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Sanctus, do games w Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy
@Sanctus@anarchist.nexus avatar

Saving this post. I have never played but want to. Might check it out for real now.

TheSpaceEngineer,
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I’ll tell you, the original game is just okay. It’s kind of fun, but it never really drew me in… The big wildcard here is the mod scene. Mods like Frackin’ Universe (which we are running) turn a game that holds most people’s attention for a few hours into a game that’s highly addictive, which tends to span for months on end.

Our last season was expected to run for a few weeks (that’s how long we lasted with the non-modded server). Instead, it ran something like 4-5 months. And most of us put hundreds of hours into it.

So, if you check it out, be sure to check out mods like Frackin’ Universe along with the core game. I don’t think it’s inaccurate to say that Frackin alone adds many times more content than the original game serves up.

It’s the perfect game for Lemmy in that respect. It’s all about free contributions (mods) from the community. They basically saw potential in a base game, and decided to create hundreds of hours of content for the entire community to enjoy. Very inspiring stuff in a somewhat darkening time in human history.

TheSpaceEngineer,
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Oh, and the game is only $5-6 if you get a cd key! Be careful when using these services, but I’ve yet to be ripped off after buying dozens of games this way.

allkeyshop.com/…/buy-starbound-cd-key-compare-pri…
(this is an aggregate, I have used Kinguin with success which is on this list at $6 right now.)

Lost_My_Mind,

Nah. This is a chucklefish game. Best to just give chucklefish all of the $15 they charge. They’re worth it.

Also, check out wargroove!

bunnyBoy,

Wargroove was great! I saw a lot of people didn’t like the second one as much though. Do you have any experience in the sequel?

Lost_My_Mind,

I never got around to playing the sequal. I get like 20 minutes of freetime a week these days.

TheSpaceEngineer,
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Fair enough! I put the cdkey information out there for those that can’t afford the full $15 price tag. It’s been a hard year for a lot of people, so I always try to be sensitive to that. I think I paid $10 back in the beta myself.

taaz,

weren’t chucklefish the ones that strangled this game in the first place?
now take thus with a big chunk of salt, I do not remember at all if this is any true but feel like I read it somewhere

TheSpaceEngineer, do games w Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy
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Hopefully this doesn’t count as excessive self-promotion. This is actually largely a very single-player oriented game, and as such we don’t need additional players to enjoy it by any means… this said, I thought it would be really neat to connect with other Lemmy folks and bond over Starbound!

Our group primarily uses Discord to communicate (I know, it’s a terrible platform, but it’s really hard to replace when you’re trying to keep gamers connected to one another). It’s a very active discord - we chat every single day with one another in it. It’s been a hot minute since we’ve advertised a new server, what with the country and the world being so chaotic and negative lately… but I believe distractions like Starbound can be really important!

I hope a few folks check us out. It’s a great group of people, and we enjoy some really fun games together on a regular basis.

SnotFlickerman,

Got a list of the mods used or does the client automatically download the required mods when connecting? Like others here I dropped it shortly after the 1.0 release and finishing the game rather quickly.

moncharleskey,

There is a mod list on their website.

t3rmit3, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?

One thing I recommend for horror games is to play with a friend (i.e. in the same room). You can even figure out a way to do old-school controller-swapping (for a VN, maybe each chapter, or after a fixed time interval e.g. every 10 minutes). My partner is a huge horror buff, but also has a hard time with the longer periods of stress that horror games impart vs movies, so we play games this way.

flamiera, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

When I want to quit your game, I mean it.

I do not want to be prompted several times as attempts to keep me in the game when I just want to leave.

octobob,

I just mash mod key + backspace on hyprland to kill it haha. Bye mfer!

But also sometimes lately hyprland hasn’t been playing as nice with steam games and my mouse doesn’t interact with the game. The fix I found is to fling the steam client over to the other monitor. Works I guess. Linux problems lol.

VindictiveJudge,
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Relatedly, I’ve noticed ports of console games, particularly by Japanese devs, and especially Sqeenix, not actually having an option to quit to desktop. Sometimes hitting Esc will pop a plain system theme window with an option to close the program, but I’ve seen ones that didn’t even have that and had to be killed externally. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but even exiting DragonQuest 11 is a pain.

Kolanaki,
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This is also hella common in a lot of online or multiplayer live service games recently. Forces you to alt-F4 if on PC. Especially bad with Sony’s playstation ports; they treat it like you’re on the PS5 and can just switch games to automatically close the running one.

Krudler,

I just want to let you know that when I was director of production at a multimedia studio, one of the rules in my ux design “bible” was that an interface must never present an “are you sure” prompt to a Quit action. Yes there were fights over it.

tal,

Historically, it was conventional to have a “you have unsaved work” in a typical GUI application if you chose to quit, since otherwise, quit was a destructive action without confirmation.

Unless video games save on exit, you typically always have “unsaved work” in a video game, so I sort of understand where many video game devs are coming from if they’re trying to implement analogous behavior.

Krudler,

That’s a save changes? prompt, not an are you sure? prompt.

IronBird,

might sharing that, i had kinda started my own recently but curious if i missed anything obvious

SCmSTR,

Games that honor alt-f4 INSTANTLY are amazing

Ephera,

There’s a roguelike I play, which combats save-scumming by only giving one save slot per character. And so the only reason to save the game, is when you’re done playing. So, you hit Ctrl+S to save, and it instantly quits as well. 🙃

SCmSTR,

Which is interesting, because at least for me, the main reason I try to save often like that is because of games like bethesda games or other games that don’t autosave and will crash, losing you HUGE amounts of progress.

Ephera,

Ah yeah, it does auto-save regularly, too. But I don’t think, I’ve ever seen it crash without me doing some out-of-game fuckery. 🙃

Well, and of course, losing progress is baked into the gameplay of a roguelike, so whether your savegame corrupts or you die yet another stupid death, you just start another run and you’re right back into the action.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Hopefully you never accidentally click the Quit button when you didnt mean to, lol

taiyang, do gaming w 8GB ram, now only €200!!

I’m so glad my mobo died last year so I got new one with new DDR5 ram before this happened. It’s like a good example for bad things not always being so bad after all.

tynansdtm, do games w A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd

Neat! I’ve signed up!

Anissem,
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Look forward to seeing you there!

JandroDelSol, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

separe audio settings for bgm, sound effects, etc

Areldyb, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?

The game may not be for you, and that’s okay.

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?

If you’re triggered easily, I’m not sure if the game is a good fit for you as it does delve into some deeper, more serious topics.

The only other thing I could think of to try and resolve this issue would be to purposely spoil the plot of the game for yourself by reading summaries in advance and then make the judgement call on whether or not you believe you can handle the subject matter?

Katana314, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)
  1. Developers should spend effort vouching for a launch without startup logos. Even if supporting libraries/publishers are credited some other way, startup movies take up a lot of time when gamers launch the game many times.
  2. Trails in the Sky has a feature where you can choose to launch the game directly into your most recent save game rather than ending up at the menus. This would be a boon for many singleplayer games, especially those with densely animated menus.
orenj, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Silly Mode, ofc

Skyline969, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?
@Skyline969@lemmy.ca avatar

You don’t.

PonyOfWar, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?

Why do you want to get into a horror game in the first place, if you don’t handle horror games well? I don’t see how that could work, as shocking and horrifying the player is kind of the whole point of the game.

TehPers,

This. Games don’t need to be for everyone’s tastes, and often aren’t.

If the story is interesting, then consider watching a playthrough instead.

muhyb,

It also depends on the game too. I’m one of those people who hate horror tag to the guts but there are a couple games I was able to play and DDLC was one of them (The other was Neverending Nightmares).

Currently evaluating to play Needy Streamer Overload but my friends say don’t. :)

TehPers,

My partner played Needy Streamer Overload and loved it lol. Not sure what that means for you, but I guess any game’s worth the two hour demo that Steam gives you at least.

muhyb,

I might like it if it’s kinda similar to DDLC as in horror aspect. According to HLTB, one playthrough is ~2 hours, so probably won’t go that way, since I succeeded to stayed spoiler-free until now.

For some reason, I don’t see psychological horror as pure horror. At least I can tolerate it at some point, most likely not all though. :)

soulsource,
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shocking and horrifying the player is kind of the whole point of the game

I disagree on the “shocking” part here. DDLC is psychological horror. It does have shocking moments, like the end of Act 1, but this is not the main point. It is way more about relationships than about shock moments. Sadly discussing that part of the game (the later acts…) is massive spoiler territory, so I’ll stop here.

The fact remains though, that it is a horror game, and if the end of Act 1 is already too much, then sorry, but it is only going to get worse. A lot worse. (Or, if you enjoy psychological horror: Better. A lot better.)

_spiffy, do games w A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd
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I joined recently and it’s been a nice and friendly place.

Anissem,
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Thanks so much! Hoping we can get some more great new members!

smh, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Please let me invert y-axis for games where I control the field of view. Nothing takes me out of a game like suddenly staring at my feet when I try to look up.

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

And x-axis, just to be thorough. Especially for third person games since they still can’t all agree on what the default should be.

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