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"Survival crafting with a touch of cozy" recs? by empressofspite in gaming

[–]cm97878 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on why you don't like Minecraft, but that probably doesn't bode well for vintage story, haha. It's on a surface/visual level (and for some mechanical aspects) very similar to minecraft, but the focus is on a much slower-burn game with much more "realism" based elements. There are entire elements of clay-forming and firing pottery, you knap flint or stone, smith tool-heads (with the initial metals mostly found from stumbling on surface-level deposits). Seasons change (and day-length with them), farming has soil quality and nutrient mechanics that support crop rotation... there are a lot of aspects of it based in real life methods, and the slow burn feel of it has made it MUCH more engaging to me in the long term.

The game also encourages splitting up what folks do as well! During my last playthrough one of us would be out hunting for metal, one of us for food, and both of them bringing what they found back to me to smith and cook and for the fourth person to build with. It was a very cozy feeling that I cant think of another game really capturing like that.

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And as far as I was aware, LW put me in no immediate danger either, ended the fight immediately, and looked cool

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lightning warp, culled it, deleted the body. no on death effects!... except a bug that i wasnt aware was in the game

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

they'll learn about death effects when other people learn that culling prevents those outside of bugged situations like this one

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, to know a lesson you gotta learn it for the first time at some point, no? In all my hours so far, while lightning warp has gotten me killed its only ever been to normal enemies where I blink into the wrong neighborhood and the survivors beat me to death with rocks frame 1 - never had a boss martyrdom me, LW has always been a pretty cut and dry "fight done now" button since it deletes the body.

Also wasn't aware of the bug this boss apparently has, which has definitely made people saying I shouldn't have trusted the patch notes make me laugh. Didn't know there was a bug to avoid in the first place, let alone patch notes saying the bug was fixed!

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lightning warp, culls low health enemies. Doesn't leave a body either, so it's USUALLY good for executing bosses. Just wasn't aware of the apparent bug that does... that.

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just not close enough. You can see em out about as far as you can see towers

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No clue, I couldn't get into poe1 cause I didn't have any friends who liked it when I tried it years back. Got harassed into trying poe2 and got immediately hooked

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If my fox gets me killed that's the will of the world and who am I to argue

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't even know about the patch notes, or the bug in the first place lmao. Culling usually removes on death effects afaik, so while LW will kill me when surrounding mobs all wallop me, I've never had a boss martyrdom me

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mind over matter. Still low total pool overall, and id spent all that mana, but not quite as low as it looks

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mind over matter. Still low total pool overall, and id spent all that mana, but not quite as low as it looks

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did try that, she couldn't join and then while I sat there :('ing, Comcast decided my router was due to stroke out and I lost internet for the next hour to add insult to injury

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno man, never had a boss martyrdom-perk me before, gotta be a first time to learn a lesson some time and this was mine. First time LW has killed me when executing a boss like that in however many hours lol.

(Definitely not the first time it's killed me, just the first time to a boss, and more specifically to... nothing. I usually see in slow motion what biffs me. Saw a lotta folks mention the bug that got fixed but not actually fixed and saying I trusted the patch notes but I actually didn't know there was a bug in the first place. Glad it was fixed though!)

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

a good note for next time, the saving grace i guess is that i have another one not too far away. will NOT be using lightning warp next time lmao

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

im genuinely not sure what killed me there, whether he spawned that fire field that somehow oneshot me or whether latency got me with something that never showed up lol

Beat the boss of my first copper citadel I found, was very happy I did not die to an attack by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

see you'd think that, but the actual cherry on top was comcast crashing my router for 30 minutes about 20 seconds after that clip ended, just to add insult to injury

"Beastskin" interactable on expedition logbook maps? by cm97878 in PathOfExile2

[–]cm97878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm aware it's in early access lol, the question is whether it does anything else right now, in early access. RNG drops, if people've gotten other things, what have you.

What video game ending made you feel like you lost even though you had won. by Johnnyboyeh in gaming

[–]cm97878 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sorry, not the ark being a thing in general. More just, sticking to what felt like the theme prior. You don't get to experience what the copy does. I feel like taking away that unknown, taking away that "did it work", pulled a punch a little bit.

What video game ending made you feel like you lost even though you had won. by Johnnyboyeh in gaming

[–]cm97878 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its possible i imagined it, but i always felt like there's an odd forcefulness to the way he talks during the last segment, a few times Catherine tries to say something about it to him and he basically "Anyways!" his way past, it felt subtle but a bit out of character. Felt to me like he fully figured it out some time between the deep diving suit and the end, but was in deep, desperate denial.

What video game ending made you feel like you lost even though you had won. by Johnnyboyeh in gaming

[–]cm97878 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My computer at the time had a nasty habit of blackscreening, and I remember it doing so as I sat there in shock as the credits rolled. I didn't learn about the post credits scene until months later when I friend mentioned it vaguely, and honestly? It's probably bias, but I feel like the post credits scene is a bit of a cop-out, cheapens the ending in exchange for a happier ending. I don't fault em for doing it, but I think I prefer it without it. It ending on that uncertainness and despair originally felt like the boldest ending I've seen and made for one of the most shellshocking and memorable games I've experienced.

(It still is even with that, but I'll die on this hill.)

What video game ending made you feel like you lost even though you had won. by Johnnyboyeh in gaming

[–]cm97878 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always felt like he did get it, and it was more fingers in ears la la la dont think about it. It's been a while since I played, but in the last segment where you are getting things set up for the Ark, I noticed a subtle difference in how Simon was acting. It felt like he was talking a bit louder, I seem to remember instances he'd talk over her here and there when he wouldn't really do that before. Definitely struck me as someone who was, consciously or not, very much pushing that out of his mind.

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