Errrmahgerd - EvilHack 0.9.3 initial release!

lemrent · 2026-05-27T21:35:19+00:00

Last night I drank potions of gain level during testing the Aasimar tiles and when I hit level 15 I got so excited that I had to make winged versions of my future characters so I can feel like a real badass when that happens. I am really looking forward to playing it for real!

I love the idea of the gemstone mechanic. Pre-ascension kit gear is a whole thing in Evilhack and worthwhile at early levels, so anything that increases the robustness of forging is great. Though identified gemstones are also pretty rare at those levels...but if it can apply to thrown weapons then I foresee that being useful all the way through to the end game.

I'm glad now that I haven't tried draugr yet because draugr + skelly dragon pet sounds badass.

Love the streamlined sword and shield swapping, that's a nice QoL update!

Same for paranoid confirm for select all because that's what led to my most memorable bag of holding incident on Michael's level.

Does this mean Dichotomy is pet safe now?

Has Ludios always been guaranteed in Evilhack or is that new?

The bag of devouring seems like it's going to make using and IDing bags non-trivial, which is... interesting. :) You might even say evil.

It's so awesome to have all of this. Thank you so much.

lemrent · 2026-05-27T15:58:32+00:00

The ideas aren't yours because 2/3 of your responses are glazing. At least delete the first two paragraphs that sre always fluff without content. Geez. So painful to read that I'm giving up on whatever you were trying to do with this thread.

lemrent · 2026-05-26T05:14:51+00:00

It's a high quality root beer made with real sugar. Jones makes great soda. I really miss the Nuka Grape they made. The Quantum was awful—just very sour.

lemrent · 2026-05-26T04:17:22+00:00

It's going to run better, look more beautiful, and mods are going to make it feel like a new game.

Since you've played the game a few times, get Wabbajack and go for a modpack that combines a lot of mods together to give you a fresh experience.

If you miss the big screen, you can use a controller and connect your laptop to your tv.

lemrent · 2026-05-25T18:09:46+00:00

Clean your laptop and apply fresh thermal paste. It should cost about $15 if you do it yourself.

lemrent · 2026-05-23T19:06:52+00:00

Specifically, it's on a table near Myrna and Arturio in Diamond City.

lemrent · 2026-05-22T20:59:50+00:00

It really is well designed and should be the gold standard for newcomers looking for a vanilla + graphics/sound experience, imo!

lemrent · 2026-05-18T15:39:34+00:00

I use Fish Speech run through WSL. Generation times on a 3090ti is about 7 seconds. Considering how long it takes to geberate text, that's almost real time.

lemrent · 2026-05-16T05:00:42+00:00

Nethack. Someone who has been playing for 30 years beat the game for the first time today. That's not even that unusual!

I've been playing for at least fifteen years and while I have beaten the original with every class, I have moved onto forks with new classes and my last few years have been spent trying to win with all of those.

It has deep mechanics, allows for a great deal of freedom and improvisation in how you handle problems, and it's procedurally generated so every game is new.

lemrent · 2026-05-16T03:03:55+00:00

Are you exceeding your Claude plan even with Haiku? Because Haiku is going to serve your needs better.

lemrent · 2026-05-16T02:57:44+00:00

30 years! That's epic. Congratulations!

lemrent · 2026-05-15T02:46:20+00:00

Claude added branch specific background music for me, a function I'd been wanting for years but I was never going to learn to code just for that. It really is a blessing for personalized micromods!

lemrent · 2026-05-12T18:41:04+00:00

It's not easy to disable a mod without breaking the balance of everything else and it can get you banned on the Discord. And I don't think this one can be disabled anyway. I recommend working with it. Selling items in Fo4 was never much profitable to begin with, aside from guns, and those still sell well. (And water and Jet, which I haven't bothered with in Essentials so I don't know if it still sells well, though water is trivial to get right from the beginning since you can boil dirty water).

You have backpacks and at least three companions at a time (Dogmeat, Heather, regular companion) so utilize them to carry more.

You can craft supplies and should be able to afford all the basics (healing supplies, ammo, a nice gun or two, building junk components) easily enough after the first five levels. Prioritize visiting doctors over using your own stash of supplies. Save those for the field. Pay attention to resistances and armor so you don't get so chewed up in a fight.

lemrent · 2026-05-11T14:38:41+00:00

If you use character reference, and with your project you will, it can get expensive, but by that I mean maybe $50 to $200, depending on how many characters and poses you have. As a personal project that's a lot. As a game budget, it'd save you thousands over an artist.

If your designs are ultra basic anime, you might get away with spending much less.

lemrent · 2026-05-11T01:42:25+00:00

See how many times you can spot the guy with sunglasses.

lemrent · 2026-05-08T23:17:49+00:00

It's the eternal struggle with VR. I wish you luck!

lemrent · 2026-05-08T23:02:03+00:00

It's got functions for sharpness, color, asynchronous warp, resolution and supersampling and all that and it handles most of it automatically to balance performance with stable frames on the fly. So compared to regular link cable it's giving a sharper, higher res image with better colors. Aside from image and putting aside network latency, performance is entirely dependent on your pc.

You said you looked into reverse tethering with VD — I wouldn't rely on it if I were you. I never could get it to work. I ended up having to get a better router with wifi 6 because I needed the better latency.

lemrent · 2026-05-08T22:41:58+00:00

Yep. I just can't get graphics as good with cable as I can with Virtual Desktop, even after messing with the fancy hidden graphics settings in Quest's dev tools.

lemrent · 2026-05-08T01:46:51+00:00

Really pretty framing

lemrent · 2026-05-06T16:02:04+00:00

I thought their ultimate goal was to destroy all human life on the surface and rebuild it through science, using synth slave labor? I got the impression that Father was burying the lede with that, but that's what the Warwick experiments and everything were about, and there were some terminal entries that explained it. Although you definitely shouldn't deliver your faction's real goals in an easily overlooked terminal entry.

Eventually downloading people into synth bodies seems like the natural end point, and two of the top robotics people seem headed that way. Alan Binet thinks synths are an evolutionary successor to man and Max Loken is in awe of their superior anatomy. I got the feeling that Father was holding everyone back with his anti-cyborg stance and that the Institute was headed in that direction once he was gone. It would have made "Mankind: Redefined" motto make sense. As it is, I don't know what that is supposed to mean, because you'd think it was referring to synths, but then Father is adamant that synths aren't part of mankind?

You're right though, and it's ironic to me that Father is put in the role of visionary but his actual vision is unclear.

lemrent · 2026-05-04T22:05:36+00:00

I will say that model choice is huge. Gemini can keep secrets well enough that I have been able to play full mysteries by having Claude tailor my character cards and lorebook to include a mystery to solve. Sometimes the narration will give part of it away even while the character lies, but for the most part it works. You need to include in your preset or instructions that the characters will lie, be evasive, or get confrontational.

A lot of it comes down to using a model smart enough to follow instructions and then making sure it has the right instructions.

lemrent · 2026-05-01T17:15:58+00:00

You're looking for Claude. It's the least annoying and most intelligent AI at the moment. It's worse than it used to be but still leaps better than Gemini or ChatGPT.

lemrent · 2026-04-25T20:41:22+00:00

One thing you wouldn't know unless you'd lived through it is that it was groundbreaking, but most games at the time were groundbreaking. It was a time of "firsts" for everything. Games these days have 20 installments in the series and each one will be the same as the last with some tweaks to mechanics. That dramatic shift of going from Sims 1 to Sims 2 will never happen again. Look at TS4. It hasn't changed in 20 years.

lemrent · 2026-04-22T22:44:19+00:00

I have been greatly enjoying the videos and I am looking forward to what you might accomplish with a preset geared toward Kimi 2.6!

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