Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on Aeroplane 3 hours 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 6 days 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 week 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 week ago:
He would probably approve of their crimes against children.
- Comment on 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stationeers - The Storm Update: Solar Storm & New Suit 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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!) 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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?
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 5 weeks ago:
*Metal Gear Solid 5 flashbacks*
- Comment on Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit 5 weeks ago:
This feels unnecessary. From what I’ve heard, the exploit in question requires a local file and only operates at the privilege level of the game itself, so you’re unlikely to encounter it unless you’re adding files to your game install.
So you’re vulnerable if you install malicious mods, in other words. Which, consisting Unity mods are done via DLL injection, is already the case even without this exploit.
- Comment on I just finished the Casemate mod for HALO: CE 5 weeks ago:
How hard was it to maintain your sanity while working on this? Whenever InfernoPlus goes into detail on working with Halo’s content creation tools, it sounds like the most painful jury-rigged mess imaginable.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 5 weeks ago:
For a prime example of this, look no further than EA’s former CEO John Riccitiello, who keeps getting executive positions despite being objectively bad at his job.
He was hired as EA’s COO (and later CEO) despite having zero experience in the video game industry (his prior work was at places like Pepsi and Clorox). EA under Riccitiello tried to squeeze every cent possible out of customers through aggressive microtransactions, pushed to make every game always-online to prevent piracy (a decision that lead to the disastrous SimCity reboot, and the Sims 4 only escaped the same fate due to SimCity’s dire reception [though it’s theorized its vastly simplified gameplay compared to earlier Sims titles is a remnant of this time]), was a major proponent of the worst sorts of anti-consumer DRM such as SecuROM, and treated employees like trash leading to an exodus of talent. EA was voted the worst company in America twice during his tenure, and people online celebrated when the stock price plummeted and he was finally pushed out.
His post-EA career was also a disaster. After leaving EA (with a golden parachute, naturally), he was hired as the CEO of Unity Technologies - the company behind the Unity game engine - due to his “industry expertise”. Over the next few years he ran the company into the ground with awful monetization strategies (he’s the one behind the “runtime fee” fiasco, where Unity wanted to charge game developers by how many times their games were installed), wasted billions of dollars acquiring middleware vendors (mainly ad and analytics companies), and set engine development priorities that chased mobile game fads over what the actual users of their product wanted. He “resigned” when the stock price dropped by over 60% in a year due to his mistakes, and the engine’s reputation hasn’t come close to recovering from the damage his leadership caused.
I can’t wait to see what company he ruins next.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 5 weeks ago:
Keepass2Android shows a pop-up each October asking for donations. Perfectly fine, but the dismiss button is labeled “I don’t like the app that much”. Even free software isn’t spared that sort of thing.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 5 weeks ago:
Especially since they started with drones unlocked!
- Comment on Life imitates art 5 weeks ago:
fictional Templar-run evil Assassin’s Creed gaming company Abstergo Entertainment
Did trying to parse this give anyone else a headache?
- Comment on Do you recognize this guy playing video games? 5 weeks ago:
Which one? Both.
- Comment on Being a noob in heist games 5 weeks ago:
As an aside, if you want to try a fun heist game without needing to worry about letting down any teammates, I highly recommend checking out Heat Signature.
It’s single-player and is a 2D, top-down heist game where you sneak aboard space ships to complete objectives like assassinating a crew member, stealing something valuable, hijacking the entire ship, etc.
It looks simple, but things get crazy fast. One minute you’re sneaking behind guards and knocking them out with a wrench, the next you’re teleporting into a locked cabin, shooting out the glass so the explosive decompression blows you and your target into space, then teleporting back to your original location (because you used a recall teleporter that does so automatically after a few seconds) while they slowly asphyxiate, before hacking the nearby turrets to shoot down any investigating guards while you sprint back to your shuttle and escape.
- Comment on Jimmy Kimmel is The Most Boring, Cringe and Unfunny Comedian Ever; People Should Boycott Disney for Getting His Show Back. 1 month ago:
It might fit into shitposts, but the response each post gets shows the community isn’t a huge fan of these. The other places you post them suggest that you’re actually just crossposting to communities that allow anything to be posted.
But again, crossposts aren’t marked in every client (and some don’t even show the crosspost text, just the title!), so a lot of readers won’t know not to take these posts seriously and fights will break out in the comments. Though judging by the comments on the original posts, people can’t detect bait even when the community is literally named ragebait.
(Also, do the random emphasized letters mean anything? I’m too lazy to do the work of checking for hidden messages myself.)
- Comment on Jimmy Kimmel is The Most Boring, Cringe and Unfunny Comedian Ever; People Should Boycott Disney for Getting His Show Back. 1 month ago:
There has to be a better way of promoting your ragebait community than crossposting to an unrelated one. Some clients don’t even show that a post is a crosspost.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 month ago:
