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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I've only just finished my own first playthrough of Rebirth on PC after 3 weeks of playing it basically every day, having done every single available piece of side content possible. I was going to...

    I've only just finished my own first playthrough of Rebirth on PC after 3 weeks of playing it basically every day, having done every single available piece of side content possible. I was going to make a mini-essay post of my own but you beat me to the punch, so I'll just leave a few thoughts on what really stood out to me the most.

    This game feels so intensely like a love letter to all the fans of the series. All the locations, music, characters, and pivotal moments fans have grown to love over the past 28 years are revisited and re-imagined with such an absurdly high level of quality and care. It's also ridiculously content-dense without being stale - with new minigames and mechanics being introduced with each region you travel to it rarely gets old or repetitive, choosing to do all the minigames, side quests, and exploration content can easily double the playtime of a run, and just the main story quest itself is rather lengthy and healthily populated with unique bosses, gorgeous cutscenes that don't last too long, and sometimes a minigame, which mercifully doesn't require you to score well in to proceed but rewards you if you do.

    I enjoyed Remake but I did have a number of complaints about it, namely the confusing narrative and the lack of opportunity to really master the otherwise excellent combat before going into hard mode due to how linear and relatively short the story was. By having so much more room and time to tell the story and let players fight, Rebirth solved these problems and then some. In fact, I think the only big gripe I have about Rebirth is that it took so long for me to finish my first playthrough that it's delayed me from playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 for 2 weeks.

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    Whoa, you're telling me someone else has actually played IXION other than me? And you are right about the game having a rather unfair difficulty and knowledge spike, compared to the more gradual...

    Whoa, you're telling me someone else has actually played IXION other than me? And you are right about the game having a rather unfair difficulty and knowledge spike, compared to the more gradual progression and challenge that both Frostpunk main campaigns have (scenarios are excluded because Fall of Winterhome assumes you beat the main story and is just max difficulty right off the bat).

    IXION actually requires significantly more resource micromanagement than Frostpunk does due to needing to manually distribute goods between sectors, needing to worry about docking bay storage limits as a full docking bay can't receive new resource shipments, waste management in both industrial AND housing units, roads taking up actual space on the grid, resources taking actual time to get to facilities so good road planning is actually important, certain facilities only being able to be built on the walls on top of being huge which complicates the very limited space management issue even further, not being able to deconstruct buildings unless there's a road to it and a spare worker, etc, etc. Your first playthrough is more or less doomed to a couple failures and reloading from much older saves unless you're playing on the easiest difficulty because almost none of these things are communicated to the player well.

    With all that said though, I still quite like the game, enough to beat it on Challenge difficulty, so I encourage you to push on and finish it at least once, as the better ending is a satisfying payoff for all the pain the game puts you through. Chapter 2 is actually the hardest part of the game, so if you can get past that the rest should be relatively smooth sailing, assuming you make the right choice for one very important exploration decision in chapter 3.

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  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Story and character-wise, as a relative newcomer to FFVII who hasn't played the original (Crisis Core was my first exposure to it, of all things), I'm not sure which minor NPCs are new, but so far...

    Story and character-wise, as a relative newcomer to FFVII who hasn't played the original (Crisis Core was my first exposure to it, of all things), I'm not sure which minor NPCs are new, but so far none of them have come off as too cliche or badly inserted, with maybe the exception of Chadley. He's fine in small doses here and there and in all the story events, but you'll be hearing him a lot if you choose to collect all the world intel so his shtick gets a little old.

    As for Sephiroth, with my Crisis Core-tinted bias he's been humanized a bit more in my eyes so he's got more of an exceedingly competent supervillian vibe rather than a living legend/walking apocalypse. In the opening mission he's a humble celebrity, and in the story thus far he's a haunting specter. Always in control, but in a cool and quiet way.

    I wouldn't be worried about the movement mechanics and not having a jump button. The automatic mantling when you're running handles most obstacles well and manual mantling is pretty flexible.

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  4. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Oh I expect to get a lot of playtime out of Red, Barret and Yuffie yet, but for just clearing all the world intel spots it's nice to be able to turn my brain off and double cast spells or...

    Oh I expect to get a lot of playtime out of Red, Barret and Yuffie yet, but for just clearing all the world intel spots it's nice to be able to turn my brain off and double cast spells or unbridled strength > omnistrike chain staggered monsters to death.

    As for QB, right now my deck's focused primarily on grabbing as many tiles as quickly as possible, then boosting them enough to win at least 2 rows, so it doesn't revolve around any singular high cost card. In fact, I don't think I even have a 3 cost card in it, but the legendary 1 and 2 cost cards pull a lot of weight. It's let me clear all of Junon and the Shinra-8 pretty reliably with little to no changes so I figure it'll hold up for Corel too. I have enough cards to build another deck around destroying cards too, so that might be the next thing I go for. Archdragons are incredibly good value.

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  5. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I started Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and after 35 hours I'm only 6 chapters in, mostly since I've been doing every single bit of available side content and sometimes just stopping to soak in the...

    I started Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and after 35 hours I'm only 6 chapters in, mostly since I've been doing every single bit of available side content and sometimes just stopping to soak in the landscape and take screenshots. This game is just such a solid package in every aspect. The open world and visuals are drop dead gorgeous, while being reasonably sized and populated with activities so you're not just doing nothing for minutes on end. The music is phenomenally well orchestrated, probably even more so if you're familiar with the tracks from the original game. The sound effects are very crisp as well, and I especially like the addition of the sound cue for when you pressure an enemy. The combat's an improvement on the already great combat from VII Remake, with new synergy skills and abilities that add another layer of depth to team composition (though I still just use Cloud/Tifa/Aerith for 90% of my battles). The writing is very fun, it's as serious as it needs to be when things are going down, but it can be extremely whimsical during the calmer moments as well, in a way that somehow isn't out of place.

    The minigames, how did they cram so many minigames in? A lot of them are one-offs where half the fun is encountering them and figuring them out so I won't spoil those here, but I will talk a bit about Queen's Blood. Now I know card battler games aren't everybody's cup of tea and the devs know this as well so they never force you into playing it, but my Geralt was a right monster at Gwent so naturally my Cloud had to be a card shark as well. Anyway, this little card game is rather confusing to learn and I lost to my first opponent 5 times in a row trying to figure out how to place more pieces and score points while adjusting my deck with a very limited set of cards. Much like Gwent though, once you find a setup that works for your build and more importantly, get a few rare cards that carry the hell out of the rest of your deck, you can begin your bloody conquest in earnest by crushing the hopes and dreams of every available card-playing NPC.

    I also bought Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 which drops tomorrow, but I probably won't get started on that til I finish Rebirth's story for the first time since I know I won't be able to stop playing it once I start. And then there's Monster Hunter: Wilds releasing at the end of the month. Safe to say I won't need to worry about not having anything to play for a while.

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  6. Comment on Snacks that aren't just sugar or crazy salty in ~food

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    If you're not counting carbs as sugar, rice crackers are a crunchy and only mildly salty or sweet treat. This is the one I've gotten from Costco a few times. My local supermarket also stocks...

    If you're not counting carbs as sugar, rice crackers are a crunchy and only mildly salty or sweet treat. This is the one I've gotten from Costco a few times.

    My local supermarket also stocks wasabi peas and these baked vegetable (or legume?) snacks which I find to be even more addicting than regular chips.

    These probably aren't the most calorie-light options but they're satisfying to me and if a snack isn't satisfying then I'm just gonna end up looking for something else to snack on.

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  7. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    How is Destiny 2 still faring these days for you and your clanmates? I and the vast majority of my clan effectively quit a few months after Final Shape dropped after we cleared the raid a couple...

    How is Destiny 2 still faring these days for you and your clanmates? I and the vast majority of my clan effectively quit a few months after Final Shape dropped after we cleared the raid a couple times and played out the seasonal content, since we were mostly burned out from playing the game regularly for years. Is Bungie still hanging on and delivering good seasonal content? Are you optimistic for the stuff they have planned for the next year?

  8. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I had a sudden craving to play Ace Combat again, so I reinstalled Project Wingman and Ace Combat 7 and played through the campaigns for both on hard and ace difficulty respectively, but entirely...

    I had a sudden craving to play Ace Combat again, so I reinstalled Project Wingman and Ace Combat 7 and played through the campaigns for both on hard and ace difficulty respectively, but entirely from cockpit view for that extra bit of immersion (though I did miss out on seeing the gorgeous plane models as a result).

    Project Wingman is still the closest any game not made by Project Aces has gotten to Ace Combat, though with its own unique charm (and by that I mean considerably less regard for warcrimes in its story, the villian in that game would make all the Ace Combat villians blush). The original campaign was just as hectic and orange as it was before, but the new DLC campaign where you play as a reserve pilot for the enemy faction on a different front was a nice thing and lets you see that there are people on both sides in this conflict that are willing to commit absurd warcrimes, which is kind of concerning but it makes for great final boss fights and really hammed up dialogue!

    Ace Combat 7 is, as expected, a much more polished product with more grounded characters and more nuance with the warcrimes and villians' motivations, but it's still a great experience all the same. You still get that great confidence boost of your allies and enemies alike wondering if you're even human over the radio chatter as you obliterate scores of tanks, ships, planes, buildings, and anything else you can lock onto with the 100+ missiles your plane is somehow capable of holding while you do 40g maneuvers and somehow withstand multiple missile impacts. It really is the best simulation, not of a fighter pilot's reality, but of how a fighter pilot feels. Here is a link to a fan documentary that goes a lot deeper into that, which is also a great history of the entire series. Also shoutout to the CFA-44 Nosferatu, that plane carried the hell out of me. ADMMs and dual railguns are both disgustingly overpowered and trivialized some mission S-ranks.

    I also picked up Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PC while they were still on sale and decided to beat Remake before Rebirth became available on PC (it's out on the 23rd). I haven't played the original FF7 but I have played Crisis Core, watched Advent Children, caught up on the plot of the original, etc. Square Enix did an amazing job at recreating Midgar in modern graphics. The slum towns feel dirty but homely, the plates are pleasantly urban, the Shinra facilities are clean and cold, Wall Market is the very essence of a casino town, Aerith's house is absolutely beautiful. The soundtrack is just incredible as well, with tons of familiar tracks remixed and reorchestrated to perfection, plus a VERY unexpected but not at all unpleasant future bass-ish remix of Tifa's theme for an iconic moment. The new dialogue and character development is also excellent. Cloud is still awkward and standoff-ish but in a kuudere kind of way. Tifa is still strong and kind but her moral conflict done with great nuance. Barret gives off much more caring dad energy and Marlene being so dang cute really helps that. Aerith is ridiculously adorable in her moments with Cloud. Just A+ execution of all of that, bravo Sqenix.

    Oh yeah, there's the combat too. What an interesting blend of real time and turn based action, where everything is technically happening without pause but selecting abilities and skills puts the game in extreme slow-mo so you have time to choose targets or just take inventory of your situation. It even encourages you to switch between characters frequently like you'd have to in a turn-based game by not having your teammates spend their action charges automatically, so you jump around from character to character to use abilities/spells, though there isn't anything stopping you from just sticking to Cloud the whole time if that's too much hassle. I still haven't fully gotten a grasp on how some of the synergy and materia work and have gotten my ass kicked a number of times by some bosses and particularly tough groups of enemies, but I do like that you can't just bulldoze your way through with brute force on Normal difficulty without being super overleveled.

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  9. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I didn't get much snow outside for Christmas, so I opted to get entirely too much of it inside by playing through the Frostpunk 2 story mode again, this time on Captain difficulty. In preparation...

    I didn't get much snow outside for Christmas, so I opted to get entirely too much of it inside by playing through the Frostpunk 2 story mode again, this time on Captain difficulty. In preparation for the run I tried looking for a detailed map of the Frostland to optimize my explorations, but the best I could find was a mostly blank outline from a Reddit post, so I took that and filled it in with details as I played through. I uploaded the completed map to the Frostpunk subreddit for others to find and use, won't link to it here since I'm not trying to self-promote but it should be easy enough to find if you search for it and want to use it. The Captain difficulty itself wasn't too bad, definitely easier than "A New Home" from the first game on the hardest difficulty, though I suppose I did cheese it to an extent by using a not-developer-intended strategy that bought me a lot of extra time. But hey, I didn't commit any crimes against humanity, enact any laws leading towards dictatorship, or even throw anybody in jail. A few hundred homeless people did freeze to death but housing is expensive to maintain in that frozen hellscape of an economy so I get a pass, right?

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  10. Comment on What were your favorite games that you played this year, and why? in ~games

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    Once Human - I probably won't play this ever again despite it being a live service and all (actually maybe because it's a live service), but I sank a lot of hours into it this year and I had good...
    • Once Human - I probably won't play this ever again despite it being a live service and all (actually maybe because it's a live service), but I sank a lot of hours into it this year and I had good fun for a lot of them. Best open world base building I've seen in any mmo, and it was fun to see references and similarities to all the other games the devs "took inspiration" from, on top of some of the interesting actually original designs they had.

    • Frostpunk 2 - I loved the first Frostpunk, this one delivered more of that but with a different take on the gameplay, which not everyone appreciated but I did. I love me some city builders with compelling narratives, moral dilemmas, and real stakes for you and your populace. Can't wait for the DLCs to drop.

    • Helldivers 2 - Man, the experience of playing this in those first 2 months of release was something else. The excitement, the laughs, the excessively democratic comradery with strangers, the memes, MALEVELON CREEK. Yeah the gameplay does get rather repetitive after a while, and I did burn out on it since I haven't touched it in months, but those months when I binged it were GLORIOUS.

    • Diceomancer - This is here instead of Balatro because I just enjoyed it more than Balatro. It's easier, cuter, and probably a good deal simpler. It's got less replayability and potential I suppose, but I just like the vibes of this game more.

    • Destiny 2 - This is more of an honorable mention solely due to The Final Shape. It really is one of the best expansions in the entire series, with a great story, beautiful new explorable zone, a very solid raid once you actually know the mechanics (those day 1 raid teams are crazy man), and an amazing final mission to satisfyingly end a ten year long plotline. The Destiny devs at Bungie gave every ounce of passion they had left to get this to us and many of them are no longer at Bungie, while the rest have to carry the game to its eventual grave as the playerbase has plummeted after all the players that came back just for The Final Shape completed it to their satisfaction and quit, much like I did. Thank you for a great time and the online friends you helped me make Bungie, I sincerely hope your future endeavors become fan favorites instead of just trend-chasing cash cows and you regain some of the prestige you once had.

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  11. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I actually feel the same way about it. All the reviews and opinions I've seen about it seem to suggest they can't stop playing but for some reason I'm a bit mentally worn out after one or two...

    I actually feel the same way about it. All the reviews and opinions I've seen about it seem to suggest they can't stop playing but for some reason I'm a bit mentally worn out after one or two runs. Maybe it's me overthinking about what the best possible plays for every single round would be, but I need to take breaks and I'm wondering if if should have just waited for it to come out for mobile instead.

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    The latest update to Warhammer 40000: Darktide finally convinced me to boot it back up after a yearlong hiatus, and there's a few things I've noticed immediately: The combat in this game really is...

    The latest update to Warhammer 40000: Darktide finally convinced me to boot it back up after a yearlong hiatus, and there's a few things I've noticed immediately:

    1. The combat in this game really is just so much more refined and engaging than that of Space Marine 2's. Don't get me wrong, I love tearing through tyranids and thousand sons with over the top execution animations, but the combat really is rather basic when the only real mechanic is parrying. It lacks that, how do I put it, manic crackhead energy that high difficulty Darktide demands when the AI director decides it'd be really funny to throw a mixed horde of 20 specials and elites and maybe even a monstrosity on top of 200+ poxwalkers at you in the span of 30 seconds, only to do it again a couple minutes later.

    2. The weapon mastery system is fantastic. It's still a significant plasteel sink and takes a bit of grinding with your weapon of choice to get the right stats, perks, and blessings, but the fact that you can 100% guarantee what you get on your weapon now is huge. They still haven't come up with a good way to spend all this diamantine on though. Why can't I convert diamantine to plasteel yet Fatshark?

    3. The new weapons are pretty awesome. The force greatsword on psyker lets me fully embrace my melee psyker build, the relic sword on zealot lets me complete my Radzig Kobyla cosplay, and the bolt pistol is just so damn punchy, like something firing a miniature rocket should be.

    Once I've shaken off the rust and gotten comfortable with my new builds, I suppose I'll clear a Maelstrom mission so I can get started on Havoc difficulties. Some people have already cleared Havoc 40 with only ogryns and no guns, so the only excuse I have is a skill issue and I am totally ok with that.

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  13. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Only a few hours into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 so far (at least one of which has been spent exclusively on loading and fiddling with graphics and performance settings) and it is definitely STALKER, both...

    Only a few hours into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 so far (at least one of which has been spent exclusively on loading and fiddling with graphics and performance settings) and it is definitely STALKER, both in the atmosphere and the bugs and the punishingly poor enemy and economy tuning. Having put 200+ hours into the original trilogy including dabbling a bit in the higher difficulty mods (MISERY mod to this day is still the most masochistic mod I've ever had the displeasure of playing), I was expecting combat that was stressful and somewhat punishing but ultimately rewarding to survive through. The game does the first two well enough and currently falls on its face on the third. Looting other humans after a firefight will rarely yield anything of good value and typically just partially replenishes your food, med and ammo supplies. As a silver lining, they go down easily enough, especially with headshots. Looting mutants just isn't a thing now, and they're fairly common and also bullet sponges, so they're not rewarding at all and only serve to annoy you and burn up your supplies. Note that this is only less than 10 hours in the game and I haven't left the beginning area yet so my experience might change as I get further in, but I have a feeling it'll be more of the same but with more expensive gear.

    Of course, the bugs and performance also deserve mentioning. All the old STALKER players came in expecting a fair amount of eurojank, as all the previous STALKER games were also buggy messes on launch. STALKER 2 has met our expectations in that regard, and even gone above and beyond in others. Memory leaks after a short while of playing? Oh you know it. Weird physics interactions causing big frame drops? Got that too. Huge losses in FPS if you have the audacity to alt+tab? That's a given. But compiling shaders EVERY SINGLE TIME you start the game up, and it takes at least several minutes each time? You have outdone yourselves, GSC. The fact that the game is still mostly positive on Steam despite all this is a testament to how badly people wanted a new STALKER and how only GSC has managed to deliver that. There's fixes and such in the works of course, but it puts a damper on the experience nonetheless. Won't stop me from playing it though.

    This is just turning into a Steam review at this point but what the heck. I would still recommend it in its current state to diehard STALKER fans who are willing to put up with the bugs so they can get back into the Zone. For everyone else, give it a month and the worst of the bugs and balance issues should probably sorted out by then.

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  14. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Booted up Remnant 2 for the first time in a year to play through all of the DLC and having quit Destiny 2 a few months ago, this game really does scratch that buildcrafting itch again. The new...

    Booted up Remnant 2 for the first time in a year to play through all of the DLC and having quit Destiny 2 a few months ago, this game really does scratch that buildcrafting itch again. The new amulets, rings, and weapons open up the already expansive build variety even more and I've only unlocked one of the three new archetypes so far but I'll give those a whirl when I get them too. I've completed one run of The Awakened King and though it was short, I did like how they expanded on the Victorian London/fantasy elf castle map design in a few ways.

    Boss design is still very hit or miss though, and there was that one boss with a scripted one hit kill which was a real pain in the ass, though at least it was incredibly telegraphed so not hard to dodge once you learned the tell. Would still rather not have those though, that's not fun difficulty, that's some Ninja Gaiden shit and not very fitting in a game that lets you build to increase survivability significantly only to get deleted anyway.

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  15. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Disco Elysium isn't really an RPG, at least not by regular video game definitions. It's more of a point and click adventure with dice rolls, and the gameplay itself is such a minor part of it that...

    Disco Elysium isn't really an RPG, at least not by regular video game definitions. It's more of a point and click adventure with dice rolls, and the gameplay itself is such a minor part of it that if you don't enjoy the art and absurd dialogue it's not going to be a good time. It's not something you need to force yourself to enjoy or understand just because it reviewed well.

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  16. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Diceomancer released last week after being initially showcased at a Steam Next Fest a few months ago and it's yet another fun variation on the classic deckbuilder game. The gimmick in this one is...

    Diceomancer released last week after being initially showcased at a Steam Next Fest a few months ago and it's yet another fun variation on the classic deckbuilder game. The gimmick in this one is a magical die that lets you manipulate any number on the screen, from health bars to card values to your current mana pool to even the values of buffs and debuffs in the compendium itself. There's your usual spread of mana types, null, purple, red, blue, green, black, and cards to go along with them. You can't choose cards to start a game with, but you do choose 3 color orbs to determine your class, which has its own innate perk and gives you a set of starting cards of matching color.

    Beating the game itself isn't hard, though like every good deckbuilder you're encouraged to try out every possible combination of colors to beat it over and over, and you earn coins to unlock new cards, relics, color orbs, opportunities to use your number-altering die, etc. And there will absolutely be plenty of opportunities to use it, though it does consume some charges each time you do which recharge as you progress, so you can't just set your enemies' health bars to a value between 1-6 in every encounter. Also, the game has this cute hand-drawn cartoon art style and quite a few cards which reference other games and media, which are just extra treats on top of a very replayable game.

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  17. Comment on Helldivers 2 support studio Toadman Interactive to shut offices in Sweden and Norway – some positions at developer's Berlin office also at risk in ~games

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    Nah, there's no community servers. Daybreak just had a handful of servers to support a few different regions and a bunch of those already got merged due to declining player numbers. There aren't...

    Nah, there's no community servers. Daybreak just had a handful of servers to support a few different regions and a bunch of those already got merged due to declining player numbers. There aren't any real alternatives to Planetside either, since it already seems like black magic for this game to support 1000+ players on the same map in a shooter and still manage to maintain acceptable latency, so those server costs are probably eating up almost all the money they'd be making from subscriptions.

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  18. Comment on Helldivers 2 support studio Toadman Interactive to shut offices in Sweden and Norway – some positions at developer's Berlin office also at risk in ~games

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    This is the same studio that entirely took over continued support and development of Planetside 2 from Daybreak Games, though that's a much more niche title than the ones they have listed in the...

    This is the same studio that entirely took over continued support and development of Planetside 2 from Daybreak Games, though that's a much more niche title than the ones they have listed in the article. For the tiny handful of active Planetside 2 players that use Tildes, sorry but unless they sell the IP to someone that actually cares about reviving it, I think the game is actually done for this time.

    11 votes
  19. Comment on An important update on Concord - "At this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024" in ~games

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    Damn, knew this was going to go poorly for Sony but I didn't think they'd just shut it down outright. Hopefully they're just taking it down temporarily so they can relaunch it after a proper...

    Damn, knew this was going to go poorly for Sony but I didn't think they'd just shut it down outright. Hopefully they're just taking it down temporarily so they can relaunch it after a proper marketing campaign with more success. I still wouldn't buy it since I'm just not interested in hero shooters right now, but I'm sure there's a decent audience of disgruntled Overwatch players that Sony failed to capture due to basically nobody even knowing the game existed.

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  20. Comment on Hunt: Showdown 1896 | Official launch trailer in ~games

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    The action can definitely be much more drawn out and deliberate due to the generally lower rate of fire and longer reload times of the old guns, as well as the cat-and-mouse style engagement that...

    The action can definitely be much more drawn out and deliberate due to the generally lower rate of fire and longer reload times of the old guns, as well as the cat-and-mouse style engagement that happens when hunters converge on a bounty location to steal it from the defending hunters. At very close range though, things can still get hectic especially if there's multiple teams present.

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