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Bilbo, w The official Lord of the Rings special effects studio is making a cozy hobbit game

I initially assumed “cozy” meant it would be a casual phone game which obviously would suck. But it’s a Steam and console game, so I’m excited!

PM_ME_FEET_PICS, w Baldur's Gate 3 patch 3 releases today and lets you change your appearance and pronouns

It’s about time. Should have been on release.

mateomaui, w Baldur's Gate 3 patch 3 releases today and lets you change your appearance and pronouns

Aw hell yeah, more meltdown videos on the horizon

atlasraven31, w What are some good funny games/mods out there?

Left for Dead 2 has a mod that turns the zombies into Teletubbies.

gravitas_deficiency, w Unity: An open letter to our community

Nope.

You showed everyone who you are, Unity execs. You also pointedly did not even begin to address any of the other sketchy shit, like the vouchers you were handing out to try to sink AppLovin, or the silent and unannounced modification of your license agreement that was discovered by the community after the fact.

Fuck all the way off.

n3m37h, w EVE Galaxy Conquest Is a New Mobile 4X Strategy Game Set in the EVE Online Universe - IGN

I still want to play DUST 514…

MrSpArkle,

The slap in the face that was. They eventually even deleted the infantry kill mails. Dusties deserved better.

clay_pidgin,

They announced a new FPS called Vanguard at Fanfest this week. It looks like fun! ign.com/…/eve-vanguard-aims-to-be-the-eve-fps-tha…

n3m37h,

Yeah I saw that 20 min after I posted here, I’m def gonna try it out when it is available. Possibly F2P the only problem I see is CCP isn’t a well known company if they put it in their own launcher I can see the same fate as DUST 514. Mainly because people don’t want another launcher.

TheaoneAndOnly27, w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

Honestly the last handful of times I have played the servers have been so dead that it may as well have been solo.

tagliatelle,

there’s only a certain amount of ships on each instance

Redredme, w Unity: An open letter to our community

Trust is lost and will never come back.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…

I guess they’re feeling a disturbance in the force. Like as if millions of gamedevs suddenly screamed in pain and then switched their game engine.

BallShapedMan, w Helldivers 2 - Automaton Pre-Order Trailer | PS5 & PC Games
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t wait to place this with my son. We loved the last one. There is little better farther son bonding than rage quitting in unison.

Risk, w UK Regulator Grants Preliminary Approval To Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Acquisition

Could someone please explain to me how this is an improvement?

geosoco,

I don't think this benefits anyone but Ubisoft.

I think the CMA was concerned about microsoft cornering the cloud gaming market with the acquisition, so granting Ubisoft rights to stream these games alleviated their concerns.

I'm not sure why this was their concern though

RGB3x3, w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

I wanted to like the game so badly because it looked like so much fun.

But my brother and I spent 29 minutes getting a treasure just to be steamrolled by a group of three more experienced players that killed us and took our shit.

I get that it’s the point of piracy, but it’s not much fun to spend 20 minutes accomplishing nothing. There’s a reason piracy is illegal in real life.

Maybe this new mode will let me enjoy the world they’ve built a bit more

mordack550,

20 minutes? You are lucky! Me and my friends wasted entire afternoons of gametime because of insanely aggressive and skilled pvp crews. That’s the reason i quit the game, i just cannot handle to waste many hours every time a pvp crew targets me.

merc,

The balance is just way off.

If you’re a PvP pirate you’re never really risking anything. You’re probably carrying a few hundred cannonballs (5k gold?), some wood and some food. If you are sunk, you get your ship back fully repaired for free and lose only the cannonballs, wood and food. If you sink someone carrying treasure, you get their entire haul and just have to get to any port to sell it.

If you’re a PvE pirate returning from a quest, you don’t really get your quest rewards until you get back to port with your treasure. If you lose to a PvP pirate all that time questing was for nothing. If you fight a PvP focused pirate and win, all you win is some cannonballs, while you have the potential to lose all your treasure, the result of hours of game time.

Having said that, if you’re a PvP focused pirate, you’re going to be bored a lot. The game world is very empty so you’re going to spend a lot of time sailing around, hoping to find someone to grief. If you fly a reaper flag people can see you on the map and steer clear of you. If you’re a PvE focused pirate, it’s easy to find something to do, so you can have a great time sailing around, having adventures… until you run into a PvP player.

The game should really be changed so that PvP focused players have an easier time finding other players to fight. Meanwhile, people doing PvE content should have something significant to gain if they ever beat a PvP player. If they choose to turn and run, there should be safe harbours where they can unload in peace.

mindbleach, w Embracer says its ‘crazy’ outlay on platform fees exceeds its spend on game development

Every platform takes a third off the top.

A third.

I have no love for this company whatsoever. Most of the their revenue streams should frankly be illegal. But I’m not exactly thrilled about every glorified software repository taking a pound of flesh off all revenue, licit or otherwise.

conciselyverbose, w "Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications,including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton"

I don't think any of their stuff doesn't work now. Even stuff like Halo with anticheat has been allowed to work via proton already.

This doesn't provide any promise that you can use gamepass or windows store games on Linux, and it doesn't provide any promise that they don't use anticheat in a restrictive way on Linux machines. They can trivially provide a bypass in the cloud environment that doesn't get shipped to end users.

Hopefully they don't do that, but this doesn't really mean a lot to individuals buying their games.

geosoco, w Rockstar Adds 'Rotating Assortment' of Classic Games to GTA+ Membership - IGN

who tf subscribes to this?

SSUPII,

Its the membership for GTA V. Having something extra its nice, but why rotate them like this.

geosoco,

that's part of every subscription business plan, sadly. The rotation helps keep subscriptions up longer as people have to wait for things to cycle back around.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

Are people really going to wait? I thought the whole point was that either the service has to pay for the on-loan games, or if it’s their own product it encourages you to just go buy it if you liked it so much.

geosoco,

Yeah, people definitely wait. Don't have any stats, but I hear people talking about it all the time with regards to streaming services.

THe service does pay for on-loan games, but that's not a reason to rotate. They're paying regardless. THey rotate to try and keep things fresh so people don't cancel.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, as far as video, absolutely. If it leaves one you wait for it to come back on another. But for video games, I just assume once it’s gone, it won’t come back again any time soon. I think there’s kind of different expectations.

geosoco,

Oh yeah, they're probably not waiting months for something to come back. Companies know what's popular, so they tend to stagger those. So people will not cancel if they know next month or the month after is going to be something they want to play.

If you're only interested in one or two games, you'll just buy those (until they stop letting us buy games and force us to rent them).

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Same people who went crawling back to Netflix after their shared accounts were shut down.

yata,

GTAO whales.

WrittenWeird, (edited ) w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

Restricted to High Seas:

  • Become Pirate Legend
  • Earn rep and gold for Athena’s Fortune and Reaper’s Bones
  • Hourglass Faction Battles
  • Captain your Own Ship
  • Sail as part of a Guild
  • Sail as Trading Company Emissary
  • Live Events

Safer Seas:

  • Progress up to Level 40
  • Gold and Rep at reduced rate
  • Seasonal Renown at same rate
  • All Tall Tales
  • Commendations, achievements, cosmetics yadda yadda…

Can anyone give a rough estimate of how much game content is in Safer Seas? Either a percentage of the full game, or number of hours? Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

starman2112, (edited )
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Lame. They couldn’t just go for optional PvE servers, they have to lock most of the content in PvP servers. Guess I’m still not playing it

CancerMancer,

Yeah they’re going to do the absolute bare minimum they can to bring in pve players without actually giving them what they want as if this game isn’t dead af

mordack550,

The sad thing for us is that we always wanted to have a private server, not a solo mode. I want to mess around with my friends with multiple boats. I don’t care about playing in a galleon, let me play 4 solo sloops with my friends!

glitches_brew,

Kinda surprised safe mode has commendations… Sounds like getting the gold curse just got a lot easier.

Fraylor,

The challenge was never in the pvp. It was stomaching each of the tall tales that many fucking times.

Fraylor,

I have about 600 hours in SOT so I can answer this.

So honestly that’s a TON of progression without risk, but it’ll be slow going. Emissaries allow you to increase your rewards for a particular faction (reapers, hoarders, merchants, order of souls) so you can’t get those bonuses.

You need to be a pirate legend to captian a ship, and you need three of the primary factions at level 50 to become a pirate legend. Literally no difference beyond achievements and cosmetics. Captaincy just let’s you “own” the ship that spawns in, and essentially designates a player as “leader” whereas in normal play its ad hoc on who does what. And a captained ship just has a name and extra cosmetics anyway.

Can’t earn rep for reapers which kinda sucks, but makes sense. It’s the pvp faction. But many players do pve reapers as well.

I’d say safer seas covers about 75%.

merc,

Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

My guess is they mean that if you’re doing the Safer Seas stuff, you get a standard ship and you can customize how it looks (sails, cannons, etc.) from the NPCs in the harbour but you don’t get to name the ship, and any customizations you do aren’t saved for the next time.

If you do the High Seas, you can buy a ship, name it, and unlock lots of customizations (more than standard ones) which are saved with the ship, so they’re there next time you log in and select that ship.

I don’t know about the other current major advantage of a captained ship, which is currently being able to unload all your treasure and sell it extremely quickly. Without that you need to dock, then manually run all the skulls to the skull guys, all the trade goods to the trade guys, all the treasure to the treasure guys, etc.

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