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Badeendje, 8 miesięcy temu

Agreed. The swamp is a steep cliff but it works once geared. But mystland is just vile. I do not understand how they thought that would be a fun addition.

The must, okay… but combined with the vertical terrain is stupid. For us it also killed the desire to keep playing.

Badeendje, 8 miesięcy temu

The game played fun and I liked it. But once at end game it’s: premade teams, yelling on comms and people that take the game very serious, combined with many features and challenges being time limited. Pushing a “must play” mentality, playing on FOMO.

At one point we where in a game, people yelling cause it was the last day to unlock some weapon. And I realized… why the fuck am I doing this… this ain’t fun. Finished the round with the guys, got the unlock. Uninstalled the game and have not missed it since.

Badeendje, 8 miesięcy temu

Enshrouded, it is surprisingly good. And there is so much content. I can highly recommend it to anyone that likes the genre. It got overshadowed by palworlds launch just a week before, but in terms of gameplay, completeness and optimization, enshrouded is miles ahead.

Badeendje, 8 miesięcy temu

Oh, It’s Kevin heart. That will make the humor mediocre at best. I’ll just avoid any material and watch it long after release.

Badeendje, 8 miesięcy temu

Shrouded. Its bizar how well it plays for early access. Gameplay is fun, the enemies a little stupid but can be challenging non the less. And the game feels well optimized. My dedicated server is running and using less than 2gb of memory of the available 20gb and no lag. Then the building, it can be a bit finicky sometimes but it allows for so much freedom it’s a fun aspect. Crafting also works good, in all I highly recommend it, and can’t wait to finish the playthrough and cycle back in a year or so to see what it has become then. But it’s already worth the money IMHO.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

Yeah, and they had so much DLC that was not even always bad value for money… but you need to have a hell of a proposition for people to leave that investment behind.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

Also EA has to understand more and more people have experienced their garbage launches and will skip their gold plated launch prices because of the risk you end up buying a lemon that is subsequently abandoned.

Making sure the gameplay loop is interesting and the game performs properly is important. Focussing on all the latest engine features that requires people to have top tier hardware is only good for marketing. Marketing then eats up a tremendous amount of budget without adding anything to the offer they make.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

Jup, even new iterations of their older IP seem to be devolving instead of taking that which was fun and expanding on it.

Maybe they should use all these behaviour experts to investigate why people keep playing games instead of figuring out how to maximally predate on your customer base.

Ubi does the same. I found the last farcy so Uninteresting that I stopped playing somewhere mid game. And the first signals from their pirate game are also not encouraging, while I know many people that looked forward to it.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

I guess all the twitter drama around the author matters less to the real world. It’s impressive to see how a vocal minority can completely distort what is happening offline.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

Echo… Echo… echo…

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

Oh pipe down, I read the entire thing when it was recent and in no way does she want what you claim. She has an open letter on her own website outlining her views.

Over the course of the years since this happened it has grown, morphed and people are now probably also saying she would be the one herding the trans people into the gas Chambers.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

Sure call me a bigot. The point I was making is this is an echo chamber issue for people who want to eat others because they are not pure enough. And on that you come out swing with the same incessive echo put stuff I was pointing to.

No matter how much you hurt the people you say you are fighting for. Go ahead, run your inquisition on people to see if they match your purity standards, don’t be surprised if one day you end up in front of the inquisition yourself accused of being impure.

You spend time fighting with someone who might disagree with you in this fringe of society but still takes on the biggest fights out there… and you would rather burn them than focus on better, easier, more impactful targets.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

No This is it, after a relatively lengthy twitter conversation she ended up writing this blog post.

And the anger and vitriol boils down to “why do animal rights activists throw paint on rich ladies wearing fur, because bikers in leather jackets will punch you in the mouth”.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s OK, people can read the content themselves. I have a lot of (maybe misplaced) confidence in most people.

And I personally don’t see a lot of hivemind but plurality of opinion luckily. The angry downvotes without response is usually telling enough, although someone did reply to tell me to “fuck off” this time.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

Everytime i return to my base the first thing that needs doing is checking which pals have now clipped Themselves into impossible locations.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

Plus… it gives the devs a softer influx and allows them to squash some bugs before we move on.

Badeendje, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s clucky building needs work but the world is cool and the pals hilarious.

Badeendje, 10 miesięcy temu

I tried the Game Pass version. No access to community servers and for me the game kept crashing (unreal engine crashes) even when in the menu.

Ended up getting the full game through steam, works like a charm, access to community servers (my own dedicated server) and the game is fun so far. But I have some grievances with the UI.

• Many of the skills and their function can only be seen from a specific screen, meaning you have to equip the pal and then you can see what the skill actually does.
• some of the screens are a bit cluttered.
• combat fiels clunky -building of items lacks snapping/ a grid so everything will always be slightly off.
• pals will automate stuff but just randomly dump stuff in chests, meaning my desire to keep stuff organized is constantly irked.
• characters are bound to a server. So if you play on a public one and it’s full, you are SOL and need to start over on another server (afaik).

On the good side:

• it is gorgeous
• pals are hilarious
• automation works funny with the pals used to automate tasks
• the world seems big
• cooperative play seems to be implemented well (you can even help other players craft stuff)
• crafting is done from chests in your base directly… so no running around collecting the items you need.

I do have to say that setting up your own server was a bit of a pain as the documentation is horrible.

• many of the server settings are in an inifile that does not allow newline characters making it a pain to edit.
• many settings are in properly documented where the setting or available values are not explained.
• dedicated servers can only be used with a password if set as community server
• the community server list caps out at 1000 servers so if yours is not in the list, you cannot find it (you need to connect via IP and then it’s listed under recent servers)