GasBandit
Staff member
Well, $13, but more than worth it.
Season 26 of Diablo 3. I started Thursday 
T10. Thank you Diablo for the free armour
Kinda similar... Season 1 of Diablo 2 ResurrectedSeason 26 of Diablo 3. I started Thursday
Oooh I didn’t know D2 had seasons!
I play on the PS5 now. I can have my simulated violence while being lazy in my electric blanket covered in cats.
(That was my worst post ever. So many $&#% typos)
I play on the PS5 now. I can have my simulated violence while being lazy in my electric blanket covered in cats.
(That was my worst post ever. So many $&#% typos)
Oops I saw the price of the soundtrack
Does anyone here play D3 on PS 4/5 and want to exchange power levels? I would like to start a DH and would be happy to PL on my WD.
I don’t believe so, no. Which is super weird, because if Fortnite can do it lol….
IDK, RSVP ASAP or BOLO for FOMO, YOLO! LOL!
I've hopped back onto my MUD recently. I'm starting to think some of the developers on this MUD don't have the faintest clue about game design.
I recently advanced my character to the point where I got a new defensive power. Let's call it "Shield". There are two variants to this power, Default Shield and Adaptive Shield. This MUD has 10 different damage types (eg. edged, blunt, heat, cold, acid, radiation, etc.). Default Shield gives me, let's say, +50 defense against every damage type. Adaptive Shield gives me +20 defense against every damage type, but as I take damage from a damage type, my defense against that damage type will gradually rise.
This sounded great to me until I learned recently that Adaptive Shield's defense has a cap. How much is the cap? Why, it's +50 of course. In other words, I could use Adaptive Shield to eventually get an equivalent defense boost in one damage type to the Default Shield, or I could just use the Default Shield and get a +50 damage for every damage type right off the bat.
Who the hell thought this would be good design?
I recently advanced my character to the point where I got a new defensive power. Let's call it "Shield". There are two variants to this power, Default Shield and Adaptive Shield. This MUD has 10 different damage types (eg. edged, blunt, heat, cold, acid, radiation, etc.). Default Shield gives me, let's say, +50 defense against every damage type. Adaptive Shield gives me +20 defense against every damage type, but as I take damage from a damage type, my defense against that damage type will gradually rise.
This sounded great to me until I learned recently that Adaptive Shield's defense has a cap. How much is the cap? Why, it's +50 of course. In other words, I could use Adaptive Shield to eventually get an equivalent defense boost in one damage type to the Default Shield, or I could just use the Default Shield and get a +50 damage for every damage type right off the bat.
Who the hell thought this would be good design?
GasBandit
Staff member
When you've been struggling to min-max your party's synergy with wagons taking up 3 formation slots... and realize you have inadvertently (but happily) made your entire party female (yes, the Dragonkin is female too):
I just unlocked Vlahnya today, and something didn't sit right...
MAGE HAND IS EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN FROM BEING USED AS A DIRECT ATTACK IN THE D&D RULES
I just unlocked Vlahnya today, and something didn't sit right...
MAGE HAND IS EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN FROM BEING USED AS A DIRECT ATTACK IN THE D&D RULES
I grabbed Story of Seasons Trio of Towns on the e shop while it’s still up. I may grab Story of Seasons too
GasBandit
Staff member
Which would also be against the manual definition. It's definitely a targeted spell that can move a 10 pound object 30 feet in 6 seconds.
Also it's kind of ridiculous they couldn't think of any other attack for a character to use than to misuse a cantrip off-label. I mean, even my other bard uses Vicious Mockery.
I picked up Jurassic World: Evolution on Humble Bundle recently, and I gave it a shot today.
Overall it seems like a solid enough park building game, though I feel like its mechanics are wide but also shallow. Find fossils, research them, build and upgrade, rinse and repeat. It's fine for me, because I'm in it for the building, but I can imagine some people might find this kind of gameplay to be a bit too superficial.
And, of course, I opened my enclosure of carnivores and allowed them to devour park guests at the first opportunity.
Overall it seems like a solid enough park building game, though I feel like its mechanics are wide but also shallow. Find fossils, research them, build and upgrade, rinse and repeat. It's fine for me, because I'm in it for the building, but I can imagine some people might find this kind of gameplay to be a bit too superficial.
And, of course, I opened my enclosure of carnivores and allowed them to devour park guests at the first opportunity.
You are now smarter than everyone in the movies
Except for the velociraptors.
I've been ok soloing until the level I'm at now, around 33. Could not get these bosses alone like I had been.
Not locked camera at least but yeah if you're not a fan of that style that'll put you off.
My Time at Portia’s sequel is out on Steam in early access
My Time at Sandrock looks awesome!
And no, I don’t work for them lol.
My Time at Sandrock looks awesome!
And no, I don’t work for them lol.
I pledged to the Kickstarter so I got a copy. But since it's still early into the Early Access, I think I'll wait a bit for a few more content updates before diving into it.My Time at Portia’s sequel is out on Steam in early access
My Time at Sandrock looks awesome!
And no, I don’t work for them lol.
Demon Turf
WELP-I can tell this game is gonna take over my soul, 3-D platformer, 2D animation, quirkyness galore-LOVE IT!
WELP-I can tell this game is gonna take over my soul, 3-D platformer, 2D animation, quirkyness galore-LOVE IT!
Ok, I've played through the campaign of Jurassic World: Evolution to the point where I've reached the fifth (and final) island. So now I can give a more nuanced review and commentary on it.
Overall, it's solid and fun enough, but I do have some complaints. First the good. As a park-building simulation and management game, it's pretty good. Building up your park is entertaining and satisfying, and the general gameplay loop (expeditions to find fossils, research them, hatch dinos, build up your park enough to unlock the next island) is interesting. The game itself is also pretty forgiving when it comes to money, in which it's easy to start turning a profit, which in turn means you generally don't need to worry about the nitty-gritty of income and expenditures and can just get down to setting up your park. And you are, after all, building a dinosaur park. That in itself is enough to add a few points to any review score.
Now the bad. There are some gameplay design decisions I didn't like. The buildable areas on the island are generally too small. Sometimes it felt less like "build a park" and more like "play Tetris with hotels and gift shops so that you can fit everything you need while also having enough space for enclosures". The issue of enclosure space turned out to be a major problem, because every dinosaur has certain space and environment requirements. For example, an Ankylosaurus needs 686 square meters of grassland and 686 of forest. A Baryonyx needs 7,968 square meters of grassland, 504 square meters of forest, and 2,868 square meters of wetland. The problem, however, is that there is no way for you to see how much space you have in your enclosure. The only way to tell if you've given a dino enough space or enough of the environments it wants is to breed it and see if it gets cranky. Other issues that aren't explained very clearly are the social vs population requirements, the fact that storms cause dinosaurs to get upset, and whether the percentages from buffs and debuffs are additive or multiplicative. (I still don't know about that last one, by the way. If one upgrade to my power station gives 20% more power but also introduces a 20% chance of power outages, and another upgrade reduces power outages by 45%, do I now have an 11% chance of outages or 0%?)
There are also other game design decisions I'd like to gripe about. For example, dinosaur visibility is one of the determining factors for your park's rating and the number of guests you get. However, dinosaur visibility is only counted at specific viewing galleries or similar structures. Having a metal fence, through which the dinosaurs are clearly visible (I could even take photos of the dinos with my ranger vehicle through the bars), does not count as having visible dinos. The missions given by the park directors (divided into Science, Entertainment, and Security) often did not make much sense. For example, my Security director would sometimes give me a mission to dig up certain fossils. Surely that would be something the Science director should be telling me to do? And some of the missions are deliberately scripted to make them hard in ways that violate the game's internal logic. For example, you may get a mission that says "Keep this dino safely inside an enclosure for 3 minutes". Normally if an enclosure has everything a dinosaur wants (food, water, environment etc) then it will be content and will not try to break out. However, during these missions the game will deliberately cause the dinosaur to become agitated for no reason, and it'll start attacking the fences continuously until it makes an escape.
Anyway, while I do have some complaints, on the whole this game is decent enough. I'd give it a 6 out of 10, with its score dragged down almost entirely by silly gameplay designs and a lack of certain QoL features. If the sequel has fixed these issues then I might get it someday.
Overall, it's solid and fun enough, but I do have some complaints. First the good. As a park-building simulation and management game, it's pretty good. Building up your park is entertaining and satisfying, and the general gameplay loop (expeditions to find fossils, research them, hatch dinos, build up your park enough to unlock the next island) is interesting. The game itself is also pretty forgiving when it comes to money, in which it's easy to start turning a profit, which in turn means you generally don't need to worry about the nitty-gritty of income and expenditures and can just get down to setting up your park. And you are, after all, building a dinosaur park. That in itself is enough to add a few points to any review score.
Now the bad. There are some gameplay design decisions I didn't like. The buildable areas on the island are generally too small. Sometimes it felt less like "build a park" and more like "play Tetris with hotels and gift shops so that you can fit everything you need while also having enough space for enclosures". The issue of enclosure space turned out to be a major problem, because every dinosaur has certain space and environment requirements. For example, an Ankylosaurus needs 686 square meters of grassland and 686 of forest. A Baryonyx needs 7,968 square meters of grassland, 504 square meters of forest, and 2,868 square meters of wetland. The problem, however, is that there is no way for you to see how much space you have in your enclosure. The only way to tell if you've given a dino enough space or enough of the environments it wants is to breed it and see if it gets cranky. Other issues that aren't explained very clearly are the social vs population requirements, the fact that storms cause dinosaurs to get upset, and whether the percentages from buffs and debuffs are additive or multiplicative. (I still don't know about that last one, by the way. If one upgrade to my power station gives 20% more power but also introduces a 20% chance of power outages, and another upgrade reduces power outages by 45%, do I now have an 11% chance of outages or 0%?)
There are also other game design decisions I'd like to gripe about. For example, dinosaur visibility is one of the determining factors for your park's rating and the number of guests you get. However, dinosaur visibility is only counted at specific viewing galleries or similar structures. Having a metal fence, through which the dinosaurs are clearly visible (I could even take photos of the dinos with my ranger vehicle through the bars), does not count as having visible dinos. The missions given by the park directors (divided into Science, Entertainment, and Security) often did not make much sense. For example, my Security director would sometimes give me a mission to dig up certain fossils. Surely that would be something the Science director should be telling me to do? And some of the missions are deliberately scripted to make them hard in ways that violate the game's internal logic. For example, you may get a mission that says "Keep this dino safely inside an enclosure for 3 minutes". Normally if an enclosure has everything a dinosaur wants (food, water, environment etc) then it will be content and will not try to break out. However, during these missions the game will deliberately cause the dinosaur to become agitated for no reason, and it'll start attacking the fences continuously until it makes an escape.
Anyway, while I do have some complaints, on the whole this game is decent enough. I'd give it a 6 out of 10, with its score dragged down almost entirely by silly gameplay designs and a lack of certain QoL features. If the sequel has fixed these issues then I might get it someday.