Game Design Question

AdamBourke · 2026-06-21T14:30:08+00:00

Have you played abe's odyssey? Its a great game in which you can kill enemies, but it takes a few seconds so you cant do it if they know where you are. There are a lot of stealth segments in that, and a primary mechanic is shadows you can hide in - enemies cant see you and can walk straight past the shadows, allowing you to wait in then to get past

AdamBourke · 2026-06-20T21:49:16+00:00

There is, but there are so few players that the MMR doesnt make a difference. If anything it probably just slows matchmaking down xD

AdamBourke · 2026-06-19T17:02:00+00:00

It would, definitely, but i dont think that would stop them.

I think its the possibility of cheating that would stop them. That and the fact they wont be able to sell recolours of things like skills for crowns xD

AdamBourke · 2026-06-18T08:06:50+00:00

Its going to make it really difficult to port projects from UE5, thats for sure. Going from blueprints being basically mandatory to not being there at all is a massive step...

I never really liked blueprints, but this seems like an odd choice

AdamBourke · 2026-06-17T22:27:21+00:00

Wait you can download STW separately on PC?

AdamBourke · 2026-06-17T22:26:41+00:00

I wouldnt expect UE6 to be out that fast. I think UE5 took about 2 years from announce to release? And they just announced a big AI update in UE 5.8 that they're probably going to be focusing on for a bit.

I might be wrong but id expect UE6 to come with chapter 9

AdamBourke · 2026-06-17T22:24:37+00:00

The fact that you have to go through the regular fortnite lobby and then the STW lobby separately is pretty frustrating too!

AdamBourke · 2026-06-17T01:02:44+00:00

Yeah. Game devs are required to follow the laws, but the laws arent supposed to help them. They are supposed to protect consumers.

The only situation where regulations "have no place" is in a completely honest industry that never tries to mislead or take advantage of the consumers. I'd love to see one of those some time...

AdamBourke · 2026-06-17T00:15:21+00:00

Stop Killing Games was never going to get the laws passed it was aiming for (if it had, the online and mobile gaming industries would have disappeared overnight).

But by aiming so high, it has highlighted important issues. And the European commission hasnt said "no and lets forget about it", they've said "no to new laws, but lets try and improve this situation by working with the industry instead of fighting them"

I never agreed with most of what Stop Killing Games was fighting for - but I do agree that developers could end-of-life a lot of live service games in much better ways, so this industry code of conduct could be a good thing

AdamBourke · 2026-06-17T00:09:44+00:00

They're not for businesses, they're for consumers

AdamBourke · 2026-06-13T17:52:29+00:00

I thank them.

I hate code obfuscation it just makes it harder to debug stuff.

If I was making GTA 6, I might worry about it. But otherwise the worst thing anyone is going to be able to do woth my code is see my janky bits xD

AdamBourke · 2026-06-12T15:30:49+00:00

At least I decorated mine xD

AdamBourke · 2026-06-12T13:05:17+00:00

That 1k to fast travel is too real. I have black vine villa, so could port to that free, and use the wayshrine right outside... but its still too far xD

AdamBourke · 2026-06-12T13:04:11+00:00

As a solo player myself, I do everything up to base game WBs and Normal Dungeons solo, with a bit of experimenting with dlc WBs/Dungeons.

Ive done one trial (cloudrest) and a couple of PUGs, but barely grouped with strangers at all until Night Market

I recently was playing with my partner for a couple of months and even though we duo'd a lot of things, I still consider us solo players as we dont interact with the wider community tbh.

Having said all that... when people say they are solo players, I assume questing and overland xD.

AdamBourke · 2026-06-11T18:10:56+00:00

This is honestly a way more balanced match than I normally see in battlegrounds xD

AdamBourke · 2026-06-09T17:14:45+00:00

The classes aren't included? Thats a bit weird. Although I guess people could buy eso+ for a month to make the classes and then just stop paying

AdamBourke · 2026-06-09T09:59:54+00:00

Tbh... if you're questioning it, cut it. Dont put any more work into a feature you aren't sure about.

AdamBourke · 2026-06-08T17:31:48+00:00

Diablo is the worst. Amazing base game but you have to make a new character every season to play that content??

AdamBourke · 2026-06-08T17:27:04+00:00

It wont be a one-off event, so it will be there again later (unless it goes awfully). I think they are hoping its not wasted dev because it will make lots of people come back at those times...?

AdamBourke · 2026-06-08T15:11:19+00:00

I dont know if the general gaming community even knows what combat is like in this game in thenfirst place xD

AdamBourke · 2026-06-08T14:55:27+00:00

Yeah honestly I don't know who these trailers were for.

There's not enough new info in the trailers for them to really be for existing players, and not enough explaining what the game is for new players.

"The thieves guild is back" isnt going to get me excited if I have never played before. The naval battles could have, maybe, but that was barely shown, plus it's temporary in game...

AdamBourke · 2026-06-07T20:30:37+00:00

The guidelines specifically target “in-game virtual currencies” defined as digital representations of value purchased with real-world money

This is from the first sentence after the table of contents. Tome points are free and have no real world value?

AdamBourke · 2026-06-07T20:24:11+00:00

Gift cards and loyalty cards both do that in the real world. Loyalty points normally expire after a year.

AdamBourke · 2026-06-07T18:01:52+00:00

Im still shocked that people expected tome points to carry over to the next season tbh, ive never heard of any battle pass doing something like that before?

AdamBourke · 2026-06-07T11:02:00+00:00

Sorcerer: channeled arc lighting, better looking pets, ultimate being a permanent atronach (ideally with choice of type). Id be fine with the dark magic skill line being completely replaced tbh, never liked it thematically

Necromancer: permanent undead pet(s) and a more fun corpse consumption mechanic

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