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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FH4 was heavily discounted before it was removed from stores (because of license deals), so FH5 will most likely get the same treatment, although it might take a few more years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 10th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finished my Dark Urge Baldur’s Gate 3 run. The duel with Orin was surprisingly troublesome, and it took me a few tries to defeat her, but otherwise it was a pretty smooth run. Since I resisted the urge, it was mostly the same as my other “good” playthroughs, apart from the couple of additional scenes and dialogue.

  For now, I’ll take a couple of months break from the game, and wait a bit for the next playthroughs.

  Then I tried Vampire Crawlers, the deck building dungeon crawler spin-off of Vampire Survivors. I’m not really into these genres, but gave it a shot because of the Vampire Survivors connection.

  I think the way the different items, mechanics, enemies, levels, etc. got translated into a completely different kind of game is pretty neat, but the chest opening animation is seriously lacking. It’s the best in Vampire Survivors, and I have it as my Steam Deck boot up video, but it’s just completely missing here. A massive oversight.

  Otherwise, the game is fine, the combo mechanic is fun, but it did get kinda boring and samey after about 10 hours.

  Right now I’m in between games, waiting for my Steam Controller to arrive and Forza Horizon 6 to launch, so I’m just playing a bunch of Overwatch. My biggest gripe with the game is as always the matchmaking. It got better since the recent re-launch, but it’s still pretty bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My quest to get a steam controller has failed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Practically there wasn’t really a difference with the Steam Deck. You still had everyone rushing at the same time to get the deposit in. People got errors during the check out, just like this time and scalpers popped up immediately as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking more along the line of PaysafeCard or things like that, although that might have similar currency restrictions. Or of course you can just buy foreign prepaid cards from third-party resellers. You’ll pay more than the card is actually worth, but if you would then be able to buy games for half price or even less, it would be worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Directly in Steam it’s not that easy, you need a billing address and Steam checks the payment method to verify the country (although I don’t know if certain prepaid cards work for this as well).

  You still have Steam keys, that can be sold anywhere though, and not everyone will care that this cheap key, intended for the Polish market is bought by someone in Germany.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the law doesn’t say that prices have to be the same, it’s just that you can’t block people from other countries from buying stuff at the cheaper price.

  With physical goods you either have to actually go to the country or get it shipped to you, which can make this not as easy or “profitable”. However, with digital goods you just go to a website and there’s not really anything to ship, except maybe an email, so those same hurdles don’t exist, which is why those lower income countries usually get the short end of the stick with prices for games and stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t realistically restrict keys

  I think it’s actually illegal to restrict this stuff in the EU.

  In the past Steam actually had separate keys for lower income countries in Europe, that could only be activated there. However, either because laws changed or they started to actually be enforced, Steam had to change it.

  You can still make the games cheaper to buy in those countries, but you also have to allow people from Germany, France, wherever to buy them (as long as it’s in the EU), which very few publishers want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think it’s not on console (or other mods like it, if they exist), because the mod uses the Script Extender, which is only on PC afaik.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Resist, so it’s not much different from a good run, except for the different/extra dialogue and maybe that first time getting the Urge (which I knew about and saved Alfira).

  Last playthrough I had everyone with me, and this time I was back to the default party size. However, I missed the extra banter and stuff, so I enabled the Party Size mod again, along with the Sit This One Out mod, so in fights it’s still just four people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cannot play games b/c Internet is needlessly required. Starcraft, Age of Empires, Civilization..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Old Blizzard games at least don’t need the internet to install and play, stuff like Diablo 2 and even Starcraft shouldn’t. For offline play even the serial doesn’t matter, because it’s not checking against some online database or something. Only once you go online do you need your own personal CD key, that’ll be tied to an account.

  Once you get to later installments of these series you get entries that either need a constant internet connection or and occasional check, like Diablo 3 onwards, the Diablo 2 Remaster and maybe Starcraft 2 as well.

  It’s weird that your Starcraft version needs an internet connection for the installation. I don’t have that tied to my Battle.net Account, but I do have Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2. So I just downloaded those and did a quick test without internet, and they installed without issues. Yes, it’s not the same as directly from the CDs, but it would be weird if the “modern” download was more convenient than the old stuff. I downloaded a downloader, that then downloaded the actual game. I remember stuff like that in the past as well, but maybe only for patches (and definitely World of Warcraft).

  I might have some old CDs of these games as well, but they are buried in some boxes, stuck behind other stuff, so I can’t quickly check if those are the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So true! Remember the good old days with games like Expedition 33, Baldur’s Gate 3, Resident Evil 9? Those were the best. It’s a pity games like that don’t get made anymore.

  WTF are you talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Made it to Act 2 in my current Baldur’s Gate 3 run. Since this is my first time going Dark Urge, I’m not playing on Honor Mode (although same difficulty settings, except not single save), and I’m definitely save scumming more, even if you ignore the times I’m just trying new stuff (did the exploit to kill Raphael in Act 1 for the first time for his loot).

  I’m also using (sub)classes that I’ve never or rarely used this time. Swashbuckler is pretty neat and Druid Owlbear form is just dumb (in a good way). Frost Sorcerer seems neat, but I don’t really care about getting enemies wet first for double damage, so I might just switch that build down the line. Wildheart Barbarian can really chunk, although it’s mostly just hitting people with your stick. I then made Karlach to a dual crossbow Arcane Trickster, mainly for a token ranged build (I’m really melee heavy otherwise), but I’m not really feeling it, so I might change that up as well later.

  I’m definitely starting to get burned out on BG3, since I played like 200h in the last two months or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Slay the Spire 2 probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it’s not like it was at almost 5% in January.

  As I wrote in another comment, if you ignore February completely, ~3% to ~5% in a month or two is gigantic.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if it drops back down again next month, but maybe it stays at 5% because the old data was faulty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but there are so many Steam users every month, that even if only 1% or 0.1% of people get the survey, that’s still a ton of people (over 40M concurrent, estimated 130M+ users every month)

  Also, have the Linux users increased by over 50% month-to-month? The jump from ~3% at the start of the year to over 5% is huge.

  It’s possible there was something wrong with the data before and the 3% wasn’t accurate or there’s something wrong now and the 5% is not correct. That’s all I’m saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The drop last month was because Chinese users increased by 30% (which were removed or whatever this month).

  So even if you’re going to be pedantic and ignore the whole of February and just go from the January stats to March directly, 3.5% to 5.3% is a massive jump that doesn’t make sense. Why suddenly this month? Why not last year when W10 support ended?

  One possible explanation is that maybe the old 3% Linux base was wrong and now something has been accounted for or has been corrected, so in reality it has been around 5% for a while, which is now shown correctly. That’s why I’m saying I’m gonna wait a bit to take these stats at face value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That 3% jump seems almost too big for me to believe. With the seemingly annual increase of Chinese users in February, which is then corrected in March (which we can see this time), I’d probably wait another month or two if more stats get adjusted or if Linux stays at over 5%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 29th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished my latest Baldur’s Gate 3 run, where I used mods to increase the party size and level cap (among others), but it wasn’t pretty. For some reason, after getting to Act 3 and rescuing Minsc, the game just didn’t want to exist anymore. It would constantly drop frames, until it got to 2, which is obviously unplayable.

  Apparently one of the latest hotfixes, which released in February messed something up and caused some major problems in Act 3 for some people. For me, this happened mainly when I had more than X party members, but only while running around. As I said, this started after getting Minsc, so for a while the game was fine with a party of 11 people, then the frame drops started. For a bit it worked with 8 people, but the more I played in Act 3, the more people I had to leave behind. At the end, even the default 4 almost were too much.

  Weirdly enough, in combat everything was fine, no matter how many people there were, so I’d just get to the big fights, go back to camp, get everyone, and go back. Still, some parts were absolute torture, and I was thinking about pausing the run and waiting for a patch. However, since I was close to the end, and didn’t know when and if a patch would release, I just powered through and finished the game. Of course, when I made it to the epilogue and the game crashed one final time, Steam downloaded the hotfix that had been released a couple of minutes earlier.

  Anyway, I’m starting another run, this time relatively normal, and going Dark Urge for the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely OP, but I’ve done a handful of normal playthroughs already, so I just wanna mess around this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m early in Act 2 in my latest Baldur’s Gate 3 run.

  Rolling around with the increased party limit is nice, because I get to hear a bunch of banter, that I’d never hear otherwise. I’ve basically never used Minthara, Jaheira or Minsc, and Halsin only once (he wouldn’t stop flirting with Shadowheart in that playthrough). Since I’m trying to fuck everyone as well (except maybe Squid Man), there are also a ton of camp events. Act 1 had so many, that I had to long rest five or six times back-to-back at the end, in hopes of not missing one. Act 2 looks to be a bit more quiet right now, but Act 3 should get a ton again, with all the dates or conclusions to the companion quests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 8th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished my Baldur’s Gate 3 run with an all-fighters party. In the end, the Act 1 fight against Flind and the gnolls was the hardest, because I was still level 3 when I did it. The rest of the game was pretty uneventful, as nothing really posed any challenge.

  Action Surge and (Improved) Extra Attack are so strong, that most enemies die in the first turn or something, which usually just leaves the boss, who doesn’t survive for much longer afterward.

  I actually started a new run pretty much immediately after. My previous ones were still pretty normal Honor Mode playthroughs (using UI and “QoL” mods), this time I decided to just use a bunch more mods to change up the game and mess around. I’m running around with an increased party size, up to level 20, custom items, custom and more enemies, stuff like that.

  While I want to basically just steamroll through stuff, some of the custom items are definitely too strong. I’ll probably stop using some of the stronger ones and look into buffing enemies even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 22nd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. The game has big problems, mainly the non-existent balance and bugs, but I’m glad to have finally crossed this one off of my backlog. I would actually be interested in doing another run, because I kinda find that Swarm route intriguing, but then I remember the beginning of the game and how much it sucked, and I’m good on that. Who knows how I’ll feel in a few years though.

  Then I started a new Baldur’s Gate 3 run, this time I’m going with an all Fighter setup. Each active party member will also get a different sub-class and fighting style. My regular party will be Origin Lae’zel, Two-Handed Battle Master, along with Shadowheart, One-Handed Champion (currently with a shield, maybe later without one or dual wielding), then Astarion, Arcane Archer, and Karlach, Eldritch Knight Thrower. The other companions will get subbed in as needed for their personal quests, with a Fighter Sub-Class that I think fits.

  I’m like most of the way through Act 1 and hit level 5 yesterday, so the rest should hopefully be more of a formality at this point (as long as I don’t screw up massively). I’m playing on Honor Mode and will do all optional quests and bosses, so there are still a few fights that could get iffy, but as long as I don’t completely turn my brain off, it should be fine.

  Then, I’ve also been playing a lot of Overwatch. The game had its grand relaunch two weeks ago, the 2 didn’t survive, so it’s just back to Overwatch now. Along with that, there were five new heroes released, with another new one coming every season, for a total of 10 this year. There’s also gonna be a year-long story arc, with cinematics, lore, comics, whatever, that you can check out in-game, if you’re into that.

  Of the new heroes, Domina, the new tank, is definitely my favorite. She’s an absolute blast to play (and currently very strong). The others are either fine or not my cup of tea, so I’m mostly back to my old favorites for DPS and support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 1st⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gameplay is very similar, for obvious reasons. Wrath has more things, of course, but it’s still based on PF1e.

  All the Mythic Path stuff makes you scale extremely fast at certain points, but it’s not like you’re suddenly doing different stuff in combat. But if you like to use super hard hitting spells, you can sling those for days (I’m level 15 and my Angel Oracle has like 80 spells slots between level 1-8, and some other characters aren’t far behind).

  If you’re ok with just spending all your spell slots every fight or something, then rest, and go again, then very few fights should take long, but I’m the type of player who usually doesn’t rest inside of dungeons. Although I’m maybe a bit too stingy with them, that’s why this one dungeon took so long (I also didn’t really optimize my party a lot, but did some changes for the last few fights, that made things a lot easier).

  As for the writing, I’m the wrong person to ask, I don’t really care about it, same as with Kingmaker. I’m playing these games for the combat, which I mostly enjoy.

  If you’re not sure about Owlcat games after Kingmaker, I’d recommend you check out Rogue Trader, if you’re ok with the Warhammer 40k setting (which I didn’t care about). I found it very enjoyable and a lot less buggy than the two Pathfinder games, although it is on the easier side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As great as Jeff was, he’s the one that did all the stuff to Overwatch.

  As far as I’ve heard/read he was never really interested in making a PVP game, he wanted to make Titan, the MMO. Then he got another chance with OW2 and the PVE mode, and even got an offer to make a separate dev team that would focus on PVP, so he could put his all into PVE, but declined, so the game was left to die (even though it never really died). Then PVE in OW2 was a bust again and he left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 1st⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Played through the Nioh 3 Demo. It seems fine, a lot of changes from the previous games (especially if you compare Nioh 1 to 2), that need some time to get used to.

  My main problem with the game right now is the price. 80€ is just far too much, even if I’d probably put hundreds of hours into the game (if the first two are anything to go by). I’ll either wait for it to get cheaper or get it from a key reseller, not sure yet.

  Then, I’m deep into Act 3 in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. At this point combat is mostly trivial, although I just completed a dungeon/area that was just a massive slog with overtuned enemies (Blackwater) that made me question my life choices. Nothing new for this series, Kingmaker had similar balancing issues (basically the last third of the game). Still having fun most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong Ashes. You’re thinking of Ashes of the Singularity, which is an RTS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I put a lot of time into Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader these last two weeks and finished the game. I had a great time with it, mostly because of the combat, I just really liked it.

  Story is kinda meh, because in my run it felt a bit unfocused and bloated. It’s like the devs just wanted to cram as much 40k stuff into it as possible, so story threads just kinda fizzle out or something completely new gets suddenly thrust into the focus. It’s possible that this is because of my choices, how I did quests or if I did or didn’t kill certain NPCs.

  This game also made me realize I don’t really like 40k. The whole setting and universe is just too ridiculous, dumb and over the top for me. I’ll still play the occasional 40k game, like Boltgun 2 or Dark Heresy, but it’s not a selling point for me.

  I’m definitely gonna do a second playthrough, probably once the second season DLC is released. I actually started another run yesterday, because I just had so much fun with the game, and played through the prologue, making heretical choices, but I’ll try to finally give Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous a proper shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No more Jackie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, kinda disagree. I played the game for the first time last year and imma be honest I didn’t really care about Jackie when he died.

  He says you can spend a lot of time in the opening area, before doing the heist, which I did, but almost nothing of it is with Jackie. Even the couple of missions you do with him, you’re often doing your own stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends, as is the case with all games.

  I think it’s very good, but not the second coming of Christ as many people made it out to be.

  It’s a better Final Fantasy game, and I think the story is much more interesting. However, if you’re looking for something like BG3 with the freedom, size or character interaction, you’ll be disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

  I did finish the game, but it was a complete slog at the end. It was mainly because I still really like the characters and had invested too much time into the two games at that point, so I have to see this trilogy through to the end.

  Like you said, there’s just soooo much padding, and I’d even say the world is much worse than Ubisoft stuff. It’s just empty, except for the same five copy & paste “events” in every zone.

  Something must be wrong with me though, since I’ve actually been thinking about replaying the game lately. Dunno why, but the thought just keeps creeping into my brain every now and then.