games

Well, I guess I am done with vc, we will see if it is fixed next time I need a mic

apparently its an issue with tf2 64 bit specifically

I will ask some autist, but gl

I have to go make dinner in 20 minutes anyways

Oki, but out of curiosity did you try snd_restart

It's that or tabbed out audio settings, or so I'm being told

is snd_restart a tf2 command?

because its not an in game issue, its a pc audio issue now

Oh, yes both the things I suggested are source related.

exclusive mode, which I thought I had turned off

it is off

Is there anyone here who really likes Satisfactory (or at least has played it a bit)

I own it but havent played it

I've been playing 1.0, and I feel like I'm going crazy but I can't rationalize a lot of their game design

I see notch tweet about it

I have been waiting for it to come out for real to actually play it (played a couple hours of the 0.1 Alpha in 2018 or whenever) Now that I have, the game design is just bugging the crap out of me

but I see people just praising it non-stop

it's not bad or anything

but like, idk I feel like if you told me this was their Alpha Early Access release rn, I'd believe you

In fact, very little has changed since I played 6 years ago

put in ~30 hours, got to tier 5/6

Minecraft tractor

I think it's even funnier that he just got the straight up cover art as the decal

FF16 PC is 170 GB

idk if we've seen a game past 300GB

that's probably the next barrier to break

I'm excited for the first terabyte game

get Pirate and Rusp on that

What's the GTA6 file size guess?

250 is mine

I think it will break 300 after a few updates

I think it will start at 275

the new COD was ~280 right

240*

took dragons dogma 2

like

7 months

to add a fast travel point

ig it's sorta the right name, since its the inverse of realism/survivor modes that other games would let you toggle on

I'm dropping Satisfactory, what a disappointment

I'll post my schitzo rant here ig

• I am surprised how little the game has changed in 6 years, it feels fundamentally like the same game with a few more resource types and buildings. None of what has been added feels fully developed either, things were thrown in but never refined
• Having a non-random map is retarded
• Having non-reactive terrain is lame (everything fucking clips in a game with 99% static models)
  • Actually, fuck that, I don't understand how you allow clipping at all, I think it could be trivially fixed based on how their game already works
• Lack of threats could work, if they compensated by making the planet more interesting
  • For the love of God make the landscapes less ugly

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• Resource nodes being unlimited is a bad design
• Conveyor logic leaves a lot to be desired, you shouldn't have to build dedicated mergers/splitters, have it work like road placement does in Cities Skylines or any other game
• Building placement, snapping, and overwriting never seems to work as envisioned, and most build modes don't work a large % of the time
• Graphically the game has two artstyles which do not work together, some stuff feels unfinished by upon reflection I think it was partially a skill issue.
• Music may as well be absent, I have no idea how they didn't put more emphasis on this.

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• This is not a narrative critique, I don't understand the point of the game the majority of the time.
• This is a narrative critique, I don't understand how you whiff on a story this simple, it feels phoned in but also rushed in how it was implemented on-top of the rest of the game, completely disconnected.

idk how much I did it to myself by having expectations or what

but for as much as people have been hyping it up, how many copies it's sold and being in early access for 6 years

it just fell really flat

idk, I'm not trying to argue that people who like it are wrong, I think it's probably different enough from stuff like Subautica, NMS, Starfield, modded minecraft etc. that for people who want that production line thing it's doing, there's nothing exactly like it

but I do think the devs were doing fuck all for the entire development time

I feel like Factorio is way more built around the idea you're meant to fail and restart, so it's quick to get up and running. Once you start to develop some mastery you can start experimenting and having more fun with your designs. the research trees also feel like you're only ever scratching the surface of the game's systems. Satisfactory meanwhile is so slow and "forgiving", it's a slog to get to interesting advancements on the tech tree, at which point you're basically done with the game anyway. There are rarely fulfilling diversions to take on, so you end up just letting time pass to progress. Exploring is unrewarding and while you can better optimizing/expand your production they give you too many precise knobs to turn that idk if you can really get a sense of accomplishment out of 100% efficiency ratings. Aesthetics/decorations are what you're left with, and honestly I just don't think that was a good angle to take.

maybe if they pivoted to making it more of a creative mode sandbox "design an aesthetically pleasing assembly line" rather than a game

Lastly, MP, I cannot think of a reason this game would be fun to play with friends. Every othe game in this genere or adjacent to it (yes even Starfield) I think coudl derrive fun from co-op. This game where there is only ever one thing to really do, no reason to team up, and no reason to divide-and-conquer, I think would be trying on any friendship to play for extended periods of time. Because you're cannibalizing resource access, it also doesn't work as a dedicated server persistent world game, unlike Valheim, Enshrouded, Minecraft, etc.

And I mantain, we should still do MP Factorio at some point, I think there's some fun there in the early game even if you're not super into min-maxing factories

ok spooky i will disagree with you on a couple things

I prefer endless resource nodes, i hated limited resources in factorio. I also prefer having no active threat, i didn't like having to fight the bugs in factorio (i know they cna be turned off but i digress)

yeah, those are the ones I go back and forth on

I'm more open to the lack of threats personally

the resource nodes being unlimited ends up not mattering as much, because you're encouraged to tear down your early game setups anyway and rebuild them when you get better tiers of miners/belts

I think having limited nodes would just encourage this more often, but ig it wouldn't work as well if you want to setup these GIANT megafactories, and due to not being able to clear terrain, dropping blueprints on new locations isn't very fun

despite not having a hostile faction though, there is a LOT of content in the game dedicated to combat tools, restorative items, and organic materials

I get that it's somewhat just to gate how exploration works, but it didn't feel fully developed either way

I do think if they made the world prettier to explore (or added more lore, rare resources, artifacts, or w/e)

then I think having no enemies would work

or only putting the minor ammount of animal mobs they have currently

idk, does that make sense

I think I mostly agree with you though

Spooky, you won't believe this, but I was just listening to a podcast about this topic

question, do you like the fixed map Dialga? where they hand crafted this one map, give 4? different start positions on the map but you eventually build everywhere

lmao Pika

how did you get 10 minutes off that

no idea, it is not very consistant

hahahahahahaha

Pika

that first line

you listened to it right

I am now

post first, listen to after

only 1:30 in

I love these stupid podcasts so much

i hope you are compensating your siblings for the quick turnaround pika