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Chickenstalker, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?

Normies. Normies fear the grid. It reminds them of chess and checkers and snakes and ladders. Games that they suck at.

ConstableJelly, do gaming w Sea of Stars (2023) review thread

I think 2023 has officially become the 21st century’s year of the RPG. Any flavor you want, 2023 has got it.

I’ve had my eye on this one and am very pleased to see it score so well.

Franzia, do gaming w Fighting game stick recommendations?

OP you can check the hardware used at tournaments, by the way. Sorry I don’t have the answer. Bump.

Arotrios, do piracy w Is movie-web down for anyone else?
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Working fine on my end - sounds like ISP filtering or possibly a firewall setting. With an ad blocker to handle popups, you could also try g o k u dot s x - not quite the same server collection, but you might find what you're looking for.

open_door,

That was it, yeah. Thank you.

HidingCat, do gaming w Sea of Stars (2023) review thread

Eh, another pixel art RPG. Yet another nostalgia/tribute title?

ReadyUser30,

A few of the reviews pick up on this and say its actually not just a tribute to them, but builds on and improves this kind of genre RPG.

HidingCat,

Might be neat then!

mang0bus, do piracy w Is movie-web down for anyone else?

Looks like it’s good here. Try another browser?

chloyster, do gaming w Sea of Stars (2023) review thread

Game looks so good. Really want to try this out!

JJROKCZ, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?

I do not miss the grid at all, I hate being conformed to grids instead of more fluid real movement. It’s just more immersive to order my troops to move as a real person could move, not slide on a rail and stand there in this open space like a chess piece

bighi,

Your comment doesn’t make sense. There’s no relation between a grid and standing out in the open. With free movement, if you order the character to finish their movement in the open, they’re going to be out in the open.

And I also don’t see the relation between grids and “sliding”.

Lazylazycat,

Yeah, I’m pretty sure in X-com there wasn’t any sliding? It was all very fluid movement, but you could easily see where you troops could move to.

nevemsenki,

Jagged Alliance 3 has grid, but the movements are more fluid than I’ve seen in a while. It’s all about polish and execution.

Cheems, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?
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Oh I mean I never thought of it. I kinda like a grid. But I think that a grid would severely limit bg3

ryven, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?
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It’s not the lack of a grid specifically that bothers me in BG3, it’s that there are a lot of scenarios where in tabletop an enemy would be ruled to have cover, but in BG3 the shot is simply obstructed and your character needs to move before they can take it.

Also sometimes the automatic positioning for melee attacks is bad and will tell you that you can’t reach, but if you click to move and then click to attack you actually can.

Also the fact that AoE spells target the ground specifically instead of an arbitrary point in space, which means in some areas you get weird situations where the enemies are close enough together to fireball all of them but you can’t do it from your location because the spot where you need to place the fireball is in a slight depression that you can’t see into from where you are.

Also there is some weirdness about casting AoEs through doorways, where even if you can see someone that doesn’t mean you can fireball them because it’s treating the fireball “projectile” as being wider than I would expect, so that it can only go through at certain angles.

I do think a grid system would be less likely to have these issues, but they could be fixed without it.

canni, do piracy w Need help to make a super simple setup for my mom !

It’s a bit of work to set up, but plex/sonarr/radarr/jacket/bazaarr/overseerr/qbitorrent+openvpn is the way to go

ag_roberston_author, do gaming w Switch 2 - launch games?
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Ultimate

indite, do piracy w Easy and safe linux piracy with jc141
@indite@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Stupid question, but how do I go about updating dwarFS?

FOSSFloss,

If the distro you’re on doesn’t have packages for a new version I would start with github.com/mhx/dwarfs#building-and-installing .

Yesat, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?
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@anakin78z Also the DnD Grid kinda break when you put it in an actual 3D world. It work by convention on a TTRPG but the work around to do it are just not really sensible when you step away from the table. Diagonal movement, sphere, angled line,... All of that kinda gets more messy to apply if you are representing a 3D world.

anakin78z,
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Huh, I’m not sure I agree. It’s fairly straightforward to represent any volume as a 3D grid, and depending on how the game system does the math, it’s easy to count cells on any diagonal. I think the controls are a bit messy, but Solasta has a totally usable 3D grid for things like flying, and also shows how area effects like spheres or such affect surfaces on different levels.

gaael,

I’ve been playing Solasta the past few weeks, great game with a grid system that makes real good use of 3d and height :)

FullFridge, do games w Sea of Stars Review Thread | (90/100 OpenCritic)

Anyone know how long this game takes on average to beat? I have about two weeks of free time but then I won’t have much time for gaming for around 2 months so wondering if I can fit this in or not?

CosmicSploogeDrizzle,
@CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world avatar

With only one report so far, the completionist time on howlongtobeat.com puts it around 26.5 hours.

howlongtobeat.com/game/76454

FullFridge,

Thanks for sharing the link!

Hmmm, maybe it’s possible but I think I’d rather not risk taking a two month break from the game. Guess I’ll need to wait till I have more free time

CoderKat,

You know, I realize I dunno who uploads their details to these kinda sites, but I’m glad people do. I consult HLTB a lot and it’s always been really useful for judging the time investment a game will take, how worthwhile DLCs will be, and for understanding what kind of game something is (longer is often better in my book, but not always, since games like AC Valhalla have actually gone too long, since I can’t help myself but to play mostly completionist).

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