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Codeacious posted:I'm looking for more chill games lately. Preferably ones that aren't story focused but have a chill and somewhat engaging gameplay loop. I was trying AC: Odyssey and Tales of Maj'eyal for that but the former has too much dialogue and the latter eventually got stressful in the later levels. I tried Wandersong on gamepass but kinda bounced off the traditional story structure. If multiplayer is allowed then deep rock galactic is top tier chill drunk coop For singleplayer stardew valley is peak chillout but I unironically have to warn about getting too into it because it absolutely erased a week of my life and I haven’t gone back to it since I know that’ll happen again
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 18:20 |
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The Fanatical Sanctuary Bundle looks good. Blood: Fresh Supply Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic Sanctus Reach Walking Dead Season 2 Walking Dead Michonne Walking Dead 400 Days Redeemer This War of Mine Final Cut + Stories season pass Considering grabbing it myself for Blood and Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic, which I believe are both recent rereleases. The Walking Dead set looks like the next two parts after the free Season 1 from previous giveaways. No idea on the rest.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 18:29 |
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LudoNarraCon is on, no dissonance required https://twitter.com/FellowTravellr/status/1253730091672260615 Lotta storygames on sale, people should play Wide Ocean Big Jacket for 4 bucks
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:01 |
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free pac-man https://store.steampowered.com/app/441380/PACMAN_CHAMPIONSHIP_EDITION_2/
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:06 |
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TIL that there's a group of fans of XCOM who are chuds who really got into it for the "aliens bad humans good" storytelling, and they are FURIOUS that XCOM Chimera Squad features: - black main characters - women main characters - aliens as good guys - female aliens as good guys - a nuanced take on what an alien friendly society might look like after a war where both sides did awful things - "a SJW agenda" And that's why it has a mixed rating on steam. (along with the other group that are mad because it's XCOM-lite. like. dudes it is literally 10$ they're not trying to rip you off.)
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:26 |
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Lol I was surprised to see a Mixed rating when I checked a little bit ago but the negative reviews I read just sounded like the people who are expecting a full fledged Xcom out of this game and none of the chud stuff but that doesn't surprise me at all to hear. Edit: Oh hah there we go... quote:Preachy, badly written SJW crap. Even beyond the pushy liberal agenda the dialogue and voice acting is just cringe worthy. Beyond that the gameplay balance isn't very good either. Returned for refund. Hey Firaxis/2K, keep your liberal agenda to yourself or you won't be making sales! explosivo fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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Blattdorf posted:In case you've been holding out on FFXIV's early game to get revamped, they are finally releasing some details about that. There's a live letter going on as of this writing - 13% quests gone, others have a reduced the number of steps required to complete them. Fetch quests are mostly gone. They add gear and experience to ensure you can progress smoothly, and they'll shower you with experience, so your main job can progress further even when you technically reach the level cap for the given expansion. No more forced grinding of sidequests. God ive been waiting what seems like forever for this
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:32 |
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explosivo posted:Lol I was surprised to see a Mixed rating when I checked a little bit ago but the negative reviews I read just sounded like the people who are expecting a full fledged Xcom out of this game and none of the chud stuff but that doesn't surprise me at all to hear. lol I did impulse buy the XCOM 2 complete bundle. Last night. Tell me how I hosed up.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:41 |
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Scott Forstall posted:lol You didn't, XCOM 2 is great. - Uninstall Alien Rulers to disable that DLC. You don't want it around for a first run. - Go into the workshop and get the QOL mods like "Stop Wasting my Time - WOTC" and Gotcha again. - Start a WotC game, it's the full experience. - Put stupid hats on all of your soldiers - Have fun! e: the XCOM thread is real friendly too, ask them if you need help or mod advice or whatever. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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Blattdorf posted:In case you've been holding out on FFXIV's early game to get revamped, they are finally releasing some details about that. There's a live letter going on as of this writing - 13% quests gone, others have a reduced the number of steps required to complete them. Fetch quests are mostly gone. They add gear and experience to ensure you can progress smoothly, and they'll shower you with experience, so your main job can progress further even when you technically reach the level cap for the given expansion. No more forced grinding of sidequests. I like what I'm reading.
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StrixNebulosa posted:TIL that there's a group of fans of XCOM who are chuds who really got into it for the "aliens bad humans good" storytelling, and they are FURIOUS that XCOM Chimera Squad features: Now this is what I call advertising.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:46 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:TIL that there's a group of fans of XCOM who are chuds who really got into it for the "aliens bad humans good" storytelling, and they are FURIOUS that XCOM Chimera Squad features: lol of course
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:46 |
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Blattdorf posted:In case you've been holding out on FFXIV's early game to get revamped, they are finally releasing some details about that. There's a live letter going on as of this writing - 13% quests gone, others have a reduced the number of steps required to complete them. Fetch quests are mostly gone. They add gear and experience to ensure you can progress smoothly, and they'll shower you with experience, so your main job can progress further even when you technically reach the level cap for the given expansion. No more forced grinding of sidequests. That sound fantastic. Might have to finally give it another shot. I own all the expansions but haven't touched a single one as I need to beat the base game.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:54 |
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im really enjoying chimera squad
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:55 |
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I will say that it does feel a little Star Trek. The aliens aren't really all that alien anymore, and the banter is pretty Joss Whedon. Personally, think it's pretty fun if a little jarring compared to the prior games and I'm enjoying the banter. The alien friendly society bit would be much more interesting if they didn't just make them humans-but-snake.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 19:56 |
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:I will say that it does feel a little Star Trek. The aliens aren't really all that alien anymore, and the banter is pretty Joss Whedon. Personally, think it's pretty fun if a little jarring compared to the prior games and I'm enjoying the banter. The alien friendly society bit would be much more interesting if they didn't just make them humans-but-snake. That does sound like a huge pivot compared to the whole “brainwashed bio-engineered vassal species deployed as war machines” characterization of the previous games.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:07 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:TIL that there's a group of fans of XCOM who are chuds who really got into it for the "aliens bad humans good" storytelling, and they are FURIOUS that XCOM Chimera Squad features: But XCOM is all about diversity?
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:10 |
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I'm buying Chimera Squad on principle now since it both sounds like a fun chill Xcom-lite and gamer chuds are losing their poo poo over it. I saw the post for installing the qol mods for xcom 2, I remember seeing a lot of mentions of disabling a "timer" in game to make it more relaxed and feasible is that pretty much what it is? A bunch of minor stuff to make the fine details less stressful?
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:12 |
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pentyne posted:I'm buying Chimera Squad on principle now since it both sounds like a fun chill Xcom-lite and gamer chuds are losing their poo poo over it. There are two types of timers in XCOM 2: - The AVATAR project timer, which is a game ending timer on the strategy layer. If it hits 100%, you lose. You can mod this out, but you don't need to - as long as you run covert opts to decrease it and hit ADVENT facilities whenever you find them, it will never hit 100%. Just keep playing. (That's what I've been told and seen in my own play.) - In-battle timers that happen on some missions. "Find this doodad before it explodes and turn off the bomb" type timers. Depending on how you want to play, you might want to turn these off. I don't, because I like how they push me to head for the objective ASAP and so far they haven't been too tight. The QoL mods I'm thinking of are stuff like "remove unnecessary pauses from the game" and "make it easier to tell when you're flanked" and stuff like that. Also unlimited hats.
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pentyne posted:I saw the post for installing the qol mods for xcom 2, I remember seeing a lot of mentions of disabling a "timer" in game to make it more relaxed and feasible is that pretty much what it is? A bunch of minor stuff to make the fine details less stressful?
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StrixNebulosa posted:You didn't, XCOM 2 is great. Awesome thanks ✌🏻
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:18 |
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anilEhilated posted:Well, the timer is mostly there to prevent XCOM 1's problem of the best solution to almost any situation being very, very slow movement of the entire team in order to trigger enemy patrols one by one. There are mods to relax or remove it if you feel stressed by it but it's not that bad. I am really enjoying Chimera Squad's Breach mechanic that's all "let's skip those bounding overwatch slow creep to trigger pods" as a solution. It's definitely a specific feel but it makes sense for the premise here
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Anonymous Robot posted:That does sound like a huge pivot compared to the whole “brainwashed bio-engineered vassal species deployed as war machines” characterization of the previous games. Yeah. The Bureau had much more interesting writing in that regard. It's a shame it was saddled with a mediocre game.
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anilEhilated posted:Well, the timer is mostly there to prevent XCOM 1's problem of the best solution to almost any situation being very, very slow movement of the entire team in order to trigger enemy patrols one by one. There are mods to relax or remove it if you feel stressed by it but it's not that bad and makes for more exciting missions. I thought it was because once you trigger an enemy they all immediately get to move next and if you arent turtling your way forward suddenly a wave of plasma descends onto the most visible soldiers. HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Yeah. The Bureau had much more interesting writing in that regard. It's a shame it was saddled with a mediocre game. I loved The Bureau. Its a Mass Effect clone and its biggest issues is you have to be really hands on with your team to work effectively but when it works its great fun. The plasma pistol DLC also made a lot of things much easier then they would've otherwise been.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:25 |
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Filament is really good, even though it almost makes me feel as dumb as Baba Is You did.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:28 |
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pentyne posted:I thought it was because once you trigger an enemy they all immediately get to move next and if you arent turtling your way forward suddenly a wave of plasma descends onto the most visible soldiers. If you're moving slowly, the goal is to catch a pod in an Overwatch Trap. As soon as a pod makes contact with XCOM they will get a free move to scamper into cover, but if your team has Overwatch activated they will get free shots before cover. If you trigger the pod on your turn you probably will not get shots on them before they're in cover
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:32 |
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pentyne posted:I thought it was because once you trigger an enemy they all immediately get to move next and if you arent turtling your way forward suddenly a wave of plasma descends onto the most visible soldiers. Speaking of are any of the other Bureau DLCs worth the 2$ it would take to pick them up?
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:41 |
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Overwatch traps are risky because if you use up most of your dudes' moves and some of the aliens still survive, now they get a turn to kill you.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:43 |
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is there an option somewhere to not show games that arent in english? i get things like this in my queues pretty frequently https://store.steampowered.com/app/1189490/_/
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:44 |
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For the nobody that's asking, Iratus is pretty good and certainly worth the $16 it's priced at for opening week. I was initially thinking it was "okay" but then found myself binging it til 4 in the morning last night. It's... very long, probably too long in terms of each floor's number of encounters, and it definitely has a mortality rate similar to or worse than Darkest Dungeon on standard difficulty, but it makes up for it by having a way to quick-level your minions when they inevitably get trashed. The conceit of being a necromancer running his minions up from under the surface (for some reason, we keep our convicts down below the dwarves) is fun enough and you have to show *some* flexibility with party design as you face different biomes. The uber-tank skeleton I had cruise me through the first layer was utterly dismantled by the second encounter of the Dwarves layer, where hard hits and crits make it really sub-optimal for any one party member to ask to take it all for the team. ...it's interesting. Not as good as DD (but few things are) but also occasionally more satisfying in terms of figuring out various puzzles, feeling a bit more uniqueness from the character classes and the choices you make in developing them. I'm curious to see what the 4th and 5th strata look like as they were held back entirely from early access (which I didn't participate in; I just watched streams puzzling over whether I wanted to buy it before deciding what the heck after refunding another purchase.) I'd say give it a whirl if interested; it probably won't disappoint. The only downside is that a lot of the classes are "unlocks" so you may not get a full taste of what the game can do within the two hour mark.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:44 |
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You can get Hypnospace Outlaw, Eliza and Hacknet in a bundle for $24 all-together (or cheaper if you own games in the bundle.. I had Eliza and Hacknet already, so it was $12.74 to get Hypnospace, cheaper than the regular sale price)
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 20:47 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I am really enjoying Chimera Squad's Breach mechanic that's all "let's skip those bounding overwatch slow creep to trigger pods" as a solution. It's definitely a specific feel but it makes sense for the premise here TBH I'm buying it explicitly because of this mechanic because I love the idea/aesthetic of it so much. If the rest of the game surrounding it is also good, that's a nice bonus
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Awesome! posted:is there an option somewhere to not show games that arent in english? i get things like this in my queues pretty frequently https://store.steampowered.com/app/1189490/_/ Maybe this option? https://store.steampowered.com/account/languagepreferences
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 21:07 |
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Chimera Squad has van art.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 21:12 |
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Hwurmp posted:Overwatch traps are risky because if you use up most of your dudes' moves and some of the aliens still survive, now they get a turn to kill you. The point of overwatch traps is that if the pod makes contact on their turn, they get blasted and then it's immediately your turn after. Making contact with pods in the middle of moving on your turn means that you'll get like half a turn of attacks on them before their full turn
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 21:18 |
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gently caress it, I bought Chimera Squad too. its gonna be an XCOM weekend. the breach & clear mechanics sound fun
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 21:24 |
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mmkay posted:Maybe this option? yeah i saw that but it doesnt do anything since i have no other languages checked
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 21:25 |
Anyone who has ever played XCOM/enjoyed a strategy game and hasn't plopped $10 on Chimera Squad is going to feel really silly when they have to buy it for $20 and enjoy it I've apparently already put 3 hours into it and I don't know where that time went
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 21:27 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:TIL that there's a group of fans of XCOM who are chuds who really got into it for the "aliens bad humans good" storytelling, and they are FURIOUS that XCOM Chimera Squad features: anyone that would use the phrase SJW agenda can safely be told to eff off
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Ainsley McTree posted:TBH I'm buying it explicitly because of this mechanic because I love the idea/aesthetic of it so much. If the rest of the game surrounding it is also good, that's a nice bonus It's a great mechanic, but overused. There are some "breaches" where you're just walking five feet in the open, and a fair number that have no options. Doesn't stop it being cool as poo poo though.
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