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LyD, do gaming w Valve's next mystery gadget...

Lots of speculation that it’s a new VR headset.

LoamImprovement,

Weren’t they floating codename Deckard a while back? If they can make a handheld that plays modern titles reliably, a standalone headset on par with the Quest seems about the right speed as far as next steps goes.

trace8191, do gaming w Starfield has made me obsessed with no man’s sky

I literally bought No Man’s Sky while waiting for Starfield. I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky for two weeks now and I just can’t put it down because it’s so good.

Now I’m planning to wait to buy Starfield for at least 6+ months until the developers iron out the bugs.

thisbenzingring,

Trying to get to the center of the universe in Perma Death mode was one of the best gaming experiences I can remember. It took so much dedication and patience to finally get to the end (hit, play the main quests).

NMS is the only game I ever got 100% on.

Rozauhtuno,

Now I’m planning to wait to buy Starfield for at least 6+ months until the developers unpaid modders iron out the bugs.

hagelslager,

Iron out the bugs? That would be an improvement compared to Skyrim.

thelonelyghost, (edited ) do piracy w This file has 16 detections, is it safe to install it?

This reads the same as “hi, my friend saw my {dating app} date’s photo up at the post office with the note that they were wanted for the murder of 16 different {my demographic}. Should I still go on a date with them to that remote cabin in the woods?”

phx,

From a .RU site no less…

Aresff,

Yeah. It’s a lot safer to go on a date with someone who was wanted for the murder of just 1 or 2 different persons to that remote cabin in the woods, isn’t it? :D

totallymojo, do gaming w I watched 2 hours of starfield gameplay and an hour of review
@totallymojo@ttrpg.network avatar

It’s not as open and “huge scale” as people seem to think it is.
It’s kind of “fake open” if that makes sense.
You cannot get into your ship and fly 500m east to your mission.
If you do that, a new instance is loaded and your mission is not there.

Made me disappointed.

Joker,

Wait, what? How does that work? I haven’t seen much of the game except trailers.

Skyhighatrist, (edited )

There’s no flying in atmosphere at all. To do what the parent commenter says would require going back to orbit (loading screen) then choosing a spot on the planet to land (another loading screen). When you land like that on planet, it generates an instance for you that is procedurally generated, but won’t contain any of your mission markers. (I haven’t actually tried that part, but I’ve seen others talk about it.)

The game is basically areas, separated by loading screens. You get in your ship, that’s a loading screen, you fly to orbit, another loading screen. Then in orbit if you want to go to another planet, you set course and do another loading screen. Once there, you choose a spot and land for another loading screen. There is flying in space, but it’s limited to small instances with some other ships, and POIs. Your ship’s speed is very slow, and as far as I’ve been able to tell you cannot walk around your ship while it’s in flight (this may be a limitation of the controller controls, I saw a streamer stand up in flight, but I don’t know if that was a bug or not. There’s no binding to stand up when you are in flight on controller.) I just wasn’t holding B long enough, you can stand up when you are in space, you just have to hold the normal binding for longer than I expected.

All that being said, I’m still enjoying the game. But I went in with low expectations.

evranch,

What you describe sounds almost exactly like the Mass Effect 1 procedurally generated missions. But that game came out in 2007…

totallymojo,
@totallymojo@ttrpg.network avatar

Oh shit, you are right. This is how Starfield works. I forgot that Mass Effect had the same thing!

Skyhighatrist,

Mass Effect 1 has the Mako though. In Starfield, as far as I know there are no ground vehicles at all. So it’s just a lot of running.

Sidyctism,

I mean to be fair, maybe starfield is better off without ground vehicles if the alternative is the mako

SenorBolsa, (edited )
@SenorBolsa@beehaw.org avatar

It Mako me angry. There’s enough there I think it would be nice to have a little rover that could go like 30 mph and haul your loot.

Legendsofanus,

Sounds like an absolute chore of a game

echodot,

I would have much rather play in a single star system where all of the worlds are carefully crafted than them having this kind of “infinite although not really” random terrain generation thing.

Even no Man’s Sky has more exploratory options.

AndrasKrigare, do gaming w What games have you played due to FOMO?

Cyberpunk 2077. I was pretty skeptical of it before it came out (didn’t really feel like it was doing anything unique), but it was such a big release I picked it up to have an opinion on it.

Don’t think I’m gonna do the same for Starfield, though, that’s just a pass

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

I think for me it’s going to end up depending on the modding community and how linear the game feels.

I played The Outer Worlds due to the hype around Obsidian releasing a game but it just felt kind of flat and lifeless. Maybe it’s just because it seems similar in atmosphere but I’m worried Starfield is going to end up feeling the same.

hornedfiend,

Even though I agree for the most part about Cyberpunk,I did finish it ,but skipped parts of story by doing the worse ending. I intend to start a new game after Phantom Liberty dlc comes out just cause I’m curious about the improvements.

Starfield… Now I never liked Bethesda games and could never finish most. I did finish FO4,but was very very bored by the end and rushed it. Starfield is just so bland and has so many mixed ideas and mechanics from other games it just feels like it can’t make up its mind what it wants to be. And the combat… Cyberpunk feels like a combat masterpiece compared to Starfield and Star Citizen the same (despite all issues) for the space part. Starfield just can’t draw me in.

Edit: autocorrect

eight_byte, do gaming w I watched 2 hours of starfield gameplay and an hour of review

I don’t want to hear how good this game is because I only own a PS5 and don’t have a gaming PC.

OverfedRaccoon,

A decade old gaming PC (that was mid-tier at best back then), a PS5 that’s not technically mine, a Switch, and an OG Xbox One. Tell me about it. 😂

admin,
@admin@beehaw.org avatar

Same here…I’m incredibly disappointed they didn’t release this for PS5!

Veraxus,
@Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

Good news for you: It's not very good. At least not the first 5 hours, which are painfully boring and full of jank.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

An honest answer. I can respect that

Techmaster, do piracy w Whats your preferred codec?

RealPlayer. I love how every video sounds like they’re taking a shower.

PinkPanther,

You just triggered my PTSD!

DARbarian, do piracy w Proton VPN. How good is it?
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

According to r/VPNTorrents, Proton and AirVPN are the only recommended VPNs since they are the only well-established privacy-respecting ones left. New ones are popping up with promise, like Azire, but time will tell. As for Proton, I decided against it because of limited port forwarding and lack of IPv6 compatibility and settled on AirVPN. Also, I personally try to avoid keeping all my eggs in a single corporation's basket, so I cannot advise buying into the full Proton suite if you're remotely tech savvy and/or privacy-concerned. But they are genuinely great products if you have no desire to do any tinkering or shopping around. I just can't see the appeal in my VPN activities being directly tied to my email. Oh and I almost forgot, I switched from PIA due to their lack of IPv6 support and acquistion by Kape, a known adware company.

DARbarian,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

PS: AirVPN, in my opinion, is the last great VPN. Open-source, run by activists, anonymous accounts, crypto purchasing, IPv6 compatibility, full port forwarding, great support, Tor integration, the list goes on.

sadreality,

Mullvad no longer useful due to no port forwarding?

DARbarian,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

Well, to put it one way, Mullvad is almost definitely the best VPN that doesn't offer port forwarding. Which, in reality, may only be absolutely crucial for torrenting.

Mothra,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

How noob/non tech savy friendly would you say it is?

missveeronica,

My Proton email is just a fallback and privacy based activities. Nothing nefarious, just stuff I’d prefer to keep off Google’s servers.

DARbarian,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

Ah makes sense then. Proton is my main until I get around to self-hosted email.

ColeSloth,

What happened to CyberGhost?

Aidinthel, do gaming w Confused about the ending of Metro 2033

The nosalises were added to the game because shooter games need generic enemies to shoot. They don’t exist in the books, so the actual plot doesn’t mention them.

Aidinthel,

Also, blowing up the dark ones is canonically a bad idea. It’s a representation of humanity’s tendency to react with irrational fear and violence against things we don’t understand. If it seems foolish to you, congrats, you understand the point of the story.

jessica, do piracy w I got some malware yesterday, here are the sites I visited as a warning

I didn’t get malware yesterday, here are the sites I visited:

getfirefox.com

BrandoCalrissian9229,

I have firefox as it were

jessica,

That’s interesting. Less than one minute after posting this, you said you used Brave.

BrandoCalrissian9229,

indeed. I use both. I happen to have brave AND firefox on my laptop, as I’ve been making the transition to firefox the last few months. I’m entirely on firefox on my desktop, but I mainly use brave on my laptop. I used it to stream the aforementioned things on Saturday

jimp, do gaming w Beautiful games?

Stray. There were lots of times I’d perch up high and look around at everything going on below.

dQw4w9WgXcQ, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?

Kerbal Space Program.

Basically “do rocket science without instructions”.

soulsource,
@soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Relevant xkcd: xkcd.com/1356/

reverendsteveii, do gaming w The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

I would also like to bitch at you for talking in terms of “normies”. Gross.

NuPNuA,

All sorts of hobbies use the term to describe people who aren’t fully into something but have a passing interest, it’s a pretty standard phrase.

snowbell,
@snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

How is it gross?

reverendsteveii,

The implied derision.

snowbell,
@snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

Not seeing it in this context. If anything it is self deriding. Still a stretch.

bl_r, do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

I’m a crpg fan, and a D&D/PF fan. For me, the thing that makes this game so fun is it feels like a streamlined D&D session. Sure, you can’t do as much as you would like in a D&D session, but you can do 99% of what you would typically want to do.

The other thing is the game is extremely polished. So many recent games have been underproduced, unpolished garbage with DLC/MTX shoved in and a $70 price tag. BG3 is a breath of fresh air. It’s not perfect, but the care and dedication that went into it clearly shows.

I feel what makes this game so popular is the fact that the game is just really well made. The story is great, the classes are much better balanced than 5e, and the amount of interesting solutions you can use to solve any problem is just fun. Add co-op, and the game becomes a blast to play with friends.

Considering the recent rise in trrpg popularity and fans of older titles in the franchise, Larian’s existing fans, and an early access that showed off the game as being fun and promising, I’m not surprised it ended up attracting a lot of players. If you have a large enough player base at launch, and an amazing game, I don’t think it is a surprise the game is lighting the world on fire.

TransplantedSconie,

I’ve been telling people: it’s as close to a D&D module you can get in a video game. Right down to the banter between party members. It’s an amazing game.

siv9939, do games w Help identifying an old game?
@siv9939@kbin.social avatar

Possibly Dig-N-Rig, although you dig to the left.

finestnothing,

This is exactly it, thank you so much! The digipen must’ve been why I was thinking digiminer.

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