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I found the steam page (also has a demo) on a lark and I happened to read at the bottom:
MATURE CONTENT DESCRIPTION
The developers describe the content like this:
Winter Ember contains sexual references as well as references to both drugs and alcohol. These instances are few and far between and as such only conveyed through dialogue, allusions and innuendo.
I know it's not new but honestly it's so much better than an ESRB rating. Granted you have to actually read something and think about it instead of glance at a letter to know if it's appropriate, and you have to trust that the developer is honest and forthcoming with the content as well as having a similar baseline view on what consists of things like "few and far between" or "frequent". Granted I'm not in a position to actually care about what's in games content wise, but if I had a kid I would much rather have these paragraphs.
Also I kind of just oppose rating systems anyhow.
That feeling in a long RTS scenario, when your hero is killed just as your troops complete the final objective..... ;( 😭 😭
Since DE has an ongoing bug for custom scenarios where loading a saved game does not trigger the post-game cinematic, OR progress the custom campaign to the next scenario, I've been trying to Ironman most custom game content.
Last night I was playing "Seljuk: Rise of an Empire", a campaign-length scenario from one of the most talented scenario designers in the AoE II community, who was part of the Forgotten Empires for many years, while also releasing a ton of content on the side. "Seljuk" is a pretty ambitious scenario about the rise of the Seljuk turks from a small faction in a steppe tribe to a mighty sultanate, spanning about 80 years and 4 great rulers in the dynasty. It starts out really difficult as you are a nomad trying to eliminate rival tribes, while being vulnerable to much bigger tribes. But with your second ruler you get the opportunity to conquer Baghdad, displacing the Buyid Caliphate, and you not only get a very pretty city, but can also research upgrades, advance in ages, and start settling down, building Town Centres and Castles to get a real economy going. There's even a re-enactment of Battle of Manzikert where you can really spank the Byzantines as long as you're friends with the Kipchaks (or you crushed them) to hit the Byzantine fortress from the north, coming down the Caucasus mountains, instead of breaking through their layered defenses to the West of Baghdad
Anyway, the last ruler, Malik Shah is tasked with conquering Persia. You also need to build a Wonder, and when you do, you get warning that a new steppe horde (the Kara Khitai) are coming. Your allied nomads helpfully quip "Beware the Khara Khitai! They have no honour!"- being an in-joke going back to the opening scene in the 1st Genghis Khan campaing scenario in the OG Age of Kings.
Anyway, the Kara Khitai aren't particularly strong, though they spawn in a strong unit roster. My own unit roster is much stronger, seeing as I have the ability to recruit extra unique units, such as Hunnic Tarkans, Mongol Mangudai, and I've got hero monks (imams) who can convert me entire scores of Berber Camel Archers and Saracen Mamelukes for a pretty all-star steppe nomad roster. Oh, and there's also Persian War Elephants I can convert away while besieging the Persian fortresses. Tasty.
The issue was, they've got strong ranged units, and I've got a ridiculous unit cap of 100, which makes having an economy, a besieging army and a defending army somewhat difficult to juggle. And eventually my defending force must've gotten overwhelmed. felt really bad seeing the "We have completed our objectives" message, followed by "our leader is dead! All is lost!" in the same screen. Should've taken a screenshot.
Next time I'll build a bunch of castles everywhere before triggering that horde. or convert like 50 Camel Archers to one-shot the Kara-Khitai.
Since DE has an ongoing bug for custom scenarios where loading a saved game does not trigger the post-game cinematic, OR progress the custom campaign to the next scenario, I've been trying to Ironman most custom game content.
Last night I was playing "Seljuk: Rise of an Empire", a campaign-length scenario from one of the most talented scenario designers in the AoE II community, who was part of the Forgotten Empires for many years, while also releasing a ton of content on the side. "Seljuk" is a pretty ambitious scenario about the rise of the Seljuk turks from a small faction in a steppe tribe to a mighty sultanate, spanning about 80 years and 4 great rulers in the dynasty. It starts out really difficult as you are a nomad trying to eliminate rival tribes, while being vulnerable to much bigger tribes. But with your second ruler you get the opportunity to conquer Baghdad, displacing the Buyid Caliphate, and you not only get a very pretty city, but can also research upgrades, advance in ages, and start settling down, building Town Centres and Castles to get a real economy going. There's even a re-enactment of Battle of Manzikert where you can really spank the Byzantines as long as you're friends with the Kipchaks (or you crushed them) to hit the Byzantine fortress from the north, coming down the Caucasus mountains, instead of breaking through their layered defenses to the West of Baghdad
Anyway, the last ruler, Malik Shah is tasked with conquering Persia. You also need to build a Wonder, and when you do, you get warning that a new steppe horde (the Kara Khitai) are coming. Your allied nomads helpfully quip "Beware the Khara Khitai! They have no honour!"- being an in-joke going back to the opening scene in the 1st Genghis Khan campaing scenario in the OG Age of Kings.
Anyway, the Kara Khitai aren't particularly strong, though they spawn in a strong unit roster. My own unit roster is much stronger, seeing as I have the ability to recruit extra unique units, such as Hunnic Tarkans, Mongol Mangudai, and I've got hero monks (imams) who can convert me entire scores of Berber Camel Archers and Saracen Mamelukes for a pretty all-star steppe nomad roster. Oh, and there's also Persian War Elephants I can convert away while besieging the Persian fortresses. Tasty.
The issue was, they've got strong ranged units, and I've got a ridiculous unit cap of 100, which makes having an economy, a besieging army and a defending army somewhat difficult to juggle. And eventually my defending force must've gotten overwhelmed. felt really bad seeing the "We have completed our objectives" message, followed by "our leader is dead! All is lost!" in the same screen. Should've taken a screenshot.
Next time I'll build a bunch of castles everywhere before triggering that horde. or convert like 50 Camel Archers to one-shot the Kara-Khitai.
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those gifs are slideshows why would they use them
has anyone tried valheim? I'm not one for survival games but actually kinda enjoy it
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The UI now is much better in letting you choose genres and themes easily. Plus there are less demos than the last times because Valve now only allows you to put your game for one of the 3 "yearly" demo festivals.
(Its an improvement over the categories UI in the Winter Sale).
Day one
Regional pricing though is oof, feel sorry for poorer countries
Remembered something. Valve seems to be streaming some nice picks in :
Also, they did a summary on genres in their youtube:
Meh, those last Overload levels really suck. Who thought it was a good idea to block the Guide Bot for these?
I like the sound of that!
My big worry is that I won't have time to try out all the demos because of downloads.
I hope GeForce Now has a few of the big ones available. Looking ofrward to tonight
fun fact: a lot of the demos made in Unity are actually playable post-festival if you launch the .exe from the steam directory directly.
Only the demos that require Steam to run wil get disabled.
i only played SWTOR and never played any other mmo, but in that game ping was the same on NA and EU servers, not sure how it will be on ESO
They want reviews removed because they release shady or broken things
I like reviews because they stay more up to date than review sites on shit for older games or even just less popular titles. Finding out if it's abandoned or not let alone complete shit is a lot easier with user reviews.
I've gotten a bit annoyed at devs basically trying to get all up my ass to wishlist stuff constantly now though when I literally just use it as... a wishlist so I can keep track of games. Ive had stuff on my steam wishlist for like a decade now at this point.
I've gotten a bit annoyed at devs basically trying to get all up my ass to wishlist stuff constantly now though when I literally just use it as... a wishlist so I can keep track of games. Ive had stuff on my steam wishlist for like a decade now at this point.
As much as I think demo's freaking rock, I don't really want to look through globs of them lol.
Yeah looks like 12am PST, too bad there is no preload. I'm still waiting to get my key from GMG...
I anxiously await reports of good keyboard//mouse controls. Pleeease.
It's rebindable controlls for me, one of the reasons I waited for the PC port was how awkward the controlls are for the new mechanics.
Well rebindable at least has been confirmed, it's even listed in the bullet points on the Steam page.
Deck13 implemented such good controls in The Surge 2, I wish everyone else would just copy them as a baseline and tweak from there.
Is it bound per action or allows complex inputs? So say, is replacing R2+O to R1/L1+O possible?
Unfortunately that level of detail hasn't been provided.
And for the record, only "Full Mouse & Keyboard customisation" has been promised, where as it just says "Gamepad Compatibility", with no mention of binding for pads.
I'll cross my fingers for you at least.
First dungeon experience in ffxiv was really nice, everyone was very patient and helpful.
Second dungeon experience I had literally no idea what was happening, the DPS folks were running full pelt through the dungeon and I could barely understand half of what was happening on the screen. At least I did my role as a tank not too bad, I guess.
Second dungeon experience I had literally no idea what was happening, the DPS folks were running full pelt through the dungeon and I could barely understand half of what was happening on the screen. At least I did my role as a tank not too bad, I guess.
Really excited for TW3, but the lack of regional pricing flatten my hype. Basically none in all regions. While it's still not a 1:1 conversion, it just really sucks that more and more publishers start ignoring regional pricing.
ARR dungeon tends to have some weird shit. Lots of new people tend to struggle in Qarn and Aurum Vale so watch out for those dungeons.
I remember in early days where healer can heal the enemy, so many times a newbie healer would accidentally full heal a final dungeon boss when we got him to 1%.
Just seeing the words Aurum Vale gives me 'Nam flashbacks. I swear to god back in the early days it took me longer to find a group that could get through AV than it did for basically any other pieces of content. So many hours spent wiping.
I don't remember having any issues in my runthrough last year, stable 60 for me.
Well the share button didn't even work as a button until Steam allowed you to bind it in a recent update. Now you can set it to anything in Steam's Input config.
I think you have to either run it at 60 or 120FPS locked using the game's own FPS limiter in order to make it run properly. If your frame rate varies at all it stutters like hell.
I have no idea. I'm a level 34 marauder and I don't know if it how to keep doing quests for it or if I need to move on to something else.
Just a email from Square Enix that since I reached level 30 they're giving me extra playtime of 15, but they never specified what the 15 is. Do they mean 15 days?
Yeah, I had to set my monitor itself to 60hz to get the frame pacing somewhat stable. FPS can really tank outdoors but it's mostly tolerable now. Is it true Death of the Outsider is much better optimized?
Neat, thank you. Guess I'm gonna try and figure out how to upgrade my job now to a new class.
Midnight PST is the time it seems. Koei has done Midnight PST releases before so it checks out. They don't wait for the store to update at 10am like some pubs do
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