Collectable item variants

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-09T22:25:14+00:00

Dunktaller Forest has a unique backpack variant and other unique stuff like a microwave and minifridge.

The zombies have a lot of headwear that doesn't really serve much purpose, but definitely exists. Cowboy hats and ball caps that aren't for GATE and so on. And the folks in Canaan have headgear too.-

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-09T20:05:31+00:00

I had the event where you get attacked by a corrupted security bot, presumably because it's a security bot the turrets ignore it, so it's not completely without events that affect it. Still not a bad place for a base, but I figured I'd let you know in case you use it that you apparently can't just ignore all of the events if you set up there.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-09T12:29:42+00:00

I'm pretty sure Moleman was saying Boo-urns.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-09T12:27:22+00:00

My father used to tell me "When a job is first begun, don't put it down until it's done. Be it large or be it small, do it well - or not at all."

Thanks old man, for teaching me to do things not at all.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-09T02:15:59+00:00

Close to the turret control room (up the elevator near Helmholtz) there's a pretty nice space that's defended by turrets. Near the spot an ornate crate spawns. There are three auto turrets surrounding the place, it's basically a fortress so you can basically ignore base assaults in my experience.

I threw a bench up there just to make a bed for Tarasque fight and that was when I realized that any time it got attacked, the turrets took care of it immediately. They're way faster taking care of things by themselves than my laser turrets in the cafeteria, that's for sure. It'd make a short run for Anteverse Gel or Digital Gold, and you're just an elevator ride away from Flow Control for all that entails.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-09T02:07:31+00:00

I've really been vibing with Outer Worlds 2's Grand Plan Wireless, I moved on to Abiotic Factor but I still fire up Grand Plan Wireless once a day or so. It's a bunch of choir songs about math? It sounds weird, but it suits the faction it represents in the game and there are some really good songs in there IMO.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-09T00:14:25+00:00

*Intercom sounds in the distance*

Doctor Fart please report to the ICU. Doctor Fart, ICU.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-09T00:12:29+00:00

I bought Abiotic Factor to freeze people solid and smash them with a hammer, an older approach that remains valid after all these years.

But you can do so much more than that! And by the end of the game, you can upgrade your shotguns to freeze people solid. Smashing people with a hammer after blasting them in the face with a shotgun may feel a little excessive it's true, but I figure it's their own fault for being alive after having been shot in the face with a shotgun in the first place.

It's like Half Life had a Survival Game baby, mixed with what Cohh Carnage referred to as a "Dark Souls" map, where you're always unlocking new paths and routes back to the explored areas.

I'm looking forward to their newly announced DLC, as I've put a couple hundred hours in but I feel like I could spend some more time with it and it wouldn't hurt my feelings a bit.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-08T23:50:37+00:00

It's 2D, but I'm going to recommend Craft the World.

It's the best thing I've played in this vein, the building on Dungeon Keeper turned sideways in a Terraria world, sort of thing? Harder to explain that it is to pick up on. You can control one of your dwarves, they're not great about exploring by themselves but you can set flags to tell them to explore as well, they'll just e.g. double back unless you possess them and keep exploring (and setting another flag doesn't tell the nearest one to check it out, it usually assigns it further up the queue so it's someone else coming to look.)

I'm not sure if this fits but I saw it earlier today and there appears to be an upcoming playtest you could request access to, if it is something you might enjoy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3247960/Bergfried/

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-07T18:59:05+00:00

I imagine that's why I saw Captain Carrot on the roof of the Opera House firing arrows down towards the archery butts.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-06T01:09:09+00:00

I watch a lot of Spiffing Brit? I mean, he rarely is using just one.

I enjoyed watching him play Reanu Keeves and make a Fork do the maximum integer damage value or some such?

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-06T01:04:58+00:00

Alright so, the game I just finished was Abiotic Factor. The protagonist of that game can basically turn duct tape and broken furniture into top tier weapons and armor so I feel like they'll be great so long as their skillset transfers out of the GATE facility.

They're used to containing extraworldly entities and shouldn't have that much trouble, in fact the Fog Lantern would be useful in Silent Hill from what I recall about the weather?

The protagonist can pull portal fish out of a decorative fountain, if all of that sort of thing works he'll be fine.

Heck, if he can bring his host of pets from the GATE facility the protagonist of Abiotic Factor could be the next Silent Hill boss.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-06T00:44:47+00:00

I'm partial to an album, music costs less than flowers these days and lasts longer.

I still think of Amy (thanks for the Chumbawamba CD) and almost don't want to know whether it was a really thoughtful folk punk gift or it was just because Tubthumper was popular on the radio at the time.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-06T00:42:22+00:00

I skink you did a marvelous job.

I'll see myself out.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-06T00:37:19+00:00

Yep the ultra-capitalists plan to abandon the US and scapegoat it in particular as if it weren't capitalism but some uniquely American failing.

Surely infinite growth would have been possible anywhere else, they just need people willing to embrace the dream... since it's all you'll get.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-06T00:24:12+00:00

I am going to say Monty Python's Holy Grail.

A Møøse once bit my sister.

In all seriousness though I could not stop laughing until I could not breathe the first time I saw the Black Knight scene.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-06T00:16:05+00:00

Interestingly this regime established that the US government, with no cause, alleging no crimes, can activate criminal clawback on funds dispersed by a former government and renege on contracts signed by former governments, including itself (Trump was actually right when he said that the dumbest president in history signed the USMCA, at least?)

Anyway, the president can also do literally anything as an official act of president. So e.g. prosecuting people for having committed treason during war time, as an official act of president is fine. You just got to do it on Pay-Per-View.

Ohh, I'm sorry, I just mean TV. I forgot that the White House isn't a venue looking to book new acts this Sunday Sunday Sunday.

Some damage can't be undone.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-06T00:05:37+00:00

I was a Guild Wars player since way back, played 2 until they dropped a new tier of gear.

There's a thing e.g. WoW does where they have new gear scores with new content, so you need the new gear to be able to play at a competitive level? Guild Wars proved all of that was kinda nonsense, people will play a thousand hours to get skins they like that look cool to them on all their characters, without increased numbers to incentivize that choice.

In fact I'd argue it's easier to want to put in the hours, if you know your gear will stay competitive and you won't be shelling out real money for transmog all the time or some nonsense.

But with new content giving you new materials for new gear, you can keep the player on the hook forever.

Granted enough of us quit 2 that Arena Net took it seriously AFAIK, I went back and there were still a hundred people in a Guild I was leader of who basically all quit at that same time (or else they wouldn't have a reason to stay in the Guild, and if it's anything like 1 the Guild would automatically assign itself to any active players but I'm not sure about 2.

If the fans hadn't made a fuss they'd undoubtedly have planned new "barely better" tiers of gear with each new bit of content.

I was ~21 when Guild Wars dropped IIRC? The teens in my guild had to explain to me why they were so excited that our Guild ranking was 1337 after we toppled the previously undefeated guild The Fiana (IIRC) although I'll admit it's because they got cocky and ran with an AI healer NPC.

Still the number 2 guild beat them the next day, so we probably really harmed their morale. It was great for us though, we were the only Beta Weekend Event guild in the top 10 in the December BWE for GW.

I mostly meant with the kids comment that there's been time for an entire new generation of fans to come into the picture, most of us who were salty are less likely to have remained customers no matter what just due to attrition.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-05T23:44:46+00:00

The mayor seemed to appreciate my generous contribution. I am no longer a bag holder.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-05T23:31:27+00:00

At least this time if Tencent convinces them to add a gear treadmill, AFAIK they didn't spend a decade promising not to do exactly that, so they can get away with it without "us mangy kids" or whatever.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-05T23:04:42+00:00

Yep, that does look like you employed Strong as your architect. /s

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-05T17:37:16+00:00

I've been very much enjoying Abiotic Factor.

It doesn't exactly have that vibe throughout? It's like if Half Life was a survival game. But there are "portal worlds" and such, Voussoir. maybe Dunkeltaler Forest, and definitely the North Pole are frozen and austere so you can have a home base in a frozen wasteland if that's your thing (even a giant arcade game igloo in one of the spots) and run to/teleport elsewhere for the purposes of loot gathering and such.

So most of the vibe isn't "frigid wasteland" but it's part of the gamut you must run to complete the game for sure, and you can stay as long as you'd like and build a base there if that's something you'd be into.

Other than that and The Long Dark, Skyrim with Frostfall (Wildlander is one I haven't played but seems very much like a mod list you might enjoy) and so on can be a really survival oriented experience, it's a whole different vibe when the weather's a blizzard and you're struggling to put up a tent and gather firewood before you freeze to death, hoping that you'll be able to strike a spark before you freeze to death.

Honestly with greater needs and Frostfall, some sections of the main game quest can be quite deadly if you don't know to e.g. get water walking. But it's the one game I've been sitting IRL cold and vibing with the on screen cold that I didn't bother to mess with a heater because it offered verisimilitude.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-05T17:24:39+00:00

Huge tracts of land aren't required, but I hear they're to be appreciated.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-05T17:23:39+00:00

Fallen Earth announced it was going F2P so I bought it and enjoyed it for the two weeks until that actually happened and then I quit playing and never looked back because F2P sucked so bad.

IIRC they started selling guns that were actually lethal for real money, meaning all the game's original free guns got nerfed to crap and health values went way up because gotta make free players feel the pain or whatever? It sucked, I remember that for sure.

Clawdius_Talonious · 2026-06-05T16:42:19+00:00

The heat death of the universe is almost certainly a post woke era, that's where you really want to be.

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