Thread 536191668

Denied edition

What 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.

>Recommendations
https://pastebin.com/ZbG0JPSn

>Booru
https://indiegame.booru.org/

>Steam Group
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/indiegamesgeneral

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>Previous Thread
>>535079695

The """fog""".

>normal thread
thank 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.

>>536192205
Speaking of normal, how fucked up is the steam group?

>>536192364
Dead as a doornail.

>>536191668 (OP)
i 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

>>536192950
Furries get the rope.

You don't own your Steam games

>>536193089
Worse, you don't own your bank account.

>>536193074
well, 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

>>536193181
You 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 shit
Lol. 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.

>>536193878
Oops forgot picture of my blogpost.

>>536191668 (OP)
baba is noita?!?

>>536193878
>>furries are so destructive that they can't have civilized conversation about their own shit
i 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

>>536195106
Then 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.

>>536195293
I 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.

>>536195293
this place was this very general

>>536195478
Well? Are the geese weapons any good?

>>536197216
No, 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.

>>536197716
unrucky

>>536197716
God 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.

>>536195293
i 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 September
give me a fuckign break

>>536204061
>2026
It'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.

>>536195106
Don'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.

>>536199418
It's a shame, the demo was really promising (except for this fucking retarded combat system)

>>536208684
you will probably have more luck asking around in the /vst/ starsector thread, much more mod autists there

>>536214348
Well 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.

>>536220410
Probably because humans in real life aren't persistence predators.

>>536222164
humans 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.

>>536213078
The combat killed my interest, it felt tacked on and tedious to get through

Why were all posts in the previous thread deleted?

>>536225642
db glitch or a bug in the 4chan internal archiver

>>536223810
And 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.

>>536220410
because most gamedevs are hacks
you're not going to see animals with reasonable stamina/regen values unless it is a core gameplay feature

>>536229691
I'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

>>536230685
Nope. Welcome to X Shooters. Zombie Shooter is the same, sadly.

>>536230685
which alien shooter is this?

>>536233791
2 Reloaded with a widescreen mod

>>536220410
Because 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

>>536242046
In 2 weeks before release?

Idk which one looks more unappealing between The Outer Worlds 2 and VTMB2

>>536247470
VTMB2 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 DLC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HVhgC9k3c4

>>536249203
Had 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 :/

>>536242046
I would be in awe of the aussie shitposting spirit.

>>536230364
Yeah, 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.

>>536256089
Ooh, that's why. Ports always suck, do they?

>>536249203
wow, the it's great
i'd say on the same level as the base game, but a little bit different
it'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 skirmish
i 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".

>>536258450
post them

>>536258628
this 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.

>>536259303
thats rough

>>536260347
know what else is rough?

>>536260468
Your mom?

>>536260547
Stalin.

>>536260347
thanks 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.

>>536208684
The 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.

>>536264287
nice

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.

>>536272109
Skong?

>>536249203
they 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.

>>536274990
Reads 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.

>>536277410
I 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.

>>536274990
its so over, anon

>>536277898
For 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 Shield
I've played Nova Drift before and I've never seen the player ship in that color.

Some new shield in the new versions?

>>536224621
Ah, Wild Card! Your bond has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you the ultimate form of my Arcana.

>>536277701
Self contained levels with some small story and limited weapons, items and characters.

>>536278212
And finally for tonight, my nuclear power fuel problems solved until the literal fucking heat death of the universe.

Sseth made me do it.

>>536288045
that's a big 9 year old

>>536288257
for you

>>536285751
>6 slots assembly 3
>4 slots centrifuge
>Rare+
>Epic cross
>Legendary cross
What 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 Girl
Well, never a choice was so easy to make.

>>536289569
Your 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.

>>536289717
She is. The Little Girl is 12yo and I'm 9yo.

I need more "replace monster with cute monster girl" mod.

This
will not be fun

The pinnacle of Federation military might, vs an ancient god of chaos made whole
This is gonna suck.

>12 days for taxes
>taxes are 500 oren
Gonna finish sowing this field for the blue haired dude and then go questing for money.

>>536299726
a worm named... jack...

>>536298495
>her

>>536303584
She has a good fight theme tho

>>536191668 (OP)
I 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

>>536315923
Mod 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

>>536315923
The 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.

>>536309948
okay 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 Planet
One 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 understand
prod bonus is applied to the net output from a given recipe, not the gross output
the 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

>>536324050
Alright 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

>>536274990
i 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

>>536275510
It gets harder as you go on.

>>536325231
nta, 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.

>>536333846
get 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

>>536335434
The girl is cute though.

>recieve boxes with literal shit
>free storage

>>536334716
>get enough furniture tickets and just grab the tax box bro
Didn'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 week
IndieMMObros we eating good

Damn. Reading Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea really makes me want to dive back into Sunless Sea

>>536280414
It's AMP - boosts damage when next to enemies, but has a huge hp penalty

>>536345242
For me, it's the Mysterious Island. It's why I love survival games.

>>536211023
well, bad news
gunsaw is on an "indefinite hiatus" and went open source
i doubt scav will ever be finished too

>>536345868
>Mysterious Island
I'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

>>536293504
Pretty sure that's already a thing actually. Couldn't tell you where to get it though.

>>536350349
This was painful to watch.

Once more into the Unterzee
Didn'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 access
is it good?
anything else like it?

>>536352984
Never heard of Elona bro? It's a classic.

>>536353648
n-no...

>>536340213
Why?
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.

>>536346139
Mysterious 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 other

Thanks 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.

>>536345242
death to all sperm whales

>>536356764
>Subnautice is fun, but only the first time
That'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
>>536356879
Ironically 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.

>>536346139
They 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 ship
Shortest 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 game
Yes, 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.
>>536357538
I'll put it on my wishlist, thanks

>>536357157
>vagrus
looks good, thanks for the rec. moby dick made me almost want to go to church, if only all preachers were cool like that one.

>>536329529
Yeah, 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.

>>536363871
FINE
What the fuck is this game and why are you sometimes just stopping in place, and sometimes flying off?

>>536354585
Because we don't get to beat her ass.
She's right there.
Her nail is right there.
Can I make it any more obvious?

>>536372297
These are the four elements. It says
WATER
EARTH (or DIRT)
FIRE
AIR

>>536372412
I made that back in 2005

>>536372412
no way

>>536372769
Thank you I hate this, it makes me very, very uneasy.

Oh no, cat girls!

>>536191668 (OP)
I haven't played ROR2 since the great gearboxening
is 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.

>>536383658
is 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 - great
Alvora Tactics - meh
Horizon's Gate - great
Kingsvein - meh
Soo the next game is gonna make rad codex great again.

>>536383658
This 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 25
I got scammed.

>>536384893
Tametsi

>>536352065
zee story is kind of just go play the game and get stuff
it's better than the money one at least

>>536388809
Yeah that does sound kinda lame. maybe I'll pivot towards the Kingdom ambition or I believe Zubmariner also introduces some sort of ending
>>536375436
When 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

>>536389768
Zubmariner does give an ending that'll reward with a minor legacy bonus for future captains.

Started a new playthrough
going wind/holy, not sure about the rest of the party yet.

>>536357468
Too 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.

>>536390501
I have never once picked holy and never will.

>>536392278
Im told its OP
And usually if an enemy has holy they just nuke you.

>>536375436
Seekers 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.

>>536393203
the 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

>>536395005
Why not, it's a good time

>>536395005
it's a good video game

An energy crystal has been found!

>>536395368
>>536395984
Yeah u right I just wondered if I should play it now in the wake of Silksong or wait till I'm more in the mood
From what I know it's a fairly big game and a timesink

>>536395005
It's a fun game

>>536396903
In 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 happen
Good 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 help
I 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.

>>536396992
based

>>536385114
Maybe it's in month?

Gave a free 3d platformer a steamie thumbs down and got 3 angry spergs on my review in 1 day.

>>536229691
I heard this is the most mid shantae game yet because it is just a gba game.

>>536419703
what 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.

>>536424131
Are 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/

>>536424131
Stalker Anomaly

>>536401812
The 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.

>>536427186
I 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.

>>536424131
Not 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

>>536429896
Pretty sure it's a 'pay what you want' kind of deal.

>>536429129
The 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...

>>536431271
I 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".

>>536424131
Wolfenstein: 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.

>>536430654
Nta but huh, I was sure it was like 10 or 15 bucks, maybe im mixing it up with some similar game?

>>536439876
It'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?

>>536445187
Googled it real quick, it's a tower defense? Now I'm confused too.

>>536445187
You 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.

>>536446463
And arrows and spears too.
Same with Minecraft.

i'm looking for indie games on steam to get smarter

i played you see those games, now lets see you beat them, i played all 3, what else do you guys recommend?

>>536447840
BABA IS YOU

>>536427918
Thank you anon
I'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 sentiments

But yeah I'm between Cuphead and Hollow Knight. Not sure which.

>>536249203
>>536258024
Just 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.

>>536447840
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

>>536449201
I'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 balls
God dammit

>>536450042
I 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.

>>536447840
Let'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

>>536448230
the map is so huge, but you can go so fast
360kph is your average traversal speed
i really like the movement

>>536452000
FtD 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.

>>536394717
Same 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.

>>536452635
Games 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.

>>536447840
Kerbal Space Program
Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic
Vintage Story

any good desert games?
big fan of sand

>>536447840
Factorio is unironically recommended for certain job types to teach you to be better and logistical management and throughput if that counts.

>>536455378
Certain 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

>>536461052
MGSV

>>536461052
Kenshi, it's better as a solo or duo character unless you boost the XP rates in the games modding kit, watch a few tutorials too

imo, 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

>>536461052
Highfleet

>find a cool game, genuinely want to play
>play it
>insanely complicated and like nothing I've played before

Is 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.

>>536277410
Finished. Now need to buy all characters, finish the other adventures and get two forms for Diva. Will leave it for now.
>>536383068
Who is your waifu. Fav song?
>>536384893
>any other good puzzle games?
Laser tank. Its free.
>>536396295
Praise Kane

>>536463734
you're overthinking it
just try it and if its too hard to get into and you aren't having fun learning drop it

>>536463734
why you don't enjoy challenge, anon...?

>>536403712
Don't forget that reading all of them increases your hidden knowledge stat.

>>536464530
>challenge
holy 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.

>>536463734
Say what game faggot. Chances are someone else here has played it.

>>536449201
>>536449337
I'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.

>>536194223
babe is everything
>>536191668 (OP)
why was the last the last thread nuked completely, all posts deleted?

>>536452000
>Games are casual entertainment for the masses
This 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.

>>536275510
It has what is quite possibly one of the hardest final bosses of all time, at least out of games that I've ever played.

>>536450042
What the shit.

>>536424131
Cry of Fear and Fistful of Frags.

>>536424131
Lily'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

>>536424131
But anon, all games are free.

Archolos probably has the highest production values among free total conversion mods.

>>536424131
Cursed Trilogy

>>536424131
>endless sky
Naev is better.

>>536478138
What's the process for pirating world of warcraft like?

>>536478542
Playing on private servers

>>536478375
Cringe.

>>536478240
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJyUyF3ky90
Probably for the best given how many songs it steals.

I need to overcome my hoarding habit

>oh sweet, metal greaves that are going to be hard to sell and weigh 7, that could be worth a few coins
>low value electronic parts that will totally sit on my locker for the rest of the game? oh well, they only weight around 0.25 each, its totally okay to carry 20 of them back from scavenging

>>536424131
The Roottrees are Dead, on itch, can play on browser even

Heng.

Heck.

>>536461052
Vagrus

>>536285751
I may be the slowest man alive, but I am finally on my way to Fulgora, no more excuses.

>>536490450
Hmmmm. I need to reduce my ship speed.

>>536490717
Amplify FA, fuck off to >>>/egg/

>>536490840
No, 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.

>>536490840
Factorio is an indie game.

Well just open the gates to the gacha gooners while you're at it

>>536191668 (OP)
That pastebin seems really limited.

>>536493978
No it's not.

>>536464713
Its not particularly hidden since you can check it in the warp room.

>>536497595
How is it not?

>>536497595
Have you got one of those flowcharts like /rlg/ always post, to illustrate your argument?

>>536502642
Yes.

>>536504194
Insufficient. Not nearly autistic enough, contains no logical reasoning. Do better.

>>536504194
Factorio is an idle game

>>536504441
Here.

>>536504656
are you ok?

>>536504656
It'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

>>536504656
You angered him. Hit too close to home, I guess.

I'm confused. I found a realm in Abiotic Factor, but there's nothing here.

>>536509667
I think it's just a place to build a base if you're a weeb

>>536509667
Its a bonus if you got the game in EA I think, its just a safe base location with some small secret.

>>536490840
Calm down bwo.

>>536510257
>>536511773
I'm as much as a weeb as pic related, so...

>>536513620
It 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.

>>536516754
What are the others like?

>>536424131
Space Station 13 and 14

Both 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.

>>536519851
I 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

>>536519851
I 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.

>>536497595
That's a weird hill to die on.

>>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.

>>536519383
One 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.

>>536520028
Based 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 field
NO NO NO NO NO

>>536523260
Touch grass, anon.

>>536490717
Sometimes my genius, it scares me.

I'm playing Legend of Grimrock 2 again.
Some of these modded campaigns are fun.

>>536526475
It was fun until you revealed you were playing with cheat mods

>>536526590
I 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.

>>536527086
You 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.

>>536526513
Define fun.

>>536526590
Amplify cheated?
I'm disappointed.

>>536528910
>Define fun.
Exploration, combat, puzzle. If you liked that in vanilla, you'll love it some of the mods.

>>536528909
Cheats make the game easier and / or faster. If it does neither, it's not a cheat.

>>536529539
Legendary 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" gained
Only 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
>>536461052
Seconding 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.

>>536533095
Without 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.

>>536535941
Ark 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

>>536535616
I stopped replying, someone else took my place or he setup an easy strawman for himself

Never played Factorio.
>>536533095
>>536535941
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. 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.
>>536532051
Factorio 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.
>>536424131
Star 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 disappointing
i wanted a timesink to bridge the time until silksong but after 13 hours i'm completely done with everything
the games main currency gets completely useless after like 6 hours, balance is wack, there's an elemental system that barely matters
obvious that ubisoft forced them to finally release the game but looking at the patchnotes the devs are kinda retarded

i thought dead cells was supposed to be a good game how did they fuck up so much

finished the excavation of hob's barrow. nice little game. i enjoyed the uncanny animations.

>>536539692
>>536543927
Oh, 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 Twin

Whats 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.

>>536550247
Funny, that's one of the few things it does better than TFC. Maybe you'd like TFC better?

>>536550247
I 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.

>>536550247
Agreed. So annoying, gotta get through all this rock to get what you want.

GASP

>HEYA
Fucking jumpscare lady.

>>536557783
First time I played 1.0 I nearly cloberred her because I didnt knew they had added travelling merchants.

>>536559562
Same.
Also, that cookbook? Just cosmetic.

>>536562141
Actually it increases your cooking XP when near it.

>everything goes well
>radioactive cloud says hi
FUCK

IF YOU WANTED TO FUCK OFF AND LET ME CRAP IN PEACE

>>536563639
Is 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.

>>536563940
I'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.

>>536563940
NTA but I went through it fine solo. Have to tweak the enemy respawn rate, but it's absolutely playable.

>>536563940
Some 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.

>>536563940
It 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 friends
HAHAHAHAHAHA

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 you
What do?

>>536566068
Trade for her veggies.

>>536526513
Just 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!

>>536570158
You know me so well!
I'm here to find new games, not discuss the same one ad-infinitum

>>536566068
Panic. She's a WOMAN.

>>536544442
Are 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 devs
They'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 games
Same. 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-infinitum
New players pick up a game mentioned in previous posts, and the discussion continues. That's what the thread is for.

>>536532051
Who cares that he's cheating in a single player game?
>>536548158
It's simply "assembling machine 3" it's not a mk3. The only things using the mark appellation are equipments.

>>536532051
Just 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.

>>536570478
This guy thinks he's in /r9k/ lol

>>536462758
>MGSV+ Infinite Heaven mod

Ftfy
But 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.

>>536574065
Without 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 bomb

Lel

>>536574552
>Infinite Heaven mod
?

>>536574732
Its 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.

>>536191668 (OP)
why are the gods an gay though?

>>536570478
this is a videogame discussion general, not a release radar board
i 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 exceptions
and
they 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 parralel
another 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

>>536575647
They seen their stevari get wrecked by a phallic statue and got curious about the ordeal.

>>536575647
RULES:
WORM IS MOVE

finished echo point nova DLC
it'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 armour
and your space platforms
and 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 platforms
Quality 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?

>>536569256
lol newfag

10 more days.

>>536592906
anon 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

>>536599390
Are you saying all mods cheating by default? Because that seems to be your argument.

>>536602263
>that seems to be your argument
I 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

>>536603482
Then 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.

>>536604607
Him 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 beacons
And 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 nauvis
I 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 definition
but 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 animation
Curious to see what happens.
>>536478240
How hard is this?

>>536606250
I 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.

>>536582387
Nethack

>>536597175
Wait what?
When I heard September I assumed it was way off...where did all the year go?

>>536606595
NTA, 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.
>>536471962
Looks interesting, how long is this game?

>>536622447
Apparently just a few hours at worst.

>feel the urge to play paradox games again
god give me strength

>Daymare Town is also coming out in September
holy 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
>>536597175
I've been staying away from every silksong
The 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 ago
Same 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

>>536629669
Daymare Town always spooked me...

>>536622447
Well the people who think that a mod to unlock cosmetics early is cheating, are fucking retarded.

>>536592906
Man, 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.

>>536636894
cringe

>>536636894
> 20x22
Jesus 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 legendary
Ignoring 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.

>>536642323
Unironically, 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.

>>536643697
yep, very silly. basically rare+ is original legendary. and with that i lost all interest in your blog.

>>536644149
Thankfully 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.

>>536617293
Best way to play nethack? How would you compare it to dcss?

>>536632036
>people who think that
I'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-r420
Something interesting?

>>536647967
>non autistic
Hard disagree.

>>536649292
MOAR BOATS

I found a weirdo in a coffin.

>>536645293
DCSS 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 GAME
FUCK YOU SILKSONG

>>536653581
One 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 recently
It's awful how good games get buried by a literal tsunami of shovelwares on Steam

>>536636894
You 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 amount
how exactly the heating changes the food is pretty complex but not really important for the question of how ovens work

>>536663087
I 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.

>>536662761
looks neat.

This is what makes Swiss indie devs hard

>>536669059
I'd play it.

>>536669059
AwSW sequel looking good

>>536660882
>such a big deal that other games are getting delayed just to avoid being released in the same quarter with it
Brutal

~Wooaahh~ We're half way there...
>>536384893
Damn anon, you work quick. This game might be a new favorite, getting at least a 9/10 from me.

>>536671162
my brain is too smooth

>>536660882
>delay your release
>it's gonna flop anyway looking at the steampage
can't blame silksong then lmao

>>536424131
Ashes 2046

>>536673694
Why do you play games in french? As a fellow frog I play all my games in english and it's just better.

>>536673828
Parce 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.

>>536662801
There's also the shit that stops belts moving you which is 1x1, but yeah.

>>536674143
lol why do you even post here then there's french subredd*ts and shit

>>536674643
Because 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.

>>536662761
Oh 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.

>>536674143
If those are your concerns then the english should be the least of your worries right now.

>>536663161
While 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.

>>536676772
Do 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 worse

its not worse, you don't make the game harder by unlocking overpowered stuff

>>536676710
Butchering 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.

>>536677161
I'm winging it so far. Maybe I'm not the most efficient player but it works so far.

>>536673828
Because he's a socially dead attention whore.
>>536674143
When are you killing yourself?

>>536679897
After Trump is hanged for treason against the state.

>>536681653
why would trump be hanged for that

>>536663517
This game seems like it could be fun but I can't stomach the pseudo RPG make artstyle.

>>536683258
it's treason then

>446 posts
>3 and and a half days old
we get any new people here or is the thread just more active then usual? It's good to see it active either way though

>>536677813
There 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

>>536681653
God its so cringy seeing peoples from across the sea talk about american politics as if they had any idea what was happening there. The truth is you're getting fed a load of horseshit and Trump is just the scapegoat, ie the tariffs that MSM constantly screech about? It actually affect only specific produces of certain categories, mostly tertiary industry stuff that werent even manufactured in the USA but imported by resellers, not every single imported produce. Only exceptions are some primary industry stuff like certain types of grain and cattle, which only help to improve the domestic production of crops (and eventually lower price once the supply is able to meet the demand) as it give a monetary incentive to do so for local producers.

Hell you probably never opened the freaking document that specifically state which produce is to be tariffed, despite it being publicly available.

>Inb4 ad hom about how im a murican trumpist or whatnot

Im canadian

>>536688582
you 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.

>>536689607
second frog here, you assume that trump being a complete retard has no impact on other countries which is unfortunately very wrong
at best, the man should be doing stand up in a mental institution, as a patient

>>536689607
Because he's a retard. He thinks only foreigners hate doritos man.

>>536692497
maybe 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 patient
he 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/

>>536695704
yiff in hell

lol

Zis kind of extremist political discussion is not conductive to maintaining ze price stabilité...
>>536684013
Anticipation for you know what.

>>536696929
>you know what
I wanna know

>>536696929
Weekends are always more active + we've got a few blogposters for different games now
Silksong is barely mentioned

I am surprised anyone still cares about silksong, HK was been released in 2017

>>536697598
the story of the game never coming out is more interesting than hollow knight itself

>>536650214
Are 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.

https://progchad.itch.io/pixurbia

https://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.

>>536674143
Look at this fucking clown

>>536674143
>shitposting frog is schizo
No surprise there.

>>536674143
The post that angered a lot of Br*tish.

>>536676772
Unless 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 portrait
I don't have those when talking to him. Is it an affinity thing?

>>536677161
You 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 cool
There'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.

>>536726929
You could try replaying a couple of times, you probably missed a couple of stuff.
>It is pretty short, one more level would have been cool
There'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 cool
Yeah 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

>>536651457
You're ruining his morality gains bro.

>>536674143
Based french
>t. italian

ACK

>>536674143
French translation is dogshit most of the time, you can tell it's translated from english regardless of the original language.

>>536663517
stuff 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.

>>536674643
Nta. 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.

>>536760724
You 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?

>>536764339
Anyone interested in the 2.0 could play it since july.

>being on sick leave
>not in the mood to play games
what's even the point? I'd go outside but I feel too shitty to do that

>>536748931
Good, fuck that guy.

>>536764339
I 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.

>>536789497
It 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.

>>536791894
there's some story stuff about the first empire iirc but thats more lore than a plot yeah

>>536789497
I 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

>>536792474
Yeah, 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.

>>536793117
this is the first I'm hearing of the stalker thing and it sounds like a shame it got canned
was this going to be the idea for the newest one?

>>536792808
Anon, 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.

>>536792474
The 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 Outward
Outward 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.

>>536794879
I 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

>>536802346
hooray

>>536802584
i 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 ost
Cool

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.

>>536750085
Hi, 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
>Nancy
no, 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.

>>536716582
Based.

>>536720471
are 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.

>>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.

>>536846257
Rain World, I remember being stuck in Moon's underhang as Spearmaster for hours, but I didnt mind, it was still my favorite campaign.

>>536846257
has to be cogmind core-only propulsion challenge
forces 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 limited
ended 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 needed
took me eight 3+ hour long attempts

>>536846257
Boshy

I'm gonna say it
The level design for UT04 is a lot better than UT99, especially the team-based ones

>>536820626
full campaign never ever

https://june-flower.itch.io/elbe
New 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."

>>536846257
I 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.

>>536855998
I beat Metroid Prime 1 and 2 on the secret Hard mode.

>>536856775
MP2 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.

>>536846257
Probably 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 lol
https://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

>>536815698
Okay, 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

>>536861281
Its probably going to be more expensive.

>pic
Honestly, 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 SilkSong

But 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?

>>536867686
Just 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.

>>536866729
Ohhhh Zanzibug....forgiveth me...

>>536864030
The 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.

>>536846257
Brutal 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.

>>536859883
Wait 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 egg

Kinda 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?

>>536636894
Glad 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 selections
What 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 this
I 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.

>>536889095
The problem is that the modern normal mode is typically just an easy mode and the mode actually named easy is braindead retard mode.

>>536889840
No, 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

>>536895396
so much for adventure

>>536897671
>non-binary
>died
like pottery

>>536855793
Man fuck me, I vibed with the setting and exploring and all but then I died of starvation. Instant turn off mechanic.

>>536883691
There 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 hard
They 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

>>536900160
How 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.

>>536904615
it's just a warehouse section, game is usually not that dark

>>536873581
There'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 london
god I hate this timeline