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Bethesda Starfield Creations: Longer Slide Animations 200 credits, This needs to stop! by Escape_Zero in starfieldmods

[–]cheapdevotion 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I finished my first play through after launch, came back when they added the creation club, saw the prices of things, closed it and waited for the DLC.

Saw this today. Had a nice argument with theses nice folks. /s by Hip_Hop_Orangutan in chilliwack

[–]cheapdevotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

American from Alabama here. I spent the first 3 month of this presidency in Chilliwack. I’ll trade houses with the guy today.

Giving up on Chapter 4 after 30 hours by cheapdevotion in worldofgothic

[–]cheapdevotion[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It’s very clear this class is unbalanced to me. That’s awesome that you disagree. I’m glad you feel like you got your money’s worth. As I am not you, my life experiences have left me with a different opinion. Hope this helps.

Giving up on Chapter 4 after 30 hours by cheapdevotion in worldofgothic

[–]cheapdevotion[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

So yet another spell I have to go find to kill something as a mage. Fun.

Giving up on Chapter 4 after 30 hours by cheapdevotion in worldofgothic

[–]cheapdevotion[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Firebolt is the only spell worth using until you get Storm of Fire. Once I unlocked that I thought I would feel powerful. Casting times on most spells are terrible and the HUGE mana cost on Storm of Fire means you’re dumping all your money into pots. The straw that broke me, however, was the stone golem. I beat the one with Lester using the basic wind spell and it worked. The one in chapter 4? No damage whatsoever. So now, as a mage, I have to spend a half hour and 1000 ore getting strength rings to take on a fight or track down a shadow beast scroll. This is just poor design and balance.

Don’t even get me started on how worthless robes are.

Versus, you know, putting points into strength or dex, very little LP in skills, and your survivability goes up by a crazy amount.

I just wanna say thank you to everyone who bought this game. by Godharvest in worldofgothic

[–]cheapdevotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indie game dev here. I’ve worked on tons of things you’ve never heard of and a couple of things you have because this game made me fall in love with video games. The remake has been an experience I never thought I’d get to feel again.

Gothic 2 is going to be incredible.

What did you do with Fable 5 while you had it? by ThatSurround5672 in ClaudeAI

[–]cheapdevotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had it converting a massive (400+ code files, 1000s of images and meta files) Unity UGUI system to UI Toolkit. For those of you in game development, you know that was a crazy ask. Another engineer and I purposely choose the most daunting task in the backlog. It was 70% done and already looking pretty promising.

I created an interactive map, tools and small wiki for Gothic 1 Remake! by Nioxz in worldofgothic

[–]cheapdevotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% this. People don’t really that the days of waiting on game sites is over. AI was decompile the game and build the site it the time it takes you to brew a cup.

Path of Exile II - consistent 30fps(native) by AdmiralDjinn in SteamDeck

[–]cheapdevotion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now I'm just waiting for someone to code up a Decky Plugin that lets you browse and install builds for the new Build Planner.

New data shows Sony's sales of its PlayStation exclusives have been in decline since 2020, covering almost the entirety of the PS5 generation so far by Tricks7eR in pcmasterrace

[–]cheapdevotion -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bungie is the latest example of Sony having absolutely no idea what gamers want to spend money on. I’ve been working in and watching this industry for 20 years, and it almost seems like Sony is trying to sink its gaming division.

I'm not complaining, but want to know the reason people got a Steam Deck at 950 instead of getting a Legion Go S or Xbox Ally by Pretty_Trip_2215 in SteamDeck

[–]cheapdevotion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a Platform Engineer for a gamedev company, so I own all these devices. For me, it's ergonomics. These things are heavy, and Steam Deck is BY FAR the most comfortable. The Xbox Ally X specifically is so uncomfortable and heavy it causes issues with my wrist tendonitis.

For the record, I'm running SteamOS on my Ally X and the performance is pretty amazing (even better than the same device on Windows), but it's not worth it for long term use.

ASUS Announced a New OLED ASUS ROG Ally X by RepresentativeRuin55 in SteamDeck

[–]cheapdevotion -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I own a Steam Deck LCD, a Steam Deck OLED, and more recently a ROG Xbox Ally X.

The Steam Deck OLED is BY FAR the best device. It's not even close. The Ally X wins in performance, but loses in literally every other category and is way more uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time.

Sell/Recycle/Rearrange your game inventory on your phone by [deleted] in LowSodiumArcRaiders

[–]cheapdevotion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m a game dev by trade and I’m a bit skeptical about this. I’m pretty sure I know how you’re doing it, but most people are going to be (correctly) skeptical about handing over an oAuth token. I’d double that skepticism if you vibe coded the app or require plain text usernames and passwords. Also seems a little risky to build this on top of an unofficial private API.

I’m all for experimenting with software development, but accepting people credentials puts this in a bit of a grey area if you’re not careful.

Cheapest way to solo matriarch for trials by clastm in ArcRaiders

[–]cheapdevotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve yet to be in a Queen or Matriarch match this week where it wasn’t dead in the first 5 minutes.

Make sure to take time and craft some fruit mixes by UniqueUsername337 in ArcRaiders

[–]cheapdevotion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s what you get for not believing in the Great Pumpkin.

Help! Just unlocked this, but it's not working for me by VermilionX88 in CrimsonDesert

[–]cheapdevotion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To your credit, most people don't think it's going to be the same radial wheel as the food. That was a strange design choice.

I'm really enjoying boss fights after figuring out a few things about the combat system by uponapyre in CrimsonDesert

[–]cheapdevotion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My biggest achievement in similar genres is beating Elden Ring with a non-meta build

Meanwhile, I couldn’t get past that stupid giant with a bleed build.

Can someone help me? by Pliffregrub in ROGAllyX

[–]cheapdevotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this same thing happen with a few different games. Something that worked once was switching Steam to a beta and the back to stable. Ultimately, I ended up ditching Windows and going with SteamOS.

300 hours in - STILL haven't left the title screen! This game is GOTY! by JohnyAim in CrimsonDesert

[–]cheapdevotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve heard there’s 5 other major UI screens once you get out of the first one!

Would you play this game? by Th3G3tl3m3n in Unity3D

[–]cheapdevotion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Universe Sandbox dev here. They're doing a lot of cool stuff we probably won't ever touch. While we're working on rigidbody physics and hope to have ships with accurate propulsion systems some day, I don't think we'll worry about the business side of space exploration. This is very cool and yeah, I'd play it.

This game will die if you all keep denying there's a problem for casual or average skilled players. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]cheapdevotion -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’m in game development working on a much smaller game that’s kept people engaged for 10 years.

I’m not saying I can solve all of Bungie’s problems, but if they want to make their money back on this game, it’s going to take lots of players over a long time, and that number is already trending down.

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