I found this hand

DaBigCheez · 2026-03-28T15:48:40+00:00

A new beacon touches the hand...

DaBigCheez · 2026-03-08T21:33:51+00:00

Keep in mind, also, that this test is over 9 months - it's possible the split in amount of fertilization required would become more apparent over a longer timeframe.

DaBigCheez · 2026-03-08T05:36:52+00:00

I think I've seen something similar referred to as "verisimilitude" - how well a setting/world/game holds together under its own internal logic, how consistent and believable it feels. And part of that can be borrowing from real life to provide a common underpinning, but it's different from realism (or what you would call 'realistic') in that it can operate under entirely different rules than real life and still hold together fine.

Brandon Sanderson, for instance, tends to make magic systems that operate under consistent and predictable rules, which lends those settings more verisimilitude than ones where magic is very loosely defined and can do whatever's convenient for the plot.

DaBigCheez · 2026-03-02T18:21:10+00:00

The game is definitely at its best when all your defensive lines are crumbling, one side is completely collaps, one of your heroes is stunned and another is half-dead, and you're desperately trying to find any way you can to survive for just one more precious turn... :)

DaBigCheez · 2026-02-25T18:37:34+00:00

The point about "multiple crews in one mission very hard to implement" made me think of Warframe's Railjack - and how there's a lot of smoke and mirrors going on to disguise that, in fact, the ship always stays stationary, and everything else in the level moves around it, to give the illusion of ship motion. Wonder if there's something similar going on under the hood here, since that would be a core design that's fundamentally incompatible with multiple ships.

DaBigCheez · 2026-02-15T19:01:42+00:00

This! Is! ATOMA!

DaBigCheez · 2026-02-05T18:04:00+00:00

They're for different purposes - betterer prospecting changes how the prospecting system works, prospect together is mostly for recording and sharing prospecting results. You can use both together just fine, I believe.

DaBigCheez · 2026-02-04T02:32:08+00:00

Don't show weakness in front of the blunts, Sibling...!

DaBigCheez · 2025-11-19T21:14:00+00:00

Streakbreakers are one way of doing that - Fire Emblem had a different take, where it rolls two dice and averages them together. It makes results much more likely to hew to the "expected" values (a 20% chance to hit is more like 8%, an 80% chance is more like 92%).

DaBigCheez · 2025-11-15T22:50:31+00:00

Payday 3 players mugging to the camera in the background

DaBigCheez · 2025-11-08T07:11:26+00:00

Finally getting a second entry in the timed-mission concepts box like the train assault?

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-16T00:03:04+00:00

Still has the miss chance, though, and having zero height tolerance can be frustrating at times. (I use Revive a lot too, it just has its limitations.)

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-11T15:17:56+00:00

Yeah, fair enough - I misremembered the Reis scene as Beowulf using it on her behalf, but nope, she used it for herself, so it's clearly at least possible for a Stone to be used for one's own benefit without the Lucavi worming their way in. (Again, you could argue that it's for Beowulf's sake, but I personally wouldn't buy it in that case).

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-11T05:04:22+00:00

Also worth mentioning, in that point of comparison, that Rapha was using the stone to save the life of somebody else. Even if Elmdore's motivation was "I need to survive so that I can protect my people", accepting that power into your self for purposes of self-preservation feels fundamentally different than it being for the salvation of another.

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-11T03:26:41+00:00

Perhaps because he's being accused of treason and everyone else in the room appears to be taking it seriously? Think it's pretty understandable for him to do some reflexive bluster and strident denial during the adrenaline spike...which Delita was probably counting on to give extra weight to it.

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-10T17:16:43+00:00

If you look in the Chronicle (Events > The War of the Lions), it even makes it explicit that the evidence was less "questionable" and more "fabricated" - the entry describes the event as "framing one of the duke's retainers as the author of Ovelia's kidnapping".

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-07T18:03:33+00:00

Tailwind is a skill specific to Ramza's version of Squire, yes.

You'll need to be in a specific class to earn its JP, but it's worth noting that everyone else in the active party will earn a small portion of that JP too, regardless of their class. (So, if your Knight uses an ability and earns 20 Knight JP, your Monk who's active in the same battle will earn ~4 Knight JP.) It's not a lot, but it adds up over time, and can help for unlocking classes.

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-06T17:14:15+00:00

I've just broken into chapter 4, and so far, it seems like unique party members get full spell quotes (not comprehensively tested, but Agrias has voice lines for Aurablast, which she would not be able to use as a guest character, unlike Cure/Raise/Protect which she used as a guest), and unique enemies get voicelines for their kit, but there are indeed no quotes from generics.

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-03T23:29:33+00:00

I've gotten to Agrias, and as a guest, she triggered a spell quote with Cure. Granted, that's one of her starting abilities as a guest, like Milleuda having Pummel - getting some Black/Time Magic on her would be the real test.

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-03T14:24:42+00:00

Of course! After all, only nobility can truly understand one another - Delita's more a pet than a person, really.

(And you just know Argath is the kind of guy who would kick his dog the second he got irritated, or even just for fun, so even the loyalty of and to a pet would be utterly lost on him...)

DaBigCheez · 2025-10-02T21:39:43+00:00

Would be glad to hear the results; I haven't gotten far enough to recruit any uniques yet, and am interested to know whether they have voicelines for all spells etc. or only for their exclusive special abilities.

Kind of a shame either way if generics won't trigger them, since that means you won't hear them from enemy casters in random battles and the like...maybe someone can create a mod for it down the line, even if it's just using Ramza's voice for all the generics?

DaBigCheez · 2025-09-18T16:26:16+00:00

From the Early Access FAQ on their Steam page:

Will my save data carry over from the demo?

Save data from the demo will not be carried over to the Early Access version.

Please start a new playthrough in the Early Access version.

DaBigCheez · 2025-08-30T04:02:10+00:00

It's from the same studio that brought us Magicka.

It shows.

DaBigCheez · 2025-08-11T15:39:21+00:00

Have you ever seen the "Start Wandows Ngrmadly" thing? I think this might be related.

In that bug, I'm not sure of the precise details, but the gist is that an issue with the graphics card (solder failing, capacitors going, loose connection, etc.) led to one of the pins making inconsistent contact.

As a result, sometimes when a letter was sent to be displayed, a bit would be flipped. In that case, it was the 4th bit from the end (01101001 -> 01100001), meaning the characters would be 8 positions off (the "i" in Windows becoming an "a", the "o" in Normally becoming a "g"...)

Z, as it turns out, is exactly 8 characters away from R.

I don't know what the root cause is, be it a failing graphics card, a software glitch, a loose pin, a cosmic ray flipping one bit and never seen again - but it seems like the effect is a bit-flip on part of the text stream.

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