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espiritu_p, do gaming w Backpack Battles: business model i haven't seen since Minecraft, and it seems to be working?

Thanks for suggestion. I checked the trailer, but I don't think it's worth for me to try the demo. It's just not my type of game.

I myself addded 3 games to my wishlist after checking out the demos on steam this year. First one was manor lords back in march. then came Pagonia and enshrouded in october.
I am sure that releasing demo versions of games can make a difference. Many studios lack the financial power do do months-long marketing campains. Many players are even bored by such campains are are more impressed when they can get their hands on an upcoming title instead of having to watch the same trailer 50 times on youtube or in commercial TV. Many gamers do even avoid platforms as twitch or tiktok, and can't be reached by avldvertising via this platforms.

BenadrylChunderHatch, do games w Looking for a survival sandbox game where you progress through technological ages

Don’t Starve probably isn’t the first thing you’d think of but it does fit quite well.

AceFuzzLord, do games w Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

Totally depends on the game. Some games, like Ratchet and Clank Size Matters, yes for the final boss. Games like Brok The InvestiGator, no because I found the combat easy on the hardest difficulty.

terrehbyte, do games w Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I think my preference would be to have the game offer to reduce the difficulty temporarily after failing or offer other forms of support to make the boss encounter easier. If I selected Hard then I probably want the challenge of Hard, but if this difficulty spike is too much, then smoothing it out could be acceptable.

This is also ideally in addition to a way to adjust the difficulty mid-game as needed, of course.

SandLight, do games w Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I wouldn’t mind but I also maybe wouldn’t use it. Even though I’m with you. Boys fights are fine set pieces but not really my favorite part most the time. I’ve had ribs of fun with with ring and DS3, but what I like about then is the setting, exploration, and tension moving from bonfire to bonfire.

I’m stubborn though and would have a hard time convincing myself that it’s ok to decrease the difficulty and not cheating/missing out on the intended game.

DampSquid, do games w Looking for a survival sandbox game where you progress through technological ages

Mooching off OP’s post to say: bonus points if the game is 2 player couch co-op 😊

arudesalad,

Dont starve together is a good one like another commenter said, I don’t know if it’s couch co-op but when you buy it on steam, you get a free second copy to give to your friend you’re playing with (at least when I bought it)

Kolanaki, do games w Apparently, all you need to do to "git gud" in an online FPS is to reduce hand "stress" while aiming.
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So the best way to play would be using Voice Attack and making every FPS into one of these bad boys? 🤔

Stillhart, do gaming w How has Cities:Skylines II been for you?

When did the game come out? I just went to check it out on my Xbox and it’s no longer showing as “coming soon” on Gamepass, but it’s also not on “Recently Added to Gamepass”. In store there’s no release date. Did something happen to the Xbox release?

saigot,

They pushed back console release to spring 2024

Stillhart,

Wow. That’s a pretty bold move considering they’ve been advertising it on “Coming Soon” for like 4 months at this point (“Soon™”). Shame…

Thx for the info!

Rentlar,

It’s on PC Xbox GamePass only. Console release is delayed for sometime, presumably because it doesn’t perform well enough on them yet.

saigot, do gaming w How has Cities:Skylines II been for you?

I’m having a lot of fun,. The performance stuff is a non-issue for me, I haven’t spent much time looking at my fps but it hoveslrs at 45 or so (6800xt+3800xt, at 5120x1440, all setting on high except i disabled volumetic fog, tilt shift and motion blur), the sim speed seems fine. I only played vanilla cs1 and this seems to have added a lot, but not sure how that compares to the dlcs. I like how much more complex the demand for different zones are and the car systems seem greatly improved. Natural disasters was something I definitely missed in cs1 so it’s nice to see that. The graphics are a huge step up.overall just about every system seems to have been improved in some way. There seem to be legit incentive to make a dirty city, I felt making a polution free city was a littke too easy in cs1, now there are much more significant tradeoffs. A general theme seems to be that the city changes and grows over time, whereas in cs1 I often felt I could setup some districts for life right away. It feels like the city grows much more realistically and organically now.

On the negative side of things, a lot of the Twitter posts don’t seem to make sense, someone will complain about crime and then I’ll zoom in and they are super happy in a 0 crime area, I’m also pretty sure my commercial districts are bugged to always report not enough customers despite showing signs of success otherwise, and a lot of my busses seem to run all their buses at once rather than being spaced out. Every now and again a hearse/ambulance/firetruck gets stuck and won’t ever get to its destination despite a clear path. Its really finicky to attach pipes/power to something that consumes it. The radio is repetitive and often plays conflicting stories one after another. These are minor gripes but certainly annoying.

I have about 10hrs and I reckon I’ll put at least a 100 more. If the game never got another patch it would be fine and enjoyable, knowing it will have long term support makes me quite excited for it.

Rentlar,

Yep to me it feels like Industries and Mass Transit DLC-like content from 1 was brought in and better integrated with the C:S2 basegame.

Spacecraft, do games w Alan Wake 2 - Review Thread (90/100 OpenCritic)

Holy shit I thought it released oct of 2024 for some reason. I have plans for my weekend now.

mhz, do gaming w 100°C CPU when recording gameplay

Is it possible to force hardware encoding? Maybe change the format to h265, I’m no expert but that might free some load from the cpu to the gpu.

Thoven, do games w I tried over 20 Steam Next demos so that you don't have to!

I would characterize the crust as more colony sim than RTS. It’s definitely rough around the edges, but it has a strong foundation and I expect it will be a great game when finished.

WereCat, do games w Just an observation on game engines
  • I’ve built this table with a saw and it’s level
  • I’ve built this table with an axe and it’s not level

Does that mean that saw is superior to making tables? No, I just suck with an axe and it was far easier to chop the wood than saw it.

Frogster8,

I would say 99.9999% of the times it’s superior to make a table with a saw instead of an axe

WereCat,

Yes. But what if most people in your team suck at using saw?

Frogster8,

If they can’t use a saw to chop something straight I’m sure as shit not trusting them to do it with an axe. I think it was a bad analogy.

WereCat,

See. It’s easier to use but of an axe to hammer the nails rather than to use the handle of saw to hammer the nails. Both have advantages and disadvantages.

cwagner, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd

I’m a bit in a not-yet-released slump. “Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous” gets a new DLC in late November, so not playing that until then. The same company releases their new game “Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader” in December, so I’m not playing the Beta until then. “Vagrus - The Riven Realm” gets a new DLC some time this year, so also waiting there. “Colony Ship” gets out of EA and releases November 9, so obviously not playing EA either.

I had enough of BG3 for now (finished it only twice, it’s not as captivating as the Pathfinder games) and will only eventually replay it with one of those “make it like actual D&D5” modpacks. Regarding D&D5, I should some time check if there are updated fan campaigns for Solasta that use the higher DLC level cap :D

I did plan to replay Wasteland 2, but that will take quite some time, and as I mentioned, upcoming releases.

So after telling you what I have not been playing, what I currently do play is alternate between my typical fallback games: Stellaris (a game I never once finished despite 1080h of time played) and Civ V with the amazing and mandatory Vox Populi mod.

MountainBr3w, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd

Skyrim Anniversary Edition. I’m backlogged obviously. The updated graphics make it feel like a modern game. I am really enjoying it.

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