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- Comment on Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to “inject a sense of crisis” 7 months ago:
Nah I think they work too hard and we should give them a complimentary vacation where they can lay by the sea in the shade of the guill otine trees with their shiny leaves hanging vertically, in wait for the perfect person to pass below so that they can detach themselves with a soft sigh and float down to and catch the passerby by surprise, reminding the relaxing CEOs with the lightest touch that forces are at work even they cannot control.
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- Comment on Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to “inject a sense of crisis” 7 months ago:
You know what destroys people’s productivity in the longterm? A sustained period of crisis and overwork.
- Comment on Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access 7 months ago:
Wow hell yeah thank you so much! I love mods but I really don’t have much fun manually putting modpacks together as I am after a coherent experience that is roughly balanced and fun, so I REALLY appreciate seeing an example of a collected list of mods that someone who plays the game frequently in co-op might use! Thank you. Now I just have to buy the damn game lol
- Comment on Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access 7 months ago:
Do you specifically not recommend sharing colonists but instead having a two base kind of setup?
What mods do you think make the choices you make in moment to moment gameplay more fun and interesting?
- Comment on Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access 7 months ago:
Hell yeah
- Comment on Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access 7 months ago:
Do you have any recommendations for playing as a new player with a friend who is a new player using the co-op mod. I know that isn’t the ideal way to do it, but I don’t mind steep learning curves so much especially when it is for games that are meant to be played for years and years like Rimworld.
- Comment on Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access 7 months ago:
Going Medieval looks interesting!
I have still never played Rimworld, I keep meaning to buy it and get around to playing it. I feel like playing it co-op would be a blast.
- Comment on Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access 7 months ago:
It is a bit hard to find info on some of the units and mechanics but the underlying game is just so damn tight and the turn based combat is nail biting, so it is worth pushing through that annoyance.
If you end up liking it but find it confusing feel free to reach out with questions, I have played a good bit of it.
- Comment on Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access 7 months ago:
whispers in your ear
“Eador Genesis New Horizons”
eador.com/B2/viewtopic.php?t=4724
Its like HOM 3 but the campaign focuses on many short games played over a meta campaign where you gain the ability to build new buildings and units based on the “shards” you conquer (each “shard” is its own separate run through of a short HOM3 type game). There are “local lords” that will fight for control of the shard but the real problem is when other gods similar to yourself also try to stake a claim on a shard and you have to battle them.
Eador Genesis is HARD af, but the New Horizons mod has been in development for years and it has grown the game into an extremely tight, challenging experience that you really ought to check out if you like HOM 3. The graphics are also wonderfully old school pixelated and simple like HOM 3’s are.
- Comment on Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access 7 months ago:
I haven’t really messed around with city builders, though I did have a blast playing Zeus and Poseidon.
What are y’all’s favorite city builders?
^ Not in terms of how many mods there are or raw Numbers Of Things in the game but in the actual depth and fun to the decisions you are making in moment to moment gameplay.
- Comment on Motive Studio To Work On Battlefield As Iron Man Game Hits 'Major Internal Milestone' 7 months ago:
Harsh Doorstop looks like it will be a fun homage to those old modded Counter-Strike 1.6 servers
Yeah except Operation Harsh Doorstop and the underlying Unreal Engine can take mods wayyy farther than modded Counter Strike ever could as it has vehicles and support for large maps :) . Hopefully the impact will be more like how Battlefield 2 mods were pretty much the only place innovation was happening in the multiplayer vehicle shooter genre for years and years.
I did enjoy the weird Counter Strike servers, I got so bored of playing de_dust over and over and over again that I would always seek out the weirdest servers I could find just because it was fun to see new shit lol. I don’t think Operation Harsh Doorstop is going to blow up like Counter Strike did obviously but I do think that small niche communities of players who like certain kinds of vehicle based multiplayer shooters will absolutely form, and it will be those smaller games that rocket the genre forward into a new era.
- Comment on Motive Studio To Work On Battlefield As Iron Man Game Hits 'Major Internal Milestone' 7 months ago:
Yeah I am on a steam deck so Squad is a no (also the community seems really toxic from what I have heard?), Arma 3 only really gives acceptable framerates in singleplayer (though not sure that is really because I have a steam deck…).
Hell Let Loose looks ok, I really don’t like Escape From Tarkov like games though because they invariably become pay to win with players being able to pay real money to have material advantages they bring in to matches, and I could not be less interested in that to be honest even though the overall game type sounds cool.
Triple A studios can no longer sustain the game development model and remain profitable due to b-suite and a-suite management grifting all the profits and paying for CEO golden parachutes while the QA, game devs and art teams can barely afford rent.
The unfortunate thing is that the amount of development work it takes to make and maintain a multiplayer shooter with balanced gunplay and vehicles is immense. I am not convinced an indie studio can really do it and succeed long term, especially if they drag their feet and refuse to add mod support (like the Battlebit devs) so the community can augment the small development team’s work when necessary. Battlebit is certainly not a success story currently on that front, but I am eagerly watching development of Operation Harsh Doorstop as it is a realistic shooter with vehicles and large maps made by developers that understand the importance of opening up their game to modding. Even if Operation Harsh Doorstop doesn’t end up being to my tastes in terms of vanilla gameplay that fact we now have a moddable shooter with decent gunplay, movement and vehicle mechanics means that future projects in the vein of Forgotten Hope and Project Reality will have a natural place to turn that can jumpstart development past the barebones stuff that takes up a huge amount of work.
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
I honestly think several commercial shooters built on a shared open source shooter engine makes more sense than a bunch of indie studios trying to build shooters from the ground up every single time. The important bits aren’t all the details in getting the engine working in shooter design, the important bits are the details of balance, the subtleties of gun feel and the flow of maps, these are the things indie developers should be worrying about in terms of shooter design, not making basic aspects of a multiplayer shooter function.
- Comment on Motive Studio To Work On Battlefield As Iron Man Game Hits 'Major Internal Milestone' 7 months ago:
I just wish battlebit would add mod support already so I can completely just stop caring about what EA does with the battlefield franchise.
I like battlebit but the game balance is totally skewed towards high mobility players with SMGs and if you try to play any other style you immediately get sniped…. so I really want my battlefield itch scratched and battlebit is just failing terribly at it at the moment.
I am thinking about checking out Forgotten Hope 2 again, that is an old school one lol.
Any battlefield like games I am missing that can run on a steamdeck? There is Renegade X which is a remake of a battlefield-like game set in the Command And Conquer universe. Fun but gameplay is still pretty rough around edges.
- Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61% 7 months ago:
I get what you are saying, my point is that we aren’t in a time where the status quo should be assumed to continue indefinitely, the status quo is entirely unsustainable so we know changes are going to happen we just don’t know what they will be.
Microsoft could lose its foothold on pc gaming in a blink of an eye and totally lose the pc gaming market. It is only a couple of wrong steps away from potentially triggering that, all Linux has to do is keep getting more polished and keep presenting a more attractive alternative. The sea of change will happen and it will happen so fast it will make our heads spin, it’s just a matter of the right trigger events.
I mean, I don’t even think Microsoft gives a shit about Windows anymore as an actual operating system (rather than a surveillance device), I don’t think it would be impossible for Microsoft to decide to shift over to a modified Linux based OS and ditch Windows entirely.
Ideally for Microsoft they would buy Steam and the Steam Deck so they didn’t have to do any work, but oh my that would be an awful timeline.
My point is, be patient and take heart, change is coming.
- Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61% 7 months ago:
I mean, I don’t know if it realllyyyy matters what the numbers are on paper right now.
The fact is, it isn’t like most gamers actually like Microsoft it’s just Mac has always been way worse with games… so gaming has developed a default preference for Windows. Microsoft has treated it as its corporate mission to destroy any brand loyalty in gamers by repeatedly shitting on gaming and just assuming the gaming industry will keep choosing to build games for windows without doing anything to actually help foster that.
Sure on paper, Linux is still a rounding error, but change can happen very quickly when it is simply a matter of a tipping point being reached, which oh boy if you like tipping points, we’ll the 2020s are going to be chock full of em.
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024 9 months ago:
Yeah I think you found a vehicle for the towing job that is purposefully broken down to make it a challenge to tow (I.e. the right front tire is totally flat so you have to lift the front with a winch for the tow).
Sorry you had a bad experience, it is definitely early access, I normally never recommend early access games it’s just there aren’t really any fleshed out alternatives of open world driving games with realistic physics and a large open worlds that even remotely try to do what Motor Town does.
Yeah there are open world racing games, but that doesn’t really get at the vibe of Motor Town with all these vastly different kinds of vehicles and jobs all happening together at once. The closest peers like Forza or Beamng just don’t understand the basic gameplay loop of why Motor Town works so well, so while you might be able to get somewhat of a similar experience to parts of Motor Town elsewhere, even at this stage of development I think Motor Town provides a really unique fun that for a certain type of person is going to an extremely addicting and fun experience.
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024 9 months ago:
Controller support works no problem for me both with the steamdeck onboard controls and also with a gamepad when my steamdeck is docked.
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024 9 months ago:
If you crank the settings yeah it won’t run well, but at lower settings that game runs fine even online in a multiplayer server with 30 people (though the net code is still a bit rough but that isn’t the steamdecks problem).
Because the graphics are stylized as low poly you are getting a whole lot of very advanced unreal engine physics delivered in a very resource efficient package.
Another good vehicle game that is fabulous for the steam deck is Offroad Mania. Opposite kind of game, very small bite sized rock crawling levels and procedurally generated endless obstacle runs. The game has superb physics, low poly graphics and runs like butter on the deck.
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024 9 months ago:
If your son is of the kid type “loves big machines that adults use to do work with” he will absolutely be obsessed with this game, I would have played the shit out of it when I was a kid. Wait I am playing the shit out of it, am I still a kid…?
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024 9 months ago:
I am utterly addicted to an early access game called Motor Town: Behind The Wheel. It sells itself as a driving simulator kind of like if Euro Truck Simulator not only had semis but also taxis, box trucks, garbage trucks, tow trucks, busses, sedans, SUVs vans, sports cars etc… you name it.
There are many different ways to earn money in the game from pizza delivery to logging trucking to driving a garbage truck to urgent taxi rides.
Because you can heavily customize and tune each vehicle, including being able to drop ridiculously powerful engines into vehicles, it means that while this game doesn’t sell itself as a racing game necessarily, it is one of the most fun racing games I have ever played. When I do deliveries with my box truck I’m not playing a chill simulator, I am hurtling a box truck across fields and power sliding around corners.
The physics are superb and it is just a blast to race around in the vastly different feeling vehicles.
What seals the addictive feel to the game is that it has an autopilot feature where your vehicle will automatically drive to waypoints so you can interact with this game anywhere along a continuum from a sort of idle game all the way to a balls to the wall open world racing game.
If you are the kind of person that enjoys just racing around in GTAV aimlessly rather than doing missions or if you love open world racing games like Burnout Paradise or if you want to play Euro Truck Simulator with your friends and make convoys Motor Town is a blast.
Motor Town has multiplayer and it is really fun to be on the same road networks as people playing the game in a totally different way than you. A lot of times semis and trucks go by in autopilot, sometimes you pass someone driving a logging truck like an utter psychopath addicted to speed, sometimes you pass a player loading a broken down vehicle onto their towtruck, sometimes you are racing along and see someone else racing in their souped up car and a mini informal street race happens. It is my ideal version of a chill social game, especially because again the driving mechanics/physics are superb, it is hard to go back to other games after it.
Finally, it runs awesome on the steam deck particularly because of the low poly graphics style (that might fool you into thinking the driving mechanics are arcades but trust me they aren’t).
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024 9 months ago:
Lol for most of this conversation I was sure this was a total overhaul mod for Oblivion.
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024 9 months ago:
Which was the Trine that was panned on release, was it 4 or 5?
- Comment on [Game] MONSTER HUNTER RISE adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck 9 months ago:
These losers better not do it to Monster Hunter World.
- Comment on Yeah, but... 11 months ago:
Actually the area I lived was pretty rural, that was precisely the problem. Roads were high speed, car exclusive roads with no sidewalk and if there was one people would look at you like you were a criminal for not being in a car so it felt wrong to use them anyways.
It didn’t matter if there was awesome woods to roam around in 5 minutes down the road, walking/bicycling there not only felt like doing something wrong based on the behavior of 100% of the adults around me, it also was extraordinarily dangerous and just not worth the discomfort of feeling like I was going to die any second from a 4000 pound metal box slamming into me at 45mph (and running me over because the hood is 5 feet off the ground for no reason other than it looks cool or something).
- Comment on Marques Brownlee's hands-on critique of the Telsa Cybertruck 11 months ago:
Imagine if all the money that went into reinventing the electric truck for no reason went into making mass transit options better. What a colossal waste.
- Comment on Yeah, but... 11 months ago:
When I was a kid, I would get up and on my bike around 7-8am, would not be back until dark at least, and just go… anywhere? Ride 10 miles across the whole town, through construction, to the creek or up the big ass hill a little outside of town? Sure. And the wild thing about this is that it was completely normal.
That sounds awesome, bicycles give you superpowers in landscapes that aren’t violently hostile to anything that isn’t cars. I grew up on the side of a highway basically, I could only bike up and down my driveway basically.
Now I take so much pleasure in just shooting over to the grocery store on my bike. Every single time I do it I am thankful because of how much that capacity was utterly denied by where I lived.
- Comment on Am I the only one pissed off at these holiday sales? (US) 11 months ago:
I have never understood how these pathetic replacements of cultural holidays with sales days at a basic level are even slightly believable. The whole point of 99% of sales is to get people into the mood for buying things they otherwise wouldn’t…. but people are already the most in the mood to buy shit on black friday or cyber monday they will be all year… which makes it the absolute least sensible time to actually offer genuine discounts on items.