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ninjan, w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

I really only want the house building. I had a blast in Sims 2-4 building my dream house and trying out floor plans, optimizing flow of everyday life and just the architecture/design aspects of making it look good. Sadly they always hit limitations which took the fun out of it due to not being able to build like you wanted. Especially roofs were tricky or impossible to get to look good. And slanted roofs wasn’t in any base game and I didn’t buy DLC (and haven’t played 4 in like 5 years+).

If someone could make an house architect game I’d so love it! Build a house for a family of 4 with a budget of X with these bullet point demands. Then get scored on stuff like usable sq footage, how well the bullet points got satisfied etc.

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I completely get it!

CluckN,

Paradox announced a Sims-like game with a focus on modability. I’m hoping they pull a Cites Skylines and add some competition to the genre.

ninjan,

Yeah I saw that but it looked to also have a lot of focus on the dolls and not the dollhouse, I’m more about the house.

DocBlaze,

what you’re searching for is a game called house flipper. it’s on steam, and after reading your post I am 100% confident you will love it and should look it up.

ninjan,

Cool game and thanks for the recommendation! But the first one is only focused on renovations and while it’s fun to reimagine a space I’m not at all interested in the nitty gritty of renovations. I have my own house and have done a fair bit of renovation work so doing it in a sim game would be dreadful, I’ve never understood the whole genre of “do menial labour but as a game!” Like Euro Truck Simulator and it’s ilk.

The coming second game however talks about building a house from scratch as well which does sound promising! If the build process isn’t too time consuming and smooth it might be great. So I’ll for sure check that out once it’s out!

PM_ME_FEET_PICS, w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Pretty sure they already had decent free to play Sims games on mobile a long time ago. Not sure how good the current one is.

The current base game is free to play as well with paid DLC. So they are taking the form that works for them.

People will by DLC if they want to and others get to enjoy a the base game for free.

The Sims has been pretty shit since the Sims 3.

doctorcrimson,

Sims 4 base game is actually already free on steam. I hear from a good friend, not me personally, that it has some great porn mods on the lovers lab site. Some bad mods, too.

DocBlaze, (edited )

I’m the good friend and will confirm

zib, w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
@zib@kbin.social avatar

As much as I can't stand John Riccitiello, anyone with RSUs will have vested stocks sold on a fixed schedule to cover taxes. They don't get to choose when or how much is sold as long as they have their RSUs configured as sell to cover. The executives are no different in this regard, except they have a great deal more stocks than the average employee. However, this doesn't absolve them of the awful new pricing structure. That shit should have been walked back before it ever left the planning stages.

Talaraine,
@Talaraine@kbin.social avatar

So nobody would ever time such an announcement after such a divestiture.

zib,
@zib@kbin.social avatar

Don't get me wrong, the timing was fucking abysmal. They really should have thought about that ahead of time, but these executives rarely think about anything other than how to line their own pockets.

HeartyBeast,
@HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

So your saying they didn’t time the share sales with respect to the announcement- they timed the announcement with respect to the fixed share sales date.

zib,
@zib@kbin.social avatar

I'm saying they didn't think about it at all because it's easier to blame users for misunderstanding than take responsibility for anything themselves.

Whirlybird,

If you’re selling shares monthly it doesn’t matter when the announcement is, you’re going to have people questioning your sell anyway. They would not have thought about the timing in relation to automated share sells at all because it’s a non issue.

simple, w Starfield mod fixes stealth AI and combat gameplay issues

Does anyone know if these mods work on the Game Pass version of the game?

Cavemanfreak,

Do any mods work on the Game Pass version?

However, I read something about being able to change permissions on the install folder with some special terminal you can download, but I can’t remember the name… It was in one of the other Starfield posts from a few days ago (can’t be more than two or three right…?)

Sharpiemarker,

Some games are installed locally. If you use the Windows Gamepass app, some games will install rather than stream. So I guess it’s possible.

sederx,

No it’s not that. The problem is the folders were the game is installed is encrypted somehow and that prevents modding in general. Or at least that how it was last time I tried to mod a uwp

Sharpiemarker,

Interesting! Thanks for the info.

neokabuto,

IIRC that part is fixed now, but there’s another limitation that prevents script extenders from working.

bfg9k,
@bfg9k@lemmy.world avatar

I am running with an ASI loader on game pass, it’s do-able

dan1101,

Mods can be installed to your Documents/My Games folder and a Starfieldcustom.ini file created with 2 special settings. Then Starfield should find them even on the Game pass version. See the instructions for various mods. The exception I believe are mods that use SKSE but I believe there is a workaround for that too.

oxideseven, (edited )

They do. Almost every mod on starfield Nexus have install info for gamepass.

I’ve got about a dozen installed and have been playing without issue for days. Some are installed via vortex, others manually.

simple,

Thanks!

NOT_RICK, w Introducing the new Godot Development Fund
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

I really hope Unity’s unforced error leads to godot taking off

cynetri,
@cynetri@midwest.social avatar

When I was looking to start learning game dev last year, the Unity CEO made the controversial remarks he did like a week into my journey and gave me a reason to switch lol

ScreaminOctopus,

Would love to see devolver or other small publishers put money behind this

hayes_, (edited ) w Resident Evil 4 Remake, RE Village, And Assassin’s Creed Mirage Announced For iPhone 15 Pro

This seems like such a small market to me…

Who wants to play these games, hasn’t, doesn’t have access to another console/pc, has a wireless controller, has enough time to actually sit down and play these on their phone, and has their power cord on them (because you know these games will eat that battery alive)?

Maybe this is all setting up to allow iPhones to AirPlay games to an appletv or something.

steal_your_face, (edited )
@steal_your_face@lemmy.ml avatar

What other mobile console do these run on? Steam Deck? This will target more casual gamers in a device they already own while steam deck is more for enthusiasts.

hayes_,

I think I’m questioning the size of the market for people who want to play these games on mobile in the first place.

How many casual gamers have a controller adapter for their phone, etc?

Maybe I just lack vision.

Art3sian, w Starfield user score drops to "mostly positive" on steam
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

I love Starfield. My mates love Starfield. It’s Fallout meets No Man’s Sky meets Mass Effect.

It’s just another kick ass Bethesda game in a long list of kick ass Bethesda games IMO.

ShadowRam,

its a solid B

75/100

It's good.

It's not earth shattering, its not game of the year.

It scratches that Skyrim RPG itch but in space.

It's less buggy and less crashy than people were expecting.

It's not without its flaws.

It's a solid B

CaptPretentious,

This might be the most concise and accurate review I’ve seen. Nothing long winded, no excuses, no fanboyism, being fair and holding it up as it is.

lemmyvore,

That wasn’t a review, it was a bunch of statements stringed together. At most it could be the conclusion of a review.

A review needs to offer some explanations about what’s good (or bad) and why.

Rai,

You didn’t comment. You just said a bunch of words stringed together.

Cethin,

Personally I’d give it like a C or maybe B- at the top. It’s fine, but there are so many missing basic quality of life features that should be there.

My biggest gripes are all focused on outposts though. Outposts seemed to be one of the focuses from the marketing material, but they’re a pain in the ass to actually use. There’s somehow no list of the outposts you have, let alone a way to view what they’re producing. Outposts need to be linked together, but there’s no way to sort or auto-delete items, so it all eventually will get clogged up with lead, or whatever other resource doesn’t get used often. You’ll have to manually go through your containers to remove the clog and just dump it on the ground, where it’ll remain for the rest of your playthrough. There’s no snapping for anything except storage containers and the habitation modules. Everything else has to be placed by hand with manual rotations, so nothing is ever lined up. The alignment will also change after you place an object, so literally nothing will ever be aligned.

I have issues with many other parts of the game too, but outposts seem so incomplete, and somehow generally worse than what we had in FO4. Yet, outposts were prominent in their marketing. How?

timespace, (edited )

I’m not sure where you’re from, but in the US a 75/100 is a C. B would be 80-89.

fritata_fritato,

In nz or Australia a C was 50%.

ShadowRam,

50 > D
60 > C
70 > B
80 > A
90 > A+

wccrawford,

Where I’m from, 94-100 was an A, so 74-83 was still a C, but it would just squeak by.

Silverseren,

So Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 were kickass Bethesda games?

thanevim,

They were certainly Bethesda games. I'm not even remotely fond of multiplayer fallout. But for 4, it's a marvelous modding world that I've sunk over a thousand hours into.

Norgur,

And thanks to their cultish adherence to their engine, I could copy paste some mods between Skyrim and Fallout.

Art3sian,
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

Bethesda made way more games than that. Are you new to gaming? You should check out their website.

Silverseren,

But those are their most recent offerings. I care more about the quality of what they produce now and not their glory days decades ago.

Art3sian,
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, so you ARE aware of their other games and you were just cherry picking the ones that weren’t as popular? Now with that brought to light, you’re changing the date parameters to suit your narrative?

You’re very good at this.

Silverseren,

All I "cherry picked" was their two most recent games that have actually been published in the past decade.

hypelightfly,

Technically Skyrim has also been published in the past decade, and even more recently than Fallout 4. In fact it's been released 5 times since Fallout 4.

BruceTwarzen,

This is the moat insane thing i have ever heard. Or it's some sort of burn because how shit they are.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

I've never played 76, but 4 is one of my favorite games of all time. I think most people who didn't like it were going into it desiring for it to be something it wasn't. What it was impeccably good at was being a scavenging looter shooter with addicting weapon and armor modification and a fun outpost building system that wasn't for me, but did let me make my own little home.

CaptainEffort,

I just wanted a well written rpg. Guess that’s on me.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

Definitely not Bethesda's strong suit and not what I go to their games for. Their NPC interaction is made up of tons of awkward TMI introductions and dialogue too quirky to take seriously most of the time. That's a valid criticism, I would not say Fallout 4 is well written. I think it has some interesting premises like the whole synth idea, but not a well executed story.

The only overall story I really thought was good in that game was Paladin Danse's quest chain.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Fallout 4 was a great game, but like Fallout 3, was a terrible Fallout game. Fallout 4 is what Fallout 3 should have been.

Poggervania,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

Bruh, Bethesda arguably peaked like 20 years ago with Morrowind. Everything else since has been more or less downhill lol.

Dee,
@Dee@lemmings.world avatar

Ah, a fellow N’wah.

Instigate,

What the fuck did you call me you S’wit?! I ain’t no fetcher!

Dee, (edited )
@Dee@lemmings.world avatar

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you filthy Imperial? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in House Telvanni, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Black Marsh, and I have over 300 confirmed farm equipment kills. I am trained in Dunmer warfare and I’m the top battlemage in the entire Vvardenfell armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision spells the likes of which has never been seen before in this realm, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across Cyrodiil and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the ash storm, scrib. The ash storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with conjuration. Not only am I extensively trained in alchemical combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Sixth House and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn N’wah. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

Brought to you by the Great House Telvanni.

CaptainEffort,

Their only great game since Morrowind wasn’t even made by them.

Art3sian,
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

I will agree, Morrowind was an amazing game.

abraxas, (edited )

My guilty pleasure is to install Morrowind again and commit to replaying it, but to instead do another Skyrim playthrough because I just have more fun for some reason.

There’s something about the newer Bethesda games. I’ll go and install legacy games from other companies all the time for the sense of nostalgia, but despite having beaten almost all of them going back to Arena, if I want a Bethesda game I always end up playing Skyrim or FO4. And now (I presume) Starfield

hyperhopper,

It’s another subpar Bethesda game in a long line of subpar Bethesda games. Lifeless bland NPCs, tons of glitches, bad gameplay issues, and the same “shallow ocean” criticisms we’ve been going over since Skyrim.

sugar_in_your_tea,

It’s clear to me that Bethesda thinks Skyrim was peak Elder Scrolls, when I think Morrowind was peak Elder Scrolls. Unfortunately, it seems too much to ask for a decent story and interesting side content.

So I just don’t buy Bethesda games anymore. I was disappointed in Skyrim, and Fallout 4 wasn’t really my thing. It also doesn’t help that I don’t like the leveling mechanics of RPGs either and tend to prefer ARPGs like Ys and Zelda where leveling isn’t a major part of the game loop. I know what Bethesda offers, and it’s just not what I’m looking for these days. I play RPGs for story and immersion, not for graphics, character builds, and mods, and Bethesda seems to be more interested in the latter than the former.

But that’s what I appreciate from Bethesda. They’re pretty consistent at delivering a certain experience, it just so happens that it’s not for me.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

You want bland NPCs then you should play BG3.

sturmblast,

this is how I feel about it

KidsTryThisAtHome,

I wish it was as good as No Man’s Sky

hubobes,

Anything is better than No Man Sky, after a trillion updates they still haven’t fixed the one issue the game has. There is only a single planet but a million copies of it with different colors.

Ataraxia,

And de-synch issues and lack of flight stick support (regardless of steam, who cares about that). Also repetitive missions.

KidsTryThisAtHome,

From what I’ve seen that’s also starfield lol, the same desert planets copy/pasted with different colored smoke/sand

hubobes, (edited )

Yes but planets like that are realistically quite common. The ones with special features and biomes however are few but quite well done. Really not comparable.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Really has a Freelancer vipe to it as well.

Bbbbbbbbbbb, w PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for September: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

Gotta play replicant

ChickenAndRice,

Make sure to get all the endings

ShittyRedditWasBetter, w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

I love the rage over this. You’ve all clearly never met most of the people playing this game. They already spend hundreds on DLC, it’s the majority of the game.

Frankly this is a $70 discount for most fans.

BudgieMania,

Yeah, I know a Sims player and Sims 4 is literally the only game she plays. The way you or me would buy a new game, she buys a DLC. It's like it is its own gaming ecosystem for most of its players.

drekly,

But it’ll be worse now. It won’t be the same as 4, but free. It’ll be a glorified store with constant popups begging for money

It says a lot that it’s “running alongside” the previous game. You must not have a lot of faith in your game if you’re expecting your sequel to not replace the previous game.

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

Lolol you just described the past 10 years of the Sims. It has been, from day 1, a glorified store. And people love it.

drekly,

Yep. And now it’ll be much worse

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

🙄👌👍

Computerchairgeneral, w Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns

Bethesda. Bethesda never changes. But seriously this has to be one of the odder bugs I've seen in a Bethesda game.

Kolanaki, w Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns
!deleted6508 avatar

Confusing your rifle for your gun, again, men?

lifts weapon this is my rifle.

Grabs crotch this is my gun.

One is for fighting, the other’s for fun.

HolyDuckTurtle, w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more
@HolyDuckTurtle@kbin.social avatar

Very weird how those were absent from release, but I'm glad they're getting added. Good to see I'm not the only one who found the lack of an "eat" alt-option annoying as well!

dudewitbow,

HDR was the only option I was suprised to not see at launch. Its a space game, litterally one of HDRs biggest use cases.

HolyDuckTurtle, (edited )
@HolyDuckTurtle@kbin.social avatar

Yeah the base colour tones are absolutely nuts. I spent a lot of time on launch just trying to figure out if my HDR display was bugging out or something.

dudewitbow, (edited )

I had installed a seperate lut and used reshade injectes HSR effect to get a pseudo HDR experience.

I absolutely hated the fact that even on the intro screen on my Oled, the space background was not black. I was like what is this madness.

shapis, w Why Unity's New Install Fees Are Spurring Massive Backlash Among Game Developers - IGN
@shapis@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve been using Godot for engineering simulations and I cannot recommend it enough for this one niche.

lustyargonian, (edited ) w Forza Motorsport 2023 vs Forza Motorsport 7 Comparison Shows Visual Improvements

Looks cool!

Billboard trees and lack of fog, detailed reflections and shadows were tradeoffs of last gen that at that time weren’t as perceivable as they are now, when compared side by side. I wonder what the next gen would look like? Accurate RTAO, RTGI, RTR and no ghosting artifacts? It definitely feels like we’re near the end phase of graphical fidelity. I mean we can improve infinitely but it’ll come at extremely diminishing returns and insane amounts of pixel peeping.

Maybe the focus would shift towards realistic animation blending and pixel accurate collision physics once everything is path traced and uses photogrammetry. Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

woelkchen, w Heretic's Fork - Launch Trailer
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Tower defense game, nothing to do with classic Heretic.

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