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anyone know how to get the cross-save beta to actually show up in vampire survivors on android? they just pushed a beta with it and I opted in but I don't know what magic I'm supposed to do to make it appear
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holocure devs have been cooking...something. https://twitter.com/HoloCureGame/status/1763428956324118537 looks like a brawler. I'm curious if it'll be inside holocure itself as another side game thing, or its own separate game. probably a separate thing, but it'd be funny if it was just parceled in with the rest of holocure.
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Mar 1, 2024 06:53
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...You know, I did not anticipate that the extremely reinvigorated soon-to-come Spellbook: Demonslayers would also now apparently elect to join in on the scene of establishing another, NSFW, version. Literally titled as such, even.
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Mar 1, 2024 12:57
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ExiledTinkerer posted:...You know, I did not anticipate that the extremely reinvigorated soon-to-come Spellbook: Demonslayers would also now apparently elect to join in on the scene of establishing another, NSFW, version. Literally titled as such, even. 
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Mar 1, 2024 14:00
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I hope it's part of Holocure, I'd be hilarious lmao
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Mar 1, 2024 14:11
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I think this implies it's a separate thing? https://twitter.com/holocuredev/status/1763430764476252371?t=eU2vfpB4bIaPy6OSn0FpIw&s=19
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Mar 1, 2024 17:16
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ExiledTinkerer posted:...You know, I did not anticipate that the extremely reinvigorated soon-to-come Spellbook: Demonslayers would also now apparently elect to join in on the scene of establishing another, NSFW, version. Literally titled as such, even. poo poo, am i going to end up really regretting giving these guys $6 or whatever
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Mar 1, 2024 17:43
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ExiledTinkerer posted:...You know, I did not anticipate that the extremely reinvigorated soon-to-come Spellbook: Demonslayers would also now apparently elect to join in on the scene of establishing another, NSFW, version. Literally titled as such, even. I am impressed by their bold efforts in the field of being more sexualized than the game based on literal virtual idols.
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Mar 1, 2024 17:56
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Mar 1, 2024 18:39
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Awesome! posted:poo poo, am i going to end up really regretting giving these guys $6 or whatever It's a whole separate product in Steam so unless "horny content exists somewhere" bugs you I don't see how it matters 
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Mar 1, 2024 18:39
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So, what, does one of the spellbooks have a dong for a bookmark?
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Mar 1, 2024 18:48
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The only difference I can see in the previews is the addition of arachnae enemies who do full frontal. I guess there's also the Legally Distinct Girl Demi-Fiend but her tatas are technically covered. If I was the dev's friend I'd suggest they change the porn sprites to normal ones and not make a pointless division for their reasonably decent game.
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I really appreciate the VS devs adding the occasional achievements. It's good fun coming back to it a few times to year to 100% it
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Doomykins posted:The only difference I can see in the previews is the addition of arachnae enemies who do full frontal. I guess there's also the Legally Distinct Girl Demi-Fiend but her tatas are technically covered. The gist from bothering to log in on Steam seems to roughly amount to: quote:Thanks for checking out Spellbook Demonslayers NSFW! There will be a free demo coming in the next few weeks that will give you a taste of the new mechanics in Spellbook Demonslayers, and some of the NSFW illustrations and pixelart that is being made! So....A Bit Different in Aims & Execution vs the likes of Beautiful Mystic Survivors and such---but maybe the first one to start normal and then go Beyond instead of the other way around? Maybe this is The New Thing catching a wave for devs to get through the algorithmic churn as whatever is going on with this side of Steam must have some lucrative bits to it else it seems a bit much beyond a hankering for some more layers atop existing pixels, animation flexes, and presumably some eyecatch scenes? Ironically, Malice & Greed would probably be even more thematically primed for this given it is so very much SMT channeling and the audience likely up for it.
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Mar 1, 2024 21:10
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quote:Unlike the old version of Spellbook, which was created specifically as a Vampire Survivors style game, the new version is like a hardcore action roguelike that has been streamlined and partially automated. This helps make it way more accessible and reduces the mental overload of using complex movesets with multiple weapons, while still allowing advanced players to dominate enemies with deep skill expression. am i reading this right? they are updating the game to not be a survivor-like anymore?
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Mar 1, 2024 21:21
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I am pretty annoyed by this. I thought the original was reasonably fun and having something I paid for being replaced by a 'streamlined' non-survivor version that is also suddenly super horny is pretty crap. (And no, I don't care if there's a NSFW/SFW split, every time a game has that the SFW version is still really horny, just with tatats covered.)
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Mar 1, 2024 21:30
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Oh, how truly weird. I do think this might be a good idea, though if you're not after a non-survivor game it won't be for you. When I played Spellbook you could really feel the empty space where no stage design and no actual finale to the stage that aligned with what little story you got were. Like you're a bodacious witch fighting demons serving The Butcher? But if you survive the stage you just get invited to two almost meaninglessly different options to kill monsters until you finally die? And you can see the bad girl's silhouette, is she empowering me? It was all very early access/unfinished design and having 5 stages that weren't actually different was lame. An actual game structure focus would help Spellbook a lot. Tatas and genre shift... I dunno!
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Mar 1, 2024 21:51
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I don't mind or care about titty stuff but I do care about a game in a genre that I like that I bought getting turned into a game in a genre I actively dislike and avoid purchasing it's not a huge deal because I didn't get super into this one in the first place but like... gee. thanks. neongrey fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Mar 1, 2024 22:22
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neongrey posted:I don't mind or care about titty stuff but I do care about a game in a genre that I like that I bought getting turned into a game in a genre I actively dislike and avoid purchasing Yeah, that's actually valid to gripe about.
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Mar 1, 2024 22:24
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my only issue is people should commit to the bit. make the breasts giant cloves of garlic.
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Mar 1, 2024 22:26
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Spell Disk is out of EA. I don't know what to think of it but I've played about 90 mins so far. The absolutely broken spells seem fun though.
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Mar 1, 2024 22:51
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If we hadn't just changed thread titles so recently, Vampire Survivors: The Gameplay is Not Sex-based would be a pretty good one.
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Doctor Hospital posted:If we hadn't just changed thread titles so recently, Vampire Survivors: The Gameplay is Not Sex-based would be a pretty good one. Probably worth the update since now we apparently have to be aware of the possibility
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I'm glad to hear that they'll be leaving behind the complex move sets of survivor-likes. VS is cool and all but having to remember W, A, S, AND D at the same time is pretty stressful.
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I don't know, my read of the Spellbook situation is more charitable in terms of What I Think The Subtext Is constitutes something more along the lines of the game is getting more distinctive in identity & systemic trappings to become more of a "Survivorslike" rather than just a "survivorslike (VS)". Trying to (re)characterize it as a Hardcore Action Roguelike (with streamlining and automation) feels more like a pitch anew presuming new eyes on the project outright beyond the, let's call it an olive branch, extended to an extra prospective audience of, at times, one-handed game folks. Based on Malice & Greed and the long, winding road of Spellbook to date---I have to give them a certain level of benefit of the doubt in terms of honestly meaning to do right and thinking things through in terms of systems and going for deliberate, singularly dev-driven games outright...pandemic did a different kind of number of them compared to the likes of Spirit Hunters. If anybody can do the whole 2 Versions, 1 Game thing competently, they have to have a pretty solid shot. At any rate, here comes Horde Hunters hitting you with The Mix Up~ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2178560/view/4141693732369218326 quote:Hello. This update brings plenty of run variety and balance adjustments.
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Man, I'm not sure how you're supposed to be Haz 5 in DRG:S other than just not getting hit whatsoever, and making sure you get the right weapons to their unstable OCs asap. Enemy damage scales way too quickly to even try and pick armor up, it's really rough. I think the main issue right now is that if you invest in tanky stats, there's no way to boost healing to compensate your larger health pool. And Healing Regen boosts are limited to the one artifact, which ironically is very good when you initially unlock it early on and starts to suck when your meta upgrades vastly outstrip the benefit it gives. (an extra 2 regen on top of the 10 I already have? Whatever.) Game is fun at higher hazards and the later class kits, but yeah it needs something else and a bit of tweaking to really shine.
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gonna continue being the one person talking about the game in the title of the thread and say: how exactly are you supposed to make any progress in the astral stair for any given character? am I supposed to save it until I have like a billion permanent upgrades on everyone or is there a trick I'm entirely missing I did grab the ghost character and finally ran around to get the pickups after many non cheese attempts but it still feels like I'm missing something
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I didn't find anything unusual about Astral Stair but I also have full meta upgrades and am pretty used to rushing 1-2 starter weapons to crowd-clearing potential for early levels. There's also using a cheese character like the bone dragon or red death that start with a free evolved weapon.
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I picked up Death Must Die cause of the dude who posts every Vamp-like update and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Though the loot aspect is simultaneously fun and annoying because I'd like to play around with poo poo but it's hard to find stuff that I'd want to play around with, especially the items with mods like "have a dragon by your side the whole game" or "cast spell on dash" or whatnot. Also apparently there's a bunch of limited unique weapons that were only given out during Christmas? EDIT: Also sorta funny that every high level build that I read about is just TIME + DEATH + WHATEVER (usually Justice). EDIT EDIT: Also I miss the presence of addable stats, I like having them in Vamp-likes cause it makes me feel like I'm getting incrementally stronger with each playthrough.
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ExiledTinkerer posted:The gist from bothering to log in on Steam seems to roughly amount to: You missed the bit down the bottom below the picture of the Vaginaga that says "Strong builds using 1 or 0 hands".
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flatluigi posted:gonna continue being the one person talking about the game in the title of the thread and say: how exactly are you supposed to make any progress in the astral stair for any given character? am I supposed to save it until I have like a billion permanent upgrades on everyone or is there a trick I'm entirely missing IIRC, the skeleton dude + song of mana works pretty well there, especially if you have the relic that upgrades him at L80.
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I'm loling about the way this genre is turning out after a year or two. It's such an easy format. Anybody could make one of these games, and add their twist, any twist, mechanically, visually with handmade outsider art like Hylics, rhythm elements, it's so easy to make a standard one of these and then vary it. But look at these games. It really lays bare the creative nothing behind most wannabe devs' wherewithal. And now it looks like instead of a "survivors" being a format for untapped creativity, by democratizing-simplifying the central mechanic, it'll be another thing sucked into the third person action RPG genre. It shows you how many people who wanna make a game have no other goal than that in itself, and no reason to do it. These are the same people who'd have been saying "I wanna be a guitar player in a rock band" 50-30 years ago. "Oh yeah, what kind of rock songs?" "I don't care, guitar players get laid!" But game devs don't. Just say "What crazy thing would I have wanted to center a video game around when I was nine years old?" and it'll be more worthwhile than the default. Go ask someone who's nine years old if you can't remember.
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Mescal posted:Just say "What crazy thing would I have wanted to center a video game around when I was nine years old?" and it'll be more worthwhile than the default. Go ask someone who's nine years old if you can't remember. Dinosaurs. Or maybe construction vehicles. Dinosaur construction vehicles?
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Mescal posted:I'm loling about the way this genre is turning out after a year or two. It's such an easy format. Anybody could make one of these games, and add their twist, any twist, mechanically, visually with handmade outsider art like Hylics, rhythm elements, it's so easy to make a standard one of these and then vary it. But look at these games. It really lays bare the creative nothing behind most wannabe devs' wherewithal. And now it looks like instead of a "survivors" being a format for untapped creativity, by democratizing-simplifying the central mechanic, it'll be another thing sucked into the third person action RPG genre. It shows you how many people who wanna make a game have no other goal than that in itself, and no reason to do it. These are the same people who'd have been saying "I wanna be a guitar player in a rock band" 50-30 years ago. "Oh yeah, what kind of rock songs?" "I don't care, guitar players get laid!" But game devs don't. I mean it is easy to recreate but a lot of people fail at that or don't fully understand what made VS fun. It is one of the bigger questions in game development of 'what is fun?' and as a lot of vs-likes have shown, they don't understand it
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People here would probably know, can you connect a controller to Steam and play Holocure that way? I've got a PS4 and Switch as options for controllers.
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Yes, for at least the Switch controller since I do that myself. I don't imagine the PS4 would have any problems either, aside from maybe not changing to show the PS buttons.
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Mar 4, 2024 07:12
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I currently have some sort of X-box style controller plugged into my computer and use that for most VS style games,, including Holocure. So long as the game has controller support, some of these games don't or don't have very good controller support.
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Mar 4, 2024 08:02
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RareAcumen posted:People here would probably know, can you connect a controller to Steam and play Holocure that way? I've got a PS4 and Switch as options for controllers. PS5 controller works so I assume a ps4 one would.
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Mar 4, 2024 10:13
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I play it with a PS4 controller without issue. You'll be fine.
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Champion Shift did start EA, such that you can Become various vehicles and such: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2391900/view/4134938332941767352 quote:Greetings Champions!
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