Quetzalcutlass

@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  With the DLCs it’s half a terabyte.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fans Are Accusing Ubisoft Of Using "Incredibly Disappointing" AI Art In Anno 117⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A probable timeline:

  • “We’re investing in artificial intelligence to boost our teams’ productivity.”

  • “Our shift to AI has streamlined our development processes (according to middle management), so we’ve laid off a number of workers as redundant.”

  • “The people who remain don’t know which AI assets were meant to be placeholders.”

  • “We’re delaying our financials and suspending trading of our stock, but there’s no cause for alarm.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUBG publisher attempts to purge anti-AI employees after $680 million Q3 profits and generative AI pivot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *after watching Embracer implode*

  Krafton: “I can do worse, faster.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's launch day patch notes are basically gun speed dating, and its endgame is a big fight in map soup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as it ever was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Into Sandy’s City” slaps though. Whoever decided to combine metal with harpsichord was a musical genius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ARK: Survival Ascended gets bumped up to Steam Deck Verified⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does Ascended compare to Evolved? I know most of the community is sticking to the pre-Aquatica branch of the latter due to the surprise vAquatica update breaking everything (including mod compatibility, long after most modders left the game). Is there any reason to play the newer one besides shinier graphics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new survival game VEIN looks awesome with intelligent AI and interactions with nearly everything⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing Vein lately and it’s great. It’s basically a 3D version of Project Zomboid, openly taking a ton of direct inspiration from that game.

  It has a lot of rough edges due to how early in development it is, but it’s improving rapidly with each update. The skeleton of systems already in place are genuinely impressive, and if it continues on its current trajectory it might one day rival PZ as the definitive realistic zombie survival game.

  The one thing I hate is its current zombie spawning model, with new ones appearing too fast and too close to the player or in empty rooms they couldn’t possibly get into. You can be exploring a medium sized building and by the time you’re in the second half, zombies will already be banging on the doors of rooms you just cleared in the first.

  It’s also way too easy on the default difficulty right now, but that’s mostly due to how much more control you have in combat compared to Project Zomboid. It’s trivial to go for the head with every attack, for example.

  I highly recommend checking it out. The demo is the same as the full game, just with a limit on the area of the map you can explore and the maximum skill level you can achieve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight the nazis to rescue your dog in the new free shooter Darkenstein 3D out now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always played Lawful Neutral mages in Baldur’s Gate 2 because which familiar you summoned depended on alignment, and LN got a snarky ferret companion.

  I wish the feature was more fleshed out - familiars didn’t react to narrative events and you could run through his entire dialog tree in about two minutes. There are thousands of mods for BG2; surely one of them expands the familiar system?

  And Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a squirrel riding a skeletal cat that was pretty awesome, though I think it was a preorder bonus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight the nazis to rescue your dog in the new free shooter Darkenstein 3D out now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “You kidnapped Blazkowitz’s dog’s human!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardewy warlock schooler Witchbrook delayed to 2026, but its devs have magicked up an interactive map⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how vibrant the indie dev scene is nowadays. I completely forgot about this game despite being incredibly excited for it. There have been so many amazing indie games recently that even ones that meet every one of my interests can fall through the cracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any interesting stories? It’s always amusing to read about how little power it takes for someone to become insufferable. Some maintainers can be incredibly petty tyrants.

  For instance, half the FAQ for CDDA is about avoiding or navigating around the whims of a few, let’s call them opinionated, team members who gatekeep development of specific systems in the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Neurocracy, it's up to you to solve a murder mystery through the internet's greatest resource, Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And if multiplayer doesn’t bother you, the MMO The Secret World was one of the few other video games that expected players to do outside research to solve quests. That or already have a degree in history, art, and the occult.

  It was relaunched as a F2P game several years ago. I don’t know if they kept the obscurity aspect or toned it down to be more friendly to casual players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky Voyagers free update released with modular Corvette ships you build yourself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can walk around on (parts of) capital ships, the frigates that follow them (though that’s only used for repairs), and the corvettes added in this update. The only ships you can’t explore are the single-person fighters the game started out with, which makes perfect sense given their size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brutal survival game Vintage Story gets another huge update, plus work on an Adventure Mode announced⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve also disabled purchasing on their itch.io page, so now you have to get it direct (it’s not on Steam or other stores). They claim that itch.io haven’t paid them “for over 3 months”. In their Discord, the Vintage Story developers expanded on this and said itch are “withholding a six figure sum of our revenue share”.

  That looks like something that deserves its own post!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a new Platinum game hidden in the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake that's actually a remake of a rework of a Zone of the Enders 3 prototype⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kept a separate save file on the original just to play that minigame on demand. It’s peak Kojima, putting an entire section with gameplay and art assets never used anywhere else behind an Easter egg that 99.9% of players will miss. You rarely see that kind of budgetary mismanagement (in a good way?) these days.

  I’m glad the remake kept it and expanded on it, especially since the previous HD rereleases cut the scene from the game entirely. Everything I’ve heard about Delta makes me tempted to pick it up despite usually waiting for sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can build 136 million different houses in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's new DLC, if you really must⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What gets me is how small a hundred million is by that metric. That’s less than thirteen customizable items at four options per item, or eleven if there are six options per item.

  Ironically the more choices, the less impressive their touted number becomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Eurogamer] Grounded 2 early access review⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first Grounded ranks up there with Abiotic Factor as the best survival crafting game of the last several years. I can’t wait for this to mature a little more before diving in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Official Art] Journey Box Art⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Journey is one of those games I wish I could forget and experience for the first time again. It was amazing, and probably the only game where anonymous multiplayer actually made for a better experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Co-op climbing game PEAK is a truly great time with friends⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The hunger mechanic killed it for me. It’s a whacky co-op game; why include a system that punishes you for taking your time messing around with friends?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also don’t buy this if you have small children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Hat in Time gets a surprise update with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good to know, thanks! It still ran fine with mods before, it was just the initial load to the main menu that was affected. If you didn’t experience anything then hopefully it was fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Hat in Time gets a surprise update with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How’s the game with mods these days? The last time I tried them was when support was fairly new, and adding even a few mods would bloat the game’s launch time to unbearable levels (several minutes on an SSD).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MUDs and early MMOs used to have skill rust. It sucked and was universally hated. There’s a reason most games don’t implement something like this, but developers seem to insist on bringing up long-buried ideas and calling them innovation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition announced with Steam Deck support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad news for modders. From their FAQ:

  The types of files that can be modified:

  • Animations
  • Textures
  • Models
  • Videos
  • Sounds
  • Shaders (only on PC)

  Modification of any other file types (like scripts, configs or libraries) is not allowed and the files will not be loaded by the game and accepted by moderation.

  So it looks like they are dropping the vast majority of existing mod support despite the new Steam Workshop integration. I guess we won’t see updated versions of Anomoly or any of the other mods that kept the game alive and popular all this time.

  The limitation on modified configs is especially baffling. In the old games they were the primary way of fixing the game’s jank, and you shouldn’t be able to make anything malicious with them (short of bad entries that crash the game).

  IIRC the old XRay engine is open source (or the source leaked and the devs gave the okay for modders to improve it), so here’s hoping someone can reverse engineer and backport any major improvements this edition adds to the originals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition announced with Steam Deck support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The press release noted that if you already have the originals on PC you will get the Enhanced Editions free, and the originals are included for anyone who purchases the Enhanced Editions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft’s VR support is now gone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t there a major graphics update coming soon? Maybe they didn’t feel like it was worth testing and maintaining VR compatibility with all the changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a new Honkai game on the way with characters from Star Rail and Impact 3rd, and it sure does look like a Pokemon clone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A Pokémon-like spinoff of Honkai? Isn’t that basically what Star Rail was, with its type system and turn-based battles?

  Pokemon doesn’t seem like the only game that HoYoVerse is going after, as there’s been leaks and other social media accounts spotted to do with a game that might be in the vein of Stardew Valley.

  Gacha crops, gacha tools, gacha townsfolk, paid assistants… This sounds awful and like they’ll make a fucking mint off it. There’s so much room for unethical monetization in the farming genre!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know you all have big plans for this man⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The vampire stuff in Oblivion is interesting but short. There’s maybe an hour of content spread across the entire game world.

  Morrowind had multiple vampire clans you could join (that were completely hidden and hostile to anyone not infected with their strain of the virus, so probably missed by 99% of players not using a guide), each with their own specialties and questlines, and there were unique interactions with NPCs and factions based on the progression of your vampirism.

  It’s disappointing that Oblivion was such a step backward in that regard. My guess is the expense of universal voice acting made detailed optional questlines and responsive NPCs prohibitively expensive. Even Skyrim, which dedicated an entire DLC to vampires, was lacking compared to what was arguably a throwaway feature from Morrowind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨V Rising's first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crafting will be a bit easier too now as you can take ingredients from your vault without having to actually go to your vault to get them.

  Why is “craft from chests” always only added to survival crafting games ages after launch despite players begging for it from day one? It should be considered a basic QoL feature at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨V Rising's first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it require a connection for single player? I’ve been playing solo since early Early Access with no problem, but I haven’t tested with my WiFi off.