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So... any impressions on the Royal court DLC for Crusader Kings III?
Steam reviews currently sit at 50%
It's good and brings great features with it and integrates well into the base game. Wouldn't pay 30 bucks for it, there's just not enough content for that.
 
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madjoki

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U.S. patent application number 17/383194 was filed with the patent office on 2022-02-10 for head-mounted display with narrow angle backlight. The applicant listed for this patent is Valve Corporation. Invention is credited to Joshua Mark Hudman.



So... any impressions on the Royal court DLC for Crusader Kings III?
Steam reviews currently sit at 50%
Sounds like you either like it or you don't.
 

Jav

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So... any impressions on the Royal court DLC for Crusader Kings III?
Steam reviews currently sit at 50%
Not enough content to justify that price, wait for a sel, also counts and dukes don't get courts so take that into account
 
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Oooh that's interesting!
ys very :)
Oh yeah, that Atomic Heart trailer looks fun. Probably the first game I'll play on Gamepass in a long while.
there is still the little nuudge at the back of my head thinking this game is fake and will be utter mess .... lets hope my little head nudge is wrong
Why do Japanese devs love to confuse people?

Another example is MegaDimension Neptunia VII, which I believe is a direct sequel to HyperDimension Neptunia Victory.
cause the VII doesnt really mean "7" but it means "V II" as in Victory 2
I wonder if someone somewhere at S-E actually read and acted on feedback (regarding the FF pixel releases).
probably not , the font i still same mess under all 5 currently out pixel remasters
 
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Being in the mood for mindless check lists, I took a peek at Sony games (HZD, DG and GoW) on CDkeys, and boy was I relatively satisfied with the prices.
Then I looked at the games' size. Mother of God.

I don't want to spend 130 euros on an SSD, but this is becoming more and more inevitable.
 
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From SEGA's financial reports:



So originally they planned to release 3 titles in the west during this quarter, but they revised it to 2 titles (Total War Warhammer 3 and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax), so something else that they had planned for this quarter got delayed.

I guess one possibility is the Sonic Origins collection, it was announced 3 quarters ago and they still haven't shown any footage from it.
 

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From SEGA's financial reports:



So originally they planned to release 3 titles in the west during this quarter, but they revised it to 2 titles (Total War Warhammer 3 and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax), so something else that they had planned for this quarter got delayed.

I guess one possibility is the Sonic Origins collection, it was announced 3 quarters ago and they still haven't shown any footage from it.
It was clearly Persona 5 Royal multiplatform release. Never give up hope!
Actually do give up hope.
 

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All I really need to know, is it good? Beyond that I don't care about watching any previews. :D
There is a general consensus, everyone is saying is really good and incredibly open and vast

Has anyone got any tips for Kingdom Come: Deliverance?

Im enjoying the game, looks great, Henry is a nice lad to play as but the combat is really tough.

Also any good mods out there for it? graphically i think it looks pretty good but is there anything that helps frame rate or improves the gameplay without changing it too much?

Ta.
For combat I think it's mandatory to learn Master Strike, which consist in an automatic counter attack after a perfect block. Practice with Bernard outside of Rattay until he teaches you the technique.
Regarding performance I couldn't get stable fps even with a 3070, just avoid Ultra I guess
 

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I watched the trailer muted and thought Blood West is a boomer shooter. The stealth might be fun. I'll wait for the full release though so Weird West is first up.
 

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Humble has Epic Games Store Celebration Bundle...




That Steam Review score under Amalur XD
You know, that would've been a half-decent bundle if it wasn't Epic
 

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Didn't someone here bring up Generation Zero a couple of days ago?
I remember when it came it, it looked really boring, but I watched some gameplay footage from the new update, and it seems quite cool? It's currently on sale as well.

Has anyone played any of it? Thoughts?
 
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Didn't someone here bring up Generation Zero a couple of days ago?
I remember when it came it, it looked really boring, but I watched some gameplay footage from the new update, and it seems quite cool? It's currently on sale as well.

Has anyone played any of it? Thoughts?
Yeah, GZ launched with anemic content levels.

The dev put some legit work into post-launch support and added a lot of questing through free DLC updates. Check the store page for a bunch of free content packs. Feels like a mini version of the No Man's Sky turnaround.

I put some hours into it after the updates and had a great time with it. Unique setting & tone (80s Scandinavia I believe?). Exploration & combat feels great. Nice power curve. Love that 80s fashion, it captures the era's vibe well.

Worth checking out if you're interested.
 

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Didn't someone here bring up Generation Zero a couple of days ago?
I remember when it came it, it looked really boring, but I watched some gameplay footage from the new update, and it seems quite cool? It's currently on sale as well.

Has anyone played any of it? Thoughts?
As Swedish who grew up in the country side and spent my youth with 80s movie, it was made for me! So I really liked it.:)
 

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That article takes a very optimistic look at play-to-earn by the end, then again, the site's tagline is "free minds, free markets" so I guess that shouldn't be surprising. "Yes of course the first big attempt at play-to-earn crashed and burned, but we can trick more desperate poors into grinding themselves to dust for meagre cryptoscraps if we just perfect the exploitation!"

I watched the trailer muted and thought Blood West is a boomer shooter. The stealth might be fun. I'll wait for the full release though so Weird West is first up.
The demo in one of the previous Steam Festivals was kinda fun, but certainly not boomer-shooter in tone. At least, I didn't get that vibe.
 
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EdwardTivrusky

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gabbo Not really...

It may be possible to devise a play-to-earn model that rewards casual or less-invested players without creating economic incentives for people to play in ways that inevitably tank the value of the reward currency.

But the biggest publishers in gaming have previously tried and failed to figure out sustainable ways to introduce real money into the player-to-player economies of video games, and blockchain technology does nothing to address the reasons previous efforts have failed. NFT game developers and their investors may be underestimating the problems inherent to this business model.

The entire "play-to-earn" concept is built on the premise that video game currencies can be stores of real-money value, so if developers like Sky Mavis can't figure out how to prevent what happened to SLP from continuing to happen to reward currencies, then "play to earn" isn't going to work.
They basically say there are some big problems to be solved by the people who want this method to work. They seem pretty neutral to me.
 
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gabbo

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gabbo Not really...



They basically say there are some big problems to be solved by the people who want this method to work. They seem pretty neutral to me.
Might be my anti-NFT stance showing through, but I don't see neutrality on pyramid schemes as a good stance to take, be it in gaming or elsewhere and play-to-earn is an exploitative pyramid scheme
 

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Noticed a cool Slitherine weekend sale on Steam.

Couple of standouts.


Been drooling over Ardennes Offensive since it launched on Matrix/Slitherine back in Nov., where it reviewed incredibly well. Been patiently waiting on a Steam release since. Looks like it shadow-dropped just yesterday with a nice launch discount.

It's coming from VR Designs, the solo developer behind late-2020's Shadow Empire, an unbelievably deep sci/fi, 4X/grand-strat/wargame-hybrid that landed a spot on my 2021 GOTY list. A title so good that it virtually guaranteed 100% future attention & product support on my end.

Verdict- Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive is the best operational-level wargame I’ve ever played, period. The decision to stay away from the more abstract aspects of other operational level wargames and to bravely implement novel features should serve as a textbook example of how a genre, considered by many to be stale and long past its prime can be propelled to new heights with the right knowledge, passion, and inspiration. For going above and beyond the call of duty, Decisive Campaigns is hereby granted the first, Golden Strategy and Wargaming Seal of Approval.


Speaking of launch discounts, also noticed that DW2 just got a pre-order discount.

Now DW2 is my most-anticipated 2022 release across the board. There's been extensive hands-on coverage over the past couple weeks where my favorite strat streamers have been putting it through its paces, logging dozens of hours of campaign footage.

It's looking absolutely dreamy and since it was gonna be a Day One either way, looks like I'll be nabbing it now instead of later.

Hot damn.
 

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Didn't someone here bring up Generation Zero a couple of days ago?
I remember when it came it, it looked really boring, but I watched some gameplay footage from the new update, and it seems quite cool? It's currently on sale as well.

Has anyone played any of it? Thoughts?

Yeah hi 👋 that's me

The only problem with Generation Zero was that storage level sucked but apparently they fixed that. Ymmv fyi
 

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I'm playing Royal on PC. Whether it's gonna be an official release I actually pay for or a PS4 emulator like 10 years from now is up to SEGA.
dude persona if you are playing persona royal 5 on yo r pc r hten you nknow hat tehy say about chess: if the rook takes the bishop, then the king kknows when to rook!!!!
 

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I've kinda gotten used to the controls in Resi4. This is actually real fun, it's nice when a game has this much attention to detail and tight design.
dude persona if you are playing persona royal 5 on yo r pc r hten you nknow hat tehy say about chess: if the rook takes the bishop, then the king kknows when to rook!!!!
 

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I've kinda gotten used to the controls in Resi4. This is actually real fun, it's nice when a game has this much attention to detail and tight design.
Takes some getting used to, yeah, but once you get into the flow of it, it's still a wonderful game. If it's your first time playing, one thing that's easy to undervalue in the combat are the melee actions. You've probably seen it already, but if you headshot or kneecap a someone they'll go into a stunned state, which allows you to perform a special melee attack signaled by a button prompt if you get up close to them. The more proactively you use it, the more fun the game becomes imo. Can be good for crowd control and you're invincible for the duration of the animation.
 

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Hello, I'm the Giveaway Bot! TioChuck is giving away 1 gift(s).

This giveaway is a raffle and will be closed after Feb 11, 2022 at 9:03 PM. A winner is chosen randomly with the key delivered via a PM.

Alienware Key, don't know if region locked tho'.

thanks madjoki for the heads up!

The raffle has ended.

The following games are being given away:

 
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Anyone playing Lost Ark want to throw out what server they're on? I doubt if we can play together anyway, since it sounds like F2P players are going to be banished to separate servers at launch. Worth a try, though .... ?
 
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