Poopfeast420

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Still trying Baldur’s Gate 3 solo Honor Mode. I’ve died a lot, to all kind of different enemies. Currently, I got a good run going, made it to level 6, still Act 1, but almost done. Hopefully I don’t turn off my brain again in a crucial moment and just eat dirt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo 4's 2025 roadmap outlines upcoming seasons, tweaks and, ugh, collabs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wating for that Diablo 2 collab. I want a Deckard Cain skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it exactly, that people want from the sequel?

  Bigger skill tree, so you can make even more fun of D4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 6th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying a solo Honor Mode run in Baldur’s Gate 3. Playing a Gloomstalker Assassin, which should avoid getting into combat a lot, and just snipe from max range, if you play it right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Used it, it was probably the best, but still bad. If not for work, it would have been good enough though.

  Most of the RDP implementations are also just based on FreeRDP, so they’re basically the same. I had terrible picture quality on all of them, even over local network, and the USB passthrough barely worked.

  Tbh since I need the system for work, I wasn’t able to test stuff super long. Maybe I should install Linux on a secondary system, so I can just play around and try stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been on Windows 11 since it was released. The only problem I had were NVIDIA drivers sometimes causing a bluescreen (mainly my fault).

  Linux doesn’t work for me currently, since I use RDP to connect to systems for work, and RDP clients on Linux are ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silksong release date confirmed for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Confirmed like the announcement on that one xbox show?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you think the C-Button is for?

  I hope it’s the Cum-Button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have positive reviews destroyed games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  wat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 30th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I think most of the Trails games are garbage, but since I played them like five years ago, up to CS3, I feel obligated to play the rest as well. Hate-playing or something.

  Since there’s been a bunch of new games released since then, I might have to do another one of these “marathons.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 30th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you didn’t like the story in Cold Steel so far, I don’t think the next game probably isn’t going to change you mind. I think it actually gets even worse.

  Azure and Zero are definitely my favorite games of the series, since they just don’t have anything to do with the rest of the story, until the very end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played a ton of Cyberpunk 2077. I’ve done a lot of side missions, a bunch of the main missions and then started the DLC, when the game pointed me in that direction. The game still has many bugs and glitches, but they are pretty minor. The DLC seems to be worse than the main game, although even then it’s minor stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 16th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually do as well, but for some reason not this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 16th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Four more levels of Final Doom’s TNT: Evilution. After it’s done, I’ll take a classic Doom break for a while. I gotta play Dark Ages first, before continuing with Plutonia.

  The some more Cyberpunk 2077. I’m a bit pissed at myself and the game, because of a glitch, that blocks some side quests. Foolishly, I just used a single save slot, and the auto saves don’t go back far enough, before the glitch happend, so I might try something to avoid it. The cause is probably a mod, although from what I read this bug isn’t uncommon and can happen without mods. Through the use of a save editor I’ve managed to make the next quest available at least, but wasn’t able to get the broken quest working again or “finish” it. I just hope it doesn’t happen again.

  Then I started A Game About Digging A Hole today. Just like the title says, you’re digging a hole. You find stones and ores along the way, that you can sell, to upgrade your stuff. I’m two hours in, and looks like there’s nothing to upgrade anymore, which is a bit of a bummer. Now i just have to go deeper, blow stuff up with dynamite, and look for treasure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spectre Divide shutting down six months after launch reminds us how hard it is to make a live-service game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t think the last point is true, since there was a report recently that said almost 50% of game time over one month was spent on live service games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 9th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished Final Fantasy III. This one had a weird bug for me, where the game wouldn’t start and stop my mouse from working on my main monitor, when a Stream or Video was playing on my second screen. Never had this with any other game and took a bit to figure it out.

  Then more Final Doom TNT: Evilution on the Doom + Doom II port. The second half is definitely a step-up in difficulty, and three levels took me a while to beat. Level 16 had a nasty start, that I had to replay for a while, and not much ammo, if you don’t know where the secrets are. In Level 18 and 20 I just constantly messed up, plus some late Archviles or a Cyberdemon, to surprise you. I’m on Level 23 now, hopefully I can finish this soon.

  Finally, I was going to buy the Rise of the Ronin PC port tomorrow, but according to a review it needs to cook a bit longer, just like all the other Team Ninja games on PC. So I started Cyberpunk 2077. I watched a playthrough on Twitch last year, and it looked pretty good. So far it’s pretty good. Right now, I’m doing some side content before continuing with Act 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG adds 100-floor megadungeon for a fiver⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG

  How about you just tell us the name of the game, and not just drop a dozen others, and magle your title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 3 + 4 | Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iron Galaxy had some misses in the past, most notably probably the PC port for Arkham Knight. More recently, Last Of Us Part 1 on PC, which had some bad performance at launch, I think. They did the PC port for THPS1+2 though, and I don’t remember hearing some big complaints, but I also haven’t paid too much attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Split Fiction - Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I’ve played the other games with a friend and they were always a blast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 23rd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished Final Fantasy 7. Compared to Remake or Rebirth this thing just moves, and doesn’t constantly waste your time. However, that also leaves little time for character interaction or development, so that’s where the new games are much better.

  Next was Mushroom 11. I played it about halfway almost 10 years ago, and finally decided to go back and finish it. This is a game, where you control some mushroom blob, by erasing parts, causing it to regrow somewhere else, e.g. you erase the backside, and the blob regrows in the front, which makes you move forward. The first three levels are great, but the four levels after that, sometimes require precision, that the game just isn’t build for. I still like the concept, but it really can be frustrating.

  Then I started playing through Final Doom’s Evilution episode. It took me a bit to get my FPS legs back and the first half dozen or so levels were a bit rough, but nothing too bad. I’m playing on Ultra-Violence and with a Pistol Start, so a lot of times, I have to re-play the beginning a couple of times, to get oriented, and look for weapons, while the game just throws Shotgunners and Chaingunners at you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing. PES is now eFootball, which only had one release 2020 (and an update for 2021).

  Probably just not as many people spending money on Ultimate Team packs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like it might be a bit like Ubisoft, although not as bad.

  Ubisoft is going back and adding Steam Achievements to all or many of their games to maybe get on the good side of gamers again, after a few rough years.

  EA has some bigger titles not perform like they’d like, e.g. Veilguard, FC 25, maybe Immortals of Avernum, Wild Hearts, Dead Space remake, etc., so they might not want to let it get as bad as Ubi, with some small, easy “wins.”

  This is just my theory of course, I don’t really know anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 23rd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played some shapez. It’s fun, but some of the later designs are definitely a puzzle on how to make them. The sequel seems to be the same thing, but 3D graphics. Shoutout to the soundtrack by Peppsen, it’s fantastic.

  Then I started re-playing the OG Final Fantasy VII, since I just finished Rebirth. I played the New Threat mod after Remake, so I didn’t really get how similar Remake is to the original game, and now Rebirth as well. Yes, the new games are a lot slower, and you get a bunch of fluff, but otherwise they are the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 16th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m at the end of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. This game is all quantity over quality in my opinion. I also think, the devs never thought if the gazillion minigames or one-off quest mechanics are fun. Just add more and more, so you can brag about how much there is to do in your game. If players enjoy themselves, it’s a nice coincidence, but never a goal. I just want this game to be over at this point. The last couple of hours just completely destroyed any remaining interest I had

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we going through another scalping apocalypse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’ve never really left, and it’s been going on for much longer. All the popular tech gets scalped. Switch, PS5, Phones GPUs, etc. If you can’t launch with infinite products available, it’s going to get scalped nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we going through another scalping apocalypse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AMD have said, the 9070 series is going to be up to 4070 ti performance. Leaks have also shown the performance between 7800XT and 7900XTX, so you can trust these numbers of course.

  As for the price, AMD can say what they want, but how they’ve handled this launch so far doesn’t sound promising. A vendor, who has the cards already, speculated about the price, and it was horrible.

  Things have changed since then, but until AMD has released concrete numbers, all these leaks are useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we going through another scalping apocalypse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want what you’re smoking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter: World sold over a million copies just in the last 3 months, despite being 7 years old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every one of those got confused about the title and thought it is Wilds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You still got a week. You could squeeze in a quick Pillars 2 run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t put down Baldur’s Gate 3, again, but managed to beat Honor Mode for the first time. It felt like my characters were doing twice the damage, compared to my previous time in Act 3, so I just mopped the floor with pretty much all the bosses. There are a few more playthroughs I want to do, but I want to wait a bit. I’ve had like over 150 hours of BG3 this year already.

  If anyone is interested, here are some more details of the run:

  Honor Mode

  Act 1 and 2 were three permanent party members and two that alternated. Fire Sorcerer (MC), Gloomstalker Assassin (Astarion), Life Cleric (Shadowheart) and switched between Berserker Thrower (Karlach) and Battle Master Fighter (Lae’zel). Act 3 I shelved the Cleric and just went full DPS. For some quest fights I took the appropriate companion (Wyll for Ansur, Jaheira for Minsc), but for the House of Hope fight I went full caster comp and just stacked AoE spells on the choke point and hid, while the enemies slowly died. I also found out that a thrower build with returning weapons doesn’t work for the very final fight against the Netherbrain, since the weapons just fall through the non-existent ground and never return. The rest of my party had more than enough damage, so it didn’t matter, but I should have kept some of the gazillion Daggers I got shortly before.

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  Then, I continued Final Fantasy VII Rebirth today. I completed a quest, won a Chocobo Race and fought a boss. Not much progress, but with BG3 done, maybe I can focus on this one.