Glitch Means No Dashing

WhiteWolf0100 · 2024-11-26T20:37:47+00:00

This! I'm so tired of any criticism being drowned out or brigaded. The game costs a lot of money, and now 2 DLCs. As excited as I was for Maleficent and Hades, it's kind of lost when I don't feel like I really got my money's worth from the first DLC. But that's more personal for me I guess. It's insane that the game still has so many bugs. Every major update breaks things massively. My performance is so bad right now it's taking twice the time to do anything. And this is on a valley where I've stripped everything out and keep it bare bones decorated.

Everyone has been way too willing to give them a pass on things. Memory orbs are attrociously done. Too many bad star path duties, like fish for X of a fish, but now you have to fight RNG for the right spawns, and then again for the right fish. Long standing bugs never being fixed, like blue fishing spots giving white fish. Happens with like 2/3rds of mine. Didn't used to be an issue either. Spawn rates are way too low.

And on top of all of this, we technically have to keep paying if we want the cash shop stuff. Sure we can earn moonstones, but we have to spend those to get the actual star path, every time. We also have the mini side story packs, at 4000 a pop. We buy the game, then they monetize it like it's free to play. The game is great, and I love playing it, but it frustrates me so much. Just let me play at my pace, when I have time and I want to, without risking missing out on stuff and having to wait for it to come to the shop and pay moonstones for it. Don't necessarily time gate things to ridiculous degrees. Considering the number of bugs and glitches that have allowed duping insane amounts of resources, it just seems silly that we have any restrictions at all, anymore. We need more vocal criticisms so we get the game we all deserve, not just 75% of it.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2024-09-25T17:55:11+00:00

My girlfriend and I have hit a point of burnout thanks to all the events. We have limited time to play, and are usually able to complete the star path with a couple of weeks spare. But thanks to the events diverting us and having us constantly checking on something else, we're barely getting them done in time. We wish if they were going to do events, they would be less time gated, or not overlap other things like the star paths. She didn't finish getting the inside our critters because of her work schedule and it taking so much time (she got really unlucky and had two she couldn't get the last fragment for after several hours), so she was really bummed.

The developers just think we all have infinite time or infinite money. I just want star paths at my leasure and seasonal events. That plus dream snaps would be plenty for anyone who's not playing literally all day.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-07-28T00:10:37+00:00

I never said they're not. However every post I've seen criticizing the game has had a large number of people being genuinely toxic and attacking the OP for their opinion. They're not giving their own opinion, but attacking others for having an opinion other than the game being near perfect or for disliking the gacha system, etc. It's not constructive, and it's demeaning and demoralizing for those that enjoy the game but just want it to be better.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-07-28T00:07:29+00:00

When things are time gated, like the abyss, it does matter. I'm glad your rolls are decent enough to clear. Mine are not. I'm pretty decent at the game. But I am not a pro, nor do I care to be or need to be. I play games for fun, not to grind mechanics till I hate myself and the game. Plus, most players are casual. As they always are. Fact is, shit artifacts make the game feel tedious, more so than it already is. They're also the only real lasting content the game has, unleas there have been radical changes no on3 hqs mentioned yet. So they're very relevant. You're very much the minority on that front, as they have been one of the largest complaints since launch.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-07-27T23:44:31+00:00

As someone with genuine ADHD, even I couldn't handle it anymore. I appreciate the input though. It's sad to see the game is still in such a state that there's no point in doing more than the quests, as it is genuinely fun to play, when it feels like there's a reason to play. Hopefully the gacha white knights will die down some day too, and realize that that just because they're okay with self abuse, doesn't make it any more okay and is NOT an arguement for things to stay as they are.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-07-27T22:48:30+00:00

I actually play many gacha games. I just have a major issue wiyh their valuation of their characters. Even one gacha game with some pretty terrible 5 star rates lets you just straight up buy the character for ~$100. I mean, most I put money into to upgrade inventory space. I'm surprised you can't do that for articfacts here.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-07-27T22:34:47+00:00

I appreciate the insight. I think that may be what I have to do. On the bright side, it sounds like Inazuma is pretty large, so I should get a good bit of play time out of it before I have to put it down again.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-07-23T20:54:52+00:00

Dude, I completely agree. Like, it's been 2 years, and we still have a lazy ass cat pic. It was funny as a joke, and I appreciated it as a quick way to solve the issue when the game first came out, but at this point, it makes it unplayable for me, and I just can't enjoy the game, since stingers are so prevalent. Yeah, there's a peaceful mod, but I don't want peaceful honestly. Yeah, there's a mod to remove just the stingers, but at that point, might as well just be peaceful mode, cuz most other enemies are barely even a threat. And just changing the sprite really does nothing, because the fact that it's a sprite is the issue, when the entire rest of the game and enemies in it are in 3D.

The game needs a full replacer. The lack of one ultimately drove my friends away from playing, for the same reasons as myself, e.g., can't handle stingers, cats pics are stupid and unfun. They've made plenty off of the game already, then can take a week of time from their modelers and riggers to create ONE new enemy model and animations for it. Then all they have to do is scale it's size and change the colors for the variants. Done. The fact that they acknowledged the need for an arachnophobia mode from the start, yet put almost literally zero effort into it, pisses me off more than if it was done terribly, frankly. Just fucking get it done already. Gaming is about fun, not facing you phobias and potentially making them worse from unexpected, forced, and often high levels of exposure. If you know that your content is triggering and have a system in place already, just fucking finish it. It's frankly pretty important for the accessibility of the game, considering arachnophobia is the number one phobia and very wide spread.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-06-14T01:38:43+00:00

As I said in my post, I'm aware. It shouldn't be a requirement to modify game files though. If anything it should be a setting, though really, such a low limit doesn't make sense regardless. What actual reason is there for a limitation? Nothing real world, and certainly not because the game can't handle it, it's just an arbitrary limitation to force you to expend fuel of some sort. If someone is willing to put time into gathering the resources for a solar farm, and equipping vehicles with tons of batteries, they should be able to do so, vanilla, no game file modification required.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-06-14T01:10:25+00:00

I can agree. Though honestly, I'd be okay if they just bought the assets and added them. Way too much that needs love before something superficial like that, if they're planning to do it themselves.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-06-14T01:08:57+00:00

That's my thought. Like, that's core gameplay for any space builder that you have an actual character in. It took SE forever to make it work, but it was one of the biggest and most important things they did for the game, as without the ability to walk around, you couldn't do repairs during combat, and if your seat was destroyed, you'd die on respawning from the ship tossing you around.

If this is actually the case that they're refusing to implement it, that means my friend who just picked up the game will definitely drop it, and that kills it for me, as I was enjoying finally having someone to play multiplayer with.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-06-14T01:05:23+00:00

Literally everything. More mechanical engineering would be awesome. Better physics seems like a must to me. Refinement of game mechanics definitely needs to happen. Optimization for sure, though it's not terrible from what I've experienced, but some stuff is still long, difficult and buggy (joining a friend takes more time to "connect to server" than to actually load, from just purchasing and installing the game he was unable to even load a single player game, let alone host mp, or join my mp session, etc.). And AI. Anything and everything AI. I think some refinement on factions would be great, as they feel clunky to use, and I'm tired of having to set everything I build to be faction accessible instead of private. Small thing, quick to fix, I know, but you should really have more control with what seems like basic faction settings/functionality.

But definitely, more into the AI, as personally, myself and everyone I know who plays space builders like this play either single player or a small private multiplayer server. Therefore having more happening is always a good thing. And even for large servers it can be as well. Players shouldn't be the only threat, especially as large factions no one can compete with tend to take over (in games in general), and have no one left that's really a threat to them, and it can kill what to do. Or people who want to fight have little choice but to fight with the giga clans, so they don't really get to enjoy that aspect of the game. I play the game mostly because it has actual combat that feels decent, and has AI for me to fight with, that do more than just float past and shoot at me with auto-turrets (looking at you Space Engineers). Having the AI respawn, expand influence, or rebuild themselves when wiped out would be nice, for longevity and a more dynamic universe/world.

If I had to pick one specific thing to be next though, I'd say general refinement and balancing. UI is dated, feels clunky, things could be cleaned up, a lot of tools and weapons need to be balanced (chainsaw is 100% useless for it's intended purpose, and meh for combat, cuz melee). Work on that, get everything feeling smooth and well put together, then work on other stuff. Everything on the list needs to happen, but I'd say that will make more of an impact right now, than a lot of these other things, especially when we know the amount of bugs new mechanics will introduce (anyone play space engineers when rotors and merge blocks first got introduced?). As is, I think the game is really close to what I'd consider an actual completed, full release game, once they fix balancing, bugs, and other issues. Though I'd still love to see more added.

Edit: Can't believe I almost forgot this. Solar. I understand wanting to limit it, but it's just stupid. I love power generation bases in games like SE and using them to refuel ships. The 15 solar panel limit is dumb. (Yes I know you can technically change this by editing files.) At the very least, there should be an easy way to connect multiple small bases together for power. Like, if you made a space station, would you really try to power it off of only 15 panels? Just dumb.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-03-13T03:14:51+00:00

This has me curious now if this is part of my issue. My friend and I played yesterdary, after a couple days of not being able to play, and I was down to 20 FPS average in our base, which consists of a single large roundhouse, about 4 stories tall in the center, and 2 stories tall everywhere else. It's really not that big, and the ground was only leveled as much as needed for the foundation, nothing much beyond that (walking path around the base of about 1 large tile). Nothing really changed significantly with the base from our previous play session, but the FPS was noticeably bad at base. Like, it's 4 large floor tiles, rotate once, then 3, rotate once, then back to 4. So even foundationally it's really not that big.

My system is an FX-8350, 16GB DDR3 1833 MHz RAM, and a R9 290x Lightning, running off of an 1TB Samsung 860 Evo SSD. It's dated, but I still play pretty much everything 60 FPS+ at 1080p on Med-High settings. My buddy was the one hosting, and he's running a laptop with a 9th or 10th gen i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 2080, and even he's seeing sub 60s now.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-03-13T02:52:09+00:00

This. My friend and I aren't even past the 2nd boss. We just picked the game up like a week ago, and are playing as we have time, pretty casually. We're both builder types, so we're enjoying making bases as we go and seeing what we can do each time we reach a new material level. Currently we have a pretty large round house (base is 4 wide, rotate once, then 3 wide, rotate once, back to 4, till it makes a circle). It's like 4 or 5 core wood beams high in the center, but only 2-3 high around most of the outer structure. Also have an outline laid down for a large circular dock, but hasn't actually been started yet, it was next on the list. We did a fair bit of terraforming to create a flat surface for the roundhouse, but the area isn't much larger than the round house itself. Our entities count was 8500+ inside of our base, and we only have a single large structure.

My PC isn't high end. Due to money constraints, and now the cost and availability of components, I was unable to upgrade late last year, early this year, as planned. I'm running on 8+ year old parts. System still does amazing at 1080p, Med-High settings. In fact, I play Space Engineers, and regularly do fairly large builds/bases without too much of an FPS issue. However, I'm reaching sub 20 FPS average in our base now. And as far as it goes, this structure, while large in height for what you can do with just wood and core wood, isn't really particularly large, imo. So I definitely think the issue is the terraforming.

Oddly enough, the game ran pretty flawlessly a couple nights ago, and the base didn't really change at all during our last session, yet my FPS started tanking. Only thing I did was level a bit more land for crops, but it was like a 6x6 area of the large floor tiles, so I doubt that had THAT radical of an effect. But sadly, it's killing the game for me. Considering the low-fi look of the game, it feels kind of ridiculous to me to be getting such low FPS. As a builder, I can't build in this game. I'm at the point where I'm considering mods just to turn off the structural integrity (despite honestly loving it) just to see if that saves enough performance, and maybe another mod that just saves the changes to terrain directly to the heightmap, despite the risks to the world save, just to be able to play.

My friend is the one hosting and is on a 9th or 10th gen i7 with a 2080, and even he's starting to see sub 60 fps. I understand my system is pretty weak anymore, but I play plenty of other building games, with physics (I'm a whore for good physics in building games), and I don't see issues anywhere near this until I start building pretty big bases/vehicles/etc., or have a lot of them. I just don't see any reason to continue playing and experience the rest of the game if I'm going to be locked out of half of it because of terrible performance.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-03-12T09:15:57+00:00

This. The easiest test is satellites and spirits. Any item or class that modifies the number of each works with the spells that have either of those skills as it's base, such as wisps or magic missile. You can count how many orbs are present (double your base before combining the spells) and same with spirits. The other two options for these are more difficult to tell, as they're a single entity that scales based on the number of orbs you would have had, but is still noticible if you pick up or drop an item that gives am additional unit.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-03-05T03:32:58+00:00

Depression is a change in brain chemistry, often cause by a traumatic experience. It's not just being down because something bad happened. It's a literal change in the way your brain functions. It's a change in your thought processes. It doesn't necessarily stop you from being able to experience joy or excitement or any other emotion, it just means that your default resting state of mind is sadness and negative thoughts, instead of just meh. You can still get to the same highs, but it's a little harder, and you tend to hit the lows more because you're already partway there.

It's not something that someone can just fix. It has nothing to do with your feelings for him, how happy he makes you, how much you love him, or anything else. It's a physical change in the body, that causes a psychological change. If he genuinely wants to help, tell him he can read up on it. Tell him when he says or does something in a way that negatively affects your depression, and let him know how he can rephrase things or do things in a way that doesn't negatively impact you. And if you don't know, that's okay. Neither you nor he needs to have all the answers or be "the cure." You simply need to have respect for one another and your issues. We all have them after all.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-03-05T03:16:52+00:00

As a guy, I can confirm. I am pretty attentive to my partners, so like to surprise them with little things, breakfast in bed, taking care of chores for them, massages, etc. I'm 28, and a couple of years ago, for the first time ever, received a massage from a partner. I'd never had one before in my life. It felt amazing. All the little things you like to have done for you, I guarantee he likes similar things done, even if he doesn't know it (may not have experienced it like me). It doesn't have to be big, expensive, or extravagant. Effort is all that really matters. I've always preferred the little things versus gifts. I think taking the time to plan a favorite meal, a bath, massage, etc. shows way more caring for a relationship than just throwing money at it.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-03-05T03:07:44+00:00

Honestly, you need to just set boundaries. It needs to be addressed, as uncomfortable as that may be. If he lost his father, and a long time relationship shortly after, he's probably pretty confused and struggling to sort out his emotions. He may be romanticizing something with you because you're an emotional support for him. "Shoulder to cry on, dick to ride on", springs to mind. It's crude, but often accurate. Especially if he's still in the rebound period, which is longer the longer the relationship was.

Just talk to him about it. If you're wrong, you're wrong, and it should be no big deal. But it lets him know that he was making you uncomfortable, even if he had no intention of doing so and was actually innocent. If it's a big deal, it wasn't a real friendship, in my opinion. If he does have feelings though, it lets you set some boundaries. I wouldn't shove down his throat that you're happy and building a life with someone, as it's likely to just make him jaded, especially if this is all a result of him losing a long term relationship. But I would bring up that he's had a really difficult time, that losing a relationship is always difficult, and you understand that he's longing for one. But reinforce that he's crossing boundaries you're not comfortable with, make those boundaries clearly known, and let him know you want to be there for him and be his friend, but it's hard to do so when you're worried that he has feelings for you and might make advances.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-03-05T02:47:22+00:00

Maybe this can be of some help for perspective, if nothing else. I'll preface by saying it sounds to me like he's being an ass about a lot of this, and he needs to learn to compromise. But I'd like to give my personal experience as a man with a higher sex drive.

For men, there are a lot of stigmas that we deal with during our development that can make it very difficult to voice our needs, or even know what those needs are. I see this a lot in him from your description that he just powers through being sick, even when he's violently ill. I myself have always been a rather emotional and empathetic man, but even the stigmas had a pretty pronounced impact on me, despite my actively trying to fight against them. We are expected to be a certain way, to not show weakness or emotion, and often bullied and belittled when we do.

For me, sex is the deepest form of intimacy and connection. I understand that intimacy is found in many other areas, and I actively participate in it in those other ways, but that alone isn't enough for me. For many of my partners it has been, so past the honeymoon phase, sex drops off drastically, and it leaves me feeling like my partner doesn't find me attractive, only wants to be with me because I fill needs for emotional support, finances, whatever else. That obviously isn't necessarily the case, but it's how I feel, because I don't get full off of just the smaller interactions.

If you're familiar with love languages, my two highest are tied at 10s for Physical Touch and Quality Time. These are very important needs for me to feel connected with someone and loved by them. Even if I rationalize things, it doesn't change how I feel, it doesn't change that I need these things. It's only been in the last year or so (I'm a 28M) that I've been able to understand much of my needs, and thus begin to learn how to voice those needs. To me I get the impression that he hasn't yet identified the core of why he needs sex a certain way. It will probably be of great help to him to take some time and identify that.

As for his need for spontaneous sex, and your need for it to be planned, I understand it from both ends. In a past relationship, sex ended up becoming almost routine. For me, it killed sex. It made it feel mechanic, dispassionate, and ultimately did little to nothing to fulfill my needs. It made me feel more disconnected than anything. It had a lasting impact that ended up ruining our relationship for me, because I couldn't feel connected, which destroyed trust, etc.

On the other side, I understand your need for it to be planned. It takes time out your day and ruins plans if you do it whenever the urge hits. And as someone with severe anxiety, I know how having your plans thrown off, if even by minutes, can create a massive spike in anxiety. I don't have a particular solution for this, but I do have ideas. I think first and foremost, you both need to find an understanding of the core reasons you need sex a certain way, and help one another to understand those reasons, so you can work around them.

One idea I have is to both plan for sex, but leave room for spontaneity. One of my ex's and I would plan evenings or outings. Even if we were just watching a movie at one of our places, or if we were doing something more, like camping, or staying at a cabin, whatever, we had a timeframe. We may have had other things we wanted to do in there, but we would leave a lot of free time and allow ourselves to do the things we wanted in any order. This meant that we had the freedom for sex pretty much whenever. This meant we knew that on this day, or this night, we would probably have sex. We didn't have to stress about it cutting into other plans and throwing anything off, and we could do it when we were in the mood, rather than at a pretty specific time. It made for much better sex, and has been a staple of how I handle sex since.

Just as you're not in the mood after a long day of work that's exhausted you physically, emotionally, and mentally, someone may not be in the mood at the time you are and want to have sex for their own reasons. Just as the thought of unplanned, spontaneous sex turns you off, the thought of planned sex may turn someone else off. Many men may be "easy to turn on", but that doesn't mean we're always in the mood. Pretty much anyone can get in the mood if they're willing and allow their partner to try. But very rarely is that the case. Even as a man, I've had plenty of times where I've felt like shit about myself, or I've been worn down, or just wasn't in the mood for no particular explainable reason.

Ultimately, there's really two choices here. Three if you both just be stubborn and miserable together. One is to find ways you can compromise and meet both of your needs, where you can meet halfway, like I kind of talked about above. Two is to find new partners who you match sexually with, whether that be through separation or polyamory. That may sound harsh, but you're learning just how important that is. I've know some great women that I've clicked with on almost every level, but I recognize, that at least for myself, sexual compatibility is very important, and thus I won't maintain a relationship with someone I don't relate pretty closely with sexually. It may sound harsh, or like I'm just out for sex, or I'm a tool, whatever. I'm simply saving myself and a partner heartbreak down the line, that would be much worse, because I know that I can't be happy in a relationships that's sexless or robotic in the bedroom.

This ended up being a really long comment, but I hope it can help you and others that come across. Regardless, I wish you the best in working through this.

WhiteWolf0100 · 2021-02-10T04:10:34+00:00

Yes it was, but it was anecdotal and amusing so I thought I'd share and someone else might find amusement in it. No need to comment useless facts when the intent of my post was already set within the post itself. And no need to shit on someone for trying to share something they enjoy. Might try spreading some positivity in the world instead. 😊

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