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5:21 PM
@GnomeSlice that seems like an improvement?
 
@InvaderSkoodge I heard a lot of mixed things about cloudbuilt... I haven't tried this one either but people seem to like it more than I initially thought from looking at it when it came out
Guess I own them both now
@goodguy5 yeah I mean he's not a vegetable any more
But he's still pretty muddled but he thinks he's not
overwhelmingly positive on Steam. Huh.
I got stuck on wargroove again last night
 
Sorry you're going through all of this, Gnome. poop things are poop
@GnomeSlice ugh. what a disappointing game, imo
 
Yeah it's pretty bad. I think he's pretty close to being a way that will enable him to actually be happy even if it's not what we want and I hope that at least happens
@goodguy5 really? I'm enjoying it a lot
It's a sensory feast too
 
Advanced Wars is up up here --->









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Wargroove.
 
Never played advance wars so I guess I'm spared
 
5:31 PM
I haven't touched Wargroove since I first launched it.
 
Lole
 
But mostly because I've been playing other games.
 
The missions take forever tho
 
I played Wargroove for a few days and then forgot about it.
 
It's not a bad game.
 
5:32 PM
Now I'm playing Fire Emblem 3 Houses and it's fine.
 
But it's also not a particularly great game.
 
@goodguy5 Eh. Not sure that's really constructive.
 
It's pretty good, I'll probably slowly play through the campaign while doing other games
 
@InvaderSkoodge Which house did you join?
 
@Yuuki Black...something? With the girl leader.
 
5:32 PM
@InvaderSkoodge it's fine? A ringing endorsement
 
yea, it was made to be a spiritual successor to Advanced Wars.

But they borked up the pacing and the characters are just not endearing. and the mission difficulty is all over the place.
 
Ah, Black Eagles.
 
@GnomeSlice Every time I play a Fire Emblem game I'm hoping that something about the combat is more than I remembered but then it's the same as I remembered.
The tactics aspect is a little vanilla but the rest of the game is actually pretty cool this time.
 
I get that player agency is a thing but I really feel like they should've provided some guidance on the house choice.
 
@GnomeSlice despite some gripes with the controls I absolutely loved Cloudbuilt, and also, the soundtrack owns
 
5:33 PM
I'm only on chapter 4 or something.
 
After all our Fire Emblem talk last week, I finally got around to finishing Awakening.
 
@Yuuki I still don't really know what implications the house choice has other than your starting roster.
 
I do like precision platformers. I'll have to play that, and seum.
 
@InvaderSkoodge It has some storyline implications.
Going into any further detail would probably be spoilers.
 
@goodguy5 yeah it got hard pretty fast..
@InvaderSkoodge lol
 
5:34 PM
Now to push forward in Fates: Conquest, where you can't grind.
 
@Frank I miss Robin.
 
@Yuuki Ok, well I guess I'll find out.
 
I think I'm set for switch games for a while. Probably will get Cat Quest 2 Shah it comes out to play with Chantal
 
I think of the three FE player protagonists (Robin, Corrin, and Byleth), Robin is probably my favorite?
 
@GnomeSlice having to turn down the difficulty of a game is a huge turnoff for me. Especially if there are other problems
 
5:35 PM
But I've got zelda, manticore, wargroove, Splasher, bleed 2, undertale, and Yoku's Island Express
 
@Yuuki The name does not ring a bell.
 
@Frank It's the canonical name for your player character.
 
I did notice that when you choose to "battle" as your activity for the week there's usually a battle you can repeat as many times as you want, letting you grind up levels a bit.
 
@Yuuki Oh, silly canonicals. Why bother allowing you to rename them?
 
@Yuuki me too, sometimes but that's a long story
 
5:36 PM
@InvaderSkoodge That goes away in Hard.
 
I'm not sure if doing this while I'm still on early classes would cause character growth issues.
 
@Frank The canonical name is so you don't have something nonsensical like "Male Awakening Protagonist" in the mobile Fire Emblem: Heroes game.
 
@Yuuki I doubt I'd ever play this game on Hard.
 
@InvaderSkoodge Typically, you want to promote as soon as you get to level breakpoints (10, 20, etc.)
 
@Yuuki I'd prefer they give you the default, at least. I don't recall Fates allowing you to do that.
 
5:38 PM
My ex girlfriends name was Robin. She used the character portrait of the Robin from stardew valley on discord for a while lol
 
@Yuuki Yeah I have been trying to, but I was short one intermediate seal thingy.
 
Not a gamer at all tho
 
I actually turned xcom 2 down to recruit after failing on normal and it helped a lot
 
I haven't turned wargroove down yet
I was playing manticore on hard but I dropped it back to normal for at least one mission
 
It's a shame that they removed so much character customization for the protagonist in Three Houses (except allowing you to give a name) but didn't take advantage of it by actually giving your character a personality.
 
5:39 PM
The generic vacant stare and one motion your character does for every dialogue option is some uncanny valley shit even though the art style is anime.
@Yuuki What house did you pick?
 
@InvaderSkoodge Golden Deer.
 
@InvaderSkoodge Zelda style? Lol
 
I'm a lot further in the story than you and I feel like I should've gone with another house first. Golden Deer would probably still be my favorite though.
 
I could see myself giving this game another playthrough at some point with a different house and building up different kinds of units.
Also knowing what I'm doing from the outset would be nice, as well.
I've definitely wasted some resources not knowing what was going on.
Did they make like 2-3 little skits for literally every pair of characters in the game though? That must have taken forever.
 
@InvaderSkoodge That's a staple of Fire Emblem games.
 
5:42 PM
Is this just a tactical rpg?
 
@Frank Fully voiced too though?
 
@InvaderSkoodge Voice is new.
 
I've only played one really, expeditions: Conquistador
And I was ass at it
 
Most just had a couple of stock phrases in their voice.
@GnomeSlice One of the originals, I think.
 
So far the worst part of this game is everything about Bernadetta's characterization.
 
5:43 PM
Started on NES.
 
So you travel around and do battle in turn based things?
 
@InvaderSkoodge There's NG+ mechanics.
 
Sounds neat tbh
 
@Yuuki Neat, I'll have to look into that once I finish.
I'm hoping to get a lot of gaming time in during my upcoming paternity leave, but TBD how that pans out.
 
I was really interested in playing Battle Brothers for a bit but after failing to win a single mission in the demo I think it would be a waste of money
@InvaderSkoodge congratulations??
 
5:44 PM
@InvaderSkoodge Some of the anime trope characterization present in Three Houses is better justified than it's been in previous Fire Emblem games though, in my opinion.
 
@GnomeSlice Mostly a story, with battles between.
The game going more freeform is a relatively recent thing.
 
@Yuuki A lot of the characters seem pretty well done, but she's just awful.
@GnomeSlice Thanks!
 
My gf would probably like that. I'll add it to the list of things we could do together
 
Fire Emblem: Awakening is a good one to start with, for 3DS.
 
Yeah, In my like 8 hours of gameplay so far I've only done 4 story missions.
 
5:45 PM
It allows easier gameplay without permadeath.
 
The problem with Bernadetta is that she makes a lot more sense if you see her later support conversations. But you end up not wanting to get that support level because... yeah.
 
@Frank don't have one of those
 
@Yuuki She's part of my core team, so I'll get there.
 
I have a DS... Somewhere... At my parents house I believe
 
@Frank Three Houses also has the Casual difficulty setting.
 
5:46 PM
@GnomeSlice Well, Three Houses is probably the best one to start with, then.
 
She's the only archer I started with in the house I picked so I had no choice.
 
Anything before Awakening has permadeath.
 
And the "units don't perma-die" setting.
@Frank Well, has permadeath as the only option.
 
@Yuuki It's not even an option, though.
 
@badp CAUSE I'M A SANE INDIVIDUAL, AND I'M DOING THIS THING CALLED WHATEVER SOCIETY WANTS
 
5:47 PM
It's just how the game is.
 
I had someone die in the first training mission after the tutorial, so I'm glad for the ability to turn permadeath off at least while I'm learning.
 
Three Houses also has a "oh, you got screwed by the 20% hit chance RNG" do-over mechanic.
 
@Yuuki Wait, what?
 
Depending on how comfortable I get with the game I would consider turning permadeath on in later playthroughs.
 
5:49 PM
I'm a bit salty that I paid for it once and then Desura shut down and I can't play it any more. It wasn't done at the time but I mean
 
@Frank You get a certain number of charges per battle to reverse turns taken.
 
@InvaderSkoodge Even as a purist, this option is the best thing the series could do to welcome new players.
 
@Frank Yeah definitely.
 
I still play with permadeath, and that leads to a lot of restarts.
 
Learning all the mechanics with high stakes is bleh.
 
5:49 PM
So if you send a unit in and they get hit by a 5% crit and die, you can undo that and make a different decision.
 
Apparently castle Crashers is coming to switch
 
But I really don't want to play without it, because zerging a map to a win doesn't sound fun.
 
With permadeath that means you can get into a position where you literally can't win a mission, I imagine.
 
"remastered", whatever that means
 
@Frank I have still been playing carefully and trying to really avoid losing people, maybe as practice for the eventual permadeath run.
 
5:50 PM
@InvaderSkoodge Surprisingly, this isn't something that seems to come up in FE games often.
It...probably would, but I can't say I've ever heard of it ever happening to anyone.
 
Probably because if a mission goes that poorly you can just reset and try again.
 
@InvaderSkoodge Well, my main character can currently solo entire maps so you'd probably have to be in Lunatic difficulty or something to reach that game state.
 
Guessing because if you hit that point, you can't beat the boss, so have to restart the map before you can save anyways.
 
@Yuuki I haven't gotten to the plot part where they explain the main character's crest but I have empirically determined that it's fucking broken.
@Frank Oh that kind of makes sense too.
 
@InvaderSkoodge The other Crests are so minor too, which makes the main character's so much more broken in comparison.
 
5:53 PM
@Yuuki Bernadetta's crest is legit.
Chance to add an attack.
 
"ooo you get like 5 more damage if you attack with weapon"
Golden Deer crests are mostly sub-par.
 
I also like Dorothea's crest, which heals adjacent allies each turn.
 
@Yuuki Those are all the xFaire skills.
Not that useful, but better than leaving a slot blank.
 
Which I suppose makes sense given that they're a loose collection of nobles and rich people rather than the bloodlines that the Empire and Kingdom have.
Lysithea's Crest is pretty OP though.
 
Haven't used her yet. Still working out how to recruit people.
 
5:55 PM
@InvaderSkoodge Requires a base stat threshold and minimum skill level.
If you increase support level, it'll reduce the requirements.
And if you're female, you can recruit Sylvain for free because he's a woman-chasing horndog.
 
One mistake I made was when I tried like "borrowing" someone for a mission, in that way where they don't get XP, and then that person wound up being MVP of the mission and getting like 50% of the kills.
Now when I borrow someone I try to use them as a meat shield and just to soften enemies up so that others can farm the XP from the kill.
 
Lysithea's Crest isn't too OP in what it does by itself (increases Mt during magic attacks) but it allows her access to equipment that makes her even more broken.
 
Oh, how do people learn magic?
 
Level up Reason or Faith.
 
You learn spells by just leveling up the stat?
 
5:57 PM
I'm surprised a lot of you guys don't like wargroove that much
 
Yep.
 
Ok, will give that a try.
 
Other reviews seem pretty positive. Maybe I'm in a good position cause I never played advance wars
 
I only have 1 healer right now and a second one would be huge.
 
Certain classes will restrict your ability to cast spells though.
Since spellcasting classes can cast all the spells they have access to, make sure to tutor your mages in a little bit of Faith as well.
 
5:59 PM
Ok, good idea.
 
Oh an early game pro-tip, get tutoring lessons from the other professors in Riding, Heavy Armor, and Flying.
 
I got my first pegasus rider thingy this morning, but I haven't had a chance to do a mission with it yet.
That's a good idea, too, though, since you probably can't train those unless you're already using them otherwise.
 
You can't level these skills any other way until you unlock the classes they're tied to (Cavalier, Heavy Knight, and Wyvern/Pegasus Rider) and those classes require a minimum skill as well.
 
The other characters can be tutored in them, but you can't.
 
Yep and some characters require those skills for recruitment.
 
6:01 PM
Is there a horse+sword class?
 
Technically, all of the cavalry classes are horse+sword classes because of how weapons work in this game.
 
I guess I can just make someone a Cavalier and then give him a sword anyway.
Even though it requires lance to unlock it.
 
But as for classes that specialize in horse and sword, I think that's... Paladin or Great Knight.
 
Ok, just trying to think ahead a little bit for where I want my characters going.
 
@Yuuki Wait, healing isn't contained in staffs now?
 
6:02 PM
@Frank Neither is damage magic contained in tomes.
 
Yeah, magic is just innate to the character and replenishes after each battle.
So actually using magic during battle is cheaper than using weapons because you don't have to pay to replace (and I assume you'd also have to pay to repair once you unlock the blacksmith).
 
Everyone has their own spell lists, Lysithea with a B in Reason will have a different spell list than Dorothea with a B in Reason.
Spells have fewer charges than they did as tomes (Fire has 10 charges baseline as opposed to 55, IIRC).
 
So, with bosses in strongholds, do they ever move?
It seems like I can cheese them with ranged attacks forever so far.
 
Generally speaking, no.
@InvaderSkoodge Story bosses will have ways around that.
 
Ok, guess I'll find out!
 
6:05 PM
Have any of you played any of the Steamworld games?
 
@GnomeSlice Wargroove was fun when I played it but then I played other things and Wargroove slipped from my mind.
It's not bad but other games have kept my attention better.
 
@InvaderSkoodge Most common boss strategy ever.
@GnomeSlice All of them. They're awesome.
 
@Frank was thinking about finally getting into the series on switch
Should they be played in order?
 
@GnomeSlice As much as you can, except for Gilgamech.
They're all good games, but have a loose story woven through them.
Gilgamech goes anywhere, when you want a change of pace.
It's a....prequel? I think?
Or just takes place way before everything else.
 
Is there like.. a complete collection you can get in one purchase?
 
6:13 PM
That I'm not aware of.
 
Alright, thanks
I should probably play the games o have before I buy more anyway
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@GnomeSlice I think this needs to be perma-pinned.
 
@GnomeSlice A fantastic ideal that we all subscribe to.
And fail miserably.
 
Going into family meeting with doctors
Wish us luck
 
KSP 2 announced
 
6:22 PM
@Wrigglenite Ooh! I thought they'd just keep updating the original.
 
@SaintWacko INQUIRING ABOUT THE MEDIA I CONSUME, A CLEAR SIGN OF IMMINENT DISOBEDIENCE
 
6:48 PM
@Wrigglenite uhh?
 
Did Dota 2 just get positional queue or something?
 
@Elise yeah I didn't think so
 
@Yuuki A couple of weeks back, yes
 
Yeah, pretty much
You can select multiple roles, too, but of course nobody's gonna do that
 
6:52 PM
Isn't Dota 2 more carry-centric too? Like supports can't go warding alone or else they'll get destroyed?
I mean, if you're an enchanter, you can't do that in LoL.
But tank supports can facecheck bushes to ward.
 
Anyone going alone will get destroyed, really
I'm not sure what an enchanter does
 
So broadly speaking, there's three types of supports in LoL: mage, enchanter, and tank.
Mages aren't really supports, they just happen to be midlane mages that have high base damages or passives that don't scale to items (Brand and Vel'koz, for example).
Enchanters are typically ranged supports that buff up or heal their allies (Soraka, Lulu, Janna).
Tank supports are generally melee supports that are beefy frontliners that provide engage or peel (Alistar, Leona, Blitzcrank).
 
That sounds more like the offlane role in Dota 2
The third core position
Generally tanky, with disruption and CC abilities
 
IIRC, offlane is more like the toplaner position in LoL. Toplane is mainly occupied by bruisers or tanks.
 
Provide engage... I guess that's an initiator sorta role
 
6:57 PM
Bruisers are beefy DPS. They can hit hard but suffer from range disparities against mages and marksmen.
Tanks are... tanks. They can absorb a lot of damage but provide CC and initiation.
 
But yeah, anyone going alone into enemy territory without wards can get ambushed, stunned, and killed without much trouble
 
The reason why you generally don't see (a lot of) mages in toplane is because the topography of the lane makes it easy to gank and you accrue gold slower than midlane.
 
Some supports melt more easily thank cores, but the point still stands
 
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Unless you run into a numbers disadvantage or a fed assassin, it's fairly safe for a tank to facecheck for wards in LoL.
 
7:01 PM
I've heard repeated a lot the notion that CC times in League are lower than in Dota 2
I don't know how true that is, but it'd make sense if that was the case
 
Yeah, a 1s stun is considered long in LoL but I remember regularly seeing upwards of 3s stuns in Dota 2.
Which is unheard of League except for really rare instances like a max-range (read: across the map) Ashe arrow.
 
Heh, the stunning arrow in Dota can get to a maximum of 5 seconds
Plus you get some weird types of CC like creating impassable terrain, or teleporting an enemy back to where it was 4 seconds ago
 
LoL does have terrain generation and Aatrox has a similar ability.
If he connects with his W, it produces a slow tether that lasts for about 2 seconds. If the target doesn't get out of a certain radius when those two seconds are up, it pulls them back to the origin of the tether.
 
It's a skillshot then?
 
Yes.
 
7:05 PM
I see, makes sense
 
It works in conjunction with his Q, which is his main damage. His Q is a series of three self-centered skillshots of different shapes (line, cone, and circle). Each skillshot has a "sweet spot" (at the tip for line and cone, in the middle for circle) that increases damage and adds a knock-up effect.
If you land his W, you can try to position for a guaranteed "sweet spot" Q for the big damages.
 
Using your skills together is definitely the best part of hero games
There's something just so satisfying about it
 
Ah. The level designer worked on the last two Rayman titles. That really shows
Once I got to the hub it started to feel pretty Rayman
 
7:27 PM
Wtf. Only 22 stages
Okay this looks great
I've never played blaster master but I played a universally reviled 3d indie homage to it and loved it so
Helena the third. That game sucks
Janky as fuck
I'm a sucker for metroidvanias
This and Gato Roboto look great
 
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HOLY SHIT
KSP 2
2020
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
7:44 PM
@PrivatePansy was from Singapore right, not Hong Kong?
 
@Nzall Yup
 
Do we happen to have someone from Hong Kong in our circle?
 
I've been to Hong Kong a few times, but I've never lived there
 
7:57 PM
I don't think we have anyone in Hong Kong right now.
 
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8:13 PM
It seems like Epic Games won't let indie games on its store unless they sign an exclusivity deal
 
@Wrigglenite Yeah, I saw that. Not terribly surprising
 
@SaintWacko Yeah, unless you don't actually need the cash they're offering, they're locking you to their platform.
So you need money to bypass the rules to gain you money.
 
8:39 PM
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"Most people have bad math intuition" "LOL Americans are dumb"
 
I was about to say "to be frank..." but then I remember that he's Canadian.
 
8:55 PM
@Yuuki Yuuuuuuuuup
 
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Idk how I feel about this answer. Cc @Wipqozn @Ronan
I dunno it I should accept it over a more concise answer
Super good 'walkthrough' to finding the info yourself though
Although you only really need one rule to figure out how to land on it
 
 
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@Wrigglenite That looks like it has everything that I wanted out of KSP.
 
Hopefully!
 
I know it's not gameplay footage but it does look gorgeous
 
> Q: How much will Kerbal Space Program 2 cost?

A: $59.99 USD
Just saying it better be worth it
Man, interstellary travel
I've never even made it past Duna
 
@Wrigglenite I never even made it that far.
 
10:32 PM
Well, "made it"
I sent an unmanned probe
I keep meaning to go back to it, but I have so many other games to play
 
@Wrigglenite every gamer's dilemma
 
@Lazers2.0 "comically op" lol
 
@GnomeSlice I'd just leave a comment asking them to provide a tldr at the top (behind spoilers). A step by step set of hints is great for folks that just want a little hint, but a concise answer is important for everyone else.
 
11:37 PM
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@GnomeSlice wasn't Insomniac the ones who made Ratchet & Clank and Jak & Daxter?
oh wait i missed the subtitle as i was skimming
 
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I honestly thought Sony already owned them
Those games have always been Sony platform exclusives
 
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