Malix
@Malix@sopuli.xyz
Internet-urpo pahimmasta päästä.
- Comment on [Spoiler] Day 419 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part II) 1 week ago:
now I wonder if he posts Schedule 1 tomorrow
- Comment on I refuse to by a new mouse 2 weeks ago:
could be my tinfoil hat receiving thoughts via radio waves: maybe it’s by design? the coating will get grimy eventually, so the user is more likely to buy a new device.
- Comment on I refuse to by a new mouse 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had a logitec g502 for years, the rubber (?) grips on the sides have dents shaped like my fingers…
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 3 weeks ago:
fair enough, youtube probably wasn’t a good comparison, but GOG should be. They have written text alongside the 1-5 star review. Now, there are grades 2-4, but in general 1 and 5 seem to be the most used ones.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 3 weeks ago:
I dunno how useful that would be. Way back in the day eg. youtube had a star rating system for videos, and users gave 0-5 stars… except they found out that overwhelmingly vast majority of users only used 0 and 5, nothing in between.
While a more granular review system would be nice, it’s just the users that don’t and won’t use it properly. Even if some users would use scores other than [min] and [max], they would be such a droplet in an ocean.
Even with the current thumbs up/down people get it wrong. Give it a thumbs up but write a scathing review.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 3 weeks ago:
…were those reviews from some specific languages?
- Comment on How much does storage speed affect your games? 4 weeks ago:
Way back when I switched from sata hdd’s to sata ssd’s, the experience in general was a lot snappier - but this was like ages ago and on Windows (8.1 or 10, can’t remember). Games loaded faster depending on the game.
Some months ago I was playing cyberpunk 2077 on win10 & sata3 ssd, and later on moved over to linux on pcie4 nvme on the same machine, and the loading times seem to be pretty much the same. But, admittedly way too much changed and fairly large timespan in between to draw any conclusive results.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 5 weeks ago:
are you using the env variable to enable it for the game? AFAIK it’s not enabled by default, and It dawned on me that I have it enabled on
/usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-ge-custom/user_settings.py(the config file for proton-ge). But it could still be nvidia issue, wouldn’t surprise me - Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 1 month ago:
So far, everything mostly works. Occasionally I have to tinker with some environment variables to get some games working, but so far everything I have tried has been playable.
I have ryzen 5800x3d, 32 GB ram, rtx3090, 1440p 120hz gsync screen, nvme + bunch of other drives. Running Arch (wayland, kde plasma), games installed from steam/gog + few standalones from regular installers. Mostly I use proton-ge, but some games run fine with just wine. ntsync + wayland enabled.
some games (eg. PEAK) have MASSIVE flicker unless I explicitly disable wayland support for them (PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0), and then it’s fine.
Only thing really lacking is performance, eg. Cyberpunk 2077 with RT is slower than on Win10. It still does about 60 fps, but the dips below are way more harsh. AFAIK this is a thing accross the board with DX12 games with current nvidia driver, supposedly there’s a fix cooking, but we’ll see.
I don’t play competetive pvp games at all, so I can’t speak for those. But so far friends only co-op & single player games have worked just fine.
- Comment on Day 380 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Thank you for the info. But, nah, playing with random peeps not really my thing, me and my gaming circle basically just want friends-only.
So… if I’m parsing this right, the latest version doesn’t do multiplayer, but earlier ones do? Or is this “B42” some beta-branch you need to manually select in steam->game properties?
- Comment on Day 380 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Sounds cool. Thank you!
Gotta rummage through the available mods, but def considering picking this one up now.
- Comment on Day 380 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
if you don’t mind me asking for bit more details: how is death on single/multiplayer? Is it roguelitey-death-and-that’s-it or is there respawning?
- Comment on Day 380 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Oh, the Project Zomboid has coop? Didn’t know that. Is it friends-only or on some common server or what? Are the survival aspects (difficulty) adjustable?
- Comment on The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry 1 month ago:
Seems to be pretty common thing according to the comments in the video. “Funny” thing, indeed.
Though kinda weird if YT intentionally wanted to limit this video’s visibility by dropping it from subscription feed, but then offer it eagerly on the frontpage… what’s the logic on that.
- Comment on The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry 1 month ago:
Funny thing: I’m subscribed to that channel, and yet: the video just will not appear on subscription feed. It did pop up on frontpage, though.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 month ago:
can you even kill something that’s already dead?
But tbh, only played some of the beginning. Should actually play it through.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 month ago:
Disco Elysium? More or less entirely conversation-driven RPG about an alcoholic cop who drunk himself to submission so hard he forgot who he is, hence developing him back with skillpoints. Off the top of my head there’s like one combat situation which you can talk around if you’re so inclined.
Otherwise, it’s been said many times that “Planetscape: Torment” is similar … ish. Not the setting, but mechanics, apparently you can entirely go through the game without combat - but that’s not to say there’s not going to be bodies - or so I’ve been told, haven’t played the game to completion, only dabbled the beginnings.
So, these suggestions are with grain of salt, obvs. But afaik both are pretty high up on the rpg shelf.
- Comment on Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games gets acquired by KRAFTON 1 month ago:
hope it fares better for them than the subnautica 2 devs.
- Comment on Abiotic Factor review - Abiotic Factor is an instant survival classic, and one of the best games I've played in years. 1 month ago:
sounds promising, thanks for letting me know! I’ll check back to the game during the weekend. :)
- Comment on Abiotic Factor review - Abiotic Factor is an instant survival classic, and one of the best games I've played in years. 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t know, not that far into the game, still just working in the starting cafeteria area. But, I’ll check it again at some point.
- Comment on Abiotic Factor review - Abiotic Factor is an instant survival classic, and one of the best games I've played in years. 1 month ago:
The game is pretty dope, but the thing that broke my enthusiasm with the game was the realization that mosterspawning teleporter/rift can just spawn in the base. Doesn’t seem like a fun mechanic to me, the game is a misery-simulator everywhere else, why did it need to have random monsterspawners in “safe areas” as well. :/
I guess I need to take a gander in the sandbox settings, apparently there’s some slider/toggle to affect monster’s damage to furniture/craftingstations/etc.
- Comment on Day 371 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
ah, Runescape. The version I played aaaages ago is apparently now called “Classic”. The only thing I (barely) remember from those times are my massive piles of Kebab -items in my inventory, they were dirt cheap as healing items, but they did have a chance of dealing damage when eaten, instead of healing. :D
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is coming to Mac this thursday 2 months ago:
got to wonder if that launch might be simultaneous with the 2.3 update
- Comment on DOGWALK is a free casual game from the Blender Studio out now 2 months ago:
blender 2.79b was the last one to ship with the engine, it’s been abandoned for ages
- Comment on DOGWALK is a free casual game from the Blender Studio out now 2 months ago:
This looks absolutely delightful. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 2 months ago:
they’re not really platformers like, eg. Mario, they’re a lot slower with the focus being on environmental puzzles (levers, boxes, elevators, etc).
If Little Nightmares -series is familiar, they’re basically like that.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 13th 2 months ago:
Finished Kathy Rain 2 few hours ago. Very nice point & click game with reasonable puzzles. The first game and this one went kinda off the rails towards the end, but it seems like “a thing” this series does, I say hoping there’s a 3rd one.
The pixel art is just stupidly gorgeous with modern lighting/reflection effects and voice acting is good accross the board.
If anything negative, there’s quite a bit of back and forth traveling to unlock-stuff-to-do-the-thing-elsewhere, it comes a off as a bit of “trial and error” style of exhausting options to get the crucial hint to progress. But other than that, the game is great.
- Comment on Day 336 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I did like Control, and I do like coop-shooters… but I would prefer some story campaign instead of few repeatable/grindable mission-types with minor run-to-run variance.
Overall, I’m definitely wanting to play through this to completion.
So, this game does have some story arc? Genuinely do want to know.
- Comment on Self insert power fantasy recommendations? 3 months ago:
regarding OP, kinda bummer that the bike bug which lead to nude A-posing when riding a bike was fixed.
I did goof with it when it was still a thing: Image
- Comment on Self insert power fantasy recommendations? 3 months ago:
While it’s not indie: Cyberpunk 2077?
You can make your character as pretty as you please (though, no “sex appeal” -slider like in Saint’s Row :D). Also, no 3rd person camera, so you’d only see your character in inventory screen. Otherwise there’s bit of boobies to be seen - and massive amounts if you so choose with modding.
Difficultywise it’ll cater to very casual approach, but the game does the “bethesda-thing” where you will end up as destroyer of worlds regardless of difficulty.
