troyunrau

@troyunrau@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO interplanetary crafting adventure SpaceCraft from Shiro Games (Northgard, Wartales) announced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the trailer makes it feel like a cross between NMS and Factorio or something. No indication of actual gameplay loop. Cautiously optimistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survival game The Long Dark gets a big update with a deep Safehouse Customization system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know one of the developers on this game. They would call me to ask about the science of Aurora Borealis while working on the game, and other similar things. They decided that they were going to reject some of the science in favour of gameplay, and fair enough. The game is quite good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will admit I had a nerdgasm at the portable pilet mini consoles from soulscircuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how I imagined “decks” when reading old cyberpunk (Snowcrash, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Valve is preparing to release SteamOS to the public (or at least to third-party hardware manufacturers)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for gaming, good for linux, good for a lot of the other open source projects involved. It’s so close to being critical mass :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 is expanding yet again with 12 new subclasses, including drunk monks, teleporting beekeepers and shadow sorcerors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Last patch, we promise”… a few months later, more unexpected updates…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be so pissed. Well, I’m already pissed, but currently and groaning and annoyed levels, not throw laptop against the wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering how well received this game was, perhaps it is more about marketing or misunderstanding the genre appeal?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Particularly for a sequel where you have a direct comparison to a prior version, it needs to be polished.

  For a new title, this still applies if it is part of a family of games (see Imperator).

  Stellaris was broken in many ways on launch but had so much promise that we were willing to go through that journey with Paradox to see what would become.

  CK3 was actually playable out of the gate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma 6.2 Beta released and Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 out now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a world where Plasma release announcements are gaming news. And we are in that world. Never would have dreamed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox are bundling four DLCs into Europa Universalis IV free for all players⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re slowly laying the groundwork for EU5 being released. And that means slowly end-of-lifing EU4. I expect to see more and more DLC moved slowly into the core to keep people buying EU4 for a year or two.

  Mods like Anbennar are doing more to keep EU4 alive than Paradox is, at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All five of you will get a free buggy when you next boot up Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks cool. But it’s no Mako

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check out the fancy new trailer for Beyond All Reason a really great free and open source RTS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.beyondallreason.info

  Looking at it, the engine is GPL: beyond-all-reason.github.io/…/choose-recoil

  But while BAR releases their source, it isn’t really open source (no derivatives): for example, with the many of the art assets, “all rights reserved”: github.com/…/license_general.txt

  It does look good, that said.

  The Recoil engine is interesting to me. It’s not something I’d seen before in the open source ecosystem (sometimes I live under a rock). I suspect the underlying mechanisms (although written for RTS games in the Total Annihilation family) might permit implementing something like a Paradox game with some tweaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next Total War: Warhammer 3 update will let your dwarves play tall by delving greedily and deep⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, Anbennar’s hold digging mechanics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 is looking "incredible", says Obsidian boss, but they did consider "throwing the whole team on Avowed"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love the first game, although some elements get a little repetitive. I replayed it this year with all the DLC and had a blast. Played it in story mode though, and just cruised through it to get to DLC I hadn’t previously played.

  I do hope that inventory management gets cleaned up a bit. And that save games import.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sci-Fi Puzzle Platformer Planet Of Lana Hits PlayStation And Switch Next Month⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming it’s on PC already based on this comment?