Community MetaSteam | March 2025 - Ronin's Creed of the Split Atom

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The Industria 2 story trailer looked so good. The first game is a competent fps made by a small team and is inspired by HL2 so I'm excited for the sequel.


First one felt kinda rough and didn't really have a proper ending (I felt). While I expect the sequel to improve things, I kinda hope they can go back to that one eventually and give it more polish.
 
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Had stuff in my cart, went to bed, woke up and sale is over..lol....


It was going to be a light sale for me anyway, but I miscalculated the dates and almost missed it entirely as well.

Realized it was ending about 15 minutes before it was all over, lol.

Just enough time to drop Far Cry Primal and Forever Skies in my basket.

Kinda took a gamble on Skies, but it's going 1.0 in a few weeks and had a nice 40% discount. Looks like a slightly jankier version of Subnatica & Grounded with a dash of Planet Crafter thrown in. And I'm all about these story-based crafting/survival sims these days.

Hopefully it comes off well in the end.
 
First one felt kinda rough and didn't really have a proper ending (I felt). While I expect the sequel to improve things, I kinda hope they can go back to that one eventually and give it more polish.

The first one ends in cliffhanger and I guess that's the point the sequel will start
 
If Ubi gives me a Far Cry that looks like it plays like Far Cry 5 I’ll probably get it day one. Far Cry 5 is my Ubisoft junk food. I’ve played it twice and will probably play it again at some point.
Unfortunately I really disliked the changes to the character upgrades/leveling in 6 and will probably never play that again.

I beat FC6 but it was such a downgrade from 5.
I need to replay 4 at some point, I remember enjoying that but have only played it once.
 
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It was going to be a light sale for me anyway, but I miscalculated the dates and almost missed it entirely as well.

Realized it was ending about 15 minutes before it was all over, lol.

Just enough time to drop Far Cry Primal and Forever Skies in my basket.

Kinda took a gamble on Skies, but it's going 1.0 in a few weeks and had a nice 40% discount. Looks like a slightly jankier version of Subnatica & Grounded with a dash of Planet Crafter thrown in. And I'm all about these story-based crafting/survival sims these days.

Hopefully it comes off well in the end.
I read Forever Skies as Foreskin 😳 been a long tough week at work lol 😅
 
The first one ends in cliffhanger and I guess that's the point the sequel will start
I also hope they figure out whether to use RT shadows or not. The game had this very strange half finished look, where some places looked horrible without them, but other places would not cast shadows if you turned RT on. I get that it's a small team, but to me it feels strange to move on so quick when that game could use some more care.
 
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Is Wuthering Waves any good?
Depends on what you're looking for.
It's an open world ARPG like Genshin. The combat is more action and combo-heavy, traversal is more streamlined (to the detriment of the exploration imo, but ymmv), visually it's very pretty but the writing is bottom of the barrel garbage (The 1.o story is one of the worst stories I've experienced in any media and I completely checked out at that point. People say it's been better with 2.0 and you can skip directly to that point, but I can't confirm or deny).
There's a good amount of people that do enjoy it though, so if any of that sounds interesting to you, nothing wrong with giving it a try
 
As an owner of both of these games (Shadows on Steam, Ronin on PS5), it would have taken some doing for ACS to be a downgrade from Rise of the Ronin (IMO, of course). RotR is jank personified - I like that its set in the Bakumatsu era, and the open combat is certainly better, but thats about the only good things I can say about the game. I paid 60 bucks for a physical copy and I played it for around 5 hours before I finally gave up... I wanted so badly to like it but just couldnt.

And that's coming from a massive Nioh fan.

Shadows has better graphics (obviously), but more importantly it nails the same bucolic Japanese countryside vibe that Ghost of Tsushima did. Also like GoT, it also has far superior stealth gameplay in comparison to Rise... I knew Rise of the Ronin had subpar stealth mechanics within the first five minutes of playing it, which takes some doing.

AssCreed looks good, 100%. And I'm not even a hater of the series. I loved AC 1-3 + Ezio trilogy, kinda burned out by 4. But Odyssey brought me back with it's setting and Kassandra being a witty bosslady that was a genuinely fun protag. I think i still have screenshots from that game somewhere in our SS thread.

Shadows though... Like, looking good just isn't enough for me. Worst of all it's a game designed around mtx, and that means the baseline for the game is designed around incentivizing that. And just on a personal level that's not a type of game design i want to see rewarded.

Then there's the fact that it's just a mid RPG in a time of Great RPG's and action combat games.
And as a Japanese, i do have some less than favorable thoughts about various aspects of Ubisoft's interpretation of history and portrayal of cultural aspects. I heard the day 1 patch is going to address some of the culture stuff, but I've watched like 16 hours of gameplay from multiple streamers and have yet to budge from my opinion.

RotR may be jank, but at least it's a feature complete game, with good combat (the main focus of the game) and it isn't built around bloat/mtx to shorten that bloat.

That's my 2 pennies anyway.
 
How does it compare to uBlock Origin? does it offer anything else?

Haven't used ublock Origin when it stopped working for me a long time ago, but I find AdGuard better as it also block ads in videos on different news sites that have their own media player to show videos.
 
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Haven't used ublock Origin when it stopped working for me a long time ago, but I find AdGuard better as it also block ads in videos on different news sites that have their own media player to show videos.

thanks, I will try the free version and see.
 
Get the "1.0" release finished first!

What a letdown
There's a sort of "What we plan on doing" thing in steam announcements for the base game:


the TL : DR of it is basically they wanted to expand upon the base game via expansions or dlc instead of the traditional way of big patches and they seemingly got caught up in a half-baked failed attempt of a DLC that they couldn't kill or whatever that then begrudgingly turned into the War Sails expansion.



So that's why there hasn't been any actual update to the base game for basically 2 years, let alone communication

I've actively not bought the game even tthough I want to play it because there was supposed to be some sort of mythical "1.3" update that would fix massive amounts of things and whatever but it doesn't look like thats coming anytime soon and the DLC is kind of dumb looking to be honest.

Most of the complaints I can gather from reading is the mid to late game mostly became the exact same thing and diplomacy options are nonexistent and modding is greatly hindered by some stuff being locked away by the devs
 
 
AssCreed looks good, 100%. And I'm not even a hater of the series. I loved AC 1-3 + Ezio trilogy, kinda burned out by 4. But Odyssey brought me back with it's setting and Kassandra being a witty bosslady that was a genuinely fun protag. I think i still have screenshots from that game somewhere in our SS thread.

Shadows though... Like, looking good just isn't enough for me. Worst of all it's a game designed around mtx, and that means the baseline for the game is designed around incentivizing that. And just on a personal level that's not a type of game design i want to see rewarded.

Then there's the fact that it's just a mid RPG in a time of Great RPG's and action combat games.
And as a Japanese, i do have some less than favorable thoughts about various aspects of Ubisoft's interpretation of history and portrayal of cultural aspects. I heard the day 1 patch is going to address some of the culture stuff, but I've watched like 16 hours of gameplay from multiple streamers and have yet to budge from my opinion.

RotR may be jank, but at least it's a feature complete game, with good combat (the main focus of the game) and it isn't built around bloat/mtx to shorten that bloat.

That's my 2 pennies anyway.
How is it a game built around MTX, though? Do you mean the materials you use to build out the base? Based on personal experience, It's completely unneccesary to actually buy any of that stuff, you get plenty of materials just by playing the game.

I share your opinion that having a cash shop in a purely single player game is kinda sleazy, but to say that you need to spend money in any way to progress normally isnt accurate.

I know youre a fan of the older AC games (hell, your Era avatar is Auditore styled), but ironically the more old school AC stylings of Shadows is a big part of why I love it so much, 14 hours in. As a person who really didnt like Valhalla's increased focus on hand to hand combat, the return to more stealth focused gameplay was glorious.
 
Today I discovered there's finally an arcade in my home town. Everything you expect is there, from retro games to mario kart, modern racers, VR games and pinball machines. If my wife wasn't with me, I'd probably would have spent the rest of the day there. 🥰
 
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Those poor grifters. :crying-face:

The fact they're using 'players' and not 'sales' is highly sus, but all the culture war bullshit surrounding the game and the right wing dorks crying about it for months makes me hope it's a massive success.
 
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Those poor grifters. :crying-face:

The fact they're using 'players' and not 'sales' is highly sus, but all the culture war bullshit surrounding the game and the right wing dorks crying about it for months makes me hope it's a massive success.
Players should be a valid number here for sales, since it isn't on anything like Gamepass. Of course, given AAA budgets, I suspect they will need this to sell more like 10 million (within its first year) to be the kind of success to really turn things around.
 
There is no more useless stat in all of gaming than player numbers since it always accompanies a game that's either f2p or on a sub service. Even if it was 2 million sales is that worth celebrating? This is a game with probably a 200m+ budget, 2 million isn't getting them anywhere close to breaking even.

Also as a bit of an aside we really need to stop treating 1m sales announcements as a big deal. We've been treating 1m as some massive barrier even though games 25-30 years ago were breaking it with relative ease and the industry has hundreds of millions more players now. Most AAA and even AA games easily clear 1m nowadays.
 
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Ubisoft +
Though, even with Ubisoft+, the current CCU for Shadows on Steam has almost reached Odyssey's CCU, and it may end up surpassing.
59.8k CCU for Shadows atm, Odyssey had a peak of 62k.

On another note, Atelier Yumia has nearly doubled the CCU of Ryza 3 (previous highest peak CCU for non-f2p Atelier games), 13.5k for Yumia, 7.1k for Ryza 3.
 
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Game sales is always relative to budget. Some games passing 100k is still a big fucking deal and a massive success for the developer/publisher.

2m players in a couple of days for a AAA game doesn’t sound so bad. That’s 2m people who will be talking to people at work/college/school about the game. If it’s a good game, those numbers will lead to more sales.

Not that I give a damn because I haven’t played an Ubisoft game in years.
 
Civ 7 has completely fallen off, it is only in the 16k-22k ranges the last week.
losing steadily from
Launch peak 82k
W2 54k
W3 39k
W4 34k
W5 28k
W6 22k

While Civ 6 hovers around 40-60k every week
and Civ 5 around 20k every week.

This isn't about Civ players hating the new game and then loving it, it is a complete misread of their audience. The previous games didn't lose so much CCU after launch (and Civ 6 had double the CCU)
But maybe that's what the developers want? They were going on and on about the fact that 80% of players never finish their civ games to completion and started a new round after another. Well, now they finished the round, but don't pick up another, it seems.
 
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