Any comparison is meaningless because for every bad thing you say, people will jump at you with the classic ol’ “its still in development”.

The fact is that it’s buggy, crashes all the time and you lose progress, it can’t be played like any actual existing MMO - it’s a demo atm even if you ignore the common resets they do officially on major releases. Until it’s actually released and can be decently reviewed from start to finish it can’t even start to compare to an actual released, playable game.

Same experience here, it’s a fun and entertaining movie. FR is still better but that is a perfect movie IMHO, it’d be next to impossible to match or beat it in any way

Never understood what people see in that game, it was like any basic ubisoft open world game - grindy, repetitive and filled with question marks to explore and “clear”. The ground combat was exceptionally bad IIRC, I gave it up after ~6 hours.

Now if you got Bend Studio to work on a sequel… I’d be interested in that

Yeah, there hasn’t been a lot of innovation in the genre and what we have is often a buggy mess - that definitely doesn’t help the adoption of ‘deep strategy’. I love games like what you mentioned but even I get sick of them when I start running into AI or optimization issues, where games devolve into snowballing or boring tedium after the first few hours, when the UI is a frustrating mess that makes me hate every second spent on trying to make it work the way I need it to work.

Or maybe I’m just spoiled by the amount of polish and thought that goes into games like factorio or against the storm.

I really like this game! Wish it had more pve content, as it seems it’s very dependant on pvp interactions to spice up the late game, but even without that the exploration, combat and gear progression is really fun and engaging. The game also looks great and feels really good to play, neat UI and controls for both combat and building.

Basically, if it were primarily a pve sandbox game with AI to fight it’d be my dream game!

I can give so many but you’ll have to narrow down your preferences a bit ^^

I’ve recently been playing Remnant 2, Songs of Syx, Age of Darkness, dotAGE, Helldivers, Valheim, Against the Storm… all really impressive and amazing games made by (relatively) small studios or AA developers with a passion for games. If you’re completely new to the indie scene you probably can’t go wrong with Hades, Hollow Knight, Stardew Valley, Terraria

Abandon AAA, buy more indie or AA games and you’ll find what you want

Does Fluent Reader count? Doesn’t have an amazing interface but it’s free and simple to use.

Tbf the social aspect was barely functional, I can’t add friends from steam ingame since day one and we had trouble joining each other games if it was set to private.

So I wouldn’t say perfectly fine but then again, no clue if them basing everything on a psn username would fix it either.

In terms of balance it does make sense tho, it was overshadowing EAT too much. Now it’s more in line with it, it has better overall sustain and reliability but a smaller burst (1 every 30 vs 2 every 60). Also works with stratagem jammers,so it might be better for bots while EATs are for bugs.

I remember being confused by the ending but tbh never to the extent it ruined the rest of the franchise retroactively. Not even Andromeda managed to so that! I still have fond memories of ME and I’m constantly tempted to replay it with the legendary edition, if only I had the time.

They will eventually. It is in AAA’s best interest to kill modding and theres nothing we can do about it.

Oh I think i tried at one point and when the guide started talking about inventory, playbooks and hosts in the first step it broke me a little xd

Got any decent guides on how to do it? I guess a docker compose file can do most of the work there, not sure about volume backups and other dependencies in the OS.

Wasn’t that more for games like wizardry or the more modern example, legend of grimrock? It sounds more related to what a dnd party would do than just fighting hordes of enemies.

Back in my days we called games like Diablo hack n slash RPGs

Tbh I felt less at the mercy of RNG in Midnight Suns than I did in XCOM.

It’s actually a pretty good game and the card system works well for it. I got it on a big discount few months ago and was surprised to get so hooked on it even despite the marvel part of it that I have no interest in.

Sounds like the original creators of these games should get the rights back for chump change.

When you’re working with purely digital products nothing is going to stay around for very long

Illuminating and very worrying statement in this context

Hmm, I bought a used laptop on which I wanted to tinker with linux and docker services, but I kinda wanted to separate the NAS into a separate advice to avoid the “all eggs in one basket” situation (also I can’t really connect that many hard drives to it unless I buy some separately charged USB disk hubs or something, if those exist and are any good?)

However I do see the merit in your suggestion considering some of the suggestions here are driving me into temptation to get a $500 NAS and that’s even without the drives… that’s practically more than what my desktop is worth atm.