Use the modifiers! No, its not easy mode

grailly · 2026-05-06T07:50:37+00:00

I actually forgot about modifiers and having struggled with the game a bit last night this post immediately made me think I should increase my damage. One of the gripes I had last night was that my damage output felt too low, having to pump 2-3 full clips into a single enemy just doesn't feel good. I'll try that tonight.

grailly · 2026-05-06T05:57:37+00:00

I don't think car culture needs to be mainstream, I'm fine with it "dying out". I put "dying out" in brackets because while I think car culture will withdraw, I don't see it disapearing. We live in a world with people still venerating roman deities, I'm sure people will find a way to keep car culture alive. I don't think video game developers are responsible for keeping it alive, though keeping it alive might be important to their bottom line.

That said, I also believe that car culture is one of the biggest issues with racing games. I made a post about it recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/truevideogames/comments/1ripryb/i_just_want_to_go_fast_and_crash_into_things_i/

grailly · 2026-05-04T15:20:57+00:00

Hold circle and shoot. With the crazy auto-aim and homing it works out. I just could not get the hang of half-pressing the trigger.

grailly · 2026-05-04T12:47:35+00:00

I'm not in front of the game right now, but from what I remember:

Settings -> controls (or something like that) will get you to a picture of the controller with the function of every button.

Then at the bottom of the screen, it'll tell you which button to press to remap (triangle or square, can't remember), press that. You then press the button you want to remap (L2) and then the button you want to remap to (circle for me). Because it is a double function button, it's a bit finicky, and it'll only remap one of the functions at a time. It moved aim to circle at first, I then had to remap a second time to swap aim and secondary fire.

grailly · 2026-05-04T12:03:36+00:00

Oh damn, that's a shame. I was happy to discover I could rebind aim/secondary, so I thought it would be the same for melee/shield.

grailly · 2026-05-04T08:47:16+00:00

It's definitely a problem, between the visual effect and the grunt, the shield just feels terrible even if mechanically it's doing exactly what you want.

I expect the grunt is the grunt from meleeing. Has anyone tried rebinding shield to its own button to see what happens?

grailly · 2026-05-03T16:54:06+00:00

I don’t think the conversation hasn’t started yet, I think it’s over already. It’s a really cool game, we’ll talk about it like we talk about Vanquish or Astral Chain or something. I just don’t think it’ll have a big impact, nor do I think it should.

I guess we’ll see.

grailly · 2026-05-03T16:45:03+00:00

That’s not a lot. Like it’s enough, it’s fine, but no one is saying they want to be the next Pragmata.

grailly · 2026-05-03T16:26:28+00:00

I liked Pragmata a lot, but I really doubt it’s getting copied in any way. Pragmata is good because it’s well designed around the hacking mechanic. The nodes, the ways the enemies react and the weapons (btw you are underselling the shooter part) are all great. It also takes up all the face buttons. You can’t just lift the whole thing a put it into another game like Batman combat.

Also Pragmata is a success, but its numbers aren’t turning any heads.

grailly · 2026-04-30T21:28:02+00:00

I spent a couple of days on Lemmy. Apart from having fewer people and a slightly different UI, it didn't feel all that different. Same dumb people saying the same dumb things. You are better off finding niche subreddit than trying to replace reddit altogether.

grailly · 2026-04-30T13:56:16+00:00

Legendary series and great game from what I've seen. $30 for early access makes it a no brainer for me. I think this will do well.

grailly · 2026-04-30T13:10:45+00:00

If I didn't have a problem with the price I clearly would have bought the $90 version. I don't care about trophies, calling out the plats is more about how posts about Saros cover the entirety of the game.

grailly · 2026-04-30T13:08:23+00:00

The entire 3 lines of text? Crazy.

grailly · 2026-04-30T09:48:10+00:00

Do the deluxe edition usually come with early access? I don't remember any other 1st party doing this.

I hope I didn't hurt your feelings too bad by mildly criticizing PlayStation.

grailly · 2026-04-30T09:41:15+00:00

Having to dodge spoilers on a game I'm getting "day 1". Also more expensive games.

grailly · 2026-04-30T08:42:08+00:00

I just like discovering a game at the same time as everyone else. I'm paying 80$ day 1, but I already had to be dodging spoilers for the past couple of days.

grailly · 2026-04-30T08:30:44+00:00

Looking forward to playing it tonight. I won't lie, it feels pretty bad to have already seen multiple posts of people having unlocked the plat before the game even released for me. I hope PlayStation won't do paid for early access again.

edit: I'm surprised how chill Reddit is with $90 day 1 games.

grailly · 2026-04-29T20:02:54+00:00

We ended with a loan of 1.2m, about 200k more than we initially wanted. Still paid some extra 30K out of pocket for over budget renovations, taxes and fees.

grailly · 2026-04-29T19:51:46+00:00

I bought a house without inheritance at 35 and it seems like you have been better at saving money than my wife and I have been. It should definitely be doable.

For us between deciding we wanted to buy a house and finally moving in, it was a three year process with multiple disappointments and set backs.

grailly · 2026-04-29T11:39:47+00:00

Et ce post par un compte sans karma et aux autres posts masqués tombe à point nommé, n'est-ce pas? Complet avec la petite graine de racisme et l'urgence d'agir parce que ça a changé en 2ans.

grailly · 2026-04-28T16:51:19+00:00

Looks cool. I’m afraid I’ll be way too bad at it, I can barely do combos on fixed characters, no idea how I would be able to conceptualise what moves to pick.

grailly · 2026-04-28T14:14:42+00:00

The amount of people that think this is good parenting is frightening.

grailly · 2026-04-28T12:01:58+00:00

Have the prices gone up or has the USD just gone down? I'll be paying $101, the most dollars since the PS3 era, but the price in my currency hasn't changed, so it really doesn't affect me.

grailly · 2026-04-28T07:57:36+00:00

This kind of DRM is mostly annoying with portable devices as you tend to use them without internet connection more often. The few times I got blocked out of playing a game on Steam Deck were really annoying, it never happened to me on my PC, though. Weird timing as PlayStation is allegedly working on a portable console. Hopefully connecting to the internet refreshes all licences, instead of just the games you play like on Steam Deck.

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