My wife and I have been trying to rein in our spending, get ourselves into a stable space and get proper savings going.

… that’s literally the only thing that stopped me from pledging on the patreon and begging for access to the alpha testing…I am so so so soooooo psyched for it! And those graphics… fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck 🥵 PS2 crusty enough to bring back memories of great games from my youth, but with a bit of extra that shows it’s an intentional choice. Like yeah, it looks like they’re all cubist renditions of people…but then there’s volumetric fog, and systems for how windy interacts with individual leaves on the trees…
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Beta Decay!
https://www.rotoscopestudios.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1416070/beta_decay/

THE GAME
Mankind has expanded its reach beyond the Sol System. Factions, corporations and syndicates are locked in a political and economic strife. The inevitable destruction and decay of a colonized exoplanet is imminent.
beta decay is a dark, dystopian RPG where you can build spaceships, join factions, and fight for territory in a newly discovered star system. Live amongst the colonists as a citizen of the new frontier. Be an engineer repairing starships, to a syndicate leader, executing raids deep within a labyrinthic neon city.

Was meant to hit early access late last year, but the (pretty sure?) solo dev decided to hold off until they had hit all of their EA Roadmap goals. I have, like a lot of people, been burned by The Hype Machine™…but I can’t help but be almost unbearably stoked for this.

Ticks sooo many of my personal boxes:

• Massive world, built with intent ✅
• Dystopian far futurey shit ✅
• Grimey PS2-esque graphics ✅
• Customise everything ✅
• Big fuck off mechs that I’m positive will be personally incredibly frustrating to figure out how to operate ✅
• Actions have actual consequences and players have a meaningful impact on the world state ✅
• Destructible world ✅
• Multiplayer but not always online ✅

YouTube video by JakeyPants about impending early access.

The vibes are just…😘🤌 Fucking chefs kiss. I’m almost definitely getting it as soon as Early Access drops… I’ve been burnt, but I can’t help but hope this gets seen all the way through, and will happily buy it in EA.

Y’all need to learn about jokes.

Sure you can. You won’t finish, but as long as that step is really quick you can run a marathon…

Was going to say this. There was an entire month and a half in mid-2020 where the launcher SAID I was logged in, but any time I tried to collect a free game or play something I had already installed it would stick me into a login loop. Customer Service was mystified. I was on windows 10, but the crash logs said I was on an unsupported OS. I uninstalled and reinstalled and that didn’t help. Ended up wiping the drive it was installed on and that fixed it?
Well…“fixed”. Every time I would shutdown or restart my pc I’d have to login again.

Compared to that bs, having to login on heroic once in a while is positively smooth sailing. Seems to be mostly when heroic updates.

Not 3rd person, but A Story About My Uncle is a really good action platform-puzzler. Definitely worth picking up.

👍 good for you.

I enjoyed the first one enough to play through the whole way once, and play part way a few times after that. Like you said though. The writing was dull, and it seemed like they wanted it to be gritty, but funny, and the satire was too much. The writing was so weak that I didn’t even bother pirating the second one to see if I wanted to buy it. I think I might have chuckled once or twice on my first play through. And the rest of my runs, I just kinda zoned out of all the story stuff and shot things. The combat wasn’t amazing either.

That’s cool as fuck.

Because they made several good games. They’ve got the formula down. They’re essentially the Ja Rule of gaming…for this moment in time anyway

Black & White did really cool things, but they didn’t really work

🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely!

I think I made it to the 3rd mission before the mechanics showed how broken they were. It was probably obvious before that, but I was a kid, give me a break.

Maybe this time will be different, but I won’t hold my breath.

I won’t even be paying attention to see how it pans out. I’ll lay money down on it being abandoned and a broken jank-ass mess.

Once known as the father of Fable during his tenure at Lionhead, the developer went through a stint of disappointing fans in the Godus era of current studio 22cans, all after the game received years of development and Kickstarter support but then never launched…

Only criticism out of the whole article. And they left the kiddie gloves on. Wonder how much Pete paid for them to essentially felate him.

Guy has some ok ideas, but he needs someone above him to reign in his bullshit. Fable was great, flawed but great. Black & White was a classic and brought a real innovative experience compared to other games at that time. Godus started off really interesting, and then Pete just couldn’t help himself, feature creep, adding shit no one wanted, and then abandoned it after it became clear that he’d fucked it up.
The man is a shitty version of Midas, every good thing he touches turns to shit.

No idea bud. Never knew anyone who owned an Acer monitor. At best I might have seen one in a shop a decade ago.

Personally I’ve had a few AOC monitors, and have been pleased with them. Good performance for the price. Caveat that this is personal opinion

Installing GAMMA, or rather NOT installing it, is one of the few frustrations I’ve had with Linux. I don’t play competitive online games, so no issues with anticheat. I wouldn’t say that Linux is any harder than windows at all now, just different things are difficult.

I reeeeaaaally want to play it, but for whatever reason I can’t seem to follow the Linux installation instructions well enough to actually install it…😭

Haven’t bought a “AAA” game in a decade. Been really easy actually.

this article (and specifically Hytale’s world-gen explainer) are just absolutely ridiculous.

It’s like they’re just saying words they think people will like hearing without understanding what they actually mean…

Yeah, I usually KNOW how to get past an obstacle… sausage fingers are my issue, not inability to follow instructions or basic deduction skills.

I’ve got a fiver on it being hacked to cheat in competitive games.

Yeah, feels like they do a lot of things very poorly 🤷