Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on Attitudes 11 hours ago:
Even better: they’re used as ad-hoc databases. Mission critical ones!
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 1 day ago:
I found the combat frustratingly bland, and Hello Games don’t seem interested in improving it. The first time I played was several years after release, and I was surprised to learn the only two enemy encounters that were at all fun or interesting (the sentinel mech and capital ships) were only recently added. That was years ago, and I don’t think they’ve added any new major enemies since. Last I checked there were less than twenty enemy types in the entire galaxy and most are braindead “approach and shoot at the player until you die” types.
The on-foot weapons also feel anemic and sluggish - even your heavy weapons feel like shooting someone with a Nerf gun while whispering pew pew under your breath until they explode, and your actions will often be delayed waiting for an animation to complete (unstowing your weapon every few seconds being the main offender). Ship weapons are better by virtue of not having animations and being the same as every space game ever.
I hope Light No Fire has more enemy variety and a better-designed combat loop.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 1 day ago:
IIRC you can get them through the derelict freighter missions (which take forever and are kind of boring after the first one), or by blasting NPC freighters if you don’t care about reputation.
For the latter I’ve heard (but wasn’t willing to try myself to confirm) that you can just shoot the external cargo modules off of friendly freighters without them becoming mad and summoning sentinels.
- Comment on Just released the trailer for my solo horror game where you can pet your cat to restore sanity! It's coming out 2, Feb 2026! Let me know your feedback on the trailer :) 2 days ago:
Your autocorrupt really likes automobiles, huh?
- Comment on Changing the language of “Hogwarts Legacy” 4 days ago:
Re: 3, I hate to say it, but pirating the game won’t let you avoid supporting TERFs. The person who cracked the game is even worse than Rowling - as in, “makes Rowling look like a paragon of progressiveness in comparison” worse - and uses the download numbers for her cracks (and the fact she’s usually the only one willing to crack Denuvo) to justify asking for donations.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 4 days ago:
I’d recommend emulating some nostalgic games from your childhood, ones you’ve played to death and wouldn’t mind any sudden interruptions of since you’ve seen everything a hundred times.
Basically, the video game equivalent of putting on old sitcoms.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 4 days ago:
Terraria has an option to pause while in menus, which is useful when you’re sick and could suddenly need to run to the bathroom at any time.
- Comment on This time again. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box 1 week ago:
He’d set up near a hole in the ice where seals pop up to take a breath, but the polar bear took an interest in him instead.
- Comment on Be careful with this information 2 weeks ago:
It some kind ov exploded!
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 2 weeks ago:
Given how many systems NMS has and how disconnected they often feel from one another, taking a more focused approach might work out better for the game.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company” 4 weeks ago:
They also snatched up HiFi Rush after Microsoft’s idiocy. They’d better not screw over the sequel!
- Comment on Aeroplane 5 weeks ago:
“That’s not flying, that’s falling with style!”
- Comment on EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead 1 month ago:
Isn’t that the same thing the studios they acquired said? And we all know how that inevitably turned out.
- Comment on The new survival game VEIN looks awesome with intelligent AI and interactions with nearly everything 1 month ago:
I’ve been playing Vein lately and it’s great. It’s basically a 3D version of Project Zomboid, openly taking a ton of direct inspiration from that game.
It has a lot of rough edges due to how early in development it is, but it’s improving rapidly with each update. The skeleton of systems already in place are genuinely impressive, and if it continues on its current trajectory it might one day rival PZ as the definitive realistic zombie survival game.
The one thing I hate is its current zombie spawning model, with new ones appearing too fast and too close to the player or in empty rooms they couldn’t possibly get into. You can be exploring a medium sized building and by the time you’re in the second half, zombies will already be banging on the doors of rooms you just cleared in the first.
It’s also way too easy on the default difficulty right now, but that’s mostly due to how much more control you have in combat compared to Project Zomboid. It’s trivial to go for the head with every attack, for example.
I highly recommend checking it out. The demo is the same as the full game, just with a limit on the area of the map you can explore and the maximum skill level you can achieve.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 month ago:
He would probably approve of their crimes against children.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Boasting about not putting multiplayer behind a paywall, like they weren’t the ones to introduce that idea in the first place.
- Comment on Fight the nazis to rescue your dog in the new free shooter Darkenstein 3D out now 1 month ago:
I always played Lawful Neutral mages in Baldur’s Gate 2 because which familiar you summoned depended on alignment, and LN got a snarky ferret companion.
I wish the feature was more fleshed out - familiars didn’t react to narrative events and you could run through his entire dialog tree in about two minutes. There are thousands of mods for BG2; surely one of them expands the familiar system?
And Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a squirrel riding a skeletal cat that was pretty awesome, though I think it was a preorder bonus.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 1 month ago:
Gargamel would be patient zero of The Last of Us: Blue Edition.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 1 month ago:
Didn’t he want to eat them or something? That sounds like a one-way ticket to a body horror ending…
- Comment on Day 464 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
It’s playable solo (and only solo in the current beta branch), but the devs have been nerfing that playstyle for years in the name of multiplayer balance. There are artificial limits on what one player can learn and do, with massive penalties to anything you didn’t start the game with. They include those nerfs in single player because they intend for NPCs to pick up the slack after they’re introduced.
(Note: NPCs have been a promised upcoming feature “after the next set of changes” for over fifteen years at this point.)
Fortunately they include settings to undo the learning speed nerfs, and hopefully will add more to make the upcoming crafting rework less of a pain for solo players. The litany of tweaks available at world creation are one of my favorite things about Project Zomboid, right after all the stellar business name puns.
- Comment on Lemmy shitpost 1 month ago:
Levitating shelves are prohibited, got it.
- Comment on Fight the nazis to rescue your dog in the new free shooter Darkenstein 3D out now 1 month ago:
- Comment on Stationeers - The Storm Update: Solar Storm & New Suit 1 month ago:
That’s not a bad description, though it’s even more hardcore than even Vintage Story. It’s ridiculously complex, to the point you need basic mastery of several different systems just to survive the opening of the game. I’m talking building complete and fully-modeled atmospherics and electrical grids from scratch, with a single block in the wrong spot being potentially run-ending (I’ve plugged my oxygen tanks into an improperly set up system and lost my entire air supply more than once). It’s incredibly rewarding after you do figure it all out, though.
It’s also the one survival game I can think of where a single minor mistake remains crippling even tens of hours into a playthrough. Your only insurance against disaster is whatever redundancy you built into your systems. It truly nails how monumental a task surviving on other planets would be.
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 1 month ago:
There’s a modern remake called Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. It’s isometric and cross-platform so I’m hoping the controller support would be decent.
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 1 month ago:
Concessions are their source of income. Movie companies use their monopoly on film access to demand almost all of the money from ticket sales (something like 90% of the ticket price IIRC), so the theater actually doesn’t make that much off of movies.
Concessions on the other hand, especially stuff that costs pennies to make like soda and popcorn, are pure profit and are basically the only way many theaters can stay in business these days.
- Comment on Keeping the PlayStation 2 Alive: an interview with devs from the PCSX2 emulator (my article!) 2 months ago:
On the other hand, they’re used to working with low-level concepts from their day job!
- Comment on Stardewy warlock schooler Witchbrook delayed to 2026, but its devs have magicked up an interactive map 2 months ago:
I love how vibrant the indie dev scene is nowadays. I completely forgot about this game despite being incredibly excited for it. There have been so many amazing indie games recently that even ones that meet every one of my interests can fall through the cracks.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 2 months ago:
Any interesting stories? It’s always amusing to read about how little power it takes for someone to become insufferable. Some maintainers can be incredibly petty tyrants.
For instance, half the FAQ for CDDA is about avoiding or navigating around the whims of a few, let’s call them opinionated, team members who gatekeep development of specific systems in the game.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 months ago:
NASA are so dumb for sending their satellites all the way into space. Why don’t they simply float them above the trees as the majestic owl teaches us?
