Unity is also just a broken mess under the hood, so they’ve got a long technical road ahead of them to actually improve in addition to the reputational damage. CEOs usually don’t understand technical issues so I’m not holding my breath.

Very sad to hear. Cyan is a massive influence on me and I’m always rooting for them. They definitely haven’t had a smooth or easy road over the years though.

OK good to hear!

I actually really have enjoyed the game itself but you aren’t fucking kidding about the rest of it. It’s truly insane how much friction there is between deciding to play and getting into a lobby.

I known I’ll like the game (the franchise is one of my all time favorites), it just had a lot of technical problems on launch so that’s what I’ve been waiting to see improved. Sounds like it might still be kinda rough based on the first part of your comment.

How’s the game state these days? I’ve been waiting to play until it got fixed up.

For real. I had a project to make two full since player campaigns and it was waaaaaay too ambitious. I’ve always been hopelessly ambitious with game dev stuff and I still am honestly 😅

So fun to hear everyone chiming about doing this back then.

That’s so cool sounding too! I made so many half baked ideas honestly. Tower defenses, single player campaigns (way too ambitious ones), and so many more. It really taught me a lot about proper game dev honestly.

That’s cool! I made tons of stuff but most of it never got finished or released cause I just kept starting the next thing. Probably the wildest thing I ever made was a prototype for a sidescrolling platformer in wc3. It had keyboard movement and ability usage, jumping, a heart counter in the top left, enemies, powerups… It was kind of janky but it worked surprisingly well considering what I built it in.

Hey another kid who grew up wc3 modding! I did a ton of that too.

Does this have screen sharing?

This is a big moment for them. Can they redeem quarterly updates, or will we have another Nayos on our hands?

I really liked this game, but I used all my unlock points on the wrong squads and couldn’t progress any further to get new ones. I wish they hadn’t bound the unlock currency to getting achievements with each squad. It made it so if I bought one I ended up hating there was no shot of getting any money back. Otherwise it’s a great game though.

Gamers rise up /s

I thought I already responded to this, but thank you!

Shhhh, its just the lazy devs who also work super hard to make it terrible. /s

Everyone thinks their game of choice has bad match making, but it’s just salt most of the time and doesn’t pan out when actually tested and measured objectively. If match making was perfect they would win 50% of the time, but perfection is impossible because the system can only work with the players online right now. Those players aren’t equally good every day, either, nor are they equally good against all other players, or on all maps. It’s a moving target.

That doesn’t even touch on cross play, or premade teams, which further complicate it.

I think it’s just purely generated content. If you touch it up a human was involved and it’s fair game afaik

You nailed it about the gameplay in your guess. It was very cutting edge when it came out. The animations on the plasmids were especially memorable I recall. It’s interesting to hear that part doesn’t hold up so well.

I’d highly recommend you play 2 as well. It’s quite different but I thought it was the best of the series gameplay-wise.

If you like the setting I would also recommend you go on to play BioShock infinite and specifically the DLC for it. I won’t say why, and I recommend you go through the base game first (very cool in its own right), but the DLC is really going to tickle your fancy I think.

No worries, and thanks for the reply!

What’s missing from start? I don’t actually use the start menu much so not sure I would miss anything anyway.

This is true for a lot of people but unfortunately there very much are some targeting the people losing their jobs. I’ve seen plenty of people, even some on Lemmy in the past, who hate individual devs because the game they were looking forward to wasn’t good.

Is it a loud minority? Probably. That doesn’t make it OK, though, and it doesn’t reduce the mental hit to these devs in an already bad moment of their lives.

The first one, the icy one, is just alright. It gives you another area basically that’s about as much content as the 5 base game areas. The new one the iron rig is pretty fun, though I thought. If you really like dredge I’d say get both.

This is a good overview though I wouldn’t know how to do the specifics like get pro (I have 10 home), or deactivate all the infringing stuff.

What’s the UK trick? Is that just a better version or something?

Have you succeeded in making things less crappy? I’ve been debating the upgrade for a while and I’m basically hoping this is possible by the time I do it. I already use shutup10 on win10, but I wasn’t if win11 kneecaps it somehow or not.

One example I like is Dredge. If you took away inventory management from that game, you would basically destroy its whole economy and progression system. It would also get rid of the interesting way they make having tons of equipment mean you can’t carry as much at once, creating a tradeoff.

I think one thing people get mixed up is the limitation side of a limited inventory – which is often a good thing for creating choices, tension, and pacing – and the physical action of sorting and arranging an inventory. This second one is a perfect place to streamline in my opinion because while the limitations on inventory create meaningful choices, having to spend a while rearranging your stuff to fit something in is very rarely good gameplay. You might already be making this distinction, but I wanted to clarify that just in case.

Inventory size/weight capacity is essentially a resource to manage, and I’m a big proponent of resource management in games (and this is coming from a designer who tried to get rid of and streamline resources for years – it has some major downsides).

It definitely works for some games to do it that way!

That’s interesting about the stamina. I agree that having to constantly start and stop sprinting isn’t a great solution and it’s never felt quite right to me either. The only games where it feels like it adds anything are ones where running out is dangerous. For general exploration it’s kind of a chore.

Great points! I think you’re spot on that a streamlined RPG would benefit from easy inventory management. I’ll have to learn more about the armor and weapon system you talk about cause I’m curious to hear how it works.

They are, you’re correct. I don’t think it would work in every game either. Inventory management can be a powerful tension and choice device and getting rid of that isn’t always a good thing.

Extreme inventory QOL often just turbo charges hoarding behavior and makes individual items feel meaningless. Just pop it in the bag, who cares, it’s all weightless anyway!

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes easy inventory is great, but I think inventory management gets a worse response than it deserves a lot these days.

/rant

Somehow I missed this, thanks!

Do nwn 1 first please (way better game IMO)

Yeah and I thought taking whatever you need to train AIs was fine, right AI companies?

Yeah it all sounds quite reasonable to me, but I’m a dev so I’m biased.

Is there some meme in this community to post quotes? There are so many comments just quoting things.

Bowtie

I’m still waiting until it gets more updates but I’m so impatient to play it 😄

I think both of these could be great movies, but could also be done extremely poorly (especially helldivers). I hope they get people who like and understand the IPs for these ones.

And shoutout to the few games that make floating island and make a whole ass scene down below you can’t even get to just to be pretty and awe inspiring.

There’s just something about this song that gets me every time.

I like that they call out how layered she is. I really loved her in the books and I’m excited to see how they capture that in the game.

I was very impressed by Gwent in that they managed to make a collectible card game that didn’t feel derivative of Magic. Not an easy feat.