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Deceptichum, do games w Deadlocked is one of the funnest games I've played in a while
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

I’m struggling to enjoy it. Some matches can be enjoyable but more often than not I find it a dull slog.

Theres nothing more boring than being stuck in a game for another 20 minutes when it’s well and truly clear you’ve been getting your arses kicked the previous 20.

Buttflapper,

Theres nothing more boring than being stuck in a game for another 20 minutes when it’s well and truly clear you’ve been getting your arses kicked the previous 20.

To be fair, you don’t have to do anything. You can hang back if you think the match is a loss or just farm lane and let them win once you think it’s over. This is also how League and Dota seem to work outside competitive, people will just give up if they smell a loss coming.

rockerface,

Except League at least has a forfeit option

PlzGivHugs,

Dota does too but its fairly hidden and requires unanimous agreement. That said, Dota is far less snowbally, so unlike League or Deadlock, it rarely makes sense to forfet very early.

gaylord_fartmaster,

Dota only does in private matches, not matchmaking games.

I would also say it’s easier to snowball in Dota than Deadlock. You can take way wider and more restrictive control of the map since it’s smaller and everyone is less mobile.

Evotech,

I find that doesn’t happen much in deadlock. The ability to comeback is quite strong

eighty, do games w PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug

I disagree with the implication that users should “settle down” when faced with user-unfriendly experiences.

User silence is often taken as permission to continue shitty practices that build up overtime. Bloated games that are unoptimized, online subscription to play online, not even fully owning the games, not able to use your own bluetooth headset etc.

This tweet just perpetuates how consumer-hostile nature of these companies. It attempts to play down a potential revenue stream at the expense of UX, subtle gaslight users into thinking this is part of the “over-reactionary culture” when this a perfectly valid criticism, and makes no attempt to be sympathetic about these implications.

Honestly, this has made me swore off a PS5 and future sony consoles. It’s no longer affordable, convenient, or simply. I do love my DS4 controller tho.

catloaf, do games w Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread

Assuming “we” is the US, write your state and federal representatives, not Lemmy. People might agree with you, but you’re preaching to the choir.

megalow,

How about both? Writing your elected reps is definitely smart, but will be much more effective if there are numerous people calling for the same. I appreciate OP sharing their views, and catloaf sharing a specific action step all of us can do it we are concerned about this matter.

I worked for a few years as a gambling addiction counselor, and these types of games definitely prime people for addiction to gambling. Also, it’s worth noting that the demographic with the highest rates of gambling addiction are young men, aged 18-24.

Anyone that’s been to a casino can attest that major video game companies also make slot machines. The industry are aware of what they’re doing.

kandoh, do games w Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work

Starfield had a crippling issue that they made the wrong decision at the very start of development — thousands of procedural generated planets instead of a dozen hand-crafted planets.

If they hadn’t made that mistake than Starfield would have been a hit.

DarkMetatron,

Having a space game where every planet and every place in space is a super interesting stage feels so fake and wrong because space is not like that. If we go out into space and to other planets we will find way more boring then interesting (for the normal person) planets and locations between the planets out there then anything else. I love that Starfield is brave enough to show space more realistic even if that means boring.

That’s why I don’t really get into No Man’s Sky, the space and planets feels manufactured.

ZeroHora,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

If the game had a proper navigation between planets and less loadings I think the game would not receive so much criticism. The procedural generated content is not good but is not awful.

DarkMetatron,

The game has proper navigation between planets, you gravjump because space even between planets are huge and nobody wants to travel multiple hours, days, weeks or months (depending how close to the limit of C your story allows) in empty interplanetary space from planet A to planet B in the same system.

And the loading screens well that is the price to have a engine that allows for large numbers of manipulatable and change objects. All other engines have less loading screens yes but their worlds and places are full of statics that look good but can’t be taken or manipulated in any way. And I am very happy to pay that price.

ZeroHora,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

The game has proper navigation between planets, you gravjump because space even between planets are huge and nobody wants to travel multiple hours, days, weeks or months (depending how close to the limit of C your story allows) in empty interplanetary space from planet A to planet B in the same system.

The problem is how is presented, the loading screen play a role here too. If the gravjump was only the animation starting then you exiting without the black screen, or a more lengthy jump put you can move in your ship while the jump is happening the amount of loadings would not be so noticiable.

DarkMetatron,

Gravjumps are Instant, there is literally no time to move on the ship. And the loading screen for gravjumps takes a second or two on my very middle class system, yes it short fades to black but why should I care?

Maybe I am way more tolerant to loading screens because I am old and my first experience were with C64 and Amiga 500. Or maybe I just like the game so much that the loading screens doesn’t bother me.

DragonTypeWyvern,

Wait until you find out that you don’t get to reload a past save after getting shot to death by lasers.

DarkMetatron,

I don’t fully understand that comment, but game mechanics and world building are two very different things.

thisbenzingring,

if they turned the procedural generator at people, food, supplies and weapons instead of the landscapes… game would have been amazing

the other problem was traveling, they needed to make travel a painful burden… because when it became a quick loading screen and you are there… omfg it ruins the stories the npc’s are trying to tell

wtf you left your crew out here to die?! it took me 5 minutes to get here…

sparr, do games w Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before

It’s a Block Pushing Game is a sokobanlike from the creator of Baba Is You. It’s relatively short but has multiple novel mechanics. I enjoyed it enough to create a curses client for it.

PS: If you like Baba Is You, Hempuli publishes multiple new games per month, mostly clever sokoban-likes, at hempuli.itch.io

guiguinofake, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

CoD and Assassin’s Creed popularised selling the same fucking game 20 times

pyre,

FIFA and other sports games as well

Decoy321,

Sports games have been doing it faaaar longer. Madden started in 1988, released a sequel in 1990, then hasn’t missed a year ever since. The baseball and basketball counterparts existed just as long.

delitomatoes, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

I think Spyro was the first mainstream game to standardise achievements, you could do random stuff in-game and it gave you a little pop up, carried over to Ratchet and Clank and now every game has official achievements

UndercoverUlrikHD,
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev avatar

I think Spyro was the first mainstream game to standardise achievements, you could do random stuff in-game and it gave you a little pop up

Which one did that?

rekorse,

I believe the very first one had skill points that unlocked an extended ending and game art.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Not the first one on the PSX, that’s for sure. Also, getting some extra stuff for 100% a game wasn’t new by the time of Spyro, both Donkey Kong Country and Crash Bandicoot already did that

Okami_No_Rei,
@Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world avatar

This. They were indeed called Skill Points, and Insomniac loved to tie cheats and bonus material to completing them. I played the shit out of Spyro and Ratchet and Clank back in the day.

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

Actually introduced in Ripto’s Rage. The Reignited version backported them to the first game, though.

SplashJackson,

Mortal Kombat for the Genesis did that though. Every once and a while on good hit, little dude would pop into the corner and call out, “Toasty!!”

Really makes you feel like you achieved something great

UndercoverUlrikHD,
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev avatar

Just a heads up that I think you replied to the wrong comment in the chain

SplashJackson,

Some like heads up but I far prefer butts up

Plum, (edited ) do gaming w Gamers Above 30, What Older Games Would You Still Recommend to Younger Gamers?
@Plum@lemmy.world avatar

Katamari Damacy for the spectacle of it. Wait for a switch sale and let your mind be blown.

Edit: it’s actually 75% off right now in my region.

Kolanaki,
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There are also 3 of them on PC and are quite cheap.

wasted_in_time, do games w Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!

Good for them… Still have yet to win a run.

Cris16228,

How many hours in? Just curious, I’m bad at it but I got my first win ~16 hours in, are you doing something wrong?

wasted_in_time,

22.9 hours in…I’ve gotten close, but no cigar.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks,

I believe in you!

GissaMittJobb,

Balatro University has some good guides if you’re looking to improve.

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar
Cris16228,

Thanks for this! Saving and checking them but… I’m more a “Look at me playing a game and tell me what I did wrong at the end” kind of player

calabast,

I was going to say “ahh, too bad the Internet isn’t really helpful for that method of learning”, but with AI who knows, maybe that’ll be something your computer can do before too long

Cris16228,

I don’t really understand your comment - sorry! - but I’ve played some games with the plasma deck and I still have to understand how to play exactly with it, I do good-ish at first but after a few rounds/first boss I do so little numbers and I can’t win, having someone watching what I do wrong and telling me would be great

ABCDE,

I could have a go at that.

makeshiftreaper,

For plasma specifically I’d focus on high additive chip jokers. While that’s normally bad advice, consider how crazy good a card with +50 mult on it would be. Now consider that a +100 chip joker is effectively a +50 chip/+50 mult (I know that’s not technically true but I’m illustrating a point). Also eventually you do hit a point of diminishing returns because plasma prevents you from having a super high multiplier or chips, so like every build, total score multipliers are the best

Cris16228,

The one who played it before me said it was best to get the X multi jokers so I always ignored the + multi ones and even the X multi final score… I tried but I don’t exactly know which ones do that. I should try with what you said and see if it works, thanks! Which poker hand is better with it?

makeshiftreaper,

It’s hard to offer strong heuristics for Balatro because you could theoretically build up to a point where you’ve got a crazy high multiplier but if your chips are low it doesn’t matter.

For example let’s say you’ve got a face card 4 of a kind build going with: Pareidolia, Zany, Smiley, Trio, and Family jokers. These give you (respectively) all cards are face cards, +12 mult for 3 of a kind, +20 mult for each hand (all cards are face cards), x3 mult, x4 mult for a total of 384 multiplier! On base 4 of a kind this is

60x([7+12+20]x3x4)=28,080

However if you were to drop smiley face (+5 mult per face) for scary face (+30 chips per face card) which by almost every heuristic is a bad decision your score becomes:

(60+120)x([7+12]x3x4)=41,040

Which is a way bigger score!

So while people can offer general advice like stack high chips on plasma, always go for total score multipliers, etc. sometimes you just have to evaluate your specific build and figure out the best play

Finally outside of decks like abandoned and checkered which are specifically made to get certain hands, there isn’t a “best” hand to go for. The highest possible scores I’ve seen all come from high card builds but most normal players won’t get those. I’ve won two of a kind runs, flush 5 runs, straight runs, flush runs. You just have to evaluate your deck and tarot cards to see your options

Cris16228,

This is interesting to know since I would love to win at least one game with plasma since people said it the funniest deck but for some reasons I can’t get past ante 2/3. I’m going to try to play a game or 2 trying to buy chip jokers and tarots hoping for the best, I do really need to understand better jokers and synergies between them

Prunebutt,

Maybe experiment a bit more. That way, you can deduce yousrelf what works and what doesn’t.

Cris16228,

The problem is, like I said in another comment, is I can’t understand exactly how to play the plasma deck but I’ll keep trying!

Prunebutt,

Well, you must have already got quite a bit of experienge then, since that one get unlocked after the second most difficult stake, right? Have you tried focusing on chips, instead of mult? Chips are way easier to raise.

Cris16228,

No, the only suggestion I’ve got for the plasma deck is to try getting the X multi jokers but failed

rockerface,

With the plasma deck you don’t need to balance the chips with multiplier, as it does that for you. So what you want to do is to go all in on either chips or multiplier. Usually it’s easier to get chips bonuses early, and then, when you have the opportunity, to pivot into massive multiplier multiples. Or just keep going with chips, if you have enough levels on your main hand - that might be enough to get you through ante 8 on lower stakes

Cris16228,

+chips and +multi? Or X multi? I can try to play with more +chips jokers/cards

rockerface,

Start with +chips and look for an opportunity to get a lot of X multi in one go, if possible. If not, just double down on +chips

Cris16228,

Thanks for your help! I’m going to try it

RincewindThreepwood,
@RincewindThreepwood@lemmy.world avatar

lol. I feel you! My max Ante was 7. Everything after that seems impossible :D

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

The most-satisfying part is when you stumble onto the right Joker combination and realize, “Oh snap, I think this is the one.”

makeshiftreaper,

Conversely the worst is when that happens and a bad boss blind screws your run

RincewindThreepwood,
@RincewindThreepwood@lemmy.world avatar

The worst one I think is the one where you can only play one hand. I hate that one, because in most cases it’s game over for me 😆

makeshiftreaper, (edited )

Generally some good advice is that Balatro is a math game first and foremost so you want to focus on things that raise your score the quickest. So adding chips is ok, adding multiplier is better, and multiplying your total is the best.

For example let’s say you are playing straights and you have a 10-6 with level 3 straights. So you’d have:

10+9+8+7+6=40

(40+90)x10=1300

So let’s compare how jokers impact that score:

Devious joker: +100 chips if you have a straight

(40+90+100)x10=2300

Crazy joker: +12 mult if you have a straight

(40+90)x(10+12)=2860

The order: x3 mult if you have a straight

(40+90)x(10x3)=3900

You can see those are very big differences! It’s also helpful to pay attention to the order of your cards. Generally Balatro cards are scored left to right. The most important thing is to take any card that multiplies any part of your score on the right so you can add as much to the score as possible, then you multiply that number

So in short: multiplier jokers are best, additive multiplier jokers are good, additive chip jokers are ok, and pay attention to the order of your jokers/played cards

sushibowl,

This is basically correct but i would add sometimes it’s better to add chips than to add mult. For example, if your score is something like:


<span style="color:#323232;">10 x 50 = 500
</span>

Adding +50 mult here would give you 10x100=1000 points. Adding +50 chips will give you 60x50=3000 points.

Adding to the lowest of the two numbers improves your score the most. Especially early game, mult is much lower than chips, so you want to improve mult. However once you have some good mult jokers improving chips becomes important. Especially in high card based decks, where you get very few chips from your hand.

If the multiplier jokers come in, the picture can change again. It makes adding mult more valuable because the addition will be multiplied.

BluesF,

One thing to watch out for though, is that if you focus exclusively on mult, eventually the scale tips and chips become more valuable.

You’re always ultimately doing c * m, chips times mult, right? Increasing c by 1 increases your total by…

(c+1)*m - (c*m) = (c + 1 - c) * m = m

And vice versa for increasing m by 1. So, whichever is higher - your total mult or total chips - you should increase the other one. Usually this means increase mult, but building a bit multiplier can quickly make it outpace your chips for some hands.

Bluewall,

How long have you been trying.

cobysev, do games w Coming back to a western open world game H:FW after Elden Ring is a massive whiplash
@cobysev@lemmy.world avatar

I may be in the minority, but I kinda enjoy hearing Aloy muttering to herself throughout the game. Partly because I catch myself doing it all the time, so I don’t feel alone in the practice.

But also because I know the voice actress for Aloy (Ashly Burch) as Ash in the YouTube series, Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’? and to this day, it’s still amazing to me to hear her speaking so deadpan seriously. I’m used to her Ash character basically being an animated, loudmouthed wildcard, not this dramatic, serious character. And I kind of enjoy knowing that Ashly has a bit of range to her acting; she’s not some kid who repeats the same YouTube personality she became famous for; she can actually act.

detinu,

Omg same. I talk to myself constantly when I need to plan something or do whatever. Might be because I have undiagnosed ADHD/ADD.

I quite enjoyed the game, I did not feel irritated by it.

Rhynoplaz, do games w Unsolvable epic store captcha

Nice try, bot. You’re not getting me to explain what a traffic light is!

Cagi, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?

Pixel Dungeon: Roguelike, infinitely replayable. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watabou…

Auralux: A simple real time strategy game. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wardrum…

2048: Simple to learn, difficult to master puzzle. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androbr…

My Boy: A Game Boy Advance emulator (Game files, called ROMs, not included). play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fastemu…

Manos,

I’ll second Pixel Dungeon. It’s the only one I’ve played, but it perfectly fits OP’s reqs.

kevindqc, (edited )

The first link says not found :( maybe not available in Canada? Seems this one is a good replacement, will try it out? play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shatter…

Other ones say it was made for an old version of Android or incompatible, and can’t be downloaded (I have a pixel 5 with android 14)

Strayce,

Short answer: yes.

Shattered Pixel dungeon is based on pixel dungeon, adds a bunch of new stuff and is reasonably actively developed.

mrvictory1,

Install from computer: adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block FILENAME.apkliliputing.com/how-to-install-old-apps-on-android…

mox,

Or the well-maintained and developed derivative:

shatteredpixel.com

f-droid.org/…/com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldu…

B0NK3RS, (edited ) do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

This War of Mine: Complete Edition £26.93 £3.91 (85% off)

In my opinion one of the greatest games but also one of the saddest. If you already own the game then I highly recommend all the DLC as they all bring some interesting scenarios to the game.

freebee,

Played it pirated years ago. Not really looking to play again tbh because it’s so sad, but I’ll buy it discounted for supporting, I back then liked the very original angle of playing with trapped victims instead of army.

MSids,

Your link is to example.com

B0NK3RS,
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

Fixed. Thanks.

naeap, do astronomy w OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.)
@naeap@sopuli.xyz avatar

What is it with the blue/violet/red-yellow stuff?

Is this some metallic thing?

fossilesque, (edited )
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Knowing what I know, I am assuming this image was standardised and then normalised (fancy stats algos to keep things in the same visual range) while stitching it together, and the final product enhanced a lot of colouration (saturation). They’re subtle or undetectable to the naked eye, but they exist. They are reflected in the different minerals present. I’ve done this stuff (raster stitching) with different imagery. Op was active in the comments with info, but I didn’t read up on it.

foofiepie,

Pasted from the Reddit thread:

The colors don’t match what a human eye would see, but without going into a philosophy tangent, color is extremely complex and a huge part of what a human sees is your brain doing representations and mapping that isn’t perfectly represented in the physical object being observed. In this photo the saturation has been increased (versus a human eye) because it helps show the geological differences on the lunar surface. The reddish areas are high in iron and feldspar, and the blue-tinted zones have higher titanium content. Instead of thinking of the color as “real” or “fake” it’s probably better to think of it as a tool, to simulate if you were a super human with the ability to adjust saturation and detect metal composition with your eye. Usually when a photo like this is shared by researchers and scientist all this nuance and exposition is included, but then journalist and social media get a hold of it and people start crying “fake” without an understanding of what the image is trying to accomplish. TL;DR - The image isn’t what a human eye would see but it isn’t just art to look cool, the color and modifications have physical meaning and serve a purpose.

fossilesque,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Those are great explanations!

Liz,

Yeah when you get into “proper” photography you quickly realize a “real” image is somewhat subjective. This moon is cracked to 1000%, though.

fossilesque,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

It’s true. I did photography as a hobby as a kid and it set me ahead when I started mapping. It’s all the same no matter the domain.

StaySquared,

Excellent explanation. Appreciate you sharing it!

mojofrododojo,
@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world avatar

here’s what I’d like to know: would we perceive any of this pigmentation from the lunar surface?

Pixlbabble, do games w I just want to play my game...

I am not buying Ubisoft games going forwards.

ricdeh,
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

You should have made that decision a long time ago, but you know what they say, better late than never!

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