Vintage Story. Same as every week. I’m sure I’ll burn myself out eventually, but there’s no sign of that yet.
Started up Dead Cells again. Gotten to the Throne Room on a few runs, haven’t beat the Hand of the King yet.
I am taking another stab at Rimworld, after a long hiatus. Putting together a mod pack for multiplayer.
Specifically, I’m testing out adding XML mods to the multi-playerable mod pack (with the dev for the MP compat mod maintains themself): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3736544231
I’m playing The first berserker: Khazan. It’s fantastic if like me you have intense soulslike brainrot, it switches up the formula enough with the focus on skills and combos, it also has some nice parry and block action. Gameplay is really solid, bossfights are fun.
I’m moving at a snail pace though, I’m only at the 4th boss. I haven’t played much of anything this past month and some change but so far I’m having a blast.
I recently got UFO50 after initially not thinking it is for me, but hearing about it in Grogpod got me interested. I was born 1990 so games from the 80s really have more of a relic character for me, but it is still really good! I got it on switch because I saw many of the games have a multiplayer mode and that is fun, too!
Some games from it I enjoyed so far:
- Porgi: submarine metroidvania where you need to collect fuel upgrades to dive/explore deeper and deeper
- Party House: roguelike deck builder / boardgame; bit like Dominion and fun game for wife and me but also fun alone
- Devilition: puzzle game
- Avianos: Turn based strategy / boardgame
- Rock on Island: Bloons style TD
- Magic Garden: snake like arcade game
- Golfaria: Golf 2d isometric metroidvania / zeldalike
- Onion delivery: 2d car driving kinda roguelike… reminds me a bit of GTA 2… hard as a brick though
I’ve been playing space haven. It’s Rimworld in space with some more story. The basics are a little more complex but at least on normal difficulty staying stable seems easier once you’re established, it doesn’t have quite as much depth I don’t think. I’m really enjoying it. Good cool music. Fun boarding mechanics. Great little game.
I keep advancing in Cronos: The New Dawn:
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I’m at the hospital and already have the 3 chemical compounds needed for the antigen. I also just got the double barrel shotgun, exploring does pay off in this game.
I’m expecting a boss fight almost immediately, and I don’t think I have much longer left before I finish the playthrough.
One thing I’ve forgotten to mention is the cats you encounter around while exploring. I find it funny that they all seem to have fuzzy hair, like one of my cats, I’ve always considered this to be kind of uncommon for cats.
I started Alan Wake 2:
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I haven’t played long but the game seems interesting, I like the detective stuff, but I’m worried about how long Alan Wake will actually be playable in this game. I’ve read he has less play time than Saga, which I find a bit underwhelming.
The game is poorly optimized, it runs mostly ok without ray tracing except while traversing Bright Falls, where it drops to 50s and even 40s sometimes, and it also stutters a bit every now and then. I find baffling that FSR is mandatory, what in the world were they thinking? I don’t want to attribute it to laziness, but I don’t now what else it could be.
Maybe I’m CPU-bound for this one, I should just try it on my IPS monitor and see how it performs.
I’m confused by the claim that FSR is mandatory in Alan Wake 2. I played with DLSS but you can play in native if you want unless a recent patch changed it. What platform are you on? It is a very demanding game though, although funny enough I found the forest to be more demanding than Bright Falls. It does look amazing though, especially in HDR and with ray tracing.
You have also read wrong about the protagonist split, it’s more or less an even 50/50.
I’m curious to hear what you think of the double barreled shotgun in Cronos. I actually preferred the first shotgun that you can charge. Also, how intense was that hospital level? The morgue was such a tough fight, at least for me.
I’m on Fedora. Unless I’m mistaken, playing in native resolution still uses FSR/DLSS for anti aliasing, there are no other anti aliasing options. I would have liked to have a choice like in most games. The game isn’t a smooth experience, even in areas where I’m at 60 fps. Every turn of the camera makes it go 1-2 fps down breaking vsync, which is quite noticeable playing on A CRT. I also tried on my IPS monitor and the performance is more or less the same at 1440p. I miss HDR, I had an HDR monitor but it started breaking and got a refund, and I spent that money to partially fund my 9070 XT.
I haven’t played Cronos today yet, the hospital was quite tense, but for some reason for me the game isn’t as unnerving as say Silent Hill 2 remake or first person survival horror games. Still the atmosphere is incredible. I survived the morgue quite well, but I spent a lot of ammo and I was left with very few bullets, which is going to be a problem really soon. I already had to punch a mid-boss to death before arriving to the hospital lol.
To be honest, I find DLAA to be quite a good form of anti-aliasing, almost as good as DLDSR. I don’t have much personal experience with FSR though as I have an Nvidia card.
I guess that screen tearing is a result of CRT and being locked into Vsync? I used G-Sync and never had any screen tearing issues.
Shame about your monitor, HDR is addictive when you get used to it.
Yeah, Cronos is a survival horror that emphasises survival over horror in my opinion. It isn’t really too scary, just atmospheric and with cool lore and story. It’s more about scraping by on the edge of resources and ammo than it is scaring the shit out of you.
Still mostly playing on the 2DS and I’d recommend anyone tempted by 3ds.hack.guide to do it.
Nintendo Pocket Football
It’s a cutesy football manager game where you upgrade stats, choose tactics and watch your little players kick the ball about. I mostly lose.
I’m in between games. I finished Road 96, and was somewhat disappointed in it. It is occasionally funny, it has a charm and has its moments, but is mostly let down by too much subpar writing and too much terrible voice acting. Nice art, good music and some good ideas and concepts that fall flat of delivering the great experience it could have been. The political angle and story takes too much of center stage, especially in the second half, but the writers don’t have the chops to deliver anything other than a very superficial plot overall. It’s also just very uneven. If every character was written and acted as well as John, this could have been something great. In the end I don’t regret spending €4 on it, but I was expecting more based on the reviews and past recommendations.
I was planning on The Drifter next, but I might need something more action packed first so I’m also considering Wanted: Dead.
Playing through Subnautica and having fun with it. I just completed the Seamoth last night so I can delve into the deepest depths of the ocean.
I wish I could play it for the first time again, it impacted me a lot and I consider it one of the best games of the past decade.
It coincides with real life really well right now because my wife and I started snorkeling recently and it’s been a nice disconnect.
I got The Invincible in the Steam summer sale for very cheap. It’s a walking simulator scifi mystery with Flash Gorden aesthetics. Pretty fun but also very slow.
I’m going to play some Steamworld Build because a kind Lemming gifted me a key :) I played it years ago on a different platform, but it was early and had a lot of bugs iirc. I heard it got better.
I also got Portal 2 on sale for 2€. Good times.
Portal 2 is so good. The co-op is amazing as well.
I’m playing through Skyrim for the very first time
I didn’t realize someone existed that hasn’t played Skyrim yet. /s
Enjoy! I’ve got 5,600 hours in it, there’s lots of content there. I hope you have fun with it. How far are you? What do you think of it so far?
A couple hours in, I’m level 4 I think. I’m pretty impressed by it so far, but I’m playing on a PS5, I can’t imagine how it felt to play this on the original consoles.
Things didn’t really improve on my side so a focused playthrough of anything in particular is still a no-go, I did however manage to fix my issue with Division 2.
For some reason, installing Ubisoft Connect through Lutris makes it only work with specific setup and specific version of Proton (GE-Proton 9.27) - that however no longer works correctly with TD2. The app itself launched fine but the game wouldn’t run due to issue with Easy Anti-Cheat not booting. At the same time, changing WINE version failed to launch UC in the first place so I couldn’t even check if it would help with the game.
What was the solution then? Just install UC through the Heroic Launcher, that’s it.
I’m now using GE-Proton 11.1 and the game runs without any issues. I spent so much time trying to make things work as usual and it turned out the solution was this simple. Ehh… At least it works. Mindless slaughter it is (for now)!
Mostly Skyrim but also playing enshrouded with some friends
