715373490
Friendslop = goyslop
It's just that.

I like how Scoutmaster Myers says you should pack light and only take what you need. While that's true for real hiking, here the actual Scouts BSA motto "Be Prepared" applies more. I've spent everything I've had to clear Kiln before.

>>715377040
Left 4 Deadlites

>>715375612
Solo is unironically easier

>>715376503
does it even have a positive effect? ive literally never seen it

>>715396338
It gives you a random amount of different stats, 3 uses. It can save your life and give you a fuckton of stamina or kill you by overloading you with damage and burn.

>>715373490
Friendslop are shit games that are deliberately obtuse and difficult to play without having some retard to hold down a button. Just like It Takes Two and Peak.

It's as big a cancer on gaming as Footslop and Stratslop.

>>715372251 (OP)
It's a friendlike, not a friendslop. If you're going to use the newest trash terminology, at least use it correctly.

Do people really get butthurt by the term Friendslop?
It's a funny word

>>715396692
it's wordslop

Why is Caldera the easiest part and impossible to die at?

>>715396859
this is going too far

>>715396864
It can happen
Caldera lures you into a false sense of security

>>715397037
This. Caldera is easy if you have bonus stamina, potentially lethal if you don't. Run out of stamina while sprinting on the lavabed to reach another rock and you can easily burn to death.

>>715375170
>game is fun for anyone with friends
>/v/ calls it shit

>>715393143
>lower effort
The crab game has higher production values but that does not mean that it has better gameplay systems.

>>715396864
caldera is easy only if you didnt struggle in alpine. Unless everyone has good stamina to begin with, some people will die since food is pretty hard to come by

Is it honestly a bad thing that a game has it's moment for a month or whatever? Are you supposed to play Peak for 1000 hours? No. It's a little pizza party friend game with potential funny moments and then "THING" will come out and people will move on.

>>715393143
Another crabs treasure was also on gamepass so hopefully they got some decent money from that. Thats how everyone I know played it.

>>715396864
i burned to death on my ascent 2 run on it, right at the end as well

>>715372251 (OP)
I'm glad Aggro crab is successful in this, another crab's treasure was such a gem

>See so many streamers dying to today's mountain
Tempted to do a run on ascent 1 just to see what the problem is.

>>715397435
Nope.

>>715397435
yes because it's artificial trend-focused consumerism induced by algorithms focused on virality
the games have their moment for a month or two because there isn't that much game in them
peak is unusually cheap but most of the time fotm games are 20-30 bucks
do you really want to pay that much, every month, for the rest of your life so you can enjoy vidya with your buddies instead of getting more polished, higher replayability games like l4d, halo 2/3 etc. every 2-3 years?

>>715402536
>do you really want to pay that much, every month, for the rest of your life so you can enjoy vidya with your buddies instead of getting more polished, higher replayability games like l4d, halo 2/3 etc. every 2-3 years?
I’m not one to should “SHILL” at everything, but this reads EXACTLY like a shill post
>”Spending a few bucks on a small game to hang with your friends with? If you add all that up it would cost a lot! Why not blow $80+ on the latest AAAA slop release? You know it’s high quality because it’s expensive!”

>>715399962
Okay I did a run and
>Shore is bog-standard
>Tropics has vertical fuckery, as always just move laterally if the way up isn't obvious
>Alpine is bog-standard, the right side leads to the hot spring
>Caldera is Caldera
>Kiln has traversal fuckery, needed multiple climbing tools to pass it, but still got through with some resources to spare
Verdict: Skill issue. Who will survive?

I feel like COOP games nowadays have a really bad issue on diminishing returns setting in too early in an experience. Even in Lethal Company there is that threshold of either "shit is gonna fail you out no matter what" and "well we hit a peak, who gives a shit anymore" and it slowly gets dropped. I don't know if its just me, but its also a issue of "we all bought this together and now we really have to get our moneys worth" instead of feeling like you can sink into the game. This is especially relevant in extraction based games. When the structure and pacing all feel like afterthoughts to something that is supposed to be a experience you share with friends it feels bland. I don't know if im crazy or not feeling this way

>>715386956
>I'm a gamer, I don't inventory language, I unlock it

>>715374557
>die in peak
>everyone knows you're dead and feels encouraged to get to the revive statue faster or die together faster
>die in lethal company
>watch some idiot walk around thinking everyone else is getting the money and then he dies to something stupid and complains when the screen says game over

>peak is moment-to-moment gameplay where losing is fine and you're encouraged to put it down for a day when you win or lose halfway up the mountain
>lethal company is tycoon-lite gameplay where losing sucks dicks because you lost all your progress and your access to the cool levels where most enemies are just instant death
Peak was made to be played. Lethal was made to be bought.

>lethal company get released
>Play with friends for +60hrs since it's the only game of its kind somewhat
>people notice the game and make their own shitty coop game
>friends make me play Content warning
>only played 2h at most because it's shit
>friends makes me play repo
>1h of game
>friends jump bandwagon and want to play guilty as socks
>friends already jumping to peak

i don't mind playing coop game but many of them just seems not worth getting if nobody get engaged after a single play, i don't know how lethal company managed to do that. I still play helldivers 2 with my pals but i refuse to buy anything new knowing they will only play shit for an hour.

>>715404547
Nice shades.

>>715405214
>I don't know if im crazy
For talking about gameplay systems? On the video game board?

>>715383731
>ice sucks
I hate jungle the most
Maybe it's fixed now but I remember a bunch of close to release climbs having unclimbable routes, or routes that just terminate but only after the fog kicks in... and not understanding it because no other zone for me ever generated anything like that except the kiln.

>>715396864
Everyone I know always eats dirt whenever the goal is to climb DOWN, aka straight after a campfire or caldera.
It's fairly obvious they cope by choosing to use the map's chains or finding the longest rock formations in caldera to avoid guesstimating if a fall will hurt or even kill them (and the game isn't consistent about damage height).

>>715406237
>guilty as socks
I saw this and was genuinely confused when it was released because it looked like a sleeper hit from 5 years ago in style and lack of streamer attention

>>715372251 (OP)
No, wish I did.....but I hate my voice/accent. I have a group of friends for 6 years and never been on mic, I wanted to reveal my voice and finally talk on one condition that this annoying, loud, leftist, futa-loving sperg gets removed from the group that pretty much no one likes but the owner utterly refuses not to be 'mean'

I just got so fucking angry and my nose started bleeding having an argument with the owner and haven't touched the app since. Just looking at the stupid fucking discord logo makes me annoyed. I don't know if I will ever return to the server since my government is introducing stupid ID laws for all social media later this year and I don't want to give my doxx to that creepy fucking company. I just might say goodbye before that and move on with my life and make IRL friends
/blogpost

Made it through the kiln for the first time today. Is it supposed to be impossible without a stockpile of traversal tools or lolipops?

>>715406968
what a maroon

>>715373490
yes
your post is an example of "postslop" and OP posted a "threadslop"

>>715407071
Sometimes Kiln is easy, usually it's not. Today's Kiln is harsh. That's why the game gives you a bunch of luggage before you start the final ascent. There is a couple of suitcases along the way before the big climb moments today though.

>>715389086
pantsu mod when? server support for /v/ lobbies when?

can /v/ go a day without whining about people playing simple games with their friends without (You)? its no ones fault but yours that you are too """""""autistic"""""""" and bitter to have made and retained friends in your youth which is why you are so sad, alone and angry now. what is the problem with the existence of games like these besides them not being for you, exactly?

>>715406968
>but I hate my voice/accent
jesus christ you pussy are you 11 years old? nobody cares about this shit unless you have cerebral palsy and can barely get a word out. you are like those people on twitter going "i cant order coffee at starbucks because of anxiety and internalized trauma" and bullshit like that

>>715407370
Wanna know a secret, anon?
I made both the thread and the first post, because bait is the only way to ensure thread longevity to discuss a game. I just wanted a thread about Peak.

>>715372251 (OP)
I actually really like this game. Went into it thinking it would be a ragebait game like Getting Over It, instead I was met with excellent resource management and rewarding creative exploration, mixed with the chaos of multiple people. Also it's funny as fuck when someone whiffs hard on a risky jump and plunges to their death screaming the whole way.

>>715391569
Why don't we have LAN in actual games anymore if we can have friendslop

Kiln was surprisingly easy today. Tropics was a fucking NIGHTMARE.

>>715376804
Unironically I wish there was a way to repeat specific levels, love kiln and hate the others too.

>>715373490
It's the latest of /v/ spouting out shit in a vain attempt to harbor discussion. Same shit as "fun is a buzzword" and "adult woman fetish"

>>715407071
Feels like it
I've not beaten one without a chain or an anti-rope
I wish pitons were more useful here

>>715407949
>Tropics was a fucking NIGHTMARE.
when is it not

>>715386808
You can change that in the main menu and post links so random people can join.

>>715396864
>sprint across hot rocks to next point
>game decides fuck you and starts an inferno covering the entire rock as the lava rises, still recovering from previous burns
It's a horrifying kind of death. At least it's a fast level so my friends can revive me.

>>715372251 (OP)
It's okay, got bored of it fairly quickly though. Any friendslop games for me and my friends to slop through?

steam://joinlobby/3527290/109775242035495246/76561198052495125

Prove you aren't a casual. Or don't, I just want to climb with /v/irgins.

how is picrel?

This has been the worst friendslop I've had the displeasure of playing so far. It was gifted to me and I still feel like I got fucked. I seriously hate mindless consumers who buy shit because it is fun with friends when literally everything is fun with friends. It is a product of zoomers lacking imagination or any for of self-awareness.

>>715408791
You sound like a jaded fuck unable to have fun.

>>715408632
if it wasn't so late i'd join. is it possible to host an expanded lobby with this method?

>>715408585
Enshrouded has a ton of content added since it was first early accessed

>>715408791
Glad I don't know you, you sound like an ungrateful asshole who hates everything.

>>715408913
>>715409570
Hit a nerve, no cap

yep

>>715373490
All words are made up

>>715397357
I'm just quoting the devs

Great game, excellent replayability, hope the devs don't fuck it up with DLC and other stupid shit.

>>715396494
but you can complete a climb in peak completely solo
I've done it.

>>715410062
They're actually not sure what they're gonna add next, because like >>715410009 shows it was a game jam game that exploded in popularity and so they're in the designing phase now for new content. Personally I hope they add more scout cookie textures and randomize ones that appear, cause there's more girl scout cookies than just thin mints.

>>715410171
What did you mean by this?

>>715395071
Luck doesn't hurt. There are good games that are inevitably going to get buried regardless of quality simply because of so many other titles competing for attention.

>>715410258
>Samoas
>Tagalongs
>Thin Mints
>Do-si-dos
>Adventurefuls
>Lemon-Ups
>Trefoils
>S'mores
>Toffee-tastics
MORE COOKIE TYPES

>>715410370
I don't think luck made this game blow up. It's tapping into a legitimately good niche, compounded with the fact that the item distribution and balance works well across all difficulties. Ascent 4 feels like the perfect difficulty without getting into the bullshit of freezing to death at night because your dipshit friends keep running off or the lantern runs out and nobody finds another.

>>715410009
>why did this game sell more copies
because players just wanna have a fun time with their friends with a simple game for a reasonable price. its really what the gaming industry needs to be about. it may not be for you but at least there is no bullshit about it. you get what you pay for

>>715410421
Ooooooh, I thought you were making a cunny reference.

>>715410421
Thin mints are the only good girl scout cookies.

>>715410525
No, I mean the cookies in game. Add more textures referencing more Girl Scout cookies. For variety's sake.

Is it just me or does the jungle feel way fucking harder than volcano?

>>715411853
Depends on the day. Remember you can climb trees too. Purple kingberries are the good ones, all clusterberries are good, blue and yellow bananaberries are the good ones.

>tfw always die and have to get carried by my friends
how do I git gud?

>>715412583
Don't overexert yourself.
Look ahead to where you plan to climb to and see if there's a path leading from there or if it's a dead end.
Learn what foods are edible and what aren't. Cooked food is always better, but you can't cook the poison out of unripe/poisonous foods.

>>715412583
Try not to fall

>>715410009
Another Crabs Treasure had the cringe main character VA

>>715412583
If you can stand, you can recover ALL your stamina. Do that before every climb to conserve on bonus stamina. It doesn't take long and extends the amount of things you can do significantly.

>>715397435
No, no it's not. "Flavor of the Month" is a fucking garbage term that doesn't even make sense as an insult since it's the natural state of all but the absolute sweatiest of live-servicr games (which are the real cancer, more often than not).

>>715410009
>hmm why did this streamerbait slop that costs 8 bucks and also needs friends (who also have to buy the game) to be enjoyable outsell a 30$ single player soulsloppa?

>>715406968
Unless you're a lispy queer, nobody cares what you sound like, faggot. Everyone hates their own voice, but it sounds like "normal voice 3" to everyone else.

>>715410421
Fuck girl scout cookies those bitches got rid of All-Abouts and I will NEVER forgive them for that.

>>715402536
If they were still making l4d and halo 2/3-tier games I would have agreed with you.
Name a SINGLE good AAA game that you can play with friends made in last 15 years.

>>715372251 (OP)

Of all the friendslop i've played Peak was easily the worst. Absolute garbage.

>>715386408
>/v/anon doesn't know what banter is
>Likely laments the death of online videogames being fun
>Reports anyone who breaks rules if he personally got annoyed by them

Anon stick to league

>>715376000
and how does multiplayer fix any of these problems?

>>715373490
It's just an attempt to make a shortened term for "flavor of the month meme game that picks up huge hype for a little while and then declines into oblivion when everyone gets bored and moves on to the next meme game."

>>715393173
A platformer, or platform game, is a genre of video game where the core gameplay revolves around navigating environments by jumping, climbing, and traversing platforms. These games often feature uneven terrain, suspended platforms, and obstacles that require precise jumps and movements to overcome.

Key Characteristics of Platformers:
Jumping:
A fundamental mechanic, often with the ability to change direction mid-air.
Uneven Terrain and Platforms:
Levels are designed with platforms of varying heights and positions, requiring the player to navigate them.
Obstacles and Hazards:
Players must avoid bottomless pits, enemies, and other dangers.
Goal-Oriented:
Players typically move from one point to another, often reaching an exit or completing a level objective.
Movement Abilities:
Beyond jumping, characters may also climb, swing, or use other acrobatic moves.

At low ascents energy drinks > lollipops
At high ascents lollipops > energy drinks

>>715386541
tag is free to play. these friendslop games offer the same kind of entertainment but it's sold as a product. that's why it's slop.

>>715374290
Have you tried NOT touching poison ivy like a retard?

Twister is friendslop. Checkers is not.

Is there any reason to eat anything poisonous? Half of the endemic food poisons you.

So who's going to host the unlocked player counter server so we can all play together?

>>715406968
i got a deep voice with a thick fucking hillbilly accent but I have to repeat myself often because i say stupid shit, stutter, get confused easily, and more times than not actually whisper as opposed to talking unknowingly, and still my frens enjoy my bullshittery
trust me, no one actually cares what you sound like as long as you arent screaming in their ears

>>715391770
Did you even actually play it? You can find equipment that can help friends up.
>>715372251 (OP)
I really liked it, especially for 5 dollars. But this game at least for me, is fun without friends too. The clothing collection challenges are fun.

This is more complicated than all of the jump up unreal assets for 3 hours that keep getting big for some reason. While some asshole talks

Thread seems surprisingly comfy so far.
Since it's also friendslop, I might as well ask, any of you played and enjoyed Lethal Company?
Me and my friends are enjoying Peak but we genuinely like the gameplay. Is there anything to LC besides the scary stuff? Like, is the game still fun even after the horror wears off?

>>715417773
Yes spool of rope is completely useless in solo play. When it's cold you can huddle with your friends to take less damage and heat up. You get stamina boosts when you make it to the end of each section with all your friends alive.

If you die your friends can revive you or carry you around. They can also take ticks off of you that are pretty hard to take off solo.

>>715391569
I try to engage more with /v/an but I wish we played more games together

>>715410171
I think it's pretty easy to add stuff. More equipment, more challenges, more clothes.

They could open up another terminal area that's themed differently. Like a Waterworld level or a hang glide and climb theme.

>>715373717
>Is it a new thing?
>yes
>does it have a certain focus?
>yes
>is it popular?
>add slop to it
>ok, now instead of showing your a retard thats inventing words on the same level a 12 year old boy would, talk about the history of words
Fuck you

>>715420857
I'd unironically join if someone made a lobby during the day.

>>715373717
>language is alive
surely there's a less reddit way to articulate this

>>715421353
Lethal Company was fun. it's been a while since I've played it much but I had most fun in groups larger than 4, where we would try to make somewhat deep runs and have fun making less-than-optimal strategies with the items you can buy like jetpacks. and there are (or at least were) a handful of fun mods

>>715421992
language is changing all the time bro fr

Proximity voice chat was the best thing to happen to cooperative games.

>>715421624
I'd like to try a version where you descend, maybe with other challenges included as well

is making a topdown shooter one of the most unoriginal indie things ever?

I'm so fucking bad. I've gotten to the kiln twice with my buddy, and both times we just get stuck with no visible way to egress, go for a YOLO-esque climb, and die because it didn't work out.

>>715422374
on a stack

>>715410171
Medieval fantasy-themed climb. You start from a deep dungeon and slowly make you way out of a chasm, then to a mountainous town, all the way up to a castle.

>>715372251 (OP)
looks boring. lethal company & chained together were cool anc actually fun "friendslop" games

>Take coconut
>Keep it in inventory the entire game and do NOT put it in a backpack
>Reach the peak
>When the rescue helicopter comes, take it out and bean one of your friends with it
Would that be fucked up or what?

>>715424325
you just need to be at the peak, you don't need to climb the rope or anything
the countdown that appears (it used to be 30 seconds reduced to 10) is misleading, there is no urgency at all by the time you reach the peak

>>715424325
i would laugh if that happened to me
bonus points if you scream HEY SHITASS or similar

>>715374557
its literally only my white zoomerfriends that run ahead and leave everyone behind because they gotta be le epic meta speedrunners

>>715396338
It can save your ass if you're in a really tough spot and have no way to heal.
Odds are high that whatever negative debuff you get is only a temporary one and you'll be left with more life after it subsides

>>715402536
Short consumable experiences make it very easy to jump in and just enjoy them with friends that invest less time into gaming.
Any game with staying power will inevitably have the playerbase get good to an insane degree where the gap is too big to enjoy it with less experienced friends.
Or in other words why playing Deep Rock with one of my friends is a miserable experience that feels like a job because she speedruns me into improving ASAP instead of letting me fuck around and enjoy novel mission events

>>715410009
To be honest, one of the reasons i bought PEAK was exactly because it was partially from the same devs so it gave the game credibility over other friendslop games

>>715427481
I actually liked Content Warning, as silly and dumb as it was.

Reminder to read The Climber

>>715427737
>Underestimating Kiln
Classic mistake. Kiln will eat you alive.

>>715372251 (OP)
nah, I'm still happy with my old and stale friendslop game helldivers

I don't have friends

>>715427626
Landfall in general makes pretty fun games, simple and maybe even "slopy" but fun.
It's the main reason i got this one, because i knew that i'd have a good time with it.

>Obtained by climbing 50m without touching the ground
whats the easiest way to do this?

>>715428521
lollipop should do it I think

>>715428521
Eat a lollipop or drink an energy drink and climb up the side in Kiln.

>>715427961
You can climb solo. It's a different experience, there's pros and cons.
>You don't need to share items
>You can climb at your own pace
>You can work towards any badges you want
>Scoutmaster Myers will never punish you
>You get guaranteed mystic items every biome because you can't die without the run ending
but
>You can't use buddy actions like boosting and helping up
>You can't huddle for warmth
>Any deaths are permanent, you can't rely on a friend to save you
>Scoutmaster Myers will never appear, so you can't get his badge
>You can't get any co-op badges
>You can't laugh at your friends' comedic and stupid deaths

>>715428521
Lolipop, energy drink, and a bit of extra stamina incase it runs out early, also those massive trees at jungle are a pretty good spot to try this, you can even get 2 achievments at once if you dont have the other one already.

Also for Bookworm you can only get some journal entries from certain biomes, so if a day's seed spawns some scrolls at early camps and you have all the pages that can appear in that biome already take the scroll to another biome before opening it to get different pages. I took a page from the end of Tropics all the way to the Kiln campfire before opening it to get page 8 and get the badge.

>friendslop
let's just speedrun the cringe buzzword emergence for the next 50 years. They can be any concept. I'll start with my submissions.
>thubglom
>meeberts
>kimpcunts
>gorxers
Just apply these to whatever attributable trend they are best suited either to describe the action or axiom of thought, or of the individual associated.

>>715375170
This is incredibly sad.
I thought you guys were just larping as friendless incels.

>>715375502
based friends

>>715422585
Carry a piton on you for those climbs in case it doesn't work out, you can either keep trying or use it to rest to slide back down. You can also use items while resting on a piton.

>>715393143
lol you like the tranny flag game

>>715428521
If you find long upwards vine and are suicidal it's pretty easy. Just go it all the way up until you run out of stamina.

do the mushrooms change each run or is there a simple way to get the mushroom hat

>>715430986
Mushroom locations are set each run but whether they're poisonous or safe is randomized. Chubby mushrooms are always safe. There's a statue behind the peak that may hold a button shroom in case you can't find any.

>>715430986
Mushrooms always remain the same
Off the top of my head
- Bugle has NO fins on the stem
- Button has a big X on the top
- Cluster has NO additional growths on the stem
- Chubby is always safe

>>715396494
I wouldn't classify It Takes Two as friendslop. It's just a (mandatory) coop platformer.

Friendslop games are relatively low-budget titles that usually share some (maybe not all) of the following characteristics:
>proximity-based voice chat
>wacky physics
>simple controls and a simple objective
>RNG-heavy
>becomes unfun or boring quickly if anyone takes it seriously
>low-fidelity graphics, very toaster-friendly
>vaguely or overtly horror themed
>basically not worth your time if you don't have a group to play it with already

friendslop game examples
>Lethal Company
>Content Warning
>Peak
>REPO
>Among Us

>>715408638
Actual roguelike that happens to support 4-player coop. Has a pretty steep learning curve but has ton of variety when you really start dissecting it.

game had some funny moments but after 5 hours i got bored. lethal, repo and other friendslop were far better imo

>"hey anon have you heard about PEAK?"
>"nope"
>"it's a cool game, let's buy it and play together!"
>play it once for a couple hours, have some fun
>one week later
>"hey do you guys want to play PEAK again?"
>"nah sorry anon, we don't really feel like it"
this was two weeks ago

do not blame the friendslop: blame the friend who slops and fails to follow through

>>715373490
probably means games only fun with friends, like among us and fall guys

>>715411853
It really depends on how many poison bomb pustules spawn, and how they are positioned.
Here's how I'd rank the difficulty:
>Ice mountain
>Jungle mountain
>Kiln
>Beach mountain
>Cladera

>>715373490
>9 different definitions in 12 replies
AKA it's a word used for anything OP doesn't get to enjoy

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>>715372251 (OP)
none of my friends play 4 dollar kusoge I'm going to have to become a variety streamer to find people to play with.

>>715431626
>>becomes unfun or boring quickly if anyone takes it seriously
yes if it gets to a point where you are playing for high scores, speedruns, or leaderboards in general it gets lame, but if nobody actually tries to win the game (or level) then it gets boring way faster

>>715373490
Friendslop = co-op multiplayer typically in teams of 4 that include horror elements
It's slop because it's always the exact same formula

>>715418821
At ascent 7 lolipop+energy drink is king shit.

>>715391770
White Knuckle, Cairn, and Peaks of Yore are all better climbing games, but you play this to fuck about with friends, the climbing just gives you a goal to work towards.

>>715428650
Ascent 5+ is basically mandatory to have at least 1 extra person to avoid freezing during nights. Yeah you get a lantern but that usually runs out long before you reach Caldera, and the odds of finding another are exceedingly rare.

>>715428650
>Scoutmaster Myers will never appear, so you can't get his badge
There's actually an item that summons him in solo play, but it's very rare.

>>715410009
It's a quarter of the price, no one would've bought peak if it was $30

>>715428521
I got it by climbing a vine then leaping to a rope I shot up to get even higher.

You bought PEAK to climb mountains with friends.
I bought PEAK to look up the skirts of 8 year olds as they climb.
We are not the same.

Could your friends, who could be baited into playing games with (you), be baited into playing a game a year after its release, just because game's fun? If no, then game's slop. That simple.

>>715436462
>but you play this to fuck about with friends
Yes, that is called friendslop. The game doesn't have much to offer other than allowing you to fuck around.

>game that is designed to play with friends
>hated on /v/

>>715439551
I never said it wasn't. If you want a proper technical climbing game there's Cairn, everything else leans more towards platforming.