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[Iduno]

What ever did happen to the combine the last 2 games you played thread? I'm guessing it spawned this:

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https://pyrofoux.itch.io/super-is-hot

[Aoi]

I find myself kind of disappointed that it isn't 'Baba is Hot', because grandma, and... _{okay, I'll see myself out.}

[Mephisto]

In addition to just purchasing all of the Capitalism Lab stuff, I find myself playing a bunch of free games (demo or otherwise) on Steam.

Subnautica but not. I've only put a few minutes into it. There are a few bugs. Performance is better than the videos imply, at least on my aging 3rd gen i5 and GTX 960.

FTL meets 40k and Hc Svnt Dracones. Again, buggy. More so than the last game. Has promise if those get smoothed out and I'll be replaying to try and create some better repro steps to hand over.

Grand Theft Horse. The game's subtitle is spot on. I'm on board for most of the humor but some of it just isn't all that funny. Plays pretty much like the old top down GTA games.

[Robsoie]

If anyone still play good old Total Annihilation, the Escalation mod reached a new milestone with a new release that unleash their T4 tier filled with huge sea, air and ground super units into the game for more explosions and lots of new stuff.
https://taesc.tauniverse.com

[Bumber]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/761830/Mr_Prepper/

I watched some footage of the beta and I'm mildly intrigued by it.

[Jopax]

Posting here because I haven't played too much and I can't be bothered making a dedicated thread.

Dyson Sphere Program just released into EA on Steam. The gist of it is, Factorio, but on a stellar scale. Now, the devs are Chinese so there's some engrish present but I think the deal is that you're in a simulation of sorts or something and your task is to build dyson spheres around stars. Whatever, the story isn't terribly important, the gameplay is, and from the couple of hours I've played it's pretty good.
You start with only your little mecha guy and you go around gathering stuff before getting machines that can do it for you, automate further to unlock more advanced stuff so that you can automate even further. If you've played any of the increasing number of factory building games you know the loop. Of course you then expand to other planets and solar systems to get more stuff and it sort of escalates from there. I haven't reached the space stage quite yet as I'm in the process of getting my T2 science pack equivalent up and running.
Some notable things about it (atleast for me), first off, the music, it has a fairly strong Stellaris vibe which means it's pretty damn good if you like that sort of synthy space opera music. Second, the interface is pretty damn sweet and well executed, it's clear the devs played games like these before and have learned how to make everything quickly and easily accessible, manual crafting is intuitive and easily scalable, building stuff is also pretty cool because you essentially start with the Factorio equivalent of drones so you get a pretty nice range.
The controls themselves are kinda cool since you can WASD or just right-click around to make the robot move. There's also jetpacking which is a pretty fun way of getting around.

It's currently on a small discount and can be picked up for 15 Eurobucks or your equivalent and I'd say it's pretty worth it from what I've seen so far and it seems that they'll be making it bigger and better down the line as well.

[Robsoie]

Noticed this html5 game, very fun for a few minutes :
https://twotinydice.itch.io/forward

While the concept is different, it reminded me of this one :
https://watabou.itch.io/patient-rogue

Too bad there's no downloadable version of those.

[Fire and Glory]

I've been playing the Trepang2 demo. It's pretty fun, in a power fantasy-ish kind of way that appeals to a caveman such as myself. It essentially comes across as something like 2 parts F.E.A.R blended with 1 part ULTRAKILL and 1 part Crysis.

Spoiler: Me rambling about the game (click to show/hide)

Aside from shooting dudes, gameplay is a bit of a balancing act of managing 3 bars which fuel your abilities and movement.

Bullet time, which essentially slows time down enough to make you a god. But you can only get it back by hurting people, and only when you're not in the process of using it, which brings us to the second bar.

Cloaking, yep, you're a fucking chameleon. Why? Don't know, but it's what you'll be relying on to get your bullet time back. Cloaking is short lived but also comes back quickly, the obvious way to use it is to run and hide when you're out of bullet time, and then throw a grenade or snipe some heads from safety. However you can also use it to great effect by switching between bullet time, cloaking, and back again mid-firefight, this is admittedly a little tricky since you can accidentally delete all of your cloak by shooting or such-like but it's also very fun if you get it right, although you can't keep it up forever, due to our third bar.

Stamina, standard stuff, stamina denotes your ability to sprint, slide, jump, jump-kick, the works. Stamina generally takes a while to use up and it comes back quickly, but it can and will throw you to the curb if you try to keep fighting non-stop.

Looming over these 3 elements is your ammunition counter. Having to reload is barely a footnote in most FPS games but in Trepang2 it's a major menace, as you lack the ability to aim down sights so you'll mostly be spraying bullets all over the place due to recoil, which kicks up heaps of visibility hindering dust, not to mention everyone is wearing body armor. This encourages you to augment your assault with bone-shattering kicks and punches to save ammo, which I thought was pretty cool.

All of this leads to the behavior of an ambush predator, intense assaults followed by quick retreats to reload and reposition, and I think it comes together rather well. Or at least, it would if things weren't maybe a bit too easy. The mundane soldiers you're up against barely stand a chance against this whirlwind of destruction that is you, and I've been playing on hard mode*. There's only one or two areas where you're in a position to be truly threatened in my opinion, generally due to disadvantageous terrain. Still, it's only a demo, so they're probably keeping the good stuff for the commercial release.

Graphics wise gunfights are extremely messy, there's lots of bullet holes, corpses, gore and blood. All good stuff.

Music, I quite like the music, which is noteworthy because I typically don't notice music unless it's in the title screen or the credits. The tracks are a bit distinct and evokes a kind of mystical element in it I reckon, cool stuff imo, have a listen if you like.

How's the AI? Uh. Not sure. When the player is so ludicrously fast, durable, and can turn invisible, there's not much you can expect the AI to do about it. They'll throw grenades if you're hiding and they know where you are, and that's about all I can say about it.

Story is a bit intriguing but unsurprisingly information light, not much to say for the demo. The radio callouts are nice, they lend good weight to the fact that these guys are getting torn apart.

*admittedly that's only the middle difficulty option

So ya, I like the demo and I will be watching for the game's release.

[Robsoie]

Recently heard about a rather interesting freebie named cosmoteer :
https://walternaterealities.itch.io/cosmoteer

Checking Bay12 there used to be a thread few years ago while the game had another name
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159051.0

The game is about building up your spaceship with various tiles , and have a crew operating it and then duking it out with other space ships a bit like in "Gratuitous Space Battles".
Not sure how long it can be interesting, but the few space battle i had were rather fun, though i have yet to master the art of making ships as half my guns weren't powered and i didn't even had enough crew for all the things in my ship.

Anyone has played it long enough to see if the potential i see in this game can keep it replay value high ?
Apparently there are mods available for it too :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XsjYmUvxm0Q5J9UIeITnRIiNhts4OaR0ioUs64kaY1c/edit?usp=sharing
https://forum.cosmoteer.net/t/mods

[Kagus]

Man O' War: Corsair - Warhammer Naval Battles is going to be pulled from the Steam store come Sunday due to licensing issues, so for the very last days they're going to be having a 90% off sale for people who want to get in on the game before they can no longer buy it.

Having put almost a hundred hours into the game, and doing that before they added all the chaos campaigns into the game, I'd say it's definitely worth taking a peek at. It absolutely has its shortcomings, and the main reason I didn't play for considerably longer is because the devs were focusing on adding new content rather than digging down and fixing the horror that is the game's melee combat system.


Man O' War is a seafaring adventure game set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe, on a map covering the coast of the Old World from Kislev all the way down to Tilea and the pirate-nation of Sartosa. Recruit, manage and equip your crew; sail a variety of ship designs and outfit them to your specifications; hunt massive sea monsters (my favorite pastime), fend off orkish incursions, run envoy missions and trade runs, or simply float around hunting for pirates. Watch as the various nations interact with each other, starting wars and forging alliances, claiming and occupying their enemies' ports and being forced out from their own holdings, changing the political shape of the Old World forever. Also, hiring a bright wizard to serve on your wooden boat is totally a fine idea.


P.S.: Skaven definitely don't exist, but if they did then you should probably watch the fuck out for plague censer ships with a gray seer onboard who can just skitterleap the whole damn thing directly into the side of your galleon. Don't give them the opportunity.

[Robsoie]

I had lot of fun with this original and excellent Terra Nil mentionned in the free games thread.
For now the Mountain map (the 3rd map) is bankrupting me a lot before even reaching the 3rd phase.

If someone else have trouble with the same map, i found this video with some nice tricks and tactic that can be usefull there (even despite the map random generation) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqg3dOeSV4I


edit : yes ! thanks to the rivers closing zone and fire guiding path tricks from that video, i finally managed to beat that puzzling mountain map

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Took me some attempts before getting it right, and thanks the dev for the undo button
I just hope the next map, Peninsula, will not drive me mad.

[Mephisto]

Do you enjoy D&D?

Have you ever wondered which CR-equivalent creature would win in a fight?

Do you want to bet in an illegal goblin-run fighting arena?

Does jeering at people bring you joy?

Goblin Bet has you covered.

[Kagus]

Do you enjoy D&D?

Have you ever wondered which CR-equivalent creature would win in a fight?

Do you want to bet in an illegal goblin-run fighting arena?

Does jeering at people bring you joy?

Goblin Bet has you covered.

Rigged as fuck; The grappled condition doesn't work like that!

[Akura]

Plague Inc. has released "The Cure" DLC for the price of free "until Covid-19 is under control".

[Frumple]

Huh. So it's saltybet, but D&D encounter tables. I can dig it.