What have you been playing this week? Do you think others might like it?

  • RichByy@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    Amnesia: The Bunker.

    Excellent game. Minimally annoying sometimes, but it’s worth it. I play it differently than other games to improve the experience: I have a printed map of the bunker (with markings, coloring to mark where I was and where it’s safe and a legend), a small music stand lamp (to see the map, the room is otherwise dark) and a piece of paper to write down to-do’s and general things to remember. That makes it even more fun, while further making this game a bit more playable for cowardly-me. :D

    If anyone plays this game, you need to try that out! It really feels different than “just playing” a game or this game in particular. Try to mix things up so you can have as much fun too!

  • donio@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    Picked up Deep Rock Galactic based on recommendations in another thread, not very good at it yet but it’s a lot of fun!

  • Ivyymmy@lemmy.one
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    3 years ago

    SmokePatch Football Life 23, a modded standalone PES 21 with updated squads, kits and a lot of things, it also has custom things like the gameplay. I guess it’s nothing interesting in general.

  • loops@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    The new Season of Deep Rock Galactic. I don’t really like this seasons weapon frameworks, but there’s still some cool cosmetics to unlock. Like a plague doctor mask with a fancy hat. :3

    _*shpelling_

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      3 years ago

      remember to not update the software and lock it to whatever version you initially have. It’s gonna be very hard to amass resources if you aren’t planning to use dup exploits or play it for a very long time. (preferably pre 1.1.2)

      • skulblaka@kbin.social
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        3 years ago

        I don’t know about all that, I’ve put maybe about 50 hours into it with no dupes and I find that I almost always have pretty good amounts of most things. Sure, you CAN cheat yourself a gorillion zonaite and get max batteries right at the beginning of the game, or infinite of the best weapon fuse materials, but… why? They’re not really that hard to come across and you’re robbing yourself of one of the key reasons to even explore the world in the first place.

        • PenguinTD@lemmy.ca
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          3 years ago

          I don’t know how far you did in terms of BotW, but the way it works burn me out(upgrading gears and inventory slots) so this time around I just decide to dupe stuff. It make the work feel a lot more like a good play ground for exploration compare to really constraint weird grind fest. Let’s use your zonite example as material source.

          • can you play without farming zonaite and not even upgrade your base battery? Yes, in my early hours without dupe knowledge I managed to unlock all skytower and defeat some harder area mob that defends tower without using anything duped.(I basically started looking for duping because of the reason coming up next.)
          • can you finish the game wihtout zonaite gathering? I believe so, it’s not even used if you are not using auto build in the over world.
          • max battery requires 4500 charges, while realistically without too complex builds that use energy draining components too much, just 4~5 batteries upgraded should cover a lot of usage. BUT, even that lowers the freedom when you are on a quest to explore “fast”. 4~5 batteries just requires about 1/3 of total amount so about 200~300ish large zonaite. And they give you 1 for quest reward or from chests.
          • zonaite charges(the one that fill battery and gives you a bit of red charge even mid using your thing) and auto builds are the supposed zonaite burner. In terms of game design, they want this resource to dump into things that enable you do do something fun or interesting. charges and construct parts are the main thing to exchange capsules. And this is what breaks it for me once I realized how much work I need to do to start feeling freedom building shits and put them to work. If you play it like BotW, it just feels like a side thing that’s fun when you have it. But I don’t want to play it like BotW, I want to have the freedom to build stuff and use them as I like. Which needs a lot of capsules and a lot of zonaites for autobuilds(when the parts are from memory instead of capsules. )
          • since you can’t use auto build or capsules in shrines, so getting lots of these dups doesn’t break the puzzle. Can you like ride fan-attached machines all the way to destination temples/area without exploring? I guess you can, I don’t know since I didn’t do that. For my first 2 temples, I still follow quest lines etc.

          But it made my korok shipping SO MUCH FUN compare to without duping those charges/autobuild parts. Like it literally changes the boring and repetitive quests(like holding the sign in place ones) into a fun experiment platforms. Duping the parts also make fusing a lot less “punishing” as some of the better parts are required to upgrade as well. I don’t have to “conserve” just go whacking and don’t get too annoyed like BotW when weapons break. (as most of the damage comes from fusing, not the weapon states.)

          Note, I haven’t even build homes etc to dup weapons/bows/shields, and it just unlocks the game so much without the gathering grind. (so the old blood moon weapon/material gather runs is no longer needed.) Like, yeah, I really don’t have that much free time to dedicate to one game, so if I have the option to by pass any grind mechanics that also doesn’t “break” the game, I am gonna just do it.

    • Thebazilly@pathfinder.social
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      3 years ago

      I told myself I’m not buying Final Fantasy until I’m done with Tears of the Kingdom and now I’m sweating nervously at the release date next week.

  • l4sgc@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    I held off on Cyberpunk since even after the performance and bug issues were mostly fixed, I kept hearing complaints about stats and upgrade systems. I heard the next update is going to make a ton of changes and fix the gameplay, but I decided to buy the game now and play a bit so I can see the before/after.

    According to steam I have 4 hours in-game, but really that was 2 hours of tweaking settings to try and fix a stuttering issue that made the game unplayable. Turns out my mouse being set to 1000hz polling was the problem; lowered my mouse to 500hz and the game runs smoothly. That has never been a problem for me in any Unity or Unreal game, if RedEngine can’t support 1000hz the least they could do is add a popup to tell me that’s what the issue is so I don’t waste time toggling every setting and reinstalling drivers for no reason. After that I spent like an hour customizing my character, and in the hour in which I was actually playing the game I made my way through some of the intro/tutorial missions.

    Not a good experience starting out, but I’m hoping to have enough time this week to finish the intro stuff and finally be able to run around the city.

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        3 years ago

        Yeah I have a Radeon 6800, and when my mouse was at 1000hz polling even the SteamDeck graphics preset at 1080p dropped to 1fps. But after lowering the mouse polling in Razer Synapse, Cyberpunk’s performance has been surprisingly good. Now I can run the preset with high-ultra graphics + low raytracing at 4k, usually around 50fps.

    • Valliac@beehaw.org
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      3 years ago

      I just fired up a GD game with a friend last weekend. I forgot how to play since it’s been so long.

      Necro/Occultist all day long. BoneZone and the boys causing havoc all around.

    • Sacah@aussie.zone
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      3 years ago

      It’s a great game, I’ve been recommending people spend their money on it over D4, for the same price they could get all the Grim Dawn dlcs and have a stack more content in my mind (-:

  • • milan •@feddit.nl
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    3 years ago

    System Shock. I’m really enjoying it so far even though the difficulty can be punishing. Kinda reminds me of Bioshock mixed with Metroid Prime. The Bioshock connection is obvious, but I never figured Metroid Prime to be influenced by System Shock.

  • IRQBreaker@lemmy.kozow.com
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    3 years ago

    DayZ, same as I’ve been playing for the last two and a half year or so. In fact, I’m such a big fan I’ve even set up two DayZ community servers.

  • dnzm@feddit.nl
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    3 years ago

    I’ve broken my winning streak, and found my way back into Eve Online again. This time I’m in Faction Warfare, which actually seems like fun, and not an eternal blobfest all over the place.