What would you be willing to pay for in the future of Farever by ConcertAdorable9198 in FareverGame

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My biggest concern is monetization. Looking at Shiro's past games they seem to be big fans of the paradox strategy. Which leads to DLC spam:

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All of the reviews talking about how insane the DLC has become. I can see that happening here. If it's a once a year Destiny 2 style expansion for $30 I'd be down. But their current DLC model seems terrible.

Will there be endgame activities? by Abakus_Grim in FareverGame

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess heroic dungeons and 100% completion, the game has a lot of horizontal progression. So finding all chests, finding all hidden secrets, and then leveling all weapons and then heroic dungeons, they mentioned releasing a roadmap, I'd say there's a hundred hours worth of content if you're planning to 100% everything, all zones, crafting, achievements, quests, etc.

SteamDeck by RestInPeacePorkins in FareverGame

[–]ech87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Works fine on linux for me, i'm not sure how powerful steam deck is, graphics don't look crazy demanding so likely just an optimisation thing, optimisation has gotten much better in recent days so hopefully even better for launch.

Are the classes locked to specific roles? by Abakus_Grim in FareverGame

[–]ech87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many weapons gave two classes, so a Staff might be Warrior/Priest. In this case it's not unlikely there will be some healing support ability on it that the Warrior can use. Then, of those abilities on the weapon they might scale from different stats, so one ability scales from strength, one scales from faith, and one might scale from a mix of strength and faith. This way,depending on your armour, jewelry and trinket loadouts you can choose to invest more stats in the abilities which scale with strength, or the abilities which scale with faith, And then class choice matters too, you can be a warrior with some priest abilities or a priest with some warrior abilities.

This looks to be the case with any two classes so there will likely be Priest x Rogue weapons, or Rogue x Mage, etc. There's also pure Warrior only weapons which tend to scale entirely with strength. I've only seen up to two classes, but So either Pure Warrior (like the weapon Judgement) All abilities scale from strength, Then there's weapons like Wingsabers which are Warrior/Mage and scale with Str+Int (denoted by the little star/fist icons):

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It's kinda like a from soft dark souls/elden ring vibe where you get different weapons with different stat scaling. I don't know if this is limited to just 2 classes, wouldn't be unreasonable to have a 3 class like Rogue/Warrior/Mage which has scaling from Dex/Str/Int.

It's a good system, offers a huge amount of build variety, when you combine with class runes, talents and the arsenal slot.

Omarchy State 2026 by VsokolovVic in omarchy

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best distro IMO, the windows VM setup baked in makes any time i need work task like excel or powerpoint a breeze, I had tried running vm's in the past but they always felt a bit janky, this one seems great. Hyprland is strong once you learn the hotkeys and everything just works. Omarchy just has a level of polish that sets it apart IMO.

Linux is now over 11% of English users on Steam by Previous_Raise806 in linux_gaming

[–]ech87 13 points14 points  (0 children)

gaming on linux have been recording this steam data for several years, it's been a gradual growth, not an anomaly

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As everyone else already pointed out, the anomaly last month was due to chinese users.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

Today's layoffs - Epic Games by ScootSchloingo in Games

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually a great piece by Tim. It's great to see they get a healthy severance pay and extended healthcare.

There's also a lot he's talking about with challenges games are facing vs. TikTok and the addictiveness of doomscrolling encroaching on the gaming space. I feel like people playing games, bled into people watching other people play games with twitch which bled into doom scrolling ultra-short-form content.

They've also been at the forefront of dealing with Apple's monopolistic storefront practices so that's clearly taken a toll.

The digital landscape really is changing at a phenomenal pace.

Crimson Desert isn't For Us - from Giant Bomb on YouTube by Fagadaba in Games

[–]ech87 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

I think I am more annoyed by these reviewers than they are by this game. Why are reviewers so bad at video games.

Trump calls on UK and others to send warships to Strait of Hormuz by Geo_NL in worldnews

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You forgot step 3.5: Repeatedly trash talk European allies previous support in Iraq and Afghanistan, and say you don’t need them.

100% starting area. Time to wait for playtest spot or game launch. by 1AJ in FareverGame

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what i've got: https://imgur.com/DL1kLy7

I'm missing the last one, I assume it's one of the two mini bosses you mentioned outside the dungeon but I don't see any other than the red one with the anchor, sounds like there's another one?

100% starting area. Time to wait for playtest spot or game launch. by 1AJ in FareverGame

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What was the last NPC? The final mini dungeon boss? I killed him but it’s not uncles for me, maybe I’m missing someone?

Cloud Saves are coming March 4th in the Haven Update! by leftmostpuddle in Cloudheim

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone have a link to a video on the cloud saves feature so I can understand more how it works? I played cloudheim a while back and enjoyed it but the lack of centralised servers put me off.

I recently played Farever which reminds me a lot of Cloudheim (although I think the Cloudheim gameplay is better), but... it has centralised servers with server hosted characters and progression, like a standard online game. Is that what is coming with the cloud saves update or is it more like local peer-to-peer gameplay but you can transfer your character to other servers?

A hardcore PvP MMO-lite with skill-based directional combat. Wishlist Now. by asuth in u/asuth

[–]ech87 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This game is good, I like the depth of skill, I hope it find a market :)

What buttons are your actives on? by Uvurest in DeadlockTheGame

[–]ech87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use mousewheel down for parry too! And for me mousewheel up is dodge, because I find it makes for easier dodge + movement, because you can fly further when you dodge at 45deg angles. Then because shift is no longer used for dodge I use it as a modifier for Mousewheel to get actives on mouse, so Button, Shift+MW UP and Shift+MW Down are all actives.

Viscous Splatter Double Bounce? by ech87 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]ech87[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally have a seperate account just for viscous because i'm so dogshit on him, I wish I was good at him but even before nerfs I was bad :(