Any good tutorial videos you’d recommend?

Anyone have thoughts on this? I’ve only played a little, so most of this doesn’t mean too much to me yet.

I’m pretty sure the always online drm was used to justify transactions in there first place due to the real money auction house.

I disagree. There’s a deeply unethical core built into Steam that is distinct to it. Since you can sell your loot drops for actual money, they are more literally scratch tickets than your standard loot boxes.

https://youtu.be/eMmNy11Mn7g?si=u7fNSQI8WV8JNd4m

Valve does plenty of unethical stuff, you’re right, but the store isn’t really it. Go after them for their shady loot box gambling and really predatory monetization in f2p games that creates secondary gambling markets. It’s insane.

Valve has actual blood it’s hands and you’re complaining about the legitimate business front that covers for a deeply profitable and unethical core.

I, for one, am eager to ride the next civilization wave. They’ve only gotten better and better.

Playing Hades II makes me incredibly nostalgic for the first game, but I think I’m going to like the gameplay in the second so much more.

I wish there was a way to move seamlessly back and forth between the two for some reason.

Wait, a nameless hero will rise? Why would I want to play some no name character when I could be Guan Ping with a massive buster sword rampaging across a Chinese battlefield?

Let me know what you think! I love qud and DF, but bounced off Eve pretty hard, so I think our tastes are at least somewhat similar.

Dang, there’s an idea in here that would absolutely be my favorite game of all time. Unfortunately, the reviews make it sound unforgivingly dense.

I’d be curious to hear more. I bought it just to ride the hype train. I regret nothing, but I’m not sure what features would help me dive back in for more.

Animals and a few other things are now multithreaded, so it is something they’re working on.

I’m a huge RimWorld fan, I’m curious, did you use the fast forward button? If you stay on regular speed, it can really drag. I believe many players just leave it on 3x speed and pause when an emergency arrives.

Your opinion is valid regardless, I just find significant overlap in our preferences, so this surprises me.

I’m all for an eventual steam deck 2, but man, I’ve absolutely loved my deck and can’t imagine a reason to upgrade any time soon. It does everything I want for now.

I’m so confused. How am I being disingenuous?

Nothing wrong with asking honest questions. The point of this place is to foster discussion and community and sometimes that involves helping someone get up to speed.

Very pleased with bioferrite extraction being added for tribals. I created a ritual-focused tribal and just getting stone cutting took forever. Trying to angle towards electricity would have taken forever.

I’d give anything to design my own tanks for Hell Let Loose and then crew it with my buddies.

I couldn’t ever make the engine work. It just never clicked for me. So everyone talks about how exciting big numbers could be, but I never got big numbers. I just keep struggling and dying over and over again.

I tried it and refunded it. It did not work for my brain. I’m glad they’re seeing such success and it’s clearly a terrific idea, but man, it just made me feel bad.

Not excited for tencent, but the idea of an rts that de-emphasizes APM sounds really intriguing to me.

I would assume after. They’re already down, after all.

That’s just insane. Build a game as a live service, end the service after 7 seasons.

What a waste.

I’d love to believe lessons were learned, but I doubt it.

It came out in February, so maybe a little over two weeks a season? That seems insane.

I didn’t know either, so a quick google revealed she’s the mascot for voice generation technology that’s over 15 years old.

She’s especially famous for giving a live music performance where her likeness was projected onto a display.

She may be the first virtual idol.

If it’s got terrific level design like Elden Ring, that would be great. If it’s just random geography and templated buildings dropped every which way, I think I’d pass.

Almost everything about this concept appeals to me. If done well, I could see this consuming a huge part of my life.

Wall lamps! They’ve added wall lamps! We finally have the technology!

Also conduits can be hidden! Bases are gonna look so good!

Also books and bookshelves!!!

This is going to be my jam.

That’s a fast turnaround from the initial teaser!

I’m so stoked by this new direction. Rimworld has always been horror-adjacent with savage cannibalism, deep trauma that leads to madness, and the fragility of technology.

I hope this can really mix up the gameplay rather than just add more levers to pull as you progress through a routine process.

Can’t wait for more info. Rimworld DLC is like a semi-annual holiday for me. Always a good time.

New DLC teased! Get excited!!!

Yeah, I just remember reading steam reviews a few days after release and they were largely very positive. I was surprised.

I’m not trying to sell anyone on the game, I don’t own it, never played it, despise games as a live service.

I just remember all the negative reviews then seeing it seem to land fairly well with players who bought in. Could have been the investment principle and nothing else.

This genuinely surprises me. After all the negative press, it still seemed to do well with gamers. I thought it may have actually been okay.

I did not like Vampire Survivor, but watched a friend play it on Tuesday and bought it that night. It scratches an itch I didn’t know I had. I really like it.

Yes, I’m not implying capitalism is a form of government. I’m saying the form of government best suited to containing the excesses of capitalism is Democratic socialism.

This is always the goal of capitalism, no need to give it some alternative name on order to white wash the brand.

The answer is Democratic socialism. It’s our stuff they’re stealing, we can take it back.

Out of curiosity, what do you like about it? It always seemed rather difficult to learn as bare bones to me.

Are there? I haven’t played WoW in close to a decade, but have yet to find anything that scratches the same itch.

Nothing like sitting in the lounge of the TCS Tiger’s Claw, discussing the recent battle or the state of the war.

Nothing too dramatic, but I’m glad to see it getting some more attention. It’s a delightful game, but once you get to the end game there’s very little to keep you engaged despite the game clearly encouraging you to stay and keep playing.